I make art. Sometimes silly, sometimes serious, a little sexy and always a bit messy. Follows back from m-r-levine. We have a bluesky, a discord server, a shop, a WorldAnvil, a Patreon, occasional market/con events, and sometimes we even join the 21st century to have events on Twitch
I am a hybrid artist primarily working in watercolor, acrylics, ink, and digital facsimiles thereof. I make comics, miniatures, Serious Artâąïž, genre illustration, fiber art, furry art, fan art, weird western art, surface pattern designs, interior design, landscape design, I refurbish furniture and dabble in hand tool woodworking whenever I get the chance of it.
I also write: my main blog is my writeblr, though most of my fanfiction is under the same StudioRat name as I have used for my art and illustration for decades (mostly restricted to logged in users these days, due to plagerism machines and trolls). I am working on posting more often on Bluesky. I also have an online shop with prints, originals, miniatures, and stash.
In general, I welcome reblogs, comments, asks (even for spoilers!), as well as transformative works, fanarts, fanbinds and so forth based on my work as long as you link back to the source.
Links to major projects under the cut!
Current projects:
Shade of My Enemy : a Zelgan gothic romance comic set in the era of Twilight Princess. Updates Thursdays.
The maldito project : a weird western setting centered around the misadventures of an outlaw vaquero witch. Currently two novel drafts and a pile of art. Carries the tag #novela maldita on both blogs
Even To The Edge : a series of ZelGan flavored fics set in the WindWaker era, wherein the old man yearns and fights for all that was lost, Tetra the Pirate Queen wrestles with the rules of her world changing, and Zelda Iseult DeLeon walks the spiritroads in her dreams.
Unspoken : a forbidden romance set in the world of Dark Tapestry. Might turn into a comic, might turn into a novel, might be a little of both.
Garden : spicy Zelgan fanfiction written in collaboration with @folodu
Spun Shadows : gothic fantasy adventure in dual pov with a most dysfunctional elf throuple at the center of the intrigue
East Wind : gothic romance + military fantasy + castle intrigue + eventual fix-it GanLink epic currently drafting in the fourth act. Has been on hiatus due to Lifeâąïž but finally getting motion in the draft again. Updates will resume Saturday mornings when I have six weeks of backlog, so please send all the good writing vibes.
Blackthorn Witch : final typesetting and cleanup of illustrations for a short gothic fairy tale in the ATU 327 neighborhood
To Draw New Mischief On : the sixth and final story in the Branches and Fate cycle. This also has been on hiatus due to Lifeâąïž but the manuscript is finally starting to move again. Updates irregularly.
Search & Tag* : spicy and silly og x elf comic that despite being fully scripted and pencilled still has no proper name (open to suggestions)
Fanwork Archive:
Demons : a windwaker era minific
Found you : a smash brothers GanLink oneshot
Sun & Moon : pre-slash secret pen pals meet & wrestle with identity and destiny in an alternate era of Ocarina of Time written in collaboration for Zelgan Week in 2016
Flower of Twilight : Zelda sneaks away to the west with Ganondorfâs help on a quest to figure out who they are
King of Shadows : Ganondorf broods over a grave disagreement with Zelda and lays plans to secure power over Hyrule regardless
Hearts at War : Zelda persuades Ganondorf to help them investigate the suspicious deaths of the composer brothers, written for ZelGan week 2016
Cruelty of Gods : years of effort have finally led to a treaty that will end the Hylian Civil War for good â so of course the night of the signing goes horribly wrong
Beguile the World : the same pivotal events from Zeldaâs perspective. Written for ZelGan week 2025.
