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CW/TW: Blood, slit throat, implications of self-harm/suicide

"His lips stretched further, baring large, glistening teeth in a chilling, crooked grin. Eyebrows pulling together, the imposter's shaking hands withdrew the razor from the opposite side, holding his other hand upwards as if to present the angry slash. As if to say, 'Look at me. I’ve done it at last.'"

Writing by the wonderfully talented @/kat.the.storysmith

I'm very happy with how this turned out. I had to redraw it multiple times to get the pose and overall vibe right. It just felt so stiff every other time I tried to draw it. But anyway... I'm happy with it now! More context for the overall concept and story is in Chapter 4 of "Never Forgive, Always Forget." If you love Sweeney Todd, please give it a read. It's been my dream project for 10 years now, and my friend who is a very talented writer has made Volume 1 of this story a reality for me. Please check it out! 🙏❤️

READ NEVER FORGIVE, ALWAYS FORGET ON AO3 | WATTPAD

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10 Non-Lethal Injuries to Add Pain to Your Writing

If you need a simple way to make your characters feel pain, here are some ideas: 

1. Sprained Ankle

A common injury that can severely limit mobility. This is useful because your characters will have to experience a mild struggle and adapt their plans to their new lack of mobiliy. Perfect to add tension to a chase scene.

2. Rib Contusion

A painful bruise on the ribs can make breathing difficult, helping you sneak in those ragged wheezes during a fight scene. Could also be used for something sport-related! It's impactful enough to leave a lingering pain but not enough to hinder their overall movement.

3. Concussions

This common brain injury can lead to confusion, dizziness, and mood swings, affecting a character’s judgment heavily. It can also cause mild amnesia.

I enjoy using concussions when you need another character to subtly take over the fight/scene, it's an easy way to switch POVs. You could also use it if you need a 'cute' recovery moment with A and B.

4. Fractured Finger

A broken finger can complicate tasks that require fine motor skills. This would be perfect for characters like artists, writers, etc. Or, a fighter who brushes it off as nothing till they try to throw a punch and are hit with pain.

5. Road Rash

Road rash is an abrasion caused by friction. Aka scraping skin. The raw, painful sting resulting from a fall can be a quick but effective way to add pain to your writing. Tip: it's great if you need a mild injury for a child.

6. Shoulder Dislocation

This injury can be excruciating and often leads to an inability to use one arm, forcing characters to confront their limitations while adding urgency to their situation. Good for torture scenes.

7. Deep Laceration

A deep laceration is a cut that requires stitches. As someone who got stitches as a kid, they really aren't that bad! A 2-3 inch wound (in length) provides just enough pain and blood to add that dramatic flair to your writing while not severely deterring your character.

This is also a great wound to look back on since it often scars. Note: the deeper and wider the cut the worse your character's condition. Don't give them a 5 inch deep gash and call that mild.

8. Burns

Whether from fire, chemicals, or hot surfaces, burns can cause intense suffering and lingering trauma. Like the previous injury, the lasting physical and emotional trauma of a burn is a great wound for characters to look back on.

If you want to explore writing burns, read here.

9. Pulled Muscle

This can create ongoing pain and restrict movement, offering a window to force your character to lean on another. Note: I personally use muscle related injuries when I want to focus more on the pain and sprains to focus on a lack of mobility.

10. Tendonitis

Inflammation of a tendon can cause chronic pain and limit a character's ability to perform tasks they usually take for granted. When exploring tendonitis make sure you research well as this can easily turn into a more severe injury.

This is a quick, brief list of ideas to provide writers inspiration. Since it is a shorter blog, I have not covered the injuries in detail. This is inspiration, not a thorough guide. Happy writing! :)

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Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) as Hamlet (1899-1900)

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I am so serious when I say if you want to learn about light, you NEED to at least look at modeseven’s tutorials. even if you’re not pursuing a painterly style, this is all essential theory that can be easily adapted to different coloring styles. notice how none of these ever say ‘light with these colors and shade with these colors’? notice how this is teaching how light works on a mechanical level, and reminding the audience to adjust the actual colors they choose by context? THAT is good advice.

