#i have the motivation to both post and draw

[arlo-rose]

Guys I’ve been so busy this weekend but it’s finally my turn to make a long sappy fable thank you post :D

I’m not always the best with words, and I said a lot of this in the fan appreciation video already, but I wanted to put it all here too.

I first started watching fable smp in (I think)November of 2021, cause I found Sherbert and Heyhay through DSMP tiktok compilations on youtube, and saw they both streamed. Fable is the first time I’ve actually been part of a fandom community, and it’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me. My whole experience with the community has been so incredible, everyone is so kind and creative and excited about the story being told. I met people through fable who are now some of my best friends on earth, and even got to meet up with one of them irl! I never imagined an online friend group was something I could have but those people, and the wider fable community, helped get me through some of the worst times mentally that I’ve had in my life. 

Fable as a story is so incredible, I can’t even put into words all of the specific pieces that make it so amazing, but all of the characters, relationships, stories, side plots, and just silly hanging out in character streams are something I love so much. I’m having a hard time writing this rn cause I don’t want to leave out anything important but I don’t know how to say any of it.

One of the biggest things fable smp has done for me is giving me something to fuel my art. Before fable started, I was just starting to experiment with digital art, but had a ton of art block and no motivation to draw much anymore. Fable gave me a constant source of ideas for my art, and the responses I got when I posted my art(for the first time ever) helped so much in keeping that motivation. Having fans and cast members tell my how much they loved my art was incredible, and it eventually gave me the confidence to open up art commissions, which I had never thought was something I’d be able to do. My art was actually how I met my now friends, we started talking because we all loved eachother’s art, and it’s so wonderful to have a bunch of artist friends I can ask for advice, show wips, and just hang out on call while drawing with. Whenever I draw I almost always have a fable vod playing, there are so many comfort vods that no matter how long I draw for, I’ll never run out. 

I know other people have said this, but I want to say it for me too, just because fable is over doesn’t mean I’m gonna shut up about it :D. I have so many art ideas I haven’t done yet, and so many thoughts and feelings about this story that aren’t going away anytime soon. I’m gonna keep brainrotting about these characters for as long as my brain allows me to, and even after that I’ll look back on this story and community so so fondly. This is a story and fandom that I think I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life, and I thank you all for that.

There is a lot of other things I could say right now, but words are hard and I’ve had a very, very long weekend, so I’m gonna stop it here. I love fable smp so much, and I can’t wait to see what stories you all tell next <3

-arlo

#fable smp

[blushanteros]

heyheyhey anyone got any cookie run art requests?

#i have the motivation to both post and draw #so gimmie requests!! #cookie run

[fatedroses]

He laid at the brink of death once more, staring at the face of despair. He remembered the path that led him to this purgatory, and with a smile could only ask:

"Shall we be friends?"

#ffxiv #digital art #concept #zenos yae galvus #endsinger #endwalker spoilers #adventurer zenos #eurydice #is just the tag im going to use for the post endwalker endsinger stuff I'll draw #alisaie lives in zenos' head rent free- #but for a man with no fear i find the potential idea of him reaching out to a weakened endsinger both sweet and kinda funny #“oh hey she was right- im not alone here- lets see if I can actually do better” <- the beginning of adventurer zenos #part of Adventurer!Zenos motivation is finding examples of happiness he sees and finds himself to tell her whenever he visits the ultimatum #the eternal question: did he adopt the bird or did the bird adopt him #Also thus begins Zenos having to dig through his own recollection on how to help people- i.e emulating the WoL lol #and endsinger having to deal with reading his mind only to probably get very random thoughts/static and only occasionally something helpful #she very quickly learns that nihility bounces off this man like a ball #he is simply immune

[troublemakergalaxy]

who up regretting they evator rn

#this spawned because i have a need to draw both william and bive and also i wanted to draw someone as a pretty princess #bive regretevator #bive #williamplayz57 #williamplays57 regretevator #regretevator #regretevator bive #regretevator fanart #you are now a pretty princess #i IWLL make more regretevator art i promise . i am just a man with odd motivation and 100000 wips #i'll post serious stuff later

[dammarchy211]

It isn’t true!

I am not the ghost!

Without a soul!

come! Listen to my heart!

You here it beat…

(Preface for pronouns, Dart is transfem)

Introduction of both this au’s villains, and more Dart lore! This is for the au we’re Raz is 20 btw.

