Forgotten in a tower by the sea

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New Commission post y'all!! I'm an artist that specializes in Pokemon and miscellaneous creature-beasts. I've been told my style is cuddly hehe

Won’t do:

Mecha

Nsfw / suggestive

Any kind of extreme gore (minor blood is a maybe)

Humans (Negotiable depending on complexity)

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ATTENTION!!! FLASH SALE!!!!

All comms are $10 cheaper for the three day weekend!!! If I get enough comms in general, I'll update that pricing to be permanent!! Please and thank you, any and all attention is appreciated!

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"Can a Poison Type spit poi-"

She stops abruptly. "Sorry. Or something. Anthony'll probably be pissed with me if I scare off the folks sympathizing. Not that this feels like sympathy. But maybe I should be.....attempting to be friendlier." She wishes she hadn't agreed to let Goldie nap. He was always better at this than she was.

She forces a frankly unnatural-looking smile. It's painful to look at. "Seee? I'm just a friendly little snake!" She deadpans through clenched teeth. "I don't vomit on Mews for fun!"

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Hello! Can I still ask something about Goldie and Tarrai?

Questions are still open yeah. I've been working on other stuff lately but like......that's partially because I never get asks on this blog to begin with. I've got like one and I've got an answer sketched out but it's not done yet. But I'm always fond of my Psuedomews and will be giddy at any question about them

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The other two current side characters, just so I can have a fully updated ref page

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Deleted the previous posts because a masterpost is more appealing to me. Remade refs for all six main characters!!!

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Anthony

My half of a giraffe Art Trade with @therantingsage !! Thank you so much again for trading with me!! <3

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Final batch of blogtember prompts! Once again, prompts provided by @jazzy-art-time / @mod-jazzy!! Thank you for giving me a buncha stuff to do this month!

Elaborations under the cut:

Day 21: I decided the funniest thing to do for this was to swap the shiny status of my Eevee twins. Cream and Cheese who did this to you! Uncanny!

Day 22: Ok genuinely one of the scenes I'm most interested in writing. These three characters are super old conceptually and near and dear to my heart. Once I get to doing stuff with them I'm going to be so!!! Excited!!!!

Day 23: I checked and it turns out I don't have like any nature photography on my phone? So I looked up cave pictures on google and picked one to put my rats in. Hello Remulus and Atticus nice to see you

Day 24: Hmm....important Apricorn. Wonder what that's about hmmmm

Day 25: This one!! Vexed me!! Because a lot of the ships in my blogs feel like plot spoilers to talk about? Or at least the ones I like the most. So I picked Anneva and Reginald! Because I've mentioned Anneva on inquiries and I've drawn them both on here in the past. They're a comfort duo.

Day 26: If Paleo and Tide have one fan its me bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Initially I tried to draw him awkwardly giving her flowers but I couldn't get the pose right so instead they're going on a park date! Hi again Jazzy I love your slug and so does Paleo!!!! Their dynamic is fun and cute and I like them!!!!!!

Day 28: I think I mentioned it once or twice? These four on fugamsemidei are based on slugcats in Rain World. In fact the first time I drew them at all was in a big batch of Poke-RW doodles. I just decided I liked them enough to make them characters on the blog. And they fit with the rest of the cast well enough so I don't have any shame lmao

Day 29: Anyone remember this gem??? I do. I rediscovered it recently and went "oh. Oh this is a Gravity song woaw"

Day 29 again: So uh I tried really hard to figure out something for day 27's prompt but I genuinely could not find anything within the time frame. So instead I just did day 29 twice. Neura with this song. Because a lot of people are really unhappy because of her actions. She's to blame for so much strife and grief. Deep down and also not that deep at all she's overcome with guilt but she's not gonna change anything rip.

