#EVEN THE SUMMARY IS LONG

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.

I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)

#poorly drawn mdzs #art summary #It's so interesting looking back at how my style and technique changed throughout the year! #I used PD-wwx as the consistent factor (October is an exception) and you can see so many processes going on. #My little petri dish amoeba (with a little red bow to tell him apart from the other amoeba) <3 #Whether it's getting new markers or trying out a new shading style - it's cool seeing a snapshot of my journey like this B*) #There's certainly been a slower curve to my overt improvement *but* I have become so much faster! #My life outside of drawing has been hectic and at several points extremely stressful this year. For all the work this blog has been- #-It has truly been a life saving anchor when the darkest of times have hit. #Love is hard work. Change is even harder work. Sticking to a goal I set out for myself and striving to keep going was worth it. #And I love drawing. I think there has always been something in me that longed for this. And it is finally tangible! I can draw!!! #I wanted to make a more elaborate year reflection where I looked back at my favourite comics and jokes. #but I'll leave that to the one year anniversary. #I have also been collecting a ton of statistics throughout the year and I am desperate to share them. I'm that kind of nerd B*) #I can never say it enough: Thank you all for the kindness and support. I wish everyone a lovely 2024!!!

[ganondoodle]

i know i said i wouldnt be ranting about totk anymore, but i realized i didnt really count the sage dungeons as story (dont ask me why) so i thought im gonna write a better summarized version of my opinion about totk (i have around 60% of the game, all lightroots, not yet all shrines (missing like .. 20 or so, know the reward), not all krogs (dont know the reward), not all mayoi (half know the reward?) )

(in no particular order)

good stuff (in my opinion)

the. MUSIC! god the music is good, it was good in botw too but now with much more different bosses it really is probably one of my fav soundtracks of all time (most fav are all three phases of the end fight, the pre-fight to that, the build up one before all of those, Frosgeira (wind tempel boss) the glorious mASTER KOGA and more tbh)

the build up and end boss fight(s) are fantastic, i dont think im ever not gonna have my heart racing when approaching it (despite now skipping almost the entire way bc i set a teleport thing right before it) just bc the build up is so well made and the music(again) is such a banger and the fight(s) itself is so fun too, tbh i keep wanting to play it just bc its so fun

i LOVE how many themes play into the music (endfight alone had so many layers, fav probably is ganondorfs classic theme and calamity ganons both in the same piece among much more, and daruks theme in the fire temple)

(edit) YOU. CAN. TOUCH. DA. DRAGONS!!!!

ganondorf

ganondorfs design (x3)

ganondorfs weapon designs

ganondorfs voice (japanese)

everyone elses voice (japanese)

all voices (german)

thE YIGA!!! i love everythign about them and am so happy they got to be more than just some mini mission

(edit) also the fact that they get zonau tech to work without any special ghost powers is so ????

(edit) koga can summon and use zonau tech unlimited?? hes so cool

NO stealth mission!! (as far as im aware)

bosses are very different from each other

main dungeons are not too short and not too long and mostly fun (mostly bc i personally didnt like the gerudo one), i love that you can still somewhat cheese them and do them your way

sages felt like they got a bit more involved

(edit) you gotta do more stuff before getting to the actual dungeons and i really like that, feels less like a fetch quest but that you are actually helping

(edit) each sage is actually there in the dungeon and is required for it, which is great!

each settlement saw a much bigger danger/change (tho that has more impact if you have played botw) and its problems felt much more real

shrines are well varied tho i think overall a little easy (only got stuck on two so far and later solved them easily bc when i first started them i was tired and exhausted, no brain left lol)

NPCs felt less flat + more bigger sidequests that felt like they had more impact

cool new monsters + designs

the underground was pretty appropiately creepy

the sages abilities are neat

you can refight bosses!!

stable points system is a neat way to encourage you using them

weapon fusing is neat

(edit) the forest of the krogs being corrupted like that is both creepy and a neat nod to oot

