#Lake lore

[fortunatefires]

i forgot to post my trans rights readathon list!

I'll post another of all the books I finish when the week is up

[ashlerfinnstro]

The lore of the lake

Based off of the novel

lakelore

by Anna-marie mclemore

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Lore Garcia from Lake Lore, who has dyslexia

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Cover of the book Lake Lore. It features two figures standing in rainbow colored water. one is facing the viewer and one facing away from the viewer and looking towards the sunset. The figure facing the viewer has short brown hair and brown eyes. They are wearing a yellow hoodie. The figure facing away has long brown hair and wearing a green shirt.]

[storyteller-aprendiz]

Ambrose’s gender forecast is a BIG gender envy for whatever Michelangelo’s David statue has going on.

[break-me-open]

Realized earlier that I had not been in a body of water with proper waves in years. Remedied that today, went a little wild spinning and jumping while going farther out (and also thinking about death, but it's okay because it was a Taylor Swift reference), but I have always fished this lake for metaphor and I asked for help as soon as I started struggling, so this is a positive. Continued playing around in the waves until my knee started to feel tired, now watching friends continue to frolic in the sun and crashing water.

[faiyx]

Water ghouls!

There are…so many of them…wow

More details/notes/headcanons under the cut!

water ghoul headcanons!

-introverted and quiet, like to keep to themselves

-hard of hearing, their ears are folded in a way to keep water out, so most water ghouls wear a hearing aid when on stage

-they run super cold! Their bodies are usually cold and slick, they smell like sea water.

-theyre great swimmers and need to return to water periodically, so their bodies stay healthy.

-water ghoul magic: control over states of water, healing magic and pressure control.

[hobnob-moth]

Wait… aren’t directors usually supposed to be the silent voice in stories? -Jesse

Oh, tons of directors are in their own work. Hitchcock, Harold Ramis, Mel Brooks, M Night. Shyamalan, Uhh ███ ████. -Emily

Who? -Jesse

—

Had a silly idea pop into my head when I heard the dlc for Alan Wake 2 would have Jesse in it, and the idea kept tormenting me enough to finish this drawing. I wanted to work in something with The Director vs a director, but wasn’t able to make it concise enough to fit sadly.

[forlorn-crows]

rain seeing the full moon at her biggest, eyes going wide as saucers. entranced. something inside him tugs and tugs, he cant help where hes going.

cant help that his feet take him outside, down to the lake. he's only in boxers and the tiny tank top he went to bed in against the chilly weather. but he doesnt care. the water is calm and sparkling as it reflects the warm-toned moonlight, her entire silhouette sitting atop the water.

and he just. strips. dips into the lake like slipping into a warm bath. and he dives. deep, deep, deep down to where she is. the uninterrupted moonlight dapples over her dusky purple skin, that faint emerald luminescence coming through. and she welcomes him in with her many arms, taking him swiftly into her embrace.

glad you could join me, little one. nyneve says, and her voice is like honey. exactly what he needed to hear wrapping around his head. it gives him shivers, sinking deep into his bones.

need you, is all rain can think to say. she needs you, too.

i am more than happy to share my touch with you, she promises.

though its cold beneath the depths, she quickly warms him. sinking into the most secret parts of him and leading him to bliss.

[thosetrollkids]

MONSTOBER: DESIGNS

Part 1: Teen Cast!

HELLOOOOO everybody! Welcome to my project, Monstober! A series of several posts with large, in depth looks at different aspects of my AU, Monster Kids, that I wrote during October this year. Special thanks to @eurazba for listening to me ramble over all this and helping with the AU over the years <3

This post will be going over the general monster designs for notable teen characters, as well as some thoughts as to why I chose said designs :D

There will be a second post for the main adult cast, and once posted, you can find it linked here :)

Jim / Toby / Claire

Jim Lake Jr (Sphinx): It's him! The poster boy! Wahoo! Honestly, I don't have many notes for his design process, because his design has stayed relatively similar since the early drafts. His was the very first design, and other than being a typical lion/eagle sphinx for like. two drawings, and then a panther/blackbird for two more, once the snow leopard/blue jay combo was struck, he's only really changed in small ways. I chose a blue jay, because they're one of my favorite birds, they're blue, and I'd used them to be an accent to Jim in a previous drawing. Snow leopards are also my favorite big cat! So similar reasoning for that particular aspect. If I were to design him today, blank slate, I miiiight have changed his cat species, but I still am way too attached to the leopard/jay combo.

Toby Domzalski (Gargoyle): Toby's design also hasn't changed much! The main trio haven't, other than minor adjustments. He originally had yellow eyes, but they're back to standard green. He also used to have larger wings, and while I liked the idea of the main three being able to fly together, I decided to go with a different route as I leaned into his design looking more aquatic, and he instead has wing shaped back fins! They fold down and sit under his clothes, as he only really can use them while swimming.

