Hey guys! I've been asked about a printed option of these unicorns so I decided to give it a try!
For now these are only availble in small size (8x10 inches) but there are also cards and stickers! I'm planning to make a bigger print with multiple unicorns once I get to sit to a third one I wanted to do. I'll gladly appreciate sharing, as this is my very beginning as a seller and I'll be super happy if even one gets sold!
made another in honor of season 2. everyone sucks. i love them.
Junior Officer Nolen. Maddie :)
as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds
Some late fanart in the works~
Okay, since this is doing way better than the finished version, have the sketch in it's full glory as well
He's a literal monster
Reblogging for the other side of the ocean waking up! Also shyly tagging @the-real-team-starkid because I am happy with how it turned out and I think you should see it.
I never shared my Mistborn animatic here so I may as well post it now👍
reproduced/used under license from Dragonsteel, LLC.
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If I'm gonna say something nice about using Tumblr for social media it's that Tumblr doesn't make you aspire to something and that's a positive.
The big draws of Instagram/Tiktok/Facebook seem to be about proving you have a perfect life and a perfect face and a perfect body and then getting really sad when you don't stack up. Tumblr is a bunch of anime profile pictures loitering at a gas station.
Well I definetely aspire to having significant engagement on my art and I must say that around 10-20 notes I get on most, no matter if colored or sketch is slowly pushing me towards bluesky as my main social media. My tumblr is dying it seems.
That is exactly why I do not use this site anymore except to check in on some artists who are here.
I was posting art daily for a year, tags and all and never got more than 5 notes unless a random thing broke containment. Even then that brought in no new followers, no comments at all, no additional engagement. It sucked so much.
Twitter was better at the time and everybody knows how shit that site was even 4 years ago.
I feel tumblr is strictly a fandom site. When I posted fallout it was a bit better, whenever I post fanart I get a small follower influx that never ever react again, because most of my fanart is one-shots. And I see accounts with bigger engagement that base on fanart.
ALL social media sites are based on fandoms, not only Tumblr. That's how it always been all the time on every platform. Even introducing your OCs to a well established IP don't get as much engagement as drawing exclusively well known and established characters.
The same with webcomics - the most popular comics are fancomics - no matter how well your comics is drawn, how interesting the plot is you'll always lose to a fancomics.
I worked hard with my original comics to takeoff for years... a literal DECADE if not more! But I'm still at the exact same place I was when I started... if not farther down the line. So drawing fanarts is, nowadays, my only serotonin boost I get from my art endeavors.
... and it sucks.
Sure, but right now on Bluesky I get 20-30 notes on my OC art with having 500 followers, while I get 10 here with 2K. Things that do better here are specific fandoms that I feel aren't as popular outside of tumblr: Fallout, Starkid, Stormlight Archive. Or at least not yet or not in my bubbles.
If I'm gonna say something nice about using Tumblr for social media it's that Tumblr doesn't make you aspire to something and that's a positive.
The big draws of Instagram/Tiktok/Facebook seem to be about proving you have a perfect life and a perfect face and a perfect body and then getting really sad when you don't stack up. Tumblr is a bunch of anime profile pictures loitering at a gas station.
Well I definetely aspire to having significant engagement on my art and I must say that around 10-20 notes I get on most, no matter if colored or sketch is slowly pushing me towards bluesky as my main social media. My tumblr is dying it seems.
That is exactly why I do not use this site anymore except to check in on some artists who are here.
I was posting art daily for a year, tags and all and never got more than 5 notes unless a random thing broke containment. Even then that brought in no new followers, no comments at all, no additional engagement. It sucked so much.
Twitter was better at the time and everybody knows how shit that site was even 4 years ago.
I feel tumblr is strictly a fandom site. When I posted fallout it was a bit better, whenever I post fanart I get a small follower influx that never ever react again, because most of my fanart is one-shots. And I see accounts with bigger engagement that base on fanart.
Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?
Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.
And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.
Do you know how bugfuck insane the words "Unionized Starbucks" would have sounded to someone in 2005? Baristas getting union-mandated breaks could have been a throwaway joke in part of the Scary Movie franchise as something ridiculous.
RALPH NADER WAS AGITATING FOR A FIFTEEN DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE IN 2004 AND SHIT IS MOVING SLOWLY BUT MY STATE HAS A TWENTY DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE FOR FAST FOOD WORKERS. WHEN I STARTED HIGH SCHOOL THE ONLY OPTION FOR AN ABORTION AFTER 7 WEEKS WAS SURGICAL AND NOW THERE'S A PILL.
FUCKING. ELECTRIC CARS. SO GODDAMNED MANY PEOPLE HAVE SOLAR PANELS ON THEIR HOUSES OR IN THEIR PARKING LOTS.
WE DON'T HAVE SMOG DAYS IN LOS ANGELES ANYMORE UNLESS THERE'S A FIRE AND IT'S BECAUSE OF CARB STANDARDS.
LITERALLY MILLIONS OF FUCKING PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY IN 2020 AND YOU CAN SAY "NOTHING HAPPENED" ALL YOU WANT BUT THE WAY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT NOW IS FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN THEY DID AFTER RODNEY KING AND NOW PEOPLE WILL STOP AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF GOING 'NOT MY BUSINESS'
THERE IS A MALARIA VACCINE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO OVER A MILLION CHILDREN IN JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS SINCE IT WAS APPROVED FOR USE OUTSIDE OF TRIALS
I think it's really important to remind people that things have, to some degree or another, always been shit. The more you learn about history, the more you realize that every time has deeply sucked in some profound way. This mythical Time Before Everything Was Bad doesn't exist. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It is always the best of times, it is always the worst of times. That's Samsara for ya.
I want to reiterate how far trans awareness and rights have come. I'd never encountered the concept until I was about 20, in the very early aughts. I have multiple friends who could not get healthcare of any kind until the ACA. I remember the party when domestic partnerships -- not marriage, just domestic partnerships -- were legalized in my state.
I think a lot of the utter bullshit we're seeing now is people reacting to that progress. Don't ever forget that it's happened, and it can happen again if it has to.
When I enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1993, Don't Ask Don't Tell was brand new. My enlistment papers still had the old "homosexual activity" questions crossed out in Sharpie. That's all dead and buried now. It's history.
I grew up in the Satanic Panic. Actual, legal adults worried about the sanity and immortal souls of kids because we played Dungeons & Dragons. This summer, 2024, I bought literal actual official D&D US Postage Stamps. We went from "omg threat to children" to normal enough to be a fucking stamp.
People—assholes—have been crying about "political correctness" all my life. PC was never really about anything more than maybe treating people with some basic respect, and y'know what? Despite all the conservative tears, it DID move the dial on how people talk. It fucking mattered. It still matters.
And green energy is happening whether some assholes in government like it or not. It's getting cheaper and it's spreading and fossil fuels look like a worse long-term investment all the time, regardless of who's in the White House.
Things do get better. The world has always been rough, and many things will continue to be rough. But in spite of that, many things are way better than they used to be, and they'll keep getting better no matter how many rich and bigoted assholes throw tantrums about it.
Some late fanart in the works~
I got permission to post these backgrounds I did for Prodigy: Dragon Island trailer cooperating with Pigeon Studio! It was one of the works that was pleasant and I'm pretty happy with the outcome! Characters were not drawn by me.
