bytheangell

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Long time no talk, friends. My spouse and I are a year into our fertility journey, which has been a longer and more expensive process than either of us hoped at the start. Any help, from commissions to donations to shares, is greatly appreciated!! Read the full update above ❤️

If you have appreciated my art or @some-little-infamy fic in the past and want to support us in our ongoing fertility process, do I have the opportunity for you!

We are opening up commissions to create graphic art or fic of your favorite show, favorite scenes, favorite characters, favorite fanfic, or favorite ship (canon or fanon!) 

Check out this form for more information or to request your commission(s) now: https://forms.gle/zNnBKTsNUfFJKtmF7

Click the read more for where we're at in this journey (TW: pregnancy loss mention)

A less-than-wanted, but much needed update: 

In 2024, Elle and I attempted six IUI cycles with our provider. The first five attempts led to negative results. Our sixth attempt was our first (albeit short-lived) positive, and we celebrated Christmas with high hopes. Unfortunately, we ended our 2024 with a miscarriage. We’ve taken time to grieve our loss, and we have discussed next steps with our provider. 

Initially, our insurance company denied covering any part of our fertility treatments until we completed at least six out-of-pocket IUI cycles (with the hopes that one would be successful.) Unfortunately, that was obviously not the case. 

Because these IUI cycles were unsuccessful, our provider recommended that we move forward with a different, more intensive approach, the next step being In Vitro Fertilization (or IVF). 

Over the next few months, Elle will be enduring a horrifying amount of blood work, two weeks of new medication, two more weeks of daily injections, a surgical procedure under anesthesia for egg retrieval along with reimplantation, all while trying to handle the anxiety of it all. 

With that said, we are now able to resubmit to insurance, but only some of this process will be covered by our insurance company. While we don’t know how much insurance will cover and how much we will need to contribute, whatever it is will be in addition to the $20,000 this process has already cost. (Not including the sanity we’ve probably lost throughout last year.) 

We are eternally grateful for the assistance we’ve been given from our fertility agency, our family, our friends, and even some friends of friends. The encouragement and support we’ve received throughout the year has been invaluable to us in this journey. While the last year left us a little discouraged, we are hopeful that this next step will be the one to help us achieve our dream. 

xx Elle & Emryn

If you would like to donate to us but do not have an idea/want to pay less than $5, you can donate to our GoFundMe, my Ko-Fi, or DM me on Discord at half-bakedboy and I'd be happy to create a small sketch for you or Elle can write a small ficlet for you!

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thomastair for @edwinspaynes <3 been meaning to draw them forEVER but 4 years later here they finally are 🙏 i knew i'd get to it eventually

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The Last Hours modern AU

It was fun to imagine what tlh characters would look like nowadays/ Maybe there will be some uptades to this au or i'll draw tmi-tda characters at the time of the tid-tlh

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Prompt: Jolting Awake

For the By the Angel Bingo hosted by the @malecdiscordserver

In which Chairman Meow decides to pay Malec a visit in the middle of the night and Magnus learns what it's like to sleep next to a heavily armed angelic warrior.

Another prompt that sounded angsty but I made into crack instead cause I'm still recovering from that first prompt XD

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Prompt: 'A Window Into an Empty Room'

For the By the Angel Bingo hosted by the @malecdiscordserver

Aka season 3 episode 6. Or the episode I mostly remember as the one where Alec is real salty about a spatula and then gets drunk and rambles about Magnus XD

So I decided to take the prompt both kind of literally and also not?

This one took quite some time to finish as I've never really drawn an environment before but I hope it turned out ok! 🙃

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Happy Birthday Alec Lightwood! Our salt king, consul of the clave, and all around best shadowhunter!

Here he is surrounded by some things that I felt represented him :)

Character by @cassandraclare

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Prompt: Playground

For the By the Angel Bingo hosted by the @malecdiscordserver

Lil AU where malec met as kids and became friends :)

(Dunno if this is a shadow world or mundane AU tho so feel free to decide on your own XD)

A while ago my friend told me she wanted to see malec as children so this was the perfect prompt to draw them this way :D

lil sepia toned (ish) version for funsies cause I felt like it XD

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Are you alright, honey? You've barely put your blorbo in situations

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Raphael and Simon

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Family time

When Maryse decided to have a look on the baby-boy, she found all three of her boys sleeping, the little one finally full and snoozing peacefully, hugged by dads

Meanwhile the cats dialogue:

- look, they got a kitten! soft and sweet and smells of milk - i, for one, smell trouble and double trouble. you'll see, Meow, you'll see.

Illustration following Silent Alec fanfiction series

more art on http://boosty.to/grizzlyhare/

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Update: here is the fic, which was created by the very talented @brightasstars :))

This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Reverse Bang 2024: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver.

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Artwork I created for the Shadowhunters Reverse Bang 2024, presented by @malecdiscordserver. The art is posted to AO3 too. And Nurisiliel wrote this amazing story based on it. Go check it out!!

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[VID EDIT] ART PROMPT for "To Hell with the Consequences" by @vaguelyrotten

Alec Lightwood knows danger - as the son of a prominent criminal family, it's something he's intimately familiar with. However, a chance encounter at a club proves that there's more out there than he was originally aware and he finds himself suddenly thrust into a world where All The Legends Are True.

[Read it on AO3]

[Read it on tumblr]

This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Reverse Bang 2024: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver.

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[VID EDIT] ART PROMPT for "The Trouble Business" by @riseagainphoenix

Alec is a highly feared mob enforcer. He also happens to be an indentured cyborg, and he gets the chance to buy his freedom from his mob boss if he can pull off one last job. He hires the very well-connected and very human Magnus Bane to help. It would be such a genre cliche if they fell in love along the way, but life is bleak enough in a dark city lit by neon signs — don't they deserve a little cliche?

[Read it on AO3]

This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Reverse Bang 2024: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver.

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My Dandelion

Here is the art for @cinberella wonderful fic.

This artwork was created for the #shrb2024 presented by the @malecdiscordserver

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ART PROMPT for "Murder at the New York institute" by @themagnusbane

Pull out the Cluedo board they said. It would be fun to play they said. Nothing could possibly happen on Samhain they said. And now, Magnus and Alec, Clary and Izzy, Simon and Jace have been pulled into an alternate New York Institute, with no powers, no idea what has caused it, or who has brought them there. Oh. And there’s been a murder. Except, can you kill a dead man twice? And can Valentine Morgenstern just SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[Read it on AO3]

This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Reverse Bang 2024: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver.

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This artwork was created for the Shadowhunters Reverse Bang 2024: Presented by the @malecdiscordserver

I would like to thank my wonderful writer for making my little mood board come to life. You can find the story inspired by this art - Recite the Colors, by quill and ink