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[thewandererh]

it happened! however i left my computer on for lofi so now i am sweaty 😔 big sigh

but!!!! dream journal time 🤯

i’ve had a few dreams recently, only two i remember. the first was so strikingly odd that it wouldn’t leave my brain so here goes. prolly had this one around…tuesday. last tuesday. it was about going to a jhariah concert but it was in an apartment building room and they were gonna sing my fav at the time FIRE4FUN but had to?? cancel?? because of issues ig. jhariah wasn’t even there???? someone who reminded me of Harley Quinn was singing it instead before leaving suddenlt. everything from the stage to the audio setup looked very unprofessional. i had brought my sibling and maybe a friend or two but i don’t remember. the Harley Quinn person had grey blush makeup too—aND THe face of whatshername from the fifth element. i didn’t like that movie very much. but yeah! what in the world !!!

and then tonIGHt uhm. i dreamed i was watching a movie with my frigghin…iambic pentameter iterator SUL sweetie and my son medical!whole. the movie partially mirrored medical!whole’s story but everyone was stickfigures. someone was radioactive (green stickfigure guy mirroring m!whole), and another got sick or smthn (blue stickfigure guy with realistic eyes mirroring m!soul). i started worrying about my idea to bring m!whole & SUL along for the movie because it felt very triggering. didn’t help because i have emetophobia either :,]. when i woke i daydreamed (between sleep?) about if the blue guy recruited the radioactive guy as an apprentice.. for archery????? it all reminded me of my oc Pluto’s story with all the radioactive stuff. and m!hms with the torcher. wild.

crazy!

my dream tonight is to stay asleep

[thewandererh]

the iambic pentameter gang!

oh boy it starts out rough for these fellas. transformation happens in so many interesting ways for all of ‘em! i love their story sm ^_^ they’ve been quite the batch to write, and the dynamics of chonny’s characters have been so neat to work with and expand on. my silly illys forever. i’m going to post art of them when i feel like it, and it won’t particularly be in order. they’re in the process of redesigns too so we’ll see how they grow. huzzah!

for more of their story, see the #iambicpentameter tag on my blog bc WOW 23 notes so fast. no pressure ofc ofc, but the blog search bar (with the hashtag) works better than just tapping the tag. woohoo !!!!

[thewandererh]

🪸🦎 a deepswim brainstorm page!

deepswim is my rainworld iterator oc sidestory where SUL almost dies, doesn’t, then comes to appreciate the beauty of exploring somewhere new and seeing life a new way underwawa 🐥👍. it’s a comic i worked on a lot during past summers, and taught me a lot about how to render various things ^_^! here is it’s introductory masterpost!

this page was supposed to be a brainstorm page for a sewing project, but i had a different idea and got a bit carried away ^^”. still finished the project though, maybe i’ll share it sometime. we were to use a vertical piece of fabric to create an environment with different types of stitches. and that, with this supposedly acting as a “brainstorm” for the project, is why there’s narrow panels everywhere :]

[thewandererh]

⚠️ slightly flashing gifs under the cut

gifs from an upcoming animation i’m workin on, featuring the Iambic Pentameter crew (chonny jash but rainworld). these mostly consist of MND being apathetic and scary, but he’s a real sweetiepie when you get to know him :]

This is during a period in MND’s story when he is apathetic towards everyone and everything. this shadowy form is a personification of HRT’s fear and dehumanization of him…aswell as being the last thing HRT ever saw…

(slightly flashing gifs under the cut)

[thewandererh]

new big iambic pentameter sidestory post in the works! no promises!

edit: it’s here!

[thewandererh]

🫧🔆⛵️more from a few sketchbooks i drew in last summer :]!

this is a collection of my deepswim fanart, an original story comic i made with my iambic pentameter (rainworld x chonny jash) iterators. the text contains an introduction and entire telling of deepswim’s plot so far. each blurb (mostly) doesn’t relate to the images. the deepswim comic itself has a lot more in store, so reading this won’t spoil everything, but feel free to scroll if you’d rather experience it fresh (when i post it eventually). i’m very passionate about it, so onward ^_^💛⭐️!

