Welp, I Don't Keep Eye Promises On The Craniopagus End Due To Uni Grind, So Here's My Rendition Of Toy

Welp, I don't keep eye promises on the Craniopagus end due to uni grind, so here's my rendition of Toy Soldier from @candlecoo-sideb-art's Somewhere Else (In Space) AU in both a lineless (on eyes) and lined (own) art style! Having the excuse to practice the artificial again was nice, though I know I can do better. I tried to base the eyes more or less on Woody and Jessie from Toy Story with how their materials work, but I definitely need more practice outside of head-on eye arts to see it as 'perfected' in my own eyes. Toy Soldier's only real trouble for me was trying to do their obvious upper eyelid, as it just never felt right until i got that colour there. Regardless, we did it lolol. The resident Eye Lady makes no clear promises on the release of certain eye arts but will try her best! Maybe after she does a Simone art because Simone won't leave me alone-

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who tore through it with the voracity of The Eye.

It was just so damn entertaining and also slightly messed up; my favorite type of Time Travel / Alt merging fic. Literally impossible to put down no matter how hard I tried.

so i just read Rewind. Reset. Rewrite. in one sitting and just

wow, what a fic.

THE MISCONCEPTION ABOUT COMMENTING ON FIC

I’ve read all kinds of posts both from writers and readers lamenting about comments on fic. Authors are upset when they don’t get any, readers don’t know what kinds of comments to leave, etc. And it finally clicked in my brain why I think a lot of people don’t bother writing comments. 

And this is what it boils down to:

Writers do not want praise.  We just want to talk about our story. 

I can’t speak for everyone obviously - but I think the majority of writers don’t care so much for the “omg you’re a brilliant writer!!” comments as much as we just want to hear your thoughts on the story. Even if it’s just your thoughts as you’re reading of “oooh x happened! I can’t believe y said this! What’s going to happen now that z has happened?!” We literally just want to talk about what we’ve written like you would with a friend about a tv show. We’re not out here demanding praise like some entitled narcissist. 

While praising our writing skills or writing style is appreciated, it doesn’t need to be said on every fic and every chapter that you read. If you regularly comment on someone’s work that’s telling enough that you like our technique. Readers shouldn’t feel pressured to have to praise a writer’s abilities every time they want to comment. 

In the grand scheme of things, talking about the fic/chapter is actually more helpful to us writers instead of spewing praise. It’s the same with artwork. As nice as it is that people tell me “wow your art is so pretty!” it’s a LOT more useful to me to get comments like “I love their expressions!” or “the lighting on this is gorgeous!” because then I know WHAT people are liking about it. If no one ever comments on my backgrounds, I now know what to improve. If most people comment on liking the expressions, I now know the strong points of my art and can use it to my advantage to make even better art in the future. 

The same goes for fic. If multiple people tell me they liked a certain part of the story I now know that things similar to that are a hit. It’s feedback I can use to improve the story and give my readers more of what they want. Without that I have no idea what they like about the fic.

Talking with a writer about their story also gives them inspiration!! Nothing gets us more in the mood to work on a fic than to have people wanting to talk about it. A lot of times just talking about one of my fics with someone will give me that push to continue working on it. Getting a comment that just says “great chapter” or “you’re a great writer” doesn’t do much to motivate us to continue that particular fic. But if you talk about the story and the characters it gives us motivation to continue working on it, may even give us ideas for future chapters. I would hope that those of you with “comment anxiety” find this approach so much easier than trying to praise the writer every time you read.

So that fic the author hasn’t updated in forever that you’re dying to read? Talk to them about the fic and the elements of the story! It will make the writer want to talk to you about it and will get their mind thinking about it, hopefully inspiring them to continue where they left off. Fics that are left in silence are more likely to be abandoned or even deleted because nothing feels worse than putting your heart into a story to have no one say anything about it. 

TLDR; Writers do not want praise, we just want to talk with our readers about the story itself, and these are the kinds of comments that inspire us to keep writing more. 

Legit so happy to have Lil ole Dex drawn for this lolol. Please give this awesome, accidentally-kidnapped-into-Fractures-fandom artist your love and support.

The art doodles have all been finished (for this round)

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted and allowed me to draw their characters!! ※\(^o^)/※

Stella is just perfect lmfao

You tell me this isn’t them-

Oh no she writes fanfictions ru-

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Soo… I missed Jmart Day 2024. Oh well though, I still made the fic! Feel free to enjoy my AU’s Jmart meeting when Jon... tries to shred a Leitner.

...I swear he’s very intelligent sometimes.

—— Summary:

In most other universes, Jonathan “Jon” Sims and Martin Blackwood meet in the Magnus Institute.

This does not change here.

What does change is the circumstances; this time around, Martin is the Beholding’s favourite Librarian in the centuries old Institute, and Jon is a Hunt Pseudo-Avatar trained by their Head’s late wife… and the sound designer for a fearless-led podcast that treads ever too slightly close to the world of Entities for their liking.

It is because of this podcast that Martin and Jon meet and debate false memories as they rush to contain the Leitner Beast that they let loose.

Whoops.

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AKA; Jonathan Sims, Leitner Hunter and Student of the late Edlayn Gleave meets Martin Blackwood, Librarian and Unusual Focus of the Beholding. Things sure do happen. [Jmart Day 2024 Fic!]

(Also @trans-jon-rights look! Walkman recorder!)