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“You’re a caveman. And I’ve invented fire.”
Close-ups under the cut :)
#I've had this idea since May and I've finally finished it#Did the sketch after watching SAD for the second time#I watched the end of One Step Ahead when the camera closes in on Curt and Joey's finger guns and Curt was kneeling#and I was struck violently and urgently with this idea#And then I proceeded to put it off for a million years up until last week when I picked it back up#I'm very proud of this one and I hope you guys like it as much as I do#I really love doing painting parodies and this one worked just too well#Anyways yeah- spent almost 12 hours on this piece so that's fun- time to go draw more!#Fun fact: Former US President Andrew Jackson was a flat earther#yikes#Spies are forever#SAF#Spies are forever fanart#SAF TCB#Tin Can Brothers#Tin Can Bros#tin can bros fanart#Curt Mega#Agent Curt Mega#Owen Carvour#Joey Richter#the creation of adam#The creation of adam parody#My art
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seliph & ares commission, thank you!
#fire emblem#fe4#fe#ares fire emblem#seliph fire emblem#fanart#commission#special thanks to: rupaul's drag race in the background hijacking my brain into flow state to somehow outdo myself for this one#it's been a long time since i've fire emblem'ed i've been in ffxiv-ville a LOT#the show's a lot of fun#hell i love drag i have for a while now it's colourful and loud in a lot of fun ways#us filipinos got a lotta gorgeous drag queens i'm so proud of us for that#ladies you better watch out cause we got men that work harder than you in that avenue#these girls are eating from the shingles down to the foundation#watch out#i mean it#shit i gotta watch the other countries' drag race i need to see british queens duke it out i think it'd be really really funny#gotta see how they behave so i can somehow put shb emet in it somehow#the galvus family drag mother#remember in that one short story he basically went 'your body isn't tea' to a young varis#my granpappy the queen mother she is telling ME my body wasn't TEA??#no wonder he spat on his grave folks#the body tea skipped a generation and was bestowed onto zenos though#have you seen. the eyeshadow on that bitch#on that bratz doll serve shit goddaaamn#i need to shut up i'm talking about ffxiv again
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[Start ID. A redraw of the official icons of the ten named slugcats from Rain World, arranged in two rows: Survivor, Monk, Hunter, Nightcat, and Gourmand in the first, Artificer, Rivulet, Spearmaster, Saint and Enot/Inv in the second. Each is drawn in roughly the same pose as in the original art and fitted with speculative interpretations of their biology, and the second image is a “dead” version of this. For example, all ten have slug-like rhinophores in place of ears, cuttlefish-like colorful eyes with strangely-shaped pupils, cephalopod-like beak "teeth", expressive barbels or oral tentacles at the corners of mouths, spiny radulas, and the frilly mantle fringes of sea slugs, though otherwise their faces are squishy, simple and mammalian-shaped.
Cream-colored Survivor and yellow Monk both share triangular, bicolored spots matching their eyes (which are tan and brown, and two shades of blue, respectively), small, bumpy fringes, and relatively neutral looks on their faces. Defensive-looking Hunter is mostly a dull orange-pink, though their blobby fringe is a more violent red and their back is purple and marred with lumps. Nightcat is navy blue and flecked with dots of yellow and teal, their rolled rhinophores are a lighter blue, and their shading fractures into stars in some places. Gourmand is almost uniformly tan, their wide, very ruffly white mantle fringe bordered by a spray of white spots, and their beak sticks out from either corner of their smile. Primarily red Artificer, snarling, has yellow markings of multiple sorts, a prominent yellow dewlap and their characteristic dark scar taking out a chunk of its face. Rivulet is a darker blue than usual, with long barbels, red gills and rings, countershading, and a cheerful expression, sticking out their radula. Spearmaster is purple with orange accents, eyes and spots, a large fringe and spines down their back. Saint’s green caryophyllidia are marked by small, yellow diamonds, and their long, thin radula extends far below them. Enot is decorated with mottled red stripes, blue patches, yellow stars, and an uneven and almost cartoonish imitation of blush, though generally the same deep blue as Nightcat, a passive or almost slightly smug look on their face and their rolled rhinophores out to either side.
In the second image, nine of the slugcats’ eyes are crossed out, indicating that these are death icons. They look fairly the same, with mostly expression differences. Survivor is caught in the beginning of a threat display, a karma flower sprouts from Monk’s side, Hunter is burdened with overgrowing, purple and blue rot, Nightcat’s rhinophores are pinned back, and Gourmand looks mildly disheartened. For the final row, Artificer bites its radula between small plumes of smoke, Rivulet drops their expression, Spearmaster looks very startled, Saint looks almost entirely the same besides half-open eyes and their markings greater in number, and Enot grins confusedly. End ID]
If you'll excuse the unusually lengthy ID: the arena meme introduced by @pansear-doodles at long last after a nearly year-long wip status (or, rather, finished a month ago today to honor my own first time playing it!)
