Okavara's main blog

#okadraws is my art tag!! take a looksie around, i usually reblog so much it gets buried. If you send any VotV related asks or requests, there's a good chance I'll respond!

[okavara]

Hello there! This is my pinned post.

I am Okavara, both an author and artist. I used to be a Homestuck, but my current main fandom focus is Voices of the Void, which has gripped me viciously and won't let go. I really like drawing Dr.Kel if he were a Cryptid. Please read his Origin Story! <- that is an embedded link, please click it if you are not a minor! Please mind the warnings and be mature about the topics covered in this fic (cw suicidal actions, cannibalism)

About this Blog:

First and foremost, I use the internet as an escape from the harshness of real life. It will be EXTREMELY rare I reblog serious posts on this account. Sorry. I'll eventually make a side account for reblogging whatever.

Let's talk tags!

The main tags I use are #okatalks and #okadraws, please do take a look through these tags and reblog what you like! I love love love to know when people like my art and yapping <3 #Cryptid Kel is also a tag I use a lot, and there is where you can find a LOT about my current blorbo, an AU of VotV.

#okapolls Is for polls, which I very very rarely do! #archiving is my sort of favoriting/useful/bookmarking tag!

I like to tag some of my favorite artits' art that I reblog with some tag based around their username. If you see me doing this to you, please don't worry! I'm just making a scrapbook of your art here on my blog because I love it very much.

Let's talk interacting with my posts!

For the most part, please interact however you like. I WILL say though, please use the pronouns I use for a character under posts with my own art! I once had someone assert a different set of pronouns than I used in a corrective manner underneath my own art. That was a very unpleasant experience for me and I would not want to have a repeat of that!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LEAVE TAGS OR COMMENTS IF YOU WANT TO. I SEE THEM. I SEE ALL. I WILL READ THEM. AND CHERISH THEM. ALWAYS.

As for me personally, I prefer to reblog instead of like! I tend to use likes sparingly to either keep certain posts especially special to me DNI: Just don't be an ass/general troublemaker/all the usual asshole stuff yknow. I'll block you if you smell weird or hate trans people. Please take it personally and get better. DMS: If you wish to directly message me, please be aware that I already have dozens of people that do this. I do not have the time to respond to small talk with strangers or people who wish to become friendly with me.

I PREFER ASKS!!! I LOVE ASKS!! SEND ASKS ALL THE TIME!!! I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT CRYPTID KEL!!

[crabussy]

I like this chapter so far

[frodoomsday]

ive unintentionally made "yucklet eyes" a term i use commonly so i will define it here. i dont know what anyone else calls this but yucklet eyes are when any animal does this especially if it's eyes dont normally look like that

[taffypointby]

i'm sure they won't mind...

[cronchlord]

A friend assigned me obstagoon as what pokemon I'd be so been messing with a design :3

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

[softness-and-shattering]

Friend of mine calls it active listening. Ah yes we are speaking of tooths. I understand and respond. Here it a tooth image. I have heard you.

[girl-blorbo-polls]

If you were handcuffed to your girl blorbo with magical unbreakable handcuffs for 24h, would you be okay with this?

I trust her, I’ll be fine

I trust her, but it’ll be a stressful 24h

It depends on what kind of day we’re having

This is gonna suck…

Other/nuance

Voting ended on19h

[thehollowmite]

Songstress is gonna either accidentally lock herself up or just throw them out. It's mostly a win.

[imjustalittlecreature]

oh she’s going to kill me with her pin like immediately (it’s Lace silksong)

[okavara]

I think Furfur is neat

[senatorarmstrong532]

A headcanon I have is various creatures that deal with storms and such (such as Furfur) seemingly always have the smell of petrachor and ozone coming off them.

[okavara]

You’ll be happy to know that I also headcanon Furfur smells like ozone, petrichor, and spices like cinnamon and cardamom

I will be writing Furfur smelling like this more in the future >:}

[senatorarmstrong532]

Dumb question: what inspired the spices portion? Is it the inspiring love between people aspect or Furf or something else?

[okavara]

Thank you for asking!!!!

