#yay the first drawing of the year!!! ✨✨

[terrifictoons-art]

AHHH YAY!! 🥳 HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎉🎉🎉 Here’s to more joy, more love, more positivity!! 🥂💞✨ Also, here’s my first drawing of the year YIPPIEEEE!! 🌸🌷🌸🌷

[lunapetrichor]

i‘m posting this a day late cause i was too anxious yesterday haha

i drew this artwork for my one year hrt anniversary. which was technically yesterday but my first full day was the 27th of june c: so yay i‘m technically not even late haha. this artwork is a very personal piece for me. this journey has changed me so much in just a year. I feel much more comfortable in my body of course but it affected my mind a lot too. I know this sounds super cheesy but it just kinda feels like a fog‘s been lifted from my brain. And it also feels like i‘ve finally got the spark that i‘ve been searching for my entire life. so that‘s what this piece represents! hrt is life saving medication and anyone that tells you otherwise is wrong. there was a time where the only thing really driving me to keep going was that date in my calendar. the day where i could finally start taking the medication i knew i needed since i was 14 years old. the world right now is a scary and disturbing place for everyone but especially for trans people (which is also why i haven’t had the energy and motivation to draw/post much this year…). demonizing minority groups just works better for politicians than actually working on changing things for the better… either way; i hope that with this piece i can spread some very needed trans joy and euphoria ⭐️💫 hopefully i‘ll live to see the day where i have lived longer on this medication than without it c:

and if you‘re trans and reading this; you are loved. you are not alone. we will get through this. there are better times ahead of us ❤️

thank you for reading! -luna 🌱✨

[splinteredsweets]

finally decided to do some king candy practice sketches ! and by that i mean fully colour each and every one of them bc i have something wrong with me

rambling + full original images below the cut

as you can porbbaly tell i decided to do 2 versions each - one drawing over the original image to get a better feel for the shapes , and the other version was only looking at the original as a reference and going off what i learned from the first version

these are all posted in the sequential order i finished drawing them in but i actually did the sketches in a different order (original sketches went from 4 , 2 , 1 , 3)

this took me like 12 hours and shockingly 5 of them were the sketches alone lmao although tbf i redid some of the sketches multiple times as i slowly understood the shapes better as i went along ... i think i could've redone another sketch or two in places but i've been at this all day and i knew obsessively worrying about them was just going to drive me nuts but yknow what i'm already planning on doing some more references another time this was really fun and it helped me understand how to draw kc just a little better + a perfect on-base model isn't really what i'm intending to strive for in my future drawings anyway i need to figure out my own style eventually but yknow ✨practice makes perfect✨

anyway i'd definitely have to say my favourite is the second one ('thank you for that stirring introduction') when i was doing that one i just felt my brain cells really go 'in the zone' for lack of a better description ... unfortunately i had to leave 'the zone' bc my ipad was dying (its about 10+ years old so it kinda needs to be on the charger at all times it still does a good job it just needs breaks here and there) and my hands were starting to hurt by that time bc i'd been at it for hours and i needed a dinner break anyway haha but yeah 'the zone' as an unfortunate result left me so i couldn't come up with cool enough backgrounds for the other ones bc i already used all my brain juice oops

anywy i'm really tired i'm gonna go to bed now 😁👍

oh yeah here are the original images yay <3

oh yeah while i was gathering images i also got this one accidentally and there's just something i love about it so have this as a bonus image

there's just something about the like ..... idk how to describe it other than 'HAHAHA I GOTCHA NOW GLITCH' what do you call that emotion between angry and gleeful idk kinda that ig lol

[choccy-milky]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT CHOCCY SEB GIVES CLORA A SNAKE RING?!?!

Soooooo rereading the fic and I’m back to chapter 33, and it totally popped into my head that they are IN THE VICTORIAN ERA and do ya know what was super popular after the engagement ring that Queen Victoria was given by Prince Albert? A SNAKE RING

AND IF THAT AINT SEB TREATING CLORA LIKE THE QUEEN SHE IS THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT IS 😭💙💚✨

Thank you for coming to my ted talk 🫣😂

LMFAOO YESS TRUST ME, IVE SEEN THIS AFTER DOING MY OWN RESEARCH ABOUT VICTORIAN RINGS, ITS SO PERFECT!! AND THE FACT THAT ITS GREEN TOO LMAO, prince albert was a possessive slytherin confirmed!!🤪 but yea ill DEFS be incorporating a snake into the final design of cloras ring HAHA. i basically HAVE to...yknow, for period accuracy 🥰

