Elli3 :D

she/her, art(maybe, hopefully) and me going insane over dumb stuff I like

[occultchrysalis]

Falin x Marcille sketch. I find that I often have ideas that I can’t realize either because I don’t have the skill necessary or the time and patience. I like how this one is going though.

Edit: I added some lighting. Still unsure abt it and unfinished but it certainly looks a lot more complete :)

Edit # 2: Yay I finally finished it! Gosh darn I love them so much aughhh

[occultchrysalis]

I really just need to talk to someone about that Chainsaw Man ending because I’m not even surprised, I’m just disappointed. I know the sort of writer and artist Fujimoto is, it’s just hard to feel any sort of comfort or closure when you’ve been following a manga for three years, with one of the most important stories you’ve read, and the ending being that none of it actually happened. The ending scene with Asa was kind of sweet, but overall this has been nagging at the back of my brain for the past week. I don’t know, maybe it’ll grow on me with time.

[occultchrysalis]

So um I did this a while ago, back when the frieren trend was still around. I highkey still suck at digital art so this is remaining unfinished but here it is for now ig. Love Frieren and can’t wait for ss 2 to finish so I can binge it in one sitting.

[ahotknife]

i love the point in the hero’s journey where he gets bent over and railed until he cries

[noctthedoor]

Don’t leave this in the tags

[occultchrysalis]

This post came just in time for my reading of the Odyssey in English class

[itriedimhighandstillreadytodie]

He thinks everything a fucking game.

[itriedimhighandstillreadytodie]

Reze Arc movie came out in the US I see.

[occultchrysalis]

Bruh I was supposed to be studying 😔

[occultchrysalis]

Months-old Sunday. I think I need to be bullied into finishing it.

[occultchrysalis]

Wow so I haven’t posted art here in so long, seeing my old digital art vs newer stuff is insane. This was from a couple of months ago, doodles of my oc I barely scraped together the motivation to color in. Haven’t decided in the lore yet, but it is going to be vampire-related.

[sabertoothwalrus]

I made yeto’s pumpkin/goat cheese/salmon soup and it’s changing my life a little bit, like holy SHIT this yeti knows what he’s doing

[sabertoothwalrus]

heyyyyy it’s october again which means it’s time for

✨Yeto’s Superb Soup✨

I had posted a recipe in the comments last year, but I decided to make a better version

Ingredients:

one 2lb kabocha (you can use an equal-sized pie pumpkin, but in my opinion kabocha has a much butterier texture and nuttier flavor. Also the yeti uses kabocha in the game so it gets points for accuracy)

1-3 carrots (last year the store had the fattest carrot I had ever seen. This year I needed 3 carrots to match that volume. Listen to your heart)

2-3 celery stalks (equal to the amount of carrot)

1/2 white onion

6 garlic cloves

(optional) 2 habanero peppers

mirin/cooking wine

1 box of fish stock (if you want it vegetarian, use kelp dashi stock)

1 box of vegetable stock

4oz goat cheese. I’ve tried making this with cream cheese and feta, but the flavor really doesn’t land right without the goat cheese.

1 cup? (<- it was eyeballed) heavy cream

.7lb filet of salmon

??tbsp olive oil

6 tbsp butter

a few pinches of flour

thyme, paprika, nutmeg, red pepper flakes salt & pepper

(optional) gronions to garnish

Step 1) Preheat oven to 400°F/204°C. Slice and deseed kabocha

Step 2) coat the pumpkin in a thin layer of olive oil. Season with thyme (I like dried thyme but fresh is better!), ground nutmeg, paprika, red pepper flakes, salt & pepper.

Bake for 30-50 minutes until it’s soft enough to scoop off the rind with a spoon. Thinner kabocha might only take 30 minutes, and thicker kabocha (like below) or a cake pumpkin may take 40+ minutes.

note: if your kabocha/pumpkin is especially thick, your soup may end up tasting sweeter. If you want it more umami, use less of your chosen gourd or maybe add a splash of soy sauce to the broth? Haven’t tried that but it’d probably work

Step 3) Prep all your other veggies while you’re waiting for the pumpkin to bake. Dice the onion and set it aside. Chop the celery & carrots into Chunks and mince the garlique

Step 4) Wait until the timer for the pumpkin has 20 minutes or less left. Heat up your pot/dutch oven on high/med-high heat, melt 2 tbsp of butter, and add the onions. After about 6 minutes, add the garlic. After another few minutes, sprinkle flour and stir, and keep frying until it browns.

Step 5) Add the rest of the butter, the rest of the veggies, and stir. Deglaze the pan with a splash of mirin/cooking wine.

If you timed it right, the pumpkin should be about done. Using a spoon, scoop the rind off the pumpkin. While you do that, periodically check on the veggies, adding another sprinkle of flour and a some of the fish stock as it gets dry. It’ll create a sort of paste and the onions will be pretty browned at this point.