Stars, Hide Your Fires : The first of the six stories in the Branches and Fate cycle in which Link has gone back in time to prevent the events of Ocarina of Time from happening
Madness Most Discreet : a relatively short Wilds era ZeLink fic
An Ever Fixâd Mark : a Wilds era ZeLink
Little Deaths : a spicy and angsty Wilds era Zelink
Naught So Vile : a post-Wilds era Zelink (GanZeLink if you bring your shipping goggles and squint) written after the first E3 trailer
Wind King : a short, full color comic set in the Minish Era
Swords Our Law : tragic GanLink establishing the timeline which leads to East Wind
Kill Thee and Love Thee After : an alternate, angsty GanLink HEA branching off the fifth story in the Branches and Fate cycle
Original Work:
Darkly Woven : a Dark Tapestry adventure novel
9th Division : a Dark Tapestry murder mystery novel with intrigue and romance
Forest Fire : a Dark Tapestry short story set during the fall of the Forge Moon
Professor Mizzlewotâs New Suit : a short fantasy horror story
She is beloved of the king of the Geldâo, she is a revolutionary tearing down the towers of Divine Right, she is a prophet of the Light, she is carrying the hope of the future, she is leading her people through the storm that will swallow her country, she is a single mother of no importance struggling to feed her children, she is a spirit haunting the cliffs of Triardu.
History will call her Rainbringer.
Read the first two chapters on Ao3
Rated E for heavy themes and (eventual) smut.
This is a bit of a whumpy piece in the Even To the Edge series, spending time in the past with Zelda Rainbringer after the flood and looking backward at events leading to it. Be forewarned that the story centers both the Fall of Hyrule itself and her own personal Trials in the flight, difficult pregnancy, traumatic labor, and injuries from that. Things do get better for her, the twins live and thrive, and there is hope for the future (obviously! Most of the series centers Rainbringerâs distant descendants Zelda Iseult and Tetra and that couldnât happen without some measure of victory in the past!) She has a close and loving community around her, but she is not always able to see that⊠and embracing the image of the Mad Princess helps her guard her wounded heart and her wildly unconventional lover.
The draft is still evolving for this one so more chapters will release over time like the other longfics developed for this yearâs @zelgan-week . If you havenât already, go check out the event blog for more delights ranging from fluff to tragedy with everything in between.
Go thou â lay upon sand that does not answer to the Sea
And there I bid thee call upon Me
Read the rest on Ao3⊠https://archiveofourown.org/works/86123636/chapters/235316036
An Antique Song tied last weekâs poll so it gets an update today! It is part of the Even To the Edge series, set entirely in the era of the Fall of Hyrule
Zelda Iseult DeLeon is an adjunct professor of little renown. The wealth of her family is tied up in land no one has any interest in buying, and assorted artifacts of vanished Hylian glory. She cannot support an independent life without working, and she cannot continue working so long as she is afflicted by the ghosts of the past to such powerful degree that the dreams are taking over waking hours as well as her dwindling rest. She is persuaded to hand over her class to her moonlighter for a trimester to focus on her health -- and sanity.
Everyone is confident a winter of retreat and reflection will return her to herself by spring.
Rated: M
Warnings for: frank discussions of violence, injury, systemic injustices, mental health, reincarnation, offscreen canonical major character death
Multichapter longfic for @zelgan-week , as per usual with me. This picks up about a month after the end of Abysm of Time and overlaps the events of Suffer a Sea Change. Chapters will post over time. I havenât worked out the schedule yet.
Read the first chapter on Ao3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/86131506
âMmhm and going about looking like death is the latest fashion among young people. Go on, let the porters get your bag. itâs their job,â said Gran Hilda.
âIf we accept their help we have to tip them,â Zelda hissed in return.
âAnd if they do not have the opportunity to earn those tips the council might decide thereâs no need to pay porters anymore,â said Impa, slipping an alarming amount of rupee to the cabin attendant and turned for the stairs down to the platform. âIf the council trims any more essential services like these then how will frail old ladies like us manage to travel anywhere? And what will become of these fine, strapping young men when there is no work for them on the ironroad?â
âIf you are a frail old lady the rest of us are knocking on the Reaperâs door,â Zelda snapped at the Sheikahâs proud back.
Read the rest on Ao3⊠https://archiveofourown.org/works/86131506/chapters/233165246
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Nothing Novel, Nothing Strange is the fifth part of the Even to the Edge series, set in the era of the Great Sea. Since it tied with Antique Song this week and Iân on the fence about the latter needing a little more *something* I offer this chapter today, and Antique Song will update on 7.16. Enjoy!
This week, the SoME prose conversion won the popular vote!
The montage once again took many more words than expected so I split the draft for the 46 days chapter in 2 parts. I am hoping to get backlog rebuilt as work continues on SoMe volume 3 and sort out the little hosting difficulties we encountered last week, but in the meanwhile, thereâs prose waiting in the wings⊠so once again I turn to you dear readers, to help decide what gets the next update.
Which Zelgan project should update on 7.9?
Even To the Edge: Nothing Novel, Nothing Strange (M)
Even To the Edge: Though They With Winter Meet (E)
Even To the Edge: An Antique Song (E)
Even To the Edge: That You Were Once Unkind (M)
I do not like Zelgan/please update something else I will explain in tags
90 minute study, procreate, mostly with the inka pen, a little bit of 6b pencil i think. Base pose started from a sketch referencing a pose from the awesome @mellon-soup
This week, Antique Song won the popular vote. I decided chapter 3 was too short so you got 4 fresh out of revisions as well. đ So what would you like to see next Thursday?
Which Zelgan fic should update on 7.2?
Even To the Edge: Nothing Novel, Nothing Strange (M)
Even To the Edge: Though They With Winter Meet (E)
Even To the Edge: That You Were Once Unkind (M)
Shade of My Enemy: prose version (M)
I do not like ZelGan/please update something else I will explain in tags
She is beloved of the king of the Geldâo, she is a revolutionary tearing down the towers of Divine Right, she is a prophet of the Light, she is carrying the hope of the future, she is leading her people through the storm that will swallow her country, she is a single mother of no importance struggling to feed her children, she is a spirit haunting the cliffs of Triardu.
History will call her Rainbringer.
Read the first two chapters on Ao3
Rated E for heavy themes and (eventual) smut.
This is a bit of a whumpy piece in the Even To the Edge series, spending time in the past with Zelda Rainbringer after the flood and looking backward at events leading to it. Be forewarned that the story centers both the Fall of Hyrule itself and her own personal Trials in the flight, difficult pregnancy, traumatic labor, and injuries from that. Things do get better for her, the twins live and thrive, and there is hope for the future (obviously! Most of the series centers Rainbringerâs distant descendants Zelda Iseult and Tetra and that couldnât happen without some measure of victory in the past!) She has a close and loving community around her, but she is not always able to see that⊠and embracing the image of the Mad Princess helps her guard her wounded heart and her wildly unconventional lover.
The draft is still evolving for this one so more chapters will release over time like the other longfics developed for this yearâs @zelgan-week . If you havenât already, go check out the event blog for more delights ranging from fluff to tragedy with everything in between.
Rope and timber creak fearsomely in calm or storm. The Labrynnan sailors have stopped singing, so even though the officers in their elegant enveloping brocade coats assure her they are perfectly secure, she does not need the Light to tell her they lie. Every hour is a torrent of desperate labor, every able hand on every ship in the growing armada tacking one way and then another over the fitful waves.
Zelda stands with the captain, listening with half an ear to the world, and half to the chatter in the precious shard of blue topaz she carries about her neck, trapped in its net of hempen cord. A hundred thousand voices chatter in a hundred thousand languages, times and headings and angles of stars. If she squints she can count the snowy wedges of gaff and jib and lateen sails stretching to every horizon around them, and still number only a fraction of the ships sprinting day after day for the edge of the growing storm
Read more on Ao3âŠ
An Antique Song is part of the Even To the Edge series, set entirely in the era of the Fall of Hyrule.
A wealthy widower landowner who owns an estate outside of town. 38, originally from la Puerta de la Isla de Polvo. A man with grief on his shoulders and more than a few secrets under his formal manners.
âThe man youâre looking for is Robert Rafaele Tapia. He came two years ago on a land grant from Calancua and six months later watched the Demon Prince kill his sons.â
âAnd that matters to me why?â
She clicked her tongue in censure. âYouâll find him at the temple come sundown. In case nobody told you, tomorrow is Lightsday. Give him time to light his candles, and walk with him. Be patient, and be honest.â
- from La Mala Suerte
ProCreate, started years ago and finally done. Why must I keep assigning myself complex patterns. Why.
For this Juneteenth, I would like to recommend some Black artists I follow on here.
@uptownlowdown who has a wonderful retro style I admire and a lot of video game love.
@nostalgic-teddyy has an excellent eye for color, shine, and love for different body types.
@dragonfruityyy a traditional artist with sharp line work and unique designs.
@thickness-protection-program hardly even needs an introduction, skilled painter with a gorgeous sense for light, and all around huge personality.
I follow more but my brain goes in a billion different directions đ if you know more Black artists and wanna give them a shoutout or hype yourself, go ahead use this post! Have no shame, no hesitation, I wonât allow anything but pride for your work here!
Zelda Iseult DeLeon is an adjunct professor of little renown. The wealth of her family is tied up in land no one has any interest in buying, and assorted artifacts of vanished Hylian glory. She cannot support an independent life without working, and she cannot continue working so long as she is afflicted by the ghosts of the past to such powerful degree that the dreams are taking over waking hours as well as her dwindling rest. She is persuaded to hand over her class to her moonlighter for a trimester to focus on her health -- and sanity.
Everyone is confident a winter of retreat and reflection will return her to herself by spring.
Rated: M
Warnings for: frank discussions of violence, injury, systemic injustices, mental health, reincarnation, offscreen canonical major character death
Multichapter longfic for @zelgan-week , as per usual with me. This picks up about a month after the end of Abysm of Time and overlaps the events of Suffer a Sea Change. Chapters will post over time. I havenât worked out the schedule yet.
Read the first chapter on Ao3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/86131506
âWe all do things weâre not proud of when weâre stretched past our limit. And we all are vulnerable to projecting the worst version of events on something that cuts close to our core self. In the end nothing terrible happened, you returned hale and whole. She needs time to process all the emotions the hours of you being missing called up. Sheâll understand once sheâs sat with that a while.â
âNo one ever has. Every time the Zelda thing becomes a point of contention, thatâs it. Itâs too much for people. Itâs too messy. Itâs too colored by everything Hyrule ever did, even though we no longer rule much of anything. And I canât stop being Zelda so itâs just. Going to be this way forever. Dreamy from a distance. Assumed to be a thousand things they attach to the concept of royalty regardless of fact. Too much for other people to want anywhere near their actual lives.â
âI donât think she meant it like that,â began Impa.
âYou didnât hear everything she said.â
âEven so. We all say things in the heat of Dinâs cauldron that we regret in the serenity of Nayruâs. This retreat will help more than just the dreams. You also need this time. You need to learn to rest, to restore yourself, and find that unshakeable core of who you truly are.â
Read the new chapter on Ao3âŠ
Nothing Novel, Nothing Strange is the fifth part of the Even to the Edge series, set in the era of the Great Sea. Enjoy!
Not sure about anyone else but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when Iâve had a rough day so if youâve ever taken the time to write a deep, funny, or just kind comment, thank-you.
She is beloved of the king of the Geldâo, she is a revolutionary tearing down the towers of Divine Right, she is a prophet of the Light, she is carrying the hope of the future, she is leading her people through the storm that will swallow her country, she is a single mother of no importance struggling to feed her children, she is a spirit haunting the cliffs of Triardu.
History will call her Rainbringer.
Read the first two chapters on Ao3
Rated E for heavy themes and (eventual) smut.
This is a bit of a whumpy piece in the Even To the Edge series, spending time in the past with Zelda Rainbringer after the flood and looking backward at events leading to it. Be forewarned that the story centers both the Fall of Hyrule itself and her own personal Trials in the flight, difficult pregnancy, traumatic labor, and injuries from that. Things do get better for her, the twins live and thrive, and there is hope for the future (obviously! Most of the series centers Rainbringerâs distant descendants Zelda Iseult and Tetra and that couldnât happen without some measure of victory in the past!) She has a close and loving community around her, but she is not always able to see that⊠and embracing the image of the Mad Princess helps her guard her wounded heart and her wildly unconventional lover.
The draft is still evolving for this one so more chapters will release over time like the other longfics developed for this yearâs @zelgan-week . If you havenât already, go check out the event blog for more delights ranging from fluff to tragedy with everything in between.
Real life obligations and difficult health have thrown wrenches in this project, so the diptych is not yet ready. Nonetheless, this side is far enough along to begin to be legible. So I wanted to share it with you for @zelgan-week and when my hands cooperate with further rendering Iâll update with the finished piece â and hopefully, its companion as well.
This concept is connected to the Even To the Edge series, and in my head this is one of the endpapers of the finished tome, because I am an inveterate booknerd.
