Just Ass and Glory

Commission for @neonbutchery of their ME characters Siinra and Sunny! 💜🫶 Thank you for being awesome to work with!

Greyscale version below:

Hot air’s tickling her clavicle and then settling to cool in the hollow of her throat, and she doesn’t need to dip her chin down to know that there’s a face mushed into her neck. She can’t, anyway; he’s in the way.

something possessed me to draw this scene from -> dreamt a cipher :')

Cassidy Shepard Art Fight attack for @that-wildwolf !🫶

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

recycle your darlings

Shiara sketch

For @kage-bot - Big ol' turian lad Sollas!