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Some possible* Tala stickers :D (Patreon)
#My art#Original#Tala#*I'm more just playing around with the idea of making some - personal stickers!#I mean I'm the biggest Tala fan anyway it's fine if it's for an audience of one lol#I finally got my hands on some sticker paper a bit back now it's just a matter of getting them the size I want and finding a good printer!#Ours is uh....well just don't look too closely at some of the greyscale pages I've posted they leave a bit to be desired lol#And that's just black and white I'm a little concerned what it'd do to pictures! :'D#Though I say that but it did print the art from Roundabout quite nicely so hmm! Maybe! But I do have other avenues if I want them :)#It's nice to have options!#For the time being they're just cute little guys of one of my cute little guys! :D In her doggy form and specifically her plush puppy form ♪#I really have been enjoying adding to her physical accessories haha - she's always got her little gold stitch/scar#And then her first accessory being the bracelet - and then her face mask - and now her ribbon! :D It's all very cute she's very cute#She's also good feral practice since I'm still not very good at drawing dogs or cats or the like :'D#I used references for that first one! Wowie!#I'm a fan of how she turned out overall :) I can still see some work I'd like to improve for her back legs but other than that :D#Baring her little teefsies hehe she's so scary ♥#My love of drawing plushies rears its head again - she is added to the list! No soft shading or lighting like MewTwo tho that's alright#The stitches are the really important part :) I like them!#I wish she could sit like that irl haha she's actually very stable to stand! A little awkward to sit#And finally a cutesy cartoony one :D She doesn't have paw beans irl either but come on I had to!#I debated whether they'd be pink or brown but I think I'm happiest keeping her palette simple :)#She's so cute <3
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Hi, I'm trying to do art commissions, but no one has commissioned me yet. Do you have any advice for attracting customers?
I wrote a lot of words for you in hopes that at least some of it will be helpful, so I'm putting the bulk of this answer below a read more to save people the scrolling. The quick and easy two tips that I find people forget to do the most are:
Is your art easy to find? Having a pinned post with a tag for your art, a link in your bio, or an art-focused / reblog-light blog (like this one!) make it so that people know you draw, and knowing you've been posting art for a while makes you less likely to be a scammer.
Is your commission info easy to find? People can't buy things that they don't know you're selling; clear and accessible links to your prices and terms are important.
Now for the real bulky meat of advice giving, where I say a lot of words that may or may not be relevant:
I have a lot of advice, but I do want to say before getting into it:
A lot of selling art (especially in a non-industry setting, like with social media commissions) is luck.
There is no one size fits all method for selling art, and it's best to go with what feels right to you (I'll go more into this later)
Tips for selling are not necessarily tips for creating, and there will be advice in here that I don't apply to myself. Determining what you do and do not implement is something you should decide for yourself and your work flow.
Your art not selling doesn't mean nobody cares about it.
Personally I think the idea of intentionally curating a single subject demographic of Customer and Consumer for your work is limiting and doomed to burnout in a non-industry space. I will also touch more on this later.
Now for the rest of it in varying orders:
✨ Attracting Customers
This one is going first because you mentioned it specifically. It is kind of vague though, by nature of the term, so what I advise doing is specifying.
When you are thinking of a customer, are you trying to appeal to:
People who will buy pre-made art products? (Pins, stickers, prints, etc)
People who will buy custom work? (Commissions for specific subject matter)
People who will buy art resources you've created? (Fonts, bases, texture packs, 3d models etc)
There's also frequency: a repeat customer of custom art will usually be appealed to more by a wide range of options (like illustrations), while you might get more single-purchase customers if you only offer a limited range of options (like only icons).
Demographics also, of course, play a substantial role in just custom art commissions; furries get lauded as high spenders, but they're also a huge community that is focused around OCs, so by statistics alone they will have more people with spending money and will be frequent customers of people drawing OCs. A narrower audience means fewer people, but often the spread of the people within that audience is the same - and at the end of the day, selling an art piece only requires one other person, it's just a matter of happening to find them.
The follow up question is of course the finding: the average artist in fandom spaces selling commissions does not have the platform or budget for an ad campaign. This, however, is also its own category:
✨ Posting Online
Right out the gate: anyone who has told you that just drawing x thing is the way to get easy money is wrong.
"If you draw more fan art, you'll -" wrong.
"Nobody cares about that, you should be drawing this instead -" wrong.
"if you need to sell fast, just sell porn -" wrong. And also re-evaluate your perceived lack of quality or value about the subject.
The things you will be able to create easily and consistently will be the things YOU, SPECIFICALLY, like to create. It is also entirely impossible that you are the only person on earth to have ever liked those things, which means that if you create them, there are people out there who will enjoy them.
It feels itchy to be like "and those people are Potential Customers", but it is true; your work will resonate with people. They will want you to create it. It is vitally important to your own well being that the things you create, that you want others to enjoy, are things you enjoy as well.
(This is also why the "just draw porn" joking advice that gets tossed around is particularly fucked up. You as the artist should not feel forced into drawing things you aren't comfortable with, and the vast majority of customers for explicit content also don't want the people making it to feel forced into doing so. It's basic consent. I have strong feelings about this.)
If you are creating things and putting them out into the world, they will find an audience. That audience may be one singular person! The number does not matter, because that's still a person who - again, sucks to frame ig this way - has the potential to buy things from you.
If you're constantly chasing a bigger follower count, more interactions, etc etc for the future, it can genuinely be pretty taxing on the people who want to support you in the present. When you enjoy someone's work, and want to support them, being told constantly that that support is not good enough is frustrating. Trying to follow your work should not lead to seeing more "likes are WORTHLESS and NOBODY reblogs my things" posts than it does art. You are a person making things to share with other people, and you have to remember it or you will burn yourself out into a desiccated husk.
TL:DR consistency is key and the easiest way to be consistent is to just draw whatever the fuck you live drawing in whatever ways you want to draw it, and then slap it on the internet somewhere and Keep Doing That
✨ The Actual Commission Information
this one is just factual really. A lot of artists have really shitty commission sheet layouts, because advertising graphic design and illustrative art are different skill sets. That's fine. You don't have to remake the wheel. A good commission sheet should include:
More images than text (if you can't see what the examples are when zoomed out, you have to rearrange or cut down on words)
Examples organized by price / type, and clearly labeled
Your personal favourites for examples - one really strong example piece is better than twenty tiny images of work you think is just "okay"
Contact information - having a method that works WITHOUT a social media account (email.) Is important and way easier to keep organized, imo
A SIMPLE list of strengths (the things you draw the best) and things you won't draw (common example: mechs). You do not need to list every fandom or subject matter. Limit yourself to a top five.
A clear and easy to type link for your terms of service. Carrd, and sites like it, is good for this. This will go into details about your process, what you will and won't do, permissions granted to the commissioner (like "no, you can't make an NFT with this"), your privacy policy (saying you won't sell commissioner details to third parties), and other stuff. You do not want to have all of this on your original post, because it should be thorough and you want your main post to be showcasing your work and not your legalese. Here's mine as a reference; if you have trouble writing your own, feel free to copy from it and make the necessary alterations for your work.
✨ There Was More I Was Going To Write But I Forgot
I have a different document of commission related talk here, which is also incomplete but in a different way. It's in my nature. Hopefully some combination of this and that can be useful to you. Sorry if they're not. I love you have a nice day
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Luigi, Flynn Rider, Nick Wilde & Naveen react to Bisexual!Reader
Request: Okay, so I like, just recently came out to you! I know that I'm anonymous for the request but I have some homophobic friends that are on here and I dont want them to know that it was me. :( I have a specific headcanon request since I came out today! Could you please write me a how Luigi, Flynn Rider, Nick Wilde, and Prince Naveen would react to you coming out as bi? Thank you in advance!
