#scab wizard

[fluffle-ocs]

OC Masterlist

Sonas:

Paton the bun (FNaF/Main sona)

Team Sky member/grunt Paton (Pokémon)

Flying/Ghost/Dark type team!

Scab Wizard Chrissy

A healer and potential hurter (magic system by: @wizardraziw)

Trollsona Pahton Krishe (Homestuck/Hiveswap)

Sign: Gemcen God Tier: Bard of Blood

"Anti"sona Jackie (she/they)

SGrubgone (A Homestuck fansession)

Orline Aphrod (they/them)

Sign: Tauro God Tier: Maid of Heart

Muziki Pasipo (she/her)

Sign: Gemgo God Tier: Mage of Space

Ikuraz Meruto (he/him)

Sign: Lerist God Tier: Rogue of Time

Yassei Batess (she/her)

Sign: Virpio God Tier: Prince of Light

Trojan Enbanc (they/them)

Sign: Libsces God Tier: Knight of Life

Pashes Joheey (he/him)

Sign: Capricer God Tier: Heir of Blood

Vektar Jakell (he/him)

aroace Sign: Aquiborn God Tier: Witch of Rage

Damona Galene (she/her)

Sign: Piza God Tier: Sylph of Mind

My Little Pony

Midnight (they/them)

no real special talent yet vampony

Velvet Sunset (she/her)

Misc

Max Hatter (Descendants) (they/them)

Pamphilos (The Orville) (they/them)

Drawn by the amazing @auxiliarydetective!

Volta Pagliaccio (Luca) (he/they)

[h0use-fly]

Scab Ref 🪳

with a half assed rendered alt.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Scab-Clan Berserker by Dave Kendall

[wizardalexa]

✨So with the ongoing strikes on the part of both SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, you may have heard that production companies like your favorite wizard streaming channel Acheron Prime are looking to hire people to temporarily take their places and keep productions rolling.✨ ✨Now, you may hear those people referred to as "scabs". But is that a bad thing? What is a scab, really? When there's a break in your skin, a scab temporarily fills the spot until it heals. That doesn't sound so terrible, does it? Sure, people might think scabs are unsightly, and sure, they don't do the job nearly as well as the skin does, but that doesn't matter, because after the skin heals and they fall off, they're gone for good and never seen again.✨ ✨So become a scab today! Sure, everyone will hate you, and sure, your job will only last as long as the strike and then you'll never be able to get work in the industry again, but you should do it anyway, because... because...✨ ✨Wizard Alexa is sorry, but Wizard Alexa was not programmed with a good ending for that last sentence.✨

[bluewolven]

i just had a big galaxy brain moment and im gonna share it with the world.

in early access art we see gale with bandages on his left hand/arm, and auntie ethel makes a jab at him in-game saying "i can smell the rot on you".

his orb also causes him physical pain. we see this in the current version, when hes unstable, he doubles over in pain with a hand on his chest, like hes having a heart attack.

how do you transfer this idea over to modern day settings, or no-magic settings? very simple. eczema.

eczema causes inflammation, swelling, and can be painful to the touch. it also can cause scabbing, peeling, and bleeding, resulting in some varieties of eczema needing to be bandaged. there is no complete cure, only management, and even with medication and treatment flare-ups can still happen.

many people with eczema also say they help manage their symptoms by following special diets and monitoring food/water intake, which if you think hard about it, could be similar to gale needing magic items to stabilize his orb (or more accurately, him just taking medicine/applying medicated creams to manage the eczema). so it all works out.

i share this knowledge freely with the world so you may absolutely use it for your own fics and aus. remember to be yourself and have fun, and most importantly: kiss your wizard.

[likeabxrdinflight]

I think it's possible that this reading of Elphaba's green skin could get lost in the many possible metaphors that could be applied to it, so I want to talk about the very first way I interpreted her skin when I was just a kid.

I had a horrendous eczema as a child. I was born with it. and I'm talking like, scaly red patches, scabs everywhere, flakes of dead skin that looked like dandruff in my hair, constantly scratching myself and bleeding all over my clothes. It was on my legs, my arms, my skull, even my face. It was especially bad around my eyelids. And nothing treated it. I took pills, I slathered myself in creams and moisturizers, my mom used every hypoallergenic detergent and soap she could find. We had dust mite covers on everything, hard wood floors in my room, I was never allowed to have curtains or too many pillows- didn't matter. The eczema persisted.

