#mr.kida talks

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Young dwarf Thorin

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I walked into my kitchen and caught my cat washing his stomach like this

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PSA! I am (not) leaving tumblr. But… 

Hi people! I want to start this by saying, I am NOT leaving Tumblr. I am however gonna start focusing on other social media and go back to using my Tumblr blog as an archive for my art. This means you will still get to see my work if you follow me, but most of my activity will be on other sites (also, some of my other socials will have work previously unseen on tumblr btw!).  I won’t link my Carrd here (to avoid my post getting suppressed) but you can find it in the image or in my bio. 

There are two reasons for this, first, I have been neglecting other socials and I got to get my ducks in a row and actually build audiences on other platforms (esp since my “main” audience was on Twitter and well, you know what happened there). The second and main reason is because my engagement has totally died on this site and I’ve received very little feedback or response to my posts on here for a while now. I am grateful for all the interaction I do get and for those who continue to support me, but like most artists, one of my main reasons I post my work is for some sort of response and if I don’t get any, I am simply gonna go looking for other places where I do. Because well, that’s where I have the most fun posting and Tumblr has not felt very fun lately. It’s also very hard to gauge the interest of my audience here with the lack of comments, I have no idea what people think about my work.  What do people enjoy about my art? Are people bored with it? Are people tired of the subjects I work with?  I don’t know because my audience does not tell me, 99% of my notes are likes or reblogs without any sort of commentary about the art itself. 

And yes, I am very grateful for that support too, of course I am!  It’s just that comments are what motivates me to post, and with my note count going down more and more for every post I make, it's simply not worth it for me to put much time into this website with how things look right now (and how Tumblr users use this site nowadays) So instead I am going to try to put more effort into building audiences on other socials where people interact more with artists (like Tiktok for example, we’ll see what happens with the possible US ban though). 

So to summarize this PSA, I am not leaving, but I will mainly use Tumblr as art archive and focus on my other socials instead (and please go follow me there too!)      

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Been showing some of this on discord today, some of you may be interested so here's some of my own tolkien dwarf world building/hc notes (there is a lot so these are snippets). Beware, it's personal notes of mine so there may be grammatical errors as well as typos haha.

cw for pregnancy, and death (and child death) mentions, as well as other darker themes such as child soldiers

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A big thanks to everyone who participated in Dwarrowtober 2024! This is quite late due to me being busy and having neglected social media for a bit, but it's been fun to see what you all have made. Big props to @porphyriosao3 who wrote something for every single day, that's incredible! As for me, I had more art planned for dwarrowtober but it didn't quite pan out (as it was a busy month and I mostly made this happen due to the many requests I got). I will still be posting these but probably not under the dwarrowtober tag (esp as one of them turned out much bigger than planned).

If you're pining for another month of dwarf related prompts, I do recommend you take a look at Dísember (link) that's starting on December 1st.

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Omg what is this tumblr live thing and why is it all porn

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So some people assume that some of the characters I draw are 100% my creation (Like Grór for example), but the fact is that I rarely draw 100% original characters. The dwarves featured in my work is usually my take on canon dwarves from the legendarium, sorta like an OC but not quite.

For reference:

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Since you touched on the subject in a previous ask, have you got more headcanons about dwarrow culture, or just dwarf headcanons in general?

This is me

Fun fact, why I started doing dwarf art was because I wanted a side project to work on just for fun where I could also do worldbuilding based on my own academic interests (I'm particularly interested in history, culture, and world religions). I picked Tolkien dwarves because of my love for them but also because the information about them in the legendarium is vague and also written by unreliable narrators. Which means, I do mostly whatever I want lol (hence the disclaimer on my profile). All my art is related to my own world building project which focuses on tolkien dwarf society, it is rather massive at this point. I'm just not really confident in my writing (as well as the entire project being sorta chaotic right now) which is why I rarely share that side of everything haha (though if you know me from discord, you know how much I like to ramble about it there ).