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I had this littlle owl in mind since a few months. Finaly abble to give him life. I think tumblr prefer gif version but I made a one with soundeffects on my instagram. Wich one do you prefer ?

#animation #THE LOOK OF PRIDE #CUUUTE

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Ok, the poll isn't completely closed yet but looks like there's at least 30 people among my followers and followers-in-law who'd be interested in putting their doodles in the Doodle Zine! I think I can safely assume that that's a lower bound, and if/when I make an actual submissions post it will spread farther and probably get more interest.

Which is a pretty substantial number of submissions to expect! So, time for a logistics question.

I want this to be a zine that people can print out and hold in their hands. There are a couple different formats I have in mind for this, and they both have benefits and drawbacks.

X-book - This is the traditional mini-zine format. It's one sheet of letter paper, folded into eighths and with a slit cut into the middle. Not counting the front and back cover, there are 6 pages, each 1/8 of a sheet of paper

Benefits: These are really simple to make--one sheet of paper, printed on only one side, and some scissors. No staples required. They're also a very nice pocket-size.

Drawbacks: There's only room in one of these for 6 people's doodles. If I get too many submissions for one zine, I'll happily just make this a series of zines--but with this format it would likely become a lot of zines pretty quickly.

Pamphlet - This is a pamphlet, meaning it's a stack of sheets folded in half (it would be stapled or sewn at the spine to secure them together, although this example isn't). In this case, the sheets are each half a sheet of letter paper, so each page of the zine is 1/4 of a sheet.

Benefits: This can have as many pages as you can reasonably fold together, which leaves a lot more room for a larger collection of doodles. (This one is made from eight half-sheets of paper, which gives us 30 pages plus cover.) The pages are also larger, so there's a bigger canvas to doodle on.

Drawbacks: These ones are a bit more work to put together. They need to be printed on both sides, cut in half, stacked in the right order, folded, and stapled (or sewn, if you're fancy). They're also just slightly too big to fit in a regular-sized stapler, which can be annoying (you can make it work but it's not perfect).

Secret other options - I personally really like the half-sheet size of pamphlet, but you can do this with any size of paper. We could do quarter-sheet pamphlets (mini-zine sized) or full sheet pamphlets (concert program sized). Smaller ones would be easier to staple, large ones would be harder. Otherwise the main difference is just how much space there is to draw & how much paper it uses.

So, the question is: Lots of little zines or fewer big zines? And is it worth the extra effort to put a pamphlet together so that more doodles can be included in one volume, or not?

#self reblog #scheduling a bump for later in case i forget #also hello to the handful of new followers who i am assuming are here for zine things! #i'm debating whether this is worth making a sideblog for

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Poetry? More like CROWETRY!

Read Crow Time // Read Namesake // Patreon // Store

Crow Time Plush is now up for sale!

#awwwww #comics #reminders

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(What we have in mind for now are black swords with low density silver glitter, silver enamel, so that the pride flag pops)

#ace #pride knights

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Seriously, where did Steve find that armor? I hope he didn’t steal it from an aggressive warrior or something…I don’t want him to get in trouble, ya know? It’s been a year since this tutorial is on Patreon, so I’ll post it for everyone now! (I have to work on a reptile scales or transparent materials tutorial one day tho)

Underwater tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/642964456883765248/steve-why-is-he-always-like-this-metal-tutorial

Fire tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/186828219798/thats-my-first-and-probably-not-last-art

#art reference #art tips #art tutorial #i really need to figure out which of those tags is the one i've been using the most consistently and just pic one #q2q

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Ok, the poll isn't completely closed yet but looks like there's at least 30 people among my followers and followers-in-law who'd be interested in putting their doodles in the Doodle Zine! I think I can safely assume that that's a lower bound, and if/when I make an actual submissions post it will spread farther and probably get more interest.

Which is a pretty substantial number of submissions to expect! So, time for a logistics question.

I want this to be a zine that people can print out and hold in their hands. There are a couple different formats I have in mind for this, and they both have benefits and drawbacks.

X-book - This is the traditional mini-zine format. It's one sheet of letter paper, folded into eighths and with a slit cut into the middle. Not counting the front and back cover, there are 6 pages, each 1/8 of a sheet of paper

Benefits: These are really simple to make--one sheet of paper, printed on only one side, and some scissors. No staples required. They're also a very nice pocket-size.

