A few things about my blog! เธ โ ^โ โขโ ๏ปโ โขโ ^โ เธ
Most of my reblogs are queued
I don't tag nudity or mature reblogs. (I do tag my own posts if they are suggestive.) Follow at your own risk.
I try to keep this a fandom-and-art-centric space, but there will be some social and political stuff here too (that I also don't tag).
I try to tag spoilers and common triggers, but sometimes I forget :')
I also have an art blog @astralband if you don't want to deal with any of that ^^
Okay. Actual intro and other info about me under the cut :)
Hello!! My name is Quillen (or Astra, either works!) and I use any pronouns. I am a multifandom and OC artist, and a lover of fiction and fantasy ๐
My interests include:
TTRPG and Actual Play (and fantasy worldbuilding in general)
Indie animation (particularly object shows)
Horror
Some anime
A small handful of video games
Wildlife & silly creatures <3
My tags:
#quillnart - self-explanatory
#quillenimated - animations or videos I've done
#quillnink - writing tag
#quillnnotart - miscellaneous/ramble tag
#quillnbox - inbox tag
#quillnocs - oc tag (I also have individual tags for most of my characters. I'll make a masterpost at some point)
(Please know that my "bug" tag is a catch all for any critter with more than four legs, not limited to insects or arthropods)
Also, mutuals please feel free to DM me!! But know that I may be slow in responding there too โชโ ๏ฝโ (โ ยดโ ฮตโ ๏ฝโ ย โ )
My ask box is open! I am very slow in responding </3 but I promise I don't bite! I currently don't take commissions, but it is in the foreseeable future. Feel free to request doodles, though!
You may use/repost my work with credit. Do NOT use any of my work for AI.
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God sometimes I'm writing smut and I'll like, delete a sentence because I'm like, no, I can't write that. It's too indulgent. And then it's like. Girl, what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins. Get real.
My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.
Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?
What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?
Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.
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ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them ๐ so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!
Just to be perfectly clear, none of those things is hugely egregious or problematic on its own (the 'LGBT' acronym especially, I've seen a fair amount of 'Q+' people that associate with it just fine and that's understandable), it's just a lot of little things that tend to pile up over time. And yes, most of the time none of them are intentionally pushing us aside โ but again, that's 'cus we'd have to exist in people's eyes for that intention to even exist in the first place.
Anyway. I dunno. Feels a bit overly whiny. But it's another one of those things I'd wanted to get out of my system ig.
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hfjone's ending: intentionally written to be hopeless and depressing while also being open-ended and leaving many questions unanswered. the story was always about ordinary people who think they can change the world but are ultimately unable to face off against the complexity of the universe and how expendable they are within it. the universe is chaotic and random and things happen without any reason or explanation even things that completely destroy your life and sanity. there was no reason it "had" to be liam it couldve been anyone. airy didnt care. why did he have to be the one who died in a car crash that day? the universe doesn't care. life is messy and in the end nobody truly won
inanimate insanity's ending: intentionally written to be kinda campy and trope-filled bcuz inanimate insanity has always been a love letter to the media that inspired it. mephone's story was ultimately about love and creativity and growth as a person. he deserves another chance to have a happy ending and the contestants deserve a chance to decide for themselves who they are and what inspires THEM creatively. if the ending was mephone going back to cobs and the contestants all being dead it would fundamentally go against the show's core themes of love, hope, rebellion redemption and creativity. it was NEVER about cobs being "right" that the contestants never existed or that mephone's creativity and inspirations were worthless even if the final outcome wasn't always the best or exactly what he wanted. if the show ended w/ episode seventeen they would essentially be saying that cobs was right and that none of the contestants were ever real or mattered. inanimate insanity is a radically hopeful show about creation and the impact artistic inspirations can have on someone's life. to say that art and creation doesn't matter and isn't "real" would be spitting in the face of that message
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