Special request that I got asked to do by someone. I know things are hard now, but trust me they won't always be and soon you'll find amazing people who support and love you for who you are! For now, hopefully this brings you a little joy! Wanted to get this done for pride month.
Luigi
Luigi doesn't have a mean bone in his body, if you came to him and confessed you were bisexual he'd be overjoyed he was the first one you told
And he'd do all the research he could, he's on the job don't worry
He will absolutely be your number one biggest fan, he is now an LGBT ally (he probably was one before but now doubly so), he is taking you to pride whether you like it or not
He would definitely help you plan out how to come out to other people in your life, yes it would be many steps, and yes he will support you the whole way
And he'd also support you in more subtle ways, like wearing pins or even just like comforting you if the whole sexuality thing is stressing you out
He is just really happy that you're choosing to be your authentic self
Flynn Rider
If this man isn't at least bisexual himself, he has good gaydar, so he might already have an inkling before you come to him
He's genuinely happy for you
Might make bi jokes, might ask you if you're into every person you pass on the street
He will try to turn this into a "so you're into me" thing, like it or not, he's going to assume you're into him (if you're not he will be very annoyed)
Will ask you dumb questions at all hours of the day, just to get a reaction
Probably has a little bi flag to wave around and annoy you
He is your biggest supporter though and he will gladly threaten anyone who doesn't respect your sexuality
Nick Wilde
Nick is the kind of guy who when you first tell him, he's already looking up pride events to go with you to
He knows what it's like to not feel like everyone else, to have something about you that you can't change that makes a lot of people iffy and he will spend a lot of time just reminding you that you're not valued any less because of your sexuality
He has so many bisexual stickers, pins, things just to show he supports you. Even has one for his police officer uniform.
Will play smash or pass with you if you ask him
I don't know why I just get the vibe that Nick like- buys pride stuff just because he thinks you'll like it. Every time he sees something bisexual or with the rainbow he's like "don't mind if I do."
Probably forgets you're bisexual every time you say you're into someone
Naveen
He doesn't really get the idea at first, but his first reaction would definitely be "as long as you're happy that's all that matters".
Once he wraps his head around it though, he absolutely is a huge supporter
Definitely an ally, and has definitely learned some queer songs to play on his ukulele
He loves a big event so he will absolutely attend pride with you and he will bring his ukulele. And he'll joke about upstaging you at your own event (but you don't care as long as he's having fun!)
If someone maybe isn't supportive, he definitely gets very upset on your behalf but he will also comfort you very well.
He truly believes that everyone should be who they want to/are capable of being and he thinks you're very brave to be who you are
And you can't tell me he wouldn't buy you pride related things just to see you smile!
#disney imagine#super mario bros imagine#luigi x reader#flynn rider x reader#nick wilde x reader#prince naveen x reader#luigi imagine#flynn rider imagine#nick wilde imagine#prince naveen imagine#gender neutral imagine#gender neutral reader
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For entertainment purposes, I sometimes play around with an incorrect quote generator. To make it fun, the characters + quote have to be completely random / I can't shuffle names, and they have to make me laugh.
Here are some of my favorites. Hope they bring you a laugh.
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Kai: Sometimes I like to call people by the wrong name to show them I don’t care about them.
Ray: That’s brilliant.
Kai: Thank you, Kenny.
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Max: I dare you-
Kenny: Kai is not allowed to accept dares anymore.
Max: Why not?
Kai: "I have no regard for my own or others personal safety", as some would say.
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Kai: Ok so, apparently the "bad vibes" I've been feeling are actually severe psychological distress.
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Max: What's worse than a heartbreak?
Ray: Stepping on a cat's tail and not being able to explain that you're sorry.
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Kenny: Just be yourself. Say something nice.
Kai: Which one? I can't do both.
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Kenny: Emily noticed only today that they can label their email inboxes, but they took apart their entire bloody laptop two weeks ago.
Ray: This reminds me of the Emily who couldn’t turn on the coffee maker, but remembers about 500 digits of pi.
Kenny: I’ll be delighted to inform you that this is the very same Emily.
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Kenny: That sounds like a terrible plan.
Ian: Oh, we've had worse.
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Emily: Just trust me. Have I ever put you in an unsafe or uncomfortable situation?
Kenny: All the time.
Emily: Then you should be used to it by now.
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Emily, to the Squad: If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands!
*silence*
Emily: Damn, y’all depressed as fuck...
Salima : You didn’t clap either-
Emily: SHUT UP!
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Ray, staring at Mariah in a cage: ...Why are they in a cage?
Tyson: Because they growled at me.
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Ian: You’re giving me a sticker?
Julia: Not just a sticker. That is a sticker of a kitty saying “me-wow!”
Ian: I’m not a preschooler.
Julia: Fine, I’ll take it back-
Ian: I earned this, back off!
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Bryan: You know you've made it when you see your picture everywhere you go.
Max: Those are wanted posters!
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Kai: Yesterday, I overheard Max saying “Are you sure this is a good idea?” and Spencer replying “Trust me,” and I have never moved from one room to another so quickly in my life.
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Julia: I’m not being weird. Am I being weird?
Tala: Yes, and that’s coming from me.
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Kai: I assume you realize that this kind of idiocy will not be tolerated in this house.
Ian: Is there any kind of idiocy you would be more comfortable with?
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Mariam: The best part of an oreo is the cookie part, not the frosting. Deal with it.
Salima : Darkness without light is an abyss. Light without darkness is blinding. You cannot have a coin with one side.
Emily: YO SOCRATES! IT'S A FUCKING COOKIE!
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Mariah: Here you go, Emily, a nice hot cup of coffee!
Emily: It's cold.
Mariah: A nice cup of coffee.
Emily: It's horrible!
Mariah: Cup of coffee.
Emily: I'm not sure if this even IS coffee.
Mariah: C U P.
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Mariam: I don’t need to touch grass, I need the fall of capitalism.
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Bryan: Would anyone know any good vendors for professional-quality brass knuckles?
Ray: I know you’re serious, but you say the scariest shit sometimes.
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Julia: Why would you give a knife to Kai?!
Kenny, shrugging: Kai felt unsafe.
Julia: Now I feel unsafe!
Kenny: I’m sorry…
Kenny: Would you like a knife?
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Emily, to the squad: And remember, if I get harsh with you it is only because you’re doing it all wrong.
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Julia: Bryan’s gonna kill me.
Spencer: No, he'll probably make me do it.
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Kai: That's it, you're grounded! Tala, no adventures for you! Mariam, no fighting for you! Ian, no stealing for you! And Bryan... oh my god, is there anything that you love?
Bryan: Revenge.
Kai: No vengeance for you.
Bryan: I was going to say "I'll get you for this," but I guess that's off the table.
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Max: You're violent.
Ian: Yeah but I'm also short and that's adorable.
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Prompts to develop a cane user character
Hey there ! You may know me for this post, how to write a cane user character :
Over the past year, this post has gathered quite a lot of traction and people seemed to really enjoy it, and I thought I could do more to help all of my writer friends out there ! This time, I decided to give you a bunch of situations a cane user may face to give you some directions to go with your story, and a few exemples to add-on to the idea !
These are overall very focused on young cane users because that's what I am, but I feel like they can mostly be used for characters of all ages.
