#hes a worm on a string !! i love his design so much

[marbirds]

Butterscotch attack! for @dandelionrabbits

[moonpie016]

*Crawls out of the dark matter that consumes the wretched.* :]

Idk what that was about. My limbs hurt. Anyway!

Because of someone's wonderful question ( @coelacanth-designs (idk if you wanna be tagged) COUGH!

HMSsonas. Explanation for each of em'. Yay.

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Now yes they still hold some aspects of the originals, but I think they look cool.

💜So first we have Heart, I don't know what to really call any of them. (Figure it out later).

He's more or less literally the emotions, he loves too much yet so very little at times. Mostly depends on who he finds comfortable. Anxious, just stands there confused on what to do, how to approach, just anything. And overall has a kid like attitude to some things, not really feeling all that mature in some aspects. He also can easily hate whenever things happen that are...not to his liking.

His outfit could be based on something I wore before, like gowns or something. His eyes, when either under extreme emotions or literally heartbreak, can split and probably damage his vision. They're all hairy. That's cool. And purple is pretty.

💙Ah yes, the Mind, he's.... More of the critic and always questioning why or how something works, not to the extent that Heart does in a worried sense. But in a wonder, wanting to take in the knowledge of others. But he's easily irritated. Just by noises, they're all annoyed by sudden loud noises. As I am myself (they are supposed to reflect me. Sooo/lh) His outfit is basically what I wear sometimes in colder weather, jacket with whatever. No jewelry though. But he has it because it's nice. And uses big complex words for no reason but because he thinks it sounds good.

❤️Seeds, Hm? Oh Soul, they... are basically more closer to me. Funny shirt with random pun/design, baggy pants (depending) always carrying a bag of stuff. Comfort bag I guess. Little worm on a string and dinosaur, (I don't have actually, but have had before.) Soul is in his own head, always distracted but tries to stay on task, also an emotional being, having curious ideas, walks in a funny manner. He doesn't really care about how he looks, he just wants comfort. But if he doesn't care, others will. Soo social anxiety get inside the boi. (Not because of his attire, but of being told to do things normally). He says whatever on the top of their head, though he's weary to say anything. He also has a more feminine build then the rest of the two, Mind has a bit more masculine build, Heart has more of a chubby build. But Soul? He's skinny. To a degree. But he doesn't mind it.

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Here's alt stuff, like without the text and some rabbit ears, cus rabbits are cool. And some doodles. :] ⬇️

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Think that's all for now, uh if I come up with nicknames for them, I will. But until then *THROWS THEM*

and Myst is still the "Whole" of the group. Kinda.

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[leeannsparksauthor]

How Could I Hurt You?

*SPOILERS FOR DARK URGE PLAY THROUGH*

This one right here is for all the people who wanted a little more angst with their dark urge character. Personally I loved the story for the dark urge but I wish there was more of a reaction from companions at the fact that you died! So here's a little angsty treat for my fellow gamers who've put in over 300 hours into this game.

“I have a gift for you child. You will use it to lacerate this world.” No, the only word that echoed in your mind. You will not accept any gift from your so-called god. There is good in this world and your free mind knows this now. It is evident in the companions you have picked up along this journey. In the love of a pale elf, the kindness of an archdruid and the determination of tieflings. You have felt it in every gentle hug, tender kiss and smile that did not come from the release of death. 

“No, no, for once I’m free! I have seen life, I’ve seen beauty! I have loved, I have been loved…and I am never giving that back!” Fuck your god, fuck destiny, fuck everything that came before. The autonomy of your body was suddenly stripped away as you were raised into the air by invisible claws. Back breaking under the force answered only by cruel laughter.

“Can we kill this little freak!” The vampire spawn was ready to rush forward and imbed his knife into the puppet pulling the strings. You knew that he would be killed if he so much as put a kink in the plans of the cruel god. 

“Karlach…keep him away!”

Your father laughed at the weakness you showed so openly. “What a disappointing spawn you’ve become, my most promising, possessed by pathetic emotions. I remember when the very act of murder reflected in your gaze, oh the terror you inspired, the horror.”

The words Astarion spoke to his former master echoed within your mind, giving you courage, determination. “I am so much more than what you made me.”

“You are nothing without me, child. What I have given freely and what you have rejected most unknowingly I will take back. I will give you back to the rotting earth you hold so dearly, nothing but a dead fool, food for the worms. Even below the ground you will still feel the blood I rain upon this world, the fire that will consume the forests you called home. Your blood is mine and I will see it returned.”

You could feel the very blood he spoke of fall from your eyes like scarlett tears, your breath trapped inside your lungs begging to escape. The taste of copper fills your mouth as it dribbles down your chin. You’ve never felt so cold before, even in the harshest of winters. Bones seemed to snap and then as if clutched in a grasp of fury your heart shattered within your chest a silent scream caught in your throat. It was instant death but somehow still prolonged beyond the mortal plane.

There was no more chanting within the Bhall temple, no foreign word. Yet the scent of blood still lingered, the screams of your name like an echo being absorbed into the walls. 

You watched events unfold outside of your body and wondered if this is what all of your victims experienced after their death. Or if this torture was designed just for you by the lord of murder himself. 

Astarion had rushed over as soon as your body fell to the cold stone below. His hands cradling your body with a fierce protectiveness you had never seen before. His hands searched for a pulse, something, any sign of life you would give him. “Karlach give me a bloody scroll!”

“Astarion it won’t work…” she was right, it won’t. She had seen first hand instant death at the hands of devils, like a thread cut with a pair of scissors. 

“You don’t fucking know that, we have to try! Halsin do something you useless druid! Darling, look at me, please, please. I promised, I promised it wouldn’t have you my love, please…” Oh what you would give to embrace him, comfort him.

Light illuminated the blood that stained your face, warmth from Halsin’s palm, the warmth of nature itself. It would do nothing for you now. “Oak Father, hear me, aid me, protect this child of Silvanus.” The light flickered, a soft breeze tussling the hair surrounding your body. You had never seen such sadness on Halsin’s face, not even when his grove was threatened or when all hope had seemed lost in the darkness of the shadow curse. His hand engulfed the one that rested limply by your body, “forgive me my heart.” He brought the hand to his lips, warmth against deadly cold skin. 

“Your god is as useless as the rest of them! Potions, Karlach in my bag, hurry please…” his words were cut short as the large tiefling cradled the back of your head. Her forehead came to rest against yours, horns knocking against the ones atop your head. Soft lips brushed across the place where lines and creases would form the most.

“Rest easy Soldier…I’m so fucking proud of you.”

“Get away! Fuck you, fuck all of you, we have to help them, there must be something…” as if a candle had been extinguished so did his fight. “No, no…oh darling…I’m sorry, I’m so sorry my love, my light. Forgive me, please come back, I promise I’ll keep you safe please come back, don’t leave me, please.” They would tell stories about you, the hero who sacrificed everything to save Baulders Gate. Would they tell of the love you got to experience before it all ended? Would they speak of the friends you made? The adventures you had? 

