#so thank u /genuine

[mushtoons]

please never, EVER feel obligated to talk to, interact with or get content out for your tumblr audience.

Yes, we love when you post. But BECAUSE we love when you post, it DOES NOT MATTER how long of a time passes between those posts. Seriously.

Post daily? Neat! Once a week? Awesome! Once a year? Wow, a neat new sight!

Really. Never feel obligated to listen to people on your online audience begging for more. What the majority want is for you to be well rested, safe and happy, and however infrequently you post because of that doesn’t matter as long as you are okay.

Have a wonderful day, and look after yourself!!!

/pos

#no words cuz words are hard #but this genuinely made us feel happy #thank u sm #dhdjd #sorry we wish we could give better responses! #but know we reread this like 8 times and still found it very sweet #so thank u /genuine #fjfjfj #sobbing #wood wide web

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[aliferous-ly]

special shout-out to everyone making gifs for the hermit charity event you are my absolute favorite people and the lifeblood of hermitblr <3

#gifmakers NEVER get enough credit #THANK YOUUU THANK YOU #send a nice ask to ur gifmaking follows and mutuals!!! #like genuinely. the amount of work it takes to make quality gifs. unmatched #even the stuff thats like 'oh i only spent like 15 minutes on it' u still love 15 min doodles no?? its work!!! skill!!!! #i tried gifmaking out awhile back and got so heated it was not for me #so now im just cheering in the background #hermitblr #hermitcraft #ollie rambles

[capydoodle]

am i tumblr famous now

#THANK YOU EVERYBODY. takes a bow #genuinely i never even dreamed my art could reach so many people #i love all of u

[dangoulains-devotion]

to catch a falling star

#final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #ffvii #ff7 #cid highwind #vincent valentine #valenwind #my art #genuinely!! kind of v proud of this one fellas!!! #the original version was the right hand one (falling/catching) but bc of the perspective you couldn't really tell vincent was falling #so i liked how the left side version looked too in a descending/catching kind of way. so u get both #my friend said he liked both versions bc it made him think of a tarot card and i will be chasing that high #anyway shout out to the tenebris ad astra project for existing bc it finally gave me the power of inspiration for the first time in months #i tried to mix vincent's hair between the dirge style and remake style. idk if it worked but fuck it we ball #i forgot a tag. i am moonlight elegy on twt #(its meant to be next to the my art tag) #swings back in here to mention its hard to see but it is v important that vincent has hip dips. thank u

[suntails]

MY SILVER PMV IS DONE!!!!

I've been working on this for almost a month and a half, and I'm SOSOSO excited to get to finally share it with y'all! :D it's a little love letter to his arc of the diasomnia story, and i'm so honored to get to make something special for my lil guy <3

#PLEASE if u are a silver fan PLS watch. its almost 4 minutes long and it's all abt him babey. my little GUY #genuinely the single most ambitious proj i think i've ever done. and i built a 360 master controller rig for DR once #i'm shaking a little bit i'm overwhelmed. this has been my LIFE for the past lil bit i just. augh i poured my heart into it i LOVE him #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #book 7 spoilers #ch 7 spoilers #diasomnia #this also prominently features the knight of dawn and lilia. the song will make that very clear as to Why. OUGUUGH #THANK U TO LETTIE FOR HELPING BRAINSTORM AT THE BEGINNING AND TO ELL FOR LETTING ME SEND A MILLION WIPS #suntails #sebek zigvolt #animatic #it's not an animatic at this point bc i went too crazy but i think more ppl associate fan vids w that terminology so yknow. blinks

[chameleonden]

swear that if they don’t get a happy ending that i will, personally, break into sony headquarters and Fix it myself

#my kids #my children #PLEASE LET THEM BE HAPPY #gwen stacy #miles morales #spiderman #spider man: across the spider verse #what’s the ship name for these two #i genuinely don’t keep up with anything on the internet im so slow #my art #gwiles #ghostflower #thank u too the person who told me these

[opheliasam]

among the grating cesspool that is spn youtube clips comment sections… found some peers.. academics.. people who get it if u will

#“idk why but this scene reads so much like a rape scene to me :/” #that’s bc it is one ! thank u 🙏 sam’s autonomy being violated is not only part of but is a central thematic of the show #starting from the very first season like come on the csa parallels couldn’t be clearer #tw csa #tw rape #tw mentions of sa and rape #the irony that is this episode being called “being free to be you and me" BC GUESS who didn’t really get to exercise their freedom #sam and autonomy and never belonging to himself and constantly trying and trying and trying #genuinely character of all time LBR . #sam winchester #spn #meta? #meta

[starflungwaddledee]

A little off topic but do I spy tail feathers on gk in the last panel?

thank you for noticing thank you for noticing thank you for n oticing thanky nyou f

yes, you most certainly do!

voilà!

he's had them in every picture of him i've posted, but they're not always easy to see! i was really wondering when someone would notice!

it is a swallow-like tail! when you have big ol' wings i figure that having a rudder helps significantly with manoeuvrability. here's some sketches where you can see it a little more clearly.

and an extra bonus; with all those feathers he's obviously gotta have a way to preen them...

