#artwork from February that I never posted

[kidovna]

the CMQverse 🧣💋♥️

[natsukishinomiyaswife]

❥❥ ✳. ꕤ 𝓜𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓡𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓮 ꕤ .✳ ❥❥

Voice claim: Uzuki Shinamura - THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

“Hello, I’m Ruthie! It’s so nice to meet you! Say, have you met ___? I think you two would really get along!”

❥❥❥ Character Info:

Ruthie is an NPC character (like Neige, Rollo, Fellow Honest, etc.) and first appears in the event Breakaway Beauty: For True Love’s Cure! *coming soon!

She lives in the Queendom of Roses, attending an all-girls school while working part time at Bippity Boppity Bakery, a rival to Clover Bakery.

Obsessed with love, romance, and fairytale endings, she enjoys playing matchmaker, wanting others to be happy. She doesn’t really consider her own love life, oblivious to any admirer she has. Though she can’t help but daydream sometimes, wondering if there was someone out there for her…

❥❥❥ Basic Info:

Height: 159cm

Age: 18 years old

Grade: Junior (3rd year)

Nicknames: N/A *To be updated

Birthday: February 26th

Dominant hand: Right

Homeland: The Queendom of Roses

Favorite food: Chocolate Eclairs

Least favorite food: Seafood

Hobby: Baking, singing

Club: Gardening club

Talent: Matchmaking

Unique Magic: Eye of the Beholder - Allows her to alter people’s perception of someone, making them look like their ideal type. It only lasts for 12 minutes.

❥❥❥ Relationships/Dynamics:

Adamina: Ruthie’s best friend since childhood, she lives secluded from everyone due to her curse. Ruthie is determined to break it, wanting her friend to be happy and finally leave the castle she’s trapped in.

*The rest of their relationship/dynamic is currently unavailable, as the event Breaking Beauty: For True Love’s Cure! must be completed first

Trey Clover: Her and Trey are acquaintances, making small talk whenever they see each other. Though they work at rival bakeries, they don’t consider each other rivals. Their relationship is pleasant, if a bit awkward (on Trey’s end)

Riddle Rosehearts: She knows of him through Trey, but has never met him, Riddle unaware of her existence. She is curious about him though, and would like to meet him one day.

Che'nya: Her and Che'nya are acquaintances, having met through Trey. He makes it a point to see her whenever he comes home during break, curious to know how she’s been. Their relationship is lighthearted, with a nice friendship starting to form.

*All other relationships and dynamics are currently unavailable, as the event Breaking Beauty: For True Love’s Cure! must be completed first

*Please note that the artwork used for this post is a commission I got from a friend, and is not my own work!

Here she is, my Twisted Wonderland OC Ruthie! Since she is an NPC type character, she will have her own event, just like in game! This will allow her to meet the NRC boys (or at least some of them), and show her character/backstory.

The event will be called Breakaway Beauty: For True Love’s Cure!, and features Ruthie and her friend Adamina as the main characters (alongside Yuu and the boys of course lol)

*Please note that Ruthie is my OC, and this is her updated character introduction! I posted her original introduction on my old side blog, @sheepsgingerbreadfriends, which is no longer around!

𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾! ♡

[bemyvalentinechallenge]

The Be My Valentine Challenge 2024

An event from @timecanalwayshealyou

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The Be My Valentine Challenge is a challenge for writers, artists, and just any kind of creator, from the first of February to the 14th!

The idea is to create thirteen smaller, lead-up pieces based on the prompts; for example, ficlets/drabbles/one-shots, couplets, small artworks, individual gifs, et. cetera - and finish the challenge with a larger work; a fic, a full poem, a gifset, a big artwork, whatever sparks for you!

They can be a series or separate, and you're free to change mediums or fandoms for different days. If you'd rather create fourteen small works, or all large ones, or a combination of both, that's completely up to you! Prompts can be used after the event, combined, just do whatever! Only "properly" used prompts will be reblogged to this page, however.

The catch; it's all romance prompts, in the spirit of Valentine's Day and because everyone on this site is single and lonely.

Each day has a quote from an iconic or relevant romance film (The Notebook, Red, White and Royal Blue, The Fault In Our Stars, Pride And Prejudice, etc.), an iconic love song, and a romantic cliché, act, or item.

This account will be reblogging a few works (art, drabbles, ficposts, etc.) from the event tag (bemyvalentine2024) each day. Full tagging rules, the transcribed prompt list, and other event details are under the cut. If you're unsure about anything, send in an ask! Happy Creating!

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There will be an ao3 collection open from the first of February to the fourteenth for submission. Artworks, gifsets, etc. posted to tumblr should be tagged appropriately to be seen as part of the event.

The official spotify playlist for the event can be found here.

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Anyone who completes this event is considered a Valentine, and anyone who participates is a Lover. At the end of the event, a form will be put out, so if you wish to be tagged in a masterpost, keep an eye out! I won't be fact-checking, it's an honour system, so please be honest.

There will be completion and participation badges, too! They're in the works as we speak!

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Tagging System:

event tag - #bemyvalentine2024

prompt tag - #bemyvalentineno1, #bemyvalentineno2, etc.

(Or #bemyvalentinealt1, #bemyvalentinealt2, if you use alt promtps)

the theme or specific prompt/s you chose - #love poems, #quote, etc.

fandom or oc - #stranger things, #original content, etc.

any trigger warnings/nsfw tags if needed

and then your own tags!

Only works tagged correctly will be reblogged to this page, so please take note!

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Transcribed Prompt List:

Day 1: "But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion | Love Poems

Day 2: "I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day." A Thousand Years, Christina Perri | Growing Old Together

Day 3: "I fell in love with a world through her eyes." Ocean Eyes, Billie Eilish | Love at First Sight

Day 4: "I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you." Marry Me, Train | Wedding Vows

Day 5: "My love will keep me from being a lonely spirit." When I Look At You, Miley Cyrus | Long Distance

Day 6: "People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness." Home, Edward Sharpe | First Love

Day 7: "It's so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk." Sweater Weather, The Neighbourhood | Snowed In

Day 8: "I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." Say You Won't Let Go, James Arthur | Love Letter

Day 9: "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." Lay Me Down, Sam Smith | Widowed

Day 10: "Hold on, are you writing a song?" I Want To Write You A Song, One Direction | Love Songs

Day 11: "To me, you are perfect." Perfect, Ed Sheeran | Kissing in the Rain

Day 12: "History, huh? Bet we could make some." Love Story, Taylor Swift | Historical Romance

Day 13: "I wish I knew how to quit you." All of Me, John Legend | Making Up

Day 14: "You don't step in love, you fall in. Head over heels." I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston | Valentine's Day

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[choicesholidays]

Valentine's Day Prompts 2024

Welcome to Choices Holidays Valentine's Day prompts! This event will run from February 1st through February 15th, 2024.

This is open to all choices fandoms. It’s open to fan artists as well as fanfic writers.

Below are fourteen prompts meant to inspire some stories and/or artwork, mood boards, etc. Use these less as word-for-word prompts and more as a general theme (of course, you are welcome to use them word-for-word if you like). Let your imaginations run wild!

You may submit your work at any time during the event. Submissions will be reblogged as they come in. A complete master list will be posted after the end of the event.

All creative endeavors are welcomed: Fics, art, edits, mood boards, whatever you’re inspired to create!

The Rules:

Use one of the prompts, however loosely (Any Valentines Day themed creation is welcome really, just use the general "Valentine's Day" prompt).

Tell us in the header what fandom your characters are from.

Tag @choicesprompts <- This part is very important! It ensures that your story gets seen, reblogged, and added to the master list at the end of the event.

Use the hashtags #choicespromts and #valentinesday2024

Post/submit by the deadline.

Deadline is February 15th, 2024 11:59 p.m. CST

Be sure you tag @choicesholidays #choicesholidays, and #valentinesday2024 for reblogging and inclusion on the master list at the end of the event.

Please feel free to reach out to this blog or @angelasscribbles with any questions, concerns, or suggestions.

Prompts are under the cut.

First date

First kiss

But I can’t dance…..

I know my brother/sister is your ex, but if you’ll just listen….

Last kiss

This isn’t remotely romantic, but I still wouldn’t want to be anywhere else

I don’t want to ruin our friendship but I can’t keep my feelings a secret a moment longer

Be my fake date for a wedding?

I’ve been expressly forbidden from seeing you. However…..

You’re the most toxic person I’ve ever met and honestly I can’t get enough.

Good girl/Bad boy or Good boy/bad girl

Would you shut up for a minute? I’ve never proposed to anyone before!

Okay, we stole all the valentine’s cards….now what?

Be my valentine/I love you

Alternatively, feel free to use any of last year's prompts as well. You can find those here.

