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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
YA gothic horror
Victorian fantasy where mediums can commune with spirits - if they’re registered and controlled
a trans boy attempts become a Speaker as a boy, but is found out, threatened with an arranged marriage, and sent to a finishing school to ‘cure’ girls from veil sickness (hysteria)
he quickly realises girls are disappearing and their ghosts start begging him for help, and he tries to investigate and expose the horrors of the place, and survive
autistic trans boy MC, trans girl love interest
#The Spirit Bares Its Teeth#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this is really really good just as i expected it to be#it's kind of...small scale?#i was like oh im probably almost at halfway then realised i was at 70% lmao#which i think is probably best for the story it is#(like as the authors note says; it doesn't really get into the race side of things and it's probably not his place to tell that story -#and if the story was bigger scale it would be more of glaring ommission in the narrative)#tbh less disgusting and gory than i expected. i mean it IS but like. that seems to be the only thing people say about it#(obviously conceptually the things that are happening to these kids are absolutely horriffic)#(that’s just me talking about literal gore/on page stuff)#anyway it's really good
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fascinated by the implied fennec-ventress-phee friend group in tbb. even more interesting (funny) when you add boba in there during the tbobf era.
#star wars#tbb#the bad batch#tbobf#tbb phee#fennec shand#boba fett#asajj ventress#bossk#black krrsantan#i think fennec is literally the only one of bobas friends shorter than him lol#phee is normal about it#ventress on the other hand#she is like 6 ft tall she is using everyone as an armrest#okay but. now that boba is at actual war with the pikes#ventress is probably the best possible ally for the situation#like one. LIGHTSABERS AND THE FORCE#two. shes already on the pikes bad side; she has no rep to lose with the pikes if she does help boba#three. nobody in bobas entire retinue knows how to command anything larger than a small strike team#between boba fennec and krrsantan they're a full team of lone wolf solo hunters#they can barely coordinate a four person team let alone an army big enough to fight the pikes#in that last battle in bobf iirc boba straight up disappeared and returend with a rancor kaijuing everything with 0 warning to his friends#and they just kind of lost track of the shiny vespa gang#anything larger than krayts claw and boba just. loses everybody#he's busy fighting not looking for people!#on the other hand theres ventress who has several years of commanding literal millions of droids in massive-scale battles#boba: listen ill forget about quarzite if you help. please. i have an army and no clue what to do with it#boba: my friends dont know either i already asked#phee is their resident smuggler (very very useful when dealing with pike spice trade) and probably knows all the tattooine pike routes#boba please. you need some diversity on your team. you can't fight a war with eight solo assassins smushed together.
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Finished the Royal Centibytes, in both pre- and post-conversion flavors!
I thought court jesters would be a fun change of pace from king/queen or prince/princess- there's a precedent for royals to occasionally be things like heralds and war(?)horses, and I wanted to make a royalgirl who isn't a princess, noblewoman, or queen. I got to learn a little about some historical female court jesters while looking for references, which was cool!
I agonized for a while over whether I should put eyelashes on the one that I arbitrarily assigned 'Royalgirl', but ended up deciding that they look cute.
#i'm happy with these but i feel like the proportions got away from me a bit#i was so focused with getting clear and energetic poses that fit all the limbs in that i kind of lost their lankiness#i think its partially the struggle of working with something i designed in 2018 that doesn't fit well into a 150x150 box#the lenny is also tall and gets away with leaving a lot of negative space in its circle/happy poses while not losing clarity#but its head is less complicated to draw on a small scale; there's less detail to lose#i could try to fuck with more extreme perspectives to get things to fit without sacrificing the proportions. like g1 pokemon sprites#well. that's enough outta me#my art#centibytes#neopets#i'll update my webbed site with them in a bit; i wanna eat lunch
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After the Gravitational Beam Emitter, I now 3D printed the second thing from an anime I always wanted a replica of:
The Swordfish II from Cowboy Bebop
Here's the model, but I slightly modified it here and there for my print, so it's not the exact same.
There have been official models of this thing, but they're damn near impossible to find nowadays. Plus, there's something special about (kind of) creating your own replica from scratch rather than just buying one.
#the and stuff part of manga and stuff#cowboy bepop#swordfish II#swordfish 2#3d printing#The things I want replicas of are always the kind of things that never got official models at all#or they stopped getting manufactured like 15–20 years ago and you can only find them for like 5 times the original price nowadays#no idea what the actual scale is but the wingspan is like 25 centimeters#it's not a small model#there are also some pretty big inaccuracies in the model but you would only notice them with a reference image
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STATION 19 7x03: 'True Colors'
#station19edit#station 19#maya bishop#andy herrera#travis montgomery#mine#maya 'i don't take days off' bishop did not hesitate to leave...you love to see it#i loved peter's shot of just maya and travis at the beginning of the scene#and then the small detail of travis saying he's got maya's bowl when she leaves#i did enjoy this scene but i just want to know when she will have these kinds of conversations with her wife#because it rarely happens#what are the chances she brings up mason to carina next episode on a scale from 0 to -100?? sigh
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Can I request Shadowsight for the designs? Or maybe Frecklewish if you'd rather?
