This Year’s Election Looks Great.

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The final product!! Holy WHOO this was a KILLER DRAWING.

I loved drawing every part of it, but containing myself to get it done by Halloween became increasingly unlikely the more I worked on it and the closer the deadline came.

In total? This drawing took about–

19 HOURS AND 26 MINUTES HOLY–

*Many background wheezing breaths*

It’s all good! I am SUPER proud of how this turned out, tackling 15 characters in a fully shaded drawing was hard but a lot of fun! I got to draw a couple characters I don’t typically, which is awesome!

The speed paint will be up on Youtube soon!

From left to right:

Tanglewood, Cherry Parish, Vestice, Bavel, Alabaster, Toil, Black Griffin, Angela, Khrey, Draken, Wynstunn, Peperre (pink stripe lady), Prime and Plume (circus sisters), and Scat Cat!

If you want to know more about these characters, please check out the descriptions on my Patreon! Thanks for being patient with me, it means a lot that you guys want to see my art and stories! <3

john berryman, this is a poem written from the pov of a sheep

I have so many poems memorized for the right moment but what they don't tell you is that there's pretty much never occasions to recite poetry unprompted. or prompted for that matter

I know for a fact that I reblogged a post about the Ultimate Grilled Cheese a few weeks back, and I'm 99.9% sure I tagged it 'food' and yet now I fancy trying it out can I find that post? Can I find that damned post. Tumblr search function strikes again

is ilganyag's interactions with the blacktongues out of sync with time and she has to actively look for -when- to screw around with people or does she keep relatively in sync with the living world?

I almost hate to answer this one 'cause it can curtail theorizing, but we're getting close to it coming up in the comic anyway.

Have you noticed that Sette is interacting with the world on her own timeline? She's not reaching through a waterfall and knocking Ssael's hat off. Living entities - human or senet - are bound to their own timeline. It flows down and around them, the lens through which they view and interact with their reality. Ilganyag is no different. She cannot time travel, personally, inside the khert.

Of course she can theoretically look at memories from any time and glean valuable, highly anachronistic information from them, but she herself is a causal being trapped inside the khert that cannot interact with instantiated reality and people from another timeline. This would all be so, so much simpler if she could change history. Instead all she can do is research the future through scavenged memories, and try to change what happens.

It's a really awkward position, I find, but fascinating. To know pieces of the future, to have goals that you want, to change little things over a long span of time and watch how you're nudging the future in a different direction. It's like playing labyrinth, tilting the board back and forth as the shiny silver marble rolls inexorably forward, avoiding pitfalls, riding the edge, red eye on that goal of goals at the centre.

my personal curse is the knowledge that I function best with rigid structure and strict routine but am almost totally incapable of independently establishing or maintaining that structure and routine

🐍 year of the snake 🐍

Oh no, don’t tempt me to look into the formspring. But I don’t think even I am brave enough/ have enough free time to tread the festering pits of information that can be found on the formspring. On another note, I’m so glad you gave Vliegeng bigger mouths haha

Ahhhh I just finished reading this entire tumblr! So informative! I love you and your story even more now! So, do I get a medal for this feat of obsession-driven lore consumption? Or how about just vliegeng facts, as they are probably the best mythical creature to be created since dragons became a thing in like, BC 800 or whatever. Please seduce me with inessential minutia about vliegengs Ms. Cope~

Most impressive! Before tumblr I used a site called Formspring for Q&A, so as humongous as this archive of useless information is, imagine it four times longer with an even less intuitive UI :)

Since you’ve read all of tumblr though, I’m not sure what more to offer when it comes to vliegeng. Their original conception was in my roleplaying days. A certain horrid demon could only interact with humans (without driving them insane) by possessing the body of a notoriously hearty burrowing subterranean goat-snake. The demon’s master, a Lich named Lord Nihil, kept the poor critter chained up in his lair for the demon’s convenience. I believe Bastion killed it towards the end of the game. Bastion was always killin’ interesting monsters.

But that’s the reason for this illustration, and why the vliegeng looks so glum. It was not a happy captive.

Of course it was repurposed and altered for Unsounded. Instead of gliding through the earth like a Graboid, I moved it skywards, and added its unique relationship with the khert lines. And it’s such an ugly thing I liked the idea of making it distinctly Aldish, to clash with Aldish elegance. This simple contrast helped define Duane’s brother’s character somewhat. Duane had a brother in RP as well, a completely different character who was much more like him. Lemuel is quite a bit different: earthier, less pretentious, less cerebral. His role as a vliegeng handler influenced that development, I think.

I made beef stew tonight! It's incredibly good.

I glanced at a few recipes and listened to what the spirits had to say, and came up with this recipe:

Ingredients:

1.5 lb cubed stew beef 4 whole carrots, peeled and chopped into 1 inch pieces 3 sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed  1 lb button mushrooms, halved Olive oil

2 cups red wine ¾ cup balsamic vinegar ½ cup worcestershire sauce 48 oz beef broth 2 Tbsp minced garlic

⅓ cup flour

Salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, Cholula hot sauce to taste

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450F.  Oil the bottom of a roasting pan, and lay out the beef, carrots, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms.  Roast for 40ish minutes, turning as needed to brown all sides.

Put everything in a large stock pot, then pour red wine into hot roasting pan, scrape off browned bits, and then pour into stock pot as well.  Add other liquids and garlic.  Whisk in flour.  Season with salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, and hot sauce to taste.  Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 2 hours, until sweet potatoes are cooked through.

Serve hot.