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fuck, I just realized that if I spend my life being too intimidated to make art then that means I don't even get to make bad art. I end up making NO art. that's way worse

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we’ve done the “performance artist sits motionless while the audience is invited to Do Stuff to them” enough times now and it always goes the same way I think we should probably stop doing it

chaumas-deactivated20240115

My objection is that it boils down to a weird game of consent chicken. Like, maybe in 1964 it seemed really shocking and novel, but any metro art gallery is probably within walking distance of a kink club where someone has laid out riding crops and flails and invited strangers to touch/bite/whip/strip/finger/fuck them and will be very sad if no one does. Of course there is nuance, but the kinkster can be understood as consenting and eager and capable of ending the scene.

What about the artist? They provide you with riding crops and invite you do Do Stuff to them without predetermined boundaries. To some extent they probably do want someone to do something edgy so the critics have something to write about. But the tension comes from the audience not really knowing what the artist actually wants to happen. It’s essentially a dare to discover what the artist considers an acceptable part of the piece. Of course it gets out of hand almost every time—it’s basically an exercise in bad kink negotiation.

eisenkrahe

Yes!

stormbreaker101

I LOVE COLLABORATIVE SOTRYTELLING I LOVE CREATING THINGS TOGETHER I LOVE "YES AND"ING WITH OTHERS I LOVE "NO BUT WHAT ABOUT-"S I LOVE HEARIJG MY FRIENDS' IDEAS I LOVE BOUNDING OFF OF THEM I LOVE ART I LOVE STORIES I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT MEDIA IT TAKES I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE

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murderofsomeone

I need to make something really elaborate and cool (doesn't move

skarchomp

i think one of the more damaging parts of learning i was gay was seeing tumblr posts about what is and isn't acceptable queer behavior and not learning until years later that it was not some official rubric handed down through time by the lgbt community elders and instead it was just the personal opinions of some weird 23 year olds who had a lot of followers

skarchomp

if they had just said "im personally uncomfortable with genderbending art" and not "genderbends are inherently transphobic" maybe my coming out process wouldn't have been staggered by longer than id like to think about

waitingforthesunrise

don’t you love when you’re casually reading a random poem and suddenly come across a line that burrows into your bones and becomes the definition of your heart for the next 17 years

an-na-ko

Lyra, my beloved cat of 13 years, passed away this year on Father's Day. She's been by my side through very difficult times and was my little rock of steady and unrelenting love. I struggled a lot drawing this, and struggled a lot posting it, but I know I would've wanted to read a comic like this that validated my grief for her when I lost her.

Wherever you are, Lyra my little summer star, I love you always! Thank you for being the best thing in my life.

#art #comics #art that makes me cry 💛

birdplushie

i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself

#me writing ryland grace #sorry dr grace you’re just not a ryland to me

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Fic Rec Friday!

June 26th, 2026

Hello all!! I am back from the void, and I'm finally checking one of the things off the I should really do that someday list that lives eternally rent free in my head - a weekly rec list of what I've read and sparked joy this week!! I figure what better way to end my (brief) hiatus than with some positivity and love for all these fics that keep me sane 💛

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Fandom: DC

Completed works:

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🌻 cyclical - floatingflowers Gen, Graphic Depictions of Violence 2,166 words, oneshot Completed: March 21st, 2026

Summary:

Alfred’s heart was in his throat. He couldn’t do this again. He couldn’t survive this again.

“Mr Wayne was shot. He’s been taken to Gotham General, but we have Damian Wayne with us here at the station. He’s shaken up.”

“I’m on my way.” Was all Alfred could reply, hanging up.

He stood, in the dim light of the kitchen, holding the countertop as he breathed. How could this happen again? Was it the curse of the Wayne’s, to be gunned down on the streets of the city they gave their hearts to, right in front of their children?

Rec: Short, sweet, and bittersweet. Bruce and Alfred both love their children very much, and that’s why the past hurts so much to repeat.

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🌻 a battle of wills - coyote_nebula ( @occasional-oryx ) Gen, No Archive Warnings Apply 4,651 words, oneshot Completed: November 27th, 2023

Summary:

When Bruce's back pain flares up at the office, he’s hounded by demands from his lawyer for an updated Last Will and Testament.

In retrospect, he could have handled his frustration in a way that didn't result in nine frantic friends and family members crowding his bedroom.

Rec: Just a great concept, hilariously told and worth the reread. I think Bruce deserves to give his family more panic attacks. I think it would be healthy for all of them <3

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🌻 Happily Belated - KelpieCodyne ( @kelpiecodyne ) Gen, No Archive Warnings Apply 3,761 words, oneshot Completed: September 15th, 2023

Summary:

Duke’s sixteenth is coming up, and Bruce asks his older kids to help him come up with a traditional Batfamily gift.

At which point it becomes clear the two ‘smartest’ members of the family are living under a major misunderstanding.

Rec: THE fic if you need some healing, comfort-heavy escapism after reading about Tim’s Birthday Test. Very Good Parent Bruce, who’s griefstricken when he realizes there’s been a severe miscommunication between him and Tim — according to my Ao3 history, this is my 7th time reading, and it will not be my last when I need that tasty miscommunication + guilt trope.

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🌻 Off Script - below21 ( @creamshiba ) Gen (past rape/noncon between Tim, Jason, and Bruce, past mutual noncon between Tim and Jason), Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 4,510 words, oneshot Completed: June 16th, 2026

Summary:

Tim has never been in charge before. But he knows the rules. It doesn't matter that this Batman claims this universe is different.

When he knocks on the door and tells Tim to get ready for a movie, he knows exactly what it means.

He just has to keep Jason quiet, keep Dick out of sight, and figure out what this Batman wants before he has to ask.

Rec: I had the absolute pleasure of getting to beta read this one and when I tell you I was glued to my google doc - hrhg. A Reverse Robins, Through the Looking Glass fic focused on Tim, trying to live up to his role as the oldest, now that Damian’s been separated from him and his brothers and left them to survive what they think is the same hell they’ve escaped. And poor, dear Bruce, who’s trying his hardest to make these kids feel safe, and unfortunately failing miserably

(for now).

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🌻 bury your burdens - Myrime ( @blancheludis ) Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson, No Archive Warnings Apply 14,554 words, oneshot Completed: June 23rd, 2026

Summary:

For some reason, Dick is still alive, despite the seven months he spent locked in a barren tower cell in Slade’s castle, waiting for his child to be born so he could be tried and executed. Against all assumptions, Slade acknowledged Marian as his and reinstated Dick as Consort. Or a facsimile of it, at least.

That should be a good thing. Being allowed to watch his daughter grow up. Lasting peace between their countries.

Dick tries. He was born to be a performer, so that is what he does. All day, every day. Easy acquiescence, because he has the most precious thing in the world to lose.

He is just tired of waiting for things to break again.

Rec: this one truly had my heart aching the whole time. Dick's trauma and stress and desperation to keep himself and his little girl safe shine through the whole thing like a knife, and Slade is the perfect blend of bastard and guy who's making an effort. It's light on the comfort, but the angst is delicious in the best way (and, ultimately, it is a hopeful story).

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Ongoing Works:

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❀ 🌻 Elsewhere, Everywhere - MoonBoo Gen, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 27,940 words, 9/? chapters Latest Update: June 24th, 2026

Summary:

Tim, stuck on comms due to a broken leg, is attacked by a familiar cowled figure in the Batcave.

The problem? Bruce is still out on patrol.

An alternate Batman stranded far from home should be nothing more than a temporary complication. Instead, Tim finds himself growing close to a Bruce Wayne who has a Dick, a Jason, but no Tim.

And some doors, once opened, are hard to close.

Rec: Easily one of THE most interesting takes on the alternate-universe-Bruce-meets-Tim subgenre that I’ve ever come across! I love whumpy, hurt/comfort stories where a good Bruce from one universe rescues one of his kids from a universe where they’re not getting the love they deserve — this *isn’t* that. It’s a much more nuanced take on the characters and their dynamics — both Bruces are Bruce, for better and for worse, and the love is there in every universe - and so are the flaws. I have an idea of where this story is going based on the tags, especially as of this latest chapter, I feel like it's inevitably going to break my heart a little bit in the process, and I am EATING up every chapter released to see how it plays out <333

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Fandom: Project Hail Mary

Ongoing Works:

❀ - updated within the last 6 months

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❀ 🌻 Rocky's Guide to Adopting an Alien Space Pebble - Caspyre Gen, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 2,531 words, 1/2 chapters Latest Update: June 26th, 2026

Summary:

Grace is a pebble. An alien pebble, but a pebble nonetheless. Rocky and Adrian know they're the only ones suitable for caring for said pebble. Said pebble has yet to get the memo. In unrelated news, Ryland Grace has a headache.