Would they speak of the man who emerged from his crypt only to enter a temple and offer a choice?

The hardest choice you would ever have to make. Only it’s not a difficult one is it? After all it’s only one more battle until the rest of your life. Yours now, no one else's. You could close your eyes forever, spare yourself the view, the consequences. 

When the breath was returned to your lungs and the shattered pieces of your heart put back together one by one your body lurched forward with the first sight of your new life. 

Cool lips pressed against yours, fangs almost puncturing skin with the ferocity of a lover who held death in his arms. Words whispered against your mouth, “don’t you ever fucking do that to me again.”

A small, breathless laugh, “how could I leave my little star behind?” How could you leave this behind?

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

NERD!MIGUEL IS SO REAL I LUV HIM <3333

NERD!MIGUEL IS THERE I KNOW IT

Like...You saw what he said to Gwen when she called it a watch (which IT IS).

[omg she's so tiny small next to him]

He's a NERD. He thinks this stuff is COOL. He's WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK.

Like I imagine he's used to it by now - people's eyes glazing over when he begins to explain something technical or program-y, like Lyla's algorithms or the Multiverse Anti-Glitch feature of the watches.

He's put SO much work into all of this, the whole facility and the tech.

He made Lyla himself, but he knows that most people aren't really interested in that. So he's learned to simplify things.

If you ask a question, like how he made Lyla - he'll answer it basic and to the point.

_-_ 'She's an AI. She's my assistant and the notification system within your watch.'

He probably won't even look up from his work, thinking it's just the routine questions everyone asks before moving on to the next thing.

BUT IF YOU ASK FURTHER - Miguel's like

Because it's not often someone actually like...does that.

It's probably very rare that someone shows interest in his technological, engineering, or physics studies - all of which he's INCREDIBLY talented at and actively working on

You ask him how long it took him to make her, he says a year or two.

You tell him how impressive that is and BOOM NERD!Miguel.

He's telling you how her voice detection took the longest, and how her multiverse-monitoring probability algorithm was something he had to tweak twenty thousand times.

You compliment him about the design of the watch, he's like

_-_ 'I still have the protypes.' And he's ready to show you different ones, different shapes and materials he considered using, but eventually ruled out through experiments and tests

AND DON'T GET HIM STARTED ON THEORIES OH GODDDD

You mention the words 'String Theory' or 'Time Dilation' around him and you will NEVER hear the end of it.

He has so many opinions on it he's never had the chance to share.

Ideas and theories about things like fourth dimensions, worm holes, black holes, and dozens of other theoretical scientific concepts.

I mean, he MADE time travel. He is an EXPERT in that stuff.

I would KILL to have a Time Travel Movie Marathon with Miguel.

Sitting on the couch and watching things like Back to the Future, and he describes what they got right, what would be impossible, how it could work in theory.

He probably talks through the whole movie, and picks each one apart. You watch Doctor Who and he WILL NOT SHUT UP.

He's probably AMAZIINNGG at math.

Like math IS science. It's the answer for science. So he's probably a natural master.

You can be like 'Miguel, What's 34% of 12,967?' - Without blinking he'd be like

_-_'...I'm guessing 4408, or something? I don't know, am I right? Ask Lyla, don't ask me.'

But you don't need to ask Lyla cause HE'S RIGHT

HISTORY TOO!

I mean... the man time-travels. I think he'd have at least a good grasp on history, and time periods. Thinks like ancient roman historians and how their thoughts effect modern science, and how certain events effected the flow of time throughout history.

I imagine he finds it so fascinating, seeing the vast differences that can span in universes, just from one small change. Maybe he even finds comfort in it, seeing how histories and stories have a natural flow in a way fiction can only hope to imitate.

I love me some Nerd!Miguel.

I wanna get in bed with Miguel and by that I mean I want to sit next to him as he sits in bed reading a book on the Theory of Relativity with reading spectacles and a mug of sleepytime tea okay

A Miguel who runs up to his partner like 'Read this,' and he's all proud as he hands you a notepad full of numbers. But to him it's a formula he's been working WEEKS on, one that'll make Lyla run smoother, and everything much easier and he wants you to think he's cool for it

A Miguel who spends date nights watching NatGeo documentaries for fun

NERDY NERD MIGUEL DORKY MILD NERDY MIGUEL

[lunarcrown]

can we see all of your tattoos? :0

I FINALLY TOOK PICS!!!! I actually don’t have a TON of tattoos compared to my peers but I have a nice chunk! I’m just slow at getting tattooed bc I’m always working so I get like MAYBE two a year 😂

ANYWAYS!!! Ok so my legs: butterfly, demon goat girl, caterpillar, bill cipher (a SUPER OLD ONE), Minecraft block, and blue three eyed cat are all by me on me HAHA

I’ve made myself quit tattooing myself so I can get OTHER people’s art on me, but I wanted to tattoo my own shins just in case it was too terrible to continue with someone else (it’s not actually that bad!!!), and the other things like the Minecraft block were just so I could have complete control of it when it meant so much to me. The three eyed cat is actually my first “official” tattoo on skin I did as an apprentice! (Bill was a sneaky stick and poke I did in college OTL)

Creeper is from a friend/fellow tattoo artist who I trade tattoos with a bunch (but we still pay each other bc BILLS…), party dragon was from a dragon tattoo trade, worm on a string was from a friend who’s apprenticeship started same time as mine, pink axolotl is from my coworker who is sooooo freakin cool….i aspire to be like her so much…. And anime eyes heart gal is from a super cool friend that I went to college with! We reunited when I started tattooing and got a lot of laughs on how long it took to get our degrees and now we aren’t even “using” them HAHSG

Rest of the ones on my legs!!

Mob is from the same buddy that did the creeper and another one you’ll see in a sec, the kitties are from ANOTHER pal who started apprenticing same time as me! They’re actually arranged to be a subtle ⚢ sign bc IM A HOMOSEXUALLLLL~~ the symbol beneath these is the ol symbol from gravity falls that I ALSO stick and poked in college YEP…. Love Bug and the firefly are by a buddy from Virginia! One day I’m gonna get a “mean” version of love bug on my other thigh and it’s gonna say “bug off” 🤩 and the colorful leopard is from ANOTHER buddy trade that I did with a very cool friend!!

And finally MY ARMS!!!!

I have even less up here because getting arm tattoos makes it hard to work pfft….