Thankfully I've (mostly) grown out of it. But you can imagine school wasn't the most fun place for me as a kid. I heard every possible insult in the book- I've been called every version of reptile you can think of, scabby, scaly, gross, ugly, asked if I had chicken pox or measles, told to "put on some lotion" or "take a shower," stared at, laughed at. Because I went to Catholic school I also heard more than one joke about leprosy. On and on it went. Before I was ever called "queer," I was called "lizard skin."

So I probably don't need to elaborate much more on why I related to this line: "Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside have a matching exterior? And since folks here to an absurd degree seem fixated on your verdigris, would it be all right by you if I de-greenify you? And though of course that's not important to me, 'all right why not,' I'll reply!"

I don't want to take away from the racial reading of Elphaba's skin color. Especially now with her being portrayed by a Black woman in the movie. That reading was always there anyways, but Cynthia certainly brings it more to the forefront. She's obviously pulling from her own lived experiences as a Black woman and being marginalized for the color of her skin and the cultural origins of her family and putting all of those emotions into her portrayal of Elphaba, and it's a beautiful thing. It really, really is, and I felt such empathy for that. It shines through so much in Cynthia's performance, especially in "the wizard and I." But I also don't want to lose this reading of it- the disability or skin disorder or disfigurement lens through which you can interpret her green skin. Because that was how I first related to Elphaba, before even the queer reading- I saw a nerdy girl with glasses being mocked by her classmates for the condition of her skin, and I thought, "she gets it. Someone gets it."

[wrengaunt]

Day 30 - Dementor

Day 30 of Gaunting Salloween - Dementor

Thrilled to share my first collaboration with @purediscordhell ! Thank you for trusting me and loving my silly art—I’m beyond excited to dive into your upcoming stories! 🙂‍↕️

This also marks my final piece for the Gaunting Salloween event. I set a goal to tackle one prompt each week (although I missed one—couldn’t quite keep up, oops!) and only through collaborations. It turned out to be quite a challenge! I often found myself worrying about meeting expectations, but the experience taught me so much about my own style and even sparked a wonderful friendship (hi Noxx) Huge thanks to the event organizers for creating such a fantastic experience—I loved every moment of it ���💛

READ ON AO3 ❤️

Sebastian turns to face behind him, Ominis scrambling to try and not make them do that. “Sebastian, what are you doing?”

Sebastian doesn’t seem to hear him, tongue feeling heavy in his mouth. The Dementor looks just like everything he’s ever dreaded in his entire life. A Dementor was a gliding, wraithlike Dark creature, widely considered to be one of the foulest of the Dark creatures to inhabit the wizarding world. He knows this is true, second only to himself, Ominis’ distraught behaviour at Sebastian calling himself that be damned. Dementors had a humanoid shape, approximately 4 metres high, and were covered in long robes and hooded cloaks of ripped black cloth, making them closely resemble wraiths. Their skins were grey, slimy, and decayed-looking, like a decomposing corpse. A quick glimpse at the flash of a hand Sebastian saw seemed to boast more of the same, though even from this approaching distance, he could also see that they were scabbed over, as if the skin they were exhibiting didn’t agree with them.

Ominis seems to realise that Sebastian is on a mission to get the both of them killed, because he fumbles for the inside of his robe, hands shaking. Something hard pokes into his chest on accident and pulls Sebastian’s attention away from the Dementor rasping and approaching almost in slow motion, and once he sees what it was, he nearly loses his mind.

Read the full fic here 🥹

[super-ion]

I had this plot hook idea a while back that I don't really know what to do with.

Basically a depressed trans girl and her bisexual disaster twin brother find a magical door in their pantry that leads to a fantasy world. But it turns out the wizard who opened the door is blacklisted by the adventurers guild and is trying to get kids to scab for him. He was trying to snag the 12yo twins in the apartment down the hall (because something something twins and prophesies), but accidently got the address wrong

