#daily practise

[silynx]

Geometry practise. I may open this style up for commissions at some point.

[mondayschild-learns]

17.01.2017 | Katakana...we meet again...you are a worthy adversary 🙃I'm just going through the Japanese basic lessons again and making sure I've got all my bases covered. In Mandarin I'm enjoying the fact that there's so much reading and writing with the characters as well as the pinyin. It is decided - I'm dropping Korean. I was doing my planning and I realised that I only have as much time as I have right now because I'm on a mental health break. When term starts up again it'll be manic. So once I finish these textbooks I'm going to look into working towards passing the HSK Level 1/2 and JLPT N5/4. That way I'll have something concrete to mark this year's progress. If I rose a level each year I'd be so happy - we shall seeeeee :)

[mondayschild-learns]

10.01.2017 | Memrise app study. Since I've finished the Japanese 1 & Chinese 1 course I'm just writing up the vocabulary in my squared notebooks - there's more space in there to go back and add characters/Kanji/notes/etc. Plus going through the Chinese and Japanese vocabulary made me realise that I'm being too harsh on myself when it comes to Korean. I repeatedly wrote down words that I now feel are easy, but at the time remembering felt like I'd never get down in my mind. It'll take time but once I'm finished with Korean 1, I'm sure I'll feel just as confident. If only I was this dedicated and patient with my actual studies...sigh.

[mondayschild-learns]

15.01.2017 | Memrise app study. Finished Mandarin Chinese 1 review and started on Mandarin Chinese 2! I was itching to get started but I can feel a massive learning curve up ahead... Still working through Japanese 1 but I should be finished soon. As for Korean 1... sigh. The only remotely Korean thing that seems to be stuck in my head is the Full House OST and not even the Korean part 🎶 I think I love you...

[mondayschild-learns]

12.01.2016 | Memrise app study. Continuing to review vocabulary for Japanese 1 & Chinese 1 - I'm itching to keep going but I'm also conscious that if I don't take time to review things it flies out of my head in like a month's time. Korean... why...why must you challenge me so?!?!? I'm kind of glad it is though because it's teaching me a valuable lesson in learning curves and persistence and just doing things for the love of it - no matter how much it leaves you scratching your head.

[robotlearnstolove]

2025-10-16

Dark Intrusion

~560 words; ~60 minutes

On one morning, at the end of summer, Terash finally found the ruins in the Frozen Wastes. At least, he was was pretty sure he had. It had taken him a total of fifteen individual treks out into the Wastes over several months, largely because the directions he’d received from Neetrin had been so vague. The snowy plains outside the Bubble were vast, after all, and none of the maps Teele had been able to discover from the Archive were particularly detailed. And after all that time spent out in the wastes, he didn’t even feel like he knew his way around them any better. The world beyond Hallium in every direction just looked the same: it was all a flat, white expanse of snow and jagged ridges of ice with scarce permanent landmarks of note.

For a while, he just stood in front of the weathered facade that jutted out from the snow — two dilapidated stone towers with a thick wall between them and a massive circular opening in the wall. Neetrin had said that a large amount of the building was buried under the snow. Even if that was true, the twin towers still went up at least ten metres above him and the wall with the circular opening was almost just as high. The opening itself was just low enough that he figured he’d be able to hoist himself through it.

He wasn’t cold; his aora protected him from the wind and from the cold. After all these expeditions, he could now hold the sphere of warmth around himself with little effort, little thought. Although, he could still sense both the wind and the cold at the edges of his influence. The former blasted it’s way around his shield as thought it were a solid object while the latter needled at it, like it was attempting to surreptitiously penetrate the sphere.

He could hear the wind outside as well, muffled thunder against his mind’s barrier. For a second a thought intruded: what if, in an instant, he dropped the aora altogether? He wondered what the wind would feel like if it hit him, in full force, all at once. Despite his dense, layered woollens, he was a mere speck of warmth in a vast ocean of ice and snow.

Terash shook his head and rejected the dark thought by focusing his attention back on the ruins. He was wasting energy and daylight. He still had to make his way back to Hallium.

He spent about a minute inspecting the wall up close — the white stone brick was so smoothed over by the wind that there was nothing much to make of it from this vantage — before he ineptly attempted to climb through the circular opening. It took him several tries — his bulky clothing and snowshoes severely hampered him — but eventually managed to crawl over the the wall and ungracefully drop himself on the other side.

His chest heaved from the exertion as he slowly turned around and, for the first time, saw the ruins from the inside. He was underwhelmed. Frankly, they didn’t look particularly different. Nothing of the internal structure — if there even was an internal structure — was visible above the snow. All he saw were the same external walls, just as pale and weathered inside as they were on the outside.

[rritzenh]

sketch a baby

[themoonatmingitaw]

Daily practise: The Seeress

Pisces: Cursed sight and Goddess Dagger; Can foresee the future. Chosen by the Moon Goddess to bear the burden of the world. Cursed Saggitarius unintentionally, and locked themselves due to being unable to control their powers. The Goddess Dagger is only used in defense and is used skillfully. User can wield Dark Magic. Many seek the Seer/Seeress to kidnap and abuse their power.

Today’s practise is a design on one of the amazing concepts about the signs and their magical weapons by Atmosa, who was kind enough to let me use them and practise character (and by extension, weapon) design. Thank you very much, I hope you like it!

I tried to add some amethysts into the design, since it is Pisces birthstone. Also I didn’t want to go full ‘HI I’M A FISH’, but still I tried to mantain a watery feeling.

More to come about these.

(Also counts as part of the 100 Days Drawing Challenge. #007: Your Zodiac sign)