tarlya

26 | UK | she / they | i draw my silly little characters a lot

[tarlyarts]

end of an era fr. bye bye ciph3rrr you were good to me until i needed better branding for my art and i didnt like the number in it

anyway: prev url ciph3rrr -> tarlyarts

[lifeonvertumna]

Introducing our Page Artist, Tarlya!

[Insta] | [Tumblr: @tarlyarts]

Bio: Tarlya is an artist with a big passion for colourful artwork and drawing characters in love.

[penandinkprincess]

"ummm actually that wouldn't happen because-" playing!!! i am playing!!! come play with me!!! i even set up the sandbox with extra shovels!!! don't smack the barbie out of my hands!!

we are doing improv!! pick up a blorbo and yes and with me!!

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[nick-nellson]

Mamma Mia! (2008) dir. Phyllida Lloyd

[mspiggy]

the worst part of being obsessed with a ttrpg campaign that you're a player in is that it will make you mad that everyone else on the internet isn't able to listen in and provide you with the fan content you feel the campaign deserves. i want OTHER people to be as excited as i am that the elderly lesbian knight from "monsters in manhattan" has the most game in the entire crew of PCs, with at least two confirmed love interests and a third on the periphery.

[tarlyarts]

the ancient, the land

[batneko]

Shout-out to characters who don't plan to survive their stories! Heroes who think they can only atone for their failures through sacrifice, villains who don't think they deserve to live in the world they're trying to create. Gimme that passive suicidality baby, mm-mm, delicious.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[tarlyarts]

hell awaits

[piranesies]

they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen

[chokedqwerty]

that au wehere ilyukhina and yao dont die and everyone is a bit more happymaybe? a bit sillier?

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[lonelyphantom]

i will never risk saying this in an actual gaming server but I don't think constantly screaming out of anger when you're playing is good

[lonelyphantom]

if a game is making you so angry that you have to scream, dusturbing the whole house and distressing your teammates maybe close the game and go cool your head and i mean this in the nicest most literal way possible

[tlbodine]

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

[prof-grace-aspen]

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

[earhartsease]

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

[eldritchsandwich]

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

[boltlightning]

can everyone do me a favor and tell me your favorite thing to put on toast in the tags

[boltlightning]

i love this post so much. all the replies are like

"i'm so basic.....i just like a lot of butter or jam :(" (as though those are not god's best and most beloved condiments and his greatest gifts to mankind)

"FUCK health guidelines FUCK my cholesterol and most importantly FUCK diet culture i'll put a dumpster full of butter on my toast and not even GOD will stop me" (no notes. god would encourage this)

doxxing one's self by mention of polarizing regional delicacies (i am so curious about vegemite i must admit)

"does a grilled cheese count as toast?" (not for the purposes of this post)

"i don't like toast please don't kill me" (i appreciate the honesty but i fear this post is not for you)

people who put full ass meals on toast (based)

people who do not but eat toast as a full meal (based)

melty peanut butter (absolutely based)

"it's a guilty pleasure but...nutella 😳" (relieve yourself of fear and enjoy your dessert toast)

special shoutout to the pots-havers adding extra salt. also the one person who mentioned kaya. i see you and am in agreement

[boltlightning]

other highlights

beans on toast defenders (i will always support beans in any diet)

really strong opinions on what counts as toast and what does not for the purposes of this post (i left it vague for a reason)

a million avocado toast recipes that sound so delicious

someone who soft announced their pregnancy in the tags (congrats!)

"do i...have POTS?"

"KAYA TOAST MENTIONED 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾" (my people. my people. my people)