#im-the-swamp-witch

[punkitt-is-here]

WAIT ARE YOU EVEN A LESBIAN OR DID I JUST INCORRECTLY MEME IM SORRY NOOOOOOOO

I MEAN I APPRECIATE THE SENTIMENT BUT I AM NOT A LESBIAN LMAO HGJSHJGFK

i am bisexual!! :DDD but i still appreciate da kind words!!

[violetclowns]

Would it be okay if I used the pride flag you made from color picking the original as me header image? Absolutely okay if not!

Omg im so sorry this was sitting in my inbox for a month!!! Yes ofc u can :D

[earthwormangel]

gator country

[attackedastoria]

Happy Halloween 🎃

[bakawitch]

Who's ready for swamp witch Bakura and swamp monster Ryou?

[sea-buns]

What I love about the cast saying to "leave the little cheese man alone" and tumblr's insistence that he's just a little soggy baby, is that it's correct but also so not. I see these things and then look into my head at the image of Colin and he is a grown 6' man with a big sword and a lean muscular build. And the truly gremlin sized brain-me always points up at him like "this one? this is the little guy?"

[andy-clutterbuck]

Can I say something? When I’m scrolling and not really paying attention and not catching from which blogs the stuff I’m scrolling past has been posted or reblogged and come across some Rick (/Andy) gifs, I always know when it’s an andy-clutterbuck gif 😂 I’m not saying I catch it everytime or anything like that bit I’ve said it and been wrong lol. I know an andy clutterbuck joint when I see one, ok?! Your legacy in this fandom is secured, for life 😄😘

This was too sweet 😭💙 Thank you so much!

[xxla-vie-en-rose]

[simelune]

suddenly got the urge to remake one of my old d&d characters, amelia, but in ✨ the sims ✨

[red-dyed-sarumane]

what are some cool games u have played? dont matter if u mentioned before. tell me again tell me again :D

uhh hmm.

well okami is my all time favorite the art & the music & the message/story are all just incredible theres not a single time ive finished it i havent cried. i absolutely adore ryoshima coast ive spent so many hours just running around there to listen to music. which fun fact for u i only know about this game bc in about 6th grade i picked up okamiden bc i thought the little doggy was cute & was like fine i'll play as this boy if i get a cool dog and u cannot imagine how excited i was to find out u DID play as the little dog. i was SOOOOO obsessed literally my exact thoughts were 'if issun is ammy's celestial envoy then i am going to be chibis' i have a metric fuck ton of fan art i did at the time bc i thought it was quote "the epic-est game for ds ever" also cried every time i finished it. i was 13 so i didnt know what "being down bad" was but do know i was as obsessed with kurow as i was with d-ne later and now tenshi not a single irl friend was unaware i was in love with him. also fun fact for u bc at the same time i was also getting super into vocaloid i was so convinced my vocap name would end up as chibiP to the point i named myself that in pkmn x chibiP after chibiterasu of course. please enjoy my banger old art which is not even a fraction of my output

yume nikki is my next favorite game specifically the og that changed my brain chemistry as a kid. i adore that game so much its hard to put it into words. its just so unlike anything else. there is absolutely nothing in the game that can directly harm u theres no real health meter theres no way to die during the main play the absolute worst that will ever happen is u get stuck or woken up. in a horror game. which is already just amazing. and the whole horror aspect just plays on something i dont think is often done as well in many other things. ur alone. u wander and wander thru worlds that loop and connect and seemingly have nothing to do with each other. theres no dialogue; talking to npcs just gets u a noise or animation at best. ur entirely alone with just urself. its all dreams so u know everything is of madotsuki's own creation, another layer to the all u have is urself feeling. the art is just unusual i cant even say any of it on its own is in anyway scary. the whole thing shouldnt be scary and yet every time i start wandering in a world i cant help but feel unease. amazing 10/10 no other game will ever have what this gave me.

everyone knows i play pkmn the best is still pmd sky that also rewired my brain i still cant play it without crying.

its been a long time since i was really just playing it as the chapters released & got translated but 1bitheart is so so so important to me too. i dont kin for multiple reasons but if i did nanashi would be my first choice. like- without saying that to her i got my one irl friend to play once & when she saw how nanashi was she turned to me and went "this is just you" hes very important to me even now. absolutely loved the whole friendship sim & the story & its twists & the endings & their implications left me in shambles at 1 am on a school night. my fave charas are nanashi enri & saaya btw. i should replay this.

i also love the etrian odyssey series i love the character portraits (esp with the more recent games' color customization) i LOVE the dungeon art & i think all the monster designs are so cool. adore the whole make ur own map aspect keeps me so entertained to take a step & look around & chart all the walls & path ways. unfortunately i fucking suck at every single one i am not very good at strategy games so i end up stuck at or before the 3rd stratum. but thats okay its still fun to me.

