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I just need to tell you that your art has brought me real genuine joy. I sat here for easily 20 minutes just scrolling and reading your long posts on taurs and I loved all of it. The joy and movement in all of your art from fan art to DND, just all of it. It made a miserable evening a little brighter, so thank you for sharing it with us.

💖💖💖

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who's a pretty bird

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What a wrathful beast

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Can I please study your artstyle and experiment with it?? And I can send it to you later ask permission to post it with credits obviously!! It's just so eatable I want to learn from it I love it!!

Sure, you can study and play around. Lord knows its a good way to learn and really break down what it is about a style you're enjoying so much!

Absolutely feel free to share the experimentations with me if you do. I'll be happy to discuss and make further observations alongside you if you wish. I'd have to figure out if I feel comfortable with actually posting the work somewhere - it's trending upwards on being a yeah probably, but I'd appreciate a chance to reassess myself on that again before committing!

Happy learning, and thank you kindly

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My handsome beautiful son (cat) chose the worst possible grass to try and eat (daylily leaf). LUCKILY he’s got almost no teeth so he seems to have avoided getting too much turbo poison in him

However, the vet check is still expensive and ill die if i take more full on commissions rn, so if you’d like, toss me like $10-$20 or so and name a Steven Universe character on kofi and ill doodle them for u

If you dont have a SU character in mind, uhhh pick a mythological creature, or a warhammer something. No OCs this time

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I think my general thought process with interacting with other people online is like yeah you have really cool art. You have really cool writing. You're really good at that thing you're posting about, but are you nice?

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would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

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Get it?

Got it.

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They're just adorable

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Me: -seeing the recent DP fanart- I know I follow this person but I can't remember why- THE CENTAUR ARTIST!!!

Now I gotta ask how you would design DP characters as centaurs and what kinda centaurs? 👀

This ask was coming for me hahaha!

Short answer: I dunno yet! I'm actually just watching through episodes now (as I can grab the time) to get properly familiar with the character roster, but until then I ain't got concrete Vibes for anyone at this stage.

It's funny though, I almost don't want to think in taur this time. I totally dig the ghost vibes and wanna play more in those world thoughts first! Maybe I'd play around in mixed critter mythos if I got so inclined though

Who knows!

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Just for the aesthetics

Babble of thoughts under the cut ;)

It's a ramble, fair warning

I love the concept of an eventual Ghost King Danny, simply because there are so many questions you can ask for the whys of it and then build up endless answers in a cosy lil sandbox. I love the themes of Space and becoming an Ancient that many folks tie into Danny as well. It's just fun! I'm a real sucker for space aesthetics.

The first obvious question is why does the Infinite Realms have a King? Why does it need one?

I like to dabble in the concept that the state of the Infinite Realms just about runs its own sentience. It's so big and so expansive and so vital to everything it touches that it very well behaves as a being in its own right. And the reasons to have a king is actually to let something as far reaching as the Realms have any ability to focus whatsoever.

(Also the Infinite Realms is the place of everything inbetween. I'd refer to the Ghost Zone as being a territory within that space!)

If you embrace the concept of ghost cores, you could expand on this further. The structure of a Realms Being could be a reflection of the Realm itself – if they function by having a core, it's because they are following the design of the Infinite Realms in the first place (meaning: the Infinite Realms has its own core)

Take a core as being the center of a ghost's everything. Its thought, form, emotion, memory, everything that makes them functional. It lets them exist and it focuses all that energy into something comprehensible. A core is a ghost's stability.

Then give the Infinite Realms the concept of a core – something that provides it a point of focus that lends stability and structure to itself. It lets it tick along without a rampant kind of chaos to its energy that would see realms torn apart as fast as they are made. Having a core to the Infinite Realms provides a coherent consistency. (And thus the ability to reside in it with relative safety)

So here, the title of King could actually be assigning oneself as the Infinite Realms' functioning core. But that's a big ask, taking on something of that much energy and being something like a conduit. Infinitely huge, even. Takes a lot of willpower and strength to maintain without fracturing oneself in the process.

And that could lead us to why ancient artifacts such as the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage exist in the first place. Why would something like that be made, or need to exist at all?

The Crown and Ring are a combo deal – its only together that they expound one's power 'infinitely'. That's a pretty intense thing to make for the hell of it. But if the reason was because a king needs to be able to cope with the demand of their role, to actually stand up to the task long term and provide that existence-maintaining stability for all, then maybe that was worth the risk to create them.

I like the idea that Danny isn't someone who wanted to have the Ring and Crown, ever. Nor the Ghost King title tbh. I also like the idea that he's already an insanely willful and powerful ghost in his own right by the time this entire concept becomes a tangible issue – enough so that when the Realms began to really need a replacement actually after Pariah Dark, and the purpose of the role is actually made clear to him, and that not just anyone can withstand it frankly, Danny did stubbornly uphold the title without the Crown and Ring for a time! An unintentional display to the public of just how insanely beefy he is by ghost standards (of which perhaps he wasn't actually aware of that doing. He took the title bc someone had to and just… got mad amounts of respect about it??? Crazy).

But even he has his limits, and though exceptional, eventually has to cede to accepting the Crown and Ring if only so he doesn't shred himself completely and fuck up a lot of people in the process. Bc that's a yikes on so many accounts.

Obviously, the entire inner workings of the role is not widely known. There's so much room for the ideas to be skewed and mistranslated and understood in very different ways that you get a thousand different interpretations and every one is just slightly wrong. But you kind of want it that way. Don't think too hard about the inner workings of the universes. It's not good for your health.

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- Spooky games night -

Jazz might not be a horror game enthusiast but she's all for the sibling bonding

It's her that gets Danny more than the actual jumpscares though

(also ghost eyeshine? ghost eyeshine.)

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Inspired by these tags bc they're so brained and correct

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Ghost tag is a high impact contact sport

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I feel like I've been initiated 😂

i'm explorin

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i'm studying

they're ghost brats for sure though, Dani is just more open and upfront about it

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i'm explorin

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Ever get absolutely blindsided by a fixation