I LOVE canti from OG FLCL (I love robots with sick designs so much…) and I love the show as well (introducing me to the Pillows was so PIVOTAL…) so I have him not once but TWICE form different ppl. The one with the flowers was from my mentor who turned out to be a sucky person so BOOO but I still love the tattoo~ the claptrap and OTHER canti are from a neat guy that I LOOOVE his style but his shop is sooo traditional and it’s lowkey uncomfortable even though he’s nice so idk if I’ll go back for a third. The Grievous is from the same buddy that did the creeper and mob!!! It’s so cool too bc my freckles make HIM have freckles and it’s adorable to me. And finally my VERY first tattoo I ever got, the big ufo abducting a pumpkin!!

This was done by Kelly McGrath in North Carolina and she was so sosososo sweet, gave me free prints, let me video call some of it to my family because we were VERY very far away from each other, AND I got to tell her years and years later that she inspired me so much that I became a tattoo artist myself!! And I even got to ask her a question or two and she responded so nice :,,)

SO YEAH I don’t have much rhyme or reason to my picks besides preferring color tattoos to be the majority, but my goal now is to collect tattoos from some very cool people and take my time filling up my body with art!! Eventually I would like to extend to my hands (palms included) and feet (JUST THE TOP I AM NOT DOING MY SOLES), neck, body, and maybe a few on my face near the outer perimeter/outer corner of eyes/above eyebrows! But that’ll probably be way off bc I work a LOT like I said at the beginning! Always the tattooer, never the tattooed HAHA

[ladystarksneedle]

Medieval picrew tag game

Create an Aemond/Aegon self insert/OC love interest.

Thank you so much for tagging me @snowblack-charcoalwhite and @sylasthegrim 💖💖

I admit I didn't see the first part and just made her quite randomly at first picturing a lady from Dorne but I came up with a small story which I'll post under the cut too

Here is the link for the tag game. Thank you for starting this @troublesomesnitch ! Loved designing her💖

Tagging (no pressure): @barbieaemond @pendragora @worms-on-a-single-string @hieronymph @snowprincesa1 @witheredoffherwitch @starstrucksnowing @sahtinekryze @moonshine999 @liv-cole @sidraofthewildflowers @fatherforgivethem @bohemian-nights @theothermaidoftarth @theoneeyedprince @humanpurposes @randomdragonfires @themoonofthesun @very-straight-blog @sunnysideaeggs @terrorofthetrident @tell-them-the-north-remembers @dr-aegon @inthedayswhenlandswerefew @arcielee @aegonx @khaleesihel @lynnbeth5172 @st-eve-barnes @vhagar-balerion-meraxes @zaldritzosrose @cyeco13 @boundlessfantasy @scaly-freaks and whoever sees this because I'm forgetting most of the people I want to tag

So she's a Dornish lady belonging to House Allyrion of Godsgrace. Their words are "No Foe May Pass". They're an ancient house, basically established by the Andals who settled in Dorne.

The Greenblood (river) lies near the banks of the castle, flowing east to the Summer Sea, with olive and lemon orchards surrounding the Keep. She spent her childhood mostly within Godsgrace surrounded by peace.

She's the first born child of the second son of house Allyrion so there isn't much left for her to inherit leaving her father to prioritise a good match as well as an elaborate education for her.

This is probably her maiden portrait or something he had commissioned to be sent should an eligible suitor present himself.

She's sent to the Martells on her seventeenth name day to secure a match, basically to learn how to integrate herself into larger circles of influence. (The Martells are her maternal cousins, Aliandra Martell being her first cousin who she houses with, as she's being prepared to rule by her father.)

Around the time of the dance of the dragons when Otto Hightower writes to Qoren Martell for his support, he considers rejecting it before deciding to consider the benefits of increased trade and influence should the greens succeed. He offers conditional support sighting his reluctance to engage with the Targaryens due to their historical rivalry but willingness to negotiate should Otto's plans succeed.

After he learns of the battle at Driftmark, he plans to send Aliandra reluctantly as an envoy at her behest, to negotiate a deal with the greens in kings landing. She accompanies her cousin to the city much to the dislike of her own family.

After arriving in kings landing and learning of the death of Prince jacaerys which was kept hidden, both women find themselves stuck. Aliandra wishes to lend her support to Rhaenyra, return home and change the terms of the deal, angry at the greens for keeping valuable information hidden, yet both find themselves under the eye of the newly appointed Prince Regent who forces them to honor the terms their house laid out or come up with a revised and mutually beneficial plan to honor their shared agreement.

[pocket-goat]

iterator lineup! i wanted to keep their designs more consistent in my art so i made this as a reference. rambling about more details under the cut bc i love talking about my designs hhehehe

anyones free to use my designs as inspo if they like!

-moon and pebbles have matching cloaks! sibling iterators and their matching outfits my beloved <3

-pebbles' cloak is too big for him, which is why it always slumps off one shoulder and the sleeves often cover his hands. i like to think the ancients made the cloak before pebbles' puppet was completed, because they liked the idea of making it match with moon, but didnt quite get the size right!

-all of their antennae (minus sig of course) are able to rotate forwards and backwards, but only suns can rotate theirs in/outwards as well!

-pebbles and sig both have neon markings that look like top surgery scars because theyre my transmasc kings

-suns has claws and little paw bean markings on their hands

-suns is technically a 2nd gen iterator, only because they're structure was fully completed at the same time other 2nd gen iterators were being constructed. their construction was started in what was still considered the 1st gen

-i imagine iterators eyes are kind of screenlike, so they can optionally project pupils onto them to emote better if they want to! moon and sig do it the most (although moons pupils tend to flicker in and out post-collapse), pebbles mostly does it when he wants to roll his eyes, and suns uses it for intimidation factor and staring unsettlingly /lh

-i didnt include any of them here because im still brainstorming about it a little bit, but i imagine they all have little accessories or trinkets that were sent to them by the other iterators! both before the mass ascension, delivered by proper Ancient messengers, and post mass ascension, delivered by slugcats or similarly modified creatures

-sigs pronouns are he/they but they often use she/her for themself when its funny, or use feminine titles/honorifics just because they like them!

-because i love worm off the string aus a little too much, i thought about what their strengths would each be while designing them too </3 moon is the most robust and can take the most damage before her exterior shell even begins to dent. pebbles is the best shot, and is the fastest when it comes to just straight sprinting across flat ground. sig is the fastest when it comes to bumpier terrain and is the best at climbing and jumping. suns is the best at intimidation factor but also makes very good use of their clawed hands and sharp feet. hes the most skilled at fighting without weapons!

[cheesycatz]

WORMTON AU MASTERPOST

"Spamton G. Spamton is a computer worm that merely pretends to be a spam program. His species, the malworms, are characterized by their long bodies, many legs, pointed nose, compound eyes, pointy smile, and their parasitoid life cycle. The Sweepstakes worm on a string represents what their larvae look like after they consume and kill their host from the inside out. Spamton himself is the last living member of the BIGSHOT malworm species, still seeking for a way to restore his kind and take control of Cyber City once more. He created his disguise and spam program persona in order to collect information, but inadvertently caught the attention of a group of addisons. He definitely only sees them as a resource to exploit. He is absolutely not attached. He is NOT terrified of what will happen if they find out what he really is. He's above some... kind, thoughtful, considera—PATHETIC advertisements. Obviously."

