#ask: nevermore

[rockybloo]

As I’m doing this ask, I’m just watching Jack the Giant Slayer and making me SEVERELY wanna read Beanstalked, I’d love a passion fueled essay/reason from you why I should read it! (I’m gonna ready it anyways)

OH BOY I GET TO DROP MY LIMITERS

For starters, Beanstalked is a fantasy slice-of-life with a sprinkle of adventure and action. It does feature swearing, violence and gore as well as some body horror and existentialism. So just a heads up.

The main plot is basically that Lore, the planet that Beanstalked takes place on which exists directly parallel to Earth, has an event every 100 years where individuals are selected to become Bookmarked. This is where they are assigned roles from fables and legends from our world and gain secret weapons known as Märchen for self defense. This event has gone on practically forever under the watchful eyes of the Sun and Moon, the gods of this world.

But that all gets disrupted by an evil fairy called Nevermore who is bored of witnessing the same fairy tales happening over and over again. She has rounded up Bookmarked villains and the occasional misled protagonist to assist her and her army of ink stains as she aims to rewrite the world and rid it of happy endings.

The newest generation of Bookmarked are very unlucky as it is their turns to live out their assigned tales due to their stories all having been screwed up due to Nevermore's interference. Jack is one of these unlucky Bookmarked, who has just recently come to learn he has been assigned the same Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk. Much of Beanstalked follows hm as he learns about the magical side of the world he lives in, how to use his own Märchen, his own family history, and what exactly a "Happy Ending" is.

Beanstalked is meant to somewhat explore fairy tales and how suddenly becoming a figure in one can affect one's life-whether it be good or bad. It's also, at its center, a story about learning more about one's self and figuring out what truly makes you happy.

If you are a fan of fairy tale retellings then Beanstalked is a good pick for you. Especially if you are a fan of retellings that:

Aren't just mean spirited spins about the original tale

Aren't completely dark and gritty retellings of the source material for the sake of being edgy

Aren't just rip offs of Disney designs and characters

Or if you are petty like me, don't want to read another story about a protagonist having fallen into the land of fairy tales

Every Beanstalked character is meant to be based off either a direct character from a fable or a stock character. And for each fable, I try to bounce off the original story if there is an author (Like Pinocchio novel) or the oldest retellings as many fables don't have direct authors and simply have collectors that put their own spin on things.

So if you are worried about another fairy tale retelling story where each fable is just based off Disney's spins-DON'T WORRY BECAUSE ROCKY GOT YA' COVERED!

Beanstalked also contains a lot of found family elements, such as the entire village of Briar Patch being a community of Bookmarked who watch out for one another.

There are also cool af battle scenes due to the existence of Märchen (because Rocky grew up watching too many shounen anime and now has to put battles in everything), a ton of world building (I've had this story for nearly a decade now), a lotta characters with melanin (many being black), and a cast comprised of bi and pan characters.

ALSO ALSO...if you are a fan of pretty black girl love interests that kick ass (and may also be a monster girl with sharp teeth and claws and whole big monster form) then you will enjoy Beanstalked as Jack's love interest, Nana, is all of said above mentioned things.

SO if any of this happened to catch your attention-GO READ BEANSTALKED! As of right now I've rebooted it from the original 2010s version I had so it currently only has chapters 1 and 2. Which means you don't have a lotta catch up to do!

I have also handcuffed myself to this story which means I will be working on it till I finish it. I am on a mission. So if you want a webcomic and don't wanna worry about it suddenly being cancelled or disappearing one day-DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF CITIZEN as I am unhinged about my fairy tale babies and am in for the long haul.

[gothwineaunts]

Well, well, well. Look who it is. 🕰️

[barblaz-arts]

your art and writing r amazing! will we ever see wenclair and vega together, with enid and vega in werewolf form. id imagine itd be endearing to see little vega being scruffed or enid protecting her girls:)

Full moon nights are family nights

(consider it a pt 2 to this)

[the-rat-in-y0ur-walls]

[majosullivan]

*drops from the ceiling*

DUDE I MIGHT KNOW WHAT ANNABEL'S TELL IS (I spent all of today rereading the latter half of the comic I am fine)

Every time lenore says "you're lying and you have a tell" Annabel is turned around and not looking at her.