Step 6) Chop the pumpkin & add it to the pot. Add the rest of the stock. If you’re using habanero, slice it and add it now. Add any other seasonings (it may need more salt) to taste. Once the soup boils, turn the heat to low and cover.

Personally, I prefer soups with Chunks in them + I think it’s more authentic to what the yeti made, but if you REALLY feel compelled to blend your soup, do it now.

Step 7) While the soup is heating up, get out a frying pan and add a tablespoon or two of some olive oil/butter on med-high heat. Add the salmon filet to the pan (scale side down) and just let it sit there. Don’t touch it. When it turns opaque halfway up, flip it until it’s fully cooked.

Once it’s cooked, remove it from the pan, remove the skin, and shred it into bite size pieces. If your salmon was really thick like mine was, and some parts of it are still pink, then toss the pink parts back in the pan to let them cook a little longer.

Add the salmon to the soup.

Step 8) Once the soup has been simmering for a few minutes and you’re too impatient to keep waiting, remove it from heat, add the goat cheese & heavy cream, garnish with gronions or whatever herb of choice, and enjoy!

In the game, this soup restores eight hearts, and it truly does feel that replenishing. This soup could cure any disease.

[occultchrysalis]

Ugh the Magnus Archives entered my life like a nuclear bomb Jonathan Sims makes ma physically unwell I love that sopping wet cat of a man too much ahhhaschdcwdjnciwdncinc

[occultchrysalis]

Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers//non-negotiable, positivity is cool 💕

I’ve been playing the piano since I was six

I'm part of an a capella group at my school

I like drawing and media analysis

I love reading Spec Fic and Sci-Fi

I’m pretty tall idk 😭

[occultchrysalis]

uh so hey guys I’m back. For the non-bots that follow me (I hope you guys exist) school starting is absolutely frying me rn

[sabertoothwalrus]

for those who don’t remember, “mole interest” was an experiment I did 2 years ago because I wanted to test what causes tags to go trending on tumblr. My hypothesis was that all it takes is one (1) post blowing up in an established tag to make the entire tag trend.

I had randomly generated 2 words, which is where “mole interest” came from. I failed to consider that by generating a new tag, it wouldn’t have had enough posts already in it to prove what I now call “the mole interest effect”.

But now it does.

In 2023, we said “fuck it” a la mythbusters and ended up doing whatever it took to get #mole interest to trend. And it did. And it happened to be September 11th that day, and we managed to get #mole interest to trend ABOVE #9/11.

So, in the name of science, I ask you to reblog just this post. Let’s put the mole interest effect to the test.

[grendel-menz]

I’m making this post on the behalf of Sami Al-Khalili and his family, who are currently suffering in Gaza. If you’ve the means please consider donating here.

Sami says:

“Me and my family were forced to flee again, and my injured daughter’s condition is getting worse.

We have nothing to eat, and when I go to the food distribution centers, the centers and I are directly targeted.

I am terrified of being killed and leaving my family behind, but I also can’t bear to see them starving. Please, think on what you’d do and feel in my place.”

If you can’t directly donate, than any kind of engagement you give the campaign would help a lot! Thank you.

[grendel-menz]

They’re only 406 Euros away from reaching 75% of their goal — if you can donate or otherwise boost the campaign that’d be awesome!!

[occultchrysalis]

I know this sounds weird but one thing that slightly saddens me everytime I see it on a short video-based platform (Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok) is young artists making reels, shorts, whatever they're called, and asking specifically or using specific strategies to try to gain as many followers or have their art go as viral as possible.

One example I've seen of this on Instagram are reels captioned "I hope the algorithm treats this one well", "The algorithm hates me", "The algorithm seems to think you like my art" or "You've found an artist small enough to follow back everyone who follows them". Of course, I love that they're doing what they love and their art is always mindblowing, but there seems to be this constant stressor on achieving virality or popularity and vice versa, being sad when you don't get as many views, likes, or follows.

Of course, when your professional job is creating art paying attention to statistics makes sense, but for me its different when the people stressing about views are literal children who don't really understand how meaningless appeasing the algorithm is and might get discouraged from art simply because they dont get enough attention.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember that virality doesnt mean jack shit on ai algorithm-based platforms. Honestly, fuck the algorithm. You could make the most toe-curling, delicious, spellbinding art but might not even break a hundred followers, so it absolutely is not a marker of quality art. Your art is made good by how much intent, effort, and love you put into it, and simply by the fact that you chose to make it, it has value. You and your ideas matter. I'm also aware that the reason many young artists want to gain attention is to carve out their own community and have supporters of their art, which is why its so so important to even just leave a like, a nice comment, or a follow. It's free for you to give but it could mean so much to a person.

[occultchrysalis]

Just started digital art a while ago and still getting used to it. Have a couple of Rei’s.

[occultchrysalis]

art + practice dump

That new oc with grey hair is actually so hard to draw bro 😭😭😭

me when I have to choose between cool-looking characters and my sanity: