#first link is to the original version

[lonicera-caprifolium]

Nothing was amiss in the corridor leading to their cabin. He tapped on the door. No answer, but no sound of running water either. Easing the door open revealed that there was indeed rest for the wicked. Or at least, for Crowley’s brand of wicked. Crowley sprawled, half on his stomach, in a diagonal across the bed. Sheets wound around one leg and over his torso, leaving what little modesty Crowley may have had completely unprotected. Well, there was no shame in admiring the human form, and it wasn’t like Aziraphale was leering. Alright, maybe a bit.

a redraw of another 2019 GO Big Bang pic, that was drawn to go with chapter 9 of @ladyshipwreck's Doubt Thou the Stars are Fire 💫

[starsystems-fr]

Gijinka Telephone: Flight Rising Experiment Version, based on this post! Featuring art by @buff-dunerunner, @recallback-art, @cosmicpoppies, @warewolfish, @footofananimal, @lostplanetvoltia and me!

Thank you so much to all the artists, and I'm so sorry I sat on your art for so long! It was really cool to open these up and see everyone's pieces again, and I feel guilty that they've been sitting on my computer for many (MANY) months.

When I was drawing the first piece, I thought "aha, wouldn't it be cute to start with a dragon from one of the artists' lairs so they can see how it changes?" and I thought CrystalBlackpaws' Dangao looked fun. In my mind, I drew a character that was suitably different enough from the original that it wasn't obvious what the base dragon looked like...

...and in hindsight, it was a bit too clear what the inspiration was 🥲 like, it accidentally was the world's most convoluted art trade haha. But even with that, everyone did a really great job transforming Dangao into and out of different forms! Seeing everyone's skull masks was my favorite part for sure!

Thank you again to the six of you for taking part in this weird little game, and sorry again for not sharing your awesome art sooner!!

[reverienne]

my contribution to @idrellegames's Wayfarer's 3rd Anniversary!

a translation of "caro diario," written by me / both the translation and the (clunky) Italian original available on ao3

a diary entry set during the Prologue, spoiler-free, gen

615 words / Corinne Varyn (then - Corina Briadis), a little bit of complaining about the hardships of being a recruit, simple language because my Italian is simple

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dear diary,

My name is Corina Briadis. I am 13 years old. I am someone called a magianis. I do not have magical powers, but it does not mean that I am a boring person.

Existing in a world where everyone has magical powers when you do not have any is difficult. People believe that people like me are freaks of nature. Of course, it is not true, it is not fair, but what can we do?

The society loves magic.

Not having magical powers is rare.

It is easy for people not to meet anyone like me for their entire lives! Because of that, it is easy to "forget" that not all people can use magic... or that magic is necessary to do many things.

If you do not have magical powers, you have to be creative.

I have to be creative if I want to live in the society.

For example, I have to walk a lot because using any technology that requires the use of magic, like teleportation portals, is impossible for me.

I do not like that. I do not like doing sport, but I do not have any choice because I cannot become a mage.

My birth family abandoned me. They did not like the fact that I was born without magical powers.

They are horrible people.

I hate them.

I do not want to see my mother, my father, my brothers or my sisters, or any of my cousins and other relatives ever again.

I hope that they are all dead.

I know that they are all fine.

It is not fair, but there is still time.

My new family is the Wayfarer Order. My favourite teacher, Brissa Varyn, is my mentor and my guardian. She is more like a mother to me than my birth mother ever was.

She has a partner, another teacher, Rindan Cenric, and I like him as well.

There is also a boy around my age by the name of Aeran Kellis who is another student and mentee of Varyn. He is like a brother to me.

Aeran is very brave. He is not afraid to argue with our mentor, Varyn, or anyone else.

I, on the other hand, am afraid of everything.

My future seems very frightening. I have to become a warrior because my new family is full of warriors.

When you join the Wayfarer order, you have to become a warrior.

I do not have any choice here. Even Varyn - who has a true talent for diplomacy and works as the Order's diplomat - is also a great warrior.

And me? I am shy and nervous. When people look at me, I become even more nervous, and when people actually listen to me... no, it is just too weird for me. I have been invisible my whole life and suddenly becoming brave when you are 13 years old is not easy.

Moreover, the people that I have to talk to are often mean, yet I always have to be polite and diplomatic with them.

It is a hard, difficult job.

Unfortunately - or maybe fortunately? - I am better at diplomacy than Aeran. Aeran simply refuses to be polite and diplomatic.

Varyn says that I have a bit of her talent for negotiations.

