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For a man who lived alone, Anthony's dirty dishes were awfully a lot. And he just added another. And his trash; God he started to live like some sort of savage animal, leaving bones behind. Everytime he turned, food wrappers everywhere, chips packages everywhere, empty beer bottle all over the place. Oh man, he really needed to sort of his priority; ditch the thumbnail and actually cleaning up the room.

Even when neglecting his life, his thumbnail still worse than the shit he had. He was never an artist; visual design stuff was never a thing. Sure, at his early days he made his own edit for thumbnails. They were decent, which to be honest, he copied some ideas on the internet most of the time. Now, however, his brain wasn't as good as he used to be. His brain was just... who knew what happened to his brain.

Well, he actually knew, but rather not mention.

Whatever.

At the end of the day, all of this reasoning were only "excuses" that he relied on too much.

Marcel: Pandaboy, are u gonna play?

Anthony read the message popped on his notification. Mentally he shrugged.

Anthony: man, I think I have to skip. Need to clean the house for a bit - you wont believe how many chipotle bowls I found laying around lol

Marcel: jee, haha okay - if youre done though, come and join us

Anthony: i'll make some time if I can. Need to take care some of the previous editing and stuff too

Marcel: hm you still dont have a thumbnail yet?

Anthony: ive made some, but theyre shits really - wanna see?

Marcel: yea sure

Anthony: (sends picture)

Marcel: wtf hahaha, that aint a thumbnail

Anthony: lol, actually i havent made em. Dunno, might really use that one

Marcel: well fuck em, be original and use that, i dare ya - hey why dont u contact one of your fans, sent you fanart. Use them lol

Anthony: oh geez, nah. Those fanarts are mostly for Evan or Tyler or somebody. I'm just in the background, slowly fading in and out the picture. And if I had to choose an artist, i'd probably go for someone who doesnt know me - do you remember what happened to Evan?

So Evan, or Vanoss had this ideas of making an animation of his gameplay. So he kind of reached out to one of his fans who sent him a fanart thing. They called and Evan learned the guy was also an animator. There began their contract to animate his games as planned. However, this aninator who was also a big fan of him, started to constantly send animations without asking. It was fun at first but the animations slowly started to feel irrelevant to any content Evan asked for, to the point of disturbing. The animator even made "himself" inserted into the animation, which ended up didn't make sense at all. Alas, Evan politely ended their plans together.

Marcel: true, but also be cautious if you wanna choose someone. You dont wanna deal with fraud and stuff - that reminds me, why not Mami?

Anthony: Chrissy's friend? Why?

Marcel: yea! Shes draws. Maybe u can try to ask her for your thumbnail? I did. Well, Simone did. Simone asked her for an illustration. It came out really good.

Anthony: how do u know she draws?

Marcel: i thought u might know. Chrissy invited Simone to play with her. I guess Mami told her about her art skill and whatnot - she has a website. She posted her artwork there. Here.

Anthony read a message consisted of an website. A Tumblr.

Anthony: who still uses tumblr these days?

Marcel: Apparently she does. Anyway, you might want to check her out. Her works are great, actually.

Anthony was very much suspicious, even after looking through her blog. She did have tons of work already, almost over one hundred posts of sketches, landscapes, illustrations, and even comics. Amazingly, her Tumblr page already had over ten thousands followers. As he looked more thoroughly, one of her most liked posts were an on-going graphic novel series, which she never got a chance to continue. That said, he realized that her last post was made around ten months ago. Who knew what happened to her. Maybe a job; Chrissy once said something about her being busy with work - like him.

Anthony's curiosity led to him stalking Mami's Instagram. Unlike her Tumblr, she seemed to keep her Instagram for her own, with lack of followers and less artsy posting; well less posting in general, although this time she recently posted a picture, meant she was still widely active on the social media.

Marcel said she helped Simone recently, right?

A great part of him knew she was worth to try. If she could draw, then she could. If not, then he already prepared a thumbnail.

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