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

mutual 1: sorry the update for my webcomic this week is a bit late! i really had to rush it so it prolly looks really sloppy lol [some of the most sophisticated comic art ive ever seen]

mutual 2: call me uterine lining the way astarions cervix got me bleeding profusely

mutual 3: do you think nanowrimo will give me a posthumous pity publishing deal if i mention it in my suicide note

mutual 4: okay fine i finally started revolutionary girl utena

mutual 5: does columbo know the service he did for butch lesbians. for all of us

mutual 6: wish you were here [blurry picture set of conifer woods in early autumn evening, taken as if frantically running down a winding trail]

mutual 4: im pretty hardy i dont need the trigger list but thanks for looking out for me guys

mutual 7: good morning lovelies another day the wizard tried to best me and another day i successfully locked him in the spare bathroom lol hope u like drinking shampoo fucker

mutual 8: here is a zip of every yuri manga scan i have and here is a backup in case i get dcma'd. the himejoshi lifestyle will never die

mutual 9: i wish i could go back in time to the shinzo abe assassination and ask to hold the doohickey

mutual 10: here's my essay on how wanting to be loved is the same as wanting to be eaten. three paragraphs in you'll find out that this is 100% tied to an obscure beauty and the beast manga i've been reading lately and how much i want to fuck the beast

mutual 4: oh thats why there was the trigger list.

mutual 11: YOU CAN'T LOCK ME IN THIS BATHROOM FOREVER

mutual 12: why do i have to defend my thesis to people i dont even respect. im not dickriding you just give me the degree

mutual 13: its just me and this scab ive picked into my scalp against the world

mutual 14: my little dragon got glazed and is ready to go into the kiln! everyone wish him good luck!

mutual 3: nvm i am a beautiful genius. perhaps the most beautiful genius of all

mutual 15: i think we should give david lynch rpgmaker and whatever happens happens

mutual 16: kpeyboaatrds brpokem gpuys

mutual 17: also heres my work in progress glossary of mixtec words! i still have a long way to go but i love being able to preserve my roots even in this small way

mutual 4: i just finished the black rose arc. question: what

mutual 18: i need emet-selch to be my wife

mutual 19: i need glados to be my husband

mutual 20: visited the ocean today!!! <3 beach pics!!! there is a darkness growing within me

mutual 21: the forms for my legal name change came in. pls vote in this poll of what my middle name should be: Dill Pickle (Dickle for short), Optimus Prime, Tumblr User Gorgonicteratologist, Smeve

mutual 22: just finished my 100th book of the year! this weeks read was the uses of enchantment by the psychologist bruno bettelheim,

mutual 23: reeses penis butter cups lol

mutual 4: i need to hunt akio for sport

mutual 24: oouugghhrgh. hot. dog.

mutual 25: your favorite character or fictional other would want you to brush your teeth and wash your face so you're well rested and wake up feeling refreshed! make them proud!

mutual 26: being a delivery driver isnt the worst job ive ever had but i do keep wondering what itd be like to drive off into the wild blue yonder one day and not come back

mutual 27: weird dog? [phone picture of critically endangered stork]

mutual 28: i think the two phone line polls in front of my house are having a lovers tryst. no way to prove it tho

mutual 4: WHAT

mutual 29: while you bitches are balduring your gates or finalling those fantasies im doing what a REAL gamer does. playing a b tier rpg that came out in 2004 for the 18th time

mutual 30: ^ real. hamtaro ham ham heartbreak is a masterpiece of interactive art. im not even going to call it a video game at this point

mutual 4: THAT'S HOW IT ENDS?! ANTHY?

mutual 31: can you help me pick which drawing looks better: 34% overlay or 36% soft light?

mutual 32: new video essay out. its called disability in video game narratives: final fantasy 14's most reliable fault. i churned the script out over an all-nighter and my mic crapped out halfway through but by god i did it

mutual 33: my new zine bundle is out! if you buy it you also get a discount on all my game jam games! i really cant wait for you to play them!

mutual 4: yall should watch revolutionary girl utena

[h0use-fly]

Lunch Break 🥪

[moonytoasted]

how i see the sailors - marauders era

pandora rosier: light brown skin with vitiligo. dyed pale blond hair to match with evan. always cold, so she always wears scarves and hats. her eyes are ocean-blue with pale white lashes. always wearing a necklace her mother gifted her, before it all started.

barty crouch jr: spiky, short black hair. shit-eating grin, always. kinda lanky. always wearing some kind of combat boots. practices stick'n'poke tattoos on himself. gets tons of piercings when he's older. black eyes.

xenophilius lovegood: pale blond mullet, but like a cool mullet. he works out and he's jacked. muggle and wizarding tattoos all over his arms, back, and one on his neck. wears tanks to show them off whenever he can. pale, scary-blue eyes.

bertram aubrey: pale, often sunburnt skin. short copper hair, his bangs are always in his eyes. thick glasses, cracked in one lens. amber eyes with gold flecks in them. clumsy, his knees are almost always scabbed.

sybill trelawney: deeply tanned skin, with light brown curly hair. it's pretty messy and long, halfway to her waist. always wearing flowy clothes in purples and blues. deep green eyes framed by long lashes that she's always picking at.