[starsh0cked]

okay so. two things!! first of all, over the course of january (and the beginning of february) i participated in the kirby oc secret santa, which was wonderfully hosted by @/moonverc3x. i was lucky enough to be the santa for @/starflungwaddledee, and ended up with two of my best pieces so far!!

these were CHALLENGING, though. which is where the second thing comes in!! under the cut, i'll be going over some of the sketches, drafts and phases of either piece! there's also a speedpaint. exciting!!

i'll be starting with my starstruck piece! the theme here was wanderlust - literally one of the most whimsical words i know - and generally anything to do with the stars. i had a few things in mind, but considering how long it sometimes takes to make artwork, i decided to roll with what inspired me the most.

this is the final sketch compared to the final artwork. certainly one of the crazier transformations i've done. i had a mental image of most parts of the artwork, from the material of starstruck's bow to the lighting cast by the stars. everything except for the grass (i hate grass!!) i ended up rendering the grass and background first, anyway.

doing the background before the rest of the artwork helps define the lighting and shadows! if i decided to draw starstruck before the background, i'd have to draw it according to the lighting.

weird explanation, but in summary: background before character helps the character look like a part of the environment! character before background means extra steps need to be taken before the character fits in the environment!

starstruck's bow was also a decent challenge! i'm a fan of bows and satin, so a satin bow sounded like a good idea. it was, but i've never drawn satin before. the workaround was an active satin study! i stared at a satin bow i found on pinterest and tried to understand how light spread over the material. it's quite interesting!!

you might notice that i flipped the direction of the shooting stars. this is for composition reasons!! i wanted to make starstruck the obvious focus, and while the contrast between her warmer palette and the background's cooler palette easily achieve that, i wanted to cement it. i also added little hand drawn sparklies everywhere. because i like it.

of course, i have to talk about the eyes!! if anything, i noticed that in all of starflung's drawings of starstruck, she had really glittery eyes. literally adorable. so i made it my mission to capture her feelings in her eyes!! i had a lot of fun making them super shiny and adding little stars in there. i also needed to pay attention to the subtle gradient, though - they fade from blue to pink if you zoom into starflung's artworks - and decided to keep it vibrant.

okay. thats all for this one!! i'd like to mention that in the original sketch for this specific pose, bandee was in the background. i really regret scrapping that now. oh, well!

time for morpho dee! i'll be starting for with the speedpaint for this one, mainly because it sort of explains some of the process by itself.

i restarted the shading... three or four times at least? so yeah. i was losing it on this piece. i'll be completely honest, i contemplated dropping it for the sake of meeting the deadline. it wasn't stressing me out, but i had studies to worry about too, and i was worried that it wouldn't be of great quality? but after some advice from my beloved older sister, i managed to turn the tide!!

this is a first for me, but everything here was a challenge. if you scroll through my account and the few artworks i've posted, you'll notice that i draw gijinkas far more than orbs. now, you may be wondering why this didn't pose so much of an issue for my starstruck piece! it's mainly because i chose a far simpler pose for her than i did for morpho over here.

for morpho, the artwork needed to be dramatic. i draw cutesy things - while i've always wanted to draw something dramatic, i've never pushed myself to do it. until this artwork! i went for a dynamic pose which would (hopefully) pull the viewer's eye towards morpho dee. that's what's up with the foreshortned spear! i also realised that the plcement of his feet would be quite significant to the artwork. you might not know this, but feet are my greatest enemy. i'm still trying to figure out how best to draw them for people or orbs, but i'm getting there.

after 'lineart' (which really ended up being a cleaned sketch - this was supposed to be linelessly rendered, but i gave up on that) the pose was no longer a problem. because the shading was! hooray!!

nothing has quite bewildered me like metal shading has. i've shaded gold. satin. cotton, fluffy scarves, shiny things, grass. yet metal shading continues to elude me! this was, hands down, the most difficult part of this artwork. i struggled to make sense of how the lighting was supposed to work, even with references. and every time i thought it made sense, i ended up with something i didn't like the look of. the solution? long breaks, more references and pinterest tutorials. i have no clue how i managed this, but we got here anyways. i finished it off by colouring the lineart according to the shading.

i have experience with drawing fire, at least! it was three or four years ago in an old artwork, but i have experience! i simply had to figure out how to work it into the atmosphere. for the glow, i duplicated the layer, gaussian blurred it and used a slight glow layer! i did something similar for the durst particles, but i used motion blur instead.

i also want to talk about the spear a little bit. you might notice that i added a bit of ambient glow around the blue gem. that was with the light intensity in mind, but also for a sense of realism! i also had to keep the pink light in mind, though. so i ended up using an airbrush to create a base for the lighting and i continued from there. i added a few scratches on the handle just to give it a bit more life, too.

and, finally, a one-to-one comparison between the sketch and the final! i have literally no idea how i pulled either of these pieces off, but i'm quite proud of them.

i recommend you drop by @/kirbyoc-secretsanta for other artworks! a total of 75 artists participated, so there are plenty of super cool ocs to adore over there and new artists to find!! this was my first secret santa experience, and @/moonverc3x made an amazing host (thank you for hosting, by the way!!) bye bye!!

[citrus-cactus]

Citrus' Art Summary 2023!

The year is almost over, so here's my art summary for 2023! I got this template from here. This is my third year in a row being able to populate every month with a finished(/digital) piece (and really, I did a LOT more than what's shown here!), so that feels like something to celebrate!

Technically some of these choices don’t match up with their post dates; I counted some months as “when I was primarily working on them” and some as “when I actually published them,” but the sentiment remains. Like I said, it was a busy year! :)

Some more rambling + links to all featured artwork beneath the cut:

I remember last year I was quite worried about/was actually teetering on the edge of artistic burnout. There were definitely some months during this year that I felt a bit overwhelmed (particularly during the summer, when I was working on a 5-illustration series in a style that was DEFINITELY outside my norm, PLUS a bunch of other stuff), but I also appreciated the stylistic variety, and doing a lot of sketchbook drawings/marginalia that were(/are) just for me, so they never had to be "finished” or even "good." Even though almost everything pictured here is Digimon(/anime) art, I did experiment with a more "realistic" style for the Dracula Daily series (Aug/Sept), as well as trying to relearn the "Disney" style I started drawing in waaaaaaay back in high school, only now with a LOT more understanding of facial structure and anatomy. Largely, this style shake-up has been incredibly freeing (these are still sketchbook-only studies at this point, but I'm planning on some digital illustrations in the Disney style in 2024). I'm sure they still look pretty anime-influenced, and I'm not sure I'll ever truly be able to escape that, but honestly I don't mind; the anime aesthetic IS a part of my preference/style!

Let's see, the prevailing fandoms for what's shown here are Digimon Survive and Adventure 02. I really want to draw more Survive art next year!! Really happy with the collabo between @vidramon and myself (July), and honestly most (if not all) of these pieces. I worked hard, I branched out, I took on some really ambitious projects, and finished a ton of things (looking at you, March! That Knight drawing was a WIP for an entire year, but I finished it instead of abandoning it, which is what usually happens when things sit around that long!). Ultimately, I believe I told (and helped tell!) some great stories through my creative projects and art this year, which is my true goal forever and always.

Honestly I'm happiest with April's drawing. That one was a ton of fun to do, but I would have to work really hard to replicate that coloring style because I don't remember my brushes/settings, ahaha. Sadly this is how it usually goes with coloring for me; I make it up as I go almost every single time, which is why series are so difficult for me. I am nothing if not inconsistent -_-;

I would be remiss to mention that a huge part of my productivity this year was due to setting and tracking monthly goals for myself. I gotta thank everyone on the @campdigimonth server for their help in keeping me organized and motivated throughout the year! I plan on continuing my creative check-in posts in 2024.

Next year, I want to a) make more Survive art (particularly with Survive Week coming up), b) draw some more flippin' gargoyles (CRIIIINGE, but no, cringe is dead, I'mma do what I want!), and c) keep working on my personal project! And I am, once again, thinking about bookbinding. That's a "maybe" for next year as well!

Descriptions and links to the full artwork pictured for each month:

January: Survive Week, Day 5

February: Survive Gang Aromantic Week

March: Knight Unryuuji and Friend

April: “Rose-Tinted” fic illustration

May: Happy Birthday Vi!

June: Happy Birthday Haru Shinkai!

July: Happy 1st Anniversary Survive! (aka BEST SOCK FRIENDS)

August: Dracula, September 13

September: Dracula, September 20

October: Adv 02 Countdown Event, Day 7

November: “Boo!” on the Cob

December: Digimon Secret Santa 2023

[artxsticsuper]

⋆ ⭒𓆩 2023 - 2024 MASTERLIST 𓆪⭒ ⋆

✰ Welcome to the 2023 - 2024 masterlist! (Also, the first ever masterlist on my blog)

Disclaimer: Not all entries will be posted on Tumblr but each of them will contain a link that will lead you to the post from here or my other platforms. Once an entry is complete, a link will be added to it so feel free to check back!

