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[katabay]

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...

the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin

this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.

you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.

also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.

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[greenbloods]

always infinitely funny to me how the dance of the dragons is about the futility of both sides of the struggle as they tear each other apart and doom the realm. and the fandom looked at that for all of two seconds before deciding to recreate it online

[mona-chrome]

It was a special day for @dragonpro809 so I drew them a lil something featuring Okami :3 Enjoy!

[eaglefairy]

No-Fail Mashed Potato Soup

Invented a new recipe today!

Step 1: Begin cooking intending to make this recipe for red-skinned mashed potatoes. Step 2: Pour in the two cups milk and two sticks butter and only realize after it's all in that the recipe calls for 6 pounds potatoes and you used 2 at most. Step 3: Panic and try to pour out some of the extra milk. Step 4: Accept that Step 3 isn't working. Reassess the situation. Step 5: Toss in a little garlic powder and taste it. Hey, that's actually a pretty good potato soup! Step 6: Grab the ham from the fridge, dice it up, and toss it in the newly-christened soup. Heat it up on the stove to get it to serving temperature. Step 7: Realize while you're eating it that adding cheddar would've been pretty good too. (If you're making this recipe on purpose and not by accident, you can probably start with one cup of milk and one stick of butter for two pounds of potatoes and just go from there until it tastes/feels right. Also this is truly a soup you can add anything/nothing to, so go wild!)

[grodyego]

oc duo ask game: 😇 for nemo and catalina, 👿 for rakesh and vega

😇- What’s their best trait?

for catalina saying that she likes nemo because he "acts nice" or "he's genuine" would be disingenuous; from her perspective its easy and unchallenging to be perfectly "nice" and she's seen the more selfish and disgusting side of very earnest actions pretty consistently (she also tends to look down her nose at people she considers gullible). so for her she likes that nemo is attentive, especially toward her, in a way that does not make her want to claw her skin off or gouge his eyes out, and thus she finds their interactions surprisingly and pleasantly mundane.

nemo was born with a stutter that he maintains thanks to many years of speech therapy only really emerges when hes very nervous; the trouble is that nemo is always quite nervous, especially when he's forced to be around or talk to other people. most people are not particularly patient with his inability to get through a sentence without restarting it partway through, so he really enjoys catalina's patience in that regard, and is amazed by how easily it seems to come to her. he likes that from his end it feels like she's really listening to him and not counting down the seconds until it's her "turn" to speak.

👿- What’s their worst trait?

while vega is correct that rakesh does work himself up over things that are really inconsequential and even nonsensical pretty often (all while being nonchalant about things that should definitely raise his hackles more), her perspective of this flaw is somewhat skewed because he tends to fuss over her especially, sometimes for legitimate reasons, but just as often because he's sticking his nose into her business.

likewise rakesh is also right that vega is also avoidant of admitting when she's wrong about something to the point of it becoming dangerous and insane, but his perspective of her stubbornness is also greatly exaggerated because he actually started out in T.A.R.G.I.T. as her "lab assistant", and is kind of unfairly letting his memories of when she was first working there and also 17 color his judgement of it a little.

(oc duo ask meme !!)

[doing-something-unholy]

"I found your blog, Father."

That one little sentence stops me cold in my tracks, my heart skipping a beat. I turn to face the parishioner that spoke, looking at me like the picture of innocence. 

“I- I’m sure I don’t know what you mean- oh-!”

They step forward until I have no choice but to step back, but they don’t stop pressing forward until my back hits the wall, the innocent smile turning into a smirk. 

“You don’t know what I mean? Then why are you so flustered, Father? You’re blushing.”

They start touching me, just a gentle little brush of their hand against mine at first, trailing up my arm and cheek. I could push them away, I should, but…

“Isn’t this what you want? Someone from your congregation to use you? I’ll keep your secrets if you show me what you were doing to make those pretty sounds you recorded.”

…But now they know everything I’ve secretly desired, and know exactly what buttons to press to make me melt into their touch.

“Good boy, Father.”

[moltenwrites]

CUT IDEAS TAG GAME

Alrighty so this is new. I came up with this tag game ( at least to my knowledge, I don’t remember being tagged and didn’t find anything when I checked ) If I didn’t originate it, let me know and I’ll credit properly!

For this game, just list a couple of scrapped ideas from your writings, and why you scrapped them. It can be as small as a character, or a whole plot.

Here we go! ( begins under cut )

HOW OUR WORLD ENDED’S ORIGINAL BACK HALF

Being my first main story, a LOT got cut. The back half of this story was originally VERY different, and focused on Res and Lyra going into exile. I cut this idea for so so many reasons, but mainly because there was no logical way to get to that point. The only way they could get exiled is by Dimitri, and he would just kill their asses-

PAINTINGS GOD INVOLVEMENT

Paintings was always gonna be a love story, but it was initially goofing to involve two Gods and be set in the Souls Collide universe, rather than being set in reality. I cut this because A. It was mostly unnecessary and B. It would double to triple the length of the story, and I want this one to stay a bit shorter!

