#ginger speaks

[gingerrhd]

lil sneak peak as always for whats coming for the next 31 days :D

#inktober #inktober prompt list #ginger speaks

[theredheaddevil]

Tag game time. in this tag game to use this picrew and post the last song you listened to:

Tagged by @sparrowinkk ty btw

Aw man have not done one of these for a hot minute

Last song:

Or arguably the theme from the highroller fight on ttcc cuz I did have both playing for a bit while doing said fight

Uhh I'm gonna tag

@darkxaidan @deiim @l0stw00d or whatevs is ur main these days

uh @amarkofcain @irlgambit

#Tag for tah #Tag game #Ginger speaks #Youtube

[wavehund]

Earlier, I walked to a group meeting and on the way I saw a very beautiful snake with dark green and white scales. It was beautiful. It had such gentle eyes, and all it did was perch in the groove of the shelter above my head. It was such a beautiful snake. A few others attending the meeting were screaming and yelling about it.

“Throw something at it!”

“Kill it!”

“It’s going to bite me!”

“Ew, a snake!”

I just stared at them. Dead in the eyes of the one who was threatening to harm it and kill it. They continued fussing and someone threw a stick, and somehow I freaking caught it and smashed it against the ground. Thank god I had a boost of confidence. I told them to leave the poor creature alone. It didn’t even care they existed, and they wanted to hurt the snake? That’s how you get bitten, idiots.

Anyway, they left, and I just watched the snake chill in its spot.

Why can’t the world just see snakes as creatures who deserve the right to exist?

#snakey boy #snake #Ginger speaks #i love snakes

[luvtak]

ateez at coachella really got me like

#they were so good you guys #im so proud 😭🩵🩵 #ateez #ginger speaks

[gingham-femme]

losing my FUCKING MIND I just went to a bookstore and found a SHITLOAD of lesbian books ESPECIALLY BUTCH/FEMME ONES and im shaking. I am buying these immediately

#femme4butch #femme4stud #femme4masc #books #ginger speaks

[justyourginger]

If you look at your following list you can see how long it's been since they've last posted and ive been on tumblr since 2011ish so seeing usernames i remember seeing regularly with last posted 7, 9, 11 years ago is nostalgic but also really sad. Some of these people i remember looking forward to seeing their posts and we were mutuals and now theyve been gone for longer than i knew them for

#nostalgia #ginger speaks

[thewritingginger]

1,000 Followers!!!!

AAAAAHHHHH!!!

IDK where you all came from or why you chose to stick around but thank you!

I hope I continue making content of all our favorite 2D babes :3

I am in the middle of a handful of old wips (constantly lol) but I'm thinking about opening up my inbox for some requests for some sort of celebration?!?

But I'm not sure yet :)

AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

💛 ~

#ginger speaks #1000 followers #thank you so much #tokyo revengers

[fakegingerrights]

Got a funny story to share that happened to me today. TW for weight gain and slight body issues.

Went to the doctor today for sports physical, and saw my weight on the scale and it was higher than expected. Normally it doesn’t bother me and I’ve actually put on muscle as well as fat, but it just irritated me.

Doc asked how my mental health was, I mentioned that I was a little disheartened by the scale and she started laughing.

She hurried to explain she wasn’t laughing at my concerns or my weight, she was laughing that she was here to also deliver my diagnosis from past labs of, and I kid you not, “Skinny Girl Syndrome.”

That is the scientific name of it. It means I’m tall and my heart doesn’t like that so I faint easy with dehydration and position changes. We both lost it after that, and I felt a lot better.

I am proudly 5”7 (screw the height chart that put me at 5”6.5) and weigh 144, pre-sports seasons. My usual weight during sports is 125, but I’ve never had much muscle even as an athlete so I’m actually pretty proud of myself.

(Also, for those of you who are gonna say my doc is unprofessional, her and I get along really well and she’s great for my hypochondria related questions and she is the best doctor I’ve had, especially for my chronic illness. She takes me seriously and makes sure I get the symptom management I need without telling me I’m too young to have these issues or saying that it’s all my anxiety.)

