Ephemeral Garden

A blog of a hyperfixated artist in recovery.

[aspennightray]

I am retiring

For better or worse I have decided to retire from commission work online as I'd like to focus on my life outside of the online spaces. Although I will still work on the projects I am already engaged with, and honestly love to work on, I won't be accepting any more work from outside of them.

I apologize to everyone who was, or was planning to commission me, but I need to focus my energy on my life and my mental wellbeing for the time being.

Either way I appreciate every one of you, and I hope to see y'all very soon. 💙

[let-history-be-unwritten]

so ive got a friend into FFXIV

and this was the fucking MSQ line up she somehow ended up with and honestly I just wasn't aware I was playing on balmung

[teaboot]

As someone who has operated live CCTV cameras:

It's adorable when you make faces and wave at the camera

I always say hello and wave back

[epprbcu-shipping]

Teaboot × someone they saw flip off a CCTV camera (enemies to lovers)

[robert-smirke-official]

The Eye

[loufofbread]

kitten

[loufofbread]

man. what on earth.

[loufofbread]

ok i flipped it. sorry

[mysillycomics]

Hell Song

[a-book-of-creatures]

Just introduced my fiancee to this masterpiece and watched her expression cycle through all 5 stages of grief in rapid succession

[bogleech]

[tespianmage]

Little test with Tessie, including a different color palette for her and deciding if I wanna make her hair more goopy looking... I'm still having doubts about the more goopier looking hair though

Either it's the way i didn't render it well enough or maybe it's better to leave it more hair shaped. Figured I'd try the goopier one because of her being a hybrid of a sea angel and having a bit more of a membrane-esque consistency in terms of shape

[bulkhummus]

based off of this post

[animentality]

[kinuko]

[theslowesthnery]

🥹🥹🥹

[moon-lord-big-naturals]

We got that fine classic literature on the island

[croxovergoddess]

A very cute mini OC commission!

For TheDemonRamen on Twitter!

4 Slots Available!

[croxovergoddess]

There are currently 10 slots available since I've finished all my aesthetic mini comms!

If you're interested, they're open 🩷✨

[quietwingsinthesky]

do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend

[quietwingsinthesky]

painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.

[quietwingsinthesky]

op approved tags. you’re the only person here who sees my vision

[beardedmrbean]

[beardedmrbean]

[tboylucifer]

I don't think Estinien ever worries about the WoL, not because he doesn't care, but because anything you do he just assumes you'll succeed, even if it shouldn't be possible. You brought Ishgard and dragons together, you and Alphinaud saved him from Nidhogg's eyes, and then you immediately freed two more countries, of course you're going to save this other world and bring the scions' souls home. He doesn't really understand it, but it sounds like you have it covered. The world is ending? Man it's a good thing we got you on our side. Fought a god of despair at the edge of the world? That's a Tuesday for you, right? The WoL is seemingly dying on the spaceship floor? Nah, watch this, they're gonna perk up in about ten minutes and give us each a high five. (Alisaie smacks him for saying this, but he's absolutely still right.)

Estinien may not be the smartest of the scions, but he is wise, and he may not fully understand what plot armor is, but he's definitely clocked that you got it.

[captainbasch]

G'raha Tia | Scion of the Seventh Dawn ______________________ "Graha tia, cat boy."

[icantspellthings]

Whenever people ask me "why don't you know xyz, it's so popular" well see it's because

[burgundyflowers]

The world doesn't revolve around one country. What is popular over there might not be the same in another country and it's totally normal but pop culture for example is a global thing like most people know Ariana Grande. This is just an example.

[lydiardbell]

Yeah pop culture is universal and most societies like the same stuff, just like how everyone knows who Zhou Xuan, Dhanush, and Mia Guissé are and we all know and love the classic holiday season movie Al-Risâlah