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Do NOT Google 'Rusty Colbert'. | I draw things. What do I draw? Hell if I know. Main blog @ trashquisitor-shirozora | Write blog @ shirozora-writes | AO3: shirozora | Instagram: shirozora_draws

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So.

This is what happens when you try to stop hyperfixating for several days to do your goddamn art assignment and your hellbrain says, “I have an idea.”

Sure did take me 2 days and 2 near emotional meltdowns to learn how to use CSP’s animation tools and make this work.

I’ll maybe post the jpeg later. 

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Hi! Hope you don't mind me asking you on here but will you continue with your fanfic on ao3 The Stars? Your series is my absolute favourite dinluke stories and I've been re-reading it again and so desperate for an update! Thank you:)

(hope you don't mind me answering publicly as I'm sure others who have been reading the series are curious)

I'm currently on a break from Star Wars for... a myriad of reasons but it is always my plan to return. There is just too much story in my brain to walk away forever. I'm already rotating ways to rework the chapter that I stalled out on... but that comes later. I just need to clear my head and come back with fresh eyes and fresh thoughts.

Thanks for stopping by!

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better days comin' for sure. ~ luther, kendrick lamar & sza

A birthday doodle, at last.

The pace of this blog should be obvious enough, if you aren't already following my main blog. The disastrous mass deletion from last year really took the wind out of my sad sails and that combined with low-grade burnout, continued disappointment with the choices that the Disney corporation has been making, and constant anger with my fuckass country has made the prospect of continuing The Stars and Dangerous Dreams really exhausting. So this is an official hiatus announcement sketch. I'm giving myself permission to stop being afraid that burnout means I'll never come back. I will come back. I know I'll come back.

Because right now I'm in a slow burn Tolkien hell and making my way through LOTR for the first time in a very, very long time. I've fully come back to one of my very oldest fandoms, which means I will come back to Din, Luke, Grogu, and this story I've been living in for 5 years.

See y'all on the flip side. And if you're curious about whatever shenanigans I'm getting up to that will make Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien spin in his grave, watch this space.

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I love harassing my favourite artist with questions.

How did you discover Dinluke?

and

Who would most likely propose first?

All jokes aside, happy to respond to whatever gets asked!

I watched the Season 2 finale when it dropped and my literal first thought after it was over and I was done hyperventilating was, "So Grogu has two dads now?" And that would not leave my head. "Grogu has two dads," I thought constantly, all day every day for a couple weeks. "Oh no. Oh no, oh no. This can't be happening." And then I gave up and checked AO3.

Uhhhhhhh interesting question, that. I'm in the "depends on the situation/context/dynamic at the moment" camp for pretty much everything so these scenarios never cross my mind. I swear it's not a non-answer but I'm more interested in how and why one would propose than who'd be the first to do it. I just feel that Din would be quiet and deliberate and private about it, if he ever takes that route. I'm not sure Luke ever will, unless it's for bureacrautic reasons and there's red tape to cut through lol. His love and devotion are enough.

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din's haunted playlist: "Your Idol" by Saja Boys & "Everybody Scream" by Florence + The Machine

Happy New Year and good fucking riddance to that dumpster hellfire of a previous one. Have a haunted!Din inspired by The Stars, two songs, and my feelings about 2025.

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HIIII your loyal fanss aka me *cough* would like to ask if there are any updates on the laptop situation that had happened :') also.. love love your work please don't go bald 💕💕💕 HAPPY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hello there, and happy holidays!

Unfortunately I could not recover anything past 2022 save for a few random ultimately useless things that I could pull from the recycle bin. What you see in the archives and over at AO3 is all there is of my later works. Ah well. Only thing I can do now is move forward, which I am. Hopefully I'll have a little something up on here before the year is over.

Thanks for stopping by!

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An Announcement

If you already follow me on my main blog or elsewhere online, you probably already know this. In an attempt to finally commit to unfucking my laptop and disentangling it from Microsoft's death grip on Win11 and everyone who uses it, I fucked up, didn't do a proper backup and double-check which main folder all of my writing and art files were nestled in, and permanently deleted a folder labeled "OneDrive".

I recovered the Scrivener folder for The Stars (and all other fic files are in gdocs which I know is a problem but that's a different fight) and some jpgs but I'm struggling to recover all of my art files from after early 2022. As of right now, this tumblr account and imgur have my only copies for everything from 2022 onward. I guess it's a small mercy that life overtook me and I barely drew anything this year, but it sucks. My hopes to run a little merch shop are pretty much dead unless I redraw everything that I couldn't restore.

So, yeah. Back up your shit regularly to avoid losing years of work and fuck Microsoft for putting me in this position in the first place. And fuck me for lacking the executive function to do all this backing things up and deleting off Onedrive shit years earlier until now and doing it in the worst way possible.

