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[sparklingdemon]

Happy birthday! :D Hope it was awesome ^^

thank youuu!! it's been chill so far but that's not a bad thing!!

[loupy-mongoose]

Happy birthday ^^ I'm in my 30's so, glad to see some older peeps on tumblr.

(even if 29 aint old XD )

Don't worry, I know. I don't truly believe myself to be old, just relatively old. I could be wrong, but I feel like a majority of the people I interact with on Tumblr and Discord are younger than me. Sometimes not by much, and sometimes by a lot. One of my favorite artists is about a decade younger than me! (Which is admittedly wild to think about. XD)

I want to take a moment to be sappy, and hopefully not conceited. I don't want to sound or act like I have a big head; I just want to offer some advice as an older artist.

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of having what I've since gained through this blog. I wanted to tell a story, and have people interact with it and ask questions, primarily in the form of Nuzlocke comics. I only ever tried on DeviantArt and, in more recent years, Twitter (may it RIP), and never really gained any traction. I wonder if things would've been different if I'd tried Tumblr back then, but I kinda doubt it. I was a teenager. I was still a developing artist and storyteller with an underdeveloped sense of self-confidence. Now, that's not to say I don't think teenagers can do great things and tell great stories... But if you're trying and it's not working out, YOU. HAVE. TIME.

At some point I came across what I believe was an advice post from Tumblr, but I can't find it anywhere and don't truly know where it's from. It had some wonderful advice that I wish I could share verbatim!

The biggest thing I gleaned from it is, don't down-talk your own art! If you have trouble liking the art you make, look for the good in it! Find the parts you can be confident in, build on that, and love what you do!

Here, I'll get you started.

You are an artist, which is a wonderful thing! You have the ability to bring your ideas to life, and that will only get better with time! I'm way, WAY better of an artist now than when I was 16, 17, 18 when I first tried telling stories online. Your biggest hindrance will be yourself, so please don't let yourself get in the way. Perfection in art is impossible. Aim for loving what you do, and be patient with yourself.

Anyways, that's my random sappy spiel. Enjoy your art, lovely artists young, old, and in-between!

[sparklingdemon]

I guess at peace with their lot in life, whatever that may be? I was mostly keeping it vague cause well, I'm sure you don't wanna spoil the ending lol. But more like, they're content?

oh yes, i understood that - i meant my answer to be vague as well.

their ending depends on your definition of "good" for them. i don't want to say more than that, haha.

[sparklingdemon]

One thing I'm curious about. Without spoilers of course... will Cody get a 'good ending'?

It depends on your definition of "good."

[sparklingdemon]

I'm gonna be so sad when Cody's trust is destroyed if it happens ;o; I suppose there's no 'nice' way to go about it is there? Also btw, I'm also techie anon on the blog ;) Hiiii

haha, definitely not...

it would definitely be a point of no return in cody's relationship with the players. while cody recognizes there are many kind players, things would never be the same again and it would only be a downward spiral from there.

i don't want to say too much about it, but there definitely is no kind way to make them capture the ghosts. cody truly feels that their life depends on not capturing them, and they would do anything to preserve their life for as long as possible.

by disrespecting that wish after everything cody's said, the players would prove they don't care if cody lives or dies. that information would be truly devastating for them.

hi there, though! glad to see you off anon!

[lynxgriffin]

- Assuming that the red soul is the player and not Kris (which I think is a very solid assumption), then yeah, the way chapter one ends seems to indicate Kris has got a good amount of animosity towards the player and wants them gone. 

- He went through all that big long expository speech about how he knows just how people behave, just to have the player take a different course and peace out on him! ;) Yeah, he’d be pretty dang pissed.

- I’m glad that you thought it was a good conclusion, even if it wasn’t personally satisfying! It’s hard to hit that balance with fiction often. So thank you very much for reading and enjoying it! And the text that was just over them in the last panel just said CONNECTION SEVERED. Prior to that it says “This action will be permanent” and “are you sure?” before the answer YES is given. 

[altamaranempire]

Ala Frieza, I'm of the opinion he's got an hourglass frame in the Broly movie is cause he either gave birth or laid a huge ass egg. Dats gonna make any man's hips get wiiiiiide.

Ok like real talk I want to talk about whether or not it's like... a shape-shift or just maturity OR the dragon ball staff remembering that the species is supposed to be androgynous BUT I almost couldn't answer this because I IMMEDIATELY went 'LMAO RCD-ART FRIEZA' and spent ten minutes paralysed by laughter and every time I went back and looked at this ask I started laughing again

[neffi]

hideoutfromreality replied to your post “Holy shit I’m 24??”

Happy birthday ^^

Thank you! <3