#maia can draw

[ethereal-maia]

I have this very dumb little video I made last year for Dracula but never posted… please take it in its much-too-fast glory…

[ethereal-maia]

um I have visuals from the morning after I woke up and wrote down everything about it

Reblog and put in the tags the weirdest dream you had about one of your interests (a book, a tv show, a movie, etc)

[ricky-mortis]

Some more character drawings- but this time they’re Pulp Musicals!

[dekuscalves]

we stay silly!! @nyancrimew now owns a page of my gay sketchbook (=sketchbook with gay flag on cover)

1 : ok tiny ref ; fluffy ; evil little grin ; two! ; small

2 : in your bloodstream

3 : what is this creature

4 : pose from my friend's cat (toad)

5 : omg i found it the rare creature

6 : at work

7 : would you invite her to ur island

+ here are some of the references I used

(my friends cat is the middle one, she's called toad and I love her)

[bleaksqueak]

hi! i hope you're doing well. is there a ref sheet you have anywhere showing how the rothsraine uniform works? specifically which section of the capelet the jacket sleeves & cloak connect to. it would help with fanart, and no promises but if cosplay is ever on the table it'd be a fun challenge.

Hey! So I don't currently have a finished up-to-date ref sheet/model sheet, the ones I do have don't show what you're wanting to see and are a bit old! So, since I've been meaning to replace them, I decided to let your ask push me to start on that lol.

I can go ahead and give you these sketches for the time being that show the basic outfit component breakdown for Maia's. The sectioned duster and winged cloak are attached to a shrug-style jacket base. Beneath that, a standard button up and bottoms combo that wouldn't seem too out of place in any academy. The button ups have the school's emblem (or student's attunement) embroidered on its sleeve in the same color as the shirt, creating a subtle visible effect when catching the light. A completed version with more detailed reference will come a bit later to include details for the trim, the enchantment sigils, back views and other details. The Rothsraine uniform has several accepted alternate options accessible via its enchantments, as well, but for here's Maia's!

[ethereal-maia]

This took me wayyy too long to draw but it’s ok

It’s also not very good but thanks for the inspiration op :)

Philip Wittebane kicking his legs twirling his hair lying on his stomach doodling pictures of Sexy Jesus and Sexy Witch Finder General Matthew Hopkins

[sesamenom]

Ar-Pharazon from the Reverse Gondolin AU and as Witch-King of Numenor - thanks to @who-needs-words for helping develop this idea!

[proqhetic]

lottie doodles while procrastinating LOL

[reliquiaria]

hello mooties <3 sorry for being unable to keep up with all of you !! i’m currently fighting demons (my roman history exam which i’m preparing for with an abysmally fucked and short studying schedule) so if i disappear for a couple days don’t worry! i’m just busy with getting my ass beat by a gaius or marius or claudius or god knows who at this point

[thelien-art]

For the Valentine's requests, Eärendil/Elwing? Thanks so much for sharing your art! (I might send a couple more options for you to choose from, obviously not expecting them all -- only if they inspire!) 💖

It´s my joy really and go wild!

VALENTINE REQUEST OPEN

[ethereal-maia]

i cannot stop thinking about beelzebub they are soooo character design

[goddevouringserpent]

(all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.)

old art. but I still kind of like it

[thtupidity-wips]

Slight changes have been made, this is just a quick lazy sketch bc GOD I gotta sleep

[backwardpuzzle]

heartburn

[churchmousey]

happy(?) harpy family! from left to right: Lyra (older middle), Phoebe (youngest), Maia (stepmother), Bas (family friend), Cassiopeia (birth mother), Deliah (younger middle), and Gian (oldest).

[bleaksqueak]

I would read an entire book about the magic system and study in Solivaga… i love intense worldbuilding. Do sigils retain/transmit energy or intent through a shape or letter system? Neither, and simply have to be unique and enchanted by the Magi making the sigil?? Or is that more the concept behind Loci… Maia can use sigils, but cannot make her own? Does the attunement of the caster affect the sigil?

None of these are specific questions, I just love the amount of detail in everything. (But if you want to answer anything… I would not stop you 👀

On the other hand if you’ve answered any of this before ignore me)

So I've been wanting to answer this one since the day you sent it, but between my backwards sleep schedule and being busy, I just hadn't had a moment to or the brain power to... yet, today I am here. Sigils absolutely retain the energy and intent spent to make them. You might notice in Chapter 2 when Prof. GB gifts Maia the imbued sigil, even when dormant, it's radiating *her* aetheric signature's color and energy. When activated, the Trapper's Thrall retains the aetheric signature of the magi who originally cast it. Maia remarks later that it's always ever been borrowed magic-- because, to her, especially, it has. She's never seen her own magic's signature, but she's seen, through these pre-cast imbues, the magic of others. Madame Zoe, the owner of the Apothecary (and knickknacks) shop that Maia works at, sells imbued sigils that she (and Maia's coworker, who we'll meet in another chapter) make. There's other shops around town where they can be purchased, including specialty shops that sell them for convenience, younger/elderly magi, and as general disability aids for those who need them. Their most common usage is simply that of convenience-- a sigil cast has already had that aether spent, stored, and replenished for the magi who made it, saving the need to expend further aether in the now for someone who needs to catch some pests or who wants to have their floors swept up and cleaned. Cooling down, heating up, a spare light, pain relief-- even party tricks, ready made sigils are great usage for convenience. As for how they're made-- The spells all have a precise shape language that builds their foundation. The trapper's thrall I did three stages for in chapter 2 -- the precise geometric perfection of the spell in its official state, I did Madame Zoe's handwritten version, and then I did Prof. Gwennebat's.

You can see them here... the slight differences between the two quickly hand written ones, and the perfected model. The spell in its entirety is written in the sigil itself, and the more complex the spell, the more dynamic the working parts of the geometric language that comprises it. Madame Zoe is older and never became an eidolon, but her work is enough to catch some Mice or Gallynappers (you know, crane flies!) like Maia said. Gwennebat is, however, an eidolic expert in her field, and her shorthand writ for this spell reflects a stronger sense of knowing exactly what must be and where. Each spell must maintain the exact necessity of the language to summon it, but new ones can be made (Granted, this isn't exactly an easy task, and a great deal of the most commonly used spells used by magi within the veil were all coined by a single, well documented scholar from the time before "the worlds were split", as Prof Rasputin put it.). It's a very pictographic writing system with individual sigils themselves feeling more akin to a writing system like kanji, but it's not advised to string a bunch of sigils together to form a cheeky sentence. That's how buildings get evacuated at worst, and angry neighbours at best. As for Maia, before I end this-- Maia can use any sigil so long as she has her vial. Her vial may not be attuned, and it may be magically weak as all nascent aether is, but the vial casing itself and the housed nascent aether still behaves as the catalysts of will. So long as Maia provides these things and enters the mental state required to connect to and summon from the pre-cast sigil, she doesn't need words of invocation, the spell will activate. She carries a fairly large stack of varied, commonly needed sigils with her at all times in her bag. Those imbued on slips of parchment are sadly single usage, so she needs to restock fairly often... luckily, Madame Zoe is fairly generous with her and gives them to her free in exchange for a little bit of extra work around the shop.