Since I’ve gotten some new followers recently and about-pages aren’t reliably seen anymore, I figured it’s finally time for a pinned post.
So, hi! You can call me Miia. I’m Finnish and have existed since 1989. This is where I post sketches, not-so-sketches and definitely-not-sketches of whatever, usually my OCs. Sometimes I might ramble. Things here tend to be queer.
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My rp campaign things. Evil cultists beheaded a blessed elk prince of the forest, and the players went on a quest to retrieve a new head for him so that he could cross over to the fae realm as a spirit.
I've seen an oc dialogue meme template floating around and I kinda want to fill it, because I have extensive thoughts about the way my characters speak, but there's an ever-present bilingual problem. I'm not fluent enough in English to do personalized ways of talking, like incorporate accents and slang, but filling the template in Finnish makes it for a niche audience and I'm also way more easily embarrassed out of my skin when writing my characters in Finnish in public.
Oh the woes.
Honk honk.
Sexual themes
It just hit me I’ve been posting my drawings on tumblr for 12 years.
I feel like that’s almost too much of my personal art history documented right there haha.
Like, those twelve years have included running a webcomic, printing and selling the first book of said webcomic, but then ghosting it because of reasons. There’s a shift from practically-straight into oh-shit-I’m-gay-actually. A couple of extremely productive years with such a big variety of works it’s insane in retrospect considering I was in a pretty bad place mentally the entire time. Then what by comparison is a drought period after it all just caught up with me and I had to re-invent my relationship with drawing.
And so, so many characters just coming and going. So many attempts at making comics. Wild.
It just hit me I’ve been posting my drawings on tumblr for 12 years.
I feel like that’s almost too much of my personal art history documented right there haha.
Some recent sketchbook doodles that I like. Been putting her in scenarios.
Pepe (and adventures with) big naturals.
Sexual themes
I hear it's some asexuality pride day, and I'm sick and bored so a brief ace story time.
Something like 10 years ago, when I was fresh in my early 20s, high on living independent and individual life, I wanted to experiment with being visibly queer and bought myself an ace ring.
I don't know if those are still a thing, but back then it was a black ring worn on some specific finger and it was meant to be this kinda secret signal of being asexual. So, I searched high and low for an adult-size black ring and finally found one in a gem shop, made from some sort of mineral and very affordable.
Put it on with pride every morning, fully ready and prepared to explain to anyone asking that why yes it's an asexual pride ring are you familiar with our lord and savior Ace of Sexuality if not I can explaaaaaiinn. Like a goddamn brand ambassador of my own life, I was so ready.
Less than a week in, I slapped my hand against a table a bit harded than usual and the cheap bastard ring broke into a thousand pieces.
Threw it away like the traitor it was, didn't buy a new one and slid back into my comfy life of obscurity. No-one had paid any attention to the ring anyway.
And that's the first and last time I tried being out all loud and proud.
Anyway, have a good one acey lads.
Posted out-of-context bits of this earlier because it felt just wrong to post the full thing, but I read it again and I don't think it's bad taste, just plain stupid and you know what I'm in the mood of ruining whatever reputation I might have as a respectable creator.
Crude and stupid dialogue ahead, approach at own risk.
Sexual themes
Thoughts and shape studies of robotic masks for the hitmen in the Thugs and Birds setting. Not sure if I like where I landed with these but it’s at least more developed now.
Oh no, I might’ve been perceived.
I was going through my stash of books the other day and was reminded I own a character design book that uses Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces as the base of its theory. I felt like I have an opinion about that, but since I haven’t actually read Campbell’s book - I just know the vague gist of it - I also didn’t feel very secure in that opinion. It’s been two days now, the uninformed opinion is still gnawing at my brain yearning to be set straight so now I am on the local library’s waiting list for Campbell’s book because getting into an extensive argument in my head with some writing guide book I bought at a discount years ago is how I amuse myself apparently.
I don't know why, but I expected less Freud.
Not to live blog my reading, but I have now confirmed one of my preconceptions about the book and it is that it's less about myth analysis and more about the theory of collective unconscious, and it's so wild to me to read shit about human psychology be justified by stuff that people have dreamed of or told stories about.
It's like horoscope, but "scientific". But then again, the same root theories have apparently inspired the MBTI-test and introvert/extrovert binary so I guess it tracks.
I wrote a very stupid, vulgar piece of dialogue and drew it to amuse myself with a lot of fun expressions. I don’t think I have the nerve to post it cause it’s just not, uhhh, classy, but I’m happy with the doodles I did for it so here are my favs in a jumbled mess.
I was going through my stash of books the other day and was reminded I own a character design book that uses Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces as the base of its theory. I felt like I have an opinion about that, but since I haven’t actually read Campbell’s book - I just know the vague gist of it - I also didn’t feel very secure in that opinion. It’s been two days now, the uninformed opinion is still gnawing at my brain yearning to be set straight so now I am on the local library’s waiting list for Campbell’s book because getting into an extensive argument in my head with some writing guide book I bought at a discount years ago is how I amuse myself apparently.
I don't know why, but I expected less Freud.
I was going through my stash of books the other day and was reminded I own a character design book that uses Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces as the base of its theory. I felt like I have an opinion about that, but since I haven’t actually read Campbell’s book - I just know the vague gist of it - I also didn’t feel very secure in that opinion. It’s been two days now, the uninformed opinion is still gnawing at my brain yearning to be set straight so now I am on the local library’s waiting list for Campbell’s book because getting into an extensive argument in my head with some writing guide book I bought at a discount years ago is how I amuse myself apparently.