The character just got their cane. How do they react to it ? The way someone first reacts to getting a cane can say a lot about them. Exemples :
- They don't see it as a big deal, mostly like yet another test to see if something may work. It's kinda like swallowing a pill when you're sick and thinking "here goes nothing". After that, you can also develop on them being very pleasantly surprised that it worked or to stay with the nonchalant style, make them think "oh. It actually worked. Guess I'll be using that from now on"
- They get uncomfortable. They don't want to be seen as weak and look at them using a cane as a kind of failure to be normal. They may even refuse to use it despite clearly needing it out of pride.
- They get extremely excited and immediately try to make it THEIR cane. If it's a metal cane, they play around with the sliding part and move it around a bunch to see how it works. They may try to play with it like a sword to get used to having it in hand (and may even accidentally break stuff with it). If they like colorful outfits, they may doodle on it or add a bunch of stickers/charms to it.
- They take it in front of a mirror and try to pose with it to fully comprehend that this is them now. They can struggle with their vision of themselves because seeing this weird stick always with them now is really weird. But on the other hand, you can also make them try a bunch of poses and have them think "wait ... This is actually really cool. I love how I look now"
See how they react to other people's looks. If a character has a cane, especially when they're young, they're bound to get weird looks. There's always someone looking at you obviously thinking "Why the hell are they using a cane, they probably don't need it" or "Oh no, poor them, they don't deserve to be in so much pain..." What's their reaction to it ? Exemples :
- They get angry. They confront the people staring at them with a "what are you lookin' at, fucker ?!" or just glare at them. They do NOT want to be pitied.
- They get playful and try to act as if these people are only interested in them by their physique. "Oh, I know I'm good looking, but you can stop staring at me darling~" if your character is kind of a classy cane user, it gets really fun to play around it and after a while, their confidence may get a real characteristic of theirs.
- They feel miserable. They don't want to be pitied just because they exist. They're walking outside for five minutes to get groceries and people are pitying them, and that hurts.
- They really don't care. They've seen it all, and don't let the stares affect them anymore. If they did, it would probably drive them mad.
One thing that happens ALL THE TIME with canes is that they fall. And overall, it's really funny to watch. Watching a cane fall down five times in a row is an embarrassing situation and can make some fun interactions ! Exemples :
- The cane user is trying to have very serious talk with someone else. They walk towards them, sits down in a chair, glares at them, puts their cane down against the wall and ... It falls. They put it back. And it falls. They can stay as serious as they want, the other person in front of them is no longer afraid of them.
- The cane user is taking someone on a date at a fun restaurant. They try to sit down on their chair and put their cane away and it falls repeatedly and they start panicking to make it stay up. Their date is very amused by the situation and finds it cute and/or charming.
- The cane user puts their cane against the wall and it falls. Their friend immediately goes to pick it up, but they stop them from doing so by saying something along the lines of "Don't bother. It won't stay up." Or "Heh, it can't fall any lower now."
Oh no, someone is trying to steal your character's cane for some reason ! Maybe it's because they think it was left behind by someone else ? Maybe it has a high market value because it's made of gold ? Any way, they will have to do something about it. Exemples :
- they grab the cane back and just beats the crap out of the thief. You know, it's not rare to see stories where grandpas use their cane to hit people as a joke. But it works ! It's a heavy stick, and often made of metal. You're bound to get some good hits with that.
- They immediately panic and/or cry. Canes can be extremely precious to someone, often because of emotional value. It's something you wear every day, you can easily get attached to it. A lot of people even decorate it, so loosing something you crafted yourself hurts.
- They heavily play the victim to either make the thief regret their action, or people get on their side. It can stem from a genuine emotion, but also from acting if they want to just use the situation to their advantage. Either way, if someone has the audacity to steal from a poor "defenseless" disabled person, the crowd will most likely help them.
- They can just ... Not care much. I mean yeah it was stolen and it sucks but you know, most canes cost what. 12$ ? They're annoyed but they won't make too much of a fuss about it, and running to catch the thief may not be worth it if their legs aren't really healthy.
You know, if your cane user is a little young, some people are bound to think that they are "too young to be disabled". How do they react to that ? Exemples :
- They heavily mock the person who said that. What, just because you think someone is too young to be disabled, they're no longer disabled ? Ha, I wish it could work like that !
- They reply with a good old "If I break your legs, I guess you'll still be able to walk ? Cuz you look too young to be disabled too."
- They get doubts and question if they're really disabled enough to wield a cane. Usually, people only use it when they have big problems or when they're old ... Maybe that person's right ... (No they're not, of course)
- They get extremely serious and explain their situation is nothing to be discussed by people won't don't know them personally.
And that's it for today ! I hope you enjoyed this little guide <3 if this gets a bit of traction as well, I may write more in the future ! Good luck to all of the writers ~
Oh and one more thing ! Feel free to link your stories down below for everyone to look, will it be a Tumblr post, an AO3 link, a google doc ... I love to see your creations, and I think sharing ideas with people is a GREAT way to develop more varied representation.
And if you want to thank me in a way or another, you can always take a look at my art on Twitter (@FernShawArt) !
#cw ableism#writer#writing guide#cane user#disability#disabled#spoonie#actually disabled#prompts#roguefort cookie#brook one piece#Arsène lupin#capn cuttlefish#cap'n cuttlefish#craig cuttlefish
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A Little challenge for u, dear author-san! Set ur mutuals up with someone and tell them why u set them up
I set u up with the beloved Yuuji Itadori, because u are both sweet and u would be an amazing couple!! Yuujis favorite sign of affection for u is cuddles and smooches on the forehead! friends to lovers, with yuuji being the sweet oblivious one and you being the quiet, to slightly chaotic friend! yuuji initiates the first kith by 'accident'. once u 2 confess its a instant click, with you 2 being the hyper lovey-dovey couple who likes to binge-watch anime/cheesy movies while cuddling and sharing popcorn only 2 fall asleep together in the middle of the movie. another thing yuuji likes 2 do is touching ur hair!! he gently strokes it while ur sleeping/cuddling with him. whispered' ily' in the middle of the night and texts/phone calls so u don't sleep alone. love u chuchu♥
aaaa omg anon this is so cute 🥹🫶 and if i were to set some of my moots with a jjk character, it would go like:
@yuujisuku with sukuna. i feel like gabs is such a sweetheart, i can see them being the sunshine x grumpy dynamic. gabs would totally be the kind of person who gets excited over little things, and sukuna would just follow her around (even if he says he hates it). it's a love-hate relationship with sukuna them both, gabs would TOTALLY force sukuna to do things he doesn't usually do. i can see her placing hello kitty stickers around him while he's asleep, and would be all frazzled when he wakes up because she had no idea what to do next. hide, run, play dead? they're gonna be funny together.
@rrairey with gojo. i can see kai as a more dominant one in the relationship between them both — even if gojo seems like the dominant one (kai is). STRICT X GOOFY. kai is the strict one, and gojo is the goofy one. i feel like kai would actually get things straight with him and what to do, and gojo just goes "okay, i trust my gf and i'm going to do what she tells me to do". but ofc they're not going to be all sunshine and rainbows, arguments are calm and it flows smoothly because i feel like kai would be the type to be straight and tell people where their mistake is. communication is the number one thing in their relationship. gojo is clingy but kai just lets him do it because she obv loves him.
