#the creature needs a name

[shiftythrifting]

My mother happened upon this uniquely spherical cat at a thrift store in Texas and felt compelled to purchase it despite not wanting to keep it herself and at Christmas offered/pled for one of us to take it home. Alas no one would adopt the poor creature so I, being a plushie collector, took it with me. It is currently living in and guarding my car.

[jomadis]

Hollow from Scavengers Reign absolutely enamored me, and I immediately needed one in my home. I love giant animals that are intelligent and can choose to kill you, and I also love frogs/amphibs, so this creature is a dream come true. I would not resist being mind controlled one bit little buddy, I will bring it whatever it wants forever

[bigfatbreak]

Hello I love your art!!! I was reading through your changeling au and Felix mentions that fae are creatures of mirth. They literally need attention to survive. But what kind of attention? I guess I'm wondering because Adrien has been in the public eye for a while now, but has been personally neglected for even longer. What does that mean for him? Is he starving? Is he in danger of dying? Does he even know it? (I assume not given he doesn't even know he's Fae).

If he is starving / in danger of starving who is the first to realize this?

it depends on the mirth, on the attention, on what it is they seek. Without making things too complicated - I don't like to define everything into neat little boxes after all, there's fun in nuance - Felix is just explaining from his experience, the Fae he was with tended to be "entertained" by certain aspects of their playing, which was the mirth that kept them relevant. Relevancy more than anything is really what keeps their wheels greased.

In Adrien's case though, the reason he's cloying for so many names and to have so many thralls and attendants is because he SHOULD be a more social creature and has been kept woefully alone. He is kinda starving in the way a fae starves - he's relevant, but only in an image his father constructs OF him, which means it isn't REALLY him - and he has no one to play with. No friends, no lovers, and no rivals, makes a very sad fae

[koszmarnybudyn]

So this song fits them so very well right?

[leafspiritz]

sometimes a family is you, your scary girlfriend, her rat-bird-son, and her terrible mangled hell-hound that comes from the depths of her soul 💜

[buqbite]

Halo

[owlsie-hoot]

...towards you...

[rystiel]

personally if my great uncle gave me a personalized handmade hat with my name on it that he clearly put a lot of time into making just for me, i would not abandon him but whatever i’m just built different i guess

[littlebittyhollowbugs]

I hope you know you are So right about Hollow, and you so should keep posting about them

Thank You <333 I'm so obsessed with Hollow, literally THE character of all time. The Hollow posting will not be stopping anytime soon I can assure you XD

Have some little doodles in the meantime!

[phoenixmetaphor]

next >>>

oct 1 - aqua ring

man why does the aqua ring gotta look like… that.

… i am trying something new this october, which is to just.. focus on one au. which isn’t to say every piece will be in the same au, but just that instead of agonizing over prompts, i can just keep developing one idea.

i am also doing a new au. i’m too invested in most of the others to do rushed drawtober pieces for them 🤣

so here we goooooooooooo.

see the tags if you want to know vaguely where this is going. we’ll talk more about it later.

(btw, i am DEFINITELY not doing comics every day all month. i am not doing comics every piece nor am i doing them every day. i mean… let’s be real, it’s me, we’re doing good if you get like…. 4 pieces out of me in october.)

[zero-is-nebulous]

Ronarry woah

Uuuuh sorry for being MIA and also gaining a new hyperfixation. Work changes people fr

[plutoons]

Creatur

[fantasykiri5]

Mass attack from the end of Artfight this year that I didn’t get a chance to actually upload to the site due to traffic, I had been waiting for a mod response on whether or not there was a way to get it up to post it here, and now I finally am! This took me the latter two weeks of the fight and I finished it an hour before the fight ended! The image file was actually even too large for tumblr so I had to shrink it in order to post, it’s so massive!

Even though it’s disappointing that I couldn’t upload it as an actual attack (28 characters, mostly fullbodies, with a full scene bg and at least partial shading, if not technically full would have been SO many points, gah!) it was still so fun to make and I learned a lot in doing so!

I can’t wait for next year’s fight!

Tag list (and artfight usernames of those not on tumblr) under the cut:

@como-draws

@alien-bottle

@coleheinous

@lexezombie

@gizmo-parade

@CleoRockstar

@irlmumrik

@spacey-jazz

@sukaridragon

@galacticdani

@oufrelou

@8ontheclock

Non-tumblr users:

SmolderingMoss on artfight

AngelAndTerry on artfight

sealdeer on artfight

MangoTea on artfight

SirPiwch on artfight

[buwheal]

that fucking bird that i hate

slightly dreading coloring this but Sarchias got a redesign so you know the drill....(new reference with slight changes to fit the new one)

[crabussy]

this is my girl scaryface she is very special to me. original skin is the first image second two are my gorgeous girl

[qyburn-in-the-black-cells]

There's so many layers to Ygraine s2e8.

Uther was Arthur's mother's killer, Arthur's father but also Arthur's de facto mother after Ygraine's death.

Meeting Ygraine is the first and only time Arthur gets to see Uther for what he really is - a father and a murderer rather than his whole parental unit wrapped up in one person. For the first and only time, Arthur gets to know his actual origins - he is a creature made of magic. It's what runs through his blood, making him closer to any Druid child massacred on a raid than the knights that he led. It's the first (and arguably the only) time Arthur recognizes he can break away from Uther - and tries to.

Not with a pithy "I am not you, father" or an angry argument on morality but with the rage of the son of a murdered mother - an abused child finally physically and psychologically capable of inflicting violence on their abuser.

To be clear - that's unbelievable and terrifying for anyone with a moderately healthy relationship with their parents.

Merlin sees Arthur's attack on Uther through that lens.

He also sees Arthur as the man who'll evolve into what he thinks the Once and Future King should be - just, kind, merciful, egalitarian, always seeking peace over war, returner of magic.

When Merlin says he didn't stop Arthur for Uther, what he means is he did it for Arthur and the Arthur he is certain will one day exist. Merlin is also more comfortable with lying than being honest. His whole identity has become wrapped up in serving and protecting Arthur - "I was born to be your servant."

Using magic to stop Arthur, an obvious option, would go against both his instinct to lie, save his own life (and protect his identity - which can't risk the ego death that would come from not being Arthur's servant, protector, friend. His unwillingness to alter his relationship with Arthur or see him hurt means in s2e8 Merlin has to cut Arthur's growth off at its knees - change requires some form of suffering and Merlin loves Arthur enough to die for him but not enough to risk the suffering of living without him.