#I have like 4 oni sketches

[nyaskitten]

Old, unposted art time!!! (ur gonna have to click the images to see them in full quality lol) (also this is in no way an accurate timeline of art, it's out of order lol)

[fabseg-creator]

I present you a sketch series on sheet.

Some sketches were already seen:

Akumatized Lilanette Date

Gothic Date

The sheet contains a (disordered) comic-strip called Lilanette/Cerisette AU.

The vignets (in chronological/airing order):

Only Miraculous viewers can recognize the references.

Volpina (1.26) alternate scene

Marinette is angry towards "Lila" and follows the latter until at the park. "Lila" removes her wig while she's waiting Adrien (she had discretly stolen the Miraculous book before). Marinette, who is hidden behind the tree, blushes about seeing a pixie-cut haired "Lila". The latter suddenly turns her sight at Marinette, busts her and she seems like flattered.

2. Chameleon (3.01)

"Lila" kissing Marinette at the bathroom. She can wish 'Good Luck !' to her not-stupid rival.

3. Oni-Chan (3.08)

The Marinette's fall from the tower of trash cans. But Lila saves her by catching up her at the right moment. The Ravenette is offended about the super liar's rescue action.

-I could let you fall to the trashes but that would be too easy.

-Let me down, Lila.

After the battle against Oni-Chan, Lila thanks Ladybug for saving her by kissing her on the cheek (in front of a grumpy Cat Noir). She even sends a message on live on social media making spectators believe Lila and Ladybug are in date. But Chloé/Queen Bee sees the message on her golden laptop and becomes jealous of the Ladybug's "girlfriend". An akuma is coming to Chloé at the same time.

4. Ladybug (3.24)

Marinette finds an anonymous love letter in her locker. It contains a necklace (similar to Lila's necklace). This necklace is in fact a silver piece that forms a heart alongside with the Lila's necklace. The latter comes to Marinette for confess to her she is the "secret admirer". Alya, who keeps attention to the two girls, is so joyful (they are adorable !).

5. Illusion (5.05)

The moment at the school cafeteria when Marinette denies the table access to Lila makes me fun.

When the moment when the Resistance against Monarch is formed. Marinette and Lila shake hands. Lila elegantly kisses the former's hand (the same hand).

6. Perfection (5.12)

Caline Bustier's meditation sequence. The two girls face each other. Lila seems cheerful towards Marinette who is a bit of grumpy.

Tonight, at her deaf mother's home, Lila's cuts off Marinette's photos (taken when she stalked the latter). In reality, she assembles a Marinette's decorative picture.

I tried to add devil graffiti on Kagami's picture, cut off Kagami's picture too but I have chosen a better idea.

7. Revelation (5.20) (as bonus)

Lila (akumatized into Hoaxer) kidnaps Marinette, holds her as hostage and kisses her on the cheek.

The full story here

Bonus:

Irisnette (Iris + Marinette)

Iris Verdi sketch (unused design based on a leak about Cerise's disguise for the season 5)

Cerisette posts here

[moxielynx]

Sorry if you have already said so. But what exactly is the elemental power or elemental essence?? Of dark

How powerful is it?

How powerful is Ryan compared to the other Ninja?

How powerful is the Elemental Power of dark in general

How powerful is Ryan compared to Lloyd Garmadon and Wu?

i am so joyous that someone is asking about ryan garmadon tysm

to answer your questions i wanna state that ryan is supposed to be the polar opposite of lloyd, in terms of powers and abilities. Lloyd is light, Ryan is darkness. They're both equal in terms of powers, so Ryan is stronger than the other ninja, but not Lloyd.

Unlike Lloyd though, Ryan embraces his oni form, so he's much more willing to use it to get out of situations where just his powers arent enough.

How ive imagined his powers working is they're much stronger in dark places/at night (while lloyd is the opposite). He can control a void-like substance that can basically make him extend his limbs or even make new ones (like give himself four arms without having to become an oni). The closest thing to showing off ghosts powers is in a joke video where he just straight up grab's jay

but i think it would be better if i made some (very lazy) sketches explaining his powers

this might make ryan seem pretty unbalanced between him and the other ninja, and even lloyd, but in my au with ryan in it i like to imagine lloyd can still control the other 4 main elements (yes i know the only reason he could before was cause he was the ultimate spinjitzu master/the golden master but im unfortunately a nostalgic fan so i like holding onto stuff from older seasons <//3), they're just much weaker than his own element. for example he can control fire pretty decently but never nearly as good as kai. so it basically balances out if lloyd and ryan ever got into an actual fight: ryan's got his funky void powers and lloyd's got (albeit weaker) 4 other elements at his disposal.

ryan could also merge into the darkness and appear in a different place, but the same goes for lloyd with light (shine a light in two different areas of a room and lloyd will just disappear from one spot to another)

if it wasnt obvious im trying to make ryan and lloyd actually look like the descendants of what is essentially god lmao

ryan in terms of power is more powerful than wu, but wu could still beat him in a fight just cause he's got more experience than it, same with garmadon. the real deciding factor is "will ryan use his oni powers?"

in my au lloyd does decide to use his oni form more, but they much prefer not to. Not opposed, but would use it as a last resort, if anything.

in general? the element of darkness is as strong as the element of energy, ryan and lloyd are as yin and yang as it gets lol

ryan's pretty much inherited all of his powers from garmadon, so anything garmadon can do ryan can do as well, and this goes with the oni thing. ryan uses his oni powers often not to make things easier, but to make sure he has complete control and isnt gonna go on an evil rampage, despite knowing that simply being an oni doesn't automatically make you evil (garmadon trauma 🔥🔥🔥)

while ryan's powers are really strong, he could definitely still be beaten by one of the ninja since they all basically have matching skills, but they are basically really lucky ryan's on their side and not on the evil side.

if something i explained looks weird then feel free to send another ask about it, i probably just didnt explain it right or it can be explained with just "its part of my au lawl", ty again for asking about ryan!

oh yeah also ryan can still summon a dragon because i think its fucking stupid that the ninja get that power taken away from them cause its "too op." THAT IS SO DUMB!!!! LET THOSE DUMB NINJA SUMMON SILLY LITTLE DRAGONS!!!!!!

[jinxed-ninjago]

explaining why i chose to make an animation for lloyd and harumi based on choice by jack stauber because it's my blog and i do whatever the fuck i want

first of all go read the lyrics if you haven't already, the song is 40 seconds it won't take you that long to read the lyrics

also go watch the storyboard/sketch i did for the animation im doing. this is half self promo and half for context lol

basically, i thought the song worked for these two. i was like "if i do this right, i can make the lyrics show the contrast between how lloyd and harumi are as characters and i think that's a really cool thing" so thats what i did. of course, i wouldn't be making this post if i didn't want to go more in depth so i'm gonna explain some frames from the sketch/storyboard.

(also, just as a note, the specifics of what parts of the show the frames are based on will be more clear when the animation is done, but i will be specifying them here)

first 4 frames:

these four are meant to drive home the contrast between lloyd and harumi; that being when it comes to harumi, lloyd, even up to crystalized, has feelings for her (the art for love is based on when he first saw harumi in season 8, the art for heart is based on when harumi betrayed him in the same season) and when it comes to lloyd, especially in season 8 after she's revealed to be the quiet one, harumi is very vengeance driven (the art for brain is loosely based on the whole thing in the oni temple in season 8, and the art for control is just something i came up with lol. the art for control is meant to give a sense of harumi not being entirely in her right mind and being driven more by vengeance than anything else, and not someone you'd be smart to trust either).

for the caffeinate and melatonin frames, i also tried to show contrast between lloyd and harumi. throughout the series, wu is shown to use tea to sort of relax in a similar way some might use coffee to. additionally, certain varieties of tea in ninjago have relaxing properties, so i sort of view it as "tea has a significant role in the life not just of lloyd, but also in the lives of everyone who visits the monastery" for a multitude of reasons. on the other hand, harumi resorts to murder to resolve her problems (murdering her parents and hutchins, attempting to murder lloyd, etc). hence, melatonin with blood splatters. melatonin is a sleep hormone and also has an effect on mood, so i thought "melatonin with blood splatters for harumi" lol

for this one i wanted to show a combination of harumi's manipulative tendancies and her genuine affection for lloyd as of crystalized (as it's implied that she has some genuine feelings for him; when ordered to kill lloyd, she tries to sway him to the overlord's side instead, something the overlord responds with "i see now that you still have feelings for him" to. she protects him and garmadon instead of fighting with the guy she sold her soul to. basically crystalized implies her feelings for lloyd were genuine but she was using them for manipulative purposes which is what this frame's art is meant to show). i thought "you get me going" worked for harumi's attitude towards lloyd prior to dragon form; that is, her goal from the minute her biological parents die to the minute the overlord reveals everything was by his design was to get revenge on lloyd and the other ninja.