This AU exists mostly in the form or art and text posts, but I am currently working on a fanfic about Wormton and the addisons, which will start being posted to ao3 once I finish the entire rough draft.

Links below to all: lore, art, question answers, marketable plushies, and fic updates ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Lore (art included)

Initial lore post

- The basics. Describes the general characteristics, infection process and behavior of malworms. Also describes the extinction of Spamton's species, his origins, and the setup for his interactions with the addisons.

More malworm biology

- More information on malworm culture/biology and Spamton's specific species (the BIGSHOT malworm).

Size comparison and more biology

- A sketch dump showing a size comparison between the addisons and masked/unmasked Spamton. Also features some general sketches of BIGSHOT malworms and some more information on their biology.

Spamton before he met the addisons

- A sketch page + text on some scenes from Spamton's life from before he met the addisons.

General info/designs of malworm genera

- Not much Spamton here. It's just a look at what the other types of malworms might look like.

Art (sometimes a smidgen of lore)

Disguised Wormton Reference Sheet

True Wormton Reference Sheet

Too Many Legs (Comic based on the fic)

Spamton and the addisons (pre-reveal)

Annoying Mouse Room™ Infinite Food Hack

The Worm Nest

How Wormton's costume works

Pros of not having a spine

Late night worm posting

What a Wormton NEO would look like

Wholesome Wormton Content

Hatchling Spamton my beloved

Do Not let him in (worm sketches)

Do not buy his car insurance (apple sketches)

Askbox

Malworm Hoodie Design

Apple Worm Shirt Design

My asks are open, so feel free to ask me any questions about my AU or art in general (within reason, obviously)! I like drawing responses when applicable, so feel free to give me a wormton drawing request and I might consider it.

Asks from Instagram about lore

More Instagram asks 🔥

Can malworm/wormton fanart be made? (Yes pretty please I would love fanart)

Maximum lifespan of malworms?

(Submission) fanart by Smieska

Plushies

I have so many of these things god help me

My Worm Collection

Spamton Plush Wormton Outfit

16 ft long Life-Size Wormton Plush

The Making Of: Life-Size Wormton Plush

Fic Updates

Sometimes I post art and some thoughts about the Wormton AU fic I am working on. I won't be publicly posting it until I finish the rough draft of the entire story. I'm doing my best, but I'm also dealing with life's responsibilities and making other art. I have no idea for a release date yet, but I don't plan on giving up.

Once the entire story has reached a first-draft state, I will finish each chapter one by one and post them as I do. As previously mentioned, chapters will be released on ao3 once finished.

86k words update

100k words update

111k words update

120k words update

132k words update

142k words update

150k words update

160k words update

170k words update

Thank you for enjoying my silly little AU, I love reading your tags

[sepublic]

Homesick!

I just gotta say I love the pun of this episode’s title; I thought Homesick would allude to it being about Luz missing home, but it was actually a joke on Hooty being sick!

That said, we DID get what would’ve been our first look at Manny, as well as an early version of Camila lore! Turns out she was going to be a nurse, but in the end I think I like veterinarian better. Still, I remember discussing healing back during S1A as a potential track for Luz because of this, so to see that theme be apparent with both parents was cool!

Manny’s face being shrouded also seems to indicate that the dramatic reveal behind him -the illness- was always planned, at least since the pilots. Luz said he drove an ambulance, past tense, which seems like some dark irony given he probably needed one at one point. Remember how some of us theorized after Reaching Out that the Abomaton alarm reminded Luz of an ambulance siren related to her father? Man… On the plus side! We can guess Camila and Manny met through their professions, so we could try applying that to canon as well! Compassion is such a Noceda trait I love it.

Likewise, I appreciate how these two leaked storyboards have Luz and Eda covering for each other! One sticks their neck out because something means a lot for the other, but the other decides it’s not so important they’d sacrifice the one for it… With this episode, Eda doesn’t want Luz to look like a dunce but Luz is honest and can’t bear to see her mentor be mocked either, and is trying to take responsibility for what she feels is HER mistake too! It’s really sweet seeing Eda inadvertently teach Luz the Healing glyph.

Speaking of, it seems we would’ve gotten individual glyphs for all spells, as the fandom once assumed! I guess the show did glyph combos to explain why Luz doesn’t immediately find everything, as well as create a sort of fun system behind Luz having to mix and match things. And we even got to see what we always wanted; Luz making an ENORMOUS glyph around her enemy! Goes to show my speculation that since glyphs rely on the magic around them, they aren’t physically taxing; Something we see brought up with Eda’s own magic.

Caduceia reminded me of an early Hermonculus, being a teacher who didn’t really care much for the actual students and even seemed to enjoy mocking them! She looks like Raine, so much that I wonder if the design was repurposed for them because it was such a nice one! I dig the play on Caduceus, with Snakeslie as a palisman! Snakeslie looks so much like a worm on a string. Given Luz and Caduceia are both healers, it’s neat they have a snake in common, though Caduceia’s seems to allude to her being a snake (liar); Her palisman’s name is literally Snakeslie. Snakes lie. Glad to see Stringbean with the positive rep!

I also love the gag of King calling himself the King of whatever’s convenient, and it was really cute seeing him want to prove his own worth! Because two witches, it’d be easy to feel like he has nothing to offer, which is part of Sense and Insensivity in canon! There’s parallels between the A and B-plots, with Luz and King feeling ineffectual and their owl friend supporting them, only to be helped as well! Eda and Owlbert are linked and hell so are the demon hunters and Caduceia!

The House Demon lore was neat, even if it was stuff we already figured out with canon; House Demons being like hermit crabs, and also rare! Seeing healing magic be used to make someone sick and even control their mucus/phlegm was disgusting yet fascinating! And I was delighted to see the demon hunters again, they’re underrated side characters imo and we even got a crew nickname for another one of them!

I also like the bit of the moral here; That sometimes, it’s not that a student is bad or isn’t trying, sometimes the teacher is failing them. Maybe some people think this generation is raised too soft and coddled, but I think it’s an important reassurance for a lot of kids who struggle and blame themselves for it; I’ve taken teaching classes before, and we were taught to be vigilant with ourselves as potentially inadequate for students. It’s the onus of the teacher to adapt to a kid’s needs after all, and actually care!!!

What an unexpected delight! I never imagined the crew made storyboards for additional episodes and not just the pilot! This one has no voice alas, but it’s better than nothing and I feel storyboards have such a nice charm to themselves as well! I really thought the pilot would be my last episode review, but I keep getting pleasantly surprised and gifted by this show…!

