Welcome to the Journey of the Flying Serpent

In a world where magic is a very rare resource, and monsters are not, mages are a very important commodity. Follow Priestess Taiba, her arranged husband Brosmýr, and the Captain of the Flying Serpent, Viterico as they set sail for adventure.

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THE BASTARD MAN FINALLY HAS A MORE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE DESIGN! Personality is still the same; stereotypical greedy merchant, with a secret heart of gold, but don't let him know you know that. I really wanted to keep his long braid, but it didn't really work with the turban. We'll just say he hides all his hair up in there, lol. Also been trying to find a balance between designs that are easy enough to draw over and over again, and adding lots of detail (my anime roots betray me). I really just need to sit down and figure out my "graphic novel style"…

Anyway, enjoy the boat man!

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Did you know that female rabbits and hares are usually bigger and fluffier than the males? They use the fluff on their chest to make nests for their babies.

Anyway, here are the elves of Journey of the Flying Serpent, they live deep in the forest, and tend to keep to themselves, but some say they're easy to find, if you ever get lost in the woods.

Pray that you don't...

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I've been having such a rough bit of artist block recently... at any rate, here's a species of harpy, a relative of raptor dinosaurs

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The Mage Taiba is both a very good black magik user, and Ro-mancer snerk. Poor Brosmýr never stood a chance.

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Would you believe me if I told you Brosmýr canonically has the voice of a siren? Anyway, here are sketches for the Merrow AU I made... I was gonna make more, but now I really wanna work on some monster designs, soo.......... ye

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Got that Little Large Mermaid Merrow AU coming right up, got some sketches in the works redrawing some scenes from the movie lol

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I recently started a bible study of the Song of Songs and this verse really stood out to me a lot. It's probably the most misunderstood book in the bible, so I thought it would be fitting to draw Taiba and Brosmýr related to it. They are my canon Christian couple after all.

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What Are We?

I am very proud of the hands in this pic, but outside of that, I tried a more medieval look for this piece. I didn't have any references, so I don't think it turned out that good, but it's a start. It's a very simple piece about the beginning of Taiba and Brosmýr's marriage. A want to be close, but separated by being complete strangers… and the lily of the valley is there for literally just vibes.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

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Of course I needed to make a matching version of Taiba, the girl is smitten beyond belief. Epitome of "I can fix him"

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Needed to draw my sad man again. Really should get back to working on this story

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Brosmýr: My Lady, ye seem to be havin' a bit o' trouble waking up in the mornin'. Is there anything that I can do t' help with that?

Taiba: *nat 20 charisma roll* It would be easier with you waking up next to me, I'd think

Brosmýr: I've heard that leavin' the West window open--Mother Maria, My Lady

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war never changes

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Would y'all care if I spoiled some plot points for my stories?*

No

No (as long as it's under the "read more" and tagged appropriately)

Yes

Nuance (please, for the love of God tell me how)

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Voting ended onOct 4, 2024

*there are a lot of things I want to draw and show that'll be quite spoiler-y if I just fling them around all willy-nilly. There is a chance that some things will change when they finally come out, however... as my (presumed) audience for my graphic novels I want to know how you feel.

(let's not even mention the fact that most of these stories won't come out for quite a few years at the rate I'm going. So I highly doubt that anyone will remember by the time it comes out, and for those of you who do remember, it'll be a treat)

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Historical Update: Priestess Taiba

Fun fact: Taiba's actually from Nigeria (or well, actually she's from the Hausa Kingdoms, but it turns into Nigeria later in history), and after finding out she was a Mage, her father brought her to one of the only places that would teach Mages in Africa; a Christian monastery hidden in the Almoravid Empire (aka modern day Morocco)

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Update #1: Brosmýr the Raven

He now actually looks Gaelic and a part of the Knights Templar. He's still keeping his bardiche and fur though, because they're iconic.

My man's got that black knight energy, and I'm loving it

Yes he should have a helmet, and he will, but that covers way too much of his face which you're gonna see more of anyway, shush

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Decided to revamp the MLP AU for Journey of the Flying Serpent (because autism) and I based it off of my versions of the ponies. The story is still basically the same as this post, just now Stoic Heart (aka Brosmýr) is a yak that works as a royal guard before becoming Eloquent's (Taiba's) personal guard when she goes on her journey.

And Victerico is now one of those cat people called Captain Brine Pawther, because I guess those are a thing now in MLP. I'll try not to be too retarded about this, and will go back to our regularly scheduled JotFS posting after I get this pony versions out of my head.

Please stand by.