congratulations and many thanks to the wonderful @sheyshocked for participating and being one of the winners in this year's leo bday party event 💙💙💙
i had such a great time drawing a sort of poster/cover for their fic soulmates are just a human thing. (with little solo versions as a bonus) if you're a simarkus fan, it is a must-read!
and of course, thank you to @detroitbhappy for organizing this event for our beloved rat boy. 💙
Writing is lonely in a specific way that is hard to explain to people who don't do it. not lonely like isolated. lonely like you are trying to build a bridge to another human consciousness using only words on a page and you will never actually know if you got there.
You send the thing out and maybe someone reads it and something moves in them and they have no way to tell you exactly what moved or why and you have no way to know if it was the thing you meant or something else entirely.
You're working in permanent uncertainty about whether any of it lands. and you keep going anyway. you have to develop this strange faith in the act itself, in the value of the attempt separate from the outcome, because if you need confirmation every time you sit down you will never sit down.
Most of the writing happens in a silence that never fully gets broken. you learn to be okay in that silence or you don't last.
guy who is burnt out beyond recognition and can barely get through the workday just to collapse into bed when he gets home voice: I have got to make art again. it will heal me
i do also feel the need to add that phil8248 really liked the joke. he said his wife had always had a dark sense of humour, even about her illness and death, and seeing the joke made him feel like he was laughing with her one last time.
rip to the guy who posted his very expensive yixing teapot to r/tea, only for the comments to be not compliments on his taste as he expected, but instead GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY and I SHOULD CALL HER. he then crossposted it to r/gongfutea, which is ordinarily more dignified and self-serious, but was it? was it?? of course not, because this is reddit, and this was the teapot
if ur lord gives u a tiny version of him to keep in your pocket so you always know where home is, is that like...?
Part 1 of 2 (or 3 if I split it more): This was supposed to be a quick & vaguely seasonal one-shot before I take a break, but I 1000000000% am not gonna finish everything I sketched haha so here's the first part
script below
They are hanging out but Hans is reaching into his pouch
"Hang on, Henry, I have something for you!"
Henry smiles as he watches him dig around
"Something for me?"
Hans reveals a little wooden carving (map marker from KCD1)
Henry is a lil speechless tbh as he holds it up
"You carved this!"
(offscreen) "And painted it."
Turning it over
"Hah. Who is this fella?"
Mock offence
"Well, it's me, of course!"
Henry fights against a huge smile.
"He's got your hood and everything!"
"Now that simple peasant brain of yours need only seek the handsome man who looks like that, and then you'll know where you are."
He looks at Hans, snarky.
"I think I know where Rattay is."
Hans's smile has calmed into something soft.
"Well. You won't always be in Rattay, and neither will he.
But… maybe it'll at least remind you of it; no matter where you are."
Henry regards it with a new appreciation.
"Aye. I'll look to this little fella whenever I need to find my way home, then."
Hans scrunches his face at that and pushes him playfully
notice how they pause instead of all-out running? rat want grab-toss. they are playing a game! and pausing to make sure human has time to grab them and gently toss like the football!
something I really enjoy is that I've now seen like 4 or 5 variations of roughly this same video, all slightly different in their angles and timing while obviously being the exact same bunny and room, implying that this is a consistent and frequent behavior for this bunny instead of just a funny thing it did once that got caught on camera. I wish I could have as much raw unfiltered enthusiasm for anything as this little rabbit has for its dinnertime