I'm curious what either would look like in your style! (Which I adore btw it's SO good)
i know Shadowsight is described as small in the books, but I prefer to interpret him with the Tigerstar(tm) tallness with Dovewing's build, and that he tends to shrink down/lower his voice while talking to appear as meek/non-threatening as possible because his peers get nervous around him
#anonymous#my art#cheez design#shadowpaw#shadowsight#ashfur#shadowclan#starclan#the dark forest#// thanks for the kind words anon!#// i just want more big/imposing medicine cats tbh sdklglkds#// saw a post talking about how much more crushing Shadowsight's alienation would be if-#rather than being small/endearing- he was big and framed like a ''freak'' for his quiet/awkward manner#// that post never left my mind op if you're reading this you cooked so good#// this guy makes me so sad. just the thought of his scale/bulk being irrelevant#while he's shrinking away from a smaller Ashfur who is more psychologically domineering
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i will not inundate the tags with my little dog but heres some full bodies of his layers or something. I cannot beleive i didnt do this last time. His vest is functioning and everything. also have him grovelling over here
#my gooby#his shirt is kind of fucked up but i am also proud of it. its PLEATED!!!!#it was fun but a little tricky to pull off small scale#it was also meant to have functioning buttons but the shirt style doesnt let you see the buttons so that... failed. thats fine#i didnt plan to change his clothes. Again. hes very tall. i dont want to make many outfits im sorry.#also him being so tall gives him weird proportions when i take pictures. he does have a big head but some of these. gwuahaha#rodya doll
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made this little fella for a friends birthday
#he’s a free cholyknight pattern#but scaled down in half so he’s kind of like a key chain or small pocket friend#my art tag#no idea how to tag this#plush
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I started thinking of an old post I made about p5 but it's been long enough that that post is BURIED and anyway, this doesn't have to do with p5 specifically, it comes up in a few rpgs (particularly more modern ones):
the way your playable characters are more vivid and detailed while NPCs are usually less colorful, bland, and may even be kind of "blurry", with fewer details in the body.
I want to see a game that plays with nearly EVERYONE starting out like that. Your MC is for whatever reason checked out, or distracted/preoccupied, and you cannot tell who else is going to be a playable character because everyone's kind of similar in color palette and blurred out. It's only as you get to know them, either through plot or sidequests, that you get to see ALL the details (MC only noticing on the fourth occasion that oh, this person always wears a watch, huh).
Maybe a few people go from blur to vivid REALLY fast just because their entrance is that dramatic, or the MC feels a connection right off the bat, but even the bulk of your party takes an hour or two of gameplay for your character to really notice all of them, and most of the changes are gradual.
bonus (likely only feasible in a relative small-scale game, but would still be fun) would be that ANY NPC, even if they're not involved in main plot or sideplot, turns out to have some extra detail if you keep trying to interact with them. They're apparently important to you!
#video games#I feel like this kind of idea probably HAS been done on a small scale in an indie game#and if so I'd like to hear LOL
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#this feels so small and pathetic and negative and i try so hard to push it down bc this kind of thinking is not who i want to be#but#sometimes the fic club author chats make me so jealous i want to cry#imagine writing something that makes that many people feel so strongly.#imagine that many people caring that much about what you have to say.#imagine being faced with such concrete evidence that you matter to people.#and i KNOW that feeling sad about it is silly and pointless and what i SHOULD do is go talk to humans and feel connected to people#bc just bc it’s on a smaller scale than the fic club chats doesn’t make it any less meaningful#but i’m tired and my brain is getting stuck on feeling small and inadequate
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i would kill for your de/isat swaps theyre so good already and i am eating it up. so glad im not the only one who saw the parallels 🔥
Thank you! I have been having an absolute blast drawing them; the parallels are too good to not have fun with it!
#ask#Thank you very much for your kind tags on my art! And for the lovely ask; I appreciate it a lot!#I had a friend point out that this was probably one of the nichest things I could draw.#If there is one person out there who sees it and goes 'woo! yeah!' then it is enough. Even if that one person is me!#You can count on me posting more Disco/ISAT swap stuff because it sparks so much joy in me. I have many ideas.#I have to balance out the scales. I need to draw the most specific crossovers that only a small group of people will enjoy.#Enrichment for *my* enclosure.#Apologies to people who thought I would stay on topic with this blog. I'm having my multi-fandom arc and loving it.