Day 30: The first ever blog post I made was a poorly-drawn Aspen on phantumpdaily. But that's not particularly interesting to look at, and also I've drawn Aspen just floating there on many occasions so that post isn't super unique. So, instead, I drew the first post on the rebooted version of that blog: the intro to asklucyphantump. That was more directly an askblog than phantumpdaily anyway so this isn't cheese I swear skdfjashdf

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Blogtember prompts 11-20, once again courtesy of @mod-jazzy / @jazzy-art-time! Had some fun ones this time around!

Once again, elaborations under the cut:

Day 11: Tbh I try to make most of my OCs easy to draw so I wasn't sure who to pick for this. Ended up deciding on Neura, because she really takes no effort.

Day 12: I wouldn't say Maximus is by any means the most difficult character to draw, but I distinctly remember hating having to draw him back when totemrodents was still around. His shape was annoying and I could never keep the size of his ears consistent. So I felt it would be fitting to give it one more go for old times sake.

Day 13: painted-pokes barely existed, it got zero asks and like 6 followers total, but I remember liking the vague ideas I had about the characters and setting. But looking back on the last post I ever made on there, I realized how AWFUL it looked and just NEEDED to do it more justice. Hi Inverse bye Inverse

Day 14: Paleo is the character who gets the most physical abuse in all of my blogs I'm pretty sure. I didn't want to draw how he lost his foot, cuz that's a major plot spoiler. And I didn't want to draw the scene where he got the back scar, because I couldn't figure out the framing for it. So instead. Future injury :) I'm not elaborating :)

Day 15: Haha anyway happy family on the beach! Once I get to the part of fugamsemidei's plot where they go on their Plate Quest it's gonna be so fun to draw. Much more levity in that part of the plot

Day 16: Hi Jazzy!!!!!! Hi hi hi Jazzy I drew your lizard!!!!! I wouldn't say Jody's blog is my favorite blog of yours, I honestly couldn't tell you what my favorite is I like them all a lot (gun to my head I'd probably say wastelandlabs or flakenrudy). But! Jody is your favorite blorbo and I've never actually drawn proper Jody fanart for you!!!!!! So here she is!!!!!!!

Day 17: I don't think I've ever elaborated on Cootenany? He's a Xatu/Absol hybrid who lives in the facility. He's like half the reason most of the plot happens. I cut out the part of the conversation telling the ACTUAL prophesy he's giving right here cuz I want to keep that a secret for later, but I at least wanted to draw him cuz I don't think I have more than once.

Day 18: I thought really hard about it but I don't think I really.....cut out parts of stories very much? Or at least if I do I usually do it early enough in the plotting stage that nothing but random thoughts exist of it. So the only thing I could come up with for this one was Spoop the Ditto. Initially they were just....a regular Ditto with nothing special going on? Just the youngster of my Phantump group. But now they're like. An actual character with plot importance in lots of places. Idk when I'm ever getting to that but it's something.

Day 19: I have definitely not mentioned either of them anywhere, but all my blogs are in the same universe! And this is the og Arceus and Mew of that Universe! Dhaha and Leonen! The only blog I think they'll ever be relevant in is fugamsemidei for obvious reasons but yeah. Them. They're buddies :3

Day 20: Lucy...oh no Lucy, your whimsy....they stolt it away from u....

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“I’m being followed by the rainclouds. My clothes are soaking up the pain that keeps pouring down; too much more and I may drown.”

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“Why would you even think that??” Tarrai asks him, incredulous.

He doesn’t respond immediately, the telepathic channel eerily quiet.

The Seviper huffs. “I don’t know who made you think that you’re not a good person, but whoever it was is gonna get stabbed.”

“...........you did, Tarrai.” He responds, the thought quiet in her headspace.

Her expression shifted so violently, you’d think she had been stabbed. “I......what. How? When? What did I say?”

“I’m....never mad. I’ve never been mad about being here. It doesn’t make sense. You’re always mad about being here and....you should be. So because I’m not that must mean-”

She cuts him off with a hiss. “No. Stop right there. If you’re even THINKING about saying you deserve this then you’re dead. Wrong.”