(edit) the vai gerudo outfit being gone!! (one) evil has been defeated

(edit) the health bar going so far off the middle in ganondorfs second phase is honestly just funny hnjdfdjk unfortunate that you only need the master sword and with a few perfect dodges his health melts like butter in the summer

(edit) the music when dragondorf transforms sounds so sad .. its probably meant as a oh no world is actually ending sad but i like to think of it as a oh god what did he do to himself sad

the scene where rauru seals ganondorf kinda fruity

(graphic, animations and the overall world is still fantastic)

bad stuff (in my opinion)

everything zonau they feel forced into every bit of the world and its history (i know them being somewhat alien is intentional but not like that) it feels crammed into places they werent before and shouldnt be and it makes it all feel very artificial

the glyphs/dragon tears/memories really ruined alot for me, while it gave you insight as to what happened, it felt like it showed you too much and too little at the same time and i think it would have worked better if it was all in text for once if even at all, so the past stil stayed a mystery and youd be left wondering

timetravel .. really wasnt necessary and felt more like an excuse to get rid of zelda + make her the poor little sacrificial girl again + and to make her turning into a dragon as tragic as possible, like nothing but a stepping stone to the big reveal tm

shiekah tech being not just fully irrelevant but practically erased, wiped off the world (i know about the literally last guardian parts in hateno, it feels more like an oversight tbh, purah technically using it ... tho i dont think she ever calls it that, the purah pad is jsut the sheikah stone but worse), there being no good explanation, no remains, nothing as to why it would suddendly stop working and why even the titans and ESPEICALLY the shrine of life would be destroyed, if anything why wouldnt you enshrine it as a memento to history it was such a focus in botw and so well integrated into the world that it being fully gone, not even old overgrown, or visibly reused to build homes etc., or remains of how they built the og shrines in the underground feels like a HUGE missed opportunity (seriously it would have been so easy to make the ancient shiekah base their tech on old zonau tech, without stealign the gocus but buildign a connection)

all of the continuity problems, totk feels like botw didnt happen and the excuse of 'they didnt want to confuse new players' doesnt make a lick of sense in my eyes bc; its supposed to be a sequel, if you want it to be a standalone game then dont call it a sequel- if you start to play a game with the sequel instead of the first part its your own damn fault if you get confused; if anything, it would have been a good opportuntiy to make people interested in botw so theyd buy and play that one too

ganondorfs character is very flat, you basically get to know nothing about him (yuno even calls that out midgame but its never elaborated upon nhgfrdfhkk)

the zonau and their kingdom of hyrule is presented as this so perfectly good thing to such a degree it turns creepy, the end cutscene with mineru going poof was kinda uncomfy to watch tbh

the reward for all shrines being essentially a reveal as to who the hero in the tapestry was and it being, of course, some weird half zonau is the lamest answer to a mystery i didnt want an anwser too, it doesnt feel like it came naturally either (again my point of the zonau being forced into everything)

the shrines (zonau) feel so much more unnatural than the shiekah shrines, alien in a bad way and not in a good way + really are like a bad reskin of them, their sudden appearance and use is so much less logical

back in botw i was doubtful of if the shiekah tech wasnt going to far too modern tech and cause it all to feel like a bad mix of modern tech and medival fantasy, but they balanced it perfectly (tho the eponator zero was very much the limit imo) but the zonau tech .... oversteps that line i think, it really does feel, more than anything else, that it was just bc they wanted the stuff to be in there bc it might be fun to play around with, im not against that kind of stuff mind you im all for fun, but it feels a little like they thought of a box with endless stuff to play with first and a zelda game second (if you get what i mean)

quite a few quests or things in the game seem like they are more and then end in a dead end (the worst of all is impa saying she wants to go research what could help zelda turn back, and i was excited and convinced that shed give me a quest to find some mcguffin that would do that after i beat ganon but there wasnt anything you could actually do; less bad one but disappointing nonetheless the dongos were mentioned and treated like this big awesome thing from alot of NPCs all around the map and then when you find them they are bascially just gem vending maschines)

the way zelda turns back and link gets his arm back is incredibly unsatisfying, none of them even have something like a scar, or mark from it all, zelda spent thousands of years as a dragon (a transformation that was said to cost your soul but i guess that wasnt true) and link had his arm bascially eaten by miasma and he gets it back like it was never lost, zelda returns all intact as if nothing happened, getting blasted by some magic tm by two ghosts that were supposed to be long gone is the solution to all problems!!

