#scanned from notebook

[lobsterplush]

Isopodtober #24: Atomic

[Some isopods have markings that signal they are dangerous...]

[mao-likes-2-draw]

RUBY!

shes that girl

[saintjudasi]

big fan of this guy

[sleepinglionhearts]

here, have some of the things that have been in my sketchbooks for a while

[sixeye-sketch]

waiting for the replacement busses for our train to be staffed after a failed excursion to some german mountains. we were delayed two hours due to the train fuckery and all instructions being in german and then one more hour when i drank a bottled rum&cola and got nervous and got us off at the wrong station (dark shoutout to oberau). thoughts on that glued in here to prevent the page from disintegrating due to all the red paint i poured over it earlier. also that's some water damage in the top center likely from sweat

[sioster]

this is suds' fault again. eugh

also I think in the upper left foxbur you can see that I cracked open my book about Jan Marcin Szancer-

[picnokinesis]

Immediately looked up the quote you put below the zine art and 👀 good quote choice!!!!

Ahh thanks!! I did a dive into russian folklore a while back when I found out that the name 'Koschei' came from the story of Koschei the Deathless, and I immediately had to know what that entailed, naturally. That quote is, as you probably noticed, slightly changed from the original, but that's because (as I said in the tags) it's actually something I had planned for a doctor who fanfic based on the folklore. It's a fic I would love to write some day but alas, I only got so far as chapter 1, but it basically involves the Doctor diving into the Matrix to find the Master after TTC, and there's just russian folklore everywhere. Tecteun is Baba Yaga, the Timeless Child is the Firebird, the Doctor is mostly Prince Ivan (and the magical stead is the TARDIS), but sometimes Marya Morevna, and the Master is mostly Koschei the Deathless but also sometimes Marya Morevna too. I'd probably have the wizards who marry Prince Ivan's sisters as previous incarnations of the Doctor as well, but I hadn't thought that far.

Anyway, part of the reason it's doomed to never be finished is because I was going to do art for it based on Ivan Bilibin's illustrations of the original stories. I only ever ended up sketching one, but funnily enough it was the one for that quote that's on that other art! In the original story, Prince Ivan comes across a battlefield full of dead and dying soldiers, and asks who killed them - and they tell him it was the person in the white tent, who turns out to be the warrior princess Marya Morevna. In my fic, I was planning for it to be that the Doctor steps into a new part of the Matrix and finds the battle field of Skull Moon, or some other battle in the Time War - and, of course, asks who killed everyone. And the answer given is 'the man in the barn' - which turns out to be the War Doctor, of course. So that then sparked the idea of 'child, it was you' - originally, for that print, I was planning to write that entire quote in gold Gallifreyan, because I liked how it kind of referred to both the Doctor and the Master as children of Gallifrey, but also kind of twisted them both together - both the destroyers of the planet, mirroring each others, the same in more ways than they can stand. And that's kind of the meaning of that piece of art.

Anyway - here's the sketch that I did for that fic, and the original Bilibin illustration it was based on!

[ladybugboots]

[janemerkin]

hey! can i ask which programm do you use for your #journal posts? they all look great <3

[sysig]

I have to draw his tail as a heart, it’s the rules (Original)

[sam-txt]

oh my god crystal palace surname von hoverkraft 😓😓😍

[lobsterplush]

Isopodtober #29: Light

[Night-lightsopod]

[darewolfcreates]

Copper and silver ring I made :]

pre-soldered and rounded version under cut:

wimgs :]

[electronsprotonscroutons]

[ghostly-whiskey]

simon riley who you "meet" through a program where you can send care packages to soldiers. you don't think much of it at first, just a simple package with a few necessities and treats. and along with that, a short, but genuine and handwritten letter thanking the unknown soldier to you for their service.

and when you go to retrieve your mail a few weeks later after getting home from work, brows furrowing together as you shuffle through the stack of envelopes.

bill. another bill. advertisement. paycheck. handwritten addressed envelope from 'ghost'.

your brain doesn't even connect the dots until you are inside, fingers gently picking at the envelope until your able to drag a finger through the seal to open it. a simple piece of what looks like notebook paper is pulled from inside. unfolding it, eyes quickly scan the letter to get an idea what it's about.

you've done plenty of care packages before. never did you get a personalized thank you letter back, so, this was a first. the letter starting off by thank you for the package and that he enjoyed the items, especially the "sweet treats". the two words put in quotations as he referred to what you referred to them as in your own letter. your own brain cringing slightly as you remember what you wrote.

again, thank you for all that you do and enjoy the sweet treats!

and while you expected the letter to end after thanking you, it didn't. additional lines asking about you. the sets of questions ranging from asking how long have you been doing the care packages to general questions about yourself. then, at the very end, after signing off as 'ghost', you couldn't help but notice the chicken scratch of handwriting that added:

p.s. you don't need to respond back if you don't want to, just figured it be nice to get something back in return. thanks again.

[riinasawayama]

wonwoo......