Swarm's nest

Call me Felix! He/him, 20

[wasoncebeetle]

I considered posting the happy birthday ants animation I just made but the friend I made it for has tumblr and I cannot be risking that </3

[bishopony]

weird smells post is out specific fascinations are in. tell me something minor you've been super fixated on recently for no reason. mine is monitoring the mushrooms in all my neighbor's yards (one person has a ring of them where each mushroom is the size of a dinner plate. it's phenomenal)

[lalyravioli]

Twilight blueberry cake 🍰

[wasoncebeetle]

I LOVE ARTFIGHT I LOVE GETTING CARRIED AWAY !!! Attack on artfight user Skybert :] what a beautiful dragon design… too bad I got STUPID and covered it all up with SILHOUETTES ! I love doing twice the work I planned for fun and adventure!!

(Come get me at user LuckyWings) ⬇️

[wasoncebeetle]

Why in the goddamn hell did I decide the best thing to ease myself into a new skill (animating) was to animate an ANT !!! ONE THOUSAND CURSES UPON ME

[sakurapiss]

i love rechecking my friends' pronouns five times just in case i accidentally called them deadname mcslurrington

[wasoncebeetle]

Recent pony warmups :]

Thank you very much to @allyooops , @lillightfury , and @maidapron for these pony refs!

[wasoncebeetle]

I have an oc living in my mind and I love her so much I’m afraid to attempt making her real :(

1. I dunno if I can draw that

2. I dunno if I can write that

She’s just scenes to me I don’t have a plot or much of a world AUGH

[pillowspace]

Sometimes my brain does what I call a split second mental “refresh” which leads to me abruptly getting disoriented and going “ah! I just had a refresh.” It is unclear what to make of this because I made the term up

[pillowspace]

It’s so normal probably maybe potentially

[pillowspace]

[anchovy]

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

[sepiamestus]

I would like to apologize to every single one of my wips ever

[godbirdart]

stop trying to make every single drawing a magnum opus. you cannot unleash your art ult until you charge it up with a bunch of shitty little doodles first.

[hiveswap]

they dont tell you this but you carry your upset younger self in you like a parasitic twin

[lilyblisslys]

if I ever tell you “lmk what you think if you read/play/watch it!” I am firmly inviting you to send me a play by play minute by minute cataloguing of your thoughts about The Thing

[wasoncebeetle]

Finished sculpt and artfight attack for dear friend @chaoticlyredd !!

I didn’t want to sculpt a human so I turned them into a pony ;w; coming up with the cutie mark was fun! Idk if it comes across as a minecraft redstone line when I painted it so tiny though…

also see close ups, progress shots compiled, process details, and character reference below this cut ⬇️

^some detail shots, I liked the paws… they’re meant to be a wingless bat pony but it doesn’t come through very well…

reference image created by chaoticlyredd :3

Here’s some process shots too! They went from questionable bean skeleton to fully fledged creature.

-I used a roughly 50-50 blend of sculpey soufflé and sculpey primo for flexibility and strength

-the sculpt was baked between steps to freeze the details I didn’t want to butcher! I think they were baked 5 times.

-at the last step I filled in the sculpt gaps with liquid sculpey to make painting easier. I also used the liquid clay to make the solid clay grip my tin foil better

-they were painted with regular acrylic paint, sealed with sculpey gloss glaze

[balaclava-trismegistus]

[Getting so angry it makes my brain disease worse] people sre supposed to be nice..

[homunculus-argument]

I think it would be funny to write a murder mystery where not only did every single character involved have an obvious motive to kill this mf, they were actually all attempting to murder him first, but the murder attempts all cancelled each other out all except for one. Two people tried to poison him but the poisons just happen to work as antidotes for each other, and instead of killing him only gave him the shits, and due to having the shits he couldn't go hunting that day like he had planned, foiling the plans of the one who had conditioned his favourite hunting horse to panic and bolt at the cue of a whistle, and the other murder attempt of tampering with his gun so that it would have exploded his whole face off.

The whole mystery isn't about who could have done it or how, but who was the one who got lucky and actually succeeded.