Quietly Rebellious

Hey there, you can call me Rebellious (he/him). I write over on AO3 under QuietlyRebellious. Offline (writing). Longfic: The Soft Light of Home is at 95% (final edit and illustrations) Commissions are currently closed.

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About

Hello! This tumblr is just sort of a catch all. It will have art, random reblogs of interests, projects I am working on, as well as story updates and online status (which will be in the blog description).

Poetry is no longer posted here. I have a poetry sideblog and it is https://www.tumblr.com/blog/quietlyrebelliouspoetry

If you are here from A03, hi!!!! I am sorry to admit my activity goes from crickets to band practice in a garage on here too.

Online status is basically just how comfy I am with interacting with the internet at large. Sometimes my brain breaks and I need to go offline or semi-online to take care of myself. Other times I yeet myself into the forest for a bit.

I do have a Ko-fi account now, which is here: https://ko-fi.com/quietlyrebellious

It is mainly for commissions when I open them.

[dancerswhirl]

Shoutout to Fox News for the inspiration.

[kal8elle]

Super-bisexual 🤝 Superwoke

[croaksac]

HUGE developments in the big silly baby wearing fluffy pajamas fandom:

Oregon Zoo 05/30/26: This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[quietlyrebellious01]

I kidnapped Bigfoot

[90stvfangirl]

oh lordy........ the eye contact while he crushes the fence. 🫠

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His hand is in the "I love you" sign after he yeets the fence!!!!!

I hecking love the level of details in this show.

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I am about 3 bullet points from finishing a fic.

The hound has decided to yeet my desk so she can lay where it was (granted the desk was a pillow and a bee amigurumi because ). She is now the desk.

[paperplateprose]

writing is easy! first you must explain something you do not understand, you must express the turmoil within a person using dots and lines, you must craft a living world using hands that were never made to. and then you die

[lefemmerougewriter]

Yeah, writing really can be difficult. Some people want to take "a shortcut" by using A.I., but that's taking everything out of it.

[quietlyrebellious01]

It really is. There is such profound joy in the act of weaving a story, of finding all the little threads that you possibly can and hoping that others will find them too as you tuck them between the weft and warp.

Humanity was made with stories, our voices, our dreams, the way we craft and see things. It is such a precious thing that every single person deserves to experience for themselves, with their own hands.

It is something far too wonderful to give to soulless thieving machines.

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An Idea

I have been thinking about starting a literacy and writing youtube channel. Not a this is how to read (because I am not qualified for that yet, though it is something I would like to do) but just a "Hey lets get really excited about reading and writing because it's really quite fun!"

Like I can't teach anyone to read or write. But I can be a reading and writing hype man.

With semi-weekly work on stuff and hang out livestreams.

It would include fandom stuff too, because any reading and writing that a person does for themselves is a good thing (and totally not because I wanna show off my books from tv shows and movies and my copy of Superman: Dawnbreaker that was signed by Matt De La Pena (BECAUSE MATT DE LA PENA!!!))

Like I know the literacy crisis is rooted in a lack of hope for the future, but I think that maybe bringing joy into literacy and showing people the magic of it all might bring a little more hope to the table.

I don't know. It feels like a "do what you can with your own two hands" thing. I'm going to try to get that started in the next few weeks.

[quietlyrebellious01]

I went to a con!!!

And spent most of the money i had set aside on Sting. But you know The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were comfort reads (to the point that between rereads and moving 19 times in a decade I actually destroyed my original copies) So like.

I have Sting. XD

And Mothman.

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Soft Light Illustration 2: Volcano Stargazing

speedpaint under the cut

All of the refs are my own or referencing s1e1 of the show by pausing it, we had a northern lights event a couple falls ago that was so bright it lit the inside of my bedroom up in red. Also, yes it got that cold. I was out in for about 30 minutes to over and hour and a half every two hours to take care of farm critters. Everyone was fine. But it was ... eventful.

