#pancake answers

[discountalien-pancake]

I’m not sure if you’ve already critiqued them, but if not, what are your thoughts on the new Shades of Magic covers? Here they are for reference:

They’re not good, bront.

Look i can summon little eloquence right now and most of my coherent thoughts come down to: these covers are badly done. They’re just. A couple feet up and to the left of hitting the mark. I get the concepts they’re going for but the execution is just not good!

Kell (book 1) is so awkwardly posed. It seems clear to me at least that he was pieced from a couple different photos because the proportions are so weird. His head is bizarrely large compared to his t-rex arms. His hair looks awful.

Lila (book 2) literally has a zipper on her extremely modern leather jacket:

A zipper! Look i know there’s magic and shit but the overall aesthetic of the various londons is pre-Victorian fantasy London. The zipper just takes me right out of the immersion and kills the plausible deniability and it’s SLOPPY. It would not be hard to remove the zipper from the image to improve the overall adherence to the canon. Also. What the fuck are those weird little blades in the corners? They make no sense whatsoever, and there are no such similar elements in the other two covers, which says to me they were just slapped on to improve the visual balance of the image. But they just look stupid! They aren’t necessary.

Also the proportion issue of Kell’s cover is highlighted by the fact that Lila and Rhy (book 3) look normal-ish, but Lila’s head is smaller than Kell’s and yet she has longer arms??? Lila isn’t taller or broader than Kell in the books so that just doesn’t make any sense.

Also also it’s hard to tell for sure bc of the lighting of the images, but Lila’s pants appear to be unfastened at the top of the fly. Because sure. Oh and the mask is straight up just photoshopped on top and looks horribly dinky. Party City Halloween-ass mask. Oh and if you look carefully at her hair im pretty sure she originally had a close-cut bob and they painted/edited in more swoosh, which is not a problem necessarily, if not for the fact that i can still see the original hair’s silhouette.

Rhy’s cover is once again rife with weird editing choices that are poorly executed, like the clearly edited waistline silhouette that sliced off the sides of the belt. The epaulette and crown are weirdly dinky and definitely photoshopped, and the cape is so poorly edited that you can see that it was two separate images of draped fabric slapped one on top of the other:

Also the incredibly obvious fact that, if you read the books, you know immediately that the reason Rhy is facing away from the camera is the artist couldn’t find a suitable brown model 🙃. It’s almost funny that in an effort to avoid brownface/whitewashing they just. Committed erasure instead??

Overall, these covers just feel like badly trimmed, over-filtered collages of magazine clippings, which is not an unworkable aesthetic. But it’s not an aesthetic that works for this series. It just lacks intentionality in these covers and comes across as sloppy work.

Somewhat annoyingly, it seems the main selling point here is the author’s name, which is printed in font three times as tall as the title’s. It’s a marketing tactic to cash in on Schwab’s popularity, but really that just says to me that the books and covers can’t stand on their own.

6/10 they do their jobs but badly.

#book covers #they’re just UGLY #pancake answers

[aro-pancake]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

Ok ok.

So, I did one of those before, but let's go again!

1- the mr. This one stays on the list.

2- animals. Mostly sharks, but I love all critters.

3- lazy weekends, the kind we don't have anything to do.

4- finally seeing my house in place after moving.

5- sitting on my sewing machine and the creativity not leaving me.

#pancake answers #tagging game #it's mostly the small intangible things

[sleepybeaaans]

I hope you don't mind me dropping this by here (ヘ0v0)ヘ (also oops I'm exposing my main blog haha~ it's @ourlittleuluru here hehe;;) List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers

BABE NOT AT ALL! 💓 i’m honored to be graced by your presence! 🌼 here ya go!

1. Love and Deepspace - if it wasn’t already clear. HAHAHA! I’m so glad to have given this gem a chance. (I’m obsessed). ♥️

2. Drinking tea (any kinds of tea, I’m an old auntie, heh).

3. My lovely friends - both online and offline. (guess we’re online pals now! 🫶🏻)

4. Japanese food (I’m a lil’ hoe for Japanese food, especially UDON 😚)

5. Of course, my family. - cliche, but it’s true!

I hope you have a great week bb! And congratulations on getting the latest Xav banner! ⭐️

#pancake answers #don’t be strangers! 💓

[pancakecuddleroni]

Rosey Petalpaws sent a sticker: Grin Duck @r0seyy

[Pancake Cuddleroni sent a sticker: Grin Duck]

[Pancake Cuddleroni dances.]

