If able, could we get an update on any of your writings? I loved hearing about them (Not forcing, ofc!)
YOU SURE CAN ANON!! again, as with all of these asks, thank you so much for being interested in my work??? i LOVE talking about my silly fics <333
here's a rough timeline of all my fics btw!! i thought it'd be fun to visualize hkgj i'll be talking a little about all the ones i haven't yet talked about!!
Preface, here's all my fic wips as explained before!! and all my writing can be found in my #inland drabbles tag! ask 1, ask 2!
Message to All Bitches: Please Survive - This funny title has been the name for a while, but I think if I had to choose a serious one, it'd be "Should the Stars Go Out" :3 This is my most ambitious project of all my skill wips, I think, due to the medium i intend on telling it in (it is. technically not a fic?? hkjg) this is also my most secretive project hkgj <33 word count(?) is 2908!!
Meet the Parts that Make You - Kim meeting the Skills fic, though it's mostly been abandoned by now hkgj well, not abandoned, i still really love the concept? but I need to get a bunch of these other fics done first (Let's Make It a Home for worldbuilding, Swept Up for character studies) so I can get everything correct, before introducing it all to Kim hkgjg <33 Nevertheless, word count is 5459!
The Sunrise Momentum - Mostly abandoned, but i still froth at the fuckin mouth thinking about it RAUGHHH. HOLY VOWS. waking up, getting out of bed with depression, that part of you that wants you to live, caring about you so so so fucking much. this hypothetical fic hits very close to home <3 i promise i will keep you alive, as long as you're there to wake up every morning. willpower and devotion. volition is kind of everything to me did you know that? hkgjg current word count: 331 <3
Who Are You, If Not... - Esprit De Corps centered fic! i wrote a lot about it in this ask, but basically: hey, if Harry leaves the RCM, what the fuck happens to Esprit? i have some personal feelings about leaving a community that only used you for what you could give them. to keep going back, trying to check on them time and time again, even when they hurt you. it's cathartic to put it in the perspective of this fic, i think :] also i just think the psyche group is fun for discussions hgkjg esprit, my darling community skill!! current word count: 1497
When Two Skills Love Each Other Very Much - again, funny silly title hgkjg but i think its serious name would be, like, Summer Solace or something? brightest day of the year, sunrise parabellum. hypothetical child of volition and echem, she's hope, y'know? small and trying to grow. something to carefully tend to, to keep alive, and in turn she will keep you alive. this fuckin. symbolism raguguhh i love you baby solace you are MY ANGELLLLLLLLL!!!!!! <333
I THINK THIS FIC IS SO SWEET I LOVE THE SKILLS TRYING TO RAISE A KID HGKJG im so.. it's like how Let's Make It Home redux, the skills are kinda dysfunctional, but they've grown and they're getting better too and they're trying to work together towards a common goal, and together they can do it. i think they've gotten a lot better about working together!! and they all care for this kid a lot <333
Here's a snippet because oh my god i am fond of them (not in AO3 ready format though hkjg)
ELECTROCHEMISTRY presses a tentacle to his cheek to prop up the grin on his face - Hey, man, we've never raised a kid before. Give us *some* credit, at least.
VOLITION holds Solace to his chest. She sleeps peacefully, starbright face pressed to his armor at his heart - I am. I think -- despite all the mishaps -- we've been covering all our bases surprisingly well. We wouldn't have been able to do this when we woke up in Martinaise, is all I'm saying here.
VOLITION looks up and exchanges a fond glance with Electrochemistry - We've... all grown a lot, haven't we?
^ like hey. if you uh. compare that last volition line to the last volition line in the snippet i shared for unstoppable force? where now volition cannot only meet echem's eye, but LET HIMSELF FEEL AFFECTION FOR HIM?? oh my GOD the parallels, the character growth, i WILL PERISH.
i still do think this fic would be better as a comic hkgjg it feels like a good story to cap it off, and if i ever get the rest of these fics done, i'd want to end on it if i could hkjgg <33 LOOK AT THEIR CHARACTER ARCS. LOOK AT THEM FINDING JOY. GIVING THEM A HAPPY ENDING HKJG
that's about it, i think!! thank you for reading!! (and holy fuckin shit if you've read all of these i will. die for you now. i really appreciate anyone who takes the time to read my rambles, i love you hgkjg <33)
hey so we've been meaning to ask you, which brushes do you use on CSP? the new years event thing they're holding gives out clippy and iirc you said your main brush costed some and we finally like. Have some to spend lmao
-Siam
hello Siam!! :D oooh yes login bonus time!! i have a singular main brush i use and swear by, which is "softBrush♦B8pencil♦DryInk" [10 Clippy] (Content ID: 1944219) aka "SmoooZZz2" <33 it's soft and wispy and a bit textured and it blends very prettily, i've been using it for a long time! (issues are that it's semi-tranparent, so using it for line art can be a bit of a pain lmao but since most of my art is just colored sketches i can get away with it)
a common thread you'll notice with my brushes is that 1) I LOVE SOFT BRUSHES!! and 2) I LOVE PEN PRESSURE!! so my brushes are soft and/or have a good taper to line widths.
