#go forth and create

[sui-imi]

Roo's not very good with compliments x)

I wanted to animate based on the drawing below:

... so I did.

#he's so cute #arrgh #imi art #roo #undereats!sans #undertale #undereats #undertale au #sans oc #utmv #(grabs him) #cutie patootie #this is my first time animating seriously #it's kinda fun #probably not going to make a habit of it though #but i appreciate animators even more now #go forth and create

[sugarpasteltmnt]

Hi there!

I’ve been reading you fic for a while now and it is amazing! It’s the only fic I’ve got rn that I will stop and read the moment I notice a chapter has been posted. I’m just so invested!

I just wanted to say that you’ve really done amazing things with your story. You’ve nailed the character voices and interactions, the grief the boys all feel is tangible and Leo breaks my heart every time. You’ve had me emotionally invested from the first sentence, and that’s saying something because otherwise I have the attention span of a gnat lol

I just wanted to stop by and tell you that you and your style really inspires me as a writer. While my fics may follow a very different path, you and your story constantly helps to spark my own creativity whenever it feels like I’m getting in a rut.

I hope you have a wonderful day. Take care!

SUCH HIGH PRAISE THANK YOU 😭😭😭😭

#ya'll are on a mission to make my cry tonight THANK U 🩵 #honestly??? hearing i inspire others is the highest form of praise for writer #thank u so much ;w; #go forth and create #because the effort you put into it will make it divine #and i can't wait to see #TNV asks #pastel prattling

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

I have been seeing a lot of discourse on certain tags lately about fanfiction and writing fics that are “out of character”. And I don’t like conflict, so I was keeping my nose out. But now I’ve seen some things that I just can’t let go, and as the self-proclaimed fandom mom, I feel like I need to step in and state this loud and clear—

Fandom is for you.

The whole point of fanfic and fanart and cosplay and anything fan related is for you, the fan, to take a work that has already been created and have fun with it. Make it your own. Dive in and explore and do what you will. Fandom is meant to be a creative outlet where you can share ideas and art with other people who have the same interests as you.

THAT BEING SAID: it is never. And I repeat, NEVER okay to gatekeep fandom. And yeah, I fucking hate the word gatekeep. But it’s the only way to describe what I’m seeing happening. And so I’m going to use it again—

It is never okay to gatekeep fandom. It is never okay to gatekeep characters. And to throw negativity at anyone’s work, let alone come straight out and tell them that they’re wrong for shaping a character a certain way— I’m sorry, but where do you get off? I am completely understanding of wanting characters to stay true to the source material. I am completely understanding of having your own opinions about/expectations for a character and wanting them to behave a certain way. But YOU, my dear friend (or rather, we), are not the creator of those characters. Which means that we have no right to tell someone else what they can or cannot do with them.

The whole point of fandom is to let your imagination run wild. And if that means that a typically good character leans more evil in a fic, fine. If they make decisions you don’t agree with, great. If they do things that directly contradict what would have happened in the source material, even better!!

LET. PEOPLE. CREATE.

Let them throw characters into crazy situations and analyze how they react. Let them stretch them out like putty and poke at all of the soft bits inside. Let them shape them into something completely other just to see what happens. Let them be curious. Let them explore. Let them have fun.

Fandom should be fun.

And the second one person starts dictating what is right or wrong for a character or a ship, that’s the second it stops being fun. And that’s when fandoms die.

Don’t gatekeep something that doesn’t belong to you. Because again— It doesn’t belong to you.

You are allowed to have your own opinions. You are allowed to have your own expectations for characters. But who do you think you are, to flat out tell someone (or a group of people) that the way they write someone is wrong? That the way they have imagined something is wrong? That their creativity, their expression, their joy, is wrong? Or, as I’ve seen more recently, when someone gets dejected by the posts you’ve made telling them they’re creating wrong, you have the audacity to tell them “that’s okay, now that you know you did something I don’t like, you can reevaluate your work and try to improve!”

