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[elitadream]

Hey, glad to see you back, dude.

I totally get where you're coming from with wanting to branch out beyond Mario when it comes to the focus of your blog. Go for it. Even though I've been in such a Mario rabbit hole for the past year, I have quite a few other special interests that I cycle back to to keep from going insane. Switching gears is one of the best things to do to prevent burnout, if you ask me.

Long story short, you're gonna do great, and it'll be fun to see you branch out, discover new things, and share what else you vibe with.

Hey there!

Yeah, change had very much become a necessity for me. 🤒 Not because I no longer enjoyed the franchise or making art of the characters, but because I was going about it the wrong way. Pushing myself to "produce content" instead of spontaneously creating just for fun, basically. It's unsettling how subtly that shift can occur over time, and in an even more troubling way, it can also be quite difficult to undo. 😣

Ultimately, the big switch for me was not so much in terms of fandom, but moreso in the way I view my work and approach things online. I can now create concepts without rush or feeling the urge to make them known, and it's a very soothing feeling. The best thing I've felt in a long time as an artist to be honest. 💫

I'm so grateful for you guys' support, biggest thanks to all of you for the kindness and enthusiasm you've shown towards me since my return. 🥹💖 I'll be very happy to discuss these new things with whoever is also interested in them. ^o^

[sulfurzee]

The River Rises

(some closeups + designs i'm kinda proud of :]!!!)

[mugiwara--ya]

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[sleepybean427]

I’M OFFICIALLY GONNA BE GOING TO SEE THE SONIC MOVIE IN A COUPLE MINUTES!!!!! WISH ME LUCK GUYS!!! 💙💙💙💙💙

[90494]

Sophie :33 LAOS YOUR ART IS SO GOOD AGJABWKWHA

[iridescentis]

"But he was the one who controlled this place, wasn't he? And now he's dead. I don't like to think what that means for us."

i thought it would be fun to combine my multiversal time loop AU with THE multiversal time loop game!!! this was so much fun to make i loved incorporating the slay the princess vibes into an edit i haven't tried a crossover style edit in a long time and im very happy with it!!

audio <3 (with audio from stp nightmare added)

[capybonara]

🥰🥰🥰

💖💖🎃

[blackjackkent]

Given that all the cultists keep talking to her in ways that make her head ache, Rakha is almost relieved to look down at the center of the Temple and see that, after so much toil and terror, she has finally found what she is looking for.

Orin stands atop a raised dais at the center of the temple platform. Stretched at her feet, unmoving, is a familiar form - Lae'zel. For a moment, Rakha thinks they are too late, that she is dead, and the beast in her head keens with triumphant glee at the thought...

But then her chest rises and falls, almost imperceptibly.

She lives.

Rakha releases a breath that it feels like she has been holding for days. She had not realized the full extent of the tension that has been holding her upright, driving her forward, until now; it feels as if the strings holding her in place have been cut, and she almost collapses to her knees with the sheer weight of relief.

But she can't. Not yet. It isn't over. And her head aches as Orin lifts her gaze and smiles that dagger's-edge smile at her.

"Shhhh... shhhhh..." the changeling croons softly to Lae'zel's unconscious body. "Your savior approaches... scuttling in without the tyrant's rock..."

Rakha comes to a halt a few feet away. Orin glares at her, snarling like a creature whose nest has been invaded. "You are a mangled blood-brain," she hisses. "Thinking Father could be refused!"

Then her head snaps back, her nostrils flaring, the mocking laughter replaced instantly with rage. "I know what you did!" she cries. "Spilled my grandfather's crimson... He was mine! He showed me the way, how to slice and slit. He guides my daggers still."

She flicks a wrist, and one of those knives is in her hand suddenly, a long and curving, wickedly sharp blade.

Slowly, tenderly, she lowers its edge to sit under Lae'zel's jaw, and her lips curl again with manic hunger. "Did it think it could protect?" she sneers. "Did it think it could save? Only the blades can offer salvation!"

Another moment, and the blade will cut and slice and bleed and it will all be over. Rakha's head aches and aches, stabbing, blinding, and she can barely breathe, so strong does the beast urge suddenly wake and roar inside her skull.

Yes. Bleed her dry, the final cut, and then we shall take your head as you took hers, sister, sister, sister, failed attempt to be what I once was, broken bleeding bleating BITCH--

Something in her so desperately wants to see that blade draw its line in Lae'zel's flesh, to see every throat in this place, friend and foe alike, bleed until there is nothing left and all eyes are empty and staring and beautiful. Something in her is a monster that wakes at the moment of crisis, and sometimes it is so strong that she feels broken and shattered beside it.

But she has learned. She has learned so much.

She has learned from Wyll's hand on her arm, his warmth and his unerring goodness that has drawn her to the light out of the great black pit where he found her. His love, offered to her when she has least felt she deserved it, and which she has tried in a halting, faltering way to give back out of every functioning bit of her heart.

She has learned from Jaheira's steady solidity, the pillar beneath a rotted and rickety platform - the woman who watched over her in the darkness and told her at the darkest moment that she was not lost.

