Some jerk on the Internet can draw

Illustrator, rookie mom, chronically buried by life. Mostly a de-stress with fanart blog but there’s art related ranting here. Personal blog is @jerkfacepink 🤍

[pinkuchama]

Is every ship week this week or something??

Geez, good think zelink already happened 😆

[pinkuchama]

Last Day of Zelink Week 2026 @zelinkcommunity 🤍

He’s done and I am too, unless I do the other two missing days 😆

(It’s with the other nsfw comics at AO3)

[pinkuchama]

Zelink week day 6 @zelinkcommunity (5 may not be done on time, oh well), Heirloom. Forgot I could just knock out a single entry!

(Using this image as the contents page for my zine even though I'm not even sure how/when it's gonna be printed lol)

[pinkuchama]

Day 4 of Zelink Week 2026-- the prompt is "again," and so is the title of this comic!

➡️"Again" (NSFW) - on Ao3

Also, as of the time of its posting:

@zelinkcommunity

[pinkuchama]

Hey, remember when I sketched this out two years ago but had 3 different scripts for it so I couldn't decide which to use and this got shelved?

You probably don't-- I've been some sorta way for the last couple of years and finally decided to learn how to draw again in March.

Link is my favorite Nintendo plumber.

[pinkuchama]

Anyone see that thrown out concept in Hyrule Historia, from A Link to the Past where Zelda is a space princess?

[pinkuchama]

Day 3 (?) of Zelink Week @zelinkcommunity : Post TotK, relaxing at the Akkala house— they deserve everything, after what they went through!

I didn’t set out to do all mature themed entries for Zelink Week, but… I think most are. That’s what happened when I was lining them up? 😬 It’s up at ao3.

[pinkuchama]

I can’t post the full comic here so it’s on AO3. It’s a little post-TotK comic for Zelink week ( @zelinkcommunity ) I made earlier this year, for Day 2 (Old Wounds)

(Also I should warn that it’s NSFW. Naked stuff. ✨)

[zelinkcommunity]

Zelink Week 2026 Prompts

PROMPTS | RULES | DISCORD

Day 1 - July 12

ENTANGLED (@sparklyhyperbole)

Day 2 - July 13

OLD WOUNDS (@thebxghag)

Day 3 - July 14

A QUIET MOMENT (@crowcaws)

Day 4 - July 15

“AGAIN” (thanks anon!)

Day 5 - July 16

DREAMING OF YOU (@cjracingpnf)

Day 6 - July 17

HEIRLOOM (a mod-favored 2025 prompt @pelicanpig)

Day 7 - July 18

HOME AT LAST (thanks anon!)

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted prompts and voted this year! We had so many incredible submissions and over 100 votes (it was tough competition)!! Zelink Week is what it is because of our wonderful community. We appreciate each and every one of you! A shoutout to our mod team for their help in planning too (@zeldaelmo & @jimmyjims) 💕 Psst.. Hey, Listen! You can save these banners to use for your works during Zelink Week!

[pinkuchama]

What Am I Up To?

I was tagged by @mistresslrigtar ! Trying to sleep, let’s do this.

Currently Reading: White: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau - The western cultural history of the color white. Did you know that the concept of white = blank wasn’t a concept until the advent of the printing press? Love his series, I have all of the English translated color books.

Last Film: This Woman is Dangerous (1952), starring Joan Crawford. A lady gangster who is going blind seeks surgery and redemption for her crimes, it was all right. 😅 Don’t date your surgeon like this movie suggests, that’s really unethical.

Last Show: The Ranma 1/2 remake on Netflix 🤍

Last Song: Tonight by Luna Sea. RIP Shinya 🙁

Coffee or Tea: Both. I literally order both together.

Sweet or Salty: Salty a f!! Oh, but chocolate and ice cream get a pass.

