This spread is the Title Spread for our day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. While we were there mostly to experience Galaxy’s Edge, we stopped to take a few pictures on our way into the park, and I decided to use them on this first page. If you remember from yesterday’s blog, I put the Animal Kingdom Park map at the end of the series as part of an ephemera page. In this case I am putting the map…
Yes, yes, Hades was indeed Just Some Guy, but also, he had Percy's mom turned into a gold statue. Percy, who only a few episodes ago also got turned into a gold statue. Percy, who knows exactly what that process feels like. Percy, who is twelve years old, so that chair was probably the scariest and most traumatizing thing that's ever happened to him.
And Hades used that against him. He didn't burst into flames in a fit of rage. He didn't need to. He knows how to punish people. He's ruler of the underworld. That's part of his JOB.
He is powerful and terrifying. He is the weird uncle. He is cold and callous. He is a goofy dad-joking little freak. He can be all those things and more.
Speaking of Decked Out, I’m excited to reveal to you all that I had the honour of working with Tango himself to create a super detailed dark fantasy desk mat design for the first wave of Decked Out merch!! I crammed it FULL of references to the game—I’m particularly fond of the Ravager statues 😁✨
You can preorder it here! Let me know what you think!! I can’t wait to have one of my own 🙌
look for the name INGA (requested by anonymous) | la perla brown sheer lace bodysuit (c. 199o's), simone rocha long embellished bow in pink, christian dior beaded pearl choker, enfants riches déprimés stockings and heels (a/w 2o24), carolein smit pearl-wrapped rat art piece (2o17), houbigant "le parfum ideal" eau de parfum (c. 192o's), french carved celluloid swan brooch (c. 192o's), pearlandi (on etsy) handmade turkish crucifix indiviulal gold charm earring, nell brinkley drawing of a girl on the phone with a cherub switchboard operator, antique victorian mesh slide garter w/ dangle tassels, oversized brown czech glass cocktail ring, antique french-style chased repoussé gilt telephone w/ carved jade inset
Confirming that YES, as of Hotfix 19 both Flesh to Stone and Flesh to Gold still work on Mizora. Hadn't actually tried using Flesh to Gold before. Not sure Mizora deserves the gold treatment tbh. Is there a "Flesh to Deep Rothe Dung?" scroll?
Reminder that the only rules are that she has to have taken up permanent residence at camp (Act 3 only) and she still has to fail THREE CON saves in a row. (Edit: also tested and verified, it persists after long rest)
(ps can you tell I romanced Wyll and have a personal vendetta against Mizora?)
Hello everyone!
Thanks so much for your patience and your questions about the current status of Heart of Gold. It’s been an extremely busy time since we finished volume 2, with ups and downs in our private and professional lives. And sitting down to write this wasn’t easy, but we’ve been sitting on this far too long than we’d have liked, and we apologize for letting you all wait.
Well, to get straight to the point: Heart of Gold is on an indefinite hiatus. There’s a chance we will return to this project, but right now we are focusing on other areas. More under the cut below!
Longform comics without a publisher and large funding behind it run at the risk of burnout, and we can now say we’re unfortunately no strangers to that. We’ve had incredible support from our readers and our patrons, much more than we could’ve ever imagined.
But unfortunately, as it is with webcomics, creativity and funding burns quicker than one might hope, and we ended up deciding to explore other avenues. We’ve always wanted to find our footing in illustration, and ultimately find a healthy balance between work and life without overextending ourselves. The workload of a comic can easily be underestimated, and boy, did we underestimate!
So right now, we’re focusing on growing artistically while also recovering from burnout; on finding ourselves a bit and what we want to create in this world to make it a kinder place.
We’ve been so grateful for every lovely bit of fanart, comment and financial support we've received from our readers. What started as a passion project found its way to people that returned the love we have for this project, manyfold.
Thanks for sharing the excitement for HoG with us, it truly meant and still means the world to us.
We hope you’ll look forward to other projects we’ll be working on in the future, be it of our own creation or in collaboration with clients!
- Eliot & Viv
PS: As for printing plans for Heart of Gold volume 2: There's still plans! Just as mentioned above, no time or space (like, literally. we're drowning in books) to take care of it right now. But we'd love nothing more than to have a companion for volume 1.
people bending over backwards to scream Marika never loved Messmer when he alone has more blessings personally bestowed by her than any other demigods combined are so funny to me. also the fact that it's implied he used to live in Leyndell too 😂😂
also she killed an entire god herself and made sure said God is called all manner of names and depict as ugly forever. for him 😂😂