#time is coming

[christinescupofcoffee]

DAY 3 — Creatures — What animals/beings/entities exist in your wip? Are they more lore or plot related? Do any have a special connection to the human/mortal characters?

Quarter After Twelve

Andy befriends a Frenchie, a Bedlington terrier, a Skye terrier, a cocker spaniel, and a Newfoundland, and he protects them all with his life.

Jeremy and Zero have Dachshunds. Spanakopita has a Rottweiler.

Tina talks about wanting a horse, and that she’s loved horses since she was a girl.

Allison befriends a Yorkshire terrier and names her Frida after Frida Kahlo.

As the Seasons Grey series

Bats, birds, and all things that fly. It’s implied that it’s Chris watching over Christine from beyond the grave.

given the motif of water throughout, there’s also a few aquatic creatures in Christine’s dreams. It’s meant to symbolize deep, often sensual emotions rather than sadness, and also letting go and starting afresh.

A kind of blink-and-you-miss-it one with Nelly: her “feathery” blonde hair and her pointed false nails at Halloween. Plus her knowing everyone in the school.

there’s this odd equine theme throughout, and I didn’t realize it until recently, either: Marlene, Valentina, Sabrina, and Colette are collectively referred to as the Sundaes, a play on the Sundays, an English Mazzy Star-ish band most known for a really pretty cover of “Wild Horses” (chapter three of Dark Roots of Earth is also titled “Wild Horses”) plus you have one of the chapters being titled “A Horse with No Name” after the America song and Alex giving Christine a broach in the shape of a horse, too (Alex and Christine also make a joke about being “hung like a horse” at one point). Taken literally, horses symbolize strength and courage. Taken figuratively, it’s a metaphor for being high, as “horse” is slang for heroin.

Throughout the Dark Months of April and May

Ziggy the labradoodle. He keeps Richard company.

the farm animals on Jeremy’s farm: there’ll be a chapter where he points out that they know more about a person than humans do.

Midnight Oil

There will be those big draft horses/Clydesdales, given we’re in Germany and Central Europe.

CATS

The Skeleton Key

In the latest chapter, Alison tells Alex that she would love to see him on the back of a palomino. She also calls him a stallion.

The Confectioner’s Tale

Not so much actual animals, but Hannah makes cookies in the shape of bats, cats, dogs, rabbits, and unicorns, and introduces a Swiss roll with a jaguar pattern on the cake part.

Time is Coming

The witches, being witches, have familiars (cats, bats, ravens…)

There’s also a blackbird that haunts the shores of Lake Ontario and it gives Chuck an uneasy feeling. Helps that it’s inspired by the blackbird of Chernobyl.

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[yourmajestybee]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[naomistares]

a jinx i drew while ignoring uni... arcane is more important

[rebelsafoot]

i took out the other people sitting at the table in the original comic because i did NOT want to draw glindas gay ass friends

[melonsharks]

au where everything is the same except mabel and dipper have been going to gravity falls every year before the show takes place since like kindergarten.

its a pretty simple premise that derives mostly from my desire to explore interpersonal relationships and the ways a place and people can change from a young child’s point of view. it doesn’t change canon that much either, admittedly, i just wanted to draw childhood friends stuff LOL. ill call it uhhhhhhhh every summer au.

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[christinescupofcoffee]

DAY 2 — Haunting — Is there anything that haunts your characters? (be it literal haunting/chased by the past or the concept of haunting the narrative)

Time Is Coming

The Headless Boy. The new ghost that haunts Joey’s apartment complex. Though he had said goodbye to Vera, Mr. Lang, Nerissa, and Mrs. Snow, they were immediately replaced by a boy whose head comes clean off.

Mrs. Snow also has a daughter: Tilly. And she likes to take a pair of bolt cutters to Joey’s feet if he even thinks of jerking off.

The witches out in the woods. Also, whom the Bennetts and the boys refer to as “the Jaguar.”

The fact Joey came so close to dying by drowning. You just don’t walk away from something like that and not have some repercussions.

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

guy who's stuck in a timeloop for so long he stops wanting to leave it. guy who started out trying to escape but slowly grew used to and became comforted by the familiarity of the repeating day. guy who is no longer who he was before the timeloop. guy who is offered a way out and violently refuses it because he can't leave, doesn't want to leave. guy who escapes the timeloop by chance or force or accident and doesn't know how to live anymore. guy who keeps going through motions that don't match the situation and keeps having conversations that aren't actually occurring. guy who panics every time he realizes he can't predict the next instant. guy who left the timeloop but still lives with it.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Leaked scene from the FNAF 2 movie…