Guardians of the Strontium Sun

Strontium | 31 | they/them I post my art and writing here. art webcomic

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Welcome!

This is the personal/art blog of Strontium, a cartoonist and comic creator. Here I share art, comic updates and occasional writing. I'm a big fan of Pokemon, Digimon, Splatoon, animals and animation. If you like what I post, I hope you'll give me a follow!

Art Tag | My OCs | My Toyhouse | My Bluesky

My webcomic, Heroes of Thantopolis: A boy mysteriously arrives in the City of the Dead without his memories and becomes the champion of goddess Helene, the Queen of Ghosts. Fantasy! Mystery! Lore! Aro/Ace cast!

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Heroes of Thantopolis has updated!

Today's page: CAL IS HERE! MY GIRL IS HERE! I love her SOOOO much can you tell????

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Cal before it all happened. Child!Cal has never had a consistent outfit so I just gave her something cute.

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It's Heroes of Thantopolis's 12th Anniversary! It's a special one, too – the last anniversary to be celebrated while the comic is updating! Before the end of 2026, HoT will be complete. It's a rarefied status among webcomics, and I couldn't have gotten this far without all of your support. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

More ways to support Heroes of Thantopolis:

Purchase the physical edition of Book 1!

Purchase ebooks of Books 1-3!

Contribute to the HoT TVTropes page!

Share this post!

[strontiumsun]

It's Heroes of Thantopolis's 12th Anniversary! It's a special one, too – the last anniversary to be celebrated while the comic is updating! Before the end of 2026, HoT will be complete. It's a rarefied status among webcomics, and I couldn't have gotten this far without all of your support. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

More ways to support Heroes of Thantopolis:

Purchase the physical edition of Book 1!

Purchase ebooks of Books 1-3!

Contribute to the HoT TVTropes page!

Share this post!

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"Huh. I forgot bunnies looked like that."

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Heroes of Thantopolis has updated!

Today's page: Are you sure this is Heroes of Thantopolis? It looks like just somebody's kitchen!

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Wolf Cyrus is officially on Toyhouse! I wanted to wait to make his profile public until we got to the end of the current scene in the comic, as not to spoil the shape his signature weapon will take.

Since Cyrus lost the Archaic Slumber's Mace in the Orinthope, he needed a replacement. His new mace is called the Fearsplitter, and it takes visual cues from the chopped-off bit of Fear's arm that Cyrus used to deal massive damage. This weapon is manifested by Cyrus's own powers, so he has greater control over it than he had over his original mace.

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A query on Toyhouse forum game I play reminded me of this character, Bysshe! I haven't drawn him since 2013.

Bysshe is the creation of Panic's and has the power to create an anti-gravity field for himself and whoever is holding him. AKA, he can float! He communicates by printing ticker tape with words on it through the plus sign-shaped opening on his face.

His resemblance to the mask worn by the Phantom and Veld is intentional. In his out-of-story lore, Panic created a technology called Weldbox that can be programed to do anything. Bysshe was his first Weldbox creation.

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IDK sometimes I feel like drawing Spongebob

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Heroes of Thantopolis has updated!

Today's page: Looks like Cyrus is feeling... a little blue

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Hello fellow travelers and happy Webcomic Day! There's so much to enjoy about the medium whether your a creator or reader. To celebrate @strontiumsun has compiled a few reasons why we've fallen in love with webcomics over the years. If you'd like to explore and learn about all the stories webcomics have to offer come visit our database here. We always appreciate fellow travelers helping us explore other comic locations on the web. If you'd like to submit an entry you can start here!

We hope you find a story that speaks to you today!

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Cyrus celebrating Mother's Day with his mom Cal and his other mom Helene XD

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Laughing Tiger

Colored with @colourcircus's monthly palette

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Heroes of Thantopolis has updated!

Today's page: You're through, Fear! haha...

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Sketches for another Fakemon concept. This is Squakabilly done right!

Quartzal is a Flying and Rock-type based on my memories visiting caves in Colorado and panning for quartz afterwards. Quartzal comes in three formes based on the color of its crystal plumage - Clear, Rose, and Smokey. Each of these forms have unique abilities and unique moveset options, while retaining the same stat spread.

I believe I wrote down in a journal somewhere what those abilities would be, but if I had to guess, Clear was assigned Clear Body :P Maybe Smokey could have Shield Dust as another protective ability, and Rose could have Friend Guard? Then movesets could be built around those abilities - for instance, giving Fake Out flinch-immune Smokey Trick Room or defensive stat-doubling Rose Helping Hand.

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Convergent evolutions of Dwebble and Crustle for my fakemon region! Convergent evos are such an underused concept in Gen 9.

These are Dwinddle and Campstle, ghosts who animate the ground underneath campfires. With their warm, inviting light, they entice people and Pokemon to gather near to feed off their energy.

I'm still working on the colors for these guys. As for an ability, Flash Fire seems like an obvious choice. Convergent evos keep the stat spread, so they'd be bulky physical attackers with moves like Shadow Claw, Flare Blitz, Shore Up, Stealth Rock, Spikes, Earthquake, and Curse.

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Re-did the colors to emphasize the Ghost-typing more and change the logs from fresh longs into charred logs.