Update as of February 18, 2024: All NSFW entries will only be on AO3 and can be found in my multi-fandom art book intended for explicit art. It is in the Fanfics section under Miscellaneous. Chapter numbers will be included in each entry that indicate where you can find them.

The Incredibles

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Mr. incredible/Bob Parr, Elastigirl, Violet Parr, Dash Parr, Frozone, Edna Mode, Syndrome, Evelyn Deavor, Winston Deavor

Incredibles 2 X Sanrio: Elastigirl/Helen Parr (My Melody) X Evelyn Deavor (Kuromi)

[NSFW] Evelyn: Feline in Heat

[NSFW] Evelyn: “Toy” Offer

[Summer pfp] Evelyn: Beach Photoshoot [NSFW variant: Chapter 2]

[Redraw] Elastigirl: Bubble bath

Bob X Helen doodles

Parr family: Sleigh ride

Wave pool

Winston and Evelyn Deavor + Yin and Yang

Syndrome X Evelyn: Taking flight

Cat Evelyn

[Edit] Elastigirl X May: God is a Woman

[Edit] The aesthetic of The Incredibles

She-lectra poster ⚡️

Retro Evelyn

[AU] Synvelyn (Syndrome and Evelyn)

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Turning Red & 4☆Town

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Taebaire: Angel in the forest

Snowball fight

[Comic] Ice skating

[Edit] [Soft] Robaire 🌹: Jordan Fisher - All About Us

[NSFW & possible comic] Taebaire: First time

[NSFW] Robaire: Vines

[NSFW] POV: You’re spending a “night” with Robaire

(MerMay) 4*Town members as mermaids: Robaire, Jesse, Tae Young, Aaron T, Aaron Z

[AU] BirdTown & Headcanons

[AU] BirdTown outfit designs

BirdTown logo

[BirdTown] (joke tutorial) How to get a mate Robaire style

Tae Young: Easter

Barbie and Ken Mugshot Redraw ft. Aaron T. and Aaron Z.

[Edit] The aesthetic of Turning Red

[Scene redraw] Mei: On the way to the concert

[Shitpost] Red Panda Ritual scene edit

Jesse: Father’s Day

[Mild NSFW] Robaire: Roses

S P A C E

Outfit redraw! ✨

[Pride month post] Bisexual Pride

[Edit] Jesse 🖌: Taio Cruz - Dynamite

[New pfp] Werewolf Jesse

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It Takes Two

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[Edit] Cody X May: Ruin my Life

[Edit] The aesthetic of It Takes Two

Joy as a human

Dr. Hakim as a human

[Edit] May: Supalonely

[NSFW] [series of artwork in one post] Cody X May: Stress relief

[NSFW] May: Need a hand?

Cody’s Passion

May’s Passion

[compilation] It Takes Two but it’s just May and Cody fighting and (slowly) fixing their relationship

[compilation] Dr. Hakim being an absolute troll

Catfish ride

[mildly suggestive] Cody X May: It was only a snowball fight… or was it?

[NSFW] Bug-sized relaxation

[Fan-dub] It Takes Two (parts are to be determined)

[comic] Cody X May: That’s what made it special (Can you feel the love tonight ft. Dr. Hakim)

Audio Surfing

[compilation] It Takes Two out of context

Cody and May as pirates

DJ Cody and MC May

[NSFW] Suggestive May sketches

Cody X May: A night we’ll never forget

[NSFW] May: Unless you want me to clone myself

[NSFW] Good girl mi amor

[Edit] May: Lizzo - PINK (bad day)

Princess

Butterfly Monarchy

[AU] It Takes Two: Lovedollz

[Mild NSFW] Succubus May [NSFW variant: chapter 5]

Season of the Witch

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The Amazing Digital Circus

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Ragatha

Caine: Hundreds of all seeing eyes

Random TADC sketches

[Edit] Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, and Caine: Circus

[Edit] CAINE SUPREMACY

Pomni X Ragatha

[Edit] I edited The Amazing Digital Circus pilot episode because this show is my new hyperfixation

The Void

[Mild NSFW] Caine: Jacuzzi [NSFW variant: Chapter 4]

[Crossover] 2 Dolls 1 Addict

[Crossover] Jax X Angel Dust

[Crossover] Caine X Spamton

Chef Bubble on the hunt for a thanksgiving dinner

Jax: Mistletoe

POV: You’re a parasite

Horse Photoshoot

Happy New Year 2024!

TADC OC: Chrysalis

Who let the bubble out?!

[Mild NSFW] Valentines Day Special: 2 Succubi Dolls [NSFW variant: Chapter 7]

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Miscellaneous & Stuff from other fandoms

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[Super Mario] Peach + possible sketches

Happy New Year!

[Super Mario] Luigi sketches

[Super Mario] Mario and Luigi: Embrace

[Puss in Boots: The Last Wish] Death

Tikalla

[Spider-Verse] Miles Morales X Gwen Stacy

[Spider-Verse] Spider-Punk/Hobie Brown

[Spider-Verse] Spider-man India/Pavitr Prabhakar

[Spider-Verse] [Nimona] [Edit] Hobie Brown and Nimona: P!nk — So What

[Spider-Verse] Hobie Brown: Nine Inch Nails - Closer

[Genshin] Nahida: The Swing

[Nimona] Nimona sketches

[mini comic] On the way to watch the Barbie movie

[Genshin] Kaeya: Sailwind Shadow outfit

[The Bad Guys] Ms. Tarantula: Head pats

Barbie Girl

[MC:SM][PASTEL GORE] Wither Sickness ft. Petra

[FNAF] Foxy

How my OTP’s would kiss under the mistletoe

6 Fanart Challenge

6 Fanart Challenge: Ships Edition

[Hunter X Hunter] Killua

[Hunter X Hunter] Hisoka

[Hunter X Hunter] Kite

[Hunter X Hunter] [Badass Edit] Kite: In victory or defeat, it’ll be hell.

Verbalase running from Hisoka

Birthday Hunter

[NSFW] [Hunter X Hunter] Hisoka: Bungee Gum [NSFW variant: chapter 8]

Year of the Dragon: Mushu

Fanfics:

Taebaire: Robaire X Tae Young one-shots

[chapters are to be determined]

[SMUT] Str!pper Evelyn X Reader: Captured Prey

[SMUT & Crack Fic] Hisoka X Reader: Hisoka catches you at the back of Spencer’s [GONE SEXUAL]

TADC: New Year’s Day

[NSFW] Multi-Fandom Art Book

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[summmeister]

A Look Over the Art I Made in 2023

2023 has come and gone, with a sizeable improvement on my art skills. Once again, I am VERY proud of the work I managed to accomplish this year. I'll be going over some of the highlights month by month in this post, being sure to point out anything of note.

JANUARY

Starting off the year, I made some new artwork of Skweeb! I consider this fairly outdated now, but it did start a few trends with the character, mainly how I draw shine on him. His eyes bulge outwards, they're not holes! I also drew @akfamilyhome's character, Leddy.

FEBRUARY

This was a BIG month for me! I tried a lot of new things, and most of them worked out! This month also contains what I consider to be one of my best drawings this year, a celebration of Hollow Knight's 6th anniversary. Other highlights include a dashing tribute to Dangeresque and an entirely new reference sheet for Skweeb!

MARCH

March was not a particularly noteworthy month. These are the only two drawings from it! That said, I am quite happy getting any drawings out this month at all! As you'll see later on, this wasn't actually my most dry month.

APRIL

A VERY full month! I can't even fit everything I wanted to! Lots of Skweeb here, some Lucy too! Also a fitting send-off to Courtney (very sad Dead End got cancelled). Tried some big things here, like with the parody Album art, but for the most part I was just doing what I was good at: simple character full-bodies.

MAY

VERY dry month for art. This is the only piece from May! I participated in @some-fool-fp's aRtPG collab this month. Skweeb joins the party!!!!! Made my own custom logo for him, too.

I had a LOT of college work this month. I was working on a game!!! I got the highest grade possible on it, very proud of that. If you would like to play it, you can do so here. Just a warning though, it's very short and VERY jank at times.

JUNE

Another big month!! Some proper reference of Winslow, another Jevil drawing, and my FAVORITE piece of Skweeb art to date!!! The pose and the shading is just so good on it, I love it.

JULY

...Well this is awkward.

Art Fight was this month, and with all of my effort going towards that, I kinda... didn't draw any of my own art this month. Whoops.

Let's press fast forward, shall we?

AUGUST

A NEW OC WAS CREATED THIS MONTH!!!! Meet Chao. He helps out at the circus. He babby. I put a TON of effort into getting his design just right and ensuring he had the proper referencing before working on anything else. I love this 'lil guy.

Also some of my favorite art from this year!!! Inspired by Lemon Demon's "One Weird Tip", I made some art that takes place on a ficticous desktop! Getting the shapes and text right was hard, but I am so glad I put the time and effort in.

SEPTEMBER

Always Watching.

WOW, I am so so proud of what I accomplished with this CoTL piece. Everything from the pose to the composition and the use of colour is just PERFECT. This is up there in my favourite pieces of art from this year.