Claire Nuñez (Harpy) Also another design I haven't changed since conception! Harpies were always something cool to me, and I was inspired by an illustration of harpies in a mythology book I had bought at the time. Her design was originally just 'bird' until I tired to find a more specific species that fit. I landed on barn owls, and coincidentally, they are also associated with brujeria/witchcraft in Mexico! Win-win. With her stronger connection to magic overall, she's also the only member of Team Trollhunter that can fly reliably; her magic feeds her energy enough to keep in the air (Jim's wings are too small for anything besides light gliding and cushioning falls).

Steve / Eli / Krel / Aja

Steve Palchuk (Faun): Steve's design was always pretty formed in my head. For the guy that tries so very hard to be an all-American boy, an icon of that is the whitetail deer buck, and it very quickly fell into place! His design is fairly simple, which is why it works so well for him, IMO. Fun fact, he has a set of scars on his cheek from the equivalent of the fight he had with Jim in S1. More to expand on in a later comic, >:3c

Eli Pepperjack (Bat Humanoid): Eli was actually also a sphinx originally, but I wanted Jim to stay fairly unique among the main teens, so my follow up design was something more batlike! I did do plenty of research for monster bats, or hybrid bat monsters, but what research I could do didn't produce much (then again, could always be wrong!), so I went with 'attributes'. He's based on a Little Brown Bat. He little >:) His wings are also not capable of flight, they're basically large hands, all the better to hunt down creepers with, my dear.

Krel & Aja Tarron (Amphibious humanoids): WAHOOOOO!!!! I'm very proud of these, because you have NO IDEA how many months I struggled to find a design I liked for them. They have been (checks notes) spidertaurs, a few other passes of various insectoid tries, I was going to attempt something more seal like, because I knew the main group's designs were already mammal-heavy, and something aquatic or insectoid was what I wanted to balance the group out. Then my beloved @eurazba, listening to me ramble one night, helped me come to the idea of their 'human' transductions looking closer to old monster movies! Creature from Black Lagoon was an easy pick, I did some research about CFBL and Shape of Water (thanks Del Toro), and bada bing, bada boom! My fishy twins! Also Krel is the only one wearing shoes. Just realized this...

Mary / Darci / Shannon

Mary Wang (Dryad): Mary has also gone through a lot of changes (turns out, I was very indecisive outside of the main trio, AJDJSBSJFHB). She was actually a -taur alongside Darci! Specifically a unitaur (saw a lot of alternate Monster Falls art of Mabel Pines as one, and I really liked the idea. The overall AU was inspired by the Gravity Falls AU, now you know!) She stayed that for a while, then also went through some bug-like redesigns, and then a couple months back, I decided on a dryad! Before that point, I was trying to stay strictly to animalistic monster designs, but it became a little too confining, so she exploded into my sketchbook and became real. Her tree is a california redbud, and her 'antlers' are like the branches of the tree, and leaves/flowers bloom in time with the season on them. The hooves were based on a Zelda design from an artist I liked a lot (truffe.art on IG!)

Darci Scott (Praying Mantis-taur): HERE COMES THE BUG PAYOFF. Some of you may remember my design for Darci hasn't changed for quite some time, and while I liked the look of the cervitaur (a centaur, but deer), it didn't feel... as unique as I wanted? And I was still missing my BUG. So, debating over this, I did a few passes of her mixed with a bee, spider, etc etc... and then once again, @eurazba was like "hey! praying mantis." and I fell in LOVE with the concept. (Very quickly sketched her up as I was doing these sheets, actually NDJSNJKJD)

Shannon Longhannon (Gorgon): Last design of the group, another that has hardly changed since conception. Nagas, gorgons, lamias- whatever they're called, I love the visual of a reptilian character slinking around gracefully, and she helped balance out all the mammalian designs as well. She was originally a typical green/yellow snake, but when I inevitably color her, I picture something more ruddy, reddish brown, to match her hair :) She indeed is able to turn someone to stone, but as she was not born a gorgon, this ability is dulled, and only lasts for a few hours, working only if she focuses completely on doing so to someone. She's taken to wearing shades more often to not scare people who don't know this.

[dulceswans]

Apparently my OC x canon ship pisses people off so I’m going to post them more :)

They are t4t !!

[fortunatefires]

Last day of the trans rights readathon and I wanted to share my reads

[just-somedude]

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[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today's disabled character of the day is Bastián Silvano from Lake Lore, who has Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Requested by Anon

[Image Description: Cover of the book Lake Lore. It features two figures standing in rainbow colored water. one is facing the viewer and one facing away from the viewer and looking towards the sunset. The figure facing the viewer has short brown hair and brown eyes. They are wearing a yellow hoodie. The figure facing away has long brown hair and wearing a green shirt.]

[storyteller-aprendiz]

Pugsley’s gender forecast is his hat and the existential dread of meeting an evil version of you.

[nattravn-art]

"Eyes blinded by the fog cannot see the truth."

[axelein]

Do you think Rose was part of the Albert Hate Club or do Frank and Leonard would have to wait for her to leave the room to start talking shit about him bc I can just imagine the absolutely rambunctious stories they had to tell about him