No Writer Has All Three:

No writer has all three:

A good relationship with reality

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Actual motivation

Audio log 3 of ███

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Heyo, Zara Rodriguez, here. Not sure if I should say that every time but oh well.

Today was uh, weird, I think my step mom took those stupid emotion pills. I don’t like how she acts when she takes them, I dunno how to describe it, it’s just unnerving.

I uh, once saw a guy who took them start having his body become disfigured and bend in ways it wasn’t supposed to, it all happened so quickly. It was really disturbing and gross.

Anyways, uhm, step mom gets impulsive and loud when she takes the medication. I shouldn’t complain because it’s honestly the nicest she’s ever been but it’s still disturbing.

In case these stupid emotion meds don’t exist in the future, the meds were regulated by the government because people were committing suicide at terrifyingly high rates, not being able to cope with the reality of the world we live in. So the economy was in shambles because there were too many people dying and not enough people working.

They can’t force you to take the meds but they can interrogate you on why you don’t take them.

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School was the same as it normally is, nothing super different, just keeping to myself and trying to do the stupid work and not fail the classes.

Um, I well searching through my granddads cellar, cuz y’know, he let me, and I found a bunch of old uh, “analog” or “vhs” tapes as they’re called I think. Anytime I’d been in there beforehand, granddad would get super protective of those tapes and tell me not to mess with them. But, he needed me to do something in there while he’s out of town, I found what he needed but I took the tapes home along with his vhs player.

So I figured, since he’s out of town, it wouldn’t hurt to take a look, right? They’re just a bunch of old tapes, they can’t do anything. I wonder what’s on them…

Hopefully something interesting, my life is too boring as it is. If it turns out to be nothing then at least I got to look at some real vhs tapes, bragging rights I guess. So not a total waste of time

Vhs tapes are like, crazy expensive and rare to get nowadays, granddad says they were passed down to him from his grandparents, and they were passed down to them by their grandparents, and so on and so forth. But apparently they used to be made all the time in the past.

Anyways, I’ll watch these tapes and get back to you.

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I love the hanging crystals, the light bounces off them really well

Just the lighting generally is fantastic

And the mini bottles in the foreground. With prices on little folded cards. The herbs behind Ambrose???? There are just so many little details. I could looks at it for hours

[ID: a digital drawing of the interior of a potion shop. A white elf with blue hair and navy, gold-embroidered robes stands at the counter in the middle of the drawing, looking right towards the window and door. The shelves are filled with cool-toned potions, while the stone walls are striped with warm colors. end ID]

The Griffin’s Claw Potions & Tinctures Shop

Hope you like it! It’s a decent representation of what the shop looks like in my head, down to the layout and the striped stone walls. I’m pretty proud of the window in particular. If I were better at texture, I’d be able to apply more of that to certain elements, like the floor, etc. But I didn’t want to muddy up the drawing too much, or botch it with bad texture, so for now, I left it as is.

Because I spent too long on this, I’m tagging the Rival Potion Shop taglist under the cut. (Since it overlaps with the Icefall taglist, I really try not to ping it too much.)

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what makes me cackle maniacally- exhibit A

The Stray Spirit, Chapter 43:

“Help!” [Emry] shouted before his mouth dipped under the surface. He struggled to get more of his body onto the paddle, only to slide off of it again. His next gasp swallowed water, and he had to choke out the word. “Help—" 

Rival Potion Shops, Chapter 32:

[Ambrose] fell to the floor, screwing his eyes shut and clutching Eli’s body to his chest with violently shaking arms. “Help!” he shouted. His voice died in the smoke at his lips. “Help!”

I would love that so much. I love seeing art of my characters!!

So I want to make a habit of practicing drawing but don't want to keep drawing my same characters over and over again all the time

Like/reblog/comment if you'd be cool with me trying to draw your OCs? I'm really shy about drawing people's characters unsolicited, but if I know you wouldn't mind then I'll go for it

I can't promise I'll get to it quickly or that they will exactly match your vision of them but yeah, just thought I'd throw this question out there