#brid tag

[oattinger]

honest hours with brid 😭

[kayfabeoutcold]

Hey, Eachtra!! Quick question about your art, all of the detailing and swirling symbols you work into your art reminds me so much of the megalithic engravings at Newgrange, so I was wondering: Is this a playful stylistic coincidence or is there something that inspires these beautiful details?

HI ! OH MY GOD I GET A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT THIS .

So ! I think part of it is definitely some sort of element of that - my family are very involved in archaeology, and so I grew up around a lot of artefacts and stuff of that nature. I'm sure the art of that had at least some sort of effect on my art brain growing up.

But! I can actually trace it back pretty easily! I didn't really start drawing until like 2020 like I've said before and when I did it was mostly on paper. And I used a lot of cross hatching to shade, usually using it directionally. Even when I started doing digital I was more comfy on paper. But I wanted a way to easily sketch something with clear shadow spaces that gave volume without the pickiness of cross hatching. So I turned to one of my at the time hyperfixations (ordnance survey maps) and used contour lines to map out facial planes. And through a process of stylisation that just became Picking Out Shapes !

[serve-cunt]

Someone did WHAT on your fic? That's so so lousy- Okay. Okay. I just went through a few pages of your fic bookmarks. Just a few pages, mind, and I saw enough shitty ones that I'm legitimately so upset-on-your-behalf about. I can't believe people think it's okay to do this? I can't imagine why people would want to bookmark, public or otherwise, things they think are "mid" or "5/10", bar deliberately wanting to make the writer feel bad.

Like, if they do it to keep track of what they've read, just name the collection "Read". I'm actually devastated about this. And perplexed, because some of the people doing this are fic writers themselves.

Your writing is wonderful, and I appreciate you using your free time creating such beautiful stories, and making this community a better place to be. If only others could be as kind.

haha thank you!!! I'm going to preface this answer by saying I am not precious about my writing, I'm an adult and I have a real* job and I make enough money at my real job to never care that much what people on the internet say about the rpf I write in my free time lol. and tbf to the reader, I don't like my own writing all the time either!! I'm trying to get better!! I learn something literally every day!!

*real ... enough

but yeah having got that out of the way, that "mid" rating kinda sucked and it's also just INteresting to me that people interact with fic that way ... I think some people treat fic like #content that people are idk. trying to make money off of or something, and the creator is just another grasping opportunist. and that is not what fic is for! it's not who the writers of fic are!

writing fic is creation for creation's sake, it's fun and social at its best, it's to find people who think like you do, or it's to read how other people are thinking about any given piece of media. it's also just what my brain is going to do anyway (rotate my little guys around, Put Them In Situations) so I might as well do it for an audience and get some kudos-based serotonin out of it

I like when people tell me they liked something I wrote because that tells me there are people out in the world who think like me or connect with the same things I connect with ... if they didn't like something I wrote I ... don't... care????? go elsewhere! don't recommend the fic! don't tell me WHY you won't recommend it. what a waste of your time, tbh. if you're keeping notes for your own sake, make the bookmark private? idk man. if you're just being mean then i can't help you but uh. don't be mean

these are all the same points @albonoooo already made and I'm making them worse lmaooo but anyway. I'm also probably preaching to the choir yada yada

(also!! to defend my own fic a tiny bit... sometimes the numbers in bookmarks are chapter markers. like if something is bookmarked and the note is just "5", then I assume the user has read up to chapter 5. I hope that's true anyway LOL)

[fewtrell]

Lava, mint, lemon 💖💖💖

lava: something is most definitely wrong with you (affectionate but worried)

mint: you deserve all the rights

lemon: little happy pill of the dashboard

BRID!!!!!! did u know that i love u. were u aware

[fewtrell]

God, if I could keep you in my pocket!!!!!!

WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!! i love u ;-;

[fewtrell]

Oh my goodness it's your birthday!! Happy birthday!!!!

You are insane and wonderful and so so funny I hope you had such a brilliant day!!!

BRIDDDDDDD I LOVE U THANK UU :( sending u the biggest hug

[fewtrell]

Respectfully, LOSING MY MIND over your art!!! Had zero clue you drew!!! I'm going out of my mind, you're incredible!!!

WAHHHHH brid u gotta be joking!!!!!!!! that is honestly SUCH a compliment coming from u im serious🥺🥺🥺 grinning from ear to ear right now seriously... YOU are incredible and so so so kind!!!!!🧡🧡🥺