Firstly, Agatha was working on her reanimated dead in secret, her company makes toxin based weapons basically but they're still not Really doing anything illegal that people know about. The reason people started finding out is that she was dumping "unsuccessful" ones out of the drainage pipes in her factory and they began walking around and terrorizing people. Lili, Raz, Dogen, n Kitty were sent to the city her company's in (dubiously New York City) to sleuth out what was going on! They don't immediately figure out it's her, Dex gets wrapped up into it because of the zombies using C.R.I.M.E. tech. Agatha tried to be super friendly n sponsoring the psychonauts agents at first in order to lead them in the wrong direction ! Kinda a mix between Syndrome and Mirage from the Incredibles plot wise.

She eventually reanimates Dante, but noott very well. All of Agatha's zombies r basically puppeted around by mechanical parts and some psychic tech. Dante is only conscious after she reanimates him too bc he had his brain stored when he died! Agatha's reanimated dead are also reanimated a while after death, whereas Dart was reanimated almost immediately so Dante is practically falling apart compared to her. Dante is definitely not the main villain, and Really does care about Dart, especially since he went through so much effort to keep her alive after he died, but Agatha reanimates him so they can rediscover that same method that worked with dart. Which might become a conflict of interest between Agatha n Dante in the future.

When Dante was alive, he did actually Try to parent Dart, but so much of his time was iust devoted to his experiments and work and cult stuff and holing himself up in his office that they were distant regardless. I mean Dart was kind of just an experiment that he didn't even think would work and he got attached too- there were a good 3 or so years that Dante was sick and dying (probably harmful material exposure let's be honest) and they just Didn't talk about it. They both knew but they didn't discuss stuff like that. I mean they had heart to hearts sometimes but the last time Dart really saw him before he died was kinda 'you're dying and we both know it'. Even when Dante was alive, Dart was really trying to run away from anything ‘supernatural’ or ‘weird’ or dangerous and just live a normal life. That’s kind of why she started going to whispering rock, but after the brain snatching incident she just hid in the outhouse the whole time and then stopped going after.

#my art #psychonauts au #older au #psychonauts #psychonauts dart #psychonauts oc #psychonauts ocs #psychonauts original character #razputin aquato #psychonauts fanart #psychonauts art #raz aquato #yes Dante’s name is a cheap reference to Dante’s inferno I’m sorry— #I want to design a mask or helmet for Agatha too to conceal her identity more #geez I think the drawing of Agatha n Dante is from like. November 2022 #so I have not been posting these— #also obligatory song meme to show how Raz’s and Darts motivations foil eachother #Agatha’s vc is into the spiderverse Doc Ock! people kept mentioning her for vc ideas for Wanda n Cheri #but it didn’t fit either of them since they both have different accents but. hey why not Actually make a doc ock bc character :-) #worms tw

[kira-light0]

While on mandatory shore leave at a space station, Spock meets the two best surgeons in the Federation: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Trapper" John McIntyre of the starship NCC-4077

Star trek × Mash crossover

(Image description in the Alt text if you can't read my handwriting)

#star trek tos #mash #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #spock #trapper john mcintyre #hawkeye pierce #my art #traditional art #I didnt have access to any references while drawing hence why they all look a bit strange #I've been waiting to make a crossover since I started watching mash months ago #Hawkeye and Trapper are in that one uniform Mccoy wears sometimes; the short sleeved shiny one #I'm not sure if I like how Trapper's face and hand came out but I'm glad I finally drew this #As per usual sorry about the quality #I've been meaning to draw star trek stuff again for a while but I'm really lacking motivation and inspiration. #I'm not sure how many people enjoy both star trek and mash. Preparing myself for this post to get a maximum of two notes

[recallback-art]

I've been chipping away at this for a second now, so I'm hype to finally post it. You can think of it as a hypothetical cover page for something I've been working on - but it was a fun experiment either way.

Really enjoy doing these bigger ambitious pieces, feel like I'm getting a lot better at art and enjoying it more in doing so.

#original character #my ocs #original story #insects #animal death #recall draws #laid out in lavender #lucero ardenti #oren kawaguchi #masaru yamada #dazai kubo #tobi omukade #idk what else to tag lol #one of these days primrose path will probably get its own tag but thats only if i take the writing seriously #until such a time itll exist under the loil bracket bc its in the same universe #i have done some writing tho which was apparently a hit so ive been motivated to rlly hit the books again #im hoping it means i can finally chip away at the loil pilot #set up the blog and stuff yknow #and from then on i can chip away at both as they appeal to me #i prolly wouldnt post anything for primrose until i had a decent buffer of writing tho. like 4 chapters maybe

