Starlight

Starlight is a story of love and grief. It contains heavy themes of death, suicide/self-harm, mental disorders, violence, trauma, and etc. Content warnings are present at the beginning of each chapter.

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Hi, my name is Neeks! This is my sideblog where I talk about Starlight and post everything about its story, from the world-building to the lore of my OCs. I will also be sharing artworks for Starlight here.

The video linked here is my animation college thesis. It's a trailer for Starlight, which I worked on for 2 years! Thanks to the help of my dear friends who supported me by being VAs to my characters, as well as those who helped in the animation process.

IMPORTANT: Polaris's design in this trailer is different and outdated. I changed her design in 2025, but it was too late to apply the changes in this animated trailer.

⭐️ In-character blogs

@fateweaver1 - Saeth

@starcady - Polaris

@summer-solstease - Enver

These sideblogs are for in-character interactions or rp! Idk yet lol I just thought it'd be cute to have them :3

⭐️ Asks are open! Here's some rules:

I love receiving asks, you can ask me anything about art, fandom, or literally anything you're curious about! I'm more than happy to answer questions so long as they don't feel too personal.

I won't entertain asks that make me uncomfortable. I don't appreciate inbox-hogging as well.

I will reply to asks on my own time.

I'd prefer if asks sent here are all about Starlight or my OCs. For other things, you can send it to my main: @drowsystar

NO ART REQUESTS!!!! unless I asked via ask games/posts on tumblr :3 Feel free to send ideas but no promises if I'll do them or not.

⭐️ Tags I use:

#polaris, #saeth, #enver: all things character

#sunweaver: Saeth x Enver ship

#starweaver: Polaris x Saeth ship

#sunstar: Enver x Polaris ship

#universal rejects: all things Star Team (all three of them, ship/gen)

#starlight: stuff made by me, drawn or written

#shooting stars: asks answered

#lore: lore additions, applies to reblogs or text posts

#worldbuilding: worldbuilding additions, applies to reblogs or text posts

#updates: updates on the Starlight production process!

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PROLOGUE

Gonna test posting the comics here too! Reading might be easier in the webtoon site/app here :DD

This comes out on my birthday sooo happy birthday to me!!! I'm bad at special captions but this story has been in the works for 5 years and I'm very excited…. thank u to my friends and my family who helped and believed in me :DD

Welcome to Starlight! Good luck on this trip, you'll need it :))

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It’s neeks and saeth day! It’s also Starlight day :3

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IT’S LAUNCH DAY!!

Sorry for the radio silence, i had so much plans for promotional material but time got away from me </3 but release day was on time!

Check out Starlight here !

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Yippeee some announcements! 💜

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'People of color should be drawn with white features or it's racist', a very cold take.

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Since you're Asian maybe you will understand it put like this: if someone drew their Asian characters with exclusively thin squinty eyes, but every other character had stylized ultra anime eyes, it would be racist, no? Maybe think on stylizing her more, or making the other characters have slightly more realism in how you draw THEIR features too. She doesn't look like she's from the same story and it makes it look racist. Especially when you said you changed this character into being black for the aesthetics (so the sparkles show better). You don't have a following so you're not at risk for internet harassment cancel campaigns, but if you want to make this story and share it, people get call outs for less and this IS a bit racist even if you don't intend it to be. 🤷🏻

Whole paragraph talking about a black character’s features compared to nonblack characters + saying it’s racist that she looks different because she’s a different race + ending it with a white man shrugmoji HAS to be in your lifelong bucket list because otherwise idk why you’d write something so long and dumb

If it matters that much to you fine idk I’ll bite. Saeth and Enver respectively are Filipinos so they look similar and have similar features for reasons i dont wanna disclose yet AND because i like it that way. Polaris isn’t, so she looks different than them bc diversity is a thing!! Yay!! With your dumb ass analogy if the only character with slanted eyes IS Asian then as an Asian i dont think I’ll ever give a fuck because we do have that feature!!! I myself have them!! Other Asians don’t!!

You’re choosing to point out that I changed her race for aesthetics to make it seem like me choosing to give her black features because!! They!! Have!! Different!! Features!! Is a “little racist” and I feel like that’s dumb as fuck too. I’d argue it’d be more weird if I did that and just gave her an anime nose like you said in your prior ask bc that just means I didn’t care enough to add the features that makes her black????? I mean if that’s your cup of tea then there’s a lot of other people who do that sort of stuff. I don’t want to! :))

Lastly you’ve only seen three characters from a story I haven’t even posted yet so saying she’s singled out and different from Everyone Else is again! An assumption!! And getting the cancel crusade lighting a fire under my ass over this doesn’t scare me…. SURELY an alien goddess that looks like a black girl having black features will be the last thing I’ll get cancelled for??? Whatever dude

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Cute characters but you gotta stop drawing the black girl with a totally different style of nose than the others. If your style doesn't give other races "realistic" nostrils or nose shapes, maybe think about if it's a good idea to hyper racialize how you draw one specific race. Just give her an anime nose too bro.

Nah i dont think i will

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Saeth and friend oc doodles from last month

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This is Polaris, a star goddess from the story Universal Rejects! WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD CHECK OUT RN PLEASE AND THANK YOU. Neeks has gotta be one of my favorite artists EVER their style is delicious I explode a little bit each time I see a new piece. Neeks thank you for letting me steal her this was so much fun :D Polaris is utterly gorgeous, I’m so obsessed with her character design, everyone I’ve shown her to says that the glowing hair and star freckles are amazing, you are winning at life with her.

Neeks blog: @drowsystar Neeks’ OC blog: @starlightaxis

speed paint!

Seriously this is the best thing I’ve ever drawn dude I’m so happy rn 😭 I love the concept of drawing, but actually doing it is hard for me and I’m not very good sodndkdndkdk but!!! Yesterday I just like, figured something out?? About the different levels of reference tracing to not struggle with the lineart which is the hardest part for me?? And it worked SO WELL I did not know I possessed this power didndjdjd I’m so glad I can’t wait to draw again :D Polaris was so incredibly lovely and fun!

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THANK YOU OUGHGHGHHHH YOU DREW HER SO PRETTY!!!!!

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For Enver’s birthday! (August 4)

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wAIT WHATS POLARIS’ NEW DESIGN!!!!??

I changed her skin tone! 💖 I figured the stars on her skin show up wayyy better!!

Also included her unfinished reference sheet hehehe

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He’s single-handedly fucking up air on earth i think

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Gig outfit!

Made a shirtless version under the cut bc why not :3

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I got a retrospring ask about my universal rejects rocking g-shock watches and it was a cool ass idea so i did it + had fun  

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Happy birthday to me and my misery business mascot 🫶

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Some oc draws 🙂👍

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I can’t believe my last oc post here was in 2023….