(edit) link losing an arm wouldnt just be super intersting but also lend itself well to lead up into the next game where his prothesis is the focus and source of abilities

(edit) zelda got done so dirty, instead of her actual interests and character to shine she just gets shoved into yet another crisis surrounded by strangers in a world that looks like hers but isnt, and all she does is beg the ancient sages to swear to help link and sacrifice herself again (can you call that fridging? bc she sure feels like she got fridged) i like zelda and i dont like how much i didnt care about her and tbh im angry at the game for that

(edit) both link and zelda not even slightly changing in the years btween botw and totk kinda boring, like a haircut can only do so much

(edit) sonia really is the wife that dies to make husband sad thing isnt she? i get that gan had to get his hands on an enigma stone but i feel like there had been better ways to do that, the fact that she dies that easily is almost funny honestly, why does ganondorf even have weapons when he can just one punch people to death (tho i find it funny to imagine he can literally just kill people in one punch but hes too prideful to do it most of the time so he always uses weapons to look more cool)

(edit) so many new characters that you barely get to see or interact with, i really ... couldnt get myself to care much

(edit) zonau tech being so irrelevant to the games story while its also the focus is .. weird, its really just play doh for the players and nothing else honestly

(edit) monsters mining sonanium feels strange bc ... they dont do anything with it? the best thing i can think of is that they were told to do that so link cant .. upgrade his battery thignies? but then again you could just destroy the mines and remaining constructs to stop it .... also you really dont need anything zonau tech related to beat gan?

(edit) ganondorf beign so utterly uninterested in their tech is weird considering how he dealt with shiekah tech (and we KNOW it can get corrupted) he should be a tech nerd tbh

my twitch VoD of the first time beating the game getting muted at the credits despite me talking over it

nitpicks (in my opninion)

(edit) ganondorf should have a bit more of a boar inspired design, as treat, i think

(edit) the enigma stone wandering back to ganondorfs forehead even after transforming is? weird? i guess an excuse for da epic last stabby but still? (how cool would it have been to have to plunge into his mouth and break it there or something)

(edit) the underground gets a lil old after a while, the fact that its pretty much the same everywhere aside from some .. very strange flowing magma is a lil boring

(edit) ganondorf could have gone way more crazy with abilities and all that, imagine hed spwan multiple miasma arms on himself when you get him to a certain level of health

(edit) i miss unique weapons, there arent even normal axes around anymore, everything is about fusing really, i miss the cool shiekah tech weapons

(edit) the forest of the krogs being largely irrelevant is kinda weird

(edit) mineru being the sage of spirit still is kinda meh, the robot is neat but i thought tauro or purah would be the surprise sage tbh

(edit) the bosses were a little easy (i did boldo gohma rather early and did it without even getting hit)

you cant talk to koga normally :(

you cant find koga again after the last fight :(

you cant refight him (to my knowledge) :(

i find it very strange that yuno seemingly lost daruk shield, despite him having inhereted it in botw

the sage powers are not .. very great integrated, while its fun to haven them run around and help you fight, to actually use their powers you have to chase after them, something that in the heat of a battle is very annoying to do, constantly activating the wrong on or them losing their charge up when they get knocked over is like trying to herd a wild pack of geese while a three headed dragon is shotting laserbeams at you

some widlife just disappearing all of the sudden is very strange (like the rhino in hebra)

some new houses or settlements would have been cool, that the material things at the sides of roads are really only for you to play around with and not to build anything that lasts

you cant fight ganondorf (non dragon, even the dragon is locked to that evening sky) in the sunlight, night or rain, i would have loved to fight him at various times of day

