#fantasypunk

[lance-arts]

I’ll have a proper ref sheet with info done later, but for now I want to show off HER.

6 years ago, on the 20th of December 2016, I created a slimegirl OC who would eventually evolve into Michelle Aquastone, Metalhead Claygirl!

Here’s a mini playlist to give a very specific idea of what her taste in rock is.

[peteramthor]

The current Deal of the Day over on DrivethruRPG. It’s Mork Borg punk style from Nightfall Games. 

[cymorilcinnamonroll]

Genesis Remixed: A Lilith and Eve Sapphic Romance One Shot

When Chavah awoke in the Garden, she was filled with regret. What was once rib, now flesh, did not feel whole. Her husband slept as G-d led Chavah, an automaton given Breath and Word, through Gan Eden.

Shortly after Adam first forced her to submit, on the hard red clay he was made from, Chavah’s cries summoned a beautiful siren with raven hair and emerald bezels in her eyes. The maven rode a cherry red Harley, this Lilith, and had an extra pink helmet with daisies she had drawn in chalk paint on it for Chavah.

Chavah was quite impressed by Lilith’s nose ring, generous hips and breasts, and tattoos like a barista on the lam.

Having just been made that morning, Chavah had nothing to pack. All Chavah knew was that her destiny lay with this dazzling serpent woman, in her leather jacket, smoking Virginia Slims. They were meant to cleave, be helped and helpmate, master and servant, mistress and lover and laughter, and create beauty.

So, Chavah put on a red checkered sundress, wedged heels, and saddled Lilith’s Harley, the sun skipping over their luscious locks as they sped, hellbent, out of Gan Eden and into the wide green world.

First they traversed the universe, making camp at night under Adonai’s cosmos, and angels and demons alike attended Lilith and Chavah with food, manna, and figs. Chavah kept an elegant, scribbled in sketchbook - a stenciled Moleskin - where she drew figure studies of her lady love and botanical drawings. In return, Lilith liked to try out her tattoo gun on her girlfriend and carve seashells and coral into jewelry to adorn Chavah.

Lilith taught Chavah secrets – Adonai’s name, how a pearl was formed on an oyster’s tongue, and a diamond forged out of carbon deep in the depths of the Earth. But Chavah taught Lilith pleasure in a way that distant Sammael never had – where men fail, women understand.

They cast stars upon each other’s bodies and drank down mountain dew and honey wild from their chalices. When they made love, even Dumah, angel of silence, was known to weep.

Those were the days of great making. The universes coalesced, coiled, spiraled out like the Shekinah’s hair, and the Shekinah shone brightly down onto her handmaiden, Lilith, and her chosen daughter, Chavah.

They walked in the light of Adonai, crafting fantasies and terpsichores from the spindrifts of cavemen dreams. Adam had multiplied with his second nameless wife, the one whom G-d had constructed before Adam’s very eyes, flesh upon muscle upon bone, and soon, Chavah and Lilith were relegated to the realm of myths and sin.

The People cried out: give us succor, Asherah. So Lilith and Chavah became a Tree, menorah-shaped, and grew fruit to feed their sons and daughters. Only Adam, immortal, hacked the Shekinah Tree of Knowledge down. In revenge, Lilith planted the vine of Baruch – grapes that she and Chavah taught their daughters to make wine so splendid, it inspired poetry and deeds of greatness in men of valor and the daughters of the Watchers.

A flood came. A great one. Towers were built and toppled. First, clay cities, then wood, then stone, then the bones of earth raped to form great metal beams and skyscrapers. Moloch of industry arose, consuming dreams. Mammon created empires fat off his golden coffers. Ashmedai seduced. Beelzebub possessed. Sammael was set against Michael at every turn.

But Chavah and Lilith? They infused the world with beauty. Feminism. Revolution. Science and the Renaissance. Democracy. For every mother kissing her child, there was Chavah. For every blue-stockinged lass carving her way in a man’s world, there was Lilith.

Eventually, they opened a bakery. Challah was their specialty, with seven twisted braids. They kept bees out back, the wives Lilith and Chavah, and they read Tarot and the threads of fate for the young maidens and boys who came to them for advice. For widows and those who lost a child – whether to Dumah or abortion or infertility – they gave free iced coffee, fresh honeycomb, and bread.

It was a man’s world, but slowly, gently, women reigned. We, their daughters, created peace, endless beauty and succor, so that no son died in war, and every daughter was cradled and wanted. Lilith and Chavah continued serving the Shekinah, and the women of the world finally tasted the Fruit of Life.

It was born of two women, first and last, alpha and omega, snake and snake charmer.

And now, Lilith and Chavah live in our hearts, and if you seek out to find them, bread and cheese in hand at midnight, through Alice’s looking glass, you will come to their café, and the Mothers of Life and Death will braid your curls free of sorrow.

And all that starts well, ends well. They will wipe your tears, kiss your cheeks, make you a mocha, flat white, or comforting oat milk latte, and the fire in your heart to carry on will be kindled, and the Foundresses of Humanity will sing you into this life and the next, carrying you and your loved ones to the far shores of wonder, miracles, and the wild, and on their motorcycle, you’ll ride.