[scarapanna]

Time to ramble about mana and magic! [Headcanon]

As stated before here, mana is the magical "energy" a cookie has in it's system, this working as a battery for magic in one's body.

It depletes when magic is used (The amount depends on the complexity of what's being done) and when it's low enough it starts to have reprecussions on the cookie itself, these being:

Exaustion and/or hunger

Inability to use more complex spells

it'll take longer to heal one's own wounds (When mana levels are normal a cookie's body will automatically heal any minor injury and seal major ones, while when depleted the body will wait for said levels to go back to normal, thus leaving visible scabs or scar tissue due to shortage of mana)

These symptoms of mana shortages get more intense the more severe the shortage itself is.

When a cookie overexerts itself by using too much mana their body will try to save as much as it can, forcing the individual to cast less consuming spells as when a critically low mana level is reached a cookie faints, it remaining unconcious until said levels aren't as critically low, this can last from a few minutes to multiple hours depending on the severity of the initial mana shortage.

How spells are affected by mana shortages

In spell casters (Wizards, healers,ecc..), mana shortages can also affect a spell's chance of failing or getting out of hand causing a magical outburst :

Magical outbursts are caused by a combination of high stress + low concentration and/or mana levels, these can happen in both shielding and attacking spells when a caster looses control over the strenght and range of a spell (This is seen trough powerful sparks being emitted from the source of a spell, these can harm both the caster and target of damage).

Spell failures produce weak and non-damaging sparks, but block the failed spell temporarely

Both of these effects (alongside very specific circumstances) can cause a cookie's defense mechanism to manifest their magic in a "cursed form"

Recharging mana

To recharge mana and get out of the depleted state breaks from magic usage and simple selfcare are enough, but the fastest and most efficient way to recharge mana is sleep (If the enviroment is ideal for a cookie's magic type the process is sped up significantly)

Cookies with the same magic type can also recharge one another at the expense of their own mana if so desired.

[hinge]

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[ncoincidences]

Dementors vs Inferi

Fudge in chapter 3 of Prisoner of Azkaban, “The Azkaban guards have never yet failed . . . and they are angrier than I’ve ever seen them.“

One interesting thing to note is that throughout the first couple of chapters in Prisoner of Azkaban, the dementors are referred to as "Azkaban guards". Not "creatures" or "horrible things" (as referred by Harry and George later on), just Azkaban guards. By Mr and Mrs Weasley, Fudge, even bus conductor Stan Shunpike.

Along with that, they're referred with a visceral reaction of fear (Fudge shudders, Ern shivers.) However, Mr Weasley is confident: “It’s the Azkaban guards who’ll get him back, you mark my words.”

Yet, they're talked about as if they're human. The Azkaban guards, like the Aurors, the Professors. A simple occupation.

However, the first look we get decidedly paints them as everything less than human.

“Harry’s eyes darted downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract. There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water. . . .”

The explicit comparison to decay and the sight of a hand reaching out reminded me of Harry's first interaction with an Inferius:

“A slimy white hand had gripped his wrist, and the creature to whom it belonged was pulling him, slowly, backward across the rock.”

(An Inferius is described by Dumbledore as “Dead bodies that have been bewitched to do a Dark wizard’s bidding” and by Snape as “merely used like a puppet”.)

First, there’s an aesthetic overlap between dementors and Inferi: Inferi have “sunken, sightless eyes” which is also a universal characterestic to be recognised by, as per the Ministry leaflet in HBP, and though the dementors have their faces covered by a hood, when Harry finally sees them, their eyes are described: “Where there should have been eyes, there was only thin, gray scabbed skin, stretched blankly over empty sockets”

Both Inferi and Dementors are associated with rot and decay.

Inferi's touch are also described - “he felt arms enclose him from behind, thin, fleshless arms cold as death” and similarly, the dementor's: “a pair of strong, clammy hands suddenly attached themselves around Harry’s neck.”