[frostedpuffs]

im having a hard time wanting to create content these days

#i mean the WANT is there. i just dont have the MOTIVATION to get started i guess #i cant believe i used to write one chapter a week #idk it takes so much effort for me to even be able to get ideas and want to write stuff #and i can lose the motivation so easily #text post #like im not gonna abandon any more fics and I especially wont abandon ppu #but for some reason writing and drawing have both become a chore and I just Dont wanna do it anymore #like i WILL #i'll never stop creating bc i still love it #but why does it feel so bad??? #it takes SOOO MUCH just for me to want to write something. or to come up with an idea for a thing. and then takes even longer to make it #and by that point its like well...does anyone even want it anymore #or has someone already done it better than i could #idk. fic writing is hard. drawing is hard. ah well

[grymmdark]

has anyone drawn vash and meryl in lolita and ouji coords respectively or do i have to add that to my list of things to draw

#grymms spectacular fucking posts #trigun #vashmeryl #listen i just think they should both get a little gender nonconformity. as a treat. #also i just really love lolita fashion #feel free to take this idea n draw it btw I'd love to see it become reality without having to wait 1000000 years before i get that rare #motivation to draw and time to draw as well

[thethingything]

we went from "wow I'm drawing so much and have so many ideas" to once again getting art block which like, okay fair enough, I'll deal with it, but it's still frustrating

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #<- it's not a serious vent but still #I managed to do a lot of drawing though and I'll probably at least be able to do LV week stuff #I've actually had a break and not drawn much for the last few days because we were like ''hmm let's not risk getting burnt out'' #and the minute we took a break both our motivation and inspiration just kinda vanished #I have ideas for some little doodles and stuff that I might end up working on #plus I'll probably end up focusing more on making stuff for LV week #because I think our brain freaked out a little bit the minute we tried to draw unfamiliar characters for Art Fight afhgjk #so maybe working on stuff with familiar characters might make it co-operate a little bit more and stop feeling as weird #still not sure why our brain gets so weird about drawing characters we don't normally draw but oh well. it is what it is

[marblerose-rue]

click for better quality!

nothing more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose

the dagger, kamryn

#blood tw #tw blood #tw unsettling #unsettling #I HOPE IM TAGGING THIS RIGHT #my art #do not copy trace or steal #mrb #THIS IS KAMRYN. blinks #long story short shes a clone who is so angry with her creation she hunts down the scientists who made her with the help of someone who #got cloned . its like a super messy situation #kaden as a sona and kamryn post lab both have buzzcuts but kamryn has had the buzzcut longer and #in marblerose canon kaden does *not* have a buzzcut. this is the second time i got a hair cut after giving it to an oc #I HOPE THATS NOT CONFUSING bc i know it probably is . kaden exists in and out of canon but shes the only one who does #i am hoping and pleading that makes sense . im also sorry im only posting oc/au content atm AHBFDJGHBDFG its the only thing i can get #motivated enough to draw til art fight opens #like two years after shes created she gets k worded . do i have to censor that

[ankaa-avarshina]

I need to find more artists to follow because I’m so sick of seeing artist posts get hijacked by writers but never writer posts getting hijacked by artists

#rayrants #like I know both artist and writers have issues that they share #motivation being one #but like can I please have more personal artist advice posts that's not just ''how to draw hands'' or ''shading and perspective 101"

[thelovers-2001]

Graaah the curse of wanted to make OC x canon and self ship stuff but I take way too long to finalise a character design...

#🗃️ miscellaneous posts #📂 not shipping post #The curse of wanting to make more selfship stuff but it's always either a) I don't have anytime to draw #b) I do have time but no motivation to draw #or c) Have both but I wanna make an OC but it takes me ages.... #Also my anxiety of making ref sheets hfhfnvjvjcncngnv

[sparky-is-spiders]

My beautiful baby lizard can have another edgy song on her spotify playlist. As a treat.

#yes this is about #amaldyne #she’s been on my mind basically constantly #the song is Thought Contagion by Muse #because ‘you’ve been bitten by someone who’s hungrier than you’ is basically her tagline tbh #my dearest and belovedest lizard <3<3<3<3 #i wanna draw her with my favorite toaster because i think they could both bond over being morally questionable and purple #(and by bond i mean fight) #but while moving my files from my old laptop to the new one i discovered a wip of amaldyne and leoshgon that i also wanna finish #because i wanna infodump about that dynamic #basic gist is that leoshgon ‘i will commit war crimes for for hugs’ varmillius trades in one #morally repugnant and divinely blessed would-be dictator of the world for another divinely blessed would-be dictator of the world #but this one is obly deeply morally questionable and (much more importantly) #doesn’t want to kill him and keep his empty reanimated corpse around as a sign of their mutual and eternal devotion to each other #(which is much less romantic if you might actually SURVIVE past age 20. which is a relatively new concept for leo) #in terms of morality and motives leo is objectively the most selfish and least principaled of the main cast #eityr would be down there with him if she hadn’t decided to make amaldyne her moral compass #which is definitely like. a bad decision. and doesn’t speak well of either of their moral characters #but at least they both Have Principals #leoshgon only really cares about leoshgon (because if he doesn’t then nobody will) #eityr wants to be (seen as) a good person but doesn’t know how to actually be one #amaldyne is constantly agonizing over mew and exciting ways to justify all her decisions and always be in the right no matter what #which means both amaldyne and eityr are invested in at least vaugely gesturing in the direction of being good people on occassion #wow was that tangent ultimately unrelated to the original post #ok sorting tag time #amaldyne rotwing #the lizard crew

[raycatzdraws]

"Are you hearing this, Smithy?"

