I’m obsessed, stressed, and trying my best||multi-fandom||Hobby Artist/Author
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not to be dramatic, but I'd die for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, but I'd kill for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, but I'd claw my way through hell, losing half my fingernails to the dirt and the gravel, for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, but I'd carve my heart out of my chest, present it to them on a silver platter, watch them step on it if they so please, for everyone who comments on my fics. not to be dramatic, b-
Someone told Doey they saw Dogday upstairs or something..
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Bonus:
Writing for me is really just a series of “oops forgot to do this really important thing” and then editing it and slowly it gets better and better but I have less and less sanity.
Currently I’ve got, forgot to give gods a personality. Then forgot that people move around when they speak, forgot to describe what people look like, then forgot scenery exists. Yeah fun times
At least I’m writing fanfic about video games so if I wanna know if three gods can fit into a very specific cave, I can just open the game and check.
apparently its yugi’s birthday today. happy pride month king
Pondering my orbs.
anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember
Blog Introduction
Hello! Welcome to the No More Zero Comments Project! This is a blog dedicated to reducing the amount of fics on ao3 that have no comments at all.
The goal is simple: find fics with no comments, read them, and leave a comment for the author. However, I (this blogs creator) am not in every fandom to ever exist on ao3 so this is not a task I can do alone. That's where you come in!
There are two ways you can do this. One is to go out and find fics with zero comments in your fandoms, and leave a comment. The other is to take a look at the spreadsheet i made with a list of fics i found with no comments and see if there's any fandoms you know. If I did my job right, you should be able to filter it? Who knows, I suck at technology. This spreadsheet will be updated regularly by adding new fics (and removing ones that have now received comments) so there will always be new stuff to see!
So far, the spreadsheet contains mostly fics from @febuwhump collections, as their commentfest is where i got this idea. If you want to submit one of your own zero comment fics for the spreadsheet, you can do so here.
If you read a fic from the spreadsheet and leave a comment on it (or have received a comment on your own fic that is on the spreadsheet), you can let me know here so I can remove it from the spreadsheet (you do not have to do this, I will try to check regularly to see if fics have received comments, but doing it this way will be a HUGE help to me)!
Some preemptive answers to potential FAQs under the cut!
Who runs this blog?
That'd be me, Izak, also known as @lightningzombie! Hi!
Wait, I see one of your fics on the spreadsheet!
Look. I'm not doing this for no reason. Around 14% of my own fics have no comments. In the interest of fairness, I'll only be adding one of my own fics to the spreadsheet at a time. This limit only applies to me as the owner of this blog. Everyone else can have as many as they like on there lol
Do I have to read fics from the spreadsheet?
Nope! It's just a handy tool for if you're looking for something to read, and want to help out an author in need of their first comment. You can go find zero comment fics wherever you usually get fics from
Is there some sort of prize/competition?
Nope! This is just an effort to increase fandom engagement since it fell off post-COVID. You don't have to report to me about it, you just gotta do it!
Why did you decide to do this?
Frustration with the lack of comments on my fics and the death of comment culture in general. Bewilderment when I saw a fic that had 1200 kudos and no comments. The joy that leaving 100 comments and receiving 20+ during the Febuwhump commentfest brought me. Boredom. Many reasons!
Will you do events?
Maybe! If there's enough interest we could do events similar to justleaveacommentfest.
Can I submit other peoples fics for the spreadsheet?
I mean, yeah, of course. But like, if you're going to the trouble of submitting someone else's fic, why not just leave a comment on it?
(edit: if you want to add a bunch of stuff from your fandoms that you don't have time to read/have tags you can't read then go for it!)
I don't know how to comment!
Yes, you do. "I like this" is a comment. "How dare you do that to [insert blorbo here]" is a comment. "<3" is a comment. "KAJSDAKSDHJ WHYYYYY????" is a comment. "I am rapidly approaching your location" is a comment. Just be kind!
Will you be doing this for platforms other than ao3?
For now, no. Ao3 is the platform I've used for a decade and the one I understand. However if you comment on fics that aren't on ao3, that's great! The spirit of the project is so give love to authors so do that on whatever platform you see fit
Happy commenting!
