YAYAYAYAYAYAA

animation as a concept: omigod its so cool and fun and look my silly billies move now haha im so happy

animation in reality: why do I have to animate shadows why does it take so long why is this not as whimsical as I thought it would be

we be continuing

she rub

save me, oc and canon interactions, save me

yeah idk I didnt sleep so I could finish it

comic practice ft. my oc Ume and Akechi

WE ARE SO BACK

Das riight, I've finally made some decent progress in my fanfic endeavors and we are continuing Ume's story!

This time it is a bridge fanfic that I hope you will enjoy!

(Imma tag everyone who appears in this mess teehee)

I spent a whole day drawing her, thought might as well share

Can you find all of the untraumatized Umes? There isn't a lot of her!

I'm not sorry for the last one HAHAHAHAH

Individual ones under the cut hehe

Did not trace, but I did copy his sprite DSAFHKJKDFJK

I did change the original's "Down" hairstyle to Curly, cuz Ume already wore her hair down, so a texture change seemed more fitting for her

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

At last, the time has come... Questions that must be answered overwhelm my head, but... It has to be dealt with.

We've come to an end at last! The longest chapter by far, so I hope you'll enjoy it!

Here are a few extras I did for this one as well~

U can have a little shuake sketch as a treat~

U can check out other chapter covers here:

First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth

I drew this for my friend cuz I wanted to yuri-fy someone but didn't know who (and I did promise multiple times to draw their rareship despite hating Diluc with a passion)

Anyway I don't ship them, but I wanna post something even if its a quick doodle

Diluc can go die in a ditch, I gave him back problems on purpose

Addition: outfit refs under the cut

Didnt even realise I used one of (G)I-DLE girls as a ref, the head was cut off lmao

Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

New fic posted

This time it's ongoing and is gonna be very hard to keep writing it now that I put that much pressure on myself (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)

We need to get through this... It was predetermined after all.

I redrew this 3 times it was not connecting

Any extra content for this chapter will take longer, mb, animation has hands

U can check out other chapter covers here:

First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Ninth

next doodle is lowkey kinda ugly and a spoiler so im hiding it hihi

my head hurts anyway