[marina-the-witch]

SotE Spoilers (Just in case)

After finishing SotE a week or two ago and reflecting on the experience I wanted to share my issues with the DLC. I'll leave out if a boss frustrated me for whatever reason outside of my first point, as I feel like that will definitely improve with reruns or at least solidify my opinions, but it's not like a couple bad bosses are a major issue for me anyway. With that said, here's what bothers me about SotE: -Bad hitboxes and weird timings on some bosses, this definitely did not feel like something I just need to learn like e.g. Messmer's or Rellana's long combo strings. Gaius and the Golden Hippo were especially bad in the hitbox department, Putrescent Knight and Scadutree Avatar meanwhile had some REAL dodgy timings, and Radahn's cross slash feels entirely undodgeable. Bayle, while he is a favorite of mine, also definitely had timings I felt were really tight considering his HP, but I've been hearing a lot of people say he isn't as hard and his tight openings feel designed with Igon in mind so I imagine that will improve on reruns. -There really isn't much of a reason or incentive to explore for me, while the new cookbooks and spells are cool that's moreso questline or enemy drops, most overworld item pick-ups are just upgrade mats i can literally just buy and especially the amount of gloveworts bothers me, there's enough of them in basegame to max every wortwhile summon anyway and I personally don't use summons to begin with. -Adding to the previous point, there's a lot of stretches of land that just feel so empty, the most notable example are definitely the abyssal woods, an area you can't just run through really should have more in it in my opinion, but all the other overworld areas could use a lot more too. I also really don't get why the dungeons feel almost hidden away, but that's not a huge deal since they're at least all unique. -Scadutree blessing is a cool and interesting idea on paper, but for one I feel like 50 is a bit of a bloated value to collect all of them and their scaling is a bit op after the latest patch. That does kinda balance out though since it means I can collect like half of them and still be fine, but I still think the system is a bit messy. -The new selection of minibosses is pretty poor, Furnace Golems are ass, Death Knights and Ghostflame Dragons are cool at least, the rest is kind of boring and the amount of annoying NPC fights kinda bothers me (also the Gank Squad at the end is horrible)

-Some weapon classes still feel super undercooked. I honestly don't mind the new classes only having a small handful as it reduces the bloat of useless enemy drop weps you had in basegame and replaces them with solid infusable weapons, but whips, bows and etc actually feeling functional would have been nice With all that said I still love SotE and there's way more positives than these few negatives that i feel are more or less fairly objective. I have other personal gripes with the narrative and some other things but that's another can of worms.

[ourshadowstallerthanoursoul]

An audience with... John Paul Jones

(from Uncut, April 2010 - link)

You’re stuck on a deserted island, you have one instrument you can bring. It is: a) piano, b) bass or c) mandolin? (Gary Attersley, Ontario, Canada)

Oh… that’s horrible! I’ll probably get Hugh Manson – the guy who builds all my bass guitars – to build me some monstrous instrument that encapsulated all three! Hugh and his brother Andy Manson once actually designed me a triple-necked guitar with 12-string guitar, six-string guitar and mandolin on it! Andy also designed a triple-necked mandolin. But I guess if it really came down to it on a desert island, it would have to be the piano, because you can do so much on it. You’re a whole band. The bass is not much fun on your own.

John, it’s so good to see you so engaged with today. Any advice for old farts who can’t move on? (Andrew Loog Oldham)

Who are you calling an old fart? I dunno, Andy, you tell me! Ha ha. He’s done a good job of staying up to date. Andrew, of course, gave me the name John Paul Jones. I was John Baldwin, until Andrew saw a poster for the French film version of John Paul Jones. I thought it ’d look great in CinemaScope, as I wanted to do music for films. I imagined it saying “Music By John Paul Jones”, over the whole screen. I never realised then that he was the Horatio Nelson of America!

I know that you’ve been getting heavily into bluegrass lately – who are some of your favourite bluegrass artists of all time? (Ryan Godek, Wilmington, Delaware)

Apart from Bill Monroe, you mean? Oh, there’s loads. I’m friends with the Del McCoury band, I love that style of classic bluegrass. I love Sam Bush’s Newgrass stuff. And of course there’s Nickel Creek, Chris Feely, Mike Marshall. I love it all, really. One thing I like about bluegrass is that you don’t require amplifiers, drums and trucks. You can pull an instrument out of a box and get on with some instant music making. I carry a mandolin around wherever I go. I also like the fact bluegrass musicians play more than one instrument. There’s a tradition of them swapping instruments. In bluegrass bands I swap between double bass, fiddle and banjo.

One Butthole Surfers anecdote, please? (Dave Grohl)

Ha! I was brought in to produce the Butthole Surfers’ 1993 album, Independent Worm Saloon. I guess it was to give it a heavy rock vibe, but it didn’t work like that. They were actually incredibly hard-working in the studio, but I do recall running up a phenomenal bar-bill at the San Rafael studio. And then there was Gibby [Haynes, Butthole Surfers’ frontman] and his… eccentric studio behaviour. Gibby did one vocal take shouting into his guitar. He held it out in front of his face and screamed at it. Ha! He was trying to find out if it picked up through the pick-ups, which it kind of did. And that was pretty good.

How’s the violin coming along? (Sean, Berkshire)

I started about three years ago. With the guitar, or the piano, you can sound OK quite quickly. With the violin, it takes much longer. Once you get past the first six months of scraping, of muttering to yourself, “What is this fucking horrible noise on my shoulder?” you get the odd musical bit, and you think, ‘Oh, this is starting to get good.’ And you continue with it for a while. I’m getting into country fiddle playing, Celtic folk songs, a bit of swing. Basic stuff, but very satisfying.

Why not record a second ‘Automatic For The People’ with REM? (Franz Greul, Austria)

They haven’t asked me! But doing the string arrangements for that album was a great experience, actually. They sent me the demos of their songs, and we went into a studio in Atlanta, with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. They were great songs, something you can really get your teeth into as an arranger. And I’ve been good friends with them ever since.

How did you first meet Josh Homme? And is he still a notorious party monster? (Rob Hirst, Kippax, Leeds)

Well, I think we’ve all calmed down rather a lot. Dave introduced me to Josh at his 40th birthday party. It was a ridiculous themed place where they have jousting with knights. As Dave said, it was like somewhere you’d have your 14th birthday party. Or maybe even your 4th. Anyway, Dave sat Josh and I together for a blind date. Which was reasonably embarrassing for both of us, surrounded by people going “prithee this” and challenging each other to duels. But we survived the trauma and went into the studio the next day, and just started jamming. And I knew immediately it was going to be something special.

If Them Crooked Vultures had Spice Girls-like nicknames what would they be? (Paul Jones, Liverpool)

Dave would be Smiley Vulture. He can’t stop grinning. Josh would be Slinky Vulture. He’s a slinky kinda guy. And I’d be Speedy, I guess. Or Jumpy. So there you go. Smiley, Slinky and Speedy. Or does that sound more like the dwarfs?