some of my others:
- "SOIPEN" [Free] (Content ID: 1778407) used to be my old main go-to, real solid brush, but still soft! good for proper lineart, which i havent done in ages hgjkg
- "Yokan brushes (羊羹ブラシ)" [30 Clippy] (Content ID: 1944592) or as i renamed it "softie brush" (it used to just be the japanese characters) is what i use for blush and shading. it's really soft, but still has a harder edge unlike an airbrush, which i like!
- "SU Cream Pencil" [Free] (Content ID: 1761353) is a classic, such good textures, really solid brush with a good taper!! :3
- i think Turnip Pen is a CSP default, it came free with your xbox /ref, i basically only use this when i need to color something solidly. (i also have a duplicate one with the no anti-aliasing setting. for homestuck purposes. :3)
- Rough 6B Pencil is GONE FOREVER APPARENTLY?? i've looked up the content id and there is nothing hgkjg, so sad </3
other things i recommend:
- "[UP] R Colour Gradient Set (Hair/Eyes)" [20 Clippy] (Content ID: 1945188) (and their other ones, if you just go check out the creator HamR, i have White and Pink but the Blonde/Purple/Green sets are new to me, i might get them lmao hgklj) are GODSENDS i LOVE messing with these for gradient maps (let me know if y'all need gradient map advice or anything hjglk), they make colors good :3
- "close and fill tool without gaps" [Free] (Content ID: 1759448) is just like. praise be ice cream fill tool, we all love ice cream fill tool!! please get this if you don't have it already, it's really helpful. you just make a layer beneath your line art, lasso your line art as messily as you want, and it'll fill it in for you, it's WILD man hglk
- "BOKE brushes" [Free] (Content ID: 1610288) are really pretty for backgrounds if you fiddle with add (glow) and opacity!!
- "A brush set that draws clouds" [Free] (Content ID: 1723992) is really good, i love using this for skies <3 this creator (27pt) has a lot of other good assets too! :D
i think that's about it!! clippy does expire eventually, but not for a while! you'll probably find some cool assets to spend it on before then :D in general i think a lot of the free assets are really good, but extra clippy is always nice to have!! i hope this helps, thank you for asking my beloveds!! :] <333 <222
hello, skills lover extraordinaire here :] you can call me voli, chemi, or volta. im 25, i use he/him pronouns, im aroace and transmasc. big skills fan, my favorites are shivers, empathy, electrochemistry, and of course volition, but i love all of them so much. welcome to skill fixation central, population me.
my art tag is #voliart, my talking tag is #chemi chats, and my ask tag is #volta transmissions!! i prefer asks/replies more than DMs!!
may post suggestive or nsft stuff, will tag accordingly.
more tags and things under the cut!!
signature skill userbox made by my starbright, others by me
#ency ref - things i want to keep for some reason
#inland drabbles - my writing snippets
#suggestion recommendation - something someone has suggested to me, fics or games or songs!
#concepts canvas - things i want to draw eventually
#drama scripts - disco elysium canon text because it was filling up my ref tag lmao
#esprit: [x] - tags for mutuals and friends, their art or asks!
#savvy's styles - my very sparse fashion tag
And my fic tags, labeled as tasks!
#task: unstoppable force - The Unstoppable Force Kisses the Immovable Object, an volistry fic about them getting together.
#task: meet the parts - Meet the Parts that Make You, a kim-gets-introduced-to-the-skills fic
#task: let's make it a home - Let's Make It (a) Home, a skills fic set during martinaise as they rebuild a home together
#task: swept up - Swept Up in the Feeling, a empathy-centric skills fic as an excuse to do character studies and better understand each of the skills
#task: sunrise momentum - The Sunrise Momentum, a volition-centric fic about the Holy Vow of waking up at 7:30
#task: message please survive - known in my documents as Message to all Bitches: Please Survive, a look into the skills perspective during the martinaise blackout.
#task: who are you if not - Who Are You, If Not..., an esprit-centric fic about what happens to the RCM skill if Harry left the RCM
#task: furies at home in the gymnasium - The Furies are at Home in the Gymnasium, is a crack-fic focused on humanized teen skills who make up a bickering class of students who share Harry's fifth period gym class, and are trying to set up their coach with one Lieutenant Kitsuragi.
