✨️Celestial Nerd✨️

I am she ♠️ Currently but a lurker, m a y b e more coming soon (eventually)

[painted-bees]

don't mind me, just gotta happy cry abt Wolves of Danu and readership

I genuinely didn't expect any new patrons from that 7 page announcement, at most I expected a handful of pre-existing patrons to see it and go read and maybe two or three comments. Which I would have been perfectly thrilled with! But not only did current patrons express their encouragement, but a handful of new folks subbed and commented across different platforms and I've been launched to cloud 9! I figured any reception of Wolves would be pretty subdued until we started publishing publicly for free in the new year but wow 😭😭😭 it's been much more enthusiasm than I ever expected.

It's like night and day from when we first started publishing the page-format version of Woven back in 2018. Back then, we did a year of consistent updates, twice a week--and I've talked about it a lot already how discouraging that whole stint was, due to a lack of discernable readership and no one wanting to talk abt the characters and such. I know now that there were a handfull of readers, and in retrospect I extremely appreciate the OGs who've stuck with us through it all! but I had no no visible metrics or way of knowing back then, so it really felt like a void--a lot of hard work with 0 traction.

I think Webtoons did a lot of heavy lifting for us in regards to validating us to potential readers who otherwise wouldn't have the time or energy to spend on a new story by a pair of untested first-time creators. Being a Webtoon Original is kind of a short hand for at least...a certain level of quality...that someone liked it enough to invest real actual money into it.

And for that, our time with Webtoon was extremely worth it. It gave us a really strong, kindly, hungry readership that we can now continue making stories for!! you all talk to me--and!! to eachother about our stories and characters and our humble lil discord server is always lightly abuzz with chatter, it makes my heart so full!!

And then Hi-Note...I guess after how enthusiastic and kind people were about Hi-Note, despite it's scrappy non-commital format and entries, I really shouldn't be suprised that this same energy is being brought ten fold to Wolves of Danu. Buuuut I am. And I'm so happy for it, and I'll never take you guys for granted. Genuinely 😭♡ stories need an audience, and some never find theirs!! We're so damn lucky.

I'm glad you're excited abt Wolves of Danu with me!! I can't wait for these characters to make themselves properly known to you.

[irumicomics]

THIS IS NOT CANON ACCURATE AT ALL BUT ME AND MY WIFE THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY FUNNY 😭🖐️

[ramshackledtrickster]

Content warning for flashing images and body horror

My first animation meme with my oc’s!! I had a lot of fun doing this and I’m excited that I can finally share it ! And as always, thank you so much to my lovely patrons !!

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[skelotan]

Thanks for reading. <3

[bumbleluvsduck]

Butchfemme Bloodymary Yuri beach art yaaaayyyyy also It’s not obvious but Grace is Transfem here I forgot to add a trans colored bracelet like I planned bleghhhh

Water is actually the worst thing to draw ever and that boardwalk was even worse I wanted to DIE

Also if u can’t read it Simone’s thought bubble says “She’s wearing the bikini I bought her”

[emvoes]

in another universe

[cheesesquiggler]

Bloodymary art + Ramblings (Iron Lung spoilers I guess)

My Bloodymary Ramblings/Ideas

So one of the things I struggled with about the bloodymary ship was imagining how Simon and Grace would meet. Mainly because Simon dies at the end of Iron Lung. Most of the time with ships where a character dies, I usually just make up a storyline where that off chance of them surviving occurs. I couldn't really do that here because his death seemed like something I couldn't wiggle away from in a smooth manner. If the explosion didn't kill him, then the sudden change of pressure, the lack of available oxygen, or the blood loss from his missing arm would. Like, I wanted to imagine a fan storyline that would allow Simon to meet Grace while also not damaging the impact of his death in the film, if that makes sense. I was racking my brain trying to tie it all nicely together in my head, when the most fire type of concept came to me.

What if Simon does die but comes back?

Don't leave the table before the dinner is set out, listen...

We saw that the blood on the moon was not just eroding his skin, but mutating him, right? (The weird teeth on the side of his face.)

We also know that the big, evil telepathic eel has human-like characteristics molded into it, right?

So, when his sub explodes and Simon is fully submerged into that liquid, what if it causes his consciousness and body to join this weird, primordial soupy ocean of biological material and other people's minds? Like joining a hivemind-like mass of organic material. This would also work with the eel's ability to use telepathy since I'm pretty sure it didn't start speaking to him until he was exposed to the blood, showing how its contamination is what links the person with the rest of the ocean.

Anyway, after his death where he defeated the ell, something happens where Grace and Rocky come into contact with the moon's ocean. Maybe they try to take a sample of the ocean and it responds by building some weird sack a new, rebuild Simon burts from. I don't have a path planned out for this part as much since I've really only seen the Iron Lung side of bloodymary but whatev-

Like, the soupy ocean hive mind thing or whatnot is aware enough to realize that there is something it can spread itself to, (like how a virus would) and it builds a biological structure that allows Simon to be reborn from the ocean.

I really liked the different scenarios and ideas that could play out from something like this. It makes a new point for angst to develop for me. Simon had to experience the horrors of that ocean, die from it, and then get brought back into the world as a living thing again. How would something so bizarre and traumatic affect him? Would he still have the memories of his old self and still be him, or would being in an ocean of minds and blood cause him to have recollection of the other convicts? Would he still be tormented by the eel in his head? How could the themes of life, rebirth, freedom, and suffering affect his and Grace's story? Maybe his mind was at least somewhat there after death. Maybe his sheer will to be free or his spite of the eel and crew brought him back to life. Maybe the whole thing caused him to get biological manipulation powers or something I dunno.

I just really liked the idea when it jumped into my head and thought I'd share. Guys I feel crazy I promise I'm not. ANYYYWAYYY thank you for listening if you've read this far.

[gubrillaz]

hey bud......

[gubrillaz]

little otter grace animation for world otter day!!

[nimadelolll]

take his camera away please

[birdykane]

Bloodymary doodles!! My first attempt at them and then a lil' something like a ref sheet for them

[barkyshark]

"Kind." The Boffin is anything but, and Blythe has paid the price 🌗

[cheesesquiggler]

Something something me when the guy I rescued turns into Mr Mutate and Regenerate ok

Hed giving him nutrients #gracehisbabybird

[osgoss]

[TW: face/body mutations, Simon eelification]‼️

Dipping my toes in horror bc I love studying the prop design for iron lung

[lunehowls]

commission for @hypocriticalhypothetical, tysm for the support :)

[namelessokamiart]

Art fight for @painted-bees

[painted-bees]

wwoooaaghhh thank you ao much again, this is INCREDIBLE 😭💕💕💕

[painted-bees]

Good god, it's happening! the first 7 pages of Wolves of Danu are up for Patrons over here!:

Wolves of Danu 000-007 | Lark & Wren

Wolves of Danu 000-007 by Lark & Wren on Patreon. Join Lark & Wren's community for exclusive content and updates.

Really hope you like it so far ; v; this is just the very beginning!

[stronggarnet]