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Because I have a similar problem, I have created the basics of a google calendar for this, only adding only the days I know of personally (figuary, mermay, hourly comics day, make a terrible comic day, art fight, drawtober or whatever replaced it, huevember).

Here.

If there are any other special days please lemme know, I would like to actually track this shit for my own personal notes too lol.

Edit: added a bunch, like swordtember and kaijune. I have also added a description to each and a link to either a page explaining it or an example. I don't have as many art-themed drawing days because I am not tuned in enough to social media.

Apparently it was "Make a Terrible Comic Day" yesterday and I had no idea

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Some sketches of Knight-General Amélie Vasseret, who becomes queen at some point and I literally never drew during the campaign she was actually in until it finished.

Had to get her armor design in pre-art fight.

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ayyyyy I'll be in art fight this year as team fossil!

I try to get vengeance on everyone that attacks me. Managed both years so I'll try it again this year. :)

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Some sketches of Knight-General Amélie Vasseret, who becomes queen at some point and I literally never drew during the campaign she was actually in until it finished.

Had to get her armor design in pre-art fight.

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Are you joining art fight this year!!

I will be! :)

I've been a bit busy as of late, but I will be choosing my side and posting about it soon. :D

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There are thousands of things I could be doing. Instead, I listened to the voice that told me to Sin and decided to randomly make Kjosev portraits in the style of Nyapu's Stardew Valley portrait mod.

Bonus: I also did a version where he has Regular Man skin and then a version where he has closer colors to traditional dusk elves from Curse of Strahd.

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There are thousands of things I could be doing. Instead, I listened to the voice that told me to Sin and decided to randomly make Kjosev portraits in the style of Nyapu's Stardew Valley portrait mod.

Bonus: I also did a version where he has Regular Man skin and then a version where he has closer colors to traditional dusk elves from Curse of Strahd.

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Veles the Eternal

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Future warlord, Strahd von Zarovich.

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Did a height chart of some of the more popular NPCs from our CoS campaign, forgot to include the Brides (feedback from my party includes "I can fix her" and "I don't want to, they're perfect"), did a sketch of Izek and then threw in one of the Reformers, Legolai, at the end (from MandyMod's).

Height chart order from left to right, first image: Aleksandra (Interactive Tome of Strahd), younger Strahd (they haven't met the vampire one yet), Rahadin, Kasimir, Ireena, Legolai (MandyMod's Reformation Center), Ivalice (MandyMod's Reformation Center), Izek, Rictavio.

Second image: Ludmilla, Volenta, Anastrasya.

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Future warlord, Strahd von Zarovich.

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violence

(style test + test of drawing someone who has gotten the shit kicked out of them).

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Usually I wait until pride month to post these, but it's on my mind lately. I am a transgender male in a blue state. I am moderately well-off, and quite privileged. I'm not saying that as a flex -- I'm saying that to give you a general idea of how I 'should' be able to weather difficulties relating to the political climate. I am bisexual, married to a cisgender man.

I know this is a lot of 'me, me, me.' I know people have it far worse than I do. But these are my experiences, as someone who should be pretty insulated in a blue state.

I've currently been working on getting my Canadian citizenship certificate due to the circumstances in the States. I didn't realize for some reason I'd qualify, despite knowing my mother was born in Ontario. I had called the lawyers I'm working with about a month ago, receiving a price quote. When I called them today and told them the price, they actually informed me they had raised it (but kept the old price for me). Apparently they've received so many calls they're overwhelmed and are trying to slow down applicants.

I was able to update my documents such as my SSN and Birth Certificate before the changeover. Unfortunately, I didn't get my passport, and wound up needing it for the citizenship certificate. In spite of my birth certificate being up-to-date, they referenced an older passport I possessed and marked me down as 'F' while politely informing me through letter they had "corrected" my birth sex. I now sit in a weird limbo where my birth certificate is correct and my passport isn't -- a strange inverse of what usually happens.

In getting my documentation involving my court ordered name change from Texas, for the first time they asked me for my ID. I've ordered the information multiple times in the past and they've never asked. They asked over an unsecure line (personal e-mail), and considering Texas' love of starting databases of trans people it doesn't give me much comfort. I am fortunately no longer in that state. But I don't know what they'll do with the information.

My previous clinic in Texas closed down. My new clinic in Massachusetts has started referring to my visits as diabetes consultation rather than HRT. I'm thankful for that, but also somewhat unnerved they feel they need to make these steps.

My stepmother wants me to travel to London with her, as I've never visited and she's got family and friends there. As I am a passing transgender male who may make women uncomfortable in women's spaces, it's safest if I don't use public bathrooms at all.