However, a stark difference prevails: the dementors are alive. They breathe, audibly suck in air and happiness, and can lower the temperature of their surroundings to below freezing point.

The dementors are also different from the Inferi in that they're capable of showing emotion; according to Fudge: anger. Dumbledore says, “It is not in the nature of a dementor to understand pleading.”

Which indicates they're more than corpses, more than puppets: they understand, and, to a basic extent, feel. However, they’re strictly defined by their occupation: guarding Azkaban. They're not shown to possess much personality beyond their one task: feed on happiness.

This gives me the sense that Dementors are possibly bred by the Ministry to perform one duty throughout their lifetime - Azkaban guard.

How much control does the Ministry have over a dementor? As a dementor can also affect innocents such as Harry, are they even in control? They can be organised to be sent from one place to another, and communicated with — “I must go down to the dementors,” said Dumbledore. “I said I would inform them when our search was complete.”

They can also break rules. In Chapter 9, Dumbledore is furious at the dementors for breaching Hogwarts grounds and appearing at the Quidditch match. This is because Sirius was on the grounds, watching Harry play. The dementors are very task oriented, focused on Sirius to the point of risking Dumbledore's wrath.

Both Fudge and Mr Weasley state that the Azkaban guards are also on the hunt for Sirius (aside from the entire Ministry itself). I imagine some of them would have been released from Azkaban to track Sirius - based on what? Are they capable of intelligent thinking? Based on Barty Crouch Jr.'s reversal with his mother, they can't see. So do they, like a dog trained to sniff drugs, follow a wizard's trail, perhaps a magical trail only sensed by Dementors?

Or perhaps, as they feed on emotions, they can sense a wizard's emotions and memories... so they'd be looking out for Sirius’ memories, any sliver of happiness felt by him.... this is so interesting to think about. Given the time they've spent near him, they'd know what to look out for.

I'm going to go on an aside, but my theory just reminded me of something:

In chapter 5, The Dementor: a dementor enters Harry's train compartment. Remus says to it: “None of us is hiding Sirius Black under our cloaks. Go.” You know what happens? The dementor didn’t move.

Following my theory of a trail of memories, this implies that Remus was thinking of Sirius on that train. However, Sirius Black is heavily discussed by Harry, Hermione and Ron, so maybe the dementor followed that... Though, I imagine the dementors have a bit of perception to not go after everyone talking or thinking about Sirius Black, because well, in the year of 1992, he was on everyone's minds.

Back on track to my original point.

The casual way dementors are talked about by Fudge and others in the beginning indicate how normalised the dementors are. Until we see the children facing one, they're just "Azkaban guards", before their encounter on the train pulls the veil away to reveal how terrible even a single minute with a dementor is. Only Dumbledore is shown to exhibit resistance and dislike to dementors in the first few chapters.

They're a means of torture disguised as guards to keep the outlaws of the Wizarding World in check and "purifying" the world from those evil and unfit to belong in society. Interesting implications.

At the beginning of PoA, Marge tells Vernon, “If there’s something rotten on the inside, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”

It appears that the Wizarding World’s answer to a “rotten” soul is Azkaban. It follows the same base sentiment and adds on to Marge’s statement: let it rot away. There is no saving. According to Remus, “Dementors are supposed to drain a wizard of his powers if he is left with them too long.”

George says, “Most of the prisoners go mad in there,” and Remus also tells Harry the same, adding, “within weeks [of being imprisoned].”

While a Dark Wizard works against nature by bewitching Inferi to his will, a Dementor works against the human mind and soul, to accelerate the process of decay.

[dramioneasks]

HP FESTS: HP Soulmates Secret Santa

HP Soulmates Secret Santa 2023:

forbidden love (tastes the best) by riddikulus_puff - M, one-shot - Beginning at the end of September, the Ministry of Magic will release and enact its new marriage legislation. Something that has been thought about and rolled around on for months, years even. A quote-on-quote repopulation program to sort out the mess that was caused by the Second Wizarding War. Letters will be sent throughout the day of the 30th of September and will contain instructions that need to be followed swiftly and accordingly or there will be repercussions — in the form of a Ministry official visiting you personally. Repercussions can come in any form and the most extreme will result in both partners being jailed for a few months in Azkaban while new changes to pairings are performed.

