Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i'll be totally honest folks, i don't get YCH commissions

i mean i get why people buy 'em, but i don't understand how they save the artist much work at all. i could maybe do the most basic sketch the same i guess, and then i'd be a pisser and a half to customize it to the point where i'd probably end up spending more time on it, and i should have just done a fresh start to begin with

i think my solution to this quandry may just be that i am bad at art, which is fair

can someone do me a solid and just pop my arm out of its socket and scoop the rice crispies out of my shoulder? you can keep em after. idk have a nice breakfast. thanks

@levels_check N I C E

THE ROLEPLAYING IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

@chaosonwheels23 see that does make more sense

but as a drive-by observer, i had to go for the easy joke LOL

also, related to semi-recent tooting, this wigglytuff fervently and wholeheartedly is pro-sparkledog.

sparkledogs: because life's too short to worry about other people not using realistic colors in their fursona designs.

i may have some bad news for the people i see scrolling by on the fediverse timeline from trollian space, who have accounts with the name of a homestuck character, icon of art of said character, and are typing in said character's quirk, but are also aghast at the idea of roleplaying on social media in 2019

@Critter after blinking solidly in confusion, i think i can translate

most generous reading: "i think of fursonas as translations of self, and so designing one makes little sense to me, just like you didn't design the way you look like in real life in many respects."

more likely reading: "i'm a twat who is gonna start wailing about sparkledogs ruining everything in three, two...."

(i'd just casually link them all the lovely colors domestic skunks can be bred in)

a line from #fnv has now taken on a life of its own and now you can go on etsy and buy all the ~inspirational quote~ momentos of it you want, from people who are apparently completely oblivious of its origin

AND I FIND THIS HILARIOUS

listen, i'm all for people finding inspiration where they can to persevere through the hard times.

however

nothing makes me laugh quite as hard as remembering that joshua graham's quote about surviving being tarred and set on fire and punted off a cliff into a river by caesar, as related as he checks all his guns in his World's Angriest Mormon manner, has now totally taken on a life of its own completely divorced of its context in the game, or even of being part of fallout new vegas at all

@daylight and GOD HELP YOU if you get jimothy's chicken nuggets even slightly overdone, HE'S ALLERGIC TO CRISPY.

@daylight i feel like this might be the spider equivalent of an "i want to speak to your manager" haircut

i'm glad i got to end the #splatfest in #splatoon2 on a high note!! (especially because i spent a lot of the time getting my face smashed in LOL...)

realtalk tho i'm going to miss the glittery ink, like, a lot.

@maple words are extremely hard, i understand completely

pain brain usually eats my make-words-go entirely. still kind of recovering from burnout as well. words are hard

@NovaSquirrel honestly i'm sure i would frustrate everyone here to absolute tears because i'm very used to mmorpg style, where i tend to be extremely rapid-fire, and separate up dialog and action (and honestly am usually playing one-and-a-half characters - my ffxiv arcanist and her carbuncle, my hunter and their pet, etc.)

@maple it's easy as pie!*

*if you're a longwinded fool whose prose verges on indigo if not outright purple**

**helps also if you're doing any heavy lifting of worldbuilding or description at the time

i can barely live with 500 characters for normal-ass ramblings y'all. i am the sort of writer that launches into a sentence, then returns, five months later, having grown a full beard, been on an accidental vision quest from ingesting dubious mushrooms, made my own clothing from birch bark, and after having befriended a squirrel after nursing it back to health. it's just how it be sometimes. mommas, don't let your babies be english majors.

people roleplaying on this platform terrify me slightly because of how they work around the word limit

"harp don't you rp in mmorpgs?" yeah but in mmorpgs i don't gotta describe all of the shit that's happening, only SOME of the shit that's happening. left to my own devices i am a longwinded asshole that needs many details shoved in there, half of them purely adverbs. my fav color is purple and so is my prose. i can't live with only 500 characters

I MIGHT NOT BE KILLING THE ROSEMARY CRIMMAS TREE THIS YEAR

accidentally forgot to take it out of the dining room until like. january 2nd. at which point it had sent out a bunch of runners are HEWWO???? ANYSUN THEWE????

but hey that's better than going all brown and sad and dead!!

now it seems happier after sitting in the window a couple of days. i still need to figure out how much/how often to water it but i'll get there. maybe one of those automatic water bulb things???