#jass rambles

[thegrinningkitten]

Another Inktobertale finished. Now I can go ahead and vanish from social media for another year :D

[funkenniffler]

I‘m back!!!

After 5 long months without the internet I’m finally back online!!!!

Can’t wait to catch up on your amazing work

I truly missed it!

@c-taylor-wanna-be-a-glader

@bloodiedskirtts

@jaamesbbarnes

@cravingmarvel

So what did I Miss?

[thegrinningkitten]

Since there are questions coming in...

• No, I'm not back in UTMV fandom. I sorta fell out of it about three-or-so years ago, and I haven't regained interest in it.

"Palmtop Wonderland" exists because I thumbnailed the whole thing back in 2024, and it had been on my "Draw Later" list for years prior to that. It just happened to be a project I really wanted to make regardless of my involvement in the fandom.

I don't have any other UTMV-related works planned for the foreseeable future.

• I am not deleting this blog. It will remain up at least as an archive, it nothing else.

I'm undecided whether to keep running it or not though. It was a my art blog, not a fandom blog to begin with, but it's been almost exclusively UTMV-related for ~7 years, so I'm not sure whether it'd be better to make a new blog or keep this one going with whatever new interests I have. (Fair warning: No idea what fandoms I might end up in.)

What to do with this blog?

Keep it strictly UTMV

Keep it running as an art blog

I don't care / show results

Voting ended onJan 14

[thegrinningkitten]

PETSCOP OSOSAN AND HOLLOW KNIGHT ART FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE UNDERTALE ARTISTS????????? HOLY SHIT THIS IS LIKE CHRISTMAS

...This is such a baffling ask to me, because:

1. I'm only familiar with one out of three of those fandoms. The other two ended up with fanarts just because someone requested them who knows how long ago :P

2. I fell outta Undertale fandom, like, 2-3 years ago now, so I don't even think I'm an Undertale artist anymore??? (To be fair, I still have one last 'hurrah' in the works, but only because the thumbnails for it were made years ago, so... might as well.)

[thegrinningkitten]

Self-taught artist (digital and traditional), writer (sometimes)

Commissions are closed indefinitely

Other social media sites to find me

Bluesky | AO3 | Youtube

(Any other accounts are either abandoned or not mine.)

Art use rules are under read more:

Private personal use (phone backgrounds, private prints, etc.) is allowed.

Public personal use (avatars, RP icons, etc.) is allowed as long as I am credited (preferably with a link back to my blog).

Reposts are allowed on sites that I’m not present on as long as I’m credited and a link back to my blog and/or original art post is provided.

Comic dubs and translations are allowed as long as I’m credited and a link back to my blog and/or original art post is provided. Dubs can be monetized.

Commissioned images are made for use by the person who ordered the commission. They cannot be used without their permission.

[thegrinningkitten]

how do you feel about your past fandom art. i see a lot of artists grow unhappy with their past work and its understandable but also unfortunate to see. i kind of relate at times. but it does mean a lot to a lot of people

i hope the question isn’t bothersome.

I feel like the whole "unhappy" thing you're referring to is just the side effect of the artists' skills growing. The more confident you are in your craft, the easier it is to see the mistakes you've made before — not just in how you draw, but in how you write and interpret characters you're working with. How you treat your past work afterwards, then, mostly reflects how optimistic you are and how good your self-esteem is.

That said, I'm kinda 'meh' about the art I've made in the past. It happened. I've made it. It is now floating somewhere on the internet. Someone liked it? Good for them. Someone disliked it? Oh well, not my problem.

It helps that I can't remember, like, most of what I've actually drawn. I see reblogs in my notifications, and I get a moment of "Wait, I drew that???" ... It happens embarrassingly often. But I can't dwell on things I can't remember, so... win? :D

[thegrinningkitten]

awn why did you deleted your Inky and the Glitches tread on twitter?

I haven't used Twitter in, like, a year or so, so if something went missing there, it's not because of my deleting it that's for sure.

[thegrinningkitten]

So, fun fact: Last October I did Inktobertale 2023 on schedule. But I couldn't be bothered to actually scan and post it. Because reasons.

Consequence: You're about to get a bunch of Inktobertale doodles in May. You're welcome!