#this is shorter than i normally go :

[socksandbuttons]

I love your little doodle of bean bloodmoon! He’s adorable and I love him!!

dfvbhsd Thank you, he's the gremlin he was meant to be there lol

Lunar would forgive murder from him, canon real.

#i just used my normal bloodmoon palette for him hes <333 #forever i will have bloodmoon shorter than lunar u cannot take it from me #sun and moon show #bean bloodmoon #sams bloodmoon #sams lunar #dont forget lunar literally told bloodmoon to go kill some homeless people and promise this bro some bloodbags #altho if u saw bloodmoon would u deny him?? no #myart #bean eclipse au

[cerise-on-top]

hi!! not a x reader ask but more in general. What do you think Valeria, Laswell and Farrah’s weird/ dumbest habit? Adore ur stuff btw!

Hello! Thank you! These are pretty short as well, but it isn't particularly easy to come up with a dumb habit either!

Valeria’s, Farah’s and Laswell’s Weirdest Habit

Valeria: She has trouble stepping on the edge of shadows. Valeria either has to avoid the shadows on the ground or not step on their edges and step on them entirely. While she can step on a shadow’s edge if she needs to, and as long as she doesn’t look like an idiot in front of her people, she will avoid doing so if she can. She knows it’s stupid, she knows it doesn’t make any sense, but she can’t help it either way.

Farah: She counts her steps whenever she takes a short walk somewhere. Again, she doesn’t know the reason why she does it, she just does. Naturally, she won’t do it when she takes a long walk, but whenever she has a place to get to that’s 200 steps away at most, she’ll count. Even when she’s not doing it consciously, she’ll subconsciously count her steps. It serves no purpose whatsoever but it’s something she’s been doing ever since she was a kid.

Laswell: She has a habit of eating food in a specific order. The part which she likes the least will have been eaten up before anything else, that way the taste of the best part of her food can linger longer than anything else. While she will eat things in a “random” order once she’s aware she looks stupid having eaten one thing for a long time, she will always finish her least favorite part first, no exceptions. Unless there’s a salad, in which case she’ll always finish the salad first.

#cod #valeria garza #farah karim #kate laswell #it's nice to have shorter requests as well mixed in with the longer ones #that way I can focus on something short and sweet for once instead of having to give it my full attention #I don't think these are weird habits though but they're probably not something everyone does #especially counting your steps. but then again I'm just a weirdo to a lot of people #even though in my book I'm the most normal person out there #writing this very early today because I wanna be able to play some SDV today #been getting into the game again it's so much fun #I have the polyamory mod now too which means I'm going to romance everyone at once #starting with Haley naturally. she's my favorite. my best girl and I love her so much #besides her name reminds me of space as well #and if there's one thing that I love more than anything else it's space

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

Julie and Friends!

I was watching so much Rocky and Bullwinkle. It is taking over my mind! But it did help me with doodling and getting some inspiration!

#welcome home #welcome home arg #my art #doodles #julie joyful #frank frankly #wally darling #I found out Julie likes baseball! I had to draw her playing the game! #I also made Julie a lot shorter than I normally do #I might go back and forth on her design!

[leavingautumn13]

kicking around the idea of illustrated chapter covers for eye of the storm.

[i have commissions open now]

#pokemon #trainer may #magma leader maxie #pokemon emerald #pokemon rse #autumn.art #went ham with the glow layers on this one which is always fun #''what's going on here'' they're having a normal fun time summoning an old god obviously #maxie's vibing the whole time may is having a crisis #fun fact she is actually shorter than that on him i am cheating #the height difference between these two cracks me tf up which is half the reason i did it

[anachronistic-falsehood]