How dare you.

Because once again, I hate to break it to you, but you’re not the creator of these characters. And I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the actual creator is probably just so happy to see the diversity of idea that has sprung from their creation. So who do you think you are, to dictate an entire fandom?

If you don’t like it, move along. Click out of the fic, find something else to read. I understand having frustrations when things don’t go as you’d hoped, when a piece of work that you were excited about crosses those outer lines of your expectations and you feel disappointed. Again. But you know what? That’s your expectation. What about the person halfway across the world who reads the same fic and finds themselves in it? Finds a small piece of comfort that encourages them to hold on for just one more day. What happens when your words completely discourage the creators of your fandom, have them second guessing themselves? What happens when they lose confidence and stop creating completely? What happens when the fandom dies, and suddenly there’s nothing new to explore— to your standards or not?

You are allowed to have your opinions. Of course you are. You are allowed to express them. But you are never. EVER. allowed to tell people that they are wrong for making art that you don’t agree with. For using their imagination in a way that doesn’t fit into your small box of approval.

Let creators find happiness.

Let creators create.

#creators are amazing #and their minds are brilliant #and all of your ideas are so uniquely YOU #don’t let anyone tell you otherwise #go forth and create #spread positivity #stop hate #marvel-talk #I’m looking at you #and I am NOT happy #fandom #tagging this fandom so hopefully anyone who saw the discouraging stuff will remember that #the whole fandom is thankful that they’re writing and creating #dovesso #Clarissa dovey #Leonora lesso #lady lesso #sge #sge netflix #tsfgae #sfgae

[mxanigel]

#a little encouragement to my fellow fanfic writers to write what makes you happy <3 #fanfic ramblings #writing thoughts #writing encouragement #go forth and create

[the12thnightproject]

REVERSE Ask Game...

So I have acquired a deck of the Ao3 Playing cards - each card, along with the normal numeric system, also has a prompt, or a trope..., for example, the Queen of Spades = "major character death." Some are easier than others (a quick flip through reveals that there is a W.I.P. card in there too).

Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to:

List a playing card (or more... I dare you), example, Queen of Spades

I will respond by telling you the prompt on the card.

YOU write the fic, or ficlet, or headcanon, or brief sketch if you art, or mood board, or whatever the card inspires you to do.

#asks #writer stuff #fun way to get past writer's block #slumber party #go go go #go forth and create

[vld-prompts]

Allura, Pidge, Acxa, and Shay have a Girls Night with DotU’s Merla, Lisa, Ginger, Cinda, and Dorma

Go forth and create!

#vld #vld prompts #dotu #dotu prompts #allura #pidge #acxa #shay #merla #lisa #ginger #cinda #dorma #vehicle voltron #lion force #defender of the universe #this is an incredible amount of tags thank you anon #go forth and create

[revenantghost]

SakuraCon 2023 Trigun Stampede Panel (Attempted) Masterpost!

There’s SO MUCH good and new content leaking out of this event, mainly on Twitter, that I wanted to collect as much as possible for us all to salivate over and save as references. I’m including as many angles and clips as I stumble across! And also I’m going to put this under a cut and add anything new that I see (and feel free to let me know about anything I missed on any platform and should be included!!!)

I’ve also been hoarding all of the concept art from every angle I can find, so if anyone’s interested in me trying to organize that and slapping it into a Google Drive folder, hmu

These first few tweets hold a vast majority of everything from the panel that I can gather, but like I said, I’m posting everything I’ve got (and some bonus stuff at the end):

First and foremost, this text thread summarizing all the info shared

A fairly thorough thread of all art shown, and a bunch of videos as well

MORE concept art (including Zazie!)