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do me a favour, the next time you see a post that basically equates to trans men dont have any issues, or trans mens issues are miniscule in comparison to more important queer people, go to op's blog and count how many posts there are that are positive towards trans men.
#charlie.txt#i saw TWO this morning#one of them is that stupid fkn scale of nice to mean queer people headcanons#cant remember the other#but its like. not hard to spot when ppl are minimising trans men.#theres a certain breed of trans person and i mean any kind of trans person and i do mean trans person specifically#that REALLY cannot deal with trans men being oppressed without adding any qualifiers to that#and its because their brains are small and they lack the ability to see in anything but black and white#and i want to be clear#if you think like this#i dont want you or your rancid fucking energy anywhere near me#in this house we support and love and listen to all trans people of any gender#but you goofy bitches with tme and tma in your bios need to get a grip far away from ne#(all trans people as a class btw. supporting and loving and listening to all trans ppl does not become put up with alex ● 26 ● white ● tme#shitty gender essentialism takes)
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In England, English and Norman barons kill each other to seize the throne and in France, the Carolingian unity having been shattered, the little Capetian king managed his meager possessions under the vigilant and hostile eye of the great feudal lords who watched over over their strongholds and control his every move. Brittany, if it wished, could finally spread its wings. Conan III is careful not to do this and is content to govern peacefully, only too happy that the English and French ropes which hold him by the neck are suddenly so weak. A good duke, good husband, good Breton, he has everything going his way, but was unfortunately a bad father; on his deathbed he disowns Hoël, his son, and chooses as his heir Conan IV, a little boy of 9 years old, the son of his daughter Bertha.
Gilles Martin-Chauffier, Le Roman de la Bretagne
#twelfth century#hoël de cornouaille#bertha de cornouaille#ft konan iii's hand and constance of mayenne i guess 😂#so. I bought the bande dessinée ''Breizh'' bc I'm unfortunately Very Easy and they used this bit from Martin-Chauffier#I agree with historians like Keats-Rohan et al that believe Hoël was somewhat In On It and his spats with Bertha and her husband were#almost always more small-scale (eg how independent Nantes should be relative to the ducal crown etc etc)#but I do sometimes wonder and the BD bit got it rotating again...#given Hoël was iirc the eldest of Konan III's kids and also a dude man in the early 1100's if he was ever tempted by the Cain Instinct...#there's something about Bertha and Hoël largely being allies but also siblings who quarrel on the political stage...#(also an example of the kind of nationalistic writing flourishes I have to wade through every day I'm fighting for my life out here 😭)#(also the idyllic verbiage when Bertha was living in England during said war where the English were killing each other. like...)#shakespeareomnibus
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some may ask why I want to put something that squeaks inside one of my dolls and the simple answer is that this will be a far finer representation of david balfour if he can make an upsetting little EEP noise when squished
#normal men innocent men very small men#in semi-related news I rather regret my hair design choices for these two because I still have not solidly figured out how to get that kind#of thing to WORK at this scale :(
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Hobson Heckled into Historical Haute-Couture
Continuing the Dan Jones & Dragons gala parade with Hobson, the Flower Crowns' oft-harried Halfling Warlock (played by the ever-wholesome Dan Floyd). Is he trying to massage away the realisation that letting his literally-half-brained patron choose his gala attire might have been a mistake? Is Valse giving him a headache over something else entirely? Did he use Detect Magic in a room full of powerful items and accidentally flash-bang himself? Yes.
More Flower Crowns Gala Outfits: Morenthal | Gelnek
As always, design talk under the cut:
But before that, a short story: I've been following Dan's content on Youtube for... oh jeez, that sure is almost a decade now, both on his current New Frame Plus/Playframe channels and back when he was the primary founder and narrator for EC. His old games education videos helped me get one of my earliest jobs in project work and introduced me to a bunch of media production concepts (like scope management) that would go on to inform some of my own storytelling analysis posts. It was a startling little moment of artistic ouroboros to realise I was mentally running through key points from Dan's own Pose Design 101 video as I was drawing his DnD character. Never expected things to come full-circle like that, but if you're seeing this, Dan: here's to you 🫡 If you're not Dan and haven't already, do go check out his stuff - it's all super well-produced, informative, funny and he's just an overall stand-up guy.