Drawbacks: There's only room in one of these for 6 people's doodles. If I get too many submissions for one zine, I'll happily just make this a series of zines--but with this format it would likely become a lot of zines pretty quickly.

Pamphlet - This is a pamphlet, meaning it's a stack of sheets folded in half (it would be stapled or sewn at the spine to secure them together, although this example isn't). In this case, the sheets are each half a sheet of letter paper, so each page of the zine is 1/4 of a sheet.

Benefits: This can have as many pages as you can reasonably fold together, which leaves a lot more room for a larger collection of doodles. (This one is made from eight half-sheets of paper, which gives us 30 pages plus cover.) The pages are also larger, so there's a bigger canvas to doodle on.

Drawbacks: These ones are a bit more work to put together. They need to be printed on both sides, cut in half, stacked in the right order, folded, and stapled (or sewn, if you're fancy). They're also just slightly too big to fit in a regular-sized stapler, which can be annoying (you can make it work but it's not perfect).

Secret other options - I personally really like the half-sheet size of pamphlet, but you can do this with any size of paper. We could do quarter-sheet pamphlets (mini-zine sized) or full sheet pamphlets (concert program sized). Smaller ones would be easier to staple, large ones would be harder. Otherwise the main difference is just how much space there is to draw & how much paper it uses.

So, the question is: Lots of little zines or fewer big zines? And is it worth the extra effort to put a pamphlet together so that more doodles can be included in one volume, or not?

#stars has thoughts #polls #zine #doodle zine #i am personally quite fond of the half sheet pamphlet #they become annoying if you have to make 30+ of them at once for a zine fest (ask me how i know) #but if you're only printing one copy for yourself it's not too hard! #however I have no idea how other people feel about that amount of effort (vs. having a stack of mini-zines) so i will let the people decide #edited some wording to clarify about stapler logistics for pamphlets

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So i was bitten by the zine bug this semester and i keep thinking that a collaborative zine would be really fun to organize, especially one i could open up to my little corner of the internet. Not the shiny polished fandom zines that are really cool but also more of an anthology than a zine. I'm talking DIY photocopier and scissors zines--or as close as you can get over the internet, as the case may be.

The most fun and low stakes idea i have at the moment is a doodle zine. Like, what kinds of scribbles or shapes or little creatures do you draw in the margins of your notebooks? Fill a zine-sized page with them and send me a photo! Zero expectation of artistic skill or effort, just fill a page with marks and have fun.

And then i could stitch them together into both a digital zine file and a printable version you could use to make a paper copy. I think that would be a cool way to get as close to the physical collage vibes of a traditional zine as you can in a project that would obviously have to be conducted over the internet, where we can't just hand each other pieces of paper.

Anyway, i finally have both the motivation and the energy to potentially dive in to making this happen, but only if other people are actually interested. And this would look very different if 8 people want to participate vs. if 40 do. So:

Please feel free to reblog/spread this if you know others who might be interested! Right now this is just an idea i'm playing around with, but it might become a Real Thing very quickly if other people are also excited about it.

#self reblog #in case anyone missed it #3 hours left!

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epic aro sculpture i did for class

the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!

#oh this rocks #also can i just say as a fellow art student. brave of you to be making explicitly aro art for class #i keep wanting to do that and then deciding not to because it feels too vulnerable #this is really cool #art #sculpture #aromantic

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Chapter 8 of Old Unit, Young Unit is finished! This will be the second to last chapter.

I can feel Niri’s smile in the feed. Let’s go.

#stars fic #old unit young unit fic #murderbot fanfic #murderbot #in which everything i have been building towards for over a year now finally comes to its climax #:an-emotion:

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I have been listening to the Hobbit audiobook while working. Bad idea. I didn't work, I drew Bilbo and his fancy home ♥

#lotr #light #color #illustration #q2q

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Do you know this queer character?

Murderbot is Agender, Aromantic, and Asexual and uses it/its pronouns!

#murderbot #polls #murderbot fandom sweep

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Hey fanfiction writers: If no one's ever told you this before, it's not just fanfiction.

