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sweatermuppet

life is about doing arts & crafts btw

filmphotofranz

lakemojave

I failed to notice the original tweet below and i just assumed this post was just about the artistic process in general, not nsfw art specifically, and just accepted that yeah sometimes you gotta rub that thang till the job is done

virtualgirladvance

honestly just a good mindset in any creative endeavour

foldingfittedsheets

My wife @aorryn47 is reading Kushiel’s Chosen right now. For any unaware the series follows a courtesan/spy and her adventures and it’s very spicy with lots of sex scenes.

As my wife and I have embarked on book writing and two smut scenes currently exist my wife and I are needing to find acceptable words for various genitalia.

“Cock” is my favorite for penis, “phallus” is both of our least favorite. Vagina and labia are trickier as there just isn’t a very good stand in. “Folds” is okay, “clit” is fine, “pussy” made my wife laugh themself sick when I gave up on finding a nicer word.

But my wife has very strong feelings about what they feel the worst option is.

Today I got sent this

empyreal-lore

*looking at the OC I crafted with my own hands* what the actual hell is her problem

flowerbleedme

Well as a "fan" I would be "serviced" by some THEMES AND MOTIFS #themesandmotifs #artwithmeaning

robogrind

drawings are secretly the enemy because they start off very nice and unassuming but then when they're about 80% done they start emanating a malevolent aura that makes finishing them the scariest activity you can imagine

homunculus-argument

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

luna-azzurra

Hemingway stopped writing every day mid-sentence on purpose. So he always knew where he was going when he sat down the next morning. I thought this was torture. i tried it. it is torture. It is also the reason i no longer stare at a blank page for forty minutes wondering what comes next because the sentence is already half there, already pulling you forward, already open. The blank page is the hardest part. He just made sure he never had to face it. I am begrudgingly a convert.

luna-azzurra

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

daily-prompts

Write about the one action—either their own or someone else's—that your character cannot forgive. Explore why letting go feels impossible.

writingdose

mr-deep-downer

so let’s say, for the sake of the argument, I do go into that good night

intactics

you wouldn't go gently, now would you?

mr-deep-downer

I certainly wouldn’t rage, if that’s what you’re asking

intactics

not even — for the sake of the argument — against the dying of the light?

mr-deep-downer

postboxadventures

Spending Sunday morning making some fancy stamp bookmarks for the next craft show.

dvoeverie-stitches

Progress on my bloodroot and sacred heart mashup for June (month of devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus)

madeofklay

What I learned not to do in art school

canthaveshitingotham-crucified

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

canthaveshitingotham-crucified

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling