Iz - PryingBlackbird

Artist, The Magnus Archive/Protocol, Critical Role, AO3 writer

[pryingblackbird]

My piece for #AGERewind by @artists-guild-of-exandria showing my progress from 2021 to 2025. Practice indeed makes you better at art, who would have thought? Thank you AGE community for challenging and motivating me through the years.

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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

Via James Lucas on X/Twitter

[prouvaireafterdark]

listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

[pryingblackbird]

For Critical Role Land, a project by @artists-guild-of-exandria I made a little gingerbread heart stand. You can find these at pretty much every German fair or festival all year round, and you usually by them as gifts for others.

[alchemists-sketchbook]

Summer

I’ve been doing some lino printing lately and one of the things I’m working on is this seasonal amphora series. Autumn next!

[astrid-beck]

How many times has Eadwulf lifted his hand to kiss Astrid and watched it fit neatly over her burn scar, evidence that it was left by someone with the instincts to touch her like a lover. How many times before he trained himself to use his other hand so he wouldn't have to think about it.

[petyritonel]

Ashton Greymoore

[nosnexus]

The Deathless Furies, once again.

[zmeess]

Eadwulf will always be famous to me for the fact that Caleb put being retraumatized by his former teacher on hold solely to admire Eadwulf's massive forearms

[pryingblackbird]

Evon take the wheel. @artists-guild-of-exandria

[pryingblackbird]

My piece for the latest @artists-guild-of-exandria project is her majesty Queen of Soot Yabber Tinysoot XIX, leader of the Tinysoots. She is the holder of the key to the Everflame Crevasse.

[pryingblackbird]

[pryingblackbird]

[sonyushka-bonjour]

if you hc both gwen and alice as trans, it makes the "its a bad name" "so is gwendolyn" joke 10x better

[pryingblackbird]

A first take on the Magnus Protocol characters. The first two episodes were amazing, I'm so excited for more!

[yudol-skorbi]

teeny tiney hut to make them all safe and sound

[professor-rye]

NEW! From the Rexxentrum Toy Authority! Rubber Drackies presents: The Chroma Conclave! This series of five rubber ducks are modeled after the terrifying calamity several decades ago (see, it's been long enough). Raze your bathtub to the ground with these fun and unique bath toys!

Here is my piece for the @artists-guild-of-exandria's Chetney's Toy Workshop project! I hope you like it!

Image ID under the cut

Image ID [A fictional toy advertisement for dragon shaped rubber duckies. The top reads "The Chroma Conclave: Rubber Drackies" with an added sticker that reads "Right in time for winters crest". Below that are five rubber dragon ducks. From left to right: Vorugal: A white dragon duck with blue ice crystals on his head, beak and wings. The wings stretch all the way to the tip of the tail. Raishan: A green dragon duck with webbed spikes on her head and little speckles of dark green all over her body. Thordak: A larger red dragon duck with four curly horns and a large orange crystal on his chest. Brymscythe: A blue dragon duck with webbed spikes on his head and bright blue lightning on his chest Umbrasyl: A black dragon duck with green spikes on his head and wings and a green bump on his chest.

All five ducks sit in blue swirly water and are surrounded with bubbles. End ID]