#Inktober Day #9

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vale meadow
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I would be smart asf

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I don’t even think it’s that hard tbh

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I feel like anyone could do it

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Did I ever tell u abt

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How I read a whole az history book in 7th grade?

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vale meadow
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But yeah there are a lotta kids that have a crap ton of potential. They just have nobody to zoom in on them and challenge them harder.

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My elementary school was one of the worst in an already dog doodoo district, yet I was the only kid from that school to get into this advanced program in middle school for every subject. And even then, I was still able to compete with the kids from much better schools that were now my classmates (though i flew under the radar until my teachers called attention to it)

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It’s not a brag cuz I fell way tf off after covid due to depression and lack of work ethic, but I’m just sayin that there are a lot of circumstances that prevent certain people from truly shining. Idk if I would become a diamond or remain a pebble if someone really invested in me though.

vale meadow
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But later I went to basically the most advanced school I could at fhe time, after people realized

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I had a good head

vale meadow
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Even now, the only time I ever truly felt challenged and had fun was when I was working and self studying on algebra || for like 6-8hrs a day

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Im pretty sure u remember that time

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I did complain a ton, but I was having a lot of fun as well

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Yeah I remember lol

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I hear a lot of students who actually did bad in regular school suddenly thrive in college. To be challenged in engaging material that YOU chose with a professor that can actually help polish you may be somethin to consider if you have ideas on what you’d go for

vale meadow
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If I do go to college, I actually have no fugging idea what to do

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Probably sum with coding or engineering or sum

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Or whatever makes the most money

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Yes, I do believe money can buy happiness

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I am one of those

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Money can buy happiness for those who are barely getting by on what they have

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After that (approximately) $75K salary range, happiness from pay increases begin to decline

vale meadow
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This girl was like ultra rich, and she was talking to the mc, a kinda broke-ish guy, and she was like, “I would trade all my money to be happy” and mc was like “you can’t be happy and broke at the same time”

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I’m pretty sure it was from fantasy simulator, a world hopping fantasy type thing

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Hmm do you believe that?

vale meadow
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Not exactly

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There is some truth to it

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But it isn’t as black and white as that

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It was funny when I was reading it tho

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The thing was, she wasn’t even like

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Sad fr

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I’m pretty sure the first bad thing happened to her in her life

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😭

vale meadow
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I forgot to use a color pencil when doing gesture/figure studies

vale meadow
vale meadow
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The stuff this man be drawing from imagination though is absolutely crazy

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While watching this video, he also explained something very important

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The forms he draws look so

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Meaty

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Human

vale meadow
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That’s like, a curve of its own

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And I kinda already knew that

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But like, him showing it

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Shows me that I need to like, really bring that point home

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Neuron activation moment

vale meadow
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He said that was with a motherfugging crayon

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Oh

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Of course it takes a second to load in his power

vale meadow
vale meadow
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In many of the art servers I’m in, I see a lot of people say their art is a doodle, but like,at what point can you say it’s a doodle?

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I see some fully rendered, finished stuff being called a doodle

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My thoughts are that people call their arts doodles for two reasons,

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Unless it’s actually a doodle, which I will define what I think that means in a sec

vale meadow
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The second reason is that people want to elevate the perception other people have of their own skills

vale meadow
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I also think it’s unnecessary, because I feel like, no one actually cares about art that’s not their own, now of course, you can drawings look cool, and love the artist etc, but no one cares really about the art a super ton, like they aren’t going to get attached to it because it really has no significance to them, now there may be outliners of course, but people won’t really care about the art itself, only whether it’s pretty to them and if they like it, I guess what I’m saying is kinda confusing

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Btw, most of the time, I only do deep dives like this because I’m bored, like I am now, this topic really doesn’t hold much significance to me, I jus think it’s interesting

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Doodle to me is something unrefined and not drawn with a ton of intention or focus

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So like stuff you would draw on the back of your homework or sumn

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I would consider all of these doodles

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Including the painting of my persona

vale meadow
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And, a big point I didn’t mention,

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What is a doodle and what isn’t is going to be determined by your skill

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Yeah it scales

vale meadow
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But like, at a certain point,

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It just can’t be a doodle anymore

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Anything with full blown line work

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Not a doodle

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Imo

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If you start rendering to the point where you’re painting lines out of a sketch you did

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Not a doodle anymore

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I mean

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The line changes from person to person so all answers will be too vague

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But that doesn’t mean there are NO lines in the sand

vale meadow
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I do think I can kinda speak on the Ima call this a doodle to make myself look better mentally tho

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Because I certainly used to do it all the time

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Spent five hours on it

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oh, this is a doodle hehe

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Oh yeah. Some artists are definitely calling effort posts doodles cuz it doesn’t feel as bad if you make it sound like it was easy for you

