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A little Shaping Up doodle dump where SD hangs out with Shop (latter one in various animal forms)

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Wick's End Masterpost

Set in a fantasy RPG, selfless soldier Glendale cheats death at the cost of living on with a curse. Now 6" tall, he quests with his personal servant Harry (a dog that has mysteriously turned human) and comrade Freya to find cures for their respective ailments.

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A lighthearted fantasy adventure story that transforms its zany premise into a meaningful exploration of the burnout experience. Wick's End is SFW and for all audiences, with occasional themes of substance usage.

( Webcomic by @eightyuh - Professional inquiries: eightyuh @ gmail)

Pilot Chapter 1 (Canon remake of pilot - Coming next) Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 (Coming soon)

Please refer back to this original source of this post for updates!

What was your inspiration to make this? The story is based off of a dream that I had.

When will the comic be updated? There are 10 planned chapters total, but it will only be updated when I feel inspired to do so.

Can I draw the characters? Yes! Just keep it SFW.

What kind of dog is Harry? He’s an Australian Shepard!

NOTICE:

You are welcome to submit Tumblr asks to the characters!

N*S*F*W / K*NK DO NOT INTERACT

Glendale Goodwyn (Toyhouse) (Artfight)

Harry (Toyhouse) (Artfight)

Freya Ferguson (Toyhouse) (Artfight)

Glen and Harry pre-story (2)

Bathing

All Alternate Universe depictions are tagged under #WICK'S END AU

Genderbent (2) (3)

Tiny Harry AU (Comic) (Hashtag)

As Dogs

Dungeon Meshi Crossover (2)

Bodyswap

All fan-creations can be viewed under the tag #WICK'S END FANART

Majora’s Mask, The Dark Crystal, Princess Tutu, Ranking of Kings, Project .hack, Angel's Advocate

Special thank you to Zoe and Dani, my story editors & info-dumping confidants

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Hi! Just wanted to make a post to bring attention to some of the creators out there ✨ There are so many awesome artists and writers around that deserve all the love 💖 Some that I’d like to point out especially are

@artsbyellie makes art of giants and monsters, has fun reblogs, and some wildly unique worldbuilding ideas! 👹

@exileseverafter follows the events of Jack and the Beanstalk, but from the POV of a giant who’d helped Jack escape- and is now exiled to the land of humans, curses, and powerful fairies 🔮 You can read it on AO3!

@wicksend is a comic about a soldier who gets shrunk! You can follow his journey trying to adjust to his knew life, and whether or not he can return to his old size ⚔️

@pocket-ozwynn writes and reblogs gentle giantesses with themes of fluff, angst, healing, and hope 🫶

@entomolog-t writes, draws, and reblogs gentle giantesses and monster coded smols, exploring angst and power dynamics🩸

@guaxinimraccoon makes art of Toby and Brad and their mixed sized family. The two don’t know it at first, but the human and imp are blood brothers?! 🍃

@diddlesanddoodles has writing of a girl and her giant found family who work in the palace kitchens 🍞 But there’s also magic and mystery, and the dark history of a war…

@fallingthroughvisualcompanion has writing following a young girl who finds herself trapped in LOTR’s Middle Earth, taken in by the dwarves and helped by the skin changer Beorn. But there’s danger lurking for the outsider, too 🐻 You can read it on AO3!

And if you’re curious, I also make stuff 😉 If you’d like, check out my art blog Novalunosis-Numinous! 🌙

If you know of any artists, writers, or creatives you want to shoutout, feel free! Let’s give them some love! 👏✨

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GT July: Coveted

Characters are from The Exiles Ever After. Her Imperial Eternity. Weaver of the Golden Thread of Fate. Blessed of the Faerie Queen, The Ever After Empress Valerian. 

Scarlet Sun, Rider of the Blazing Day, never really absorbed the meanings of all of Her titles until he first saw Her. And then he knew. 

She was graceful. She was wise. She was secretive, her every hand gesture and smile the calculated result of hundreds of thousands of minds processing in tandem. Everything She did, every action Her systems took moved the world a little closer to domination and eternal peace under the Empire. Knowing more about how She worked than most citizens and officials just made Her more terrifying, more awe-inspiring and beautiful. 

She was beautiful. No matter how many bodies She used and shed, the inner beauty of Her authority and power shone through. And Scarlet was in love with Her, all of her many minds and bodies.

It was that love that brought about a jealousy he knew could ruin him. 