The Magic of the Yule Mark by Halliwell19 - T, one-shot - On the Yule after a young witch or wizard turns 21, they receive the most magical thing of all--- the Yule Mark. This is the story of how Hermione Granger got her Yule Mark and shared it with the wizard who she hated the most--- Draco Malfoy.

Things We Never Knew by Soshereadsmaybe - E, 5 chapters - It's a dark wretched scab of a thing, the veins beneath tainted with the curse of a broken bond. It hurts. Merlin, does it hurt down to the bone, it hurts so much her entire body shakes and sweat pools on her brow, and everything in her aches. Her soul aches.

The Heat of You by MarinaJune - T, 3 chapters - A chance touch during Hermione’s Eighth Year results in a whole new area of study involving magic compatibility, soul bonds, and the unlikeliest of pairings. Is there actually such a thing as soul mates, or are there multiple possibilities in a castle full of witches and wizards who’ve recently come of age?

HP Soulmates Secret Santa 2024:

Marked by Mistletoe by SomnophiliaSweetheart - T, one-shot - Draco always wondered how he would find his soulmate, but he never considered it could be someone he'd known most of his life... After some silly Christmas shenanigans involving mistletoe, he and his soulmate find their soul marks!

Peels by Browneyesandhair - G, one-shot - “Is there really magic in everything? Oh? What about an apple? I don’t like the apple skins, so those can’t be magic, right? What could be magical about that?”

Senses by Browneyesandhair - G, one-shot - The last two names on the list made Hermione cringe: Blaise Zabini and Draco Malfoy. She figured that the better one to start with was Blaise.

I'm Healed. Now What? And Why Are They Both So Pretty? by Watson3000 - G, one-shot - Ron took the time to love himself and it feels like everyone moved on without him. He considers how to continue on with his life now but his thoughts keep going to his ex Hermione and her new beau Draco. How can Ron move on with his life when his obvious soulmate is moving forward with the person he can't get off his mind? [Draco x Hermione x Ron]

Confessions Under A Starry Sky by dramione_endgame_always - T, one-shot - Hermione and Draco discover they are soulmates under a starry sky.

Love is Blonde by AlihotsyTotsy - T, one-shot - When Hermione wakes up on the morning of her eighteenth birthday with blonde hair, she learns that it means she has a soulmate. But that can't be true, because she only knows one person with this shade of white-blond hair and he hates her...right?

Rare Discoveries by billowingangel - G, one-shot -  Suddenly there seems to be a widespread epidemic in the British Wizarding community, Hermione’s trying to figure out what it is (and Draco’s nosy).

Tangled in You by StrixXinXiang - T, one-shot - Hermione's alone, hot under the pressure of her work and her husband's thoughts of her. A fluffy, post-marital flirt sess!

Silver and Gold by Jiraffas - G, one-shot - “Do you even know where we’re going?” Draco asked as he grabbed hold of the door handle and the console, his eyes glancing between the road ahead and Hermione behind the wheel. “Of course,” she said. “I… I just have to follow this one road and we’ll be there in an hour.” Draco took a deep breath beside her, but he didn’t say what she was thinking. She had said that two hours ago. - Draco & Hermione. A cabin. A wedding. Rings. And snow. What could possibly happen?

This fest is ongoing.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

You think you’ll ever draw your own interpretations of some of the beasts of the Wizarding World? Like Graphorns, werewolves, boggarts, Hippogriffs, Dementors etc? Since some of the choices in the movies were…odd (I’m looking at you emaciated chihuahua Lupin and Avatar Pandora looking Graphorn?

So, honestly, I'm pretty bad at drawing animals and creatures since I didn't practice it as much as people (though I can work from a reference usually). But, like, if I would, I'd probably approach the design process by basing the creatures off of real animals. I mean, I think the Hippogryphs are gorgeous and I have no complaints because it looks like animals merged together. a lot of mythological beasts are essentially chimeras of different animals ancient people were familiar with. So something that looks like a Hippogryph feels like it could be real because of the familiar aspects of it. I like the Niffler design for the same reason — they feel like a real animal since they are somewhere between a marmot and a platypus. I think they should've taken this approach for most creatures, since they feal like they could belong in the world.