SO. ON THE TOPIC OF LOSS OF AUTONOMY. i am having the analysis brainworms now i hope u dont mind me going off in ur inbox. hi :]

there is something to be said about how vash's name is used against him constantly. that loss of who he even is as a person. i think about this so much. his name, his very identity is taken away from him. just the mere mention of the name vash the stampede is enough to send an ENTIRE town into a panic. it happens so much and its DEVASTATING to me. hes been labelled a monster across the entire world, and people who stick by his side after hearing his name are few and far between. theres been so much fear tacked onto his name, so much so that OTHER outlaws have used it on multiple occasions to make themselves more powerful. using his name to commit crimes that the real vash would be horrified to even consider. power in names and all that.

vash even. leans into it himself at a certain point. in order to protect the people of augusta he runs through the city shooting bullets into the air and solidifying his image of a deranged killer in the pursuit of. saving everyone. the only way theyll listen to him is if they think hes going to kill them all. if theyre afraid of him. theres also the part in hang fire (? i think its that one) where hes walking through the halls of the sand steamer singing about killing people in order to scare the bandits into not hurting the hostages.

and then you think about. eriks. how lina and her grandma took him in and accepted them as part of his family. how the town around them accepted him only because they had no idea who he actually was. he was a good guy... up until they learned he was vash. and then we get the conversation between the two men in the bar talking about how they should chase him out of town, despite living around him and knowinf him and seeing how good he is for . two years.

but lina and her grandma still accept him after that. theyre one of the only people besides milly/meryl/wolfwood who genuinely love and care abt him despite his name. they still want to keep him safe, grandma asks wolfwood to protect him and keep him out of trouble, even after learning hes the legendary outlaw gunman. because shes seen the true vash ans doesnt let the name scare her.

aughhh im rambling now i probably should have made this into my own post but this makes me SO fuckign crazy dude . give me ur thoughts id love to hear them.

I. YEAH. YEAH. OH MY GOD. Like. nothing is his own anymore. His name is used against him, his face is plastered on wanted posters. There is nothing about himself that he can truly call his. Not even his Plant powers! Because those are used against him time and time again by Knives in EVERY ADAPTATION!!!!

Like. Vash is no longer the name of a kid who once argued with his brother and laughed with his mother and celebrated his birthday and rolled around in grassy fields. It's the name of an outlaw who will kill at the drop of a hat. It's the name of an out-of-control human natural disaster who's leveled cities. If he doesn't even have his name, then what part of himself is really himself anymore?

AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE ERIKS! He finally has something of his own! He's got a name that attached to no one, and a life where he can settle down and stay out of the public eye. He finally has something that is truly his. And no one lets him keep that except for Lina and her grandma.

This guy really has no control over his own life doesn't he!!! He's a passive character in the story of his own life!!! He has nothing of his own, no identity past "humanoid typhoon" because everything about his identity has been stripped from him and morphed into something he's not. He has no say in anything in his life, not even who he is as a person, AND IT DRIVES ME BONKERS N FUCKING YONKERS!!!!

#whiskeys word soup #friend tag :3 #trigun #not doing the full formatting for my usual analysis posts bc this is shorter than most #but i'll throw in a few bolds and italics for ease of reading #BUT YEAH. YEAH. i don't have much more to say bc you worded it perfectly but YEAH. #grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you MAC I'M GOING TO EAT STYROFOAM #MAC. YOUR MIND. #GOD. HE REALLY DOES HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF HIS OWN DOESN'T HE #he has no control over anything that happens to him i'm clawing at the walls I'M SCREAMING AND WAILING!!!!! #oh eriks my beloved. being eriks was probably the only thing that made vash feel like a normal person for the longest time #and it was only for two years. TWO YEARS out of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY

[dirt-str1der]

I still get scared when i remember kiryu is canonically quite lean and not a fatty at all

