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#this is the price i pay for being nice
squidpedia · 27 days
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What was it like for you starting out as a beginner artist? How did you improve?
I mostly just incessantly practiced, experimented, and observed a lot for as long as I can remember. I grew up on a lot of videos going over tips and techniques for beginner artists and mostly just observed their processes and would try to bring them into my art. Othertimes I would just constantly experiment with my artstyle (what if I made the shoulders more defined, what if I changed the size of how I draw eyes, what if tried drawing different body types, what if I tried a pose with a lot more foreshortening etc etc). I tried to push myself a bit further everytime like maybe spending more time on the overall piece, adding backgrounds, drawing multiple people interacting. Drawing challenges also helped a lot I think since they pushed me out of my comfort zone or forced me to approach my art in different way than what I was used to. Things like “draw something using only one line and not lifting your pen from the paper”, or “create a bunch of random shapes using a colored marker and then turn them into characters/objects”, or even just dtiys challenges were great for this. A lot of the drawings I made from these didn’t really end up being things I was super proud of after finishing them, but thats fine since I still learned a lot and they still helped with improving. A lot of it was honestly just not being afraid to draw something I might not be happy with later in the name of getting that practice in and trying new things all the time.
I hope this is helpful, but I’m not too sure so I’m sorry if it isn’t, this is the best way I could think of summarizing it!
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wittywallflower · 2 years
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Steddyhand modern AU where they oops themselves into a throuple.
Ed and Izzy are roommates who run a business together. They are kind of an on-again-off-again, open-ish polyam sorta-couple that has never once had even a second of healthy communication about their relationship in the twenty years they’ve known each other. 
Izzy meets Stede first because he actually attends the meetings for the local business owners association or whatever. Technically Stede should be competition but Izzy quickly decides he is an idiot and will probably go under soon. He’s weird as hell though, Ed would love that. 
Ed does love that. He is delighted by the crazy shit he hears about the new guy and wants to meet him. The two hit it off because of course they do. That wouldn’t even bother Izzy all that much except between their flirting and their dumb dates, Ed and Stede want to talk about cooperative business ventures. And the business, that’s Ed and Izzy’s thing. They’ve worked hard to build it, together, and Izzy works hard still to protect it. he doesnt want to risk it on some crazy scheme these two come up with just because Ed is bored. So yeah he hates Bonnet, but its not romantic jealousy (or is it?)
The tension between Stede and Izzy comes to a head one evening when they are both drunk and still seething over an argument they had earlier in the day. Drinking turns to shouting. Shouting turns to shoving. Only a couple punches are thrown but there;s a lot of undignified scuffling around on the floor. 
Izzy isn’t really sure later when wanting to rip Stede’s head off had turned into yanking that golden hair to pull him closer. Or who hungrily took whose lips first. He remembers a soft handkerchief cleaning his bloody nose on the short trip to the bedroom, remembers checking Stede’s split lip to assess if it could withstand further kissing. He doesnt remember how Edward inserted himself into the situation, but he does recall the man giggling as they tried to arrange the three of them on the bed and he nearly fell off the mattress. 
He remembers everything after that too. Every touch, every kiss, every gasp and moan and sigh. The shock of twenty fingertips softly exploring him was a sensation burned into his brain forever now. He remembered it all. And he didn’t regret a second of it, even if it would be easier to. 
No one says anything about it because thats just how Ed and Izzy are (emotionally incompetent) and Stede like just came out two months ago. He hasn’t dated since university and he’s certainly never had a threesome. He is completely unequipped to handle all this. So he just follows their lead.
So things mostly go on as normal with Stede and Ed spending time together and Izzy’s often around when they do. But Stede is a sweetheart, and a gentleman, and he also cannot stop thinking about how enjoyable that night was. It seems rude to not express that, but one doesn’t just say “thanks for that phenomenal sex”, do they? How does one, err, request a repeat?
Stede spots a gift he thinks Izzy might like and gives it to him. A short while later he notices the bag Izzy carries is nearly falling apart and replaces it with a nice satchel. Black leather, very cool, very much Izzy’s aesthetic, very much designer label and expensive as hell. 
Stede has to cancel a date with Ed one night, but orders an absolutely ludicrous amount of takeout delivered to their place anyway. A lot of it is Izzy’s favorites. 