WOO YAY im glad i could inspire you to start writing!!!🙏and i get it, writing fanfic is defs self indulgent and for ourselves first and foremost, but obvs nobody wants to release their work into the void😩 as for how my own fic got popular, one of the main things is defs timing. i published the first chap basically within the first week of the game being out (it came out on the 10th and my chap was on the 18th) so it was there right at the peak/start of the fandom. but i also dont wanna attribute it all to timing BAHHA cuz i think im a pretty good writer and that helps....my fic also didnt get popular right away, but i was consistently posting every single week + eventually started adding art every single week, and was just really dedicated to not only writing but also drawing art for it (which is also obvs another huge factor/probs the biggest factor). ive had so many ppl tell me they started reading my fic bc they saw my art on pinterest or something LOL, and some ppl have even read it fandom-blind bc they were into the seb/clora dynamic??? which is another point actually. i always joke about how i love my cliches and good girl+bad boy dynamics, and that im unashamed about loving them LOL, but also...they're cliches for a reason!!! lots of us eat that shit up!!!😤so i think thats defs another factor, vs if my fic was a bit more niche and avant garde LOL the fandom is also (understandably) a lot slower than it was at the beginning of the year so itll be harder in general, but maybe you could commission art to go with your fanfic? ive seen a lot of other HL fanfic writers do it, and i think it defs helps to draw attention! GOOD LUCK and i hope you keep writing!!!🫡💖💖💖🙌

huh??? go with the tide pods instead, THAT shit looks bussin😩😩

AWW TYY😭😭I LOVE THAT HAHAH AND IM GLAD U THINK SO💖💖 my friend also asked me this question after seeing my recent ask, and i STILL have no idea what i would have named it instead LMAOO, thats how bad i am at naming things. even a year later im like bruh idk!!! clora and sebs bizarre adventures??? i guess id probs make it something light/dark themed in retrospect, or something more specific to the ancient magic, but i still have no idea what LOL

[starry-on-ao3]

✨personal reflection on my writing process for 'How long have you felt this way?'✨

I finished a thing!! I finally finished something!! yay 🫶

My 6-part 79,700-long series containing my first ACGAS (Farmody) fic, 3 follow-on ficlets, 1 one-shot, and 1 one-shot collection. Holy moly. Allow me to indulge for a moment in a writer's reflection on this whole process :)

My first thought when I saw 5x4 Uninvited Guests, and especially this scene, was "if they didn't want to make it gay they sure did a very bad job🤷‍♀️", and from that moment onwards I, like many others, was obsessed.

(5x4) Uninvited Guests

There's just something about these two, dude. Tristan's defensiveness, and very relatable fear of being pushed aside by a sparkling new assistant. Carmody's fear of abandonment and rejection. The fact both of them share these qualities, and they both feel like outcasts, but in a "hey, at least we got each other" sort of way. Need I say more?! I will leave it up to the following tags to say more.

I had wanted to get back into fandom for a while, after taking a long break, and I hadn't written anything that wasn't for college or work in years - so my skills definitely weren't where they could be, and initially I felt so insecure putting something out into the scary world of the internet. But I had no reason to be afraid! I found such a lovely, warm, welcoming community of people who wanted to read what I was writing, and I'm so grateful for that! ❤️

So I thought it would be cute to reflect on struggling with writer's block for so long, and just generally on what the writing process was like for this series - partly, I thought it might interest some of you who've been following this series since the start, and partly for my own sake as somebody venturing back into creative writing in a way I honestly never thought I would again!

In How long have you felt this way?, part 1 of this series, and the focal point I suppose of the whole series, I sort of fast-forwarded past their friendship-and-trust-building phase, because I honestly wanted to get to the juicy pining faster. Partly, it was also because I hadn't spent enough time with the characters to really fully imagine how their friendship might naturally develop (now obviously that I've spent a lot more time with them, I can see how their friendship would progress more naturally - which is why I'm returning back to HLHYFTW and filling in more scenes in the one-shot collection, Audrey's Memories). Additionally, chapter 1 is so dialogue-heavy because I am very much a visual thinker (although ironically can't draw to save my life lol) - but imagining dialogue comes easy to me, so the question became, "How do I get these two to talk about relationships?" which is something I couldn't picture them doing naturally.

I decided that Carmody was already developing feelings for Tristan by this stage, but Tristan hadn't fully realised his feelings yet. I think that Carmody would likely ask about Tristan and Maggie, given he was trying to test the waters. Then, it seemed natural for them to talk about their exes, and for two blokes in their mid-20s in WWII, it also seemed natural for them to talk about the future in a general sense, given the existential threat of the war (Tristan musing about settling down in chapter 1 - I borrowed this from Tristan's, imo somewhat unfinished, arc at the end of S2 where he's upset by Maggie moving on). Then Carmody comes out to him, and says settling down wouldn't be as easy for him to do. 6 chapters of pining later and they kiss :)

I do regret ending HLHYFTW so quickly after their first kiss, so in Research isn't as boring as it sounds, actually I imagined how their first conversation after their first kiss might go. That's where Carmody is very blunt with Tristan, and says that being in a same-sex relationship, in 1940s Britain, isn't going to be easy - linking to Carmody's fear of rejection. I wanted it to appear as if Carmody was almost offering Tristan an "out" out of their relationship before it had had even begun (I'm a sucker for angst, can you tell!?). This in turn triggers some anxiety in Tristan, where he's worried that Carmody is pulling away, and Tristan's shutting down makes Carmody in turn more anxious that Tristan will leave him for the same reasons his ex did (an OC named John who we universally hate). Tristan's also anxious that Carmody's already-glittering research career will make him want to stay in London, as opposed to returning to Darrowby. In short, they miscommunicate, have their first fight, (which broke my heart to write, but they needed to get past that milestone to develop their relationship), make up, and move on :)

