This Was Mean! How Am I Supposed To Do Homework When I'm Crying??

@nahoney22 , feel absolutely free to take as much time as you need. We can wait. We’ll still be here when you’ve taken the break you need. The internet isn’t going anywhere, and those in your audience who love your work love it because you put passion, enthusiasm, joy, and real care into your work. And it shows! That takes time. That takes effort and thought and hard work, and we understand that. What’s most important is that you get the same enjoyment out of making your stuff that your audience gets out of reading it <333

As for anon, who the H E L L thinks they’re entitled to free fan content?? What idiot woke up today and thought “hmmm today feels like a good day to tell that author I really like how much they suck!”

Look, I get it. Waiting for someone to write things, or make fanart, or update the next chapter of their AO3 fic is hard. Sometimes you really, really want new material because life is overwhelming; you’re in too deep and you need a comfort and an escape. I’ve been there myself! But it is never okay to tell a person who makes art, be it writing or fanart or music or edits or any other form of art that they are moving too slow. Think before you speak. Is this something I would want my audience to say to me when I’m having trouble making my stuff? This person pours their soul into their craft and all you have to say to them is: you took too long???

Anon, you should be ashamed. Shame on you for telling an artist that they’re efforts aren’t good enough. Shame on you for hiding behind the barrier that is the internet.

sorry but did I see your newest post and see the request being made around New Year’s Day? And you have only just dne it? your a joke I don’t see how you could wait so long to do it

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Slowly but surely :3

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Discord shenaniganery led to some fun speculation about tbb season 3, and I just had to turn @stormyblue90 s goofy dialogue idea into a comic XD

Original post here

Drawing all the expressions was an absolute blast! I’ve been spamming the discord WIP channel with them for weeks

I had wanted to give him extra fingers that faded into fin rays that run down his arm, but I couldn’t get them to look right, sadly

Okay, but hear me out…

I’ll tell you about my ocs if you tell me about yours, op!! I’d love to see what you’ve been working on!

Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

So, um, speaking of tiny children…

This is Kaede!! She’s the 9yo foundling daughter of a friend’s Mando character Corvo Thrytill, and she’s precious and loves her Buir very much! Her parent didn’t pay her much attention before he died, and Kaede has no idea how to express how happy Corvo’s love makes her.

Here it is!!! I really like how it turned out!!

I’m drawing a cool knife and I thought you might like a preview! It’s made of carved antler, so the blade connects seamlessly into the handle and the decorations tied to the pommel are snail shells and glass beads.

That is cool. I'd love to see the finished product.

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OH MY GOSH ITS SO TINY

It looks like a gumdrop. I wanna smoosh it so bad but it wouldn’t recover so I won’t.

Here’s the paper that describes this species holotype!! Mycena subcyanocephala from Latin, literally “little blue-head” (don’t quote me on that, it’s been a few years since I reviewed my Latin). It’s a new species, so we don’t know much about it yet. BUT they belong to the Mycena genus, which is potentially one of the coolest fungi clades around!! It’s one of the most prolific genera of fungi, and is native to nearly every continent! They’re also some of the smallest mushrooms in the world. They tend to be no bigger than a few centimeters in cap diameter, so many species have cute common names like “pixie’s parasol”!

And if you thought being a common sort of mushroom made them boring, you’d be sorely mistaken because they’re one of the genera that contains bioluminescent species!!! Of the 500 known species, around 58 glow with this absolutely ethereal, chemically-generated glow called foxfire. They do this by introducing oxygen to luciferin, a protein that produces light when this reaction occurs using the enzyme luciferase as a reaction site. Absolutely magical!! I wonder if our littol gumdrop friend is one of the 58!!

I don’t wanna bore y’all with a lecture on bioluminescence, even though it’s one of THE COOLEST things in nature (and that’s saying a lot), so have some pictures of foxfire instead <3333

(pssssssstt thanks for sharing your shroom pics with me @blithe-imperial-underling and @imperial-strategist )

You can learn more about Mycena here (sorry it’s just Wikipedia, it was kinda hard to find an overview article quickly) and you can learn more about bioluminescence in fungi here!

You are correct, @theartgremlin​. I am always watching, and I found your biology lesson very interesting. My aide has a particular interest in mycology, and she was intrigued when I forwarded the information I intercepted about the microscopic predators from your planet. She shared an interesting bit of fungi with me as a result. This is one she thought I would appreciate due to its coloring resembling those of my old GAR legion.

But I should have known by the look on her face that Lieutenant Blithe had more to show me than just that one holopic. The next image she showed me was even better. Just like your microscopic worms, it was the size of this organism that was the most interesting.

The orginal post containing these extraordinary images can be found here.