tl;dr, this frame is meant to show the complexities of harumi as a character. did i succeed? we will not know until i finish the animation probably.

these two frames are just meant to be indicative of harumi's betrayal and the wake up call it was for lloyd so to speak. that's literally it, i thought it worked lol.

again, meant to be indicative of harumi's betrayal. the art for this one is based on when lloyd and harumi were feeding the poor in season 8, as i feel like that's when lloyd really got to meet harumi and get to know her. obviously at that point she wasn't showing her true colors, which is what the second frame is meant to be showing.

harumi's betrayal we're moving on lol

these two frames are based on the scene in crystalized where lloyd is trying to talk harumi out of hurting innocent people and essentially telling her she doesn't have to be how she is and they get into a back and forth about it. i feel like this part of the song ("i am injury" "no you aren't, you make the choice to be") is what had me in a chokehold when it came to wanting to make an animation featuring these two lmao.

and the final frame. this one is meant to be harumi coming to terms with everything she's done and basically realizing that she's been taking her anger and trauma out on the wrong people her entire life. it's one of the most powerful scenes in the show to me, and due to the nature of this animation i wanted to make it the last frame.

so yeah, there's my explanation of

why i decided to make a choice animation for lloyd and harumi

why i think choice works for these two in the first place

[theoreticallysweet]

nobody cares but BLEH

🍄 - we were thinking about how we have a collective marine biology spintrest and were like "hmm we need an innerworld area for our marine alters..but also a place for our non marine alters ..how about an island? also peter pan

👾 - we have a lil note pin board in our room for alters to leave notes for each other and one was "NO DUMPSTER DIVING WHILE IN FRONT" with a little printout of the principal from baldis basics

🎉 we all love Christmas since we usually just use it to treat the whole system, like maybe some weights for our athletic alters , books for our readers, posters of interests for some of our other alters just treating everyone yk?

🌙 we have 4 sorted stuff based off different alters like ways we sort them and 1 true subsystem. Lost Isle Collective, the main system. Solar Syndicate, technically a part of our main system but sorted all alters result of our space hyperfixation in a separate thing. Crystal Association, our gem/crystal based alters and the deep sea collective , we have 2 currently forming alters and a few fragments in there but it's not really a whole part yk?? work in progress.

☕ sort of like falling asleep? all of a sudden time has passed and things have changed with no memory in between without even realizing

💫 we all love alternative fashion and harajuku fashion subcultures, and the majority have an interest in psychology, crystals, outer space and mainly marine biology!

💾 around 70 fully formed alters, 40 fragments/partially formed alters so around 110?

👻 yes , every person has a different way of speaking/vocal mannerisms and ours is no different!

🎨 a few yes, two oil painters three digital artists and 1 who just sketches

🥀 easily, we have a lot of fragments and dormant alters we are trying to fuse or help form into real alters yk?

🦖 a few fictives but mostly brainmade!

🎵 we have multiple playlists made by different alters to casually listen to and a few songitives...i know Carmillas favorite is "Secret of the Goldfish - Masa Works Design" and Claudes is "Seven Minutes in Heaven - MSI"

❓a lot ....😥

🎮 all have a lot of different hobbies but mostly some kind of sport, painting, youtube or video games

🪐 like a dream, vivid and you can't remember much after you return to front.

🍐 MANY, we have a dragon phoenix aarakocra 2 cats a goldfish a pufferfish a badger 3 dogs a racoon a praying mantis and MANY half humans (a part oni, part kraken, part swordfish, many mermaids, part jellyfish, a deer human, probably more im forgetting about)

🔋mostly mediation, sleeping, or mindlessly scrolling

🌧️ a lot of people just kinda force switch out into someone who can handle it but usually access why we are stressed and either handle what's making us stressed or take a break/step back

🔦 we kinda overtime due to symptoms, discovered it in 2020 when activism regarding the disorder was popular. ended up officially identifying as a system is 2022

🌟 some do since they find it fun actually!! most don't...

🌊 pisces, charon, neo, carmilla, and quartz. kepler is fronting rn!

🎁as stated in the holiday one, yes.

☘️we usually only get one or two alters from games shows movies ect, our fictives come from more real world things like, we have an alter that's the embodiment of air and another who's literally the planet mars.

Ask a system!

Alright, we've been silenced as a system for wayy too long and so, you know what? I'm pushing us out of it. Because we deserve to be ourselves. Send one of these emojis in our asks and we'll answer! -Asher 🍄 - how did you get your system name?

👾 - funniest out of context system quote?

🎉 - favorite system holiday?

🌙 - do you have subsystems?

☕ - what is switching like for you?

💫 - are there any hobbies you all have?

💾 - what's your headcount?

👻 - do your alters/headmates have different voices or speech patterns?

🎨 - does anyone in your system like art?

🥀 - how easily does the system split?

🦖 - is your system fictive-heavy? factive-heavy? neutral?

🎵 - what songs remind you of your alters/headmates?

❓ - how much amnesia do you experience?

🎮 - what do your alters/headmates do in their free time?

🪐 - what is headspace like for you?

🍐 - are there any non-human alters/headmates?

🪫 - what do you all do to recharge?

🌧️ - how does the system cope with stress?

🔦 - how did you discover your system?

🌟 - do any alters help out with school/work?

🌊 - who are your frequent fronters?

🎁 - have you ever bought your alters/headmates things?

☘️ - what are your introjects/fictives usually sourced from?

💬 - free space!! tell me about something!

[maxisdezign]

2. Curves - Homework

Plan: I moved away from a Gingerbread man and decided to create a butterfly. This butterfly is not ony homework, but also for a friend who likes butterflies. I searched google and pinterest for reference butterfly bodies and wings, the picture above I liked the wing desig in particular, and I wanted to base my design off of it. I roughly sketched out the reference drawing, and make notes of how i'd create the butterfly. 1.) Make base wing / body shape. 2.) make the wing segment designs. 3.) Add the gradients. 4.) Add details (Optional).

Main Shape: I created the main shape with the use of curved points, and broken points. And I created the body with the use of two rectangles, which I modified and a cylinder. I decided to seperate my butterfly into the sections, left wing, right wing and body so it was easier to work on piece at a time.

Details: I first worked on the left wing, and make each section at a time. I used the pathfinder tool to make each made section of the wing fit to the main wing shape perfectly. I then used the gradient tool to put a gradient into each wing section. I adjusted the gradient differently in each wing section for more detail. Each wing section has a different angle in the gradient and the grey to blue ratio is slightly different in each part of the wing sections too.

Completion: I continued the wing section process through both halves of the wings. On the outer half I did a blue to purple gradient for more colour. I also make the body of the butterfly dark grey (same grey from the wings) so that the wings fade into the body. I made the colour a dark grey and not a black because the stroke outline of everything is black, and the outline would fade away if I made the wing/body colouring black too. I have also added antenna by the use of the curved point pen, and cylinder shape.

Reflection: Overall I am quite proud of my butterfly, and my friend who I made the butterfly for loves it too. If I had to change one thing it would be to successfully darken the 2nd wing, so it appears like a shadow. The reason I didn't do this in my outcome was because my wing element would not act as one element. I need to ask Toby (or research) how to group something together so that it acts as one element. I believe I also tried merging the layers together, and I still had the same problem. SO because I couldn't make the butterfly wing be one solid element, i couldn't efficiently do the shadow technique. I also tried getting just an outline of the wings, but I accidentally lost half my outline + for some reason it would not let me fill the outline. Excluding the shadowing issues, I enjoyed this project and am proud of how it turned out considering I didn't know how to use illustrator a week ago.

[plinchy]

Some full body sketches to get out of my comfort zone and practicepracticepractice

DND Character design notes below

I've always envisioned Noel being a lightning based caster. I had an image of a thunder/lightning oni when thinking about her, hence the oni horns and oni mask. Lol imagine my surprise when 1 player brings in lightning from ff and says her name is thunder. They weren't friends when we first played these characters, and that game eventually went on forever hiatus before we could finish the module (LMoP). Now we're playing shattered obelisk with a new DM and we decided Noel and Thunder have known/traveled together for a year. Idk if they remember but in our previous game we got to level 4 and I casted shatter and thunder wave, but I'm not sure if thunders player has realized my intention with Noels affinity with lightning/thunder magic

I was looking through the bard and warlock spell list again and was thinking about how Noel would look like casting her spells.

Definitely want her iris to change and be filled with like electric static. Like when she concentrates or casts a spell, her eye will get more vibrant and her iris gets more 'fiendish'.

