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What pieces of art or media would you consider to be major inspirations?
easily the most formative media that i've ever experienced was yume nikki. masada-sensei's space ship is one of the greatest het age gappy liminal spaces i've come across in media. at its core it is a man and a girl who cannot communicate sharing a space owned by him and unfamiliar to her. it gives me such heartaching comfort, but you can't stay on the ship forever.
naturally homestuck. its influence was so heavy that i used to be able to clock former homestuck fans in online art communities years and years later. the web-focused approach to webcomics was incredibly influential to me over the plot or art direction when i realized just how much i could do as i continued to study web development. but it had your brocon, age gap if you squint, etc. none of my current ocs were fan trolls but uhhh (throws horns on it)
i think i am most heavily influenced by the feeling some media leaves me with over a literal, more stylistic visual influence. i struggle to say "this is this artist's linework" or "these are that artists's color palettes." within my own art, i focus on a feeling i'm trying to leave a viewer with and build everything else around it. it leaves me open to translate those core emotions across different subjects and mediums.
this is such a nice question 🥺 i appreciate you asking.
Can you tell Darby how cute she is for me? >_<
she said "thenk you 🥺🥰"
Songbird here! 👋 Just stopping by to say hi, and that I hope you're doing well.
But while I'm here, I haven't touched my site in ages and was thinking about doing a booru kind of set up for my art gallery. Would you happen to know where to start with that? 😅
hello songbird! this is going to be a pretty long answer:
so the actual booru software itself is open source (you can check it out here) but it is written in ruby on rails which i have no experience with. that said, i am currently building an art archive in astro javascript, which is a static site generator (ssg) designed to quickly develop and manage content heavy sites like blogs. my archive essentially functions like LJ/DW, where you have preview cards for each entry that direct to a page dedicated to that entry, and a tagging system to pull up all entries using that tag. the code looks, feels and writes like html/css with bits of js sprinkled in, and being somewhat aware of your skill set i think it would be much easier to build something that has the functionality you are looking for specifically using astro and style it after boorus if you so desire than actually forking danbooru.
NOW, ALL OF THIS SAID -- i am using content collections which requires typescript. typescript is a form of javascript that forces you to declare the object's type before using it, which is exhausting and frustrating but teaches you a lot and saves a ton of time with troubleshooting. ultimately i really can't speak to the limits of astro without using ts because i started learning astro using ts, but despite the learning curve i highly recommend it. do some research as to whether or not you think ts would be necessary for your needs and plan accordingly. you can always switch while you are working on it but expect a lot of type errors really, really fast.
(i want to add that moving into a new language can be daunting but the most important trait a coder can have is tenacity! it's okay if you feel overwhelmed or defeated but remember, you can do anything a computer can do. make it happen.)
(also i can't do it now but if you or anyone else is interested in seeing archive progress pics, you can check the media tab of my bluesky account or just tell me you want to see them here and i'll start posting them.)
tl;dr: you might be able to get what you are looking for from danbooru using astro js so i would start your research there. i started with coding in public's astro blog tutorial but his entire channel is a gold mine for astro related coding. astro's docs are also incredibly accessible and will walk you through pretty much everything you need to know step by step.
best of luck!
What are Darby’s feelings about animals ? Does she enjoy their company or not ?
darby doesn't mind cats or small animals in general but she is very easily intimidated by larger animals, especially dogs.
hey cohost is on the verge of dying from a lack of funds b/c the angel investor has disappeared and they're running out of money early april. given your beef with cohost i thought you would find that very very satisfying lmao
omg i didn't see this i can't believe this was sent to me... i am so blessed to have you petty little fucks here, finding that out was such a good day for me and i'm so excited to be able to watch it happen. cohost is dying spam eggbug to make it die faster.
I don't know why but your art reminds me a lot of Nagabe's work. You should read some of their stuff, like mienai-hito-tachi, The Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms or The Girl From the Other Side, thought, almost all their stuff is furry or monster/human.
this is one of the highest compliments i have ever received 😭💕 i'm only familiar with the girl from the other side but i absolutely love the energy nagabe's work has, that softness and intimacy despite the grim melancholy... i could only dream of capturing that bittersweet energy. i should look more into his work and do some studies.
i really want to lean in on fetish for wolfsbane but this would be a really interesting approach. a little girl taming a monster, terrifying to itself and others, through the pure love that only little girls can feel... this is such a sweet thought. thank you for this message. it brightened my day. ❤️
darby
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I am poking around your site with the power of inspect element to better understand how certain things are built and I just wanna say it’s very nice code.
i really appreciate it! it's still pretty messy with the inconsistent whitespace but i've cleaned it up a lot since my first build. i am still managing to find little things to do... (one more little-ish thing before i send out another long-winded newsletter)
i just pushed an update that broke the local storage item so if you decide to visit you may have to submit again. i had to figure out how to reroute everything too so i may have also broken a lot of the links. again, little-ish things to do.
