Just a list of journals I keep for roleplay and hobby purposes. Don't mind me. They're full of shiny and I'm slightly addicted, is all.

( Omnomnom journals. )

Oodles of clickable pets!

( Because I'm hooked, yes. )

I didn't put it off, this time.

I tried as hard as I could, and worked on it whenever I could manage. I got my new stylus exactly a week ago. The lineart had been mostly done, and all that was left was to colour it all in and piece it together for her.

But it isn't finished. I don't know that I can finish it, now.

( But I Can Show You )


Thank you to everyone who contributed their suggestions, drawings, moral support, and boundless patience while I worked on this. Thank you to D, who came up with the idea in the first place, Relly, who passed the idea on to me and directed me back to D so that we could discuss this further, and then went on to cheerlead while I flailed and panicked and pulled out hair for weeks every time I hit a snag. Thank you to Alanna and TBQ for the drawings that they sent, and to Xandah, Relly, Alanna, D, and everyone else who gathered links and suggestions for these drawings. And thanks to my dad, for shelling out the $50 to replace my art stylus as a Christmas present, even if he couldn't figure out why I was panicking and upset that the one I had to work with was in several pieces and wouldn't draw a straight line.

But most of all, thank you to Monsta.

I made sure the drawings had plenty of pom-poms, just for you.

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You scored as Character Player The Character Player enjoys creating in-depth characters with distinct and rich personalities. He identifies closely with his characters, feeling detached from the game if he doesn’t. He takes creative pride in exploring different characters, often making each new one radically different than others he’s played. The Character Player bases his decisions on his character's psychology first and foremost. He may view rules as a necessary evil at best, preferring sessions in which the dice never come out of their bags. For the Character Player, the greatest reward comes from experiencing the game from the emotional perspective of an interesting character. Character Player 90% Storyteller 85% Casual Gamer 45% Weekend Warrior 45% Tactician 30% Specialist 20% Power Gamer 15%

Have you ever, ever had someone point at your art (be it a written or a visual representation of an idea) and say, "Hey! That's someone else's idea and you're a thief!"?
Seriously. I've been accused by rabid fans of other artists of stealing my old purple gryphon self from Maggock, and of taking the idea for maned dragons from Etherrawen. Heck, even hooved hindfeet? Not original. Striped dragons? WTF THIEF YOU HORRIBLE ART STEALER.

Newsflash. Not much is fantastically original anymore unless it touches on the border of absolutely absurd.
And you don't have to slop together eight different animals to come up with something original, and you don't have to go into painstaking detail with every character you write to ensure that nothing in a storybook could possibly be mistaken for something else. If it's an expression of your own personality and not something blatantly copied from someone else, you aren't a thief.
Feel free to be the hundredth wolf with bull horns or to write a story with another run-of-the-mill vampire. Personality doesn't always reside within variety. There are a bajillion gryphons on the internet. More than one is bound to be purple. There are even more wolves. When you're dabbling in fantasy, there are probably going to be a few that end up with horns. Sci-fi? Yeah. You're going to see mech arms. Anime? There are only so many ways you can make hair defy gravity and still be original, seriously. And if someone points a finger at you and goes, "hey! You're not allowed to draw a dog in an abnormal colour because ---- has already done it!" Then don't be afraid to give them a middle finger salute. Seriously.

Be yourself. If it's your self-expression, do whatever feels right. Who cares if parts of it have been done before? They call that "inspiration." If you honestly want to end up with a spotted purple hippo-rabbit-spider thing? Then heck, go for it! But if all you really want is an anthropomorphic fox, don't let all of the other anthro-foxes stop you.
What matters most is the personality that's backing the image.


This picture was done in collaboration with gibbouswolf, who drew the lineart which I coloured.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
.... Which basically means that we aren't making any profit from it, but we'd be thrilled if you'd pass it about. Seriously.