#chamaleon june

[curemoonlightsworld]

Chamaleon June

[landofanimes]

Rainbow Whiplash

[workart-studio]

Falling in love

[doodlingwren]

After almost 2 weeks, I printed out the plate with the aquatint! 😳🤯

So... I posted this earlier on BlueSky, but I had to wait 'till I was back home so I could write down everything ^_^

In the end, I'd say this was an almost successful experiment. It gave me time to figure out some important stuff on how to work with this media. My conclusions on the subject:

It's better to use as protective varnish the black satin varnish and not the shellac, otherwise you can’t see the masked parts,

Also, if some parts need to remain white, do the protective layer before applying the spray for aquatint,

For the other parts, it’s better to use a thin brush + let the varnish dry a bit so it won’t bleed like crazy,

Probably a 10 x 15 cm zinc plate is very small for detailed work, but it was the only plate I had (oopsie),

If possible, do all the different layers of aquatint in one day.

The last one is the one I messed up the most 😂 I started correctly with deciding which parts I wanted to remain white + lighter shadows (see the neck), but then I waited for a week before doing the rest. I suspect ☝️🗣 somebody in the lab either changed the acid or added more copper sulfate, so the 2 different layers of tints I was trying to achieve later on had the same tone in the end because the mordant was stronger (so my carefully calculated time of immersion were wrong lol). In the future I will try to create a bottle of copper sulfate for myself to use, so I will be able to know exactly what the different times of immersion are and (hopefully) the strength of the acid will remain the same throughout the process 🤔

Here's a very, very fast June etching/engraving I did as a test for something else (unrelated to StS).

This photo is a memento before I destroy it completely by applying aquatint 😊💖

Oh yes, I used for the etching a zinc plate + copper solfate. Later, I've decided to engrave some lines with a burin because I needed them to be thicker.

[luanagmteixeiraart]

June really loves her prince andrômeda, even possessed by Hades 💚🖤❤️

Happy birthday, Shun and Hades!

[yamielsun]

First one of the donation commissions I’m doing to donate a little money to Proyect Lumad in the Philippines!

Thank you @jennydevic !

[amusing-saint-seiya]

Mi mejor amigo me acaba de regalar a Shun revival y esto paso

[curemoonlightsworld]

[torito4-20]

mi lista de música comicamente tarde (perdón @lonely--seeker ❤️)

"Treasure Island" by Larry June

"Karma Chamaleon" by Culture Club

"Sonido Amazonico" by Chicha Libre

"La vereda de la puerta de atrás" by Extremoduro😭

"Breakdown" by Handsome Boy Modeling School

"Man we was Lonely" by Paul McCartney

"Bye Bye" by Vilma Palma"

"Id Engage" by of Montreal

"Sleeping with the Enemy" by TV Girl

"Rico Sem Dinheiro" by Evinha

etiqueto a mi one and only oomf @toxic-garlic-fumes y listo porque no tengo más amigos

share the first 10 songs in your ✨on repeat✨ playlist!

I was tagged by @halixius 💛!

"Scrawny" by Wallows

"Kiss Goodnight" by I Don't Know How But They Found Me

"Backseat Driver" by Orla Gartland

"Feeling Like the End" by Joji

"Honeybee" by Steam Powered Giraffe

"Cuffing Season" by Beachwood Cayotes

"Dissonance" by AJJ

"Yukon" by Joji

"Hidden in the Sand" by Tally Hall

"Woke Up" by Olivia Olson (Adventure Time)

Tagging the following folks in case they want to join in (no pressure ofc haha) @lonely--seeker, @sotie-art, @glazedsnail, @caelwynn, @angel-with-an-assbutt22

[aratafinwe]

So Netflix

What about:

-June vs Aldebaran

-June vs Ikki (a lil nonsense is always welcome in the series, plus June could b wanting to scold Ikki and Ikki could tell her she's to sensitive or so and she would show him it's no true she just has common sense and no problems with showing her feelings, like a normal person)

[angel-no-crux]

June~

[1800duckhotline]

what alternative new wave Gothic rock bands the patho healers are fans of? btw...just asking...what if you know by any chance...

Thank You for indulging me. Ok so i need to preface this with something. most of the groups im about to list are not russian/eastern european I Know I unfortunately do not know a lot of the new wave/gothic rock scene there but if any of the things I list, you know a variant that would be more "realistic" or "appropriate" do feel free to suggest me because I'm gobbling up whatever of this genre I can find aroujnd the world. Also I am not an expert at all (I apologize if I was deceiving because I write shit then I dont realize what I wrote down) but I just like hearing moosics... and a lot of them I listened when I was like 10 and didnt know the names and I still don't for a good few of them...

