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if tumblr loves anything, it's bitches who are doomed by the narrative. in this uquiz, find out what role are you in the tragic play?
@maebird-melody maybe, are you tortured because you have no interest in the love being given? But it keeps coming after you…
Sounds like a horror genre of tragic play xD
@linkhecometotown oh no I’m in a horror film, help—when does the script kill me off to give the protagonist trauma?
Zevran and his beautiful Antiva
Mercy
Celebrating finishing finals by drawing some Vietnamese Uncles
if tumblr loves anything, it's bitches who are doomed by the narrative. in this uquiz, find out what role are you in the tragic play?
i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol
people with cis mutuals rb this pleeeeaseee
trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)
Happy birthday to chilchunk!
I see a lot of people who tell young people–especially young people who are heading into college–that they should “do what they love.” And they’re right. You should do what you love.
But there’s a world of difference between doing what you love for you, and doing what you love for a paycheck.
I went to undergrad for graphic design and 3-D design–art and more art, I usually say–and I loved it. You know what I didn’t love? Trying to collect my fees from clients. Trying to meet unrealistic, over-simplified or over-specific briefs from people who didn’t know what they were talking about. Coming home, having worked creatively all day, with no creative juice left for the things I wanted to do.
You know what I would tell you instead? Do something that you can be interested in, with people you like.
You don’t have to love it. Loving your work can be a lot, and it often means you have to live in your job 24/7. Some people can do that. Not everyone can, or should. But if you can find work that’s interesting enough that it doesn’t feel tedious, and people you can enjoy spending your 9-5 with, and you can make money, that’s great! It means you can do the things you love for you.
I’m in law school now. It’s interesting work, and difficult, and I like doing it. I like how complicated it gets, and I like the stories it tells. But I don’t come home and read law journals for fun. I come home, and I sculpt, and I draw, and I paint, and I read. I do these things for me.
And I love it.
This is still circulating and it’s been a few years, so let me update. I’m officially a lawyer now, and still not a single regret about this choice. Settling into a stable job is such a gift and a privilege in ways I didn’t expect. I’m not going to repeat the advice given above, but I want to make it clear that having passed through my student years and into my career proper, I stand by this in every respect.
I chose to take a job that was not the most high-paying option available to me, because it wouldn’t require me to bill my time, I would have a better work-life balance, I found the work more engaging, and I really loved the office. It has paid off so much.
I get to walk to work, and most days I leave my laptop behind when I walk home at five. I have a little house with a little garden and a bunch of seedlings sprouting too early for spring. I have two stupid cats and two stupider doves and they make me happy. I put a little money into food and shelter for the neighborhood strays and name all my visiting opossums Harold. My art gets done when I feel inspiration striking, sometimes in the middle of the night, and I let my hobby fund itself without the pressure of deadlines. There is so much joy in making only what I want to. My sleep schedule has stabilized. For the first time in my life, I know the shape my days will take weeks and months away, because my routine is consistent, and I never knew what a peace that was. My job is predictable but never boring, interesting but not consuming, and it’s just a job.
There are people who will tell you–people who have told me–that turning my back on an artistic career or a career you have “potential” in is selling out, or settling.
Let me tell you, friends, I have never felt so settled.
One of the tricky things about recreating early concept art is that there is only ONE single reference! No side view, no close ups, and certainly back view! I even messaged the concept artist about this art, asking if any other iterations had been done, but it was so early in the concept process that it was only ever just that—a concept.
Which meant: I had to design! And even though the back of this costume is mostly hidden under the sheepskin cape, I really love making cohesive designs that I know are there even if most folks don’t see them. I ended up taking the ring-wrap motif from the skirt panels and using that on the back, and I invented some shoulder layers to help support the weight of the cape!
First photo by @sennedjem
Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.
Incredible one-liners as always
Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️
Finished Jaws of Hakkon and Swan was faced with his worst fear--erasure. He has always been terrified of the Chantry turning him into something he's not or using his legacy in a way that would hurt his people, and look what happened to Ameridan.
I hadn’t drawn the house of hades boys in years! Curse me! This isn’t exactly a remake of an old painting but it’s in the vibe of how I used to draw them all the time. Poetic and stealing kisses
My Dragon Age art folder has 1,633 files in it. Some of them are variants/sketch/junk versions of the same piece, but still. That's a lot of work for one fandom. Anyways I think these two are the best of the lot:
