#hermit hat atelier

[threecowsusingthistoreadcomics]

Grumbot doodle :]

This design is technically related to the Hermit Hat Atelier AU, but I think it works as a standalone piece as well.

[activate-shadow-of-the-window]

Week One of Hermittober: Beginnings/Abundance!

An abundance of wanted posters tacked up on a community board somewhere the knights moralis frequent. A new one gets posted every time a crime is attributed to a Brimmed Hat. Some faces are almost constantly visible: red eyed Fire-Starter is one, as he gets the vast majority of arsons blamed on him, while blue haired Stars is infamous for trespassing and causing chaos at midnight. Others have no face known to the portrait-drawers: Decay’s visage is constantly covered by a veil and rain of tassels, and Stitches has never been seen up close, period. Somewhere in the back is Thorns, who hasn’t reared his nor his numerous plant-monsters’ heads in a while. Blades is a new sight, and a pseudonym rarely uttered, but his ferocity with knives and apparent skill at disguising iron as gold has earned him a portrait and a warrant. But this board is cursed, or seems to be, for every time the face of North is nailed on, the whole thing goes up in flames less than a week later.

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This art is part of the Hermit Hat Atelier AU! Despite its name, life series and empires folks are included, and exactly one is visible on this wanted board. This AU is also collaboration with @threecowsusingthistoreadcomics, who’s also doing AU art this Hermittober. We’re trading off the dual prompts each week, so go check them out to learn more!

[dizzybizz]

if i had a nickel for everytime a man (illegally) adopted a kid without informing his tired black-haired housemate with awful posture i'd have two nickels- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[occultvettr]

Brimhat witch Grian and Pearl sketch

[archivebottles]

My cards I drew for @witchhattarot! Had so much fun drawing these and leftover sales are now live!

->You can find the store here <-

[IMG ID: Two tarot cards. The first is The Hermit with Oruggio from Witch Hat Atelier in a stained glass style hunched over with a silverleaf tree branch in his grasp. Passing him by is a yellow deer with smoke effects in the bottom right corner. A lantern hangs from the card border.

Image two is the Three of Cups with Coco, Tetia, Agott, and Riche pouring water on the 'Dragon's Bed of Sand' spell. With the dragon framing opposite corners of the card. In the background there is a castle and trees and the card is lined similarly to the manga. /END ID]

[kustas]

Sorry for the incoming long rant.

I just rediscovered your blog, and I always enjoyed your thoughts on WHA and wanted to rant a little bit. I found a post of yours talking about how WHA is getting less nuanced and I feel the same way. I feel like in an effort to make every character feel like a person, the manga treats everyone’s issues as if they’re on the same level. I’m not sure if that entirely makes sense, but it feels like the manga is trying to make you sympathize with everyone to some extent, even though that doesn’t really work. For example, there is a chapter that pissed me off so much that I had to put the manga on pause. It’s the chapter where Coco shows off a spell that can clean water, and the townspeople are uninterested because they don’t need it. And the moral of the chapter is that Coco should make her spell for everyone. No. No no no. These people need to learn some damn compassion and realize that they need to help end what suffering that they are able to. The moral of the chapter should’ve been that these people need to stop thinking of only themselves. Everything else was aimed at them, so Coco’s spell didn’t need to be for them. It shouldn’t have been for them. There is also the situation with the knights. You went into this already but who gives a shit if they are offended by a grieving husband taking out his anger in them when they are a part of the system that caused his grief. The manga wants you to sympathize with everyone, and while I don’t think these people should be one dimensional their issues should not be treated on the same level as others. Anyway, sorry for the weird long rant, it’s just everyone treats this manga like it is The Most Flawlessly Progressive Manga Ever and your one of the few I’ve found who acknowledges is flaws without devaluing its strengths

Thank you for your ask! I agree with what you're saying and think you worded it very well. It's a bit of a shame it's so rare to find people openly critiquing the series in the community, while it's nothing serious (and minimized by being a bit of a hermit, lol) I've seen some animosity for doing it, I assume because many assume critiquing art means you don't like it or are opposed to what it's trying to do! Which isn't true. Granted Witch Hat Atelier contains many an obvious fantasy metaphor for real life social issues it should be under more scrutiny than normal if you ask me, because those are serious topics that affect people's real lives. I do have faith in the author's serious handling of touchy topics, but in the execution there are things I'd do differently for sure...

The manga wants you to sympathize with everyone, and while I don’t think these people should be one dimensional their issues should not be treated on the same level as others.