I think for spells that do damage, it could start to form a static circle around her. Like wind but it's like arcane electricity forming around her and collecting into her hand or arcane focus. Definitely want her somatic component to be the 🤘 symbol. For her horns and for rocking out. Noel plays the flute but she's picked up the lute after her father died. I don't doubt a modern au version of Noel would be in a metal band.

I like to think her spells that make a lot of noise (which would be MOST of them) like thunder wave and shatter, would make the same noise as an electric amplifier when you turn it on and there's nothing plugged in, and then you plug something in and the feedback is loud af.

I did think about taking elemental adept feat at level 4 for this run.. but meta magic just seems so good since I can quicken a spell as a bonus and attack with my main hand after. (At lvl 6 I can extra attack WOOOO). I think I also want warcaster so I can eventually pick up a shield, and advantage on con saves from warcaster means I wouldn't need to take Eldritch mind as an invocation. Lots of options and I have a lot of time ... So we'll see. I'm also running two 9s on her character sheet soooooooo.... Maybe I need the ASI, maybe I don't.

I don't remember my stats but from highest to lowest its

CHA, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, STR

with wisdom and strength both being a 9.

My con is at an odd number so if I do take the ASI, Id bump my con and str. I love my dumb bard, even if she is book smart. Plus she has to gain some muscle from sparring and adventuring. C'mon.

[star-light-shadows]

My Ninjago AU - Garmadon

Continuing off of my last post, here are some more sketches for my Ninjago AU, This time focusing on the role Garmadon plays in the story.

Garmadon’s role in the story basically goes through two phases. One based on the original pilots, and one based on his role in Legacy of the Green Ninja.

The end game for the entire story is The Overlord, a force of pure evil and hate created at the beginning of time that poisoned Garmadon as a young child, twisting him into a totem of darkness that he could eventually possess. (The Overlord will be combined with the Great Devourer and the Oni, but that’s for it’s own reference sheet.)

Garmadon becomes an actively relevant player say half-way through the series, but he’s build up since nearly the very beginning. With his first explicit mention actually suggesting that the people of Ninjago know him only as a boogie man.

Half way through the story, a major arc starts that essentially retells the plot of the original pilots. Establishing Garmadon as trapped in the Underworld and him scheming to unite the 4 Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu to escape.

(Some time earlier in the story, The Hands of Time have a mini-arc where they are a threat, cause I like them. The remnants of the Time Twins’ “Iron Doom” is salvaged by Garmadon’s cronies and used by Garmadon to create the portal out of the Underworld. Just thought it would be interesting to give an explanation to that.)

(This speech was peak writing so I am set on including it in the AU.)

It’s also worth nothing how the Realms are going to be handled in this story.

The original story had way too many realms that were relevant to one season or one small part of a season and then never brought up again, so I’m either removing or combining them all until there are 4 main realms that encompass all of existence in this canon. Ninjago, The First Realm, The Under World, and the Afterlife.

[maurofonseca]

SURGE THE TENREC CONCEPT ART AND DESIGNING THREAD

Ok I’ve promised to make this for weeks now, so here. 

Here’s the twitter thread that’s got all the images in case I end up not posting any of them here.

Click through to read my thoughts and inspirations on designing Surge, with stuff like “why did she have a kanabou” or “why did she beat Sonic in that one sheet”!

1. Ian’s description of her that I got to see.

2. Evan told me she had to design these characters and I started doodling them too for fun, just bouncing ideas off of her. You can see in some weird way, the final Surge is already here- the concept of the ponytail, the delinquent look, the baggy pants, very inspired by characters like Leona Heidern and early 2000s urban fashion. Kit meanwhile, we didn’t really have a handle on yet. I did the one on the top left not taking his personality into account, just focusing on doing a Y2K-esque design; on the bottom right, I did one where he’s inside a robot suit that Surge can then use as a water vehicle, which was just a random idea I had. These weren’t done for Ian or Editorial yet, just me and Evan having fun.

3. At this point I was officially asked to contribute, rather than just doing my sketches “under the table” as part of discussions with Evan. There wasn't yet a plan that I'd do Surge and Evan'd do Kit, it's just Surge popped in my head with so many cool concepts I kept drawing for fun.

Outfits and hairdos based on Hana no Asuka-Gumi, jacket taken from Kaneda from Akira, nose being blue was inspired by Fang. The start of "maybe we can use Sango Morimoto's Amy as inspiration", a bob cut inspired by DBZ's Android 18 as was the eye shape and eyelashes. The yellow and black colours had been decided on by Ian, IIRC (I didn’t show the entire description since it has spoilers), but I leaned hard on them since they gave me Oni imagery, especially stuff like Lum from Urusei Yatsura. Since stereotypes of Sukeban often involved long skirts, I played with giving her one of those too; and I liked the idea of her having an emblem in her jacket, where I tried a variation on the classic Sonic Emblem and also a simple emblem from a stereotypical Raijin drums set.

4. Evan at one point sketched an idea of a more “traditional” “tenrec-y” spiked hairdo, and that’s the one I drew on the top left then. I really liked the Sango Morimoto Amy and Android 18 hairdos too, and I gave her spiky sideburns on that one hairdo to give her a 70s anime protagonist feel like Kouji Kabuto or Cutie Honey; this was an idea I’d had before for a new design for Amy on the fancomic Sonic the Comic-Online, and as later pointed out to me, it’s just a design element I like and thus keep reusing over and over. We were going all in on the more Akira-like delinquent look with the baggy jacket etc; her shoes are ripped in the back thanks to something I read a long time ago (and which I can’t find nowadays so maybe it was wrong?) that Sukeban Japanese Delinquent girls would mash in the back of their shoes to wear them as slippers. She also got a Kanabou to use, inspired by Raijin and Oni depictions and probably also specifically from One Piece’s Yamato.

Meanwhile over on Kit, I was pushing “emo haircut” to the comical extreme and just covering his eyes entirely, just like an old sprite character I had a decade or more ago. I was also getting reminded of the King of Sorrows from Klonoa 2, which ended up being a double-edged sword; it gave the right inspiration to push his design through, but then I was finding myself unable to do anything but draw him like that. So this is sort of when we ended up deciding Evan’d take point finishing him and I’d finish Surge, since she wouldn’t have such a strong connection to Klonoa 2, etc. As for the tail, Ian’s pitch specified him having a machine to make water “tails” out from, but we kept experimenting with it being a ring in the tail so as to make the “tails” come from the real tail, but in the end we moved it to a backpack.

The sprites are just a test on how the designs were coming along. The Sonic and Tails are fan sprites from a project revamping old Modern Genesis sprites into a new standard. I’m a proponent of spriting designs in as part of the design process- it helps clean out unneeded detail and see how the colour areas are coming along together. After all, decisions like Sonic’s peach arms existed exactly due to sprites, right?

5. Offering some alternatives on hairdos. Evan’s take, Evan’s take simplified, the Sango Morimoto-based one, one based on StC Amy, the Android 18, and Evan’s again, and all of these with and without black marks. Ian’s preference was towards Evan’s, since they were spiky and worked better in his concept as “an imposter of Sonic”, who also has spiky hair; but he was open to seeing what everyone agreed on.

I made a mention of not using the black marks because I think marks are overused in Sonic design, when you look at the core cast and see they don’t have them. That said I ended up liking the idea of just making one strong black spot to really underline the homage to the Ashura fandom character and also to make her entire face a bit more unreadable. The eyelids are also black, merging with her mark.

As I mention, the Kanabou was designed to resemble a baseball bat while looking sillier, since I didn’t think a realistic weapon would be fitting.

6. The Kanabou was dropped, since it pushed her into looking too much like Amy, and also brought up a lot of logistics questions- why and how does she have it? Does she carry it around? Do we have to constantly show her with it? Etc.

With that said, the basic idea of her using charging metal to attack with, giving her electricity an offensive element rather than just being a visual element of her running, did stick. It was suggested to give her knuckledusters, but like with the baseball bat, I felt it was too realistic and off-key for the setting; trying to think of a more cartoony take on the idea I remembered comic book hero The Phantom, who has a ring on each hand he uses to punch people with. First I tried giving her just the one ring like the Phantom, but when later I wanted to draw her doing an arc of electricity with her hand, the idea came to give her rings in the index and pinkie instead, and it stuck.

You can see I’d finally been sold on the black facemark and also this specific outfit. The concept was to give her thick arms and thin legs, a silhouette that we didn’t have yet in Sonic as far as I recalled. The shoes were inspired by Classic Amy’s, just with the Sukeban back-ripping bit, and metal covers for the electric fighting; and otherwise the outfit was also inspired by Yuji Uekawa’s famous “Gamer of the future” artwork that depicts a kid with a very Sonic-like attire and hairdo.