I think I got noticed
I feel like this should be a meme template but I’m too lazy to.
You are a centuries-old dragon, respected by many and feared by all. You've seen many things in your life. Never has a child wandered into your den. Never has a child gazed up at you in awe and deemed you a 'giant scaly puppy.' You are unsure of how to handle this.
i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times
Pokemon comm for @miikrowelle ! 🌱 goobis
"I know as much wicked magic as any evil mage does, probably more, if I’m being honest. I don’t do it because I’m not a monster. Unwilling is not the same as unable."
The spirit dragons in botw and totk are my favorite things. (I’m mostly ignoring the lore of them from totk cause I can)
Heres this being that only you and the pure of heart can see. Their very presence causes elemental balls of destruction to form. They are so big that you shooting an arrow at them doesn’t even seem to register to them. Nor does climbing on them. In botw they appear and disappear through water portals.
They really are spirits who happen to be dragons more than dragons who happen to have spirit powers.
On some level they are benevolent. They seem to guard the three springs and have a connection to the goddesses but they don’t seem to do much but exist. But god are they pretty and their theme is amazing. One of my favorites next to the stable theme. 10/10 creatures
Do you have any advice or tips with drawing? Any will help me I hope you have a good day
I think it would help to analyze references in the beginning, to build up a visual library
I was taught at university to first see the general masses, the silhouette. This method is called “general to particular”. And due to this stage, it is much easier for you to perceive the image, the composition as a whole, rather than running straight away to draw eyes, hands or other details
Starting with a silhouette also helps to create character designs in the future ✍️
Then you can already outline the construction, the middle forms. Again without small details, but you can leave a hint of them with the help of auxiliary lines.
I don't really work with tone so much at this stage, I just showed you how you can even use it to outline light shading (also common masses)
It also helps to do chopped, rough construction with a couple lines. I would generally advise practicing confidence in hand movements and understanding of general shapes. How clean your sketches are will help you navigate more easily in the future. And general shapes affect mostly how you can stylize body parts, how you understand their construction based on simple geometric shapes. It's a mistake to think that working with a reference is a one-to-one repetition of the original image. Artists use some kind of distortion of proportions, changing details or a little pose based on experience to make a character or work more dynamic
And then you can go into detail 💅
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I mean, already as in my experience I say that repeating or re-learning the base, which is lines, shapes, improves your drawing skill.
Because the faster you get through sketches, the faster you can move on to other stages of drawing, and still make fewer fundamental mistakes
And if you want to study anatomy, plastic anatomy would be the way to go for artists. I worked up my anatomy by looking at books and tutorials from the authors belowotome ↓
The authors of this book post tutorials using 3D models on Pinterest and ArtStation
I realized for myself that I am not a classical artist, that learning from the works and books of old academic masters is boring and not interesting to me. My approach is to analyze not only nature, but also 3d models. Analysis of 3d models helps with understanding of shapes in space, light shading and “what are occlusions” for game rendering ↓
Like this :D. But this is already relatively my old work and now I can do better, but I'm lazy
I hope my tips were helpful 🗣️
"YOU HAVE THREE WISHES," the genie says grandly. "Oh no, that's fine I don't need all three. I just wanted one." The genie raises an eyebrow. "So what is your 'one' wish?" "I wish for time to stop every time I pick up and read a book—and start again when I put it down, so I always have time to read."
Leonid Pasternak (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work
what a beautiful day to not be in high school
Got called a weirdo irl for the way I write my fics sooo
I am the “writes in document tabs” if anyone’s wondering
One of my favorite parts of hyperfixations in media where you can customize your character in a personal way (like the lamb, frisk, a y/n, among others...) is when little by little the character stops being the character of the medium and begins to evolve into an oc with a totally different story than the original, keeping only minimal details that only a few could identify as the source of origin of the character.
I don't know, I think it's kind of cool
You either die a ruthless king bringer of chaos, destruction and war all across the planet or live long enough to become a inn keeper I guess
I'm fucking crying man
Cup yarnaby