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It's time for a 2024 Art recap!

First of all, thank you to everyone who supported me this year. Thank you to everyone who sent kind and encouraging messages/comments, you have no idea how much it means to me and my complete lack of art training. (I had art class in high school if that counts? It was a loooong time ago lol)

Thank you to the artists who inspire me and the writers who take me to other worlds. When I say 'writers' I mean those of published and fan fiction alike, because there are some phenomenal writers out there giving us fan fiction for FREE! Like, can you believe that?!

Because I'm a chaotic personage who refuses to make decisions, I made collages of some of my fave pieces from the year, starting with:

Archerons, Nessian, Panoramic Scenes, Valkyries

Breakout stars Andy and Vincent:

My beloveds: BB and the shadowbabies

Canon moments and this-should-be-canon moments

Gowns (because drawing pretty dresses is my happy place, the casts of cats, and my crafting foolery

2024 had some highs (Japan!) and some lows (fractured foot), so I’m excited to see what 2025 throws at me.  I want to get back into writing in 2024, as it's something I used to love doing. I was a marketing copy writer for years (even with dyslexia I was good! I won some awards!) and long story short; writing social media copy in the 'voice' of others destroyed my ability to write narratively and in my own voice. I'm sure this doesn't happen to everyone, but I guess I couldn't compartmentalize enough? It's been a journey to accept and make peace with it. Anyway, my career thankfully took me elsewhere and I've been meaning to attempt to reclaim my voice.

Thank you to the fandom for being so kind and accepting of my nonsense, I deeply appreciate it 🩵🩵🩵

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After dipping my toe in a couple of commissions this year, I finally feel brave enough!

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Fine people of tumblr, is there a post that lists out the dates for Acotar/maasverse character weeks for 2024? And if such a post exists, could someone please point me toward it?

Thank you! 💜

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Hi! I just happened to pass by, and stopped for a while. I really liked what I saw. And it's all your original art? Yeah, I follow this page. It all looks good, original and this comic with the shadow babies and stuff! It's strange and weird in a really good way. And all you publish is your own art?

Hi! Thank you! 🩵 It's all my art! If it has my goofy signature and obnoxiously large @jmoonjones in the corner, then you can blame me for its existence 😂

(I reblog very occasionally, but it's always credited to the artist and very clearly too good to be done by me! I never repost art by others!)

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Do you write fanfics? if so, i feel like id really enjoy reading your fics based on how much i like your art :)

I love fan fiction as a reader, and I used to write a lot of it too - back in the days when lemon meant spicy. 

I've been gradually rediscovering my love of writing lately, and spellcheck has improved so much that hardly anyone can tell I'm dyslexic! 

Long story short:

I was a copy writer for many years. I've been the social media voice for a wide swath of brands (eg. liquor, beauty, movies, cpg, etc!) during my time in advertising. For years my writing was consumed by a voice that wasn't mine, and while I could juggle writing for several different properties at one time for my job, my own voice somehow got lost in the process.  Writing for work kinda kills writing for pleasure and makes you terribly insecure about anything you manage to scribble down.

Especially when you're just writing puns all day. (Brands love puns)

Years later (and thankfully no longer a copy writer) I'm still working on recovering and finessing my lost voice. 

But practice is, of course, what helps the most and what better practice is there than writing fan ficiton?! 

I don't have anything I'm anywhere near confident in sharing right now, but I'm hoping that will change as I continue to practice! 

(I said 'long story short' but ignored my own advice lol)

(tbf, there is a much longer version of the story but I've already rambled enough)

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i loved that vincent oraya comic you made its so cute 🥰

Thank you! There might be a second batch because I've got some more ideas for it. I'm delighted to know I won't just be drawing for me! 🩵🩵