“But........I was pompous. I went on and on about how strong I was. I was practically asking her to single me out.”

“Shut up, Goldie. You liked fighting. You were good at it. So what? There’s no reason anyone should be punishing you for that. Most Pokemon are like that!”

“We’ve been over this before, Goldie. If I didn’t want to talk to you, I wouldn’t. I’d just simmer by myself and be mad all the time. I’d be stubborn and just not talk to anyone at all.”

He sighs. “.......yeah. You would.”

“You....you make this place bearable, alright? You’re a good person and you’re my favorite person.” It’s clear in her tone she’s not particularly confident, reassuring him. Not because she doesn’t believe it, more that she’s worried her words are the wrong ones. “You’re allowed to cope with all this nonsense however you want.”

But he lets out a light laugh, and her nervousness fades. “Thanks, Tarrai. I....you’re my favorite person, too.”

He can’t see it, but Tarrai smiles impossibly wide at that. “Heh. Dork.”

He chuckles at that. His frown returns soon after, though. “Hey, I’m....gonna take a nap. Do you mind?”

“Oh, uh, not at all. Sleep is important and you don’t get enough of it.”

“Yeah........I’ve looked at my reflection in the water sometimes and its....not pretty. My eyebags are huge.”

“Man, definitely just go pass out. I’ll keep the guests and whatever occupied.”

He frowns a bit more at that. “Really? Are you...are you sure? I know they haven’t been...very nice to you so far.”

“Psh, nothing I can’t handle, Goldie. Go sleep.”

“.......thanks Tarrai.”

And with that, the channel blips into quiet, and the Seviper sighs to herself.

Goldie is no longer available for asks.

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Realized there’s lots and lots of miscellaneous art I’ve drawn for this blog that’s kinda just sitting in folders gathering dust, so here’s some of the non-spoilery stuff!

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Happy Pride from bloggo blorbos! And me!!

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Biblically accurate Zero Victini for your consideration

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Protag round up!! From my askblogs! Love these nerds aaa

Neura(Mew) and Zero(Victini) from @inquiriesofnothing

Lucy(Phantump) from @askcursedforest

Paleo(Silvally), Alburune(Arceus), and Arc(Riolu) from @fugamsemidei

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She looks genuinely confused at the accusation. “I wasn’t like this when I got caught, you know. I was just a fourteen-year-old who was a little over-confident. And that’s literally a terrible reason to put someone in jail. All of us are here for the sole reason that we’re Psuedomews, and all of us were born that way, so it’s not like we can help it! What, I happened to be a talented Psuedomew kid and that warrants this nonsense? No! It’s ridiculous and unfair! And I’m gonna be as mad about it as I want!”

Goldie gives a small affirmative noise, but doesn’t add anything else.

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She looks to be quietly seething. She also seems to be ignoring Goldie’s comment. “‘Wow, it sure must suck to have spent more than half your life in the Tower of Pointless Punishment for no good reason! Let’s be sure to draw attention to that fact like it wasn’t obvious!’ That’s what you sound like. Idiots.”

Goldie is quiet for a moment before replying. “...yeah, it is kind of rude when you put it that way...”

“I’m never mad for no reason. We can’t all be like you, Goldie.”

“...”

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“He might already know. They were talking to him before us.” The Seviper points out.

“Maybe...uh, the answer is no. Anthony kept trying to add her to our telepathic channels but she always left, always without a word.” Goldie replied. “It’s been a bit hard to make escape plans because of her, from what Anthony says. If we had everyone’s help, we might’ve been able to get out already. Or at least make a solid attempt.”

“I hate her.”

Goldie doesn’t reply.

“She’s selfish, not helping us. It’s like she doesn’t even care about the rest of us suffering here.” She hisses with contempt. “What does she think, that because she’s been here the longest that gives her the right to disregard our pain?!”

“You guys, pass that along to her if you get the chance! I want her to know that’s she’s no better than that monster Mew!!” She spits.

Tarrai and Goldie’s refs are unlocked.