#claud talks

[claudinsky]

Yo! This art blog is back from a 3-year hiatus! 👋🏽

I fell off posting on my art blog in March 2020 and have just now decided to put effort into updating it again. Gonna preemptively answer hypothetical questions!

Who are you?

I’m Claudia Chinyere Akole, an illustrator, animator, cartoonist, designer, and educator from Sydney, Australia (Gadigal & Wangal Country).

Did something happen to you?

No, I’ve been totally fine! In fact, I’ve still been making art both personally and commercially all this time.

Did you leave Tumblr for another platform (like Twitter) due to the NSFW ban?

Nope. I’ve been on Tumblr since 2010 (ough) and never really left – I just left my art blog languishing away and stuck to my regular main blog.

I have not ever and will not ever have a Twitter account. Nor will I ever make a TikTok account. I like to keep social medias at arms length coz of the brain worms.

Why did you stop posting on Tumblr?

In early 2020 I’d just quit my day job and shifted into being a full-time freelancer (scary) and actually had a lot of work come thru (good! didn’t become homeless artist!). I continued posting art on my instagram and website but fell off updating my art Tumblr at the same time and then it turned into a vicious cycle of being too busy and overwhelmed by the need to catch up on all the missed work.

Will you be retroactively posting all your art from the past 3 years?

No, but maybe once in a while if I randomly feel like it/have time to. BIG if. 

I decided the only way to overcome my anxiety about resuming my art blog was to clean-cut resolve that I don’t need to catch up on all the missed work from the past 3 years.

Where can I reliably see your art from the past 3 years?

My instagram (@claudinsky) or my website (claudinsky.com). You can also read most of my comics online for free via the ‘Read Comics’ link on my site.

I sent you an ask and never got a reply...

I’m sorry!!! I genuinely appreciate kind messages so much and got too anxious about replying so late. If you’ve sent me something nice these past 3 years I promise I have read it now and cherish it.

Thank you for reading! I will try my hardest to stay on top of posting art here from now on, wish me luck!!!

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[hereforthehurts]

I had a dream where marcy is a HUGE fan of ruth bader ginsburg, right, like i mean kpop fangirly type of shit, and she was a weird little kid too right so in that dream there was this one scene where instead of playing mom-child roleplay like every other girl her age would, marcy would make her friends play court cases, like she'd make anne become the jury and sasha the defendant and she's the lawyer . and yknow what that was an amazing dream and now i cant stop referencing it in every one of my sashannarcy fics ever

[halfpint55]

i found a pose ref on pinterest and i think i have to draw sokka in it, it’s ridiculous who wants to see

[clauwn]

Do is it ever throw you off, when you see an older person interact with a kid, i’m talking infants and 10-12 year olds, and they treat them like kids and all is fine, and then when they get older they fall in love with them???

Like, “Ah yes you’re attractive and older now, imma gonna get into your pants ”

Like What the helll???????

You saw them grow up????? They were kids????

Isn’t that weird to you???

Is just, i read this book when i was younger, Little Women, and this dude was a friend of the family, i’m sure you know the story, he was like more than 16? And he was in love with one of the sisters of the story who had the same age, and the youngest sister was like, what 12???, and when they interacted it was all fine, he acted like and older brother, and then when she got older, he just fell for her?? Like it was normal??? That escalated weirdly??

Also that Twilight thing with Renesmee and Jacob???

Am i the only one?

[hereforthehurts]

Look idk if it's my ex and i angrily texting again, or the fucking song "two slow dancers" by mitski with the lyrics "it would be a hundred times easier if we were young again but as it is, and it is, we're just two slow dancers, last one's out we're two slow dancers, last one's out" but woooow aren't i FUELED to the brim to write an angsty raeda songfic rn

[hereforthehurts]

so, like, modern + cancer au chronically ill Hunter,

[hereforthehurts]

my fucking switch broke and im pretty sure if i stopped playing acnh or botw for one second i will start flopping like a fish what do i do guys help

[hereforthehurts]

i looove assigning stimmies/chewelries/ear defenders 2 characters so much actually . an unhealthy amount even . ask me a character and i will nd items assign them