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cleared out the inbox!  Just as a reminder, I do NOT check this tumblr’s inbox, please don’t leave me messages here because I won’t see them in a reasonable amount of time and I’m so sorry about how long it took me to reply to your messages.

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hi, just stopping by to say that i really, really love both your vld and bnha artwork :) i came across your tumblr after seeing one of your youtube vids. i also recently discovered you were the author of one of one of my fav bnha fics (ichidaiji) and magi fics (i am your king). do you plan to continue writing someday? sorry if this is too forward, i’m not pressuring you or anything. :(

Thank you for your kind words!  I still write!  I just don’t do it very often if at all?  I am in a very different place in life now than I was when I began Ichidaijiwhen I was still a college student, and definitely in an even farther off place than I was when I wrote i am your king in high school, so writing has taken a backseat to doing other things (my job, finding a new apartment, etc adult life things).

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Hi Allen, I love your art on your youtube channelI wanted to ask for maybe advice/ tutorials on how i can get into pixel art, Just tips and stuff. Thank you

I don’t really have any proper tutorials, but I guess my biggest advice is to just not be scared to start!  I started pixel art when I was super young and the only art program I had loaded on my computer was MS Paint, and I just played with it a lot when I was bored.  There’s a ton of great tutorials on DeviantArt from back in the day that helped me too.  I know personally I do all my pixel art with a mouse because I was a broke bitch and I didn’t have anything else at the time, and even now that I have a tablet, I still use my mouse on pixel art because I find that it gives me more control in placing things down dot by dot.  Anyway, my biggest advice is that, beyond finding other artists who inspire you, and following a couple tutorials, the best way to improve is practice.  Pixel art is just like any other kind of art, and getting better at it is a process that I’m still working on to this day, too. :)

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Hi! You wrote a klance fic where keith was a dragon and I keep thinking about this story all the time because I found the world you created to be so interesting & exciting. So I recently found the fic again and noticed it had been orphaned, which was sad because yeah I was really into the story. But I just wanted to tell you I appreciated it And I don't know why you lost interest but, if you remade this story into an original somdy I would be so down to read it bcs I can't stop thinking about it

This is super sweet of you to say, and oh gosh I’m very very sorry if I took forever to reply to this because this account has been basically dead for over a year.  I am very thankful that you told me this, I’m really sad I ended up disappointing you, and I don’t have any plans on completing or returning to write more of Sweetness of a Storm, and I’m really sorry about that.

Well the long story short is basically that I felt really betrayed by what happened with Voltron as a show in its later seasons, and I didn’t want to create content for something that queer-baited, with the actual gay rep ultimately treated poorly and culminated into nothing.I did have more for Sweetness of a Storm written that I didn’t post, and I recently started doing more on my patreon, so one of the things I have on there is everything I have for SoaS, past and present, including unposted chapters.  I didn’t really ever finish or polish them up, so they’re extremely rough and they hop around a lot, but if you’re interested in reading more that I have written, that’s an option.  I’m not trying to advertise this like “Oh, sorry I ignored your message for a million years (I’m sorry, I never check this inbox), please pay me money.”  If you really really want the chapters and can’t or don’t want to afford them on patreon (fair enough, I too am broke and I Understand), you can contact me on Twitter which I actually routinely check (@bittercalypso) so I can forward you the word doc or I guess try here again and I’ll try to remember to check it.  I just don’t spend any time on my Tumblr here anymore (current art posts aside.  I literally just upload, and abscond.)And as a blanket statement for everyone, I’m more than willing to give another author permission to adopt Sweetness of a Storm if they have ideas on continuing it.

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Most charm orders have been mailed by now!! Every other order, I'll e-mail those individuals personally and inform them of what's going on with their order. Thank y'all for being patient!!

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Hey! (I'm CinnamonChat on Twitter) And I'd just like to say that I love your art! Those cute little Strawberry Shortcake versions of the Voltron team were so cute and I loved them so much! If your not feeling confident in your art and want to take a break from posting it, I completely understand and that's fine. But I also wanted to make sure you new that I look forward to seeing your art :)

YOU’RE SO WONDERFUL AND PURE OH MY GOD ILU ❤❤❤

I have been having trouble feeling confident about it but I think it’s actually partially because of my mental health situation right now, which is why I was thinking of taking a break. But every time I draw, I always really want to show everyone and find validation in that, like, confirmation that the little insecure person in my head that hates everything I do is shut up by the weight of everyone else's kind words...?

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A link to my twitter if anyone is interested! Please talk to me, I'm lonely

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I just need one more follower to break the 100 mark! Should I do a giveaway or something...? Anyway I'm thinking I will since I love you guys. I'll put up a post about that once I break the big 100!