In London Calling, I wanted it to be much more upbeat: shake off the angst and let them have some fun. I also wanted to show some more of Carmody's life in London, his friends, teachers, the RVC (this was one human error I made: I forgot that he goes to Imperial College in 5x5, not the RVC!), and of course, Hamish :)

I also wanted to show their relationship progressing emotionally (with another difficult conversation) and physically (but I off-screened that because I detest writing smut) so I focused on their emotional bond and made vague references to their sex life (I didn't want to ignore that side of their relationship either). Carmody gives Tristan a tour of the Royal Veterinary College, and Tristan begins to trust that Carmody does, actually, genuinely want to return to Darrowby and isn't sacrificing too much of himself to do that.

This is where I've brought in some of my own personal experiences and this is one way that fic is a safe space to explore some potentially difficult/challenging aspects of your own life, or of those around you, in a sandbox - and that's one of the reasons why I adore fic and fandom so much, and why I'm sure many of you do too!

When you're a researcher, it's very easy to hyperfocus and obsess over your topic (because, let's be real, it isn't just a topic, it's more like a vocation, and without your research, you wouldn't really know who you are!) - I suspect this is something I have in common with Carmody, and it was interesting to explore this characteristic but from Tristan's perspective, as opposed to Carmody. (I know what it feels like to be in my own head, but I don't know what it feels like to be in somebody else's head, observing me. I think that's why I write from Tristan's perspective so much.) Recognising this hyper-obsessive academic trait in Carmody, Tristan gets in his head worried that Carmody is sacrificing too much of himself to return to Darrowby to be with Tristan. So there's a tad of emotional hurt/comfort here, too. That was all informed by either personal experience, or stories from other people in my life where geography and love doesn't always line up (thanks, Brexit 🙄).

[stop reading here if you have not read the last chapter of 'See you at the end of the aisle'!]

See you at the end of the aisle is a sort of full-circle moment: lots of the plot lines I started in previous installments finally pay off and it was incredibly satisfying to finish this ficlet! - (Siegfried and Audrey's wedding, Tristan's recurring anxieties about "the future", and Carmody's need for a deeper commitment from Tristan). Here, again, I leaned into some personal experiences: I adore hearing other people's engagement stories, and now I have my own to tell, I adore telling my own engagement story too (DM me and I'll happily re-tell it, it never gets old!) - so the dinner scene where Siegfried and Audrey are telling their engagement story, and Tristan and Carmody are listening intently, is again directly inspired by real life. (I remember listening to other people's engagement stories, and longing for my own, and I would always picture myself in the role of the woman being proposed to.) So Tristan and Richard naturally do the same thing, and the roles they imagine themselves in foreshadow who eventually does the proposing, that being Tristan.

Here, I wrote from Carmody's perspective for a couple reasons.

Firstly, I adore romcoms and especially ones which have to do with weddings/engagements, and it's a familiar and comforting trope for me to return to!

Secondly, if I did write from Tristan's perspective, it would ruin the ending of the fic! So obviously the only way to do it was Carmody's pov :)

The sad elephant in the room is that Tristan and Richard obviously can't get married as two men in 1942. But I'm a hopeless romantic, so Tristan instead declares his forever love to Carmody, and I like to imagine they had a little spiritual ceremony anyway, with just the Skeldale family :)

To wrap up this very long post, the one-shot He's the love of my life and the (as-of-now ongoing) collection Audrey's Memories are written slightly out of context, basically in an effort to include certain scenes that didn't quite fit in the main 4 fics/ficlets, but which I wanted to write anyway, or which were inspired by conversations with friends in the Ao3 comments and I wrote them as thank yous for always encouraging me!

And I'll reiterate it now: thank you to everyone who subscribed, commented, gave kudos and read this series!! Every single notification email from Ao3 would have me smiling or giggling to myself, whether I was bored at work or on public transport or just chilling at home - I honestly can't emphasise enough how beautiful of an experience it has been to share these stories with you all 🫶 and I'd like to particularly thank @101goldenretrievers, @augurey-ray and @a-casual-egg! 🥰 Genuinely, I don't know how I could've gotten this series over the line without all of your amazing incredible wonderful love and support! 🫶

What's next?

My ongoing WIP, Close To You, is my current main focus, and I'm also working on Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, which is a fixit in which Carmody never leaves after 5x5!

I also write drabbles for these two adorable dorks, which you can find here, and I moderate the ongoing Farmody Prompt Challenge - follow @farmody-prompts to keep up to date with that 🥰

To wrap this up...

