Indiana Llama

Comms and lore at featheredabyss.com! I have a mouth and I will yap. Phantompholk enthusiast. Votra lover. Writing, drawing, whatever in the manner of storytelling. Birds, planes, dinos yippie!!!!! They/them, adult. Local lesbian.

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A lil phantom design for practice!

My entire timelapse, + thoughts! I've never made a video like this before, so I'd love to hear feedback :> Thoughts, questions whatever about phantoms at all are very very welcome!

Hope y'all like Paracole, even if they're basically guaranteed to hate you all.

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Ancient sketches of an eternally lost goober.

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Everyone needs a butler character.

This is mine: Yido!

In fact, they are a duster by choice through their relatively pretty basic spirit body.

I rarely draw them, so the second two images are pretty ancient.

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Unrelated image.

Oh man oh man i love the Hay's code and Comics Code and their vague wording and think we should bring them back except worse and for everything we say and do online!!! This is a joke. You don't want this.

Lowkey dunno how to tag this.

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My process for drawing the avian face, phantompholk edition!

I use this actually ever single time I draw one of their faces. I especially rely on the sphere with the line through the poles to find the way the face is pointing. That can also be used to calculate how long the beak should visually protrude off the face, by comparing how narrow the circles of the axis that the beak line goes through to how wide the circle is, and applying that proportion to the beak's length. It's tricky in words, maybe I could illustrate it later ;>

Anyway I find this fun. Might later post it being used in an actual piece.

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You ready for EELS?!

It's that time again- Advent Calendar time!!

Wanna learn about eels for 24 days STRAIGHT? Maybe leading up to Christmas, maybe leading up to Halloween, or your birthday, or your dog's birthday, or any number of auspicious days?!

Boy do I have the calendar for you.

Get one here!

Scratch off one orange box a day to reveal a fact about eels. it's like a lottery ticket, but you win every day because it's always facts about eels.

These calendars are the primary way that my science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist, keeps the lights on. Calendars are totally critical for us to keep existing, and also share a bunch of cool science! It's a beautiful thing.

Skype a Scientist matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops libraries, and others for online Q&A sessions all over the world. We serve about 4000 classrooms a year and offer our program for FREE. We can offer it for free thanks to these advent calendars. It's a weird way to fund a nonprofit, but hey, it works.

We also run events in our hometown in Philly that often center art when communicating science! We host moth nights in the woods and in city parks to connect people with nature, and host events like Climate Change Crafting Night where participants create art that communicate important environmental messages! When we have enough money we even create community science murals!

You can always donate to support our org without buying a calendar here.

Reposts are incredibly appreciated. Running a nonprofit is a challenge! Tumblr helps a LOT!!

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Dog studies :>

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The obligate loser. Please be gentle bc they haven't touched grass in 14 years and they live in a cave.

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Vick and Op's take on the apple trend... it's not for them. Bigah beak and big stupid over here. Such profane ignorance might actually be the end of their tolerance of eachother.

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Daily at 11:30, Offer

“No notes.” (A scene)

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Madness and Mortality: The Votra

A lineage of immortals’ fall from invulnerability, rebirth as a parasite, and rise again as a civilization… the phantoms are not alone.

A lineage of immortals' fall from invulnerability, rebirth as a parasite, and rise again as a civilization… the phantoms are not alone.

After months, I'm done <3 I hope y'all enjoy!

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A new story, June 30th

A lineage of immortals' fall from invulnerability, rebirth as a parasite, and rise again as a civilization is a story begging to be told. I'm telling it June 30th.

Feathered Abyss

A vault of my home-cooked possibly peculiar lore.

Also I apologize for my inactivity on Tumblr; I've been busy.

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Very hungry.

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They don't know our lore.

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A little ref I did for ArtFight! More to come, surely, but I thought this rotund little tea-serving fella would be a great start.

This thing is Conner, who, despite their name, has 0 relation to humans. It's a simple two syllables that go together well, so as a phantom they just got that name by coincidence. It's like an alien version of the Tiffany problem. To be honest, I just make new names by smashing sounds together. Anyway, Conner here runs a tea shop in the largest phantom-inhabited city. Their greatest passion is making new concoctions and connecting with others over a steaming cup of their creations. After inexplicably getting abandoned by the love of their life, they struggled to find an explanation. Turning up nothing, they fell to believe their love of the steeped craft was too boring, and sought to find something more "interesting" to attach to. That just led to years of suffering, attempting to appeal to people they didn't even connect to. After much strife and growth, they eventually embraced the idea that of course their passions should not a box for you to live within. They are your platform for being a better, happier self.

Little to say, they're doing pretty well now.

I'm IndianaLlama on AF btw. I also have a full(ish) story of this on my website.

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Only it knows its destination…

Anyway, this was an old piece I did to study red light absorption in water. I thought the ocean floor wasn't very rewarding to draw, so now it's inhabited by that mysterious phantom :>

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Round 2 of uploading this... Anyway! An august painting I did, now in timelapse form! I forgot much of what I had to say other than that, because my browser crashed and burned everything with it. I do remember one thing: I am real :D!