It is incredible... it is my first time being better than someone at anything... but now if I want the talks to go well, I have to step up and do the talking myself, and I hate this.

I am not a good warrior.

I know that I have to improve.

I do not want to die young.

But it is very difficult and I am so tired...

Until the next time!

Corinne

[holmesoldfellow]

The covers of "Muppet Sherlock Holmes," a 2010 four part comic book mini series written by Patrick Storck and illustrated by Amy Mebberson. With Gonzo as Holmes and Fozzie as Watson, they spoof on "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red Headed League," and "Musgrove Ritual."

[encrucijada]

might be silly and write bullet points for a possible tears of the kingdom fic 🫶

[maburito]

I'm really on a Legend of Zelda hyperfixation lately.....After Legend of Zelda 1986, and Zelda II : The Adventure of Link, I'm playing A Link to the Past.

And I'm having so much fun

[safyresky]

Crystal Springs: The Call

Mother Gaia's intervention had been the last straw for the Goddess. When the other deities had agreed to help her make this world for all their people, they agreed on one thing: minimal interference once their people had established themselves. The Goddess's people had adapted very fast; she'd been hands-off for centuries. So of course that's when the Fae War had started. She had given her people this fresh, new world; away from the darkness that had claimed all their planets, away from the death and destruction, and it had followed them here. With the darkness at risk of returning, encroaching upon them all again, and her dear Gaia a sobbing mess below the source of all the magic she had gifted to her people, The Goddess decides that enough is enough. For too long her people had lived and lived and lived. It was time they knew what that meant. It was time they knew death.

Part I: Lost (read it on ao3 | tumblr)

After months of planning, Mother Gaia brings Tara to Roseterra to trigger The Call. Magibeans scramble to say their final goodbyes before being forcibly removed from this plane of existence. Life is about to take a startling, powerful turn for four very young sprites...

Preview and musings below the cut!

"Tara, come here dear. This is the place." With a sigh, Tara picked herself up and made her way to what looked to be the centre of the valley. A pile of stones that looked remarkably plinth like for something that purported to be natural stood in front of Gaia. The space on the top of which was shaped exactly like the stone she had tucked away in the boughs of her skirt. Gaia had refused to carry it; she didn’t want to tarnish it. Tara didn’t think she would. She hadn’t argued, though, and had grown a little alcove in her skirts to hold the stone. Gently, she lifted her hand; the branches around her legs creaked. One bough slowly poked out between the branches. In it, the stone sat. “It’s glowing,” Tara realized. “Then it is finally time. Place it on the plinth please, dear.” The branch didn’t move. Deep in her chest, Tara felt a horrible warmth. Her hands seemed to drift up of their own accord to cover her mouth; her vision blurred. “Tara?” Gaia turned away from the plinth. “Oh. Dearest." She was trembling. Her cheeks were wet. She choked down a sob. Gaia reached up to cradle her daughter’s face. She wiped the tears off of her dark, sparkling cheeks, rubbing her thumb against her warm skin gently. Tenderly. “It’s going to be okay. You’re going to be okay.” “How do you know?” she managed to choke out, her voice heavy. “What if it doesn’t—what if I don’t—I’m not ready!” “You’ve had my mantle for centuries now, Tara. You’re ready.” “I’m not ready to lose you!” she yelled through her tears, inhaling heavily through her nose. “I know I’m ready to take over for you. Please. I’m gonna rock being Mother Gaia. I just. I don’t want to lose my mom. I don’t want to lose you,” she admitted, wrapping her arms around the frail woman who had been there from the moment the elements that made her began to stick together. The woman who had made sure everything was in tip top shape before she gifted her a life light, giving her humanoid form. Who had shown her the ropes; helped her master all of the elements, all of the parts of every season. Had slowly given her the reins, guiding her through her first few judgment calls before she became an expert at it herself, mastering balance alongside her as they tried their best to keep their home safe. “I will always be with you, dear. I won’t be very far. I’ll be here,” she said, gesturing to the rocky, dead, expanse around them. “What terrible curb appeal,” Tara choked out. Gaia looked stunned for the briefest of seconds. Then she laughed. Then she snorted, which only made her laugh harder through the tears that had started to slip out. She snorted again; now Tara found herself laughing, too. The two women stood at the end of the world and laughed their guts out.

The preview was longer, but for some odd reason, tumblr was very mad about saving the longer version? So we went with the first half after a VERY HARD decision!

You can check it out HERE on ao3 and HERE on our lovely HELLSITE (tm)

Some musings for you:

I tagged it as original work instead of The Santa Clause bc let's be real here. The only character from the franchise here is Mother Nature and even then, she is fairly far removed from movie events/how we see her in the series.

