Sorry for the radio silence. I've been busy with cons, zines, cms, got sick, but in between my partner and I started creating a new world with new (and some old) blorbos.
Think a fantasy world that suffered a great catastrophe during which all the magic and magical beings died.
Liam, Quin and Cass are brand new. And since I like recycling my characters a lot, I grabbed Ulric and Valeria. (... and Jim and Ady and Mort's Zach and some others...)
More thoughts under the cut!
Most of these are from March/April, when I was focused on giving the characters face and hairstyles (some were tougher than the others).
I knew exactly what I was looking for when it came to Liam - my sad wet bird of a guy. A lonely scavenger with too many skeletons in his closet. His outfit might change a little (I'm not fond of his boots in particular), but otherwise I'm quite happy with the result!
Quin on the other hand? Boy, trying to figure out a blond twink of your own after drawing SO MANY of them in the past few years was tough, because I knew that no matter what I do, he'll look like somebody I've already drawn before. My nerdy boi with a photographic memory, who's far too smart for his own good (while also being incredibly impractical and entirely dumb about certain things). Definitely not a fighter, more of an explorer and a 'scholar'. Collects remaining magical artifacts/trinkets.
Ulric is-- Ulric. Since I already tweaked his origin (and his armor) a lot for the original game character version, it wasn't that difficult to come up with a new one for the needs of this story. I could just go wild without fearing of messing up the canon characters around him. Gave him one of my older chars as his brother. In this new world he's a ranger, still goes insane about wolves, is still a bastard and his right eye is actually blind this time. His surname is Norbrook here and he's a regent of a city up in the north.
Cassian was also a question mark. I knew what type of character I needed to match Ulric in the world (...of course I did), but I still wanted him to be unique in his own way. So I ended up with a fox. Another redhead elf to my collection (a third one actually???). He's from the hottest city in the south. A mages' son, a spy, a thief, a slave, a runaway, a killer only when he needs to be (doesn't enjoy it). He dyes his hair and changes his henna-like tattoos to look different often. So technically -- all of the concepts I have for him here are valid? But in my head he's almost always redhaired.
And Valeria. A free soul. Cass' best friend and his 'savior'. Rider from the great eastern plains. A nomad, a storyteller, an ambassador. I've had her for ten years (wait whut) now and I keep dropping her into EVERY single cameo I can think of, because she's just... fun.
I think I' went'm going a little insane about this story. Kept saying I hope this project survives the con season. Only one con left this Saturday and the prologue (the most complicated part) is almost finished (6/8 pages done, 2 more almost finished).
I wanted to drop these here just to show off my new blorbos and maybe give you a hint of what I've been doodling and building in between all the work.
Fingers crossed this doesn't die the moment I finish the last page of the prologue. I feel like I might slowly start to recover from my burnout and I'm just pouring all of my self indulgence into this project.
Oh, that was extremely helpful! Thank you very much!
I knew from the summary it wasn't going to be sunshine and rainbows but it's always much easier for me to choose when/if to read books with heavy/truamatic content if I know what I'm getting into. The ableism warning is especially good to know, since that hits closer to home for me personally.
I deeply appreciate you finding that link for me and I hope you have a good week! May your library be fully stocked with books you like 🌻
glad I could be of help!! 💜 if you read it, I hope you'll enjoy it! have a good week too!
Hello, hope this isn't a bother but I was wondering if you've read Shā Pò Láng(Stars of Chaos) by Priest and if you had; if there are any trigger warnings to be aware of.
I looked on Novel Updates but I've found that people don't always feel it necessary to tag for abuse or r*pe or mention that kind of thing in reviews so it's very hard to get a straight answer unless it's like, an egregious amount of triggering content.
If you don't know that's fine obviously, I don't mean to put you on the spot, you're just kinda the only blog I know of that's been up front about TW's in Danmei when giving book recs.
hi! no problem! unfortunately it's been so long since I read it that I forgot about a lot of things. sha po lang is definitely not erha though (for example), content warnings-wise it's more on par with mxtx books iirc. this carrd has some warnings listed (light spoilers), I hope that helps!
yippeeee, i can finally show you my first ever homemade cosplay that i totally didn't crunch in a few days before dokomi!! atuarto from witch hat atelier! 🧡
(I made the robes and hat, but the pants were commissioned, and the boots and shirt were bought. I plan on remaking the pants myself and making the shirt for a con in november!)
I bought this jedi robes pattern and then made the length shorter, the sleeves longer, added the orange parts, and completely modified the hood pattern.
I also got a ton of advice and support from my server friends, legit couldn't have done it without them!! 🥺
if you saw me at dokomi and said nice things to me and/or asked for a picture, THANK YOU SO MUCH, you have no idea how happy you made me!! 🥹 I got so many pic requests, I still can't believe how kind and excited about my cosplay everyone was! 🥹 thank you again from the bottom of my heart!!!
the owl-like brushbuddy was entirely made by me, pattern included!! isn't she the cutest.... her name is tawny :3
i didn't mean to make her look like an owl, it was totally on accident 😂 but i'm not complaining and now i do plan on making an owlcat as well....
on my way to dokomi! i'll be cosplaying atuarto and trying to survive the weather. I might only wear the robes on saturday to be more comfortable doing my friday shopping, but i'll see.
I made the coat and hat myself, my first ever homemade cosplay! :D
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