Then there’s the concert tickets. He and Ed had given up hope of affording even nosebleed seats as soon as the tour had been announced, but Stede gets VIP, backstage passes, the works for all of them. Stede doesnt even like the band!
Izzy can’t take it anymore and has to ask Stede what the fuck. Why the gifts and the gestures and all this stuff? Is it just to butter Izzy up so he’ll agree to whatever dumb business idea the other two have? 
“I didn’t think I needed a reason to do nice things for my boyfriend!”
“...boyfriend?” Izzy asks, just utterly shocked. He’s echoed by Ed, who sounds less surprised and more… considering.
“Um. Yes?” Stede, to his credit, does immediately read the room and start to realize he may have misstepped. 
Izzy can’t even speak. 
“Are you.. is it wrong to call you that? I just thought.. i mean, after that night..” Stede blushes fiercely. “I call Ed my boyfriend, after all, and i care about you just as much as I do him…
Stede trails off with both men staring at him. 
Finally Ed chuckles. Izzy turns to scowl at him. 
“What? Don’t look at me, mate. I thought you two already had a totally different arrangement sorted out. I didn’t say anything about it because I figured you’d be embarrassed about having a sugar daddy.”
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pansyfemme · 8 months
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the truth is im not sure if any other towns with ivy leagues in them tend to have the hatred and resentment for the school that ppl from new haven often have for yale. id love to just sit down and chat with someone from another ivy league town bc like. is it just the combo of a school full of very rich prep school kids in one of the poorest areas in the state where our public schools literally does not have the funding or curriculum for a lot of students to qualify for the college in their own fucking town or is this a wider issue in other places
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inavagrant-a · 1 year
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I just want to remind everybody that you don’t have to be active here 24/7 to stay “relevant.” You are here to have a good time, to try to relax, and if someone has some sort of problem with your activity for some weird reason it is their loss not yours.
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biteapple · 15 days
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Fuuuuuuuuck today was awful .... I went to the doctor and after that tried getting my lamp fixed at the lamp shop and they looked at it and was like. Yeah that's unfixable. Those parts just don't exist anymore, sorry.
Went outside and my car wouldn't start and I had to run around asking for a jump (lamp people were cool about my car chilling there for a second) and it rained on me a lot and then I went to jiffy lube and they drove me down the street to help me and tried jumping it but it wouldn't work.
And THEN they were like "wait. hang on" and hit my starter with a stick while i started it and was like "yeah your starter is OLD.. Go to this garage down the road they'll help you"
and the garage looked at my car and was like "ummmm.... that looks so bad I'm respectfully not touching that. Sorry"
It could've been WAY worse and I made it home safe after this buuuuut... I have no clue if my car will start so I can go to work tomorrow. I don't have anyone around to hit my car while I start it ... >>''
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andromedasummer · 4 months
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KNITWORLD EMPLOYEES YOU WILL SEE HEAVEN I WILL ENSURE IT
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guinevereslancelot · 7 months
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acquired some small apple trees for $10 each and now i have a little orchard 🥲
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fizzingwizard · 5 months
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it's the end of 2023 and "thief king bakura had a point" isn't a hot take now anymore than it was twenty years ago when we first learned about aknadin's crimes in kul elna
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theexorcistiii · 7 months
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Customers are incapable of comprehending when a coupon or smth doesn’t work or when something is not on sale. Their brains literally can’t process it
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mynameis-a · 7 months
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cons of waking up: tired for the next 3-5 hours
pros of waking up: deeper/raspier voice :D
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bizarreandjarring · 1 year
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OK so i live in the US and let's say that i hypothetically work for a certain four letter german grocery chain that likes to value efficiency. now i get a lot of customers who like to tell me about how they don't understand why nobody wants to work these days, and why is everywhere understaffed, people are so lazy and don't want to work. while i stand there doing 3 jobs for the pay of one and slowly having my humanity melted away
so we recently put in self checkouts and now i have a whole new set of complaints (from exactly the same crowd) who tell me they hate the self checkout and wish it wasn't there and how its making the service worse etc etc. and incredibly, multiple people have complained to me after going through self checkout "why would i want to use this machine i have to do so much more work, i should be getting paid to check out my own groceries. it's like why are you making me do it i don't want to work at the grocery store"
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kellystar321 · 2 years
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entropys · 1 year
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:/
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widevibratobitch · 1 year
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Thanks for your post explaining the situation surrounding Mariusz quitting his job! You write: "As someone who lives in Wrocław and is a student at its Music Academy I can only tell you - he was... not much liked, to put it lightly, by the Big People". By all means, he was a celebrated opera singer in Europe and the USA. What made them dislike him so much?