She has learned from Minsc - roaring, raging, just as mad as she, showing her that the broken bits of her do not bar her from being something greater, that justice and violence can live in the same skull.

She has learned from Karlach's kindness. From Gale's knowledge. From Minthara's focused determination. From Astarion's inner battles and Shadowheart's final triumphs. From Halsin's wisdom. From Isobel's forgiveness and Aylin's vengeance.

And she has learned from Lae'zel, the first voice she has memory of hearing. Attack with purpose and savor your kills. She has learned that she has the strength to guide her own hand and to turn on the god that bore her when the need is just.

Her head lifts, her voice a solid, booming roar, knocking the beast backwards within her and echoing to the stone rafters above.

[INTIMIDATION] "Harm her, and I will unleash the agonies of Bhaal upon you!"

Orin's head snaps up and she giggles maniacally, the blade falling away from Lae'zel's neck as she focuses on Rakha directly. "Yes," she squeals. "Yes! Give me agony! Pluck me bone from socket. Stroke me with a jagged edge until my skin shreds wet and red."

(A/N: Big props to Maggie Robertson; this is SO creepy, lol. Eeeeeeek.)

With a sudden smooth motion, she leaps over the altar to stand in front of Rakha, her other victim for the moment forgotten. "You still don't remember, do you, blood-kin?" she purrs gleefully.

Her body shifts, twists - settles into a new form, taller, broader in the shoulders. Rakha's own body, the one she's only bothered to see in a mirror a handful of times. Clear of the lines of the worm or the scars of the road, the face she must have had before her memories were lost.

"How you screamed as my knife split your skull," Orin hisses, now in Rakha's voice, deeper, harsher. Her lips curl in the smirk that Rakha's have only held in her darkest moments. "Your brain juices sticky and sweet."

(A/N: This is kinda fun. :D We don't ever get to hear the player character VA get any big speeches, they only ever get little ambient lines moving around the world. Tempted to do a Durge!Hector run now just to hear what his voice sounds like making a speech. :D )

She draws closer, lifting a hand almost to touch Rakha's cheek - and Rakha sees that she is holding a tadpole carefully in one palm.

"A little hole... big enough for the worm," she sneers. "Your body a blood sack to feed it." Her fist clenches around the tadpole, which erupts in a sudden burst of blood.

(A/N: It is so weird to see Rakha with her eyes intact and her skin un-wormed.)

She leans forward, draws her bloody fingertips against Rakha's jaw. "The favorite of Bhaal turned meat-puppet, strung up by the sinews and plucked by my hands..."

Rakha feels frozen into immobility. She doesn't know what the others are doing behind her - waiting for a sign to strike, perhaps. For a moment she can't think about them. She can only think about the flickering images that begin to rattle through her brain as Orin slowly shifts back into her own form.

Narrator: A straggling memory rises - the day your tyranny should have engulfed this world, it was you who were the first to be enslaved.

Narrator: Orin's smile was the last thing you saw, her bright blade glinting as she chiseled into your skull. Her reckless digging left your mind shattered. She robbed you of your bloody birthright, reduced you to nothing. Nothing but pure hate, and now it burns, yearning for vengeance.

Her head aches and the tadpole writhes and the beast screams and she clenches her fists at her sides, flame flaring around her fingertips. The fury is unsettling and there is no escaping the fact that the beast wants this violence too - but this is a killing with purpose. Jaheira has said it, Wyll has said it. Lae'zel would say it if she was conscious. Orin must die. It is the only way she can face down the taint in her blood and perhaps find the strength to walk away from it.

"Husk," Orin growls. "Maggot. A Bhaalspawn, slip-sliding in filth with these pigs." Her eyes flick to Wyll and Jaheira, to Minsc, to Minthara. Her lip curls disdainfully. "You don't deserve the murder-lord's blessing."

(A/N: We have the option here to tell Orin that she's the product of incest and that Sarevok has lied to her, and she gets BIG mad about it. However... I really don't think that's top of mind for Rakha? She's far more concerned about her own issues tbh. :P )

"Forget Bhaal." Rakha's voice rasps in her throat, tight and hoarse. Focused with every ounce of concentration she can manage. "It's your Netherstone I've come for."

Rage roars across Orin's face. "It opens its lips and spews filthy lies!" she screeches. "No no NO!"

Rakha flinches as the changeling closes with her, spittle spewing from her mouth.

"None can resist Father's blessing!" The Weave is starting to ripple and churn around Orin's body, a strange dark undulation that Rakha has never seen before. It curls around her body like smoke. "He tells me, whisper-quiet. The lies must be cut from your throat!"

She spreads her arms with a maniacal smile. "Come close, my Death's Heads! But keep your blades unblooded! Bhaal demands a duel! He wants to taste my domination. An altar flowing with his own unwilling flesh. Draining, dying, drip, drip, drip--"

There's a low, familiar buzzing hiss from behind her. Sceleritas appears on the stairs, and clicks his tongue in gentle disapproval. "You should have trained harder, Master," he murmurs.

