#thank you! these were so fun

[atomatowriter]

If it's not too late, 3 and 4 for the Time's Sacrifice trio?

What was the first thing you decided on, the character's name, appearance, personality or their role in the story?

Hokay this got long but thank you so much for asking this: I was trying to make a D&D character for my quip's new campaign based on FE3H, which I'd seen @frankensteined talk a lot about and Cressida had talked a lot about it but I didn't have much personal experience. I think in her descriptions of the three countries she said something about horse riding being a big thing in Faerghus, and I thought "Oooh, I could play a horse girl." So I guess that was my first thought, funny enough.

I had a pinterest board of different character art pieces at the time that I would use to get ideas when I didn't have anything. I found this piece by Cher-Ro of DeviantArt, which made me want to play a paladin. Then I think I used some random personality type generators to get...I think ISFJ for her MBTI (that's certainly what I think it is now) and a 2 enneagram type, and I sort of filled in the rest of her. A lot of her family dynamics - especially with Theo, Thibault, and her grandmother - were figured out on a phone call with Cressida. And I think I remember specifically deciding to make her 5'11" because that was my sister's height.

I based the initial conceit for the Time's Sacrifice Trilogy on a kinda joke AU that I pitched to Cressida that had to do with Celin, Dedue, and Dimitri. Basically what happens in the last chapter of Wounds. But I wanted to make the book my own thing and I did NOT want Nico and Alasdair to feel like Dedue and Dimitri. (I did want Artrus to feel kinda like Faerghus though, I'll be honest.) And I didn't want their dynamic with each other to be exactly like Dedue and Dimitri's. I knew that I wanted Nico to be less formal with Alasdair and a bit less "my only purpose is to die for Alasdair" but to still be super dedicated to him.

I had the image of Nico fighting his way past the castle guards to the dining table and then dropping to a knee and begging Alasdair to let him serve him, and the image of Alasdair almost immediately accepting that offer from this strange boy in a panic before one of the guards could kill him. And I wanted him to have a reason for coming there, which is how I decided that his Wisdom was visions. That was the initial seed for him and then I just made him very grumpy and rude because it was fun for me to write.

Well, okay. Actually no I do have more to say about that. Because the other seed of inspiration for Wounds was "what if Arthurian romance but they were all in love with each other, just in different ways." Which I got from the beautiful way that TH White portrayed Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot in The Once and Future King. The scene that ALWAYS sticks out to me in the Once and Future King...I don't have my copy anymore, so I don't remember exactly how the quote goes but it's one of Lancelot's first chapters, and it describes how Lancelot hated Arthur because Arthur was so perfect and good and everything that he wanted to be. And basically how he hated Arthur because he loved him. So Nico's tsundere attitude was born from this mental image of a scrungly young Lancelot aggressively attacking a training dummy and thinking about Arthur's stupid beautiful face and his stupid noble bearing and how much he stupid loves him.

Again, I started out knowing what I DIDN'T want - which was for someone to read the book and go "so this is just Dimitri Fire Emblem." But I DID want to keep the idea of a young prince who everyone has placed all their hopes on for being king...who kinda sorta doesn't want to be king. So why does he not want to be king? Because he is an empath. And he feels everyone's emotions so strongly that he fears sometimes it renders him kind of useless. Because he kinda just wants to curl up in a cuddle pile with his loved ones and get the affection that he doesn't get from Sigimar but kings don't get to do that. And because honestly he doesn't LIKE Artrus very much. He cares about the people, but the country as a whole he actually kinda resents it. Then I leaned into the empath thing and him relying on his people skills instead of being a strong combatant just to honestly again differentiate him from Dimitri.

And reverse, which one of the four things did you struggle with the most?

For Celin, it was getting her across as a distinct character on the page as opposed to in D&D where I played her. I actually got a lot of feedback that said they felt like Celin was the least developed of the three or that she just kinda felt like a blank protagonist. I also had to scale back some of the talents and rebuild a lot of her skills because in D&D, her parents did actually get married and she grew up noble, whereas in Wounds, they did not and she grew up in a little village with some advantages compared to the usual commoner (a noble father who would discreetly visit her and teach her how to read and stuff) but NOT as much as game!Celin.

But I will say that because getting her across on the page was so hard, when occasionally people who don't know her from D&D so clearly GET her? It's so fucking satisfying.

Alasdair was the easiest. He's very much my kind of character. What I struggled with the most was his name. I couldn't find one that I really liked for him for ages. It used to be Tobias, actually, and Celin was going to call him Toby. Cressida is still mad at me that I didn't go with that because then his beast forms could have been "Toe Beans."

With Nico I had a hard time cracking past his surface level, and it's something I'm still exploring the more I get into his POV in the sequel. Alasdair wears his heart on his sleeve, and while Celin usually tries to put on a good face for people, I KNOW her. But Nico's prickly and reserved. He's a very private person even to his writer so he's taken a bit of work delving deeper.

Character asks for the Time's Sacrifice crew or the Fox Eyes crew

[theoldkyokodied]

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT text) ArtTrade with the very sweet @die-auster ! thank you for sparking back my obsession with this blue guy here!

Please check out their amazing works here! 1 . 2 . 3.

[nibbelraz]

AND THE WINNER FOR THE POLL WHO IN SVSSS SHOULD GET A GUN IS...

SHANG QINGHUA!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Runner-up is someone we all think deserves to change her fate...

SU XIYAN!!!

[downydig]

I just realized I met you and clown at last year’s Lightbox. Y’all were super cool! Thanks again for the awesome sticker! (I was the peep who was giving out the bubbles, gems, and stars :D)

Yes! I remember you! Clown and I say hi! Thank you for the bubbles, gems and stars! Clown still brings that little glass star with him everywhere! : - )

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[taffywabbit]

i have lots of flaws but i do at least take a fair amount of comfort knowing that, if i were a customer NPC in a fast food/retail management game, i would be one of the chill early-level ones that can wait a super long time before they start getting impatient, and you breathe a sigh of a relief when you see them show up in a harder level

[elodieunderglass]

Eggs for Killie is over!

I award myself the 150th egg for all of the little bits of art. Thank you so much for inspiring me to make them! It’s been really amazing to see all the hard work and to truly appreciate the wide range of crafts and activities everyone can do. Bobbin lace? Shoemaking? Knife forging? Translating Irish? It’s genuinely incredible.

I also really appreciated the people who were taking a rest, too. Thank you for that as well.

And I SUPER, SUPER appreciate everyone who was going through saying encouraging words, leaving replies/reblogging with comments, or liking all these posts. That was also a huge outpouring of kindness and time. I saw you doing it (and tried to make sure OPs did too) and any credit for people feeling empowered? That’s for YOU.

I know for a fact that people were following each other simply because they spotted one of their people through doing this. Thank you for being here - and being brave enough to find each other! 

If you have a project you were working on specifically for this, and missed the inbox, drop me a message - I don’t want to miss you.

150 eggs x 60g (weight of medium-large chicken egg) is 9000g of eggs.

That’s 16.8% of Killie’s body weight in eggs.

I am planning to write a book about Killie and I think it will be very VERY funny to acknowledge every single username who contributed in the acknowledgements…

…. Because I am planning to throw them back at you.

Now rest up, everyone. April Fools tomorrow, we gotta make the REST of the website unusable.

[chapollynh]

Chez le Père Lathuille by Édouard Manet, but make it Good Omens! Muriel is very confused but she's investigating them because she is a human police officer

[psilliguykai]

Consistent art style who?? [/silly]

Anyways uhh yeah it’s done!! Woo! Thank you so much @bluestarlett for the art request this was such an honor aaahdhfrjkrsndnn !!! Saturn is so cool wuagh ….

Yapping + flat colors version under the cut :]

I had so so much fun to work on this - any excuse to incorporate music, especially will wood and especially the Self-iSH aesthetic is a good one heheheee :D

The patterns on the border are edited but ripped straight from the Self-iSH album cover so credit to Will Wood for that ! Song featured in the background is The Song With Five Names by Will Wood and The Tapeworms. Thought this section would fit well since Sushine and all that jazz :3

Sorry I had to stray from the original design a bit - admittedly I know Saturn’s arms aren’t symmetrical but I couldn’t really make it work with the tools/skills I had on hand :( [also I’m soso sorry for forgetting their lapel pin- I don’t have a good reason I just forgot about it I’m so sorry 😭]

This was great rendering practice for me since I like. Never render lol- it definitely could be better but I’m fairly happy with how it turned out :D

Un-rendered version, mostly to show off the colors n patterns on the arms [inspired by the Self-iSH album cover]:

[merverelli]

"you just feel yourself let go."

still thinking about this episode. man. 💪💥

[rosemarytrash]

this is so needlessly chaotic but so is act 4 so really if you think about it i'm imbibing the spirit of it all into a lot of gaussian blurring

[xxcrumbxx]

Hello hello soo um im still workin on it ,ive been kinda burnt out from it an ik thers no real preshure and im wayyy past valintinse day but heres a wip of those silly lil valintines cards

Also today is my birth day im 22 now so .. Thats a thing. Anyway im planing on making like 3 alternet vershions of eclips 1 with the cannon tipical 2 arm pre decomishion desighn 1 with the 4 armed fannon /cannon design and 1 with the 4 armed ballone world desighn. Probly ganna take a bit but what ever it will be valintine in fuckin may who cares lol

[returntosunder]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Have some ships to celebrate <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Congratulations to TEAM CHEESE for winning the popular vote on the Charcuterie poll!

[erinwantstowrite]

Erin the comparison of JL vs the Avengers to Camp Jupiter vs Camp Half blood is toooo accurate 😭

JL: There’s an established system in place and contingencies for every foreseeable scenario

Avengers: fuck it we ball

peter thinks that the Avengers have it all together because they're his teachers and they're constantly telling him to use his brain but it's really because they, for the first time, saw their own "fuck it we ball" mentality in a teenager, and thought "oh my god maybe that is like... super dangerous." like when a parent was younger and they partied a lot and sometimes got into dangerous situations and thought "this is normal" until they had a kid and they quickly realized "oh that's why my mom was insane."

that didn't make them any better, it just made them hypocrites. peter just doesn't know that because they act super responsible when he's around