#i need to do at least two paintings

[caitofcaithall]

When you realize you have two days to make Christmas presents for five people 😱

[maniacace]

two consecutive reactions to arcane s2ep7, an exhibit

[angelofchaos001]

Wings of Rain Directory Post

[A WIP Post that, when completed, will contain links to each major character's info post and lay out the basic premise of the AU as well as a timeline]

Info + Links (Currently not out) Below!

AU Premise

-Wings of Fire x Rain World

World State

Harsh rain comes naturally to this world. Nobody is for sure how it happened, but it is believed to be the unintended side effect of an animus spell upon the land to bring rain to the dry land.

The Ancient Tribes were the groups that lived on the structures scattered around. From an original 9, they split into smaller groups, and through the isolation and unique climates, adapted into even more tribes. All documented new tribes are gathered in a classified document (Will be linked when I figure out the best way to do it).

Biggest of all, there is no cycle of death and rebirth. There is nothing, and when you die once, you die forever. It's no longer something craved and unachievable. It's real. Terrifying. And permanent.

Across the land, dozens of huge structures loom out of the ground and extend far into the clouds. What do they house? What purpose do they serve? How long have they been here? These and many other valid questions have been posed by outsiders. These structures once housed thriving populations of dragons, tribes that united and mingled with one another, and in some cases bred entirely new tribes due to isolation. Each one was filled with live, power, and joy. Treasures of gold and gems sparkled from almost everyone, and the attention was never unnoticed.

Far below, greedy creatures would bravely climb the structures to try and steal the precious treasures. And while the dragons fought them off easily, bit by bit, they began to lose more and more gold. Eventually, guards were appointed to dedicate their life to fighting, before moving onto automating the process instead. With the power of technology and modification of the guards, they turned them into weapons of destruction. All their vital functions would be automated, and their flesh and bone turned to steel and iron so they could not be harmed. But underneath the fancy enhancements, they still had the mind of a dragon, and still had emotions. Becoming these sworn cybernetic defenders was the highest honor a dragon could seek. There was only one to each structure, since they were so highly efficient, and as cities migrated towards only the tops of the structures, the insides of it became a warrior's home, being shaped in their image and tailored as they saw fit.

But now, long after those dragons have departed, the guardians remain. Still performing their sworn duty, even when the scavengers united with the slugcats to produce even more dangerous raids.

Dragons lived together in units called 'Wings', prefaced by some descriptor of the tribe or their territory (SunWings, DuskWings, NightWings, SilkWings, etc). These Wings could have multiple structures with multiple guardians, but together would still be referred to as a 'Wing'. An old name resurfaced for what to call all structures as a whole: A Tribe.

Timeline

Moon 0 (Also known as the Scorched Moon Cycle) - Dragons unite and kill other intelligent creatures en mass, becoming the new dominant species across the world. (Previously, it had been Scavengers)

- Founding of 'Wings', or small civilizations of dragons that live together as a group. Often led by an elected ruler referred to as a King or Queen.

- The first structure is built to house a city where dragons can live out of reach of the remaining scavengers, as well as the other hostile flora and fauna. They live both in and on the structure, and it served no purpose other than a glorified foundation.

- The first guards are appointed to defend the cities from raids by intelligent creatures: Mainly groups of scavengers.

- After time and effort, the first cybernetically enhanced guards are made and appointed. They turn out to be extremely effective, and become widespread throughout the structures.

- Obscurity, a DuskWing, is appointed as the guard of her structure. She would go on to be the first guard with animus magic, and would not be the last.

- The second guard with animus magic is appointed, a NightWing named Darkstalker. In a short time, however, as Darkstalker goes mad with power, he is stopped by Obscurity and Conch (another animus guard) and trapped in a far weaker form. The restriction of 'no selfish spells' is added to the code of all animus guards.

-Obscurity attempts to flee her structure for unknown reasons, likely due to no longer seeming as powerful. She is unsuccessful and causes another restriction to be added: The inability to leave one's structure without permission.

