#above and below

[starlit-lion]

Wood Elf design for @pikablob's setting: Above and Below!

[alien-onyx]

comm for my good friend @pikablob!! :3

the half-elven woman is Athabasca who's shown with Hester

She's the arch-enemy of the human man, Tobias, he's shown with his daughter Grace.

[experimentjr]

Commission done for @pikablob!!! More uns design for their D&D Campaign: Above and Below.

This is actually Pikablob's background (the second one) after I sent them the commission (the first one)!

Thank you so much for commissioning me once more :D

[griefabyss69]

Eddie's second lease on life turns out to be a double edged sword, once he's been off of the good shit that the hospital's been dripping into him long enough to realize that the duality of his life isn't actually just a weird reaction to all of the morphine.

He hears the noises - a simmering chorus of echoing violence that accompanies every sound he's actually present for.

He sees it all, like a picture taken over a roll of film that had already been used up, gauzy and just as terrifiying as it had been when it was the only thing in view.

The worst are the most visceral of his senses, tasting mold and blood and acid, smelling meat and rot and death. And feeling -

He can feel the vines crawling over his cracked body and staking their claim, pushing a weird sweet liquid into his mouth as they tighten around him, leaving him helpless to be fed whatever poison they're preparing their meal with.

But he's here as well.

Walking slowly from Wayne's truck to Steve's front door, a place where he can recover more easily than at Wayne's temporary lodgings at the Motel 9. The sun is out and the air is almost fresh enough to override the rot.

He claims exhaustion for how distracted he is, claims pain for all of the other reactions, like when the vines find out whether one of his ribs can take any more of the claiming bear hug they've trapped him with.

He wonders if this it is, now.

The twin of himself either a copy or a sliced half, one brain and one soul and one lonely experience overrun with two different sides of a world.

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I'm stuck in bed with the second half a migraine (well enough to wrestle with the fucking tumblr post editor on my phone lmao), so I thought I'd just put something that's been rattling around in my brain out there. Lemme know what you think and if you'd like to see more! If there's enough interest I might do the work on it, it's plot heavy and esoteric enough for me to want to take my time with it either way.

[1introvertedsage]

Come from the center when choosing paths.

~O.O.~

[leslie057]

not a week goes by where i dont think about the youtube channel shainira and their stranger things edits

[brownsugar4hersoul]

“Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.”

Lee Argus, Chance Escape

[leoprosy]

i finally finished the first rough draft of my wip and im so excited to reread it and take notes and fix stuff aaaaaaaaa

[tropicalelysium]

ocean on magic fire 🌊🔥✨💙💛

[happymeishappylife]

Raleigh Ritchie - Above and Below (Rough and Ready Version) [Visualiser]

[starlit-lion]

A Cartori design for @pikablob's Above and Below. I introduced my character (a Firbolg) with this image, but it was secretly an illusory disguise :p

[alien-onyx]

penatia for @pikablob !! also known as the lady of pain.

[inkshadow]

dax doesn't even bother to address the money situation anymore, hellbent on not taking anything from her especially when the argument clearly stems from something else. it's his saving grace that she's not sent him anything through cash apps and the like, otherwise she could put a pin in this with a few taps of her phone. "you sure that's not what you're saying? do you even know what you're saying right —" the light press to his chest does nothing to faze him; in fact, it makes him laugh that she thought such a feeble attempt would get her anywhere. with tessa, words will always cut deeper than anything physical and something tells him that would still ring true if she stabbed him right then and there. "what the hell is so wrong with feeling bad for someone who clearly isn't happy with how things are?!" her dad, mainly, but surely that's just part of the whole problem. is that also why she didn't care to apply herself in med school? "this isn't charity, i'm just bein' fucking honest which is something you can't even do for yourself!" even though their upbringing places them in two totally different worlds, there's one thing that dax feels she can see eye-to-eye on. "we're all alone in this fucked up world, tess — you and me. and if you can't accept that your god damn asshole of a dad isn't gonna pick you up if you end up in a ditch somewhere, i don't know what to tell you!"

"then consider the thousand as an advance, and i'll call you the next time someone's bothering me!" she throws her hands up with frustration, not entirely sure why it matters to her so much that he take the money. sure, it is only pocket change to a hawkins, but it's more than that. if he doesn't take it, then it's admitting last night was just about... spending time together. having fun without the pretense of some excuse for it. and tessa can't have that. can't allow herself to admit that she might like dax. because they're from two totally different worlds, and while he may have said some nice things to her, he still hates her. right? shoots him another eye roll, because of course he'd focus on the toilet. "that's not what i'm saying, dumbass." so what is she saying? her brain might be too fuzzy for logic. it's not too fuzzy for anger, though, eyes widening when he admits it, small frame launching forward to push pathetically at his chest. "well don't! i don't need your fucking pity, dax. this isn't some reverse charity bullshit." breath quickens with adrenaline and fear, because she doesn't like how close he is to the truth. "fuck off, my situation is fine!"

[experimentjr]

Commission done for @pikablob!!! Guns design for their story: Above and Below.

This is actually Pikablob's background (the second one) after I sent them the commission (the first one)!

Thank you so much for commissioning me :D

[aimseytv]

the warden and the creaking from minecraft are a beautiful recipe for tragic yuri. if you even care.