Rec: There wasn't originally going to be any PHM in this rec list, because much of my latest PHM binge took place last week, so I was just going to circle back and reread a couple that deserved to be in next week's list. But then, lo and behold, my dear friend Caspyre dropped this into my inbox last night, and it was the perfect size and shape to take to bed with me as my last bedtime story. Like a stuffed animal, or an adorable little baby rock. This is such a cute concept, and I know I'm going to turn into a big leaky space blob over chapter two as well <333

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#fic rec fridays #fic recs

hey guys! I’m going to go ahead and take a little break from tumblr for a bit — unfortunately, I follow a number of people in the comics space and those posts about my old fic keep popping up on my dash like a jumpscare, and tbh it’s getting to me a little bit.

I will be back in a week or two once it’s hopefully had time to finish making the rounds through my mutuals’ reblogs 💛 fingers crossed a little social media detox will let me get some writing done

#💛 no hate to the people reblogging it - I think a lot of them don’t even realize it’s about a specific fic and not just a joke #but yeah it’s been. unfortunate #I have seen some of the comments and tags that everyone is fortunately way too polite to ever put in my comments #which has been a bit of a bummer #but hey I’ve been chipping away at strange house part 3 if anyone cares about that!!#with any luck it might be out next week?#like I said a social media break might be just what my writing habit needs right now #💛💛💛#personal

Part of the reason I like your stuff is that you take a ridiculous really whumpy situation and execute it so believably. I’m sorry people are being mean, I really like your writing and think it’s very technically high quality and you have great command of pace.

ashdjfjf thank you anon 💖💖💖 I love that first whumptober series — DC was my first major hyperfixation to come along after my mom died that same year, and having this lovely new fandom and wonderful new friends and a big whumptober project to be excited about was just… so important for me. It gave me a soft place to fall and brought a lot of joy to my life in time when I really needed it.

A lot of those early stories ARE silly and ooc, and I think I’ve grown a lot since then, but they still are really near and dear to my heart and always will be 💛 I read them back sometimes, Home is a Haunted Heart included, and while I wouldn’t write them the same if I were writing them today, they still take me back to a really happy and hopeful place emotionally. They were exactly what the me who wrote them back then needed them to be.

I hope I can keep delivering on that whumpy fun, anon 🫶 thank you so much for taking the time to send me such a very kind message, it means more than I can say 💛💛💛

#asks #💛

just for the record, i like the fic. i suppose the situation does sound funny out of context, but it was a good fic and a fun read 🩷 sorry people are being insensitive :/

aww, thank you 💖 it is a deeply silly fic in a lot of ways!! for me, part of the fun of whumptober has always been about taking the given prompts and trying to get as weird and wild and whumpy with it as possible - in a way I have to think I succeeded if people are reading the concept and going “hey wtf” 😅

I won’t lie - suddenly stumbling across a post on my dash making fun of it DID give me a good little cry in the bathroom before my last zoom meeting of the afternoon, but I’m still proud of 21 year old me for gleefully tossing that sad wet rat of boy in a dishwasher and having a blast doing so 💛 I hope she keeps having that much fun for the rest of her life

#asks #thanks my guy this was a very sweet message 💛

succubusboyfriend

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

succubusboyfriend

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

suave-eddboy

thepioden

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

sparksel

when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.

Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.

So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’

1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!

2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:

a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!

In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.

I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose

b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!

c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface

d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)

e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them

f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.

g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.

h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.

And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.

This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.

Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.

so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!

concerningwolves

t-c-art-inspiration

How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense

justpickupthatpen

https://youtu.be/pMC0Cx3Uk84

https://youtu.be/NBE-RTFkXDk

stupidlittlesideblog

Reblogging to save a wrist

justpickupthatpen

briarbramble

Hi I have a literal animation degree and I learned fucking ✨none✨ of this

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sunflowersandink

why am I the author just now learning my old goofy whumptober fic is apparently a widely-mocked fandom touchstone for fanonized drakes 😭 that fic is just some silly fun whump y’all!! it was written in the whumptober spirit, not meant to be taken as any sort of serious character analysis rooted in comic canon!

#and at the risk of sounding defensive #I do actually highly recommend everyone in the dc fandom read comics #they ARE a mess and that’s half the fun #much like the fanfic side of the fandom #anyway very uncomfortable to have something I made dragged into this conversation about comics vs non-comics readers!!#but for what it’s worth. I still had fun writing that fic #and I hope some people still had fun reading it #even if it’s not everyone’s cup of tea 💛

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Fanfic writers are like crows. If you give them treats (comments) they will bring you shiny things (fanfic)

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I thought this said cows and thought, "Okay, tell me more..."

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