#oops forgot to. tag that. haha

[acoraxia]

amen

i’m… so hungry it’s not even funny

[ Masterpost ]

[intotheelliwoods]

This is Part 1! Part 2 can be found here~

Masterpost

[wings-0f-sorrow]

actually, i DO have things to post now that i think about it. im gonna share my 3 so/ul/cal/ibur ocs i've made recently! miss mari up there is the only one w/ actual in-depth thought put into her, so i'll tell y'all a smidge abt her.

she's a battle maid, used to 'work' (i say work but sadly it was in fact forced) under a nobleman who was, simply put, a very shitty person. she and a few others were stuck doing usual maidly duties while also being his bodyguards. not a fun experience. one day after she and the others had to protect him from attackers and he was particularly ungrateful, she snapped and beheaded him herself before fleeing into the woods. i love her, she's great. kinda bloodthirsty, loves the thrill of the hunt, might make her a serial killer honestly (who only goes after shitty people bc the idea of killing innocent ppl makes me feel bad, but also i think she'd be the type to be REALLY looking for an excuse bc its fun to her) bc we need more fucked up women methinks. (and no, sorry ladies, miss beautiful gorgeous here is taken. by my girlfriend's soon-to-be-made insert. ;-) )

other two ocs are nameless and have less thought put into them lol. 2nd girlie is a malfested mage, bc the concept of magic users in the s/c universe intrigues me. you can tell shes kinda inspired by frie/ren characters haha, ive seen too many clips of it on yt xd (i really need to watch it...) last girlie is probably the most normal character i will ever have. she was in a circus troupe that unfortunately fell apart after many members turned malfested. idk how she'd fight or with what, but she's the hopeful positive type whose on a journey to save her troupe/family <3

[noh07]

oops i crocheted for four hours straight gay and did not drink anything the entire time despite it being hot as fuck and me not having much water before that either

[hoodiemanic]

He stepped out for a quick trip to the supermarket

[armedwooper]

Crimmis! Featuring Aleena and myself!

[the-down-upside-finch]

“That knight was named Brant Grey. He was the prince’s closest companion—and his only real friend at the time. And because of the prince’s mistake, he was taken from this world.”

Finally got around to drawing Brant! (Don't worry about spoilers; this man's gone way before the first page of the story.)

Sketch and version without the dramatic lighting under the cut:

He did have a helmet, but he didn't really wear it.

[theoldworldsrunnerup]

Was suddenly possessed with the urge to draw them again

[daifei]

hiya! i’m doing an assignment for art school that has us trace back our art influences through to /their/ art influences, and to repeat this research for a few more generations. since your work has influenced me, can i ask which artists influence you/that you look up to if you’re comfortable sharing? thank you!

No prob although i might be too late for your assignment haha sorry, i forget to check my asks often!

Off the top of my head, some major influences & admirations are yoshitaka amano, takato yamamoto, suehiro maruo, usamaru furuya, gustav klimt, and dean cornwell

hope that helps!

[forthehpfanboys]

I'm so sorry for your loss, I'm sure she had a wonderful life with you by her side, you can now rest assured she is no longer suffering. Don't push yourself and take your time to grieve properly, take care <3

God, you guys are awesome 🥺 but I'm gen z, so I cope with humor (my coworkers are suffering more than me 😄👌). But you guys are fantastic.

I definitely need the reminder that she's not suffering anymore. Thank you.

[xxlady-lunaxx]

Stories about you | {KaiGyu}

Theme: Fluffy I think

Note: This ship is a little tricky because of their silly deaths but imma jus roll w/ it. Gyutaro and Daki did die same time, same place, Kaigaku became demon same time as well, not changing that shit which is going to make this tricky but yk-

Also THERE IS SO LITTLE KAIGYU ART 😭 atp i should just draw the less popular ships bc there's barely any art of them </3 

This is short, sorry, bit hard to write Kaigyu when there's so little to work on both of them being from diff times as demons.....

Kokushibo would tell Kaigaku about the Uppermoons sometimes, including the deceased ones. He would tell him all sorts of things and Kaigaku would hang onto every word in fascination. He never realized there was so much to know about demons besides that they killed. Like, how often the Uppermoon two and three often argued and how Upper five was constantly obsessed over his pots—though Upper four and five had recently died. He learned all about Uppermoon four's clones and how long each Upperranked demon had been in the 12 Kizuki. But most of all, he love hearing about Upper 6 and the two siblings. Specifically Gyutaro. Kokushibo had showed Kaigaku pictures of each Uppermoon and, for some reason, Kaigaku found himself rather attached to Gyutaro whom he took an interest on through Kokushibo's stories.

So, everytime after Kokushibo decided that their training sessions were done, Kaigaku would go up to him and ask for another story as if he was a child. They would sit down and Kokushibo would tell him another fact about the Uppermoons.