Hey sorry this is a weird question but will u reaploud those vintage nsfw comic strips or photos bc i rlly liked them when u had ur old acc back
for context, my grandfather was an erotic photographer and i came into possession of his work as well as some tijuana bibles this past year. i was trying to get them all scanned and uploaded somewhere but it's very time consuming and i don't have a scanner at home so i have to go to a friend's house to use hers. as such it's been buried in my thousands of things but i can put up a few of the scans and the pictures i took later today!
at some point i'm probably going to need to put up an interest poll and see if i can't knock some of these (smaller? more easily completed? simpler?) projects out because i don't have the discipline to see them through in a timely manner... but if there is any interest in this i will move it up my list for sure!
also, if anyone has any information on archival and restoration and such, i would really appreciate it. i have no experience with photography and i'm not exactly sure how to handle these, especially given i have next to no information about them.
(i also have to make a page for it somewhere on my main site... in the eternal words of daft punk, our work is never over...)
Hi, once again, person who keeps talking about the Werewolf Au (Wolfsbane now, tho). About your concern of making malby too ooc, I think you don't have to worry too much about it, they are your own OCs, you can do whatever you want with them, that's what they're made for, they will stop being malby only if you want to, but if it bothers you too much, you can make them into entire different characters, people would keep supporting you either way. It will be nice to see you work with red/warmer colors, since most of your palletes are cold colors. Maybe you should research some more about the history/ different versions of LRRH, for some inspo.
-:D (guess I will sign this way instead of repeating over and over again ''Hi'')
i love it :D it was really interesting to hear someone's take on my palette! i never thought i leaned towards a specific scheme but i'm going to look through some of my art again with that in mind!
the palette i'm planning on using for the non-con werewolfy sections will be filtered through the visible color range for dogs except for dotty's hood.
to be perfectly honest i am not familiar with much little red riding lore so if you had any pointers i would really appreciate it. 🙏
Hi again, I just saw the Little Red riding hood concept and I LOVE IT, it's so simple yet effective, the portrait is SO GOOD, the color pallete and the art style <3. I have seen almost all your art that I could find on aethy and twitter and this is the first time I have seen it. Would you use this concept as inspiration for Werewold Au!Darby? like her hair color and dress, or do you got something else in mind?
thank you so much! these are pretty old honestly, i'm sitting on tons of old work that was only ever posted to sfw accounts because i couldn't comfortably merge both worlds. hoping i can share my entire breadth now that i'm not afraid of being stoned to death by teenagers.
for your question! right now i'm worried that i've pushed mallory and darby so far ooc i'm wondering if i should just create new characters... at their core they are just an age gap blueprint and i do have forbidden aus where he is an active predator, i just wonder when they stop being malby...
darby's basic design is blunt bangs + godiva hair (usually a cool color) + horns so i think i would definitely borrow the twin braids either way. i want to keep the red to reinforce the iconography--i've been told bright reds are difficult to work with but i have a lot of fun with them! but beyond that i'm unsure, it's just vibes bro, etc.
i've settled on "wolfsbane" for the au itself and for time being they will go as mallory wolfe and dotty. i'm going to update the tags on my previous posts to reflect this but yeah, you are welcome to share any suggestions or thoughts you might have! i'd love to hear them!
Hi, same person from the last Werewolf AU ask, I LOVE little red riding hood iconography, and any fairytale iconography involving wolves, and the moment I read about this AU I was 1000% excited for it.
i'm happy to hear that! it's a very interesting and flexible trope, and there are a lot of fun and unhinged ways to approach it.
i'm going to post some old little red art just for you! i hope you enjoy it. ❤️
Do you got any art for the Werewolf AU? :D
i don't 💀 i've always been fond of little red iconography so i have a few unrelated drawings but i haven't actually sat down to do proper designs yet... i'm thinking mallory would look the same but have mutton chops and go by "mal." unsure about darby though... maybe i will change up her design a bit to make her a widdle bunny wabbit?
there's another unrelated huntsman & forest orphan tradwife au where she goes by dotty which i really like but i will have to think some more 🤨
hi
the error message Darby on your site (specifically I’m talking about the “how did you get here! get out!” error message) is very cute.
just thought you should know
THANK YOU... i thought it was really cute 😭💕 it's actually from an unfinished comic where mallory catches darby having sex with her best friend (my friend's oc emmy)... he sits them down at the table for a "talk" and darby is just crying her eyes out and apologizing profusely LMFAO
i hope there are no broken links but i'll comb through it in a bit 😵💫 don't ever get too cocky
Hi, love your art :D. In what kind of format is Domestication going to be told from? Is it going to be throught comics or interactive illustrations in your website? Do you have any concept art of it by any chance? Sorry if this is too much, I just have Darby brainrot...
i plan to present domestication as a web series/"experience" hosted on my site. it will function like a webtoon but there will be animations and interactive elements, and my hope is to draw it at print size--god forbid anyone actually print it but i'd like that to be a possibility--and build it to be responsive and navigable by screen readers.
i think i have some doodles floating around somewhere but i'll have to take a look. between irl and my website i haven't had much time to sit down and actually put a lot of this to paper but as usual most of the work has been under the hood so far. incidentally i posted something close to Some Of It but i'll put together a page of concept art when the time comes. :)
and no, it's not too much at all i promise! feel free to ask any questions you'd like! i have darbitis and it's terminal. i think about her every second of every day. she is my baby and i look forward to telling her story (and also drawing freaky shit whenever i have flare ups)
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