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Soft Light Illustration 1: Plant a Tree

Speedpaint and refs are under the cut

Characters and house: Screenshots from MAWS, mainly s1e10 and s1e1 Cat: My precious baby Starra Clovers: Yard Dandelions: Yard Tree: Yard Corn: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024-09-16_14_15_52_Isolated_corn_stalk_in_a_cornfield_with_areas_of_spotty_growth_along_New_York_State_Route_149_in_Fort_Ann,_Washington_County,_New_York.jpg Pot Marigolds: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calendula_flowers.jpg

I am not quite ready to start posting it yet, as I still want to get a little more ahead. But! I figure I can get the illustrations somewhere online so I can place them in the drafts properly.

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Soft Light Planet/Time transition

Speedpaint under the cut

Act 1 is edited! (but I need to type it. This is the transition illustration for switching between planets and times.) The forget-me-nots were in my backyard, and the Kryptonian flowers are based on night sky petunias (my second favorite flower actually) and the purple earth theory, which is that before chlorophyll-based plants happened we had retinal-based plants (I might just be a nerd but it's fascinating science). Which were pink and purple! And I have seen pink and purple plants in some of the comics.

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Smaug! For the library! (WIP but I am proud of my 12 hour dragon face)

He's gonna be a 22x30 cut out poster climbing down a bookshelf, and i am hoping to make spines, wings and a tail to go over and wrap around the shelf. I might (probably) add teeth back in, but I will wait to see what it looks like with the rest of the body first.

(also running out of time. the summer reading program is fast approaching)

I based him off of Tolkien's drawing and a crocodile.

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The fruits of 7 hours of labor (not counting the 4 hours I spent sketching yesterday) Drawing every single scale on the dragon was not the best idea for a guy with carpel tunnel but I do think it is worth it.

The wings and scales will be on top of a 7ft shelf, so they are not going to be as detailed.

[quietlyrebellious01]

Smaug! For the library! (WIP but I am proud of my 12 hour dragon face)

He's gonna be a 22x30 cut out poster climbing down a bookshelf, and i am hoping to make spines, wings and a tail to go over and wrap around the shelf. I might (probably) add teeth back in, but I will wait to see what it looks like with the rest of the body first.

(also running out of time. the summer reading program is fast approaching)

I based him off of Tolkien's drawing and a crocodile.

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Typed Edit is done!

My room looks like a paper hurricane went through it. But!!!! The typed edits of The Soft Light of Home are done!

It is currently 110,432 words 31 chapters and an epilogue. It is 447 pages (That i have to print one last time.) The only edit left is the Rainbow Edit, which is essentially prettying things up and some illustrations. (There will be at least 2. I might go as hard as 15, but that depends on time and how angry my carpal tunnel gets)

So it will grow a little bit.

Once I get 2 acts ahead with the rainbow edit, I will start posting. I am aiming for early June. (which is funny, because I think the first time I tried to post it was also in June, back in 2024. I took it down because it needed more editing.)

Ya'll I have been working on this beast for over 2 years and 7 months.

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The purple pen edit is done!

Now I have to type all 384 pages of it (plus the 20 or so scrap paper pages of added and rewritten scenes)

And then there's dividing it into chapters, the word finding edit (looking for overused words. My worst offenders seem to be As, Silence, and Wilted.) Reprinting it one last time to do the the green pen edit (adding atmosphere) and the rainbow edit (highlighting the senses to make sure I haven't forgotten smell exists. I started with the past earth part, but then realized it would be more effective in the chapter by chapter edit).

And then possibly picking out points to illustrate. I have some already picked, and one half-finished illustration. Might be 5 or 10 (1 or 2 per act) might be more than that-- back when the beast was in the 50,000 word range I was going to do the little pictures like at the end of the show at the end of each chapter. I still might, but considering the current chapter estimate is around 19, I would have to do almost 40 of them. Which is ... a lot.

I do plan to finally start posting it once I get the edits done for the first two acts and have enough of a buffer to keep a regular schedule. But! I am still hoping to start posting by the end of next month.

We shall see.