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Adding onto this in the visual art department; this is coming from a fellow non-talented artist. It's very hard for me to actually practice drawing enough to become "good" at it, my style is nonexistent and all the pieces I've made are in a blurry hyperfixated state (that said, I'm still very proud of when I can pull myself together to make a full piece).

I would never support AI art, because I genuinely admire people who are far better than I am.

Am I sometimes jealous? Yes, and completely irrationally. My inability to buckle down and suffer through that awkward phase is my problem and mine alone. But AI art spits and shits on the work of truly wonderful artists. If you have the ability to do art, either work and suffer and get better by yourself, listen to your peers and mentors, and figure out a method for yourself, or just don't do it. Visual art isn't the right medium of expression for everyone. If you're a hobbyist, it looks like shit, and you don't want to show it to anyone, THAT'S ALRIGHT. If you do want to show it to people, THAT'S ALRIGHT. If you've found your style but you can't quite gets clothes or side portraits or eyes or hands right, THAT'S ALRIGHT. You are allowed to be awkward in your artistic expression.

Just don't throw a tantrum, plunk your pencil onto the floor, and go to your uwu ChatGPT-senpai to get it to do it for you. You're allowed to be awkward in art. You're not allowed to give up and resort to theft and disrespect when you've barely tried.

@baosci @whiver-wyverncat @milniar-problemsolved

Hey y'all, guess who finished the first chapter early!

HAVE FUN AND LMK WHAT IT'S LIKEEEEE

This is a scene that is going in the fanfic immediately

It might not make it till the end cause of what I have planned

But goddamn it's going in there

CUTIES

You’ve always been able to hear the whispers of gods. They’re all always saying different things, so it’s difficult to pick out what any of them are saying at any given time... But one day, you hear all the voices converge into one. "RUN AWAY! FLEE! PLEASE!"

Here is your mission.

Adding onto this, how everyone met their soulmates + current status:

Mumbo|Lizzie: Mumbo's dad got annoyed that his son was always fiddling with redstone instead of being a normal CEO's child, so sent out a search for his soulmate. Found Lizzie. Made the two meet. Lizzie doesn't work with redstone much but is quite cheerful to do anything to help annoy Mumbo's dad. They moved in with Etho and Joel and are platonic. Mumbo does freelance engineering and Lizzie works at a coffee shop + does gaming streams.

Skizz|Gem: Met in high school accidentally when Gem refused to do classwork in favor of composing music on her computer, meanwhile Skizz caused a small redstone pop whenever teachers would open classroom doors. They both got detention, made conversation, got each others' numbers and forgot about it. Years later they met by chance again in a library when they wanted to check out the same book about soulmates, checked tattoos, and realized. Platonic, Skizz is a professional troublemaker/graffiti artist with a side hobby (actual job) of marketing design for Mumbo's dad, coincidently. Gem wants to be a singer but currently works at Lizzie's cafe. (Shinyduo possibly)

Jimmy|Tango: Tango got caught in an oil fire while working construction and Jimmy got soulmate pains through the link, both ended up in the ICU and met there. They're dating and Jimmy works as a freelance journalist, Tango does gaming streams.

Ren|BigB: Met in airplane customs as they were both going on foreign exchange studies, hit it off and passed the time with small talk, got around to showing each other their tattoos and realizing they're soulmates. BigB is a photographer and Ren is unemployed, BigB's like "i can't support us both". They're platonic, Ren is dating Martyn and BigB's dating Grian (both in secret).

Grian|Scar: They tell everyone that they met in Egypt, when they got lost in the desert, and both found the same oasis. One of them passed out and the other carried them back to civilization (details depend on who's telling it) and when they woke up, they saw an angel watching them and kissed them before even knowing they were soulmates. In reality they've been classmates forever and neither of them has ever been to Africa (they want to go, though). They're dating, of course, who am I to deny the Scarian nation. Grian is an author and Scar runs a small horse and llama stable (they regularly go hiking).

Joel|Etho: They met as online friends in high school and got around to meeting irl while they were in college, compared tattoos and moved in instantly. Both their fanbases cheered and started shipping them incessantly when it happened. Eventually Mumbo and Lizzie moved in with them and Joel and Lizzie got married. They're platonic but pretend they're dating. Joel does gaming streams and Etho also does that + runs a side channel making Naruto content.