Thank you if you've read this far, and enjoy this gif of our faves as a reward 🫶💕

(also, below the gif is a deleted snippet of dialogue between Carmody and Tristan which didn't make the cut after their engagement, but which I wanted to share anyway somewhere so here you have it 🥰)

(5x5) Pair Bond

The way Tristan's smile and his eyes linger on Carmody I am WEAK do you notice how he keeps looking at Carmody even as he walks away???!! As if he's waiting for Carmody to turn around?!! oh my GOD HE'S SO IN LOVE hngnnggngng

Deleted dialogue from 'See you at the end of the aisle' chapter 5:

"How long have you felt this way- I mean... how long have you known you wanted to propose?" Carmody asked, admiring his twine ring in the gentle yellow glow of the light above.  "Honestly - since Christmas," Tristan replied, leaving a gentle kiss on Carmody's temple. "Remember that conversation James and I had by the fire? When you and Helen and Audrey were doing the washing up - since then... that's when I knew."  "And - how long were you planning this for?" Carmody asked.  "I actually wanted to propose the day we went for the picnic at Pumphrey Manor - but I could tell you were stressed out from your research, and I didn't want to distract you - I thought it probably wasn't the right time... And I've been carrying this letter around all week, ever since you got back, and just trying to find the right moment, then... In the dance hall, when you said you wanted to dance, I just knew this was the moment - now or never - and... All I needed then was for you to say yes."

[rinjjuei]

Hii!! I finally set up my patreon!! Yay!

Super excited to share more art there. I really wanna focus on making aus, comics & animatics this year so I might post those there first. I'm currently hyperfixating on haikyuu & other anime stuff right now so you might mostly see those.

CHECK OUT MY PATREON HERE!! 🍊🧃✨

Hope to see you guys there! :D

[ashenwaves]

✨To the Sargasso Sea✨

At first I thought this drawing was going to be my version of Cancer, from the Zodiac signs, but sometimes art has a mind of its own😅

Also: First drawing of the year, yay! :D

[deus-ex-mona]

ok ngl i think there’s way too much overthinking when it comes to the hw’s gen 3 timeline (esp when it comes to hiyori’s story, bc let’s face it: it’s gloriously messy)

and so, my spicin’ hot, incredibly dumb take is: there are 2 separate ‘verses of hiyori’s story. 1: a princely love interest au with asuka in the novels, and 2: the canon story with nagisa

‘verse 1: let hiyori have her prince, please!!

the novel ‘verse is fairly straightforward, i’d say, with nonfantasy (nonfan) leading smoothly into heroine ikusei keikaku (heroiku), especially since ascana + maeda were established as cameo characters in nonfan. and heroiku even has an mv!!! so that should be how the canon story is supposed to go, right?

‘verse 2: oh but, the mvs say… what?????

fast forward to the dark ages (read: the [redacted] anime), and the timeline has become ✨a hot mess✨. asuka was booted from the plot (along with his fellow streamer idol bf), nagisa has been slotted in as hiyori’s love interest(?) for a grand total of, what, 30 minutes of total screentime, only to be never seen again, and yujiro’s police encounter has been revealed to be because… he (aged 15) snuck into a bar to rescue his younger brother???? but, no, this isn’t about yujiro. let’s put him aside for a sec.

anyways, with nagisa’s (honestly objectively forced) introduction into the main gen 3 plot, there came a new pair of songs to the love series lineup: heroine wa heikin ika. (heroika) and suki na ko ni usotsuita. (sukiuso).

first off, heroika: the plot of heroika mainly draws from the [redacted] anime, from the second half of ep 6 all the way to the end of ep 7, along with a small background exposition of nghy’s middle school life (in hiyori’s pov, nagisa’s a well-liked hero who even has a fanclub, and she’s just a background character in comparison… but, wait, everyone seems to think that they’re dating?? why???? there’s no way!!!!!!), so there seems to be kind of an assumption that the viewer has seen the episodes in question, as hiyori doesn’t touch on her makeover at all.

but the main point of it is that hiyori doesn’t know what it means to be in love, which is. y’know. pretty different from her attitude towards love in heroiku.

and next: sukiuso: sukiuso is the complementary song to heroika, giving exposition to background events in heroika (the “your skirt didn’t suit you” scene from nghy’s childhood, the mention of hiyori’s makeover, the reason for nagisa’s tokyo visit, the confession that hiyori was having a crisis™️ over in heroika) amidst nagisa’s whipped fawning over hiyori for 3 minutes and 47 seconds.

put heroika and sukiuso together, and you basically have 80% of the picture about the good parts in eps 6-7. there’s less lxl involvement ofc, but this isn’t about them.

and, following the [redacted] anime’s lead, heroine tarumono! (herotaru)’s plot comes in rather easily after nagisa’s return to izumo. chizuchan puts up pictures of hiyori’s lxl-given makeover for the asuka confession nagisa meet and greet, chizuchan and hiyori duke it out in the halls, then they make up, and now they’re closer than ever. yay for friendship!

