This is my Art Masterlist with links to my art, with posts that you may or may not have seen, such as myĀ Infinity War Rewrite Comic, Morticia Addams as a mermaid, as well as other various fanart and personal art pieces. Also, I used to participate in DrawlloweenĀ a lot, so you're bound to find plenty spooky art as well. Oh, there's also this comic, that apparently resonated with way too many people.
My personal art tends to have a more surreal/magical quality to it, as it's usually a way for me to illustrate my thoughts or feelings.
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Will I ever see you again? - Ten and Rose. All the feels plus Circular Gallifreyan (2014)
Well? - Portrait of the Tenth Doctor done like one of those old red/blue 3D comics.
Do you love the color of the scarf? - Color of the sky, but with Tom Baker's scarf and tons of easter eggs. (2023)
Supernatural
Demon DeanĀ - pencil drawing (2015)
Bean DeanĀ - silly vector drawing of Dean Winchester as a bean with a giant piece of pie (2016) |Ā Process video
RowenaĀ - digital photorealism portrait experiment (2019)
Charlie Fix-ItĀ - Comic where Charlie lives at the end of S10 E21: Dark Dynasty
Misc - Miscellaneous fanarts that don't fit into any of my larger lists and don't quite warrant their own pages on their own. Various Disney, some Unus Annus, and other assorted fandoms.
Mary, Queen of Scots Embroidery Patterns - Basically, I saw a slideshow of some embroideries Mary Queen of Scots created while imprisoned, and on a whim decided it'd be fun to make cross-stitch patterns of them. (Snails, Unicorn, & Frogs | Tiger)
ORIGINAL ART
Animations:
Selkie - An animatic of a selkieās escape to the song, Underground by Cody Fry. (Duet version with CowboyTinkerbell's storyline) (2023)
Spooky Stuff
Pumpkin Carving Stencils - list of my posts where I share different pumpkin carving stencils I've made
ScarecrowĀ - Creepy scarecrow in rainy cornfield with some lightning. More realism experimentation (2018)
Cozy Witch Sleepy Kitty - Cute witch reading by magical floating candlelight while her kitty sleeps next to her. (2022)
Drawlloween 2019- a compilation of spooky drawings I made in 2019. Couple of my favorites include; Vampire, Witchy Toad and Rowena portrait.
Drawlloween 2020- a compilation of the spooky drawings I created in 2020. Few of my favorites include; Autumn Witch, Witchy Kitten, and Poison Bottle.
DarkArtober 2023- a compilation of silly spooky drawings I made in 2023. Few of my favorites include; Mermaid Raccoon, Eyeball Octopus, and Noodle Deer.
Fantasy
Glowy Mushroom Girly - Glowy Mushroom Girly, with some torchbugs to keep her company! (2024)
BlockedĀ - Mermaid trapped under ice (2020)
DTIYS Naga Angler MermaidĀ (2020)
Dragon - Redraw in the style of stained glass of a piece I drew in 2007. Depicts a fairytale scene of a knight trying to save a princess in tower from a fire breathing dragon. (2017)
Surreal Pieces:
CreationĀ - Magical creativity and inspiration exploding out of a woman in fantastical light (2020)
Black ButterflyĀ - Thyroid piece. A woman with black veins radiating from a black butterfly on her throat. (2020)
Hold Me Close So I Don't ShatterĀ - Woman with light shining through cracks in her body while her partner holds her close. (2020)
ScreamĀ - Portrait of a woman screaming as golden tears run down her face. Her eyes glow, her hair whips as though blown by wind. (2020)
DrowningĀ - Woman drowning in a golden sea made up of her own tears. (2020)
Galaxy GirlĀ - Girl made of the galaxy with golden linework. Digital watercolor style (2020)
HurtĀ - Also known as āIdk sometimes I just doodle to help me deal with stuffā (2022)
Random Stuff -
Noodle Kraken - A kraken made of pasta taking down a tomato ship (2018)
Our Mother is BurningĀ - Climate piece about rising temperatures using actual climate data (2020)
Brain
Creating thingsĀ - Comic based on actual events [Also known as āSad Blorb Repost Comicā] (2022)
"The wine-dark sea and rosy-fingered dawn should kiss" - Surrealist painting of the sky kissing the ocean. (2022)
Newbie Icons - Just some cute little free icons (and headers) for tumblr newbies so they don't get mistaken for bots. (2023)
Pride Norse runes- A bunch of pride designs I made to to say 'fuck you' to fuckwaffles appropriating norse symbols for their hate. Designs are available for free download to personal use, and also available on Threadless for anyone who donāt want to or canāt print them on stuff themselves but still want something with the designs on it. (Both linked on respective posts)
Writing:
Goals Reached - From prompt by writing-prompt-s on tumblr:
"In your world, people receive xp for defeating other creatures and can level up. Swatting a fly gets you 2xp. Beating your friend at chess gets you 65xp. One morning, you wake up to the notification ā7,125,000 xp obtained. Maximum level reached.ā Only, you donāt remember defeating anyone."