Impulse|Bdubs: Met in college, both were into spelunking as a hobby and met on a trip together. Now Impulse is a drummer for a popular band and Bdubs does gaming with Etho and Joel (the fandom is in a war over the straight-and-narrow SmallEtho vs. the rebellious "heathens" shipping Ethubs).

Cleo|Martyn: Met when Cleo and Scott moved into the same apartment building as Martyn. Martyn (for show) keeps doing a series of increasingly ridiculous stunts to try and get Cleo to move in with him. Cleo knows he's not serious, but pretends to be annoyed. Cleo doesn't really care if about being soulmates with someone, but is good enough friends with Martyn that they have a deal to get a house together with Scott if they get enough money. Cleo's in medical school and Martyn works at a martial arts place (I'm partial to karate) and also does gaming.

Scott|Pearl: I mean I already basically explained them lmao. They're platonic at the end. Pearl doesn't really care about being together based on Soulmates (doubly so if I do Shinyduo), but feels like Scott specifically is angry at her for no reason, and the others start to think she did something wrong to make him so angry at her. Plot happens, yay! Scott's an architect, and is very good at it, but ultimately he wants to be part of a band (he, Impulse, and Gem all join up eventually). Pearl runs a doggy daycare.

Enjoy I think!

Hey hey wonderful Trafficblr peeps, especially @whiver-wyverncat lovely mutual <3 love you lots

So I was rewatching Scott's Double Life, and I had a fanfiction idea that needs rating (I don't know if this has already been done, but either way I thought it could be a fun thing after I finish the Joelzzie siren AU)

Modern, Soulmates AU, where everyone's paired up like Double Life, along with Skizz & Gem and Mumbo & Lizzie. Scott is the main PoV. People who haven't found/don't reside with their soulmates after they're in their 20s are kind of seen as having failed in life, and dating someone other than your soulmate is absolutely SCANDALOUS

Soulmates share a tattoo on their hands. They'll also have any injury done to their soulmate appear on them until they meet. Scott and Jimmy dated in college before Jimmy found Tango, and they broke up on sour terms (Jimmy got sent to the ICU because of Tango, which is where they met, and Jimmy thinks Scott abandoned him there, but actually the nurse people wouldn't let Scott see Jimmy because they weren't soulmates. Scott got angry at the idea of "soulmates" after that and when he found out Jimmy found his soulmate, he got really flighty and Jimmy decided to break it off.)

A couple years later, Scott's living with his college friend Cleo, and Cleo has a girl friend group and they realized Pearl's tattoo looks similar to Scott's (Scott wears gloves but Cleo's seen it before he started wearing them) and when Scott ends up out with Cleo they stumble into her friends who insist they get Scott and Pearl to meet and check if they're soulmates

Scott gets trauma triggered and goes on a bad bender the night before they're supposed to meet and (ironically) ends up in the ICU. The Girl Group gets Pearl in there because she suddenly felt awful and they're like "alright let's get to Scott now" and the worst happens, and they're Soulmates

Enemies-to-friends with hints of will-they-won't-they (but they won't) about challenging the amatonormative society with gay and platonic shenanigans. (also Scott and Jimmy make up in the end dw)

@baosci @whiver-wyverncat

I've got some bad news...

My computer had to reload all my Chrome tabs and apparently I hadn't saved my second chapter of Drowning via preview yet? And like an idiot I hadn't copied it into Libre Office.

So I just lost the entirety of my almost finished second chapter.

I genuinely don't know if my motivation can recover from this, cause I definitely can't remember everything I wrote, and I don't want it to be any different. I feel awful and I'm so sorry. Maybe it's not my place to be, Baosci you are amazing and I can't wait to see where the canon of this goes, but I don't know what to do now. I love y'all. Maybe I'll figure out a different way to write it.

That's all. Just wanted to let you know.

’You can’t ship them, they’re literally trying to kill each other!’ SHHH THATS THE BEST PART

Knowing my tendency to cry when games even slightly hit them good themes or have sadness/bittersweetness overwhelming joy, I will likely end up bawling on the floor in the best way possible

Music Sneak Peek!!

Hi-hey-hello, Arto here!!!

I write music, as most of you know. So I decided to show you a song---the official main title screen song :D I hope you guys like it and this is an idea of what I make… actually rlly praying you all like it!!

<3