Skweeb and Jack Frost are here too... wait, it's not December yet!

OCTOBER

A certain someone turned 2 this month! My baby boy, now 2 years old... how time flies...

It was halloween this month too... but Skweeb isn't dressing up this year. It's Lucy in his place! Got some nice Jax art here too, I love that asshole.

NOVEMBER

I was never the most content with my previous Jevil artwork. I never felt like I was giving it my all, which is why I'm happy to say that this month, I did!

I also took a second shot at drawing Jax; this time, featuring Pomni! I used thinner lines and taught myself how to draw hands a whole lot better, I think it helped, haha.

Lastly, (part of) my piece for @hillelart's 10th Anniversary FNAF collab! The full thing is staying secret for now. Keep an eye out for January 15th!

DECEMBER

Finally, we arrive at December.

Funnily enough, I didn't actually draw for half the month. But when I got back into it, I got BACK in. I'm very proud of both of these pieces, and the shading and blending I used in them! This certainly feels like a new era of my art, and I'm looking forward to continuing it!

And that's it. You made it to the end! Most people just together a simple image for their art recap, and while that certainly works just fine, I like to go into the nitty gritty, write down my entire year in art, y'know?

I'm not sure if this year contains as much progress as 2022, but it certainly contains a BOATLOAD of progress! Look back at the start of the post and compare it to the end of the post, the difference is insane!

Lastly, I've got just one more thing to show, once again, redrawing my first ever piece to mark off yet another year. I hope you like it, you'll only have to wait another 365 days for the next one!

Bring on 2024!

[ms-neens]

James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond in "Come what May!"

My longest comic about the Grand Tour so far ～♡ This time Jeremy, James and Hammond head off to Britain’s number one car show! Sadly heavy traffic and certain weather conditions give them a rough time on the road...but thank goodness it’s Friday!  *✦.°

All paintings, story and text by me (February 2022 - October 2022)

Thank you very much for reading and I hope, as always, I could make you smile with it! ♥︎  This comic will be released as a real book together with my “The Long Way Home“ comic, my “Scandi Flick“ poster, more single artworks of the trio and a bit more in 2023! Please stay tuned if you want a copy of the book for yourself! ♥︎ I’d like to add the pre-release cover as well:

A few words by the author (yeah, that’s me): This time my goal was to write/create/draw a sweet, funny, and heartwarming comic about the trio focused on a simple car ride. In typical fashion of all the comics I do, you won’t find any action based scenes or rude stuff (also I’m no native speaker, but you shouldn’t notice that while reading!). As a result the trio acts a lot nicer and definitely more helpful than in real Grand Tour episodes. The three guys have a super big place in my heart ♡ and because of that, once again, all I could create is something cute and adorable (I could never be mean to them!). Also not everything can be accurate, I have never been to James’s Pub, the Diddly Squat Farm Shop, inside Jeremy’s car or at a car show myself. I had a few reference photos, but 90% of this comic is drawn by memory and how I imagine environments. Anyway, I still hope that I got everyone in character, recognisable and enjoyable for you to look at! Stuff you might have missed:

On the outside of Jeremy’s farm shop you can spot Sansa and Arya, who were puppies when I started working on this comic, so I kept them that way…I am always happy when I spot a photo of the two on Jeremy’s Instagram! ♥︎

Actually everything in that comic takes part in the past, as I was working on it way too long...

Jeremy explains that it’s lucky to turn right at the start of a journey. Of course it’s from the Grand Tour Mongolia Special.

The numberplate on Jezza’s car is a pun on "Jeremy Clarkson 1 Diddly Squat Farm", in case you haven’t already noticed. I thought that’s funny.

James talks about fish finger sandwiches, he posted about them on his Twitter and FoodTribe accounts several times in the past and it’s a really nice and easy dish I like to eat as well!

The CDs in Jeremy’s glovebox are "Supertramp - Crime of the Century", "Yes - The Yes Album", "The Who - Who’s Next", "Genesis - Seconds Out", some album by Eric Clapton you cannot read and "Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon". Despite my age, these are all albums and bands I absolutely love and I think he does as well. ～♡

I had to make something up for the broken air conditioning, something like that is always happening on their journeys (especially in James’s cars!). I’m sure after the events of the comic, it was completely fine again! ^◡^

They always take photos of themselves sleeping and post it somewhere online, this time it was my chance to draw a scene of that! I enjoyed working on that one! Hehehehe...

Jeremy and James’s painful high-five I got from the Grand Tour Colombia Special

In James’s Pub Hammond gets served Spag Bol (yeah, I have this from "Oh Cook!") and Jeremy ordered the infamous fish pie. The reason why I’ve chosen two different meals is that Richard doesn’t like fish, a running gag I keep constant in all of my comics. Also it can be taken as a reference to "The Perfect Road Trip".

James’s apron I spotted in "Lochdown", I think it really suits him! ♥︎

And this time there’s even a moral of the story: Don’t drink and drive!

[ronearoundblindly]

February 2023 Updates!

✨NEW!✨ -> @ronearoundlightly &lt;- is an All-Ages Blog for my fics (see Light Masterlist). This blog, RoneAroundBlindly, will be considered 18+ ONLY from now on. Please adjust your following/notifications accordingly!!! Additionally, you can now buy me a ko-fi.

(It's now an ongoing joke that the formatting above simply does whatever it wants, and I am sick of fixing it.)

See Main Masterlist. Upcoming Projects include:

For FOOLS RUSH IN series: (Steve Rogers x LabTech!Reader) The Things We Do For Love (Valentine's Fluff) posted 2/13 The Dignity of His Choice ('Reflection'--18 & 19 & 20) The Right Partner ('Take My Whole Life, Too'--honeymoon)

For BEDROCK AND BLUEPRINTS series: (Ari Levinson x best friend!Reader) Alone Together (Valentine's Day) posted 2/14

The Root of All Ransom (Pt.1 Pt.2 Pt.3 Pt.4 Pt.5 posted 2/15) Ransom hates you, that one, self-made, rich bitch who wins all the philanthropy awards, but he finds a way to use you to anger his mother, Linda. Bonus that he can get some ass in the process. What could possibly go wrong? Money is the only thing he loves, right? Gifts Given (short one-shot) posted 2/12 (Ransom x rich!reader)

Time and Tines (Steve Rogers x Villain!reader)--preview --for the Bittersweet Symphony Writing Challenge Captain Rogers doesn't suspect a thing when you're first brought in. What could possibly make a fragile thing like you turn bad? What do you get out of attacking these scientists? How do you know so much about Bucky Barnes and why do you insist on speaking to him alone?

Threadbare (Steve Rogers x fashion designer!reader) Steve would never have imagined having so much in common with a purely creative soul...even if he did assume you were a man for the longest time.

Item 107 (skinny!demigod!Steve Rogers; Beauty & the Beast AU) Long ago, Steve used his power to imbue a special piece of his artwork to draw forth his true bride, and then nothing happened. Bitter and callus after centuries alone, overlooked for his physical stature, he runs his own gallery in Brooklyn in lieu of enjoying the world around him. Can a chance meeting at a show opening and a misguided search for a bathroom really change his whole life?

[dragonninjal0rd]

*** Welcome to Funi Funi February!***

Heyo and welcome to Funi Funi/Fluffy February! This is a personal event I made to test and improve my abilities as an artist.

If you are interested in what this is all about, there are more details under the cut.

This is an event similar to Inktober where you draw/ink/paint/etc. something every day. But this time, you draw cute and happy things instead of Halloween things. (Unless you're Halloween obsessed like me and want to draw happy Halloween-y things!)

I based this event off of Kai from The Royal Tutor because of his love for soft and fluffy things. However, this is not at all restricted to the Royal Tutor fandom. Draw your favorite characters from any fandom, or even your OC's! Create new fluffy creatures or paint serene landscapes! Whatever makes you feel soft on the inside, make art of it!

This event has no set list of prompts either, I usually like to draw on the fly because that's more fun for me, so create whatever you want at the time or make your own prompts! I will be combining prompts and making my own as I go, so you probably won't know what I chose until it's posted.

Finally, even though this is a personal event to improve my skills, I would love to see others enjoy this event as well. So, if you do happen to see this, feel free to join in the fun! Even if you only post one artwork, I would be delighted to see your art! Don't be shy to participate or share the event with others!

Aaaaand, that's it! I know it's kind of late to post an event, but I still think this will be a fun thing to try! I've never created an event before, so we'll see how this goes! I'm sure it will be super fun!

[omegaremix]

Hauppauge, Winter 2015.

