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On Hiatus

I'm sorry for being gone for so many months. I really thought I would be able to stick to a schedule but everything just went downhill these past few months. Not a lot know what I'm about to explain in this journal and that's ok. I don't share all the details that go on in my life, so I don't expect any different, but I recently lost my grandmother. Since November 19th she has been back and forth to hospitals and on March the 7th I finally lost her. So now I'm experiencing that moment where you lose a parent and you just don't know what to do.. and I say parent because she was my parent. It's complicated to explain but these nice old folks adopted me when I was 6 despite all my issues and due to both our ages and being friends with my mother at the time, they introduced themselves as my grandparents and just stuck. I lost my grandfather back in 2009, I can't believe it's been that long honestly.. and I knew things were getting worse as her health kept declining these past few months but I kept denying it. So now I'm just.. trying to figure out how to cope I guess. I never really grew up around anyone else that was apart of their family line so now I feel kind of.. like the anchor to my identity has been severed. The point I'm trying to make without transforming this post into just another depressing mess is that I'm at a loss right now and I don't know if I'll bounce back anytime soon. To those I owe art to I'll try to get done as soon as I can find my motivation to even pick up my tablet and draw anything decently and if I can't then you'll no doubt have a refund issued, no worries. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I'm sorry if I made this depressing or anything like that..

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usagi ☆ find me on instagram http://instagram.com/meowwniz/ ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ #sailor moon #art #illustration #my art #tsukino usagi #fan art #artistsontumblr #paint tool sai #drawing #draw

#sailor moon #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #meowniz #anime #anime art

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whomst allowed the pink shirt

(in case the purge deletes my blog my twitter is @ohmilkt)

#yyh #yu yu hakusho #yu yu hakusho ova #kurama #yyh ova #botan #fanart #art #digital drawing

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What not to write in fantasy.

I’ve seen some posts going around on what not to write in fantasy, many of which amount to:

Don’t write evil kings.

Don’t write people who are evil for the sake of evil.

Don’t write bullies.

Don’t write villains at all actually.

Don’t write mentors.

Don’t let your characters learn how to do hard things on their own though.

Don’t write people on adventures.

Don’t write people fighting evil governments.

Don’t write any fantasy species ever written before.

Don’t write any fantasy trope ever written before.

Don’t write any fantasy plot ever written before. 

Just… don’t fucking write fantasy I guess??

And this is such utter bullshit, my friends.

We do need more originality and diversity in fantasy, but we don’t need to remove everything that fantasy is and has been in the process.

(Especially, especially, when diversity is being included in traditionally cishet white male protagonist fantasy stories.)

Maybe the chosen one with special magic powers and a royal bloodline going on a quest with a group of friends to defeat the evil king has been done before with a white cis man a thousand times over, but how many times has a black trans woman got to go on that adventure? 

Maybe elves and orcs have been written into the dust, but they still make great templates on which to tell stories with original twists, and there’s nothing about them that stops a good, emotional story from hitting you straight in the heart.

Maybe dragons have been done by every writer ever to write fantasy, but you know what? Dragons are fucking awesome, my dudes. Many readers are always gonna love them.

Maybe we have told the same fantasy stories over and over again, but every step you take away from the known template is a step you have to spend more and more exposition on before the reader will understand your original creation.

So don’t let anyone make you feel like that your (inclusive) fantasy story is too ‘traditional’ to be good. As long as you produce a well written story you’ve put your heart into, it’ll be a story many readers will love. 

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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

#kiki's delivery service #studio ghibli #jiji #gif

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Spirited Away: Chihiro Remembers - Created by Anato Finnstark

#spirited away #studio ghibli #fan art #illustartion #digital illustration #digital drawing #digital art #paintings

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Art by:  LukasWerneck

#sailor moon #fan art #digital illustration #digital drawing #digital art #anime #anime art #AU #modern

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Poke no hero academia 

i am never gonna be done with this crossover :D

Hitoshi Shinso/ Espeon, Kai Chisaki/ Honchkrow, Joi Irinaka(Mimic)/ Rotom, Inasa Yoarashi/ Salamence, Fuyumi Todoroki/ Alolan Ninetales, and Shoto Todoroki/ Half and half Vulpix

#boku no hero academia #pokémon #AU #my hero academia #fanart #digital drawing #digital art #character concept

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the first of a couple of ghibli prints i’m gonna have at smash in sydney this july! chihiro and haku from spirited away, aka the embodiment of all my childhood animal/spirit/dragon companion fantasies 

#spirited away #studio ghibli #fan art #hayo miyazaki #digital illustration #digital drawing #digital art

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#naruto #naruto shipuuden #kyuubi #gif #kistune

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time for memes featuring my favorite boy  _____

if you like what I do, consider buying me a coffee. ♥

#dc universe #fan art #love this art style #is this AU superman?

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Ogata Gekkô (尾形月耕, 1859–1920), Ryu Shoten, 1897

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when you’re trying to write and your last two functioning brain cells start yelling at each other

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New Screenshots from the Yu Yu Hakusho OVA

#yu yu hakusho #yyh #hiei #kurama #yukina #kuwabara #yusuke urameshi #yu yu hakusho ova #screenshots

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