Design notes and shout-outs under cut! :]
The following people are some of those who’ve inspired my designs most since I started this eight months ago (or just inspired me to get a little weirder with slugcat biology), among many others for sure, and I thank them for it–but this is simply to bring attention to artists I find cool, and in no way an obligation to interact or anything :]
> @saturncoyote , @carpsoup , @charseraph , @gallusgalluss , @bitsbug , @dopscratch , and @0hmanit (and a special mention to dddeerbo and hunterlonglegs, who’ve since deactivated)!
Survivor: Surprisingly the hardest to pin down the colors for, since nothing with its sibling's palette seemed to match up right (I did have to add in a little blue somewhere for Monk, the beginning of making it clear how much I’m simply going based off of vibes for the colors of scug innards). I consider them, Monk and Gourmand to be part of the same gene pool of slugcats, and even possibly the same colony even if the latter isn't really related, so took a bit of Gourmand's coloring and fit them in with their inspiration: Goniobranchus verrieri. They serve as a bit of an introduction to my ideas of scug traits (i find it really fun how many people have thought to add so many silly sluglike fixtures of biology completely independent of me, buuut here I’m mostly talking about species variation), and like in-game they’re pretty average! They, Monk and Hunter have a couple scars sourced from a piece of Joar's concept art that I'm failing to find, those across the bridge of the nose, under the eyes, and across the rhinophores, respectively, and my Survivor interpretation features many on the back of the neck, as a result of survived lizard bites.
Monk: Their coloring is primarily based off the fact that I associate them with blue fruits, honestly, a bit because I was compelled to establish a familiarity with Rivulet, and lastly inspired by the spots of Goniobranchus kuniei (and geminus, less important to me as one of my characters is a kuniei instead, but more fitting). Between the yellow + blue and the circular marking in the center of their face, they’re meant to bear a little resemblance to an iterator that shares similarities with the characterization I’ve given them, and similar coding of her sibling can be seen on Survivor’s markings around the eyes. As both a “default” slugcat and one whose campaign I haven’t played, though, I can’t say I have much more to point out about em.
Hunter: The whole rot thing made for a really fun time drawing them, and while the color change on their back is a result of this, it’s also an excuse to relate them to Babakina festiva, arguably my favorite sea slug (mostly for sentimental purposes). And to Spearmaster, a fellow messenger slugcat, and it serves as a gradient between Hunter’s pink and the “traditional” color of Rot seen in the DLLs. Aside from their affliction, they’d actually be the plainest in terms of design, as they don’t have any patterns or quirks of body type, just the red + purple and strange lumps + possible malnutrition. I can’t remember if NSH had created them in particular or just...caught + released or something, but it probably wouldn’t be strange for a lab-grown slugcat to be simple like that.
Gourmand: Like the two above, they’re rather plain in terms of coloring and adaptation, and like the two above, I find that fun. I decided it would be nice to avert the “all slugcats being of the same body type, and Gourmand’s out of place as the exception” thing by just...adding more fat to all of them, really. I did want to emphasize their sheer bulk even so, both fat and muscular (not like I couldn’t have still gone further with it, of course, but slugcat anatomy can be a little obfuscating sometimes, and they were intended to look rather plush considering personal size headcanons and therefore the lack of proper gravity), and the thick and flounced mantle looked like a good addition, as per their sea slug Glossodoris hikuerensis. Unlike Survivor and Monk, I didn’t attempt to hold their resemblance to any particular other character (which means a little less to balance out the “default gene pool” thing), so those are all the design notes I have for em.
Artificer: The second slugcat I’ve ever played, or finished the campaign of, my favorite for at least a long time, and the first thing I did was give them yellow accents, the shape of which have troubled me slightly (not quite like the spots or stripes of the others). They’re both a little more appealing and more explosive-looking to me, and considering how early on I played Arti, actually present in some of my older art. It does give them a little resemblance to Saint (completely intentional, two slugcats with strange relations to karma), as well as the fact that its radula is green for familiarity with one of its children (at some point it was going to have all-green markings, even!). I’m generous with their scars, partly because it was fun to overemphasize the one on their face and partly because it does seem like a reckless slugcat, on top of the dangers of its explosive abilities–I’ll probably just keep adding more forever. Mostly-red sea slugs aren’t too common, but Hexabranchus sanguineus works for sure. The ridged, yellow dewlap can expand for combustion purposes, or something along those lines. Arti’s where I began experimenting with a lot of the mildly-offkilter features seen in my interpretation of slugcats, as they’ve once again been a favorite from the start.
