#they have such funky little faces

[cannibalhellhound]

Bats are baby and I love them all

@loveisinthebat thought you might appreciate these after the like spam

close ups under the cut ✌🏼

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[stealingyourbones]

Whenever I see someone say how bad Danny's hero outfit is and how easy it is to tell the two of them apart I'm always thinking about how Superman gets away with far less, I mean at least Danny changed his whole color palette and can rely on the fact that phantom is a ghost and Danny is the living son of ghost hunters. All while Superman mainly just takes off his glasses and occasionally changes his hair sometimes. And it doesn't help that as a reporter he'll occasionally report on stories about Superman as well.

Okokok I hear you.

But in defense of Superman: Can you remember even 5 reporters off the top of your head by name? Probably not. People also don’t expect Superman to even be human, they assume that this god of a being doesn’t need a secret identity because he’s just Superman. We as the reader know so we can easily make the connection. People who he interacts with on the daily don’t know.

To qoute Henry Cavill when he stood in front of a Batman V Superman billboard in Times Square with a Superman T-Shirt on and no one recognized him:

“Dear Doubter. The glasses are good enough. Regards,

Superman”

This absolutely applies to Danny.

This kid is dead. He’s a ghost. You don’t expect that ghost to have any other life besides being undead. also Danny is a pretty average kid. He doesn’t do any big activities outside of school and has a very tiny friend group that he sticks to. People don’t expect him to be anything remotely heroic. He doesn’t openly display any heroic traits. Sure there could be some strange shit around him, but people could chalk it up to his parents being strange ghost scientists and their influence rubbing off on him.

Phantom and Superman both have the same trick to their secret identity: no one expects them to have a secret identity in the first place.

[sebille]

Long time no selfie

[maypersonne]

I think that Shen Yuan should looks painfully average like some guy in your class that you couldn't recognize out of it cause he's so nothing but Binghe is crazy head over heels about him and the thing wrong with him (everything) makes him genuinely believe that sy is the most beautiful man alive

[murdleandmarot]

Sometimes you have to make shitty little OCxCanon comics to keep yourself sane

Sorry @mysticalcats I stole ur oc (foxglove)

[elkkiel]

I have made sleep token progress with father! He admits that he likes the music a lot and appreciates why I personally connect with the lore, he's just still hesitant about it because of the cult metaphor/aesthetics.

[wof-reworked]

I've said this before but genuinely working with kids who love WOF for a solid 80% of my week for the past year/year and a half is what's actually killed my interest in WOF (tho I'm still here, obviously, and the ttrpg isn't going anywhere). Like,,,, idk man they have stickers on their water bottles of their fave guys and I think it's just made me detach a lot more from the rewriting I do bc as long as kids are having fun with it I kind of settle into a neutral tolerance instead of the like writing mania that this blog has operated on for the past,,,,,, jesus, it's been 8 years.

[quotidian-oblivion]

Me, when I refuse to be at Stairs, who wanted to show me school earlier than I have to: his cool art:

@its-stairs-time Sorrs, bro. I just hate being at school sometimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ghostchasersmagazine]

Had an urge to draw something over this past weekend, so I went with this Augie + Elmo idea I've had for a little bit now. The two of them in matching shirts with their faces on it.

[mantisgodsaus]

The Wereweevil Curse

The Wereweevil Curse, or Werebeast Curse, is a curse initially engineered by the deity Mars of the Southern Heartwood Kingdoms. Although initially engineered in order to punish a particular colony of social bugs, it is now known primarily for its association with loose swarms of

A Werebeast Curse can only be passed by bite, though the wereweevil may deal other wounds. Goring by the tusks will achieve a similar effect, but will be less survivable - the bite must be inflicted during the night of the full moon, and biting in bug form will produce no effect. If a turning bite is successful, all wounds will heal come sunrise, and the new werebeast will be set on the clock until their new form sets in. Symptoms will set in slowly over the course of the next month - if caught early, the curse can be eased or nullified, but once it's fully set in, there's little that can be done but treating symptoms and helping the wereweevil cope with their new status.

Symptoms are as follows:

-Increased appetite. You need to feed both your normal body and your werebeast body. Your appetite may also swing more towards your cursed species. Although other strains exist beyond the wereweevil strain, they are significantly more rare and generally made of variations on the same theme

-Sensitivity to silver. Strong allergy in normal form, but it burns in werebeast form. Only thing that can leave long-lasting wounds. Wounds cannot heal as usual around wounds inflicted by silver, and transforming may worsen them, tearing them open all over again.