#ginger speaks #gingerspeaks #i forgot which tag I uses #body positivity #chronic illness #femininity #yeah screw that last tag I like not fainting when I get up in the middle of the night

[gingerbreadmonsters]

Hi 👋

I know how you feel with, y’know, writing the less popular characters and the fic not getting as much engagement(?) as I’d hoped

But you don’t need to apologize for not writing the popular characters. It’s disheartening to get less interaction on stuff with less popular characters. I’m not going to deny that. But you’re under no obligation to write the popular ones just. Because they’re popular

In the last several months my note count dropped significantly and I know exactly how it feels to be disheartened and disappointed but I also reached a point where I decided “screw the note count I’m doing what I want” I’ve been writing on Tumblr for 7 and a half years. You reach A Point 😆

But do what makes you happy! I love all your Balance storyline/character stuff and am always happy when I get to read it! The Elliott brainrot is strong with me and there’s nothing I can do

You don’t have to answer this one if you don’t want to. I just wanted to tell you that you are loved and your writing is appreciated no matter how many or how few notes you get 💜

~🌟👼

[big big hug]

#thank you beloved this does make me feel. a bit better about it 💕💕 #i love u too 🫂🫂 #ginger speaks

[queen-ch3rry]

Thoughts on Art - a small essay thing

This is something that has been going through my mind quite a lot since I've been learning ways to be better at my drawing, painting, and creation process.

How is it art seems to be the only topic where there is only “one right way” to do it? Have you ever noticed this?

A kind friend (shoutout @garnets-and-dragons!!) introduced me to an interesting art "hack," the “grid drawing method.” I literally never knew about it. For those unfamiliar with what this is, it constitutes drawing a grid onto a reference photography, then transferring the grid in proper scale to a paper or digital canvas. You draw what you see in each box however accurate you choose to, as the artist.

Personal opinion: this has brought a great deal of joy back into my creative life. Actually, that's nearly an understatement. As a perfectionist my nature (probably stemming way back to my childhood if I think long enough), I typically never love a lot of my art. Not an intense “I'm so very proud of this” type of feeling. Because I see everything I get wrong, the struggles, the lack of grounding an idea onto paper/etc. Combine this with the painful lingering headaches I've had as a side effect from my COVID shot last summer, and art very, very quickly felt like torture when it didn't go right.

Especially with cars. Unlike animals, which can be built up with a uniform concept of circles building on other shapes, cars are all different. As soon as I figure out how to draw one of my OCs, I want to draw another who looks entirely different (year and model playing hugely into this too) and it's back to square one again. This is what scared me so much doing commissions, and prevented me from accepting modern cars or body types I wasn't familiar with.

Back on topic… learning how to use even a rough, vague idea of a grid has helped me become happy with my art. I can plot exactly how I want the character to look and then build a background (yay, new skills!!) around it. It actually works together! I believe now I can tackle all of the major ideas for character scenes that have been rattling around in my head for YEARS.

Yet.

Even though quick research proves Leonardo da Vinci, ancient Egyptians, and many other highly respected classic and legendary artists used grids, plumb lines, and other methods to “short cut” a tedious, wholly freehanded, no guides at all, sketch… the internet is ablaze with controversy and I have seen equally positive and negative thoughts. The negative is very black and white:

“If you use a grid to draw, you clearly have no talent.” “Anyone good enough should never have to use this.” “This is cheating.” “You're not a real artist if you use this method. Shame on you.” “This is glorified dot-to-dot for adults.”

Let's take a step back… I'm not defending myself or anyone who uses any “guides” right now. This is just an unbiased view.

• Is using CTRL-Z when doing digital art cheating? (You can instantly remove a mistake!) • Is digital art itself no form of art because you can have potentially thousands of resources at hand that don't cost a fifth of what traditional art supplies can? • Are erasers in trad. art cheating? (You ought to be good enough to not use one at all. right? If we listen to the “grid and plumb line” critics) • Is using Photoshop cheating?? It can completely change an image to be unrecognizable from its former self. Action sets do all the work for you. Yet that's considered an art form.