Rivulet: I've obviously given other slugcats spots, deeply enjoy the bubbly-soda markings of other peoples' slugcats, and thought seal riv would be cute. Despite not too closely resembling it, they've been government-assigned Hypselodoris bennetti, for color reasons and for a couple sentimental ones. Originally, the colors of every scug were meant to match up with the custom colors I gave them at the beginning of their campaigns, (though Arti, Gourm and Spearmy are the only three who actually apply here, since I've only played through half the slugcats: I gave arti the yellow as mentioned above, gourm brown eyes and spearmy light pink spears, furthered by the outskirts pearl accompanying me and that palette all the way to moon. Tolerance training for eternity in hell cause I already knew about the maroon pearl quest). I initially gave them the colors of the bi flag for fun... but with the limited palette of this image, I was left without pink for a while and decided to see how they'd look in red. I then realized how they now wonderfully matched Moon, and besides, red's a sort of camouflage in deep water! As a side-note, the difference between their eyes and those of others always bothered me a little for anatomical purposes, and the cephalopod eyes were probably influenced by this!
Spearmaster: Inspired as much as possible by @notyourfunnyman ’s wonderful spearmy: designed in a way that helps it fit in with scavengers, at least between the long sensory tentacles, big ruff, back spines and slightly thin/distended anatomy, a form of defensive mimicry. I always had annulate rhinophores in mind, for a little diversity sure, but mostly because the shape reminds me of radio antennae and communication towers (seems fitting for the comms array and being a messenger slugcat)! I started searching for a real-life slug to give them just by looking up their rhinophore shape...and was met immediately and coincidentally with annulate-topped nudibranchs that fit them more perfectly than I could've imagined: Flabellina and surrounding clades, I think Paraflabellina ischitana works very nicely. The orange was completely unplanned, but there wasn’t a place for light pink among the other slugcats’ palettes, and importantly it likens them to both Hunter and Seven Red Suns a little more.
Saint: I am very much a non-furred slugcat enjoyer, with respect to those who aren’t, so figuring out the only visibly furred slugcat was an interesting challenge. I’ve decided that they likely have other, milder adaptations for help in the cold, mainly just more efficient fat storage, and what looks vaguely like fur is instead a bunch of tubercles (called caryophillia, for the second reminder out of three). Their inspiration doesn’t have these, however, Miamira sinuata’s numerous yellow and blue spots (not to mention...whatever’s going on with that shape) and general effect of being the only really green nudibranch I could find were probably perfect for a strange green echo. Not pictured, but their beak-teeth are tiny and flat to make a surface for grinding soft food against with the lack of a functioning radula, which is tipped with a specialized spiny “grapple-hook” for better traction/grip (not to mention the numerous little teeth running down the whole thing).
(Best part of hiding this under a readmore means edits will be seen by all reblogs, I'm mostly sure, because I completely forgot to mention! The spots on their forehead are simple eyes. Their camera eyes appear closed in-game, I like to believe their complex eyesight is rather poor anyways or otherwise reason that they aren't seeing out of those, and while this was far from her REASON for attunement with the world, it does help compensate for mainly viewing it through a canvas of simple light and dark. This, and the fact that their swapped-out "fur" is not only to commit to a lack of hairs but contributes to sensory input!)
Nightcat/Enot: I guess you could say I found the “these two are technically the same person” compelling. (E.g. similar colors, both very strange and enigmatic, and Enot/Inv/Sofanthiel’s remark during the dating sim about getting removed from Arena Mode.) I doubt they’re the only two slugcats in their body, considering humans with DID tend to have more than a few (and I find it very funny that a slugcat bearing resemblance to Nightcat appears in Gourmand’s ending. They’re allowed in the colony and Enot isn’t </3), and I have to credit @faelingdraws ’s art for being what convinced me on it! Their design inspirations come down to trying to balance a few different ideas: making the patterns and palettes of both look oddly similar (special mention to the stars, since those are fun to draw), basing them off of Felimare sechurana and juliae respectively, using blocks of color with the same placement as in Enot’s official art, and specifically making Enot look...biologically reasonable and imperfect, whilst also clearly trying to imitate human displays of emotion (what with...the eyes and blush on that one piece of official art).
Lastly, here’s just a lineup with notes on body shape and size. Most of the nicknames (existing to give a little more space, that’s all) are obvious, and while I can’t remember why I shortened Nightcat to Nox, it is in honor of my friend by the same nickname :]
#survivor rain world#monk rain world#hunter rain world#nightcat rain world#gourmand rain world#artificer rain world#rivulet rain world#spearmaster rain world#saint rain world#enot rain world#slugcat rain world#rain world#peridots-art#< feels like too long since that last tag's been used. i can say with certainty that the majority of the reason i haven't been just as#active here (not to mention not drawing as often since that's relevant) is just due to my life getting busier with a new school year but i#do miss putting my stuff here! and would like to reblog more on top of that.... so forgive not remembering exactly how to tag everything#(and how to write everything up there but to be fair it's not like long textposts were a staple of mine. i mostly just rambled and it was#fun hehehe.....some of those notes (parts of riv/spears mostly) were written around the beginning of the drawing itself)#OH i messed something up with the drafting and really did not mean to post it while tags were in progress! but regardless. i would've liked#to post it tomorrow to mirror how i was going to post it on JAN 29 a month ago......but it's not like i'm unhappy with this outcome :]#to sum it up really though it's been strange working on this for so long.....unfortunate to not get a chance to let it be seen and keep#experimenting with odd biology much earlier but i'm just glad it's out now cause i am proud of these!! it's been a lot of fun and slugcats#are still my go-to doodles :] if i had to end this off promptly though what's up with that secret pipeyard shelter as gourm that's not on#the maps. connected to vs_a04. doesn't appear on the miraheze or interactive maps for anyone strangely but i've only been there as gourmand#anyway! i'm sure there's a lot i could've said in the rush but goodbye dear reader anyway :]#i forgot spearmy initially. i'm so sorry#peridots-described#< NOOOO THAT DOESNT SHOW UP THERE'RE TOO MANY TAGSS.......
