#small little tidbit

[yuesya]

Even despite it currently being nighttime, it’s not dark at all. Glowing streetlights and neon signs merge together to form a kaleidoscopic whirl of riotous colors illuminating the world around them, all polished streets and sleek roads. If one strains and listens, there’s a soft whirring in the background, the sound of cars speeding along the winding roads of the highway.

Firefly takes a moment to gaze outwards and appreciate the sight. After all, once the Stellaron Hunters have finished their work on Jepella, there’s no doubt that this scene would be replaced by fire and smoke instead. This city would be overcome with fear and terror, in wake of the chaos that would follow the fall of the Jepella Brotherhood.

But nonetheless, the Stellaron Hunters would continue moving forward.

Firefly withdraws her gaze from their current surroundings, returning her attention to the companions currently sitting together with her in the car. Blade is in the driver’s seat, eyes fixed on the road while both hands rest upon the steering wheel. Shiki is sitting in the back, hands folded neatly in her lap and eerily still. Blue eyes stare forward evenly without even once turning to take in their surroundings –even though Firefly knows for a fact that this is Shiki’s first time setting foot in Jepella.

… It would be nice if Silver Wolf was here, but unfortunately the younger girl is otherwise occupied in this operation. Blade and Shiki are the least talkative members of the Stellaron Hunters, and while this isn’t a mark against them or anything… it does make for a long car ride.

Firefly doesn’t consider herself to be a chatty, socially-canny conversationalist. Compared with the two sitting in the car with her, though, she might as well be a social butterfly.

“I never knew that you could drive before,” Firefly says to Blade, casting about for idle conversation to fill the long stretch of silence.

Neither of the two other Stellaron Hunters so much as even twitch, but at least Blade responds with a small grunt of assent in acknowledgment of her words.

Silence reigns inside the car once more.

“… Do you have a driver’s license?”

“Yes.”

Progress! He’s responding with words now. “That’s surprising.”

“Why?” Blade slants a brief glance at her, before returning his attention to the road. “Because this is Jepella, the City of Sins?”

“Mm, no, it’s nothing.” Firefly wonders when he had the time to go and get a driver’s license, considering that the Stellaron Hunters were all wanted criminals. The thought of Blade showing up and being tested on his practical driving skills by a proctor is amusing… even though in all likelihood, it was probably Silver Wolf who’d made all the necessary preparations and arrangements. Pity. “You haven’t slept in twenty system hours, though. Are you sure you’re feeling okay?”

“I’m fine. I won’t die from this.” Firefly is aware that Blade is effectively immortal, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t accrue mental fatigue just as any other person would. He doesn’t seem like he’s tired, but it’s hard to get a proper read on him.

… Shiki, too.

Kafka is the only one who can tell what the two of them are thinking, but Kafka is in the Jepella Palace right now.

Firefly cranes her neck and turns around in her seat to glance at the other girl in the car, “How are you feeling, Shiki?”

“… Alright.”

Inwardly, Firefly cheers. When they’d first picked Shiki up from her barren homeworld, the girl had been… not very responsive at all, to say the least. Questions and attempts at making conversation were met with silence more often than not. And despite her physical presence on the ship, oftentimes it almost felt as if her mind was elsewhere.

Elio is very careful with her, and Shiki’s role on most of the Stellaron Hunters’ missions tends to be observation more often than not. It has to do with her abilities –her eyes and what she can see with them, Firefly knows. Abyssal blue eyes, ringed with a red-violet, prismatic glow. Very beautiful, and also very deadly.

… There’s a faint sheen to them that’s almost glittery, too, like stardust. Firefly doesn’t think that this shimmer used to be there in the beginning, but it’s a little hard to say for certain.

She should probably ask Kafka or Elio about it, once this mission is over.