I remember you being a pretty funky bass genius back in the day! What memories do you have of those sessions? (Donovan)

The sessions with Don and Mickie Most were great, because we were given a free hand. I usually got leeway, because I was the sort of Motown/Stax specialist, so producers in the mid ’60s would get me in for cover versions of American records, and none of them could write bass parts convincingly enough, so I was London’s answer to James Jamerson, I guess! And I was certainly encouraged to get kinda… funky when I worked with Donovan.

How did it feel to see Jimmy Page and Robert Plant venture off in their own project in the ‘90s without mentioning a word of it to you? (Danny Luscombe, Hull)

Oh yeah, I was pissed off about it. The surprise was in not being told. It’s ancient history now, but it was a bit annoying to find out about it while reading the papers. It came just after Robert and I had been discussing the idea of doing an Unplugged project. Then I’m on tour in Germany with Diamanda Galás, I turn on the TV and see Robert and Jimmy doing it, with someone else playing all my parts! I was pissed off at the time. You would be, woudn’t you? But… it’s all in the past, isn’t it?

Did you listen to much work by Josh Homme or Dave Grohl before you were contacted in relation to joining Them Crooked Vultures, and if so, how did you honestly rate it? (Ralph Ryan, Lisronagh, County Tipperary)

I did like the Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age, before I’d met either of them. There’s a tendency for people – especially musicians from my generation – to say that there has been this terrible decline in musicianship, that today’s bands haven’t got the chops, blah blah blah. But that’s not true at all. There’s always some people for whom technique on an instrument isn’t necessary. They can get their ideas across without being able to have the chops. But Josh really does have the chops, he just doesn’t feel the need to flash them about all the time. In fact, there were a few riffs he gave me that I had to simplify, because they were bloody difficult to play. I really had to work at it, where he could just flick it off. He is an astonishing musician.

Were you serious when you told Peter Grant that you wanted to jack it in to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral? (Brian Fisher, Manchester)

Ha! That was a tongue-in-cheek joke, although I was serious about leaving Led Zeppelin in 1973 unless things changed. But Peter did sort things out pretty quickly. What kind of choirmaster would I have made? A bloody good one! Listen, any way that they’ll pay you for making music is just the best situation in the world. I’d do it for nothing. I don’t care what music it is. I just love it all. The rubbing of notes together. I love it all. I would be very passionate about whatever I decided to do.

What was the worst session you ever did as a jobbing session player? (Adam Burns, Castleford, West Yorkshire)

I generally have fun memories of that time. I’d criss-cross London playing two or three sessions a day, going between Trident and Olympic and Abbey Road and Philips in Marble Arch, you know. You’d be backing Shirley Bassey, Cat Stevens, Lulu, whoever was paying you. The worst experience was a Muzak session. With Muzak sessions, the music was deliberately boring. I distinctly remember one session where I embellished the bass part a little bit, just so that it wasn’t so boring for me to play. They said, “No, you can’t do that. Any interest in the music will distract people’s attention from when they’re meant to be eating.” Or standing in a fucking lift. For fuck’s sake! So I was like, “OK, thanks, bye!”

[whumpy-wyrms]

here’s a bunch of Aspen picrews :D

links: 1 2 3 4 5 6

alright so i love Aspen’s design so much. some things about him are that he has to always wear colorful clothing and no black and white or desaturated colors. he LOVES color. he always needs to wear green at all times, and silly hats before he turns into a werewolf.

he also always wears silly object earrings like the ones in the picrews (i have more i’ll post some other time): skulls, leaves, mushrooms, pizza, fruit, worm on a string etc. he has heterochromia: one green eye and one blue eye. the way i remember which eye is blue is that i just think about sans and his blue eye because i’m cringe like that.

he’s always in the woods being rambunctious and would definitely have a bunch of leaves constantly stuck in his curly hair because he’s the type of autistic to not shower for days because of sensory stuff (same). Silas likes the smell of rotting corpses but not… stinky alive human Aspen so he makes him shower everyday because Aspen smells GOOD when he’s not smelling like some sort of wet dog (his blood is mainly what makes him smell so good to Silas. also i have like no sense of smell if that means anything)

Aspen is just so silly he’s literally one of my favorite ocs fr. he’s so funny and hyper and full of soo much energy all the time and he’s the embodiment of golden retriever energy. before he met Silas he got into so much trouble running around the woods and scraping his knees and being a menace. i just really wanna howl at the moon with this guy

[majormeilani]

I assume you're alright with asks from your AHiT OC Ask Game. If not, ignore this <:]

Wormie:

3. Write an iconic quote or phrase that your character says often! Or more if there's more than one.

Cassidy:

21. Do they have a “cringe” or embarrassing secret that they never want anyone to find out about?

Rin:

22. What flowers do you associate with your oc?

It was so hard to not say, "Do the whole thing," for Cassidy hahahaha.

oh i'm fine with it lol! it's mostly meant for everyone else to have fun with but i'm also always open to talking about these beloveds frfr

wormie:

she often will say emojis out loud and leet speak but her favorite thing to say is "AWESHUM!!!1" whenever she's really happy. she also often will just be making little goofy noises when she does something, usually some kind of echolalia that she says under her breath but she likes saying "bloop bwoop" when she is imitating what noise she thinks a worm would make if she makes her worm on a string, named specimen, talk LOL. knowing her she'd also probably say "oh worm!" as an exclamation of surprise or intrigue nxjdddhdhhxcj

cassidy:

one of the things that he keeps very secret as he's worried of being laughed at is he very much likes the ahit universe's equivalent of 'monster high' although one could probably tell that a bit by some of his outfit designs but he tries to keep that a secret. also another that he is embarrassed to admit is that one time nicole showed him one of her favorite soap operas and though he feigned disinterest in the show, he actually became very invested in the drama of it all and regularly watches it in secret LOLL though he always has to still feign ignorance when nicole tells him about things that happened in her favorite soap and he has to come up with excuses to watch it when it comes on LOL.

rin:

i associate her any pretty pink flowers!!!! tho she mostly likes carnations herself. but if there's a flower that's vibrant and pink, i definitely see that as a flower she would love. hibiscus, orchids, camellia and irises chrysanthemums are also flowers i can see fitting her. she also loves to give her patients who are really sick flowers that mean healing or even make them teas with flowers that have health benefits<3

(also LOLL that's funny that you almost thought about asking me to do all for cassidy but tbh i am all for it if there's ever curiosities i can answer abt my guys and i'm okay with any amounts of questions just sometimes they take me time to answer but every single one is always appreciated)

[giggly-squiggily]

*turns into a spineless worm on a string to slither underneath your door into your room* SQUIGGILY :D i bring modern au obasane brainrot :D