7. With that said I didn’t want to restrict choices so I tried to come up with other outfits. I really don’t like this image, lol. The outfits are uninspired, and I still wasn’t sure how to draw her muzzle, so it just looks weird and long here. I also did a variation where the yellow got replaced with dark green as a test, but it wasn’t liked.

8. In the end we were generally agreeing on the jacket and think pants, so I instead practiced some variations on the jacket, some based on Evan’s concepts or editorial requests. Also, because editorial thought the idea of a speedster running with slipper-like shoes felt awkward, a bit of white canvas was added to cover the back of her feet.

9. At this point we were almost in a victory lap so to speak- the designed seemed finalised, beyond the fact we still couldn’t decide between giving her a ponytail or spiked hair. I made a page with various suggestions on the spiked hair that were more to my taste, primarily based on old school anime hairdos like Cutie Honey’s or Vegeta’s; You can see on the twitter thread and Evan’s pages that we were playing with Surge not having the black mark, in case it felt too drastic, and giving her a dark green one instead.

10. BUT THEN! Evan asked if I was ok with her doing some more clothing suggestions, which of course I was; and she did these, inspired by Kingdom Hearts’ Sora. I fell in love- she’d managed to get the silhouette right, back with the baggy legs I wanted in the start! I quickly changed everything to fit this new silhouette and everyone agreed to go with it.

11. Oh boy, these sketches.

First off, a design was picked from the short spiked hair options- seems to be H3, IIRC. We were also still unsure on whether to do black or green marks, so I did both for both designs- you can check the twitter thread for more.

So. Why did I draw her beating the crap out of Sonic? Well, I can tell you first off, not because anyone asked me. See, here’s the train of thought to me:

a. I wanted her to have a very brutal fighting style, but my job was just designing her, doing a turnaround. So I wanted to explore some of her fighting moves in a quick poses sheet for other artists to get what I was imagining in terms of her style and body language.

b. I wanted her design to fit next to Sonic, so I was always comparing her next to Sonic, Tails, etc, but also wanted to make some sketches of her interacting with them just to see if they seemed cohesive and like they were in the same world.

c. I was curious if these fighting movements I had in mind could work with the proportions of a Sonic character, and for that matter, if someone being in the receiving end of said moves could also be drawn with those proportions. After all, near every character in the book has these proportions- what’d be the point of making sure she can be drawn kicking if I can’t make sure it’s also easy to draw someone being kicked?

Putting it all together, it made sense to me to just kill three birds with one stone- test the fighting poses and the hurt poses using Surge and Sonic, which’d also make them interacting and serve as a rough guide to whether they looked cohesive.

This was all still very new to me, the process of designing Kip was very different. I was under the impression Sega was being shown every one of these sketches, and I wanted to see their reaction to this- if they said immediately “no, too violent, and especially not her doing this to Sonic”, we’d immediately know the limits we could take her to. As it happens these weren’t being sent to Sega yet though, as far as I know, and the ones that DID get sent, I edited Sonic out, and there was no objection from them regarding any poses; I expect it’ll be a context thing instead, where it’ll be in each story that they object or not to what she does. 

That’s it. Seriously, there’s no other meaning to this. I’ve seen people say this was an attempt to make her badass by specifically beating Sonic, or that Sonic deserves it, or that she’s beating him while he’s unconscious and on the floor, and just... please, no. There really is no meaning here beyond “a character interacting with a design”. I’ve seen people suggest I should’ve used Egg Pawns instead, but Egg Pawns don’t have the default proportions of a rando character; and just, yeah, dunno people, have some good faith please. I like Sonic, I don’t want to go “hahaha character I designed better than lame old Sonic” lol.

Alright, moving on.

12. And so we reach the point where we actually finally sent stuff to Sega. I did a turnaround and polished the poses a bit, for both the ponytail and spiky hair versions, and we finally dropped the green marks rather than black. You see, we’d reached the end of the line of all we could design before sending it to Sega for feedback, and still hadn’t decided between ponytail or spikes, so I just did both and we left it for Sega to choose.

You can check the twitter thread for the concept A poses or B turnaround, but also both of them are unfinished designs so don’t use them as reference.

Anyway yeah, you can also see clearly that I edited Sonic away in the references- I was satisfied Surge was already fitting enough with Sonic design-wise and that the last few steps would be down to Sega’s feedback, so there was no need for distractions by having Sonic in the model sheet that’d later be made public (I was, of course, too naïve and didn’t think they’d use the earlier one, that I intended to be seen only by us and later in a post like this where I could explain the context, in marketing, but of course they did- it was guaranteed to generate buzz lol).

After this, Sega picked the ponytail option obviously, and it was just a matter of some back and forth to finish details. They felt the turtleneck didn’t match her attitude, but without it her torso just felt like it was black rather than a shirt, so I added the ripped shoulders based on Anton Veruca from the old manga; I’d given her a long split tail so we could draw electricity arcing between the two bits, but Sega pointed Tenrecs don’t have tails or have short ones, so it got reduced. Sega felt the shoes needed some black detailing to match the hands, so I just used literally the suggestion doodle they sent; including reducing the shoe’s... tongue, that’s how it’s called, right? So we could easily see her ankle. Finally Sega wanted more detail in the pants, so we ended up with the Bruce Lee-esque stripe; and after way too long, I finally realised I could just use the same yellow that Evan was using for Kit rather than using the same yellow as Tails, hence the final change to giving her a more fluorescent yellow. Sega also asked us to design something else regarding her but shhhhh that’s the bit I hid in the final sheet I posted publicly ;)

Hope this was a fun read for people! Feel free to ask follow up questions, if I can I’ll answer.

[changeling-rin]

Each Link (let's include Codex, Wraith, and so on) gets to run this blog for one day each. How do they answer questions and how do they run it in general? (Servo, suggesting a stronger password than 'hiyaaa!')

Gen: short, sweet, and to the point, he'll answer the question as asked and nothing more. posts occasionally about first-aid and CPR procedural changes

Speck: forgets that the ask box is a thing, floods the feed with pictures of every single dog he meets/pets

the Four: still haven't figured out how not to post the same thing four times. in a constant legal battle to prove they're not a spambot

Ocarina: tries his best to answer questions, sometimes has to ask for help. paranoid about posting things outside the blog theme

Mask: only answers what he feels like answering, and his answers may or may not be relevant to the question. Sometimes spams memes

Dusk: answers everything, sometimes with a bit too much detail. he tries to cover every possible answer the asker might have wanted. almost never posts anything else - except for entirely random pictures of cats

RGBV: takes turns, badly. green answers the questions he feels confident about but does nothing else. red spams pictures of cute animals, only cute animals. blue answers... some questions, but only the ones he likes, and even then he only answers in fighting metaphors. vio answers everything as concisely and as factually as he can manage (and unintentionally, dryly). the blog has never had less of a coherent theme

Lore: answers everything, but... not sensibly. if it's not in another language entirely, then it's got absolutely nothing to do with the actual question

Realm: he starts off trying to answer the question, but then he loses his train of thought. spends the rest of the post trying to find it again. only succeeds about 25% of the time, usually ends on a wild tangent.

Sketch: answers some questions because he's supposed to at least try, but is much more interested in sharing project ideas. posts a combination of ideas-to-try and things-he-just-made

Wind: mostly responsible, answers questions to the best of his ability but will go get someone to help if he's having trouble. occasionally posts about boats or marine life. can and will identify every fish in a given scene, also has strong opinions about proper aquarium upkeep

Steam: started off answering questions, slowly devolved more and more into pictures of trains. occasionally intersperses with the 'I Like Trains' meme, song, or animated compilation, depending on his mood. he's fully aware of the joke and he's fully embracing it

Shadow: uploads once a year on April Fools, inevitably leading to the reader being Rickrolled. accidentally becomes Tumblr-famous after a particularly complicated rickroll prank ends up on the world-heritage-post blog

Oni: has no idea what he's doing. answers questions with yes or no. has made exactly one personal post about makeup, of all things

Rune: will post about once a month, releasing a mass collective of answered asks, then disappears. never responds to being pinged. might be a cryptid

Lux: 'politely' insults anyone he feels has asked a stupid question. only answers asks when he feels like it. has gotten in trouble with a staff mod more than once for inappropriate language

RSE: collectively answers questions, all chipping in their two-cents. sometimes start arguing in the posts themselves. screenshots of their arguing dialogue gets circulated on Pinterest occasionally

Lyric: sets up a queue, maintains it religiously. he's somehow set it up to release in perfect 4:4 time relative to his time-zone. will answer everything he can, but occasionally forgets that not everyone understands dancing metaphors

Codex: answers questions sometimes. posts rants sometimes. posts random historical snippets sometimes. there's no upload schedule here whatsoever.

