#not a lot of notes for this but IM PROUD OF THESE!!!

[lucehe]

Rushing yesterday's Valentine's art (event by @oh-hopeless-heart )

It's very messy I know and I'm sorry I got college assignments slapping on my face 😔

So here's a day 7 post

Card ✉️

Oh how awkward it is when your friend find the note you want to send to them later

The Crumpled letter:

To my best friends, Ace Trappola and Deuce Space

If you get this message from Mr. Crowley, means I'm probably already died

Thank you for accepting me and Yuki when we just came to NRC, it's the best thing I ever happened to my life besides Yuki entering my world

Thank you for always helping and caring about us, even there is a lot of misunderstanding and troubles that are happening around.

Thank you for staying with me till the end, to always considered me as one of you

I'm not the greatest person, I'm selfish and not good at showing emotions, Im not as kind as Yuki, doesn't have any magic, and I have nothing to return to you, yet you always come and reach your hands for us

I learned a lot from your two, even you and Grim are the dumbest guys I had around, but I love you all, a lot

You all grow up a lot over a year

Im very proud of you two, Ace, Deuce

I have no regrets-

Well, if there is one, that will be not be able to see you two and Yuki grow up

(the words below were covered by ink)

[lxshoxk]

Eustass Kid | uncensored / kofi

notes: truly proud of how this turned out, even if i was too burnt out by the end of it to add the pieces in the foreground like i wanted to to show him pulling you in with bits of metal. the coat...the coat and the boxers...i spent hours on them. im not sure i could replicate that fur but you know what? i love it. his nips are way too small lol but the jump from this to my previous work was a heck of a lot! i took a small break after this (not too long!) and ended up taking a step back afterward (ie. i stepped away from trying to render at ALL for a while, and still haven't really gone back to trying to blend) because this took me like 3 months to complete (though to be honest a LOT was going on at that time in my life at i was preparing to move but we won't get into that ^-^ i finished it after the move. here is the original post on my main blog (if this link is broken it's because in the end i switched my blogs around after all, and changed the url of my main.)

[apologetic-artist]

Some traditional art again yayyy!!!

I dids some coloring and i forget how fun it is!!

Also a concept for my Larry(lamp) design which I'm really proud of the sketch :3

[Individual Colored drawing under cut!!]

Da critters X3

[angelmush]

sweaters of 2024 so far !! a creamy white ribbed cardigan w pearl buttons for my loveeee, a mottled seaglass green turtleneck for myself, and a THICK woolen midnight blue cable sweater w little starry speckles

[samglyph]

Pardon if this isn’t coherent but I care so much about Evan and Sam’s relationship. I love their dynamic of “you saved my life. We saved each other. I love you so much. We haven’t spoke in months but the second I see you again I know I never want to leave you alone. Why didn’t we stay in touch. We know why we didn’t stay in touch. I’m scared to be close to you. I would die for you. Live for me. I want you to be happy. I want you to be safe. I cannot be happy if you are not safe. You’re my best friend. I love you so much.”

[leon-on-the-froggy-chair]

AAAAAA big deterence from my usual postings

Flexing the multifandom brain cells and dropping these studies I did of stinky mask man:

Seemed seasonally appropriate

[homestuckreplay]

Knighthoods of the Mail

(pages 919-925)

I really like both these panels, the extreme downward angle on Jade who has the disadvantage of being small and the advantage of being alive and angry, and the close up on Grandpa, both of them lit by the strange pink-orange firelight. Fire and burning is a threat we’ve seen for all four kids now, so it creates that parallel, and also a surreal atmosphere from the composition of both images.

Jade is also speaking in the narration on this page – it’s italicized and first person instead of second, written in her register. None of the other kids have done this yet, the narrator is always between them and us. I like the implication that Jade is overriding the narrator but also the idea that the narrator is like ‘you know what, I’m taking this page off, I’m just gonna let her shout’. It’s fun, and I’m interested to see if it’ll happen more.

I am still pretty fucked up over this reveal but personally I would have done it a little differently – the gut punch of ‘He was so much easier to deal with when he was alive’ (p.920) could have been SO much more effective if it hadn’t already been obvious from their Strife that this is not a living man. Even keeping the original sequence but publishing the pages at the same time would have worked, but sitting for a day between the Strife sequence and that line meant it didn’t hit as hard for me.

I do still have a lot of questions. Jade knows Grandpa is dead but seems to still genuinely believe they’re communicating, and who’s to say they’re not? Who’s to say Jade’s powers don’t tell her exactly what Grandpa is saying or would say in this circumstance? If so, it must be a lot harder psychologically to escape his expectations. But even if Jade’s powers don’t come into it, there’s practical concerns – how long ago did Grandpa die, and does anyone besides Jade even know? It’s easy to say Jade should redecorate the house but living so remotely where mail has to be airdropped in balloons, she’s probably not physically capable of that, and can’t get other people to do it for her. Typheus is a little big to captchalogue and where else would Jade even put him?

So I guess I kind of get it? In the sense of Jade keeping the only life and routine she’s ever known, going through the same motions with a stuffed grandpa that she once did with a real one, because the barriers to doing anything different are so high? It’s really easy to adapt to a strange situation when you don’t have a point of comparison to know it’s strange, and when it happens so regularly that it becomes like autopilot.

We cut back to PM, my absolute beloved, one of my most favorite characters. They haven’t been seriously hurt by Jade’s explosive powers but their head wrappings are on fire (btw is the pointy tail of their head covering the shape of the fabric or the shape of their head??) and some of the mailboxes are tragic casualties of the event, which I may never forgive Jade for.