The new year was two weeks in when Yenny called. She’s leaving for Lima in February to see her family. Once again, she’s enlisted me to house sit. Unlike the other times I traveled back and forth to Huntington to stay for the night after work, she’s asked for me to stay for two weeks. I heartily obliged. Two weeks away from the daily drama, intrusion, and toxicity at home? “Yes” all across the board, five-in-a-row. The day before arrival, she called again to put me to it. I packed up my clothes and Gateway laptop for a rare getaway at Yenny’s new apartment residency of peace and zen. I don’t take vacations or time off of any kind, but when someone asks you to take time away from your normal residency for you to do you, you better fucking do it.

And fucking do it, I did. For two weeks in February I had total serenity. Living in Lindenhurst for the year meant having a second-floor bedroom above the neighborhood and the golden summer sun shining through an adjacent window - at the cost of living with a agitated father who’d yell personal complaints at you every time something went wrong. Yenny’s apartment was also on the second floor, overlooking the school district across the street. No summer, but heavy slurring snowstorms with single-digit temperatures and stinging cold air battered the island.

It’s 3PM Sunday and I arrive at her place. Yenny and her ma’ have their luggage ready and are scrambling to see what else they’ve needed to pack. Their Spanish was running just as fast. She’s a little frazzled to beat the last-minute notions of packing up but had a few to show me wherever everything was and go over the daily itinerary. All I had to do was keep everything clean.

“Wipe up after yourself each and every time. Take care of Bella. Let her out to roam free in the living room, clean her cage, replace her litter, fill her water bottle, add her food pellets, handle her and take her back in her cage. Lock her up and feed her the tangy vitamin paste. And do it twice a day. There’s food, cookies, and candy in the cabinets, juice and soda in the fridge, and meat in the freezer. I also have a calling card. Call me at Lima if anything.” Yenny was stern and on point; sharp as an arrow tearing into its’ destination at the center. Her finger-waving game never left my direction and she had the right. She was a neatness freak with O.C.D. who made sure everything was perfect and to a double-tee. Now that the final toothbrush was packed up, they were ready to catch the 5PM flight to the capital. Yenny and her ma’ quickly said their goodbyes to me and walk out the front door. Hauppauge starts now.

The next two weeks of life was bliss. I was out of my dad’s crosshairs. There was no labyrinth of verbal abuse, blames games, complaining, or dealing with his laziness. The aggravating interactions of yelling, screaming, or wasting my time and energy trying to reason with an old-world Brookynite Italian whose mind is far beyond any attempt at learning? Nil. It was a rarity to have any sanity away from home and outside of work. I felt I had all the time in the world to catch up on posting and piece together the next Omega WUSB broadcast. Every day I hammered a few out of the park. Then I had this idea as the gears were going full steam; an idea that would add more work and keep me busy. I decided to open up an Omega WUSB Mixcloud. I rifled through all of my playlists, re-organized my seasonal finds, edited them through Audacity, made the artwork, and viola! The first few uploads went up. It was a fun project to start on and was curious to see if it would take off. I had nothing to lose.

My Mitsubishi back home was in disrepair at the moment, but Yenny thought I was responsible enough to let me borrow her white Honda to-and-from work. To drive out to Stony Brook to do my radio show? During a heavy blizzard? Nada. Work was a necessity but leisure wasn’t. I had no outs in leaving her apartment for any other reason except for my shifts and food shopping. Valentine’s Day fell on a Saturday but I wasn’t planning on having some sappy, gooey theme for my show. Just a God-honest broadcast of distorted Los Angeles dissonance, indie city sounds, obscure British prog-, noise rock, Japanese tape-recorder acts, blast-off garage and hard-to-find noise that I’ll never forget for as long as I breathe. I pieced it altogether, edited down, converted it, and loaded it into the cloud. Aphrodite, then WUSB program-director, was snowed in at the station and had her show before mine. I dialed the studio and she picked up so I could hear her stuffy mellowed-out voice. I told her I wasn’t going to make it in as my ex- tied my hands up with her car and a blustery snowstorm with 30 miles-an-hour winds. “Sure! Send it in” said Aphrodite. By 10PM, Omega WUSB’s non-Valentine’s Day broadcast went live.

Nights felt forever if I didn’t have work the next day. If I wasn’t posting or editing, I was spending it watching concert footage and the Rangers with Cam Talbot goaltending because Henrik Lundqvist was out with a life-threatening neck injury. If I wasn’t doing either, I’d walk to the supermarket and Chinese restaurant which was only down the street. At times I didn’t want to risk denting Yenny’s Honda, so I walked a half-mile trek from her residence to Shop-Rite where one of my better food-service customers recognized me shopping for produce. We spoke for a good ten minutes when, during that time, his jolly self offered me a position in his department. It was nice of him to do so though he was unaware that I was let go from his competitor, and I had more than enough trouble living a day-to-day life of being a former shell of myself in a post-university world.

It’s the Saturday before Yenny and her ma’ comes home. Look who’s knocking on the door? It’s Dad showing up uninvited. Somehow he remembered the directions from our house in Lindenhurst to Yenny’s apartment. Was he here to fight or argue with me again about trivial matters? No. He hasn’t seen or spoken to me in almost two weeks. He missed me, so he wanted to sweeten the deal and take me to the closest buffet we could find. The one thing with Italians, and especially him, is that they’re very passionate with food. Dad woud pump me with everything he could think of with late-night half-eaten steak, burgers, soggy fries, greasy egg rolls, and sushi platters. “O.K., sure” I said. We sat silently from opposite sides of the table as we both slowly gorged on tuna rolls, greasy beef with vegetables, chow mein, pork tips, three types of chicken, green beans, and stir-fry until we passed out in exhaustion. And I say ‘silently’ because I want absolutely no one speaking to me as I’m eating. Our discounted afternoon meal-time was over and he drove me back to Yenny’s where I would spend my final whole day there.

I’d have one more Sunday afternoon to do the good gesture and fill up the tank on Yenny’s Honda. It wouldn’t be right to use her ride and have her come home to an empty tank like some careless despicable animal. The weather was a chilly greyscale and rainy, head barely above freezing. I gather all of my clothes and haul it to the complex’s basement laundry room to spend two hours staring at the wall’s grey-peeled paint ripped open to reveal sandy cinder blocks. The second and final load was hot to a warm crisp to be thrown into a tattered laundry bag with the rest of them. I hauled it over my shoulder, up the stairs, and another 100 feet back to her residence to get one more cleaning of the cage and one final feeding of her pet weasel.

I hear the engine humming outside. Yenny and her ma’ have arrived each in one piece and happy to be finally home. I run out to greet them and offer to unload their luggage from Yenny’s fiancee’s car. All that’s done. Yenny, her ma’ and I all sit around about their Lima visit until my dad finally arrived to pick me up. We all say good-bye for now with Yenny promising to reward me for keeping everything up as they left it. I take my backpack, my laundry haul, and my laptop and loaded it in my dad’s Chrysler. I knew he would ask me twenty questions about everything that could easily be figured out with little imagination but I was in no mood to explain anything to anyone. I just wanted to enjoy the ride back to Lindenhurst where domestic tension and aggression would resume once again.

Dum Dum Girls “Bhang Bhang, I’m A Burnout”

Pop. 1280 “Do The Angelfish”

Eric Copeland “Grapes”

Courtney Barnett ”Pedestrian At Best”

Diet Cig “Harvard”

Former Ghosts “The Days Will Get Long Again”

James Clarke “Waiting Game”

Sex Worker “Tough Love”

Anthroprophh & Big Naturals “Establishment In Decline”

Nisennenmondai “Souzousuru”

Sleaford Mods “Donkey”

Beech Creeps “Sun Of Sud”

Blossom Dearie “Sunday Afternoon”

Cribs, The “We Were Aborted”

OG Maco & Key! “U Guessed It”

Sleaford Mods “Tied Up In Knotts”

Black Madonna, The “Stay”

Alessandro Cortini “Dell’ Influenza”

Flying Lotus & MF Doom “Masquatch”

XXYYXX “Witching Hour”

Soft Moon, The “Black”

Chromatics “Candy” (eight-track)

Burial “Wounder”

Black EL “’95 White Maxima”

Excepter “Forget Me”

Chromatics “Blue Moon”

Burial “Come Down To Us”

Shonen Knife “Twist Barbie”

Alan Vega “No More Christmas Blues”

Suicide “Hey Lord”

Arca “Sisters”

Consumer Electronics “Murder Your Masters”

Your Old Droog “Porno For Pyros”

Women In Prison “Suicidal Exit”

Ho99or “Da Blue Nigga From Hell Boy”

Soft Moon, The “Want”

Flucts, The “2 Gtr. Practice”

Flying Lotus & MF Doom “My Favorite Ladies / Litemeter”

Shiny Two Shiny “Through The Glass”

Antonio Adolfo “Venice”

Dual Action “NC-17 Drive In”

XXYYXX “Fields”

AIDS Wolf “Nothing But A Tape Recorder”

[fainthedcherry]