WHA has in its writing strong expectations from the reader regarding how you think of its cast I find hard to read through a lot - the latest arc in particular, comparatively, has much of its character based moments revolve around if they're good or bad in a way that implies it'll change how you think of a character and it disturbs me. Qifrey and Sasaran are two early examples of characters that do *not* play into that - Qifrey's beginning arcs simultaneously show him as a shady manipulator and genuinely good teacher who betters the life of his students, and it participates so much to the dramatic tension. Sasaran is a villain of the week who while shown to be a huge cunt, has a backstory that implies his original motives were not nefarious ones, and his life was not easy.

Compare this to a character like Dean who, as much as I'm a fan of his concept, falls rather flat because he's, depending on the chapter, pushed as good/bad to the reader, regarding his moral alignment. Characters who are just meant to be despicable don't have the same level of attention placed to their writing which is a similar issue. It feels insecure, like if the story was saying: we have those important characters, their role is to bring up difficult situations, please don't hate them, like them, see, they're nice too! And giving them chosen positive traits. People don't work like that and it feels cheap. Fandom's obsession with villains should show well a character being despicable doesn't make them unlikeable, and I'd like WHA's characters to be less "good"/"likeable" myself to make them a bit more human. This would detonate a fandom nuke given I still regularly see passionate debates about how mean and terrible characters like Agott or Custas are but hey

As for priorities in the depicted suffering of characters in universe - yeah, it's true some scenes feel a bit off in that department...the water cleaning scene you mention did not rub me the wrong way too hard, because it's centered around Coco, who's our main character, the story bending to give her a central role makes sense, and her unique position in witch society and how it relates to helping others are, with the responsibilities of witches, very important to the story. The apprentice backstories are an earlier example I had trouble taking too seriously because while they're all terrible, tiny silly Riche and her brother's experience with physical child abuse felt drawn with the same intensity as Agott being pushed to mental disarray by her rich fancy perfectionist family. It's all hard to complain about and might sting less if the writing was a bit less dramatic and preachy, but that might just be a me issue, I've seen many fans praise WHA's writing wholeheartedly, so...

What I am hoping is that the latest arc will conclude and lead to the shorter previous structure and we'll get individual attention brought to character stories, one after the other, instead of the all at once formula going on right now... We'll see!

[seawaveleo]

remind me to draw hermitcraft in a witch hat atelier au

random thoughts below!

highly recommend reading wha if you haven’t - it’s a nice storyline, wonderful worldbuilding, and sick art (spoilers for some of the story!)

i imagined all the hermits just chill in one big town full of pointed hat and brimmed caps and the knights moralis don’t even try with them

impulse is a witch and skizz is not, impulse ends up teaching him magic though after several internal arguments with himself

tango’s hat looks similar to shubble’s witch hat on empires

grian “it’s about the principle” is a pointed hat but finds loopholes to infuriate the knights moralis

mumbo works with grian and doesn’t know any better about what’s “forbidden magic” and not

people definitely wanted for committing forbidden magic:

- cleo (necromancy time magic)

- doc (magical experiements)

- cub (cub)

scar uses a sealchair but i think he’d also use the leg wood stilts, like what custas uses after he turned to the brim caps

that’s all i have rn

[theembergazer]

About meeeeeee

Hiiiiiiii I'm M - preferred pronouns she/her or they/them

I do art It pretty meh - no stealing tho I HAVE TUMBLR NOW LET'S GO TIME TO GET ADDICTED

Also don't send me fundraisers in my ask I don't have money and I'd rather reblog ones that ik aren't scams if you send them in my ask I'm gonna delete them sorryyyyy

More about moi under the cut:

I like hermitcraft the hermits are amazing thank you for being my childhood and being chaotic and chaos is chill

I draw fanart for my friend and for HERMITCRAFT

I read. Lots. It's concerning

I like anything MC?

