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I am on VGen now!! http://vgen.co/stopboorider

the big reason I'm yelling about this rn is because I need to complete some tasks to become a For Real Verified Artist Truely on VGen, which I think are all quite fair to ask. AND THEN I CAN GET CODES FOR MY OTHER ARTIST FRIENDS!! I need 8 more followers on Vgen (reg accounts do not require a code) and I still need 1 more commission and review. Thanks so much if you're able to help with this!!! OwO

more info about comms below:

remember those extremely cheap experimental commissions I took a lil while back??? WELL HERE IS THE RESULT!! currently, my offers include

at least hips up art of characters surprise sketch, can also be 18+ (yay vgen thanks for allowing it) (starting at 40$)

outfit design!!! if you were around when i was doing fashion sketches for patreon, this is essentially a return of that, except in a more reference standard than portrait (starting at 60$)

and then after seeing a bunch of other people have something like this, i also have an option to support me doing art for myself. you can either choose one of my open WIP projects for me to sit down and work some hours on, or just give me free time to work on my own stuff. i don't expect this to be used much if at all, but I do like the idea of giving someone a way to be like "STOP PUTTING OFF FLOWERSHOP COMIC 4EVER BC IT'S NOT MAKING MONEY U NEED, HERE'S MONEY." (starting at 80$)

I AM pondering doing a temporary 20$ super sketchy slots just to get the heckin numbers in to be verified, so if that interests you, lemme know and I'll work a bit harder to get that set up.

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ayyye AU sketch pile. a while back I brought up with my flondon friends the idea of an AU where 1. everyone's at the same university and 2. it's placed in a nebulous modern time but also still carries all the neathy weirdness.

basically excuse for people to be able to text, own motorcycles, dress in fashions not yet existing in usual aus, and zagel to be able to call clarence a nerd.

in this au, alice and zagel never hit the point of tragedy that launched nemisis, and instead are still under the thumb of the science facility they grey up in. at the start, they try their best to hide that there's two of them, but this being the first bit of socialization and freedom of the cage they'd grown up in... techniques they'd used their entire lives to survive become thorns in each other's sides as they both realize they want to experience the world and not just constantly pass it off to the other when it gets too overwhelming.

this also means some people who get close to them start to realize the oddities... including their roommate! wow it's weird sometimes alice is just a nice friend and sometimes i'm suddenly exTREMELY GAY FOR.... UHHHHH

also zagel is a furry yes. i found a way for it to exist. it was important.

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JACK EMPTY UR POCKETS RN WHAT U HAVE IN THOSE THANGS

Not everything he carries on him, but some of the important useful things!

Cigarettes are mostly a social thing for Jack - he carries them around and does smoke but not super frequently. The tin itself is slightly more useful for its little mirror (too small to enter parabola through, but he can use it to peek in there maybe)

Matches are obviously for smoking. You'd assume maybe crime but arson isn't really a thing he does spontaneously (or often) to warrant carrying them for that purpose. The matches are mostly for if other people want to smoke and Jack's flirting with them, probably

Playing cards! They look far too fancy to be carrying around with him but he likes them. You'd think they'd get robbed at some point but no, he has that luck aura

Honey, for emergency parabola entry via mirrors/reflective surfaces in various places. Good to have at least a little on hand, just in case

And a bag of assorted candies. He'll munch them himself but mostly they're used for bribing urchins (or just for when urchins want treats) (he likes treating them)

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moodboard for the royal bethlehem lounge of images with the vibes i was imagining when i wrote the fic....

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DW HES ONLY A LITTLE BIT POSSESSED. ONLY A SMIDGEON!!! Feat. @little-red-notebook's little guy, Clarence, a friend of Sam's who is slightly psychic (long story) and would immediately realise something is up, but is gonna just roll with it as long as everyone is behaving themselves.

The "king" here is a piece of the Knot of Tales, a collector (and eater...) of stories, and since single fingerkings on their own tend to struggle with speech, I kind of enjoy the idea of it just talking in story-pieces that style itself as a fairytale sort of King... normal nickname......

(more doodles and also how this happened under the cut....)

So I recently played through Dream of a Thousand Tails (I RLY ENJOYED IT), a story where you help a young rat Dreamer try to recover lost ratty myths and legends in Parabola. Long story short, the Knot of Tales at one point offers to share these lost legends in return for its freedom -- but it has to place the stories into your mind. Samuel was... a little concerned this might involve possession, but wanted to help both his new rat friend and the trapped fingerking, and accepted being the recipient on the Dreamer's behalf. AND THEN HE GOT AEONS OF RATTY LEGENDS DUMPED DIRECTLY INTO HIS MIND and was unconscious(???) and babbling incoherently about rat myths for MULTIPLE DAYS.