Rakha isn't sure what he means - but it doesn't take her long to find out.

The Weave writing around Orin's body suddenly rises to a fever pitch and then explodes in a burst of orange-white light. When it fades... she has become a monster.

Magical walls shoot up around the dais, cutting Rakha off from her friends. Fear shoots through her, animal terror blocking out everything else.

Orin's slayer form roars and lunges forward, intent on slitting Rakha's throat.

The battle, at long last, is joined.

[agent-gladhand]

Mini Shop Update

I'll be closing the shop for a bit on Friday 9/6 while I'm working on the next set of things! Next time I open for shop goodies should hopefully be around the end of September/mid October!

Preorders for the standees and pudding charms are in production, and the lanyard remakes should be shipping to me this week. I'll hopefully be able to send out the lanyard preorders once those arrive, sorry again for the delay!

Also still accepting responses on the general Interest Check and Sticker Club Test Run, check those out if you're interested!

Thank you all so much, see ya soon when the leaves fall and the only correct season is upon us!

[mothxart]

|| ajdhaldjakbd take this take this, Mark wants to give Willow a plushii

To cheer him up a little when he feels lonely, Will he like it¿ Lwbdlsbflsbflqbflqbd *k-boOm*

Willow loves it (｡・‧̫・｡).*＊♡

[badboysupr]

@ourdyingwords || plotted starter for eden!（ꉺ౪ꉺ）

Usually when Leo was doing something unimportant (okay, before Chiron had a chance to somehow read his mind and get mad: less important than what he could be doing), it was his own choice. Or something like that: purposefully avoiding responsibility or managing to get distracted for an entire day, give or take. In this case, he felt he had a right to be pretty peeved by the “less important” task put on his shoulders. Because he was supposed to be working on the Argo II. He was supposed to be preparing for some mighty and heroic quest or whatever.

He didn’t really have time to be cleaning the stables. But you accidentally blow up half of the Arts and Crafts Center, and for some reason you deserve a timeout.

To him, that was arts and crafts.

Overwhelming disagreement, however, led him to wielding a broom instead of a hammer, sweeping hay instead of welding metal, and soon discovering there were worse things to smell like than grease—especially in the company of a child of Aphrodite. Oh, yeah; he forgot to mention. The strange kid who must have been incorrectly claimed (right? She had to be) by the love goddess was his partner in crime today. A crime… lesser known than his own, but she had to have done something to not only be a) exiled to the stables, but b) left alone with him.

“Soooo…” They had been quiet initially. He grew tired of the rhythmic sound of brooms across the floor, like the two of them were creating a really dumb musical about sweeping. “What are you in for?” Leo paused to lean on his instrument, stoked he managed to do so without falling over. “Unless you chose to be here or something. This gig’s super hard to resist; I know.”

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

GRACIEEE HIIII HRUUU

HI FOXIE!!!

I was going to say “I’m good!!” but then I realized. that would not be exactly truthful ajsgajsgkagsjsg

As far as my actual Life goes, things have been pretty wonderful!! I got to see my irl friends recently—it’d been months since I’d last seen them 😭 it was SO NICE being able to actually talk to them in-person again!! One of them gave me a necklace that matches the one I gave him for his birthday several months ago and LET ME TELL YOU. MY HEART BURSTED. IT WAS SUCH A SWEET KIND CARING THING FOR HIM TO DO AND I’M STILL NOT OVER IT AAAAAAAAAAAAA

I’m also in the midst of Job Applications!! Which is fun but also mildly terrifying lol. Dear goodness I am so ready to Do something with my life I have been so dreadfully bored & dull these last few months. Unemployment’s reign of terror shall soon be at its end (hopefully) ✊💥💥

However, despite the Really good things, mentally I have not been feeling the best :( Especially this past week or so. My head’s been loud in all the bad ways, and it’s made life feel very overwhelming (even though I know logically that everything is alright).

Sighhh. So that’s been… life, I suppose! Good things happening around me, not-so-good things happening inside me 😅

[sleepi-toasti]

MERRRY SINSMAS!!!! Here’s a cute girrafw plushies 4 U because it remind you of a character from Madagascar

lol the helluva boss reference yes (the new episode was rlly good :3)

and omg the plushie-

YIPPEE TYSH

THE LIL BOW IS SO CUTE AAAAAAAAA

<3

(have silly reaction images below bc i downloaded a few and i didn't know which one to use so i used em all :3)

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idk im jus bein silly :3

how did you know i liked the silly little giraffes :3

[dr-demi-bee]

Yellow and goldenrod for the colours thing!

Everyone saying yellow is making me feel some type of waaaaay

Thank you friend 💙🥹

[samantha-and-her-chaotic-desires]

⭐ TEEHEE HELLO 👩🏻‍🔬

HI POOKIEEEEEEE

LOVE YA SIS MWAH /plat

[crystalskyz]

ON MY WAY TO A CONVENTION!!!! :0 :D WEARING MY VARIAN COSPLAY AND EXCITED