#Sunlit ref

[cave-lions-are-cool]

Sunlit Steppe Cave Lions

ADDAX - leader of the sunlit steppe - female (she/her) - bisexual - 6 winters old

BLACKBUCK - second in command - female (she/they) - bisexual - 4 winters old - likes Roan 👀

ROAN - doctor - female (she/her) - lesbian - 4 winters old

WATERBUCK - denizen - female (she/her) - bisexual - 2 winters old 

ORYX - denizen - trans male (he/him) - bisexual - 2 winters old

SABLE - denizen - male (he/they) - biromantic - 2 winters old - melanistic 

SPRINGBOK - orange-ish cave lion (bi he/him, 3 1/2 winters)

BUSHBACK - gray-black cave lioness (bi she/her, 4 moons)

KLIPSPRINGER - brownish cave lion (bi he/him, 4 moons)

[mashedpotatosinacup]

Sleepy guys <3

@hinako-supremacy

[sunlit-art]

broken vessel, broken shell of an empty god. lost kin, lost god of the Abyss

drawn from memory [left] and with a ref [right]. horns are still wrong but it bothers me less than I am lazy

(24 January 2023)

[nimbusclan]

Refs for our starter kitties!

Moonpaw: A pale tabby she-cat, eyes of sunlit ice, medium fur length. Nervous, picky nest-builder. 8m old.

Fogpaw: A white, unusually spotted (rosette) pale gray tom, cobalt eyes, medium fur length. Daring, quick to make peace, picky nest-builder. 8m old.

[theuncrucified]

What's this? Finally a new journal for the Exalted Secret Santa event?? Praise the Unconquered Sun! Check out the full rambling details about my characters, plus a brand new Abyssal character option for this year behind the cut!

Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste, Righteous Devil

Mood Music: Meet me at the Top by Unsecret & Unbreakable by Fireflight

A passionate Merchant Prince (though most people refer to her as a 'Merchant Queen'), Kalara can often be found traveling Creation using her charm and wit towards the cause of achieving a more equitable economy and the abolishment of slave labor throughout the threshold.

While she has a friendly public face, her enemies whisper of her spy network, Kalara's "Tongues", who work quietly throughout Creation eliminating threats to her ambitions for Creation.

For more reference, see Kalara's full bio for more pics, etc.

Art Notes

She has a scar from a failed crucifixion on her left hand only, not both hands

NSFW art is ok! She's quite famous for being a free spirit with multiple unattached partners, but please nothing too hardcore into chains. This lady likes luxury. Tis silk or nothing!

Fashion

Feel free to play with her hair and clothing style without sticking too close to the ref. Kalara mixes things up a lot to either blend in on her travels OR to make a big impression, depending on the occasion. She's quite the fashionista!

Note that in her art she's dressed in everything from a Chiaroscuro glass gown to more casual wear with her green shirt. The look with the teal and gold with the jacket resting on her shoulders is her signature look, however.

Iconic Anima

Her totemic anima involves chains of sunlight wrapping around her arms and ankles as the links fall off one by one. Spikes of sunlight, which do not harm her, appear in her hands and melt away. Behind her, a phoenix with a long, trailing tail rises up behind her.

Weapons & Combat Style

Kalara prefers not to let others onto the fact that she's as powerful as she is and has created a whole other persona named Koh to do her gunslinging. She and Koh are rumored to be lovers, much to her amusement.

However, if she's ever backed into a corner as Kalara, her fighting style involves acrobatic agility while dual-wielding two Prayer Pieces made of jade and orichalcum with the punishing glory of the Righteous Devil martial art.

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Mask of Golden Lies, Abyssal Exalted, Moonshadow Caste

Mood Music: The Blackest Hand & Sunlit Grave by Mesa

This character is new for this year! Or at least this is the first time I've gotten the character out of my brain. He's been haunting there for years! He's still in development, so all of this might change.

The young man who would become Mask of Golden Lies came up from the slums of Gem, a slave who conned his way to freedom, but also earned the ire of the Despot when his greed got the better of him, tempting him to take on a risky heist involving the Despot's secret gem mine.

He fled north, thinking himself clever enough to evade the Despot's wrath by hiding in a valley ruled by a mysterious figure the locals worshipped, but others avoided.