@kodzukenmaaa with nanami. honestly, nadine is such a sweetheart and nanami is also a sweetheart. their relationship is as cool as cucumber most of the time, almost no arguments, just serious conversations. i feel like they'd be the type of couple to match color palettes, especially outfits. cute pictures, especially mirror selfies. A LOT OF PRINCESS TREATMENT. and nanami brings her out to fine dining occasionally, and a lot of flowers for nadine of course. just honestly the cutest couple ever? nanami texts nadine if he's going to be home late, or if something comes up out of the blue, he communicates well and i feel like nadine is also the type of person who communicates well. honestly, couple of the year.
@giannitaa with gojo. GIA IS ALSO SUCH A SWEETHEART. just honestly, i feel like they would be the sweetheart x goofy dynamic. but gia could be strict at times, and gojo thinks that side of them is so attractive (and scary). gojo whines to them occasionally, someone yelled at him? he goes to them and tells them about it. someone took the last kikufuku? he tells them about it. gia always takes their time to hear his stories out, i feel like they're more of a listener and gojo is the speaker in the relationship. gojo spoils them a lot. expect a lot of luxury items from him because that's his love language, even if gia tells him not to — he doesn't listen and just buys them more things. cutest couple ever.
i have a lot more moots, but i would have to go a few miles in this post. so i'm gonna do some, make sure to check out their works!
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Seokjin: Memory Lane
In which you find an old Journal of Jin's, where his past self has some pretty interesting thoughts about you.
Tags/Warnings: Idol Seokjin, angst, fluff, adult themes mentioned but not in detail
Length: mid
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You're sorting through old stuff when you find it.
It's really not even a journal- it's more like a very old spiral block, cardboard front decorated in old stickers, torn on the edges and faded. You can't make out the years at all on most pages- but the entries seem old.
It's Jin's. It's definitely his. You'd remember his handwriting even if you're sixty.
You really just skip through some pages. As soon as you see something personal, you attempt to close it, trying to conserve his privacy even though he's put his life basically out there for all to see anyway as an Idol now. But then, you catch your name written in bold letters. A heart accompanying it.
You can't help yourself.
You know that's unhealthy. Relishing in the past is never a good idea, especially when so many now harsh and painful memories accompany it. But with it in your hands now, it's already happened. The first words already have you back in a chockehold because even in writing, Jin had always been nothing but himself.
[Remember to always carry snacks around- she loves snacks, more than big meals]
He'd scribbled that one one page, as if it was an important note.
[How come she can forget to eat but never forgets how I tripped and fell face first into the mud when we went on that fishing trip together?]
You do remember that. He'd asked you to come along multiple times, and every time you'd told him you didn't even know how to fish at all. Even so, he still invited you every time, told you to come watch him at least, and that he would one day figure out how to prepare fish properly to eat it. He's always been like that. If he didn't know how to do something, he'd do everything to figure it out somehow.
[I like the inside of her arms. The skin is so smooth, and warm, and when my hands are cold, I can just sneak them into her way too big sleeves to warm them up (remember to ask for my sweater back)]
Even now you still love wearing too large sized clothing. It gives you comfort, warms you up, steps in for a person that could and maybe even should hold you during cold nights like these.
He never asked for that sweater back.
[She cut her hair and I told her it's weird. I didn't mean weird as in bad?? It's just different, and I don't know how to explain it. It's bad. In the way that I'm jealous. When I have to get my hair cut one day, can I still look as pretty as she does? I'd probably date her if she was bald, too. How unfair.]
It makes you laugh. You really thought he'd hated your short hair when it happened. You'd had to cut it because bleaching and coloring it too much had damaged it beyond any saving- and when Jin had seen it, he'd laughed, called it weird. You never let him explain, just left him standing there in the school's hallways.
[I can't sing well, and I can't play the guitar very well either. Jungkook had sung his girlfriend a song yesterday, and I never felt so bad. I want to impress her too, but honestly, what's so something I can do well apart from bragging?]
You never knew he'd felt that way about himself. If anything, you'd ways taken him for overly confident, sure of himself, both feet steady on the ground below. You had always thought that his insecurities were limited to just being fickle and unsure often. Maybe a bit messy here and there. But not.. This.
No matter if he was an expert at either singing or play g the guitar, that night when you both had drunkenly sang to the tune of the radio will always stay one of your fondest memories.
[I asked her out. I did it. And guess what? She said no.]
You sigh at that. It's clear from the plain sentence and the fact that there's a streak like a pen having been thrown at the paper tells you his frustration in that moment must've been huge. But you couldn't say yes.
He was on the wave of sucess. Their sales had been at an all time high. Suddenly, everyone was talking about the seven guys from south korea. Suddenly, he was finally being seen by millions. He would've given that up in a heartbeat for you, you know this.
It's exactly why you said no.
[I wonder how she's doing. I haven't talked to her mother in ages- would it be weird if I was to send her a present for her birthday this year? Maybe. God, what if she has a boyfriend now? What if she's married? Or has KID'S?!]
Theres a crying face scribbled on the side, together with the phrase 'i don't want to get old alone'.
It hurts to read. But looking at how far he's come now, you know it was for the best. You still checked his social media often, found yourself feeling weird at any dating rumor spread. As if the world was mocking you.
He's fine now, you know he is. He's got his family and friends around him. He's got all the love he could ever need, and someday, he will have his own little family as well.
There's a page littered with old faded images of the two of you. He looks incredibly young, wears glasses in some photos, and you trace the dates on them fondly.
Sometimes memories hurt. Other times they make you sad.
And sometimes, they let you relive what was, and daydream about what could've been.
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"Yah, that's private you little gremlin, how did you even find that in the first place?! These photos look hideous, they need to be destroyed!" he yells, running after you, your hands still clutching the notebook tightly as you dash upstairs.
"Give that back!" he yells, laughing along with you when he catches you on the bed, your arms securely holding the book whe he leans over you. "you know, with the position we're in I could see myself getting in the mood for some loving my wife." he raises his eyebrows suggestively. You laugh, putting the notebook on the bedside table, his lips eagerly placed on yours as soon as you turn back to him.
Well aware that he cherishes those memories just as much as you do.
He'd never throw them away.
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Sparrow Oak Garcia Cosplay Part 5 (boring math edition)
Shirt
Dear Amazon,
I'm sure you're inflating the wait time like the lines at Disney World, but I cannot comprehend why you estimate that it should take seventeen days after receiving my returned microwave to refund me my money.
Many Thanks,
A person who really wants to buy a specific shirt pattern with their microwave return money
Pants
I was so ready to start cutting the patchwork squares. Absolutely so ready! I had a video tutorial and everything! Then I measured the width of all of the fabric since they shrank varying amounts after being washed and I was suddenly aware that I had no idea what my yardage was once I started cutting it down. And as a dyscalculic nightmare of a human, I started freaking out and turning into the sewing equivalent of this gif.
But after some mild panic I was like okay, let's measure the size of these babies. I quickly realized that I was going to have so much left off since the thinnest piece was 9inches across and I was thinking about doing six inch squares.
Then I remembered that I was altering the pattern because this particular pattern is very confusing in how it's supposed to look and I decided to avoid it entirely.
Like, looking at the line art, I wanted the C pants, but then when they show the C pants in the picture they look nothing like them? And my brain just can't figure out what's going on. So to avoid that uncertainty, I was like...what if I just cut the pattern off at the line before the weird little tulip thingies and just use elastic to bring it in like the view for the D pants. So to ease the process of figuring out how many squares I needed, I bit the bullet and did probably my least favorite step of any sewing project process...tracing my pattern pieces.
