#Seven Years In Darkness

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Who is Josif? Find out that and more in May from CEX

Who is Josif? Find out that and more in May from CEX #comics #comicbooks @CEXPublishing

JOSIF 1957 #1 Written by DAVIDE BARZIIllustrated by FABIANO AMBUCover B FABIANO AMBUCover C FABIANO AMBURetailer Price: $6.99On Sale 5/31 Debuting the work of Italian superstar artist Fabiano Ambu! You know about Laika, the Cosmonaut dog sent into orbit on Sputnik 2. But no one knows about JOSIF, the first gorilla in space! Born on Josif Stalin’s birthday and subjected to terrible genetic…

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#atung yupas #ben templesmith #cex publishing #chang sheng #chris paliqaw #comic books #Comics #davide barzi #den beauvais #fabiano ambu #gordon derry #graphic novel #graphic novels #joseph schmalke #josif 1957 #northern steele #outland entertainment #scott schmidt #seven years in darkness #slobodan jovanic #the first three #warlock 5

[asscrasher]

Seven Years In Darkness. It’s Harry Potter, but good! Gorgeous illustrations accompanying this story following first year students at an academy for black magic. Ritual occultists will love this one, the creator did his homework. I had my copy of the Goetia on hand while reading!

#comics are good for your soul #Seven Years In Darkness #comics #CEX #Goetia #Magic #Glasya-Labolas

[deep-dark-fears]

Hi folks, it’s been a while. Here’s a fear submitted by Achintha to deepdarkfears.com/submit - thank you! Looking for a holiday gift for the friendly weirdos in your life? You can find original artwork in my Etsy store! CLICK HERE to check ‘em out. Thanks!

#comics #Deep Dark Fears #deepdarkfears #Fran Krause #scary #fear #artists on tumblr #Sorry folks I know I haven't posted in a few months things have been crazy busy #the truth is that I've continued to do this comic every week for a newspaper in Burlington VT called Seven Days #So I have a bunch to post over the next few weeks #I hope you're all having a lovely holiday! #In three weeks #I'll have been making this comic for ten years! Yikes!

[floridageekscene]

Meet Scout/Black Caravan Artist Joseph Schmalke At The Lake County Comic Convention!

Meet Scout/Black Caravan Artist Joseph Schmalke At The Lake County Comic Convention!

Get ready pop culture fans! The Lake County Comic Convention is back for 2022! This year’s show has over 75 vendor booths and comic book guests! We are happy to have Scout/Black Caravan comic creator and horror comic artist Joseph Schmalke at this years show. Joseph Schmalke works on many titles including Cherry Blackbird, Murder Hobo, Phantom Starkiller, Seven Years In Darkness, The Electric…

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#2022 #Black Caravan #Cherry Blackbird #Florida #Groveland #Joseph Schmalke #Lake County Comic Con #Lake County Comic Convention #Murder Hobo #Phantom Starkiller #Scout Comics #Seven Years In Darkness #The Electric Black #The Infernal Pact #We Don&039;t Kill Spiders

[essektheylyss]

You know what's hilarious, if Ludinus was indeed a young man being traumatized by the end of the Calamity. Deirta Thelyss is almost certainly older than he is.

This is not relevant but I think Essek should bring this up, just to be a bitch about it.

#for the purposes of showing my work: a beacon was found by leylas kryn 1200 years ago. #she was considered enough of a cultural leader or influence to convince people to follow her ergo likely an adult of some standing. #the other umavi of the ruling dens (aka deirta and abrianna) are suggested to have been around at the time as well #ludinus would be at most 1000 years old. they're all like. at LEAST 1400 mentally if not physically. #and that's the LOW estimate #as always how long was the calamity. are the umavi actually pre-calamity. that would be SO funny to me. #(pre-calamity and pre-divergence are different for the record.) #ludinus da'leth ain't SHIT #leylas kryn escaped lolth lived through the calamity and has gone through seven rebirths. ludinus WISHES #if ANYONE deserves to have beef with lolth it's leylas kryn for the record. I mean she does. canonically. BUT HERS IS MOST VALID #anyway as always the dynasty best country <3 #if there are 99 ludinus haters I'm one of them if there's one it's me if there are none I've left this earth etc etc #he's just SO fun to hate and I do not respect him in the slightest nor do I think he deserves respect or validation. #I think he should get fucking sucked into a dark star and never be heard from again xoxo :3 #cr spoilers #essek thelyss

