A Proper Introduction

My last thought for tonight (and maybe until the end of the weekend when I start posting my new fanfic for here only-):

Have you ever stopped to think about how the people on the grand line fish? Like, legitimately. Obviously they have to fish in order to survive (and whatever they believe help the people that have allergies to seafood-) but it's funny to stop and think about.

Obviously they can't fly fish since everything is a part of the ocean (unless they're at a lake or pond while visiting an island). And they can't really use worms or power bait/etc., so they'd have to either use massive lures or raw meat.

And with a lot of the aquatic animals there are, you can't really use small fish as bait (for the du-gongs (hopefully I spelt this right from memory) and other animals in that category on the grand line). Even at that, sea kings probably wouldn't bite. So you'd have to use some kind of raw meat and try and fish. It's also funny to think about as well that you'd have to have both an abundance of fishing line to reach the depth that seakings and other fish would be at, as well as use as cannon ball as a weight in order to get down that far.

I guess it's not really THAT interesting unless you're into fishing, lol. (I'm not personally, but my dad is and used to teach me a lot about fishing, lol)

The new upcoming 2025 schedule

Ack, I've had to copy and paste this WAY too many times-

(Please excuse this being a copy and paste from my Patreon. I actually have to post this out on all of my social media platforms, and this is a lot to have to retype over and over again-)

Hey, my peeps!

So as we all know, Christmas is just around the corner, and usually with that follows the first of the year. So as I have done on all of my social media platforms, I will be shifting things around a bit and taking a break from social media as a whole until the beginning of next year. Now what does that mean exactly? Well it's simple!

Starting in 2025, I will be starting a new posting schedule. And more specifically, it will be starting the first Monday of 2025. Now granted, I could easily start posting a lot now, but as I've stated before, I have a lot I have planned out, and in order to give me that time to get to my end results, I have to start giving myself the time to do the things that I want to do. And I have a pretty general idea of what I want the schedule to be. So, going into the holiday season, here will be the the new schedule that (I hope) I'll be sticking to.

Monday: I will be starting to post out older (and the new as I finish them) artwork on a more fixed schedule to Patreon first, and then post the rest later on in the week.

Tuesday: I will not be prevalent on social media, but will be using this day to either work on art behind the scenes or writing, depending on which one I fall behind on.

Wednesday: I will be posting old streams up on my gaming/cosplay YouTube channel- that will also be coming with the start of the year- as well as uploading cosplay content.

Thursday: I will be spending Thursdays to mostly check up on all of my social media platforms (respond to everyone/ like comments/ etc.) as well as use Thursdays as my days to do cosplay content.

Fridays: I WILL be streaming more on Fridays. I want to make my art a lot more known, so I'll most likely be streaming most of the time on Fridays. The first half of the day will probably be on Twitch and the second half of the day will be on my art YouTube channel.

Saturdays/Sundays: I will be giving myself days off on these two days. Maybe in the near future if- and when- I can get a shop made up and going, I'll be using these days to make my merch/ art products. but for now, these are just days to relax and work on a current music project me and my brother are planning out.

Again, this may not be the permanent schedule, but I do want to try and stick to it. But until then, please enjoy the rest of the year!

Happy holidays!

-Ducky

Ok, This is- again, hopefully- part six. There is only one more part after this, and then I'm done, I swear! I know that I haven’t really made mention of him in everyone else's info so far, but up next is Dolion. Dolion is actually a very peculiar member of the crew. Being the swordsman, he actually is the only member of the crew with a higher position that physically went searching Lee’s crew out. I’ve also slacked on mentioning this, but a lot of the names on Lee’s crew have meanings. (I think the biggest thing people tend to overlook with Lee’s crew info is the fact that the crew’s name is the actual translation of Lee’s name. In other words, Lee’s name translates to ‘meadow’, hence the name ‘the Meadow Pirates’.) For Dolion, his name is a Greek translation of ‘liar’ or ‘to lie’. Because of his outfit, Dolion gave the crew a scare the first time they met. Because they met during a more foggy season, Kimchi, Lee, Ahiru, and Shiro all thought that he was the Grim Reaper. The poor things were scared straight for a good hour. His reasoning for why he demanded to join is complicated, actually. Wonton and Noko were both suspicious of him at first and believed that he had very similar goals of the World Government. They believed that he only wanted to travel with Lee until he could get intel about the One Piece and then he’d be splitting. However, he told them that his reasoning for joining was simply because he saw potential with the crew and wanted to give them proper backup since they were lacking any real muscle. His real reasoning was for two things. Firstly, he saw a lot of his younger self in Lee. Someone that was so quiet and wanted to do good for the world, yet was so quick to be stepped on. And secondly, because she reminded him a lot of his older sister as well in the way she could influence people to completely diffuse their quarrels. Because of things in his own life that led to him losing his sister, he saw joining Lee’s crew as a way to repay his sister’s kindness back. At the time of joining her crew, Dolian was 52.

You know what I think is the funniest thing? Whenever I reach a rut in my writing and don't know where to go with it, or how to even write the starter, I just pretend I'm writing the book for a play and it works every time XD

Don't know how to start a yandere plot? Pretend you're writing the monologue for a protagonist down on their luck. Don't know how to move the story? Just create a background character that makes a random remark to fill the void between to action points :3 Maybe this is just a me thing since I actually was in drama club and drama class back when I attended public school, but I think that even now a lot of those skills are useful into tricking my brain into getting past different types of ruts in my hobbies, lol

Hey peeps!