I hate what the movies did to werewolves. It's implied from OotP that werewolves look very similar to regular wolves, just with slight discrepancies:

“ ‘Give five signs that identify the werewolf.’ Excellent question.” [...] “I got the snout shape, the pupils of the eyes, and the tufted tail,” he said anxiously, “but I couldn’t think what else —”

(OotP, Ch28)

So, I would probably draw them as regular wolves, just larger, with shorter snouts and tails and slightly longer legs that are wider apart. Like, I'll just change some body proportions a bit, but not anything that would be noticeable from a large distance if your not familiar with regular wolves.

Here's a very quick shitty edit to illustrate my point (werewolf to the left, regular wolf on the right):

Basically, in my head, werewolves look like large wolfdogs (cross-breeds of wolves and dogs) that some of them don't look quite like wolves or quite like dogs.

In Fantastic Beasts (the book), Graphorns are described as:

Large and greyish purple with a humped back, the Graphorn has two very long, sharp horns, walks on large, four-thumbed feet, and has an extremely aggressive nature. [...] Graphorn hide is even tougher than a dragon’s and repels most spells.

They are also mentioned to be living around mountain trolls, therefore in the mountains. So, If I were designing them, I'd probably base them off of a large mountain animal. Like a takin (which even has the humped back!):

Just make the horns longer and forward-facing, replace the fur with rough-looking greyish-purple skin, and you have a Graphorn. I mean, look at it, it gives such Graphorn vibes.

Basically, if I were designing magical creatures, I'd base them on real animals that actually live in the same environment. That would get the best, most immersive results, I think.

Dementors have a pretty detailed description in the books:

was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Its face was completely hidden beneath its hood. Harry’s eyes darted downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract. There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water. . . .

(PoA, Ch5)

So, the movie design is pretty spot on for the description we are given of dementors, so I don't have many complaints there. Especially, since dementors aren't really a beast. They don't need to fit their environment and look natural where they live because they aren't living. they are bred from dispair so it makes sense they look the way they do. They should look messed up and unnatural.

And Boggarts don't really have a form, since they're shapeshifters.

Like, these are some of the concepts I have about some of it. And I might draw them eventually if I feel like it, but for now, I haven't.

[a-song-of-art-and-fire]

The Kingslaying

"The Kingslayer. The false knight who profaned his blade with the blood of the king he had sworn to defend."

A rather gruesome little diorama for this, our spookiest of months! I've said before how much I love all things Robert's Rebellion, and Jaime's kingslaying is right up there. I think it's a fantastic aspect of GRRM's writing that we're told outright at his first appearance that he's "the kingslayer", and write that off as 'well he must just be sneaky and treacherous as all Lannisters are", and it's only two books later you learn he had complex, nuanced, straight-up heroic reasons for doing it. The heady mix of seige, betrayal, potential patricide, actual regicide, and mass human sacrifice to achieve twisted apotheosis into draconic godhead... it feels like 6 different Greek tragedies crashed headlong into one another, and seeing it all though a haze of steam, hormones, and septic delirium is just... *chefs kiss*.

This diorama was actually pretty thrown together compared to my usual standards. My ASOIAF minis are from a war game, so they need to come up with a lot of distinct units for multiple armies, and the books being pretty low fantasy only really give "late medieval man-at-arms" or "conscripted peasant levy". As such, you get some fairly weird and wonderful units, such as every Baratheon soldier having Robert-style warhammers, or in this case a whole unit in Jaime's lion helmet. For me, this translates to a lot of alternative Jaimes.

I am a bit phobic with Jaime, as I once had to swap his hands very last minute, luckily here he's young and straightforwardly right handed. I don't think the close up is at quite the right angle, but you can see his green eyes under the visor, I'm pretty happy that they look quite frightened/panicked. I added the cloak as well, got to have that iconic "It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around" vibe. This is also the first time I've given him his oft-mentioned gilded sword, I love the blood on it forming the Lannister colours.

Talking of the blood... yes, it's a lot. In my defence, it's actually semi transparent in a way that doesn't show well in photos, but does make it marginally less intense. I also know Jaime actually pulled Aerys up and slit his throat, but I had a hard enough time posing these figures, i thought that would be beyond me. I also like the literal nature of stabbing him in the back, and Mark Addy's delivery of "What of Aerys Targaryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back" is burned into my memory.

Aerys himself is a random wizard miniature I had kicking about, I had to do quite a bit of resculpting to get him right. He has the scabs on his hand, but the Howard Hughes fingernails were beyond my sculpting skills. I made the falling crown myself, again, seven tiny dragons felt a bit ambitious.

[hinge]

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