Weaponized Cupcake

Writing used to come so easily for me, but I was determined to make the project I had been working on a reality, despite the brain trauma. So I wrote what I could, slowly. Very slowly.

Eventually I had enough written for a few pages. I have difficulty parsing information, and I can’t really tell if what I’m writing makes any sense unless I receive confirmation from an outside source. So I went online to get feedback. I got back one of the best comments I’ve ever read.

”I know a brain injury is a very frustrating thing--needing to relearn a skill you had before and being forced to do it in a new way is incredibly difficult and sometimes scary. But I think working on this sort of thing will help that process a lot. Even if your new writing has a slightly different voice or a different feel than your old writing, you can develop that voice and make it into something just as effective.”

There was more to the comment, but this section in particular was something I needed to hear at the time. It gave me the hope that I could continue, and possibly recover a little of what I lost. And even if I can’t, I can still use what I have to make the things, despite knowing they’re different than how things used to be.

With that said, here are the story boards for the opening of AETU

A regal copper is close to a Boeing 737 Classic (102-120ft length, weight 32-35 tons)

oh, we are fully aware of how unrealistic the weights are. dragon biology is very clearly not novik's strength. this fandom is full of nerds, we know. i was just trying to figure out their sizes so i would know how to draw them. i am also a bit of a paleontology nerd, so i do know about the biggest pterosaurs and that they weighed waaaaayyy less. we weren't even talking about the weight, but the length in this post.

i hope you didn't mean to come off as rude/annoying, because this comes off as if you think we don't know anything about the subject. i'm a know-it-all in recovery myself, and now it's time for me to be a bit of an annoying know-it-all;

A regal copper is close to a Boeing 737 Classic (102-120ft length, weight 32-35 tons)

oh, we are fully aware of how unrealistic the weights are. dragon biology is very clearly not novik's strength. this fandom is full of nerds, we know. i was just trying to figure out their sizes so i would know how to draw them. i am also a bit of a paleontology nerd, so i do know about the biggest pterosaurs and that they weighed waaaaayyy less. we weren't even talking about the weight, but the length in this post.

i hope you didn't mean to come off as rude/annoying, because this comes off as if you think we don't know anything about the subject. i'm a know-it-all in recovery myself, and now it's time for me to be a bit of an annoying know-it-all;

First of my glass animal mask series! This was so fun to paint, what other animals should I try? So far I'm thinking owl and deer for a woodland theme🦊🦉🦌

This painting and more have just been added as a print to my webshop :)

It's been a while since I got to draw a good dragon 🤭

All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know

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You will be remembered as a hero. ________

individual shitposts under the cut (i just liked how this canvas turned out all together lol) ->

The depressed people were far more accurate in estimating how much influence their actions had on the outcome of the game compared to their nondepressed counterparts, who consistently overestimated the effects of their own choices on their chances of winning.

Then I remember this other study (CW animal testing) where they put rats in a bucket of water that they couldn’t get out of, so they’d have to swim. There was a fairly consistent point at which the swimming rat would falter, and stop swimming, fated to drown.

Except that that’s when the researchers would pull the rat out of the bucket, give it a nice rest warmth and a meal.

When those SAME rats who had been rescued before were put in the same situation again, they swam much LONGER than they had before.

Why? The risk was the same either way- drowning. You’d have thought that the fear of drowning would keep them swimming to their maximum length no matter what.

The researchers conclusion was that the rescued rats had something they hadn’t had the first time- they had more hope. A miraculous rescue could come, and that let them swim for longer, just in case.

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

Little fish eats his foods