Currently Working On: I’m relearning how to draw, and it’s… a lot. Kry’s next book cover. A bunch of NSFW comics to actually get to the look of comics I want to make (lol I wanna make weeb style comics 🤣), a bunch of traditional stuff, my Inuyasha fanfic (I am!!), a certain number of animal paintings (traditional media) I do every year for the same commissioner, my editorial Illustration style. I’m doing it all. Sorry I don’t really post right now. I’ve barely inhabited my studio/office in the last nine years, and I’m trying to come back. Very sleep deprived, I have to watch it.

I truly did forget how to draw as comfortably as when my kids were first born but I’m much more intentional now! My knowledge never went away but the practice did. Idk if there even is a career out there for me to return to anymore thanks to AI but it’s just wrong that I haven’t really drawn much. AI won’t take that from me and I almost let it. Almost quit art, it was rough for a while.

I don’t wanna tag anyone, please consider yourself tagged if you see this. Idk if most of my followers are even on tumblr anymore, since I never looked at the count (and still won’t). 🤣

[chechula]

honestly, it seems that for most of the people is digital drawing much quicker than traditional? How is that possible? When you can constantly erase/change brushes etc! I am so overwhelmed by possibilities…

while at traditional drawing- once I can’t erase anymore….then you have to work with whatever you have :3

[lucybellwood]

Newer artists often ask me about drawing traditionally with this horror in their eyes like "What do you do if you make a mistake???"

Meanwhile I'm over here going "How do you live if the system you're using operates on the false promise of attainable perfection???"

[pinkuchama]

Okay-- do I still remember how to be a fangirl?

[pinkuchama]

I've been aggressively getting used to drawing once more, and it feels like learning how to walk again sometimes (oh my GOD drawing the Master Sword is tedious 😆)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

yes, I’d love for my ship to be canon too, but I feel like fandom culture today focuses too much on “my ship must be canon or else I will be a bitch and harass people about it” energy that we’ve lost the main point of shipping two fictional characters together, why we do it in the first place, which is that it’s fun. it brings us comfort and joy. and even if the ship isn’t canon, we have fan contents, so many amazing fan art and fanfics. you can create whatever you want about them. make them kiss. make them yearn for each other. make them confess their love under the rain.

“but it’s not canon” THEY ARE ALREADY FICTION. canon or not. they are a fragment of imagination forged by their canon creators, meaning YOU can create your own art about them too.

canon = art made by canon creators, they created it, it’s out there, it exists, it’s valid.

fan contents = art made by you, you created it, it’s out there, it exists, it’s just as valid.

[pinkuchama]

Ugh, I miss fanart! I'm still constantly staring at all my favorite projects. Every fan project I've worked on still manages to haunt me 😆

Honestly thought I forgot how to draw for a while, because it seemed like my skills dipped, but life was just severely stressful. This entire year sucked ass. Things have at least leveled out-- it only took eleven goddamned months, lol.

[felixfeliccis]

Art challenge where you have to finish what you're making

[felixfeliccis]

Obssesed with this comment

[mortalityplays]

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

[mortalityplays]

this isn't snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as 'zines' have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines' exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.

[leog4u]

my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could've made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community

i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP

[mortalityplays]

hi! sorry, real quick:

grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book

write "im indifferent to zines" on the cover

write "i've never been able to buy one" on the first page

write "and i'll never be in one" on the second page

write "just want to be a hater today" on the back

congrats you're in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I'll buy one.

[theliltchirurgeon]

ive been saying this since 2015! all my illustrator friends kept submitting to them (and gettin in which i was proud of) but they... werent zines. they were like massive books with grandiose color schemes and gilded bossing. i couldnt afford them even. zines are oft free or traded and they arent about how pretty a picture you can make.

the first zine idea i found was in a book i checked out from the library (id never remember what it was. it was about cartooning i think and had a section about chibi style lol) that had a little section on taking one sheet of paper, marking it into eighths, cutting a line in the center of the page and folding it over for a quick eight pages. like this

this makes printing soooo easy too. id love to see these floating around places

[iwanttodance]

So I scrolled past this post and was thinking the same thought I always do when I see people talking about zines, which is basically ‘zines are so cool, I’ve never made one because I don’t think I have anything interesting to say in one, but I should make a zine someday if I ever have creative energy again’ and then it gets added to my ever growing mental list of things I want to do but don’t end up doing (I have spent the last several years struggling so hard with my depression that I can’t seam to create anything at all)