I've started looking into TSA Pre-Check for travel. I've been detained before, as my binder and anatomy triggers their body scans, and I expect this to be a more frequent occurrence -- particularly out of red states. TSA Pre-Check allegedly allows you to avoid the body scan, hopefully saving me from that potential situation.

I planned on traveling outside the country to go to a friend's wedding. I am now unsure if I will get harassed at the border. My passport designation being wrong is somewhat of a mixed-blessing, because if I trigger their scans I'll at the very least just be treated as a confused mislead woman rather than have my passport confiscated. Or worse, treated as a threat.

I'm worried about my husband's job. He's a civilian contractor at the DoD. He's been pretty insulated from the impacts on federal workers, but as he works in cyber-security he is in obvious need of a security clearance. Considering the administration has been using withdrawal of security clearances as punishment for organizations who are not in lock-step with his policies, I'm afraid his marriage to me may impact his future. Trump's wording of the military ban on trans people has been comments about their "'dishonesty and moral weakness." I can see association with me making him seem untrustworthy enough to revoke his clearance.

This isn't even getting into how he's been impacted in other ways. His old boss took the deferred retirement (she was a civilian fed employee). His current boss is getting a divorce over it, as the RTO mandate requires him to drive 5 hours into office and has strained his already frayed marriage. Due to his training in cyber-security he's been able to tell me aaaaaaall the ways the administration is currently fucking up.

Speaking of my husband, fun fact! The SAVE act that's passed through the House and is likely partially intended to stop trans people (and married women!) from voting will not stop me from voting. But it will stop my cisgender husband, who took my last name in our marriage. I'm encouraging him to get his passport to address this.

Reading my old pride posts is honestly depressing, at this point. They started very optimistic, and have only grown darker over time. I don't think this is even the worst it can become. I'm dreading Pride this year.

I wish I had better news for everyone. I don't even have it 'that bad,' and it's still... worse than I expected, honestly.

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haunting.

(Kasimir and Patrina from our game)

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I don't usually reblog older stuff (to my detriment) but I got reminded of this because someone tagged this as "braid tutorial" and now I think about it every single time I draw braids.

and yes, I do reference it occasionally to remember how to draw braids.

Learning how to braid hair in the apocalypse. Dialogue from my pf2e campaign.

Wanted to draw this little scene Kjosev and Tereza had that I thought was sweet. Also mess around with a new drawing style. Because I was playing around with it, some of the style kind of changes throughout. Also, I guess in fairness, I did kind of move in the middle of it.

Either way, it was fun! I love drawing these two. Also my husband brought up it's hilarious that in the middle of this fantasy comic with a blue elf there's literally just. a tutorial. on hair braiding.

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THE RED DEATH

Spoilers for my Curse of Strahd campaign underneath.

So this time around in Curse of Strahd, I decided everyone gets a patron dark power. Last time I ran it some of my players were kind of disappointed they never got one, so I just said fuck it, and gave them an option to choose (although it was left vague).

One player, however, due to their backstory... we actually gave 'em a special dark power: the Red Death.

The Red Death is the only dark power exiled by the others for 'breaking the rules.' What rules? It won't say. But it left it with a loathing for the other dark powers, and is determined to keep them trapped -- or better yet, destroyed.

In its exile it too was trapped in amber... until its release by Heshky (a PC in the group). Now that he's stuck in Barovia, the Red Death has reached back out to him and given him a request: keep the other dark powers trapped. Do not allow them to tempt the other party members and gain power. Find a way to destroy them. And do not tell the others. It'll be their little secret.

Is it doing it for a morally good reason? Of course not. It wants revenge. After that? Who knows what it wants.

I'm trying to find a proper source, but the Red Death is based off of the module for 2e, The Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales. Its designer at one point confirmed its connection to Ravenloft:

The basic story is that, on "Gothic Earth", a malevolent and corrupting entity called the Red Death, hinted to be akin to the Dark Powers of Ravenloft (and confirmed by the creator and an early preview to be one exiled for breaking some rule the rest had), has been messing around and fouling up the world for centuries, trying to plunge it into eternal (spiritual) darkness.

I know there's technically new Dementlieu, a dread realm with a 'Red Death' wandering around (from 5e's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft)... but I thought that was lame compared to the whole concept of a dark power exiled for trying to get people to sin. So I changed it.

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:) Slightly fleshed out sketch.

The campaign epilogue for Kjosev. My boy got his happy ending with a wife and three daughters.