I was relieved to find I only needed to trace four pattern pieces (and one was the elastic guide which doesn't really feel like it counts)
I was then trying to decide if it was long enough to satisfy my pants needs, and even though I measured the pattern and then measured it against my legs, I was nervous it was still shorter than I wanted it because I dunno, patterns do that when you put them down. It got to the point where I just straight up took off the pants that I was wearing that were like...around a similar length to what I wanted and put them on the table to compare.
Being like 70% satisfied with that comparison, I then utilized the grid pattern on my craft table to calculate the size of the patchwork panel each piece would need and then did some math to it.
Was it the most precise math? No, but it was imprecise in the direction to err to give me more yardage than calculated. Then I played with two different square sizes. One that was approximately five inches and one that was approximately four inches. The 5 inch version ended up with only 6 panels for the entire height of the pants which felt super underwhelming, so I opted for the four. Then after some math, I got to the result of needing 120 squares (and that would give me a little room to play with the length if I decided the pant legs were too short). I then ran the numbers the square against my fabric and found it would yield 176 squares which was a huge relief because I also wanted to make some panel pockets for the back and knew I needed some wiggle room.
Accessories
Someone brought a bunch of stickers in to work for people to take and I liked that there were Oak leaves in this one. I'm not super sure what or how to incorporate it into something, but figured it might be worth having just in case.
I also remade some Love Wolf kandi with better elastic. So, ta-da!
Sparrow Cosplay: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
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First project is done :D
Actually, even though I'm in two studios this semester, I'm likely only going to post class projects for my digital one, since the other is a figure drawing class, and I can't exactly post drawings of other real people (we will do a self portrait, so I *might* share that one if it doesn't turn out as inaccurate as the last one did).
Project notes under the cut as always (and bonus, I got some cut out! Picture below)
I can't lie, this isn't exactly how I wanted it to turn out. I actually started to hand draw in more complex shading, but when I opened the file this morning, everything I had done over the weekend was completely gone (weird computer issue, not because I forgot to save it). I ended up having to add in some reallly simple shadows at the last minute (just because some of these really needed some modicum of depth in order to work), and barely got this done in time. But, it's done, and it's turned in :)
This project was meant to familiarize us with using Adobe Illustrator; we were told to make a sheet of 6-10 stickers that represented a place we can't actually go to. I actually did a very similar project last spring; that time, we were told to depict a place that we wanted to go to, so a real place. This one was was a bit more abstract, and I'm in my baby-ex-christian era, so I really wanted to do heaven and hell for this. It felt like tasteful blasphemy, and it felt nice doing this for a prompt that implied that these places weren't real. Made me happy :D my professor loved the idea, so I took it and ran with it haha.
The class loved it; mine was the first one they wanted to discuss during critique after the only volunteer went, and it felt really nice. I put a ton of time into this so I'm happy to see it pay off even if it's not exactly how I wanted it to turn out.
I'll probably play around with it more? I won't be doing the complex shading I initially had planned because that was not a fun experience to have to redo. Some color and shape adjustments are needed for me to be fully happy with it though, so that'll probably be a "my personal free time" thing.
I went to war with the Cricut in the art building, but managed to get one set to cut well :D my classmates took some of the ones I cute out, which made me really happy. I'll be making some more to give to friends so I'll probably post more about my paper cutter woes on my alt within the next week haha
If anyone is interested in having some, lmk and I'll see if I can figure out how to mail them? I can't say for sure if I'll be doing that just yet, but if some people are interested I'll look into it!
Anyway, I'm still proud of these, and I think that even with the hiccups included, this still turned out light-years better than the last time I did this project (or, a veeery similar one). Will definitely be decreasing the detail scale on the next project though :')
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Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one
Spencer Reid x Fem!reader
Idea: Spencer x reader friends to lovers based the idea off of a blurb from @rintsuru where Reid shows the reader a magic trick where he writes something on a card and shows it to the rest of the team (they know he likes you) and shuffles the deck and pulls out not their cards and then says something like its behind your ear and then that's when the reader pulls the card out and reads will you go on a date with me. Reid frames that card in glass later.
Add a part where spencer just loves how she thinks of random things, after she gets shown the card and answers she says, you know the doctor had 2 hearts, how do you think cpr would work on him
Requested: Nope. @halloween-is-my-nationality This was the Spencer idea I had that I said I would write.
Author’s Note: Ok, 12 hour night shifts aren’t terrible, for me at least. It’s just bad when I either have not gotten sleep the night before or I have to do something the morning I get off. I’m currently 7 hrs after getting off my night shift and I’m not tired enough to go to sleep, so I finished this (which I also started on my bored night shift last night). I’m going to try to sleep after this. I made the perspective Spencer’s in the first person for the most part. I couldn’t resize the card picture. Requests are still open. Feedback is always appreciated. Also, tell me if you want to be part of a Tag List and I’ll tag you when I upload something new.
Warning: Just some cuteness, card magic, Doctor Who references, and Morgan being the big brother that Spencer needs.
Word Count: 1,351
“You can’t just keep staring at her forever pretty boy.” There goes Morgan again teasing me about my very obvious, but still trying to hide it, crush on my co-worker and team member.
“I’m not staring. I’m silently observing and you were staring at her first, I just followed your line of sight.”
“But I haven’t kept staring at her for 3 minutes.”
“2 minutes 47 seconds. You’ve been staring at her for 23 seconds.”
“Just ask her out pretty boy. You got some game to you.”
“The last time you tried this with me it was really awkward, we were on a case, and in a loud bar. My brain was distracted with too many things that time.”
“It’s definitely distracted now.” I hate to admit when he’s right. She’s the only person who can make me lose my train of thought if she’s speaking or just listening to me.
“Ok well if this is so interesting to you instead of all of the other women throwing themselves on you, then at least try to be helpful.” I couldn’t stand Morgan’s teasing much more. Yes, we hung out every weekend and watched some nerdy show or movie. So what. Garcia has seen most of them already and Y/n’s the only other person in this building who will watch any of that genre in general, much less with me. She’s just perfect, from the way she’ll read Harry Potter at her desk or has Supernatural and Sherlock stickers on her laptop and will trace them with her fingers every so often.
“Hey, I'm trying to help my brother ask out his future wife.”
“And you’re jumping from step negative 10 to 8 of relationships. I start on the scale at a negative 20. Work with me.”
“If you are not going to ask her out, there has to be reasoning behind the hesitation. You only ever do things when the odds are in your favor.” That was one thing Morgan was right on. There was a lot of hesitation. No one’s ever liked me that way, liked or put up with my rambles, and wanted to stick around for the stressful and dangerous career I chose.
“I just don’t want her to not like me then leave like those who left before.”
“I guarantee you that won’t happen. You guys hang out every break we get, she’s met your mom, always sits next to you on plane rides, plays with your hair when you don’t notice, knows to grab you lunch and take care of you when you won’t take care of yourself, and if we could, you two would be sleeping in the same room on cases.” What a list Morgan. You’ve been keeping tabs on us.
“Hotch would probably make us have ground rules to keep professionalism so the department doesn’t separate us off the team.”
“So you do want there to be an ‘us’?” Morgan’s teasing tone is so annoying. But I have to admit he’s right. I want to wake her up to breakfast in bed and read to her until she falls asleep next to me.
“I just don’t want to lose her either way.”
“I get that. It’s the fear that’s holding you back. Fear of if it’s worth it to not have that happiness but still have her in your life. But, from what I can see, the way she look at you, always asks about how you’re doing when I get a call from her on a case, the way she's the first person you ask anything to case related or not. You two were made for eachother. You aren’t going to find that magic in just anyone.”
