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Thirsty Sword Lesbians

Tharash: who wants to play Thirsty Sword Lesbians?
me: ME APPARENTLY

So I drew some characters! Very sloppy and quick (don’t talk to me about the fencer’s arms >.>) On the left is the design for Lady Erzabet Penelope Flora van Dietrich y Vasquez du Lac (she/her, lesbian), who is named in the vein of Percival de Rolo from Vox Machina. I intend her to be a Devoted class (we don’t even have the rulebook yet, I was just looking at the free class pdfs), as the class flavour text really appealed to me. Her personality is inspired by Kashima from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun – the prince-type with a million fangirls, who flirts outrageously with said fangirls, and yet only has eyes for one special person. Erzabet loves lilies and always makes sure to have several on hand to throw dramatically. Continue reading

Captain Guillaume

I actually drew something this winter; I drew a picture of a possible NPC for our campaign – a half-elf swashbuckler rogue named Captain Guillaume. I think he’s a pirate. He dual-wields rapiers and has a sailing ship, I know that much. His face is based off Clementine Delauney of Visions of Atlantis, because he needs to be HOT, and his outfit is based off google-searching for Italian Renaissance doublets because he needs to be stylish. Unconvinced by the colour scheme, if you have other suggestions for outfit colours let me know and I’ll try them if I ever draw him again.

A little bit rushed (but still pleased with it ’cause it’s pretty good for my current state of burn-out); it was a Christmas gift for my best friend the DM who would eventually be playing this character.

Fanservice Day 2021: Reid

So it’s April 1st which traditionally (in my part of the Internet, thanks to Aja of True Magic) means fanservice… But I’ve been so busy with the music Festival that I haven’t had much thought for drawing. (Still writing, but drawing is less my thing these days, you know?)

So I threw together a picture of Reid, my fantasy-Scottish DnD warlock, in his tartan. Looks a bit better than 9 STR, right? Maybe he leveled up and didn’t use STR for a dump stat, even though that would be illogical. (referenced some shirtless dude from a stock image site; he’s super buff because honestly I didn’t know who I was drawing until I was 75% through sketching the outline.) And I listened to some Big Country because they’re Scottish.

Revamped blog!

Hey everyone! Felt like the blog needed tidying. I cleared out a lot of stuff I couldn’t stand to look at anymore (even for posterity) and deleted a lot of teenage whinging because that has nothing to do with art! I’m going to focus this gallery/fiction repository more tightly on what I create rather than my life.

It took me like a week to decide which of WordPress’s themes I was going to tweak into something I could use, but eventually I decided I liked this one. No big banner to get in the way of content, sidebar on the left instead of the right just for something different, and I changed the CSS to make the background more soothing to read for longer periods of time (as I do when I’m editing, or just when I go back to read my own fanfic). I’ve also added easy navigation buttons to the things most people come to see: my travel blogs, and my cosplay.

There’s just a couple of art assets that I haven’t filled in yet, but they’re not essential to the workings of the site so I figured you can have access to my stuff again.

Feel free to comment on what you like or don’t like about the site!

SWTOR class descriptions

Jedi Knight: like Luke Skywalker, but without the whining. Or the charisma. Also involves attacking the Emperor’s secret invisible space fort.

Jedi Consular: spends most of their time curing STDs (Sith-Transmitted Diseases); in their spare time acts as a Wise Counselor who gets ignored mostly.

Republic Trooper: get betrayed by your entire squad defecting to the Empire; track them down for great justice. If you’re a woman, you can pretend you’re playing Commander Shepard. (I am)

Smuggler: “screw the war, I’m gettin’ rich!” (and embarrassing the guy who stole my ship lol) (seriously why is there a head in a jar in my cargo hold)

Sith Warrior: rises to power, betrayed by their master, survives and seeks revenge. Solid story up until you learn the master actually gets his info from a spirit who is a manifestation of the dark side even though he has an extensive spy network.

Sith Inquisitor: former slave who eats Force-ghosts for power-ups, then gets indigestion and has to find a cure before the Force-ghosts kill them. Also the Keeper of Historical Sith Knowledge sometimes when they feel like it.

Bounty Hunter: like Boba Fett, but with more macho chest-pounding.

Imperial Agent: Infiltration! Intrigue! Trying not to die for or by annoying Sith who don’t follow the rules!

 

Basically, Bioware fails to maintain logic, internal or external, whenever the Force is involved.

The Tactician and the Heiress rewrite

Decided to rewrite The Tactician and the Heiress because at this moment it sucks majorly and I’d like to have a better first segment for the story that’s currently culminating in something the quality of Anima’s Seal. I don’t think it will take very long; the chapters are much, much shorter than the ones, say, for Liz’s story, although I will almost certainly expand them greatly because that’s what I do. So… quick writing project, I think, interspersed with videogames because Astebreed is addictive (must get more achievements!).

Liz miniature

I just found this cool site, HeroForge, that lets you design your own minis! I designed Liz right away. More to come because this is pretty neat!

Some other of my better creations:
Zev (to go with Liz, obviously)
Gullac
Rana
Jen
Flairé
And a vague impression of Petrus

I’ve also done figures for Kenshin, Hrulash, and Ceniro, but they’re not very good so you don’t get to see them. : P

Also a baby bunny!

wikiwikiwikiwiki

Just a quick note that I am creating a WIKI. So anything in the character pages about Adhemlenei folks (and geography and culture and anything else) is pretty quickly going to be out of date and if you want anything UP to date you should probably visit the WIKI although I just started it two days ago so there’s not much there and filling it in is quite time-consuming and brain-draining. However, I shall prevail, because it’s super-easy to use and it makes me happy. : ) I am hoping it will enable me to write a coherent plot and possibly construct a series of novels that I’m happy with. I’m already elbow deep in story guts : P the Lost Boys are no longer lost, they were just apprenticed off to different countries because they were being such a pain at home or something. I feel it makes more sense than overly-coincidental pixies.

 

EDIT: I also have a wiki for my group project, over at http://riftedriders.wikidot.com/

Elizabeth Cousland

lizbio

Thought we needed a photo of Liz around here so you guys can see what’s up. She’s wearing the stuff you get from the Of Noble Cast[e] mod, which is a spiffy set of plate armour, plus a nice Highever shield and the Family Sword. I’m still not sure yet how to explain the tattoo in the story. Maybe she was drawing on herself as a little girl and accidentally used permanent ink. : P But given how little Alistair knows about tattoos in his (deleted) banter with Zevran… it’s probably not a common thing in Ferelden. …I’ll think about it.

(anyone else have a problem with Dragon Age’s boob plates? Yay for full armour, boo for ridiculous boob shapes. : P )