#hatchetober

[otterpob]

Hello again!! I wanted to make a poster for day 24 of hatchet-tober (made by @hatchetfields-junk-drawer )!! I had so much fun watching this short film for the first time, I wanted to capture some of that spirit!!

Here’s a version without the poster bars!! Also I just wanted to say thank you guys SO MUCH for the support I’ve gotten on here already, I cried to my friends about the nice things you guys said under my last art post 🥹🥹🥹🥹 I had no idea so many people knew I existed HAHAHAHA but I’m very happy to keep delivering starkid art!!!

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

So I was looking over the Hatchet-tober prompt list again, and there's no way I'm doing it on time obviously, but I do love a prompt! So I'm just gonna doodle the ones that give me story ideas, and in the future I might expand them into short comics or something.

Day 1: Ghost

Potential lore and design ramblings under the cut

But basically I think a short piece focusing on Steph and Richie could be really fun. Just having them mourn the friendship they could have had, y'know? The dynamic between Steph and the nerds fascinates me deeply, because I can't fault any of them for how they act but I do want to shake them about it.

My main idea for this one is based on how much I think about the fact that Hatchetfield High is a Black Altar so it's not ENTIRELY OUT OF THE QUESTION that some piece of Ruth and Richie could be lingering there. Not anywhere near the same level as Max, but enough to rattle a window here and there. I have a lot of thoughts about ghost mechanics in Hatchetfield actually.

Anywho GHOST TIME!

I actually have a lot of ideas about Richie's ghost design and how it works and how to make it clearly distinct from Max while maintaining a common thread, so there are those thoughts in no particular order:

The blue veins are unique to Max. Ruth and Richie have the same gray pallor to them, but no blue veins. He is a fundamentally stronger version of whatever they are. It's like comparing a Chihuahua puppy to a grown Malinois. Sure, they're both dogs, but only one of those things is sending you to the hospital.

Richie was drowned, and you can tell. Random puddles show up in the locker room all the time, a leak that the janitor can never find. His hair is always soaking wet, he's always shivering, and his lips are blue. Harder to see with no circulated skin to compare it to, but noticeable nonetheless.

I don't know exactly what the final blow was, but a lot of things happened all at once and they all get incorporated into his ghost appearance. Ghost Richie is really banged up. He's bruised everywhere, but his neck is particularly fucked. It makes it really hard to talk, so when he can he uses the memories of what he's said before and projects them out, as though it was footage from his camcorder. Insert Magnus Archives joke here. He can just think of the memory and his voice will play through his mouth like a speaker without him actually having to physically replicate the sound. Now his tone is almost impossible to get a lock on in an entirely new way! Bonus, sometimes he can get it to play through actual speakers, but only for a couple words at a time.

Richie can appear in the locker room and in the boys bathroom, but on nights of power like the Honey Festival or on the anniversary of his death he can extend that range to the rest of the school. Ruth works the same way, but she's localized to the school stage and theater classroom. Richie tends to kind of glitch in and out of sight, like low quality film. He's a very Ring-coded ghost lmao

The awareness and power that Max had came entirely from the Waylon Place. Richie and Ruth are much more limited. They don't manifest all the time, so they're not always suffering, but it's not exactly a release either. They're very much tethered to the Black and White, there's just not a lot to tether.

He's actually super chill, he's just trying to warn you that the sink you're using has no soap and you shouldn't watch Voltron 2016, but you could be forgiven for missing that part considering the context.

When Richie manifests, you see a figure at the edge of your vision, hugging himself tightly. Sickly pale skin cut across by deep shadows. Wide, unblinking eyes looking up through tendrils of soaking wet hair. You see his icy lips part and hear a recycled voice play over an unmoving tongue.

[jetsteeleyourheart]

I'm not quite doing a Hatchetober this year, but I am working on a multimedia found document longfic (Yeah, its gonna be sad... Apparently that's the only thing I know how to do I apologize in advanced) for a NPMD AU, and one of the things I wanted to include was Social Media posts! So here's a lil preview of one feat. Brenda and Stacy in their cheer uniforms before the Homecoming Game!

[thegaywhoreallylikesmusicals]

I love how for day 2 of hatchetober: trapped.

We all just drew ted

[gothamssheriff]

hatchetober day 5

hatchetober day 5. (tw blood)

prompt: blood

[scribellz]

Hatchetober Day 3: Watched

[doug-meat]

will we ever go back to hatchetfield?

… i don’t think so. get some rest… yellow jacket.

HATCHETOBER DAY 7: HOPE

i cannot draw the interior of cars.

skipped like so many days of hatchettober but i’m back with the fosters 🫶🫶 i did this for hope because they’ve got like. hope for a better life out of hatchetfield Idk it made sense in my head. prompt list below the cut

[vexerieart]

paulkins for everyone