[puppyeared]

doodles of my fav sillies

anton belongs to @poicyss

[lemonberry-soda]

by the way I think we should just decide that every single story that's in a setting that's Weird™, you know, that's unsettling™ - they all exist in the same universe. Yes, all of them, on an Earth that is massive and warped from the strain of having so many realities together, all of them.

There's a weird island off of Michigan where some deities are playing bad monopoly and there's a desert that sometimes appears where terrible scenarios lead into restaurant ads and there's a run-down dinky museum of fake spectacles surrounded by real ones and there's a gas station that smells terrible with a cowboy ghost in the bathroom and there's a world in a dream about a flame in an oil lamp and there's a facility that holds all the creatures that it can and there's a universe behind the walls that holds all the creatures that the facility can't and there's a frat house of weird retired serial killer creatures and there's everything that's going on with Magnus Archives and there's my dumb little fictional town there too and as many analogue horror shows as you can dream of and and and and

an uncountable amount of people die horrifically every day and no one bats an eye, and love prevails occasionally, and all the gods and demons and deities and eldritch beasts bicker and scream over dibs and territories. And slowly they all bleed in together until no one can tell what's happening at all anymore. The Apocalypse of Apathy, with everyone simply closing their eyes to wait for tomorrow, since everything is always normal tomorrow. It always resets, just to die again, but it always resets.

anyway if no one writes that i might be forced to. That's all.

[pillowkind-catch]

Troll Eddsworld AU art dump!!

Recently got back into writing my Troll Eddsworld AU, it's been a year and 5 months and the brainrot has yet to leave me. Someone asked if I had designs for the boys, so here they are. I made some concept doodles on paint back when I first started (half of them contain spoilers so I had to cut them oops)

^Mat & his lusus (they swimming!!)

Here are some better drawings lmao (I swear I can draw)

also the ellsworld girls, I could not help myself

this is the fic i'm writing btw, in case these sillies caught your curiosity. It's mostly pesterlogs, but that's basically 70% of homestuck too

[ghost-bleus]

tryna figure out my william design. doodles n stuff under the cut

IGNORE THE. THE STAIN ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD. my thought process was his hair is greying at the roots but i don’t think i drew it too well so it looks like a bird shat on his head. i’ll fix it eventually but i think so far it’s fine as is.

[squuote]

my narrator could definitely look more human or even have a full stylized human look but I think he would hate the idea of looking fully human to any extent. even his humanoid form would originally leave such a distaste for him because the feeling of control resides in not being the human, the player, but instead being the narrative. so it’s more of a ‘I would never stoop to being human to any extent because they are weak and powerless things that barely have any agency for themselves’ kind of thinking that only a certain button could break him out of that line of thinking

[sillygoblinantics]

I will deliver from that poll!

Meet the gobbo behind the silly

+ elements of character concept

In the beninging-

General reference and inspiration were based on my favorite characters, but before that I didn’t exactly have a sona to be my mascot/face. Early concepts were more human but without a face.

I have general anxiety with showing my face online. Which is pretty common. Now, I knew from the start that it was going to be something based on or drawn from mythology, something close to that from cultures I have ancestry in: Irish, British and general European/slavic mythology and folklore.

Elements of character concept:

I. Getting the ingredients — reference and mood board

Gobbo is definitely based loosely on fairytale goblins but more so the concept of Irish faeries and brownies! Or phooka. But didn’t become one until a few years later. Early gobbo was actually an opossum!

But for style and vibe, they’d be the following:

Clancy, Midnight Gospel

Snufkin, Moomin Valley

Pumkin, Baman and Piderman

Glep, Smiling Friends

Luci, Disenchantment

Smeargle, Pokémon

Bender, Futurama

Pipi, Legend of Pipi

Silly lil guy doodles, twitter and tumblr

Remember! Pinterest is your friend, but remember it will suck you in if you aren’t careful! A lot of characters are inspired by something, even preexisting characters! It’s ok to admit that!

It helps to start by redrawing the characters you are studying for ideas.

