OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

This is lovely! ❤️

年明け前ぎりぎりの描き納め（消しミスちょっと修正…

Angel #2 🥰

effortlessly beautiful 💜

Ao3 sent me a mail about a sweet comment someone left on one of my fics. But the comment has already been deleted. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

These are so good and inspiring! I can feel the love and the tenderness between them two. @b-alla I can't wait for what you'll draw in 2020. I already know it's going to be amazing!

My favorite pieces from 2019. Its only been about a year and a half since I started drawing digitally and I feel that I’ve developed quite a bit. Despite jumping around with coloring styles (as you can see above), I think my line art has consistently gotten better and I’m more confident with drawing the boys. 

I think the comic has been a big part of that growth as it forces me to attempt different facial emotions, angles I would never willing draw, and makes me do all of this over and over again. If you haven’t already seen my CollegeAU, I will link it down below with my twitter account which I am more active on.

Thank you guys for such a great year filled with love and support, I am very excited for what is to come in 2020!

CollegeAU

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A Note on Reblogging (Your Own Fic/Art/Stuff/Etc.)

Look, here’s the deal with tumblr: it moves fast. A lot of people follow enough blogs that scrolling through one’s entire dash is impossible. I remember the days when I could wake up in the morning and scroll back to the last post I saw before bed. Sweet, summer child.

Here’s the other deal with tumblr: I see so much anxiety about reblogging one’s own stuff, be it art; analysis; fanfiction; hell, personal posts and replies. I have (and continue to feel deeply) that anxiety. Every time, my inner critic and I go through the same song and dance.

Critic: You look like you’re begging for notes/replies/reblogs. People will think you’re needy/full of yourself/have to be the center of attention. You already have a few notes, why do you need more? Other people have it worst than you. Ugh, you’re just clogging the dashes of your followers. If they wanted to read it, they’d have read it already.

Me: *ball of anxiety* You’re right. Wait, no you’re not. Wait, maybe you are. Wait, no—

I’d say it’s 50/50, even now, that I’ll reblog myself. 

And you know what? Fuck that. 

Not everyone can get through their dash in a sitting.

Timezones are a thing.

Work hours are a thing, also affected by timezones.

Life away from tumblr is a thing (what??? I know).

There are so many reasons a person might not see your fic/art/stuff the first time. Reblog it the next day. Reblog it a week from now. Hell, set up a schedule or a queue and have it reblog itself three months from now. Go back through old fics and reblog the ones you really liked; I guarantee you have followers who are new enough to have never seen it or who would like to reread it.

Be proud of the work you do.

Oh yeah, I felt that resistance from here.

Say it again. Out loud. Write it on a post-it note and stick it where you’ll see it.

Be proud of the work you do.

You wrote/made it for a reason. And yeah, part of that reason was probably to share it with other fans. Otherwise, why post at all? I know. Man, I get it. I’m cringing even writing that. The fucked-up “don’t show off” mentality runs deep, right?

Fuck that, too.

If you have followers who unfollow you because you’re reposting your stuff (and this is hard to prove, remember; maybe they quit tumblr, maybe their interests diverged from yours, whatever), who cares? Let them go. For everyone who leaves you, many will stay. And many will be happy to see that thing they missed because of work, life, sleeping. Especially if you follow a few points of tumblr/dash etiquette:

Use cuts/read mores for anything longer than a few hundred words (I tend to cut at about 400-500 words, though if something’s under about 700 I might leave it).

Reblog at reasonable intervals (day/evening, next day reblog, etc. Hourly might be a bit much ;D).

Use tags so people can filter appropriately.

Be proud of the work you do.

(Write it down. Yes, you. <3)