#as you can see unlike vul he is a Gloves Wearer so he gets hit with the Scary Hands beam. you're welcome. #i also draw his wings at slightly inconsistent sizes because i hc that the knights can adjust their wing sizes a little. #genuinely feel like they do change constantly in the games so... why not make it an intentional quirk. #helps them to fit them into spaces! (and helps me to draw them in compositions. do you see what i mean.) #anyway anon thank u for this ask. i was really hanging out for somebody to notice!!!. #awtdy au #my art #galacta knight #bandana waddle dee #my headcanons and worldbuilding

[mushtoons]

i'm literally so obsessed with how you draw ice king it makes me so so so smiles. i feel like he's the kind of guy i'd end up talking to on public transit

AHDJDJDJ AHHH THIS MADE US SO HAPPY LIKE DJDJDJDJ AHHH THANK U

some silly ice kings just for u 💕💕💕

#BITES U BITES U BITES U /POS #DHDJDJDJ GAHHH WORDS ARE HARD ATM BUT KNOW THIS MADE US EXTREMELY HAPPY THANK U SM #SO GLAD U LIKE OUR SCRUNKLY BOY #/pos /genuine #EHEHEHEHE #mycel doodles #make room for ice king au

[b4kuch1n]

one string is all that I need

#Hatsune Miku #VOCALOID #or rather #piapro characters #Hatsune Miku Single String Ver. #<- yep that's the fan module I made for fun last year #the thing is. only half a month to go until it's mid autumn. and every year I try to draw something for the occasion #I just. started early this year... for some reason...... #well I mostly just wanna draw Her lmao. because the pokemon/miku voltage stuff is still being released and Im feelin the effect #and this year's magical miral design is so fuckign good.... thank u to miku artists. especially LAM and rella #as is always the case with this module the instrument/weapon (lol) she uses is a heavily stylized đàn bầu! #and I just realized while drawing this and looking at the ref sheets that I never detailed the pluck lmao #to be fair. usually its just like a piece of. anything #commonly bamboo or bone or plastic. shaped into a longish fingernail shape. its really the way u hold it that matters iirc #but yeah I spruced up the OG design for the instrument in this one lol. this is actually like my original vision I think #I really wanted to make that thing beast shaped. but I Just figured out how to properly stylize it when I designed the module #and! I did say this on stream but I am genuinely very proud of that design! that was genuinely big brain of me! so #future instrument variants will still probably base heavily on that general shape and principles lol. I'm playin in this space its MY muck #also I switched the number on her coat from 39 to 01 bc it's more on theme thats really it. nothin else to remark on there lol #and! once again based the dragon head on the lý dynasty dragon rather than later iterations. thats why the nose fin and no whiskers #and the metal nozzle is kinda supposed to call to mind a temple bell. not super sure i got that across well #but the rim design IS historical! I thiiiink early lê dynasty. just on ceramics instead of on bronze lmao #anyways thats it. I had fun colorin this one! kicked my ass a bit but I think I hashed it out mostly okay #have a good night lads! thank u mid autumn moon cakes for being bad to eat and sponsoring my late night drawin. and remember: #u only need one. but never say having more doesn't make it easier

[sergle]

I am litcherally foaming at the mouth over that tomato skirt design. How is every single one of your skirt designs a banger

YOU ARE SO NICE... i'm glad you like the cherry maters!!!! i'm super fucking gassed up for the skirt to launch!

#thank u... #genuinely thank u i really appreciate the people who like my skirts #they're by no means the best ones in the Maya Kern catalog so it means a lot #sergle answers

[rodolfoparras]

Nooooooooo, no muzzle! Keep going! More Price brainrot!!!!!!!! 😭😘💀

ANON I COHLD KISS UR LITTLE HEAD LET ME SHARE THIS

Thinking about you and gaz who constantly compete for the spot as price’s favorite even though the older man doesn’t notice any of your efforts, being so at each other’s throat people think you hate each other but you really don’t. One night the two of you get drunk out of your minds just laughing at your misery because both of you messed up during a mission and got scolded by the older man.

