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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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noise dept.
RMH
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oozey mess
Xuebing Du
Misplaced Lens Cap
izzy's playlists!
sheepfilms
cherry valley forever
Three Goblin Art
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Stranger Things
pixel skylines
JVL
#extradirty
Claire Keane
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@saijspellhart
My Uther expressions sketch-dump is finally finished. I feel so proud. Behold, my beautiful son.
I had such a fun time drawing all these, and I took inspiration from all over. This was such a fun exercise for me, and I got to practice drawing a singular character over and over with different facial expressions and angles. I think he’s such an amazing character.
Let me know your favorite sketch from the page!
i don't know who needs to hear this, but guilt, self-hatred and shame are not sustainable sources of growth and healing. you can't hate yourself into feeling better, or being better. you can't repeatedly punish yourself for your flawed humanity and expect wholesome results.
“you cannot ship these two fictional characters because—” actually I can because they are not real people. they are just toys I play with. you cannot apply real-world morality to fiction or how strangers play with their imaginary toys in their imaginary sandboxes.
you can, however, curate your own internet experience by minding your own business, muting/blocking/scrolling past what upsets you but does not hurt anyone in real life in any way, shape or form.
“ship whatever you want except xyz. there is a limit” so you miss the entire point of what I just said 👌🏻
there is, in fact, no limit. I may be uncomfortable with it, I may even find it unpleasant/disturbing, but my personal feelings are not rules that can be applied to other people, and they absolutely do not justify shaming or harassing other people.
I bring sort of a 'peasants of the past were not as debased,uneducated and dirty as a lot of pesudo-medieval fiction makes them out to be but this new wave of attempting to sweep the very real indentured servitude, corporal ownership, poverty and lack of basic human rights under the rug isn't achieving what you think it's achieving' vibe to the party that people don't really like
Very right! The common folk were your artesans, your soap makers, your weavers, your bakers, your builders, your carpenters, your blacksmiths, couriers, writers, farmers, butchers, apothecaries, metal workers, inventors, carriage builders, food preservers, candle makers, tailors, fishers, net makers, boat builders, etc.
Many, if not all, these jobs require skilled labor. Many require some specialized maths, writing, measuring, weighing, techinical knowledge, soil knowledge, animal husbandry, chemistry, etc.
Even if the commoners and lower class didn't always get a formal education, they DID get an education in the field they were worked in, and knew how to apply skills and knowledge to their trade.
I'm confused, how come you took your story down? I tried looking through previous posts but I didn't find anything.
I took it down because I’m writing a novel. I wrote a fanfic originally based on a story idea my husband came up with. And I had a blast writing a semi-short fanfic based on the idea. But when I finished writing the fic, I realized I had so much more I wanted to write. So many ideas, so many plot threads I wanted to explore. A huge entire plot I wanted to explore as a sequel. And I also realized that it would be a LOT OF WORK to waste on a fanfic that no one was going to read, because it featured background characters from a 20 year old game that no one cared about.
The thought of wasting all this original plot and ideas on a fanfic that almost no one read was disheartening and daunting.
And many of the people who actually read the fic told me that my ideas were too good to waste on such a fic. They told me to take them and rework them into an original novel.
So I’ve taken my ideas, and my plots, and built an original fantasy world, filled it with creatures and fantastical races and politics and religions. I’ve sketched out a world map, and designed original geography. I’ve replaced characters with original characters that I built from the ground up. And I’m in the process of reworking and rewriting and deconstructing and reconstructing my story into a wholly original work.
I’ll be adding 13 new additional chapters, and rewriting and changing the original 13 chapters. Scrapping some, salvaging certain elements of others.
While I’m in the process of writing a novel, I don’t want the original fanfic to continue floating about. I know my novel will be overwhelmingly different, a brand new beast. But I also want to stop comparing the two, and to stop living in the fanfic version. And it’s not going to happen if the fanfic stays up. So I gave people a month to finish reading the fic, as I knew a few people were in the process of reading it, and I didn’t want to rip it down while they were mid read. I think a month was plenty of time to finish reading.
Now I can put to rest that fic. Cherish that it inspired me to write an original novel, and focus entirely on my novel.
I have a fun story to tell about original characters I feel passionate about, whose personalities, inner demons, and issues I want to explore and delve into and really flesh out. And along the way I get to tell a story about messy romances, and friendships, smut and drama. All against the backdrop of a fantasy world I built myself.
I’m also sick and tired of seeing the god awful slop that is the current popular published fantasy romance books. I won’t name names, because people probs already know them. But I’ve tried reading enough of the popular published romantacy books and found them all terrible and poorly written, (I’ve read many fanfics better written than current published romantacy) I decided it’s time to put my money where my mouth is. I’ve been writing for 20 years, and I know I can write something better.
Whether of not my work breaks containment and reaches popularity matters little. But I’ll have written a novel I can feel proud of and put something out in the world that I can enjoy reading, and perhaps others too.
Five more days until We Danced Anyway is taken down!
Hi all! At the end of this month my story We Danced Anyway will become unavailable to read. I’ll be taking it down. So this is your very last chance to check it out, and the beautiful artwork within before it goes poof.