Okay manga/manhua/anime/donghua/youtube things I've read/watched (favs in purple): BSD (Bungou stray dogs), Apothecary diaries, One piece, Demon slayer, Spy x family, Your lie in April, LINK CLICK aka 时光代理人 (THE AMAZING LIVE ACTION THO 😭), Double click, The devil is a part timer, Dungeon meshi, Fruits basket, Oshinoko, The weakest tamer began a journey to pick up trash, K-on, Bocchi the rock, Your name, a bit of fullmetal alchemist, a bit of death note, a bit of Natsume's book of friends, and a bit of Cardcaptor Sakura, ORV (Omniscient reader's viewpoint), Insomniacs after school, Frieren, Witch hat atelier, Alien stage, MILGRAM

I WANT FRIENDS D:

#M art on here is my art so if your want to see the very few pieces of art I actually make then sure go ahead you can actually find them now

#M answers for any asks I happen to receive and I happen to answer

#M writes for the occasional writing this that I actually write - I write mainly oc stuff and sometimes fanfic (if my friend asks me to) but I don't have much time to write (aka I don't write at all basically) so there won't be much on here D:

#M waffles for when I actually decide to be original for once lollllll

Shout-out to @ilyfynn shout-out to @ilyfynn shout-out to @ilyfynn shout-out to @ilyfynn shout-out to @ilyfynn shout-out to @ilyfynn bc she is amazing and no we do not need to fight anymore lmao

Idk that's it ig

This is so long I'm sorry I keep adding to it

[cuesock]

blog tags post, edit later lol

my main/art blog is @locksox

im going through several of my old tumblr blogs and reblogging everything that i had liked since the dawn of time with no discrimination. there will be cringe o7 soz if i spam u doing this lol

post types/categories: art txt gif media memedia (meme format media) vids clips (blorbo clips, different from vids) rl pics lol (did it make me laugh? yes) polls tag misc tag music tag

i also tag: characters artists fandoms + subfandoms

uh gotta sort these ones

browser stuff hermits irl fandom socialisation

cats for dex dex look cats

fandom tag masterposts (wip) hlvrai half life portal mcyt homestuck deltora quest witch hat atelier naruto misc anime/manga

[opossauce]

scar and grian in my hermitcraft witch hat atelier au !!! my brain worms are kissing rn

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young apprentices and the significance of hat ornaments (and their future use)

[threecowsusingthistoreadcomics]

Weekly Hermittober Week Three - Invention!

Another piece of art based on me and @activate-shadow-of-the-window ‘s Hermit Hat Atelier AU! They’re doing this weekly drawing challenge right alongside me, so make sure to check out their art if the AU interests you.

This piece features Mumbo Killsalot Jumbo and his invention- the gun. Don’t let his calm demeanor fool you. Despite being the creator, Mumbo barely has any idea how to use it. He prefers to sell his weapons and leave them for others to use. “Peace Love and Plants” isn’t broken if other people use his inventions for harm, right?

Speaking of other people, to the left of this piece are some of Mumbo’s customers. CuteGuy, who uses Mumbo’s weapons to fight crime. Cub, who Mumbo got to test for him as a trusted craftsman. And Doc, who’s #1 on the list of “People Mumbo Probably Shouldn’t Be Selling Weapons To”, but also one of Mumbo most loyal customers.

You might be thinking, “Wow, this seems super illegal! I wonder how Mumbo is still running a Totally Safe business as a non-brimmed cap?” and the answer to that is Dumb Luck and also it is Worse than you think.

Not only does Mumbo run a business selling illegal contraptions- He’s also a trusted producer of pendants for the Knights Moralis. He has a drastic double life that could easily get him into So Much trouble, but he’s somehow managed to scrape by unnoticed for several years.

[activate-shadow-of-the-window]

Final Week Four of Hermittober: Aggression/Trickery!

A clash between a brim and a knight, for unclear but certainly reasonable reasons. Probably.

Fire-Starter, real name Tango, is on the left. His epithet is well earned, since he has focused almost all of his study and resources on perfecting a fire spell that burns indefinitely. He hasn’t succeeded quite yet, but he did invent matches, discover something similar to kerosene, learn how to heal burns, and commit somewhere between fifty and two hundred fifty separate cases of arson. His proudest invention is the pair of staves he wields, each of which is capable of creating flames from either end at will.

Joel, on the right, is a Knights Moralis and voted most-likely-to-get-injured-by-brim-hat-attack. He has an unfortunate tendency to rush straight into battle, ahead of all support and allies, and try to strangle the offending witch with his pennant. Which is, of course, against the rules, but he has the best arrest record of any Knight in the area, so it mostly gets overlooked. Key word being mostly, as whenever he tears up his uniform beyond repair in an ill-advised street bout with some vaguely described shadowy figure, a stern talking and a suspension are almost always waiting for him.

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This art is part of the Hermit Hat Atelier AU! It was made in collaboration with @threecowsusingthistoreadcomics, who’s also doing art for it this Hermittober. We’re trading off the dual prompts each week, so go check them out to learn more!