their refusal to show any kind of blood is honestly turnign serious scenes into very awkward ones, sonia just getting punched and she dies with not even like, losing some spit from the force or something, or the fact when you defeat ganondorfs second phase he acts mortally wounded but doesnt even look scratched is just :/

amiibo stuff while neat being included its really mostly just bloating your inventory, if i wanted 5 vaguely different link outfits then i would have gotten the amiibo for it

why hide the -now-totally-not-phantom-ganon-armor- behind such a long questline and then .. have that NOT be upgradable

they put in a house building thingy and then not let you have a roof or a tree or something :(

at some point stable points jsut get you more and more of those free staying over night tickets that i maybe used .. once at the very start and now its just accumulating in my inventory

only one new horse coat pattern :(

satori now only being a thingy that shows you caves is kinda boring, i loved the mystery around it in botw (additionally, that it shows you caves you have completed already kinda sucks)

the end of the shrines isnt that cool anymore, speaking to a mummified monk that gives you essentially his last remains of life energy is so much cooler than a statue of the oh so awesome god king and his wife

the many references and reuse of old names is neat but together with timetravel etc. it easily leads to confusing and fighting among fans for who is more 'right' and its just .. tiring

(edit) considering how much of the advertising was about the sky islands i wished there were more and bigger ones, the underground (that was a little one sided after a while, it all looking the same rly) could have been alot smaller if the sky was bigger instead

(edit) i wished there was more of a sense of .. lost life in the ruins you find, from all races, the ancient ruins are jsut some bridged and ceremonial stuff and i wished there were more like .. houses, like people actually lived there and it not being all around beign a platform for you

(edit) the fact that the half zonau hero exists mean either rauru and sonia had kids but those were clearly not important enough to ever show nor mention, or there were other mixing of them before they all mysteriously died out the fact that the ancient hero was half zonau means their genes survided till then but somehow it never came up? the tapestry still exists and impa and purah say like its a well known fact that the hero looked like that (not at all close to any modern species) when you talk to them while wearing it (the fact that the hero armor thingy is very reminiscemt of ganondorf is like some backtreading bc we were theorizing about the hero having been ganondorf once and they wanted to stop that .. but the more funny thing is the HC of its a descdendet of rauru and ganondorf nhjdfknhdgkfnhkfd) (edit to add to the HC; the game being a big battle about child support is funnier than it should be idk if nintendo knew what they were doing adding details like that)

all in all it just feels like missed opportunities, lost potential, and more a game build around some game mechanics they really wanted to get into than telling a neat story, espeically so bc they called it a sequel, most of my complaints wouldnt be there if it was some alternate thing instead

i probably forgot stuff but if i think of more i will add them later with a little note that it was added in an edit (sidenote, i find it funny how much more nuance that whole conflict would get if rauru and ganondorf were bitter exes bfdrjfbdfndk)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #totk spoilers #i felt like i was beign a little unfair #so i wanted to make a summary #tha took me hours to write #and is again long as shit #whoop #long post #this isnt a complete list iether bc that would be even longer and take even longer nhdjkkd #i wanted to do comic works damn it #anyway this is the last long post about this #bc im moving on now #...its half inspired by people respondign to me with -what how can you not like totks story but then like botws lol wtf- #well i do #*shrugs*

[sitp-recs]

Hi Liv, do you have a list for short fics (5k)? I’m looking for some bed time fics that won’t keep me up until 4am. Thank you, i love your blog.

Hi anon! I think I did a shorts reclist before but they were probably over 5k so this was a great opportunity to highlight even shorter fics (and also a great way to decompress last night, ty!)

Boy, do I have recs for you 🤣 I’m listing below 50 fics within 5k - you’ll notice that 2-4k is my sweet spot but I did my best to include all kinds of lengths and tropes - sure, there may be some contemplative angst but nothing too sad I hope after all this is BED TIME. Personally, I think all these make for excellent bedtime reads. Enjoy!

