I figured I should probably make one of these at some point, and I finally have time to do so!
TMA Tangled in the Web:
Character Art
Prelude Comic
Secret Santa art (Ross)
Secret Santa art (Himeko) (not my art)
Cal and Sylvia art.
Session Recaps: (Oh God I am So Sorry for the spam with these)
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10
General Cal Art:
Basic
Chibi
Mini-Comic
Avatar-ed
Cal and Mike - Leyendecker Style
No I'm not a human
Okay so fancy new TMA drop coming April 15th with jewelry inspired by
Elias Bouchard, Peter Lukas, Simon Fairchild, Agnes Montague, both distortions and Annebelle Cane (see below)
And while I did intend to restock some of the first batch (The archivist, Tim stoker, Martin Blackwood and Mike Crew) a handful of charms are shipping incredibly late, and the Tim ones specially are stuck in customs, so they WILL be coming, but they will be coming later !! Date set as soon as I know I can get my hands on the charms I need
Hi y’all, so update: still going crazy about my ongoing campaign and it’s only getting worse! YIPPEE!
I have now made 60+ artworks (and counting) for these horrible kids and like a dozen AUs (not to mention the 177,448 words I’ve written in scripts and silly scenes for just my sons alone), and oh boy… when I tell you that the fixation is strong with this one, I really mean it… they occupy my entire mind at every available opportunity, literally.
But I’ve realized that outside of keeping their Toyhouses updated, I haven’t actually posted almost any of the art I’ve made. This is probably because the vast majority of it is “unfinished” (in the sense that I’ve colored the sketches and just left them unpolished, but I don’t actually intend to render 90% of these in full), but I’ve decided that it would be fun to share my kids with the world anyway in small bursts overtime, just so I can have an excuse to ramble about all the thoughts and little details and LORE and ✨symbolism✨ I shoved in everywhere, directly into the void!
Oh also, I’ll mostly be trying to go in chronological order here! Excluding the pieces I’ve already uploaded (the “Madeline giving Ross depressing flashbacks” piece and the pre-horrors Halloween Sauce piece).
Info & Ramblings Below Cut!
And now… onto my longwinded ramblings! My favorite part! (YIPPEE!)
I went through a handful of iterations for Ross’s backstory and general demeanor before settling on what he is today (or more accurately, what he was at the start of the campaign, since I did continue to workshop him for a couple months after we started). I don’t remember most of the ideas I went through, but for a good while, I was really wanting to give him a connection to either The Vast or The Lonely, and one of the ideas I had was for him to be a deckhand for a ship that gets destroyed in a storm, with him as the only survivor.
In the end though, I decided to give him a connection to The Corruption as his primary concept, but the ideas of loneliness and existential dread from my original boat boy Ross concept still persists in some of the details of his current personality!
Back in May of 2025 when I first created him, I hadn’t designed a character wearing normal modern clothes in a while, so I took to my good friend Picrew for help with outfit inspiration! I’m almost certain the one I used was this one by Hunbloom (on Twitter and Instagram), mainly stealing the striped shirt and hairstyle.
(I don’t have the original picrew I made back then, but here’s a recreation from what I was able to remember/infer based on my current Ross design)
As time went on, and I continued to draw this loser more and more, his design has since deviated a lot more from his picrew origins, but I think it’s fun how you can still see the clear influence! My boy needs to update his wardrobe a little now that he’s not the most pathetic, deeply depressed man on the planet anymore… you own more than one sweater, Ross, ffs…
Building off of the picrew, I changed several things right off the bat: 1, I changed up his hairstyle to give him more of a middle part with bangs, 2, permanent gloves and mask, 3, a white button-up and tie below his sweater, 4, some pretty lil eyelashes, and 5, some nice brown dress pants and work shoes. Not shown here, but I also decided to give him a large birthmark on his side/stomach, a crooked tooth, a tongue and bellybutton piercing, and top surgery scars (yippee)!!
I was inspired by one of my fellow players to create the little “before and after” piece for Ross next! His personality these days is dramatically different from how he used to be before ✨THE HORRORS✨ so it was fun to be able to explore that a bit! The design I came up with for his pre-horrors self changes a bit later on, but this design is still mostly accurate.
Pre-horrors Ross was a very extroverted silly guy who was always making friends, and (purposefully) suggesting stupid ideas to get a laugh out of people, whereas session 1 Ross was infinitely more awkward and cautious, but still very much a people-person at his core. He still tried to make jokes, but the way he carried himself and his general demeanor meant that people tended to take his word at face value, and he found himself having to explain that he was joking when, for example, the party decides they agree with his “plan” to break into a private and very much NOT ABANDONED building…
My only big issue is that this piece (as well as the chibi, honestly) is that they were the start of me accidentally making Ross’s hair progressively longer and longer, and also not drawing his middle part properly! This caused me a lot of grief later down the line, because I had gotten so used to drawing his stupid hair as seen in this piece, that I literally could not replicate the way I drew it in the first drawing I made of him for the life of me! I eventually got the hang of it, but man… it took a WHILE.