A BUNCH of videos of the panel

More views of concept art/the rigging video

Noman’s Land extended map

Fan-translated Noman’s Land map

Facial animation rigging video

Clip of the final Knives and Vash battle, breaking down the animation process

Concept art and tidbit of Vash’s new plant design

Young/older Vash and Knives concepts

More concept art and the facial rigging video

Some Vash-centric concept art

Bonus:

Some of that concept art they say is more for season two and onwards

The fucking Vash plushie cosplay

Official tweet sharing pics of the staff/crowd at the panel

Official tweet previewing materials to be shown

Thread of the obscene amount of Trigun cosplayers

#Trigun #Trigun Stampede #Tristamp #Trigun Meta #Go forth and create art and meta #If anyone finds this post #Tumblr will probably nuke it let's be real #Trigun Masterpost

[valeriianz]

had thoughts about Dream being able to sleep, how soft and human he would look. for your consideration:

Hob announced his arrival from work with a long sigh, heavy with exhaustion, and leaned into the door as he opened it and stepped into his flat. He dropped his keys in the little bowl and toed off his shoes. He had just shrugged off his messenger bag when he noticed a pair of large black boots in the living room, stark against his off-white rug. They were about a meter apart, like they’d been kicked off or tossed aside without a second thought.

With one brow raised, eyes scrupulous, Hob deposited his bag on the couch and bent down to pick up first one boot, then the other, tucking them together and neatly placing them on the wooden floor next to a bookshelf.

“Dream?” Hob called out, straightening up and casting his gaze upon the room. It wasn’t like Dream, when he paid surprise visits, to not immediately be within eyesight of the door, let alone leave his shoes haphazardly on the carpet.

Hob’s eyes landed on the entryway of the hall, spotting Dream’s thick, long coat in a heap on the center of the floor. Worry began to creep in as Hob slowly stepped up to Dream’s mystical coat, his pulse thrumming under his skin. He stooped down, grabbing it by the collar and brushing it off with his other hand. The material felt luxurious in Hob’s hands, soft like cashmere or shahtoosh, but also durable– something akin to wool or even canvas. Hob’s fingers caressed the fabric, feeling the lip of the tall collar between his thumb and fingers. 

Gently folding the coat over one arm, Hob continued down the hall, stepping softly, carefully. 

Hob’s bedroom door was open, the rays of the setting sun streamed in through the window and lit up the entryway, revealing more dark clothes in a jumble leading into the room.

Swallowing, lips parting, Hob bent down once more to collect Dream’s t-shirt, his pants and, following the line of mayhem, his socks, taking them all into his arms. Hob wasn’t sure what he expected to see when he finally straightened up and turned, but it certainly wasn’t this.

Hob almost dropped all the clothes he had spent carefully collecting, his mouth going dry. 

There was a considerable, person-sized lump in Hob’s bed, buried under his thick gray comforter. The only indication that it was indeed Dream laying in Hob’s bed, was the mane of wild dark hair poking out from the mass of linens.

Hob took a step forward, then another, crushing the pile of clothes to his chest as he walked around the bed, his gaze transfixed to the top of Dream’s head– a smattering of black ink spilled on his white pillow. He held his breath as he finally came to face Dream, the only part of him sticking out was his nose and eyes, Dream’s impossibly long lashes draped down, threatening to brush the tops of his cheeks.

Hob felt his jaw drop, lips parting in wonder at this ethereal creature in his bed.

Dream was sleeping.

Or… it looked like he was sleeping. The shape of him steadily rose and fell, imitating breath that Hob knew Dream didn’t need. Hob didn’t think Dream needed sleep, either… or was even capable of it. Was Dream sick? Had he been injured?

Hob quietly deposited the bundle of clothes into a wicker chair in the corner of his room, turning back to Dream and leaning over him, slowly pressing one hand into the mattress next to him, and bringing the other up to lay it against Dream’s forehead.

Hob immediately felt foolish, of course Dream didn’t get sick, he’d nearly beaten it into Hob by now, how Endless never fall ill (not in the way humans do, apparently), but Dream did actually feel quite warm. Hob moved his hand from underneath Dream’s soft fringe, grazing his fingers down the side of his head, brushing the shell of his ear, cheekbone, and across his pointed nose, unable to get any further with the blanket folded up tight around half his face.