Semiplume by @tackytigerfic (M, 1k)

Without Sunshine by @sweet-s0rr0w (T, 1k)

with the lights off, i see you by teatrolley (NR, 1k)

Tidings of Comfort by @blamebrampton (G, 1.5k)

The Game by rillalicious (G, 1.5k)

Take That Ride by @andithiel (T, 1.5k)

Windy City by @cavendishbutterfly (T, 1.5k)

Meet You In the Middle by toomuchplor (E, 1.5k)

magic in the making by @getawayfox (G, 2k)

Willing Blood by @lqtraintracks and @the-starryknight (E, 2k)

I, Ferret by curiouslyfic (T, 2k)

You Either Fuck or You Get Fucked by @fw00shy (E, 2k)

This Time Again (Next Year) by @gryffindorhearts (T, 2k)

Receipts by @moonflower-rose (M, 2k)

Bright Side by @floydig (T, 2k)

10:47 am by fw00shy (T, 2k)

Light Years Away by @lettersbyelise (M, 2.5k)

"I'll Figure It Out." by @vukovich (E, 2.5k)

the other harry's happiness by thestarryknight (T, 3k)

Still Life, orphaned (M, 3k)

Secretly, between the shadow and the soul by @teacup-tai (T, 3k)

Between the Power Lines by tackytiger (M, 3k)

On The Shore by @skeptiquewrites (T, 3k)

Nothing compares by @maesterchill (T, 3k)

Mad Blood Stirring by provocative_envy (E, 3k)

Enjoy the Silence by @shealwaysreads (M, 3.5k)

Half Awake by @academicdisasterfic (E, 3.5k)

The Mating Habits of Snidgets by @shealynn88 (G, 3.5k)

Is This Love? by @phdmama (E, 3.5k)

The Long Fall by tackytiger (M, 3.5k)

Sun Stroke by @peachpety (E, 4k)

Limits of Earth and Sky by Jackvbriefs (E, 4k)

Waiting for that Feeling by @sorrybutblog (T, 4k)

Oxygen by maesterchill (T, 4k)

Cupboard Love by shealwaysreads (G, 4k)

The Notion of Attention by thestarryknight (T, 4k)

Interlude by dynamic (E, 4k)

Cake by astolat (M, 4k)

Lucid by @dracoladon (E, 4.5k)

Want by SilentAuror (M, 4.5k)

Five Years by @shiftylinguini (M, 4.5k)

Tastes Like Soap by InnerLilith (E, 4.5k)

Garden War by Cibee (T, 5k)

Game On by @pennygalleon (T, 5k)

Blue Sky Is Living Here Today by ignatiustrout (G, 5k)

Nothing Left to Burn by skeptique (E, 5k)

He Whose Hand and Eye Are Gentle by khalulu (G, 5k)

A Midsummer Affair by @lazywonderlvnd (E, 5k)

light as the sky above by @candybarrnerd (E, 5k)

Hourglass Heart by @bixgirl1 (E, 5k)

#asks #anon #Drarry reclist #short fics #50 under 5k #I could probably rec many more but this post got too long even without summaries #love me some short fics!

[shima-draws]

NOT ME getting shot in the head with another AU idea. Couldn’t be me ever

#Shima speaks #Me @ my brain: Girl you can’t even finish writing the summary to the OTHER long extensive Sanlu AU you have. Smh #(It’s the fairy one) #(It’s been in my drafts for weeks) #YES it’s a Sanlu AU. Shut up. Leave me alone 😭 #I will tell you tho. Tee hee. It’s called the Imaginary Friend AU #Checks watch you know what yeah it’s about time I thought of another AU idea. Classic Shima brainstorming going on here

[varilien]

welp that's a wrap for this year ig. it's funny i think this year would have been another oops all trigun except that whenever i got really super busy FAR too busy to make trigun art i did usually end up doodling something else lmao

december's spot is @stardvst-diving's lysithea :)

