#magic item inspo

[duvithemook]

Some antique and not-so-antique items I pulled out from my last sale! Chintzy or not every object has a story

[thehomebakery]

Trick-or-Treat! 👻🖤

Treat ✨

You find a bundle of feathers on your walking trail, patterned in black and white.

Magpie feathers. Five of them in fact, and wrapped in golden string.

Pretty, odd, but nothing too unusual from what you've seen on your travels. You forget about it soon after, until you arrive at the tavern over, and go to pay for a drink. Your purse you realise is a little heavier.

[boredomgotmethings]

DND stuff!

I havent been active on tumblr in ages but a good friend got me back into it. no better way to start my little account then making random magic items. give me a normal item, a song, a vibe, a location, anything! ill make a dnd magic item for you. ill make any of the items a post or just reply. either way youll get it. thanks for anyone participating:^)

[dyingroses]

What world of things would you keep in your mokeskin pouch?

[f-a-b-l-e]

Horny Potion

Potion, rare

A shimmering potion with dull colours. Smells like mint and is mostly tasteless, though some vague notes of grass and lemon can be found.

Effects: turns the drinker into a random horned animal for 1d4 hours. This effect takes 10 minutes to kick in. Roll a d20 on the horny table to see which animal the drinker turns into. Drinking multiple potions at once allows the effect to be prolonged with 1d4 hours for every potion drunk. Drinking a horny potion while already under the effect of a horny potion resets the effect: 10 minutes after the second potion is drunk, the drinker will once again turn into a random horned animal for 1d4 hours.

Horny table

1 Urial

2 Scimitar oryx

3 Mouflon

4 Blue wildebeest

5 Zebu

6 Plains bison

7 Addax

8 Springbok

9 Muskox

10 Kuri

11 Changthangi

13 Lichtenstein's hartebeest

14 Giant eland

15 Blackbuck

16 Blue duiker

17 African forest buffalo

18 Takin

19 Gaur

20 Manx Loaghtan

(all links lead to the wikipedia page about the animal)

Note: in all of these species, both females and males (can) have horns.

[chimericaldragonfly]

Halloween and plenty of LARP events are just around the corner! Looking for something unique but on a tight budget? Check out the tutorial section for tons of creative solutions!

[mbat]

maybe this is more of a thing than i know of but sometimes i think about how theres so many things that are similar to wands in everyday life but i basically never see them as wands in fiction

like years ago when i first started trying to play pool i thought 'wouldnt it be so fun if a characters wand looked like a tiny pool stick, and they could make it full sized when they want to play pool'

but theres also other hobby items, like knitting needles, or pencils, or paint brushes, or even crochet hooks for a slightly unusually shaped one

and idk i just always thought it was neat. they dont even have to change size for some of them, though they still could of course

[thenekomancers]

Mundane magic item idea!

The Scrotie-Toatie

A small coin purse created from the severed and tanned scrotum of a Displacer beast.

It acts as a coin purse than retains it’s size and shape no matter how many coins are placed inside.

[jetpackgeneratedcat]

It took literal months, but I finished it!!

Top left: linked universe logo

The jojo's lu logo is sooooo detailed. It is one of the things I love about Jojo's asethetic with linked universe. The detail she adds brings so much life and information about the world of Linked Universe. Great example is all the embroidery on the chain's clothing. Let's you know about civilization, that an item may be magical, etc. It is difficult to keep small details in watercolor, but I think I caught most of the main details in the painting.

Middle left: Soulful legend

This was the fourth of the images I did for the painting, and the first image I really started to get into the painting. I think legend is my favorite to paint because he makes composition so easy. The red tunic adds an easy focal point. I did learn from this that I do not like masking fluid and likely won't use it again. It added to many hard edges that I wasn't intending. Very happy with the sky!

Bottom left: Evening snack

In this image, I liked the idea that wind and sky don't know what Ramen is because their worlds don't have enough space to produce wheat. So sky and wind are super excited about this new food, while legend has no idea why they are so hyped for noodles. I also liked the idea that four found a green pepper in the ramen as a topping and is a hater (this is from a note that jojo left somewhere saying that the chain will eat anything but four in the Manga does not like green peppers, idk where this note is to link it though....). I didn't end up drawing the Ramen noodles as it was just getting too small of a scale for me to be comfortable drawing the thin lines for the noodles in.

Bottom right: Testudo

I am very hyped in the future when we see more collaborative fighting with the chain and them working together effectively. I absolutely love the scene in shifting shadows part 3 where lenged and hyrule work together with the beam and hookshot.

Middle: Legends storage

This is a reference to one of jojo's earliest works where the chain goes to legends storage for him to pick up some gear. I love that scene and I tried to put as many references as I could. The one thing I need to figure out is how I want twilight to look. I can't wrap my head around it. Need to sit down and just try out a bunch of different faces for him. My Pinterest inspo for twilight is all over the place. I want twilight to look different from time because when Malon was trying to guess who was the descendent, she did not consider twilight (she looked at wars and wind (so I typically draw time, wind, and wars looking similar). For my own personal headcannon, twilight and time are very similar in their manner (the way the walk, stand, etc) and personality (their stubbornness (as seen in sunset pt3)) but not necessarily in looks.

Middle right: Boat boys

The first image I did. I like how the water turned out, but I will not be using masking fluid for the same reasons I noted earlier. I did trace the boat (i think this is the reference [L240632 Hornet Class. J. Arthur Dixon Ltd. Beken and Son]). I do regret not doing anything creative with the boat, but I just wanted to get into painting and needed some confidence by working directly from a reference. I also forgot that legend might not be so keen to be on a boat again based on a comment jojo left in 2022 or something. I think she mentioned something in a discord event back then about legend not too willing to be on a boat again. But that doesn't really matter, I put that boy in a boat whether he likes it or not lol.

Top right: Winter storm

Second image I did for this painting. I did trace most of the horse because I do not care to learn horse anatomy (ref. [Winter Save By David Stoecklein]) Favorite part about this is the lighting on the rope from the lantern. I think it turn out well.

Top middle: Heavy armour

Third image I did for the painting and the one I realized I need to spend more time painting people in neutral or back lite lighting. But for my first time I think it is good. I really want to see what jojo does with the armour sets! I like the idea that war's armour is clean and pristine while wild's armour is rusted and beaten from the calamity. In this painting I played with adding pink to the golden armour and I liked it. In the middle picture of the collage (legends storage), you can see i added pink to time's armour.

That's everything! ❤️

[proxentauri]

when i saw @n0rtist's ability forms i had to do reuniclus.....i hope it's not too late to be featured in the video! :0 we may have crossed from ability form into actual alternate form territory (see the original colours below the cut to see how crazy different they could have been)

as someone in evo microbio this was insane amounts of fun to do and i was able to pull inspo from places i'd never think to reference in my regular art!

itemized essay explaining the science and my design choices in more detail below the cut:

Ability Form 1: Overcoat

The science

Based on bacterial biofilm, which is basically when a bunch of bacteria get together in the same spot and start excreting this sticky slime stuff that structurally keeps the bacteria together (and also act as a medium for sharing useful resources between the bacteria, like enzymes, nutrients, etc.).

The design

The strings connecting the bacteria is based on what the slime stuff looks like on a microscopic level, specifically in electron micrographs like this one

The violet colour of the (rod) bacteria in the biofilm is a reference to Gram staining, which is a type of bacterial stain used to classify bacteria into two groups: bacteria that contain peptidoglycan in their cell walls (which stain violet) and bacteria that don't (these stain pink). Peptidoglycan is this pretty chonky polymer compound that's used to strengthen bacterial cell walls, so I thought it fit the role of Overcoat (which protects your Pokémon from things like weather)

Ability Form 2: Magic Guard

The science

Based on the myelin sheath, which are these segments of tube-like insulation that surrounds your neurons (see picture here). Mostly people talk about how it makes your neural signals propagate faster, which is true, but this ability form was more of a reference to its general protective role; it physically and electrically insulates your neurons. (Surprisingly I could not find a super good primary source for myelin providing physical protection, so don't cite me on that, but given it's literally a physical barrier this seems like a pretty safe assumption.)

The design

The entire body is based on a pseudounipolar neuron, which just means it only has one part extend out of the main body but shortly after it splits into two long parts (axons). I could have made it a bipolar neuron I guess (two parts extend out of the main body), but having a neck made it look a little closer to the base form's body

I wanted to give it dendrite fingers but it looked too creepy. I'm not sure if the three long fingers I gave it in the final design made it less creepy.

Since Overcoat and Magic Guard are both shield-type abilities, they're drawn as more closely related on the the phylogenetic tree (white thing in the center).

Ability Form 3: Regenerator

The science

This one is the most hype imo. In 2015 Dr. Will Ratcliff did this pretty sick experiment about the evolution of multicellularity (since at some point a long time ago life was single-celled) where he kept propagating the same single-celled yeast for a mega long time, and eventually the yeast evolves a multi-cellular "snowflake" form where after undergoing mitosis, the resulting daughter cells don't split, but stay attached, resulting in the yeast forming these clusters that create these cute little branches. I don't know where I was going with this. Oh right, the branching out reminded me a lot of regenerating limbs, so that was the inspiration for this one.

Anyway this is like one of my favourite experiments ever, there's some pretty good news articles out there about if you want to learn more about it!

The design

The segments are yeast cells, and the balls within are the nuclei.

The colour scheme was based on this fluorescent microscopy photo of the snowflake yeast. Originally I had the nuclei be bright orange in reference to this other microscopy picture but I thought the colour scheme was deviating too much from the base form for an ability form lol.

Speaking of here's the original unhinged colour drafts:

if i did commit to the full alternate form i think the biofilm one is poison, myelin one is fighting, yeast one is uhh...dude idek, i mean the fluorescent microscopy vibe is pretty strong so maybe electric lol? it's giving ghost vibe too though

i was originally planning on citing stuff but it's a tumblr post and I've already linked Ratcliff's work and i want to go to bed lol. If any of the science is wrong just call me out i'll fix it. otherwise, i hope someone out there appreciates the science references !! it's 8am good Night

[duvithemook]

6 more oddities I happened to find, from portholes to unholy bird statues!

[thehomebakery]

Trick or Treat 🥺🎃

Trick 🎃

You find a tarnished copper piece one day. Good luck you think, though you're unhappy with the look.

Later you try and use it to pay for goods, but when you check later another shiny coin disappeared instead; the tarnished coin is back.

Again and again you fruitlessly try and rid yourself of this piece but to no avail.

[boredomgotmethings]

Sword of Sacrifice

A longsword with a twisted hilt, iron grip, and weirdly prismatic blade edge. as a free action before an attack, you can take 2 slashing damage from giving your blood to the sword, empowering it for one turn. until the turn is over, your weapon attacks are considered magic (for overcoming resistances) and 1d6 necrotic damage is added to any damage roll it makes. You must say you empower the weapon before knowing if an attack hits or not. if the slashing damage would put you to zero, you fall unconscious at the end of your turn but can take any actions you'd like before your turn is over.

[dyingroses]

What world of things would you keep in your mokeskin pouch?

[glowettee]

⊹♡the ultimate coquette girl's guide to organizing your closet⊹♡

hello lovelies! today i wanna help you transform your closet into a magical wonderland of perfectly arranged clothes and accessories. if you love coquette, this guide will literally be perfect for you. a perfect start for your coquette style/fashion inspo.

essential organization categories:

dresses (sorted by length and color)

blouses (organized by sleeve type)

skirts (mini to maxi)

accessories (bows, ribbons, hair clips)

shoes (mary janes first!)

color coordination rules:

pastels together (pink, mint, lavender)

whites and creams in their own section

darker colors at the back

prints and patterns grouped by theme

must-have storage items:

pearl-handled hangers

vintage hat boxes

clear acrylic organizers

ribbon-tied storage baskets

lace drawer liners

maintenance schedule: monday: dust and reorganize shoes wednesday: refresh sachets and reorganize accessories friday: rotate seasonal items sunday: plan outfits for the week

remember to make your closet aesthetic:

install fairy lights

add a vintage mirror

place dried flowers in corners

use matching hangers

display your favorite pieces

keeping your closet organized isn't just practical - it's a form of self-care! 🎀 hopefully this can help you with organizing your wardrobe, and give you inspo

[sunthyme]

🎆 New year, new headcanons!! 🎆

Hey, so I've been a bit dead for a hot sec, apologies for that. Hope y'all are having a good break! Now, for something that's been in the works since August (drum roll please)...