I'm not sure how to make this explanation ina way that isnt annoying (besides me and 3 mutuals here will see this I think) but. Okay. I mentioned gothic rock but I might, like, probably include other general new wave things too.

When I see Clara I imagine her being the kind of preteen that listens to a lot of early industrial like Einstürzende Neubauten completely unaffected by it (unaware she will get hearing loss the longer she goes on--). I think she would be a fan of something like Siouxsie and The Banshees, Devo, and Talking Heads (Remain in Light and Speaking Tongues specifically). She's a Dead Can Dance kinda girlie to me. The Chamaleons too actually (Strange Times) and Cocteau Twins (but dont take me for an expert on them I've heard a smidge of them that I do remember). I don't have much more for her in my head but that's what I can get off the top of my head

Daniil to me just reads as a guy that loves The Classics and then Something Else so probably Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Joy Division (for the new wave part), The Cure (even if I find them a bit boring myself but hey), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Alien Sex Fiend, Death in June, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, you name it... he probably Knows It... Also not gothic rock but Soft Cell definitely are also part of The Vibe to me . Let's throw in Fad Gadget too at this point.

Artemy on the other hand always felt like he'd probably enjoy Klinik, Depeche Mode (Black Celebration), The Sound, he'd also like Siouxsie and Dead Can Dance. Probably Death in June I feel like. Chrome... Not gothic rock but The Dandy Warhols... he gives me the idea of a guy who listens to this sort of music to Unwind if it makes sense? Like it's relaxing? Brooding and a bit haunted music that's like a lullaby sort of if that makes sense but also Makes You Dance. also he likes Blondie

I'm sorry if the list was underwhelming I went off on vibes alone. Maybe when I finally have like a whole catalogue in my head that is proper I'll be more detailed about it I think. Thank yuou for indulging me

[katherinewilliams221b]

For A Greater Good Fun Facts and Self Assesment (spoilers)

Long Post

What worked and what didn’t:

I think the overall structure worked pretty well. The most difficult part was, with the plot and subplot already created, scattering all those ideas throughout the text in such a way that at least made some sense. I regret not writing more about Mer Yankelevich, I feel like the crumbs I left on the way were not enough; in my attempt to make it subtle it lacked information about her. The key piece was of course her sister, and I should have introduced her sooner.

MC’s evolution. I feel like Kate’s learnt a lot with this experience (I’m not only referring to the Deathly Hallows or Grindelwald) When it started, she was very discreet and kept a low profile, not knowing what to do really, not taking more risks than necessary. And then she ended poisoned and splinching just to protect a document she thought was important. I hope her evolution is noticeable for the reader.

Worldbuilding. Grabbing HP concepts that were forgotten and full of potential, plus a dash of original ideas from me and blending them with muggle features was my absolute favourite part of the process.

On that note, I dont own these concepts: Durmstrang, Igor Karkarov, Nerida Vulchanova, umbrella flowers, fanged geraniums, billywigs, Appare Vestigium, glow-worms, trick wand, chamaleon ghouls, 

If you’ve read the fic and thought: “everything happened so fast” or got a general odd feeling about the timeline it's because I made a series of  monumental mistakes: setting a chapter limit, telling you about it and then tried to stick to it.  At first the idea sounded nice: this is my first “big” story  with complicated components. I should (and I did) do an outline of what I want to happen in each chapter and stick to it methodically so I don't forget what's happening or lose track of the plot. Well...it kind of backfired. So I wrote the first 3 chapters and at that point I thought “okay everything is going as planned, I’m going to put it out there”, bam, instantly cursed. After that it got ridiculously difficult to make the story that I wanted. Why? I needed chapter space that I convinced myself I couldn’t add. Dumb.

The major consequence of this was the lack of character backgrounds. It started out good, but as I kept writing and publishing I realised that I missed some great opportunities to make amazing ocs. That’s Corentin’s fault in a way: he wasn't going to be a major character, really, just a piece to help Kate a bit. But we all fell in love with him so what was I supposed to do? Also, Sheyi Mawut owns my heart and he got just a bit of spotlight. A shame.

I wish I had written more about them, but I think I wasn’t ready just yet to make it even more complicated.I just wanted to prove I could concoct a mystery plot and now that I know I can manage a fair amount of information I think I can take it a step further and deepen new ocs a little bit more.

