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Abrasax and the Ghoul.

When @van-goghs-smoking-skull gave me carte blanche with their stories, I already knew what to do.

I took some liberties with their characters and the scene itself, but we found a good compromise. So here is my take on my favorite scene from their WIP, A Toast to Hell, featuring the Ghoul and the badass angel Abrasax.

”The ghoul watched through squinted eyes and covered his mouth with his hands, trying to protect his lungs. The figure lifted its arm and a raven took flight, then landed next to the ghoul, pecking at him and ripping his clothes. The figure then lowered its arm swiftly, hand balled into a fist, then opened with two fingers pointing downward. At the end of the motion, the wind stopped and the air cleared. A voice rumbled in his mind. "This is my home. Should I treat you as thief or guest?" The raven continued to peck at him, taking bits of skin now.”

I love having such talented friends 🖤

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I don't know what I'm doing here in the Tumblr mobile app and can't find your actual reply. The notification takes me to the post with a good fraction of a million comments and reposts. Can you help me out here?

That's just how the app works, and we all have to scroll forever to find comments. In any case, my comment to you:

You completely missed it. The funny part isn't just that they misunderstood what salmonella is, but that pasta isn't made with it. Salmonella causes food poisoning, pasta is made with semolina, a variety of wheat.

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Update: Due to Tumblr's decision to partner with MidJourney, I'll be moving to Cohost.

Music: https://cohost.org/downtempo-kestrel?page=0

Art: https://cohost.org/sibi-barknd?page=0

Writing: https://cohost.org/windblownsand?page=0

Everything else: https://cohost.org/van-goghs-smoking-skull?page=0

(My works/posts will be deleted from here as I move them over as separate posts on Cohost)

(Oooo, bonus, I can switch individuals posts on Cohost to 18+ without sending my entire blog to the void - no need to have an entirely different account for one whole fic.)

(If we were mutuals and I stopped following you, you didn't do anything wrong - it's part of the process of migrating. If you have a Cohost account, just DM me what it is and I'll follow you there, instead.)

(5/13/24, the export begins. It'll take quite a while, but once I have the full download - so I can sort things out offline - I'll only be around here for DMs. I'll be available otherwise on my Cohost blogs and I'll still be on Discord, so if you want faster responses, look for me there)

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gave value painting w/ color overlay a try. i love falin's chimaera design. + some detail shots too, because the canvas i was working on is huge.

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The Kiwi Conservation Team at work.

Look at this good boi.

I had no idea they were this big.

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Round Three

oh shit I forgot to post the next one. Take that as indication of the state of my life.

First went Palm Oil. Now Tuna is gone. Good news for rainforests and dolphins. Rough day for several industries.

Same caveat as before. This just means we stop eating it, not that we are removing the food from the planet.

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Mind if I ask about 'Axolotls'?

Of course!

It's a page of Axolotl adoptables I never finished. I sold one, but I never really finished the others...

I regret the person I sold the finished one to. u_u I wanna finish the others. ^w^ I might sketch out more.

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Happy memories

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I wanna know about "visiting friend" please! OwO

Every once in a while, a moth will appear in our house. Whether the moth came in from outside or it had been a caterpillar hiding in here, I don't know, but they'll usually stick around for a couple of days. One managed to be chill enough that I managed to take pictures, and while I've made a rough sketch, I haven't worked on him for a few months now. But eventually I'll finish drawing him.

As for the photo, here's the little guy, himself.

(Thankfully, I managed to take a much less blurry photo of another moth of the same species recently)

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The Palm Beach Post, Florida, November 30, 1942

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WIP GAME

Thank you for tagging me, @osiris-iii-bc

RULES: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Fics:

Tangent

A Toast to Hell (Fragments)

Dream Cycle (WIP status until I die)

[unnamed and not posted online] (I'm thinking maybe 'Blessed Are The Meek' as the title, but it's not set in stone)

Drawings:

Visiting friend (moth)

Game idea:

Cardstalk

Music:

Nothing at the moment or in the near future

Tagging: I have seen a few pals already tagged so I’ll tag the ones I haven’t seen around, @awesome--fangirl, @panthermouthh, @watercolourferns, @lupinedreaming, @endreal, @vinceaddams

(TBF, with 23 projects unfinished, I'm not holding the last one to the 'tag as many people as you have WIPs' rule, though to be perfectly honest, I'm not holding any of you to that rule, and I'm not even requiring you to participate - this is a fun WIP game, and not meant to be anxiety-inducing)

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Blind Snake (Epictia cf. albipuncta), family Leptotyphlopidae, Bolivia

photograph by Eduardo Navia

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Thank you @re-dracula for giving me permission to do this, and also for creating the best adaptation of Dracula

I don't think it can be seen but underneath piss I did yellow first and then black over the top

Original post can be found here

I have done an image description in the image, if there are any issues please let me know

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Screeeeching at this meme a girl I went to high school w posted recently

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Day Dress

c.1855

England

This type of widely protruding skirt that appeared around the middle of the 19th century came to be known later under the name of the "crinoline style." As can be seen with this dress, large design motifs proved immensely effective on these voluminous skirts. The border pattern here is wood-block printed and repeats every 20.6 cm. Compared to small-scale designs, large patterns require a solid technique to avoid misalignment of the print colors. Considering that this mixed fabric of silk and wool is a material hard to print on, this dress with its bright and cheerful colors is a particularly fine example on how much cloth printing techniques had evolved.

The Kyoto Costume Institute

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