OLD ART
Older work Iāve done. Mostly pre-2018 work or work that I just donāt personally really like anymore, but I keep around because it shows the progress Iāve made over time. Also nostalgia.
my mental health was abysmal when I lived next to a 10 lane motorway in a tiny cramped city that was too hot for me... as soon as I moved back home to aotearoa and got to live by the sea in a small town with lots of green spaces and libraries and cafes and art galleries and sea lions and dolphins and penguins and native birds my mental health SKYROCKETED to the point where it's honestly ridiculous. like saying "I LOVE BEING ALIVE... WOW WOW" out loud on occasion ridiculous. I'm so happy.
moving somewhere better is lifesaving. wishing everyone trapped in a shitty area the absolute best of luck moving somewhere someday that makes you glad to be alive [: it makes such a huge difference.
having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left. having a clear and accessible pathway for people to be socially (if not interpersonally) forgiven is how you get people radicalized against capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy. its how you turn "these people think i am a bad person" into "these people think something and someone coerced or forced me into doing bad things, and these people want to help me do something about that."
if you want more revolutionaries, you must have a system to turn guilty, traumatized, angry bystanders and collaborators into revolutionaries. and I say a system and process because its not "oh the drone operator said they were sorry and felt bad so its all good now :)" there is no shortcut here. but it is absolutely necessary. no revolution is comprised of morally pure people. in many cases, the most devoted revolutionaries are the ones who know exactly what it is like on the other side.
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.
i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is āinternationalā pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isnāt our pride, itās theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that āyou owe your rights to Black trans womenā is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) MÄori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa donāt even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we donāt.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. iām truly sorry that most of you donāt see the negative impact your nationās culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and cultureās queer history, donāt accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore š
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the appā¦. Which requires your login informationā¦.. and also stores your card information so even if you didnāt use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. Thatās how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So hereās what weāre gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didnāt actually want it, you just couldnāt see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you donāt want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If itās a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If itās a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.
med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid š" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times
"Before surgery, your bodyās reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If thereās food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. Thatās called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you
I have four kids. Iāve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.
This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldnāt feed them before those instances.
Iām not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.
I saw and reblogged this one a while back, but itās always worth repeating, and this time Iām adding a bit of background info comparing common fantasy sword features to the Real Thing (with pictures, of course.)
Leaf-bladed swords are a very popular fantasy style and were real, though unlike modern hand-and-a-half longsword versions, the real things were mostly if not always shortswords.
Here are Celtic bronze swordsā¦
ā¦Ancient Greek Xiphoiā¦
ā¦ and a Roman āMainz-patternā gladiusā¦
Saw or downright jagged edges, either full-length or as small sections (often where they serve no discernible purpose) are a frequent part of fantasy blades, especially at the more, er, imaginatively unrestrained end of the market.
Real swords also had saw edges, such as these two 19th century shortswords, but not to make them cool or interesting. Theyāre weapons if necessaryā¦
ā¦but since they were carried by Pioneer Corps who needed them for cutting branches and other construction-type tasks, their principal use was as brush cutters and saws.
This dussack (cutlass) in the Wallace Collection is also a fighting weapon, like the one beside itā¦
ā¦but may also have had the secondary function of being a saw.
A couple of internet captions say itās for ācutting ropesā which makes sense - heavy ropes and hawsers on board a ship were so soaked with tar that they were often more like lengths of wood, and a Hollywood-style slice from the Heroās rapier (!!) wouldnāt be anything like enough to sever them. However swords like this are extremely rare, which suggests they didnāt work as well as intended for any purpose.
I photographed these in Basel, Switzerland, about 20 years ago. Look at the one on the bottom (I prefer the basket-hilt schiavona in the middle).
A lot of āflambergeā (wavy-edge) swords actually started out with conventional blades which then had the edges ground to shape - the dussack, that Basel broadsword and this Zweihander were all made that way.
The giveaway is the centreline: if itās straight, the entire blade probably started out straight.
Increased use of water power for bellows, hammers and of course grinders made shaping blades easier than when it had to be done by hand. This flamberge Zweihander, however, was forged that way.
Again, the clue is the centre-line.
Incidentally those Parierhaken (parrying hooks - a secondary crossguard) are among the only real-life examples of another common fantasy feature - hooks and spikes sticking out from the blade.
Here are some rapiers and a couple of daggers showing the same difference between forged to shape and ground to shape. The top and bottom rapiers in the first picture started as straights, and only the middle rapier came from the forge with a flamberge blade.
Thereās no doubt about this one either.
The reason - though that was a part of it - wasnāt just to look cool and show off what the owner could afford (any and all extra or unusual work added to the price) but may actually have had a function: a parry would have been juddery and unsettling for someone not used to it, and any advantage is worth having.
However, like the saw-edged dussack, flamberge blades are unusual - which suggests the advantage wasnāt that much of an advantage after all.
Hereās a Circassian kindjal, forged wigglyā¦
ā¦and an Italian parrying dagger forged straight then ground wigglyā¦
There were also parrying daggers with another fantasy-blade feature, deep notches and serrations which in fantasy versions often resemble fangs or thorns.
These more practical historical versions are usually called āsword-breakersā but I prefer āsword-catcherā, since a steel blade isnāt that easy to break. Taking the opponentās blade out of play for just long enough to nail him works fine.
NB - the curvature on the top one in this next image is AFAIK because of the book-page it was copied from, not the blade itself.
The missing tooth on that second dagger, and the crack halfway down this next oneās blade, shows what happens when design features cause weak spots.
So there you go: a quick overview of fantasy sword features in real life.
Hereās a real-life weapon that looks like it belongs in a fantasy story or film - and this doesnāt even have an odd-shaped bladeā¦
Just a very flexible oneā¦
If you want more odd blades, Moghul India is a good place to startā¦