That phrase hit me. I know now how to ask her out without saying anything and, if I’m honest with myself, it was one of the better ideas I’ve come up with.
"You know what I'm going to ask her right now." I opened my office desk drawer, grabbed two things, and marched off to her, avoiding the unnecessary stress from Morgan’s smirk. Having already finished her paperwork, she was reading Goblet of Fire at her desk, but her attention turned to me as I went up to her desk.
"What's with the cards Spence? You have another magic trick to show me?"
Ok Spencer, now or never.
"Yes, and so you don't have to memorize the card number I'm going to write on this one and this will be your card." I took out the marker I had brought with me and wrote on one of the cards.
"Are you sure Spence? Wouldn't that be ruining a good deck of cards?"
"It's fine. Now." I flipped the card with the note on it over so only the back showed and she didn’t see the message. I could start to see the team at least gazing in our direction wondering what was going on. I turned back to her because I wouldn’t be able to finish this if I was focusing on the team. I placed the card in the middle of the deck. "These are going to get shuffled by you." She grabbed the deck, split it in two, shuffled it three times, and handed it back. Counting strategically I moved a couple more cards out of the deck that I knew weren't hers. I placed one card in front of her. "Flip that card over and see if that's it." She picked it up and, not surprisingly, it wasn't her card. I flicked through the backs of a couple more cards deleting some from the counting. I handed her another card. "Is that your card?"
She flips that card over. "No. Spencer are you sure you're doing this right?"
"Yes I am. Ok, one more try." I pay close attention to cards as their stiff corners flip through my fingers. I pull out the last card, my nerves rising as I pushed it across the table to her. "That's your card." I said with the most amount of confidence I could mustard up at the moment.
She picks it up, and her eyes widen.
"Yes."
"Yes what?"
"Yes. I would love to go out with you Spencer Reid."
She smiled as she held the card. I was just cherishing that this moment went so well for how little time I planned it.
"Did you pick the two of hearts because of our two hearts or because the Doctor has two hearts and we both love Doctor Who?"
"Mainly for the two of us and that couple saying 'two hearts beat as one'."
"How do you think CPR would work on the Doctor since he has two hearts?" That was a question I wasn’t expecting after this. Back to our nerdy-selves.
"Well they showed that in the 2005 version Season 3 episode 1 where Martha performed CPR on the Doctor. Although it was inaccurate CPR as she did 5 compressions per breath where as it's supposed to be 30 compressions then two breaths, and the doctor was suffering from blood loss as well as hypoxia, so compressions and breaths alone would have done little to help without a transfusion or a fluid bolus, but I think it would still work as long as the compressions are helping to pump both of his hearts. However, I sus- *kiss*."
I did not expect her to kiss me that quickly. It was only a quick kiss as she also knows I’m not someone who shows big signs of PDA, especially in the work place, but I’d let her kiss me any time.
"And that's why I love you Spencer Reid."
I could care less about the fact that the rest of the BAU could see us, or that Morgan was probably about to clap me on the back, or Penelope filming this whole interaction right now. I found my other half. She kissed me again, longer and deeper this time, and then took the playing card. "This is getting framed, so you'll be down one card babe."
"That's ok. I don't think Jack and Henry will mind."
#criminal minds imagine#criminal minds masterlist#Criminal Minds#spencer reid#spencer reid x reader#Criminal Minds Fanfiction#criminal minds family#bau#BAU Family#spencer reid imagine
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"Mandy's Intro" from Being There
for kloktober day 9: inspired by Dethalbum IV ("Mutilation on a Saturday Night"
This is a WIP for a future chapter of this fic, where we figure out how Nathan made his way out of his parents' house to start his life as a struggling gig musician with whale ESP.
tws: puke mention, nausea
Harry's house stayed a hotbed for parties since his mom's sister had this horrible accident that melted her hands off (something about the cleaning chemicals at the bar where she worked and the deep fryer.) His mom and dad went to Leesburg every other weekend to take care of her and her six or seven kids, leaving Harry’s house empty and free for raging in twice a month. Today, he'd gotten someone to bring their subwoofers, and someone else brought a keg, so everyone in their high school who went out and half of the neighboring counties’ stock of underage drunk dudes came out to play beer pong and shout over each other.
When Nathan had gotten there, most of the team was standing around the kitchen island trying to gather up people for shots, but Chris saw him first and pulled him over for a "shot" that was a double or a triple of white rum in a solo cup with some girl’s lip gloss on the rim. And he wasn't a pussy. He took it with them, played a couple games, made a couple shots, and returned to the "bar" to empty out a bag of ruffles. Hopefully, it sat better than dinner had, but he'd had this migraine for a day, and it wasn't going anywhere.
The noise in the room made it feel better in a weird way: he had something else to think about, even though the little party strobe light in the corner with the princess stickers on it was painfully blue in his peripheral vision.
He overheard a conversation between Brendan and Brandon, who'd played on the team with him all four years: Christ got into Alabama on a scholarsip. Just when he'd turned to go stand against a different wall, he got roped into a conversation about greek life that was more about looking at the person who was talking than trying to understand anything of what he said. Jack was probably just full of shit anyway. He liked to impress people like that from time to time, even though it was his cousin who was going to college in South Carolina, and it was him who fucked his ankle up practicing some of the sorriest, limpest field goals ever attempted. He might be right, but he might not be, and that's how it went half the time with Jack.
He turned to Nathan and hooted. "Me, I'm applying in the spring. Hey, what are you gonna do when you graduate, huh? Get a job?"
"Yeah." Not really. Waiting tables relied on your memory. Driving a forklift at the factory wasn’t safe when he still had migraines bad enough to make you see stars out of nowhere. He didn't really want to work for his own dad after all, but if it really got down to the wire, he could. Maybe. Until he ran him over with a forklift or something. Then he’d be shit out of luck and a dad.
He'd been in a couple bands since Junior year, and he could try and do gig work, but that wasn't a way he could support himself alone, was it? Even fast food sounded like a bad idea. Jobs worked like credit scores, right? The more that kick you out, the less likely you are to get one, right?
High school felt like one big fix. By the time he stopped worrying about puberty making him a funhouse-mirror version of a man, with gangly arms and bad skin– By the time he was adult enough to accept it, he was dreading "growing up." Every May, every "last" football game, every birthday was just taking him closer and closer to not knowing how to answer everyone’s questions about what he’d grow up to be.
And now that he'd ended up ruining their chances at states by getting a concussion just when they had the game in the bag, he felt too sorry for all his teammates to hope that they'd forgotten what he did. Even if they acted nice enough tp his face, what did they think then? Huh!
Every morning, he woke up in his room while everyone else was in class and laid there to keep the pain in the very middle of his face as plain pain, not whatever the doctors called "an aura", or the reflex to puke hard enough to burst blood vessels in your eyes, not like getting drunk or eating shit at Epcot all day and letting that shit go on Abraham Lincoln or whoever. What kind of fucking life was that? Going to school was his only job, and he sucked at it.
It would end someday, someday soon. Right?
He drifted off to another wall, the one by the staircase, and a girl with two french braids stood too close to him on his left. On her tiptoes, she tried to bring herself closer to his ear.
"You're Nathan, right?"
"Yeah."
"I hear you give pretty good head."
"Yeah?"
He kept his face still. Rolling his eyes at her wouldn't do much of anything, and on second look, he was pretty sure she was a softballer from Enceeiyesse High School, and with biceps like that she should be pitching. Not all the pitchers were lesbians–
"What about it?"