#Pancake Answers #Mamacake Moment #Rosey Petalpaws

[canisalbus]

Back in kindergarten when I thought I was a girl, my hair was so long that kids accidentally stepped on it when I was sitting on the floor. Has Vasco dealt with people stepping on his ears before?

For sure. That's the price you pay for having impressive ears.

#answered #anonymous #I mean he's always had his ears so he's used to dealing with them #I've mentioned this before but sleeping in the same bed with someone can be tricky especially if you're into closeness and proximity #the other person involved might not have the awareness to be mindful of your wild pancake ears #it's usually Machete who ends up squashing them by accident

[not-poignant]

If someone stopped reading your story, not because of anything wrong you've done, would you be interested to know why? Or would that just be unpleasant?

That would just be unpleasant, anon.

The reality is a lot of people just stop reading for a lot of reasons, and hearing someone's negative feedback isn't really that useful, because I'm writing the story for the people who really love it, and not for the people who got bored or stopped liking the themes etc. And then of course there are folks who just stop because life intervenes, which is normal.

Generally speaking there's a saying which is: If you wouldn't ask that person for personal advice, why are you listening to their criticism. And I tend to apply that pretty aggressively to strangers on the internet tbh!

Part of it is that I take negative critiques very personally, and can spend a really long time feeling like I should change an entire story for one person who's already stopped reading, or like I should be trying to fight to keep that one person's interest instead of like...focusing on all the readers who are actually just enjoying the writing as it is. And changing my writing for the people who aren't finding it interesting enough to keep reading (and/or who don't have time and/or who find it too upsetting etc.) is not going to help anyone!

So yeah, generally speaking telling a person why you've stopped reading a story is like...not really a thing to do (and that's true for most authors).

About the only time I don't mind it is when someone starts reading again after a period of absence where they've been stressed and I get a comment like 'Ah I haven't been around due to life/stress/illness but I'm so happy to be back and reading' lol, which I don't think is what you're referring to!

#asks and answers #personal #i know you said if the reason wasn't 'anything i've done wrong' #but tbh i don't think people not liking my writing is anything i've done wrong either #that's just a thing that happens #some people start reading because they think the stories will be more wholesome #or less painful #or shorter #or just haven't paid attention to the tags etc. #those things have nothing to do with me #i'm not writing the story for those people #they're like ships in the night that come by thinking 'oh are you a wafflehouse? it smells like waffles' #and then they go 'wait you only do pancakes never mind' #sdaflksadjfsda

[sleepis4theweak]

Have we seen the 2018 Caseys and 2012 Casey react to Milkshake and Waffle? Along with both Aprils?

If not.... can we?... 👉👈

Very sketchy art- but this is SUCH A FUNNY CONCEPT LOLLL

Poor Milkshake :/

#I have to draw the humans of TMNT more.... #Casey and April 2018.... sooooooon.... sooooooooooooon #also I gave Casey moles because yes <3 #answered asks #tmnt #rottmnt #tmnt donnie #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt oc #milkshake the turtle #waffles pancake #tmnt casey jones #rottmnt casey jr #casey jones #tmnt april #april o'neil #rottmnt april #april 2012 #tmnt foodie au #Sleepy art

[pancake-breakfast]

So, I was thinking, during his Eriks phase, Vash looks like this....

...but after seven months being held in place by Legato on the ark, he looks like this....

So... like... does his hair just grow really, really slowly? Does he need to be well-rested to grow his hair? (Escaping Vash looks very, very tired.) Did Knives come in every few days to give him a quick shave and every few months to give him a quick haircut?

What I'm saying here is I have questions.

