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Allerae (Jessica)

@allerae.bsky.social
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Account to share/talk about my writing (18+), and my art (sometimes 18+). Main: @flipperfoots.bsky.social She/they MDNI

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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I also think it taught me that you can add more complexity to a scene or plot before it becomes confusing or overwhelming than I thought. I think I was being too minimal before and having some more twists or plot threads being juggled at once can be more interesting
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have written parts in this where I decided I don’t like this and just removed it and rewrote that part without any issue. I think it’s easy to change things when you’re in a rough draft phase, so I’ll probably be sure to focus on higher level edits before working on the prose at all
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think it’s also making me more generally confident by making me write more scenes, characters, etc. quickly since I’m not spending a lot of time editing. I feel much more comfortable with the idea of the initial draft not being a commitment to anything too
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The bleach OC stuff has been good for my writing in some ways. I think it’s making me a bit better at being aware of tone, pacing, balancing description vs. action/dialogue, etc. and things like how a thing is introduced to quickly show what a person or thing is like.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Pretty encouraging to finish it though, since it seems like some people will like it
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Two other people have now read the Sparkle smut I’m still editing (lol) and got turned on by it. Pretty nice feeling to have someone react how you want to something you make
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I like how the story and character dynamics are going but I cringe at the way I worded things when I look back at earlier parts. If I feel especially happy with parts I may edit it into stories I put out, but the intent was to let me write stories quickly just for my own enjoyment.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The prose will be awful since I’m intentionally not thinking about prose or even worrying too much about grammar. So is it worth posting anywhere? Not sure. I’ll probably draw the characters at some point for fun and as practice for character design though.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’ve been distracted with many other things including making a video game just for my girlfriend, making a discord server and doing solo ttrpg stuff with Bleach OCs. I’ve been considering whether I should post the ttrpg journal anywhere but I’m conflicted about it.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'll mix it up after the Soi Fon drawings since I don't want to draw exclusively Bleach fanart though lol
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'll decide that once the sketch and/or line art is done. I also have a bunch more Bleach art I want to do because of watching TYBW- so I plan to draw Rangiku, Tatsuki and maybe Senjumaru eventually too. (Yoruichi won't be in the next one but I will draw her with Soi Fon after this next one maybe)
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So I ended up second guessing the Soi Fon sketches I planned to do after the last one, partially because I missed pride month (one was for pride), but I came up with a new concept I want to do with her. May end up being a fully rendered piece though since I like the concept a lot
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I think my lack of knowledge was so fundamental that within a few hours my writing would change a lot. I’m approaching writing feeling automatic- which is nice.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I do feel like with each edit I was kind of stumbling around in the process since I had no idea how to write and now I at least have a tiny bit of a sense of how to write- so at least that shows I’m learning
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’m 1/2 through the final significant (I really hope) edit of the Sparkle story. So it’ll only take a few more hours. I only get like 30 min a day right now so it’s going so slowly.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Haven’t had a lot of time for creative stuff because I’m trying to prioritize a social life lately but I have been getting back to things a bit.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
When I think back on my more unusual experiences or trauma I think they’re interesting and evoke interesting feelings. I hope I can manage to evoke that in others too. It definitely feels more me, so I hope at least it helps others understand a person like me
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’ve been adjusting some of my original stories. They were almost entirely based on what I would think is cute/cool/hot. Im pushing more of my life experience into things and its at least making things feel more me and interesting to me when its not about girls being gay in that moment
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I think I’d like to try to make characters like who fall in between human and idealized rather than just idealized maybe It’ll require me to rework them but hopefully add some more depth to them I guess
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’ll still have characters fulfill these archetypes but I think I’ll try to allow characters to have a wider range of expression at times including acting a way that isn’t specifically falling into their archetype, or at least maybe an explanation for why they act so unusually
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When I reflect on some of the idealized original characters I have I almost feel bad for them for requiring they always act so they’re maximizing a specific type of appeal up to this point. It’s odd to feel bad for my own characters for how I treat/write them
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I see people act like these idealizations in real life, but I think the closer they often get to being exactly these types of people the more they’re performing it
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I think reflecting on certain idealized archetypes for characters has led me to realize that these idealizations often don’t leave much room for these characters to act with a full range of what a person should be allowed to act like
