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— i bet we were fun ;;

@starmora / starmora.tumblr.com

— like you wouldn't b e l i e v e .
callie. they/them.
gotg • genshin • tlou • dbd
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  • callie
  • this account mostly runs on a queue (untagged because I don’t have the time or the attention span for it)
  • current interests include guardians of the galaxy (not marvel, not comics, just gotg), genshin impact, danganronpa, the last of us, dead by daylight, and resident evil
  • I make enamel pins and keychains of my artwork that you can purchase on Etsy and BigCartel (very slowly because I am Poor and this is a very expensive hobby)
  • If you wanna keep up with merch updates, including drop dates, preorder updates, and future products, check out my updates tag
  • AR 60, America server on genshin, and my UID is 627097531. I main shinobu 💜⚡️
  • On dbd, my tag is starmora#738e and I main Kate and Ada
  • (yes you can send me a friend request, but lemme know who you are by sending me a dm or something here)
  • Big, big fan of ships consisting of a very charismatic group leader that people often write off as annoying, stupid, or brutish, (but they actually have a heart of gold and would sacrifice themselves for any of their friends,) and their calm and aloof second in command, who is very smart and badass and probably has a lot of childhood trauma they’re learning to work through with the help of their friends and they’re now a better person for it (bonus points if they are an assassin) (regretful double points if one of them has died somehow trying to protect their loved ones at some point in time)
last updated: 5/23/23
Please don’t rb!

Once again here to remind you that everything you write has value regardless of how many comments you get.

I know it can be discouraging and you deserve recognition but lack of it does not diminish your worth as a writer nor does it define your skills as one.

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people's art more than your own:

It's the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You're probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a "does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?"-kind of way.

I think that's also why sometimes, pictures you haven't looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: "Hey past-me was unto something! Why can't I replicate it nowadays?". It's probably specifically because you've forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don't be so hard on yourself: it's probably just that you can't see the magic right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

You just put something into words that I have been feeling for a while. This might actually get me to try digital painting again, thank you.

Omg, I'm glad to hear 💖

everyone's talking about the America Ferrera monologue and yes it was cool and all (she ate that delivery and she deserves her flowers!) but really the most powerful part of the film is the Ruth x Barbie scene in the final act with that Billie Eilish song in the background. THAT was what moved me. and my friends. and the sweet old lady behind me who was watching with her husband (overheard her say it was the first time in 3 years they went to the cinema!). and the mom of two boys and one girl beside us who kept apologizing to me because one of her sons almost blinded me with his phone's flashlight just before the movie started. and the full row of high school girls below us who were trying so hard to hide their sniffling from each other.

it was just after the last of the credits rolled in that I realized how meta that experience was. watching an entire sequence that celebrates the joys of girlhood and womanhood along with this intergenerational group of women, mostly strangers to me but to whom I shared an unspoken bond with just because we're all the same gender trying not to lose who we are, discovering all the various things we're made for, and rejoicing in all the unique sorrows and triumphs of being a woman in a world that makes it difficult for us to just...BE.

I didn't think I came out of the theatre with an abrupt raging desire to crush the patriarchy asap, nor did it suddenly embolden me with radical ideas of feminism. but I could feel all of those women who watched it with me walk out of there with a certain power, one that the film reminded us we've always had. to simply...exist. unapologetically. as we are. without the need for permission from anyone but ourselves.

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While working on Across the Spiderverse, I painted this concept art of what Manhattan might look like in Gwen's watercolor style!

Anonymous asked:

Thank you for creating merch for Gamora (and gotg in general) and giving her appreciation that canon failed to do. All of your stuff looks fantastic and when I get some extra money I'll definitely be purchasing a few things from you!

🥹🥹🥹 hey thank you anon!!!!!! I don’t make a lot of (if any) profit off my merch and my art but I continue to make it bc it makes me happy and I want it to exist so I’m just glad other people also get joy from it. I’d continue to make it even if I were the only one who wanted it but it’s really special to me that I get so much support from you guys