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My older brother started making music and I was talking to him about how I perceive the way others go about putting their work out there. It’s vulnerable to put your best foot out there, so there’s a cushion there by always putting out unfinished stuff or stuff you don’t deem your best

vale meadow
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It creates ideas like beginners thinking pro artists all have beautiful calarts sketchbook tour ass sketchbooks when they don’t

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It makes u feel like ir terrible since u can’t even compare to a persons “doodles”

vale meadow
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I already dislike the way the art community often communicates with each other

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But there was this specific video recommended to me on yt

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I hate that every time some of these people see a really nice work they HAVE to put themselves down to compliment someone else

vale meadow
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And it was exactly that, these fully rendered, stunning, clearly effort driven page of artworks were being called doodles

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Like, “why is this person better than me” type mad, but not mad mad

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Like, motivated mad

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Idk if u get it

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Nah i get it lol

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“I’m sorry for ever picking up a pencil.” “Your doodles are better tjsn my filly renderrrd artwrls woll ever b;((“

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Stfu

vale meadow
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Like, critique it at least before u compliment it

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Dont just compliment it then leave

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Yeah thas not really helpful lol

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I don’t interact with the art community a lot tbh

vale meadow
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Me either, I basically stopped a long while ago

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Hopefully one day ill be good enough to build up my own community tho

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And the rampant self hated is part of that. ik ppl go through stuff and have low self confidence for a reason but if I post something and your first instinct is to twist that into a way to hate yourself instead of just complimenting my work on it’s own merit, I cannot fw u

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Or if I compliment you and you start telling me all the stuff you don’t like about yourself and your art

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Now I feel like I’m being punished for literally complimenting you and I’m not about to battle you for it.

vale meadow
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Yeah thas cool. But if I say “wow this is awesome!!” And you say “no it isn’t;( i can never this and never that and i hate-“ ay bro thas crazy

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But imma just reiterate that I like your work for xyz reasons and leave it at that

vale meadow
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Tbh, I actually find the art community overall, I guess you could say toxic

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Like, not toxic I guess

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More like

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Depressing

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Something like that yeah

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Depending on the day, it can drain my energy interacting w these ppl. Love em n want everyone to improve n whatnot but the mental health is lacking fr

vale meadow
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I feel like thats really were the masters like gleen vippo do so well at

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They can draw, but they can also be great people

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Like gleen vippo, he smiles and laughs a lot

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Even jeff watts

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As more of a serious guy

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Has that side to him as well

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Yeah i like when people have an overall optimistic approach to their artistic pursuits. I know that a lot of amazing art was created in the depths of absolute despair, but we have to be careful and remember that those feelings aren’t what built skill/technique

vale meadow
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Lmao

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Honestly just practice bro. Learn how to learn. Put in the time even for stuff that’s boring as hell

vale meadow
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I’ve always found stuff like anatomy interesting

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But for some people it’ll be boring no matter whatlol

vale meadow
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I used to find like

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Drawing cubes and stuff boring, like I wanted to hop right in and make cool stuff

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But now I understand the cubes is the cool stuff

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Cubes my beloved

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I could never abandon cubes

vale meadow
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Some more shower thoughts

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I was thinking if I became a male stripper could I make a lot of money

vale meadow
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After seeing this by jeff watts and watching for awhile

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I realized I was doing portraits wrong

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Because from how this looks compared to his reference, and from some things that I remembered that he said,

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I feel like stuff is now opening up for me

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Like all my previous experience + just a little inout from these masters has broken my bottleneck

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Ima go start experimenting now

vale meadow
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Testing testing. ||hehehhehehehe||

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Test testing. ||hehehhehehe, but no “he said” kekekekekkee||

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vale meadow
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This guy hit me up

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And was like

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Just checking in on you

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At first I was like

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Who tf is this

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Then when I scrolled up a bit, I instantly knew I had fugged up

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So I basically said I would critique this guys draft, paragraph by paragraph

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And that was like a week ago

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So I basically spent that time paying my dues

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Im still not done now, so basically

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I only got around

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Maybe 10-20min or drawing in

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In which I did nothing much

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Oh Joelul

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Fella made you keep your word

vale meadow
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If u see this, an hour from now, or later if u see it after an hour ping me

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vale meadow
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Hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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One more hour

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I said I wouldn’t

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But one more hour

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It was just getting good

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Lu is about to ascend to the immortal realm

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I can’t miss it

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Procrastination over

vale meadow
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Dam, it feels like I just got comfortable, literally

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Guess it’s time to draw tho

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Indeed

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I still need to draw too. I spent a good hour on tryna draw Viktor from Arcane

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But capturing likeness is so harddd

vale meadow
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Yea, even tho idk who viktor is

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I think arcane was like, all I remember abt arcane is that jinx person

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Cuz I hear them mentioned at the same time a lot

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||Be basically became a deity this season. S1 Viktor is my guy fr but I’m biased towards longer hair which S2 Viktor has for a while||

vale meadow
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Majestic feel

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Im glad I had the foresight to tell u to tell me to get to drawing, or else I would have probably spent a few more hours reading, then once I got tired of that, realized it was nighttime, then quickly got tored of drawing and watched anime or sum and go to sleep

