#bookshelfpassageway

[basil-the-bulbasaur]

@bookshelfpassageway Tumblr wouldn't let me post the submission with the drawing. So sorry hope this works

You get a nonogram!!! (I did not digitalize this. I understand this makes it harder, sorry)

Solution under cut

That's right! It's the Sheriff!

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

some more artfight stuff, featuring @bookshelfpassageway and @skullkxd's babies

[oozingcool]

Batch 2!!

Character links under the cut!!

Keyril: https://artfight.net/character/2979819.keyril belongs to @bookshelfpassageway

Hiromi: https://artfight.net/character/3287711.hiromi belongs to @spottedears

Dallas: https://artfight.net/character/5321502.dallas belongs to @the-vulcans-are-taking-over

7: https://artfight.net/character/3799417.7

[magiritsa]

Commission for @bookshelfpassageway

[woolmasterleel]

Revenge for @bookshelfpassageway !

[bookshelfpassageway]

Hello all! Looking to take some small, fast, and fun commissions to help decrease worrying about financials.  What I'm offering: A stylized headshot in the style depicted, with sharp shapes and chunky lineart and cel shade, priced at 25USD. This is a 5$ discount from my regular commission prices! Close-ups on the listed examples (among others, but I'm using those in the image as my guideline) can be viewed here. I'm open to draw any species, humans and humanoids, as well as any gender, features, or skintone.  Due to the more abstracted nature of the style, certain details or markings may be omitted or simplified. I will let you know if this is the case! Comment, message, or email bookshelfpassageway@gmail.com if interested! I take paypal up front.  Form:

Link to character reference:

Do you have a pose in mind? If not, tell me about the character's personality!

Any important design notes I should know:

Email that I can send a paypal invoice:

[systemsoftware115]

A tiefling design I did for Bookshelfpassageway on Toyhouse, for a character design forum game :)

Here's their account: https://toyhou.se/BookshelfPassageway

[songsandsorcery]

What's the story behind Fiz and the polite-looking little fellow with the glasses? (sorry for dropping in out of the blue, I hope that's okay, it's just... they seem cute... I enjoy seeing the green bard boy pop up on my dash and want good things for him)

Uh oh. You’ve done it now. You’ve unlocked ... THE BACKSTORY. Exposition ahead!

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A true story of opposites attract, Fizridge and Siggy entertain an unlikely romance that's no less genuine in its warmth despite the sheer incongruity of their personalities.

Fresh off the heels of love lost, Fizridge met Siggy much by chance while wandering the Mage Quarter during the month of Love is in the Air. The bard had found himself entrenched in a particularly volatile conversation with a mechagnome noble, arguing against the incensed politics regarding mechanical upgrades and the loss of bodily autonomy prevalent under King Mechagon's regime.

Siggy Mindticker, a neurologist and author currently pioneering a study on body dysphoria in mechagnomes, couldn't help but overhear the conversation and step in as a mediator. He insisted that differences would be best discussed over a drink and good company, leading the trio to retire to The Blue Recluse for a night of revelry ... and significantly less political discourse.

With tongues loosened over the comfort of a good drink, Siggy quickly discovered the source of Fizridge's cantankerous behavior. Love is in the Air had put him in a foul mood, compounded with a general feeling of being slighted by an old flame that'd pulled out of port only to never return. Sig took note of this and excused himself from the Recluse, returning within a few minutes with ... a rose?

Fizridge had admittedly pegged Siggy for little more than a nosy bookworm looking to play hero, possessing somewhat of a bias against Gnomeregan natives due to his frequent inability to get along with them. ( Condescension and haughty attitudes chief among the reasons why. ) For the plucky doctor to fly in the face of his assumption was definitely a deciding factor for him to pursue Siggy romantically, especially when Fizridge was so used to being the one that initiated flirting. The role-reversal was new ... and exciting. The nerdy little dude was maybe the tiniest bit handsome too, okay?

The two struck up an easy camaraderie, ending that night above the Stormwind Harbor overlook as they gazed at the stars. Sig proved to be a calming presence, working past those walls with little effort and encouraging conversation before the night came to a close. Fizridge extended the invitation to see each other again, discovering that the man was a Stormwind local and setting one of his many worries at ease; his last partner had been an adventurer that frequently left him on standby. Siggy offered stability. Uh oh.

In the course of a night Fizridge definitely started pining after this dude, but in a way entirely foreign to him. Gone was the smarm and wheedling flirts, no foot shoved in a potential opening as the bard did nothing to push their time past bedroom doors. At the end of the night, Fiz and Sig went their separate ways with little more than a promise to see each other again. Why did that make him feel weird?