#task: when two skills love each other very much - Well, When Two Skills Love Each Other Very Much..., an accidental baby acquisition skill fic, focused on a fan skill named Solace. Volistry-centric, but all the skills are important.
I think you’ll get a kick out of this, it’s a playlist on YouTube that has EVERY voice line for every character in disco elysium, (including da skills like dear volition)
YOOOO THANK YOU BIRDY!!!! im going to eat this entire playlist when i have time, this'll help me so much with character voices when writing, would LOVE to listen to dear Volition <33
Yo, what's your favourite moment/line from Disco Elysium?
VERY DIFFICULT QUESTION HKJHG <3 off the top of my head, favorite moment is shooting down the hanged man and aces high/low :] it's just such a win... very celebratory moment with kim!!
if i had to pick a line, it would be "I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU." it's just such a classic. the line of all time, shivers my everything!!! LA REVACHOLIERE MY EVERYTHING!! if i had to choose, its this one :3
anyway, here's a list of voli's poignant quotes :]
"This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive."
"The road to healing is going to be a long one. Stay the course. You will make it, some day."
"Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You’ll get it in the next life, where you don’t make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you’re alive.”
"I know there's not much to say -- but if nothing else, just remember that you've made it this far. And it's just a bit farther now. Let's finish this."
"No. You can stop. Just wade through the hell. Month after month. Year after year -- you against the nothingness. It's possible, because time is possible.
"No. Not a disaster. Weave this into the story of you. Walk out of its ruins. Save those who still can be saved -- I'm on your side."
also all of the skills break my heart in some way for the final dream scene, but volition's is my header for a reason </3
"I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt, saying…"
^ guy who fucking breaks my heart :'] he tries so hard to be strong, to keep your morale and willpower up, but god he is not infallible. for him to admit this. ough... my heart. i love this guy.
i do have other favorite quotes!! Half Light's "You are the first crack in the sheer face of god." and Esprit's "If an assault were launched on this building right now — if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you — this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you" and Kim's "Every school of thought and government has failed in this city, but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you." and i also love the silly quotes too and ough. game that is mostly words having a lot of good quotes? who would have guessed!! but yes, the ultimate fave would be the first shivers quote <3
more skills tags i should add:
(for reference, i already have: #chemi chats, #voliart, #volta transmissions, #ency ref, #inland drabbles, and #suggestion recommendation)
- change "keep for the canvas" to "concepts canvas" or something?
- make an "empathy about me" tag
- "shivers faves" tag for favorite things maybe
- "rhetty quotes" for actual de quotes? i like keeping them for reference but so far ive been storing them in ency ref
- "esprit de [mutual name]" for friend/mutual tags? dont know if i want to do this im bad at determining friendship hkjdh
- wait why dont i have any motorics guys. i should make a tag with one of them but i dont know anymore tag niches i need filled that would fit one of them hkgjh
- maybe a tag for hopeful things? but i already have voli designated as my art tag (which he shouldnt be tbh!! but thats how i started and voliart is not changing hkjfh) so i gotta figure that out lmao maybe i'll store it with shivers?
also generally:
- start tagging de things with "#de" again why did i stop doing that?
- make a "general skills" tag for when a post has a lot of skills that i cant tag all of lmao. maybe a "skill halo" tag, "lil skills" for when theyre little guys on harry's shoulders and shit and "general skills" for when its actually them. i dont know figure it out later hkjhg
Hi!! So!!! just wanted to tell you abt the latest song we added to your playlist, you don't have to give us your opinion on it or anything but it is. NOT the right version. The "right" version (aka the one we prefer shjssjdjdn) is... No longer on youtube actually??!!! Fucked up but luckily we have it saved to our phone EHDJSJDDK we uploaded it to our filegarden! here it is!
They do NOT have the ashe o hara version on Spotify for some reason and it drives us bonkers. ANYWAY!!! The song starts off quiet and all but it picks up and gets heavy and loud sound-wise later, just lettin you know!
let us know if that link doesn't work btw, it should but you never know JDJSDJDKS
-Daisy
Daisy, hello!!! ooh yes, the link works!!! oh wow the ashe ohara one is so much softer? even when it does ramp up later, it still has that gentle sorrow to it, more piano and synth-y ambiance than the intense guitar :0 i like how they sing!! dang, that's such a shame that its not on spotify or youtube, fucked up for real hgkjg??
!! i like both versions, but im glad to get to hear the version y'all like!! :D i will keep this one in mind when the song pops up on future playlist listen-throughs hgkj <33 <22 thank you!!! :D