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
May redo this as a fully rendered drawing (with adjustments to the composition) in the future since I like the concept
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I feel so bad at everything thing creative sometimes so intensely. I wish I had the time to do it all day every day until I felt I was good at things
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Soi Fon shikai sketch #Bleach #SoiFon
B/W sketch of TYBW design Soi Fon with her hand on her face and a concentrated/angered gaze. Her hand has her Shikai blade on her middle finger, with blood dripping down from it.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
atm want to practice line weight more and doing eyes at various angles before the next sketch- so far i've had to redraw the eyes every time halfway through after i noticed they look off
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
finished the first soi fon sketch i planned to do- spent longer than i planned on it (3 hours instead of 1) but still much faster than my previous things (both >10 hours). going to upload in a couple of hours if i don't hate it after not looking at it for a while
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Was going to focus on line weight but it seems like I need to focus on this first
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Practicing line confidence, particularly for sketches. My 10 min sketches after some line confidence exercises look better than my 1 hour or so sketch for kafka. Going to aim to start my first soi fon sketch tomorrow if I can find a few hours to practice more
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ll focus on editing and uploading my previous story over the next few days first though probably
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Compression on mobile is still pretty bad though- some things are barely possible to make out
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It'll mostly be Soi Fon, since I felt like trying to do some cute sketches of her
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Have a good amount of things I want to practice after working on that, so I plan for my next 3 drawings to be quick (maybe roughly colored) sketches with practice in between before doing another more detailed rendered thing
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In the future I'll do something to upload things at full resolution somewhere
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Reuploaded after some testing because the compression messed with details way too much to the point of erasing things I felt were important. Maybe would've been better to squeeze the composition in closer so Kafka takes up more space, so that details that matter remain higher quality
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Serving Kafka #Kafstel
Kafka from Honkai Star Rail in a dimly lit bar. Stelle's hand from the same game has her hand extending out from the POV onto the bar, where Kafka has her hand placed on top of her's. Kafka is looking at the viewer (Stelle) with a slight smile and her head slightly tilted downward. Her other arm is resting on the bar with her hand coming up near her face, with some of her hair wrapped around her fingers.
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I didn’t flip the canvas earlier and had a bunch of things to fix- this sucks. I fixed a couple; I see more but I’m going to ignore them because this is becoming endless
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
None of my planned stories have a loser, docile, pathetic masc lesbian lead. This is terrible. Best I have is a loser pathetic fem lesbian lead I’ll try to come up with something
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
She’s so pretty- I think I actually really like this one
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I forgot Kafka’s makeup. It’ll be tomorrow I guess. I was excited to post it and be done lol
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I may finally be done with this thing. I'm going to wait a couple of hours at least - but if i still think it looks fine i'll post it later then
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I think this, always using references for everything at every point, line weight is worth learning and I should probably try to use gradients more are my main takeaways from this one atm
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Definitely doing this going forward because it makes such a big difference to be able to just tweak the colors without much effort at any point
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Without needing to do any additional painting. Part of my issue with my previous image was that I didn’t like a lot of the color choices in the end- but I couldn’t easily adjust it because I did all of the rendering on like two layers
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Rendering different parts on different layers is so convenient. I often won’t notice until I’m done with a part that the hue, saturation, or luminosity is off against the rest of the image- but I can just put that in a folder with a correction layer and it’s good now
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I aimed at like 6 hours maybe and this thing is going to be >30 hours minimum. I thought 13 hours on my previous one was too long
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I do like it though at least- unlike my previous thing which I believe I strongly disliked at the time of posting lol
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This painting taking so long when I ended up having this mood change is annoying. I’d rather work on fast easy things when I don’t have so much motivation- but I want to finish this thing. Frustratingly rendering the hair and Stelle’s arm will probably take another few hours going by my current pace
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Allerae (Jessica) @allerae.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I’ll still keep making stuff for myself- but no longer feeling like art will lead to connections to others in any form even in the like 4+ consistent people range reduces my excitement to do more immediately (This is about the future and not rn- I would prefer not many people see what I make now)
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