DEEPSWIM OVERVIEW: desperation, underwater environments, brotherly bonding, and a lesson on life’s resilient beauty

it’s still quite a wip of a story, but it came to me in the summer of 2023 while dealing with acid reflux and other hellish health issues. the entire idea unfolded in my head when listening to Curicó by Kiltro for the first time, and i sketched + colored many pages to that single song looped for 6 hours straight the next day. it turned into a comic that became bigger than i expected!

HRT, MND, and SUL (rainworld hms) are staying in a beach house somehow and there’s a dock that looks out to a huge lake. something happens prior and SUL falls into the unknown ecosystem.

weak and now gauging his choices, he sinks to the seafloor in regret (which is conveniently covered in bubbleroot). on the shore, HRT, having heard SUL fall(?), begs MND to investigate below the surface. begrudgingly, MND accepts and donns a helmet i nicknamed an ‘airorb’ (made by Seas of course). I still don’t know why he didn’t bring two. the story’s rough around the edges but I still love it with all my h(ea)rt.

He finds SUL half-filled with water and unable to move. stuck laying along the bubbleroot floor and unable to use any more of it. MND panics, and lends his helmet to SUL. it works, but it seems like he’s already dead. MND pushes through his hopelessness, initiates cpr aanndd,,,,that’s how far the color has gotten.

however, as you can tell from the drawings above, that’s not the end of the story. the rest has been planned but not put down on paper. SUL is saved from the brink of death, gasping awake and aching all over. he helps MND use the bubbleroot (who hasn’t up to this point because he is strong willed and stubborn on the idea of [when he can breathe, i can too]) and they rest together. relieved and tired.

and then another character arrives! an eel lizard (with legs. both because of me forgetting and also lore) named ursula is upset by all the ruckus—and also acts as a metaphor for SUL’s guilt. a quarrel ensues!! stuff happens!! cool comic panel ideas arise!! and that’s what i have so far.

more under the cut! primarily passionate rambling <3

deepswim means a lot to me :]. it’s rough and a bit old, but I love it very much. Curicó by Kiltro is considered it’s themesong, and I’m so happy it is. i discovered the band slowly with the help of CheetahZ’s Serpent Sol map (i don’t want to get into all the drama so i’ll just leave it there), and am so thankful I did. Curicó really helped spur my thoughts on the comic’s atmosphere during the wonderful ‘get this idea down on paper!’ period of deepswim’s first pages on that fateful day.

Kiltro was my first concert, actually. i vividly remember trying to communicate ‘a warrior cats map’ as an answer to where i found their music when asked by the bassist while buying a limited edition merch shirt. i remember standing in the bar under a speaker during the show, watching the audience dance around me, and videoing almost the entire thing. and of course, the selfie with the lead singer Chris Bowers Castillo sits blue and framed on my desk to this day. I love all of their music and am so happy to have found them.

i know the reason why SUL fell off that dock. at the time of creating the comic, (and as mentioned briefly before) i was dealing with the aftermath of a nasty sickness, and my days were filled with the worst anxiety i’ve ever had because of it. it wasn’t specifically an eating disorder (well, by definition it might’ve been), but my morning acid reflux tricked my anxiety into thinking my health was in danger if i ate anything until around noon. things got better when i recognized the cause (anxiety), and mom bought me propel electrolyte water to help me recover. keep in contact with your body, kids.

deepswim was the hyperfixation i needed to relieve my stress and express myself in a really hard time. a lot of my hopelessness was relieved with this comic as an outlet, and i’m so very thankful. i was drawing the lesson of nature’s beauty as i learned it myself, and i think that’s really special.

deepswim’s entirety was me retreating inward on my interests and combining things I loved most, and along the way having SUL discover the beauty of life in his own troubled time. it was a reminder of nature, emotional resilience, and an experiment in graphic design that i hold near and dear to my heart ^_^💛

thank you so much for reading and viewing!!