- A mysterious plague begins in the IceWings, possibly linked to the temporary disappearance of Darkstalker's weaker form, that is highly infective, lethal, and has no cure. After learning that the robotic sentinels are unaffected by the plague, Obscurity refuses to help anyone as vengeance for them not letting her leave.

-As the plague begins to spread through tribes and structures, entire tribes of dragons die off, leaving their structures empty except for their guardians.

- The last dragon catches the plague and eventually succumbs, leaving behind only empty husks of cities with their guardians. A few eggs remained, unaffected, but most dragonets either did not hatch or died young, though there are a few exceptions.

- The guardians still did their jobs, slaughtering raids of scavengers that tried to steal treasure and now sometimes, even dragon eggs.

- Scavengers eventually team up with the other intelligent life, slugcats, to try and have more success with the numbers of the scavengers and the focus of the slugcats.

- Obscurity disappears from broadcasts and conversations, but is known to still be alive from camera feed and observation. Most guardians design small creatures for such a task, named Overseers for their ability to oversee anything.

After this, it's current events and is portrayed similarly to the canon slugcat timeline.

- After a struggle in a raid, Lilypuck is ambushed by stragglers and knocked off her structure. Overseers, unable to locate her,

- Snowblind sends out their last citizen to try and find Lilypuck. This dragon, Kata, was also sent out with an informational pearl to give to Garnet as she passed through the region next door.

- Around the same time, Vigilance sends out their last citizen, Sharpclaw, to try and find Lilypuck as well. Sharpclaw and Kata end up teaming with each other since they share the same task.

- Garnet becomes infected by a strange plant that grows in certain regions, able to take control of their minds at will. He used it in an attempt to control the scavengers of his region, but it backfired horribly.

- Heatwave, a mother slugcat, becomes the first (and only) creature to have a Guardian's protection. She, along with her two pups, become a fearsome legend among colonies and serve as a cautionary tale for new ones.

- Bear becomes the first slugcat to rule a colony, taking over in Stonewall's region after the Chieftain was killed.

Links to Info Pages

Guardian Programming

Biology and Physique of a Guardian

Links to Character Info Pages

Stormcloud (Survivor)

[crimescrimson]

Favourite Gothic Horror Women in Videogames: Laura Victoriano | Bela Dimitrescu | The Shade

[came0dust]

i cannot keep drawing this dude on my phone but god do i love drawing him (+ bonus colors)

[whenthegoldrays]

I don’t know what it is about the Jane Austen adaptations I’ve seen recently, but they just have so much trouble sticking the landing.

[cat-eg]

do it. make the old console art. i believe in you, bestie 💪🏻👩🏻‍🎨

THANK YOU... i have visions and images based on personal experiences and nostalgia!!!! i must get them out!!!!

[b4kuch1n]

How big did your canvas end up for your merman piece? It looks so clean and crisp!

thank u! funny enough I was fully eyeballing the majority of the process, I committed to using the soft pencil brush at size 100 to fill in most of the details which ended up making everything look kinda blurry (which I don't hate! it just looks like wrongly resized at any level of zoom except all out and 100%) anyways this is the size

I know plenty of folks draw on like 10K canvases all the time but this is double the size of my usual canvas lol. and it is at 350dpi bc it's the SAI2 preset and I love stressing out my beautiful, traitorous laptop

[icewindandboringhorror]

Daily Log 2

Trying out (probably just temporarily) making short daily-ish notes about things, in an attempt to see if it helps me be more reflective or productive lol.