Now: onto the tiny little nerd and his passé party attire
This was a really fun costuming challenge, with a bunch of interesting curveballs thrown in the mix. Unlike the rest of the Flower Crowns, Hobson didn't choose his own party outfit: it was picked out by his patron after Valse kibbitzed him into giving up and letting a heroism-obsessed Fey call the shots. Dan cited Valse as having the fashion sense of Stede Bonnet-as-depicted-in-OFMD, briefing a vaguely 19th century-style outfit that had frilled sleeves and 'would have looked gaudy even when it was in fashion a century earlier'.
Actually dating his outfit was the first challenge. D&D settings are kind of an anachronistic uchronia, with classic swords-and-sorcery fantasy campaigns potentially pulling inspiration points from anywhere across the Arthurian era up to pre-war modernity. Which leads to the question: how do you make something seem dated in a setting where most everything looks vaguely ye-olde-fantasy? The other challenge was that, IRL, the 19th century (i.e Victorian era) was when menswear started taking on a lot of the shapes that would eventually become modern suit and top-'n'-tails fashion. Since Trilby was already going to be wearing classic top-'n'-tails formalwear, I decided to set Hobson's style earlier in the 1800s-1820s and pull in some 18th century Stede Bonnet flourishes to visually set them apart. This article provided some great reference images, and once I hit on the figured silk waistcoat I knew I had a potential starting point.
Colour-wise, I stuck with the burgundy-and-gold palette the Dans gave Hobson in his official gala stream art, since those looked good together and matched up with Dan J's tendency to draw Hobson wearing greens/earth-tones and Valse in reds/jewel-tones. The combination is a lot more colourful and richly saturated than is typical for this style of Victorian-adjacent clothes, which felt appropriate for Valse's gaudy tastes.
Fabric-wise, I figured a fun way to gaudy things up even further would be to lean into the silks and satins that were fashionable at the time, but make all of his outfit shimmery rather than just a single feature piece. As a bonus, silk and satin clothes tend be hot, inelastic and have horribly itchy seams if worn unlined, which felt like exactly the kind of thing Valse's all-form-no-function sensibilities would inflict upon the small, long-suffering fellow. Both these fabrics also have a habit of behaving hideously and ripping themselves apart when worn wet, which makes this a great outfit to, say, accidentally fight an Aboleth in. Poor Hobson.
Some other details, just for fun: 1. Hobson's sketch layers include a drawing of his un-removable cursed left bracer. He's pulled the frilly, puffy sleeve over it but you might spot hints of the shape and the gem if you squint. 2. The reference waistcoat I used had floral embroidery on it. Had this actually been a Hobson outfit, I would have converted them to his garland flower (Forget-Me-Nots), but since it was a Valse pick I decided to make them Senaliesse chrysanthemums; a flower given out to friends of the Feywild's Summer Court as a sign of protection and favour. (It also adds extra layers to Pocket mistaking Hobson for a denizen of the Fey, which is fun).
Close crop on the details because I'm very happy with how they turned out:
#my art#Dan Jones and Dragons#DJ&D#The Flower Crowns of E'lythia#Hobson Bunce#Hobson (Forget-Me-Not)#A Party to Forget#Very fun challenge to communicate the character of someone posing in an outfit defined by a different character's style sensibilities#After so long learning from Dan's content it was really nice to end up using some of those lessons to draw his DnD guy#Albeit somewhat ironic as Hobson's pose is the one I've been the least confident about to date#Dan J. was *very* kind to Hobson with his official gala art#I have been less kind but considering what the 1800s had to offer I could have done MUCH worse to the poor small man#Me and my program's airbrush tools got VERY well-acquainted rendering all that silk and satin#Valse very nearly bedazzled the poor fellow#Pretty funny that my motivation with designing Gelnek's outfit was: this could be fashionable#And then with Hobson's it was: this could ABSOLUTELY be worse#Luckily Trilby was there to stave off the impending threat of a 1800s beaver hat and wasp-waisted jacket combo#In my earliest concept sketch he was going to be wearing some Elizabethan/ Shakespearean-era nonsense#which very much would not have been a good time for him#Another challenge with trying to put Hobson into something unfashionable is that Dan J drew him real cute with nice eyes#He could be wearing a potato sack and he'd still have terminal baby disease#This man's smallness absolutely destroyed me mentally (in the best way)#I put him next to Morenthal in a to-scale drawing and spent the next 30 minutes being VERY NORMAL about it#DnD#D&D#Halfling#Warlock#fanart#3WD
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I usually use polymer clay but experimenting with air dry, these are supposed to be a birthday present for a friend and I’m stressing bc I don’t have varnish
#but it’s 3am and I’m going tf to bed#idk if these are good enough to gift to someone tho 😫#the paint job is kind of shit#bc I don’t have small scale brushes#and im using new paint and paint that’s like uhhhh over 10 years old 💀#clay#my art
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