#was allowed to try long hair

[humankk]

(Try drawing Frisk again after... not doing so for a long while, seriously I mean... last time it come off kind of not good but I think this one is great!)

(...the hands was supposed to uhh, move to the side but I forgot in the middle and make the effect to make it look like it’s tapping instead so uhh, ignore that?) 

[mohntilyet]

okay this is actually just bias now so before you read what i have to say i did warn you. yes illario would never be able to beat lucanis at being a crow or an assassin but you know what he would beat him at. being a lord of fortune. hold my hand as i take you through my mind palace and introduce to you my ideal post-game vision for illario dellamorte

[unriding]

a … a gift from the talented @kruinka 🥹 thank you so much!! ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ)

[hanzajesthanza]

geralt attending oxenfurt courses as a free listener is great like i am so proud of him but i swear to god imagine you walk into class and geralt of rivia is sitting there with a notebook and pen.

[binah-beloved]

despairful day. remember to take comfort in anything that brings you joy. for me, that is Binah. for you, it might also be Binah. that is alright. she has hugs enough for all.

[lavender-milky-tea]

I am in rarepair hell

Reference pose by Ed van der Elsken : Couple Sleeping, 1953

[chokulit]

delphox redesign i decided to do for some much needed practice

if you want me to doodle a character, i have comms!

[the-journey-was-the-point]

Gonna start off with an art explanation!

I tend to associate Linnéa with a dark reddish brown-- I think it just suits her in that brown is a neutral down-to-earth color, but the reddish hue hints at a stronger nature. I think it really matches how lowkey she is as a person to the point that it's too easy to underestimate how cunning she can really be.

But my latest art has her in straight-up red. This is her as a prominent underworld figure, her at her peak. She's gone all-out, no more holding back.

Backstory below the cut!

The Gist

Still gonna have to flesh out details but the gist is that Calarphain dies and Linnéa finds out that she can't in fact sail to Valinor (it was always a longshot) and she's stuck in Middle Earth and then the group splits.

Separated from her friends, she ends up getting recruited (captured??) by some servants of Sauron (Angmarim?), likely to fill in Laerlas's spot (she helped take him down). There she gets a dark mentor, does some terrible things while working for them, and really earns her stripes.

And then she escapes, I think. In my mind is a scene where she runs through the wraith-infested Fields of Fornost and manages to enter Evendim where the threats are more.... alive (namely, thieves). And while there, she decides that all this time she's been a helpless pawn at the mercy of others, whose life is dependent on their word, and getting looked down on and demeaned. But no more. If she's gonna be stuck here, she's gonna be stuck safe and on top where no one can reach her, even if she has to carve out a place for herself with a butter knife. So she establishes her dominion...

So, why Evendim?

I think it's really cool how in LOTRO, Evendim is portrayed as a formerly great fallen kingdom that is now inhabited by graverobbers trying to make a buck, Angmarim serving Sauron, and Rangers trying to preserve their history and keep everything together.

Arnor fell long ago, and now much of Eriador is a deserted wilderness with orcs and bandits roaming the land. No one is actually in charge and the Rangers are stretched thin and I like to think there's ordinary folk who think Bree is getting a little too crowded so let's branch out... oops this place is infested with orcs and wights!

In other words, for Linnéa, it's free real estate!

So she gets involved in the criminal underworld then climbs up the ranks and goes on the aggressive and deals with anyone who tries to undermine her (I imagine it gets bloody). She also garners the genuine support of some ordinary folk by giving them protection from orcs and the like when they branch out to other lands. (I imagine her base/starting point is in Evendim, but her influence stretches out).

Once she's on top, the situation stabilizes and she becomes a Big Neutral figure with her own territories and henchmen. She has dealings of both a shady (spies, assassins, hired swords) and legitimate (shops, agriculture, town patron) nature, and everything in-between. She owns at least one tavern that's considered a "neutral zone" where brigand groups, Angmarim, and Rangers can parlay if so desired (no fighting allowed or else).

Both the Rangers and Angmarim are a little miffed that she took over but can't really move to take her down, mostly because she's way too useful (for both sides), and cus she's powerful enough that taking her down will leave a power vacuum. It goes for the other big underworld players too, there's a very delicate balance that needs to be maintained.

She's not ideal for the Rangers but she's also the most reasonable option. Better than an outright servant of Sauron or a power-hungry warlord. She's not actively trying to hurt people, and she sometimes even helps them out.

The War of the Ring

During the War of the Ring, her conscience is once again put to the test. She gets pressured to either side with the Dúnedain, or side with Sauron, or stay neutral as a third option. She takes a gamble and sides with the Dúnedain, feeling it's the right thing to do. She convinces some other underworld players to do the same, on account of "if Sauron wins, we all lose", which shifts the balance.

Problem is, the good guys won, and now that Aragorn is on the throne, her empire is on thin ice since now that Gondor and Arnor are reunited, he'll certainly wanna clean up. Some of her people suggest they... take care of Aragorn , but then Linnéa wonders if that's a good idea or if she still wants to do this. It's a new Age, after all.

And I guess it's all about how she tried so hard to make a place for herself where she'd be protected and respected only to willingly risk it because it was the right thing to do!

That's all I have for now but yeah that's the gist, sorry for the long post ^^"

[passionorangeguavajuice]

washed my hair and my scalp is squeaky clean.. i feel so refreshed… might chop my curls off tomorrow tho bc my hair is kind of a lot

[recallback-art]

Finally read Witch Hat Atelier, and I'm really in love with many aspects of it but the style and really weird animals are definitely noteworthy. So, while thinking of OC au's, I designed a bunch of WHA inspired creatures based on my OCs.

[thebeardedladyofthelake]

Upset and distraught at how lovely this sketch turned out

[grahamdollton]

[t4tpumpkinduo]

man.

[frmulcahy]

Book!Laszlo Kriezler from The Alienist looks like Archibald Craven from the 1993 Secret Garden by the way

[starlit-mansion]

I'm not really sure why i thought that getting my hair professionally bleached and dyed for the first time at a new salon would be a gamechanger... all i have is some chemical burns and the wrong shade

[uchiha-gaeshi]

Issues with Writing a Self-Insert #1

In case y'all didn't know, I've been going through a reflective period recently, and I've noticed that fear of what others think has held me back in almost every single aspect of my life, and unfortunately fandom is no exception.

I remember when I was like 14 and I tried to write fanfiction for the first time (I don't remember even what fandom I was writing for). Unfortunately, I could barely type a single paragraph without immediately deleting all that I wrote and being overly critical of my lack of writing ability. Even at that age, in the privacy of my dorm room, I couldn't shake off the fear of failure (and I mean howw?? I wasn't the only 14 year old trying to write Wattpad fanfiction). I remember comparing myself to some of my peers who had an amazing talent for writing. For me, I didn't get jealous, but rather I got intimidated, so intimidated that instead of continuing on with something and being imperfect at it, I'd just drop the entire activity altogether.

Because of this habit, I missed out on a lot of potential opportunities for growth during this time. I guess I saw people who were amazing, assumed that they popped out of the womb like that or something, and just....gave up. If I could go back in time, I would tell young me to embrace the cringe, embrace the mess. So what if people laugh or look at you funny or immediately stop whispering to each other once they see you? It sucks, but you will find your people, and you will survive. Trying to be palatable to everyone just means that you stifle yourself.

Years later, I wanted to get back into fanfiction, but this time with very little creative writing experience. What held me back was the fear that someone would read something that I wrote and ridicule it for being something that only an angsty teen would write, except that I am no longer an angsty teen but an unfortunately angsty adult riddled with insecurity, and that reality would just make that hypothetical comment sting even more (that's another thing about me. I create hypothetical ways for people to roast me in order to talk myself out of doing stuff).