Latest Posts by garden-of-willows - Page 7

Calm By the River (+ Refs)

they gay allos!! mine is wallflower, and tofu’s is paintbrush! i love them so much i stayed up until 8am finishing that drawing it was for a context in a server we play in for pride month, and i’m pretty happy with it despite it being rushed

THE RAFFLE ENDED TODAY!!  Thank you so much to everyone that joined! I appreciate each and every one of you!  The two winners were both on DeviantArt: MangoDoesArt and Ajaklis! 

Pride YCHs!! [Plus RAFFLE]

AYO HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! 

I’m doing Pride YCH’s!! 

There will be a raffle in which I’ll pick TWO winners for free icons with this YCH! These can be most animal species, but I am most comfortable with cats! 

 25 USD outside of the Raffle! 

 Raffle info below:

HOW TO ENTER: 

Like and Reblog this post!

Be following! [New follows welcome]

The raffle will end: June 10th

Picking TWO (2) winners! [this has been posted on multiple platforms, and it will be two overall]

If you don’t win the raffle and want one; you’re welcome to commission one!

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

"I can fix him" not in a "I can make him into a better person" way but in a "if he was my character I would've handled his story better" way

"Quivering" is my least-favourite word in the english language. Nothing and nobody should be quivering. If you're quivering right now, stop that shit immediately. Tremble or shake if you must but the quivering has to stop.

“they’re faking” I dont care. id rather give help and support and resources to people who dont need them than not give those things to those who do.

You tell a lot of people you love them..

That’s the point of living, dummy.

“Fuck it, we slay” (heavy eye bags, dehydrated, on the verge of insanity)

"click for frogs" how's about you let me click on people's urls to visit their reblogs directly. remember that

Hey friends!

If I reblog something that's procedurally-generated images ("AI art," which is neither) please do tell me.

But please don't say "this is clearly... " because clearly that wasn't noticed? People are on Tumblr on their phones, without their glasses on, lower vision ppl are on Tumblr... don't assume ppl are looking at the details or can even see them.

Info, not judgments about what we should have noticed, please.

i now have a bunch of commission things set up on fiverr!!

Pride YCHs!! [Plus RAFFLE]

AYO HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! 

I'm doing Pride YCH's!! 

There will be a raffle in which I'll pick TWO winners for free icons with this YCH! These can be most animal species, but I am most comfortable with cats! 

 25 USD outside of the Raffle! 

 Raffle info below:

HOW TO ENTER: 

Like and Reblog this post!

Be following! [New follows welcome]

The raffle will end: June 10th

Picking TWO (2) winners! [this has been posted on multiple platforms, and it will be two overall]

If you don't win the raffle and want one; you're welcome to commission one!

kitten kitchen

march sticker sheet for patreon

Okie book lovers, what are your favorite books?

oooh, books? okay, favourite series hands down has to be Wings of Fire. that shit slaps! my favourite book overall.. for some reason i really love these two morbid books i read a while back, one of them being the Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks, and another being Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. my favourite Wings of Fire book has to be Moon's, just because if her unique perspective, but Darkstalker's is a CLOSE second. i also really liked the Amulet series but i never read all of it. - Peasant Artist Willow

My favourite book series is definitely Wings of Fire, it's what got me into loving books. Um.. it's hard for me to pick a favourite book.. I've read a lot of stand-alone books, but I don't remember them! If I were to try to pick out a favourite book in the Wings of Fire series, it would have to be.. uhhh... Either Glory's book, Darkstalker's book, or also Clay's book--I feel like Clay's book doesn't get enough credit. - Overlord Tofu

Selby my baby!!! she is a redesign of an old character version of my sona, named Willow, lol! Finally renamed and redesigned her after years, the other photos are the older designs of her as you can see, lots has changed, and you can kind of see my progress over the years which is pretty cool :)

happy birthday. ENjOy the psychological torture of life! :)

thanks, I'll definitely try, lmao!

shout out to people who's family isnt entirely bad or entirely good, but something in between and you dont know how to feel about them. you feel angry but you also feel guilty, because you know they genuinely love and care about you, but sometimes they show it in a way you know its not okay. your feelings are valid, your anger and sadness and grief are valid, and you dont have to prove this to no one. bigger shout out to those with memory issues who know something isnt right but can't recall all of the bad events, only the feelings, which only increases the guilt.

“Your art isn’t valued by the number of notes you get” okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, it’s still disappointing.

I literally block like 5 bots a day at the LEAST and we're not that active yet lmao. PLEASE have something in your bio, at least!

- Peasant Artist Willow

 HEY! If you’re new to tumblr, get a pfp right away, and throw something in your bio. With the bot problem right now, anyone without one is likely to get blocked just out of reflex. Make it obvious that you’re not a bot!

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

this is so beautiful and incredibly well written. I love them both so much.

...might draw fanart of my images of them

- Peasant Artist Willow

Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

a very handsome man. now that i’ve finished up the honeycomb-crescent family, it’s time to start the reed bloodline!  - Peasant Artist Willow

bb vanilla! sof gal <3 she’s a sweetheart, dilute marble tortie which is very very pretty she gets her green eyes from her mama bee’s and wish’s sister, probably acts as the middle child and mediator between wish and bee and with her, the crescent-honeycomb bloodline is finished! - Peasant Artist Willow

Wish! our darling gal, another of Tofu’s chars i think she’s the protective sister? defo acts the oldest of the three of them  - Peasant Artist Willow

Bee’s Dad!! This is Honeycomb, soft sweet man he probably has a lot of children and fathers them all lovingly Tofu’s boy very close with Bee and his siblings, and best friends w Crescent <3 - Peasant Artist Willow

second design of 2023! this is Crescent, she’s an independent molly that is best friends with a tom named Honeycomb, so they had a litter together! Bee is one of the kits in that litter :) she’s VERY different from her base design -Peasant Artist Willow

switching blogs to this one, so i’ll quickly reblog all the posts we’ve made so far  - Peasant Artist Willow

first drawing of 2023! finished it at like 2am precious baby boy; this is like his… fifth rendition? y’all don’t need to see my previous failures rn, but maybe eventually i’ll collect all his design concepts and post em -Peasant Artist Willow

this is the first full piece i’ve drawn in literal months: featured in the drawing is a cat named Lichen, who is an enby cat! [belongs to Overlord Tofu]

I’m the Peasant Artist willow, and this is my first post here! if you found it, I’m happy you’re here!

This account will be co-managed by two mods! Me, referred to as PAW when I’m the one posting in the tags, and Overlord Tofu [Just referred to as Overlord Tofu in tags lol]

- Peasant Artist Willow