End of announcement. See y'all in a bit.

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any updates on dangerous dreams? may have binge read it again last week

Hi there! Firstly, many many thanks for reading the series! Secondly, life has been immensely troublesome however Andor's lit a fire and I'm working on the next chapter. Have had to keep pushing back launch but I'm hoping to get something out in June.

Thanks for stopping by!

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if this world were mine, i'd take your dreams and make 'em multiply - luther by kendrick lamar & sza

I have..... 50ish presentable sketches to churn out after weeks of doing no serious art while trying to write and also keep my goddamn sanity, so let's warm up with a messy little 3quelfic!dinluke doodle. sorry to anyone looking for more canon dinluke scribbling but I'm in Fic Mode and everything is gonna come up Dangerous Dreams until the story is over.

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Okay, but hear me out: What if I drew the meme again, but cuter and sticker-ready?

He is not beating the cutie patootie allegations.

Debating one more Kendrick scribble with the Pop Out concert fit but this is really all I wanted and needed. Back to your regularly scheduled Star Wars programming.

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SAY, DRAKE!

Anyway it's 3AM and I have work in the morning, but i needed to get this out of my system so fucking bad. Been dying to doodle this man for months, so here I am.

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This entire chapter was so hard to write AND draw... until you grasp that one thought and pull hard on it. Envisioning Nevarro like you're a gunslinger, an outlaw, wandering into a town clinging to the frontier really helped me crawl past artist's block.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My second thought after "guess I know what scene to conceptualize" was "Kendrick Lamar in the 'Humble' mv" and when when I dove into Shotdeck's archives for "beam of light", the very first image was from Kendrick Lamar's Humble mv. Are you shitting me.

I think I could've done more to emphasize how alone Din is in this chapter, but I may have played it too safe with the setting and that put limits on my ideas of what feelings I wanted to capture. Still think I nailed it, though.

I'm so excited for the next chapter, though. I sat on how I want to write and draw it for almost as long as I sat on how I wanted to write and draw chapter 7, so hopefully I'll have a much better time with that one.

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For auld lang syne.

Warming up for this new year in my GNX with Anita Baker in the tape deck with an art exercise I spotted on Instagram. Even if I no longer see a path to a career in the arts, I will continue making art of the things I like. I will continue doing the things that keep me sane while this country of mine goes off the rails.

New chapter of The Stars is also incoming. We are going to get busy in this Year of the Snake.

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And now for something completely different--- some sketches of my coworkers' pets during a 2-hour department meeting with a 0.5mm gel ink pen. It always feels so damn good to scribble with a pen because you really have to think about where you're putting down your lines but that also gives you the freedom to get loose and fun with your choices. Sketches went home with the coworkers and one of them even told me later that their partner cried upon seeing it because they were having a bad day and the sketch made them feel heaps better.

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mustard on the beat, ho- MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAARD Someone make it stop, make it fucking stop. I spent all week hyping myself up to gather up all my work sketches like a scrapbook and clean it all up to post here, and then Kendrick had to surprise drop on a Friday morning and ruin my work day and my headspace all weekend long.

Anyway, here's a dangerous dreams sketch dump.

It's been a long quiet, but RL had taken such a fucking toll that I had a real hard time finding the fucks to get creative. Who knows how much this past US presidential election will fuck up the entire rest of my life, but I'll take solace in finding community and in the little things and in Andor Season 2 and in the telling of The Stars.

Now that I got this out of the way, guess it's time to go fucking write some fucking words.

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Five months later, here we are to close the book on the first arc and open to the first pages of the second arc.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This was an interesting exercise in taking what little I know about a world from the existing canon and building up the background/environment. Took inspo from Andor's set designs and added some post-war organic flair (I hope). Always wanted to draw some Leia, and it sure won't be the last time.

Painted and repainted the background while knowing full well that I'll just end up blurring it and drowning it in hazy cold morning light anyway. Bringing an Auzituck gunship out of its simplified animated origins into a more... "realistic" space has been challenging but I love creating metal textures with rough brushes and I'm gonna keep doing it. Can't wait for more chances to draw Din in this particular design.

I'll have a later post regarding the pop-up shop. For now, I need a weeklong break from the two months of stress between finishing the chapter draft and getting this out onto the Internets.

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An "I want to scribble some kind of dinluke but every idea is trash" sketch to tidy this space over while I continue to fall behind on my plans to finish the illustrations and post the fic. I need to keep remembering that not everything requires my 101% and it's fine to play loose and fast with a blank canvas and pencil brushes.

Anyways, I'm off to see some goddamn whales.