2/18/2023

Guys I just read the saddest story ever 😦

Okay so my family decided to go out and we stopped at the library right. And I actually haven't been to the library in a long time so I stopped by the children's section for old times sake and saw a short graphic novel called Petals that had really cute cover art and a wholesome synopsis so my sister wanted to sit down and read it.

Basically. It's winter, and a fox is out in the woods collecting firewood for his sick dad, and runs into a tall bird who helps him out. So the fox invites the bird back into his home (with permission from dad) and the bird decides to stay and help them through the winter.

The bird is actually a magician! He does some magic tricks and plays music for them, and everyone is happy. He even has this magic flower that, when he infuses some of its petals with tea, cures fox dad of his illness. Fox boy also gets sick, so the bird uses the last of the flower's petals to cure him as well.

So as the winter continues on, the bird continues to help fox family. But when he's out collecting firewood, he starts coughing, and collapses when he gets back to the house. Fox boy says the magic flower can cure him, but the bird has already used all its petals to help the foxes.

Without the magic flower, the bird's condition gets worse. He gives a smaller magician's hat to fox boy, and one morning, finally dies. Fox family buries him, but during the funeral, fox boy discovers there's a seed under the hat the bird gave him. He plants the seed on the grave, and come spring, magic flowers are growing all around the area.

I was so emotionally distraught. I got so attached the the cute fox family and magic bird wtf 😭😭😭 First physical book I've picked up for non-academic reasons in YEARS, and 1) it's a children's graphic novel, 2) one of the characters DIES. What the hell.

So yeah that was my day 👍

Additionally. Okay so in creative writing class we were writing 10 minute plays. I got really attached to the characters and plot I made so they'll become offical OCs who I'll introduce sometime 👍👍 but that's not important rn. Because last week we were reading some of the plays the class wrote- couldn't read all of them because time constraint- and yesterday we read mine lol.

My teacher said she really liked it :] so that's cool ("fabulous play," in her words). She said I did a really good job with my stage directions (and personally, I think do too; it's one of my favorite bits of the play). So, two of the characters include a nerd type and an alien-ish creature. But the guy who read the nerd character voiced him with such a chad voice which I wasn't expecting but it was also absolutely hilarious.

There's this bit where that character gives a classic 'you're an amazing and incredible person' speech to the other human character but it was SO FUNNY with the chad voice and I + my other classmates were laughing our asses off.

And then the creature I mentioned doesn't really have dialog, they just make feral noises and walk menacingly around the stage. But the person who volunteered to VA the creature actually GOT OUT of her seat and crawled around the classroom while making feral noises. And I am so honored that my play was the only one to get physical acting like that 😭😭

Maybe partly because that person really wanted to crawl around but I admire her bravery to do that in front of the entire class. It really sold the whole idea of 'there's a terrifying monster that's trying to kill us.'

The other plays were also super good!! There was one about a girl who refused to believe she was dead (literally Ghost-core) so her boyfriend had to convince her to move on, and I actually volunteered to VA a character in a different play about a medieval noblewoman and her maid. I was the anxious, overprotective maid so yknow I was pretty much playing myself 👍👍

And I actually got a compliment for being committed to the part so that was nice :] Said my acting elevated the idea of that character's anxiety and self-effacing nature, which made the relationship between her and the noblewoman much easier to believe.

There was also a satirical play about American presidental debates and politics which had the entire class in stitches. It was super well done!! And then there was one about these two bros who sniff sharpies, die, kill Death itself, then become Death and use their position to get even more sharpies from people who die. Written by the same person who voiced the nerd character in my play lol. Incredible play. Truly some of the best contemporary literature out there. (Fr though the play was hilarious and I loved it)

We're actually writing children's books next 👍 My teacher brought in some children's books for nostalgia and inspiration purposes, and now the classmate who wrote the play I just talked about really hates Franklin for some reason. As in the turtle Franklin. From the children's book series. Something about him being a little bitch.

But yeah I already have ideas for mine 👍 These will apparently be read to children though so my idea might be too depressing 😦😦 I have a backup idea but I want to try this one out first, considering how the children's book I read today literally has a character die and we see his dead body 💔💔💔

But yeah that's all for now!! Will make drawings when I have the time 👍

3/6/2023

Hello again!!! Update with the children's books, my teacher said mine was really sweet so I am approved 👍 Context, mine is about a depressed cat who is depressed for no apparent reason, but their friends and family come to understand this and still love them anyway. If I get my storyboard back I can show you guys :)

Anyways our next assignment was to create a character and then work with another one of our classmates to make a story. A significant amount of people created criminals and I don't know how to feel about that 😦😦

But mine is a little boy I named Tudou, which is chinese for potato because we were given potatoes as like. Character bases. And he's great and is a perfect boy so expect some art of him maybe 💖💖

And I'm working with someone who made their character a therapy rabbit. Literally a rabbit. Will say more about the story once we get it done but I'm not actually sure if I can share it raw because it's not just my creative property?? But I'm also not doing it for profit so maybe it's okay 🤔🤔

Also pause rq my dad saw a possum in our backyard

It looked pregnant so we figured it's trying to find somewhere to hunker down and give birth. We've left it alone 👍 but yeah never thought I'd see a possum today lol. Pretty neat B)

Anyways. I have proceeded with my Twitter idea I pitched last chapter and uh. I have no results just yet but I've been telling myself to not focus on the numbers because that'll just make me feel sad and the point of this study is to simply observe!! Plus being on Twitter seems to make me feel Not Good tm so I don't wanna get caught up in analytics.

The good thing about it though is that it serves as a backup for my art, in a sense. Remember the image crisis on Wattpad 💀💀 In case anything like that happens again, I've got my stuffed loosely secured. Not a big deal if I lose it, but it might be nuce for future comparisons.

But for it to actually be effective, I should put all my art there, no? Still thinking about whether to just have a general art account.

In the meantime though, lots of Sonic OC art.

There's this song called I Swallowed Shampoo and I thought it was funny. Except Poison is immune to any and all types of poison so she can drink shampoo pretty safely, actually.

Beast modeeeeeeee

I don't know what triggers it just yet though 🤔🤔 work in progress.

Bumble my bee-loved <333333

Backgrounds!!!!! I like this piece a fair bit :]

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host and Silver's first meeting lol

Because Ghost has spent her entire life sneaking around she never announces her presence and is extremely quiet in general. So she just waits behind people until they notice her and accidentally spooks them lmao

Appyture powers in action 👍

Anddddd third color ref 😁😁😁😁😁 made sure to flip the canvas this time. Aside from the outfit I am vibing with the look 👍 I'm not sure about the cream color accents though I might try to make that as close to white as possible??? But yeah this is acceptable 😎

Okay byererere no room for alignment chart this time love you <333