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harry: surely one will live if the other dies

harry: therefore i am pretty sure that i am immortal now

KuroBas Speed Drawing: 子猫の世代 (Koneko no Sedai—Generation of Kittens) [キセキの世代]

 I decided to watch Kuroko no Basuke (黒子のバスケ) for the third time around and dived back into the world that I love. It’s probably my second favorite anime of all time. This is the artwork I created for the anime despite that the fandom is pretty much dead. RIP KuroBas Fandom.

 Apologies for my terrible Japanese writing skills.

 Types of Cats:

黒子 テツヤ/Kuroko Tetsuya: Singapura

青峰 大輝/Aomine Daiki: Russian Blue (get it? I crack myself up)

緑間 真太郎/Midorima Shintarō: Ragdoll

黄瀬 涼太/Kise Ryōta: Egyptian Mau

紫原 敦/Murasakibara Atsushi: Maine Coon (they’re supposed to be the largest housecat, so…)

赤司 征十郎/Akashi Seijūrō: Abyssinian

火神 大我/Kagami Taiga: Toyger (it’s a pun and a real cat—it’s the best thing ever!)

 Created using Procreate on iPad 2018 with the Apple Pencil.

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Song 1: Summer

Song 2: Happiness

 Inspiration for this art from: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0e/d3/7b/0ed37bf59490e57a8d2a303f33dab39b--kitty-funny-things.jpg

The author of that piece labeled it “Kiseki no Kitties” which is Kitties of Miracles if translated and I wanted it to be Generation of Kittens. Despite the wonderful alliteration. Lol I really love their artwork and it’s fantastic, better than mine honestly. I wanted to try my hand at creating my idea of the 子猫の世代/Koneko no Sedai (Generation of Kittens). Hopefully they are still cute and I had fun working on this piece for far longer than I should’ve.

 There’s something really entertaining to me about having Aomine and Kise hanging all over Kuroko. Allow me a moment to brag about Murasakibara’s eyes too. They are amazing and I’m absolutely entranced every time I look at how I colored them. UGH.

 If you’ve read all this, let me know in the comments if you want an 無冠の五将/Uncrowned Kings + Himuro Tatsuya version of cats. Suggestions welcome.

I love writing, but I love editing more. I want to go into the editing field. I’ve spent my years at college learning how to write better. I have to heavily edit my own manuscripts because they’re riddled with simple errors. I know my writing is NOT flawless.

What really gets my goat is when I’m reading a FanFic on any site and the author directly has a note that says: “Hey criticism welcome” and so I start by telling them that I love their writing style and that the plot is good, but then I give a little bit of criticism about how they could make scenes cleaner and give a little more description about something and then they flip out. Often times the writer personally attacks the person giving them the criticism as though they are the best writer in the world and “of course the second party doesn’t know what they’re talking about.”

If you don’t want criticism, don’t ask for it. I get that it’s FanFiction and we’re not expecting the best quality going in, but if you wanna be a writer outside of FanFiction you’re need to be able to pick up on necessary skills. An actual editor is ruthless.

I love getting criticism from others because it allow me to think about my writing choices and realize that to an outside audience, what I’ve written does nothing for them.

I’m just really annoyed by this lately. Especially since I’m in a Writing Fiction class for my last semester at Uni and it seems like no one is paying any attention to other student’s advice. A lot of people have had the same complaints as me in pieces and the author disregards it.

If one person is confused in a smaller group you can sure as hell bet that there will be at least 100 other people in the world that have the same issue. Granted you don’t have to take every bit of advice because you may be trying to achieve something rhetorical, but if that doesn’t come off clear enough you need to make it more obvious.

Learn to take some criticism and don’t lash out at people when you’re the person that asked for it in the first place.