With his heart lighter than it’d felt in a long time, Hob couldn’t resist carefully hooking his fingers around the edge of the comforter, leaning in close as he pulled it down to expose Dream’s lips and chin. He looked softer, like this– human and vulnerable. There’s a trust here, Hob knows, his chest tightening, as his knuckles caress down the line of Dream’s jaw, free of blemishes and marble smooth. Hob swallowed again, his eyes flicking down in unrestricted interest at the line of Dream’s concealed body, cocooned in creamy grays. He looked back up, focusing on plush lips that are too red for Dream’s alabaster skin, like they’d been bitten.

Hob’s own teeth pull on his bottom lip, moving his hand to press a thumb against that mouth, barely touching, like a paint brush, dragging it from corner to corner.

“What are you doing?”

Hob huffed a surprised laugh, but didn’t remove his hand. Dream’s voice was lower than usual, thick, and rumbly, pulled from a deep slumber.

“Checking your temperature,” Hob answered in a whisper. His breath caught in his throat as Dream’s eyelids fluttered open, crystal blue eyes focusing right on him.

Christ almighty, he was gorgeous. Hob still couldn’t believe it sometimes, that he was allowed to see this, to be regarded by such beauty, such a divine entity. That he could call Dream his, and be confident in the knowledge that he was Dream’s, too. Hob felt himself begin to shake, his thumb was still at Dream’s lips, which had parted slightly when he’d spoken, his hot breath hitting Hob and causing something both carnal and pure to race through his blood, something devotional.

“You’re quite warm,” Hob tried again. Dream hadn’t spoken, only watched him, like he was waiting for something.

“Yes,” Dream’s voice ran over Hob in that velvety way of his; a warm tide crashing over him and lifting Hob up.

“I was seeking warmth. You weren’t home, and I know how pleasant you are after a long rest.”

“Pleasant?” Hob’s lips curled in a smile, distractedly pressing his thumb a little harder against Dream’s bottom lip.

“Tepid.” Dreams amended, parting his lips and allowing Hob’s thumb access.

Hob gasped softly as Dream bit down, his eyes blazing now, the black of his iris growing so there was no more blue. Hob hummed, his fingers curled around Dream’s chin, tilting it up.

There’s a tongue that swipes the tip of his thumb and Hob knows he’s lost, feigning nonchalance was never his strong suit when it came to this entity in his bed. His heart crashes against his ribs and Hob’s sure Dream can hear it, can hear the desire there.

A bare arm slips out from the pile of gray and latches onto Hob’s bicep, pulling him down. Hob goes along with a smile, getting one knee up on the bed, then the other, dislodging his fingers from Dream’s face to steady himself.

They lift the comforter together, allowing Hob to crawl in next to Dream. The shock of the sudden temperature hike against Dream’s bare skin makes Hob’s breath catch, desperately wishing he’d taken his clothes off first.

“Christ, Dream it’s like a furnace under here.” He’s never felt Dream radiate so much heat before. He truly was learning something new about this man– Endless, every day.

Dream’s long arm pulls the blanket back down, going around Hob’s middle and tucking it under him, coaxing Hob to be flush against his sinew body, usually firm with restrained strength, now soft from sleep. Dream’s chin tilts down, lips brushing Hob’s forehead.

“Could be hotter,” he murmurs, lips traveling down, his sharp nose nudging against Hob’s face, encouraging him to meet him evenly.

Hob is already panting, he’s sure he’s already sweating too, but he meets Dream’s mouth eagerly, pressing hard, getting his hand back on his face to cup Dream’s jaw.

“Well,” Hob pants as Dream wetly breaks the kiss, pressing his lips instead up Hob’s face and into his hairline. “I certainly wasn’t expecting this today.”