City of Soulless

This is one of the MANY ideas I’ve cut as a part of souls collide part 3. I don’t know how I want this story to end, and I’ve thrown a lot at the wall to see how to get there. A idea I had that I find very cool, but likely will never find a way to fit in is the city of soulless. As a quick recap, in the souls collide universe, soulless are people who held some sort of emotion so strongly that they defied death and came back as a agressive husk. The city would have been popular as a result of a biowarfare attack, wiping out every living inhabitant, but leaving the city intact. The more I write about this, the more I wanna write this eventually. So this one MIGHT come back!

& CULT

Another idea originally meant for the 3rd part of souls collide ( can you tell this finale has been eluding me? )

The & storyline would focus on a cult of people who found a large creature, similar in appearance to kraid from Metroid, and worshiped it. They would work on a system of duality. I cut it before I figured out EXACTLY how it woulda worked, but some aspects got reworked into Salazar, which works far better

And to close us off

SOUL POWERS

I could be lying here, no garuntee I won’t do some silliness to bring one of these in, BUT these are all of the soul powers I’ve cut or reworked.

Pink - Blood manipulation: Cut because it was so much less versatile and cool than the rest of the powers. Pink has been changed to invisibility, which was originally a scrapped idea for white souls

White - Life & Death. While this is the current power set, it originally worked far differently. Instead of working based off of contact, and being able to drain or heal at will, white souls could drain from a distance, and had to have stolen life energy to heal. I changed this because- well I don’t have a specific reason besides preferring the current iteration

Purple - Telekinesis ( kinda ): Purple originally had force-esc powers. I cut this mainly because it was WAYYY too strong, and made fight choreography way lamer. Though I still wanna do something with these powers at some point.

Annnd that’s all the yapping I’ll subject you to, I’m super excited to see your answers ( if you decided to do it! )

Tag list, let me know if you wanna be added or removed!

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[dying-signals]

I grieve so deeply for those in the Gaza Ministry of Health who took the time out of their lives, facing these horrors, to collect the names and information of those dead.

When people were dropping dead by the dozen in my community during COVID, the chaos that ensued in reporting that process, between state authorities, morticians, obituaries, families struggling to play for their dead was stomach turning.

I was one part in that process, reporting numbers of the sick and dead.

These are people they undoubtedly knew.

How do you force something so cruel onto someone?

Generations of families and memories. Bonds and fondness that they can't fucking get back, and yet our president can deny these people are real, that they exist.

These names and the data attached to them, they were living breathing people, they deserved better in live and they deserve more in death.

[rabbittraps]

old art from 2020: an oc i ended up never using for anything. she's a coney island fortune teller and that bug is her son.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

As I think many people do, I have a fantasy original that just quietly lives in my head for the last 15 years, and I play with it sometimes, adding different parts depending on what I want to play.

The history of that world started (from the point of view of the order in which I was inventing it) because I thought, what if there were three exiled fellow conspirators (a politician, a general, and a businesswoman) who were all weird about each other; occasionally they also added more vertices to the triangle (the politician got married, the businesswoman fucked his wife, etc.).

The "present era" characters had to try to understand this relationship because unfortunately it was plot-relevant. Generally the plot was about studying history.

[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

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[greenbloods]

*great crowd huddling around the stage, all looking at me expectantly* theon. is also a horsegirl *they all start screaming loud. maynard plumm is in the back, chuckling* Heh. not bad kid

[sephirthoughts]

yes. yes. yes.

[grodyego]

dare i ask 🎮 for nemo

what are three of your oc’s favorite hobbies?

nemo enjoys paper crafts, things like origami or pretty simple paper cutting especially because it's something he can do at his desk at work ! he'll use pens/highlighters or other stray office supplies to kind of add decoration or detailing to them from time to time but usually he tries not to get too ambitious with them

nemo is a HUUUGE fan of movies, past just even watching them, he likes to find whatever little bits of behind the scenes trivia he can (although the sources he's getting them from always means theyre extremely carefully curated). he's less invested in like the celebrity aspect of it and is just more awed by the very concept of "movie magic". nemo's favorite genre is horror (creature features especially) which usually surprises most people considering how anxious and easily frightened he is, but knowing all the effort that actually goes into the movie kind of brings him in on all the "playing pretend" in his mind, and he loves getting caught up in it

ok you mightve been a bit justified in being worried about asking bc im trying to think of a third hobby he has. he has a record collection he enjoys but its not something hes particularly passionate about ? like if you went over to his place he would offer to play it for you and then sit there and silence and have no information or deeper opinion on the band or its music other than just saying he likes it and he thinks the records smell good. and then he would apologize for saying that and get all weird and tell you maybe you should go home and then not be able to sleep at night because he cant stop overanalyzing how strange he acted through that whole interaction. where was i going with this. does that count

[dying-signals]

New Blog Post

Went ahead and put some thoughts together, as well as some pictures and such :]. My stained glass learning is featured a bit in here, I also have a link to my commissions I have open. In the Inspiration and Appreciation section there's some words for the lovely @an-excess-of-eyes @otterpopd @leonstamatis and @fourteenfifteen. Go read everyone's work!!!

[rabbittraps]

old art from 2020: a slightly-late-for-halloween vivienne