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"You can't make friends onli-" I would defend any of my Tumblr mutuals to the death with only a pocket knife and random rock, you heathen.
@cactisays you are quite scintillating <3
In case anyone’s having a bad day, here’s a collection of Holmes complimenting Watson in canon:
“Excellent, Watson!”
“Dr Watson is my friend and partner.”
“Would you go in, Watson? Your appearance inspires confidence.”
“Watson, you are a British Jury, and I never met a man more eminently fitted to represent one.”
“Dr Watson is the very soul of discretion.”
“Brilliant, Watson!”
“Capital, Watson!”
“Very good, Watson.”
“Exactly, my dear Watson!”
“Brilliant, Watson. You are scintillating this morning.”
“Good, Watson, good!”
“You look the same blithe boy as ever!”
“Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own.”
“Indeed an ideal helpmate.”
“With your natural advantages, Watson, every lady is your helper and accomplice.”
HOW DO YOU DRAW SO FAST OMGGGG
I worked really hard on it tbh haha. A few years back I went through a long period of intense perfectionism where I slowed down to a crawl (like five comic pages in 4 months). I finally decided that that wasn't working for me, and so I started implementing my motto: shitty is better than incomplete!
Basically it's about the idea that it's more important to me to get the ideas and stories out there than it is for them to be perfect. I have a lot of stories I want to tell, and there's only so much time for me to tell them. It helps to remind myself of this as much as possible!
As for technical tricks, I do a few things that really help:
Draw a lot! Practice is truly one of the number one ways to improve speed, as annoying as it is to accept
I don't zoom in too far
I only use 1 brush at 1-2 sizes for inking (outside of specialized stuff like stippling)
I put hard limits on a lot of stuff--how much shading I do (if any), or what shape my comic panels are (only squares, no diagonals or weird shapes), for example
My characters (comic characters especially) all have pretty simple designs and outfits
I write down every idea for an illustration that I have, even if I'm not ready to tackle it yet. That way when I have a chance to sit down, I've got a whole list ready to go and I'm not waffling around in the concept stage
Finally, I've learned to accept my imperfections as a neat part of my art! It's not easy, and I slip back into bad habits sometimes, but I try my best to see every misplaced mark or color that bleeds outside the line as proof that a human hand made this. I don't spend a lot of time correcting mistakes or painstakingly trying not to make them.
Here's an example from Hello Sunshine, where if looks fine from far away, but if you zoom in a bunch, you can see all kinds of little "mistakes." gaps in the ink and color, the line of Alex's ear doesn't match up, very sketchy linework where their faces meet, haha.
But then when you zoom out even a little bit, you a) don't notice those things nearly as much, and b) I think it gives it a kind of traditional charm. Just because you CAN use ctrl-z doesn't mean you HAVE to.
Anyway I hope that helps!!
All Those Christmas Clichés: Advent 2023
Because I'm the emperor of terrible decisions... fuck it, let's do an advent fic. Daily triple drabbles, set 1-25 December 2023, using the prompt list from @youneedsomeprompts found here.
All Those Christmas Clichés
December 1st: Making an advent calendar for a friend/loved one
This is exactly what I’m doing rn
The real writer experience is standing in the shower and coming up with the most authentic dialogue with perfect phrasing and raw emotion in your head, then stepping out and drying your hair, putting on some clean pajamas and opening a word document to write down all your perfect ideas only to realize everything has evaporated.
I’ll never get tired of these
Angourie Rice and Owen Teague as Rhiannon and A (Alexander) from the Every Day movie poster. Drawn with Prismacolor pencil and white gel pen, July 2018
Not to be a lesbian but oh my fucking god. Oh my god. Jesus fuck ing christ. I think I hauve covid.
Omori (Aubrey) MAP Part - "Every Day" | Pale Machine (P.M.) - Bo En
so down bad i accused her of witchcraft
everyday i wake up (face down in mud), roll out of bed (hair a mess), text god (say good morning), eat a raw cactus (yum), go to the doctor to get ALLLLL the spikes removed from my mouth (ones that i grew myself) and flirt with ALLLLL the medical professionals (M.D. stands for Mvery Dnice)
I agree with everything you said, Azalea! Also here's the exact quote from Farewell My Turnabout:
(You really let me down…) When you disappeared, I felt… betrayed. The reason I decided to become a lawyer to begin with… Was because I believed in the things you said to me, all those years ago… And you… You betrayed your own words. That's why… one year ago, I made up my mind. I decided that the Miles Edgeworth I knew had died… …At least, that's what I told myself.
This line from Phoenix is so so interesting and akdjfdjhskjfdgjh I want to sink my teeth into it. One day, I will write a longer analysis on this but...
No matter if Phoenix truly thought Miles was dead or not, I think this quote makes it clear that Phoenix decided that Miles was dead to him. Phoenix couldn't handle the abandonment, the fear that after everything he did people would still inevitably leave him. So he turned to resentment and killed off "the Miles Edgeworth I knew". Because if Miles had always been the "Demon Prosecutor" obsessed with guilty verdicts (which is what Phoenix keeps accusing him of in 2-4), then Phoenix could dismiss his belief in Miles. Phoenix could dismiss all his efforts and desire to save Miles.
So Phoenix wouldn't have to deal with the pain of believing in and being attached to someone so much... only for them to leave him... again (coughs in Dahlia/Iris).
HOT TAKE: Phoenix should have known Edgeworth was still alive during the “chooses death” era. Gumshoe probably would have told him if he had asked, he was just too busy overreacting.
Lmao hello there you :P I know who you are. You probably are expecting this but I'm sorry to say:
Strongly agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly disagree
Yes, it's true, they didn't find Edgeworth's body, but when someone learns about a note that says the person "chooses death" I think it's difficult to say that thinking they're dead is overreacting lol. Edgeworth was gone, he was gone for an entire year, which is a long time for someone to be missing; usually at that point, if the person doesn't turn up, there's a good chance they are dead - and there was the suicide note on top of things. It's not an unreasonable thing to think, and Phoenix was grieving the best he could, so I also don't think it's very fair to expect him to be perfectly rational in those circumstances. Besides, he seems to still be struggling to accept it by the events of JFA, which honestly tracks with the fact he never got closure.
Besides... there are lines in the game implying that Phoenix did think Edgeworth was alive (something like "you were dead to me" if I recall correctly), and that he resented him for leaving, not dying. Personally I think his behaviour screams of repressed grief and denial, but the alternative interpretation is there.
I control the narrative, I whisper to myself like a lunatic while the characters in the story I'm writing are not following my orders.
you ever just crave backshots from abby fucking anderson