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They/Them, Ace, 21, Irish-American Digital and occasionally traditional artist Doing my best Moved to this new account because the email associated with my old one no longer exists

[tickingoftheclocks]

Hi, Friends!

I figure I ought to make some sort of introduction. So Hello! I'm Tickingoftheclocks, Formerly Pennywheelfarthing, but I lost the email associated with that account and it's been a pain trying to do anything about that, so new account time!

Tickingoftheclocks is a bit of a mouthful, so feel free to shorten it if you address me. I'm also fine being called Penny, since that's the name I used to use and people are used to calling me that. Pronouns are they/them, please use neutral language if/when you refer to me!

I am primarily a digital artist, though I do dabble in a bit of good old-fashioned pencil and paper. I have a lot of original characters and story concepts, so that's going to be a lot of what I post, but I do a bit of fanart now and again as well. This is primarily an art account, though I will occasionally post general thoughts and ramblings. Also I am a college student, so I may not have the most active or consistent posting schedule. Sorry about that.

I do have a shop! DecorativeCats on Redbubble, if you're in the market for some whimsical cat-themed stickers, mugs, or shirts :)

Tags, just for clarity's sake:

#Old Nonsense is for stuff reblogged from my old account

#Clocks Art is for my original art

#Clocks Fanart is for my fan work

#Cogs Turning is for general ramblings and musings

#Recog is for reblogs

I'll update this as/when it becomes necessary. Thank you for reading, and for taking the time to visit my account! :)

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One of the sillier things that’s been happening to me a lot at work lately is my colleagues will find out I’m 21 and go “ahhh you’re so young you’re just a baby” and so I ask “alright, how old are you, then?” And then they tell me they’re 24.

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Once again I am posting Toon Alice. This time, by way of some classic Disney princesses!

I dunno I just wanted to draw some pretty dresses :P

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self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

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I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

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Sometimes you wake up and you’re a bug and your immediate thought is “ah damn but I needed to be productive today” so you try to do things but it’s kind of hard to do things while you’re a bug and that really sucks because stuff needs to get done you would like to do it, and your family doesn’t say so out loud but you get the vibe that they’re kind of annoyed with you for being a bug, like they think it’s kind of inconsiderate of you to be a bug, and you know being a bug is really inconvenient for people and you’re sure not having any fun being a bug, but you’re a bug right now, y’know?

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They’re playing the Narnia films at my campus Community Center.

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Reverse ghost/haunting story where the ghosts are just chilling in their beautiful historic house and then some awful rich people come along and ruin their afterlives by trying to turn the house into a white, modernist nightmare

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People never seem to want to include her in their AUs and fancomics, so I shall provide my own Toon Alice content >:)

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A pet peeve of mine in fiction is depictions of Hell where the baddest and most evil guys become the most powerful demons. Because that sort of defeats the whole purpose of Hell as a concept, right? If the worst guys go to Hell and then they just get to be extremely powerful and continue doing horrible things forever, then what’s even the point of Hell? That just sounds like heaven for them but with an edgy aesthetic.

I feel like this is weirdly common? And I know a lot of the time it’s to facilitate the protagonists fighting demons or whatever, but it’s still kinda weird to me.

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it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

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it’s tuesday i’m in the evil lab

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it’s wednesday i’m in the time loop

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it’s thursday i’m in the medieval torture apparatus

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🌸it’s friday i’m in love🌸

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happy 4/20 everypony!!

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20 years of neil banging out the tunes this coming monday. save the date

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🎉🥳🎉

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HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY!

A little redraw of last year's trans day of visibility post :3

Thank you!! Enjoy!! :D

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Okay, I have no idea how many people are going to see this bc I’m a really small account, but I want to talk about Knights of Guinevere.

Specifically one thing in particular I see brought up a lot which is people calling it “A big middle finger to Disney.”

And maybe it is that. I don’t know Dana Terrace’s mind. But watching the pilot I get the sense that the feelings are more complicated than just an angry “hey, fuck you”.

There’s this moment I keep coming back to, over and over, of Frankie talking about her dreams of being an engineer for Park Planet, and specifically what she says about meeting “A real Gwen” in the park. She says to Andi, “That memory is still so vivid. And now, you make stuff that gives other people memories like that.”

Gwen and Park Planet’s other characters are really important to Frankie. They’re clearly one of the guiding sparks of her creative spirit; the things she makes and repairs look like those whimsical little characters. Even the earliest machine of hers we’ve seen, the little frog that hacks the claw machine(important enough to her that she’s kept that frog design for the more refined version she made/uses as an adult). She found inspiration and creativity in Park Planet’s art that has stayed with her, and she wants to be able to inspire something like that in other people someday, because it’s a fucking incredible feeling. And even if the world is cynical, and the corporate structure doesn’t grant or encourage that kind of opportunity, I don’t think Frankie is wrong or stupid for having those kinds of dreams. And I don’t think the show thinks that, either.

It feels, TO ME, like there’s a disappointment, almost a kind of… grief that informs Frankie’s writing. What if the thing that sparked your dreams doesn’t want to encourage them? What if the entity that made the art that shaped you so thoroughly was uninterested in you and the people you would love to share that with, and frankly seemed to be losing interest in making that kind of art anymore at all?

I feel like if it were just anger and resentment at being screwed over behind KOG, there wouldn’t be that element. It would feel a lot more mean-spirited. And I’m sure there IS anger, but it feels to me like there’s some disappointment, too, and maybe even some sadness. And at the end of the day, you have to have Cared about something to be disappointed.

I dunno. Maybe I’m wildly off-base and just projecting my own weird, complicated feelings onto this show, but I figured I’d type it up so it’s not just in my head anymore.

:P

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(Tags from @sepublic ) Yes, 100% John Bailey Owen and Zach Marcus deserve credit for these writing decisions also!

I just mention Dana Terrace specifically because she and her experience are almost exclusively what’s being talked about when people say KOG is a middle finger to Disney.

But thank you for mentioning the other writers :-]

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Warmup doodles ft. Tex, an OC belonging to my pal @mistertellevision

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(Rises from the grave with drawings of this couple from a dream I had a few nights ago)

I will try not to vanish back into the abyss too quickly.