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You can rely on me for that in the future if it helps

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Accountability partner type beat

vale meadow
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I have an unusually difficult time getting to draw on like monday-thrusaday

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Froday, saturday, and sunday r my golden days

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Don’t mention my spelling

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You be cracking them novels open and it’s over

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“Just one more hour”

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Me when I lie^

vale meadow
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It’s gotten pretty dark and I feel like I did pretty good today with traditional

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Although I didn’t actually make anything that looked too good,

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I did this from imagination, which is like, eh

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I do like it

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But it’s just an arm, so ima probably have to go more in depth on full body stuff

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Im also debating the idea of drawing portraits for my family for Christmas

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Buttttt

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My portrait skills are az

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So if I do decide to do that, ima need to like start practicing tomorrow

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Gonna be a while

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a while indeed

vale meadow
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Knocked out

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Half dead

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I woke up feeling really good

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Probably cuz I used my fan again after a long time

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vale meadow
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Let me finish this chapter rq tho

vale meadow
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Looking at kim jung gi’s stuff, it always gets me to scribble, but like I only scribble when I’m having fun

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So that’s a good thing

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@vale meadow

vale meadow
vale meadow
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Forgot to let yk magma is open. Someone else is drawing too today

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If you wanted to join

vale meadow
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Or later?

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rn

vale meadow
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Yea, link me up

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Hell yeah

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Imma see if my brother wants to join for once

vale meadow
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You see that white spot in the corner?

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Thats the page

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Somehow

vale meadow
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I was passing through my photots today, and I came across

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Sum made the luna

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The guy that does the pen art

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Fire

vale meadow
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Yea, I have some other stuff of theirs

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Scattered around in my photots as well

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What I really like is how they are kinda scribbly

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But also contained

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Ima probably start drawing in around

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Soon

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I feel like

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Learning how to draw dogs should be pretty easy

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Yeah the hatching is really nice

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makes the forms pop

vale meadow
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The way the anatomy

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Is stylized is also

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Very graphic and cool

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For sure

vale meadow
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Daily memes will resume tomorrow

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This is just a video I find pretty humorous though

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I also like neil de grayson or however u spell his name

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Guy has a big brain

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Not as big as mine, but it’s pretty huge

vale meadow
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All I got today

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I did not actually study any dog anatomy, these sketches were based off kim

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But I feel like I can draw a half decent dog, now I just need to know the muscles, then how to draw the face

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Then learn how to shade it

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Then ill be able to draw a decent dog

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I also have to practice how to detail

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Lotta stuff haha

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But ay i bet it feels rewarding to be back on the grind fr

vale meadow
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Fr

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Ima prob draw more

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But it’s like dark rn, and I have a habit of going to chill

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When it gets dark

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But like

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Its still early and its already dark

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Thats what is trippin me up, winter go brrr

vale meadow
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This is what I was referencing

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Broooo

vale meadow
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Forgot to say

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If you havent,

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Watch twoer of god season 2

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And cour 2

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The animation is a bit az, but it’s decent

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I think I told u, but a few years ago, I was reading the tog manga

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And I stopped around the ending of the anime adaptation for cour 2

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So ima pick it up again. There is around 500 chaps stockpiled

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So i know I’ll have a good time

vale meadow
# green horizon https://tenor.com/view/lr-agl-ssb-vegito-goku-vegeta-super-saiyan-blue-dokkan-ba...

Qi Condensation Technique

Realm

-# Mortal - Peak Qi Gathering

Origin and Phenomenon

-# The basic technique of cultivation, gathering the Qi of the heaven and earth towards oneself and condensing it inside the body. The technique itself is not profound, one only needs cultivation aptitude and then gathering Qi is achievable, this technique only narrates a more efficient way. Once great accomplishment of the technique is reached, the dantian will form.

Breakthrough and Restrictions

-# The only restriction for cultivating this technique is to have cultivation aptitude. When attempting breakthrough into the Qi Gathering realm the dantian must be formed. The success rate of breakthrough after the formation of the dantain is 90% . Upon failure the Qi condensed in the body will disperse, but there is no danger. Reattempt at breakthrough is possible after recondensation of lost Qi.

Extra Notes

-# Head of General Cultivation Practice— Old Man Lu
-# “Do not look down upon this basic technique, it is the foundation of cultivation and has endless potential, cultivate well and quickly surpass this old man.”