#Yakuza loveblog #i really think hes a little tubby and a little shorter #stop making japanese characters taller than 180 .... #you can pick one guy in your series to make that height but not more than tao #two #like there should be a ratio of guys over that height to guys who are normal (160-175 range) #and i say this a lot but i like the idea of kiryu simply being a guy who can dominate the room by presence alone #like he shouldnt be a huge guy he should be above average but being six feet is literally (thinks of a social justice buzzword) whitewashing #fucking haruka is taller than me thats not why im mad i just think that nobody looks at the average height of a country before making their #characters. wait im going to boot up y5 again and see harukas height in comparison to the rest of the people because kiryus always like a #head taller than everyone and while its funny to see him towering over date i think its wrong for him to do that #if anyone tries to argue with me im going to your house and killing myself #sorry i dont feel that strongly about this actually wait i am trying to downplay it im freaking out right now #okay between then and now im okay now but it still makes me so sad

[identityquest]

have some meyrin. as a treat

#sketch #digital art #ocs #oc:meyrin #oc:mimic #theyre fucking going thru it this go around #at least mimic is. it puts up with so much #consider that first drawing to be concurrent w that last sketch of romsir #mimic voice ACT NORMAL ACT FUCKING NORMAL #meyrin voice I AM ACTING NORMAL. I AM ACTING SO NORMAL RIGHT NOW #romsir voice jesus fucking christ im in danger #OH ALSO i almost forgot. mimic fun fact it's taller than meyrin #mimic was shorter than meyrin once and was like no more of that. im taller than you forever #its usually abt nine feet tall this go around. meyrin is 8'8"

[way2gosuperrstarr]

big fan of the idea of elizabeth having huge freaky doll like eyes idk . im trying out diff blending modes i am slowly starting to lose art ideas again um !!! sorry for posting like single sketches at a time !!!! i share shit in bursts and some are way smaller than others . maybe i should at least start cropping these though

#salmon scribbles #elizabeth afton #i work tmrw #3-8 #closing shift #its objectively not that bad #its a shorter shift than normal for the holiday #but ugh #i dont wanna go #we're requird to work on holidays #because theyre our busiest times #so the shifts r shorter #people board their dogs a lot during holidays #its kinda crazy #we have like ...... over 35 dogs boarding rn ..... #kinda makes me sad #why wouldnt you want ur dog with you celebrating :( #but ok #anyway #aughu #im losing the joy of life again #while i did find something to read and its become my salvation i am disolving deeper into my fantasy world #my mind is withdrawing further from reality #im not interacting with people very much either so its kinda just pushing me further in #coping i guess? #lol #idk its just pushing me deeper into the discinnect between my mind and the real world #sometimes i wake up and have a hard time distinguishing my dream from reality for a bit #it happens occasionally but it tends to happen more during these sorts of things #but whatever

[deuynndoodles]

UR GETTING TOP SURGERY IN A WEEK!?!?@?,$?% CONGRATULATIONS WTF

YEAH ITS KINDA INSANE MAN ty so much!!!

#asks #zymstarz #technically its a breast reduction but ive been calling it top surgery lol #i decided to go w this instead of full top surgery so i had a bit of choice on what to emphasize #so i can either bind or use a pushup bra :] #itll also be super nice bc rn im too big to bind regularly (and its extra gnarly w eds so my time limit is even shorter than normal) #i honestly dont know how to feel abt this it feels so surreal 🧍‍♀️

[bluejaybytes]

squimage (squid image) ^^^^^^

#splatoon #my ocs #my art #aoough. blorbos from my brain. #umm technically this is like a week old but i never got around to posting it #there's a good amount of art im not GOING to post to tumblr either tbh... not bc its like awful or anything- #-its just graphics im making for their TH bios #anyways heres Basil and June ^^^ June's a little gayer in this drawing than she typically is bc instead of her normal accent color- #-i just colorpicked from Basil's purple #and why she ourple... #i also finished ALL of my SplatOC icons btw. and finished the huge big fuckoff relationship chart. #maybe ill post that on tumblr... eventually #also dont be fooled this picture is lying to you: June is the shorter of the two. by like a single inch #the squits

[casinoquartet]

just realized that if you were to do a casino quartet lineup based on their irl hights clown would probs be the shortest one 😭