A bit from an unfinished abandoned animatic.

Not going to share all of the draft atm because I do intend, HOPEFULLY, TO FINISH THE FANCIER VERSION ONE DAY!!! any guesses to what the audio is?

#HAPPY OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu wild #lu four #wip #I'm taking a storyboarding class this quarter so boards/animatics will be forced from my hand whether I like it or not #for the sake of grades ajdhsgfjsdf #I'm looking forward to it! the external motivation helps #022423 #uhm uh not to be hopeless in the tags but #I think I've developed a tremor #it wasn't so obvious before since I draw with stabilization #but upon returning to school and taking notes with a pencil on paper again- like- I can't write in the lines on ruled paper #maybe I'm just out of practice but it's been a quarter now and there hasn't been improvement #I can't make like- claws with my hands like go 'rar!'- w/o my fingers trembling. it's in both my hands #it goes up to my wrist and elbow #drawing and writing have become frustrating because I can't control my lines #flexing my fingers at all causes it. just picking up my pen to finish coloring in Wild's boots to post this #I never like doing detailed work but now??? it even affecting just coloring things in is YEESH #I'm trying to see doctors for it #I'm gonna keep drawing. I have stories to tell. #just- yeah. this is probably going to be something you'll see me complaining about #BEST REASON FOR IT IS MAYBE I'M JUST REALLY WEAK AND THAT I NEED TO EXERCISE MORE AND GET MORE SLEEP #COULD TOTALLY BE IT #but I am.. WORRIED #it's frustrating (and a little scary shhh) and I don't like #but we keep on

[girlyliondragon]

I'm late to say this here but Happy New Year or whatever.

I'll admit I have purposefully not been active here for a variety of personal reasons. The main one being I just don't really feel welcome and I feel very out of place. I still have people popping up in my notifs liking my old fandom stuff and frankly it just makes me really uncomfortable. I don't do that fandom anymore, I don't wanna be involved in that fandom anymore. I wish there was a way to just delete all posts related to it without having to cherrypick through the mass editor tbh. I want to purge it all. I don't want to talk about it outside my very small friend group if they ever were to bring it up again.

I don't really have a community to be a part of here and that makes me feel uneasy. Ironically I've felt more at home on Twitter bc I'm part of a community fandom there that frankly, I would not be able to be a part of here. I will not say where I am on Twitter bc I don't want anyone stalking me there.

If it wasn't for the fact that you can't reuse tumblr names if you deleted an account, I'd have deleted mine and probably never come back until years passed.

It's just hard to feel welcome here when your last experience regarding a fandom was basically being talked out of committing suicide by the people who not only rejected you but never attempted to speak to or interact with you again after talking you out of it, which frankly only makes me think they never actually gave a shit about me or my life by that point, and just didn't want any blood on their hands. I would've been tempted to go back on that as a Fuck You had the latter half of this year which has treated me a lot better not happened. :/

I don't really have any resolutions for here bc there's nothing I can really do here. As of now this is just a blog where I rb stuff here or there, I don't really have the motivation to interact with people outside my circle. I am still drawing but it's nothing I should post here.

Sorry for the extreme downer post, I just feel like a mismatched puzzle piece now and people have only proven to me that I'm not welcome. Hopefully you guys had a better year than me. Whoever's still stuck around well, thanks for doing that when you had all the other times where you probably should've. It's weird to still have friends here, but I sorta appreciate it still.. ik it doesn't sound like it. I'm just still bitter and broken up mentally.

My only resolution is to actually have a space where I can heal and actually surround myself with a community who want me. And I've been doing that. I just don't like posting here specifically.

Maybe I should turn this back into a RB-only type of blog like I wanted it to be in the very beginning before I got into fandom stuff again. Idk, if it'll keep people from expecting things from me.

#Venty Vent Vent #Posting here is kinda a slog tbh since my mental health's only been hurt more being here #like I feel like it's bc I Have to and not bc I Want to #I haven't posted any art here both bc I have nothing I Can post here but also bc I'm not motivated to draw for this blog at all