[i assume heroine to idol (heroidol) happens somewhere around here in an unspecified time, in which hiyori realises just how charming idols like lxl are, probably after working with them for quite a while. fly high, hiyori… i hope you don’t see their repaint dance…]

and so, hard cut to a year later, in kimi wo kawaikusaseta no wa doko no doitsu (kimikawaii) we see hiyori, as a second year, return home to izumo! she’s looking cuter than ever, and now it’s nagisa’s turn to have a crisis™️ about what in the world happened in the time they were apart.

but, either way, as of the time of this post, heroine no hero is coming out soon™️, and from the title and jacket illustration, hiyori, our all-loving heroine, has finally realised her feelings for nagisa in their uni arc!!!! huge win!!!! nghy for life!!!!!!!

but wait, you say, two songs have been forgotten!!!

and to that, well~~~~~~

koiiro ni sake: the creators have mentioned multiple times in supplementary media (magazine interviews, ymk’s fanbox) that hiyori and yujiro were never meant to be a couple. they’re just a pair of gen 3 students that appeared to indicate that a new gen was about to begin. that’s all. koiiro is not, and never has been, evidence for yhy canon.

heroiku: this. this is pretty much the song that throws all of the timeline theories into disarray, from ascana’s appearance, to the possibility of 2 lxl makeovers, to hiyori’s longing to fall in love with a prince that just… turned into genuine confusion about what it means to love.

and to that, this is where you need to prepare the pitfall traps as i say… heroiku… is the theme song for ‘verse 1: the au novel ‘verse with asuka. granted, it has nothing to do with the current main timeline, but it’s a fun little song that gave us hiyori content when we needed it the most (back when all we had was the nonfan novel and mv). it’s hiyori’s very first solo song, her second trio song with her 2 besties (for the 4th special ed), and it showed us how she landed the unfortunate job as lxl’s manager.

so, all in all, i think hiyori’s story song/mv-wise goes:

[1st verse of heroiku (becoming the manager of lxl)] -> [helping out in the filming of the nonfan mv (not actually seen in-mv)] -> [heroika/sukiuso] -> [herotaru] -> [sunny party (and probably heroidol)] -> [kimikawaii] -> [herohero]

…or so i think. it’s pretty choppy, but it makes more sense (to me) than hiyori going from “can i become a heroine if i fall in love with a dashing prince?” to “hahshdjshsjajsjajsjsja w h a t is love??? tell me julieta~~~” in just a matter of weeks/months…

i know the thought that they released an au before the canon story is pretty weird, but… these are the same people who came up with ultimate puu, so… y’know~~~ stuff gets weird around ‘ere~~~~~

but i dunno for sure~~~~ the hw timeline has always been weird, between novels, anime adaptations, and even within the mvs (even sometime within the same mv) themselves~~~

just look at the summer session mv for instance. gen 1 has always been the most straightforward gen, and the summer session mv has. like. 3 timelines going on all at once (nacchan saying that haruki returned to japan [when he only left after they graduated], mochiaka fireworks confession [???], and the harucouple scenes seeming to take place while they were in high school [as seen in the harucouple anime]). also, the summer session novel takes place 2 years after they graduated, so there’s now a 4th summer session timeline thrown in. cheers!!!! and that’s not even counting the summer session 2021 novel, which has both flashbacks and flashforwards! yay!!!!

…and so i genuinely think it’s best to just roll with the most recent official media as they come. no need to overthink anything; just sit back, relax, and enjoy the nghy~~~~

that’s all. thank you for reading this unnecessarily long essay (if you did), and goodbye~~~~~~

[chthonicgodling]

(April’s)Huevember - Part Ten - the end! Colors 28-30!

wheel here :)

featuring Røkia!!

And that’s a wrap! Teeheeehee drawing this at the veeery beginning of the month knowing he’d be born and ✨postable✨by the time the 30th rolled around!! YAY THE PAYOFF IS WORTH IT!

TaKi Fuego-baby Røkia has been enjoying his first few weeks of life by basking in the arms of all three of his parents and, in current canon, making his way through gently meeting all his siblings on both sides which has been very cute 🥺🥺 this drawing I thiiiiiink takes place as he’s a little bit older - right now he’s very hippo-potato shaped - give him a few months to rapidly grow and here we’ll have him!

****drawing him is SOOOO hard for me so bear with the design consistency that will SURELY fluctuate wildly lmfaoo*****

well! Does Røkia binky like bunnies do??? Idk but this pose after I drew it made me think of this meme specifically fgkdkfkf

I’m so glad I got my Huevember completed and out sooo last minute and I’m gonna try to make an entirely new wheel for next year, fingers crossed. In other news I’ve been barely drawing this week but I have a few things to post and production will hopefully begin soon on another short comic pile!!! And then… who knows!!🙏wish me luck!!!

Røkia is my babie babie boy and all the Huevembers from this month/year can be found here! Yayayayayya

[camellia-salazar]

Too late to post on Christmas, too early to post on New Years, just in time to post these in December.

Remember last year that I said I felt like drawing characters in winter clothes? Well this is it. I lost motivation afterwards lol

This was part of the collection of drawings I did a while back, but I reached the limit to that post so I'm posting it here. (Ft. the weird costume box thing I talked about before, the more I think about it the more weird it seems to me).

