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The answer to both is, a slender humanoid presentation, average human height, with some embellished velvet, cordovan, silver, and hardened steel. Enough bones for a complete human skeleton. Several were gifts from a deer.

More to the second question; I am today because I was yesterday and I will probably keep going tomorrow.

There's a large crab in the bay, shoveling gold coins out of a broken urn from a ship sunk in the storms last fall. It feels luxurious, like digging your fingers into a big thing of dry beans. It's the last living thing to touch them before deposition spreads them, like butter, into a glittering streak about the size of a surfboard, which is funny. It's the empty urn she wants more than anything. In the absence of light, the only real value of gold is its texture, its weight. She fights an eel over it later. The urn, not the gold. If you get a chance to be a crab, you should. They taste awful.

She knows all, sees all, and exists simultaneously across all realities!

She's politically chaotic and ideologically inconsistent!

She's fun at parties until she assumes your physical form and starts doing things you always wished you could do in front of people!

She can be burned heat in an emergency, knows what's inside a bowling ball, and once turned a man into a version himself that hadn't given up on playing the lute in high school!

Ask her a question.

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Hard, crumbling cheese- parmesan or pecorino. Those will give you the smallest, dryest particles, the littlest discrete bits without becoming paste. They wouldn't be industrial-grade "fine", but you could get them though a screen door.

She knows all, sees all, and exists simultaneously across all realities!

She's politically chaotic and ideologically inconsistent!

She's fun at parties until she assumes your physical form and starts doing things you always wished you could do in front of people!

She can be burned heat in an emergency, knows what's inside a bowling ball, and once turned a man into a version himself that hadn't given up on playing the lute in high school!

Ask her a question.

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She knows all, sees all, and exists simultaneously across all realities!

She's politically chaotic and ideologically inconsistent!

She's fun at parties until she assumes your physical form and starts doing things you always wished you could do in front of people!

She can be burned for heat in an emergency, knows what's inside a bowling ball, and once turned a man into a version himself that hadn't given up on playing the lute in high school!

Ask her a question.

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Happy Make a Terrible Comic Day!

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I was born ready.

whoops I accidentally may have made a mascot. She is a possum with a pencil and her best friend is a mosquito. Let’s see if I even remember them next year

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I love a small drawing, so the tiny OC challenge is right up my miniature alley. Here's a wee Silo that could use this spent brass as a cozy capsule hotel.

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Finished my pages for It Came From Hallowzine!

Now it's time to hurry up and...

So stoked to see everyone's work in print this fall!

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I would love to know more corn dog lore but aside from that Im curious if you have a color palette for Silo in mind and or the Wizard curse marks are they like white "tattoos" or do they very in color or have magical effects to make them standout?

Silo's usually some shade of grey w/ lighter coloration down the front from chin to knees. I don't have a firm color pallete though and it mostly depends on the feel I'm going for.

I usually draw the shoulder markings as a slightly lighter color than the body fur around them but in color I'll usually make them a more pronounced shade of whatever I tint her grey with.

The curse saddles the bearer with a permanent mark that can only be removed by fulfilling the attached conditions. The shape and presentation varies with most marks appearing as altered pigmentation or scar-like tissue. For bearers already covered in fur or hair, they may be hairless or alter hair color, with the effect extending to the skin underneath, like a birthmark or a tiger's stripes.

A particularly skilled mage can attach more complex effects like strange colors, scales, feathers, fur. A particularly vengeful one may tie in additional curses but this requires significantly more input.

In Silo and Joist's case, the "beastly and barren" part is a real premium add-on, a composite of curses that likely required the investment of live animals.

Marks that spread, change shape, or glow are possible but dynamic presentation requires constant input, making them impractical for most mages to sustain. markings that glow might have a greater effect on the bearer, but the caster would have to "feed" the process somehow.

Painful or debilitating marks and psychic effects are also possible but curses that inflict injury or draw power from the body of the bearer are illegal in most human realms. In many human settlements it's legal for vigilantes in good standing to mark pretty criminals with superficial brands, tattoos, scars, or notched ears. For some, a "reversible" curse may seem a more humane and civilized alternative.

At its heart it's just an elaborate magical "fuck you," meant to shame the bearer into compliance. For most people who feel wronged it's cheaper, easier, healthier to move on, cut losses, or write a bunch of nasty graffiti but wizards are not most people and damned if they don't want you to know it.

It's something I've wanted to explore more of in the comic but I've had so many questions about it in the meantime, I don't mind opening up the ol lore drawer.

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If that's binturong,

I don't wanna be binturight.

Binturong

It's been a while since I've last made an animal themed print, shame on me! I've been too focused on fandom stuff lately. :D

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Crittertongue update: G. Pyrenees

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Reposting for Pride, because we love what we love, heal how we heal, and communication and consent are woefully undervalued.

Never to old to learn somethin new about yourself.

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Looks pretty friendly to me.

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Two Friends (1917), black crayon on paper, 29.8 x 46.1 cm. Via Sotheby’s.

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awful streaming drama pitch:

Cryptid Hospital

These hot emotionally wounded doctors are here for you. If you exist. 🏥 🦄🦕🐉🦤👽👾

"DAMMIT Brandyly, I can't make the case for more funding!" 😖

"All of our supplies are expired, Khevyn!" 😡

"Because we haven't consumed any." 😰

"So if the Loveland Frog comes dancing through that door right now, I should just give him EXPIRED insulin?!" 🥺🐸

"Is he diabetic?" 🥺

"How am I supposed to know with expired supplies?!" 😭