And then I thought, hey I have a piece of paper by my desk I should at least follow that diagram and fold it, that way I’m halfway there even if it’s blank and sits on my desk for months, and then 5 minutes later I had this:

Now I’m just holding this little thing I’ve made in my hands and I love it so much

So thank you to this post for inspiring me to make something today! Even if it’s just a simple silly little thing I’m going to treasure it

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

Zine - Wikipedia

[molotovblogtail]

Amazing! Not only did I not know to correct pronunciation of 'zine', but I also had no idea that they connect black history, political activism, the origins of the Kirk/Spock ship, and feminism. Such a powerful force in history these little homemade magazines.

[smiirp]

There is great info about zine making here but… OPs definition of “zine” is just… unnecessarily restrictive and outright wrong ... Zines HAVE ALWAYS included the full range of publications from 8-page sheets that get photocopied to full colour fanart collections. The term zine derives from “fanzine”. The first fanzines were collections of amateur sci fi art and writing. Sure, zines encompass a much wider array of publications now, but that does not mean we change the definition to cut out what we deem to be too “professional.” (Also hint: something being classified as a zine has less to do with how it’s printed and more to do with who it is published by and how it is circulated. But you have to first understand that there is a distinction between printing and publication to grasp this.)

A zine does not have to be made by only a few authors, or DIY, or sold for under $15 to be classified as a zine. Zines are their own medium with their own unique history and their own diverse ecosystem, why would you want to strip that complexity away? You can inspire people to make their own and inform them how to do it without bowdlerizing the whole form and bulldozing over all the connections between the different groups and purposes zines have served and continue to serve.

[mortalityplays]

thanks for the bad faith reading. you're wrong, btw.

I aready said this isn't a semantic thing, but you if you really want to go there: 'zine' is a shortening of fanzine or magazine and the concept of a 'fanzine' itself is directly derived from a style of independently published magazine that has roots at least as far back as the Harlem Renaissance and arguably the political pamphleteering of the french and american revolutions. but the actual point I was making is that the entire ethos of zine making originates in an effort to broaden access to publication, and we are losing that.

am I saying nobody ever slapped a $20 cover price on a zine before the 2020s? no! am I saying no influential underground publication has ever made the crossing into fully fledged magazine? no! am I saying I will come to your house and punch your teeth in personally if you use the word zine in a way I find objectionable? no! I'm saying the trajectory of commercialisation, professionalisation and lost knowledge is not only stripping foundational meaning from the form but directly harms the viability of low-overhead zine production. just look through the notes of this post for dozens of people saying they'd never heard of the homemade zine before this post, that they'd been burned by high production 'zine' projects and soured on the whole concept as a result. no equivocation: this shit is killing the medium.

but hey, maybe the $15 zine is the norm and I'm just pearl clutching because I don't like genshin impact or whatever. let's look at the cover prices of some historically important zines at launch:

oh sorry, my bad, these aren't 'fanzines' let's try again

mm but of course the very first fanzines ever published would be cheap and amateur, the form was still being figured out. what about the one everyone on tumblr loves to call the birth of fandom:

well fine, but what about zines that deal with serious social issues? that involve research, outreach, even risk on the part of the creators?

believe it or not (or refuse to believe it) but the history of zines is not the history of bag-getters. accessibility has always been the lifeblood of the form, and that includes financial accessibility.

I have zero fucking power to wave a wand and magically exclude everyone whose projects I think are tacky from using the tem 'zine', but what I can do is appeal to people to remember that being asked to submit a portfolio for consideration is the exception, not the norm. gloss covers and kickstarter tiers with vinyl keychains and custom wall art is a new and alien graft on a very old medium. being treated like a subcontractor on a 50-person art collaboration that will only be affordable to middle class kids with middle class disposable income runs entirely counter to what used to be the definitional feature of zine making. sure I'm being intractable. I think we should all be a lot more intractable about this. we saw what happened to webcomics.