OTP Drawing Challenge Day 3-(crying) (I May Have Been Listening To Otetsu's "Candy And Chains" When I

OTP drawing challenge day 3-(crying) (I may have been listening to Otetsu's "Candy and Chains" when I drew this...)

“Gunther? Dearest, what is it? What’s wrong? …I can’t help you if you won’t talk to me…”

Ever since her brain injuries, Nerr has been… apathetic towards most things in life at best. Strong emotions don't come as easily to her as they once did. However, if you dare even look funny at Elise or Gunther, she will come after you like a pack of savage wolves. Unfortunately for her, some problems can’t be stabbed away. Spending three months in complete isolation and constant fear of his life (in Valla) took it’s toll on Gunther, whose life up to that point hadn’t exactly been pleasant. Sometimes, he just needs to vent. She gets that… but she doesn’t like it. She wants his sadness and pain to be a physical thing that she can maul.

Sorry, but even though I can see you've got your heart in the right place, I can't agree with this. The problem is, a lot of them DON'T grow into maturity. They're surrounded by sychophants who tell them every duece they ever drop is god's gift to this world, and they grow into horrible, insufferable adults with terrible art styles who vomit horrible art all over places like dA and tumblr that other people are forced to witness. And god forbid if someone tries to give them some advice to make their art match their age- they baaaw to their legion of white knights, who defend them no matter how much of a cancer they are.

This issue with everyone spending all their time online and attached to social media like it's life support is that children these days haven't learned to keep anything to themselves. Does everyone REALLY need to put ALL their yaoi sparkle wolf OCs up on a public forum- and that's the crux of the problem here; the internet is PUBLIC. Showing your art to your friends at school is different from putting it up on a billboard. If people see something they deem as cringeworthy, they're going to comment on it, as is their right. If you don't want people complaining about what you do, don't put it out in the open for people to see. I have so many fanfics that I would never post online, because they're personal, very cringe worthy things I did for myself. I know people would say it's mary sue smut, so I keep it where no one else can read it because, believe it or not, it's possible to create something and NOT imeadiately put it up on display.

Instead of trying to tell people "don't have opinions if they're mean" maybe teach kids that they shouldn't expect to have praise heaped on them for every little thing they do. And if a few negative comments are enough to make you stop doing something you enjoy, then you probably didn't enjoy it that much to begin with. When people says something is "cringe", they usually have a reason for saying it (unless they're being trolls, but if you're going to be online, you need to learn to deal with trolls anyway). I get encouraging kids, but for fucks sake, they need to grow a thicker skin. This generation's gonna end up running away from a picture of someone frowning if this shit continues...

Another reason to stop ‘cringe culture’

I’m a teacher. Today I was covering for a grade 9 science class. Decent kids, if a bit rowdy, and didn’t want to do their work. Wtv, it was textbook work. Not the point.

1 girl (reminder that these kids are, like, 14/15) was doodling bust portraits (head & shoulders) in an art book. I had a squiz and asked her if they were her characters. She said they were and excitedly told me she had so many characters for this one story of hers. I laughed about how I wished I could draw mine, and moved on.

Later in the class, I hear her enthusiastically telling her friend all about her main OC - a gay kitsune prince with a tragic past. It was so, pure, classic Deviant Art: my first OC. And you know what? I loved it. I was just sitting there half overhearing, smiling to myself and glad that her friend was engaging and interested in her story and characters.

This is a girl who will become a creator. She will draw and write and imagine, get better and better. She’ll probably move past this stage and start making more nuanced characters (she was already lamenting she didn’t have enough girl OCs). But this is where she started. This is where so many of us started. I had a tiger catgirl, goth witch/sorceress OC in high school. I found my original design for her recently. Look what I create now.

Let kids be kids. Let them explore and invent and go wild and be cliche and make overpowered OCs. Let them have their anthropomorphic animal OCs. Let them try everything before they settle into maturity.

For fucks sake; let them have fun.

Ugh, what the fuck, bitch?! YOU'RE not Corrine!! GAWD DAMMIT!!! This is just... I swear to god, I'm blessed with suck. I keep pulling good units I don't like or want. The first time I started pulling for the Ylissean Summer banner, I pulled Ryouma when I was trying to pad my pull rate. Then, when I was trying to pull beach Robin, I pulled Peri. THEN, when I was trying to pull beach Frederick, I pulled beach Gaius! You already know about the beach Xander bullshit, and now THIS! I just. Want. Beach Corrine. I don't care how shitty her IVs are- I just WANT her...! But I'm never going to GET her if I keep pulling useless 5* garbage like THIS! I. HATE. Delthea. I don't like her in Echoes, and her moe design in Heroes makes me gag. Ugh. Please. Send help. Tell IS and Nintendo to implement a trade feature in this game, because I will trade all my 5*s for beach Corrine...

Gotta capitalize on that boobs-and-butt pose all the kids love so much. So what if it makes a rather competent artist look like they have no idea how bodies work? Sex sell, and what's sexier than women who have no bones and are made of rubber?

The only thing I like more about Kozaki's art in comparison to the various images in Heroes is that the characters look more mature. The Robins look like they're 18/19 in Awakening, about how I imagine them. In Heroes, they're about 16 if I'm being generous. I thought Chrom was around 20. Nope, Heroes confirms that he too is sixteen. Thought Lissa was sixteen, but clearly she's ten.

Chereche is the only woman who looks older than 15. Tiki is especially ergegious since she looks almost exactly the same as an adult and child in Heroes. Just... god damn, Japan- enough with the giant, moe eyes. If Kozaki is one of the few artists they can find capable of drawing adults, I hope IntSys keeps bringing him back rather than get it in their heads to hire any of these people.

FE Heroes vs FE Awakening

Since I enjoyed seeing the differences between the FE artwork, here’s one for Awakening. Kozaki sure does like drawing characters from the back.

Also, everyone has a full body except Robin.

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

My baby! She's so beautiful! And sassy~ She looks like she belongs on the poster of a Dreamworks aninated movie, and that is the best thing of all.

I will cherish this forever!

So I don’t know why but apparently I can draw right now…like idk why. I drew this pose without any reference and just …did it. I feel like in the short time on here I’m slowly improving. I posted a really shitty drawing earlier of an awesome concept I have for my fatesona and Im realizing I do MUCH better on my tablet than on pen and paper. Idk why.

But ANYWAYS this is for @silvershadow1711 as I spent the last couple days reading her fatesonanerr’s story (HERE, READ IT) while I’ve spent really long hours at work. It’s a darker take on the conquest storyline and I love it so much. She tweaked some things and it turned out great. Go check it out, link is attached.

Thank you for letting me draw Nerr! I love meeting the awseome people they have with such cool fatesonas, it makes me smile so much to meet some really great people on here..cause I have no friends irl ;3;