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[fictionadventurer]

Tagged by @iseult-blanchemains (I've read Elizabeth Goudge!)

Last song you sang out loud: How Great Thou Art

Favorite chip flavor: Sour cream and onion

Last book you opened: Last physical book was Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George. Last ebook was Cuddy Yarborough's Daughter by Una Silberrad

Earbuds, headphones, or nothing? Usually nothing

Last place you went to other than home: Work

A color that looks good on you: Black

Last trailer you saw: Probably a piece of the trailer for Captain America: Brave New World

Tagging: (Sorry, I don't know who's been tagged) @thatscarletflycatcher, @awesomebutunpractical, @lover-of-the-starkindler, @isfjmel-phleg, @healerqueen, @why-bless-your-heart, @scarvenartist

[gonturan0]

9 people you would like to get to know better

tagged by @nadjem-mari. Thanks for tagging!

3 ships: uh, I don't really ship anything beyond my very niche tastes... but I like Sasha x Milla (Psychonauts), Lance x Allura (Voltron), and Aloy x Being Oblivious To All Flirting (Horizon: Zero Dawn)

first ever ship: again, I ain't a lady who ships things. so... idk Sasha x Milla? I read a shipfic for them once years ago where Sasha keeps trying to rationalize his relationship with Milla as a friendship but ultimately he makes a move when he realizes the romantic nature of his feelings for her, and I enjoyed that. it's one of the only ships I really enjoy

last song: Tennessee Plates by John Hiatt

Last movie: Across the Spiderverse; I saw it in theaters.

currently reading: I just finished a guide on Australia's eastern wildlife, so I'm gonna go back to Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and see if I can actually finish it this time.

currently watching: I don't watch shows these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but someday I'll watch Wander Over Yonder...

currently consuming: oxygen. I'm done eating for the night

currently craving: Horizon: Zero Dawn. Almost done with the game!

I tag: @jurakan, @chicoryblast-art (can't tag your main for some reason), @spectrearia, @awesomebutunpractical, @akinaw, and idk who else. Do this if you feel like it.

[raine-hearts-art]

Happy Birthday Xiao Xingchen! Palette by @awesomebutunpractical

ID: A digital drawing of Xiao Xingchen from the shoulders up. He is toward the right of the canvas, wearing a blindfold and a smile. His hair is partially up in a bun with a pale guan. The art is color-blocked with no shading and minimal highlights. ED.

[why-bless-your-heart]

@awesomebutunpractical

Before you, before me, before all that we see, there was a giant by the name of Grop. His eyes were numbered two, his hands here numbered two, his feet were numbered two, but for Grop, that was not enough. For Grop was a proud giant, prouder than any giant of old had dared to be, and he had a dream that came from the darkness of his sleep.

In his dream Grop was larger than any giant of old had dared to be, his body covering the galaxy over, his eyes looking out from a planet, his hands reaching across a star, his feet walking across a universe, a giant the size of a galaxy.

And so Grop began in secret, making division of himself, multiplying with dark arts, making his eyes from two to two million, his hands from two to two billion, his feet from two to two trillion. All the parts of himself he divided and multiplied, covering the galaxy in his own image, to become a giant such as at which all the universe would shudder.

But no secret can be kept, and the dream of Grop that had come from darkness was revealed before he had made its completion.

So Grop was sundered from himself and scattered, and all that remained of him was spread among the stars so that his body covered the galaxy over. In this way Grop's dream was fulfilled, and his eyes looked out from a planet and his hands reached across a star, and his feet walked across a universe--but Grop's thought would no more dream in the darkness of his sleep.

And the planets turned and the stars burned and in time came you and came me and came all that we see.

[allieinarden]

I have officially finished all four of the Psmith books. Thank you, by the way. I laughed out loud several times. Now armed with the knowledge of what you were talking about I started digging through your Psmith tag and stumbled across Watchdog!Psmith. The idea of the battle that would ensue between him and Peepers just makes me smile so hard.

Boy, am I glad you gave me an excuse to drag these out of storage. 

[isfjmel-phleg]

I commissioned @awesomebutunpractical to surprise me with two of my OCs of her choice, and she produced these beautiful renditions of Rietta and Tamett, whom she captured perfectly.

Go commission her! As you can see, she does excellent work.

