... # ts n

there's no such thing
as answers "why"

and

you don't
need
one.

Oh I love the look of this one - what inspired it? If you don't mind me asking

sticker on my phone I can’t photo because it’s... on my phone haha (forgets mirrors exist)

Wings of Fire...

This is a drawing of Sundew, although it probably doesn’t resemble her much

ah! I'm honestly not familiar either way - I mean I recognized that this was a dragon but didn't have much beyond that haha

She’s been important to us. She was sort of our first impression that maybe systeming was within reach for us again, after all.

She’s got a lot of spirit, and is grouchy, and is a lesbian, and likes not-salty trail mix

the sticker on our phone is of some random icewing, lol

is the text in this drawing a quote of hers, or something that just came to you?

Mine, although it might as well be her words

Gotcha...what made it come to your mind? The phrase I mean. I like it a lot, the feeling and the message, just curious

Two things, I think

One - a notion of - “why did you draw me?” - which is in itself a... self-mocking question. Because it has no answer, but you ask, anyway.

The other is that the non-answer there is the same non-answer I need. I find things, when I look back, but they’re never the answer, they aren’t answering questions I... don’t even have the words to ask, to place what I’m asking myself. But I look, anyway.

If I don’t need one-
but I ask anyway, I look anyway
then is there something else to it? Is there a reason this I come back to it, anyway? Because I already know I won’t find it, and I already know I don’t need it.

Maybe there isn’t—
Maybe it’s just something we do. Right? Maybe there is no “why”.

Maybe that’s all the truth there is to it. It just is...

nods....yeah...in a way it resonates with me...maybe not to the same effect as your reasoning for writing it, but still

She’s almost a side profile, but her head is tilted a little near and her eye is... kind of ambiguous haha

No answers “why”, I just like it (...although I think it’s also really good for how we’ve never drawn a dragon since doing any anatomy study at all, and it translated to... you know, this image we’ve held for ages of how dragons are shaped, haha)

only major issue is she’s got rather little neck for a dragon, but that’s alright for this drawing

I like how it looks :) I think it works here

ty. <3

I think what appeals to me about the quote is like...

Idk, to put it broadly, i feel like I definitely always am looking for answers to things that can't be answered concretely...so having this idea in the back of my head like...sometimes there just isn't an answer. you don't need to know the answer

I find that comforting

I do, too

Sundew is... mostly a comfort, for how inexplicably firey she is. I... wanted to draw that, draw on that

There are plenty of surface-level reasons and even some reasonably deep ones, but if you try to boil it, it... you lose what counts. But she does try to boil it

It’s an assurance that it’s fine to be left with nothing

I mean -
If you’re left with nothing... then you’re still left, right?

You can always go from there. You’ve been going from there. You don’t need something deeper