Tagged by beloveds @nsewell and @nat-seal-well to make some kisses in this picrew!! They are very cute!!!!

Nate x Avery - Jenny x Farah

Wyll x Apology (had to do it because there are horns!!)

A tag for @grapecaseschoices @serenpedac @agentnatesewell @masonshine @anotherbeingsworld and anyone else!!!

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This is me. 😭

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lovely 2 part comm from @vita-divata I'm so happy with it!

Hozier - Francesca

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

The way Ortega's labeled as a conspiracy theorist (mostly by Sidestep) and all of their friends dismiss their investigations (not necessarily their fault but still) like Steel's never-changing position that "Hollow Ground's a myth" and even when Ortega reveals their theory about Sidestep being HG's sibling the achievement you get is "Tinfoil." Sidestep's so adamant about no one believing the truth if they were to tell anyone but they’ve never really humored Ortega.

Ortega's been chasing theories since before Sidestep knew them. And the thing is, their theories either have substantial evidence (Hollow Ground) or are a reasonable conclusion with the information presented to them (Sidestep as HG's sibling).

And NO ONE, specifically with the Hollow Ground case, believes them. For at least a decade, Ortega's had EVIDENCE and everyone around them refused to give them the time of day. And still they pursue it. Even with literally no one on their side, they still continue to try to get justice for Marshal Hood. Ortega continues this case even as everyone around them labels them as a conspiracy theorist or refuses to listen to them. Ortega truly is Cassandra of Greek myth with this stuff, immune to telepathy and therefore the only one able to see clearly on what’s going on.

I can’t stop thinking about how Ortega really is someone who, with the world against them, just keeps going. There’s a lot of narrative parallels here with Sidestep, obviously, who’s attempting to fight the world as a villain. Sidestep tends to think no one would believe them with the truth but there’s a really interesting dynamic when Ortega believes them - as well as when Ortega doesn’t! I just think it’s really interesting to think about Ortega and Sidestep, technically on opposite sides, feeling like no one believes them or trusts them when they’re kind of the only people able to see the truth.

It's about devotion and obsession. It's ALWAYS about devotion and obsession. And hunger. It's love with teeth.

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

Homie gonna share this

recalibrating to adam

Back mods

i need to be more annoying about my OCs.

fairly certain I'm interacting with some of my mutuals for the first time via boops. get WHACKED. I love you.