This is a really good skill to have under your belt, especially to figure out the core elements of the designs that stand out the most to you; or give you that twinkle in your eye that’s saying in the lil crow brain voice:

“Ooo, shiny ima add that to my stash!”

II. Getting the juices flowing!

You have your reference and mood board(s) so now what? Now it’s time to put it in the metaphorical blender (or greatest free animation program ever given to animators, game makers, 3d modelers and analogue or worthikids alike!) and pump out some ideas! If you’re like me and have trouble visualizing designs and looks, I’d recommend trying out the dnd miniature making, indie company and awesome community: HEROFORGE!

I’m not sponsored btw just really like using it for ocs!

It’s all trial and error with designs so keep in mind that it won’t always be the first drawing that’ll be the final but

III. Time changes things

Continuing from the last point, your character is always changing and growing. In the span of five years (give or take) gobbo got smaller, started changing outfits and eventually got a mouth!

(Top: 2022; middle: late 2022; bottom: 2023)

In my previous post current gobbo is very expressive and but a lot sillier! But still just a lil guy!

I’ll get into the overall elements for making designs for story/animation (ie. character reference sheet, turnarounds and

˚✧₊⁎＊The process!※⁎⁺˳✧༚

But I hoped this was at the very least helpful/useful as well as entertaining enough for you! To read! Again I’m not a decades-of-experience expert or primordial know-it-all spreading skewed and flagrant biased rhetoric (coughcough Lorch coughcough). No, instead I’m but a simple gobbo with big dreams and enthusiastic passion!

[enjomo-arch]

haven't talked about ace in like more than a hour I feel ill.

[dragoncarrion]

kimmie who's shrikeshed :) ?

AHAAAokay i really like her she's just a micro revival of my edgy teenager phase. this one will get a bit long so under the cut. also uhm. cw for mentions of cannibalism LOL she's my "I'm eating you because I hate you" gal

a little context here. ive been working on this wof fanflight (ashwings. basically like a little dragon subspecies or something) for a few years now, and shrikeshred is one of those, a moor runner specifically. ashwings all live in quivers which are way smaller than the canon kingdoms, each with their own rules and (most common) type of dragon yadda yadda. shrikeshred is the corvus of her quiver, a practical and almost religious leadership role in the moors. what a corvus does is oversee wyvern rearing in the community (here they use wyverns (smaller 2 wing 2 leg feral dragons) for falconry and as companions), officiate burials and influence which leader is next in line, so as such they're vital and very respected in their quiver.

shrikeshred had an almost uncanny TALENT with wyverns, and pioneered training methods and even discovered many novel things about wyverns (ecology, anatomy, etc), all of these things written in her journal-esque book, later on titled "way of the shrike". This is what she WOULD'VE been most known for had she not turned to cannibalizing other denizens. She became a sort of legend boogey man, both for her actions, and because no one really knows exactly what happened, why she turned on her kin and started just eating them. Some believe that lean times put pressure on her, and with Grasshopper, the accipiter (title for the leader) of that time being very incompetent, was what made her snap. While this isn't too far form reality, other things factored in. At first she only ate from already dead dragons, she was so hungry after all :p (this is the reason why corvus werent allowed at funerals for a while lol). but soon, that wasn't enough, something told her she needed more (the something here being a prion rabies disease that she got from eating people and slowly incubated over time lmao). half eaten bodies were starting to be found around the territory, but no one had a clue of what was going on. Shrikeshred was highly respected, so no one suspected her for a while. Hiding her scent with strong oils and perfumes also helped cover her tracks. After killing and eating Grasshopper, her sister, Whistlethorn, got the leadership, something Shrikeshred herself had orchestrated from loooong before. Whistlethorn was NOTTTT leader material: shy, nervous and weak willed, which allowed Shrikeshred to have even more control over the quiver than before. But whistlethorn trusted her, so this seemed alright with her kinda.