-Strong need for companionship. If not in regular contact with other bugs, the nervous system can lose proper function, gradually causing loss of mental clarity, erratic behavior, and eventual seizures. If the werebeast does not have a pack during the full moon, this will drive them to try to bite other people, especially those they know well in a desperate attempt to grasp for companionship

-Healing. Fully heals when transforming into or out of the form. Can transfer somewhat to usual form with significant stress causing the other form to "leak". Scars will still remain.

-Strength and durability. This is less measurable than other things - will tend to "ramp up" over time, getting more prevalent the longer that the werebeast carries the curse as the curse "sets in" to their body. Over time, wounds dealt by anything but silver will have less and less impact on the werebeast, until they're nearly immune to non-silver weapons - this is caused by a gradual "toughening" of the body as the magic sets in, combined with the incredible workout that transforming and existing as a werebeast puts on the muscles. Any sufficiently magical weapon may bypass this durability, dealing wounds as usual.

-Transformation on every full moon. The obvious one. The transformation begins when the first rays of the moon touch your shell - if the bug in question remains indoors during this period, it will trigger once the moon reaches its apex, albeit taking significantly more of a tax on the body - letting the moon "draw" the transformation out versus the beast ripping its way out of your body by force. You are the beast, but the beast has none of your inhibitions, acting on emotion and instinct. Under high stress, the other form can leak in to the normal form, allowing for partial transformations. The longer you have the curse, the more likely you are to gain characteristics of your werebeast form even in your normal form.

The first transformation will always come with a high chance of death, a massive amount of stresses all covening on the body at once - in many cases, the newly-turned werebeast will go partway through the transformation and expire from the strain, the healing failing to keep up with the physical and psychological distress of the body being literally ripped apart and reformed across entire different lines and leaving a twisted, half-transformed corpse.

If treated before the first transformation, the progression of the curse can be halted entirely - though it generally leaves a handful of symptoms behind unless treated before the wound heals, if the curse is halted early, then it will vanish leaving only a bit of silver sensitivity and a minor tendency towards clinginess. Once the first transformation is complete, then the curse cannot be lifted.

Although a handful of variants of the curse exist, none have been recorded within Bugaria's borders - and almost all are engineered from the same original curse, generally caused either by altering the impact on a pre-existing wereweevil or by attempts to recreate the effect with other forms of magic.

The closer one's biology is to their other form, the easier the transformation is - the first transformation is always the hardest, forcing the body into a shape that was previously entirely alien to it and imprinting that form onto the bug permanently. The longer one has been a werebeast, the easier the transformation tends to be as the curse leaks through - older werebeasts can transform almost seamlessly, though the stress from the curse tends to shorten a bug's lifespan regardless of how easy the shift gets.

Due to this, larger packs of wereweevils tend to have significant numbers of both roaches and mantids - this is, notably, one of the very few situations in which mantids will form large social groups in general, as the curse tends to override the natural tendancy for isolation in large predatory bugs.

Offspring of a werebeast will be an almost entirely normal bug, though they may inherit a handful of leftover symptoms of the curse (much like a bug who was cured before the curse could fully take root, though with the notable difference that they are often capable of inheriting a greater-than-usual baseline for strength or durability)

[alshaverpressbox]

this is what I mean when I call matt boldy white bread (affectionate)

[khanidae]

Something a little different: concept sketches because I can't commit to drawing actual reference sheets for these guys. Humans are a struggle...

[notpaulsguitar]

and we have collected them all

i have done all the kiss personas, finally. i guess this is a face reveal of sorts as well so hello

[thatgirlonstage]

The two nickels situation that is John Gaius and John AdventureZone (if i had a nickel for every guy named John who started a cult and then destroyed the world and killed everyone in it because his nihilism got way out of hand and he believed Only He Could Fix It so then he resurrected everyone in a new form to try and take another run at getting the concept of life right this time except as an unintended side effect the universe is now being eaten alive, I’d have two nickels, etc) has given me the thought what if Merle Highchurch interacting with the Ninth House and god. God. The sheer number of brain bleaching bad sexual innuendos he and Gideon would go through in their first five minutes of interaction

[rainyjackalope]

save me