#always happy to answer questions

[overlookedfile]

Hey I noticed you used to update by definition a bounty every Monday. It’s been a while since you posted a chapter and wanted to make sure everything‘s all right. I love the story that I can’t wait to see where it goes, but I’m completely understand as someone who writes themselves like writers block, and all that so take your time too if you need it.

Hey! I'm really glad to hear you're enjoying the story. 🥰

I'm still working on it, but for a while I couldn't figure out why I was unhappy with the yet-unpublished parts I'd already written. It turns out that I'd rushed through a pivotal moment in the next chapter and so everything after it felt weirdly off: kinda like a runaway cart with momentum of its own.

I guess I got too excited for a particular moment (Viggo making Erik say "I love you", to be specific) and tried to place it earlier in the story than it needs to be. 😅

I'm still struggling with exactly how to phrase/restructure things to get the story back on its pacing, but at least now I know what the problem is. Unfortunately, I still don't have an ETA of when I'll be ready to post again.

As thanks for checking in, here are some tidbits about what's ahead:

* Some fun moments with Erik's other dragons

* Nora giving Viggo a stern talking-to

* a spontaneous Volstead festival

* meeting Ryker's childhood crush

[budder28]

Thank you and thanks for asking!

I had been thinking about drawing Dabi for a while. I wanted to create a more vulnerable and quiet scene. I was thinking of a specific scene of the latest season; the one where he’s lore dumping across national tv (best way to put it without spoilers lol). He’s showing off his scars, which is a pretty revealing and vulnerable thing to do.

I often draw ‘spread out’ poses, so I wanted to tackle a more ‘scrunched’ pose. A juxtaposition of how he was showing off his scars. I also struggle with male anatomy, so it was double practice. I figured having him curled up into himself was the best way to challenge myself; and to express the symbolism I was trying to achieve.

I used a combo of references to achieve this.

It was tough finding exactly what I wanted, so I hunted down some photoshoot examples. I used these two to find the kind of angle I wanted. I sometimes find it a bit difficult to reference still life shots; so I used this as a starting point to find a more stylised reference.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find the original artist. I tried reverse image searching and tracking down those links. No results though :(

I much preferred the angle of the stylised reference, given that I was aiming for an anime adjacent look.

As for the hands, I just used my own ✋🤚

I also included the alternate version as a “what could have been.” if things were different for him.

Most of my art is either “oh wow, cool thing” or “I wanted to draw hot people”, but sometimes I put effort and thought behind my art lol

I waffled on a bit, but thank you again for asking^^ ✨

This started as an anatomy/pose study, and turned into some self indulgent fanart.

Below the line is a spoiler version (if you haven't watched/read any of the newer seasons/volumes of bnha)

Toya version

[barghest-land]

normannognathus :) colors were based on the brown pelican

[yiddishknights]

you seem like the right person to ask about jewish knights and judaism in general in arthurian legend

Hello! Apologies for how long it has taken me to respond to this! Throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, there were a number of Arthurian texts written by and for Jewish people in Jewish languages. The one I specialize in is an Old Yiddish text called Vidvilt, which is part of the Fair Unknown tradition and based off an earlier German text called Wigalois. This text was super popular in the Yiddish-speaking world for about three centuries or so and was reworked and reprinted a number of times. I already discussed some of those adaptations a while ago in response to this ask.

Predating Vidvilt, there was a Hebrew Arthurian text written in the 13th century which is now commonly known as Melekh Artus. This was based on Old French sources and tells the story of Arthur's birth and Lancelot's affair with Guinevere before breaking off unfinished. The most common edition of the text used today is the one by Curt Leviant, though I just read a fascinating article in the latest issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society calling into question some of his transcription choices and the conclusions he draws in his analysis of the text.

I also recently read that a fragment of an Arthurian text in Judeo-Catalan was recently discovered, but I'm afraid I don't know much about it as yet other than that it's apparently a late medieval adaptation of Jaufre.

Chivalric romances of both Christian and Jewish origin were extremely popular among medieval and early modern Jews in general. There were a number of non-Arthurian knight stories that were very popular as well; for example, the most famous and influential work of early Yiddish literature was a chivalric epic called Bovo d'Antona, and a survey I read of the literature in Jewish households in early modern Italy shows that the most popular non-religious work among Jews at that time was Orlando Furioso.

It is worth noting that, even though some of these texts were written by and for Jews, that doesn't necessarily mean that the characters in them were Jewish. Jewish writers generally tended to modify their Christian source materials by gliding over or obscuring references to religion, rather than depicting Judaism directly (the reasons for this are complex and could constitute a whole paper, so I won't get into it here). That being said, medieval Jewish knights did exist in real life, too! There are a few medieval historians who do research into exactly when, where, and under what circumstances Jews were allowed to bear arms, but it definitely wasn't exclusively a literary thing.

[alevolpe]

You know, sometimes I think about the fact that we never met a Chibiusa who had a truly good childhood. Mostly talking about a childhood with present, loving and caring guardians and parental figures. (Less about people trying to kill her and stuff, though I'm sure that as its effects as well)

Like idk wtf Usagi and Mamoru have got going on in Crystal Tokyo, they get possessed by a more asshole version of themselves, but they don't feel like the Mamo and Usagi we know from the series grown up. They suck at parenting, it's canonically shown. And not even in the funny ahaha trying parent, no, they are BAD parents.