7.3.24 there was a deadline for a DTIYS my IRL friend, kobra_the_artist , hosted back around February!! I had like...3 days to finish the sketch I started back in February. It's...A pain being late to EVERYTHING with a deadline, but at least deadlines help me push finish a drawing, I otherwise would let rot in my WIP folder for almost a year (hell, some sketches are like 3 years old that are rotting in there now, that I'm self-aware about, yet still keep forgetting. ._." )

I don'ttt have too much to say on this one? Since it was a DTIYS, I recommend checking out the insta post simply, I'm not about to take my friend's artwork and cross-post it to somewhere else, I feel, that'd be scummy to do. :T SO LINK TO THE OG CONTEST POST! HUZZAH! plusssss, I think I yapped enough on my own insta post. :v

I just rlly wanted to draw Kobra, as I love her sona's design. I adore demon-anything, can u blame me LMAO. I need excuses to draw ppl's OCs willingly and gladly more. It's so hard to motivate myself to draw something at all for people anymore AUUUUGH

Somehow I won 1st place??? Don't ask em HOW, as I found other people's entries much better than mine ngl, butttt I'll never understand, that my art is actually enjoyed by some people anyway, ngl. Even years later, I still sometimes feel, like I don't deserve to call myself an artist LMFAO

I also added a little funne below, we both wanted to draw for fun, once we were in a call just rambling and stuff. On the right, has been drawn by Kobra!! (You can open the green, first link above, to her insta itself! She doesn't have Tumblr. No one in my friend group does, but I love Tumblr tbh. :"))

You should try ceramic pans. They are the best flavour. /lh

ANOTHER POST THERE IS! WHERE ART IS! I might post character concept-refs next. I'm running out of "good-looking things" to post, that won't make me look like a total amateur from the 2010s DA era. I've only uploaded these in my scraps on DA back then, so maybe you'll get weekly posts, as I draw concept refs basically weekly, to keep my chara-base up to date for comms and art exchange!

I wanna do a DTIYS myself some day!! But maybe in 4 years, where I dream of having paid off all my art-debt finally I've been working so hard to pay off on lately...

[choicesholidays]

Valentine's Day Prompts

Welcome to Choices Holidays Valentine's Day prompts! This event will run from February 1st through February 15th, 2023.

This is open to all choices fandoms. It’s open to fan artists as well as fanfic writers.

Below are fourteen prompts (for Feb 14th) that will hopefully inspire some stories and/or artwork, mood boards, etc. Use these less as word for word prompts and more as a general theme (of course, you are welcome to use them word for word if you like). Let your imaginations run wild!

Submit your work at any time during the event. Submissions will be reblogged as they come in. A complete master list will be posted after the end of the event.

PROMPTS:

This isn't what I imagined a relationship would be like. It's so much more.

You broke through every wall I had. How can I resist you now?

Marry me

I don't need a hall pass, you're my hall pass

I was wrong, I want you back

I'd burn down the world for you

Let's have a baby

I'll never forget you

You're the only one that truly knows me

You always make me laugh

Go on a date with me

I knew you were the one when.....

You're my best friend

Be my valentine

[cellsshapedlikestars]

I'm loving all your one-shots!

For a prompt, how about Jon's known Sansa as his best friend's sister all his life, but they meet each other online (maybe on a role-playing fantasy game or on an anonymous twitter post?), not knowing who the other was and start flirting and catching feelings?

I can't believe some of these prompts are from... what, 7/8 months ago??? And I still have more, I'm sorry if anyone has submitted a prompt and I haven't gotten to it yet!

But thank you for sending this one, it was fun! It also, as usual, turned out longer than I expected.

read it on ao3 here:

ephemera, chapter 34

The first time Sansa plays a video game, she's attracted to the bright colors and the rainbow racetrack, there's even a princess character in a bright pink dress, and she tentatively asks Robb if she can play (Robb groans and makes a fuss, and it is, ultimately, Jon who hands over his controller to let her try). Except Sansa keeps sliding off the track into a pit of blackness, and she falls so behind that Robb and Theon and all the computer characters cross the finish line while she's still way back, and she ends up shoving the controller back at Jon and running up the basement stairs nearly in tears, vowing to never play a video game again.

That resolve lasts a solid ten years, until two months into her second semester of college.

The first semester had been a dream. She finally got to go south, she'd been swept up in a new relationship with perfect Joffrey Baratheon, and she made a whole slew of friends.

Except Joffrey wasn't perfect, and it turns out, all her friends were Joffrey's friends, and so when they broke up, just before Christmas break, she found herself still in the south the next semester, but now alone and ostracized by the clique that had initially taken her in.

Humiliated by the breakup and the loss of her friends, she holes herself up in her dorm room all January, only leaving for classes and the lunch hall, where she grabs food and rushes back to her dorm to eat alone.

February is the same.

Around the beginning of March, she gets bored and lonely enough to do something she never thought she'd do – check out that game Bran keeps talking about nonstop.

She really has no idea what an MMO is, and then they go ahead and tack on even more letters. MMORPG means absolutely nothing to her.

Still. The artwork is sort of pretty and it seems like high fantasy, which Sansa always loves, even if she pretends she doesn't anymore. Elves and dwarves and knights and heroes and magic swords and unicorns... So she creates an account and spends a ridiculous amount of time creating a character. Lady Alayne, she calls herself.

And then she is thrust into the world of Legends of Lightbringer.

…

For all that Sansa had wanted to run back home after losing Joffrey and all her friends, she doesn't.

She stays in the south, keeps going to her classes, and eventually makes a few new friends who may not be as glamorous as the ones she made first, but who are infinitely better for her.

And, of course, she keeps playing.

Eventually, she realizes that if she wants to get her hands on certain items, or pass through certain levels, she needs a guild - a group to help her fight, that would have people with different classes and skillsets than her. It's nerve-wracking, trying to choose, and there are so many. She stays away from the one she knows Bran is in, because that would be weird. (Not that she told Bran she was playing. She hasn't told anyone she's playing this. She honestly isn't sure anyone would even believe her if she did.)

In the end, she settles on a group for Winterfell locals. She tells them she's currently in school in the south, but from Winterfell originally and missing home, and they welcome her into their party (though honestly, she thinks it was less her sob story and more that they really needed a replacement cleric, but still).

…

In their first raid, they lose.

Sansa blinks away tears of humiliation as one of the party members, some jerk named DreadfulBastard69, goes off in the group chat about her - horrid things about how they should never have let a girl into the group. (He doesn't say it like that, though. He says much, much worse things that Sansa will never repeat to anyone.)

She almost leaves the group and disables her account, but through the tirade, she sees something else.

Daeron_Dragonwolf: leave her alone

Daeron_Dragonwolf: we lost because we haven't practiced in a while

Daeron_Dragonwolf: not because she's a girl

Daeron_Dragonwolf: so shut the fuck up

Which, in turn, causes the other members of the group to chime in that they didn't blame her, either.

MaesterSamTar: plus, we don't even know if she is a girl

MaesterSamTar: you're making assumptions based off the username

As this is happening, she gets a DM from Daeron_Dragonwolf.

Daeron_Dragonwolf: sorry about him

Daeron_Dragonwolf: he's the worst

Daeron_Dragonwolf: don't listen to any of it, you did a great job for your first dungeon run

LadyAlayne286: thanks

LadyAlayne286: I'm still new to all this, so if there is anything I did wrong, please let me know

LadyAlayne286: I promise, I'm a quick learner

She actually isn't so sure about that part, but she's going to try as hard as she can to be the best cleric, so they never regret her.

…

Three days later, in a vote she isn't involved in because she's still too new to the group, DreadfulBastard69 is kicked out.

Sansa can only feel relief. Those three days had been a mild sort of torture for her – every time the group chat pinged, her heart would stutter, just waiting for DreadfulBastard69 to start up again. But now he's gone and she can breathe easier.

Secretly, she thinks she has Daeron_Dragonwolf to thank.

…

She grows closer to the whole group, but it's Daeron she feels the most comfortable talking to solo. Sometimes when their guildmates are being idiots, Daeron will side DM her in discord, because – in his words – he needs someone rational to talk to.

She thinks Daeron is a him. She's pretty sure the whole group are boys, just from the way they talk, and she knows they range anywhere from twenty to forty. Sansa's the youngest, just turned nineteen, though she lied when she initially joined and said she was already nineteen, because she felt that saying she was eighteen would sound fake. Like maybe they'd think she was a kid trying to get into an 18+ only group.

They're all nice, but it's Daeron who truly makes her feel welcome.

…

Summer break is a godsend.

She's back in Winterfell, and Jeyne and Beth are here and she feels like herself again. It's curious to her that she doesn't lose interest in the game, now that she doesn't feel lonely. She still stays up much too late raiding with her group, though she's having a harder time doing it on her laptop. She wishes she had her desktop, but that's back in her dorm.

Daeron_Dragonwolf: how's break?

LadyAlayne286: good to be back home

LadyAlayne286: except for my little sister. She's still a terror

LadyAlayne286: you?

