(at home amongst beasts)

{"girl you can kiss whatever horrible monstrosity you want"} ◇ 25 ◇ ace ◇ they/she ◇ don't use anything of mine for ai

[scribeherself]

seeing people say "this trope has been done to death" as if that's ever stopped anyone from eating bread. BREAD HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH FOR LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND WE STILL WANT MORE BREAD. write your chosen one AU. write your coffee shop meet-cute. write your 47th iteration of "there was only one bed" because guess what??? we're still hungry.

[artbytesslyn]

you will keep making art. you will keep making art!!!! you will keep making art and it will keep making people happy!!!!!!!!!!

[artbytesslyn]

you can complain about it the whole time also

[kayvsworld]

most tragic thing about wanting to see more stuff of your oc is that the c is o and YOU have to make the stuff. devastating. why can’t art of my beautiful baby just appear in my hands. just materialize under my pillow, like from the tooth fairy

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[semisolidmind]

i have been trawling through the ancient sludge of my blog, and have found.....

old ocs! that i will perhaps draw again, as a test of skill. there's quite a few of them that i think i can do justice to now

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[semisolidmind]

Hi, so have you heard of the new Dr.Seuss inspired horror game called The Island Of Doctor Morose it's a pretty cool game with a beautiful art style and story with themes of grief and how people deal with it (Example; the Three main character focus) I think you may like it as it was inspired by H.P Lovecraft, so I heard. I was reminded of the game from your last ask of it sounding like a rhyme from Dr.Seuss. Anyway I got to ask I'm curious to ask what your studying in college. You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

just watched the steam preview, and it looks very interesting! i suppose most childhood properties will be subject to the mascot horror game treatment eventually...

but it does look pretty good, considering the look it's going for. and all hand-drawn, too :)

(for your second question, i graduated back in 2024. i studied graphic design and illustration)

[semisolidmind]

I'm freezing outside,

I hold my skin tight,

My coat is inside,

But I look up at you(Cause I'm short)

I checked your blog right,

For a good check-in tonight,

Tell me,

Is Semisolidmind doing alright?

(Yeayyyy I did it)

nicely done, my friend :)

and aside from the general state of the world and the ones that run it, im not doing too horribly?? idk

just hoping things can get better, I suppose

[bark-barkley]

I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS

[softwetmoss]

And also occasionally by pufferfish

[semisolidmind]

Okay...I don't have a gut to start my own art blog. Once experienced a online bulling and stop touching social media altogether for years.

Now I wanted to get back to it , I don't have the guts to just post my art work and even tho I did I don't know how to promote them.

How do You manage your blog and how do promote your work?

tbh dude, i don’t really promote my work, and "management" is just...occasionally posting.

my following came primarily from the fandoms I’ve been a part of over the years, and the very nice people who’ve stuck around after i stopped posting the thing they originally followed me for.

if i could give advice, itd be that you’ve gotta have the confidence to post what you make without the expectation of outside validation.

not everyone is going to like your art, and that’s ok. you might not get a ton of likes or reblogs, but as long as you're making what you like, others who also like that thing will find it (as long as its well-tagged).

[semisolidmind]

was thinkin bout my phantom mascot cat man and his urban explorer, liminally-trapped christine

[hungry-skeleton]

I think the biggest thing mascot horror things need to get a grip on is the reasonable balance of cute/creepy. The mascot in question needs to be cute enough to realistically be for children but scary enough to actually make for effective horror. Most games always lean too far in either direction and idk maybe it's just me but immersion with these kinds of games are important for me to actually find enjoyment in them.

[hungry-skeleton]

Can anyone hear me

[hungry-skeleton]

[hungry-skeleton]

GUYS...

[mavenmemnon]

[herssian]

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

[semisolidmind]

Ooooo! Would you be up for making more of those Neko Cat Men? They are so cool! The villager looks so comfy and cozy while the lord looks elegant and sleek.

some simple doodles two years after you asked this…my apologies

[bamsara]

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

[yardsards]

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

[semisolidmind]

So, I know you already did a Western-ish thing with Rusty's Roundup. But I give you a morally upstanding town seamstress x an outlaw (maybe a gila monster guy or a buzzard dude, idk something desert themed with unpleasant connotations) who has a soft spot. But ONLY for her.

He wants both her and the criminal life. And she does like him lowkey. But if he wants her to be with him, he has to give up the latter.

(this one’s incredibly unpolished, my apologies, i didn’t have a lot of energy for it)

but i liked your idea, and I’ve got another like it from an anon that I’ve been trying to answer for a few years now, so i tried