littlelovelyspiderling

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sometimes true love is a half dozen cats in a cottage, a library of deadly and crimes-against-gods magic books and the exandrian equivalent of a green card marriage to keep your wanted criminal of a life partner out of fantasy jail all while you flip off your own country's government and mi6 from a lecture hall in front of the impressionable young minds of said country teaching them how be gay and do crime on the empires paycheck

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letting go

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Who needs Wait For November, when u've animator at home ?!! (That's a lie i'm still waiting for november)

Ko-fi

PNG and ref under cut:

Original sketch

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they r so fun to draw 🥹

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nein!

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Hi Tumblr, who was gonna tell me I've had "commissions closed" in my bio this whole time, they're not closed, there's a link on my page.

Anyway here's a doodle of some Shadowgast I did yesterday.

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Van Gogh styled Caleb.  Very fun and instructive to work on.

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Local Artist Cannot Afford Not To Draw Chibi Caleb After Drawing Chibi Essek

including, but not limited to, a discord request to draw chibi Caleb, and i quote, "running into the sea chibiwilly-out"

on a more serious note, if you, like me, are an artist that mainly works in semi-realistic styles, i greatly recommend trying out drawing something exaggeratedly cute. been really healing my brain and heart

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Discord Conversations Result In Chibi Esseks

including but not limited to:

Essek enjoying cauliflower soup

Essek wearing this Elie Saab look

Essek casting Dark Star on broccoli (because it's evil)

Essek from this very serious painting of mine making the >:3 face

here's the deal lads: in the span of two weeks i got ill with covid, lost half of a tooth, accidentally set my bed on fire and had to have my phone repaired with mediocre results. i NEEDED something light in my truly comical life, and drawing tiny Esseks has been a blast. i hope you enjoy them too (he meeps when you pick him up)

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I saw your post about how you didn't know if Johnny had ever been written as queer and I come to you with this, straight from the Marvel Fandom Wiki:

"In 2016, writer Marjorie Liu confirmed Johnny Storm and Akihiro were intentionally written with sexual tension in Daken: Dark Wolverine #4 due to her belief that they previously had a physical relationship…"

https://bisexual-books.tumblr.com/post/153702628757/johnny-storm-is-officially-bipan

eyyy im happy to be proven wrong on this!!

i don’t know much about akihiro but thank you to him for awakening comic johnny’s queerness 😌

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June 2024 to August 2025

Can't believe I've been into cr for over a year already

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Just a little speculation regarding that very first time Essek agreed to teach Caleb dunamancy. Frumpkin is never far, after all… and I like to think that cat is always up in everyone’s business.

And while we’re here, some bonus Caleb:

Are you talking to the cat or yourself, Caleb? 

(you can check out my other cr fanart at #chekhov-draws-critical-role)

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...remind me why we invited them again?

(my piece for the Valeneins Art gallery on twitter, which you can check out right here!)

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Mmmmmmm I love art that captures just how sharp-edged and deliberate Caleb’s change of presentation was when they landed in the Dynasty, in the aftermath of offering the beacon in that throne room; the way he was so very deliberate about going clean-shaven and including Kryn elements in his clothing. 

Like, how fascinating it was to see Caleb move from one survival instinct to another trained survival instinct–to go from presenting himself in a way that will be deliberately overlooked and underestimated, to presenting himself in a way that shows his power and skills and his determination to court this new alliance and strengthen their connection to the powers of the dynasty. It’s so interesting, because I think before this, the only time we see him pull out this tactic and this way presenting himself is when he was cutting their deal with Ophelia Mardun in the aftermath of episode 25. It speaks of Caleb being so desperate to keep his friends safe in these new precarious circumstances and desperate to help Veth, since they had just found out her entire situation. (I also forget that the table was convinced they had burned every bridge to the empire. I’m still thinking of Travis being like, THIS ENTIRE PART OF THE MAP?? WE CAN NEVER GO BACK HERE. Hilarious.)

And it makes the early shadowgast dynamic still absolutely fascinating to me, because all the careful charm that they aimed at each other was completely underlaid with this wary, sharp-edged maneuvering for position and favors. Especially since it later became apparent that Essek was also frantically trying to collect leverage over the M9 to be able to deal with them as necessary and cover his tracks from the beacon heist.  Even after all this time, I feel as though I’m still teasing apart what exactly Essek’s objectives were at this point in time, or at least what he thought his plan was–because it certainly wasn’t to be befriended by this bunch of chucklefucks and turn his back on everything he’s worked for up to this point. Like, why give spells, why teach these bits of highly-classified knowledge, when there were so many other things that he could offer them in terms of connections to the Kryn ruling class, which Caleb was himself trying to forge? (I mean, there’s the Doylist explanation, which is Matt giving Liam cool dunamancy spells to play with, haha. And there’s the explanation that Essek had no fucking clue what he was doing and was just frantically trying to collect favours and see it he could shape it into something to his advantage.)

Like, I love the way the 12-persuasion dunamancy lessons were underlaid with the both of them operating on crisis mode under several layers of masks to appear as impressive as possible and ingratiate themselves to each other, and all the while trying to piece together each other’s motives for doing this. And finding a connection despite and because of that. Fantastic. I love it.

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I would like to let you know that your fics are canon to me. I haven't watched the new f4 but the way they often portray Johnny as a loser womanizer in media (at least the films) is so old and boring. He is obviously a gay loser who may be in love with a spider. So thank you for rewriting my brain chemistry

awww wow thank you kind friend 💞 i love how neither johnny or peter have ever (at least to my knowledge) been canonically gay in any capacity but everyone saw him & peter’s comic interactions and were like “there’s simply no heterosexual explanation to this.”

i appreciate your love of how i portray him & thank you for your nice message 🤗

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Enforced Prestidigitation after every single fight in an underground ruins of an ancient city can be so personal…