Parapsychiatry for Fun and Profit

The human mind is a beautiful and frightening place. Be sure to have a guide.

[mindwalker-elsbeth]

New Artfight year, new Beth reference.

Come at me!

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Guy who has wandered through the halls and corridors of your body not with any special kind of love but with the untold intimacy of a contractor assessing the damages and potentials voice: right, so the main issue here is that the body is currently a temple, okay, and what we want is for it to be a home, cause temples are pretty and all and occasionally nice to be in if you're into that sort of thing but very few people would actually want to live in one. So what we're gonna do first is you're gonna take a look at what's here, the carrying walls and windows and all that, and you're going to come up with something you'd actually like to be alive inside of, and it's going to be a lot of work and it's going to feel strange and stupid and embarrassing but you're still gonna do it, because otherwise this construction site is fucked. And maybe what you want to live in is a skatepark or an anime-themed cat cafe or an esoteric library that has a dildo section for some reason, so it might feel like it's a downgrade from a temple, but it's actually the opposite cause the main customer for a body is you and the main customer for a temple are templegoers and maybe higher powers of some kind, - i wouldn't know about those, they never hired me, - not the temple itself, which is what you are, right, cause the body/mind/soul separation doesn't actually do anything, so what you're gonna do is look at the current layout and dig out whatever hope and ability to want you have and come up with a blueprint, and then my boys can actually get to work. Oh, and you have got to change the windows, it's drafty as fuck in here.

[joofaloof]

I revisited this wip from 2022 and I'm remembering why I stopped working on it in the first place lol. I realized that I never really knew what this was supposed to be, so it made it hard to work on because there was no real plan or narrative.

That said, I'm glad to have noodled around with it a bit more and finally let it see the light of day. Be free, my child!

[allysdelta]

Art Fight

An art trading game

So I've been talked into joining Artfight

My old RP character Elsbeth has been updated and will be available to "attack," along with my more recent creation Dante

I'll draw whatever I can as executive function allows

[mindwalker-elsbeth]

[winterandwords]

I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn't have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he's a monster who doesn't deserve love.

[allysdelta]

Just a snake in a garden. Nothing to see here. 😈 🍎

I've been rereading Good Omens lately, and thought it'd be fun to try designing my own versions of the Ineffable Duo. This drawing of Crawly in his Eden days got a bit out of hand.

thoughts below the cut:

In keeping with his serpentine form, I tried to incorporate subtle reptilian references into his demonic appearance. His mouth extends just a bit too wide, his face and nose are streamlined, his body is slim and androgynous. Having just emerged from his snake form, he still has traces of scales on his face and arms, and his eyes have very little in the way of a defined sclera. (His serpent form, in case I never get around to drawing it, is based on a bush viper, one of my favorite species. I love their textured scales and their little eyebrow ridges.)

He's brown in my interpretation, partially as a nod to the Fertile Crescent being home to the first known civilizations and partially because that skintone is ambiguous enough to let him blend in with a large variety of humans, but mostly because no one can stop me. It's pretty.

There is nothing in the book that specifies the colors of demonic/angelic wings, just that they're very similar to each other. So Crowley gets some color on his wings, and I intend to do the same with Aziraphale once I've found a comfortable design.

This started out as a color test. A color test. I have no self-control.

I am comically bad at painting clouds.

[etherea1ity]

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[boggletheowl]

I’ve been getting a lot of these lately, and I guess I just want you all to know what I think when I read them.

[mindwalker-elsbeth]

Some days, it feels really nice to create something on paper with your own hands instead of painting digitally. I'd forgotten that feeling.

Pay no attention to the eraser shavings, if you please.

[mortalityplays]

one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing I have learned in my life is that nice people can fuck each other up in monstrous ways. people can be bone deep kind and loving and self reflective and still lash out under pressure. people can be earnestly neighbourly and charitable and hospitable and generous and still find themselves in situations where they become selfish. people can be well meaning and easygoing and gregarious and hold deep seated opinions that turn them into vicious little bullies under the right conditions. nobody is just one thing, and nobody stays one way. every person is a kaleidoscope and they will surprise you. you will surprise yourself. it's not a warning and it's not a judgement and it's not an excuse, and it's certainly not a reason to stop trying or to stop trusting. it is just a fact.

[mindwalker-elsbeth]

[To friends who've RP'd with me before: because Elsbeth is in her own canon now, I've made all in-character posts prior to the modern revision private to avoid confusion (and frankly, embarrassment, since some of my writing back then was.... let's just say there was room for improvement).

If anyone needs to refer to one of the stories for any reason, let me know and I can link you directly or un-private the associated thread.]

[joofaloof]

Quick color and form study for today!

[mindwalker-elsbeth]

Bookstore owner and glamoured-over ancient dragon Yue (@bloodoftheemperor) has some artifacts he needs to recover. How convenient for him, then, that the newest resident of his town, having recently become an employee at his shop, is a developing telekinetic! (This is separate canon from previous interactions between Beth and Yue; both characters have been modified and placed in a setting of their own, which means their acquaintance starts anew as well.)

[bigbigtruck]

Short full color erotic comic about ancient Scottish lesbians

Do you wanna read a short wordless comic about Pictish lesbians?? Yes?? Please click the link above then

[labsafetyviolations]

so when a doctor spends 30 minutes performing CPR and revives someone they're "a hero" and it's "a miracle they could come back after being dead that long" but when I spend 6 months synthesising new organs to bring them back after the doctors failed it's "horrifying to witness" and "a crime against nature itself" and "technically graverobbing but none of the laws cover it so we're not entirely sure what to charge you with". Typical

[bloodoftheemperor]

@mindwalker-elsbeth

It's half an hour before the Scrolls and Scales bookstore closes for the day. He's tasked himself with pulling books from the shelves for orders to be completed the next day. He catches sight of one of his newly hired employees, recalling something he might have seen earlier.

"Elsbeth. A moment, please?" His tone is calm as he catchers her attention, pausing in his task face her as he speaks again.

"May I speak to you once closing tasks have been completed? I'd like to ask you something." Keen brown eyes peer at her behind the round glasses perched on his nose.

[mindwalker-elsbeth]

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"I'm honestly just relieved that you're not mad at me." She let out a tiny, nervous laugh, straightening the front of her dress. Despite her efforts, the wrinkles in the skirt marked where she'd gripped the fabric. "I don't really know the rules of this place, and I haven't learned what is acceptable to reveal in public among others who are... different. Anyway!" She brightened, and the sweet mask was back in place. "My ability may be new, and a little unwieldy, but I'm willing to be of help if I can. What do you need done?"