my stp brainrot has combined with my casual interest in historical dress youtube and I decided to draw the Princess in a more historically-inspired outfit than her original design

If anyone's curious, her outfit/hairstyle is supposed to be from around 1828 ("around" bc my main reference/inspiration was definitely from 1828 but I had so many tabs open with different inspo images from nearby years and I don't remember which ones I actually used. also did you know it is surprisingly difficult to search for royal portraiture from a specific year) because based on some cursory googling, it seemed a lot of the elements of her canon base dress (off-the-shoulder, sweetheart neckline, poofy sleeves, straight waistline around the natural waist, skirt that isn't super full/poofy) seemed historically plausible for that time period

I also drew her hair in a more historically-accurate style for the period (but don't ask me exactly what's going on there because I'm not entirely sure myself) but I kept her canon tiara because it seemed plausible enough. anyway this was really fun to do!!!

Ok JO Italy gig attendees, I will leave it up to you folks to decide how yall want to deal with Jan and his bolognese risotto~

​thinking about how she said that this album was like learning how to craft rather than a natural pouring of songs in relation to the melodies on the album.

i was wondering do you have any advice toward writing less bland(for lack of a better word) sentences? i’ve heard some writers say to expand vocabulary, but i would love to hear your input as well :DD

nonnie!! hello! <3 ooh i love when you all ask me questions like these, i can certainly share some tips!

the key thing i remember is even if i think every sentence i write is bad, adding or taking away is so much easier than getting the idea on paper the first time. <3 there is always potential to make a sentence more interesting!

i think the biggest thing is making sure sentences don't all begin with the same thing. this is really tricky for me in conversation scenes where there's not a lot of action, but if I notice I start sentences with "he said_" or "he did_" over and over, i'll just flip the sentence to where that part of it is at the end and organize it that way.

going off of that, don't be afraid to break grammar rules! start a sentence with "and" if you want, use passive voice, etc. the most important thing is probably varying your sentence structures!! you can make some very long and flowery, and then some short and abrupt, and that is so so effective. commas are your friend! if you start to feel like every sentence looks the same, just go in and change things like that. combine them into one, flip them around, use thesaurus, cut it off with dialogue and so on!

expanding vocabulary is great! honestly though, reading is the most valuable tool to get better at writing. the more you read, the more you are exposed to different authors' styles, and you can learn a lot from that (and vocabulary in the meantime)! plus, thesaurus is always there, if you don't know the exact word for what you want to say.

@gomadayo hiiiii, here's blender stuff ^.^

in render properties, under sampling, this is the stuff to adjust. i find denoising particularly useful in viewport cause it's easier to interpret even before the image starts to clear. it doesn't necessarily make it clear up quicker but max samples sets how many samples it takes before stopping. for the render, you can set a time limit so it takes as many samples as it can in whatever limit you set before spitting out the output

speaking of samples and denoising:

here's what 12 samples (left, 1 minute render time for me) and 4096 samples (right, 35 minute render time) look like, without denoising.

and here's 24 samples (2 minute render time) with and without denoising (noisy on left).

out of the blue today:

what if part of why pre-serum Steve Rogers tried so damn hard to enlist wasn't just PAtriOtiSM and "I hate bullies." what if it was partially knowing or being told repeatedly throughout his life that he would probably die young (due to his multiple disabilities) and wanting to do it on his own terms while fighting nazis

regardless of how u feel about SM as a company i don't get how anyone can look at hybe acquiring it as a good thing

just finished good omens season 2 and so far my thoughts are mostly that it felt a bit like i was watching someone’s fanfic (in the most neutral way possible)

nobody is allowed to make videos with oda in them until i say so actually

also don't read the notes of that post or you'll remember cishet men hate sex workers So Fucking Much .

omg hiiiii meadow!! you know my inquisitive ass saw the ask game and had to participate!! So!

18. What is a recurring theme or symbolism that you like to include in your writing?

I always geek out on reoccurring themes and symbols authors use in their works, anything that requires me to actively use my brain cells to analyze and decipher what I’m reading

BELOVED 💟💟

Thank u so much for allowing me to talk about my writing 🥺

I feel like writing has made me discover things about myself, and themes I'm drawn to that I was previously never aware of. For me, what stands out a lot is that I try to have mundanity, a humanness, in all fics. Especially when it comes to villains who have family bonds, it has so much potential to get messy and i love that. There is often a form of captivity, which complicates the relationships, and makes the consent a bit... iffy, though. Symbolism I've used more than once is connecting roughness to intimacy or adoration (Floral and Fading, but then also Punishment if I'm not mistaken). And especially when it comes to situations in captivity where the victim/reader gets to know the captor so well, that certain observations feels intimate and meaningful... that's the stuff for me.

Another thing is often the domesticity, the daily life of villains. There is someone doing the laundry - and if reader is captured, it could very well be them ^^ So descriptions of cooking, cleaning, baking, stuff like that also happen in a good number of fics.

Have I blabbered enough? :) I hope I put this all in a way that is in understandable English

Thank you again, I appreciate you so much 🤍

tumblr lagging bc of all the twitter ppl jumping ship over here

i found a coach bag at the thrift store for $35 and idk if it's real or not but it's nice bc i needed a purse

Rent has like. I’d say a lot of problems ESPECIALLY the movie (chris columbus i’m coming for you) and i could probably write an entire essay on the things i would change however if your critique is just “benny had a point and everyone else was being unreasonable” you’re on my list right under mr cbus

Hey since your requests are open, could you maybe draw Hal? Doing anything, I don't really care what (only if you want)

day 96

YES i actually got 2 thinking about hal today thanks to this post (and my tags even passed peer review yippee thank u) ANYWAY. in addition to all of that. I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT he and aradia would be friends.

ok i wrote all this out and it got long and kinda rambly bc im tired so im putting it under a cut lmao HALRADIA FRIENDSHIP RANT IN THE READMORE

i think there would be.... maybe a little tension given that aradia eventually ended up in Her Own Flesh And Blood Body and hal would presumably not have that option?

but overall i think after the way her friends treated her as a robot, and the experience of going from experiencing life as a living breathing organic person to a bodiless entity to HAVING a body but that body not being the same as the one you remember.... idk! it's like EXTREMELY EXTREMELY SPECIFIC AND MORE THAN A LITTLE TRAUMATIC and they could share it with each other!! how fucking lovely is that.

not to mention they both kind of have a history with equius?? (assuming this is post arquiusprite in some way. i certainly have an extremely self-indulgent "everyone lives" au for this scenario where they're able to safely separate into their pre-sprite components and then hal and aradia become buds.)

REGARDLESS i think it would be interesting for hal (who has ostensibly nothing but positive shit to say about his connection to equius) and aradia (who has some truly fucked things to say about her experiences with equius) to Talk Through All That.

not 2 mention the parallels that can be drawn between dirk/hal's perception of their relationship with jake being this kind of... Manipulative Pining Weirdness, and aradia being on the other side of somebody else's Manipulative Pining Weirdness and sharing that perspective without even knowing about all of that dirkjake backstory OUGH im tellin u it is all a very complex and wonderful scenario to consider and like, im not even much of an alpha kid aficionado tbh. hal experts chime in on the comments i know youre out there and i wanna hear your takes.