"Uh... Me too." She stood back and made a little pose with her shoulder pressed to the wallpaper, bending over the chair rail. Her bright white makeup set off her eyes, glowing in the dark like a dog's. A cute dog. She had pretty, round, light brown eyes that she flickered from his belt up, doing a couple complete scans while she flicked her braid over her shoulder and pretended to look for her friends.
He leaned down closer to her ear to see how serious she was.
"Wanna fuck?"
"You got a condom?"
Usually he’d lie, but Romy already got that volleyball girl pregnant… and by now she’d be due in April. Something like that. The fear was renewed among all the football players.
"Yeah." And he did always keep ‘em, throwing out the old ones from his wallet the minute the package looked rubbed.
Her arms wrapped around his waist, closing the couple inches between them, and that's how he ended up on Harry's parents’ bed with this girl, so nauseous he could taste it, he could fucking taste it no matter how hot she was or how she mewled when he touched her and how soft the inside of her mouth was on his thumb. While she brushed her lips over his, every single memory around how to be a person scrambled to assemble into a coherent whole…
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Since i finished reading Daisy Jones and The Six in 2 days and am still feeling completely feral about it, these are all the quotes that i absolutely had to stop and write down:
-not a quote but she tried to bake a cake for the mailman 🥺😭
-"we love broken beautiful people and it doesn't get more obviously broken or more classically beautiful than daisy jones."
-"i was drawn to him mainly because he was drawn to me. I wanted someone to single me out as something special. I was just so desperate to hold someone's interest."
-"i wanted to be around these men because it was the only way to be important."
-daisy and simone listening to tapestry together
-"i was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man's great idea. well, fuck that. That's why i started writing my own stuff."
-"Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people."
-"Why would I play to people who don't care about good guitar?"
-"That's the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn't the end of you."
-"You have to learn to reconcile those two things: having it and not deserving it."
-"Let me put it this way: I've seen a lot of marriages where everyone is faithful and no one is happy."
-"It didn't seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out."
-"Someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn't an artist, they're an asshole."
-"i sounded like a cool new pair of jeans and billy sounded like the pair you've had for years."
-"when someone's presence gives you energy, when it riles up something in you— the way Daisy did for me—you can turn that energy into love or lust or hate. i felt most comfortable hating her. it was my only choice."
-"Billy would sometimes make these grand proclamations. And they sounded good because he's an artist. He knows how to paint a picture. But he was almost always on some flight of fancy."
-"She's going to be the girl bleeding in a beautiful dress until it kills her."
-"Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good."
-"It's so strange how someone's silence— someone's insistence that something isn't happening— can be so suffocating."
-"Art doesn't owe anything to anyone. Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about how it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time."
-"I wish someone had told me that love isn't torture because i thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way."
-"I thought love was war. I didn't know it was supposed to be peace."
-"Talent like Daisy's is wasted on people like Daisy."
-"That wasn't my rock bottom, but it was the first time I looked around and thought 'oh wow, i'm falling.'"
-"I knew I needed to get away from this person. I had to take care of myself. Because if I didn't, he wasn't going to kill me, but he would let me die."
-"Passion is... it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn't be it."
-"I used to rehearse speeches and interventions and consider flying to where she was and dragging her off that stage as if if I could just get the words right I could convince her to get sober. You drive yourself crazy trying to put words into some magical order that will unlock their sanity. And when it doesn't work you think I didn't try hard enough."
-"People say it's hard to be away from the people you love but it was so hard to be right next to him."
-"The two of you think you're lost souls but you're what everyone is looking for."
-"If you get to my age and you can't look back at your life and wonder about some of your choices, well, you have no imagination."
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agere date idea, Actor wakes up y/n early with some pretty rock he found outside, already excited for the day ahead of them so y/n gets ready and takes one of the rocks with them. Having actor kiss it for good luck as they go to get some pretty stickers and plushies in a toy store. Then they go to Dave and busters to play some games and eat pizza!
ohhh my goodness this is so CUTE 😭
little ones waking up their caregivers will never not be the cutest thing to me and i love it. i'm just imagining mark pawing at y/n's sleeping form, giggling at them as they grumble about being awoken before they realize who is waking them up and their eyes light up, their face softening into a soft smile as they coo hi sweetie, what're you doing up already? and mark just giggles more cuz he's so EXCITED for the day they have such fun plans in store for them!!
.......also, this may be a misinterpretation, but when i first read this ask my first thought was that actor went out and got a rock that same morning before waking y/n up and that's also an adorable visual ahgkldjasgkl. technically he's not allowed outside on his own when he's small (what if he gets hurt??) but y/n will let it slide just this once because it is a pretty rock and it's too early for them to scold him akgjdskg. also, giving it a kiss for good luck 🥺 that's so PRECIOUS
toy store!! give actor all the plushies and stickers he deserves to be Spoiled (there's no need to worry about that the kid is already 100% spoiled djklgjsadg). y/n lets him drag them around the store and pick everything out himself and in the checkout line he babbles at them about his new plushies' personalities and agonizes about where he's gonna put his stickers because they're so pretty and he doesn't want to WASTE them. he makes y/n promise to help him choose the best places and he hides behind them while they purchase everything because he gets nervous around strangers when he's little, he's just baby........
gosh i haven't been in a dave and busters in a while but YESSS. mark's a little too baby to be particularly good at any of the games but he's having fun and that's all that matters <3 but between him and y/n they're able to gather enough tickets to get some of the smaller prizes i'm pretty sure they have tickets right like i said it's been a while hgkldsajf. and yesss,, i'm imagining little mark just getting sauce all over himself while he eats because Small and he ends up fussing in embarrassment when y/n scrubs at his face with a napkin ghlskadjfkasdf. he gets very sleepy after all that food so they only do a couple more games before heading home for some well needed rest, y/n almost ends up carrying him out to the car by the time they leave because he's just so tired waaaa 🥺
this is such a sweet scenario and i love it ghlkdsajfkl thank you <3
#i was worried i was going to have an inadequately short response to this ask cuz i'm still very exhausted but something about little actor#just pulls the words out of me i guess ghdsakgjsdg#so enjoy?? i hope??#who killed markiplier#actor mark#y/n the district attorney#agere#marshy gets asks#red-pillpop
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ive been thinking about my ~resolutions~ wrt my art for 2023, and i think the main thing is i want to re-learn how to let myself sink into a picture and do stuff just for fun
mainly, i want to develop the patience it takes to put a lot of work into something that i know won't be perfect, because being too scared to start holds me back. in particular i want to make more detailed pictures. not in terms of realism, but like... STUFF. draw more objects, more small details, flavor, personality. i want to try drawing more interior settings, get used to furniture and walls and ceilings and everyday objects. learn to fill in spaces in ways that convey a lot of personality and/or story
i also wanna make more comics!! but newspaper myself when it comes to longer-form projects. excluding MOIRA, which i hope to pick back up again this year, i am going to try limiting myself to short story comics that are only a handful of pages. my problem is that i like slow development of concepts and dialogue-heavy stuff. i want to train myself to be better at just having fun with a simple concept that i can play around with in like, 2-3 pages max. it's going to be tough, but im hoping this will help make me even more proficient in drawing comics and sand down some of the rough edges i feel grating on me still
i also want to make more merch! ever since getting a book specifically for the stickers i collect, i've gotten even more into stickers and want to make more of them. i hope to re-open my etsy store this year, though i may also try to FINALLY do what it takes to set up my own website. i think that would be a good Main Goal for this year - a site to make a porfolio out of, even if i'm not personally interested in securing, like, Professional Art Jobs... I did do some work as a colorist for someone else's comic and I think I'd love the chance to do something like that again? maybe!
a site would also be good for setting up a way to buy merch from me more directly, though there are some perks that come with doing things through etsy... no pay cuts would be pretty sexy though, especially because something as small as stickers or A5 prints are really easy to package on my own. i'll have to look into it and see.
