I like fantasy, scifi, comics, and history. It is possible I have an unholy love for stories about space people having space adventures in spaceships traveling through space. I post on AO3 as clarityhiding. Ask me stuff! themandylion writes | themandylion arts (infrequently)
I've been making short guides during my downtime for fun 😳
I never really have the opportunity to discuss the organization & communication part of doing commissions, so I hope this is ✧illuminating✧ for folks
If you want this to be a regular thing lemme know & I'll post some bi-weekly tips via Patreon
Plain text version below:
Let's talk about: Commissions!
You have details & references. What now?
Put those fellas into folders!
Instead of downloading massive amounts of files, try saving relevant files only: concept sheets, full-body art, front & side profile, etc. I also copy + paste character info inside a text document for easy access!
Time to draw? Not so fast!
Brainstorm several ideas & send your client a few drafts first!
Letting folks review options is better than painting without feedback. This will save time later on, avoiding a need for major revisions.
They know their characters best & their input is valuable!
(Painting is self-explanatory lol so let's continue talking about communication!)
What to do while works are in progress:
Don't be shy, smash that reply & reach out.
I send previews after completing 70% of painting, or after two weeks have passed. This gives folks one last chance for input, and reassure that their piece is in progress.
Remember to communicate extra charges for additions and add a revision clause to your TOS.
[Bonus] Recommended settings for exporting:
JPG HD > For the client! Full-size & uncompressed.
JPG LOW RES > For Twitter! 72 DPI & compressed to 120 kilobytes or less.
PNG > For Tumblr! Same as twitter settings, except I never have to worry about compression.
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So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.
I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.
I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.
Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.
Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.
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Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
Btw when people say "if you want to be a writer you need to read a lot of books" that means bad books too. This applies to all creative mediums and also even if you don't want to make it you should immerse yourself in some mediocre slop here and there and even abysmal dogshit on occasion. As a fan of the medium. If all you eat is perfect A5 wagyu prepared by a Michelen star chef youre gonna end up thinking a well cooked and seasoned grocery store ribeye is basically dog food and this is the path to spiritual rot
I will forever maintain that Steph didn't fail at being Robin because she was bad at her job. She failed at being Robin because Batman didn't want her to be Robin.
Steph was a great vigilante as Spoiler, but a Robin's role isn't just to be a vigilante. A Robin's role, first and foremost, is to be Batman's sidekick. And if Batman doesn't really want you for the job, it doesn't matter how good you are at it, you will never be good enough for him.
It was pretty explicitly clear that Batman took her on in part because he was hoping to tempt Tim out of retirement. Batman wanted to work with Tim still, and no matter what Steph did, she wasn't Tim, she was her own person.
Yes, Steph made mistakes, because she was a teenager, but no mistake she made was worse than anything Dick, Tim or Jason had done (it's worth noting that Batman had previously wanted Steph to stop being a vigilante because he saw too many similarities to Jason and was worried that she would get hurt or killed, so it does make sense that he'd have less leniency for Steph than he'd had for Jason). Disobeying Batman's orders in order to save him, the thing she got fired for, is something they must all have done at least once.
Honestly, I'd argue that Steph didn't fail at being Robin at all. She was a great Robin, but she was fired before she really got a chance to prove herself.
It’s just…. This person was 24 at time of posting and somehow thought murder and stalking could be done with both consent and 0 abuse….. there’s a lot going one obviously but my god 😭
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