"Though I didn't know it at the time, she had been stalking me for months. The way that I'd get this foreboding sense of dread as soon as I'd step into any crowded area, the way that I would flinch and look around once I heard any high pitched sound which mimicked her whistling of 'Run, rabbit run.'
[...]
She was there, far away, watching me. She was far enough away that I could barely distinguish anything apart from her eyes which gleamed in the night, and the shovel she had in her hand.
"Start running." She said, barely a whisper, but it was enough.
And so I did."
(I just really like the statement I wrote, even if my party hasn't seen it yet-- also just played around with stuff, but it was fun! Also really hope the eyes are visible,,, its hard to see in the preview) (Also realised I haven't posted any proper art of my evil wife despite her being one of my oldest OCs.... whoops, Sorry Madeline)
I break my silence (which will repeat again, that's for certain) to have another one of my guys posted on here. TMA OC specifically for the campaign I'm running with my friends (who they haven't even met in-game yet), in the Hades art style (because as much as I absolutely SUCK at playing the game, the art is soooo pretty)
Background art isn't mine obviously, save for the 'boon' icon I drew myself.
Many thanks to this website that told me which fonts Hades has in-game.
This session was pretty chill, all things considered. It was a whole session of the party going on a shopping trip to get supplies for future encounters.
Sparks the spider from session 3 dies, so they hold a funeral.
They then experiment with the Vorya Goop. Experiments include:
Setting it on fire with gasoline and a lighter
Putting holy water into the container
Trying to discern motive on it
The latter works, suprisingly, and the party find out the Vorya is trying to re-form herself. What fun!
Naomi contacts Harriet (Ross' ex-superior and her friend) and asks to meet up to discuss what is going on with Sullivan / Sully (Ross' ex-situationship)
Cal and Sylvia art, based off another Leyendecker Piece
It's not as high quality as I would've liked, since I had to make it smaller for Tumblr. I love these goobers so much, no i CANNOT remember what the morse code says, this art is from months ago.
Session 7
Cal and Sylvia go on a date at the Tate Britain! (art gallery in London) It's very cute all around. (Tiffany was meant to come with but '''got ill'''' so it was just the two of them)
At the same time, Ross catches up with an old friend and runs into Madeline (the bitch (affectionate) with a bad bob from session 2) who apologises for lowkey traumatising him, and offers him 'a new body' to which he says "Thanks... but I don't want to kill anyone." (Gender-affirming Horrors!) She tells him that there's a statement waiting that he might be interested in.
It's a statement related to the 'gift' Ross' ex-situationship gave him from session 4! (Corruption-infused Bluebell)
Ross then reads his own statement, which he was pressured to make when he was interviewing his job-- his coworker / boyfriend got hit with some yellow Goop and then Ross found him drinking the specimen vials (they work as forensic scientists)
They go to the statement givers house and find his dead body bleeding with seemingly no cause. (they had to pretend to be investigators to do this)
Naomi notices something strange about the body, Ross is confused as to why it looks so different from the bodies in his statement.
Ross calls Cal and asks them to bring over a candle artifact which they had mentioned using on the flower, since the goop was growing.
The body is burned, and nothing bad happens. Sawyer pretends to be the dead body to fool the landlord.
Later, while out for drinks, Naomi reveals she has a terminal illness called 'Rosalia', that, when she dies, will be because of bleeding, like the body they had burned. She is worried that the statement-givers death was so quick, compared to other incidents.
Session 6, still on the same day as session 5
The party decides to try and search for Vorya (which is hard since Mizra has covered up all the mirrors in his house and shoved them in the attic) while he and Iryna (old friend) catch up.
They go to the attic, smash some of the mirrors and find some paints to try and spruce the place up(???). There is no sign of Vorya.
Mizra joins the crew in the attic, and helps Himeko do some paintings.
Someone attempts to go back downstairs, only to find the attic hatch is locked.
People then finally get a good look at 'mizra' Surprise! It's Vorya!
The party attempts to tie Vorya up, with some success. A few turns in, Iryna and Mizra join (Mizra rolls a nat 1 on inititative which sums him up pretty well.)
Iryna is the only person to land a hit on Vorya (fitting)
Eventually they kill Vorya by (drumroll please) Hitting her with a car.
They take her remains to the institute, and then go out for drinks afterwards. Team Bonding!
Session 5 (oh boy i have really been falling behind with these huh)
The party gets a statement from a man called Timur Mizra, who has been haunted by a figure he calls 'Vorya', who takes a monstrous form of one of his closest friends (before the Incident) They get more info from the poor dude, get in contact with said old friend, and try and get them to reconcile (to differing results)
TIffany and Himeko become besties with Mizra.