Or, let's not look at art at all.

• Is using spellcheck cheating? • Is hiring an editor to comb over your manuscript cheating? • Does using a dictionary or thesaurus mean you have 0 literary skill if you don't know the meaning or synonym/antonym for a single word yet can construct a good story otherwise? • Does using a calculator mean you're an idiot with zero skills? Hey, even if you don't understand math, what shame is there in using a calculator?? None!

I would think the answer is NO to all of these things.

So, why is there this huge controversy with art? You can only do it ONE WAY which is deemed “correct” (by who?) and deviating means… you have no talent?

I have a bit of a hard time swallowing that using mathematical measurements to make art I'm truly excited about continuing for the first time in literally years means I'm not a “real” creative person. The grid does only one percent of the work for me.

• I have to fill it in however detailed I chose. It's not a preprinted coloring page, after all. • I have to transform certain areas to fit a cartoony look. • I have to remember what I've learned so far for value, saturation and hue to color it in a way that's either believable or at the least, appealing, to my eyes and a viewer. • I have to hand draw all of my background elements in (again using value, saturation and hue to look nice)

How does using one single tool make an artist a cheater? Using a grid as an aid is not tracing a photo line for line and passing it off as my own creation. A grid doesn't even equal a flawless result! Nor is it the way too common art theft that populates the world where someone steals someone else's art, recolors it (or not) and “now it's mine.”

End thoughts: I hope any creator that uses a tool (ruler, grid, plumb line, compass, French curve, etc.) to make them feel happy and satisfied for potentially the first time in their life with their work doesn't get beaten down by the critics. People who say you're a “baby” or “fool” because you can't do things the way they do it doesn't mean anyone's way is right or wrong. And being severe and hurtful in their opinions is the kind of insensitivity a person with a low self-esteem in what they do does not need to hear.

I wish everyone to create freely, in whichever way works for them (minus outright theft) and can understand there's a whole lot more to life than what one person says is right or wrong.

Oh, and about this one person who said “anyone who has to use a grid has no talent?” Someone asked them if they could draw. They said yes. They drew hyper realistically. Did amazing portraits, in their words. Next was inquired: “I want to see/Show me your art.” By 5 different people.

The person who cried foul about “tools equal cheating” oddly enough refused to share any art, any links, anything at all. Their account was completely empty.

Kind of makes you wonder if they were a troll just trying to hurt others, doesn't it?

— Ginger (V16ClassyCaddy.art)

#ginger speaks #v16classycaddyart #art stuff #grid drawing #art hacks #haters back off #art time art time

[gingerblogg]

if a tmnt was done... would you?

what

#ginger speaks

[gingerrhd]

did i come to this house already...

treat or trick

wait

trick... oh fuck it

You have not my guy,

My postal of dude, please take some moaoms for your travels

Theyre strongly flavoured and are great to chew on while blasted

#Ask #Postal #Postal dude #Trick or treat #Ginger speaks

[theredheaddevil]

i may have left an auto clicker booping u for like an hour how many boops are u on XD

that makes so much fukin sense, i was wondering how you were still going

#ask #boop #boop o meter #ginger speaks

[wavehund]

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#I had coffee #ginger speaks

[luvtak]

so i will be going on a sabbatical after this 🫶🏻

#WHAHHAHAYETTWWHATTHEFUCKKKM #LIKE I ICANT #i woke up to this all over twitter jfc #im so tired of this behavior lmaooo im too weak #ginger speaks #nct #wayv #yangyang #love shaped #yy 🦋

[gingersnipe]

reading the Witcher books for the first time (via audiobook) and i did not expect the narrator to sing so much. first Dandelion’s ballads and now the mermaid conversations?? this is a true treat

#the witcher #geralt of rivia #ginger speaks