NO CAUSE I CAN TOTALLY IMAGINE JOHNNY WITH SIMON AND GAZ WHINING ABOUT IT OR ACTING TOTALLY SHELL SHOCKED 😭😂 "I-ill never be able to look at em' the same"
Poor Johnny is traumatised for life and WILL whine about it to anyone and everyone. Kyle and Simon get irritated so fast, try to escape but Johnny is relentless and will make his pain everyone's pain.
Hears you moan 'John' once and has an even bigger meltdown, nobody's allowed to call him John anymore, his legal name is now Soap.
But he also keeps bringing it upon himself because even though he doesn't actually live with you he's always at your house, the house where you and Price are constantly fucking.
Any respect he had for Price is also gone, he's seen the man's balls, seen the man mid-act defiling his beloved big sister. He wants you to be happy but he's also not used to you having another important man in your life. Especially not one with the same name :((
I wanted to try some loose sketches, just to kinda mess around and have a bit of fun drawing without worrying about cleaning them up afterwards.
I think my favourite one's out of these are the one at the top center were Brzzz looks very unimpressed about something, the one to the left with them skidding down a hill, and the one at the bottom of them sitting and fiddling with their buzzsaw.
This week has been so amazing!! The collection is live, with it being available in Japan, and France and Canada too!! The craziest part-- I got to set up a amazon author’s page!! I’m still overwhelmed!! I do hope that you will read it. If you’ve been missing Twisted, then you will enjoy my story, Bunny. You will enjoy the nods to our favorite fandom...
@sohypothetically, @lindaghill, @titaniasfics and @authorjessicacale also have stories in the collection!!
and It’s also available on kobo Canada and Japan. And on kindle in those places, including France!
So, for my first blog, I should probably talk about myself a little. NOPE. Instantly just gonna start talking about my favorite hidden gem author of all time (sorry Scott Meyer, your second best). If you haven’t read the SS&S series, you definitely should. If you play DND, you’ll like NPCs, the first book in the series, if you don’t, it’ll still be a good read. I read the series so fast, I can’t wait for the next one. If you have kindle unlimited, you can read the first one free. If not, it’s completely worth $5. At worst, Drew Hayes, he is plain cynical and not humorous, which I’m fine with. At best, you wonder if he was taught by Terry Pratchett. Honestly, his humor in the series is on point. Honestly, I made this blog partially just to rant and rave about stuff my friends weren’t interested in. Anyway, it’s just such a good series and I love it. Just read it, please. And Drew, if you’re reading this, thank you.
Now that school’s done, I can finally start working on Glass Half-Full again!
So here’s a little WIP Wednesday!
Suddenly, a burst of noise erupted from a table behind him. Beryl turned around to see a beetle slam down their empty cup, the small group surrounding them offering up cheers and smiling gestures. It looks like he and his friends weren’t the only ones having a good time tonight.
“Pfff, they think that’s impressive,” Maroge said, also glancing at the noisy table. “Took’em the better half a minute to get that down.”
“I wasn’t reeally paying attention… but they look like they’re having fun!”
“Guess so,” the centipede replied, looking over the new round of drinks on the table. “But I think we could do a bit better, eh?” Flashing each other a knowing grin, both of them grabbed a bottle of cider and pulled off the corks.
“Anyone else wanta join in?” Beryl asked.
“Nah, not mucha fan of sweeter stuff,” Jichin said, jestering to his glass. “But I’ll watch an’ see who's done first.”
“How about you, Levioty? Sprig?”
“Sorry, but I believe the two of us should… should be making our leave soon. I think Sprig may be already asleep.”
“Not asleep, not yet,” the beetle mumbled, lifting her head from the butterfly’s chest. “I can stay upa bit longer. Let’stay for one more round.”
“Alright, dear, but you are getting tired.”
“‘M not tired,” she said with a huff, but she still leaned back into Levioty, eyes half closed.
“Well, looks like it’s jus’ you and me, Beryl.” The centipede turned to look at him, raising her bottle in anticipation.
I wanted to do a bit of worldbuilding for Spineridge, my small desert town that is a main location in my Hollow Knight fanfiction, so I decided to draw some of the local flora and fauna, along with how they’re used.
The first picture is of sandslips, which are quite an abundant species within the desert. They are small scavengers and will eat practically anything, so they are an important part of the local ecosystem by recycling nutrients back into the food web. They are an important source of prey, and are also a great source of food for carnivorous bugs. They are quite small, but since they’re so abundant and easy to catch (the most they can do is hiss and nip at you) they are a staple for many meat-based dishes in Spineridge.