SHE IS. BUT A BABY. DURING THE CALL. (not actually a baby. metaphorically)

I posted it on hellsite as a private post because this settled my internal AI trawling distrust vs want to post on tumblr

I've opted out, obvi. But who says that corporations are actually going to listen and take that into consideration?

And sure, maybe a private post can still be read by an AI trawler. But given that only I can see it and share links for people to see it?

IT GIVES ME SOME MEASURE OF PEACE, OK!

Okay so PROPER musings now:

AGES!

While all four Season Sisters came to being around the same time, they were given different forms when they got leggies, as Summer says.

The only age I know for certain is Winter. She's about ~400ish when The Call happens. She's LITTLE. So we can assume all the seasons have existed for around the same time. That is, these personifications of them, lol.

Winter is toddler sized

Summer is pre-teen sized

Spring is child-sized

Autumn is awkward child-to-pre-teen sized

The Twin Princes are about ~700ish when The Call happens

So Blinter age difference, for those interested, is about 300 years (equating to about 3 years for ordibeings/magibeans who DON'T age at the exceptionally slow rate sprites do!)

PARENTAGE! I think it's fairly clear what magibeans helped create each season, but for what it's worth (and also reference):

Mother Gaia created Mother Nature/Tara; that's her MOMMY.

Winter's parents are the Snow Queen (Bianca) and the Winter Warlock (Winter sr.).

(He's actually based on a LOT of wintry beings I have seen, lol. Primarily the Winter Warlock from Rankin Bass's Santa Claus is Coming to Town. He also gives Merlin from Sword in the Stone vibes, generic wizard posting vibes, and sometimes ice king adventure time vibes, lol)

Summer's parent was Sol, the sprite in charge of the sun/sunshine/sunlight. THAT'S HER DAD!

Autumn's parents were Harvest, the personification of the harvest, and Hollow Eve.

Hollow's are charged with ferrying souls; they can traverse planes very easily and this is why the goddess enlists their help when she creates Rosehaven. "Hollow" is their title; they place it in front of their names always.

Hollow Eve is how Autumn named Halloween >:)

Spring doesn't have a parent or two parents. She has multiple sprites who helped to create her. She's collecting parents the way Steven Universe collects Moms, lol. Her parents include: Gaia, Tara, the sprites in charge of flowers, the sprites who did rain, and the winds.

All of these sprites, and probably more actually! Frequented the Garden and offered wisdom and advice to Spring, some of them without even knowing!

She ✨🌞 PHOTOSYNTHESIZED 🌞✨ to gather all the bits that made her spritely self, and sealed the deal when Mother Nature finds her and gives her the light life Gaia gave her at the end of part 1 :)

UPON REREADING BEFORE POSTING IT: Winter obvi freezes. We be knowing that for forever thanks to Meet the Frosts, I think.

But did you know that Summer also freezes? Well, her heart hardens, and for summer sprites that means it's stony. Or maybe ashy? and stony would be if a spring sprite's heart was hardened? I've yet to pick a term for spring sprites, lol.

I THINK that covers all my musings that AREN'T covered in Part 2. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this piece! It's not, per se, a DETOUR from my usual stuff? It's just. You know. Pretty much original work? It feels different--which I suppose checks out, given that it's a whole other era in CS History that is about 2 eras removed from where they are now :)

[izzy-b-hands]

Didn't think the 1989 version of The Woman In Black would be scarier than the one with Dan Radcliffe in it

I was Wrong flkjdsafkldsja, but I'm delighted to have been wrong. I had missed getting scared with more practical effects/careful timing of things in the background of shots appearing and disappearing, and this one scratches that itch well.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: January 18

"Settle Down" by The 1975

[marsbotz]

i loveeee making playlists this is a little known fact about me. my playlists r like my babies

[pocketramblr]

Not again (<- she woke up with another idea for original flavor Link backstory)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"While the true star of The Mysteries is its accomplishment as a behemoth of theatre and design, the audience's stamina over six hours relies on the vibrant performances by a fabulous ensemble that despite its size utilizes the diverse collection of talent it contains. Standing out among these are [...] Asia Kate Dillon as a Lucifer with a conscience."

[https://m.facebook.com/hidramas/posts/732666403439943] "Hi! Drama"

"A high tone is set early on with the conflict between questioning and growing self-knowledge espoused by Lucifer (Asia Kate Dillon) versus loving adoration given by Gabriel (Alice Allemano) to God (Matthew Jeffers)."