Wraith: tries to answer questions! it helps that he can ask so many other people for advice. consequently he has absolutely no common theme, writing style, recognizable language tic, or even spelling consistency. made the mistake of uploading a video of him talking to his ghosts, and is now afraid of his inbox. people keep asking him to hold seances and they get upset when he tries to tell them that he doesn't know what that is

[kittytheartist]

a Yorishiro is something that's important or significant to a school mystery

but to be more specific, it's a memory, not an item

for example:

The Misaki stairs | Yako ; a memory of Misaki, the memory of being included and being loved form being given something no one else was. and her boundary is based off where she stays and meets Misaki, she treasures the way he'd scold her. she cares more for the memories, not the specific item.

The hell of Mirrors | Mitsuba/previous ; Mitsuba is speculated to have a mirror for a Yorishiro, which is where he sees memories. such as something like real!Mitsuba joining the photography club. and the previous no.3 seems like his Yorishiro was the mirrors/domain itself, which contains memories and he seems like he sees himself highly. so it's more like a memory then a item.

Shijima-San of the art room | Shijima ; her Yorishiro is a sketch book, but most importantly when Mei-San wished for a better self. and Shijima kept the memory of Mei-San instead of the actual sketch book, now she is shown to apsolutely despise drawing, and most likely the sketch book, but I get it's significant but it's not as important as the memory.

The 4-PM bookstacks | Tsuchigomori ; he's the most obvious honestly, he clearly doesn't entirely care for the lunar rock but keeps it because Amane asked him and he said yes, he doesn't necessarily care for the item, but cares about the significance of the fate change of Yugi Amane, in short, it's the only memory he gives a fuck about. the only thing he keeps track of.

The grim reaper of death | Hakubo ; as much as he treasures Sumire, in a sick Oni way. he doesn't treasure anything more then the memories they shared together and what he wished he did. which is most likely why is deepest part of his boundary is also because it's the most important place of memory, as much as he "cared" for his make shift family it wasn't as much as Sumire. and they even went memory browsing in chapter 93. he doesn't necessarily care about Sumire as an object or her looks. her memory

Hanako-San of the bathroom | Hanako-Kun ; his Yorishiro is Tsukasa, not specifically mentioned but it's most likely. and his most significant memory would be when he killed him or when they were children and he was cured. and who did he want to do things with his entire life? despite wanting to go to space, which would be leaving, but he wanted to bring Tsukasa a star, his most precious memory is of his brother. they're insanely close(they are twins after all lol) and why would Hanako-Kun care about an item? he gave away his "most valuable" thing but clearly cares about Tsukasa more. and the Yugi brothers seem to focus on memories. like mentions of murder and how valued their childhood was.

also why Nene sees a memory as the true innermost Yorishiro.

anyways I guess this would be put under a weird explanation? a rant? idk but I find the seven mysteries so interesting!

[wtpthedemon]

So I messed around a bit and had some fun.

Now I have an idea and kinda wanna doodle and draw more of these dorks. Basically I made my version of the agents, it's just captain 3 and agent 3 in this post XD

Basically the 4 agents are friends in this and I'm gonna have some fun with them interacting in doodles and drawings probably.

Anyway here are captain 3 and agent 3 ^^ they're just sketches so I'll do better drawings of them some other time.

Captain 3, real name Bea. Tired leader of the new squidbeak splatoon.

Cis woman, she/her pronouns

Has a scar from the brainwashing ink alongside a couple of other scars from missions

Likes to wear hoodies as they're very comfortable

Brutally efficient in turf war and ranked if given the chance

Likely has ptsd from being mind controlled (not sure yet)

Their usual gear is the pilot goggles, whatever shirt has the best abilities and those pink boots

"Borrowed" cephelapods from agent 3

Pretty quiet and close friends with the squid sisters

Agent 3, real name either Luka or Oni (haven't decided yet). Known for giving the captain heart attacks by doing way too many risky jumps and plays during missions and turf war.

Non binary, they/them pronouns

Wears contacts to properly see

Loves buttonup shirts, has way too many and it's starting to be a problem.

Most often uses dualies or any of the inkbrushes. Although is trying to learn how to properly use a charger.

Neurodivergent, most likely adhd

Does missions with their binder, definitely shouldn't

Focuses on just having fun in turf war and ranked but does still take ranked seriously.

The spidersquid missions are their favourite

Ball of chaos

Likes older memes

Trends of clothes don't matter that much, simply wants to feel good

Yeee so there we go XD imma draw agent 4 and agent 8 next. See ya ^^

[sakurabloom48]

This is one of my genshin OC’S… here are some of his voice lines!!!!

Name: rune (roon)