The second drawing is focusing on cactnols, which are herbivores that protect themselves with their hard, spikey shell. They can also curl up into a ball like an armadillo and live in small herds. If you’re traveling through the desert and come across a group of round cactuses, it’s probably actually a herd of cactnol trying to hide! Because of their tough shells they are really hard to hunt, but if one does manage to slay one every part of them is extremely useful. The shell can be made into excellent spiked armour plates, or kept in tack and used as a large bowl after cutting off the spikes (many restaurants in Spineridge use cactnol shell bowls to mix large amounts of salads for herbivorous guests). Their meat is also very tender, and cactnol steaks are often seen as a delicacy in the desert.
Cactus fruit is another staple food in Spineridge. A single one can be eaten as a snack, or a few of them with some nectar is a great meal for nectarivorous bug. The cactus that it grows from is pretty abundant, so the fruit is easy to gather. I actually got inspired from the cacti that grow dragon fruit for designing this catus! The cactus fruit can also be juiced, along with fermented into a cider (which is a certain tarantula hawk wasp’s beverage of choice).
Creeping vines are also an abundant desert flora and have a variety of uses. The entire plant is edible, but only the flowers and leaves are usually eaten as the vines are quite tough and become even tougher as they dry out. Instead, the vines are used to make a very sturdy rope. The leaves and flowers are often used to make a salad, which makes a great meal for herbivorous bugs. The flowers are also a great source of nectar, and can be used as pigments and fabric dyes. Both the flowers and the leaves can be brewed into tea as well.
So yeah! That’s all the worldbuilding for now. I might try drawing some buildings, or making some drawing of more of my Hollow Knight ocs that live in Spineridge. Photo descriptions under the ‘Read More’, but just a small warning - it’s pretty long!
First image: In the left side of the image there is a collection of drawings of a small, segmented sand-coloured creature. It has five segments, with the largest one in the center and tapering on either end; the segments are triangular in shape. Its face is on the first segment with two black, slanted oval-shaped eyes that slightly bulge out of its head and a straw-coloured mouth that is made up of three triangular segments, one at the top and one on each side. There are four drawings of the sandslip. The first, top right drawing has the sandslip curled to the side with only the side of his face visible. The picture lower to the left is a close-up of the first three segments of the sandslip with its mouth open and looking upward. The image below is a full drawing of a sanslip from above, the full face visible. The last picture to the right of it is a sandslip is about the same position but from a distance, and the last segment of it isn’t visible. It is curving over the top of a grey stone sitting on light brown soil. There is a smaller, dark grey pebble to the stone’s right and to clumps of grass behind and on either side of the stone, the one on the left being slightly taller. Underneath these images is a bullet list titles ‘Sandslips:’. The two bullet points read ‘Small scavengers’ and ‘Abundant in the desert’. In the right side of the image there are two pictures. The top one is a large fire with a wooded stand on both the right and left side of the fire. Resting over the fire and being supported on either end by these two wooden structures are four long, thin, black skewers. On each skewer are two sandslips; they are far away and small enough that the details of the face cannot be seen, and their normally sand-coloured shells have been roasted to a brown colour. Below this drawing is a picture of a light brown, wooden plate. On the plate are three smaller, dark-coloured skewers made of wood with each one having a roasted sandslip on it. The sandslips are closer up so you can see the details of the face; the eyes are now cartoony X’s and the mouth is now a darker straw colour. The three skewers take up most of the plate and are nearer to the top. In the space remaining at the bottom of the plate there are slices of a round, light-red fruit with pink flesh and two seeds in each slice. Next to this illustration is a description reading ‘Fire-Roasted Sandslip Skewers & Cactus Fruit Slices’.
Second image: This picture is made up of four drawings. The first one, which is furthest to the left, is of a shelled quadruped. Its shell is light green and covered in small, peachy tan spikes. Its head and legs are a dull, light yellow, with its head an oval-ish shape slightly pointed at the bottom. It has two black, almond-shaped eyes. Under it is a bullet list titled ‘Cactnol:’ with the bullets underneath reading ‘Medium-sized herbivores’ and ‘Lives in small herds’.To the right and slightly above this image is a small drawing of a cactnol curled up like an armadillo. There is a curved seam line in an otherwise perfect sphere covered in spikes; its head and legs can’t be seen at all.Under it and to the right is a wooden plate. It has leaves of various shades of green across the plate with a circular cut of yellow meat sitting on top. The meat is dripping a white-yellow gravy and has a single, small leaf resting on top as a garnish. Above it the drawing is labeled ‘Cactnol Steak with Mixed Greens’.Below it is a light green shell bowl with small, peachy tan spots; these spots remain from cutting off the shell’s spikes. The bowl is thick with a light-tan edge and a light-brown center. Below it is the label ‘Cactnol Shell Bowl’.To the right of the bowl is a drawing of some shoulder armour. The armour is made of two pieces of shell, a smaller one on top of the other. The light green shells are overlapped and still have their peachy-tan spikes, except on the lower shell where the smaller shell overlaps on the larger one. The shell plates are attached to a belt made of a dark and dull green, plant-fiber material. The buckle is made of grey metal, and there are little holes in the fabric for the buckle. The belt is tightened to about halfway, with a little bit of the remaining length of the belt hanging loose after the buckle. Under the drawing there is a label that reads ‘Cactnol Shell Armour’.
Third image: This picture is made up of three drawings. The one on the top left is of a round, light red fruit. In front of it to the left is a quarter-slice of the same type of fruit laying on its back. The flesh of the fruit is light magenta, and in the center of it is two almond-shaped, yellow seeds with the pointed parts pointing to the center. In the lower counter of the slice a pale pink liquid is dripping from it. To the right of the whole fruit there is a smaller piece of the same fruit, half the size of the qatar-slice. The point of it is pointed upward and it is sitting on its cut side with the skin facing the whole fruit behind it. Only one seed is on it since it is a smaller piece of fruit, and the cut bottom is leaking more light pink liquid from under it. To the right of the collection of fruit is the description of ‘Cactus Fruit’.Below this picture is a drawing of a dull green, glass bottle with a tan-coloured cork in it. The liquid that is filling it to the neck is magenta, appearing slightly darker from being within the coloured bottle. There is a white streak of reflected light on the bottle starting in the center and curving to the left. The streak is broken into three parts with the largest at the top and the size of the parts decreasing as they go down the side; the largest, topmost streak is triangular while the smaller streaks are more oval-shaped. This light streak stops halfway down the bottle. To the right of the drawing is the label ‘Cactus Fruit Cider’.To the right of both images is a drawing of a cactus with drooping leaves emerging from the single stalk. The topmost leaves are smaller and have nothing on their tips. The row of leaves below them have things on them; from left to right there are two with orange flowers with pointed petals, one with a round, light red fruit, and one with an orange-red bulb. Behind the cactus another leaf can be seen between the last two leaves and has a fruit on it as well. The next row down has four leaves with the leftmost one slightly behind the cactus, and all are bearing fruit. The last row of leaves are drooping on the ground and are mostly yellow with light brown, torn tips. It is sitting on dark-tan coloured soil. There is a grey rock resting on the ground slightly behind the cactus on the left, and a dark brown one in front and to the right of the cactus.
Fourth image: This picture is made up of three images. The bottom image is of a light green vine plant splayed across the tan-and-light-brown ground. There are seven vines visible, with the second, third, fith, and sixth vine splitting at the ends. Each vine has curved, almond-shaped leaves with the point facing outward scattered across them, along with a few flowers spread out across the plant as well. These flowers are yellow with rounded petals and become yellow-orange near the center. The center of the flower is a pale yellow colour. The drawing is described by the phrase ‘Creeping Vine Plant’ above the drawing.Above and to the left of the drawing of the vines is a wooded brown bowl; the bottom section of the bowl is a darker brown as it is in shadow from the upper, larger part of the bowl. Within the bowl is a mix of light green leaves in a curved, almond shape, along with some yellow flowers. The details of the flowers are much more visible than they were on the vine, with the orange around the center and the pale yellow center of the flower easier to see since they are closer. Above the bowl is the label ‘Vine Plant Salad’.Next to the bowl is a drawing of a coil of rope, with the end of it drooping down from the right side; the end of the rope is slightly frayed. The coil of rope is three coils tall, and has curved indents from where the rope is twisted going around it; the curves are curved to the left and then back to the center. The rope is a dull, light green and the description of the drawing, reading ‘Vine Rope’, is above and to the right of the picture.
Fifth image: This image is a combination of the four images above. The top-left section is of the sandslips. The bottom-left section is of the cactnol. The top-right section is of the cactus fruit. The bottom-right section is of the creeping vine plant.
So I wanted to practice some Hollow Knight gijinka designs, specifically of my oc Brzzz: the way that I designed their hair was a bit to complicated to draw reliably, so I simplified it a bit and I’m really happy with the results.
However, my practice piece ended up a lot more angsty than I first intended.
Photo description: A pencil crayon and outlining marker drawing comprised of the gijinka designs of Brzzz (my vessel oc), the Hollow Knight, and two shades. Brzzz is in the front and center of the drawing; they are wearing a green torn cloak and are crying. Behind them is the Hollow Knight; they appear to be staring down at them and are wearing a knight helmet and armor attached to chains. One of the helmet's eye holes is full of infection orbs and has vines growing out of it and wrapping around the visor. Both their helmet and armor are showing signs of wear, and orange infection is dripping down their helmet from under their visor, along with from the crack in their helmet. One either side and slightly behind the Hollow Knight are the two shades: one with a pair of tall and curved horns, and one with two short sets of horns with the top pointing upwards and the bottom pointing downwards.