Dream hums, the sound reverberating down his body and tickling Hob’s senses. 

“I’m pleased I can still surprise you.”

#dreamling #hob gadling #dream x hob #dream of the endless #my writing #inspired by this back and forth with mae on the dreamling discord server #which was just us calmly going over how soft and snuggly and heavy Dream would sleep #(if he were able to. and he SHOULD be able to gdi) #i was gonna write some spice but chickened out #something about Dream seeking out warmth #and automatically going to Hob's bed #he chases Hob's natural heat #pressing his body into the sheets and the mattress #heavy like a ton of bricks #the bed the linens... everything smells like Hob and it surrounds Dream #and when he gets Hob under the covers with him Dream just goes feral. pressing his hand under Hob's shirt. rucking it up #feeling the warmth of Hob's skin and positively getting drunk on it #'i want to be smothered' Dream says as his hand travels up to Hob's chest. 'i want to be engulfed. i want it to burn #so it leaves a mark. when you touch me its like a branding iron.' feeling Hob's heat becomes an addition that Dream chases #but i thought that was too spicy for the soft and sleepy mood i was creating lol #anyway! #hope this all fits in the tags

[phantomarine]

General note that if you draw/write anything particularly k!nky/NSFW of my characters and want to show me for some reason, please tell me what it is first before putting it directly in front of my eyeballs 🙏

I’m comfy with most basic things but I’m not comfy with everything. Please double-check with me just to be sure!

#just talking #most people have been cool about it #but yes please just check with me first! #I will never yuck your yum but not everything is my thing #go forth and create for you and yourself alone

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Thank you all for your loving words yesterday! <33333

I'm feeling much better today and I really appreciate your support!!

#yall really helped me out and i love you all so much <33 #i know im so rarely active but yall who linger and always show up are my true heros #i shall now go forth and create more art! #gonna work on that pride post now in fact!! #might take some art requests later this week #mlp #digital art #pony #gif

[gems-of-jungle-moon]

would you mind if we used your mask concept in our own au's? :o it's such a cool idea.

#i'm glad you like the idea though <3 c: #now go forth and create things >:D #su ouroboros au #asks #anonymous

[brother-emperors]

dude. friend. im obsessed with your art, i wish i could eat it and learn the secret behind the amazing noses you draw and those crisp lines...... but im also obsessed by the fact you love roman/italian history and literature so much?? i studied them for most of my school years (500 years ago) and i wasnt the best student but im loving to get back to it/learn more through your comics and your works!!!!

waaaaay back when I was in high school, I took a class because I heard that a teacher covered Dante’s Divine Comedy and it sounded like a good time, but it ended up being like. revelatory in some kind of way. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to her for encouraging my interest in the text beyond the classroom (from letting me look at her teaching notes to recommending a translation with the Italian alongside English), and also to my home room teacher that year who saw me reading it and told me that the ideal way to experience Dante is to be in Florence in the summer, or to listen to an audiobook in Italian while reading along lmao

also I was in high school while the Desmond era of Assassins Creed games came out and a lot of us were insufferable about analyzing history to try and figure out what the next game’s plot would be, it was a deeply fun time! all of this combined into a creative intersection with history (as much history as bunch of 16 yr olds with access to a public library can do) and I have been living in that kind of creative space ever since

bc all of this overlapped at once and I think the end result is that I just. really love history and storytelling at a very loud frequency. I tried to be normal about Crassus and that lasted less than a week lmaooo I have put that man in a narrative blender and he is never getting out

so! all of that is to say that I am forever delighted if I am able to pass along any amount of this enthusiasm for history forward to someone else the way those two teachers did for me

(also thank you, I love drawing noses so much, the secret is that I spend a lot of time drawing profiles in my sketchbooks because I like the shapes. just pages of noses)

#if I accomplish nothing else on this terrible planet I would like to have sparked curiosity for someone in places #they might not have experienced it or thought to look for it before #I would also like to make people weird about Crassus but that’s part of a personal agenda in an ongoing fight I have #I’ll be cringe on main so that people can go forth without feeling self conscious about anything #and create stuff that will make this one guy I know grind his teeth lmao #ask tag

[bartleby-the-scribbler]

well, looks like I better learn how to draw cats, cuz BY GOD I’m going to give the Cinder Spires the fandom it DESERVES!! Here’s Bridget Tagwynn and Rowl!!