It's something you spent hours, days, maybe even months on, pouring your heart out onto a page because you were so full of passion and thoughts about a story or characters, you felt like you were going to explode if you didn't get it out. Maybe you lost sleep because your mind was racing with ideas or you forgot to eat or drink water because you were so focused. Maybe your back aches from being hunched over for so long, unmoving. Maybe you even felt like you were going a little feral because you were so excited about what you were creating, or were frustrated when you got stuck. Either way, you put your heart, mind, soul, and body into making something.

It's okay to want people to read it, and it's okay if you're disappointed that they don't or it doesn't get as much of a reaction as you were hoping for. Humans are social creatures. Sure, we write for ourselves, but we also share because the joy of doing so is just as powerful as the joy of the process. Of having created something.

We all experience that joy and that disappointment, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

So it's okay. It's not just fanfiction.

#found this in my drafts #needed it today #not necessarily for the part about audience reaction #just for the acknowledgement of all the effort that i've been pouring into Finishing Things lately so i can get them out into the world #that means something! it means SO MUCH! it's not *just* fanfic #thanks op #reminders #fanfic

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So i was bitten by the zine bug this semester and i keep thinking that a collaborative zine would be really fun to organize, especially one i could open up to my little corner of the internet. Not the shiny polished fandom zines that are really cool but also more of an anthology than a zine. I'm talking DIY photocopier and scissors zines--or as close as you can get over the internet, as the case may be.

The most fun and low stakes idea i have at the moment is a doodle zine. Like, what kinds of scribbles or shapes or little creatures do you draw in the margins of your notebooks? Fill a zine-sized page with them and send me a photo! Zero expectation of artistic skill or effort, just fill a page with marks and have fun.

And then i could stitch them together into both a digital zine file and a printable version you could use to make a paper copy. I think that would be a cool way to get as close to the physical collage vibes of a traditional zine as you can in a project that would obviously have to be conducted over the internet, where we can't just hand each other pieces of paper.

Anyway, i finally have both the motivation and the energy to potentially dive in to making this happen, but only if other people are actually interested. And this would look very different if 8 people want to participate vs. if 40 do. So:

Please feel free to reblog/spread this if you know others who might be interested! Right now this is just an idea i'm playing around with, but it might become a Real Thing very quickly if other people are also excited about it.

#stars has thoughts #polls #zine #zines #currently in the 'i've already got one foot fully in this project but i need to stop and make sure it's actually a good idea' phase #which involves seeing if anyone but me actually likes this idea lol #the current idea is that this would be super chill! #like i would accept all submissions unless they fundamentally misunderstood what this zine is about chill #this is specifically NOT an art zine and i don't want to Judge Entries #i would expand it to fit the level of interest rather than pare down #OK this is a gauging-interest poll i need to stop agonizing over the wording and post it

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I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts. 

May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.

I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.

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btw though. crossing my fingers so i don't jinx myself, but. Old Unit, Young Unit chapter 8 is a few rounds of editing away from finished.

and what's more, i think i'm pretty sure that chapter 9 is going to be the last one. not to get ahead of myself, but i am SO excited to be past the bottleneck of spoilers on this fic, because then i can start posting all the other polaris stuff i've been working on in the meantime, some of which is already finished and just waiting for me to get past the spoilers at the end of OUYU. i have oldunit's official company file. i have niri pov of parts of OUYU. i have a couple of niri's prior adventures. i have bits of what comes next for oldunit. and eventually (altho this is REALLY getting ahead of myself) i have a whole sequel longfic that i'll be able to start working on in earnest.

i'm excited, is what i'm saying. i'm getting SO close!!!

#stars rambles #old unit young unit wip #polaris fic series #thiiiiiiis close to the end of this fic that is well over a year old at this point #can't WAIT to show you guys some of the other stuff i've got cooking

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when will i stop writing multi chapter fics with wordcounts like

Chapter One: 1,000 words Chapter Two: 1,200 words Chapter Three: 1,300 words Chapter Four: 700 words Chapter Five: 3,000 words

#i've only really written two multichap fics #so i only have two nickels #but it's weird that it's happened twice #stars rambles #what are consistent word counts. why do my chapters always get longer and longer #why do i always start at a nice solid 1k-ish and keep steady for like three chapters and then inevitably jump to like 3k #brought to you by oldunit chapter 8 which is currently 2655 words long #most of the other chapters are closer to 1k

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The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

#writing mood