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Renamed the months because I couldn’t remember the month names myself, now they’re more literal.

Tideswell: the planet’s tilt makes it so the ocean rises several feet and marks the beginning of summer and the new year

Crystalswell: the geothermal currents on the surface change direction and it makes the lumen crystals that dot the ceiling of the underseas shine brighter than usual

Crystalwane: the currents shift again and the crystals dim

Mosswane: moss and mushrooms begin to wilt, this marks the autumnal season

Tidewane: tides recede and the winter begins, it’s very short and even if stuff doesn’t grow as abundantly, the temperature doesn’t shift much and it’s basically unheard of to starve through winter.

Mosswell: moss and mushrooms begin to bloom again, spring starts and people begin planting for summer in preparation of the new year

The year is divided into Swell season and Wane season and I’m using our seasons for our convenience

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Old sketch of a young Abbie, a babbie if you will, as I was thinking about the uniforms young Illithid wear at the schools where they’re raised.

Abbie was a very surly child who’s boundless curiosity and wanderlust wasn’t very welcome in the highly conformist society of Illithid.

(From my homebrew setting where Illithid have been engineered to grow from tadpoles to adults without hosts, so you get baby mindflayers)

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2025 is when I get obsessed with my stinky pirates and my underground ocean world again

They’ve had so much development and i haven’t drawn them in forever

Like these idiots? I love them, I miss them and I need to brainrot about them again

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no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can

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I’m very proud of my first attempt at long-form fiction hitting over 100k words! I’m also very proud at the tangible improvements I can see in both my prose and my dialogue. I feel like I’ve truly started finding my style and my voice.

At this point I’m writing mostly for me and the two people who comment on every chapter, but I’m very proud of the chapters I am producing.

Fanfic is for indulging and making your readers read through paragraphs of headcanons where I meticulously place buildings in the correct district of Baldur’s Gate. <3

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Quickly added a chapter banner just now.

Give it a read if you like Baldur’s Gates thieves guild being explained and headcanoned to oblivion

Oh boy new chapter!

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Magic The Gathering fandom, I drew Jin-Gitaxias, please love me

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if you make an OC that you are genuinely insane over, like you are obsessed with this freak and can't stop thinking about them, then it will rub off on other people. the virus spreads

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As we are approaching that time of the year, this is your friendly reminder/PSA from a Swedish person that the ä in Gävlebocken actually matters and that you should spell accordingly (or don't, I'm not the boss of you, but know you are Wrong)

Å, Ä and Ö are considered separate letters from A and O in Swedish. It would be like me substituting every E with an O when I spell English words, not like removing an accent from a French word. They have their own place in the alphabet!

Ä and A have different vowel qualities which affect sounds around them. Ä is "soft" and A is "hard", which means that Ä changes the pronounciation of certain sounds before it. Like G for example

Gä is pronounced similar to 'yeah' while ga is pronounced with hard/regular g and a long a like in 'garden'. Thus, Gävle and Gavle reads very differently

Same goes for Ö/O, but Å is also hard

It annoys me so much to see it and I can't be alone in this

Pro tip: The same principle applies to other Swedish words, like tumblr's beloved BLÅHAJ. Blahaj is a word with stress on the second syllable and not the first, and also happens to mean 'bullshit/nonsense'. So if you want to talk about your plushie blueshark and not a nonsense thing someone just said, I suggest spelling with an Å.

Don't feel bad if you didn't know this, most people don't. And a lot of other languages do treat letters with diacritics like special versions of the letter (we do it with e and é). I'm telling you this to clear up misconceptions

It's also resulted in the fun phenomenon of so-called "rock dots" wherein bands will put dots on letters in their name because it looks cool, which makes them sound really stupid when pronounced in Swedish. Think Motörhead and Blue öyster cult

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Oh boy new chapter!

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A demon warlock who’s otherworldly benefactor is themselves. They are constrained by their New Year’s resolutions.

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broo you can see his character arc through each of his yearly designs

he's in such a good place now

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Look at my fantasy grandpa

Ooops back on Arcane screenshot redraws because I love how they do values and color

Basically I reproduce stills from the show but alter the subject with another character to force myself to really pay attention to understanding shapes, colors and values

Here’s Fuhaudil Mihldrasi that I referenced off Silco from season 1

He sucks as a person but he’s very fun to draw

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Ooops back on Arcane screenshot redraws because I love how they do values and color

Basically I reproduce stills from the show but alter the subject with another character to force myself to really pay attention to understanding shapes, colors and values

Here’s Fuhaudil Mihldrasi that I referenced off Silco from season 1

He sucks as a person but he’s very fun to draw

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I made a bluesky

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here's a comparison year 1-4, my boy went on a journey

designing Zern's year 4 outfit as year 3 comes to a close

it is so fun you can track his character arc throughout the various uniform designs ive made for him

now he's shaved his hair, grown a beard and you can slowly see some physical changes from his demonic side begin manifest

im proud of him!

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designing Zern's year 4 outfit as year 3 comes to a close

it is so fun you can track his character arc throughout the various uniform designs ive made for him

now he's shaved his hair, grown a beard and you can slowly see some physical changes from his demonic side begin manifest

im proud of him!