The main reason is that @yhgi117 and I collaborate on having a consistent Furfur between our fics. In their fic, Furfur has a scent of spiced earth. I tried looking it up online a few times but couldn't find anything, so correct me if I'm wrong here (hence the @), but iirc the description of the smell of Furfur's magic in Visions and other fics by Val is sourced from his description in the lesser key of Solomon, which lists various demons that can be reached using Goetia magic (aka witchcraft in a way, it's the magic of summoning demons and asking them to do you a favor in some way. Opposite to Thaumaturgy, an angelic-oriented side of the same magic system. Like a coin)

(If I get this wrong again I will be so sad)

I interpret “spiced earth” to mean a combination of the smells of petrichor and cinnamon, as petrichor and dirt can smell similarly depending on the clump of dirt. A good clump of dirt will, anyway!! Haha.

But also yes that too absolutely the inspiring love thing. Cinnamon is the love smell to me. And so is vanilla!! :D AND petrichor!! Wow!!! Furfur must be right up my alley huh (scampers off into the woods out of sudden fear of being perceived)

[yhgi117]

Yeah! You got it! Originally it was a joke of Furfur smelling like spiced earth and ozone because he was "cooking" with the transformations, but it became something more as the stories went on. And the smell I always imagined was specifically dirt, petrichor, lightning and Chinese Five-Spice. Which does have cinnamon in it.

Furfur smells like rain and lightning due to his association with storms, and spice and earth due to being "grounded" and actually on the scene at Dunkeltaler, rather than Stolas' method of watching from afar. Chinese Five-Spice specifically because it has the five typical flavours in it (sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and savory) and is what my brain registers as "the spice" from my mother's cooking.

[oekaki-chan]

An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.

Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)

[elleap]

hope you don’t mind me adding some more info :’D

Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:

Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/dmca

DeviantArt https://help.deviantart.com/dmca

Instagram http://help.instagram.com/contact/372592039493026?helpref=faq_content

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/634636770043106?helpref=page_content

Twitter https://support.twitter.com/forms/dmca

VKontakte https://vk.com/dmca

Pinterest https://pinterest.com/about/copyright/dmca-pin/

Youtube https://www.youtube.com/copyright_complaint_form

Flickr https://ipr.yahoo.com/copyright?.lang=en-US

Google https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice

Usually links to those forms can be found on website’s Terms of Service pages. (search for copyright or DMCA)

Any content you’ve created, is copyrighted by you. You have full right to ask staff to delete repost. Your works deserve to be protected. ♥

[michelle-ellehcim]

Yo. This better be my most reblogged post. I want to see all my artists friends reblogging this for their artists friends.

[fruitypies]

^^^^^ for all the artists with uncredited work on pinterest and insta

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[a-glittering-universe]

thank you op, this post gave me such reality whiplash that I had to go read the wikipedia for diatoms and now I have Learned Things :D

[crabussy]

hooray!!! let’s all Learn Things every day [:

[cherry-leafy]

More OCs

[crabussy]

working on my mental health has been such a baffling experience because occasionally I'll think a bummer thought about something I'm bad at but it will IMMEDIATELY and INSTINCTIVELY be followed with "and that's something I'm working on" or "and that's okay because I'm still a kind person who tries his best" or "but I'm really good at this other thing!" and it takes me by surprise every time.

[crabussy]

like oh! there's the self esteem I've been missing all my life. it's like developing a sixth sense or something. it gives me an extra axis with which I can manoeuvre my way through life so much easier than before. it's wild. I hope everyone here finds themselves thinking these things some day.

[xalatath]

IMPORTANT

[cosmic-tuna]

@lilybug-02

[lilybug-02]

Happy Be Nice to Bugs Day everyone. This is a very important day. ❤️☝️ go out and find a bug for me please!

[4iammighty]

@lilybug-02 Friend ur a month early, its June.

[lilybug-02]

[wailing-whaler]

@lilybug-02 it's time to be nice to bugs :D

[lilybug-02]

IT’S TIME TO BE NICE TO BUGS!!! 🐞🐛🐜

Go out there and find a BUG.

[kamil-a]

I NEED A SICKO… im holding out for a sicko till the end of the night ..and hes gotta haha and hes gotta say yess at the window with a look of delight

[gigaroni]

Kelriral Model

Using the still WIP Ariral Maker V2. "Kelriral" will be possible within the maker, as requested. Support my work on my Patreon

[greseadraws]

dungeon meshi but they end up in the back rooms, a cursed idea that was eating away at my brain

[nitewrighter]

Peer-reviewing @monikoishi's tags because they're banger.

[yaldabaothadeez]

Harpy anatomy drawings by very good artist shiokaze (also on twitter, if you must)