I also don't know what the inners are doing, finding literally anything else to do but taking good care of this neglected child.

Idk, just things that make me think about the Chibiusa we got to meet and the one who is synonymous with the person we know as Chibiusa.

[blimbo-buddy]

what would see inside phillipe be like?

Ohoho you're in for a treat. First off, some concepts:

Phillippe -> Pippy

To contrast with him appearing as a bug often seen as cute; I wanted to instead make him appear as a bug that isn't seen in the same good light

Stuck between a scorpion, fly, and roach (not pictured here)

Scorpion has deeper meaning but also I imagined a Fly if I wanted to keep closer to Phillippe's original appearance

Scorpion would have a little cork on the end of the stinger

I might do a poll to see which idea you guys like better

Now onto the actual story beats with him:

His whole thing with using the bug disguise to trick the party into being consumed by Spore Mother is still there

But instead, he actually feels horrible amounts of shame for it; this is the only purpose of his existence, to deceive and feed Spore Mother more victims

This is his inner turmoil while leading evil Sam/Bram and the party to Spore Mother and it's where it finally reaches a boiling point

I'd imagine in game dialogue would point out that Pippy is seeming very antsy which only gets worse when they're closer to their destination

At the last second, Pippy reveals the truth that he's a spore mimic and instantly drops what's going on

He cries that he doesn't want to hurt people

He doesn't want to feed Spore Mother anymore

He doesn't want to be a mushroom mimic

He wants to be Pippy

In the fight against Spore Mother, Pippy fights with evil Sam/Bram and the others. Unfortunately, Pippy sacrifices himself for the survival of the others.

Though thankfully, in a shocking moment, evil Sam/Bram feels a wave of remorse wash over him - though doesn't show it outwardly to the others in that moment- and takes his remains. He'll remember him, not as a mushroom, not as a monster, not even as something who was trying to lead them to their deaths; but as Pippy.

[iamhereinthebg]

The clock keepers deserve to have the full shaded promo art for their volume 🙏🙏

Edit: I HAVE THEM ALL!!!

[justinegreenpie]

Move over Game of Thrones, we all know who's the real king of medieval fantasy!

[anxiousapplepie]

Heya!!! It's me again!!

Okay, so I figured I should ask some questions I've been rotating in my mind recently- (for way too long)

First! Can you tell us some world-build related stuff? For example interesting places in the RK world.

Second, what would be the team's reaction to Lapis being human?

Last, I'm a bit sad that u didn't draw Barbara with a braid (I know I've already drew it but my art sucks) so can you please draw her with a braid pls

It entirely depends on what you think is an "interesting" place, but some of my favorite RK locations include the Deja Brew Tavern and anywhere with massive stained-glass windows or street artists doing their thing Altho the edge of the forest with the 7 twisted dead trees is also a place I think about way too often The team have very different reactions to Lapis being human. That's all you need to know for now >:3 I have a very contrary creature inside of me. If someone wants me to draw something, my little critter crosses it's arms and huffs "well now I don't want to!" so forgive me for not wanting to comply without a fight XD

[firebirds-roost]

Starting to work on reference sheets for the main characters of Firebird's Roost! I'm planning to upload them in batches of two or three, since that's kind of how they're divided up in the story itself.

Naturally we're kicking things off with my progenitors and co-leaders, Fluffington and Wraith. Lovely couple, aren't they?

Design notes under cut:

FLUFFINGTON

-Pink patches glow and additional markings appear when using magic (Runes gene)

-Naturally inclined to walk on all fours but likes the more dignified feeling of standing upright

-Always smiling regardless of emotion; his eyes usually give away what he's really thinking

WRAITH

-Bandages kind of just... phase through her wings in the back, since they're all sludgy and not really solid

-Rarely removes mask, but has a pretty ordinary face under it (reference her on-site design for patterns)

-Wing membranes are translucent and constantly shifting

[vesper100]

I just wanted to say that I love your monk OCs and would love to learn more about them! Is there anywhere online that you've posted stories/comics about them besides Tumblr?

Thank u so much!!! I post on insta too but nothing important that isn't already here... You can have some more doodles if you like them though ^_^

[driftsart]

Wait so, where does the story for the au take place, exactly? Are the Autobots and Cons still on Cybertron? Are they on Earth? When does it take place? :3

Autobots

The Autobots are divided up to look for Decepticons.

- Team Prime is Sentinel's group that changes location every now and then. Sometimes they're in autobot base (on earth) and sometimes they're on cybertron.

-Ultra Magnus' group of Autobot travel from Cybertron to Earth and back to carry messages, sometimes other autobots from one place to another, etc.

- The Earth Autobots are the autobots who have settled on Earth. Some of these include: Jazz, Prowl, Rung, Drift, etc. They live in autobot base and work alongside humans, except for Drift, who doesn't like to stick around near other autobots for long.