Fizridge and Sig next met up at the Stormwind Market, allowing the doctor a chance to see Darkmoon’s Finest in action as he was treated to a game of Drunken Dragon. Following the market Sig was invited to play a round of Lucky Sevens amongst the carnival troupe ... with the ever-so-high stakes of Truth or Dare! Sig walked away with a cool three wins, leading the Finest to accuse Fizridge of loading his dice ... something he eagerly refuted by propositioning Siggy regardless of his win: Truth or Dare?

Fizridge limped away from the entanglement with more than a bruised ego, his mind swirling with a fair amount of confusion and anger. Why did something as simple as a stupid prank upset him so much? Why did Sig’s forwardness catch him so off-guard? ... Why did he want his first kiss with him to be different? He didn’t have a problem making out with strangers before. Taking things slow isn’t Fizridge’s style, so what gives?

Sig later apologized through a letter and the two agreed to meet up again. They reconciled over some tea and, hey, even made up for that kiss. A peck and nothing more. So not his style, but he’s found that he likes this guy. Likes him enough to, uh, maybe ease up the flirting with strangers just a bit. Oh no.

In the weeks that followed the two men found that they enjoyed one another’s company past tea and idle chit-chat. Siggy offered Fizridge a space to let his walls down and be vulnerable. Fizridge encouraged Siggy to get out of his shell and start pursuing his passions again. The bard found he adored the man’s stupid jokes, or the way his eyes lit up when he enthused him about the inner workings of the Gnomish brain ... everything so ridiculously, properly gnomish seemed to, against all odds, be a draw. Which made it all the more exciting when the doctor subverted his expectations and brought a more devious side out to play in private.

Siggy had Fizridge pinned as polyamorous from day one and broached the topic eloquently, initiating an admittedly painful conversation wherein Fizridge agreed to give monogamy a shot, just for him. The flirting would remain a staple of his show persona, but once the spotlights dimmed and the curtains fell, he’d go home to Siggy. No one else.

This ... admittedly brought with it some difficulties. Do remember the heartbreak that Fizridge had been nursing his heart over when he and Sig initially met. Vaskel, a Blackwater Raider who Fizridge had an on-and-off relationship with, reared his head when the bard was already well into his relationship with Sig. Facing an impending relocation to Kalimdor, the pirate returned to bid farewell one last time ... and proposition Fizridge to run away with him.

He said no.

Despite still loving Vaskel deeply and sorely wishing things had ended up different, Fizridge knew it was extremely unfair to Sig to even consider the idea. For him to turn him down spoke volumes about the depth of his loyalty in regards to Siggy, particularly because of Fizridge’s still-present feelings for Vaskel.

Their relationship has followed a pattern of push and pull, a never-ending game of discovering one another’s weaknesses and accounting for them. Fizridge finds it difficult to slow down, but finds Siggy’s companionship worth the effort. There’s still that omnipresent fear: what if he moves too fast? Comes on too strongly? What if he messes things up? He always does, after all. That’s why Posy left. That’s why things with Ziti never worked out. That’s why Sparksie won’t talk to him. How can the hands of a thief ever hold him like he deserves?

Part of him wonders if those fears will ever abate, but for now, Sig is there to help him every step of the way, and Fizridge thinks himself the luckiest gnome in the world for it.

Presently Fizridge and Siggy are in a committed monogamous relationship, though most of the carnival circuit isn't aware of such. Fizridge has proven to be rather secretive of the whole affair, though not purposefully so. A womanizing stage persona acts as quite the red-herring. Who could be the mysterious mainland paramour that’s snared the heart of none other than the Darkmoon Devil himself?

The fact of the matter is: Siggy is probably the closest thing Fizridge has ever had to a good, stable partner he has a real future with. He's fiercely protective of this part of his life and, as it stands? He's more than satisfied with their private affairs to feel like the whole world needs to know. ( He'll still eagerly regale you with anecdotes should you ask politely, and never fails to bring Sig up when speaking of things that remind him of the doctor. )

[modmad]

Will we be able to pick up the new tarot cards with the TPaTJ Kickstarter, when that happens? Or is it just best to go ahead and order them from the TPoHtoco store?

the tarot cards are just regular merchy merch merch- TPaTJ will have all new singing and dancing unique reward merch themed on the book itself! :D

[startrekdsc]

Have you heard anything about what time DSC will be uploaded to All Access? I've tried to find a time, but I (and others) can't seem to find it anywhere. I'd assume it's the same time as the first season, but since I want to coordinate a watch party with some of my friends I'd rather be sure!