#art summary #2023 summary of art #2023 art summary #txt #honestly. i think this is the first year in a long time where i really don't feel that happy with the progress i've made with my art #like in 2020 i finally got comfortable with drawing digitally after SO MANY YEARS of chipping away at it #and 2021 i finally pinned down some stylistic choices i enjoy working with and figured out how to color #and 2022 i mostly just pushed the limits of what ''finishing'' art even looks like for me #since in the past i'd tend to leave everything pretty half baked #2023 was SUPPOSED to be the year i started into things like comics and composition and increasing dynamism #but i think mostly i just ended up hammering out more stuff in regards to color and line confidence #which are both good. i'm glad i made that progress #but it's a little disappointing i didn't finish the year with the specific takeaways i'd gone into it wanting to have #sighhhhhh maybe next year idk

[perenlop]

"ugh quinton reviews just wants easy money from long video essays" cool good for him i hope he's having a good time

#saw a tweet that annoyed me bc it was so obviously ''this isnt for me'' #but the op had the ''i dont like it so it shouldnt exist'' mentality so tried to bring up random untrue stuff #to justify why long vids are problematic actually #meanwhile quinton is like. using the money for practical things #and even if he hasnt then who cares #ive become a long video essay stan out of spite cause people are so obnoxious and rude to the people who make them #and like some of them really are just plot summaries yes but in cases like quinton theres also merch reviews and actual analysis #and in response he gets people calling him ''disgusting'' on twitter #echoed voice #''dont like dont read/watch/listen'' applies here like get over yourself #also fuck you theyre fun to put on while i work on stuff so no theyre not without value

[revvethasmythh]

it feels like it took a decade to finish this, but I did it, it's done

My nearly 8k contribution to the Relvin/Vandran faction of the fandom, coming in much later than I hoped it would (but finished, finally, nonetheless)

#are there still parts of this i'm not really happy with?? yeah but GOD it needed to be DONE #anyway crackshipping treated seriously amirite? #hilariously i started writing this SO long ago but with how little time has passed in the campaign overall #it pretty much still fits in the current timeline lmao #relvin temult #vandran #critical role #relvin/vandran #also look at me! got my learner's permit yesterday and published a fic today--who even IS she?? #rosie writes #sidenote: you should have SEEN the look on my face when i realized I still needed to write a summary for this #you have never seen a person more DONE in their life

[cozylittleartblog]

okay the junk follower spam is officially over ( over 7k... what the fuck....) and I'm gonna start clearing it out so

📢 A REMINDER

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CHANGE YOUR ICON AND BLOG TITLE/HEADER TO ANYTHING THAT ISN'T THE DEFAULT

EVERYONE WITH A DEFAULT ICON AND HEADER IS BEING BLOCKED AND REPORTED SPAM

i respect your right to lurk silently but tumblr has an ongoing problem with b*t accounts, you can literally change your icon to a meme and your header to "not a bot lol", don't care, it just has to Not Be Default. or a real picture of a woman, actually, don't do that either. if blogs keep blocking you, that's why! if you don't know How to change those... try " google.com "

that is all

#delete later #you can even use My Art as an icon as long as you put “pfp by cozylittleartblog” in your bio! go ahead! as long as its not default #actually if you do use my art as an icon i Will see it and go “aww shucks :)” and wave my hand at my screen affectionately bc thats sweet #i have so many images. please do go browse. #i will leave this post up for a few days until i get rid of them all #and if i do block you by mistake you're welcome to contact me on a diff website with your username and i'll fix it #but the best way to stop that from happening is to please please please change your icons #nsane99 #sorry thats the funniest fucking reply actually and a good summary of this post #get to the shelters. this is your warning. i am about to October 23rd 2077 this place

[possessable]

very old shitpost this is still one of the funniest parts of the story to me

#by one of the funniest parts i mean it's really good and serious but i can MAKE it stupid if i try #DID I EVEN MENTION THIS IN THE SUMMARY DOCUMENT #this is oas infecting olen and trying not to be suspicious by laying down and pretending to sleep for the night and then she #accidentally does fall asleep for the first time in 3 decades and proceeds to get yelled at by Dream God before waking up #look sorry i can't keep putting these cool little moments in the summary doc or it'll get #abysmally long so these are tumblr exclusives #i mean i've posted about it before but. still #characterdallin #doodle #espialposting #characteroas #characterdeatais #characterolen

[if-mirrormine]

been seeing a lot of netflix edits going around ive literally seen three and you know me and my fomo had to participate 😌

i tried using this template but i still cannot for life of me figure out how to use it, so i just redid it myself in canva lol.

