Being Alive is So Inconvenient

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[nicstylus]

It’s Nic Stylus!?

Heya, I draw skeletons and badass women :]

General (Trigger?) Warnings for this blog: - Skulduggery Pleasant Spoilers - Blood/Gore - Body Horror - Death

Probable Blog Content: - Skulduggery Pleasant - Phases 1 and 2 - OC Content - Skyrim - Portal 1 & 2 - Twilight Princess

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I’m also @nicstylusreblogs (where I reblog everything) and @notnicstylus (my inactive blog but unfortunately the main account) 

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Ok so based on what I’ve seen/looked for so far, the only casualty of my drive frying itself was a single character card clip file. (I’m sure there are others but I really only cared about the 2026 files and such)

You wanna know what character got the short end of the stick?

It was Scapegrace.

Because of course it was.

Dude can’t catch a break lmfao

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The Remnant

Completed: May 1st 2026

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31 of 38 DD Cards!

This will be it's only Card.

This bastard IS unfortunately relevant enough to warrant it's own card, despite not even being remotely humanoid.

Seeing as even the Grotesquery is more humanoid than a 'sliver of darkness' with hands and angry eyes, I think this Card wins for "Most Creature" in the entire project.

It's an angry 7

Body count: Kenspeckle Grouse, Finbar Wrong, Anton Shudder, Tesseract, Tanith Low

Here's also my design for a Soul Catcher! They all look a little different, but this is the one Sanguine stole from the Necromancers.

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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Decks: SOTA || PWF || TFO

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Back Up Your Fricking Artwork!!!!

Hi everyone! I'm a fucking idiot! Don't be like me!

A few of you might be aware that the external hard drive I use- that oh, y'know, only about 8 years worth of artwork files are on- is dying! I literally cannot even access it because it freezes my entire computer as soon as it's plugged in :]]]]

Normally this wouldn't be a huge issue because I was also saving all my files by sending them to myself via a private discord server... up until about a year and a half ago, because I got lazy and hella busy with life.

Thankfully a lot of artwork itself is saved through tumblr or reddit, albeit compressed, lesser quality versions. But all the layered files and the stuff I never posted and a SHIT TON of WIPs will be totally lost and that is really frustrating me.

I'm specifically incredibly frustrated over the Card Project loss, because while I've finished the DD Deck with the exception of the very last card (great timing, right?) I no longer have access to ANY of the layered files, so I can't effectively edit them, or any of the high quality PNGs for this deck because I usually moved them to Discord by the deck and it wasn't finished yet. I will also have totally lost around 10 Remnant-ified character Cards because I made them at the same time as the normal card versions... but didn't save them anywhere except for the drive. Thankfully I DO have all of the Faceless Decks and their layered files, and I was diligent about schedule posting the DD deck to tumblr, so it's not a total loss... but still :/

God I'm so angry at myself xD

Anyway, the drive has been sent into the computer repair shop in a last ditch effort to recover.. anything, really. If it's a total loss or even if they can't recover the most recent stuff, I am not going to be a happy camper, and I apologize in advance because my activity will probably plummet. My motivation has already taken a huge hit and all my drawing time has now been replaced by worrying-about-my-drawings time xD Hopefully most things can be recovered, but we shall see. Lesson learned the hard way :,]

SO GO BACK UP AND SAVE YOUR GODDAMN FILES. Save the files in at least three different places. Two different drives, two different types of media/clouds/whatever and don't get friggen lazy about it!!

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WIP Wednesday

This was 100% inspired by this by @jenniferstolzer

Not sure why I dropped it tbh. I probably got distracted by something else.

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NO!!!!!!!!

DO NOT.

DO NOT VOLUNTEER ANY MORE DATA THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE

Do not help them train ai

Do not help them document your handwriting so it can be replicated (and used without your knowledge??? Used against you???? There are always ulterior motives)

Do NOT give something that can be specifically traced back to you to a monopolized company!!!!

And also while I’m at it stop putting your personal information on the internet. Stop giving websites your ID. STOP USING THE GODFORSAKEN AI SHIT

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Miss Nuncio + Mr. Jib

Completed: May 5th + 6th 2026

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29 n 30 of 38 DD Cards!

These will be their only Cards.

Behold, this Decks pair of characters that die horrible deaths!

Honestly every time I reread DD, Miss Nuncio looks a little different. It's usually her hair that changes in my head. I went back n forth between pixie cut or bangs n ponytail a lot for her, so I included both cards.

Her left hand is too big :[

Mr. Jib is Just Some Guy lol

He's getting pulled out the window. Great job, Jib.

Table legs, curtesy of Mr. Sanguine. Nuncio's is covered in zombie blood because she was actually kind of a badass before she died. Jib's is pristine because he was eaten before he could use it.

We gonna talk about how "Miss Nuncio" sounds like mispronouncing "enunciate"? Like words? No? Oh ok

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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Decks: SOTA || PWF || TFO

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Back Up Your Fricking Artwork!!!!

Hi everyone! I'm a fucking idiot! Don't be like me!

A few of you might be aware that the external hard drive I use- that oh, y'know, only about 8 years worth of artwork files are on- is dying! I literally cannot even access it because it freezes my entire computer as soon as it's plugged in :]]]]

Normally this wouldn't be a huge issue because I was also saving all my files by sending them to myself via a private discord server... up until about a year and a half ago, because I got lazy and hella busy with life.

