#23. out of character

[pontevoix]

hii…. so cutting straight to the point, your writing is absolutely stunning. insane. would it be okay to ask what authors/novels have influenced or inspired you? i really want to return to writing but it’s been challenging :’) anyhow, hope all is well<3

hey, friend ! so sorry that this has been a late response - i was out of town the past week, but i just want to let you know that this question genuinely made me emotional. i'm really glad you enjoy my writing, & it means the world to me that you've reached out! i struggle a lot with trying to discipline myself with writing, so just know that i'm not sure if writing would be writing if it came easy. oof !

i have a few things that have inspired me over the years, though. historically, i really took inspiration from these tips based on edgar allan poe short stories.

as far as novels & authors though !

my number one is michael chabon with his novel the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay. it's an amazing story of jewish cousins during in new york during world war ii -- they write comics together & one's a magician, so it does a really lovely job of blending the mundane with imagination somehow? my favorite sentence in there is one about a gay man walking in on two other men kissing in a closet & their mustaches were interlocked like the teeth of a comb. that kind of sensory detail always gets me going! i haven't yet read it, but i'm really looking forward to reading pigs in heaven by barbara kingsolver. i just looked at the first page & there was a sentence about a woman's husband treating their marriage as though it could be fixed by spraying wd-40 on it, & the strength of that image really struck me. rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead, a play by tom stoppard, i think fundamentally changed the way that i write dialogue. i have a theatre background & worked in design, & so i think the pacing of things is really important to me. this play is a short read. it's heart wrenching but really highlights momentum in conversation & relationships to identity & things that spiral out of control. a well known line from it is: 'there must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. but somehow we missed it."' beautiful!! the book of goose (by yiyun li) is something i enjoyed recently for more naturalistic imagery. i tend to enjoy more gothic style writing where the ugly is emphasized just as much as the gorgeous. this book feels like southern gothic imagery, but it's centered on a distorted friendships between two girls in france who come from nothing who stage a literary hoax. i also take inspiration from crime & punishment as well as east of eden, & slaughterhouse five -- i cannot tell you how often i accidentally reference ' and so it goes ' when i write. finally, the other thing that really stands out to me is t.s. eliot poetry. i think the hollow men & the love song of j. alfred prufrock fundamentally changed how i think of rhythm in pieces of writing. i like writing poetry, but i have a mixed relationship with reading it. but that being said, i think that i am always thinking about momentum in a section. how do you write like you're building to a crescendo? i think poetry is a wonderful place to look to for that.

again! thank you so much for asking & for your time! let me know if there's anyway i can support you!

[quirrelli]

here's my wildly belated contribution to the 60th anniversary

[out-of-the-blue-comic]

FIRST || PREV. || Ch. 2 INDEX || NEXT

Pages 21-24

Sonic saves Amy just in time, and Anton's not having this cocky hedgehog's attitude.

To be fair, Anton does have quite the cornbread head going on.

Apologies for taking a bit on this. Things have been hard for me recently, and I've really only just started getting back into this project. I'm taking it bit by bit, so hopefully I'll be able to get back into drawing full-time.  Thank you all for your patience! 🙏🏿

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[oleafia-art]

some golden guards + caleb

i wanted to take a break and do some character design of a few golden guards based off of some of the ones seen briefly in canon. i also drew hunter and caleb as references for faces and stuff. i tried to make them as similar as possible, but also looking very individual to one another. since belos claimed that hunter looks the most like caleb, i tried to stay true to that while keeping the other three looking similar but not quite as identical. anyways i love them <3 they’re like the most mentally ill family ever to me

these weren’t supposed to be real ocs or anything but then i ended up giving them names and backstories and so i wrote a little about them aaaand now im obsessed. i will try to make a full body ref for them, especially alistair and/or constance, if i have time

i apologize for my godawful handwriting 💔

[xuxudio]

sometimes you gotta give the coolest most badass character you know a really silly trait

[unitymask]

05/05/25 - you know I've been putting them in outfits

[bumblingbabooshka]

This description of Janeway in the pilot's script made me want to draw her and then I started thinking about hunting dogs

[Patreon | Commissions]

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

For those of you who weren't following me last October, this is a reference to the fic I wrote for Tails's birthday. 🤭 Real ones will know hahahaaa ~

Click for higher quality as always

long story short if you don't wanna read the whole fic (it's just a one-shot but it's like 4K words haha), it's essentially the plot of Frozen Fever except with Sonic and Tails on Tails's birthday. Sonic comes down with the flu and by the end is all feverish and delirious and he just wanted a duckling so here we are. Sonic has a pet duckling now. It's canon to me. 😆 (jkjkkk)

[mushroomgnome006]

A redraw of an old official art (take a nosy below the cut), but with Shinsou and All Might included this time.

I can understand why Shinsou wasn’t in the original, but leaving out All Might was just plain rude D:<

[roguestorm]

Don' play dumb wit' me, homme. You put a hurt girl on a death squad.

[starleska]

ohoho, here's a villain i know some of you will go crazy for!! have y'all seen Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur's take on Martin Li, AKA Mr. Negative? he looks sick!!! 👀

[junipers-insects]

I'm running out of character kinda

Not really

DRAWING DELTARUNE CHARACTERS FOR 64 DAYS STRAIGHT UNTIL THE NEW CHAPTERS COME OUT || DAY 23/64

[togetherness23]

“edward is a boring character” that’s your loss bc i think he’s the most intriguing character ever

[fandomwave]

Pardner and I have been working on a canon divergent au and also I wanted to play around with fuckin hair construction :3 Top left is Atem/Yami and how he looks to Yuugi, Top right is classic flavored Yuugi Bottom is how Yuugi looks to everyone when Atem/Yami is driving (Minus the eye on most occasions. Sometimes you get lil a mindcrush. As a treat)

[cementcornfield]

Fred Warner knocked all the sweat off my forehead...

[utilitycaster]

I firmly believe that pre-taping has been, overall, good, and that anyone who claims the stream is different than when it was live is fucking making that shit up because it's indistinguishable, with the singular exception of Sam posting The Full Chetney on Twitter 2 minutes after the end of the stream with an admission that he couldn't figure out Reddit.