I’m thinking about the datura series and I know why I got blocked and tired of writing it; it wasnt going anywhere because I wasnt prepared, and I didn’t do the months of outlines and planning that I did with this one. I’ll come back to the datura story one day, subjecting it to a sever rewrite. The ideas are there, I just need to be organised.

Although the chapter limit was problematic it was also a good exercise of managing space and deciding which things were unnecessary for the story. I dont think there’s any filler chapters, perhaps the last ones, but there is important information there too so... However this sentence  from the blog  wordsandstuff reassured me (and I think I did a good job at that?)

If you set out to write 10 parts and you write a fantastic story in 8, you haven’t failed and it’s not too rushed. Concise writing is an underrated talent. Focus on how effectively you engage the reader, not for how long.

I spent more than year writing this! When I started, I had a lot of ideas, I wrote the last two chapters then the first 3 and I really thought it was going to be that way with the rest of the story... okay... lesson learnt. #humbled

Other thoughts:

I received a couple of comments on ao3 that said that they were pleasantly surprised. Maybe I should change the tags because they are misleading? Clearly this wasnt what people were looking for lol.

One particular comment stood out to me and quoting it said:  “You did not choose the easy way with a fiction with so few characters from the fandom.”  And I’ve been thinking about this since I read it. It didn’t occur to me that there were few mystery fics (maybe I should write more things like that? Maybe throwing some power couple detective work 👀 ) In any case, I’m glad  I contributed with something different to the fandom, and the fact that the Charlie bits are very scarce but people who read it still liked it is really flattering.

I wanted to make sure that all the characters had strengths and flaws, I didnt want to severus-snape them so maybe I overdid it with that bit of introspection kate does at the end...

Also, I did the kiss and fade thing twice to mention sex. I know some people dont like that but since it wasnt the point of the story and I havent done research on how to write sex scenes I didnt include them. I have that on my “to learn” list.

Conclusions:

Writing the whole thing was incredible. It's my first ‘big’ project and its not a great work (there are some things I wish I did better, thats what you get when you are an agatha christie wannabe) and not writing more character backgrounds will haunt me to this day,  but I think it's at least good for a first series and I’m proud of it. I loved spending hours doing research and trying to piece together this puzzle. And of course I’m not an expert and I dont want to sound pretentious (like this is my first story) but if you are planning to write this type of genre I can be another source of tips and tricks for you.

If I read the story after a while and I dont cringe, I would call that a success.

FUN? FACTS!

Bakunawa really belongs to Filippines mythology

Snapdragons have different meanings, one of them being: “grace under pressure or inner strength in trying circumstances”

The entrance to Grindelwald’s room was going to be in the duelling classroom, strangely shaped as a triangle. I had this system where one of the round candle lamps descended and lined up with a line on the floor (serving as separation for duels) it created the Deathly Hallows symbol. I couldn’t make that work because it wouldn't make any sense for Nerida Vulchanova to shape a room like that.  Here are some sketches:

Lucius Malfoy was going to appear as the Ministry employee that goes to Durmstrang, but after revising the events of the OoP I realised it was impossible.

Kent Jorgensen was going to be around Kate’s age and the charms teacher and he would have a small crush on her. After seeing some pics of Pen Medina, I rewrote the character completely.

The series was going to be 6 chapters long (I’m glad I decided not to) one for each month. The chapter names were ridiculous: January of Beginnings, February of reputation, March of Students, April of Discoveries, May I? and June of Endings. #tragic

The Dolohov family was going to be a part of the plot but I had to erase that part because it was unlocking another layer of complexity that I just couldnt handle.

I dont remember exactly the chapter but I got really confused with the names Rhode and Hodges and there’s one chapter where I accidentally mixed them (I corrected it I think), but for a while I could stop calling Rhode, Hodges, and vice versa lmao

Here are some sketches that helped me describe and imagine things

Thank you for accompany me in this journey, especially if you endured the process with me lmao. You’ve been here for over A YEAR! <3 Mindblowing

Also I’d love to know your opinions about the way you read the story, I mean, I know some people read it as I published, and some other readers found the story already finished, what are the differences? Should I stop the updating system and drop a story all at once? I know it is difficult to keep up with a complex story if there’s a lot of weekly or monthly gaps between the chapters, so I wanted to know.

Sending you a virtual hug 💜💜

[curemoonlightsworld]

Credits on image

[workart-studio]

Shun and June date

[amazonomachia]

I hope you will both be very happy together.