#will i get answers? probably no #did nightow actually think about this? probably also no #and yet still i must ask #vash the stampede #trigunbookclub #trigun maximum #volume 8 #pancake thoughts

[anonymouspuzzler]

Going through the homewarming update was such a delight, I really liked your part as Mama Beagle, and also ohhh the cookbook. Anything you can say about the horrors contained in the cookbook? It looks like y'all had a lot of fun with the ideas for it and it's maybe my favorite part of the update

WAHH THANK YOU... getting to do Mama Beagle's voice was such a delight - I can't thank Clown enough for givin me the chance and of course Synth for bouncing off me so well in our li'l dialogue!!

and oh the cookbook was so fun to work on. we had a few brainstorming sessions where the only rules were A) we can't make something that would ACTUALLY hurt someone and in line with that B) it has to be TECHNICALLY edible slash replicable. dear friend of Frankie talked about this a little on twitter already but the two of us did a ton of exchanging notes on gelatin construction (without Frankie's setting advice there's no way I coulda completed the Queen's Game LOL). on a related note I've been delightfully surprised by just how VISCERAL people's reactions have been to the Queen's Game Gelatin specifically

#welcome home spoilers #<- going to tag these still just to be courteous for folks #anonymous puzzler answers #agayworthfightingfor #for the record i made the queen's game the pancakes and the birdseed turkey + helped on several hotdogs! #i did eat the pancakes. they weren't bad! #welcome home

[ndn-craft]

Perhaps an Oli TheOrionSound of any variety

the Chest AND the bard variety

#theorionsound #new life smp #empires smp #targetart #answered #harley-the-pancake

[willowbees-posts]

Cook me pancakes right now!

" how bout this... I'll make you pancakes when you buy one of my thneeds"

#art by me #art #fanart #onceler #onceler fandom #oncelings #the greedler #the onceler #illumination #the onceler fandom #the onceler fanart #onceler fanart #greedler #the lorax fanart #the lorax #questions #answers #i agree with him #BUY HIS THNEEDS FOR A PANCAKE!!!

[discountalien-pancake]

Wanted to let you know that after your post about it I finally caved and ironed my damned fabric before doing anything with it and am devastated to admit that it makes all next steps so much easier. As I can't afford a sewing machine I found my fabric stash super daunting but for handsewing the ironed fabric is a game changer!!!!! Jfc why am I this stubborn.

Hehehe 😈 ironing seems like such a boring, menial task, but it really makes a huge difference. And honestly it doesn’t take that long, especially compared to having to trace and cut everything a second time if you fuck it up in the beginning. It’s so worth the tiny bit of extra effort, bc whatever you make will be that much nicer and you will feel that much better wearing/using it.

#pancake answers

[hattiestgal]

For the outfit meme, how about that potential snep oc you mentioned in 💀(goth/emo/scene attire)? Or maybe Riley in 📷(a stereotypical tourist getup)? Maybe switch em around if that'd be more fun - lots of possibilities out there!

While I don't quite have the spoons to design a snep right now, Riley is seemingly taking a vacation! They seem well equipped for a stroll on the beach!

#hat answers #my art #my ocs #Riley Foxglove #you dont understand working on that 3d model is permanently changing how i draw rileys shapes #they were very pear-y before but theyre just straight up a pear now lol #pear pancakes...

[multicolour-ink]

One thing I noticed now was that at that moment when Mario pulled Luigi close in the commercial, Luigi gave such a cute smile 🥺🥺

Luigi clearly wasn't sure what he was supposed to be doing in the background - but as soon as Mario pulled him closer, he was able to let go of any tension and relax 🙂

#THEY HAVE SO MUCH LOOOOVVVVEEEE FOR EACH OTHER 😭❤💚 #super mario #mario #luigi #the super mario bros movie #super mario movie #mario movie #mario and luigi #brothers #brotherly love #pancakes gih #multicolour ink answers

[pancakecuddleroni]

you remind me of this rather fun to say mario party minigame name "Can take pancake" its so fun to say! heh, can take pancake yknow, that might suit you (@ask-toonie-cogsworth)

Geez, I can't remember the last time I played a Party game...

Can Take Pancake, huh? Hmm... It is fun to say! What do you mean by it "might suit me", though? As, like, a nickname? :Oc

#Pancake Answers #Toonie Cogsworth

[canisalbus]

Vasco could be butter and Machete could be a little dollop of sour cream

.

#alrighty now they're both edible #answered #anonymous #put them on top of some savory pancakes with a little bit of chives cheddar and ham