put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they’re my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages…), so writing credit goes to them.
Shou Xin aka 手訫 aka Xin Shou (Chinese, based Henan, China) - A group of mischievous little line-drawn cats is pouncing your way!, Drawings: Pencil, Eraser, and small Knives for added texture
I don’t know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won’t break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you’re really worried ok?
Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don’t like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.
Even if you already know. Even if you’re comfortable with how you use it now. You don’t just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it’s good for you to at least know what’s available to you.
Yeah. I’ve been “good at computers” since I was a kid and since I was a kid I’ve been telling people that all it is is a willingness to look at settings and push buttons.
Computers are good at “are you sure?” and “reset to defaults”. There’s a safety net. Go look at the options, and push ‘em if you’re not sure. That’s like 90% of being “good at computers” : not being scared to push buttons and fiddle with options when something is broken or you need to learn a new thing
It always astounds me when I hear people complaining about things you can just…go change in the settings. It’s there. Right there. Did you look? (They never look.)
All you need to do is mess with things and search for questions. Admittedly the enshittification of google et al has made that second part harder, but it’s still worth trying before giving up.
Yeah!
It’s like:
Step 1: read what the program is telling you. Did you get an error message? Actually read it.
Step 2: look in the options. Is there something that sounds like it’s related? Maybe try changing it and see if it fixes it!
Step 3: go search for information on this problem.
But 90% of the time people get stuck on problems solved by steps 1 and 2.
Today I finished my owlbear! It’s a little croocked and the sewing could be better (and it doesn’t really show it the photo but it suffered a bad case of different dye lots for the yarn I used for the body) but I love him!
i had a thought of “do people not know what AUs are anymore?” and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don’t know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today’s lucky 10,000:
“AU” stands for “Alternate Universe” or “Alternative Universe” (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn’t canon and can’t fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what’s known as a “Canon divergent AU,” because it diverges from canon.
an AU can be absolutely anything. There’s a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i’d recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is “crossover AU” which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.
You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It’s a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say “Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?” which can also be fun.
If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn’t make sense to you in the canon setting, there’s a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that’s okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that’s also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.
Okay that’s my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.
Finally finished this, one of the many comic wips I started the last few months (you can kinda see where I got lazy and changed up some stylization in a few panels lmao)
IT’S TIME! The Far-Fetched Animated Pilot Kickstarter has officially LAUNCHED! To kick things off, here’s a first look at our fully animated series opening!
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