#im so anxious about this

[softredrobin]

FUCK IT REALLY IS - IT REALLY IS!! i even said it seemed betrayal-esque (the board game) bc of the cards im losing it im LOSING IT

[kkochang]

OKAY SO

I know that I usually post headcanons and reblog stuff related to my favorite fandoms but recently (aka for the past 3 months) I've been brainstorming an idea for an original work and since I'm so invested in it I thought it'd be cool to share pieces of information here!!

First of all, it all began after I had rewatched HTTYD trilogy and got this fixation on dragons. I wanted to create a story with both dragons and explore a theme I've never quite thought about before.

Second of all, I took a lot of inspiration from indigenous people, but since it's all made up no nation in my story actually exists or is based on only one culture. i kind of did what the creators of ATLA had done, mingled various aspects of multiple nations into a singular one.

Third of all, i'm still on the early stages of creating this story, so everything may change over the course of this massive process.

LET'S BEGIN WITH THE MAIN IDEA

initially, I wanted to create a world where dragons existed from the very beginning and co-existed with people. although, with time I came to the realization that it would be a great discussion/debate idea but not fitting for an exciting story full of adventures and self-development of the main character.

thus, I started toying with the plot, trying new concepts and rewriting-deleting-rewriting-deleting-and-so-on.

it was a mess but for now I settled on a pretty cool idea: the mc is considered to be cursed and can turn into a dragon, in order to protect the village, the mc gets exiled and is forced to learn how to survive from a relatively young age. one day, while swimming away from the hunters (in my universe dragons are water creatures), mc stumbles upon a new land. there they see new people, so they decide to settle there for some time and learn about this nation they never heard about before. some time passes by and one night the person from the nation that mc stumbled upon sees a whole ass dragon bathing in a lake somewhere in the depths of the forest. the mc notices the stranger and hides underwater.

it's still pretty raw but I'll be telling you mire about this two characters more in the following posts!! I'm especially excited to talk about the mc and their culture since I've spent so much time developing it:')

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

the problem with having a book out the same day as the US elections is that it's like..... hey, so, i see you're struggling through the unending horrors. can i offer you some nice sword lesbians in these trying times? 😬

[honestmouse20]

why is waiting for ups so Hard. Im trying to return something and i have to wait fo them to stop by. and i have no idea when they'll come or how loud they'll knock

[beastlyidiocy]

my sweet old man who is genuinely too kind for the world he lives in :(

[lilybug-02]

City of Tears. But Mini.

I wanted to make an atmospheric art piece with Dewi. And the City of Tears is one of the most sorrowing, beautiful, and grand places to do that. This is a lot of firsts for me regarding the architecture and lighting. The shadows cover a lot, and it may have been too much. I'm happy with how it turned out tho.

No idea how Dewi found his way into the City. Probably magic. Probably plot too :) But oh boy, he is experiencing childlike wonder in his raincoat!

This is a better show of the line detail I needlessly covered up in the final lol

[cozymochi]

I lived, bitch. I did it,,, I made an animatic again after 2 years…! And it’s not an old thing just dumped out! 😭 I’mma be honest, it’s not reaaaally spoilers exactly… but it sorta falls into it in a zig-zagged way. The timing’s off slightly for my liking, but at this point I shouldn’t complain about little things like that when making one at all was the huge hurdle. Rip my subscribers. THANKS AND BYE.

Original audio: Maleficent (2014)

Ko-fi

[jimbodyson]

nothing is worse than watching something and genuinely enjoying it and how they changed things and then seeing how other people like hate it like okay fuck me i guess i guess i won't be sharing any opinions just cus im gonna get dismembered for it

[bamsara]

I wish I could talk about my AU stuff without feeling like I'm being annoying like people will directly say to me 'tell me about this au thing!' and my brain will actively be like 'they are asking to be polite and you are already taking up too much space as it is, SILENCE'

[lucabyte]

Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*

But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.

They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.

My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.

As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.

Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.

*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)

Anyway.

[underfell]

KO-FI DONATION DOODLE REQUESTS

I AM VERY NEW TO THIS, I've always managed to handle things myself in my personal life but it's different this time.

I'm pretty nervous doing this because it's hard for me to admit that I need help and ask for it in the first place.

This is temporary as I find financial stability, literally anything would be tremendous help for me.

Thank you for taking your time to read this, for sharing, and for enjoying my art.

[nordidia]

having a very rough night so raph doodles needed to be made

when in need, mash two interests together

[waitineedaname]

not romantic or platonic but a secret third thing (bonded pair)

[ohplasticheart]

I'm not sure

[rudeboimonster]

~help your local rat get stable housing~

edit post nov 2023: I GOT THE HELP I NEEDED THANK YOU SOSOOSO MUCH

dramatically sprawled out on the floor

so i gotta move for the third time in that many years. unfortunately between health problems and the General State of The Economy, I have been unable to find work to be able to save any money. i have no choice but to leave the entire state. i thankfully have somewhere to go, however I need help getting there. i've been trying to do the math to get what I need to its lowest amount possible, but even that is still at least $2.5k.

after this move, i should be able to get things more stable and I might even have a couple job prospects lined up in that area, but right now I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel funds wise and desperately need help.

if you're able to spare anything, i've set up a goal through kofi so i can track it publicly. i have trouble asking for help but i really need what help i can get. thank you, so so so much.

[noxious-fennec]

C!Q + vylette's fit from Jawbreaker

(aka an idea I've had for every conceivable holiday for months and decidedly couldn't put out on an appropriate date)