"Because of their ensemble structure, the [York mystery] plays force the issue of how to create a large-scale mega-narrative out of a series of associated short parts. For this reason, the playwrights held to certain conventions. By and large, heroes spoke in high-register language; villains used slang, wobblier verse forms, and more percussive sounds, so that their moral turpitude registered in hearers’ ears before it registered in their thoughts. Satan, however, was supremely engaging—funny, seductive, charming. He was bad, but likeable.

[...]

The play cycle is intensely jocoserious, taking its theology as a provocation for community reflection, meditation, and introspection, and riffing deftly and recursively on other literary traditions. By rejecting the compulsion to treat Biblical history as completed and thus part of the simple past, The Mysteries is a triumph of transhistorical experimental theater. It remains extremely faithful to the basic structure of the medieval plays, sometimes even integrating slices of Middle English from the plays themselves—often the most famous, the York mysteries. When Lucifer urges Eve to eat the apple of the tree of knowledge, they say, quoting the York Play’s diabolically plosive alliteration, “Bite on boldly.”"

[klaytheguildlessperso]

I've just remembered Romantically Apocalyptic exists

[nyctarian]

Seven Deadly Sins

Last year I made some digital collages for some characters based on a seven deadly sins theme, but didn't end up doing anything with the characters, but used the images I made for some playlist covers on spotify. Because I just used it for spotify the images were all pretty small because I kept it to 300x300. Finally went through and remade them in a way where the details weren't all miniscule. Some of them I like the original more but I enjoyed playing with the concept again. Sources for (I hope) all of the words/images used are linked here as well. For a lot of the images because I'm just linking the posts that I got them from there is obviously going to be some where the actual image creator isn't credited as I am unsure who they are, especially for the posts that are super old, so full apologies for that. There are one or two posts where I don't link to my own blog because the post I had got it from has disappeared, I assume for copyright reasons, even thought with the ones where I found this issue, based off the bookmarked url alone the artist was at minimum properly credited, possibly even with there website also linked. 

Greed: 1///5///6///7///8///9///sign (these links are kinda weird w the numbering idk why that happened lol)

Lust: 1///2///3///4

Gluttony: 1///2///3///4///5///6///7///8///9

Wrath: 1///2///3///4

Pride: 1///2///3///4///5///6

Sloth: 1///2///3

Envy: 1///2///3

and the current as of today but really as of like some time in mid 2023 version of their playlists

[bumblingbee1]

Gosh, I fucking LOVE The One! To this day, it is still my number 1 favorite COD Zombies easter egg song ever!

[cy-cyborg]

Free Manual Wheelchair Reference Models

ID: A banner with grey 3D models of 5 kinds of manual wheelchairs in a line in front of the disability pride flag and text that reads "Manual Wheelchair References" /End ID

For disability pride month, I decided to release a pack of 3D manual wheelchair models.

The pack includes 5 wheelchairs:

2 Active urban-style chairs (one of which includes a smart drive)

1 off-road active chair

1 children's wheelchair

and 1 standard "hospital" wheelchair).

All the wheelchairs are based off either wheelchairs I or friends of mine have used

Downloadable here!

or on the Clip Studio Paint Asset Store (ID 2097442) (there's been an issue with the CSP version, but the models in the download folder can be imported into clip studio paint until I can fix it)

More info about the download contents below:

The first download link includes the original .Blend file with all 5 chairs, as well as individual .obj or .fbx files the chairs (All but 1 have an .obj file, as they're only meshes. The chair with the smart drive is rigged, which is why it has an .Fbx file instead so it will retain that information) as well as a "read me" file that explains in more depth what kind of disability/character/lifestyle each chair is made for (These are just what I had in mind when I designed them, they are usable by other characters who don't fit the suggestions for the most part!) I wanted to include the Read Me contents in the CSP Asset Store listing, but CS said it was too long lol.

Also, as the title says, these files are free to use! While it's not mandatory, I would appreciate credit if you use them (or even just a tag so I can see the cool art you make with them!!)

I actually made these ages ago, the original plan was to use them in a series of posts then release the pack, but I never got around to making the series and so they've just been sitting here. I took a day off from art fight attacks to clean them all up and get them ready to post. If you experience any issues, let me know and I'll try to fix it up.

I had a couple more that were supposed to be in the pack including a sports (basketball/Tennis) wheelchair and some different styles of wheelchair, but I think the files corrupted so once I fix (or remake) them, I'll probably make a second pack.

If you have any issues, please let me know!