Name Meaning: secret

Language name is from: Old Norse

~~~

Hello:

Hello my name is Rune. I’m not really in the mood to chat at the moment as I am still in the middle of reading this book, but since it is you traveler I will put my book down for a bit and chat with you if you’d like.

Chat:Fatui:

Hmm, wonder what the fatui are planning to do this time.

Chat:Reading:

Oh. Oh! This chapter is quit intriguing if I do say so myself.

Chat:Hunger:

I could really go for some Sakura mochi at the moment. Uh hm I should stay focused.

When it rains:

Oh dear, let’s hurry up before my books get wet, but then we can listen to the rain. Reading when it rains is always my favorite thing to do.

When thunder strikes:

1, 2, 3, 4. Hmm. Counting thunder is quit relaxing if you’d ask me. I’m not sure why so many people are scared of such a thing.

When it snows:

Brrr, I can’t stand this weather. Let’s find find a fire and warm up, I’ll lend you my coat if you need it.

When it snows ll:

I really despise the cold and snow, but a fire and book would be nice.

When the sun is out:

It’s such a nice day. Say, this is perfect weather to write or read out in the plains of narukami island.

When the wind is blowing:

This is some of the worst weather to read in. The pages of my books always fly around everywhere.

Good morning:

Good morning traveler, I’ve made you some breakfast and Sakura tea. Please sit and enjoy the food and beverage before it goes cold. It’s much better while warm. If you don’t mind I’d like to take you to watatsumi island today, as I have busy with general gorou today, and then would like to find a place to read, write, or sketch. How does that sound?

Good afternoon:

Phew, finally the bigger portion of our work is done for today. How would you like to grab some food and rest for a bit. I would love if you could tell me your opinion on this chapter I’ve written here recently for miss lady guuji.

Good evening:

*sigh* finally we are able to rest for the evening. I will start to prepare dinner. You, traveler, sit and relax. You deserve it.

Good night:

Oh, off to bed now? Ok get some rest. Oh? Of course traveler, I will gladly read to you. Now, what would you like for me to read for you tonight. Ok, let me help you to bed. I’ll make you some some tea and get you warm and cozy.

About Rune: Past Khaenri'ah:

Khaenri'ah? Well before I lost everyone I loved when khaenri'ah feel, it was a beautiful place. Full of life. Children running around through the streets. Mine and Dainsleif’s soldiers walking through the streets helping people. Vendors. It was like any other nation, but once the gods attacked I and dainsleif split, people were screaming and crying everywhere. It’s the most traumatizing thing that’s ever happened to me. I had walked through the rubble of khaenri'ah and found dainsleif walking around too, so we stuck together. After so many years I and dainsleif went our separate ways though. Him exploring teyvat, while I stayed here in inazuma since my father was originally from here, as for me being half oni. Hmm? No don’t be sorry for asking, I don’t mind sharing as much as dainsleif does.

About Rune: Books:

Friendship lvl 4

For as long as I can remember I’ve liked to write. Selling books, or even writing books, has always been a family tradition. Even before Khaenri'ah fell I would write. Dainsleif would always read them and see what I should change, but after we went our separate ways I relied on lady guuji. So now I and lady guuji work together and she sells my books. As for the ones she or others write, I chnage things like miss spelling, capitulations, and punctuations.

[the-deeds-to-shibden]

Monday 27 July 1840

[up at] 4 35/..

[to bed at] 12

[written on] Wednesday 29 July fine morning – had had cold boiled rice and quite ready at 6 at which hour Reaumur 12 1/2° – Off from Oni at 6 50/.. – beautiful morning – above an hour in getting to 3 towered castle of Veltettskikhé Dubois ii. 394 – at 9 13/.. pass over new wood bridge over the Rion (to right bank) the 3 trees (on which the cross planks are laid) carry 12 yards hollow and then there are at least 56 yards of log buttress at each end of the bridge therefore the river is 24 yards wide here at least, tho’ they have taken advantage of an island 50 or 60 yards broad (the river very islandy) which the bridge lands upon, and we forded the broadish shallow stream on the other side – at 10, Sori with 2 ruined square towers and little mills – picturesque scattered village – at 10 35/.. enter narrow but richly wooded gorge, (Dubois’s 2nd ecluse 1 verst long volume ii. 393) and out of it in 24 minutes – sun and hot but fine air just now, and the valley opens out gradually – Grashoppers’ noise loud and like that of rather distant guinea fowl – at 11 1/4 pass under the picturesque high almost inaccessible rock-seated castle – 3 towers (2 round and 1 square) and part of old overhanging gallery still remaining over 1 of the round towers – at the wood bridge over the little rapid Lokouni (Dubois ii. 390) – 

alighted at the bridge (Ann went forwards with the people and horses to the church) and took Adam and off to the castle at 11 25/.. – no road – not even a clear path of any kind – all grown up – thick wood all round except a little clear arable land East and rather Southeast belonging to a little cottage farm below (bridge over Lokoumi west side) – pushed our way thro’ the young wood (much oak and hazel) last climbed the hot, bare, dark-coloured rock (no trace of road or former approach) and then climbed 8 or 9 feet of old wall up to the little entrance door (East side) – another such door same side, nearer South end, but the wall rather higher and worse to climb – had the rock, and wall-stone been a little hotter, it would have been impossible to touch them with the naked hand – got in at 12 – not even goats here – saw no living animal not even a lizard – the court small as usual and encumbered with rubbish and tall rank vegetation and brambles – almost impossible to stir – the round tower north west corner (as it appeared from below) was the little church 5 x 4 yards long and broad in all except a little narrow vaulted now dark aisle on each side; and the overhanging gallery was a plank square tower made up with rubbish said Adam but no! more probably a living room or house over the church and close up against the square tower at northeast corner – then a little covered well then the square tower about middle west side, about 4 yards square or rather more? full of great koupchines buried up to the neck or above in ground floor – no communication from this room to the room above – and could not get up 

– then there was another square tower forming the South end of the castle something like the diagram as to irregular shape occupying the whole summit of the jet of rock that finely commands the valley –

a square tower filled up with rubbish

b church          

c square tower with koupchines

d South end square tower       

dot about the place of the well –

this South end tower also about 4 yards square – thought at 1st it might have been a stable – no! a living room – no communication with the rooms above – the door too high – could not get up – not much living or stirring room in these castles – all equally ruined by the Russians – about 10 minutes there and at the church at 12 40/.. – the horses turned to graze in the stubble – Ann sitting 

in the Ŏtāch wooden gallery

Hê-ĭ-vān open part of large stone house as at Satchekhére and Oni

and the servants there asleep – a wood house – comfortable sâcle, but far from so good as the house at Tzessi – much heated – Ann went off   to sketch – I lay down and slept till 2 – dinner from 2 1/4 to 3 35/.. – dawdled over it – Ann had 2 eggs beaten up with Djirootchy monastery red wine and Lavache, and I had one hard boiled cold egg a little cheese and a cucumber and a little Eristaf white wine with water from the milky Rion always good tasted   Prince Yorghi Kaidza’s son (when they called yesterday) from Khotévi gave us 2 cucumbers – neat square quite plain exterior except a cross or two saw the interior of the church – 12 yards from west door to iconostase and suppose behind iconostase 5 + 12 = 17 yards long – and about 11 1/2 yards broad – 2 aisles of 1 arcade to dome 12 windows, 1 arcade against underdome and 1 arcade behind iconostase, finished in apse inside and square outside the 2 small tall circular niches, east end, are mere grooves – merely a souvenir of the niches at Koutaïs and in the east ends of other Georgian churches – Ann sketched the interior – west end of each aisle lighted by one window 

and west end of nave, and north and South end of each transept lighted by 3 little windows 

– foundation of church 1753 – (Dubois ii. 392) – went into the little garden and gathered kindzi (no name for it in Russian but the Georgian word kindzi, coriander[)] and ukrop, Georgian kām-măh, fennel, which I had seen tied up in little parcels in the house and hung up to dry –

off from Baragone church at 4 25/.. – at the gorge (ecluse. Dubois ii. 388) in 1/2 hour – alighted at the source about mid way – 4 little rills – all alike – before I took the water for fresh – this time thought it very agreeably tasted and drank freely – proof it is very slightly sulphurous – the very slight taste I could discover was as much chalybeate as sulphurous? off from the bridge at 5 1/4  did not cross it – kept on the right bank of the river (Rion) very fine rich valley 1/2 yellow with corn or stubble – the corn gathered, or in cutting or gathering or in little sheaves perched up (some on poles as in Norway?) or ripe – a little young green corn not near in ear – the people housing hay as we went and returned from Satchikhéri – at 5 35/.. stopt at isolated shop – a few little things to sell printed calico handkerchief and blue pieces (shirt pieces) of calico – the man a a /Anne’s repetition/ little dyer – just wrapped up a piece or two in undyed calico, and put them into a little press i.e. between 2 boards and a great stone on the top in his little dye-house – the kelossan for here we came for a guide – a youth who knew the way to the village of Sardmêli /Sadmeli/ (Dubois ii. 426)   

