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hey! thanks for coming to game on expo in phx. i really like your art style and i have ur prints on my wall

WAAA I'm glad you like my art qwq!! Thank you for stopping by my table at game on expo and a bigger thank you for sending me this!!! <333

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Astarion I did for a bg3 calendar project!

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hi Tone! you’ve answered this question before, but it’s been a while so I wanted to ask again just to make sure. are you okay with people using your art as profile pictures and stuff by giving you credit? thank you so much, i love your art!<3

Hi anon!! I don't mind ppl using my art as pfps or banners as long as credit is given <3 I appreciate it! :'3

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Baldur's Gate 3 means so much to me 💖

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That damn necromancer...

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Idk if you’re active on here, but I just wanna say your art is amazing! I’m inspired to get more into art because of you.

I want to ask about prints! How do you usually run your shop? Do you have to calculate shipping prices and buy your own boxes? Or do you use something else like a print on demand deal?

AWWW OMG I'm deeply honoured I've inspired someone into getting into art more!!! :'3 It really means a lot to me to hear this!!!

So for prints I'm not the best person to ask since I bought an epson ecotank 8550 printer and make + cut almost all my prints entirely by myself. I buy semi-gloss/satin photo paper; brand doesn't really matter since they're all pretty good so I just find whatever's available and reasonably priced. Tho getting a photo printer is a pretty big investment people should only really make if you KNOW you're gonna use it and make that money back.

Most people I've known start with Catprint's services! I just don't use them anymore cause I hate waiting for shipping + I use a lot of bright colors and their printers don't hit those for me personally.

For shipping, I use Pirateship and buy my own boxes from Ecoenclose! Pirateship is pretty straightforward and can connect to several shop websites so you can easily import peoples' shipping addresses. They save you a couple dollarydoos on shipping and calculate everything for you. Keep in mind you'll still need your own printer or label printer for those labels, as well as a scale of some sort to weigh packages. Aaaaaand that's kind of the gist of what I use when I sell prints online! There's a lot more to get into, so I suggest just looking at other artists' youtube videos cause they'll probably put it a lot better than me. :'D I appreciate you asking tho!

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Happy Halloween! I jumpscare you with my oc x canon bs 😈

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Process of what is still my most favorite pookie art I've ever made...

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Not really a question but I bought a Astarion lanyard at a convention from you and I've worn it pretty much every day to school and absolutely everyone loves it

Omg......I'm so so glad you and everyone loves it!!! :'3 Thank you!! I've had multiple people tell me about compliments they get on my lanyards and it warms my littol heart!!!!

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Astarion can do nothing wrong just look at that face!

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Just came here to say that your Astarion drawings are easily my top 5!!! Thank you for gracing my eyes with them!!!

Lots of love and have a wonderful day <3 <3 <3 <3

THANK YOU ANON RAAAAAAAHH!!!! <3333 It's random comments like these that have kept me going throughout this year :'3 Lots of love back at u!!!!

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My beloved Astarion ❤️🩸

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Awesome - thank you so much! Do you handle comms through e-mail? DMs? Just let me know what works best!

DMs preferrably! My emails get buried a lot :3

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Hi there, I hope you're well! I fell in love with your katamari miku and was wondering if you'd be interested in taking on a comm of another katamari cousin-style - I'd be looking to get miss TurboVicki from Monster Factory (I will happily collect references for you!) - If this doesn't interest you, that's obviously okay! Thank you in advance for your time.

LMAO this is so oddly specific but also hilariously timed because I literally just rewatched a ton of Monster Factory last week while working on some stuff!! But to answer your question yes I'd be down for this it sounds very cute LOL

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Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

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bg3? You mean Bluey Gate 3???

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