#this is going off of the fact red said he's 6'0 or smth and clown being shorter than red #and bacon saying branzy is like. 6 foot #and ash is just. Tall . why is he that tall (i am very short for context) #but thats so funny to think about a biblically accurate casino quartet lineup thats not based on fanon #like tall but pretty normal sized guys and then ASHSWAG. #casino quartet #anyways its funny to think of i think even if i will likely never follow it ❤ #ash and red being the same height but ash wears 1 inch platforms gang rise up

[milkweedman]

[image description: an ask by @arbrehoux​ that says “Hi! I’m just getting into spinning, and I wanted to ask how to finish off the yarn once you’ve spun all you want. I’ve tried googling it, but every website I look at skips straight from the actual spinning to soaking. I’m using a drop spindle, if that’s relevant.” end image description]

soaking usually IS the way to finish yarn ! i'll give you the best step by step i can though (and for future reference, this applies to pretty much every single spinning method, so you can do this with yarns spun on a spinning wheel, a supported spindle, a drop spindle, a navajo spindle, a charkha wheel, or whatever else you might encounter. it's all yarn, so it can all be finished the same way.)

step 0: if you plan on plying your yarn, do it before finishing. you don't need to finish singles if you plan to ply them. finishing relaxes the yarn, so if you finish a singles and then ply it, it will end up being somewhat limp unless you overply it (which makes yarn less elastic and more rough) but if you spun a singles and want it to remain a singles, never to be plied, then you can certainly finish it as a singles.

step 1: remove the yarn from your spindle (or bobbin, or whatever it is on) and wrap it around something as it comes off. a niddy noddy is great for this, but not necessary. you can wrap your yarn around a big hardcover book or the back of a chair, or whatever. when taking yarn off a drop spindle, i usually just toss the spindle on the ground and let it roll around as I wind the yarn off. if you’re worried about it catching on something, put the drop spindle in a box or mixing bowl instead and let it roll around in there.

[image description: a somewhat blurry closeup of a tattooed man’s hands. in his right hand he’s holding a hardcover book. in his left he’s wrapping yarn around the book lengthwise. a red line has been drawn in to show the path of the yarn as he winds. end image description]

step 2: tie your yarn off. you can use the messy looking ends of the yarn if you wish, or another piece of yarn or string. just tie a simple knot around the hank. you want at least two knots, but if you're really worried about it tangling, you can do more. the purpose of tying your yarn off is to stop it from tangling in the next steps, to make it easier to work with when you wind it into a ball or cake later, and to keep it looking tidy.

[image description: a closeup of the yarn on the book from the previous image. a knot has been tied around all the strands of yarn on that side. there is a red arrow pointing to the knot. end image description]

step 2.5: if you want to know your yardage or meterage, this is the time to do so. first, count how many strands you have. second, measure how many inches or centimeters it takes to span the entire length of the book (so, front, back, and the width of both the top and bottom). In this case I think it was 8 strands and 24 inches for the whole book. that means the whole yarn is 192 inches (8x24=192) and the yardage is 5.3 (192/36=5.3). same steps if it’s centimeters and meters, of course. also, if you’re thinking “wow, I have to measure whatever i’m winding my yarn on every time ? that sounds annoying”, then you’re seeing why niddy noddys are so helpful and you should get or make one. my niddy noddy takes 2 yards to span it, meaning whenever i wind yarn on, after counting it i can just multiply my result by 2 and know how many yards i have (if i have 100 strands and i know each strand spans 2 yards, that means my whole skein is 200 yards. so much simpler.)

step 3: soak your yarn. or just get it wet. i usually run my yarn under the tap for a few seconds to make sure it is fully wet, but you can also put it in a bowl with some water and make sure it's fully submerged. leave it there for a few minutes.