#you guys: so hows writing coming along? #me: i spent the half day on pinterest and the other half making a netflix edit thay serves no purpose :D #also i was gonna include like the episode screenshot #but i couldnt find anything that would work #you dont even wanna know how long it took me just find the house pic and the hand on the steering wheel #im embarrassed #at least you get to see the summary for chapter 3 #thats fun #🕺🕺🕺 #mirror mine #alli talks

[capn-twitchery]

sorry for sappy on main but i wanted to say if you've left nice comments on my art or sent me an ask about my ocs in the last month, thank you so much, it really, really means the world to me!!♥︎

the past 3 or so years have been hell for me creatively for a lot of reasons, & even though it really knocked my confidence--i've been excited to draw & drawn more in the past month than i have in a Really Long Time ;; it's been nice

it's still something of a battle but thank you for helping me with it♥︎

#now if i can manage pain better and get more confidence back that the last few years have eroded. i will be Unstoppable #sorry this is sappy but my brain wants to be negative this weekend but i'm not gonna let it. sit down brain #fredspeaks #3 year summary is that my university experience was made Awful by a lot of health issues #and the stress of trying to work through it all has compounded into chronic muscle tension + pain #which had horrific effects on me mentally + creatively and it all Spirals. agh #i'm doing a bit better now at least!!! getting back on my feet. slowly #but my main point is art means a lot to me and i was scared to draw again for a really long time #so thank you all for helping with that even unknowingly ;; #ok essay concluded

[chocolatewoosh]

WOO!! Last second Summary of Art for 2023!!! I drew a lot less this year, but that's ok!! What I DID make I'm still very, very proud of. :] Pretty good year art-wise!

Happy New Years everyone- wishing you all a safe and happy start into 2024!!!!! Good luck out there!

Click HERE to see my previous art summaries, dating all the way back to 2011!!

#Kaileys Art #Art Summary #2023 Art Summary #WHEW I managed to get onto my laptop to post this!!! As you may notice the December art piece isn't even posted anywhere gkjlnSDFKJLNFSDL #I'LL HAVE TO POST IT NEXT YEAR........ I don't wanna use my laptop for TOO long and risk the power shutting off and losing stuff #ANYWAY YEAH!!!!!!!! TAKE CARE EVERYBODY!!! #HAPPY NEW YEAR

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do think a lot about the master & the doctor both deliberately seeking out other regenerations of each other than whoever they’re mostly interacting with. especially when they just want a chat, a moment’s truce, something that could be called comfort if they dared to put it into words. easier to do those things when, well, they’re still enemies, but the hurts are farther apart in time. ‘i’m your future, you’re my past, we’re both still hurting each other where we come from, but that’s a different me and a different you, and tonight, can’t we just play a game or share a bed for old time’s sake?’ you know?

#and its very much not a secret thing obviously. theyre both very aware theyre doing it. theyre crossing up their timelines like crazy. #anyway this idea brought to you by me reading a summary of a fic where thirteen goes back in time and fucks simm!master aldjfkgjks #which is. a little off topic from what im going for here. but yeah also that they do jump around the timelines to have sex. #but something about that fic idea specifically intrigued me because like. there’s that whole year where the master is just in one place #playing the part of harold saxon. he’s not going anywhere. #and like what if versions of the doctor just showed up. to bug him. to yell at him. to lay side by side on the floor quietly for as long as #they can both manage to stand it. and obviously to have hate sex on his desk. #i mean what kind of angsty fuckery would that dredge up right? to be able to visit the master before he even dies in their arms in his #timeline. and its not about stopping it or anything. just about the fact that he’s there. he’s not going anywhere. #idk. something to think about i guess.

