#saltshaker rambles.

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Friendly reminder to take proper care of yourselves during the runup to Art Fight and throughout the entire Art Fight event. This includes taking regular breaks between drawing to stretch and let your wrists rest, drinking water, going outside for fresh air for at least fifteen minutes if you can (fifteen minutes gives time to get vitamin D if it's daytime, which will make you feel better), eating, and sleeping. The last thing anyone wants is for you skrunklies to burn yourselves out, especially trying to catch up with making ref sheets the month before Art Fight officially starts. You're more worth that amount of care than a yearly month-long event is.

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This happened pretty late at night so I didn't post it 'cause tired, but they're married now.

My god, they're adorable.

(Don't mind the lighting on Stan's stubble making it look bright fucking white. I don't know how to fix that.)

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I was practicing shapes I don't usually draw.

Pyramids are genuinely awful to draw in more ways than one. The only reason this looks half decent is because I copied it from a screenshot. Every other attempt I made looks like shit. The ones where every side is a triangle are worse.

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Oh, the urge to learn how to play a banjo. So hard to resist yet the lessons are so beyond my grasp.

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THE TEAMS HAVE BEEN REVEALED, I LIKE, ACTUALLY SCREAMED---

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Apparently it's nearly Art Fight season??? What???

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Got not happy, made a thing.

I know this is sudden, but I've been having ✨issues✨ with how my brain is treating me. It really isn't very fun. I won't go too far into it, but it's mainly gender stuff and a lot of dread for pretty much everything (mainly feeling like I'm gonna be killed any day now). I mostly try to distract myself from it, but it keeps getting too much to handle. I don't often draw gore like this, but it kinda helped a bit for the time I was drawing it. I was only really posting this at first 'cause I like how the picture turned out, kinda just figured after that blowing off some steam at the same time would be a good idea.

Sooo have my gore art or whatever. I'm not good at drawing gore. I drew this on my phone, my bad if it looks weird.

Also a version without the text.

Fun fact to lighten the mood:

I usually use a thicker brush on mobile than I do PC.

This is the most important customisation for my brushes. On mobile, I use a 3.5 thickness brush on these settings. On PC, I bump it down to 2.0 while keeping the settings the same. It looks different if you don't change the minimum and maximum thickness, and I don't really like how that looks, sooo yeah.

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Went out yesterday to a pride parade and met a few Gravity Falls fans. One of them signed my pride flag.

Had an amazing time with my siblings. Finally managed to come out as genderfluid. Still feel uncomfortable with it 'cause reasons, but ya know.

I'm sorry I keep disappearing occasionally, by the way, my social battery has been very hit and miss lately 'cause other reasons and I'm trying to psych myself up to put Dave Atbash and another slugcat OC onto Art Fight before it starts. Dave might take more writing than the slugcat, but we'll see.