step 3.5: if your yarn isn't very soft and you want it to be softer, you can add conditioner (just like, the normal stuff you use for your hair) to the bowl before you put the yarn in to soak. if you're softening it this way, leave it in the bowl of water for at least an hour, or even overnight. when you take it out, rinse it briefly. this step is only necessary if you want your yarn softer.

step 4 (optional): go outside and snap your yarn like a whip a few times. this evens out twist and flicks a lot of the water off, so it will dry faster too. if your yarn has some spots that are really undertwisted or overtwisted or both, this is a good way to help reduce that and make more evenly plied.

step 5: let your yarn dry completely. in the summer i hang my yarn over the clothesline, and in the winter i usually put it over a heating vent. doesn't matter how you do it. remember that wool in particular can feel dry even when it has a fair amount of water in it, so don't grab it the second it feels dry--give it a while longer to actually dry.

you should notice that your yarn looks different now that it's dry. if it's wool, it's likely puffed up some (to varying degrees depending on the breed of animal it came from, as well as whether it was roving or a batt or a rolag or whatever else, and also depending on how you spun it. it's a cool thing to pay attention to.)

step 6: skein your yarn. pick up the hank and drape it over your thumb or hand or whatever. the vast majority of yarns will twist a little in one direction when you do this, from residual twist. some yarns will twist a lot, others only barely. note the direction that it twists in--to the left or to the right. put your other thumb at the other end of the hank, and start twisting one thumb in the opposite direction that your hank twisted in. i usually twist with one thumb until i can't easily twist it anymore, and then twist with the other thumb. your nice loop should now look kind of like a piece of rope, with your thumbs still hooked into each end.

[image description: the first image shows the yarn hooked over each thumb, with two twists in the middle. the second image shows that same yarn, which now has so much twist it looks like rope. his thumbs are still hooked into each end. end image description]

you now want to find the center point of your ‘rope’ and fold it there. your ‘rope’ should kind of snap into place, looking like a much larger version of a 2 ply yarn. it’s nice and stable like this, and can be transported or stored easily (plus it’s pretty !). the last step is to take one of the loops you had your thumb in and push it through the other loop. this stops it from unraveling.

btw: the reason we twist it the opposite direction that it wants to turn is the same reason we ply in the opposite direction that we spin. if you spin Z and ply Z your yarn isn’t going to be structurally sound, and it’ll look pretty bad, too. when it comes to skeining you’re not adding any structural stability to the actual yarn, but the looks still matter--if your Z plied yarn is twisted Z while skeining, your skein will be limp and lifeless and not very pretty. if it’s twisted S, it’ll be nice and balanced and neat looking. it’s purely an aesthetics thing, but it also only takes half a second to figure out, so why not do it ?

and you’re done ! your yarn is now finished and skeined, and you know the yardage/meterage. you can label it with all relevant info if you want (for example: 4 ounces shetland roving, 2 ply, 350 yards, light worsted weight, finished august 2022, spun on a wheel)

#sorry this isnt an ask anymore #i somehow corrupted the original post by adding images and then saving it as a draft to work on later #idk... tumblr. #anyway those pictures are from a little video i made that im now somewhat too embarassed to post #although if this doesn't make sense and seeing it in video form would be helpful lmk and ill just link it anyway #it has to be a youtube video bc its too big to post on tumblr normally even after trying to condense it so #anyway sorry this took a while to answer ! it's hard to put most fiber instructions into words #spinning #handspun yarn #drop spindle #tutorial #also im not gonna go into shrinkage bc honestly i like to pretend it isn't a thing so that it doesnt mess up my yardage measuring #but if it immediately pops off the book/niddy noddy/whatever and looks way smaller that means your yarn is definitely shorter #than the actual yardage. calculating how long it really is while still using the same tools is rly hard #so i dont bother. you can minimize shrinkage by wrapping very loosely and not pulling on the yarn or putting it #under any tension as you wind. thats what i do with yarns when i really NEED to know the actual yardage #such as for a specific project or if i want to sell it #anyway yeah !