Starting January 17th, a new episode will be available weekly on CBS All Access at 8:30PM EST, 5:30PM PST!

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

commission for @bookshelfpassageway >:3

[victorluvsalice]

Merry Christmas Emma!

@bookshelfpassageway​ -- I know we were talking about starting new threads in Secundus or the High School verse, and I’m still down for that, but to me you’re always going to be the Aperture Doc. XD So I present to you fic of our boys on the job, with a very special turret. . .

Knock-knock "Hello? Doc? Are you in?"

"Victor! Yes, come on in! I'm just fiddling around with something."

"Thanks -- I need another set of eyes," Victor explained, pushing open the door. "Johnson wants me to design a few more 'safety signs' for the test chambers and ahhhh!"

Victor jumped away as a red light skittered over his chest, courtesy of the large white turret sitting in front of his friend. "You could have warned me you were working on one of those!" he said, ducking behind Doc for safety.

"Oh, relax," Doc said, opening one of the side "wings." "It's completely unloaded, see? I've made sure of that ever since the, ah, incident on the fifth."

"Incident?" Victor repeated suspiciously.

"Wheatley."

"Ah." Victor swallowed as the laser found his body again. "I-I thought you were done with testing the effects of time displacement on turrets. I heard the explosions from the last test all the way over in the biology wing."

"Actively moving them through the time stream has ceased, yes," Doc said, looking just a touch embarrassed. "I really had no idea an artificial intelligence would take seeing itself at a different point in time so poorly. . .no, I'm just studying the circuitry of this particular misfit. It had a very -- unique reaction to the temporal displacement."

Victor eyed the laser, then the turret. "Unique?"

"Sleeping Beauty was cursed to sleep for a hundred years until a prince came to wake her up."

Victor started, dropping his papers. "What the--"

"Rather odd to hear them say things other than 'There you are' and 'Target acquired,' huh?" Doc said, smiling a little at his friend's surprise. "But this one's been spouting things like that ever since I sent it five minutes into the future." He peered into the wing, squinting past the rows of gun barrels, then loped his way over to the computer in the corner. "I'm hoping to figure out why."

"Hasn't this happened before?" Victor asked, crouching to gather up his designs. "You said something about turrets having existential crises before when moved through time."

"Yes, but usually that just ends with them screaming until they explode, or repeating a single nonsense phrase like 'purpose defines existence but existence defines purpose' over and over. Until they explode." Doc pulled out a bundle of wires. "This one. . .as far as I can tell, it's a standard-issue turret. No defects or parts out of line. But it's like -- something happened during its trip that altered its programming. Something that -- made it thoughtful. Reminds me of that Fact Core they're working on."

"Blue, yellow, green, pink. Remember that."

"Sure thing." Doc dragged the bundle over to the turret. "Victor, you've got slender fingers -- help me hook this thing into the computer, will you? Then we'll look at your drawings while I take my readings."

"All right," Victor said, though he didn't really fancy shoving his hands into one of Aperture's more lethal designs. He leaned over the turret as Doc untangled the wires and got some temporary solder putty ready. "Um -- d-did you like your trip through time?" he asked it, then felt like an idiot. Even if it talked more than your average turret, it wasn't like it --

The laser shrunk. "Don't bring your daughter to work."

". . .why did that sound vaguely omnious?"

"Remember, Victor -- it doesn't really know what it's saying," Doc told him, patting his back before handing him the first wire. "These AIs are designed to unnerve people. It's all part of its programming." He pointed to a spot deep in the turret's guts. "Start here, please. So, what are Johnson's plans for poor Bendy this week?"

[professorsparklepants]

One of these days I’m going to challenge @bookshelfpassageway to a shootout in the middle of town at high noon for the rights to being a member of the Girl Genius fandom named Emma.

[skrankku]

Now that the reveal is up, here is the piece I did for the exchange! @bookshelfpassageway it looks like we got each others' prompts; what are the odds for that? I very much enjoyed your fic and have one third of an A4 filled with notes on the highlights

[hogswatch-fanworks-exchange]

Welcome to the first day of the 2019 Hogswatch exchange!

Happy Hogswatch, @bookshelfpassageway, from your secret artist!

[incalotlarts]

Artwork for @bookshelfpassageway of their character, Virgil!

I’m Team Sugar on ArtFight!