Patron of the arts

YOU!

yes you,reader,dont give me that surprised face

Have you ever wanted to illustrate your favourite books but are frightened to do so cuz your arts not good enough?

Do you find yourself frightened to write what-if situations featuring your favourite characters?

Do you find yourself designing costumes, dolls, and other merch ideas in your head?

Then what are you waiting for?close the tab and go CREATE! the ideas existing in real life in some format is at least better than their floating in your head staring at you wistfully with that forlorn look in their face

Intro post

Im the ghost of the alien time lord

For asks, feel free to send me book/media recs/send fun facts.

Lemme know if triggers present, will tag posts

Fandoms= serafina and the black cloak, Sofia the first, Good omens, Doctor Who, Miraculous, The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Inkheart,Spy x Family, Percy Jackson, harry potter(fandom), (neverwhere, stardust, and whatever ng created that i liked(im adopting them, the stories are mine now) , shoot from the hip

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#inspiration #prompt #to try #advice

#writing advice #book recs #media recs

#save for later #masterlist #writing

#my stuff #writing advice #recipes

Sideblogs =

@ahorsemanoftheapocalypse =good omens

@bicycleracesarecominyourway for gravity falls

@alliwofthewoods for serafina series

@somerandomdiscworldreference for discworld

Block list: @unwelcome-ozian for being a doxxer and manipulative abuser

@snow-and-shadow-fairy for being a terf

(If this post triggered you in anyway, kindly dni, thanks)

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

I think these are two sides of the coin called "sex should not be such a big deal"

This is my exchange gift for @secretly-a-catamount, featuring Serafina when she was getting dressed for the Baltimore Ball in Serafina and the Twisted Staff.

(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

I still get excited when my friends refer to me as their friend

"My friend said" "this is my friend" "they're my friend"

Im freaking out inside every time

No wonder Crowley always looks so grumpy and sulky.

Like, for example, here is this goofball of an angel, being silly for your entertainment, radiating unadulterated joy, with the softest looking cupid bow lips, the cutest nose, beaming at you with the most beautiful smile you've ever seen, making heart eyes at you, and you are not allowed to kiss the living daylight out of him.

Frustrating.

I will personally marry anyone who has a working link to watch Macbeth, I’m tweaking bc the only one I found wont work 😭😭😭 help

SAME I WANNA MAKE EDITS

here :)

i taught a baking class for 12 year olds today and we made your garden variety chocolate chip cookies, but i’m a big believer in Questioning Everything and the who/what/where/why/when/how behind things, so the first part of the class was purposely letting the kids do things the wrong way, to show and explain why we do things the way we do.

“why do we bake cookies at 180 for 9 minutes when we could do 400 for 2 minutes?” -enter the godawful lump of coal with a still gross wet and uncooked inside

“why do we have to scoop out little cookies instead of doing the whole tray?” -ok well that one you can technically do if the spread is even. you just end up with one giant, structurally unsound cookie. “PLEASE CAN WE MAKE GIANT COOKIES” (we did make 1 giant tray cookie)

we talked a lot about why consistency is important, but i don’t think it really hammered home until i said “okay everyone gets ONE cookie, that’s fair, right?” and then handed out cookies of hugely varying sizes. + baked one fat lump of a cookie that still wasn’t done at the 9 minutes, vs the regular one i put in that came out charred by the time the first was actually done.

we also made a row of cookies where each one had one single differing ingredient omitted, like a cookie with no flour, or a cookie with no butter, and laid them all out on a single tray to bake together to see how each ingredient affects the outcome.

two of the little girls added cocoa to their cookie doughs until it matched the colour of each others skin to make best friend cookies, and that almost made me tear up a bit 🥺

got briefly distracted (…for over half an hour…) talking about how eggs form when someone cracked an egg and it had 2 yolks

expertly tolerated being asked how old i am (just turned 31 the other day) which was immediately followed by asking if i watched the moon landing live on tv

was so focused on keeping track of all the kids that in the end i forgot to make a cookie for myself, but it’s ok because one of the girls gave me this

tiny……….

the class went well and they asked if i wanted to do another one in a couple weeks and i said yeah, and they’re taking uh… fuck, what’s the word for inventory when it’s people?? attendance?? whatever, they’re trying to see who’s interested to get a feel of if it’d be 1 three hour class again or if there’s too many kids so we’d do a couple classes. anyways, i love the emails from Concerned Parents.

“will there be knives involved?” we are baking cookies.

“what temperatures does the oven get to/will it be hot enough to burn?” we are baking cookies.

“will there be [insert ingredient used in cookies]?” we are baking cookies.

“are you using fahrenheit or celsius?” ??????? d-does it matter?? it’s going to get Hot. (also celsius; this is ontario)

“are the ovens childproof?” no?? i’m assuming you’re asking if i’m going to let your kids reach into the ovens while i’m staring out a window in another room. i will not be allowing your children to use the ovens. they will not be left unattended. 

“why is the library baking class taking place at the high school?” the library does not have 10 ovens. the library does not even have 1 oven. the high school has many ovens.

“what if i don’t want my child to have cookies? can you let her make muffins instead?” this is a baking class for cookies. we are baking cookies.

“cookies aren’t healthy. why don’t you make [insert whatever]” do you know how many cookies i can make with a $40 budget and a trip to the bulk store? we are making cookies.

“who needs a class to bake a cookie, why not teach something more valuable?” IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE COOKIES, KAREN, IT’S ABOUT FAMILIARIZING CHILDREN WITH THE ART AND SCIENCE OF BAKING/COOKING/FOOD, ABOUT TRYING NEW THINGS, MAKING MISTAKES AND REALIZING THAT THE MISTAKES ARE NOT ONLY OKAY TO MAKE BUT VALUABLE IN AND OF THEMSELVES, FAMILIARIZING THEM WITH INDEPENDENCE, THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THINGS CAN COME TOGETHER TO FORM A NEW AND BETTER WHOLE, ALL WHILE HAVING TRYING TO INJECT A MODICUM OF JOY INTO THEIR LITTLE LIVES. SORRY THAT THERE ARE CONCEPTS AT PLAY YOU CAN’T SEEN TO UNDERSTAND HERE. MAYBE YOU SHOULD COME JOIN AND I’LL LET YOU MAKE A FUCKING COOKIE.

I had to scroll back up to check the age of the children. 12-year-olds can use knives and ovens.

what is it about audio shows that make me wanna draw?/pos

Happy to report that the chesterton audio didnt particularly inspire any urges to draw

The h2g2 show, on the other hand...

A cyanometer is a device used to measure the intensity of blue in the sky, often used in meteorology and atmospheric studies. It typically consists of a series of blue color patches or a color gradient, allowing the user to compare the sky’s color to these reference colors.

Do you like the wheel of the sky

Well I like that it doesn't take 5 minutes to scroll past.

As an alternative to 'sugar, spice, and everything nice'

I present: 'salt, vinegar, and everything sinister'

no it does not, I am perfectly happy with my obscurity

Paint&mouse Daemys because our class was boring!! 💥💥💥

we’ve actually talked about not aggressively sliding drinks towards the customers 🙄🙄🙄

It is a truth universally acknowledged that coordinates are always changing because the earth is always spinning

So for some reasons in my head the hobnob affair could very well be in modern fantasy setting, like a blacksmith bakery sounds pretty dnd-like to me

So: Cindy and Cindy's dad are half-orc and Sam's blacksmith is a dwarf. I didn't draw them but John is still human in my mind and I can't decide what his ex and her gogo dancer boyfriend would be

Also bonus: those two silly guys that everyone seems to have forgotten about