So, I'm giving the small heads up here since I don't really have any other platforms on my phone ATM (aka, all of my other platforms signed me out, this is the only one signed in, lol-)

But for this week I won't be on social media much again. I'll try and get some more written on the story I've been working on, but with issues and concerns I have in my own life, I've been distracted from my work. However, I will be continuing to post regularly. (If it's any consolation, I didn't post on my gaming YouTube channel after promising that I would on Thursday/Friday. So there is that. And I didn't even post to Patreon tonight, either. So it's not just you guys not getting content, I promise!)

In the meantime, I'll cook up some more head canons for WB's crew since a lot of you peeps actually like them (somehow. Dunno how, but there's a lot of you that randomly appear out of the void to like them XD)

A fun little draft I'm working on

So I saw someone do this for Thatch. And while I'd also LOVE to make an alternate version of Thatch for a lookup figure, I might honestly might make a separate character for a lookup figure concept as a whole to go with Bernice. I might make maybe Haruta or Izo (since in Bernice's canon info I'm working on, she does get along with them fairly well-) But yeah...For now, take the concept I made for Bernice! :D

...you better believe I'll be doing this for Lee and Heat as well because they're my favorite and first oc pairing-

MY SOUL WITH THIS-

THIS IS SO GOOD, WHAT?!?! :0

GOSH THEY ARE FINALLY DON E

I hope you can tell them apart!!

In order: Ace, Thatch, Vista, Marco and Izou.

These men are so unnervingly handsome.

Izou, especially, captured mine heart aesthetically. He has the face of a siren and the body of a MAN. His hair is long, black and gorgeous. He's sophisticated, creative and intelligent. I want him (the version of him in my head).

Thatch is insanely handsome. I need to draw facial hair better because he's this sexy lumberjack with thick red hair the colour of chestnuts. His friendly personality catches you off-guard and then you look down and holy shoot he's more delicious than his food!

Vista is wow bro like he's a smouldering big guy with a big chest, big thighs and a defined waist. He's strong. He's fashionable. His hairy body intrigues me. Whenever he looks at you, he's always smiling knowingly like he knows you want him.

Do I need to say more about how Marco and Ace are? How much they mean to me? God, no, we do not need to hear that. W-we d-don't KYAAA

You can ignore this since this is mostly a note to myself, but I'll still write it to appease which of you heathens decide to be a rebel and read it anyways, lol.

~•^°^•~•^°^•~•^°^•~•^°^•~

The lack of cosplays for Whitebeard's commanders is DISGUSTING. You can find Marco and Ace (which are givens-) but you can't find one for Rakuyo? Or even Haruta or Curiel? I feel like them being the simplest designs, they'd at least have SOMETHING, but no. You can't find ANYTHING .

The most disappointing part? THERE'S. NO. THATCH. No genderbend, no original, no blue shirt, NOTHING. (It's a shame, I just so happen to have a white button up and white bell bottoms, so I guess I'll be doing a genderbend version to make him a pinup girly because SOMEONE HAS TO FIX THIS, AND IM WILLING TO BE TRIBUTE TO DO SO-)

Ok, I'm done...Bye! :D

Corazon as a Corazon

Hey, my peeps! I'm posting back here again with an actual art piece this time. *gasp* Yes, and ACTUAL FINISHED ART PIECE! Not one of my normal little doodles, and not one of my base colors silly drawings, and ACTUAL attempted finished drawing. I can't really say that it's a finished drawing since it was actually a sketch that I did at the beginning of last year, but oh well XD Just a bit of context with this: Long story short, when I was posting art on my IG account, I actually put out a small ask box asking people for cursed ideas to draw. And while only one person had commented on it, my brother was actually the one to recommend this idea to me, so that's how 'Corazon as a Corazon' had came to be. Did I actually intend for this to be a Valentine's day post? No, no I did not. Did it end up becoming one? Yes, Yes it did. Why? Because, you can't tell me this man wasn't made for the holiday, plus it was too perfect of timing and an opportunity to NOT make the post for Valentine's day! Ok, I shall scurry back off into my cave for another eon while I try to find the next piece of art I'll be putting out next week, lol.

Hello again! Are you peeps (hopefully not) tired of me posting out art? Because I still have quite a bit of art that I need to upload to all of my platforms, and this is the next target for me, lol. Well, starting off what is going to probably be another day filled with art posts, we have this cute piece! I actually finished this one a couple of months ago after hitting 100 followers on Instagram. This originally was going to be a two part drawing challenge. But because of issues with IG, I no longer post on there. The premise of this was a DTIYS kind of thing, although it was going to cater more towards each person. Basically, the first part of the challenge was going to be draw a character with both a zodiac AND mbti type that would get along with your zodiac and mbti type (so kind of like a more accurate soulmate/best friends kind of thing) And because I call my followers 'peeps', the first part of the challenge for the 100 followers was supposed to be like this. You draw a character you'd get along with according to both, and where you'd be drawing yourself in the second half, you put a duck of some kind there. For obvious reasons, the second half of the challenge never came out, but to be honest, I really like how this one turned out. Especially, too, since Fishman Island is one of my favorite arcs (I dunno why so many people trach on it. It's really good. Plus, look at the bright colors used in the scenery, character design, everything! It's so sad that a lot of people hate on it ;v; )