#I'VE BEEN HOLDING ONTO THIS FOR A WHILE

[fisheito]

Grandpa: well. uh. *brushes the feather off yakumo's chin* hm. Why... don't we go,. help Grandma now

based on a snippet of this anon's ask

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Started a new book series, and has been a journey...an Odyssey, if you will.

[seedofjoseph]

The Seeds + ao3tagsbot

Bonus:

[nguyenfinity]

Have I done the homework I was supposed to? No

Have I drawn more Rinniki? Hell yeah

[erysium]

I started reading Kochab a bit ago and while I'm no where near done I wanted to tell you how gorgeous it is

I keep stopping at every page to zoom in and study all the details, your artwork is absolutely stunning <3 I love the backgrounds, and how you play with the framing and composition, it looks so good !!

And the little animations! Agkkfsdlkf! They are so pretty! You make everything come to life! I want to live in this world!

Also love how you use colors, really makes me feel how warm/cold it is, esp when the warm vibrant oranges begin flooding in after a lot of darker purples n blues, feels so cozy

I'm still in the early phases and dont know Kye or Sonya very well yet, but I just know I'll fall in love (while they do the same w each other>:3)

I think there was more I wanted to talk about but I'm half asleep n can't remember so I'll leave it there. Thank you so much for sharing your work, you clearly put so much into it :]

Thank you so much! this comment is so lovely to receive. thank you for taking the time to appreciate all these little details, this all makes me so happy to hear <3

thank you! It was watercolor base + digital touching up (for the fine details and also broad color shifts) I really like that medium combo, it feels like I can get the best out of both :)

thank you so much!! I keep saying it but I've been really blown away by all the support for the comic ending and kickstarter - it's really much more than I'd hoped for. :') <3

<3 thank you so much for reading!

thank you!! :') ah that's a broad question! Color is part of how I think about contrast, values, composition, lighting, and mood. I look at a lot of photos and art for reference/inspiration, and try to make myself try new things! I do fall pretty easily into wanting every painting to just be blue/purple and yellow, and I try to avoid doing that too often, haha. I also have to try hard to not let things get muddy, and/or bogged down by realism when stylized or expressive color would work better. A lot of my art is based on lighting or color schemes I've seen in real life and want to try to capture. I've taken Kat Tsai's color class and Sam Nielsen's lighting class, and both really influenced me too! My asks tag might have some more thoughts/resources too.

[laugtherhyena]

Doodle him up

[dimonds456]

Considering yesterday was one of the worst days I've had all year, and then today is hands-down the BEST day I've had all year, I now think literally anything is possible.

Guys please keep pushing forward. Your ray of sunshine could be a lot closer than you think it is.

[court-jastor]

Visit! Sunny Seashale Mountains! for more information about your next lovely trip around Exandria, please call us at 1-8XX-EXNDRIA or visit @artists-guild-of-exandria online!

[bashfulkisser]

!! HI I just wanna say I love that you selfship with Bashful sm I LOVE THE 7D!!!!

Kiss that goofy lil guy he deserves it!!!

~ @berryshipbasket

WAHHHHHH I WILL I PROMISE!!

I'm so glad that there's still so many fans of the show tbh, it's held such a special place in my heart ever since its debut 😭

And I wanna pop up and say that I've really admired your blog for a good while, and I found a certain someone a while ago that you'll be very happy to see-

A LITTLE GUY!!!!

[danganronpa96]

BTW can you show those chapter 4 memes the others made me laugh

While I don’t really have any chapter 4 memes per say, I decided to make some for this post with images I had lying around (plus I do have some extra miscellaneous memes I can share too lol) memes under the cut crust of the sandwich mmm

Chapter 4:

this one is kiiinda chapter 4 lol

and here are some misc. ones

I swear this isn't to spread the dummy trio dynamic supremacy I just had these lying around I swear I swe

[wackulart]

CW// blood

a God Brother AU lore dump for ya'll [In this piece Caleb's fourteen and Philip is ten] Just before this comic, Caleb and Philip had been arguing due to how aggressive and reckless Philip has become since befriending the Collector. While Caleb had no problem with him making friends, he was worried that Philip was going down a dangerous path. Philip disagreed, brushed him off and ignored him.

"You're not my father!" He spat at him.

Something about those words broke Caleb's heart and angered him all the same. They had grown up without parents, struggling for a home at all and Caleb sacrificed his childhood to take care of Philip, to make sure he was alive. He would do it again in a heartbeat and yet none of that seemed to matter to Philip. Now, he wasn't allowed to have a say? Now he didn't know better?

Philip was just a child.

Yet, so was he.

And with that child anger he smashed the mirror that held the Collector's entrance to the physical realm.

Caleb immediately realized his mistake, but that didn't matter. What's done was done.

[commsroom]

when eiffel dreams about hera, his brain conjures her as a tangible person, but in that sort of abstract way where you can recognize someone in a dream even if they look different than they do in reality. and i don't think that image is consistent - if you asked him directly, i don't know if he'd even be able to say what he thinks she looks like. not with any certainty, at least. but, post-canon, he retains the memory of her face - subconsciously, the same way he knows what words mean or how the comms equipment works, even if he doesn't know how he knows those things - and his dream image of her is always the same, and always vivid. without his memories, he has no way to realize the significance of this, and hera has no reason to suspect or to ask him about it, but it's always there.