Scarlet was a Flowerling, the smallest of the Kinfolk who lived in a “world of towers,” as the philosophers liked to call it. The Empress’s current body was human. He could comfortably sit in the palm of Her hand if She ever invited him to do so. He had been proud of his small size, how it served him as a spy and assassin, excerpt…

Oh, to stand face-to-face with the Empress, as human-sized Dark Midnight could do. To tower over Her and bow to one knee as Her gigantic warrior, as Bright Morning did. He loved his fellow Riders, but oh, to be all of those things and his tiny, wily self, to be her one Rider. 

It was a betrayal in his heart, treason against the vow of equal duty the three Riders shared. And it was nearly impossible. To shift back and forth so quickly without dying, to change size so dramatically, it was something no one in memory had done before. 

And Scarlet wanted it in the depths of his soul. He wanted to be her Flowerling, and her human, and her giant. 

He wanted to be Her everything, so that one day Her myriad minds would look upon him and only him.

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Exiles Ever After Book 3 UPDATED

So for some reason, two very plot-important chapters didn't make it to the AO3 posting of Exiles Book 3. I found them and figured out how to integrate them. If you have already read book 3, the "new" chapters are Chapter 15 "The Pure Heart" and Chapter 51 "Wish and Witch." I highly suggest giving them a look, as you can't imagine how annoyed I was with myself when I realized they weren't there for some reason.

If you haven't read Book 3, theeeen this won't really be relevant to you! But now you get to read the complete version! So there.

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GT July 2024: Overbearing

Characters are from The Exiles Ever After on AO3.

Marjorie: Human, handmaiden and bodyguard to Princess Philomene. Also a jester, but they're very far from court at the moment. Philomene: Princess Philomene Marl Thumbelina, a Flowerling (about 3 inches tall) who had to flee Thumbelina Kingdom due to a disastrous curse.

Marjorie moved through the village with a perfectly painted smile, her acting skills presenting her to all the (human) world as merely a young, wealthy woman visiting the countryside for her ailing health. She knew exactly what to say to charm a few extra apples out of a merchant and how to slip into even a small crowd in order to detract attention from herself. She could not let even a little bit of insecurity or fear slip through, in case anyone decided she might have something to hide.

Which she very much did.

“Marjorie,” a tiny voice called up from the inconspicuous pouch she wore in her dress, “do you see anything suspicious? Any unusual plants? I suppose that would be too obvious, wouldn’t it. Still, even so much as a rose that’s a little off-color?”

The young woman covered her face with her fan so no one would notice her quailing as she ducked into a small alleyway, peering down at the pouch.

“Pardon, Your Highness,” she whispered, “but please, I don’t think anyone should see us conversing! I don’t want to draw attention to you!”

“I know, I know. But this is my investigation too!” Technically, the Flowerling princess Philomene was heading it. “If you’re to be my eyes and ears I need to offer input, don’t I?” She was peering out from the entrance now, up at her human handmaiden and bodyguard.

“Yes, but…” 

Philomene was usually very cautious and aware of how perilous the human world was for Flowerlings, who could sit comfortably in a human hand, but being separated from her kingdom had understandably put her on edge. She was clearly in a hurry to get back to her research, though there was little to be done about that until they found a decent place for them both to hide.

“You could get pickpocketed. They might think I have some kind of fancy toy with me someone could sell. Worse, they might realize you’re not just a Flowerling traveling outside of a Colony-City, you’re obviously someone of importance.” 

“Ah, you’re…worried I might be kidnapped and held for ransom, Marjorie?”

“I know it sounds dramatic, but, you are a princess.” Even Marjorie knew that things just tended to happen to princesses in stories, and those were usually human-sized ones. Philomene could be kidnapped by a crow if Marjorie wasn’t careful.

The tiny princess sighed and shuffled around to a sitting position in her pouch, the layers of her flower petal-like gown falling around her. “You’re right, I am being foolhardy. I will keep a low profile. But in return, once we find a place to stay, please do remember that you don’t need to hover over me all the time. You’ll make yourself ill with the stress, and I am older,” she added with a hint of humor to her voice.

Marjorie gazed down at her royal charge, then let her shoulders sag. “I suppose if I make myself ill that’ll just be more trouble for you. Alright, do keep a low profile and I’ll find you some privacy. In fact,” she said as she spotted a fancy dollhouse in a shop window, “I think I have just the thing!”

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GTJuly 2024: Warmth

Characters and setting are from The Exiles Ever After on AO3. CW for brief discussion of emotional abuse.