(if you’re thinking ‘wow I want to study more of this persons art!’ I encourage you to do so, but proceed with the knowledge that modeseven draws pretty much exclusively weird as hell kink art. sometimes wisdom comes from horny places)

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Cute commission. Acrylic on 16”x20” canvas.

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wait do you have any good goretober lists im late for it cause of the floods but i still wanna draww

oh my god. the floods. wow i hope you're okay!

but no 👍 i do not. but uhhh fuck gimme a sec i remember i made one ages ago lmao. okay here it is, idk if that's anything

also i saw slime-t00th (the best artist ever in the world) bring up their old one too, [HERE]

but uhmm @ everyone? feel free to reblog this and link to your or others' lists? or send them linked into my inbox..?

(also you better tag me in your entries once you've drawn them, whichever list you choose 🫵)(this goes for everyone btw)

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woah this character is so cool i wish they were covered in blood their whole body trembling with a look of absolute horror on their face as theyre struggling to breathe in panic

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A Guide to Making Up Diseases (as Explained by a Biologist)

So listen up y’all, nothing drives me crazier as both a writer and a scientist than seeing alien diseases that make no fuckin’ sense in a human body. 

If you’re talking about alien diseases in a non-human character, you can ignore all this.

But as far as alien diseases in humans go, please remember:

DISEASE SYMPTOMS ARE AN IMMUNE RESPONSE.

Fever? A response to help your immune cells function faster and more efficiently to destroy invaders.

Sore/scratchy throat? An immune response. Diseases that latch onto the epithelium of the throat (the common cold, the flu) replicate there, and your body is like “uh no fuckin’ thanks” and starts to slough off those cells in order to stop the replication of new virus in its tracks. So when it feels like your throat is dying? guess what it literally is. And the white spots you see with more severe bacterial infections are pus accumulation, which is basically dead white blood cells, and the pus is a nice and disgusting way of getting that shit outta here.

(No one really knows why soreness and malaise happens, but some scientists guess that it’s a byproduct of immune response, and others suspect that it’s your body’s way of telling you to take it easy)

headache? usually sinus pressure (or dehydration, which isn’t an immune response but causes headaches by reducing blood volume and causing a general ruckus in your body, can be an unfortunate side effect of a fever) caused by mucous which is an immune response to flush that nasty viral shit outta your face.

Rashes? an inflammatory response. Your lymphocytes see a thing they don’t like and they’re like “hEY NOW” and release a bunch of chemicals that tell the cells that are supposed to kill it to come do that. Those chemicals cause inflammation, which causes redness, heat, and swelling. They itch because histamine is a bitch.

fatigue? your body is doing a lot–give it a break!

here is a fact:

during the Spanish 1918 Plague, a very strange age group succumbed to the illness. The very young and very old were fine, but people who were seemingly healthy and in the prime of life (young adults) did not survive. This is because that virus triggered an immune response called a cytokine storm, which basically killed everything in sight and caused horrific symptoms like tissue death, vasodilation and bleeding–basically a MASSIVE inflammatory response that lead to organ damage and death. Those with the strongest immune systems took the worst beating by their own immune responses, while those with weaker immune systems were fine.

So when you’re thinking of an alien disease, think through the immune response.

Where does this virus attack? Look up viruses that also attack there and understand what the immune system would do about it. 

Understand symptoms that usually travel together–joint pain and fever, for example.

So please, please: no purple and green spotted diseases. No diseases that cause glamorous fainting spells and nothing else. No mystical eye-color/hair-color changing diseases. If you want these things to happen, use magic or some shit or alien physiology, but when it’s humans, it doesn’t make any fuckin’ sense. 

This has been a rant and I apologize for that. 