[fortyfive-forty]

now here's a question do i do a super short chapter quicker or a super long chapter slower

#normally i would always go for long rather than short #but because it's already been over a month since i've update there's a part of me that just wants to get that initial update out of the way #and i could probably do it within the next few days if that was the case #but it would be significantly shorter than all the other chapters i've writter #i don't really care about length overall but for the sake of pacing i don't like making chapters too different in length #esp if it's been consistent more or less throughout #on the other hand if i go long then i will go really long #and it will maybe take two weeks or so to get it out #which feels really bad #and the next two chapters have some stuff in them that i really really want to get right #so i don't want to rush it #but also i don't want to split it up anyway! #because it's supposed to be contiguous and i don't want to lose that flow of this 'chunk' of plot by arbitrarily splitting up the chapter #but if i do split it up then i can flesh out both parts of it to a greater extent #and maybe that would even improve the flow??? #god i don't know #the thing is though usually when i finish a chapter #i finish it at let's say 2300 words #and then by the time i've gone over it and fixed all the things i want to fix (usually flow/transitions/choppy writing) #it ends up being like 2800 #so maybe i should just assume the super short chapters will become only regular short chapters if i run them through my brain a couple time #blah blah blah #nonsense

[basicallyjaywalker]

Sometimes I have to remember that I cannot base the scale of characters on my height bc I am. Short to all people

#this is bc i was working on oc charts and character height hcs tonight (not finished) #and had to remember that 5' is not just short to me but shorter than the majority of people #i had to bump up some heights from my last go round bc i had the realization that jasmine was at least 4 inches shorter than all of her team #EXCEPT Nataly #i also have to do this foe for the ninja #Lloyd gets to be short tho. that's my treat to myself goddammit #i get one ninja to project onto and there's already a thing abt short jay so its gotta be lloyd #(dw. jay gets to have my body type. as a treat) #anyways. height is weird and being short is also weird for remembering how tall otger people are bc you hear 5'3 and go #oh!!! well that's my height and im normal so #NO YOU ARE NOT ROOK ADD LIKE 2 MORE INCHES

[mari-monsta]

If I have to read about marinette being a full head short than adrien in a fic ONE MORE TIME.

#im going to throw things #i am sorry fanfic writers i love you but this is my fanfiction pet peeve #why does everyone make marinette like 5 inches shorter than she actually is. im begging you all to let her be normal size #why is some rediculous height difference that is no where near canon more prolific in fanfiction than their ACTUAL . REAL HEIGHT DIFFERENCE #im sorry yall. being someone who is not a fan of overly exaggerated height differences and surviving in fandom is so hard #and im not beibg brave about it at all

[gamebunny-advance]

HmHm.

I think a Hairdorables head on a Cave Club body would make a decent Mayday doll.

Nothing's gonna be perfect, but I think Hairdorables matches her face/head shape a lil'better than the base Cave Club.

Ya know. If somebody wants to get on that.

#nsr #i already said i'm not gonna do it #and while i said it was because i didn't also want to make a zuke doll to go with her #it's also because i already made kliff: if i made either one using these particular dolls #they're gonna be significantly shorter than him and that'll bug the hell out of me #kun3h0 is a couple inches shorter than him even though she's supposed to be pretty tall #and that's with the extra centimeter that the shoes gave her #how much more so for May who doesn't wear shoes? #of course... i could just use dolls that are in-scale with him but i like more stylized figures #that's a big part of why i was so attracted to NSR #the only reason kliff works with a 'regular' doll is that he's distinctly *less* stylized than most of the other characters #but he's still stylized~ him being forced into this 'normal' body type means that he's getting completely eaten by his coat/scarf #whereas the long neck/big hands and feet of his original design helped pull him out of his clothes a bit more #i think the more cartoony proportions of the small dolls would help with details like that #so if someone else with this hobby wants to give it a try #then be my guest and also share it with me