[ja-khajay]

Stuff I read (and liked) this year

As promised, here’s a list of the novels, comics, manga, etc... I read this year, focusing on the ones I enjoyed and would recommend to people. Under a cut, this is going to be a little long.

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Favorite book of the year: Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel

Non-fiction. Based on the interviews of the man himself by the author, it is about a man who felt so unfit for society he decided one day to leave it, and spent the next 28 years as a hidden hermit in forest in Maine. The book details how he survived there, how he was eventually found, and some of his reasons for doing so. It’s a great reflection on the nature of loneliness.

Indian creek, by Pete Fromm

...Yet another detailed tale of living alone in the woods. This time, the diary of a student who spent a winter in the mountains to help tend for salmon hatchlings, and how he spent the rest of his days hiking, hunting, meeting the locals. It’s a fun little book who, being set almost the whole world away from where I live, was a nice way to travel.

Howl’s Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones

I don’t feel the need to explain this one since everyone and their mom has seen the movie adapted from it. The book, that I first read a decade ago before I actually watched the film, is a less romantized, more spirited telling of the same story. The writing is absolutely delightful and so is the world it paints, and it’s the first time in ages a book had me laughing out loud during my entire read.

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Favorite comic of the year: Monsieur Désire?, by Hubert and Virginie Augustin

A discreet young woman becomes a maid for a decadent, unbearable, byronesque young lord. Caked in the rigid and oppressive social hierarchy of the victorian era, you follow a mental and verbal joust between the two, as the lord tries his best to offend and corrupt his new unrelenting servant, to little success. The writing and especially the dialogues were stellar, drawing me into the tense atmosphere, watching this trainwreck of a character flamboyantly destroy himself. While there’s no precise content warnings that I can give, this is a mature and heavy story.

World of Edena, by Moebius

Anyone who’s followed this blog for over a month knows how much of a Moebius fan I am. Edena combines the vague, dreamlike, wordless storytelling from stuff like Arzach or The cat’s eyes with an actual plot. While I haven’t completly finished the story, the evolution of the main characters and how the story is told have been great to read through, and as always the art is beyond gorgeous. Unfortunately suffers from some good old sexism in the writing that even if minimal, tasted sour

Le roman de Renart, by Joan Sfar (book 1)

Sfar’s work always has a signature vibe of being dreamy and light without being light hearted, of being down to earth but drifting in the fantastical, and this one is no exception. It’s an adaption of a series of medieval folk tales I grew up with, who uses the same characters to tell an original story. If you’re familiar with icons like Renart as well as other mythological big boys like Merlin you’ll fit right in. There is something special in how the dialogues are written, who feel natural in a way that you’d overhear in a street corner and is very special to me.

The mercenary, by VIncente Segrelles

Another one I post about a lot on this blog. The mercenary is a king on the throne of fantasy cheese. The worldbuilding is interesting at times but the writing is a pretty pathetic display of glorious old time sword and sorcery sci-fantasy 10 years too late for it’s prime (warning for ye old sexism and orientalism that plagues the genre, cranked very high...) but you come and stay for the art. The entire thing is drawn in a series of hyper detailed oil paintings with an insane eye for technical detail, from the engineering of the weaponry, to the architecture and weather, to the anatomy of the fantasy creatures... Each panel stands out as it’s own painting which makes even flipping through it without reading the scenario a treat. Click here to see more of the art, in my Segrelles tag.

The ice maurauder, by Jacques Tardi

A short story about mad scientists entirely drawn like a 19th century engraving. In great Tardi tradition everyone is ugly and mean, it ends terribly, it’s both a hommage to the genre of late 19th cent. to early 1900s dramatic adventure novels and a critical eye on it, and it’s morbidly funny. Most people I saw online hated the way this was written but I’m not them and I really recommend this book. Die mad

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Favorite manga of the year: it’s a tie between the following two.

Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto

Most wonderful comic I have read in ages. The story follows a bunch of semi-feral cats secretly living in the Louvre museum’s attic, and the small group of humans who share their life, walking through the museum as the night watch. When the cats are together, they are represented in a humanoid way, but still act like animals, and “become” cats again when a human is nearby. The plot is a sort of supernatural mystery centered around a kitten who walks around paintings. It’s a love letter to art, sincere and beautiful, with a unique art style and great characters.

Memoirs of amorous Gentlemen, by Moyoco Anno

A sex worker in early 20th century paris starts writing down a diary of the clients she meets, in a quest to cope with the troubles of her life. You follow her, her colleagues, and her bittersweet relationship with an abusive lover. I don’t have much words about this comic, but the art and writing both are amazing, it’s the perfect length and drew me in like little series had before. Obvious content warnings as this is an adult story that talks about sexuality, but also depicts both mental and physical abuse.