In the Sky, Ezra slept sitting up in a chair. Master Tooth used the spare bedroom for storage. Ezra was told he could have it if he could ever clean it all out and find room for all the supplies in Tooth’s cottage, but Tooth kept his indentured servant busy from before sunrise to late in the evening and there was never time. It was one of the bitter jokes Tooth liked to play on him, promising a boon if Ezra could complete a task and then making sure it was impossible. 

He grew used to the wooden chair, sleeping in the kitchen with an old quilt draped over him. In the winter, when the cool air seeped beneath the door and painted frost on the Clouds, he moved the chair closer to the hearth and shivered next to the embers. #

In Ezra’s cabin on the ground, he insisted on sleeping in the kitchen. The bedroom belonged to Marjorie and her tiny princess even if it was lawfully his house now, and he didn’t feel right sharing a room with strangers.This time he had a nice, upholstered chair that was frankly a bit too big for him and a table to lean on, and he thought that would be enough. 

Which is why he was surprised when his new human acquaintances kept insisting on bringing over pillows or blankets to keep him warm in the early spring snap. Marjorie made him take one of the fancy, frilly pillows from the strangely-decorated bedroom, and Basil came by with a quilt made by his grandmothers and draped it over Ezra even though he had to climb atop the table to do it. He’d always heard that human body temperatures were naturally a bit lower than Skykin, due to their smaller size, so perhaps they were just sure he’d freeze without them.

He didn’t live in that cottage very long, but he slept better there. #

When Ezra was on the road with his new friends and (somehow, miraculously) boyfriend, he couldn’t always fit in the inns. They were built for humans, which was to be expected, and only a few could accommodate Skykin. The first time that happened, he insisted he would be fine sleeping outside, for spring was rapidly giving way to early summer. As long as he didn’t think too hard about all the insects crawling about, it would be easy.

That wasn’t what happened. Instead, the rest insisted on sleeping outside with him. 

Ezra slept on a blanket draped on the ground. Marjorie slept right on his back, cradling Philomene carefully atop her in her hands. Basil huddled in between Ezra’s bulk and that of Aurora, the white bear rumbling softly in her sleep and leaning against Ezra.

That night, surrounded by friendship and love, knowing it was real and true and not a cruel promise, Ezra felt a warmth so overwhelming he thought it might overflow from him. And he had the best sleep of his life. 

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Gonna try (some of) these for Exilesverse. Keep an eye out!

♡ GT July 2024 Prompt List ♡

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Domain Stuff

So I'm probably going to let the exileseverafter wordpress domain expire since...honestly, it's been years, I'm not using it, and I have to cut expenses. I'm not sure at this point if I'll just keep AO3 as the home of Exiles or try cross-posting it to Royalroad at some point, though I'd really have to look into Royalroad's policies. (I'm also not sure it's the kind of story that fits Royalroad's demographics? Just like it wasn't quite a fit for Wattpad.)

Anyway, it's still up at AO3 and that's where I'll be putting any future chapters. AO3 isn't the best place to get engagement on original fiction and all, but I just really like their tagging systems.

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thumbelina ✨

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Flower 🪷

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The Author of Exiles Rereads All Of Exiles Published So Far

That's right, I did it. In preparation for Book 4, I started rereading something I started writing...like...ten years ago or something. And you know what? It's pretty good! Turns out I like my stuff!

Behind the cut are a lot of rambling thoughts on each book, along with anything I might have done differently. Mild spoilers, but mostly just authorial navel-gazing.

Book One thoughts: Hey, did you know that if you're making any kind of longform work you should consider taking notes on things like character hair/eye color and background details? And also, it's good to have a beta reader? Because I don't know if I had either at the time of book one! And there are sooo many little continuity errors I noticed! They aren't things you're likely to catch unless you're looking for them, but it makes me think I want to go back at some point and not rewrite book one entirely, but just edit it a little. Fix some errors. It's still solid, and I'm pretty sure me being the author is the only reason it kind of felt like that "Spot the Errors" episode of Garfield and Friends. (Side note: If you can find it on the web, please watch the Garfield and Friends episode "Mistakes Will Happen." It's one of the funniest things ever, with far too many jokes to catch in one viewing for something that predates the internet.)

Also, it turns out that if you try to read something by downloading it in PDF form off of AO3 and putting it on your phone via Kindle, it does unholy things to the formatting. So I do not recommend reading Exiles (or anything else) like that.

