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[gestral-village]

Introducing (what I hope is) our annual Summer Event!

Taking place from June 14th thru June 22nd, I offer to you a simple prompt-based event.

Participation is simple!

🍦 Share your work on Social Media with #GVSummer2026 (all platforms)!

🍦 Add your writing to the Collection on AO3 (not up yet, but soon!)

🍦 Tag us here on Tumblr!

🍦 Have fun!

Let's celebrate our favourite Expeditioners with some fun (or not fun!) under the sun!

MASSIVE Shoutout to @ingapotejtoo for the stellar art!!

[imgoingtocrash]

allez, maelle!

Rating: G

Word Count: 2,802

Fandom: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Summary:

“There,” Gustave says with a satisfied pat of her cheek. “Now you can go out and be the best of Lumière’s Expeditioners.” The school’s team mascot has been the same since he was enrolled many, many years ago. He’s still not particularly sure what expedition, if any, from history the title refers to. (What in the world inspired the other team to be called the Nevrons, he definitely doesn’t know.)

Maelle plays on the local girls’ football/soccer team. The gang (including both of the Dessendre siblings) show up to support her.

A cute little Modern AU for Day 2 of the @gestral-village Summertime Shenanigans! Thanks for hosting a fun summer event. You made me write about sports, I can't believe it!

Read on Ao3

[omegakina]

Sciel étoilée

In French, it’s pronounced like "ciel étoilé", which means "starry sky". Created for the last day of @gestral-village’s summer challenge (Day 8: Sky - maybe it's a bit far-fetched ?). Loose watercolor painting on an A5 sketchbook.

As usual, I’ll share a bit about my life below.

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at a portrait inspired by Vila Emme’s work on Instagram for a while now. The goal was to use a limited palette and let the water do its thing, without trying to control it, blend it, or erase its traces.

I was a little nervous about this project, but it actually turned out to be pretty fun. Of the three paintings I did for the challenge, this was the most enjoyable and the quickest to complete since I didn’t have any color requirements and used only three colors.

Below:

the pencil sketch

the result after 2 hours of painting (I deviated a bit from the original sketch, which I tried to correct afterward)

a little surgical mask to protect her from the paint splatters to come, haha

I used white gouache for the stars and highlights, but I had to go over them about 15 times because it wasn’t opaque enough. If anyone knows of an extra-fine white marker that’s super opaque, I’d love to hear about it!

I added a very subtle touch of metallic/glitter watercolor to the background, which you can't see at all in the photo, so I made a video so you can see it (you can barely see it lol):

I didn't dare put any on her face for fear of ruining the whole thing 😅

Anyway, enjoy your summer, stay hydrated, and try to appreciate the coolness of the starry nights (can you tell I’m dying of heat right now?)

[winter-of-tomorrow]

@gestral-village Summer Shenanigans Day 7:

Ocean / Myth / Sailing

Did you know one of the male octopus' arms is a penis?

[ineffablemossy]

Day 1: Ice

It's Summer Shenanigans time over in the Gestral Village! Sharing my first piece from the Day 1 prompt: Ice. It's a short Scielune fic set in a post-canon world. Summertime fluff for this one!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Thank you to @einradi for organising such a fun event! Anyone can join in so check out the prompts on the @gestral-village account, and feel free to DM if you'd like to join us on Discord.

[madebydun]

Gestral Village Summer Shenanigans day 4: sleep

One of the very first E33 fanart ideas I had 🤭 I'll forever mourn that we didn't get the purple haircut (mods?? Anyone??)

@gestral-village

[drakesfortune67]

Summer Shenanigans!!!

Soooo I may have written a small thing for the Gestral Village Summer Event!!! @gestral-village for day 4, sleep, I offer some Restavelan in these happy times!! 🥰🥰🥰 A very sleepy Gustave and his two wonderful partners (Alan and Renoir) are here to spend a day in a nice warm meadow! I hope you all like the fic! Sunny Meadows (and the Perfect Place to Sleep the Day Away)

[winter-of-tomorrow]

@gestral-village Summer Shenanigans Day 5

Flora / Tress / Sand

Painting Flowers *^* Under the cut for p!Renoir x p!Verso Dessendrecest

Three more days to go, if you want to join in: Here's the prompt list

[omegakina]

Lofi Lune

Today's illustration for Day 6 (Song/Instrument/Hobby, or maybe all of them at once?) of @gestral-village's summer challenge. Watercolor on an A5 sketchbook.

More details below.

I obviously used the original Lofi Girl as a reference for this painting, drawn freehand (hence the few issues here and there ^^). Here are the images: 1/ before painting, 2/ with the background painted, and 3/ with the base color applied everywhere.

After this step, I went back to add shadows and adjust the color throughout, trying to give the impression of late afternoon.

I assumed that Lune was right-handed (unlike the Lofi Girl), even though we see her writing with her left hand in the "max relationship" dialogue at the camp (in fact, the entire expedition writes with their left hand except during motion-captured cutscenes - I guess they all share the same animation of "writing in Gustave's diary"). But since she holds her guitar like a right-hander, and since people are generally more likely to be right-handed, I took that liberty.