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There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

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Stinky boys belong to @sweeneyarts

Had so much drawing your characters!! 🫀

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WOOOOOO Art Fight let's gooooooo!!!

Here's my card for it and some of my oc references!! Let's fight on AF shall we? Hehehe

MrTodd's Art Fight

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New reference sheet for my character, Fleisch. It's a freaky thing, as you can probably tell. I wanted to finally draw the ref for it because it's literally been 4 years 😅 it's available to draw on Art Fight now hehe 👀

Here's some info about it!

Name: Fleischich (or Fleisch)

Age: Unknown (very old)

Species: Demon / Supernatural Humanoid

Gender: None / Fluid

Pronouns: it/its

Sexuality: Pansexual (every and anyone)

About:

• Fleisch is a demon that feeds on the desires of human beings. It seduces humans, demanding body parts or organs in return for their desires. So, really, it feeds on the flesh of humans.

• Its body can change in every way, shaping itself to fit ANY body type. Short, tall, fat, skinny, buff, femme, masc, androgynous, etc. It can look like anything. It can also change its attire, so belts and gas masks are not necessary. However, Fleisch does NOT have a face at all. Despite being able to change attire and body type, its body will remain leather/pvc/latex. For that's basically its skin. Head to toe is leather/pvc/latex.

• Fleisch is mute for the most part. It doesn't have its own voice. Instead, it sounds like a bunch of static, a jumble of different voices. Think of a broken radio. Mostly you can hear heavy breathing from it because of the gas mask.

• Underneath all its masks is a face of tongues.

• It's a contortionist.

• Can teleport and haunt people.

• It constantly tremors and twitches.

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"You LEFT me."

The ghost of the beggar woman comes to haunt the demon barber.

Read the story on WattPad and Ao3

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Never Forgive, Always Forget | A Sweeney Todd Story VOLUME I

After the events of the Final Sequence, Sweeney Todd is left to wallow in the guilt of murdering his wife. Tobias had run off instead of killing Sweeney, so now the demon barber is doomed to continue living with the agonizing guilt that eats him alive. Turning to the bottle, Sweeney now becomes haunted by the ghosts of those he killed. He plans to end it all, but little does he know of someone in need of his help. Rose just escaped Judge Turpin's estate after he had not returned the previous night. She took her chance to leave and followed where Johanna and Anthony had spoken of going before eloping: Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor on Fleet Street. She had not met him before, but he was the only person she could turn to, and if the young lovers trusted him, then so did she. Can Rose trust this man? Can Sweeney trust this woman? How will they get along? Will Rose find out his dark secret? Will Sweeney be caught and hung for his crimes? What does Rose know about his daughter, Johanna? Who is Rose? Sweeney must hide his secret and fight through his grief to find out.

READ IT ON WattPad AND Ao3 !!!

Hey everyone! I'm just here to remind folks that ALL of Volume 1 of the Sweeney Todd fanfic my friend and I have been writing is now available to read. Above is some art that I have done for the first 4 chapters 🙏

If you love Sweeney Todd, I'm sure you will enjoy this!! It takes place after the events of Final Scene, and Sweeney lives in this version. It touches on a lot of backstory things with the original and canon characters.

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Sharing Sorrow

Not quite sure what my context was with this picture, but I wanted to draw Sweeney and Rose cuddling, so here we are. I was practicing drawing Sweeney and first but then added Rose a little later. I'm happy with it and I love them very very much.

Their story is available to read on Wattpad and Ao3!!!

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Lies of P in-game characters portraits 🦋

characters in each of the portrait: Geppetto's son Carlo, young Antonia Cerasani, assumed Sophia Monad, Archbishop Andreus

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Here's some recent artwork I've done for the Sweeney Todd fanfiction I'm working on with my friend:

Featuring my original character, Rose, who is the main character alongside Sweeney. And also the rest of my original characters like the police chief, Hugh Janvier.

You can read their story now on Ao3 and Wattpad. Updated every Saturday morning at 12am.