(I’m saving and preserving all the lovely comments people left on it. And when my novel is finished I might reach out to ya’ll and do something special for you. Because honestly you guys helped inspire me to take my ideas further and try my hand at an original novel.)
This fanfic was a treasure for me to write, and if you were tempted to give it a read at all, please do before it goes away forevers.
I cherish the experience I had writing this story, and to the handful of lovely people who enjoyed it with me.
Thank you.
And she is gone for good, I’ve private the story for now, and will eventually delete it, but not before I make a list of all the people who supported it by leaving comments. I’m still figuring out what I want to do for you all. Perhaps a dedication page in my novel, and/or free sketch commissions once my novel is done.
It’s weird and bittersweet to be taking this fanfic down. The story was my pride and joy for several years, and it lived rent free in my head.
But I’ll cherish it always, and all the wonderful readers who gave it a chance.
Again, Thank you.
Five more days until We Danced Anyway is taken down!
Hi all! At the end of this month my story We Danced Anyway will become unavailable to read. I’ll be taking it down. So this is your very last chance to check it out, and the beautiful artwork within before it goes poof.
(I’m saving and preserving all the lovely comments people left on it. And when my novel is finished I might reach out to ya’ll and do something special for you. Because honestly you guys helped inspire me to take my ideas further and try my hand at an original novel.)
This fanfic was a treasure for me to write, and if you were tempted to give it a read at all, please do before it goes away forevers.
I cherish the experience I had writing this story, and to the handful of lovely people who enjoyed it with me.
Thank you.
Writers,
what's something unique about your main character?
Kel is half human and half rumairan, (the rumairan are humanoid bat people). So while she has the long bat ears from her rumairan blood, her human genes make the cartilage form wrong. So her ears flop and don’t stand up. It’s a struggle for her to make her ears stand up for any reasonable amount of time. Her human genes also give her blunted fingernails, so she has to use tools to climb and grip surfaces.
Rumairan people can sometimes grow ruffs of fur along their neck and shoulders. Often considered luxurious and fashionable among the Rumairan. However, Kel, being half human doesn’t quite grow the fur in correctly, and it just results in her getting excess back and shoulder hair, that she elects to shave off. Because it’s patchy and sparse, more like thicker body hair, and neither luxurious or long enough to be considered desirable by the Rumairan, and body hair in general on a woman is looked upon with disdain by the humans.
The Rumairan also live a slightly shorter life span than humans, so it’s predicted that Kel won’t be as long lived as a normal human would.
But she does get the wing sigils, and wings from her Rumairan blood, as well as good hearing, and excellent low light vision. And she has the enhanced disease immune system that comes from being a bat person. On the flip-side, her amazing immune system means that if she does transfer a disease to a human, it’s a super bug and it can be plague causing. (But that is the case for all the Rumairan though. That’s not a trait specific to her.)
I’ve seen a lot of mixedblood characters who get the perks and bonuses of their mixed blood. But almost never seem to suffer any detriments caused by mixed blood. Like certain genetics not mixing right, or not forming correctly. Or getting the short end of the stick with certain features. And I wanted to create and write a character who has a very mixed bag of positives and negatives coming from her genetics, and how she makes the best of it.
My period is inflicting psychic damage and self deprecation.
Help.
Character Art Sale
$60 full body
$45 half body
Flat colors or black and white.
Let me draw your ships. I’ll draw characters hanging out, hugging, making out, fooling around, etc, I don’t care.
Message me directly if you are interested.
Examples of my work:
I have 2 slots available.
1 slot left.
Its been a couple years now and I still think Lyn and Uther should fuck.
That is all.
I'm an analog person.
It means my life is AI free. I coined this as a phrase for myself, and have used it to casually describe myself to peers in person.
I don't use AI, Alexa, Siri, or any of the fancy smart fridges, or what have you. I live a fairly simple life. And prefer to do most things myself without involving big tech and AI, or connecting my appliances to the internet.
But mostly I use that term to describe an AI free life. I don't need big tech's experimental slop and plagiarism machines to live my life.
And I'll continue to do my own research, write my own emails, resumes, essays, recipes, etc. I'm not going to outsource my intelligence.
I'm an analog person. I can think for myself.
Character Art Sale
$60 full body
$45 half body
Flat colors or black and white.
Let me draw your ships. I’ll draw characters hanging out, hugging, making out, fooling around, etc, I don’t care.
Message me directly if you are interested.
Examples of my work:
I have 2 slots available.
I think you need more Seteth in your life. And possibly Jeralt
Absolutely true. Here’s more Seteth drinking tea.
Did you watch every support in FE7?
I did not. There are so many.
Though I have watched and unlocked every FE8 support on my original gameboy cartridge.
For the assumptions ask game:
You have a monster in your closet that you've befriended. You feed it drawn pictures of toads because you don't want to feed it live ones, and the monster is content not knowing the difference.
The monster's name is [unintelligible gurgling sound] but you can't pronounce that so you call it Bertha. It's usually green and puce and has a larger number of limbs than one would expect, though you've never seen all of them at once.
You’d only know all this because you live in my closet with it. :3