I hope guitar players will forgive me: I didn’t put the right number of frets on the instrument at all (well, if that were the only problem, you might say…)

Next (and final) step for me: Day 8. See you in two days!

[thevalesofanduin]

SUMMARY

It had been one of those ideas thrown in for shits and giggles, just a random 2 AM thought that everyone should have forgotten about the next day. Because when you're a group of seven friends, no idea ever makes it out of the group chat successfully. Until now. Which is how they find themselves on a honest-to-God camping trip to the Côte d'Azur, ready for some sun, sea and fun.

READ CHAPTER 1/8 HERE

Here we go! This is my contribution to the @gestral-village Summer Shenanigans event. I'll be posting for one of the prompts for each day, and each chapter will focus on one character.

Enjoy!

[thevalesofanduin]

Chapter 2/8 is up!

It’s Monoco’s time to shine as the group goes swimming…

@gestral-village

[thevalesofanduin]

Chapter 3/8 is up!

Esquie will be making some new friends

@gestral-village

[thevalesofanduin]

Chapter 4/8 is up!

Verso being dramatic about sleeping in a hot tent, what a shocker…

@gestral-village

[thevalesofanduin]

Chapter 5/8 is up!

Gustave meets three little boys building a sandcastle.

@gestral-village

[ineffablemossy]

Day 1: Ice

It's Summer Shenanigans time over in the Gestral Village! Sharing my first piece from the Day 1 prompt: Ice. It's a short Scielune fic set in a post-canon world. Summertime fluff for this one!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Thank you to @einradi for organising such a fun event! Anyone can join in so check out the prompts on the @gestral-village account, and feel free to DM if you'd like to join us on Discord.

[gestral-village]

You guys are super cool for all the work you've been doing the last two days! So happy to see everyone's creativity!

[winter-of-tomorrow]

Gestral Village Summer Shenanigans Day 2: Games

It was all a game before the war between Writers and Painters began.

This was a bit of a last-second-decision so I will defintely return to this artwork again and expand it!

Full prompt list here!

[usesteeledstrikeongustavesbutt]

I don't know if this counts as swimming lmao the boys are just playing in the water. @gestral-village

[gestral-village]

Haha, close enough! They look like they're having fun!!

[thevalesofanduin]

SUMMARY

It had been one of those ideas thrown in for shits and giggles, just a random 2 AM thought that everyone should have forgotten about the next day. Because when you're a group of seven friends, no idea ever makes it out of the group chat successfully. Until now. Which is how they find themselves on a honest-to-God camping trip to the Côte d'Azur, ready for some sun, sea and fun.

READ CHAPTER 1/8 HERE

Here we go! This is my contribution to the @gestral-village Summer Shenanigans event. I'll be posting for one of the prompts for each day, and each chapter will focus on one character.

Enjoy!

[thevalesofanduin]

Chapter 2/8 is up!

It’s Monoco’s time to shine as the group goes swimming…

@gestral-village

[thevalesofanduin]

SUMMARY

It had been one of those ideas thrown in for shits and giggles, just a random 2 AM thought that everyone should have forgotten about the next day. Because when you're a group of seven friends, no idea ever makes it out of the group chat successfully. Until now. Which is how they find themselves on a honest-to-God camping trip to the Côte d'Azur, ready for some sun, sea and fun.

READ CHAPTER 1/8 HERE

Here we go! This is my contribution to the @gestral-village Summer Shenanigans event. I'll be posting for one of the prompts for each day, and each chapter will focus on one character.

Enjoy!

[omegakina]

Memories of Aquaferme 3

Here’s my painting for the first day of @gestral-village summer challenge (Fruit/Snack/Ice). Due to time constraints, I won’t be participating every day. I hope that’s okay anyway! Mixed media (mostly watercolor) on an A5 sketchbook.

More details below.

I don’t want to lie to you about how I went about creating this particular painting. The truth is, I don’t have the skills to draw "such complex" scenes freehand. So here’s how I did it:

Photo 1. Using a free online tool, I placed the different elements in a 3D scene, as shown in the picture

Photo 2. Then, because I was lazy, I used an app on my phone to help me transfer this “guide” scene onto my sketchbook. Okay, it looks terrible, but the goal is to get the placement of the different elements right! I rarely use this tool, but this time I wanted to save some time.

Photo 3. At this stage, I switch completely to freehand: I use the guides to help me draw the characters and the rest.

Photo 4. Finally, I move on to color. Here’s what it looks like after the first day of watercolor, before I started using ink pens, acrylic markers, and colored pencils… It’s pretty demotivating, as always, but you’ve got to hang in there xD And I’ll admit I was in experimental mode on this drawing—I was just trying random things out; I had no idea what I was doing 😅

As usual, I used an old DSLR to take the final photo (not the WIPs), which always comes out a bit blurry because the lenses are really old, but I prefer the look of these photos to the ones taken with my phone…

See you on Day 6 for the next painting, if all goes well!

[gestral-village]

Absolutely okay if you don't participate every day!

This is wonderful work, OP!!