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[canisalbus]

Happy non chocolate cake day.

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[yeehawpim]

extra: the video that got me to do baking🍞

[t00thpasteface]

and yet, still roomier than the tents around here

[chroma-imp-draws]

Decided to redesign my own redesigns of the Trix once again, because I support women's wrongs <3

(old version here)

here's also a speedpaint where I talk a but more about them: https://youtu.be/CPxklymWu8I

[touteytout]

trying to figure out her makeup but i think she looks best without any....

[cozylittleartblog]

trying out some new ideas

[hellisntreal]

a power of peace and healing//your bones run strong

I spent a very long time trying to work out a Stone design and I'm still not settled! I'm sure like my other humanizations of Fallen London entities, I'll come up with a few <3

[bonefall]

Hi Bones!! Thank you for you hard work on this project and for sharing it with us!

I've seen your posts about weird representation of society (regarding the "natural order of things") in xenofiction, especially in lion king, so I wanted to ask:

could you recommend any xenofiction media that has all (or most of the) animal species sapient? Or is the only solution to make just one or two species sapient while the others (especially prey) are plain animals?

Really sorry if you've seen this ask from me before - my account had a weird laggy period when I couldn't send or receive messages and asks, so I don't know if you got the previous one! I just know that now it's fixed so I double all the asks sent haha

Honestly I'm not totally sure! If any 3rd person has some good recommendations for "every being is alive" xenofiction types, feel free to weigh in.

If you want to jump in with me though, I am following the webcomic Africa. It updates every Wednesday. Africa is about a mother Leopard on the verge of a great ecological disaster, the relationship between her children and the animals around her, and the strength of both instinct and choice as the characters face an uncertain future.

Since it's ongoing, I still don't know how it's going to end and can't judge it as a full work! But it's absolutely fascinating and I think the author is doing a fantastic job so far. Bonus points for the way it portrays humans, btw.

No more spoilers though, if you're interested, it's on Webtoons.

(I'm also planning to read Oren's Forge soon. Ask me about it again in a few months over on Bonebabbles and I'll give you my thoughts)

As an aside though, funny you mention it because like... ever since I was a kid I've had a story I want to tell with the premise. It's a scintilla I've kept close to me for well over a decade but haven't done anything official with. So this is actually a theme I've thought about a lot.

It's rare to see it done well though because like... its very premise butts heads with reality. The "natural order" that an animal follows is not something it moralizes. A tiger doesn't have the capacity to think about how fucked up it is to kill to stay alive, the deer doesn't know that if its population isn't controlled it will destroy the forest.

They're animals. They don't HAVE that agency. Your dog does not care about being sterilized. A snake doesn't differentiate between a pinky and an adult mouse except in terms of if it will fit in its mouth. But the minute you put human morality in there... they have the ability to reason, create and agree on the rules of a society, make choices about MORALITY.

If nothing is going to change about their world, you just end up putting human arguments about "natural order" in their mouths and, well... start telling a parable justifying this "natural order."

(Genuine) Does what I'm saying make sense? Animals DON'T rationalize or negotiate. HUMANS do.

So the minute you're approaching a world with that logic, like it or not, you are invoking those "arguments from nature." And you're putting them in a being that is not fully an animal or a human, but an anthropomorphic mix which CAN rationalize but WON'T make an effort to change their world.

(Which is why tbh the best examples i know of are works with a theme of "change.")

OH WAIT I also remember another that's interesting!! Leafy: Hen into the Wild actually has a fascinating take on it. It's not interested in "moralizing" or really being about an animal society. It's a very emotional sort of movie, and it's about joys in adversity, the freedom that choice gives you, how bad things are going to happen and you can never completely prevent them.

INTENSE movie emotionally, the ending will wreck you (especially in the English translation which leaves out a really important theme making it feel abrupt x_x) but it's really good. Check that one out.

OH and also You Are Umasou. That one has more pitfalls imo (it does try to moralize a bit) but it's super unique as a movie. And is about dinosaurs.

[enhanced-operatives-division]

i don't think you've made a solaris design yet.... but am i allowed to request solaris anyways. or will i get beaten with two billion hammers until i die. for this.

No hammers for you, these asks hold me accountable to actually design the characters...

Filled a double page spread with just her...thus the 'Oops! All Solaris'

On THAT note, +2 sketchbook pages filled, 6/30 completed. I have 2 weeks until my hand in so I gotta pick up the pace. Blimey.

[darth-sonny]

Just the thought of WaW donnie and Prime Donnie beating the sh*t out of each other but stopping whenever one and/or both of the leos call for them and immediately acting like they passive aggresively like each other but its oh so obvious they despise the other. Like:

Prime Donnie: "don't worry dear twin of mine, i will finish whatever this thing you just requested in a flash! Before you can even realize! won't wanna make you wait"

WaW Donnie: *under his breath, you little bitc-* "Nono let ME do it, i'll pay attention to make sure its the best in quality! Prime Donnie: .... *oh you just wage war ignoramus*

While both the Leos just know that these 2 absolutely hate each other

they just hate each other. they just fucking hate each other. there is no fake friendship it's just pure "on-motherfucking-SIGHT" energy

both the Prime!fam and the W&W!fam are just plain tired at this point

well, Lee (F!Leo) only exists in W&W, so Prime!Donnie doesn't hate him since he doesn't know him. that's just W&W!Donnie

but yes, those are the only three things that they will unanimosly agree on. other than that, they're simply two hissy cats that do. not. like each other

[wormonastringtime]

perfectly average glass of water

[canisalbus]

cursed no tattoo machete (I'm sorry for doing this to him)

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[i-really-like-phrogs]

Here’s a frog cup I recently finished as a commission for a pal of mine! I love everything about this one soooo much!

[tvntheatre]

I redesigned them yesterday. :³

Refer to tags if you want to watch me rant. Feel free to ask about them or literally any other OC I've. :³

[mjhartwork]

2,000 year old Protean vessel lid, depicting three Proteans from different stratums of Selhadro. Considering the open mouths pointing towards the lid's handle, it was most likely used to store food. This artifact was dug up, alongside many others, during a mining operation on Lagopus that broke into the remains of a museum.

[starlit-mansion]

corv made an alquist proft commander deck after mkm and i've been using it now that we've started going to commander, because it's incredibly unassuming and also easy to explain (detectives matter + clue synergy + a few alternate wincons). i tried playing my gruul dragons deck and i feel like everyone sees a dragon and they're like "i don't like that and you're immediately a problem" so i'm kind of hesitant to play it before i fix the lack of board wipes, so i switched to proft because it was the one other deck that wasn't in a state of disarray at the time

but i'm finding him to be pretty sturdy in ekeing out second place, and i finally won a game this week! in one of my games, an opponent watched my first few turns and was like "azorius aggro????" which. is funny. because it lowkey is. corv made it to be an alternate win con machine but it has enough tricks that i've done best when having a field of 100% unblockable creatures or one nasty exalted flier.

anyway i was trying to squeeze leyline of transformation in there tonight to shore up non-detective aspects like artifact creatures and juuuust managed to find one card to cut but it was honestly REALLY tight, because the only other maybe to cut had a cute art of etrata and proft and i needed to keep it in for the flavorrrrrr