Eventually, Kaigaku grew more comfortable asking about Gyutaro. He was careful, of course, asking about the other Uppermoons as well. But he grew bored of them and started focusing more on Gyutaro to the point Kokushibo noticed and pointed it out.

"No! I'm just curious because he was the same rank as me and... uh... you know!" Kaigaku insisted, whining. 

Kokushibo cocked an eyebrow, giving him a sort of teasing look. "Could you be so invested in Gyutaro, though he's dead?" he asked. 

Kaigaku shook his head. "No, I'm not, I swear-!"

Kokushibo laughed. "Alright then. Let me tell you about the first time he and Daki were introduced into the Upperranks."

~~~

This continued ceaselessly and Kaigaku learned more than he ever would if the Uppermoons were alive about Gyutaro. It was so interesting and captivating and he found himself dreaming what it would be like if he'd been a demon at the same time Gyutaro had lived.

It was so wonderful to love someone—though the constant reminder that Gyutaro was dead was sad. Kaigaku couldn't help making up a sort of world in which Gyutaro and he could be together. There was no saying that Gyutaro would actually like me, rather Kaigaku almost appreciated the fact that the Uppermoon had died because he was pretty sure nobody would fall for a demon like Kaigaku. Nevertheless, Kaigaku fell into a daze, sometimes, and Kokushibo had caught him several times as he thought about Gyutaro.

"You're blushing again!" Kokushibo said, pointing to Kaigaku's flushed cheeks. 

"I'm... cold!" Kaigaku lied. 

"Demons aren't affected by the cold in the same way humans are, Kaigaku," Kokushibo said, sighing. "Do you like someone?"

Kaigaku shook his head rapidly. "Nope! No! Never!" 

Kokushibo shook his head. "Fine. But don't let me catch you unfocused again or I'm going to lock you out into the sun!"

Kaigaku crossed his arms. Well, if he died he'd be with Gyutaro, no? "Fine! I'll stop!" 

Needless to say, he was more careful. He mostly thought about the deceased demon during his free time instead of during his training. Which was for the better anyways. 

~~~

Kaigaku had been looking around in Kokushibo's house—a small one-story place in which Kokushibo lived in solidarity during the day time. There was one room Kokushibo had, where he'd said there were pictures of the Uppermoons. Kaigaku had been interested so he'd been permitted to go there.

In the room, he found the box Kokushibo had spoken of. There were a lot of pictures, a third of them being of Muzan, and the other two thirds of the Uppermoons. Including past ones, such as the ones that were before even Akaza had become a demon. Kaigaku even found one of himself in the box.

The ones of Gyutaro and Daki were cute, both siblings being so close to each other. Kaigaku traced Gyutaro's face, marveling at the way his hair framed him perfectly. 

"He's so pretty," he whispered.

Kokushibo entered the room. "Who is?"

"What?! Nothing!" Kaigaku quickly stuffed the picture into the box.

Kokushibo raised an eyebrow. "Sure."

"So, uhm... Why's there so many pictures of Master here?" Kaigaku asked, trying to change the subject.

"Oh! Uhm! You know! I've known him longest than anyone else," Kokushibo said, a bit too quickly to be the full truth. 

Kaigaku smirked. "Do you like him?"

"No! Well! Yes, but not the way you mean!" Kokushibo exclaimed. He snatched the box and closed it tightly. "Let's... let's go train now."

