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This pun is so fuckin' bad, and I needed, NEEDED to see it. (Its been a long day and I have hours to go before I can sleep)

It is an abomination, its so godforsakenly terrible that I genuinely needed a full 10 fucking seconds of staring to understand it. Its awful and a I love you for it.

world's most normal animals

(if you want to use my concepts in your ttrpg campaigns you should 1. ask me 2. update me on events like a little podcast 3. give me money about it. I also take commissions once my queue is cleared!)

normal way to be staring at your rival when you both pop your hatches after a mutual kill

Finished a major Lancer commission batch a couple months ago

It's Treasure Planet Birthday Day

Time to drown you in concept art, thank me later.

Visual development for Treasure Planet (2002) by Michael Spooner

Concept art for Treasure Planet (2002)

Low poly in enormous quotation marks 🥰

(Gonna try to optimise her poly count a little bit, but I'm getting pulled away from my computer for the weekend...)

Mensis

to whom it may concern: that sword of damocles hangs

Antigreen

thanks for responding to my ask! i'd be interested in moodboards for Antigreen, i'd love to find out more about other inspirations for it. (also, is Calliope's last name an intentional reference to mondegreens?)

Alright fasten your iridescent seatbelts because I'm about to ~yap~ about Antigreen (AO3)

First up: what's in a title? Food (flavor) colouring, for one:

Quarks are the fundamental building blocks of matter, and there's six flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top (formerly truth), and bottom (formerly beauty). They all carry colour charge, which can be red, green, or blue, or for antiquarks their opposites: antired (cyan), antigreen (magenta), antiblue (yellow). The core six in AG (Callie, Ettie, Sawyer, Annette, Erika, Michael) all get a color and a quark each. (Which is which is left as an exercise to the reader lol)

Magenta is most interesting to me because it's not a spectral color: it's the only one of the six that's not monochromatic, or 'real', it's an illusion we perceive when something has high amounts of both red and blue light.

The visible spectrum: you won't find pink here!

That's the kind of dichotomy I was going for with 'Antigreen': the word evokes both greenness (the Earth, growth, but also stagnation, a toxic color that often meant death ) and antigreenness (pink, irreality, something unnatural and alien). It's the perfect word to marry the two together; it represents CalliEttie themselves to me!

Pink/magenta also has a history of being used to represent the titular Colour Out of Space, one of Lovecraft's better short stories, about an unnatural alien hue that arrives on Earth. It's used this way in a few adaptations, below which is a gif from the 2019 film version:

(The Colour Out of Space, 2019, IMDB)

Pink is used for various eldritch stuff in other media too, once you notice it once you kinda start to see it everywhere, beware...

The 2019 Colour is good, but I honestly think Annihilation (2018) is a better expression of similar ideas. It concerns a group of women investigating a meteorite that's landed at a lighthouse and is slowly warping the surrounding area:

(Annihilation, 2018, IMDB)

Shit does indeed get warped as fuck; I recommend.

Annihilation has some really great examples of the Gothic sublime . Think glimpsing a tidal wave, staring up at a mountain, or being on the edge of a black hole. Something so great and terrible that it overwhelms the senses, the kind of awful beauty that brings tears to your eye, and can't be easily described in words.

That's what cosmic horror's all about! imo, anyway: Antigreen is about what happens when a(sapphic)n earthly and unearthly realm meet, and I've hopefully made Esther seem suitably sublime.

Anyway that's the inspo behind the title, and why Esther's strongly associated with the color pink (of my made-up/constructed color names, nemaphlox would be the applicable one I guess).

I'd leave it here for now, with plans to do another of these for Callie and Ettie, but I have to also answer your question: (remember that? It was so long ago and so many pixels above, sorry)

> Is Calliope's last name an intentional reference to mondegreens?

Yep, again, spot on! A mondegreen is the English term for misheard lyrics, and is autological: it describes itself. I swapped the last two letters, making Mondegrene, for a few reasons:

- obscures the origin to make a slightly more plausible surname

- enables various bad French calembours like mond de grené ("grainy world", fitting for a little speck like Calliope). Disclaimer: I rather suck at French

- also similar to French grenade (pomegranate), a fruit with very gay associations

Lastly (I promise!) I'll link the cover art I had made with the ambigram I designed. The swirls are intended to evoke tracks in particle-detecting cloud chambers!

Thanks for putting up with this~ I will do more of these if people enjoy them!

Eldritch yuri

Yeah

i had a dream i went to magical idol school and i got in trouble with the cops so the rest of the dream was me, a magical girl, running from the cops.

Every bisexual F/M couples be like

They are so fun to draw 🐐

Much like how old slasher flicks made it clear you could enjoy watching teens getting slashed by having them slut it up premaritally, Worm makes it clear you can enjoy watching the Travellers suffer by showing them play League of Legends

i think part of the appeal of Dungeon Meshi to trans femmes is so many of us have this kinda like, martyr complex? and to see a story where a character sacrifices herself and instead of the other characters going "oh how wonderful of her, we'll remember her for her noble sacrifice!" they go "nope, we're undoing that, we are doing whatever it takes to bring her back" is just

yeah

Do not forget broken glass mother (reddit), or other mother (AO3).

kidnapping a fresh new worm fan and putting them in a padded cell so i can observe them and see if they prefer cloth mother (wormblr) or wire mother (spacebattles)

As many have said he's a nerdy awkward loser with a bit of a crush on Taylor and more enthusiasm than sense, or empathy, or intelligence.

Which describes most spacebattlers.

Like he has little in the way of chararization beyond being like that so he's easy to project on, and easy to write for (write what you know and all that).

In a cast of people who atleast have refernece to haveing deeper problems and personalities, his greatest struggle is that he's bad at social shit. So he makes for a good everyman protag to throw in the deep end.

Like, I am a spacebattler, I got my start in the worm fandom on spacebattles and its offshoots, but there's so much on those sites that just baffle me to no end.

we need to take greg veder away from spacebattles and anyone who writes fanfic

[ Devour ]

marcille really feels like a worm cape in a sense, her biggest trauma is related to death and losing her friends and family to different lifespans and so now in the dungeon she is bound to constantly see her friends die over and over, but its ok! her power allows her to keep bringing them back over and over! just so that they can keep on dying, over and over.

its ok, this is ok

happy birthday geto

mood

Comic idea about a Knight who is the personal guard and lover to the kingdoms princess, attempts to stop an assassination and is turned into a lil goblin girl, scourge of the nation.

Chased from the castle as the suspected assassin she is brought into a nearby tribe of goblins, she must infiltrate the kingdom, and get to the princess, before the next attempt on her life.

The goblin tribe names her twig.

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you're a loser, baby, a loser, goddamn baby