#deadbaguettes wip

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Remaking/adjusting my Achilles design…. and I am staring at my second ever attempt of an Achilles design contemplating..

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Jo, thank you so much for the tag!

Here's a little part from the WIP I'm almost done with (WOO). Just edits left. I'll be posting it in the near future.

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He couldn't breathe. 

He had expected him to be angry at him for what he had done and yet he could see no rage. He had expected disappointment and received none. Now he didn't know what to expect, where to go, what to do. He was a doll cut from its strings and placed in an unfamiliar world with unknown forces working behind it with no clue what to do. The only thing he had even some remote understanding or relation with was this man standing in front of him. 

The word rose from his chest, rushing up through his throat and pushing out of his mouth, bouncing off his tongue, one word whose person outweighed its meaning, the song he had been singing from the caverns of his soul. 

“Patroclus?”

The bearer of the name flinched back as though violently punched. The hand holding the water fell to his side.

“Patroclus,” he breathed. “Patroclus,” he said once more and out came the tears bursting. 

It was an inexplicable rush of emotion after weeks of being a walking corpse and his body couldn't handle it, trembling and shaking, cracking and heaving. The blanket pulled tighter across his shoulders as he tried to compress himself with it, coil it around him like a snake until it crushed him into a mite of dust. 

He waited. He waited for him to say his name. For a response he could understand. Something. Anything. 

Nothing. 

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Lolll dw he does not stop crying lmao. But he will. Eventually. One day. Probably. 35% chance of that happening. Wheee I'm going insane send help

Tagging @deadbaguette @pijulle @cowsonabus @pathologenesis @live-laugh-ukotoa @bakerstreetbaggins and anyone else who wants to join!

WIP Whenever

It's been a while since I've shared a proper snippet, and since I've been working on the next chapter of As Fate Would Have It this week I thought I'd post a little excerpt from it:

“Calchas, a priest of Agamemnon, ordered a great sacrifice, a hecatomb. Apollo, the far-seeing god, sent him a vision that a great warrior would be needed within their ranks for the war to be won. My son is already famed for his speed and his skill with a spear. Agamemnon believes that it is my Achilles that shall win this war for him.”

Nereus listens to her attentively, stroking his long, mossy beard; he stays silent for a long moment after she finishes speaking, his features dark in thought. “And does he believe true, daughter?”

Thetis holds her tongue. Of all the gods, only Themis, who gave her the prophecy, and Ilithyia, who helped her during labour, know of Achilles' fate. Both goddesses are bound to her by oaths of trust and friendship. She has never spoken the truth of it to anyone else, for fear that they might use it against him.

“I do not know, my lord.”

A susurrus of whispers swells around her at once. Thetis ignores them, letting them wash over her like the tide. 

“There must be other warriors, much stronger and more experienced, that could fulfill that prophecy,” a voice comes, heavy with disdain and louder over the others. It is Amphitrite, one of the fifty nereids, who steps forward. Her long black hair is arranged in a myriad of thin yet intricate braids, sturdy like ship rope, and the fabric of her white dress is thick like a ship’s sails; no doubt a memento from one of the many shipwrecks she or her monstrous offspring have caused. Her face, though exquisitely beautiful once, is now marred by the deep grooves and scars left from her battle with a leviathan long ago. Of all her sisters, Amphitrite is the one Thetis has always liked the least. “Why did the King of Mycenae want your son, who has never fought in a war before, who has never bloodied his spear, to fight for him? That boy is little more than a baby in the cradle." 

Thetis meets her sister's challenge with a cool, detached look. “Perhaps you should ask Agamemnon's priest directly," she tells her flatly. "Or better yet, Apollo, god of mice and locusts, who gave the prophecy. I am not privy to his thoughts or reasons.”

She could argue with Amphitrite in front of the whole court; insist on the legendary quality of her son’s prowess in battle, but that would not serve her. It would not serve either of them. Better far to let them believe that this is nothing but a dream sent to a seer by a confusing and capricious god.  

Thetis POV scenes may just be my favourite to write ngl!!!

Tagging forth to (no pressure) @darlingpoppet @spineless-lobster @baejax-the-great @iktend @rowanisawriter @supernova3space @calciumyum and literally anyone else who would like to share some art or fic they're currently working on?? Idrk who else to tag haha sorry :')

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SIGHHHHHHH …….. based off the sculpture Anatomy of a Hug by Luna Lu

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Comic WIP I cannot help myself! Normally i would post like an outline draft of a comic but I wanna keep most of this one a surprise 🙏

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Whipping up some epigoni content.. had to make designs for Sthenelus and Euryalus🙏 will finish Euryalus tomorrow

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[WIP] the colours are pissing me off but slowly but surely something is vaguely happening

And uhhh don’t mind the reference picture I saved it for inspo from oomf. Due to a series of events where my entire gallery was deleted and I had to find a way to restore most of it…in the restoration process it shuffled ALL MY PHOTOS…… so this was the only picture of Thanatos I could find 💀🙏

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[abandoned wip] Uuuhghh I have a very vivid animatic idea floating around in my head and I wrote it down despite the fact I’ll never draw it

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My shayla… I have missed u

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I know I said no more WIPs… but this is very tender hug and I am very 🥺❤️

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I didn’t even plan for this to maybe be a potential Neo design but uh here we are I guess

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Ohhh my shaylas.. one day im gonna properly colour you..!! When exams are over

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Gonna mess around with some watercolours tmr that I got as a Christmas/New year gift,, Sasha James you’re my test subject I’m so sorry it’s been so long since I’ve watercoloured 😭😭😭

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Belatedly realizing that means I should probably start posting here uh oh

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Guess who he’s hugging

SIGHHHHHHH …….. based off the sculpture Anatomy of a Hug by Luna Lu

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Lalalalalala I hope I have the energy to finish this

[abandoned wip] Uuuhghh I have a very vivid animatic idea floating around in my head and I wrote it down despite the fact I’ll never draw it