Getting back into MFN got me to draw the characters so hopefully I improved since the last time I drew some of them. Oh look Gorgon got a mustache now.

The characters I actually wanted to draw from MFN but felt like I should draw Gordon and Ricky first. Still got to draw these guys tho yay

Finished this during both Christmas Eve and Day. But didn't want to post this before the recent MFN fan arts I did. (Also sorry for the bland gray background I can't think of a good one).

Drew this sometime after the Christmas party one. I was gonna give up but then motivation hit me fast so I finished it. I just love to draw characters together like this (Again, sorry for the background).

Started drawing this a couple of months or so ago, but for some reason I stopped drawing it after getting a lot of it done. Then I recently got the motivation to finish it finally and I'm glad I did. (Shouldn't have took so long ngl).

So there you go, some more fan art for whoever likes these characters and/or the stuff they're in. Kinda wish I drew more wintery or Christmassy stuff but I feared not posting it soon before the month ends so yeah.

Thanks for viewing my fan art and reading the texts. Merry (late) Christmas! And Happy (early) New Years!! 🎄🎉

((my favorite part was drawing them sweaters✨))

(i dont got enough tag room to tag every avenue q character on here RIP)

[moonchild-in-blue]

Whoa okay so i decided to write an ask insted of commenting on your tags because this way i can actually write stuff down, not counting letters to fit in. And i'm kinda in word vomiting mood, i'm so sorry for that.

Most importantly thank you so much for a thousandth time and a few more, yet again. Your tags fill me with so much joy every time. TmT

And yeah at first i thought the "big" songs will be more intimidating but i start to feel like it's quite the opposite? Specifically because of them being so powerful. There are very strong emotions and if i just let my anxiety over it go and make it simple, it works.

I mean especially when there is something personal to tie it with in any way shape or form? Yeah there is not many conscious thoughts behind what goes onto the page, it just kinda happens. Also if you ever stood bare feet in any sort of rain especially when it's cold… there is very little that can describe better the feeling blood sport gives me, than having your bare feet sink 2 cms into sopping, cold grassy mud. It's the physical equivalent of the same miserable feeling for me 😂

The shape of the lightning is fully unintentional, it just turned out that way. I wanted to put it over Ves' head to be visible and make a few forks in it to look more natural, nothing more to it really. But i loove your interpretation so i'm running with it. All of it. This is why i love art, because once you put it out there it becomes so much more because those who observe it bring their own stuff to pour into it? That is what art is all about.

And i'm right there with you, this entire challenge turned out to be even more fun and confidence boosting than i originally expected? I'm not even (tho very close to) the halfway point? I mean i wanted to do it to get back to drawing but i can see progression in just 20 days, steadily getting back to the level of technicality i was at 10 years ago? And kinda developing a style which i never had? Also as an unexpected but not unwelcome side effect is Tiny Token happening? Which is like.. the joy of putting a smol smile on people's faces even for a second? It's so worth it. TmT

Sorry for this kind of pointless rant but like.. i really do appreciate you and a few others (i see you Alex, Ash, Kay and Misha) commenting on almost every single one of the small offerings so far? It means so much TAT

🥺 🥺 🥺

Not to be super sappy, and to turn this into a sob fest, but honestly it's been amazing to see this challenge come to life!! And a big YAY for the confidence boost!! You deserve it, Levynn!!

I see what you mean about the "big emotions". It makes perfect sense actually. And yeah, I can see the steady improvement, another BIG YAY!!

(and Tiny Token my beloved babies. They are just the cutest ever 🥺🥺)

Just want to take the opportunity to say, how wonderful it is to see so, so many of us getting the confidence and morale to start creating (or get back to it) because of Sleep Token. Or having the confidence to talk to people and make friends.

It almost feels silly but?? If you told me a few months ago I'd be sharing my art in here, and reaching out to people, I'd tell you you're insane. And ~yet~. You bet I (and all the lovely people you've mentioned) will keep commenting on your pieces and hyping you up!! We're all about friends supporting friends in this household 💙✨

[ariandano]

Oversharing with 15 answers to 15 questions! I got tagged by @azuki-beans

Are you named after anyone? Yaas, my mom and a teacher I despised in school, funny enough the second is the one I go by mostly

When was the last time you cried? Like, ugly crying? Like almost a year ago from a veeeery bad personal problem. Good thing is that it won't happen ever again I hope.

Do you have kids? Nope. Not yet, not in this economy

What sports do you play/have you played? I've played basketball, taekwondo, ping pong...but I hate team sports so I don't play em haha

Do you use sarcasm? NooOoooOoOooO how could I???

What is the first thing you notice about people? Hmm mostly body language, as if they're open to talk or want to be left alone

What is your eye color? Brown, but in the ✨light✨ they're almost hazel

Scary movies or happy endings? I don't mind scary movies, but honestly prefer happy and silly movies

Any talents? I can come up with the most detailed lists for organizing stuff, only to forget about any of em, yay ADHD

Where were you born? Latam. SÁQUENME DE LATINOAMERICAAAA AAAAAA

What are your hobbies? Drawing, cooking and minecraft!