- they met in their second week of university when kanae decided they should ask the new guy to join them for lunch and at first they were kinda awkward around each other, then they became friends when sanemi found out that the university was gonna forbid obanai from bringing kaburamaru with him and because he's been fighting principals all his life (getting his school to approve his recording devices was a struggle) he straight up dragged obanai to the dean's office and pestered the officials into approving kaburamaru as a service animal

- obanai frequently makes jokes about sanemi loving his motorcycle a little too much and calls him wheelie boy but it's all just an elaborate ruse to avoid admitting that he's deathly afraid of getting on the damn thing

(- sanemi does see through it eventually but obanai literally saw him fight for his life on a three step ladder so he's not really in a position to say anything about it)

- nah but fr bullying each other is their love language but they actually become wildly protective of each other when they're in uncomfortable situations

- obanai hates hates HATES any kind of vehicle and public transport is literally his personal hell and whenever they're on a bus together sanemi will go full scary dog and physically shoulder people out of the way so obanai gets to have some space

- sanemi can read but he's really slow and every time they go out to eat and sanemi has trouble with the menu obanai calls the waiter over and has him explain every single dish to him because "i grew up in a cult mister, we ate rats and potato peel"

- sanemi loves doing this thing where he puts his elbow on obanai's shoulder when they're standing next to each other and he will have the most relaxed conversation with someone while obanai is fuming next to him

- sanemi knows he can get away with this stuff because obanai isn't one to make a scene in public but he saves all of these little encounters in his memory for when they're alone and then. well.

- people would think sanemi wrecks obanai the most but it's actually the other way round because 1) obanai has kaburamaru as support so that's already an advantage and 2) as much as he hates to admit it (which is why he never admits it) sanemi is just more ticklish than obanai and obanai is mean about it

- obanai loves visiting sanemi's family with him, he's awful with kids but he likes having the shinazugawa siblings around and just seeing how they have fun together and how much they care about each other

- obanai's room is always way too warm and humid because of kaburamaru and the first thing sanemi does every thursday (designated cleaning day) is barge into his room and open the window while obanai cusses him out and wraps kaburamaru in every blanket he can find (the snake is completely fine)

- sanemi helps obanai set up dates with mitsuri, he knows all of her favorite restaurants, her favorite flowers and what cute little sanrio gadgets he could get her as a gift

- obanai isn't really useful in planning dates with kanae but he's really good at knocking sense into sanemi when he's shutting himself off or getting into his own head too much over things that just aren't as bad as his mind makes them out to be

- obanai struggles with sensitivity towards certain topics but most of it stems from him simply not knowing a lot about these topics, for example he'll occasionally drop slurs without knowing they're offensive and whenever that happens sanemi is there to subtly ram his elbow into obanai's ribs

- "sabito said he was gonna do a small dinner for pride month." - "pride month? oh right that's the month for the fag-" *elbow* "the lgbtq... i... a...?" *bisexual nod of approval from sanemi*

- obanai later wrecks sanemi for allegedly breaking his ribs but he's really trying his best to be an ally

Oo, a worm! *gather's you up on a leaf and puts you in a fancy worm habitat* perfect!

OBASANE BRAINROT LETS GO!!! I love this holy-

-Sanemi fighting tooth and nail for Kamaramaru is so CANON! He will get physical if required but overall will be as annoying about it as possible until said dean gives in! He's got a whole presentation on service animals and stats on their effect for reducing anxiety and all that until the dean is just "Fine fine, just don't lose it."

-WHEELY BOY! KERKJKEJRJKEJKREJKR I love that HELP! Also mood, Obanai- motorcycles are terrifying. Cool as heck to look at, but utterly terrifying kakjrkjer (jarjkeajkrjkej SANEMI! Two steps is far enough! One step more? Nope- not doing it; far too tall. He's sweating bullets and acting like he's on the edge of a mountain and Obanai's just holding him from behind like: "It's one foot in the air, Sanemi-" "JUST HOLD ONTO ME!")

-Sanemi being a guard dog for Obanai while on public transport is so good holy- he's used to doing so for Mitsuri and Kanae cause creeps be creeping until they get a look at Sanemi's K-9 s and Obanai kinda loves how scary the taller man makes himself but then immediately is all: "Ma'am do you need to sit down?" the second an elderly woman come on board. He may or may not have told the bus bully to "move over before I throw you out the window" once and then proceeded to do so.

-HELP OBANAI WRECKING SANEMI EKJRKERKEJKRJKE He feels so bold until Obanai whips out the snake- all his bravo just whooooosh~

-Obanai struggling with the Shinazugawa siblings but in a meaningful and sweet way is so cute??? And Sanemi just busting in like: "WHAT UP- good lord it's warm in here." Obanai panick wrapping Kamaramu in blankets when Sanemi opens a window is a mental image I love so much kmakjleakrjeajrkjr

-Them helping each other out on dates/getting out of their heads is so CUTE! I can absolutely see Obanai's blunt honestly shaking Sanemi out of whatever mental stump he's in- and Sanemi playing wing man in return for him and Mitsuri is so sweet??? He's the one that knows exactly what Mitsuri would love and Obanai's forever grateful for it karjeareajrjelrf

-Pfft- god bless Obanai; he means well, he just doesn't quite get it at first. Granted, once you correct him he'll make it his personal mission to follow that correction and educate himself the best he can. He's messy but he's trying his best as an ally- and that's all one can really ask for, right?

-also Obanai wrecking Sanemi for "breaking his ribs" is HILARIOUS! "You broke mine, so now I'm gonna break yours!" "I dihihihihin't ehehehven hihihiht yohoohohu that HAHAHHAHR-"

These were immaculate! Thank you for sharing, friend!

[erigold13261]

LINO HIIIIIII!!!!!! I love the long hair drooping like that!!

What are they like? What abilities do they have? … are they in multiple worlds??

Glad you like her! Here's some sketches I drew to get her design down a lil better!

I like to think she is really quiet and observing, sorta like how Dagon was when they were still a cursed womb (most likely she is also a cursed womb), but also a bit more active (active=biting :3).

She's supposed to be kinda based off of leeches and linonophobia (the fear of strings, which is also where I got her name from). Once I draw her mouth open it will probably be easier to see the leech design. Also kinda slug design-ish going on.

Because she is based off of the fear of strings, she isn't as powerful curse-wise as it is a pretty niche fear set and mostly (from my research) happens from childhood trauma. However, she isn't purely a curse because of how she was born (created by accident while Ilia was weaving extra parts of his and Dagon's soul into a pretty pattern) so she is still stronger than like a grade 2 curse.

Her body is like clumps of wet string amassed together that take form into limbs just barely. It's hard for her to create fully formed limbs so she tends to just stick to a worm-like body of strings under her sheet (which is also part of her body unlike Dagon's sheet) that sometimes takes shape into arms.