oh goodness gracious, i really cant say, why would you even ask me that! im the last person who'd engage in such shameless gossiping!
sike lol
i never heard anyone say he was not a great artist. no one doubted that. people only questioned whether he was the right guy for the job, only having experience as a singer, a perfomer, no matter how renowned. or rather, the main issue was - how much, having no experience in the position he now occupied, he was earning. because that really was an insane (and i mean. INSANE) amount of money.
Ołdakowska getting the job of the director was also a pretty controversial thing, so automatically, people who weren't in favour of her winning, didn't also like Kwiecień since she was the one who chose him for the job.
then there was the issue of the changes Mariusz wanted to make. he was in favour of promoting young, new singers and hiring big names for guest performances, ergo, many of the singers who had already been hired full-time for years by the opera house in Wrocław stopped getting big roles etc. no roles - no money (or rather, very little money, the bare minimum actually). this, coupled with the amount Kwiecień was earning... well.
he and Ołdakowska also promised Big Things but sadly they both got the jobs in the beginning of 2020 and we all know what happened then, not much could actually be done when the entire world was more or less paralysed by the pandemic.
and yeah, that's more or less it. id say, tl;dr in the end it's always all about money. and some personal beef he may or may not have had with some people, i really can't say cause that's all i know.
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cookinguptales · 1 year
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hey, can you talk about how fic commissions work? I'm not interested in getting into the market (I'm just not very good) but I'm super curious about the process
Well, honestly? I don't do it very often and I generally do it for charity. That said, I guess these days I'm saving up to renovate my bathroom to make it more accessible (take showers without risk of death 2023, tbh) so I might be open to putting the proceeds towards that. lmao
My usual process is to set a price per word (I try not to let it slip beneath minimum wage, tbh, so usually $10-$15 per 1000 words, perhaps more if it's a tricky subject) then if someone wants a fic of a certain length, they can contact me and we can work out the details.
I tend to get uhhh carried away with fic, so I don't charge them extra if I go over however much they asked for, but I do charge them! Typically I don't ask for any money until after I'm done. I've never been unable to complete a fic, but like... I guess I do feel more comfortable not taking the money until I have the goods in hand, lmao. I have a whole cornucopia of chronic illnesses, so I fully understand that shit happens.
Like I said, I mostly do this to raise money for charity, so then after I've told them I'm done, I wait until they give me proof of their donation to the charity of my choice, then after they show me that, I'll upload the fic. (Or send it to them privately, if they prefer.)
That said, I'm not like... some professional fic writer. I'd feel kind of uncomfortable with that anyway, though personally I don't feel like it's that different from selling fanart. I'm picky with the commissions that I take, relatively speaking. There are certain kinks I won't write, and I won't write NOTPs or pick up a new canon to write for or something. So I'm not a total pen for hire. More that if anyone in my existing fandoms wants to see something specific from me and they want to put some money towards a good cause, I'm willing to discuss terms.
Truthfully, it still feels very weird to talk about these things openly...? I grew up in the disclaimer generation, haha. I guess I've mellowed out, though, as I've seen literal Disney fanart sold at Artist Alley. (For the younger users here, Disney was always notoriously litigious about their copyrights.) It still feels weird, but as long as negotiations, etc. take place fairly covertly, I don't feel like... morally bad about it. Pretty much every piece of WWDITS merch I own came from Etsy/redbubble, so it'd be kind of hypocritical to treat fanfic differently, imo.
I've also done origific/nonfic commissions and translation (J-E) commissions, and I don't care who knows about that. lmao. That's just a normal fucking job.
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myownprivatcidaho · 2 years
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lingerie is only good for you if uou stole all of it and didnt pay fpr any of it
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