grace is bestowed by nature, not me.

a messy collection of stuff i enjoy

[eightdoctor]

internet ransom note where instead of magazine letters it’s just jpgs of letters found on google

[eightdoctor]

[hanpaopaoo]

Environment study but for some reason I wanted to paint Amaterasu too

[nemfrog]

Schematic illustration of the nervous system. Macfadden's Encyclopedia of physical culture. Volume 1. 1920.

Internet Archive

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

[gallusrostromegalus]

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time.  Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you.  So, when you get back to that big/important piece?  You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round.  Rest, and take care of yourself.

[strawbebbynya]

i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now

[404computerhamstersnotfound]

Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.

[redwingedwhump]

For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.

[blackaquokat]

@sweetiepie08

[accidental-spice]

@kanerallels

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.

[winterinhimring]

Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.

I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…

[drmace]

Ink of Baldur's Gate Day twenty-seven - destiny

[itsapmseymour]

They got new photos of the moon,

I knew she had colors hiding in there 🥹

[aflo]

if you're washed chopped and cooked then you might be vegetables

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[dailycatsblog]

[toroimage]

[saintfallen]

boothill.

[kororobus]

girls night girls night

[justsomeguycore]

knock knock

[dismembered-jackalope]

who's there

[justsomeguycore]

deez

[dismembered-jackalope]

sigh

deez who ?

[justsomeguycore]

deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

[animentality]

[hikarisakurariver]

Your middle aged Aunts lead the first online charge for yaoi and your great Aunts lead the first conventions for fandoms and wrote yaoi fanfiction on paper. (It just wasn’t called that at the time)

Sometimes they didn’t even show anyone. Sometimes they showed a few fellow fans.

You simply live now, following in their footsteps path they laid.

[minkhollow42]

On a related note, passed my way by a friend:

[mercurialmalcontent]

Your middle-aged aunts are very likely STILL writing fanfiction, it's not like they forgot what a computer and fandoms are when they hit 40, you know?

[latriviata]

transcripts under cut!

OP:

tweet by @\usermangoes: thinking about that one time my aunt asked to read my fanfiction and i went "it's just a lot of gay prn [porn]" and she looked at me put her hands on her hips and went "am i not old enough to read gay prn? [porn]" like damn my bad [01 Nov 25]

reply by @\aestethicc_meow: the middle aged aunts yearn for the yaoi

Reply: undated tweet by @\RG_sh118 in both Japanese and English

おばあちゃんに「孫ちゃんの書いた本（※同人誌）読みたい」って言われたけどR-18本だから......って断ったら「おばあちゃん、R-85なのに.....？」って来て笑ったそれはそうだけれども

My grandma said to me, "I want to read the book my grandchild wrote (*Note: doujinshi)," but when I refused, saying it's an R-18 book... she came back with "Grandma's R-85, though...?" and I burst out laughing. Well, that's true, I guess.

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[a-titty-ninja]

[bold-baddie]

[worrywrite]

As the Ides of March approaches, let us all remember it not as the day Caesar was stabbed a whole bunch, but for what it truly was: the day a group of organized elected representatives killed a sitting unelected dictator.

[pissvortex]

[eatmorebikes]