📷 amy_louise_photographyx

DIANA, teasingly: “You, anyhow. I saw you kissing Faith Meredith in school last week ... and Mary Vance, too.”

JEM:- “For mercy’s sake, don’t let Susan hear you say that. She might forgive it with Faith but never with Mary Vance.”

— The Blythes are Quoted by Lucy Maud Montgomery

do you have any tips for leaving compliments on other people's art ?? your tags are always so well phrased !

oooo oooooooooooooo uuhhhhhhhh hmmm!

firstly, thank you!! i'm rather glad to hear that! i try quite hard to leave meaningful comments so it's nice when folks notice or appreciate it!

outside of commenting on the work, i first consider the tone of what i'm saying and who i'm saying it to.

i always try to make sure that what i'm saying will be appreciated by the person! that's the point. for the most part i leave comments to bring joy to the op, and thank them for their hard work, for being here and sharing art that made me happy! if i'm speaking to a mutual or friend, there's gonna be inside jokes and probably an amount of casual yelling. possibly even a little friendly roast, if i know them well enough. if i'm speaking with someone i don't know as well i try to keep it a little more professional, but i keep in mind that this is a fandom so an amount of yelling and screaming is expected. i tend to think about what i would like from someone else.

also if i notice that a caption or a blogs about is not in english i double check. if english is not the first language of the artist i make sure to construct tags that are easily translated and i use only and exclusively positive phrases. saying things like "delete this!!!! /pos" or "eating my own hands" can be totally lost in translation. i also keep in mind the age of the OP. don't tag as though you're Looking Disrespectfully at the art of a minor, even if that's your favourite blorbo.

as for how to comment on art or storytelling itself, this is indeed a learned skill, and it can be helped by training your eye to understand different things in artwork. but it's easy to start practicing! this is intuitive to me now, but an easy way to begin is to pick out one or two things that really stand out to you on a piece. (examples could be line quality; is it smooth? neat? textured? full of emotion?, shading: is it crisp? atmospheric? realistically rendered?, or colour choice: is it vibrant? is it moody? is it perfectly on model?) and draw attention to them and how the artist successfully used them to make the piece work.

if the piece includes design-work, pick something of that which you like as well. (clothes, colour choices, abilities, parallels to other characters, totally new or unique concepts that you haven't seen before. if you see your favourite colour combos or notions, let them know, but if it's a stranger remember they made the design for themselves, and you just share (good) tastes!) if you really want to make an artist/designer/storyteller's day, try to find the Little Thing that they've snuck into their art or design that ties into the story or lore that they are telling. even guesses to this end tend to be appreciated!

generally useful things you can also comment on are how well an artist has utilised a medium for its strengths, especially if the medium is a little unusual. if someone @'d me in particular i make sure to acknowledge that too because they probably read me for something and i should acknowledge the effort!

another thing i also always, always encourage, is to try to periodically share and comment on the work of people who are either less experienced or who have less visibility than you. especially if you have more of a platform! if you want to keep your blog clean of too many reblogs for aesthetic or professional reasons you can even go through and remove them later, but sharing the work of smaller accounts- even temporarily- makes such a huge difference! and encouraging + supporting younger or beginner artists is something we should be endeavouring to do as much as possible!

at the end of the day, i always just try to be very earnest in my tags.

there is generally no reason to withhold any praises i can think of, because it's usually nice to have your work perceived and appreciated! i personally loooovvve long rambling tags, screaming tags, stuff like "AAHH NOOOOOOO (THE BLORBO)" and so on. i try to leave the kind of thoughtful comments that i like (and am lucky enough) to receive, and i try to share artwork from a wide variety of people!