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Once you see this, tell me ur thoughts on it

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Or once you feel like reading all of it

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A standard explanation of qi (I’m going off the assumption that it’s the same as or close enough to the jp equivalent of the word: ki)

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..what is this though?

vale meadow
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Someone else said this sounds like just history

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And isn’t actually explaining

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How to gather Qi

vale meadow
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A cultivation technique

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Chinese stuff

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Specifically Chinese fantasy stuff

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But not

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The process of actually doing it

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This explains a necessary ingredient but little else. It’s like if I had a paper titled Cake Baking Technique but then only really told you that you need an oven and that batter must be formed

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While true, if I don’t even know what batter is, I’m lost

vale meadow
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The problem is

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Not really the explanation of how to gather and condense Qi, it’s more trying to not blowt the

vale meadow
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I feel like the overall feel is good now

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Idk if adding more will take or add to that

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Meh, ill expierment

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Tmmrw tho

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Or today

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But later

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Ok ok so what is the purpose of the text?

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Is it for a story you’re writing or somethin?

vale meadow
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Not really, more like practice for that, ill explain some key points rq to bring u up to speed

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A scripture pavilion is basically the library in the cultivation world, has a ton of books and other stuff that you can read/use and read the contents. These can range from cultivation techniques, which you can use to basically become more power, to regular history books, and stuff about the sect (your home basically)

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The purpose

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Of the text this time is like you are reading about the Qi Condensation technique

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You can also think of it as Ki

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Like goku energy type thing

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Mm and is it meant to only inform the reader of Qi’s cultivation techniques’ existence and its basic requirements or does it seek to explain HOW to apply these techniques on your own?

vale meadow
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So im def ganna have to

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Revise it

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And add some more stuff

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In either case, I would probably add:

  • a sentence or two explaining that qi/ki is essentially just energy (the closest literal translation to English)
  • add a sentence (or even just a clause to an existing sentence) explaining what a dantian is
  • explain what a cultivation aptitude is and perhaps even provide what is necessary to have a cultivation aptitude (like are some people born with a complete inability to cultivate or can everyone do it and it’s a matter of will power or something)
vale meadow
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I didn’t explain some stuff cuz

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It was so natural for me to know what it was

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Good catch

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Mhm assume your audience is like a child who has never been introduced to these concepts

vale meadow
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Mortals who have never cultivated before

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So it makes sense to treat it that way even more

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Yep

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I don’t see anything I would consider completely unnecessary in your current draft though

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So I wouldn’t delete anything from it as it stands unless the explanations you added made made the current draft redundant or way too lengthy 👍

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Thanks for

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Reading all that

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And helping me with ur input

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No problem 👍 i enjoy reading ppls writing

vale meadow
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Oh, I almost put the heart cuz it was right beside the fire

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I do not like using that

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Sum jus seems sus abt it

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vale meadow
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FromSoft, the studio that put out sekiro, bloodborne, elden ring, darksouls etc

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If sony can buy fromsoft

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We could potentially see some crazy good games come out

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Epic

vale meadow
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It looks like fromsoft

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Is resisting tho

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Mm

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If I were a gamer fr I’d have a lot of thoughts, but I play like..3 games

vale meadow
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Lol

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Same, I don’t really consider myself a gamer

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I just saw it on google recommendations page thing

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Picked guilty gear back up last night. Back to my old main Testament too

vale meadow
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Maybe ill pick brawlhalla back up again as well

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I stopped playing it awhile ago

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Now all I do is sit in roblox games

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I hate roblox games btw

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The trend of rng games is not as crazy as before, but it’s still goingm on

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And all you do in a rng game is just sit and wait

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Fisch

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Is a good game that came out some time ago

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It’s about fishing

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But it’s fun

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You actually do stuff on there

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But meh, just me ranting

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Mann I haven’t been into roblox in so many years

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It was too different when i got back on

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Had a friend on there who wanted to be an architect. He would build really cool sets and I would do role plays w him and my irl best friend. They ended with the entire set being blown up and lag killing the server more than Il’ll admitrasitas rasitas

vale meadow
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Same sort of thing

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Glory days of roblox are basically over now tho

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Now its all just soup, nothing good anymore fr

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Good to know I didn’t have nostalgia blinders on. I don’t think I’d ever play roblox again unless I was playing w irl friends on call or somethin

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But then in that case there are other games we could be playin yk

vale meadow
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Yeea, I’m waiting for sum good to come out again on roblox

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But im thinking of just

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Getting back into brawl

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Or maybe for honor

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I haven’t played that in awhile awhile

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Yeahh brush off the rust n whatnot

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My Testament was collecting dust cuz I was tryna pick up another character. I gotta start playing them equally

vale meadow
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Testement btw?

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Is that a character?

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Yeah

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A small compilation of sauce i need to pick up

vale meadow
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A dude

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Technically

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Nothing. A gear is not a human

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But before Testament became a gear, they were male

vale meadow
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Is the person with the white hair

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The same as the one

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In the video thumbnail with black hair?