Activities: Much less than yesterday, felt sick and sleepy so barely got anything done. It was also warmer inside today.. Very much dreading summer. I still feel like the people who ~~ love warm weather sooo much~~ must also have central heating and air and are able to escape the warmth, or at least have cool airy houses where they can get cross breezes or something.. I just fail to see how ANYONE could enjoy sweating all day because it's like 75F indoors, etc. grrbb,,, the headaches, sleepless sweaty nights, constant physical discomfort, etc. The next few days look cloudy and rainy though so.. yEs.. haha HA

Got a new charger for my old 2004 nokia phone so it actually turns on now, and recorded myself going through the ringtones and games. I might add the footage to a currently not fully edited video of me also looking through other electronics (old phones, turbo twist math, etc.). I love old ringtones actually and if I were rich, I would love to collect old phones specifically just to have a catalogue of what they're like and all of the sounds they contain.

Managed to have a tiny burst of energy and take photos of 3 outfits before my arms and shoulder started hurting and I got too warm.

Sent email to one doctor.

Translated like 3 words for the Avirrekava poem thing I mentioned yesterday. My language document is not organized very well at all so I've kind of lost my flow of working on it. I've heard about people making searchable dictionary type things for their conlangs, so I'd like to look more into that maybe. As well as making a custom font, though I don't know if that's more difficult for syllabaries (so wouldn't be directly linkable to a plain english alphabet keyboard?? eh?). Anyway, I need to finish the tapestry/painting thing/etc. soon though since I have no good place to put it. The canvas is warping a little just laying haphazardly on my closet floor lol.

Made one quick mspaint background image for the next batch of song snippet things for my jokey music youtube.

Edited like 10 minutes of the Giant Worldbuilding Slideshow Project.. couldn't focus on that either since being at the computer today irritated my shoulders and arms.

Notable sights: Saw 6 baby ducks and their parents swimming in a nearby pond!! It's interesting how their colors seem to change so much, and the young ones have the little spots on their back. Not much else, I was not very active lol..

Goals moving forward: Still working on consistent sleep schedule. Focus on social activities, finding new friends in the places I want to move, communicating with ones I have. Physical therapy exercises. Plant nasturtiums. Finish and upload videos, edit pictures, post the poll adventure thing that has been sitting in a draft for weeks (I thought I would get it done today, but alas.. I don't even have to do much, just proofread and post it, I just keep having no energy/being preoccupied with other things/hurts to be on computer.. grrr.. I want to continue the story lol >:T).

Notable foods: HAD ASPARAGUS YEaaaaaghhhHHHH!!!!!!!!! Asparagus SQUAD!!!!!!!!!! ... Also a few pieces of smoked gouda with lunch, one of my favorite cheeses.

[july-19th-club]

damn they werent lying that video can four hours long

[crescentfool]

my first squid party out in the wild...!!! 🥺🥺🥺 i will cherish this...

[tenok]

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[david-box]

Successfully got offline today instead of just scrolling through Tumblr all day. I wasn't really as productive as I planned, but I still had fun and some things can wait :-)

USER WAS PLANNING NEW ART PROJECT WITH TWO TO FOUR TABS OF THE SAME PDF FILE OPEN ON DIFFERENT PAGES, A WORDPAD DOCUMENT OPEN AND PARTIALLY COLLAPSED, SEVERAL NEW CANVASES AND THE SNIPING TOOL USED

[chewablepebbles]

I've literally been going to at least one funeral of someone close to me every year since 2016 this is unsustainable! Do I make friends so quickly because I fear they'll leave so soon? I have like five hundred pounds of stuff from people that died and I can't get rid of it because I can't get new stuff with them. I'm so tired of being used to grief. When do I get to grieve for myself!

[evandore]

this is how shes looking ^_^ still needs to be fiddled with but wowww shes looking so much better !!! i really do need doll stands tho i wanna pose them better + lots of room to fit in more things as i need :)

[weaselle]

i want to talk about real life villains

Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.

Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.

I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"

I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.

And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.

He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.

John Hammond.

probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.

If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.

Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.

book spoilers below.

In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.

He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.

In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.

THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.

I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.

In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.

I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.

Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.

And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.

I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.

Sweet old man though. Everyone loved him.