🎉 REDONE TWST HEADCANONS!! 🎉

First up, yet again...

♥️ Heartslabyul ♥️

WAHOO! Ignore that you can clearly see which I had to redo lol, that's going to be a bit of a theme as I looked back and wasn't super happy with some so I redid them until I got it right.

Since y'all know the characters this time, I'll be just adding new or changed things to my earlier posts. :D

Enjoy!

♥️ Riddle Rosehearts ♥️

So pretty much nothing changed from the original with Riddle, I just made her look better. Yippee!

Added thing for my University Headcanon/AU is major and I see Riddle being an English and Law major.

♣️ Trey Clover ♣️

Once again, nothing really changed except for the fact that I learned to draw him better. I gave him a labret piercing that I think would have been one of Cater's first piercings, which thankfully went well.

He'd obviously be a Culinary major.

♦️ Cater Diamond ♦️

Speaking of Cater, this one was a bitch to draw. I literally redid him three times, send help. (I'll reblog this with the extra between version for y'all to see)

A new headcanon for him is that he's the kind of character that has his eyes closed for the most part and only opens them when he's like super serious. I just felt it fit him. (I'll also attach that in the reblog)

He's very heavily gyaru inspired (shout out to @/Cayfourdiamonds on Pinterest, I loved his edits of Cater and they were my inspo) and I wanted him to curl his hair in the mornings, princess curl style. He has naturally straight hair and the freckles are indeed fake.

He's a Cosmetology and Communications major.

♠️ Oki Chiang ♠️

She's a Sociology major and her birthday is October 4th (Libra). She's apart of the Poetry Club (OC club).

Nothing much changed here either, though I tinkered with her skin tone to amp up the contrast and shifted to blue to a darker hydrangea-y colour.

(Edit: I forgot, I have UM for my ocs now!)

Unique Magic - "Who Are You?": Creates a mist as Oki recites the spell that induces confusion. The confusion will last up to two hours after the mist fades, depending on the strength of the person affected.

♣️ Luna Madden ♣️

Another one I had to redo twice because GOD, the in between was SO UGLY!! Ew. Anyways, way cuter now! I gave him swirly eyes for funsies and trimmed down the colours in his makeup so it's more cohesive.

They're an Art and Psychology major and their birthday is January 22nd (Aquarius). It's in the Science Club.

She uses mobility aids, alternating between a cane and braces depending on the day, due to Multiple Sclerosis (an autoimmune disease that impacts the spine).

Unique Magic - "It's Tea Time!": Conjures a pre-set tea table fitting Luna's desires. The bigger the table and the more items, the harder it is for Luna to make.

♥️ Ace Trappola ♥️

Oh boy, another redone one. I went a bit ham with his design, I really wanted to make him look like a heart. Found the braid idea on Pinterest, as one does, and ran with it. He's so cute, he looks like a heart lollipop. Also, I gave him braces because I love that idea so so much!

He's undecided in his major.

♠️ Deuce Spade ♠️

I adore how this one turned out, he's my son and my boy. Nothing really changes aside from style improvement and I gave him better bangs.

Also an undecided major. (Adeuce twinning frfr)

♥️ Bunnie Chrona ♥️

She's a Psychology major and her birthday is June 30th (Cancer). A part of the Track & Field Club.

Ooh, she's so cute, I love her sm! I gave her vitiligo and stripes in her hair to imitate those splotched black and white bunnies that are so adorable. I did make the interesting choice to give her blue eyes, not for any particular reason, they just contract the red undertones well.

Unique Magic - "Killing Time": Bunnie's speed will increase for an hour, making her go at an inhuman speed.

♦️ Ness Benoit ♦️

She's a Drama major and her birthday is May 25th (Gemini). They're in the Film Research Club.

Finally, Nessie! They also had an in between but they actually looks more like the OG than that one lmao. Gave her some little devil tail earrings and just made the hair confirmedly into a wig. Also gave them a lil fang :3

Unique Magic - "Devilish Charm": Allows Ness to appear differently or say different things to different people. It takes more energy the more people she is using it on.

Stay tuned for Savanaclaw, up next!