[tellthatbrokebitch]

i took my love and i took it down, chapters 3/8, 32k

“Oh.” Will finally finds his voice as Mike’s hands drop down to tug his sweater up, exposing the bandage underneath. “Yeah. El’s gonna kill me, I ruined my birthday present.” “Fuck the sweater, you-” Mike’s voice trembles along with his hands as they hover over Will’s skin. “Will, was it - was it one of-” Oh. “No, no, Mike, it - it was a nail, I’m okay, I’m not - I’m okay.” “Fuck!” He doesn’t hesitate to draw Will forward into a hug, taking care not to touch his side. It’s the first time they’ve been so close since last night, and it’s overwhelming. Will hadn’t forgotten last night (or this morning) per se, but the events of the last several hours have set the problem on the backburner. But now with Mike right here, holding him and pressing them together from head to toe, it all comes rushing back - namely, his worry and his fear. On the tails of that comes the same heat from last night, the heat they generate together, and it’s strong enough that he has to pull back from the embrace first. Before he can retreat further, Mike lifts his hand and brushes his thumb tenderly across Will’s cheek, in an echo of last night and an unintentional echo of Will himself this morning, and it stops Will in his tracks for a moment. “I’m glad you’re okay,” he says, so low that if he wasn’t in Will’s personal space, the words wouldn’t be audible. Then, “I missed you this morning.” That is enough for Will to finally pull away, putting some much needed distance between them. The motion doesn’t go unnoticed by Mike, who freezes in place with his hand still suspended in the air. Will takes the opportunity to turn back to his dresser. He clears his throat. “Yeah, um, early supply run, you know.”

the walk of shame, a supply run gone wrong, a council meeting, and a heap of miscommunication

#tellthatbrookebitch #stranger things #byler #byler fic #itmlaitid fic updates #sobbing finally FINALLY IT'S DONE #don't look at the word count don't even LOOK at it #struggled for two weeks to get up to like 8k and then banged out 4k in like a few hours #the summary on here is different than in the actual chapter update bc it was too long and ao3 hates me personally

[perenlop]

sorry to harp on this but i think long video essays have become this thing that people decide that they don't like personally, and like that's alright, but for some reason they have to justify that dislike by making it a moral discussion rather than something that just comes down to preference and not all of those videos being well made. like you can't just say "i don't like quinton reviews or hbomberguy cause their vids are too long and that's just not for me" you gotta say "quinton reviews and hbomberguy are DISGUSTING people for forcing their audience to watch HALF ASSED CONTENT and oh they just want your MONEY and they're not ARTISTS they don't CARE about you and they're scammers and-"

#like one thing ill agree on is that these would do well with transcripts if people want to get in on them but dont want to watch #which i totally agree on. like i dont like audiobooks or ebooks i prefer to read physical copies cause i process them better #but you dont see me waging war on audiobooks cause i have a hard time processing spoken words with no visual over written ones #because thats a me thing and its the opposite for plenty of people #sorry actually we have to cancel every podcast ever made because they have no visuals and i cant listen for that long #im passionate abt this cause people will harass these creators and call them disgusting freaks with no talent or substance #and like. its super uncalled for??? like their worst crime is that some of the analysis feels unnecessary #you cant even say quinton reviews is just summary either bc he goes into merch and the climate around the shows #idk like. you dont need an ethical reason to not like something. you can just not like something and leave it at that #echoed voice

[theartofknightjj]

Hey we made it through 2022!

This year sure had some real lows for me but I think it’s also the year of new beginnings. It makes me really happy to see Les Normaux turn up again by the end of the year. Feels like reuniting with an old friend 💚 

Also it might not show so much in the summary itself but I experimented a lot and I think I definitely improved quite a bit!

Happy 2023 everyone I hope it’s going to be a good one for all of us! ✨

Previous summaries: [2011] [2012] [2013] [2014] [2015] [2016] [2017] [2018] [2019] [2020] [2021]

#year 11 lets goooo #damn this list getting long #summary of art #summary of art 2022 #my art #why are there always those months you draw 10 good pieces in and those that have just a little scrap #looking at you feb and march #lots of new mediums this year tho started clay again tried out resin art even started learning 3d and just today started gouache!