Do you have any pets? A cat and two rats <3

How tall are you? An outstanding average of 1.68 m

Favorite subject in school? Recess

Dream job? I don't work on my dreams lololol

Honestly I don't got many frens in this platform I can soooooo I got no one to tag :v

[artifeast]

THE KINGMAKER HISTORIES chapter 27: colette's inferno liveblog!!!

first off i legit just woke up 15 minutes ago from a dream about a new kingmaker ep. i forgot all the details except colette was trying to do some kinda magic ritual and eisen was for some reason wearing a cool outfit with a very fancy hat

margot promotion. good for her. also YAY NEPOTISM LMAO. OH MY GOD? TWIN?

it would be very funny if margot looked suspiciously, awkwardly similar to holzmann. she probably doesn't tho and if she did she'd have gotten that changed lol

MANDEL IMPRISONED?? NOOO

that was a VERY quick reconstruction of the castle. must be a lot easier with artifice magic and it no longer being made out of glass vhdgjvdfjg

LMAO ARIADNE. not holzmann's personal desk being susceptible to a simple lockpicking... LMAOOOO. WITH HER BONES?!?

W H A T. oh my godddd the psychological warfare... and. y'know, i refrained from mentioning it at the start out of politeness. but in my dream last night the magic ritual colette was trying to do DID require her to be naked. MY MINDDD. what a coinkydink lol

ohhh my godddd this is SO. FUNNY

holzmann is so scary inside a room.

what an fun little tussle. i love how the inclusion of magic can make little combat-escape attempts like this downright comical with the back-and-forth

CARNIVALE DRESS!!

but it's her birthday!! 🥺🥺🥺

what did they do. what did they do.

I MISSED HEARING THEIR SWEET VOICES... love colette's swift turnaround in tone hearing the stains are just wine

NOT TELSIE'S SIDEBURNS. LMAOOOO. TRAGIC!

WHAT THE FUCK. SEVERED FINGER IN THE POCKET

ohhhhh. (visiting SICC off-screen, eh... who could say what they got up to... LOL)

oooh! flashback to it! YAY FLIRTING

LMAOOO COLETTE. girl i thought it was a given they were younger than you... ohhh poor colette

SHE'S LIKE AN AMOEBA...?

very cute how eisen and telesphore are comforting her <3 though like. 26 was a dark year for eisen, wasn't it... not that we know much at all about that era of eisen. AH AND IT MUST'VE BEEN GRIM FOR TELSIE TOO HUH... if he came across the blur when he was 25, and was up to something sus in those early years?? damn... but hey, they're right. they lived!

the cat's pajamas!!! <3 <3 <3

RYE BREAD. YAYYY

noooo colette's sad voice :(

these idiots have never even heard of a trip sitter.

amazing. amazing start. the purple glow <3

YES confirmation that telesphore's hair used to be longer!! i thought so but hadn't gotten around to drawing it yet

you can't just ask an alien if he's a mammal or a reptile, colette!!

good neighbor nipples confirmed

EGGS?

colette's mindddd!!! her plans!!! awww, eisen, telsie...

THE LONG, LONG PAUSE AND THEN "YES" AT BEING TOO GOOD FOR THEM NOW THAT SHE'S 26. JHFVSJHVFHVD

awww.... colette... ;~; also WATCH OUT!

ohhh twisted. nightmare experience.

"big stupid eyes like a baby cow" <3

....EISEN... KNIFE GAME... NO........

ohhh poor colette.... i looove the sound design here tho

everyone please clap for colette for possibly-coincidentally narrowly saving the life of some random drunk person. ig her just randomly exploding completely innocent people doesn't come up too often nowadays cuz usually she's 1. sober enough to control it better and 2. usually around not-so-innocent people when she gets really worked up

RIP TELSIE'S SIDEBURN

one of the Strangers... tel's asking good questions tho. who does keep a shaving kit in their pocket

goodbye, bread hat...

WHAT WHO'S THAT

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUUUUGE NEWS FOR MEEEE IN PARTICULAR!!!!!! TATZELWURM!!!!!!!!!! CHILDHOOD PET CONFIRMED!!!! [gnawing gnawing gnawing gnawing on these vitally important scraps of physical description]

miska the cutest voice ever

is that zuwie lefou? [checks] YES IT IS!!! YAYYY YIPPEE

obsessed with this harpsichord music. this whole scene actually. AMAZING

240 years ago... 6yo ickle baby telsie

CLUTCHING MY HEAD SCREAMING. ✨TELESPHORE DARK LORE✨ THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!!!!!! they sent him to earth. they Sent him. ohhhh he was some sorta spything or assassin WASN'T he. EEEEE

SATAN WITH HER FATHER'S VOICE

truly eisen and telesphore are sooo lucky they aren't dead

COLETTE.... her corruptible mind indeed... tee hee

POISON BREATH. i think they hunted burrowing creatures. i'm imagining them domesticated with a similar niche to dachshunds but their poison breath flushes out the prey like smoke does

colette and telsie are so cyute <3

LMAOOO EISENN FLIRTING WITH THE COMBINE HARVESTER. OBSESSED

oh yeah. colette's previous birthday was uniquely nightmarishly awful, huh. even this mess of a day was substantially better LOL. she's got friendsss <3

ooooh. scary tyrannical commands from mr. president himself!

pfft leonid's fun stint in the army didn't last long... well, ig it's been a good few months. he hasn't really shown up much recently, though

using ariadne's son as leverage is gonna go toootally well!!