Thankfully a lot of artwork itself is saved through tumblr or reddit, albeit compressed, lesser quality versions. But all the layered files and the stuff I never posted and a SHIT TON of WIPs will be totally lost and that is really frustrating me.

I'm specifically incredibly frustrated over the Card Project loss, because while I've finished the DD Deck with the exception of the very last card (great timing, right?) I no longer have access to ANY of the layered files, so I can't effectively edit them, or any of the high quality PNGs for this deck because I usually moved them to Discord by the deck and it wasn't finished yet. I will also have totally lost around 10 Remnant-ified character Cards because I made them at the same time as the normal card versions... but didn't save them anywhere except for the drive. Thankfully I DO have all of the Faceless Decks and their layered files, and I was diligent about schedule posting the DD deck to tumblr, so it's not a total loss... but still :/

God I'm so angry at myself xD

Anyway, the drive has been sent into the computer repair shop in a last ditch effort to recover.. anything, really. If it's a total loss or even if they can't recover the most recent stuff, I am not going to be a happy camper, and I apologize in advance because my activity will probably plummet. My motivation has already taken a huge hit and all my drawing time has now been replaced by worrying-about-my-drawings time xD Hopefully most things can be recovered, but we shall see. Lesson learned the hard way :,]

SO GO BACK UP AND SAVE YOUR GODDAMN FILES. Save the files in at least three different places. Two different drives, two different types of media/clouds/whatever and don't get friggen lazy about it!!

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New follower here, just wanted to let you know that I'm very new to SP (just started the second book lol) and finding your account was like crawling in the desert for miles before finally discovering an oasis. You Get It. Truly I have yet to see anyone who Gets It as much as you. You have your finger on the pulse of messy bisexual Irish sorcerers. I don't know the majority of the characters you post but please keep drawing Tanith Low and my life is yours

Ahhh thank you so much! This means the world to me haha

I will say, be really careful scrolling through my page because there are hella spoilers, even though I try to mark them all appropriately. Enjoy the series! You’re in for a hell of a ride :]

Here’s some Tanith and Val being sisters for ya

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Anton Shudder

Completed: May 3rd 2026

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28 of 38 DD Cards!

3 (ahem. technically 4) of 6 Dead Men unlocked!

I don't know what it is about this drawing but it just doesn't look like Anton to me??? I can't tell if its the bang strands or the nose, bc previously I've always drawn him with a straight nose.

Every time I draw him with a roman nose I can never get it to look right but that's how I've always pictured him D:

This man needs a nap.

Anton 🤝 Wreath Goth men with permanent eyebags

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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WIP Wednesday ft China and Cassandra

I was trying to practice the 'tying a ponytail' pose and got annoyed and quit xD

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Clarabelle

Completed: May 3rd 2026

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27 of 38 DD Cards!

Still no blue hair per the 'character average' rule but she's got her lab coat now :]

It's got paint stains and stickers!! She's pretty much the only person having a good time :D

Braces too, because I felt like it

I was going to give her a bunch of rings too, but I feel like Kenspeckle would be much more careful about specific kinds of jewelry, even if he's just giving her mineral water.

I was ALSO going to give her colored vials bc I'm convinced she'd put kool-aid into the water to see how Kenspeckle reacts to the color change... before she drinks it. But I forgot before I colored it and I'm honestly too tired to change it, the layers are all over the place in this file. Which is fitting, I suppose... lol

She's actually wearing the fake glasses in this Card :]

Faceless Card

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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Moloch

Completed: April 22nd 2026

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26 of 38 DD Cards!

Three Vampires in one deck ?!

I really like this guys name

I did not really like drawing him

Bat like nose :]

I'm struggling to think of the vampiric characters as anything other than sleek/slender/pointy etc. Which is dumb because yes, they're all animalistic, but anyone has the capacity to turn- it's not just one specific body type. Although I guess the way Moloch makes new vampires does give the more fit bodies an edge, since they all have to fight each other... hmm.

Anyway this guy is a dick, but he's a fun character

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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WIP Wednesday

Yet another one that I have no memory of. I'd say it was probably SOW, but I don't think I'd read it yet.

She sleepi

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Thrasher (Gerald)

Completed: April 22nd 2026

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25 of 38 DD Cards!

This poor guy lol

I drew him in a lesser state of decay than Scapegrace, definitely on purpose and not out of laziness, shhhh

I really can't decide what color I want the zombies eyeballs to be xD

He'd get along with Fedgewick

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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Kenspeckle Grouse

Completed: April 21st 2026

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24 of 38 DD Cards!

This will be his final Card :[

Desolation Engine!

It's frame is the same stone as statufied Ghastly, bc.... magic

Between Guild and Grouse, I've definitely procrastinated the most on this deck. I've been deigning the props on the spot as the cards come up, n my brain doesn't like sitting down and doing that xD AND YET

Here's a better look at the Desolation Engine design as well

Faceless Card - Remnant Version [SoonTM]

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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Bc of the Clarabelle one, I went looking through other art folders to see if any more WIPs got lost and found this one that was SO close to being completed, rip

Unfortunately at this point my style has evolved enough that I would have to start over to make it look good (in my brain) and I don't wanna do that... maybe in the future but I wouldn't hold my breath lol