soon enough, hunger and illness turned to desperation, and her intellect couldn't keep her crimes hidden anymore. at this point, the disease had almost completely taken over shrikeshred's brain, turning her actions erratic and impulsive. after being found out, she vanished into the Misty Spires, a presumably haunted place sunken in a permanent fog (moor runners believe this fog to be evil or some shit idk). There was a short period of peace, but everyone was still on edge, which turned to outright panic when bodies started turning up again, all impaled in a signature stake (like shrikes do irl!). Whistlethorn was torn (hah), how could the sister she had trusted so much have turned like this? as much as she hated it, she missed shrikeshred, but something had to be done about her. One day, she packed some things up, and left for the spires. No one knows if she succeeded or if she was just another of Shrikeshred's meals, but what's sure is that both of them vanished and were never seen again.

To this day, many still believe Shrikeshred's ireful spirit lurks the spires, and prowls around in search for new victims when the fog descends into the moors.

alsooo i have drawn them ! here's the sisters (whistlethorn's tail tip is broken from playfighting with shrike when they were kids lol. i forgot to mention both of them but especially shrike are WAY bigger and stronger than the average skinny ass moor runner)

and her three wyverns, all of them species considered untameable, so no one has managed to train one besides her ever

[singulariities]

Sol is the Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian word for Sun ( Sól for Icelandic and Faroese ) which means Cutter’s ship is technically named the Sun

[vellichorsdesire]

want 2 do the fluster game f/o thing thats been going around recently but… but secret f/oo…. ACKKK also the fact i don’t think anyone would send me smth inthe first place biggest fear ever.

[xeneric-shrooms]

🍓fr ask game!

🍓Biggest dragon in your lair (based on in-game sizes) and biggest dragon in your lair (based on lore sizes

In terms of ON-SITE size Cassette here would be my largest with a Length of 30.99m and a Wingspan of 18.52m

But for lore/headcanon my dragon PlanetaryFizzANYWAYS

In lore PlanetaryFizz (name given to it by the head scientist) is the largest

It's a transdimensional entity that infiltrated the Aether Orbiter and assumed the appearance of the Aethers inside. It's not malignant, but it's not overly friendly. You could approach it but it's very dangerous to, it could kill you in an instant.

It's held in some sort of cell in the laboratory and is being studied. The head scientist, Hollunuo, has appointed himself the task of understanding this... Thing.

It's driving him mad though. At first he thought the cell actually contained the entity, but he quickly realized that no. The entity is staying in there willingly. It can leave whenever it wants to.

(↑↑This guy right here↑↑)

PlanetaryFizz' true size is unknown, but after the Orbiter returned to Sornieth and the entity was taken to the lab it grew in size. Significantly. It's about the size of a 3–4 story house currently.

[floorpancakes]

i refuse to let clamp off the hook for underutilising himawari's fucking fascinating character setup and traits but on a less serious level im obsessed with the concept of her as an instigator of chaos.

like she's way less airheaded than she seems and it doesn't come off like Default Airhead Girl Behaviour or even Default Girl Companion That Ships Her Friends primarily (like not as hard as some other series by comparison I mean she's very I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE by default) specifically she just seems like someone that thoroughly enjoys being a little shit in a sincere way and giggling at her dumbass friends and has a shade of high emotional intelligence about it all. like she's just girl of all time. she's i don't know where im going with this just take this low effort meme from when i watched the holic stage play on youtube this isn't a coherent thought it's like 2am ill come up with better thoughts later

[lacnunga]

Lynton & Lynmouth fun 1/3: Glen Lyn Gorge + museum

[mechahero]

"Happy Friday the 13th, everybody!"

[skelly-bean]

I love the character I’ve made for baldurs gate 3 SO. MUCH!

I feel like there is so much going on with them visually but I don’t even care they’re amazing

I also love the guardian I made a lot too - definitely put way less time into making her but I was so tired of overthinking in character creation haha