Now, the text doesn't say Samuel got possessed, specifically. But I did get an achievement called "A MIND OUROBOROS" and this entity is described now as "mostly dormant" and while Samuel was still reeling from being overwhelmed with more rat myths than a human mind can hold, his body was apparently moving without his input. So it makes sense to me if the Knot of Tales sent a fragment of itself to possess Samuel, to be rid of the stories that were confining it and impart them into his mind. After his interactions with the Catastrophe of Crowns, Samuel sort of thought this could be a temporary arrangement... but he has been unable to find the rest of the Knot of Tales once he woke up, and after seeing how the Catastrophe's fragment faired on its own, he doesn't actually want to kick this one out. Fingerkings really seem to prefer a communal state...

Anyway, Samuel is...... probably going to have to quit his job at the Labyrinth of Tigers LMAO, but he IS trying to make this work out for both of them. The king is usually content to listen, has (probably?) not eaten any of his memories, and is interested to travel through the Is and see what stories its new knight can unearth.

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farming sim zagel? sure.

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Fallen London is a game where I sometimes buy an item I absolutely do not need, instead of any of the items I actually do need, solely because the text is delightful to imagine for my guy

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i found some Really fun refs i had to twitch them (modesty bandage-less version and extra doodle under the cut)

also i forgot i drew him on the same canvas. he was a really good censor bar

good grief indeed

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wow i just absolutely forgot to upload this Sam I did for @shazzbaa during the winter?? hi everyone we're breaking timelines even more here welcome back to neathmas

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Hues.

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Artfight Attack 50 - The Grand Finale!!!

I wanted to go out with a bang this year, since I managed to get way more attacks done than I ever imagined. Fallen London was a big part of why I was so hyped for drawing OCs, so thought I'd celebrate by drawing OCs from the friend group that got me so hooked.

Featuring OCs from @frost-mothit @resolutehunter-fl @theunluckiestdevil @little-red-notebook @shazzbaa @coffeethathurtsyou @verdigrius-splendidus @slightly-sigilant @allthestarsdevoured @magpiemalarkey @rhosyne @lutekeeper and a friend who I believe isn't on tumblr. Thanks for making the Neath a blast (sometimes literal) to hang out in <3

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Tigers, panthers and dens of the Veilgarden

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finished this forever ago; zagel's whitsun outfit aka "i acknowledge that my normal clothing choices will quickly be destroyed when dealing with baby creatures bursting out of strange eggs"

technically, this is an altered fit from a drawing @frost-mothit did for me a while back... so he get's all the credit for it looking so good uwu

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finally finished my artfight piece!! hope everyone involved likes it :)

list of featured characters is under the cut

@waterlogged-detective Darcy and Jonathin Doe @serpentine-frondeur Nico Fontana and Mehlota @allthestarsdevoured Bertrand V. Palomo @esteemed-excellency Hiram and the Deviless Lenore Pabst (eldathyn on Artfight) @thedandy-detective The Adventuring Aesthete @staring-at-my-keyboard Atlas @viric-dreams Ockham @that-giorgione Giorgione :) @cave-n-dish Emon Cavendish @the-dye-stained-socialite Elias Leroux @thedeafprophet Jamie Awnings @capn-twitchery Twitch and Grace @blood-of-the-bazaar Ace la Rose @zeebreezin August Shaw @elleryhart Charlotte Amelia Hastings @eddie-dearest Arnaud Leaumant @dgoul Mr Jonah @oneirotecture Warden @house-of-mirrors Orsinio @the-insouciant-scientist Harper Faraday it was such a delight to draw!!! I love seeing all these characters together, their designs are all so diverse and unique

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i keep forgetting i still haven't remembered to like, talk about whitsun this year on tumblr.

last year whitsun I was too busy with school to really pay attention to any of it beyond making sure an egg was processing at all times.

this year tho i had such a delightful time hatching EVERY SPINDLEWOLF AVAILABLE and then immediately pondering Zagel actually just... somehow finding spindlewolf eggs constantly and now he's been adopted by a pack of spindlewolves he hatched (this includes the transport one too)

i already don't know how to draw animals tho so there's been a lot of me looking up maned wolves to try an understand these leggy boys

Always amused when my phone algorithm is just so convinced that I need to know every news piece about tigers, maned wolves and bats (oh my) ever published.

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having a favorite oc is so embarrassing like hey guys heres a drawing of them. here’s another one. bet you can’t guess what the next drawing is about. here they are again. hey check out this scene i wrote about them. haha drew them again. you won’t believe who i just drew