[chaoticevilspacewitch]

Me: "RWBY is action-fantasypunk, things like outfits aren't constrained by practicality."

Also me: "Weiss cover up your shoulders you're gonna get skin cancer gods there's a reason desert dwelling societies go for body-covering loose, light colored clothing!"

[tenderlysharpmidain]

Close on fantasypunk anthropomorphic spider-monkey Drunken Master, golden eyes, dark grungy armor, dark-blue cloak, disheveled, hyperdetailed, by caravage::2 and alphonse mucha::1 and Moebius::1.5 --ar 2:3 --v 4

BrandonMc

midjourney

[ckari]

Oh yeah, my Big boys. Au's

1. Maverick!Wally

2. Hydro!Wally

3. Fantasypunk!Wally (Yes, it's not Steampunk anymore )

4. Robot!Wally

[syntheticcharmva]

OKAY BUT LIKE. 3 YEARS AGO I LITERALLY THOUGHTS OF THIS IDEA AND WROTE IT DOWN AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

but it was a smaller part of a story about using vampires as an exploration of generational trauma, and that despite being these near immortal beings, they still operated on survival, which justified cruelty for so long, and ughhhh i need to revisit this idea

I had this rad fantasypunk 70s setting with a factory city ran. by vampires, and a young vampire traveling to his father's homeland to try and learn what made him a kind and better leader, going through a story of self discovery while working with newfound friends to dismantle a tyrannical and propaganda fueled vampire led government, realizing his place isn't as a leader, but a facilitater and diplomat as the story went on.

(they fea were also gonna be involved and basically be weirdly insistent and pushy, kinda acting like America politically, as in like, waiting until the vampire led government was dismantled and showing up like "We're here to save you all from yourselves." )

God, i still have a lot of this story in my head.

you know it really isnt immoral, if you do it right, to raise cows and sheep for meat. so. well. i think there should be a story about, vampires who have a town of humans that they keep well-maintained, so long as the humans donate their blood once a month, like vampire blood farm stuff

but instead of antagonistic everyone's like. no he's a nice man you leave the count alone. he keeps us safe and cared for and he just needs a lil snack now and then, it dont hurt anyone. like a cow that loves the farmer and the farmer that loves the cow, even with both knowing one will end up on the other's table. because its like. its like. cows just have such pretty eyes, you know? they love you so much. i think it should be like that

[avenger09]

FantasyPunk

Nyler Morse -- SciFi Corporate Operative

I imagine If she was a boss fight the end cutscene would show her still matching the player characters blow for blow, before a brief pause in the fighting lets her answer a message from her employers calling her away, to fight another day, sharing these parting words with the heroes.

"You lot might actually be able to go for the full ten rounds, but as intriguing as that might be to learn, I've got a contract to honor. And I'm nothing If not professional."

!Flashbang!

And at a later point she casually executes one of the other antagonists she was taking orders from after he screws up stopping the good guys since, ultimately, her contract is to the company not him, and to show there are bigger threats fish above him. 

Here's her colleague, Legionnaire.

[suchsunshinescribbles]

[SCARS & CIRCUITS]

A tale of two techs: @cyberxbun​‘s Kael of Covenant co. and Last Eclipse team and my Ikaros from one of my merc units, Strida**. I consider this to be one of the more serious analogue pieces, especially with the dark undertones of abuse and trauma that haunt their pasts. Kael had his antlers cuts off during a civil war era -- ones that will never grow back -- and Ikaros’ childhood is filled with all sorts of unspeakable horrors of manipulation, physical/sexual abuse, etc. As seemingly invisible individuals in a world of battle and power struggles, they seek to contribute to a cause they believe in to the upmost of their abilities...abilities that may one day shift a delicate balance....[2/5]

**Ok so they were called Olympus Knights for the longest time as an ironic joke that stuck, even more so when simply abbreviated to O.K.. But after some serious development and consideration I’ve renamed them to Strida -- taking the Swedish definition of the word ‘to fight, be in conflict (with rule), or to contradict’. On that note I may even rebrand A2029 into something else more suitable, but for now the main name will stay.

Also, alternate (or maybe even og) hair color for Ikaros because my boy’s been through a lot and (1) his hair prematurely lost some color over the years or (2) he can just pull off any hair color (which sounds like a more light-hearted idea if he wasn’t one of the most traumatized characters in the story :’)).

[subaru192]

As of April 16th. A triptych of 3 A5 format. It was a fan-art for a participation in a contest organized by @kriza_lied The characters come from his manga "Never Surrender" (available for free in FR on Tapas.io and Frenchkizz.net). Personal positive points: make a new triptych, drawing done in one day (my new record)... draw Erwan ? (the Handsome Guy with long hair, on the left) Negative points with the returns : the composition and the originality. Additional note: when you are given a month and you are a great beginner in drawing, don't bring yourself also at the last moment. Other note: this is the only time I fill an A5 sheet to the edge (I couldn't do it again with Ashley's DTIYS 😓) #fanart #traditionalart #shounen #frenchmanga #guy #fantasy #ink #characterillustration #triptych #drawings #fantasypunk #illustration #manga #picture #pigmamicron #line #monochrome #inking https://www.instagram.com/p/CAKn8DZqIbw/?igshid=np2amqqf523o

[opinions-about-tiaras]

Smolder looks like he is supposed to be like. The companion animal to the ACTUAL champions model. Like he's one half of one of Riot's many double-act champions and the half that didn't get a lot of work done on them, only no, its the whole-ass champion.

