#bitt-better

no worries!! i have to admit i giggled seeing the notif so thank you for that 🫶

truthfully i have no idea if this blog is coming out of hiatus because i frankly don’t read enough fanfic anymore to be able to keep up with posting 3 screenshots a day and i wouldn’t get enough submissions to maintain it

i just checked i’ve had 84 screenshots taken since november last year (so would last only 36 days) and i was getting a little tired of forcing myself to read fanfic for the blog - i haven’t read fics in so long 💔💔

funny-ish story y’all know dear-ao3? i once read a year or two back that they stopped reading fanfic at some point and just started relying on submissions and i was so confused as to how but here i am now not reading fanfic turns out the answer to getting rid of the addiction was just force yourself to do it it makes everything less enjoyable

mainly: uni is kicking my ass and i’m losing my mind even though i’m on winter holiday i’m still dreading going back

oh but life update!! i got an internship at the big 4 i’m so happy!! starts next year i cannot wait :))

HIIII @bitt-better i hope you don't mind me answering this way because i want to keep your ask in my inbox forever THANK YOUUUUU haha im glad you enjoyed my gallery🥰 I think my art sometimes gives the aura of being at 1hp before a bossfight! heres a sneak peek of a damian drawing that ill maybe finish in the future

I think I've mentioned this before, but cleaning up my line work actually freaks me out a little 🤣 It stops looking like my style because in my eyes that's absolutely my thing- the stupid guideline head circle :))

I've gotten expressions a lot so far and that's been making me kick my feet and smile! I want to push it even further in the coming months so that they feel even more real. Like PRIME??? They NAILED that area, and I want that same emotional range represented!

Howd they bring up the junior scouts idea to max??? Was he like Whatever sure or super tsundere or surprisingly emotional that they wanted him back after he aged out?? Did anyone else come back or do special day-long visits like how schools bring in visitors? What does max think of the new kids? They all look so cool i love Max's hair!!!!

HI HI HELLO YES OFC!!! :33

Okay so. I call it the '6 years later' AU but technically i have Stuff Planned for all the time that passed between now and then too, so this'll be a bit longer, sorry!!

Max joining the counselor team was actually kind of a natural/gradual development?? Basically, since I can't make CC content that isn't found family Max has a shit home life, and, even if he hates to admit it at first, the three months of summer camp become his bright spot each year. David and Gwen catch on to that, but there isn't much they can do to help outside of camp - until one day Max (age 13/14ish) shows up on Gwen's doorstep because he ran away from home, 'since his parents won't care either way'. While he does return home after hiding out at Gwen's place for a weekend, this kind of kicks off a pattern of Max running away sporadically, to Gwen's, later David's, or his friends places. I could go into more detail here but. this is already long. oop.

ANYWAYS. So with Max spending basically all the time he can away from home and the summers at camp, once he ages out there's. A Bit of panic starting in him once summer gets closer again, because his Safe Place seems inaccessible, and two of his OTHER options, especially for longer stays away from home, would also be unavailable. Gwen and David notice this (it manifests in Max staying over More but Angrier) and try to find a solution. Gwen proposes the Jr Counselor idea. They introduce the idea to Max by kinda implying that workload around camp is a lot, and it'd really hurt to miss one of their most experienced campers, but... maybe, if he worked there too (well, interned. basically unpaid. but! no camp tuition!) he could help them? so they basically give Max a way to say yes without admitting that he's the one who needs camp the most. He does insult the whole thing ofc, and says like he's just doing it because he knows camp would burn down without him there ("actually, most of the fires we had were started by you...?" "shut it, david") but secretly he's really really happy. He might even thank them later that evening. Quietly. Before complaining about it preemptively. <3

WAH THATS ALREADY SUCH A WALL OF TEXT ok ill hurry up w the rest:

While most of the other campers had some rotations over the years, I don't have conk rete plans for most of them - Nikki and Neil are still Max' gang, and returned for multiple summers, if not all. This year though, Neil is busy with college prep, and Nikki is spending the summer at home because of family crisis. They still video call a lot, they're still The Gang. I have sketched designs for them, but I'm not quite happy yet.

Max at first doesn't take his role seriously, because he's basically just Back For Another Summer, but pretty quickly realises Gwen and David DO have expectations, and DO give him responsibilities. He takes a while to come around on his new relationship to the younger kids, and especially one of the youngest kids takes a liking to him, a very anxious young girl, which annoys him at first, but... well. It's a whole ~character arc~ for Max waiting to happen tbh.

OK THANK YOU IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR IM SORRY ITS SO LONG. i wasnt lying when i said i have So Many Thoughts about this. ANYWAYS as thank u for getting this far heres a doodle of Max putting up his hair. :3c

No idea where to take this, i just had the hilarious image of these three ghosts who are used to changing the hearts of greedy capitalists trying to help Dannt see 'the magic of christmas' but they have no idea what to do since this is a CHILD and Danny is just Not Having It