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Yeah it’s just an alternate color

vale meadow
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100%

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No question

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It’s interesting because the English voice they chose for Test is much more masculine

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While the jp one is more androgynous

vale meadow
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The motherfugger looks like a girl but sounds more manly than me

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This reminds me of a music video

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Let me see if I can find it

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rasitas but i like the English take. I feel like jp Test creates a more feminine image as a whole while the English throws you off and brings them back to the middle

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Its this shiz lol

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This song was funny asf

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Twice the size is crazy

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Guilty Gear has quite the cast

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I need to do fanart of a couple characters

vale meadow
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I remember

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Tryna draw that

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Clock thing that has a face

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Actually, idk what that is

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More like a baseball bat

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Ngl i have no idea what you’re referring to lol

vale meadow
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That thing

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The key?

vale meadow
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Yeea

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Oh I didn’t see the arrow

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Blended into the background

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Paracelsus

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Ima jus call it

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Cel

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Works

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Bedman is a pretty funky character

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Answer

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His name is Answer. He’s a business ninja which is as awesome as it sounds

vale meadow
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The big mechanical thing + small person

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Setup

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Was always my favorite

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Yeah it’s one of the cooler design tropes

vale meadow
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I always knew the sun was racist

vale meadow
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I havent told you happy thanksgiving or anything

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Happy thanksgiving to you too🤝

vale meadow
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Im also

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Starting to understand color

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Coloring*

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At first when I dropkicked the color

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Wow, I mean eyedropped

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I thought it was a different color from the original

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But when I compared the two, they were in fact the same color

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Or maybe the difference was so subtle that it didn’t make much of a difference

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Dropkickedlul but yeah color picking gives the same color all the way down to the pixel

vale meadow
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Ill,probably do sum

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Like a simple coloring in magma later

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vale meadow
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Cuz im reading tog rn and

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Ill prob forget

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Then when I start it will be like 12 or sum

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Lol aight

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Might take a nap then

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Less than 10. Just doing laundry and finding something to snack on

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Make it 15 depending on how long this other task takes

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I literally just got out the shower

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Water still dripping off me

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Bout to get the link ready unless you wanna do it

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Np, I was absorbed in tog

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So much stuff just happened

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My ipad went dead, took forever to come back on

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Then it took forever to connect back to the internet

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Then discord froze so I had to delete and redownload it

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Nothing can be asked of me after that

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I’m the same way

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Doing this was interesting tho

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Quite the specimen

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Maybe ill keep up with this type of theme

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To be seen tho…to be seen

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It was kinda funny, but at the same time, them saying “so what’s your point” and “so why would you say that” thinking it invalided my points

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Was really annoying

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“Murder is bad, people should stop trying to murder people”
“It happens all the time, no one can stop it, so why would you say that”

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That was kinda how it went

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But it was a lot more words

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I don’t think the average person cares

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Or because they can’t change something, they treat people who care like they’re goofy

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And was like ai cant take over those skills

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I said ai already took over art, what can’t it take over,

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Imalso told them that it already had

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Ai marketing programs

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Then they literally told me ai isn’t that good rn

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Like, what was the point of telling me all that before if ur ganna say that now

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I was telling them that in like ten to twenty years, ai will really take over the art world

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And that it wasn’t at its

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Full potential rn

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I was like yea, thats what im saying

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Just wait

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they also said marketing was harder to take over than art

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I don’t think so

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Mm I don’t think I’d say so

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Even without ai, we are being marketed to 24/7 and the majority of people are falling for it constantly

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And much of it is extremely formulaic

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Also i feel like it’d take less time for the average person to stop being able to tell the difference between human marketing and ai marketing vs ai generated images and art

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They probably can’t tell now

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With how vile marketing is right now though, I see AI entering that field as…

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Mm ranks lower on my list of concerns with the growth of ai

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Proko is also

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Doing the 24 hour stream thing

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I been playing it in the background for awhile

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Oh is he drawing?

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Only thing I really liked and had substance though was when aron bliaze was explaining how to draw animals with shapes

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Unfortunately, I saw from the comments that I missed the Michael hampton part

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Oh i see

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The digital one played for literally like a whole hour

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So the length varies, but it shouldn’t be less than 10min

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I wonder if that generates more sales for his courses

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Wouldn’t be surprised if he has a discount going on too

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I have seen it on the proko channel like two or three other times

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Seems like they do it on a holiday

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Like Christmas or sum

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In bold in the bottom corner

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Can’t miss it

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Human marketingJoelul

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Definitely been going on for at least an hour

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Once I looked back up, i saw this

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I literally can’t even tell the difference now, he is just patting areas and I see no difference

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But obviously it’s doing something cuz he just keeps doing it

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Also it looks kinda weird since I took a pic of it from my tv

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So there is a lot of glare

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Or whatever u call it

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This shiz is brilliant

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The comments make this video way funnier than it already is

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I think I’m finally getting what

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Glenn vippu was talking about with gestures

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I got some stuff in today

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Idk when I started drawing, it might have been somewhere around 1 pm

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And its 5 02 rn, so that would mean I drew for four hours

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These past few days, I feel like I have literally just been doodling for a full hour before I really warmed up

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That pencil drawing is absolute fire

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Yeah

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I completely imagined the body, but I did have a ref for the head that I followed sort of loosely

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The only very glaring thing I would say is the eye

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Since he was supposed to have eyes on the side of his face

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Like a deer or sum

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I drew very light tho, so i may quickly erase it and fix it later

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When I get ready to draw again, which isn’t anytime soon

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It’s fine as it is too though

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I should just make the other side match it?