If she was to be on her own as a curse, she would most likely go after children or people who truly have a fear of strings as well as people who are afraid of being constrained or in small spaces as she would be able to wrap her strings around people to slowly suffocate them (as well as leeching her strings into their mouths to suffocate them that way if strangulation isn't working, though that is for a much quicker kills which she doesn't necessarily need to do).

But since she is not on her own, she gets fed by Ilia and the curses! I definitely think Mahito takes her out to hunt humans. Hanami is probably the go-to sitter for Lino because she can use her roots to keep Lino in check and has the most patience (also love the idea that Lino bites Hanami just to like teethe, which she tolerates only when it's Lino but if it's Ko-guy, who also likes to bite Hanami, she will shut him down so quickly lol).

I don't see Jogo or Lino really caring for each other. Mainly because of their opposite powers (Lino being wet strings and Jogo being fire). He also is more of a "I will tolerate you because you are Dagon's kid" but honestly, if he ends up like those dads who don't want kittens that then begrudgingly loves the kittens but is like that with Lino, I think that would be very funny! (Jogo protecting Lino like how he tried to protect Hanami from Gojo, hurting others to keep their loved one safe, love that!).

And then Dagon and Ilia are the main care takers of Lino (who is honestly pretty independent considering she is mostly a curse). Dagon is best at taking care of her because they can relate to her as well as knows how to properly feed her since they were a curse womb at one point (probably why the two are the closest).

Ilia struggles a bit more because I can see him (like me) not really ever wanting a kid, but considering this isn't a human child, it is much better and honestly a lot more tolerable. However, there is that kind of disconnect between Ilia and Lino for a while because of the idea that this is now a child curse that he has to take care of that he created rather than just adopting a random child/childlike curse. He gets over it fairly quickly and tries to be a good parent to Lino.

Alright, after that rambling! Is Lino in other worlds?

I haven't really thought about that yet. So I don't know. If she is in other worlds, it's most likely not going to be as Ilia's kid, but rather as like a lil sister/adoptive sister (or possibly adoptive daughter) that he takes a mother role on (and yea, I do use the term mother for Ilia and not father because if Ilia is going to be called a parental term then he wants "mother." There's this title that I want to give Ilia called "The Mother of Curses" because he's been around for so long and had become known as a person who cares and nurtures curses over millennia, which now would get a new meaning as he finds out he can literally just create his own curses with his strings).

So yea, I will think about whether or not Lino is in other media. If she is, she's most likely going to be more of a younger sister role that the older sibling has to take care of/keep safe. Though this can depend on the Ilia as Trolls don't really have siblings (as far as I remember), as well as other roles not really having siblings (like angels and computer programs).

[pixieluver]

Art Fight 2024 Week 1!!!

Sooooooo I'm participating in the yearly Art Fight this year for the first time! This event has ended up causing a goddamn EXPLOSION of art for me, I've been having a total blast. People's creativity is off the hook in there, it's overwhelming how many really clever and colorful OCs I've seen and it's so hard to choose what to draw next! My brain is BUZZING, and I am very happy that I finally signed up for this.

Each week that the event goes on, I'm going to make a post like this where I show off my attacks, talk a little bit about the process of making them, and link to the characters' respective creators on the Art Fight website. Everything lives under the cut!

^ Clampshell - Ethan + Reuben ^

My first ever Art Fight piece!! I was super excited to start working on this one. Clampshell is one of my favorite character artists of all time, and I instantly fell in love with her characters on their AF profile. I was so excited to start this one that once the event officially started, I entered a FRENZY and finished this in about three hours. Of course, the website had completely bricked itself from the high traffic once I was ready to submit, so I had to hang onto this one until much later that evening.

^ Sapphire7781 - Twister ^

I happened to see this design pop up in the VERY busy art channel of the AF Discord and immediately swore to myself that I'd draw it. Twister strongly resembles a worm on a string (which I ADORE) and is in the late stages of an infection that makes colorful spots appear in its fur and causes insanity! I had a lot of fun with this piece, though it took me several tries to find a pose that I was happy with.

^ Jonahsstarcade - Marshall Welcomes You ^

There was very little information about Marshall on his reference sheet, so I took some creative liberties with this one! He reminded me a lot of desktop pets the more that I drew, so I decided to run with it. I half-remembered an old Tumblr post saying that heaven would be wherever the classic Windows XP background was taken, so I ran with that TOO, and ended up with a very simple animation where he became an angelic desktop helper that helps you register for the afterlife. Thank god that Krita had the capability to animate keyframes like this, I was prepared to go frame by frame......

^ Sapphire7781 - Pearl Collection ^

As revenge for my earlier piece using Twister, Sapphire sent me a drawing of my fursona!! So I kicked around the idea of starting a revenge chain with them - and once I saw their pearl OCs, I needed to draw them. The background was the most difficult aspect of this piece, actually. I had no idea what I wanted it to look like, just a vague blob of color in my head that looked terrible on my screen. A bit of fiddling with the polygon selection tool, gradients, and pattern brushes later, and I'm satisfied with how it came out! And even though the Marble Statuette Pearl in the center has the least complex design, its definitely my favorite one out of the three.

^ Rhinocerocket - Rowan's Transformation / Sorry For Fairy Rocking ^

Being a dwarf lover myself (remind me to finally update my own dwarf Eldeth's design...), I was really looking forward to making a piece for someone else's dwarvish OC. This is Rowan, a druid of the Moon who was given animal ears and a tail from fae magic in a tower dungeon. I had trouble coming up with a way to draw her until I went searching for color palettes. I love doing limited palette challenges, and this one sparked my interest and quickly gave me an idea for exploring the moment of that transformation. Rhinocerocket did have a note on her character page to be nice to Rowan, though... So once I had finished the first piece, which took me half the day, I quickly whipped up the smaller companion piece as a little apology for putting her through that. SHE'S SO CUTE WITH HER LIL HOT CHOCCY AAAA--

^ DEVILTRIGGERED - Ciel and Littoral's Station of Awakening ^

DEVILTRIGGERED's characters Ciel and Littoral are heavily based on Sora and Riku respectively from Kingdom Hearts. I decided to make them a piece reflecting that inspiration, resembling the absolutely gorgeous stained-glass Stations of Awakening found throughout the games. This piece is also inspired by Tetsuya Nomura's "Sea of Clouds" and "Twilight." I planned to impose a scratched glass texture over the colored layers, but I couldn't quite get it to look right... I had to scrap it so that the rainbow-y sunset/rise colors would pop.

Thanks for reading!! If you're participating in Art Fight this year, please take a moment to check out all these lovely people's pages. They're all super creative! All of their pages are linked above, just click their usernames to take a look. And hey, if you like what you're seeing from me, check out my page too! I might add you to my attack queue if you poke me :3c I'm on team ✨Stardust✨, but I participate in friendly fire and revenge chains!