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wanted to do a "year" in review, though actually i only joined tumblr in october! so instead i just did twelve pieces i'm proud of, in roughly chronological order!
can't believe it's been three months? feels both longer and shorter at the same time! thank you so much for having me, i'm looking forward to creating more art and interacting more with this wonderful community in the new year!
ps. for fun: if you remember what art piece you found me through, or your favourite of mine, i'd love to know in the comments!!
#some of these are just allusions to the pieces bc with comics in particular it's hard to get 'em to fit this sorta thing!#really proud of what i've achieved in a short time actually...#not to toot my own horn but i genuinely think i've put out a lot of good content pretty quickly ;u;#and of course thank you to everybody who sends asks i can answer or interacts and engages with me and my work!#100% would not be anywhere near as active (or even around at all) if it weren't for your input! fondness with all my heart.#my art#compilation#bandana waddle dee#kirby#king dedede#meta knight#marx (kirby)#galacta knight#magolor
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ko-fi link: https://ko-fi.com/copper_sands
hi again, all! i feel like an update on the situation is long overdue, but i've been waiting for something actually new and meaningful to happen to make a separate post. so, yeah, making it now.
first things first, i want to extend my deepest thanks to everyone who's contributed so far, even a little. you guys have been a huge, huge help throughout this journey so far, especially given that it's only been 8 days and i've had to almost double the goal due to extra fees that had only revealed themselves partway through. special thanks to @elkkiel and @inv3ga for generously setting up ways to help drive donations and offering their art in return - if you've donated so far or are planning to and would like some genuinely awesome stuff, feel free to reach out to either (or both?) and check out what they have to offer in return for your proof of donation :"3 once again, i appreciate it so very much, it's really sweet what they have done
right, now onto the news. there's not that much to say, but it's all relevant, so let's just get to it.
first of all, i finally have a date for the visa application appointment - February 19th, about 3 weeks from now. most of the necessary fees are covered, save for the ones that will be decided on the spot at the visa center, and i don't feel comfortable asking for an amount of money i don't know. i will keep you all posted on whether or not i get the visa, and if i don't, i'll unfortunately only be able to refund up to about $100 total in donations, as i've had to pay $600 instead of the original $300 in visa fees due to family shenanigans. hopefully nothing happens that will warrant this in the first place, though. please keep your fingers crossed for me :'3
secondly, i finally have commissions open! this is just one of the types of commissions right now - digital paintings - and i am planning to open more types of commissions, namely custom dice sets, in the near future. i only have 5 slots open for now, but they are offered at a discount - once they're filled, i will open more at the full price (number of slots pending). you can learn more & order one for yourself here: https://ko-fi.com/copper_sands/commissions
lastly, i just wanna say... again, the support so far has been fucking incredible, especially for just how long this has been going & how much time there's still left, but that's the thing - this isn't urgent or life-threatening for me. if this doesn't end up happening, sure, i'll be heartbroken, but i will live and be okay at the end of it all. i would like to direct your attention to Sera's fundraiser - she needs urgent access to complicated medical treatment, and on top of it all her housing situation is threatened. i don't know all the details, but it is so much more serious than my situation could ever be, and i want to urge you to donate. i'll contribute too, as soon as i'm able.
thank you all so much - for reading, contributing, spreading the word. love you all 💗💗💗
#fundraiser#fundraising#mutual aid#donate#donations#signal boost#queer aid#commissions#commissions open#ko-fi#ko-fi shop#ko-fi commissions#a little rant in the tags to keep the focus on the things that matter:#the thing is. i Have been getting stuff done and realistically speaking i should be proud of it#but all of that stuff has been logistics & things i need for the visa application. been losing sleep over that too but not the point#the point is that i've been busy but i haven't been creating and it's kinda getting to me honestly#i want to create things. i can feel that i'm burnt out on it but still i want to create#nothing's been appealing. not digital art not resin not sculpting. not even sanding my fucking dice (my wrist hurts as is i don't need more#and it really hurts to be honest#i'm hoping that commissions at least can fill that void#they're usually even more of a slog than creating for myself but i need to make money and i need to make art#so yknow. gotta make it work#hopefully...#also tagging this at the end of everything i'm planning to put a small print + keychain + sticker bundle up for moth lovers soon-ish#so if you like silly little bugs stay tuned for that!!
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It's here! The moment you've all been waiting for, in an extremely broad hypothetical sense! I'm very pleased to share a short story that totally isn't also a pilot chapter for Deathless. At long last you can read The Sacred Art of Name-Cutting. Lucky you!
At just under 6,000 words, it's intended to be a succinct look into the setting of Deathless and its main characters. Also included for your reading pleasure is a glossary, though it's more of a curiosity than a necessity. This is a project that's been a long time in the making, so I'm thrilled to finally be able to share it, and I hope you all* enjoy it!
*Once again as an extremely broad hypothetical
#deathless#announcement#been chipping away at this for weeks now and I think it's really paid off#like there's a long way to go but quite proud of the work I've put in
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Jason and Helena teaming up and realizing they wanna kill different people so when Roy is like stopping Helena from doing something like a mercy killing someone innocent who in Helena’s view is magically/sci-fi corrupted by a vilian past the point of being saved Jason’s like YEAH Helena you’re a real scumbag and when Roy is holding Jason back from shooting a guy who was involved but mostly just in their way and definitely not the Big Bad Helena’s like you’re disgusting Jason even Roy thinks it. Idk why this turned into Roy having the leads of two backpack leashes in his hands
YEAH YOU GET IT. YOU UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LETHAL JUSTICE VIEWS.
bc Helena is DEFINITELY a mercy killer. bc to her that is genuinely kindness for certain situations and she believes it's her job to do what heroes like Batman *won't* bc sometimes, it's the only way to bring someone peace. killing *is* kindness to Helena in some situations. and generally she's *not* going to go after lower level foot soldiers. bc they're just that, foot soldiers and there will always be more and most of them probably didn't choose to end up in this situation. when she kills, she tends to kill Big Names, people higher up whose deaths will make a difference.
as for Jason, he objectively views the actions of a person above who they are as a person. if they have done Bad Things, then they have done Bad Things there is no grey area to him. he has killed lower level ppl simply bc they did something he did not like or approve of. and for Helena, there's more nuance. so there'd be a deep level of clashing on certain aspects of who they think should be killed. just bc they're both pro-lethal justice does *not* mean it's in the same situations, which is the one thing i wish ppl understood about them when drawing comparisons.
also love them dragging Roy into it. their arguments will always lead to "well Roy agrees with me" bc sure, Roy *is* probably going to agree with not killing someone no matter who says it. he rlly does have two backpack leashes and he cannot leave either of them alone for too long bc someone will die. or they'll try to kill each other.
also interesting on the *very* rare occasion when Roy does want to commit lethal justice, bc he has been known to do so if something gets personal enough for him, how Helena and Jason react. Helena, who believes in lethal justice *because* of her "blood for blood, omerta" mentality would be supportive. and Jason, who believes Bruce should've killed the Joker, would also likely be supportive. sure, it's scary when Arsenal is holding back Huntress or Red Hood from killing. but it's somehow much scarier when Huntress and Red Hood are letting Arsenal kill someone bc that's how you know you *really* fucked up. them helping him through the aftermath of murder could be so fun too, bc he tends not to cope with it as well as they do, so it'd be a very complicated situation. i think sometimes they might kill someone *for* Roy, just so Roy doesn't have to deal with the emotional weight of doing it himself. which is always *so* fun.
#necrotic answerings#helenajayroy#i'm captain of the ship now and you're all my crew.#it'd be so good.#roy and helena canonically had a thing once#and a lot of ppl like the idea of jason and helena#so we're putting them all in the same soup now. it would work.#roy would be stressed 24/7 but it would work.#i'm unwell and now I have to create the content I wish to see bc no one else is as enlightened as the anons talking to me about this.#y'all get it.#i'm so proud i've spread a couple of really rarepairs today.#rarepair shipping is eating well. ty.
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Fellas can you take this somewhere else. Maybe. Just not in the fucking halls. Thanks 🫡
I couldn't resist drawing out these tags I wrote on a dif post LMFAO
Moe just has...... SO many problems.......
Close-ups of my fave shots!
The elusive Líf...
#fire emblem#feh#i'm like. split between feeling proud of this and feeling So Over It LMFAOOOOOOO#which is why. lighting could be better. but i don't care enough to put in more work than i already have LMFAOO#LIKE... ONE COOL PART is this could be my first fully colored comic piece w completely original dialogue???#where like. i didn't quit at any point of it. EXCEPT. skimping on the backgrounds. but again. more effort than i'm willing to put in#but i think it still counts bc my only real plan was to have the askr pillars/walls as framing/backdrops#ALSO the characterization... in the panel where lif walks into frame. it's SO fun to me#they both look at lif. but moe is Not subtle about it. looking directly at him. while alfonse side-eyes him.#and the most IMPORTANT detail. is that alfonse and lif are making the same kind of face. like 🤨#there is SO MUCH POTENTIAL. in alfonse and lif sharing facial expressions. in having the same knee-jerk reactions to things.#and it's espppp fun to figure out bc you're only working w half of lif's face. it's all in the eyes/brows and SOMETIMES!#SOMETIMES!!!! it's in the nose! in this illust he is more relaxed/resting so you don't see it here#but i'm TELLING you. adding some scrunch to the nose can add soooo much expression-wise#this took longer than i expected it to. also. which is why i'm so over it LMFAOO#but i do think the extra time was worth it... first run of the last panel was too lighthearted/jokey#capturing some conflict between moe/alfonse was the right choice. in how intensely this starts off (tonally)#AND! in showing how they do butt heads at times. in fact sometimes they clash REALLY badly!!!!#which is actually so huge bc i've wanted to capture this since the beginning. how they're so similar but also so opposite#that a lot of times! they understand each other deeply and cover each other's basis. HOWEVER.....#other times. it's just catastrophic. like it isn't That intense here but you can probably see how it goes horribly wrong.#i am... always thinking about it.... and only occasionally stressing myself out about it LMFAOOO#fe alfonse#fe lif#moe tag#summoner oc#my art#my comics
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Whelp, I've graduated from writing poetry to full-on love songs. Unfortunately I don't have Gale's voice, so my own mezzo-soprano will have to suffice lol
Lyrics and chords under the cut!
If You’ll Catch Me
C Am F C C Am F G
C Am You saved me the very F C First day that we met C Am F G And since then you’ve always stood by me C Am Yet I still need to ask F C For my heart needs to know C Am F G If I fall will you be there to catch me?
C Am If I fall will you catch me? F C If I fall in love? C Am I’d give you each star in F G The heavens above C Am My heart and my soul F C Anything I can do C Am G I’d happily do it for you C Am F G If you’ll catch me
C Am I’ve been beaten down F C My heart broken and bruised C Am F G I’ve loved and been used before C Am But you’ve given me hope F C For the first time in ages C Am F G That I could be worth something more
If I fall will you catch me? If I fall in love? I’d give you each star in The heavens above My heart and my soul Anything I can do I’d happily do it for you If you’ll catch me
Em I’d paint the sky Em I’d blow your mind Am F G I’d give you the best gifts that I could find Em Yet you say you want Em Me as I am Am F G Not the miracle, just the man Em If it is true Em I’ll leave behind Am F G All of my old ambitions Em I’ll start right here Em And I will make Am F G A life with you my new mission
C Am If I fall will you catch me? F C If I fall in love? C Am I’d give you each star in F G The heavens above C Am My heart and my soul F C Anything I can do C Am G I’d happily do it for you
If I fall will you catch me? If I fall in love? I’d give you each star in The heavens above My heart and my soul Anything I can do I’d happily do it for you If you’ll catch me
C Am F G If you’ll catch me C If you’ll catch me
#bg3#bg3 fan art#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#gale x tav#this is the first time i've tried writing a song in years#and the first time ever i've actually put music to something i've written#and ngl i'm pretty proud of how it turned out#fun fact: it was only well after i had the chorus worked out that i realized i'd accidentally stumbled directly into the '50s progression X#good ol' C Am F G really does just sneak up on you lol#my ukulele playing is a bit rusty but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#my writing
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If you could completely remove a character from the series, who would it be? Would another character take their place?
gray wing.
Or even just kill him instead of Shaded Moss, have HIM originally been the leader of the Sundrown Patrol and after his death, all these cats start invoking his name like a god.
"I do this in the name of Gray Wing the Wise." "As Gray Wing the Wise once said..." "Gray Wing the Wise wouldn't have approved of this."
And Thunder would have known him like this ancient, wise sage... and been frustrated by it. He doesn't KNOW this guy, but apparently he was a god among cats, and everyone thinks he was on THEIR side. But all Thunder sees, looking at a sea of heartless tyrants and selfish cats clawing each other in the back, is people who make their choices first and then use his sacred name to justify them afterwards.
and the SHOCKKKKK on all their FACES during the First Battle, when Gray Wing comes down from the stars himself, and tells all of them, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY NAME?!" the VINDICATION for Thunder when this God Among Cats turns to him and says, "You. You are the one who has followed my teachings-- by questioning them, by challenging those who misspoke. This is wisdom."
Bright Stream would take all the roles of Gray Wing in-canon and have an arc about realizing that she was defending her abuser. And been Thunder's single mom.
#bone babble#I hate canon gray wing. He's bottom two most hated characters in all of WC for me#Clear Sky is WORSE but Gray Wing is frustrating#Clear Sky is a fantastic villain before they nonsensically decide that killing the weak and disabled is a funnie joke#and war crimes are fine if ur scared#but gray wing is never good. He has like 3 good scenes that promise something good and never deliver.#dotc hate#It's hard to think of a character that needs to be totally removed OTHER than gray wing. for me#I think most characters can work or are just inoffensively bland like Background ThunderClan Bloat Cat 23#but gray wing........................... WELL I've done my fixes for him#and I have put a lot of love and effort into that fix that I am proud of#But it's only made me like... really realize that this story would have been stronger if he died in Sun Trail like he was supposed to
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hi im glad to hear your not doing that badly but sending you best wishes regardless <3
i know i'm belated on this but i wanted to let you know the well wishes mean the world 😭 the kindness of folks here has been making a big difference.
but i am doing that badly, actually. just because i am good at making it through does not mean it is not extremely bad and hard. and being good at it is something that i have been working hard on for over a decade, not a skill i was born with.
#if someone who had not previously developed the kind of resilience that i have was dropped into the traumatic experiences i had#in 2020-early 2023 they would've probably killed themselves by now and that thought has been peer reviewed by friends.#suicide m/#jam replies#anon#sorry i. do really appreciate the well wishes#but i have to be proud of myself for how much work i've put in to survival & healing#i can't let it be minimized.#it is that bad. but that can't stop me
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I've worked on this for literal hours instead of my graduation cards because I would do anything for Aubrey Omori. Anyways
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUBREY OMORI!!!
I spent WAY too much time on this which. Ya know. Tracks when it comes to me because... well. Yeah.
Anyways I adore her so so much. She's amazing. She is literally amazing I would say so much more if I wasn't trying to be nORMAL
#omori#omori aubrey#aubrey omori#i really DO feel bad that i worked like. ....11 HOURS??????? NO WAY WHAT#IT WAS 11 HOURS??? WHAT???? I STAETED THE SKETCH AT 10 AM#well to be fair i stopped doodling when class ended at 12 and took a one hour nap where i woke up at 2#....BUT STILL?????#like that . im so sorry to the other characters i've basically done nothing for this year?? IM SO SORRY???#but like... . . . aube r y .. .. .#....one pro of making art that you put a ridiculous amount of effort into is-#when you look back at it it just.. LOOKS SO GOOD. like. my god the whole time i was stressing about posting this on time but#looking at it now im just GRINNING goddd.... im so proud because its AUBREY LOOK AT HER.... i adore her.#this goes for other shit ive done too OBVI i am like the king of overzealous art#which is a good thing i guess...#...........there's. another version of this art that. i'm gonna post. .. somewhere else. actually.#hold on.#star art#ren's blorbos
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Maybe it's just me, but part of why I never really felt completely secure in being public about my own artistic endeavors was how... being proud of yourself in any capacity for any reason is almost a faux pas, if that makes sense.
I've noticed how it's almost expected to perform the air of humility, but is that humility? Is it humility to say, "Oh, I'm sorry for clogging your feed with my awful art" or anything to the effect of self-deprecation?
I think that's why I so often gravitate toward those who make "bad art." There's a sense of freedom that is only achieved with the level of hubris that being unashamed in the number of people who hate your art. I wonder, though, how many people don't hate the art as much as they hate that they can't chastise the artist into humility, into recognizing how "terrible" an artist they "actually" are?
#art#i have clinical enough anxiety to not need people to expect self-deprecation from me when i do anything...#i always find it fascinating and almost freeing to see an artist make their own shit and be PROUD of that work#i unironically need to watch the room because that's the type of energy that i need so desperately#i do genuinely wonder if the largest critics of some of the 'worst' pieces of art do just tend to hate that the artist is openly prideful...#...that it isn't necessarily the art itself that completely enrages them but that they don't have the weapon of shame and humiliation...#...to put the artist 'back in their place' (the bottom)?#maybe i've been overanalyzing people's intention but i do wonder#i'm not saying you aren't allowed to dislike art (i dislike SO much art)...#...what i am saying is not all hatred of art is created equal and not all of it is something that is really as bad as it's portrayed#i need to emphasize that you are allowed to dislike art for whatever reason. there's some art i don't like for pretty petty reasons...#...but i don't think that requires me demanding artists to be ashamed and self-deprecate whenever they dare show their pieces#i think so many people are conditioned into self-hatred that anybody who shows any level of self-respect is off-putting though#like that's something i've really noticed a lot#and i think this is an aspect of the trend towards seeing self-hatred as neutral and even good
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exclusive director's commentary since we're not getting an update tomorrow (sniffle.... the hiatus is real and it's hurting me)
this is from the current draft of a convo in ch12:
but it was slightly different in the earlier versions. the way i write mq, he only curses at his most emotional moments when he feels the least in control, so what he said before was, "what part of letting you fuck me was not clear?" which i think highlights the gap between his desires and how he presents it outwardly. it's vulgar because on some level he thinks it's dirty, yes (yay issues), but it's also kind of an overcompensation; if he makes it sound rude, if he says it forcefully, then he might be able to hide the real weight of it in his heart. if he hardens the words it might hide his vulnerability
but then i decided i liked the strategy of "so repressed he can't even say it in his thoughts" better in this case so the logic of it is left to subtext (well, also Word of God posting but mais oui)
critically, in both cases he's putting agency/action in feng xin's hands and disavows himself from it. there's a tension between the outward submission ("letting" someone take your reins, basically) and inward protection (of his purity/innocence) (yay celibacy). kinda like, "YOU are the one doing this, i'm not the one who's weak-willed! i'm blameless and also generous!" there's more i can say as to this kind of thinking in general being the root of.... certain erotic literary tropes..... but i don't wanna make too long-winded a post on this
lastly i want to point out, since it might have been too early in the game but remember in ch4, that bit with the cherries? fu yao feeds nan feng the cherry, nan feng spits the seed, and it makes a stain on fu yao's collar which he immediately cleans up? remember what i said cherries symbolized? mhm, think about that and connect it to the larger picture here
#hewwo#chaptext lb#postcanon#bro the director's commentary on this thing would be riDONKulous#buuuuuuut i'm a student of the whole ''the work must speak for itself'' thing so#also to be fair my imps you're all incredible at picking up what i've been putting down and i'm really so so proud of you i'm not kidding#there are things about my work EYE did not notice until someone brought it up. it's incredible#seeing writing at this angle for the first time in my life. IN REAL TIME#most authors throughout history didn't have that privilege you know#it's a real blessing to learn from (sniffles)#OTHER AUTHORS WISH THEIR READERS WERE AS SMART AS YOU. AS DEVOTED AND CLEVER AND INSIGHTFUL AS YOU#MWAH MWAH MWAH
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y'know originally i had a big "yay i finished my exchange fic!!" post planned but it's literally an entire week late soo. that feels a little pathetic at this point el oh el
that being said - i finished my exchange fic! i have absolutely no control over when it will be posted, but i'll make sure to put it here when it is!
please please please go follow the deadcoddoves twitter account if you're at all interested in this exchange, they'll be posting about everyone else's fics too!!!
#never ever doing writing a fic with a deadline attached again. im too much of a chronic procrastinator for this#i have learned some things about myself though#(1) i tap out at writing about 4k words a day lmao. after getting that much written my brain is drained completely#(2) i am really really bad at not putting things off until the last minute. which i already knew but WOW this made it obvious#anyways!!! gonna go read all the fics i've missed this week! ceil im coming for you#also if we're deep in the tags and confessing things...#y'all i am sooo self-conscious about this fic LMFAOO ohh i hate it. i hate it so much.#thinking about turning comments off on ao3 for it tbh#but i think part of that is because it's so late. like this damn fic was a full seven days late and it's not even my best work???#ohhhh i am Embarrassed. well and truly humiliated#anyways my counterplan is to write a bunch of other stuff im proud of so i can stop feeling like shit lmfao#the mods were very patient and kind tho shout out to them for not hating me
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yknow i enjoy tedependent as much as the next guy, and i get the temptation, i truly do, but i think implying or outright saying trent imploded his career and told the truth about giving up his source only or mainly because he had romantic feelings for ted takes away from what actually happened there?? like. him being willing to throw away his career and in such a spectacular way (not just quitting but actually probably fucking his chances of working further as a journalist at all, i gather) wasn't necessarily a rom-com moment in the sense that it was for ted or about his feelings for ted alone. it was about himself, his own growing dissatisfaction with the toxic world of sports journalism and the kind of writing he was doing, the desire for "something deeper". that's not to say there's no tedependent take on this, or that hypothetical feelings for ted couldn't or didn't play a role. but like, it's also about his own character development, even if it is driven by ted (as many of the characters' developments are)
#it is true that it might not have happened had it been someone else#but not necessarily like.#the potential romantic feelings and this stem from the same thing (ted being ted) but like#one doesnt cause the other#does that make sense?#like. ted (being... well‚ ted) inspires trent to be better#and the situation being that trent was basically put in the position where he had to hurt someone he both respects and like#clearly just likes as a person (romantically or not) is what made him apparently finally decide enough was enough#(AFTER writing the article‚ notably‚ so that might lend credence to the idea of trent choosing to be the one to write it#in order to make it somewhat kinder--however you feel about that)#anyway all this to say i do love tedependent though and it's also extremely funny if like#trent is explaining this to a family member or smth like 'and i just. being put in that position where i have to hurt someone i respect#someone i genuinely like and think is a good person. that just really gave me some perspective#on how i've been dissatisfied with my work and my job for a while. and i think i want something deeper#something more meaningful and fulfilling. something i can truly be proud of' you know all dramatic moving soundtrack#and then the music cuts and they're like#'hm and also your big embarrassing gay crush on him?' and hes like '[sigh] yes and also my big embarrassing gay crush on him.'#what if i made this a silly little oneshot. what then#trent crimm#gertspeak
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