off again at 5 55/.. fine rich valley – pass under Sardmêli, high (right) above us, pretty picturesque little scattered hamlet-like group of houses, among trees, and hardly seen, and at 6 25/.. beginning to calculate that it was 3 hours to Kouantchegkara /Khvanchkara/ (prince Léon Pépiani Dubois ii. 426) and we had better sleep chez le mourave at Sardmêli    Ann impatient – wished to go forwards – said we lost so much time in stopping that I gave the order for Kouantchegkara telling Ann however that it was 3 hours off and I doubted very much that we [were] right to risk it – she did not give any sign of caring for it, so on we went – Dubois says many villages left bank but no villages between Sardmêli and Kouantchegkara (right bank Rion) (ii. 426) – apparently as many villages, little picturesque tree-embosomed groups of cottages, on this side as the other (none in the bottom on either side all along the mountainside, generally about midway) but all these little groups on this side form the one large village or district called Sardmêli – instead of turning up (right) to Sardmêli kept down in the bottom (the corn being all gathered hereabouts) leaving the high road much above us right, and went along the fields and kept nearly to the river for nearness’s sake – at 6 3/4, on the other side Rion, (left) in the woods towards bottom (no pine) little narrow rounded ridge-jet, like a wall, of Calcaire coped with porphyre pyroxénique (dark coloured stone) very striking and curious – fine, beautiful corny and Indian corny crassy, viny, rich, wooded and wood-girt valley well-peopled – left bank Rioni, Ratcha – right bank, Sardmêli – beautiful ride – what a pity to do 1/2 in the dark! at 8 as we gradually got high on the mountainside the river beautifully winding deep below it was too dusk to see anything clearly – soon afterwards what with night and narrow lanes thro’ thick woods we groped in the dark – even Ann asked what I should do – our guide did not know the way – she had wanted to send the Cossack forwards before 8 – I merely said (not knowing then the ignorance of our guide) that we could not be left without guide or without Adam, and what could the Cossack do? – we could not see each other 1/2 dozen yards off – Ann was so impatient one time for me to get on, I before called every now and then to know she was close behind me, that I then supposed her at my heels and she (before the Cossack and George) lost us (not in reality far off) and George had to seek us out – 

arrived at 9 35/.. lights and a comfortable looking well galleried wood house and large open court – I rode up to the lights to see the hour – some ladies asked us in – we declined till our papier ouvert had been examined and our quartiers regularly assigned – we were taken to a large sacle (1 room as at Outséré) at 9 3/4 across the court 1 divan carpeted (for Ann) and long low Georgian narrow table for me, and they brought a higher (European – rickety) table and eggs and cucumbers and fine filberts and bread and wine and good water for supper, very sorry we were too late for better fare – very civil – we had 2 young men – princes Pépiani nephews of prince Léon – no milk to be had at that hour – ate 2 of the 4 cucumbers, and some filberts, large and excellent from their garden – of the nuts in the woods and hedges the kernels hardly formed – as yet a little kernelly string, like the 1st push at vegetation with a bean – a nothing to eat – supper at 11 to 11 50/.. – took off my pelisse and boots and lay down at 12 – very fine day –

 Anne’s marginal notes:

Leave Oni.

Baragone. /Barakoni/

Mindastsikhé forteresse de la necessité Dubois ii. 390.

Otach

Hêivah

Sardmêli.

Kouantchgkara capital of Pépianoff.

Kouantchegkara.

WYAS pages:  SH:7/ML/E/24/0165  

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Monday 27 July 1840

4 35/..

12

Wednesday 29 July   Leave Oni   fine morning – had had cold boiled rice and quite ready at 6 at which hour R12 ½° - off from Oni at 6 50/.. – beautiful morning above an hour in getting to 3 towered castle of Veltettsikhé Dub. ii. 394. at 9 13/.. pass over new wood bridge over the Rion (to right bank) the 3 trees (on which the cross planks are laid) carry 12 yards hollow and then there are at least 6 yards of log buttresses at each end of the bridge .:. the river is 24 yards wide here at least, tho’ they have taken advantage of an island 50 or 60 yards broad (the river very islandy) which the bridge lands upon, and we forded the broadish shallow stream on the other side – at 10, Sori with 2 ruined square towers and little mills – picturesque scattered village – at 10 35/.. Enter narrow but richly wooded gorge (Dubois’s 2nd Ecluse 1 v. long. vol. 11. 393.) and out of it in 24 minutes – sun and hot but fine air just now, and the valley opens out gradually – Grasshoppers’ noise loud and like that of rather distant guinea fowl – at 11 ¼ pass under the picturesque high almost inaccessible rock-seated castle – 3 towers (2 round and 1 square) and part of old overhanging gallery still remaining over 1 of the round towers – at the wood bridge over the little rapid Lokouni (Dub. ii. 390.) alighted at the bridge (A- went forwards with the people and horses to the church) and took Adam and off to the castle at 11 25/.. – no road – not even a clear path of any kind – all grown up – thick wood all round except a little clear arable land East and rather South east belonging to a little cottage farm below (bridge over Lokouni west side) – pushed our way thro’ the young wood (much oak and hazel) last climbed the hot, bare, dark-coloured rock (no trace of road or former approach) and then climbed 8 or 9ft. of old wall up to the little entrance door (East side) – another wall-stone been a little hotter, it would have been impossible to touch them with the naked hand – got in at 12 – not even goats here – saw no living animal not even a lizard – the court small as usual and encumbered with rubbish and tall rank vegetation and brambles – almost impossible to stir – the round tower north west corner (as it appeared from below) was the little church 5x4 yards long and broad in all except a little narrow vaulted [?] dark aisle on each side; and the overhanging gallery was a plank square tower made up with rubbish but said Adam no! more probably a living room or house over the church and close up against the square tower at north east corner – then a little covered well  then the square tower about middle west side, about 4 yards square or rather more? full of great Koupchines buried up to the neck or above in ground floor – no communication from this room to the room above – and could not get up – then there was another square tower forming the south end of the castle something like a diagram as to irregular shape occupying the whole summit of the jet of rock that finely commands the valley –

a square tower filled up with rubbish

b church c. square tower with koupchines

d south end square tower  dot about the place of the well

this south end tower also North about 4 yards square – thought at 1st it might have been a stable – no! a living room – no communication with the rooms above – the door too high – could not get up – not much living or stirring room in these castles – all equally ruined by the Russians – about 10 minutes there and at the church at 12 40/.. – the horses turned to graze in the stubble –

in the Ŏtāch wooden gallery

Hê-ĭ-vān open part of large stone house as at Satchkheri  [Sachkhere] and Oni

A- sitting and the servants there asleep – a wood house – comfortable sâcle, but far from so good as the house at Tzessi [Tsesi] – much heated – A- went off to sketch – I lay down and slept till 2 – dinner from 2 ¼ to 3 35/.. – dawdled over it – A- had 2 eggs beaten up with Djirootch monastery red winde and Lavache, and I had one hardboiled cold egg a little cheese and a cucumber and a little Eristaf white wine with water from the milky Rion [always] good tasted Prince Yorghi Kaidza’s son (where they called yesterday from Khotevi) gave us 2 cucumbers – saw the interior of the church  neat square quite plain exterior except a cross or two – 12 yards from west door to Iconostase and suppose behind iconostase 5+12 = 17 yards long – and about 11 ½ yards broad – 2 aisles of 1 arcade to dome 12 windows, 1 arcade against under dome and 1 arcade behind iconostase, finished in apse inside and square outside the 2 small tall circular niches, east end, are mere grooves – merely a souvenir of the niches at Koutaïs and in the East ends of other Georgian churches – A- sketched the interior – west end of each aisle lighted by one window and west end of nave, and north and south end of Each transept lighted by 3 little windows - foundation of Church 1753 – (Dubois ii. 392.) – went into the little garden and gathered Kindzi (no name for it in Russian but the Georgian word Kindzi [?] and Ukrop, Georgian Kām-măh, fennel, which I had seen tied up in little parcels in the house and hung up today -

Kouantchegkara.

off from Baragone church at 4 25/.. – at the gorge (Ecluse Dub. ii. 388) in ½ hour – alighted at the source about midway – 4 little rills – all alike – before I took the water for fresh – this time thought it very agreeably tasted and drank freely – proof it is very slightly sulphurous – the very slight taste I could discover was as much chalybeate as sulphurous? off from the bridge at 5 ¼ did not cross it – kept on the right bank of the river (Rion) very fine rich valley ½ yellow with corn or stubble – the corn gathered, or in cutting or gathered on in little sheaves perched up (some on poles as in Norway?) or ripe – a little young green corn not near in Ear – the people [horning] hay as we went and returned from Satchekhéri [Sachkhere]ò- at 5 35/.. stopt at isolated shop – a few little things to sell printed calico handkerchiefs and blue pieces (shirt pieces?) of calico – the man a little dyer – just wrapped up a piece or two in [undyed] calico, and put them into a little press i.e. between 2 boards and a great stone on the top in his little dye-house – the Kelossan for here we came for a Guide – a youth who knew the way to the village of Sardmêli (Dubois ii. 426.) off again at 5 55/.. fine rich valley – pass under Sardmêli, high (right) above us, pretty picturesque little scattered hamlet-like group of houses, among trees, and hardly seen, and at 6 25/.. beginning to calculate that it was 3 hours to Kouantchegkara (prince Léon Pépiani Dub. 11. 