Sansa looks up, to where Arya and Rickon are shooting at each other with water guns. Arya's already threatened Sansa with it five different times, even though Sansa's just sitting here on the chair by the pool and not bothering anyone. Robb and Theon are in the pool, but Jon isn't with them – he sits on one of the chairs on the other side, on his phone.

Daeron_Dragonwolf: at my best friend's house

Daeron_Dragonwolf: it always feels weird on breaks now. Like we revert to being back in high school when we see each other

In the distance, she can hear Robb and Theon messing around, and she rolls her eyes.

LadyAlayne286: I know exactly what you mean

…

Sansa's in class when she comes to the realization that Daeron might be her best friend.

That's ridiculous, though.

Sure, she's been talking to him for over a year now, pretty much every day at this point. Sure, she tells him things she doesn't tell her King's Landing friends, because even though they're nicer than Joffrey's crew, they'd still judge her. Like, she's been playing Legend of Lightbringer for over a year, and the only person in her real life that knows is Jeyne. She would never dare to tell her King's Landing friends.

She and Daeron talk about non-game things – at first, it had just been what other games they play (none, for Sansa), and then what other sort of media they like (they both love Lord of the Rings, though he also loves Star Wars and she thinks space is boring. This caused a nearly two hour long argument that she thinks, to this day, still isn't resolved).

Somehow, without her even realizing, they'd started talking about real things, too. How isolated she still feels in the south. How he isn't sure what he wants to do with his life once he graduates.

It was Daeron she messaged first when she caught Harry cheating.

But Daeron can't be her best friend, because she doesn't even know his real name.

In the beginning, she was too wary of talking to strangers on the internet, and so she made sure to never give any identifiable information about herself, except that she's from Winterfell and going to school in King's Landing. She never uses names, even with Harry. Daeron's mostly the same – she isn't sure if it's because he's also thinking about stranger danger, or if he simply picked up on her hesitance and kept himself at a distance, too.

And yet, she still trusts Daeron more than she trusts most of her friends, and what does that say about her?

…

Beginning around year two, some of their conversations turn flirtatious. Sansa's pretty certain she starts it, because Harry was cheating on her and it felt nice to flirt with someone who... well, couldn't really do anything about it, because he lived halfway across the country.

It's never anything outright, and she always pulls back when she thinks she's going too far, but still.

She knows she shouldn't.

(Except, when she has a notification on discord, she gets butterflies in her tummy, and more than one person has commented that she's always smiling down at her phone.)

…

LadyAlayne286: tell me not to punch my brother at his own graduation party

Daeron_Dragonwolf: I don't know if I can tell you that

Daeron_Dragonwolf: what's he doing?

Sansa looks up at Robb and his new girlfriend, Jeyne W. Ever since they started dating, he's been absolutely smitten, to the point where it's bordering on annoying. Arya agrees with her, too, and it's never a good sign when they agree on something.

LadyAlayne286: I don't know, being cutesy with his girlfriend

LadyAlayne286: maybe I'm jealous

Daeron_Dragonwolf: I get it

Daeron_Dragonwolf: my best friend just started dating someone, and they're so in love it's almost sickening. I'm at his grad party now, you'd think it's actually their engagement party with the way they're acting

LadyAlayne286: yes!

LadyAlayne286: like, stop rubbing your happiness in my very single face

LadyAlayne286: but also I guess I'm happy for him because he's my brother and I love him

Sansa looks back up at the party, scanning the crowd to see if anyone else is as annoyed with Robb as she and Arya are. Bran doesn't pay much attention to most things, and Rickon is only now discovering girls. Theon seems a bit put out by it, though. He doesn't like Robb's attention being pulled from him.

Her eyes find Jon, and she wonders how he feels. He's looking down at his phone in one hand, a beer held in the other. She wonders who he's texting, because she's pretty sure he broke up with the girlfriend he'd had since high school a few months ago. Does he get that jealous feeling in the pit of his stomach when he looks at Robb and Jeyne?

If he does, she can't tell, but then again, Jon's always been good at hiding his feelings.

...

Three years.

They've been doing this for three years, she should have seen it coming.

Daeron_Dragonwolf: did you wanna maybe meet up when you're in town?

When that message comes through, she agrees readily, even though she knows, on some base level, it's probably a terrible idea.

Neither of them tell the rest of the guild that they're planning to meet. She thinks Daeron knows that wouldn't go over well. As it is, they sometimes get flirty in the group chat and it's always met with protest, because what happens if something goes wrong? Then the group gets messed up.

Sansa doesn't care. She wants to meet Daeron.

She doesn't even care what he looks like. It's funny – whenever she thinks about him, she thinks about his avatar, or his discord profile picture. Obviously he isn't a cartoon medieval knight, but in her head he is. She can't even fathom what he might look like IRL.

It isn't until she's at the airport, waiting for her flight home for winter break, that she finally plucks up the courage to ask what neither of them have yet.

LadyAlayne286: how will I even know it's you?

Her heart races as she sees him start to type. Stop. Start.

And then a picture comes through that...

Everything around her seems to go dull and distant. All she can see is the selfie he sent, with the caption underneath: my name's Jon, by the way.

She stares that the picture for so long that she's startled out of her daze by her flight being called, and she closes out of discord, turns her phone on airplane mode, and puts it in her bag.

…

Robb picks her up at the airport.

Her older brother Robb.

Whose best friend is Jon Snow, who she has known practically her whole life.

…

By the time they reach home, she's come to the conclusion that Jon is not Daeron.

No.

Daeron has been playing with her this whole time. Daeron is some sort of elite hacker who figured out who she was IRL and went to her social media and picked out someone she knows. He's pretending to be Jon to ease her into meeting him. Clearly he's planning to kidnap and murder her.

Of course that's what happened. There's no way she's been talking to Jon Snow for three years and never realized it.

(Though he does like Star Wars, she remembers. And he graduated the same time as Daeron said he did. And he did live with his mom until recently, when he finally moved out on his own.)

…

Jon is around.

He always is – always has been.

But... when did he become handsome?

He isn't her type, really. His whole vibe is a bit rougher than she'd normally go for, but... his eyes are pretty. And so is his mouth. He fills out his holiday sweaters really well, and she starts to think there really is something to that dark and brooding trope.

When Jon was a teenager, he was so sullen and moody, but he got much better once he went to college. Except, at the Stark's annual holiday party, he seems like he's back to his teenage ways.

“What's wrong with Jon?” she asks Robb casually. Cool, calm, and collected. She doesn't actually care. She's just a concerned citizen.

“Some girl won't text him back,” Robb rolls his eyes.

Sansa's stomach lurches, and she excuses herself to the bathroom, where she pulls out her phone and opens discord for the first time since she stepped off the plane.

Daeron_Dragonwolf: how was your flight?

Daeron_Dragonwolf: are we still meeting up?

Daeron_Dragonwolf: if you don't want to, that's fine

Daeron_Dragonwolf: it's no big deal

Daeron_Dragonwolf: Alayne?

…

Sansa knows she shouldn't be here.

She walks into the holiday market in Wintertown Square, eyes scanning the crowd. She never answered Daeron, so maybe he won't show up, after all. Why would he? She ghosted him.

But there, sitting at a wooden table near the food stalls, is Jon Snow.

His phone is sitting on the table in front of him, next to the cup of hot chocolate he bought. His leg is bouncing beneath the table, fingers drumming on the the top.

Her stomach lurches again, and she knows she needs to make a choice.

Does she go home and open discord and tell Daeron she got cold feet? Or does she go up to Jon and tell him she's Alayne?

She wants to do the first, because she's a coward. If she leaves now, everything can go back to normal, and she can keep pretending Daeron and Jon are different people.

Instead, her feet move, and she weaves her way through the crowds and sits on the bench opposite Jon. He startles, but then relaxes when he sees that it's her.

“Sansa,” he says, turning off his phone screen quickly, but not quick enough that she doesn't recognize discord. Her phone hasn't gone off, so he hadn't sent her a message. He's just waiting, and that makes her ache. He looks around, then back at her, and says, “are you here alone?”

“You're alone,” she counters, because that's easier than the truth.

“I'm meeting someone,” he says, though his mouth twists into a frown. He doesn't actually think Alayne coming, and yet he still showed up.

“I'm meeting someone, too,” she says quietly, and his brows raise. Then she takes a deep, steadying breath and says, “hi. I'm Alayne.”

Jon stares at her for a beat too long, before his frown twists even further. “Did Robb put you up to this?” he says, shoulders bunching up defensively, face quickly reddening under his beard.

“What?”

“I never should have told him,” Jon grumbles, eyes darting around, looking at anything but her. “Tell Robb I say ha ha, very funny.”

There's an immediate rush of tears to her eyes, because... Because of course Jon doesn't believe her. He's supposed to be meeting a girl, one that he's been flirting with for a year, and she's just Sansa, Robb's stupid little sister.

Without another word, she stands from the table and sprints away from it. Jon calls after her, but she doesn't stop until she's back at her car, and then she pulls out her phone.