Also, obviously Skyen would know better about this than I, but... he look sort of wrong? Runeterra and League deliberately incorporate a lot of different and sometimes clashing aesthetics into themselves, that's part of being a huge sprawling fantasypunk mess of a setting that also supports a million different champions for a MOBA, its why you can have Vayne strutting around looking like she does in a setting that also has, say, Braum in it. (To pick a couple people who look like they ought to come from totally different genres and settings.) But there's always a certain amount of unity of design that keeps them all from looking TOO out of place in Runeterra.

But Smolder just looks wrong. Like he doesn't look like he fits in in any of Runeterra's manifold sub-settings, his entire design aesthetic is foreign to all of them and not in a good way. I can't imagine him on the slopes of Mount Targon, I can't imagine him in the deserts of Shurima or the jungles of Ixtal, or the quasi-European fantasy settings of Demacia or Noxus, or... anywhere. I guess the closest he comes is Ionia, maybe? But even then I say no.

He looks like he was cut and pasted in from a gameline or setting that does things entirely differently, and while that can be effective if its done as a deliberate choice for a deliberate reason (Across the Spider-Verse comes to mind) this seems like an accident.

I know they can't all be winners. But given the resources and the obvious talent they have working for them, it feels like Riot's floor should be "mediocre." Like sometimes the reaction will be "meh." But if its worse than meh (and this is much worse than meh) it means that, creatively speaking, they done goofed.

riot i am once again fucking BEGGING you to fucking hire some fucking furries on your fucking champion design team

fucking paw patrol characters look more convincingly non-human than this

like even within the limited portfolio of "appealing kiddy mascot baby dragon" you can do a fuck of a lot better

Dreamworks Dragon: Rescue Riders manages it

The Dragon Prince does it

fucking LEGO: Ninjago somehow does it

hell, even Spyro the Dragon (whose face is ALL late 90s/early 2000s cartoon mascot) manages to more convincingly look non-human

Skylanders Academy arguably does it better (much though I never cared for the Skylanders version of Spyro)

[cavepaintingcomics]

Step onto the stage, and Rage. The Bardbarian is a 5e D&D compatible home brewed subclass, and I’m really excited about all the home brewed D&D content I’ve been working on being that much closer to its published premier, and more importantly, being played at your game table. Non of my work thus far is official wizards of the coast, it’s 100% home brewed. 

[otlrook]

M’Lady March continues - I am very green at making ‘flirtatious’ characters - but part of this challenge is pushing beyond my comfort zone!! Add to it my discomfort with drawing anything remotely relating to technology!! : #steampunk #fantasypunk #pompadour #fantasy #art #artist #drawing #color #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragonscharacter #character #characterdesign #rpg #runa #intotherunaverse #artificer #prosthetics #campaign https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wlIlzg7gf/?igshid=11w1t2rup9x2k

[tenderlysharpmidain]

Close on fantasypunk Dragonborn Warrior Thief, golden eyes, dark grungy armor, dark-red cloak, disheveled, hyperdetailed, by caravage::2 and alponse mucha::1 and Moebius::1.5 --ar 2:3 --v 4

BrandonMc

midjourney

[yarrayora]

cirque du freak manga. obviously. and following that is the les miserables manga adaptation both done by arai takahiro

now for my real serious recommendations:

hiraeth by yuhki kamatani, a manga about a young girl who coped badly with her best friend's death and ends up on a journey with an immortal and a god to reach the land of the dead. not to revive her friend, but to be with her in death

drifting dragons by taku kuwabara, it's a fantasypunk story about "what if instead of whalers, we have drakers? people who risk their lives up in the sky hunting dragons to put food on the table?" it fucks as much as it sounds

magus of the library by mitsu izumi, set in a fantasy nation inspired by the middle eastern culture, there is a huge and respected librarian organization whose creed is to protect books, be it from physical deterioration or censorship. i want to tell you more about this but i feel like i will end up writing paragraphs instead.

prince freya by keiko ishihara, a beloved prince who become the pillar of his country's resistance against enemy nation's invasion has been assassinated. a look alike girl posed as him with the help of the prince's aides. but she's no puppet only meant to prop the morale up, as she begins to learn what it means to lead the people.

SWHD by sono.N, sci-fi lesbian action manga where these two buff ladies are special agents fighting biological weapons, well written relationship drama AND action

avoided recommending isekais please praise me

Psst hey what manga do you think my library should add to its collection?

[planetjono]

Inktober The 15th. Tough Guy.