Topknot's Art and Worldbuilding

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Art vs Artist, 2026.

Projects you can find on this blog:

💫 Knights of Nodd - A trickster God grows tired of sharing the attention and the power that devotion brings with the other Gods of the pantheon. Yami sneaks out to create a hidden reality of his own where its denizens will worship him above any other Gods. The primary world he creates in this new reality is Nodd. The people of Nodd don't know their God is a trickster God, and Yami works very hard to hide the cracks and mistakes in his creation so that the people who worship him won't see them. Fantasy/Furry/Found Family/Romance/Queer

🏴‍☠️ Good Fortune - In a world where the epochs are named in advance, the Age of Discovery has just begun. This means almost nothing to young Rennah, who has lived in a protected reserve that has sheltered her people for generations. While keeping everyone safe from the outside world, The Pact also expects a lot of the people who follow it's laws. Rennah has been found wanting, and rather than be broken to fit into the Pact's Mold, she escapes to the world she knows is dangerous. There she finds a series of people she finds intriguing, who might be able to help her fix the ways the outside world is broken, so that The Pact will no longer be needed to be her people's protective cage. Fantasy/Complex Magic System/Found Family/Queer/Pirates/Disability Accommodation/Body Horror

I don't post much about this project here because it's a writing project not an art project but it's still important to me.

🎾 Artifacts In the 1980s America was at the top of its game. It was poised to lead the world into a new age of prosperity. Then late on a hot, Summer night, an American Astronomer detects a signal from a cosmic void, and everything changes. The first big change seems to be the laws of reality, but only for the people who are suddenly finding devices that give them super powers. Dubbed Artifacts, these devices can be any physical object light enough to be carried. Before the US Government can come up with a plan there are Immortal sword wielding knights, sneaker heads who can run faster than the speed of light, axe wielding women who can track any living person regardless of their efforts to hide, and pro-wrestling werewolves. And those are just some of the American Heroes, who knows what America's allies are debuting with, or more worryingly, their enemies. Super Heroes/Cosmic Horror/Romance/Found Families/Realistic Bodies

Projects on Hold:

🌇 H.A.L.O.S. - Welcome to the Habitat Annex Launch Operating System. Here your every need is taken care of, with no effort required from you. Additional luxuries may be worked for at your leisure. Thanks to the Givers we're working together to make the universe habitable for all sapient life! Solar Punk/Body Horror/Found Family/Murder Mystery/Furry/Aliens/Sci-fi

🌈 An Au Where Nothing Bad Happens - What if I duplicated my blorbos the moment before it was too late for them and gave them a happy ending? And they all live together happily in a world where they can choose to interact with each other? An AU Where Nothing Bad Happens! The title of a work has never lied to its audience before.

Retired Projects: 🧬Darox - Nuclear war was once considered the worst outcome that could end humanity. Many years after the war materials needed to make any kind of bomb are depleted or too resource intensive to acquire the global powers that remain must turn to making war by other means using what they have at hand. Sure, you could use gene modding and DNA coding to fix illnesses and birth defects, but those are peace time efforts. Now, we need to use those tools to create weapons to fight with. Post Apocalyptic/Genetic Horror/Furry/Urban Exploration

🪴Captive Gardens - In a world where the ability to travel through space is possible but considered culturally suspect, self obsessed giant aliens send interstellar drones to collect smaller aliens to populate meticulously maintained gardens. These tiny creatures are so entertaining, and bending the sapient ones to your will? What more scintillating a pastime could there be? 18+/Furry/Sci-Fi

Other Art Tags:

🎨  General art tag here.

📚 Junk Journal

🦄 Crafts

Other Links:

Personal Website - J Fashion Blog - Toy House - Art Fight - Links

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Keys, Alex, and Rose.

💫 Knights of Nodd 🎨 General art tag.

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Furred Fur and Hair Coloring Cosmetics:

☆ Follicle dye: Follicle dye is a dye applied directly to the hole in the skin from which fur grows, coloring whatever hair or hairs that will grow from it permanently. First a single hair is pulled to reveal the follicle, and then the dye is applied with a long, thin needle, one follicle at a time. If too much time passes between pulling the hair and dying the follicle the dying process will fail.

Dying a small patch of fur hurts very little, as the needle puncture feels similar to plucking the hair that makes room for it in the first place. But having larger patches dyed gets more painful the larger the patch is. A small test patch is advised before a Furred commits to any serious pelt color changes.

Because of the diffuse and random nature of hair follicles and the tendency of skin to shift in shape and tautness over time, large, simple shapes like spots or stripes fair better than smaller, more "tattoo" inspired designs, though people still sometimes opt for the latter. 

☆ Fur dye: Fur dye is Deni-permanent and dyes the shaft of the fur a different color. It can only dye fur to darker shades, and cannot lighten fur. If Furred has a dark pelt they wish to make a lighter or more vivid color, they must first use fur lightening dye to lift the pelt's color.

Coming in a wide range of both neutral and vivid tones, fur dye can be used to dip the entire pelt a new color or to paint on simple patterns and markings. Depending on the color, dye source, and how the Furred cares for their pelt, the color can last anywhere between 7 days to several weeks.

☆ Fur lightening dye: Fur lightening dye lightens the shaft of fur and is permanent  until the fur falls out.

There are several types of lightening dye, and the color on the label will indicate how harsh it will be on the skin. There will be a blue boarder on the label and the darker the blue the harsher the dye. More harsh dye will make fur lighter, usually more quickly, but also damages the fur the most and can cause chemical burns if used incorrectly. If you’re new to using this, please consult the Perfumery or Apothecary where you purchased your fur lightening dye for written instructions. 

☆Fur coloring powder: Fur coloring powder is a temporary, chalk based dye. It can be mixed with alcohol and sprayed onto fur or combed into fur as a powder to temporarily dye it. Careful not to get wet though, it just needs water to be rinsed out. The chalk based color sits atop the pelt without changing the actual color of the fur underneath. It is sometimes scented, and comes in almost every color, and some have shimmer powder in them for a sparkly effect. For any more unique colors it’s simple to combine the powders together to mix your own color.

During certain festivals and religious holidays the powder is packaged into cooked, hollow egg shells which can be thrown at people, adding a temporary splash of color to their fur, and also their clothes and surroundings.

☆ Fur removal cream: Used mostly on the hands fur removal cream is a pink cream which can be applied, usually via sponge, to fur. After sitting for a few minutes the fur can then be wiped off with any handy, flat object, such as an exfoliating slate or butter knife.

☆ Fur sculpting gel: Used primarily for cheek fluff and fringe styling, fur sculpting gel is made from aloe and is combed or brushed into the fur for styling purposes. It is usually applied to wet fur. When it dries it has a strong, crunchy hold.

☆ Hair fixative spray: Made from tree sap or simple sugars mixed with water, fixative spray is spritzed into the hair from a spray bottle before styling. It is usually applied to dry hair. It can also be used in tail tufts, but beware the drying time so you don’t end up with errant leaves or pebbles as part of your hair style. 

There is, of course, a lot left to work on here. After all, there isn’t even any makeup yet, but I think this is a good starting point. :D

💫 Knights of Nodd ✒️ Writing

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Knights of Nodd Story Timeline:

Karst Out - Garish and her sisters think they know better than their tribe and sneak away at night to investigate a cave. Garish finds a Rifter, and is transported to Nodd with no way back.

Sisters & Spirits - Garish settles into life in Nodd, Glitter and Gold have to figure out a way to go on without her. Direct sequil to Karst Out.

Powerful Families - Working title. Razz and Iustum, Vox’s parents, meet and court.

The Heretic - Vox and his Mother are subjected to a lecture by a Heretic in a city in the Nightside.

Craven’s Story - Working title. Craven and his friends grow up together and Craven's Alien ancestry presents enough problems that he feels he has to leave his life, and the people he loves, behind. As adults Craven finds his way to Heretofore, and meets his friends as adults.

Arrival - Kitti lands in Nodd, meets Garish, fresh into her “sentence”, and Lilly.

How the Jester Got her Mark - Rose convinces her Father to let her go to Jester School, and is marked by Yami as a mortal he'd like to keep an eye on. Happens at almost the same time as Arrival. NEEDS SERIOUS REWORK since Rose's back story has changed so much since it was written.

Never Fear the Fall - Kitti takes her Wish to Snowbright, who works Magic to grant a wish that the Queen could not. Kitti learns to fly. Seeing that people are still not being properly educated about Magic Snowbright then decides to go back into society and see what she can do about spreading the knowledge. I actually need to rework all of Kitti's abilities because they should all come from her Rifter now.

Book of Worlds- Apocalypse arrives in Nodd.

??? Singularity - A Dragon Third and Furred Male attempt to heal the rift born of misunderstanding between the Dragons and the Furred with their unexpected friendship.

??? Scorched Stone - Gilda is trapped under a fallen building damaged by a fire and finds a Shaman-Ai egg. More interested in saving the egg then herself, she manages to get out alive and she and Gin meet that way.

??? Bait, Overgrown, Wild, Tasty, Ripe, Snow, Frozen - Micro stories about Gin, Gilda, Brag, and Tonic, in order. Gilda learns about the Shaman-Ai. Ater the “pack” settles in at her home, Gilda and Gin travel to the North to facilitate a trade between Gilda and Archie set up by Gilda’s friend Storm. All taking place between Scorched Stone and Heart of the Mountain.

??? Heart of the Mountain - Gilda has to reface her fears of entrapment and save Archie from a cave in. Takes place after Scorched Stone.

2007-2026

💫 Knights of Nodd ✒️ Writing

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For @jayrockin.

This is such a deep cut, I'm glad the RTTS server thought it was funny because it felt a little like telling a joke into the void lol. 👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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For cryptiidgutz. 👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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For @danneroni. 👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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For itsnerdiee.

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For robotcowboy6969.

👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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For Coal_Miner.

👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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For @night-maerish

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For @lustering-halo.

👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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For lofivoid.

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For Gither , Delsify, @ylfa , @seallybilly, chromatiic, @plaguedperson , @aricraft123 , @dawnsdreamies , @evilweasel-cosplay , @booparoos , L0b0t0mized_Starz, kindaokev, twilight-owo, Loafi_Doodles, xXStellaAnimatesXx, Balloonley, and @kiwisodas .

👊 ArtFight Art. 👊ArtFight Account. 🎨 General art tag.

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This is old but I've got tags to populate! Garish and the sisters she's separated from.

💫 Garish 💫 Glitter 💫 Gold 💫 Knights of Nodd 🎨 General art tag.

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Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four, Lord I'm five hundred miles from my home.

I really enjoyed this trend, and it suits Kitti since she's has traveled far, far from her home by the time she reaches Nodd. I don't know if I'll ever finish this but wanted to share it anyway.

💫 Kitti💫 Knights of Nodd 🎨 General art tag.

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And another [hastily edited version].

🎨 General art tag.