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Grace my oc from fallout 4

I've had this oc in my mind for a while! ♡

Her name is Julian Douglas!

Tagging peoples!

@mediocre-life-span @lamiahypnosia @somethingclich8

@thisisrigged4 @captastra @elliottzaine

self-motivate.

i know you asked about fanwork specifically but if you're going to do anything creative, do it because you like doing it and you want to do it and/or you want to get better at doing it. external validation and attention is nice, everybody wants eyes on their work, but restraint and patience and appreciation for the intrinsic joy of creation will go a long way. being your own primary audience will make you much less mentally ill than desperately chasing notifications, and audiences can be very fickle; especially if you want to take passionate risks with your work then you have to be prepared to alienate people who just want something familiar and comforting (being friends with a couple other like-minded sickos is also great because their thoughts and feedback will always matter more to you than a stranger's). recognize if and when it's not fun for you anymore or doing more harm than good, assess why that is, and either change your process or take some time away if you need to (IKROAH was on hiatus for like eight months last year for this reason).

i make a fancomic because i like drawing and i like making comics and building off the foundations of FNV let me make a comprehensive story relatively quickly that i now get to just make comics about, and making these comics is intrinsically rewarding for me to do as an artist, and making these comics has also helped me develop a process with rather low stakes and made me a lot better at making comics in general and given me a lot of skills that i've taken to my original work. this is sort of a utilitarian way of looking at why i like making my comic but i cannot stress enough that it is also just fun and enjoyable without feeling like a waste of my time or like something i'm stagnating in. every issue of ikroah is a project to me where i try to experiment with my style or push my limits and that results in a really rewarding loop of artistic development, on top of the inherent pride i feel about telling a good story.

oh and for fallout specifically i think another thing i would suggest is to just do what you want. change shit for the sake of changing shit just because it's more fun to write or it works better in the story that you're trying to tell. if you're writing fallout fanfiction then consider that everybody reading has played the game already so the last thing you should do is be recounting in-game dialogue verbatim. anyone who hasn't played the game won't know you changed anything, anyway.

You know he listened to ”A man without love” for months after Roulette asked him this.

This was originally just a sketch for introducing Roulette ”Smiley” to this shitshow but then it suddenly turned into this.

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

eat breakfast

go to bed

get out of bed

take a shower

write

practice

watch Superman Returns and write a paper on it

retain shreds of sanity