[isfjmel-phleg]

My OCs Ayra and Ateva, as gorgeously depicted by @awesomebutunpractical.

She did an amazing job on these two. The hair alone is stunning, and the expressions so characteristic. I love how Ayra appears to be standing in the wind and silently daring life to do its worst, while Ateva seems to be trying to diffidently minimize her height despite her demeanor of friendliness. (Not to mention they look plausibly like the half-siblings of her Josiah.) I am repeatedly in awe of how well she captures these characters and makes me want an animated adaptation of this WIP.

The rest of the set: Rietta and Tamett, Delclis and Elystan, Amarantha and Josiah.

Go commission her! If slots are still open. You’ll have to ask.

[isfjmel-phleg]

More OC art by the amazing @awesomebutunpractical! This is Rachel on the left and Emenor (Tamett’s older sister) on the right.

Rachel is, as usual, in a state of apprehension, while Emenor is probably playing concertos in her head. As ever, I love how well @awesomebutunpractical captures their distinct personalities and am forever in awe of the beautiful shading work on their hair.

The rest of the set: Rietta and Tamett, Delclis and Elystan, Amarantha and Josiah, Ayra and Ateva, Tietra and Bethira.

Go commission her! If slots are still open. You’ll have to ask.

[isfjmel-phleg]

@awesomebutunpractical I have the most fun finding mismatched frames for these!

[isfjmel-phleg]

It’s Delclis and Elystan, doing what they do best (i.e. probably examining plants and talking, respectively), as beautifully rendered by the ever-amazing @awesomebutunpractical.

She totally nailed their personalities (not to mention color schemes) and I love it.

Go commission her!

[isfjmel-phleg]

I've had these prints of @awesomebutunpractical 's art for a while now but needed frames. These are mismatched but I like the effect.

[isfjmel-phleg]

Amarantha and Josiah, the last of the set of my OC protagonists by @awesomebutunpractical.

She’s done such an excellent job capturing them as described, especially with the expressions (her wide-eyed observance, his mixture of haughtiness and worry!). I love the detail in the clothing and the color choices too.

The others: Rietta and Tamett, and Delclis and Elystan.

Go commission her!

[isfjmel-phleg]

😶 Levico

Levico's resting face is focused but relaxed, although there's a quality about his jaw that suggests a readiness not only to laugh but also to get in someone's face when necessary.

His body language tends to be casually confident--not arrogant but aggressive when required. There's a little drama in his movements leftover from his days as a failed actor, and it's entertaining to watch him read his work aloud and automatically slip back into impressive gestures and pantomiming and the dramatic V (focusing the eyes in a different direction for each character he represents).

[isfjmel-phleg]

More of my OCs from @awesomebutunpractical!--this time Rietta’s mother, Tietra (née Philene); and Delclis and Elystan’s mother, Bethira.

She worked from the descriptions below:

Fifteen years before, Tietra had her dark hair cut in a fluffy fringe over her forehead, and now, when all the women in Dorin were pulling their hair back to pile atop their heads, Tietra’s fringe remained. It had not suited her long oval face then, and it did not suit her now. She looked like a girl who was attending a fancy-dress party as her mother at the same age. The ladies at court whispered about her clothes–still the dusty lavender and gray shades of half-mourning, more than a decade into her widowhood, and so unbecoming to that olive Otionovian complexion. Even her dreamy expression was wrong, for it did not match her dark brows and aquiline nose and gave her eyes an unsettling faraway look. There had been a time when the court had hoped for her improvement upon longer residence in Faysmond, but they had given up long ago.

Without already knowing that Bethira had been born a mere minor nobleman’s daughter, one would never guess it. Years of queenly experience had molded the mask to her face so closely that it was unimaginable that she could have ever been anything less than the embodiment of remote elegance. She was a small woman, but not childlike despite her stature. Her fair skin was bone china, not porcelain. The blonde hair coiled atop her head had started to go silver, and her dark blue eyes, unlike her younger son’s, had lost their naivete long ago. She had delicate pointed features that some men had told her were those of an angel; perhaps they were right, if they had meant a marble one from a graveyard.

...and I love how well she captured the personalities, as she always does. The intricacy of the hair and clothing is stunning.

The rest of the set: Rietta and Tamett, Delclis and Elystan, Amarantha and Josiah, Ayra and Ateva.

Go commission her! If slots are still open. You’ll have to ask.