Hana, also by Taiyo Matsumoto 

A very short story, this was not made to be read as a comic originally, but served as storyboarding and visual development for a play, and the way it is written follows that. Hana is a slice of life story set in a fantasy world, of a young boy, his family, his village. Despite the setting being an original one, the character interactions are refreshingly... normal, and there is no huge plot to speak of, just a bit of the life of these characters. The art is beautiful, entirely black and white, with a scratchy style and an emphasis on contrast. Matsumoto is on a speedy road to becoming my favorite manga artist haha

Delicious in Dungeon, by Ryoko Kui

While not marked as my year’s favorite, I still consider this series among my favorite manga ever. The art and writing are amazing, and it’s both heartfelt, well concieved and plain hilarious. The story follows several parties of dungeon diving adventurers each on their little quests with a premise of our protagonists, on a panic rescue mission, surviving in the dungeon by cooking and eating the monsters they come across. From a DnD party turned cooking manual dinner of the week beginning, the plot creeps up on you and slowly thickens. I don’t want to spoil anything about the overarching story of this because it was a delight to discover for myself. While everything about DinD rules, I am especially fond of the design philosophy of the author, who puts great detail in the practicality and biology of what she draws, as well as the character writing. Everyone even side characters has so much charm and depth to them, the cast is so diverse and entertaining...! Each character is just a bit lame enough but endearing, and has their own little backstory that shows in the way they exist. It’s a delight

Chainsaw man, by Tatsuki Fujimoto

I went into CSM expecting a borderline campy hyperviolent dumb fun thing to read and was very surprised to find an uncomfortably well written story about a teenager being groomed. The hyperviolent dumb fun fights are here nonetheless and the series still qualifies as shonen for some reason, but the more mature character writing as well as some truly outlandish visuals make it something very special. If you can’t stand shonen, not sure you will like it, but if you don’t mind it, worth trying.

Witch hat atelier, by Kamome Shirahama

The oh so elegant fantasy seinen every cool kid started posting about this year, who I also succumbed to and fast. Witch hat is hard to explain, as most of it’s plot revolves around the rules of the world it’s set in, specifically the regulations around it’s magic and the social and historical reasons for them. It’s about growing up, learning, disability, making art. You follow a little girl taken in by a witch as an apprentice, her magical education, and learn little by little why her lovely teacher is so willing to break a lot of rules... While a bit too gentle and pretty for my taste at times, Witch hat has great worldbuilding and explores sensitive themes I rarely see in manga, much less in fantasy. And Berserk wishes it had art this good

[rainydayhaze]

Thank you for the tag, @megumidulce! fav color: navy blue, pale yellow, black, white, salmon pink (lmao too many)

last song: Espresso - Twice

last movie: tbh I don’t remember because I don’t watch movies often

currently working on: making more than 1 drawing a month

currently reading: How to Become a Dragon by eon, Tower of God by SIU, Witch Hat Atelier by Shirahama Kamome, many many other things :’> my eyes

sweet, savory or spicy: anything but spicy ಥ_ಥ

tagging @avadescent @artisticfoodie8 and whoever else wants to do this because I am a hermit

[acridid-s]

hierophant, strength, hermit, death??

the hierophant: do you believe in ghosts?

Complicated. Honestly, I kinda do, mainly because I want to, but in a way, but not like Fatal Frame-kinda ghosts or ones that you can see at all. I believe in “ghosts” as being more like a presence you think you feel in desecrated, abandoned places or places like the fuckin. woods, just, large, lonely places. Maybe the things you might feel, like a presence, or a noise you didn’t really hear, but felt like you heard, maybe they are “ghosts”, maybe just your imagination because you really want to believe in it.

strength: what is your dream occupation?

Ideally, concept artist, with a focus on character design. Not so deep down I also want to make like Simon Stalenhag and publish story-artbooks some day and turn my own dumb stories into artsy picturebooks with stories that make the reader feel the things I feel when I read Stalenhag’s books, or the Spiderwick series, or my current favorite manga Siúil, a Rún, and Atelier of Witch Hat. Things that range from wonder to awe to a mix of fascination and dread, even though you’re just reading a comic or book peppered with artwork.

the hermit: what is your favorite soda pop?

Uh.. coke.

death: what are three things you want to do before you die?

Play Elden Ring. 

Can’t think of other two more things.