i also get to submit this for @solangeloweek trope day!

we got:

found family/sibling bonding/nico has basically stolen will's siblings

three days in the infirmary (with a twist)

canon compliant

no bingo for me but 20k words for you!

and ART! by lesterpollo!

Ok but Agent Curt Mega with long hair though?

@heckitall HECKY I DID YOUR DTYIS!!! :DDD IM YOUR CO DIRECTOR FOR THIS COMIC HOW COULD I NOT DRAW OUR BOYS AT SOME POINT :D

Also people should go read Heck's comic Same as it Never Will Be, it is amazing and Heck is a really great story teller and artist :3 <3

Looking at each other with their autistic eldritch horrors eyes

While I do think anon was rude, I do think it's pretty shitty to set up all this stuff you were going to add the au and then just drop it. It's disappointing. Definitely unfollowing.

Bye.

You KNOW I had to draw my girl!!

Captivated by human wonders ☄️

Did this 100% with them from @avelera 's Giving Sanctuary go read it it's so beautiful

look at my au designs, boy

(org drawing i made ntmgs designs for)

melee commanders in soto be like:

RAFHHH RAFGHHHHH ARAA

1️⃣: it’s just— i think maybe i was coming on a bit too strong—

📿: fcking hell ichiro

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I MADE ICHIKUU MAID DAY FAN ART FINALLY 🥳🥳🥳🥳

ON A LIGHTER NOTE, here's one of the IRL Caterpies (aka Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillars) I'm raising this year, because summer is caterpillar season!!!

This lil dude's busy SILKIN' IT UP. . . They spit layers of silk down the middle of a leaf and, as the silk dries and contracts, the leaf folds over and forms a little taco-shaped shelter over them. If a predator like a bird tries to infiltrate their munch shack, they're likely to get the scare of their life from those big ol' snake eyes!

A portrait of Sir John Herschel because I‘m normal about Pulp Musicals

Oof I'm kinda scared to ask... Why do you not want to be an artist professionally?

Its just like, incredibly miserable in my experience.

Everyone wants their dream job of being paid to draw whatever the hell they want but 99% of the time you are hired and tasked to draw things that you don't have a lot of interest in, professionally speaking, and constantly getting your artistic efforts undermined by the rest of the team (this is esp. true in the videogame industry) artists always try to push for better designs and get their takes watered down for the sake of general public pleasing. Also you don't have a security blanket unless you're under long term contract. Most freelancers live gig to gig with the fear of not being able to support themselves if they don't take a job to take a break. Videogame and movie jobs arent stable because companies never keep the art teams, they are laid off and rehired whenever there is a new project

During my major, I drew nonstop for 4 years for class. Not always things I enjoyed, but also not always things I didnt like. In fact I enjoyed my major immensely! It was so fun. But the burnout is very, very real, and the workload was similar (even inferior to) regular art jobs. What happens if you like to draw in your off time? You spend your days making and pumping out art nonstop for hours, and then on your free time breaks you draw some more? I personally couldn't do it. I just wanted to do other things

And like.... I spent the first three years being told by teachers (people with stable, contract based jobs) how cool of a job it is to do art, and then the last year getting grilled on how insanely hard it is to make it out there. If you don't have connections, money, an audience, a studio, it's actually impossible. You need to be your own lawyer, abide by the very strict self employment rules that take a severe chunk out of your earnings. Do all of your finance/schedule/marketing etc while on top of that constantly producing work (I know there's people who can do it but, personally, I cannot) I really admire the people who were able to build themselves up as artists from the ground like this (because its definitely possible, just insanely hard)

Also, making something you love into your job ends up being miserable too. I experienced this with patreon, which I posted to as like a chill thing and it just got increasingly hard to make content for it or just post in general, even drawing my own ocs and sharing stuff about them started to feel like a chore.

Maybe it's just me though, this has just been my personal experience but yeah in general I realized I am immensely happier just keeping art as a hobby or its gonna suck my soul out (Since I already experienced it)

I don't mean to discourage anyone, I think the world in general needs more artists. But for that we would need to actually be taken seriously and valued, which sadly we are not, at all. And if there's anyone reading that is considering art as a job: it is absolutely grueling. It's not an easy job. Even if you desperately love art it can suck the life out of you and the joy for what you do

(As an extra sidenote. Artists are usually exploited using this mentality as well. That they are supposed to love their job. So they expect you to work your wrists off "For the passion". Dont fall victim to it)

Au idea....

ok so like i watched the new trolls movie, and was like 'oh my god i love the villains so much, and this one song???'

SO i made this au based of the song Mount Rageous in where Deimos (Donnie) and Mars (Mikey) were separated from Splinter and their other brothers and taken in by a yokai (not sure who or what yet) that owned a failing show business. they decided to train the boys to be able to dance, sing, perform all sorts of things and at the age of 15/16 they end up doing their first show which is a hit

thennnnnnnnn if anyone likes this i can give more background info and other kewl stuff!!!

(these are still a kinda wip BUT will most likely end up being their main outfits!!!!)

The girls are back !! \(ToT)/