#smoke in the night

[purple-nightfall-writes]

👀 I humbly request snippets

hello friend :3 you receive an excerpt of the first chapter of "smoke in the night," which i am going to be working on for ages haha

i'm absolutely vibrating with anticipation of when i get to start sharing this fic with the world - i'm really really proud of the concept and SO excited to make it into a thing that exists. however it is also going to take a while to be ready to start posting 😓 such is the way of things

but in any case, i'm excited to go ahead and start teasing it a little! gotta start building hype hehe

Parry.  Ascend.  Fireball.  Drop.

Scar watched as the young ghast hybrid fought, weaving between the arena constructs’ projectiles with impressive ease.  They were talented, that much was certain; they had quick reflexes, and their fireballs rarely missed.

Not that it made a difference to Scar.  He was only here for show, really.

His managers understood that by now.  Scar had dug his heels in for long enough that they’d eventually stopped bothering him about the sidekick issue.  And, as the unofficial face of the Hybrids and Heroes Headquarters - or 3H, as most people called it - Scar had some leeway to be stubborn in this case.

Being HotGuy did have its benefits on occasion.

���Time!” a voice called out over the loudspeaker, and Scar focused back on the arena just in time to see the construct power down.  The ghast hybrid stood, bruised but not defeated, an elated grin on their face.

As the evaluators asked a few more questions, Scar didn’t even bother trying to catch his manager’s eye to give the perfunctory shake of his head.  They dropped even that pretense more often than not these days.  Some other hero at 3H could take the ghast teen under their wing.  They’d make an excellent sidekick, Scar was sure, but HotGuy worked alone.

“Next!”

He glanced up briefly as a young man - probably in his twenties - stalked into the arena.  An avian, with the tan patterned wings of a hawk, a slight figure, and an untidy mop of sandy-brown hair.

“Name?”

“Is that necessary?” the avian asked sharply, his scowl visible from Scar’s seat up high in the bleachers.

“...no.  Proceed.”

Afterwards, Scar could never quite pinpoint what it was that made him sit up and pay attention.  It might have been that first refusal, startling in its audacity; it might have been something about the way every line of the young man’s figure was drawn taut like a bowstring, a do-or-die intensity to the concentration in his face.  It might have been the way he fought.

The arena whirred to life, and the young man became a whirlwind.  He dashed from point to point, a knife in each hand, slashing out at the constructs as he passed.  For the most part, he stayed within melee range, occasionally taking to the air with a small pistol in one hand.  He was lithe, and agile, and he fought furiously as though his life depended on it.

That was probably what surprised Scar so much.  It was well-known that 3H would help anyone, regardless of skill.  You didn’t need to apply to be a hero to be eligible for their aid.  The people who did apply were ambitious, eager, seizing at a chance for fame or for purpose.

But whenever Scar caught a glimpse of the avian’s face, there was a stark urgency about the set of his jaw; some grim determination showing in the ruthless efficiency of his movements.  To him, this was no game.

Scar was intrigued.  For the first time in ages, he leaned forward and watched the fight with interest.

By the time it was over, he knew one thing for certain.  He would never rest easy until he’d figured the avian out.  Until he’d learned what was behind those stern black eyes; where the man had learned to move so gracefully; what drove him to fight like the goddamn Application Trial was the most important thing he’d ever do.

“That one,” Scar found himself saying to his manager the moment time was called.  “I want that one.”

[pocketss]

laurie 😔

[aria-greenhoodie]

WOE, EXTREMELY LOW QUALITY ASSORTED FIDDLESTAN AND FIDDLEAUTHOR DOODLES BE UPON YE

You can click for quality, but these are really low res so don’t expect much 💀

[reginalusus]

Not these two again (I will do it again).

Ummmm, soon-to-be father-son angst or something.

Jason's line after this was originally: "I don't need a lecture from the guy who swapped his scales and sword for cigarettes and guns," but I have other stuff I wanna move on to and the frames kinda got fucked, sooo.

Ko-Fi.

[annabelle--cane]

it's funny how wildly vampire media varies on how much blood drinking is lethal. for some vamps, if they get lost in the sauce for even just seven seconds then you are a total goner, absolutely deadzo. for others, they can have a multi minute sloppy slurp sesh with you twice a week for months on end and you only feel a little woozy. the vampire claudia drained her whole boyfriend in less than half a minute but count dracula himself needed like four tries to exsanguinate one teenager with a sleep disorder. one of the many ways in which claudia is superior to dracula.

[wishfulsketching]

could you.... continue the continuation of the feeling young AU doodle? i'd just really love to see silco smoking in bed idk (i love you and your art btw you're the pillar of zaundads community <3)

How can I say no to this!

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Hans Baluschek (1870-1935)

"City railway station" (1904)

Oil on canvas

[amberluvsbugs]

Tricks & Treats

Made this in celebration of the spooky month for work, I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween!! Be sure to keep an eye out for tricks :D

Speedpaint

Process is down below

[goosterbold]

kissy?

[wild0moon]

i bring you: my casual clothes tankman design (and steve too) i am so normal about found family tankdad

happy pride month lol

[weezerl0vr]

[rabdoidal]

arcane x pacific rim AU!!

so a mathematician and an engineer walk into a divided laboratory at the end of the world... i imagine in this AU in order to align with arcane more, Viktor, even though hes in the hermann role, would drift with the kaiju brain or somehow become spliced with kaiju DNA as a parallel to his machine herald transformation, but maybe its more interesting if jayce is the one to drift and he gets stuck in a drift that feels like it occupies months of time as a parallel to him in the apocalypse dimension - either way, i think its fun to think of a world where jayvik dont get along and have to come back together to help save the world while vi and cait are piloting a robot together

🤖 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🤖

[evilvvithin]

LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL cameron & colin cairnes, 2023

[ghosts-and-glory]

I had to draw this design okay, I really like the shapes (and old men)

@xmajordumps cat lives rent free in my head. I already drew the Convalescence design but since then I’ve had an i t c h .

And then I realized I low key made (another) accidental Borderlands style character splash screen.

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

[melanodis]

making a shitpost because i dont want to finish this rn