WHAT! AN! EPISODE!!! EVERYTHING i could want. ariadne vs holtzmann mishaps, two of my favorite villains!!! delicious sound design!! very very sweet IW&C interactions I MISSED THEMMM... colette moral crisis!! rip eisen's offscreen mishaps but i can't complain cuz SOOO much good stuff happened. and it was funnier only hearing about them briefly. TELESPHORE DARK LORE HINTS ONCE MORE!! almost more important than that TATZELWURM. TATZELWURM!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is enough crumbs to work off. i must draw them. Soon. this ep was SO MUCH FUN

[scrolls up] oh this one wound up a mile long didn't it. oops

[infinitycarrot1]

It's my oc, Trevor's, birthday wahoo!!!!1!!11!!!!1!!11! ヽ⁠(⁠｡⁠◕⁠o⁠◕⁠｡⁠)⁠ﾉ

Textless version, a wip, and commentary under the cut ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ

Textless version yay

Original sketch yay

I was planning on putting way more flowers in the drawing, but I didn't because it would be a pain in the ass to draw (⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠). You can see when I realized this in the sketch, when the amount of flowers jarringly decreaces in the top lol

I made the whole drawing (except for the sketch) with my shitty school issued laptop, one of those yucky rubber stylus pens, and Magma :]. It was a miserable experience (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

I mainly worked on this during class when I didn't have any work to do. I think it took around 3ish hours over a bunch of 10-50 minute sessions (thats 1-3 hours less than most of my finished art pieces ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ )

Also I accidentally made the drawing ✨radioactive gatorade green✨ at first because my computer was on low brightness for half of the drawing. I don't have a photo of it but it looked like one of those yucky oversaturated youtube thumbnails (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠). Thankfully it didn't take long to fix lol

Fun fact: this is the first full illustration of Trevor I've made :3 (not counting their reference sheet art). Actually I think this is the first (non reference) drawing in general I've made of Trevor that isn't just a doodle on my school papers :0. Whoopsies I just completely forgor their existence for a year (⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠;⁠) (other than june/july when I was making their ref for Art Fight)

Okay I'm done yapping go drink some water and go to bed if it's late ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿. Also, expect more Trevor art in the future ^ω^ (unless I forgor about their existence for another year lol (⁠^ω^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ)

[osirisisv]

Since I saw the post of officer myers from @/enigma-system, i fall in love with the concept! ✨ and i wanted to make a version with tommy like a firefighter!

I wanted to make them interact, they look so cute 🥰

[chthonicgodling]

(April’s)Huevember - Day 19!

featuring: Epi, Izzy, & Eury!

[in which I’ve made my very own #Huevember wheel this year (that you can use too! Pls tag me I’d LOVE to see!) - unabridged version continues, including a wide array of Elysium’verse characters across the rainbow!]

yay lavender day and after featuring both Eury and Epi in separate pictures they finally get to pose together, and with their daughter Izzy too - whomst I almost never draw so surpriIISEE,, notes!

awwuwuuu Fenixe’s Epi & Eury or AKA their ship name ✨Euriales✨ truly the couple of all time in here. I mean sure the couple of all time is Maci and Tory BUT they are too plus they’ve been together mUucHh longer,,… oh god they’re SO!!!

and their middle kid Izzy! Izzy, whose full name is Ichnasia, is ohhhh I don’t know about 10ish now I think? Are those multiple arms that she has! YES! and multiple - eyeballs?! Also yes!

for the uninformed, Izzy’s dad Epi (we know him but just in case, on the left) is a daemon and a shapeshifter. his incredibly pretty form that he presents in each day is a customized ✨choice✨ because underneath this is something a lot closer to the spooky look Izzy’s got full time. not as many Limbs, but just as many eyes - many more teeth - aaaaahhhhh

Izzy is the Goddess of Helplessness and she’s actually nonverbal - ALMOST completely. it turns out if you are someone who is exceptionally helpless you might be able to hear her talk to you! The only person who’s ever had this pleasure within Canon was actually Chal shortly after her mother ate her arm off and she was wallowing in despair 🥺

I’ve actually redrawn this pic a from its original first version which I wasn’t tooootally crazy about but I like it now yay!

stay tuned tomorrow for day 20!!! HEY! remember earlier in the month I said that Pho’s barely ever re-entered his physical body except for like, once and to remember that note?????? 👀UMM NO REASON - STAY TUNED THOOOOO—

Epi and Izzy and Eury all belong to @fenixethekid ! click the link up above to see the whole Huevember wheel - feel free to use the tag AceprilHuevember if u want to play too - and my tag this year can be found here!!