- Other autobots: Many autobots are allowed to travel between the two planets, others are on Cybertron, capturing all the decepticons there and others are on Earth trying to find the remaining decepticons there.

Decepticons

The decepticons are mostly scattered across earth and Cybertron, in hiding.

- Megatron's group, are in hiding since they first landed on Earth. With spare parts from their escape pods, they created a ship-like home, well hidden with Earth's nature. It's somewhere on a very very tiny island, not even found on maps.

- Tarn's group (Tarn, Arachnid, etc.), (Are Decepticons who are against autobots but against Megatron too. They see Megatron as weak and pathetic and they think the decepticons will lose because of his gentleness. They believe Megatron should be replaced) Is on Cybertron, because they refused to cower and escape Cybertron like Megatron.

- Captive Decepticons: Captive Decepticons are those who were unlucky and got caught by autobot soldiers. They're almost always sent to autobot prisons on Cybertron, where they're treated terribly (they're kinda like Concentration camps). Blitzwing's one of them.

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Important Time Periods:

These time periods were the ones with most important parts that are important to the story.

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WW1

- WW1 was when the Decepticons arrived on Earth. It's when humans first made contact with Cybertronians.

WW2

- WW2 was when the autobots first landed on Earth. Sentinel was the first to arrive alongside Optimus. While Optimus was distracted with humans and trying to become their allies, Sentinel made some bad deals with the wrong allies.

- Blitzwing and many other decepticons were also captured by both autobots with the help of Sentinel's human allies (the axis 😬). Some were given to the axis for experiments while others were taken back to Cybertron to prisons.

Present

- The younger autobots start to become suspicious of Sentinel and begin doing their own research alongside their younger human allies. Some even start talking to some decepticons that are held captive.

- Tensions between the autobots rise and the younger ones refuse to follow orders more than usual.

- The Autobots are getting closer to finding Megatron's group.

[certifiedlibraryposts]

I've moved and want to get a library card, but my id doesn't have my current address and no mail has my name. Do I just have to wait

According to two of my local libraries' websites, they would also accept other proofs of address such as bank statements, utility bills, or rent/mortgage receipts.

That might not be universal though, so I would suggest getting in contact with your library or checking their website to get a more definite answer for you.

[httyd-art-requests]

I’m considering making a blog similar to this one but for a different fandom so I wanted to ask if you have any tips?

!!! That's great! Please let me know if/when you do make a blog, I'd love to see it!

Don't be discouraged if your posts don't draw in people immediately, it can take time for the right people to find you. I started out as a daily art blog before I changed to an art request blog, so my daily posting gave my followers something to come back for (aside from my infinitely likeable and charming personality, clearly) (joke)

I got lucky enough to be discovered by some very kind and very supportive people early on, who helped me keep up with the daily posting for much longer than I expected to be able to do. Give it some time, and your people will find you as well.

In my experience, it's very easy to get overwhelmed once you have requests coming in on the regular. Don't be afraid to take breaks, and don't push yourself to keep creating if you're not having fun with it anymore. Draw your boundaries where needed, and don't forget that It's Your House. You get to make and change the rules.

Be kind to people, be welcoming, and most of all: have fun!

(And tag me so I can reblog it :] )

[pushing500]

What inspired you to start doing Rimworld doodles? You kinda inspire Me. Wondering if you saw someone else doing this or if you just started it up completely off the dome (as in like,,, Twas an original thought).

The idea of my RimWorld doodles inspiring people keeps me up at night giggling and kicking my feet, so thank you for that <3 <3

As for inspiration... Well, at the risk of sounding like a long-winded recipe blog...

When I was a kid, my family moved houses and schools a lot. I got used to losing friends and knowing I would likely never see any of them again, and it meant that I was especially close to my siblings as a result. No matter how far we moved, how different my new school was, or how many friends I left behind, I knew my brothers and my sister would be there. If I wanted to talk to people, it often meant I had to bother my siblings and so I would usually sit by them when I felt the need to talk out loud and work on things. Sometimes homework, but mostly artwork.

From the age of roughly eleven, I had big dreams of writing comic books. I had plotlines and characters all planned out, but fell into a bit of a worldbuilding hole and never actually wrote any of the story beyond a horrific first draft. Sometimes when I felt talkative, I would bring my sketchbooks out and sit beside my brother while he played RimWorld. The idea was to draw my own comics and design OCs while hanging out with him, but one day, I got particularly invested in his colony. He had a group of cybernetic dwarf colonists, and one of them had decided that the battery room was a good place to keep his pet boomalope, which went... about as well as you would expect. After my brother explained what had happened (this was before I played RimWorld), I thought it was really funny. I put aside my OC drawings and drew this instead:

We put it up on the wall above the computer, and from then on, whenever I sat by to watch my brother play RimWorld, I would draw things that happened in his game instead of focusing on my own comics and OCs.

When I asked my brother to teach me how to play RimWorld, I just sort of... kept up the habit. One day, I thought it would be nice to post some of my drawings online, and I think it was a good decision because lots of people have told me they like it. It's very good! I love drawing, and I love playing RimWorld, but it's so much better when I have other people to share the stories with!

[holyshit]

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