It might be a little simplistic BUT it would also make this scene very silly bc Annabel is turning her back on lenore >:3

Oh my god, you’re definitely onto something.

Since episode 106 has released, I have been so focused on Annabel’s hands during those scenes. The way she was gripping her dress, the way she had her hand in a fist, they seemed like the main contenders for what Annabel’s tell was, especially when thinking about the way we’ve seen Annabel hold onto her rings depending on what she’s feeling. Because of that though, I didn’t consider that her tell could be something more simplistic like Annabel not looking Lenore. I decided to have a quick look back at some different scenes with this idea in mind and it works well:

Shifting her eyes away, having her back to people, it definitely feeds the idea that her tell could be how she shifts her view away from people.

This also made me think about the times we’ve seen Annabel slip her mask on

A charming smile and closed eyes

[onceuponalegendbg]

“I really want more Ada focus that doesn’t revolve around her being a puppet for a guy.”

*The Monkey’s Paw curls a finger*

[k3yboi]

and they were in love

just a doodle i forgor to post but i heart them they’re on the brain

[takescrackseriously]

Pearlywhites doodle

I did this in class from memory without any references. I'm proud of myself. Also, hot day today, so no blazers

[torio12539]

Ada they could never make me hate you

[rychuart]

only kinda part of the series of portraits ive been doing, cus ive already drawn him in his uniform once so i wanted to do his jammies this time, so he doesnt match everyone else LOL

anyway i love my awful little dog son oh! bonus i didnt realize i forgot to post:

this was like the second nevermore drawing i did LOL right after the one of his spectre i completely forgot about it but its kind of the same as this one

[rockybloo]

I adore wine but I just can't see nana becoming wine, I'm curious about wines story?

That's the thing about this villain au. Jack and Nana are hard to really see as villains, which is also what makes writing them with such drastically different personalities fun for me since it's literally breaking the rules I laid out for what makes Nana and Jack themselves.

The simplest way of explaining Wine is just the fact Nana winds up being born and raised different.

She has white hair from a relative on her father's side, and she winds up coming into contact with Nevermore when she's a kid, before her dad dies.

Nevermore's influence on her, especially after her father's death, is what results in Wine being so different from Nana both in personality and behavior.

The key ingredient in this AU is basically "Nevermore did it"

[gothwineaunts]

So, y'all did something hilarious last night. ☠️

[barblaz-arts]

Thank you for blessing us with the skywolf pair

I love them so much❤️❤️❤️

Just a random thought since Sora has met the Addams parents, will Sora be joining any future midnight fast food runs to Jollibee(or any other fast foods hahaha) with the family?

Thanks again and hope you have a wonderful day!

Of course!

[squish-bird]

Uhh yah… no comment

[imfierylilac]

Modern AU Willtresor fanfic idea

Imagine Will — someone who doesn’t celebrate his birthday, simply because there’s no one to celebrate it with. His family turned their backs on him when they found out he’s gay, and he doesn’t have any real friends. So every year, the day passes in quiet loneliness.

Montresor — the guy Will is hopelessly in love with (and with whom he has a “friends with benefits” kind of thing — yes, I really like this headcanon) — is probably, as Will assumes, spending the day with some girl. After all, he didn’t even call.

But in the evening, Montresor finally shows up. Without a word of explanation, he says:

“Come with me.”

They arrive at some vacant building. While Will looks around in confusion, our steadfast, stoic cowboy says, almost flatly:

“You once said you were tired of working in a library and dreamed of owning your own bookstore. So I bought this place for you — as a gift. Of course, there’s still a lot of work to do…”

But Will isn’t listening anymore. With tears in his eyes, he throws himself into Montresor’s arms, overflowing with joy and gratitude.

And by the end… well, let’s just say they probably end up doing something very indecent right there in the store. Heh.

[axeleous]

Would you please provide us with your wonderful Ada, perhaps? (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

This just made me realise how rarely I draw ada even though she has the coolest spectre design ever.

( the hands look wonky but oh well :""))