OH AND THE LAST THING IS THAT I WANNA MAKE ZINES! little ones that I can send to friends, and then less-little ones that I can put for sale digitally and physically, maybe for limited runs. gotta research that a bit but i've already got a couple of fun ideas and I'm super excited to find the time to work on stuff like that.
so... here's to hoping, i guess, for a productive year. im hoping my move and major restructure of my life/schedule, and not living with family anymore, is going to give me the space to be more myself irl in ways that will benefit my energy levels and creativity... so here's to hoping i guess!
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i have the very unique position of being student staff in a community theater group with a staff of 16 (including student staff members). and we each have a different mbti type. these are our stories. part 11.
since a few ppl have dmed me wanting to know more about each of the people embodying the type, i thought i'd do a quick description of them all:
enfj: (she/her) okay so she's not technically staff, (though she did stage manage with me this latest show), but she grew up around this company and knows the ins and out better than anyone else, and she has the most sway with the directors. she also has severe anxiety and an obsession with flowers.
enfp: (she/her) she's a student director, so she's a part of most casts but she's doubling as staff for that. she's our biggest wildcard, absolute chaos this one. one time i watched her slowly stick her entire phone into her mouth. it wasn't even a small phone or anything. absolutely wild.
entj: (she/her) our music director/one of the founders of the company. i say music director but she'll step into choreographer and director roles as she pleases. nobody stops her because 1) she's iconic and 2) we're all a little scared of her.
entp: (she/her) our main stage manager/director, also a founder of the company. she's done some acting stuff with us herself recently, it was really cool because as the person who was staff above her, she kept the others in check, so i didn't have to✨
esfj: (she/her) one of our directors, she travels a lot so we barely see her tbh but when she comes around she's always really sweet to everyone. her and intj used to be a directing duo before she started traveling so much, they were iconic together.
esfp: (she/they) the third (and final) founder of the company! they live out of state now but she comes here for shows most of the time, and very occasionally a rehearsal. they have already chosen the people to "kidnap" for the nonexistent branch of the company in their state if/when it ever happens. i'm very proud to say i'm one of them.
estj: (she/her) our big shot student choreographer. she's literally the best dancer any of us have ever seen, she's going on to bigger and better things now, touring europe, choreographing big fancy productions or whatever, but she'll stop by here when she can.
estp: (he/him) another student director of ours, fuckin great guy. he and i have a running joke that we're dating bc we always get cast as love interests. the joke is way better when you know i'm a lesbian. he likes bo burnham and has a killer tenor voice.
infj: (he/him) one of the ones that have claimed me as his "mini me." he's one of our directors, makes an unsettling amount of eye contact while giving notes, he's very scary (affectionate). he's also a writer and has a crow tattoo so i think that tells you most of what you need to know.
infp: (he/she/they) another one of our student choreographers, and our youngest staff member. they're really cool, they play guitar and bass (among other instruments), he makes high pitched squeaking sounds when he's nervous (which is always.) and she's one of the students that i've adopted as my child so maybe i'm a little biased but i think he's awesome.
intj: (he/him) one of our directors. literally auditioned for one (1) show that entj was directing like, 10 years ago and just, never left. has seemingly no emotions. the main goal of literally every cast we've had is to make him cry. we fail every time.
intp: (he/him) our assistant stage manager/stunt co-ordinator. he's made a legion of people to do flips and shit to pull out every show (istp and infp included). he's also adopted me as his "mini me" even though he's like 3 years older than me.
isfj: (she/they) another one of our music directors. an icon and a half. she has a cat named after a mamma mia character and a laptop covered in stickers. they also have acquired the nickname "elbow" to be used in a derogatory fashion only. i have literally no idea why we call them elbow but i do it anyway.
isfp: (he/him) not on staff by the strictest definitions, but he helps build all our sets and is dating entp so he's around a lot, especially during tech week. he gives The Best hugs, and he looks terrifying but he's a total teddy bear.
istj: (he/him) another assistant stage manager, he mostly keeps to himself, but i've been known to get him to talk for hours about the beatles and david bowie (because i too could talk for hours about the beatles and david bowie so.) he also asks me about the wordle every day.
istp: (they/she) our student music director/assistant stunt coordinator/stage manager/occasional techie. aka, me! i basically just go wherever they need me, but really music is my favorite cause i'm a huge music theory nerd and love the harmonies. i'm majoring in music composition largely because of my experiences at this company lol
#mbti personalities#mbti types#myers briggs#enfj#enfp#entj#esfj#estj#entp#estp#esfp#isfp#istp#istj#isfj#infp#intj#infj#intp
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two tables (continued)
here's a little idea. i think the two tables idea is going to be one main-work, surrounded by lots of little extras and pieces of context. i want to record sounds from LIPARI PIZZA, the place i work, so i can make ambience for the room-installation-thing, play it on a CD for 80 minutes...
and one of the ideas (the only one i've had so far, besides the tables and the music) is writing a diary thing on receipt paper. receipt paper receives black-pen-ink in a really lovely way. it also reacts to heat in an interesting way, i might do some heat stuff to it after i've written on the entire thing.
also, my boss said that she'd let me keep her receipt-feeding-machine, her old one she doesn't use anymore. so hopefully the audience can press the button and be fed my diary entries.
i'm really struggling with what to write. this isn't just a diary, it's a work of art now, so what i write feels like it's supposed to be profound. i feel like i'm supposed to know what i'm doing. i'm just writing a basic diary entry, while trying to keep the details a little more vague, trying to remove the names and stuff.
i'm imagining this all as a little room.
i like the idea of main sculpture, music, a small interactive device thing, and a projection. something video-ish, just cos i am a screen arts student and i think i'm supposed to make a video somehow. i don't really feel like im a talented video artist, when i see what some of the other people around me make. i kind of just want to let them do it for me, because it seems stupid for me to insist that i need to be the creator of everything, when i'm not necessarily the best person for the job.
but there are complicated reasons i don't think i should ask the person i want to. i can't really explain it here, but that absence and discomfort will be a deep part of the projection, i think.
i like this movement, light, sound, and emptiness. movement with the receipt feeder. light with the projection. sound with the cd. emptiness with the tables. maybe something else? i like the idea that each of these little works do something different but still fit together, like an album full of songs.
this is my idea for the CD. the sound is important, and i'll try to record LIPARI sounds tonight with my microphone (i'm not sure how to get permission to do this from my boss...). but i think maybe more important is my idea to cut open the lid and replace it with glass, so you can see the CD spinning.
i used to use a CD player all the time, and i sort of know how the lid triggers the play-function. there's a little thing that makes the CD work only after the lid has been closed. but i think you can replace the plastic centre of the lid (the majority of the lid) without breaking anything.
and if you can see the thing spinning, and if i'm producing my own CD, i could draw my own sticker and make something that looks cool when it spins.
i think at school, i'll talk to the glass technician and cut open my CD player, so i can get to it soon. i'd like to make all these ideas as quickly as i can, i want to produce as much as i can for this work. just a million ideas piled on top of one another.
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