And then one of the metal worms rescues a mailbox! The all important mailbox with the letter to Dr David Brinner in it! Redemption arc for the metal worms who have definitely learned from their predecessors’ mistakes. This is a beautiful, angelic worm deserving of high honors, and PM knows it, giving them an equally metallic heart. If the postal service had an equivalent for a knighthood for a postal worker who goes above and beyond to preserve the integrity of the mail then PM would award that to this worm. I am thinking about PM as a dispenser of justice – someone with a really strong, inflexible moral code who is willing to impartially punish those who break it and reward those who keep it.

> PM: Bequeath the mailman’s cap to this hero.

[skitskatdacat63]

"Non paeniteo potitus."

+ details & process

And, process !!

The jump btwn the second to last and last always surprise me whenever I make one of these because I always forget to take snapshots after I start painting. It's always like: oh yeah heres the lineart with some colors- BOOM fully finished✨️

What he's holding are the Austrian imperial scepter and orb, seen below:

I was going to draw the crown too but decided I don't hate myself that much(maybe some other day), and gave him a golden laurel crown, bcs I'm obsessed with that as a motif, and also its very remincient of the boy king statue that started this whole thing!

There's some symbolism of this, both intentionally but also just historically. I love that the orb represents that the monarch is holding the world in their hand, basically every old monarchy has one of those, and I think it's very cool for symbolism. But also bcs of that, I was forced to basically draw catholic fanart so, you win some you lose some. The star halo above him head is both to reference those religious statues with star crowns(I saw them a lot in Europe and they imprinted onto my brain), as well as: his four championships of course!

[somefishycat]

Me, a known enjoyer of angst, writing a fic with an inherently angsty premise: how did all this angst get in here

[crewofthegoldrush]

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we're pride too!

Breezy - lesbian

Monty - butch lesbian

Liseran - lesbian

Demetrius - biromantic demisexual

Swift - bi

Aubrey - pansexual demigirl

Brunhilde - bi

Wayfinder - panromantic ace demiboy

Capella - aroace

Ororo - ace lesbian

[aaxzlyte]

i'm not sure i'll ever finish the wip i have where Near has a white cat named Jetfire

[retrowave-racer]

A young Corey asks a young Rita a very important question.

Not sure what spurred this specific idea into my head but it was so nice drawing in a toony style like this, I’ve missed this! Want to do more little character comic interactions like this, I really enjoy it. But yes,of course Rita loves Sonic the Hedgehog! I feel like it’s possibly more a surprise that Corey does. The more you know huh? Also Rita snail lore. Been thinking recently and it’s just canon now that she’s a mother to many snails, still to this day!

Also yes the run of sentence levels of Rita yap are very intentional.

[rikomoriyama01]

[speremint]

V appreciative of BnR readers today because while everyone's been leaving consistently great comments since S3 started with theories and noticing my little details, this one commenter just?? Holy shit, amazing theory, so big brain, I'm so pleased!!

[bonefall]

Two questions! What's Leopardstar doing after her death? She got dammed so hard that there was a comet in the sky iirc, and Starclan happily gave Mistystar her lives, so I imagine that Lep is PISSED that her murderer is being welcomed as a hero, while she's rotting in the DF. I would like to know how she feels about Tigerstar's plans, since BB Lep was an active supporter of his idealology

I thiiiink the fallen star thing was a joke, but it is a very funny image to think that any damned spirit becomes one tbh

But actually! Leopardstar and Mudclaw are both kind of ashamed of what they did. Leopardstar is more resigned to her fate, while Mudclaw eventually decides he wants to atone and gets involved with the StarClan bridge.

Being around Tigerstar and a bunch of the worst offenders of TigerClan has brought a lot of it back. Distance had made her begin to feel that there was no need to "throw the kitten out with the tonguewash." Tigerstar himself was bad, yes... but is it *really* so wrong to want a pure, strong Clan? What's wrong with putting RiverClan first?

But now she's back under his claw. Being spoken over, used as a pawn, just like old times. She hasn't confronted the CORE of how her ideology is bad, but she does remember know how humiliating this situation was, and how terrible Tigerstar really is.

But at the same time, she is proud. She cannot let Mistystar go unpunished. She wants "revenge," though, to her "revenge" is a rematch.

On the day she died, Mistystar attempted to poison Leopardstar's food, in a way unintentionally similar to how Leopardstar poisoned Crookedstar before them. So she recognized it right away. It struck her in that moment that she was sick of these dirty, dishonorable tactics.

So she pushed it aside, leapt to the top of the stump, and announced that she had learned of a pack of vicious rogues on the border. "Mistyfoot and myself will confront them. Alone. Don't follow."

Mistystar only won the fight through luck. There was a stone in the river where they fought, and she smashed Leopardstar's head on it until she stopped moving.

So, Leopardstar uses this in her death to hold a grudge. I think on some level she knows it's an excuse, or perhaps a quirk of her pride, that she feels her death was unfair. She believes she gave leadership to Mistystar by covering for her own murder-- and she WANTS that perfect fight.

But before the BOTTE, I plan for her to have a conversation with her apprentice. Hawkfrost's arc is to break free of his father and his legacy... and he needs to speak to his proud, strong leader, who he comes to realize is being used like a tool.

It's another step in his revelation about cycles. How he was used, how he's done the same thing to Ivypool, how people have been doing this to his loved ones long before he was born.

[mushed-kid]

drew lance cause he’s beautiful and i’m thinking about him