#this is an all call to everyone who has read the aeronauts windlass #grab your keyboard!! #pick up your pencil!! #we must create the content we want to see in the world!! #If you can’t do it #do it badly!!!! #go forth and create!!!! #the cinder spires #cinder spires #the aeronaut's windlass #aeronauts windlass #the olympian affair #jim butcher #Bridget Tagwynn #rowl #fanart #the cinder spires fanart #the aeronauts windlass fanart

[pigeon-princess]

I hope you know that seeing your CoS out of context compilations has caused me start making session recaps entirely out of memes for my group. It is the best worst thing ever and I must thank you for the idea 😂

YESSSSS!!! YESSSSS!!!! IM ABSOLUTELY thrilled to hear that!! They're so much fun to make and also surprisingly such a good way to remember actual events from past sessions!! I can look back at an old collage and remember that Silas got his arm stuck in the fence at Wachterhaus in that session haha! I highly encourage everyone to go out and make their own out of context compilation for their dnd games!!

#dnd #curse of strahd #IM SO HAPPY people are having fun with the out of context collages #GO FORTH AND CREATE YOUR OWN!!

[gibbearish]

ik i talk abt high control groups kinda often but i do encourage anyone involved in discourse in any capacity to watch folding ideas' "this is financial advice" video, because a lot of what he says about the gamestop apes being a self-organizing high control group imo also explains the more toxic discourse tendencies, and i feel like most discussion around high-control groups on here focuses on the tradtional kind that has one or a few distinct leaders which makes it harder to draw parallels between the signs. so i think its important to point out that these kinds of groups can still create that same energy as a unit even if there isn't one specific person calling the shots

#origibberish #namely the signs ive noticed most over the years are obviously internal jargon‚ thats kind of a given when working with microlabels #but see also transmed/truscum/trender/tucute/acey/theyfab/transandrophobia truther/etc etc etc #ideas being boiled down to short gotchas that just get ping ponged back and forth #see The Entirely Of Any Ace Discourse Argument for that but again see 'theyre just trans mras' #and the tendancy for members to turn on anyone who steps out of line even a little #omg i cqnt believe i forgot pro/anti discourse too theyre really bad about all of these on both sides #oh or another example would be steven universe discourse #like 'it endorses letting fascists off the hook' would just get thrown around as if it was undisputed fact despite there being MILES #of shit going on in the background to get to that #anyways. yeah 👍 keeping this in mind has already made a huge difference in how i engage in online discussions #and has also been a good rule of thumb for when to Stop engaging with someone #where if theyre displaying these signs thank you i do not want to be part of this #and like yes that goes for people youre arguing with but it obviously /ESPECIALLY/ goes for people you like #if you have a friend who you feel like you cant say anything that disagrees with them or theyll freak out at you. you dont have to keep #being friends with them. if being around someone makes you uncomfortable and you constantly find yourself making excuses for why #they treat you the way they do then thats a bad sign #and like with that i really hope ive managed to yknow. create a nice space here where ppl feel safe bringing stuff up? #idk

[mxanigel]

Litany Against Cringe

I must not cringe. Cringe is the inspiration-killer. Cringe is the little-death that brings total constraint. I will embrace my cringe. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the cringe has gone there will be joy. Only freedom will remain.

#embrace your cringe #go forth and create that which brings you joy #kick that creativity block to the curb #writing encouragement #art encouragement #<3 <3 <3 #(yes this is a Dune reference)