So you’re sitting there, eyes half lidded words slurred, jokingly saying how maybe Gaz should wear less clothing to get out of a scolding while tugging at his pants, and gaz retorts back “no no you should!” He says while his hands sneak under your shirt, fingers racking along side of your ribs and smiling playfully at you “you got more to show” and it keeps going like that, conversations holding a playfully tone while giving more suggestions on how to get Price’s approval, til gaz is straddling your waist and grinding his clothed cock onto your own, hitched breathes interrupting his words eyes fluttering shut, and before the two of you know it you’re cumming in your pants while the both of you are moaning Price’s name

#I got this idea from a self cest soap drawing djdjdj #and I haven’t been able to stop #thinking about it ever since #Alec answers #also y’all are so cute for reading my tags thank u for genuinely caring about what I say #scribbles

[craycraybluejay]

yeah yeah you hate me I'm an evil disgusting perverted manwhore we have each other blocked everywhere blah blah but I know you still jerk off to me and I know it makes you hate yourself a bit because you don't have the strength to accept the darker parts of your desire. but you can't help yourself and I take pleasure in the knowledge.

#this pussy makes homosexual men hate themselves !! #this tdick makes you want to kill yourself !! #this wretched and desirous personality has captivated you so !! #pussy change your life like im god~ they always fall in love not my fault~ #im never pickin up when they call~ #<- song lyrics #you want to fuck me so bad it makes you act stupid !! #im genuinely not mad people are generally going to end up hating themselves too much to be chill #but i am having a wild laugh bc this mf who told me i'm a gross freak also told me that he has sex dreams about me regularly #like yeah ok faggot #watch this loser text me in like a year apologizing for being a judgy little bitch begging me to respond LMFAO #thank u next hoe !! #idk its extra liberating to not only decide to be more choosy but also to know they obsessed #how's the vanilla boyfriend taste? can he get you off 7 times in a row? does he make you feel free and hedonistic? #anyway yeah im just being mean here bc its a mood boost i would not say this shit to anyone lmao #trust me bro i am literally the last person to cross the line when i get emotional (usually excited sometimes angry or horny) #ok no im a little prone to excitedly infodumping for 8 hrs but i try not to offend people #making enemies for no reason is a terrible idea

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Blorbo's Eepiest Soldier

Thank you everyone for your kind words, I'm doing better and am back to it <3

#helloo! #thank you all for the well wishes #I have really appreciated every kind word #I'm doing better now and have gotten back to school work #i am so eepy though #eepiest soldier #im also being overworked on my capstone game team and the team lead even told me shes over working me so thats #fun #counting going to this capstone class and meetings and such im putting like 25+ hours in a week for it #and i do have 2 other classes #and a social life i enjoy having #haha #but im happy to do the work cause its good portfolio stuff #except when my producer comes up to me and says "yknow how ur in charge of all the 2d art and concepting and branding and ui and pr? yeah g #make a 3-4 page detailed comic for plot at the start of our game cause we dont wanna cut plot (even tho we dont have time for it) and we #dont wanna show plot through interactable objects and dialogue/text so more work for you even tho u legit dont have time for it #ngl tho i have genuinely been enjoying designing icons and doing model concepts #i made some fire designs recently #please hire me a game company tm #anyway enough of capstone talk #love you all!!! #im excited to graduate and finally be able to change my bio!! #hope you all have a very lovely rest of your day <33 #furry #fursona #digital art #art #eepy

[banes-favourite]

Trauma asks u say 👀

Ya boy has absolutely self harmed before bane. Spending 10 years in slavery, there's no way he didnt try to escape other ways >.>

Haarlep probably has his form... They lived together and he canonically had to sell his body, it physically hurts my soul that Haarlep probably has teen Gorty memorized.

His face is irreparably damaged, he knows that, it probably hurts to think about what he might have looked like with out the constant abuse reshaping his face

He's probably got food trauma... I can't imagine him being fed regularly or enough when he was enslaved.

(Have you seen his base model? He's got some (2?) little light freckles below his belly button hidden in his happy trail.)

anon i am grabbing you by the cheeks and giving you the biggest kiss known to man bc you simultaneously fed me after I've been starving for 100 years and also trampled all over my heart but I'm THANKING you for it

i can totally see him mindlessly scratching his forearms bc he used to claw the shit out of them in the HoH out of frustration (and also read my fic about his self-punching 🙌) which is why he has them covered at all times with thick ass gauntlets.

also imagining him looking in the mirror and wondering what Could have been had he not been mutilated so young,,,.

And also i love to think he would indulge in feasts and a billion sweets once he's rich and well off but you're so right with the eating issues thing,, man's has always scraped by for a piece of rotten food, he probably can't physically tolerate overeating and has to throw up or he'll die

also what do you MEAN with the light freckles!! what do you imply!!

#thank u nomnom I've been Fed Well #pls send more if you've inspiration 🙏 #hiding this here cus yeah but omg the haarlep thing has genuinely kept me up at night #it's 100% canon and i feel so many things about it im crying #bg3 #enver gortash #gortash #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate #baldurs gate #bg3 gortash #anon #asks #tw trauma #tw child abuse #tw food #tw self h4rm