Errors aside, god, this was nostalgic. One reason I started this reread was to get back into the heads of the characters, and it all started coming back to me right away. I can go oh, there's where I figured out how this would end. That's when this first comes up. Neat! Also there are some genuine accidental foreshadowing bits that lead into book three, of all things.

Book Two thoughts: Wow, this is long. It's easily the longest of the three, and I'm not sure how well the pacing holds up in retrospect. I was very much writing as a "weekly serial" rather than a novel at this point, and it shows for better or worse. There are chapters where I can tell I was just trying to get something up. Did you know if you write something with regular updates, it's a good idea to have a backlog instead of just writing week to week?

That said, this is where I started to shake off the constraints of "everything must be rooted in some preexisting fairy tale" and I think that's for the best. I started pulling inspiration from 50s pulp sci fi, Little Shop of Horrors, what people in the 90s thought VR was going to be like, and buddy cop flicks. I was figuring out my gender at the time I introduced Rem Tera, and wanted a nonbinary character whose issues were not centered around what were Nonbinary Character Tropes at the time, i.e. 'figuring out nonbinary was a thing, explaining it to others, which bathroom to use, etc.'

I also like playing with scale in unusual ways, and one thing I wanted to lean into was how to create a threatening antagonist who was a few inches tall in a world where people came in giant size. It turns out the answer is 'give him some big monsters to command and scary levels of manipulative charisma.' Lord Germain, you are the worst but I am so proud of you.

Note: I think there may be a chapter missing from the original Jukepop posting. I'll try to go through and fix it soon.

Still also very happy with the final arc, even if the story does a bit of narrative water treading to get there. This book has the most 'quiet time' with the characters, and I think in the long run it helped me flesh out the relationships established in book one and the new ones forming in book two. Especially since book three is pretty story-heavy. Speaking of! Book Three thoughts: Wow, this is like post-timeskip One Piece where one thing just leads right into another. It's unsurprising, since a lot of the plot threads laid in books one and two really activate here. Libra and Valerian have a been a presence from the beginning and Blue was hinted at as far as the Moonflower Market. So yes, I was sitting on those for a while and happy to set them off here.

No Reflection is probably the most difficult original fic work I've written so far. To give you an example, I started it too soon after finishing Of Rot and Bloom and was stalled out for years afterwards. The good news is that like any creative project that isn't made of expiring materials, you can pick a story up at any time. One day I finally decided to ditch the chapter I was stuck on, write something else and start the ball rolling again.

And it worked! I finished it. More or less. There's something of a Nona the Ninth/Alecto the Ninth "book 3 and 4 are part of a piece" feeling to the end of Book Three, but I do try to end on at least a climactic element. There are just a lot more cliffhangers this time around.

Man, I'm mean to Basil in this book and this isn't even his book! Poor guy is gonna have it rough in Book Four.

ALSO, there are at least two missing chapters, and they're important ones that reveal major plot elements. In fact, one is right in the climax. I need to fix that ASAP. Presumably AO3 lets you insert chapters? I'll figure out how.

So, what does this mean for Book Four? It means it's definitely happening, though I don't want to say it's happening immediately. Maybe after the New Year. I have some chapters prewritten for Book Four I want to revise, and this time I'm making sure I have a healthy backlog and a plot outline worked out.

For everyone who's read any part of Exiles, thanks so much for supporting me thus far! I really appreciate it. Wouldn't be able to keep up this much enthusiasm without you. And if you're thinking of writing (or drawing, or animating) your own original thing, my advice is just to do it! Just jump in. Yeah, it won't be perfect, but you'll learn by doing, and an imperfect story that exists is always better than the idealized one trapped in your head.

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Could you draw a very VERY small cta?

Is this small enough?

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Hi!! this is completely random but a while ago when I finished exiles book 1 I made these memes, and I thought you might appreciate them (there's also one about the beginning of book 2)

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I will say, reading One Piece and now Basara are really helping me get back into the Exiles-writing mood. Of course, it's one thing to get into a writing mood and another to PLOT OUT A FINALE BOOK, which is why when I'm done with Basara I'm gonna do a reread of Exiles on my own.

This means I might occasionally post a scene with "writer's commentary" here, in order to keep motivating myself.

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Commissions are Open! DM me if you’d like one done for yourself!

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I have an ongoing fairy tale mashup with giants and tiny people as main characters!  The Exiles Ever After

GT STORIES MEGATHREAD

there are so few writers still operating in the g/t world, let’s make a thread of some stories! They can be yours or, if you don’t write, post old ones from dead accounts that you love!

Some of mine:

Apocalypse

Darkshot