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FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

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17. What inspires you?

Oh wow. All the artists I've followed and been entranced by over the past ten years. I think they/y’all are the only reason I've been able to jump back into drawing as (highly relatively) quickly as I have: trying to apply what I've learned through observation. I'm still at 0%, while the people I admire are at like... 100+%

The “over the past ten years” doesn’t work with the Encanto fandom/people I’ve met on Tumblr, of course, but shout out to you (Jasper, Cap’n), @seanettlles, @glitternightingale, @junosaccount, @acewithapaintbrush, @mmollymercury, @jennjiart, @lvnamuraart, @sionnaach, @unskilled-dabbler, @halseyquinn, @omgcheez, @masao-micchi, @kinschi, @sketchnwhatevr, and ALL OF Y’ALL. So talented and young wtf.

Also: emotions guide me through everything, be it writing or drawing. And hands, for some reason? Even if I can't draw them lol or if they don't appear in the final drawing, I feel like I’m always thinking about what The Hands are doing.

18. Do you have any larger projects you'd like to pursue? Like comics, shortfilm, a series etc?

A comic, for sure!

21. Weirdest thing you've ever drawn?

Ohhh... man, I can’t remember.

Weirdest thing I’ve drawn for this fandom? Bruno doing the floss dance was pretty bizarre 🤣

Thank you! T^T 💚💚💚

my sense of humor - it's pretty deadpan, kinda self-deprecating, and most importantly, rather silly/stupid XD

my memory for details, especially people details

my dimples - I hated them as a kid but have made my peace with them

I'm a quick learner

Oooh, wha'cha wanna collab on????

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

it's Breq i cannot stop thinking about her for a single moment or i SHALL perish

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

Tisarwat for all she's a politicking, conniving, thousands-year-old she's also my Darling Child

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

idk if she's actually super underrated but Ekalu 😍

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

i spend a Lot of time thinking about Kalr 12 she's! good.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Seivarden is def a poor little meow meow

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

one or both translators tbh

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

Already answered 17!

3 - What were your top five books of the year?

I wanna say like 80% of the things I read were rereads so I'm gonna try to pick from the new-to-me books -

(In no particular order) Elastoe by Darcie Little Badger; The Galaxy, And the Ground Within by Becky Chambers; Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo; Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner; and The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett (which - while probably not my favourite Discworld book did make me cry at the beginning of the year so).

10 - What was your favourite new release of the year?

Last Night at the Telegraph Club is definitely a contender - lemme check storygraph...