🍉🦋Smoke and Mirrors by Crystallizedmoon🇺🇦

17+ comic - The official blog for all things Smoke and Mirrors! - Creator uses They/It/Kelp

[smokeandmirrorsthecomic]

I want to do a "Run Rabbit" animation of Nashira but I know it's gonna be spoilers T~T

[smokeandmirrorsthecomic]

Look at the Firebrand wielder we are COOKED

[crystallizedmoon]

More Smoke and Mirrors lore ish below the cut

-The SFOTH deities emotions are somewhat in tune with whoever is welding their blades (Ex: Firebrand's emotions are sometimes in tune with Nashira's, etc)

-Berat has the Illumina, Nashira (As stated by the previous post) has the Firebrand, Azad has the Darkheart and the Venomshank, Ruby has the Ghostwalker, and Sila has the Icedagger

-Azad rarely uses the Darkheart because it's considered as a cursed sword

-Berat and Illumina HATE each other (The previous timelines... The previous timelines), which is unfortunate since Berat has his blade

-There will be consequences to this

-Despite Nashira wielding the Firebrand, she's closer to Windforce than she is to Firebrand

-Firebrand gets random bouts of insecurity due to his and Nashira's emotions being in tune

-No one (Besides the SFOTH deities) knows that Nashira has the Firebrand, she prefers to keep that a secret, after all

-This preference will have consequences

That's it for now XP

[crystallizedmoon]

Okay I might have more-

-Darkheart is mildly annoyed by Azad hardly using his blade

-It is possible for the SFOTH deities to appear to whoever is welding their blade

-It's more like an astral projection than a physical appearance

-It's also possible for them to appear to someone that is not welding their blade (Ex: Windforce appearing to Nashira, Icedagger appearing to Berat, etc)

-Berat and Icedagger tend to have frequent conversations

Okay that's all for today I promise-

[smokeandmirrorsthecomic]

Decided to install StimuWrite for the outlines.

[smokeandmirrorsthecomic]

Berat our beloved. <3

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

Litany of the Webcomic Artist:

-KEEP MOVING -DON'T REDRAW THAT PAGE UNLESS YOU'RE GETTING PAID TO -FIND OUT WHAT CORNER-CUTTING MEASURES YOU CAN LIVE WITH AND USE THEM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE -DO NOT USE HOMESTUCK AS A METRIC OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE

[promptcalender]

Phone Call Dialogue

 “Are you okay? You called me like 10 times last night.”      “Oh, no yeah. I'm fine. I just needed some advice. On a completely unrelated note, I hooked up with my ex.”

“Can you stay on the phone? I have to walk home alone and would feel better if I had someone to chat to.”

“Can't you go and bother someone else?”      “I could, but you're my favorite person to annoy, so not really.”

“Everything okay? You sound like you need a hug.”

“Do you have a minute?”      “Not really, but I'll make time for you.”

“Ha, sucker. I called to emotionally blackmail you into a watching a movie with me and you were dumb enough to pick up.”

“Haven't heard from you in a while, so I thought I'd call. How are you feeling?”

“I can hear you smiling.”      “No you can't. Shut up.”      “Now I can hear you blushing.”      “I will hang up!”

“I heard about what happened. Are you okay?”

“Look, I know you said you'd be busy but I have to tell you what just happened.”

“Shit, my battery's almost dead.”

“Sorry, am I bothering you? I can call back–”      “Not at all, you're good. What's up?”

“Wait, don't hang up. I've been missing your voice.”

“Why are you awake?”      “I wasn't, but you called at 3am, so you bet your ass I'm picking up the phone. What's up?”      “… Wanna get pizza?”

[Prompt Calender: December 28th, National Call A Friend Day]

[mywritingcannotbestopped]

Is this a problem?

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[traditional-latin-math]

[draculas-husband]

[dsm7]

Hi! I’m really sick of whitewashing and the various excuses that artists come up with, so I wrote a guide! How To Not Whitewash, at least with regards to skin tone. Please make use of it, and encourage other artists to do so as well. Here’s a link to this guide on a Google Doc - this document has image descriptions. Feel free to contact me if the link stops working, or if you have questions (in good faith).

[bored-dromaeosaur]

You can make your tall muscular man OC wear fem clothing. You should, actually.

[caracuuw]

Daily affirmations:

-I can make my OC a worse person

-I can make my OC more miserable

-I can make my OC more repressed

-I can give my OC more issues

-I can make my OC more self loathing

-I can give my OC new fears and insecurities

[jeobrala]

“I’m a writer” I mumble to myself as I type “what defines a war crime” into the google search bar

[muppidupp]

NEVER GIVE UP

[crystallizedmoon-art]

Berat

Day + Time started: July 25, 2025, 10:27 PM EST

Day + Time finished: September 8, 2025 5:14 PM EST

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[smokeandmirrorsthecomic]

W.I.P of the new profile picture for the blog

[chimso-writes]

[hostilecandle]

If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.

[hodari-pavels-good-boy]

Posting this here from my main too bc I feel that strongly about it

You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.

Pathetic loser behavior on display here

[mintedwitcher]

I'm about to get mean because this shit? this pisses me all the way off.

"hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"

I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.

we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.

I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.

quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.