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or some kind of zombie idk

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That was exactly what I was thinking, a miner now a mutated zombie

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The little miner light cap thing

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I didn’t really know how to draw them

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If I drew that good, maybe the idea could really get across that it was a miner

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And probably also giving him a pickaxe

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Ohh i didn’t notice the cap at first

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Bad picture taking skills

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Though better than those dark days of drawing without light

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I imagine I would have full night vision by now if I kept at it

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#

But I was in a femboy server, and the conversations I had there were absolutely hilarious

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# green horizon <:Joelul:1155743527100239923>

“I tried to kill you because there was something more important to me than you, since you are alive I want nothing to do with you anymore, stop following me.”
“But you are my star”
“You really should have died, I’m leaving now.”
“Ill just take you by force then”

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This exchange was crazy

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I wanted to leave it at the only line stage cuz I knew I would mess it up

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And mess it up I did, I was totally lost on the shading

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Real

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Idek how to combat that

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I am totally lost on shading

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Who do you wanna shade like?

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But

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I want it to be a bit more detailed

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Lookin his work up rq. Ik what it looks like but I dont

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It actually would be something more like

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Proko style shading

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Or rather

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Like this

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Like jeff watts

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So as you can probably tell, I have no idea at all

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Wer I xan do sum like that tho

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There was one

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One painting I can’t remember the name of

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Or find

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But that was what really wanted to get me to start shading

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I feel like

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Well right now I feel like head hurt

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But for the future

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I feel like

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If I can learn shading, then it will really boost my art

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Because I think shading is one of the most important things if you want your art to be “alive”

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It can get really intricate

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(82Pigeon) like the top left is shading caused by a light source, but the top right is ambient occlusion

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Training your mind to see stuff like this is beyond me bruh

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Doing that all over an artwork

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Gets hard

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They say work from big to small, but i get very very lost when it comes to the transition between the two

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But when it comes to shading, the only thing I can do is big

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🤔 could be my next thing to study

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Been lookin for something to study that’ll bring me closer to an actual style I’m happy with. Shading/rendering would be a big step

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What have u been drawing recently?

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Same old really

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Hold on

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Oops the light meme wasn’t supposed to be there

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Omg rc you are so talented I could never do any of that ever in one bajillion years I hate myself so much because I can’t even shade right but you are so perfect

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Readin that made me wanna kill myself

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I like that they are more monster-y

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Thanks. Feels like a good exercise in testing anatomy knowledge and pushing it

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That yellowish grey arm

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Has a really nice feel to it

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Abusing offset curves

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Flowy fast fun lotta Fs

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Ima continue reading ToG, it actually made me tear up a little

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No tears feel, but

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I did tear up just a bit

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That was the first time in awhile

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That any media made me tear up

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Damn

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Enjoy your reading lol

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It was good intentioned, but I couldn’t resist making the joke

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“Now it’s hot garbage”

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Link if you wanna join. I’m just mindlessly doodling, with or without ppl

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I went to sleep at like around 10

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My last google search was 9 27

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Then I got on safari and read sum

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So around 10 is close

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Good👍

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I was outside for around 30 min today, new record, I made this in like probably like 10min

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I noticed when drawing from imagination, it’s wayyyy faster

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Probably because you had a good idea of what you are drawing

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This also shows me how important it is to draw like

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Individual objects

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Like, I wanted to draw some cool goggle things, but I didn’t really know how

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Like clarity, and I can really feel that when I drew it, probably cuz I was doing it from imagination

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I was like “what do I do here for the ribcage”

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Because the area there was just blank

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Overall, it was very fun tho

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I wonder how Gi’s drawings looked when he was still figuring things out

vale meadow
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Clothes maybe would have been a good choice

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Unfortunately I have no real mental library for that

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Something to work on

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And he would do this a lot like turning it in his head and stuff

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Which i can tell he did that from looking at his work but yeah

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But I wish I could see some of those pages from before he mastered it

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I was talkin to my brother yesterday abt how cool it would be to see the world from certain artists’ eyes for a day

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Yea, stuff out of my level, but close enough to see the progression

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Yeah

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The post mind swap depression would go crazy though

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Animators man. I wanna know what they see

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I do wanna do some animation sometime, not digital animation tho

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Traditional animation

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Which is probably way harder

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Or rather

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Not harder, actually I think it would be easier

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But more time consuming definitely

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Yeah. Less forgiving too maybe

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The reason I think it would be easier is because you would be able to clearly see what you were doing before

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Like, I know you can do that digitally as well,

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But I think it would hit different traditionally

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Perhaps lol

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2025 has great potential for art progress

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Maybe animation could be tackled for a bit

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Any goals for 2025?

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Definitely, I been drawing for quite awhile now and I feel like I know the best way for me to improve personally

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So when that break hits

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Ima be studying a ton of stuff

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Hell yeah

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I realized

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That actually told you nothing

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Lmao

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I mean if you have things in mind🫴

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Yea, shading is top priority, then probably a lot of perspective/foreshotening practice

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After that, clothes definitely

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I can’t always have my characters being naked

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Then probably some anatomy stuff

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Like animal anatomy and polishing human anatomy etc

green horizon
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Super real on the clothes thing

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Oh yea,

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Im also right now focusing on stuff like creating

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Like the backpack and goggles

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And guns

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Like accessory stuff

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But its more a current thing

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If I like it, then I’ll probably be doing a lot of it in 2025 as well

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That’s the stuff that adds the cool factor fr

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Gotta look at more of his stuff

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Yea, im also tryna expand the artists I look at

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Though its mostly limited to

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Traditional masters

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Always good to broaden horizons n whatnot

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Fun too

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I think I’m going to dedicate a lot of 2025 to developing my creative vision. But if I had to make a list:

  • more color/painting studies
    -5 full illustrations
    -develop my line art style more
    -better sketches (my current sketches are simply not functional)
    -fan art of existing characters
    -writing stuff for Lawrence
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Looks like more than it actually is

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But fanart is definitely something ima be doing more

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I been watching demon slayer, and muichiro, idk man, I can’t resist drawing him

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Nezuko as well

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Well it’s probably spoiler if I tell you

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But it makes him way more fun

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The overload movie also came out awhile ago, havent found any good place

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To pirate it tho

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Idc about demon slayer spoilers dw

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Season five should be coming shorty

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He is also the youngest hashira ever, at the age of I think it was 14 or 15

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So he was probably like 7-8 in that flashback

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Sheesh

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Oh yea, the flashback

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His whole family was murdered by a demon

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Actually, I can’t remember if it was just his brother or his whole family

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I know they all died tho, it might have been his parents got killed first

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Then the the brother after some time

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Either way, it’s tragic

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Got Tanjiroed

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Tanjiroed no Nezuko

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The only hashira that didn’t have a sad backstory is the love hashira, loving family, and everyone alive

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She basically just had difficulty getting married cuz she was too strong and ate a lot

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Rengoku, even his family was dysfunctional

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So I would say he had it worse than her

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Her and another hashira bein a thing

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Yea

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Obanai

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?

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But I basically skimmed through the manga

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So I know pretty much in general what’s ganna happen

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And the thing I hate most is that they are going to kill off muirchiro

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anyone else could have died but him

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I heard ||almost all of em die💀||

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Well yea, but I don’t really care abt the others

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Hold on naroganstare

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I forgot his name but the crying one is the coolest one and Muichiro can jump off a cliff for all i care

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Himejima wtvtf

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Gyomei

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GOATmei

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Name starts with g sum

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I think

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He’s HIM

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That guy fr

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Or at least that should be correct from what I remember

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He was takin care of some orphans or some sh

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And the lil girl was like “he’s a monster bro damn bro shih bro” after the orphans got SLAUGHTERED by a demon and they were like you mean Gyomei? Bet.

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Or…somethin like thatJoelul

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Yea, and that’s when white Michael Jackson took him in

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😭

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(I’m playing up my love for gyomei. Idek much abt him other than his design being straight heat, his backstory, and me already being biased toward gentle giant parental figure type male characters)

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Was the first to die

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They should have just has tanjiro die fr and have muichiro live

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Lmao imagine how enraged fans would be

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I feel like how muichiro died was crazy as well, it was three of the hashira basically getting clapped by upper moon 1

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The brother of the first breathing guy

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He was also muchiro’s ancestor

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So he didn’t kill him at first and just basically incapacitated him

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Then as the battle is going on, you know they suddenly be getting the large ability boosts and shi

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So in the end muichiro sacrificed himself to stop the guy so they could cut off his head

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Then he regrows his head back, and gets stronger, then decides to die cuz he was feeling bad about what he had become

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Wtf was the point of muichiro dying then

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Bruh i be hatin when characters die multiple times

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Unless…unless it’s Zato-1 cuz he’s my goat. Nah but fr i much prefer a character to stay alive if they’re resurrected, but the resurrection comes with massive consequences (the person isn’t the same as before, something extremely valuable is taken from them, they’re disabled in some way, etc etc)

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Then I pretty much agree

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I wanna get skilled enough to make a fan manga, then I can change stuff how I want

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Arcane did that to one of my favorite characters. Bro ||died, came back as a beast wolf creature, then died TWICE as the wolf||

vale meadow
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Fax

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I knew he was gonna die the first time because that’s what his archetype typically does:/ they die.

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Strong dad character who keeps the mc on the right path

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Parental figures, mentors, trainers, any of that and it’s related to the mc

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prepare for death

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Right lol

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Do you care abt Arcane spoilers?