It was there the bounty hunters found him, taking his life with the Despot's particular form of execution - forcing him to drink molten gold. They also took his forearms as trophies for the Despot's fort wall.

It was there in a shallow grave the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears found him afterwards, amused by this ambitious, failed thief and thinking him a useful tool with the grudge against society that laid heavy in his soul. She rebuilt his broken, mutilated body with the gold and jewels he craved in life and promised him the power to act on his ambitions that he sought in life.

As a servant of the Lover, Golden Lies' most common tactic is to manipulate rich rulers into positions of imbalance and either wipe out their rulers, usually with lavish events (a la Masque of the Red Death, which is definitely on theme for him), or prime them for manipulations that benefit he and his Deathlord.

Personality-wise, he enjoys disarming people with charm and good humor and is secretly always looking for a way out of his servitude to the Lover. His mortal life is muddled in his memory, but he recalls freedom being the one thing that was most important to him, alongside the silhouette of the face of the woman he truly owed that freedom too.

Art Notes

Golden Lies' forearms are translucent with metallic gold bones.

NSFW art is ok. He's quite the cad of both men and women, usually to pursue targets.

He likes the finer things in life after a mortal lifetime living as a slave. You won't see this man in rags unless he's in disguise.

This is his 'fair form'. He has one that's also hideous that shows the mutilated state of his body at death (think Raziel from Soul Reaver with the missing lower jaw), but he much prefers to look beautiful.

Iconic Anima

Glowing red chains appear all around Golden Lies, seemingly binding him until he forces his way through them. A halo of a sun pattern also appears behind his head. He is also accented by strange red eyes that appear in a flower pattern behind him to watch him intently, signifying perhaps his loyalty is not totally to the Lover, who is always watching him. Sadly I don't have ref art of this yet!

Weapons & Combat Style

He fights unarmed, preferring that personal touch when he is driven to close combat, which he tends to avoid (but doesn't entirely dislike). His golden bone arms also make for excellent rending weapons when put to good use. I haven't decided on what style he should have yet, but it should be an unarmed one.

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Happy Calibration and enjoy the new refs! I look forward to this event every year.

Had a little help with Lies' pose from @theposearchives

[develation]

I get randomly sappy at times and today I was in the car just thinking about life. It hit me how lucky I was to have all the wonderful and supportive friends that I do. For all my mutals @pastelaspirations @paintedkinzy-88 @inkclover @sunlit-witch @phinix53 @calcium-cat @glitchysquidd @adorablemew and @sofidra I freaking love you and am giving you big hugs <3

Also, I almost have 800 people who are apparently staring at my artwork and writing so for all you lovely people you also he a hug <3

(also the Eldritch Ink ref is almost done)

[ragged-clangen]

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Welcome to RaggedClan!

Left alone in the ashen waste after a fire tore through their home, Lightpaw seeks to create the best life she can for the two smaller clanmates she managed to save. With the help of Bluebellpaw, an apprentice from another affected Clan that got fully separated during the tragedy, what path will they find for themself?

This is a doodle/story/ask blog! Asking the characters is highly encouraged!

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Current Allegiances :

Lightpaw | A long-furred pale gray rosette molly with sunlit ice eyes

Bluebellpaw | A long-furred pale gray smoke and white molly with pale blue eyes

Scarletkit | A masked ginger tabby tom with hazel eyes

Whisperkit | A masked pale tabby and white molly with heather blue eyes

[Refs TBA]

All posts about the clan under #raggedclangen

All art under #raggedclanart

Fanart and fanfics allowed!

[sunlitmcgee]

Sunlit please take some doodles of a space au I made:]

(First one Tommy’s ref second one is Tubbo holding Tommy:])

oooo lil guys

[cave-lions-are-cool]

new character who will be airdropped very sooon.

new moon already up on ComicFury, go check it out!