Kassandra blowing a kiss at a saloon girl as she makes off with a sack of money. The burlap bag jingling strapped to her saddle as she kicks her horse into a dead sprint

Eivor’s biceps flexing with each bang of her hammer to fire-red metal, sparks flying. She wipes sweat off her forehead with the back of her wrist and smears it with soot

Soma trying to get in the zone and focus up, getting in position for her jousting match, but then she catches sight of your token again and a little smile curves her lips

I…. I just can’t write now, I really can’t

Bandit!Kass... She makes a stop by your seedy town a few times a month. The lawmakers are sleazes under the cracked guise of honour and justice - she can bribe them out of any trouble, and steal it back the moment they're pissed-up and passed out. A nasty little place, but the perfect cover after a risky heist.

The saloon, well, that's the easiest place to throw the sheriff's lot off her tail. She just has to stroll up to the counter and sweet-talk the barmaid into a generous overpour for the good men who keep this town oh so safe. How can you say no to that smile? Or those sugar-sweet words in the rich accent you can't quite place? A handsome tip seals the deal.

Your conversations end with you in dire need of cool air, and with her telling you which room in the inn she's staying in for the night. You'll sprint home after your shift to freshen up with a dab of fragrance behind your ears and on your ankles. But the night always ends the same way: a hoard of serious officers striding into the town, your dear bandit speeding away on horseback into the arid void, and her kiss meant for your lips pressed into the desert air.

I do think there's narrative potential in the student commies fucking each other. It'd all be very sweet and blushy and fumbling, both of them taking this sooooo seriously and wanting to be so careful with each other. Like, they revere each other. They're best friends. They're so eager but so terrified of ruining what they have

But also: Ulixes has a lot of pent-up potential for violence that he's yet to find a healthy outlet for, and Steban apparently gets big endorphin hits from being slapped in the face

TPN Committee: Yeah we’re going to horribly truncate this anime adaption by cutting 50+ chapters, removing so much of the nuance people loved about the original story and make it the greatest disappointment of Winter 2021 after the first season was a critical darling, but as compensation you can have some REN Rights in the form of this album cover that wouldn't be out of place for a shoujo series

Like the first time?

Bad Sisters / Eva Garvey + Smiling

DANIEL

he rly said “what jakedown????”

I seriously hope one day we get a definitive video or at least full recounting of the sin that Dan Feng and Yingxing committed, or just y’know a full voew of the situation. Because the ingame text is so confusing and I feel like it is purposefully confusing at times y’know? Like not necessarily what is written is confusing, it’s all about how it’s written primarily like the format making events seem as if they happen together or making it seem like something else is happening.

And it makes sense, I don’t think it’s a case of punishing the players trying to get invested in the lore by confusing them. Its just like a lot of the info we get from the character stories meant to be Dan Feng’s memories are still just dreams of memories from Dan Heng and that man is so fucking confused about so much fucking shit so it makes sense why its extremely confusing. And also Jingliu’s character stories still have shit in them that confuse me, but

Anyways, I do hope we get some answers. I’m not really expecting them with Jingliu’s release especially because that just feels WAY too early. I already explained in that DH DF and unreliable narrators post that its a bad idea to uncover everything with the luofu so early since the promise of our return/coming back into contact at least is confirmed and just waiting for the proper time to fulfill it plus the other ships but yeah like

I would LOVE a whole animated sequence or maybe even animated cutscene in game showing memories recounting that, but even just an outright explanation would save my brain from overthinkin and second guessing myself so much

thank you for nice tags on my posts i keep forgetting to say but they mean the world to me!!! i can't express it enough ;;♥︎

(even tho today i think people were actively trying to explode me with them (affectionate)(thank you))

I guess the movie coming out has led to an influx of people wanting to read sad stories about Finnick Odair lol. That is definitely something I'm good for.

i remember thinking that lucy was going to link her arm with tim’s in this scene and i sincerely hope that we get a parallel of them walking hand in hand down this same street after their date.  🥺💕

love to get partly spoiled for doctor who (this is not sarcastic; spoilers help me remember to actually go watch it) and STILL have absolutely no warning for how long he's going to spend in his underwear

wuvvy “it pleases me greatly to be of use to you” vs hob “all i have ever wished to be is of service” HBRGGNGBMNR……