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Nah, I only know the jinx girl, and basically no lore

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I dont plan on watching it tho

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So spoil all u want

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Wtf the gifs of him are tradh

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Trash

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Idk. Vander 🤌🤌🤌

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Rarely do i gush over a character however Vander🫴

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My b

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Making food

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Something to do with his character?

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No it’s just a goofy edit someone made💀 I wanted a gif of him smoking and emitting hella aura but his gifs suck

vale meadow
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Muichrio gif go hard

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Ik i said he can jump off a cliff earlier but this is actually cute

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Every time the instructor dude says this it sounds like he is saying something else

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I think it’s so cool how they make her look old with only a few details

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Or rather, just a few lines

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Idk if I ever told you anout my B-SOC days

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I believe this was arrrrrrround, maybe five years ago

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Yea, I posted this to my alt message in 2020, so it was indeed around five years ago

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B soc isn’t just a page in my book of life, it’s a whole az chapter

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Five years dosent seem that long, but if I die at thrity

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Then that would be 1/6 of my life

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Idk if that would be worth being 1/6 of my life now

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Idek if they cured it tbh tho

green horizon
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It’ll probably be like the flu. Get shots. Winter comes around. Some people will inevitably catch it

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Most will be fine

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More than ever since I began wanting to shade, I have been observing stuff like how the different textures are made, like the fur and stuff

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There was also like this monster with a wooden body but had on like a fur coat and some other stuff, and the shading was basically the same, but slight differences made it very clear what was what

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I just find that very cool

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I find it quite interesting at the growth of my mentality

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I used to be quite….err not homophonic, I think that means hating gay stuff/people, but I was very averse to it, not wanting to be associated with it at all, even grossed out with it to an extent

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Now I can casually joke about it

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I’m even in a femboy server (no I’m not a femboy) due to circumstances from reddit

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I really wonder why that is though, I feel like it was just repeated small exposure

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There is probably like some long ah research paper with a fancy named physiological effect and stuff abt it

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The jokes can be funny but there’s also often that underlying aversion at play if we’re being real. Then that mindset lessens overtime in some cases

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Like, I’m treading the path of “caring for nothing is to care for everything”

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And is there a such thing as a……….mangirl

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Nvm, that is just muscular ladies

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I drank coffee at 10

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Why did I do that

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Lol, I have just been sleeping till really late the past few days

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The true night owl arc

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Made me think of the day I went back to school from winter break in 7th grade. My teacher asked us what we did and I said “I became nocturnal” in a really deadpan voice

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Not only because that is actually what I do a lot, bu pt because I also wasn’t much of a talker

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I say that I like I talk more now

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I can definitely yap

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If i like something or feel strongly about it

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Yep, thats the “getting introverts to talk 101”

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But middle school me wasn’t very talkative. And I accidentally sounded mad a lot of the time..i made this one guy sad and i felt real guilty

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Though I wasn’t particularly sad over it

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We were doing a partner type warm up in science. He was not focusing at all and i said “I’ll do this shit by myself then.” It was meant to sound like a half joke like “ay man don’t leave me hanging” but with my tone, I might as well have called him a bitch ass nigga to go along with it💀💀

vale meadow
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My fault Leon I wasn’t that mad bro 😔✋

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I literally got in trouble for talking too little

#

It was actually that crazy

#

It was definitely a more “I’m more scared of you then you are me” type scenario

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But as I said before, I am a pretty intimidating guy

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Thats 50% ego 50% truth

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School sucks if you don’t have much to say

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I get the idea behind group projects, buuutmikestare

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I think I told you abt mr parish before

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He was my favorite teacher cuz

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He kept the room dark all the time, he was super chill, the class was always quiet, and he even let me rest a lot in class

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Though I think that last one was favoritism

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lul bro the teachers that darken the room

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Those are the realest ones fr. They know it’s a vibe thing. And they’re often ones that are nice but still generate an aura that commands respect. It makes class so much more pleasant, regardless of the subject

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There was an art thing event goin on that I forgot abt

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I just made a fat ugly hand

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Here is the link if u wanna throw sum down on there as well

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I hate all life on earth

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Die

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Rugghhhhhhhh

#

Im fine now

#

That is literally me when I think of sum embarrassing I did

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Iwas going through and deleting a lot of my chats with chatgpt since I built up a lot

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This one was funny in particular, I forgot I even asked this

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The toliet position and health one was funny as well

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Chili spoilage advice

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And one day I had some chili/sasuage/rice, cuz even tho thats simple it be hitting different

#

And you know when you put up the chili and freeze it, after one day it be looking different

#

So I was thinking, is this actually spoiled and I been eating it?

#

Obviously not

#

But I went to ask ChatGPT about that possibility

#

ChatGPT is basically the person I ask every shower thought to

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I finally get what this is

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It’s the skin

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# vale meadow

And when it covers the who,e eyelid like this, I honestly think it looks super cool