the other one i'll talk about at length is spirit of the north another game i loved the art of. u play as a fox & get a partner spirit fox & i just love it SOOOO much. its also a game with 0 dialogue but theres A Lot going on it if u care to follow along & explore & dig into details & the game play is also pretty fun to me. this is the one game i started learning the speedrun btw thats also a very fun way to play it but ABSOLUTELY play it as intended first it has so much to offer

aaaand special mentions to omori, oneshot, witch's house, mermaid swamp, corpse party, & limbus company

[punkitt-is-here]

Combating the hate mail by saying hello!! I love your art!!!! Every single image makes me smile so much :) keep being you, you funky lesbian ily

Thank you so much!! that's super sweet of you :D

[effervescentdragon]

Okay I’m not looking at the latest message you sent me right now because I refuse and I can’t open discord for reasons so I’m telling you here where I’m safe 🫣😹

literally sent you this photo idk what youre talking about 😌

[catzempic]

Pics from a shit city in New York🕷️🤍

[laylanatorseventeen]

I hate this fucking job I just wanna go home and play minecraft

[painlandpalace]

dead boy detectives reading list

with the show finally out i figured it was a great time to share my reading list again! check it out below the cut 👻☠️🔎

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⏳ the sandman #25 (1991)

this is their first appearance!

🐇 the children's crusade (1993)/free country: a tale of the children's crusade (2015)

1. the children's crusade #1

(2. black orchid annual #1

3. animal man annual #1

4. swamp thing annual #7

5. doom patrol annual #2

6. arcana annual #1)

7. the children's crusade #2

alternatively you can just read free country. whether or not you read the annuals i recommend reading free country's middle chapter

!!! in place of the annuals there is an additional middle chapter that was created for the book "free country: a tale of the children's crusade" where it is placed between the two children's crusade issues. the boys don't actually appear in most of the annuals (they are in two panels of swamp thing and appear in doom patrol) and reading them isn't necessary but i figured i would include them as they are part of the story.

❄️ winter's edge #3 (2000)

this is an anthology. their part is the 'books of magic: waiting for good dough' story starting on page 19

🐦‍⬛ the sandman presents: the dead boy detectives (2001, 4 issues)

i believe the tv show's esther finch was partially based on this run's villain.

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(they do have a part in 'death: at death's door' from 2003. it's short and really just a retelling of events from sandman #25 with some minor changes. the entirety of their appearance in death: at death's door is included at the end of the next comic im listing so i am not really adding the death: at death's door book to the list)

☠️ the dead boy detectives (2005, one-shot)

this book was made by jill thompson in a very cute manga-esque style

👻 ghosts (2012), time warp (2013), the witching hour (2013)

these three are anthologies. the story 'the dead boy detectives in: run ragged' runs through all of them. 'run ragged' kicks off the next run.

🔮 from the pages of the sandman: dead boy detectives (2013, 12 issues)

this is the comic where crystal is introduced! a book collecting all 12 issues titled 'dead boy detectives by toby litt & mark buckingham' was released in 2023

🔎the sandman universe: dead boy detectives (2022, 6 issues)

the most recent run, centered around some really interesting thai mythology and featuring multiple edwin moments that i am sure you will love

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and that's everything! i also recommend buying the omnibus if you can. it includes everything minus the 2022 run plus some additional bonus content!

i hope this is helpful! feel free to ask me any questions you may have about the comics. dead boy detectives is my number one interest so i should be able to answer

have fun reading! 👻

[swampwitchcreations]

BACK

I needed a short break to get some things sorted out in my personal life and take some time for myself. It wasn’t as long as I thought it would be but despite that I do believe I’m back in the right frame of mind and with enough strength to continue creating art. I hope that I can continue doing this for the rest of my life as creating has been the one constant in my life.

To help keep from getting so overwhelmed I will be limiting commissions and I am going to try to post more on social media. I will likely be leaning away from places like Facebook and lean more on using things like Tumblr and Twitter and even Youtube, places like Facebook just have so little room for growth for a small artist and there’s not the same level of audience for art on there.

I will NOT be using social media as a means to be a entertainer. I am not a influencer, so please understand that I will not be posting daily. I find the idea of using social media constantly pretty draining. I do not want to be a influencer just to try to get commissions, I understand I have to interact and engage to get more of a footprint on these platforms but my idea of being a artist just isn’t set in being someone who is obsessed with likes and follows. I want my work to speak for itself and not worry so much on if I have enough followers here or there. It becomes too much at that point for me. 

I hope that this hasn’t been too long of a rant and I appreciate all the followers I have, those who have continued to support me through everything I have been going through, all the people who have ever commissioned anything from me and everyone who will in the future. It genuinely means so much to me that I have this support and love. Thank you!