Kaigaku laughed. "Alright then."

~~~

(this is so sudden, I'm sorry-)

Kaigaku was dying. Fuck Zenitsu and his stupid new form. Fuck thunder breathing and the world!! Why the hell was he going to die?! Bet he was the first Uppermoon to die tonight. Stupid. Useless. Weak. 

And then he was gone.

It was black. 

Was this hell?

He looked around.

Light. 

Step towards the light.

No, he didn't belong there.

Heaven was for people who did good. Kaigaku didn't belong amongst the good.

He turned away from it, though he ached with curiousity to see through.

He went further into the darkness. It seemed to grow darker with each second that past by.

And then he was there.

Hell.

Was this hell?

He saw demons there too.

And then one.

His eyes focused on two demons. Previously Uppermoons. Upper 6.

Kaigaku stumbled forwards, a smile growing on his face.

Gyutaro. It was Gyutaro and Daki.

They turned to him.

Gyutaro smiled and Daki grinned.

Kaigaku moved forward, closer, until he was right in front of the two.

"Kaigaku..." Gyutaro murmured. "Nice to meet you, Kaigaku."

Hell... was going to be wonderful. 

{Word count: 1009}

WAHH THESE TWO ARE SO CUTE BUT THE TIMESTAMPS OF THE ACTUAL MANGA MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT THEM TOGETHER.

also the second to last sentence I must explain :33

Gyutaro had seen Kaigaku from above, watching him, because Kaigaku had been wanting so badly to meet Gyutaro that he'd sensed it. So, he'd said "Kaigaku" because he already knew of him, and "nice to meet you" sort of a "I met you yet I know you already" kind of line?

i love writing sm

[lovelessbachelor]

So I heard it's yaoi day

Lol. Side by side.

Also for the like. 2 readers OF Severed Ropes, Wires Torn (woah I actually said the full name of my fanfic?) that might follow me on here, here's a doodle from a scene in chapter 16. Which you may have noticed has not happened yet.

Argh I'm awful at scale. Rest assured Ink IS the shortest.

Ink by @/comyet

Error by @/loverofpiggies

Dream by @/jokublog

[the-nexverse]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! What's the longest story you have written?

happy STS!

objective response: none! i have nothing written! it's all in my head or in discord ramblings/brainstorms or in lost google docs 😭😭😭 honestly i find it really funny how i think of some of my stories as possible book trilogies and i'm like. yea that'd be so cool. i have so much content and things to tell, but i'm doing zero work to ACTUALLY write them. oops!

okay, with that said, here are some proper responses:

for the non-fantasy story that spans the longest and i have most of it kind of figured out: Todo Lo Que Sube. it spans throughout both Ryan and Agnes' lifespans. i even separated it on different arcs and what happens during them, since many things happen through it and the characters undergo their own phases and change a LOT from one point in time to another one. forget two-dimensional characters, these guys undergo so much change; we're not talking about the ship of Theseus being the same as the starting ship, we're talking about evolutions on top of evolutions on top of evolutions. probably the story with the deepest characters i have

for the fantasy stories: Aequitas without a doubt. from the pre-Great War events (temporal name) to the creation of chimeralmas to the awakening of the first of them (Vreytus) to figuring out how to be a sapient individual to figuring out what happened in the planet to deciding to take matters on his own hands to the actual resolution of the chimeralmas restoring Vis Naturae to the planet. that's where the chimeralma arc would finish, but i do have some (candidates to canon) scenarios where the world continues evolving until modern times in theory, this is the story that spans the longest of all, but since i've only developed very little scenes tied to specific characters instead of the overarching progression of the story, i don't consider it to have much content written/thought of overall

honorable mention to MMW where technically magic has existed since the birth of life and has evolved alongside humanity but humanity simply decided Not To Acknowledge It until modern times (70s-2000s onwards). the main plot of the story only starts around these dates, so from all the stories, this world has the "shortest" one

i think those are the main stories that could apply. thanks for the ask!!

[hellaverse-critical-confessions]

*cracks knuckles* Get ready for a long ask As an animator/artist myself, I have a lot to say about the character designs. I'm sure you've heard this before, but these characters are not animation friendly. More detail just makes it harder to animate. (While Bee is a notorious example, nearly all of the characters suffer from this) When designing a character for animation, you need to pick and choose the key parts of their design, because you're going to be drawing the same thing over and over. Another thing: The characters have so much freaking red to them. I won't dwell on this for long, but they don't stand out from the background because there's so much freaking red (Another thing that bugs me is that the characters don't look like what the artist wanted them to be like) Ex: Charlie doesn't look like a doll Vaggie barely has a moth resemblance Angel Dust doesn't look like a spider Alastor doesn't look like a deer Niffty doesn't look like a bug or B-movie styled aliens Ozzie doesn't look like a rooster Beelzebub doesn't look like an animal trainer (you would think with all the suits and shit she likes to use, an animal trainer's outfit would be perfect for this)

Another thing: Her characters reuse the same design tropes. Bow ties, suits, fingerless gloves, gold tooth, stick thin figure, top hat, etc I'd excuse it if this was a beginner artist (heck, I used to do this, but eventually learned and grew out of it) but this is a woman in her 30's who graduated art school. TL;DR The designs are bad and hard as heck to animate

Couldn't have said it better myself

I feel like, when Viv sits down to design a new character, her personal preferences come first and everything they're actually supposed to represent second. Sort of tacked onto the final product like "yeah sure that'll do it"

As for the details, if I may add on: not long ago I've studied screencaps of a character from Helluva for redesign purposes. The amount of inconsistencies I came across was surprising! I'm pretty sure he didn't even have an official ref sheet (nor has one been posted to date), but I've heard that even for more prevalent characters the animators only have the most basic turnarounds? Also stuff like Millie's hair and spots tend to be inconsistent. With so much gratuitous/weird detail and apparently lack of proper reference, consistency suffers

Everyone is also very spiky and full of triangles; I'd love a more soft or even square character. Also some different body types... I mean, remember Mimzy from Hazbin? I don't know if Viv does. I wonder if she's still gonna appear at some point. But anyway

On a more positive note, there's a lot of background character designs that I find really cool & enjoyable! Maybe I'll make an appreciation post for them sometime

[littledoot]

Gree! His armour is cool, the camo wasn't fun though.

[thepasteldyke]

I have a suggestion

Realised I've never drawn Rararin despite having drawn her bandmates several times, and I've been thinking about this ship for a while, so...