LadyAlayne286: you're a jerk, Jon Snow

…

Two days later, there's a knock on her door.

“Go away,” she grumbles, but it's muffled into her pillow and the knock comes again. “I said go away,” she calls, louder, rolling onto her back.

“Sansa,” she hears, and she bolts upright at the sound of Jon's voice. “Can we talk?”

“Go away,” she repeats for a third time, except this time it comes out a bit wobbly.

There's a sigh. She's heard that sigh before, too many times to count.

Because she's known Jon practically her whole life.

“Please?” His tone has taken on a pleading quality that tugs at her, but she makes herself sit silent. Another sigh. “If you don't open the door, I'm just gonna talk through it. Really loud, so everyone can hear.”

That makes her spring out of bed and she unlocks her door and cracks it open. “Go away.”

“Sans, please talk to me.”

“Don't worry, I'm not gonna quit the guild. I'll wait until you find a replacement for me, I won't leave you guys hanging.”

But she will leave. She thinks she might stop playing entirely.

She starts to shut the door, but his foot jams into the opening, which surprises her. Jon isn't pushy – in fact, she'd almost say he's a bit of a pushover. He tends to let Robb and Theon do whatever, and he goes along with it.

With an annoyed huff, she lets go of the door and backs away, and he follows her into the room, shutting it behind him.

“What do you want?” she asks with her arms folded across her chest.

“Why did you ghost me?”

That takes her aback, and she feels guilt pull at her. All she can do is shrug pathetically, which doesn't seem to satisfy him. “I was surprised, okay? I didn't know how to respond.”

“Well,” he says, “I was too.”

“But I didn't accuse you of... you really thought I'd do that?”

He sighs, and his shoulders slump a bit. “I told Robb about you – Alayne – and he gave me so much shit for it. Said I should try meeting a girl in real life.” Jon's face is red again, and Sansa decides she might slap Robb after all. He knows how much of an introvert Jon is, but sometimes he says things that are so inconsiderate, even if he doesn't necessarily mean them to be.

“I wouldn't do that.”

“I know,” he sighs, a hand coming up to scrub at his still-red face. “I know, I overreacted. I just couldn't wrap my head around...”

“Around me?”

“At first I couldn't... you're Robb's little sister and it's not like I don't know you're pretty-”

“You think I'm pretty?”

That gets her a scowl, which actually makes her smile.

“I didn't know if I could make myself feel what I felt for Alayne,” he says, and her smile fades. “But then I went back and reread a bunch of our old messages, and all the sudden, it was just... you. It was you telling me to not settle for that sales job, and you telling me I should get a dog, and you being so dead wrong about Star Wars-”

“Space is boring,” she whines.

“It's not bor- you know what? We're not doing this now. The thing is, you're my best friend's little sister, and you're in the guild, and I don't want to lose you. I don't want to ruin things because...”

Because he thinks she's pretty. Because he had feelings for Alayne.

“I know,” she says. “It's why I didn't know how to react to your photo. It was like, all the sudden, I was seeing you in a completely new way.” He nods, looking relieved that he's not alone. “So, I think we should test it.”

“Test it?”

“We should kiss. If there's nothing there, then we go back to normal. No harm, no foul.”

There's hesitance in his eyes, but his tongue darts out to wet his lips and a thrill goes through her. “Yeah, alright,” he says, voice lower now.

She takes a step forward and stands on her toes and wraps her arms around his neck and she presses her lips to his. She means it to be just that, but she can't quite make herself pull away. His lips are so soft and those butterflies in her tummy are swirling all over the place, and then his arm loops around her back and he pulls her closer and his head tilts as he deepens the kiss and Sansa knows there's no going back. They've ruined everything, they can't take this back.

They kiss until she needs to pull back for air, and as she's panting for breath, he's doing the same. Then his lips pull into a half-smile and he says, “so. Did we pass the test?”

“With flying colors,” she grins, and his arms tighten around her waist. Then her eyes widen and she pulls back slightly to see him better and says, “Daeron? How did I not put that together!”

Back when they were kids, back when they played come into my castle and monsters and maidens, Jon would always proclaim himself Daeron the Young Dragon.

Jon scowls at her again and tries to pull out of her arms, but she keeps them locked around his neck as she starts to giggle.

“Don't act like you aren't into it,” he grumbles.

Dragons and knights and elves and dwarves... and him.

“I'm very into it,” she grins, and leans back in for another kiss.

[papairaart]

twofold thoughts from guy who worked on it (me)

warning for spoilers and pretty extensive discussion about parental death

on february 14th of 2023 i suddenly and abruptly lost my dev twitter account.

everyone who was following my socials back then knows this. i repeatedly tried to appeal its suspension to no avail; papaira_x is just gone forever. what not a lot of people know though is that i probably would have never worked on twofold had that not happened. when i went to its associated e-mail to see why i got bonked, i found another e-mail about a pending message request from theo about how they wanted to hire me to do scripting for twofold. twitter never notified me about it; it was from a few weeks ago.

i panicked hard for multiple reasons. for one, i had no idea how to get back to them and i needed that money. for two, i had never been hired for a scripting job in my life. i could see why i had been scouted—three lilies and their ghost stories, which had been released the month prior, had some of the most active cinematography i had ever done then—but to be doing something other than artwork under someone else's supervision made me panic, just a little. what if i failed to meet their expectations?

eventually, arimia managed to get me in contact with theo (god bless her) and it was finally settled: i was going to work on twofold. i learned only post-release that had that all not happened caps and theo were just going to be resigned to caps doing the rest of the scripting because i hadn't responded, which was painful to hear for a reason you are about to see.

i was hired to script ~75k words of twofold's ~151k. the rate of completion was to be at least 1 scene a week to meet the deadline of a fall release. as you can see, i met this deadline, and even finished the large christmas script (which i had been alotted more time to complete) earlier than expected (within 1.5 weeks). i was doing this all on top of soundless stuff, other work, family issues, and at one point even the literal flu. it was ultimately not as difficult as i had feared it would be...

...on a technical level.

the majority of my assigned scenes were millie scripts. i had only read the prologue and caprice act 1 scene 1 (the internal name for the pizza party at the start of her route) prior to my start date for studying purposes, so i had no idea what caprice and millie's conflict was ultimately about. the order in which i worked on millie's scripts (it had been done on the basis of whether or not a scene's sprite assets were all available) gave me a sneaking suspicion that morphed into shock when it finally came out that everything had to do with her late mother.

i have read many visual novels in my life. since i became a fan of the genre in middle school, i've always gravitated towards heavier and more hardcore titles. i have nonchalantly picked up some horrific and nauseating and violent stories that would scare away a lot of people; there aren't many topics that kick my ass thoroughly. but the one thing that will always get me no matter what is grieving for a dead parent.

my father suddenly died when i was 17. not as young as when millie lost her mom, nor as expected. he was simply ripped away from me on an ordinary sunny day because of a heart attack. i said goodbye to him as he went on his way to the store to grab some things, then took a nap, and then when i woke up he was gone.

everything millie went through and felt was exactly how i felt and still feel. you forget their voice and exactly how they looked and the things they used to say, and you lose things that remind you of them and it's like they're dying a second time. i had an episode at the funeral because i couldn't recognize a lot of the people who came and after the service they were talking and smiling and eating like my father didn't just die. it was like i was the only one who cared he was gone. i would lash out at the world for years after and struggle to regulate my emotions. i am very lucky that i was in a position where i could not find a way to abuse substances underage.

there were times where i had to stop and step away, then there were times where i breezed through a scene because i understood. i'm very proud of the scene where millie shows olive her "train set" in particular, so much so that said train became the focus of my guest art. perhaps it's because the location i associate with my father, his backyard, is no longer accessible to me. (speaking of the guest art, i actually started and finished it a day after i was asked if i wanted to contribute a piece, but handed it over months later because i was embarrassed...)

this is all not to say it was wrong for salty salty studios to hire me without warning me. i'm not at all mad about it; i'm glad i got to channel my grief into millie. it's not like i'm often upfront about this anyways. people know me for making my very first public release a violent cult abuse story, so it's probably assumed that a much more down-to-earth story like twofold isn't gonna really make a dent in the guy who loves subarashiki hibi and full metal daemon muramasa. besides, i'm the type of person who appreciates a good cry because tears tend to just get stuck inside of me.

i love twofold a lot and i loved working on it. it is the only visual novel i broke my "no rating for things i touched" rule. millie is my little blorbo and she deserves everything ever.

i'll be honest i've been so eloquent and serious up until now but i don't actually know how to finish this post. maybe i will end it on a lighthearted note: if there's one thing i can't forgive it was getting blindsided by perfect circle, i had NO IDEA about this portion of the game, NONE of those assets were in the files during the literal months i was doing the scripting in. imagine my shock when i binged the game in one sitting and it smacked me in the face. i literally got fucking trolled.

i had a cookie cake for my birthday cake last year.