[falltumn]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAISIE!!!! 1 year ago i was insane and then it never stopped. they're doing one of those dress up photoshoots :-)

[rainbowsandwhumperflies]

cws: bloody nose, fainting

um not to project or anything but what if a whumpee could tell they were really lightheaded and probably close to passing out so they were just gonna stay laying down for a few hours to prevent anything from happening. But then they got a bloody nose and now they have to go to the bathroom to take care of that but if they stand up they might pass out

Also both of those things can happen out of nowhere! Fainting and bloody noses! (not completely out of nowhere but it doesn't take too much.) I used to live in a place with high altitude and oh me oh my I did not do well. Dehydration can also do that to a person. And wouldn't it be scary if Whumpee's head started spinning when they stood up and they knew if they passed out they'd fall over and bleed over the entire floor? What if no one else was home to find them? What if there was someone home that they could call out to, but they just hated asking for help, and if they pass out and bleed everywhere it would be all their fault for not asking for help that was totally available? hm

[reginrokkr]

𝐗𝐗𝐗𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈. Vestiges of a quincentennial corruption —signs / symptoms and therapy—.

It is known that corruption makes its way to any creature's being via exposure to the Abyss no matter how brief it may be, its nature of precipitating everything to death permeating their body with symptoms of varying degrees and lengths depending on how swift the pursuit of a cure is.

Signs and symptomatology.

Among the symptoms connected to corruption, the affected individual may experience: warping one's senses, thus reality. It is known that the void energy magnifies one's negative traits and expands them tenfold (someone's sadness can be more than it really is, someone's paranoia will be fed with more reasons to keep it going that are actually nonexistent but in their mind they are existent); visions, dreams and thoughts of those who passed manifested through voices heard by those with a higher sentience to this type of energy; deception of the viewer's sights by presenting an idyllic atmosphere and location that in reality could have them walk in hell without them knowing unless they awaken that awareness in them; organ compromise leading to a faster failure of the same under the exposure of elemental concentration.

When combined with the curse of immortality, one of its prevalent symptoms is the degradation of the individual's physical body through numbness and loss of any skill that requires his body with the passages of time.

Other signs and symptoms not directly attributed to corruption (but equally to the Abyss in a higher or lesser degree) have different ways of manifestation depending if it's:

→ Via direct contact to an external agent like the Tatarigami: the beginning of symptoms starts with overall weakness and dizziness and nose bleeding. Nightmares that give the sign of a bad omen are also part of the symptomatology. As the chaos goes untreated, the host experiences strong headaches, rashes on the skin blood coughs and more frequent nightmares. All these effects are particularly intense when night falls. Lastly, during the last phases of the sickness, hosts experience gruesome hallucinations and they’re able to listen to fallen gods’ whispers until they fall to madness. Failure to treat any of the symptomatology in time can lead to death.

→ Via Delusions: it stands to reason that in order to create weapons of this caliber by using chaos, the amount of chaos infused in these weapons is controlled and aimed for its wielder’s longer lifespan depending on how strong/resistant they are. As such, the symptomatology may be gentler but in essence it will also lead to its host’s death. Given that chaos is all about life consuming, it saps away from people’s vitality which in turn causes an ageing acceleration with the issues that ageing entails. Additionally, chaos feeds more from negative feelings which includes wrath that makes it harder to get out of the vicious cycle Delusion wielders entered. Hosts may experience weakness and coughing alongside side effects byproduct of the deterioration that comes with the fast ageing until they reach their death.

Depending on certain requirements, being touched by the Abyss leads to three conditions said individual may experience: premature death, transcendence (abandoning one's own flesh to become a transcendent being, an abyssal monster) or, in the best of cases, the need to keep oneself on check in order to not aggravate the already existing symptoms.

Therapy.

Human intervention from those who are knowledgeable in the medical field proves to be effective in muting the symptomatology of the corruption if not much time passes between the abyssal exposure and the treatment. Nevertheless, this is a palliative remedy at best: the organs of those who have been touched by corruption are already compromised.

Other methods that are exceedingly harder to be within human reach have proven to hold a higher effectivity in their healing or even purification exist. 1) Ley Lines themselves, due to being carriers of the seven elements that sustain the world (among other elements) and thus extensions of Irminsul, which also holds purification and healing capabilities, count as one of them. The fact that Natlan's weaker Ley Line system caused the same nation to take a bigger grunt because of the Abyss in comparison to other nations suggests their effectiveness in keeping the void at bay. 2) Traveler's purification and lastly, 3) the celestial nails are also known for being effective, too.

Dáinsleif.

In Dain's particular case, the clearest sign he has of corruption is that half of his body has turned black. Furthermore, his continuous exposition to the Abyss in his pursuit to frustrate the Abyss Order's plans —and by extension, his own brother's— in combination to the curse of immortality (potentially of abyssal connection too, despite being inflicted by a god) is enough reason for him to have multiple symptoms.

Lastly, Dain is known for being both corrupted and cursed, which might result in a higher chance at being affected by the aforementioned described symptoms more. Another reason to this cause is his connection to Irminsul for two reasons: 1) aether and void (abyss) when interacting are mutually toxic— given that both of them coexist in Dain's body, there is no denial that they may interact. And 2) the elements and the abyss repel each other, causing yet another negative effect).

Despite being highly susceptible to be in a really bad shape due to the abyssal influence within him, the reality is that he doesn't suffer much from these thanks to his connection to Irminsul. While contradictory all the same due to the toxicity that the interactions between the elements, aether and abyss may bring, he doesn't suffer from physical degradation and his corruption has been at an impasse for the past 500 years.

However, that doesn't mean that he can be careless with emotions running out of control or in his confrontations against the Abyss Order. And while his own symptoms may not be too bad, they are always present. Predominantly, they tend to flare up in moments of emotional vulnerability or if he lingers too much in places that have abyssal presence.