426). and we had better sleep chez le mourave at Sardmêli A- impatient – wished to go forwards – said we lost so much time in stopping that I gave order for K- telling A- however that it was 3 hours off and I doubted very much that we right to risk it – she did not give any sign of caring for that, so on we went – Dubois says many villages left bank but no village between S- and K- (right bank Rion) (ii. 426) – apparently as many villages, little picturesque tree – embosomed groups of cottages) on this side as the other (none in the bottom on either side all along the mountain side, generally about midway) but all these little groups on this side form the one large village or district called Sardmêli – instead of turning up(right) to S- kept down in the bottom (the corn being all gathered hereabouts) leaving the highroad much above us right, and went along the fields kept nearer to the river for nearness’s sake – at 6 ¾, on the other side Rion, (left) in the woods towards bottom (no pine) little narrow rounded ridge-jet, like a wall of Calcaire coped with porphyry [?] (dark coloured stone) very striking and curious – fine, beautiful corny and Indian corny grassy, viny, rich, wooded and girt valley well peopled – left bank Rioni Ratcha [Racha] – right bank, Sardmêli – beautiful ride – what a pity to do ½ in the dark! at 8 as we gradually get high on the mountain side the river beautifully winding deep below it was too dark to see anything clearly – soon afterwards what with might and narrow lanes thro’ thick woods we groped in the dark – even A- asked what I should do – our guide did not know the way – She had wanted to send the Cossack forwards before 8 – I merely said (not knowing then the ignorance of our guide) that we could not be left without guide or without Adam, and what could the Cossack do? – we could not see each other ½ dozen yards – A- was so impatient one time for me to get on, I before called every now and then to know she was close behind me, that I then supposed her at my heels and she (before the Cossack and George) lost us (not in reality far off) and George had to seek us out – arrived at 9 35/.. light and a comfortable looking well galleried wood house and large open court – I rode up to the lights to see the house – some ladies asked us in – we declined till our papier ouvert had been examined and out quartiers regularly assigned – we were taken to a large sacle (1 room as at Outséré) at 9 ¾ across the court 1 divan carpeted (for A-) and long low Georgian narrow table for me, and they brought a higher European ricketty table and eggs and cucumbers and fine filberts and bread and wine and good water for supper, very sorry we are too late for [?] fare – very civil – we had 2 young men – princes Pépiani nephews of prince Léon – no milk to be had at that hour – ate 2 of the 4 cucumbers, and some filberts, large and excellent from their garden – of the nuts in the woods and hedges [the] kernels hardly formed – as yet a little Kernelly string like the 1st push at vegetation with a bean – a nothing to eat – supper at 11 to 11 50/.. – took off my pelisse and boots and lay down at 12 – very fine day  -

[hachichimitsu2]

ABOUT ME

Hachi ✨ 20 ✨ She/Her ✨ 🇵🇭 ✨ INFJ 6w5

Hello, I’m Hachi! I'm a full-time freelance illustrator on Fiverr, and I hopefully plan to branch out in other artistic areas in my life! Expect me to dump all of my artistic interests over here : #hachichiart

I also have a children’s picture e-book that I self-published on Amazon. I made it as a requirement for my high school thesis, so while the art there is definitely a representation of my past, I still stand by the message I was trying to send. I hope to eventually branch out this series in a form of a webcomic of sorts, for people who can’t afford to purchase my e-book for financial reasons. These characters are extremely dear to me, and I can’t wait to expound on them when I have the time lmao. Here’s a tag regarding the series: #behindtheartistichand

Some note-worthy things to mention, this blog is generally 15+, but I do make sure to tag any NSFW content and general triggers out there. I often post and retweet adult animation, so I’d say tread carefully if you’re a minor. I’m also critical with the media I consume, but most of the time, I like to talk about why I like something rather than why I hate it. I just find it more fun to expound on the positives of my favorite things. I also don’t take everything seriously.

Please let me know privately if I did or say anything wrong. Sometimes I say things without meaning to, and I’m not the brightest crayon in the box, so constructive criticism is greatly appreciated. If you take offense with anything I posted, just send a polite DM and explain why it offended you so I can be educated regarding the subject. I’m also available for any questions, DMs and a genuine chit-chat.

MAIN INTERESTS

1. Character-Driven Storytelling

2. Adult Cartoons

3. CGDCT / Slice-of-Life Shows

4. Pastel Goth / Creepy Cute Fashion

5. Coming-of-Age Stories

6. Magical Girls

7. Psychological Horror

8. Well-Written Children’s Media

9. RPG Maker Horror Games

10. Video Essays & Film Studies

11. Speed Metal / Vaporwave / Shibuya-Kei

12. K-POP / J-POP Girl Groups (Serotonin Babey!)

13. 4LT (MBTI), Typology, Cognitive Functions

14. All Types of Artistic Endeavors (OCs, FanArt, Comics, Film, Music, Fanfiction, etc.)

TOP 5 ANIME SERIES (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

1. K-ON!!

2. Hunter x Hunter

3. Neon Genesis Evangelion

4. Ojamajo Doremi

5. Ouran Highschool Host Club.

TOP 5 CARTOON SERIES (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

1. South Park

2. Bojack Horseman

3. Moral Orel

4. Ed, Edd n Eddy

5. Infinity Train

FAVORITE MOVIES

1. Interstellar (Favorite Sci-Fi Movie of All Time)

2. Nacho Libre (Favorite Guilty Pleasure Movie)

3. Johnny Got His Gun (Scariest movie of all time due to the sheer existential dread)

4. Studio Ghibli Films (Particularly Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro & Grave of the Fireflies)

5. Perfect Blue (Favorite Anime Movie)

6. One Cut of the Dead (It’s hard to recommend this movie without spoiling it, but it’s an absolute must that you finish it in its entirety before you proceed to make any further judgments)

7. Coraline (I know almost everyone loves Coraline at this point, but it’s genuinely good.)

8. Interview with the Vampire (Favorite Vampire movie of all time that doesn’t seem overdone or cliché. It’s also really gay)

9. Get Out (2017)

10. Us (2019)

11. Up (2009)

12. Toy Story (Movies 1 to 3)

13. Hereditary (2018)

14. The Shining (1980)

15. Audition (1999)

16. Misery (1990)

17. The Green Mile (1999)

18. Shawshank Redemption (1994)

19. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

20. Mommie Dearest (1981)

21. The Others (2001)

22. The Platform (2020)

23. The Lodge (2019)

OTHERS

1. Homestuck (It’s been a good while since I read Homestuck, so my memory of the general storyline is fuzzy. I’ll re-read it once I have the chance)

2. When They Cry (Currently up-to date with the Higurashi anime and watched the live-action movies. Finally started to tackle the sound novels. Have yet to encounter Umineko and Ciconia)

3. Age of Youth (Favorite K-drama of all time.)

4. Squid Game (Battle Royale-type thriller series that tackles capitalism and the illusion of choice and free will? Sign me the fuck up)

5. Majisuka Gakuen (Favorite J-drama of all time. Also, yes, I’m biased because of my love for AKB48.)

6. Flight of the Conchords (Favorite live-action series of all time.)

7. Adult Cartoons (The Boondocks, Camp Camp, Superjail, The Oblongs, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, Beavis & Butthead, Daria, Smiling Friends, Aggretsuko)

8. FilmCow (I absolutely love everything they put out. Currently up to date with VuloLives’s broadcasts)

9. The Eric Andre Show (A good friend recommended me this show, and I haven’t stopped since.)

10. Nathan for You (My humor condensed into one show)

11. CGDCT / Slice-of-Life Shows (Sweetness & Lightning, The Amazing World of Gumball, Spongebob Squarepants, Gakkou Gurashi, Lucky Star, Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight, Koufuku Graffiti, Hidamari Sketch, Pita-Ten, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, Di Gi Charat, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, Yama no Susume, Shirobako, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Saint Young Men, Gunslinger Girl, Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou, Osomatsu-san, Hey Arnold, The Peanuts, Arthur, Hibike! Euphonium, Nichijou, Asobi Asobase, Azumanga Daioh, Codename: Kids Next Door, Chowder)

12. Idol Anime (Love Live! School Idol Project, Aikatsu, Revue Starlight, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Pretty Rhythm, AKB600SEC // Will get into IDOLMASTER eventually)

13. Undertale (Will pick up Earthbound and Omori eventually)

14. RPGMaker Horror Games (Mad Father, Misao, The Witch’s House, Ao Oni, etc. Hoping to get into newer released games!)

15. Fictional Children / Adolescents Getting Trapped in Dangerous Scenarios (Digimon Tamers, Made in Abyss, The Promised Neverland, Alice Academy, Code Lyoko, The World Ends with You, Total Drama Island, Danganronpa)

16. Weird, Experimental or Slightly Disturbing Series (Serial Experiments Lain, Kuchuu Buranko, Invader Zim, Flapjack, Salad Fingers)

17. Shounen Anime (Yu Yu Hakusho, Mob Psycho 100, Dragon Ball Z)

18. Magical Girl Anime (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Tokyo Mew Mew, Mermaid Melody, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, RWBY, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, My Little Pony, Princess Tutu, Powerpuff Girls, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Bee and Puppycat, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, Steven Universe // Will pick up She-Ra & The Owl House Eventually)

19. The Haunting of Hill House / Bly Manor (Don’t let the jump-scares deceive you. It’s a genuinely good character-driven horror series)

20. Sci-Fi Cartoons (Rick & Morty, Solar Opposites, Futurama, Bravest Warriors)

ROLE MODELS / BIASES / OSHIMENS / BEST GIRLS

1. Trey Parker & Matt Stone

2. Gain & Narsha (BROWN EYED GIRLS)

3. Hyuna (SOLOIST)

4. Sooyoung (SNSD)

5. Gyuri (KARA)

6. Hani (EXID)

7. Seulgi & Yeri (RED VELVET)

8. Sana (TWICE)

9. Yves & Olivia Hye (LOONA)

10. Shuhua (G-IDLE)

11. Yena (IZ*ONE)

12. Winter (AESPA)

13. SUZUKA (ATARASHII GAKKOU)

14. Shiroma Miru (NMB48)

15. Yabuki Nako (HKT48)

16. Takahashi Minami (ex-AKB48)

17. Kojima Haruna (ex-AKB48)

18. Shinoda Mariko (ex-AKB48)

19. Sayaka Akimoto (ex-AKB48)

20. Watanabe Mayu (ex-AKB48)

21. Shimazaki Haruka (ex-AKB48)

22. Matsui Jurina (ex-SKE48)

23. Sakura Miko (HOLOLIVE)

24. Natsuiro Matsuri (HOLOLIVE)

25. Oozora Subaru (HOLOLIVE)

26. Inugami Korone (HOLOLIVE)

27. Houshou Marine (HOLOLIVE)

28. Kiryu Coco (ex-HOLOLIVE)

29. Momosuzu Nene (HOLOLIVE)

30. Kureiji Ollie (HOLOLIVE)

31. Takanashi Kiara (HOLOLIVE)

32. VuloLives (INDEPENDENT VTUBER)

CONTACTS

• Instagram: @Hachichimitsu

• Twitter: @Hachichimitsu

• I take art commissions on Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/hachichimitsu

• I have a children’s e-book on Amazon. Make sure to download the Amazon Kindle app to be able to read it on your smart device: https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Artistic-Erika-Marie-Vargas-ebook/dp/B08789CW3V