[alma-amentet]

My saves are mostly drawing refs, fandom stuff and overall aesthetic. Not much silly funny memes or something (but yes, that's what I am).

tagging @lhenn @evilwriter37 @fantomette22 @bardcambion @the-sunlit-earth @sadlazzle

thanks @landmineclinic ! tagging @tenderlambkin @arcaneseason3 @civilhavoc but no pressure ☺️💖✨

[sunlit-art]

went through golden wasteland with a friend. they are a vet. I am not a vet. we did not get krilled

went through wasteland with another friend. they are not a vet. I am not a vet. we got krilled

(28 August 2022)

[ferns]

my other accts:

@communitygardens : socialism + current events + mutual aid

@facetless : my art, digital + traditional

@memos : language learning + personal ref of all kinds; under construction

sunlitz: pinterest for OC aesthetic + personal inspo + misc.

unvitality : my twitter; private as of rn so just rq me

sunlite: peach acct primarily for personal talk :-/ rq me here, too!

ig: available to mutuals upon request! just reply/dm me

[iowacitypast]

Sunlit Oak looking toward East Campus, The University of Iowa, 1942

Publisher: Student Publications, Inc.

Photo from the 1943 “Hawkeye” Yearbook

Source: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/yearbooks/id/27515

[theuncrucified]

It's that magical time of year again for the Exalted Secret Santa! It’s also time for a new reference collection now that I have some new art to share this year. My Secret Santa has 3 options behind the cut. Choose your poison!

Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified

A passionate Eclipse Caste, Kalara can often be found traveling Creation using her charm and wit towards the cause of achieving a more equitable economy and the abolishment of slave labor throughout the threshold. While she has a friendly public face, her enemies whisper of her spy network, Kalara's "Tongues", which work quietly throughout Creation eliminating her enemies.

For more reference, see Kalara's full bio for more pics, etc.

Art Notes

She has a scar from a failed crucifixion on her left hand only, not both hands

Feel free to play with her hair and clothing style without sticking too close to the ref. Kalara mixes things up a lot to either blend in on her travels OR to make a big impression, depending on the occasion. She's quite the fashionista!

Her totemic anima involves chains of sunlight wrapping around her arms and ankles as the links fall off one by one. Spikes of sunlight, which do not harm her, appear in her hands and melt away. Behind her, a phoenix with a long, trailing tail rises up behind her

NSFW ok!

When she can't talk her way out of combat, Kalara uses a set of 'plainer' artifact firewands (pictured on the right below), though she prefers to leave the gunslinging to her alter-ego, Koh.

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Koh, the Silver-Tongued Devil

Sometimes when Kalara requires more "discretion" on the road, she travels in the guise of her male persona, Koh, the Silver-Tongued Devil. Rumors swirl around about how this infamous gunslinger and Righteous Devil led a rebellion and rules a network of rebels, escaped slaves, and bandits in the forests between Nexus and Dinas Ryhdd.

Much to Kalara's amusement, there's even a rumor that the two are lovers after her Night Caste companion shapeshifted into Koh so they could pose together at a party to throw off suspicion.

Art Notes

Koh appears male with dyed brown hair, though the disguise in my ref image is slipping a bit with Kalara's red roots showing and her shirt open.

The round-rimmed glasses are Koh's signature, feel free to take liberties with everything else, though Koh's appearance tends to channel Kalara's Southern heritage

Koh uses a set of dual Prayer Pieces

NSFW ok

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Night Locust, the Kindly Reaper

Kalara's right-hand ninja, head of security, and leader of her black ops, "The Embers". The two formed a strong familial bond as fledgling Solars, as the young Solar took his second breath at the age of 19 when he refused to murder his assassin partner, instead taking the life of their assassin clan's leader in a blaze of sunlit fury. Night Locust met Kalara in the wandering time after, Kalara giving him a purpose and compassion he did not have in life.

Night Locust may project an aura of calm sagely wisdom, but he is a prankster at heart and a keen edge on the battlefield. He uses a pair of short diaklaves and a dual-bladed scythe. He is not a fan of pointless murder, however, and also does his best to avoid violence.

Art Notes

Kalara and Night Locust are not lovers, but rather have a found-family relationship. Please do not draw them in a romantic situation.

Night's totemic anima is a cloud of blackness that breaks off into countless locusts

He enjoys a nice cup of tea and meditation

No NSFW topics

More reference images here.

Kalara and Night Locust by Sam Hogg

Kalara and Night Locust by Raeliyah

If you're interested in learning more about these characters, check out The Uncrucified for my Exalted art, fiction, etc.

Can't wait to see who is chosen this year. Have fun!

[marauder--harder]

ref.

Remus “Moony” Lupin // Gryffindor Prefect // Marauder

"Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question."

"D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern.

"Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin...”

— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[b1oodpink]

sunlit

ref: X