Erin/Oz

Nerdy Fan Creator, check pinned for more details (all pronouns, 22) // Check out my linktree

[oztomic]

Intro Post

Hello! I'm Oz, or Erin if you like. (Any/All Pronouns)

This is my blog, and I'm trying to make it more fandom/art/writing focused (though I'm sure there'll still be plenty of random stuff). I did have an old blog by this same name (now oztomic-moved-to-main), but—as the name suggests—I moved my stuff back to main. So yes, that is me. Feel free to stick around, if you'd like!

Check out my Linktree!

(More Details below the cut)

My fandoms rotate in interest constantly, but here are a few regulars you're sure to see:

D&D and other TTRPGs

Doctor Who

Dimension 20

Shoot/Roll From the Hip

Dresden Files

My OCs and original writing

I'm gonna try and keep things organized going forward, so here are a few tags:

#artomic — my art

#writomic — my writing

Fic Masterlist

#always the dm — ttrpg stuff

#octomic — my OC stuff

Individual ocs are tagged as oc: [name] Notable OCs: - aris (wip mc) - vio (dnd character) - nele (bg3 tav)

#resozes — resources and useful information

#rebloz — what it says, reblogs

#oz's atoms — my thoughts and ramblings

#oztomic reaction — asks

#ballot box — polls

#misque — posts without a good category tag

#k!nk tag — my musings on kink and other stuff like that (not usually nsft, but feel free to block just in case)

#oz is queer — all my queer stuff, esp stuff related to me (aroace agender/nonbinary)

#q-uarks — queued posts

Fandom stuff will always be reblogged with the appropriate tags (maybe not all of them, but at least an umbrella fandom tag) to more easily find stuff on here.

[kaviiinsky]

fuck a comfort tv show, what’s ur comfort video game playthrough

[oztomic]

A new piece of @vesperionnox 's character Nyx! I had so much fun with them

Image Description below the cut

[Image Description: A digital drawing of a being named Nyx. They have medium toned skin and dark brownish red hair. They have four arms and blue/teal ish moth like wings. They are dressed in a blue and black, drapey dress with pink sheer fabric hanging from their arms and various jewelry made to look like moons and stars. They have moth-like antennae on their head, surrounded by a halo decorated with stars and moons. Their dress and wings seems to have stars coming from them, and they are surrounded by floating motes of light and stars. End ID.]

[stubbypubby]

would it be possible to get a gif of just the lil eevee squeaking the substitute toy? its so cute...

here you go. run wild with it

[fullest-circlest]

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

[my-deer-friend]

Other websites that let you do this:

Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773

Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788

Feraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française – 1778

[zisurru]

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[bgm05]

the reason usa birth rates going down is because we have a whole generation of women whose sexual awakening was Sans undertale and none of the men want to wear jorts and drink ketchup and go Er er er

[oztomic]

An attack on my friend AvaritiadeArmia on af!

Image Description Below the Cut

[Image Description: A Digital Art piece of a anthro mole character. He is dressed in a robe and shirt, with big glasses on his face. He has a mound of dirt on his head, with a plant sprout growing from it. End ID.]

[oztomic]

Attack of the handsome Aya, belonging to @cedar-scented-soap (me when elves 😍)

Image Description Below the Cut

[Image Description: A digital drawing of a Black elven man. He has red eyes, faint facial hair, and short, blond locs. He is dressed in a formal outfit with a vest with rose decals across it. He is holding his rose vine tail out as if offering a flower to the viewer. The background is a pattern of a similar rose motif to the vest. End ID.]

[oztomic]

Attack on the delightful Mercury, belonging to @o1lboy !

Image Description below read more

[Image Description: A digital drawing of a tan colored tiefling in a grey/black suit. He has dark brown hair and black and red eyes. She is holding a golden necklace in front of her and eyeing it excitedly. His tail and ears and wiggling. End ID.]

[oztomic]

First blood! My friend and Player @we-should-start-a-riot's character, Alma Graves! (And the Jersey Devil)

Image Description below read more

[Image Description: A digital drawing of a latina woman with vitiligo named Alma in a grey and black outfit, holding a camcorder up by her shoulder. She has short brown hair with bangs, and blue eyes. From her chest, blue spectral chains emerge and go up, where they are held in the hands of a shadow-y goat-like figure with glowing yellow eyes. Alma is stood in the center of a spotlight, seemingly coming from the shadow-y figure. End ID.]

[o1lboy]

Next round of artfight attacks!

Characters are from : @oztomic , @flowerladdie , @doodle-starz (unfortunately tumblr refuses to let me tag them but I did attach a link so you can go find their profile!) , VAR1AN and @ello4ollie

[roguedeer]

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism

[sanyu-thewitch05]

No hate to OP, there are other Black asexual activists besides Yasmin Benoit.

Marshall Blount: https://www.instagram.com/marshall_blount?

Ace in Grace/Ashabi: https://www.instagram.com/_aceingrace_?

Yagirllici: https://www.instagram.com/yagirllici?

This one is more of a group but there’s Black Ace Culture: https://www.instagram.com/blackaceculture?

Asexual/AroaceBarbie: https://www.tiktok.com/@asexualbarbie?_r=1&_t=ZT-97gFM9iWa3a

Kim Riottt: https://www.instagram.com/kimriottt?

Jacques Jacky: https://www.instagram.com/jacguesjacky?

[yayxstitch]

[oztomic]

I was SO SLOW finishing this lol, but art fight!! Feel free to add me!

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[through-my-memoirs]

Visit Original Link

Andy Nyman and Jamie Parker sings The Ballad of Guiteau from Assassins [London, 27 January 2015]

[gingercatsneeze]

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha