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@amagire@mastodon.social elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH? folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE? supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE? psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE? body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE? slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

The #shadowgast Aeorian expedition morning preparations.
(wow i managed to finish a wip)

The hair and face shading is so good!

a shoulders-up watercolor portrait of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role. he is depicted as a young-looking slender drow with light gray-purple skin and short white hair. there is a silver ornament hooked around his pointed ear, shaped like a small leafed branch. his shirt is filled in with almost black purple ink, allowing his face, neck and right hand to stand out; the hand is up by Essek's face, the fingers touching his lips in a pensive gesture as he looks off to the side. the background behind his head and in the upper right corner is sectioned off and filled in with the same ink as his shirt, balancing the composition and providing a dark backdrop for Essek's light hair.

was struck by sudden inspiration to paint everyone's favorite hot boy with watercolors 🎨
#art #watercolors #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt

i know many authors are experiencing this but it is so unsettling to create something complex, personal, inextricably interwoven into your own truth, and then see the thing only you could have made being fed into the playdough spaghetti factory of gray meaningless slop

nein!
#criticalroleart
#criticalrolefanart

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

another super duper quick sketch but this time is yasha :3
#criticalrolefanart

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

We could all use some good news

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The concern, the yearning! Love the expressiveness! <3

I have so many WIPs right now and none of them is calling to me… The closest is this #Shadowgast one but I feel like it needs something more… it was originally a little two panel comic but I SUCK at drawing consistent characters so here we are 😭

Yes.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Wow, it's almost like you should check the rights on digital media before you use it to create your product

OK I'm gonna do my books through Zoop, it's like a little kickstarter/publisher that handles all the production stuff. Reprinting tomes 1 and 2, and printing Tome 3 for the first time!! Full ride, tentatively launching in September!🍃🔪🍑🍻🌓🧝‍♀️💦 Sign up here: zoop.gg/c/irovedoutinsearchoftruthandlove

I love this, the texture is so good!

traditional chest-up sketch of Caleb Widogast, done on slightly off-white paper. he is drawn with messy hatching and long sweeping strokes of black ink, and the background behind him is plumes of brown and teal granulating watercolor. Caleb is depicted with a beard and shoulder-length hair that is swept back. he is looking to the side and down with his brows furrowed; his elbows are propped up on something out of frame, and his fingers are interlaced in a tense gesture.

wanted to play with a new watercolor and some of my ink pens, ended up sketching a little Caleb. i referenced the pose from an in-game screenshot but otherwise free-handed the thing, and it was really fun to figure out how i'd like to go about the shading right in the moment

#CriticalRoleFanArt

i forgot to post this here :o
#criticalrolefanart

Well said!!

I don't 100% know what it is yet, but I would write this book.

yandere-angela i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion butch-snorlax How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that. yandere-angela 1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout 2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method 3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini 4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying and the transaction is complete

Japan is in no way perfect, it has many flaws, but this sort of thing is fucking phenomenal and I so desperately wish we had an approximate of it becuase fuck man it sucks that so much of our lives get dictated by corporate morality

still cannot believe people are handwringing about incest and noncon in indie games/comics/whatever when Game of Thrones was the biggest fucking thing everyone watched for like a decade. are you all fucking stupid.

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

essek baby i can't wait to see you commit terrible crimes with terrible consequences and be dragged begrudgingly into a redemption arc by the power of friendship in animation form <3333

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #art

I fully endorse this vision 🔥

THE THROAT THE HANDS I'M FERAL

jayvik in the lab at 3am

a sketchy two-panel comic done in a semi-realistic style depicting Caleb Widogast from Critical Role. he is having an exchange about the Sending spell with an off-screen Jester, asking, "Do we need to bust out the above the word max, or can we just be–", to which Jester replies, "No. It can just be simple this time. What if I just go like, Do, do, do, do, do!", with the "do's" decorated with little musical notes to indicate her singing, as well as a small impish Jester head next to the speech bubble. Caleb is smiling in the first panel, his posture comfortable, and in the second panel he is bursting out laughing, leaning forward with the force of it, his eyes scrunched up and cheeks rounded with an open smile.

another Caleb expression study because i needed to draw the boy laughing for once (and of course it was in response to something Jester had said)

#CriticalRoleFanArt #CriticalRole

Screenshot from the 1989 Batman of the Joker with a little satin beret talking about art

When you see art you really like

This remains one of my favs, holy shit

I feel like you deepened the shadows under Essek's eyes in the color which makes him look *even more* haunted, plus the lighting adds a great tint to the highlights/shadows! <3