Warming Up Engines, Oiling The Cogs. Wattys 2024 Deadline: August. Back To Writing. See U In Wattpad

I’ve been gone for too long, but here you go, I finished my starter pack!

I honestly didn’t really know what to put in the accesories compartment, but a backpack and a sword felt right haha. I put in the chips because why not, I am fond of some good chips.

I don’t have orange boots, but I really want them so at least here I have some.

Lily studies 🌺🌸✨

This is the plant I chose for my hybrid homework. I’ll combine it with the white heron and make something cool 😎.

I kinda don’t like how the studies turned out tho. They look nice, but are a bit too dark in comparison to the real thing. The photos were a little bit too neon, too saturated, and in an attempt to do the impossible with normal watercolor paints it turned out like that.

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Drowning

I kinda liked it more without the black in the clothes, but oh well, too late. I like them both. I really really liked just the simple sketch version too, but my original idea was to do the lineart so I ended up doing it anyway. I really like his face, he looks a lot like a Renaissance statue; very expressive on its own.

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I HAD THE SAME THOUGHT AND REALIZATION

He’s wearing eyeliner, oh my god?

Hi again, Nia here!

I updated my Cara portfolio a bit, so my most recent decent artworks are there now! Check them out if you like art and fantasy stuff!

Man. I really need to fluff up my portfolio. I need to produce more and more pieces 😳.

I hate AI. Support real artists and people.

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I like this take. Nothing else to be said. Fic writers (who will not be me this time cuz although I could, I don’t have the time), make it happen

this whole “interesting choice in date” thing was jealousy on both sides and nobody can tell me otherwise

A little thought

Time cuts short whatever reverie I chase, every moment’s rest. Swamped by personal ambitions, the strain of a new semester’s pressures and expectations, and a soon coming trip to Japan, I find myself scrambling for something firm to hold on to.

Not because I’m feeling sadness or agony or overwhelming stress. Well, I am stressed. But what floods me is excitement in the uncertainty for the future and my hopes for it. It stresses me out, of course, makes me anxious.

However, I’m excited to discover what the world may have yet in store for me. At this point in my life, I believe the wicked hand fate dealt me is already over, and we’re now playing a new game. No more horrible events in my life will come to pass, I know. All the strife and grief and sorrow I went through is already over.

Now I’m supposed to heal and look for new paths into the future. Decide which I will take. Whether that is the path to Europe or Asia for my future studies; will I go study in Norway or Japan? And if so, will I study the same thing I do now, or something different?

I worry about my worth and skills to survive in the workforce in a crumbling society where there’s barely any difference between middle and lower class anymore. Where everywhere you go you see divides with no bridges.

Hm. Uncertain but excited. Perhaps for the first time looking forward to an uncertain, unknown future. Isn’t that fascinating?

everyone: what's your goal in life?

me: to write a story so soul snatching, so gut wrenching and so devastatingly beautiful that it leaves you crying at 3am when you have a 8am lecture/shift and it inspires people to write entire essays, to write entire fanfics, mood boards and playlists based on it.

I’ve been wanting to be a writer since I was nine, when I sat down and wrote my first story (I made drawings for it and was very excited haha).

Since then, I’ve evolved a lot, having up to 24+ novel ideas in my mind and written down that I want to write.

And now I’m taking the decision of writing one of them for real, starting with the 3rd story idea I ever had, the first idea I ever had with real potential to become a great thing.

I’ve decided to take it seriously now, because I realize I’m not getting younger. If I don’t do it now, when the hell am I going to? Just fantasizing about getting published or noticed by an editor but not doing anything to make that come true, WON’T make your dreams come true magically, with 0 effort from you.

So, I’m currently writing the first version of my first fantasy novel Initiation, in wattpad, with some illustrations! After I’ve finished it on there, I’ll self-publish it on kindle and ibooks with extra parts and the real illustrations with color and extra deets and quality!

The week before a trip

I have one week left before my 2 week trip to Japan as a foreign student. I’m excited, anxious, sort of scared. Also absolutely overwhelmed by piles of homework the new semester has thrust upon me.

I worry for the coming trip and whether I have the language skills to stand out and socialize with everyone.

The coming weeks will likely determine what the next decade of my life will look like, and I find myself at a crossroads; will I go study a new career or specialization in Norway, or Japan?

I’ve been pondering that question for a while now. Whether I should go spend 4 years studying in Norway or Japan; to which country am I going to dedicate years of my life to?

Which one is safest for me? Which one will offer the most cultural enrichment and knowledge? Which will nurture my true nature?

I don’t know the answers. I suppose time will tell.