[mitskiluvr]

replaying mystic messenger is so crazy because why am i gentle parenting these grown men and teaching them how to handle their feelings

#mystic messenger #mysme #jumin han #saeyoung choi #this post is mainly about those two #i get so mad whenever jumin enters a chatroom like get out of my face im not joking I DO NOT LIKE YOU #like i get it blah blah blah CEO with a cold heart trope and you melt his icy exterior But im so tired... #i don't want to explain workers rights to him #or... basic human rights actually #when he goes “jaehee i need you to work overtime again” and my face contorts in disgust and horror as a sitcom laugh track plays in the bac #also seven's route is so frustrating #like there's genuine reasons for him acting cold and whatever and i get it #but i actually dont want to watch you break a robot cat and then change ur pfp to a dark and broody photo of yourself #I ALSO CANT TALK TO ZEN IM SORRY I HATE HIM SO MUCH #zen lovers do not hate me... i am just a simple person #at one point in seven's route he was like “omg there's an explosive in the apartment? i should send a pic of myself to comfort you...” #I CANNOT HANDLE YOU GO LOG OFF YOUR PHONE #sorry wow im really into this game #i played it four years ago and now it's come back to me #also all of my points are nullified by the fact that saeran is my favorite #doing his route is like pulling teeth and eating socks #i say that with love

[metathemeta-art]

very much inspired by this comic which I adore!! anyway hi yes. them

(bonus silly followup under the cut!!)

#please ignore the cropping and anatomy mistakes #I do so many more sketches than finished pieces so #trying to force myself to post some unfinished stuff!! #so I don't just go dark for seven thousand years!! lmao #YEAH anyway hi dca fandom going to try and be a bit more active now #art #artists on tumblr #my art #sketches #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf daycare attendant #sundrop #moondrop #sun x reader #?? kinda #that's just me but it still counts I think #moon x reader #sun x oc #moon x oc #IF YOU KNOW ME IN REAL LIFE. NO YOU DO NOT

[thereignwolf]

"we love our tragedies

we're both broken in our own little ways

we're broken, but we fit together just right

you know i saw the black inside your eyes

i saw they were eclipsed by mine

and they looked just right"

eclipsed -- evans blue

#my art #oc art #seven axton #vincent javier reyes #sweet jesus those tattoos took me ten years #he's even more edgelord in the dark au #actually really proud of this piece and i guess i can render now kinda? idk i just work here #credit to my beautiful baby girl for helping me pick out references for the tattoos and giving me ideas #the scorpion was necessary

[gigglygloatinggremlin]

I don't know if anyone's still alive here, but way back when I still cared about OUAT, I had a little AU cooking where Rumplestiltskin adopted Zelena.

Do I have your attention? Good. So remember when Cora swindled Rumpel into changing her payment in the contract from HER first-born to THEIR first-born? What if he DIDN'T though?

Cora's first-born is not Regina.

So he's standing there absoltely baffled when a ginger toddler appears in his castle. He checks what's up. Is this thing working? Why yes, his magic mumbo-jumbo responds. That's your payment, Cora's first-born. Take it or leave it. So he takes her in.

Zelena proves to be a promising witch anyway, so it's cool, but still stings.

What this accomplishes for Zelena as a character is that her whole thing with Rumpel is no longer projecting her daddy issues onto him, it's her BEEFING with her actual DAD.

Because surprise, surprise, you stupid reptile! You are still the most important person in her life, thus, for the curse to work she has to take YOU out.

I mean he tries to prevent that, he really does. But her mother did sell her to Rumpel even if she had actively tried to prevent that. Her actual father is probably dead in a ditch. Her previous adoptive father hates her. And her sister is a literal princess being raised by both of her parents. Even if it isn't Regina's fault she seemingly had it better from the start (it's very hard to write this with a straight face, but as far as Zelena's concerned, that's the truth), in Zelena's heart, her sister can't compete with the man who raised her.

So Rumpelstiltskin does what Rumpelstiltskin does best and drops her like a hot potato. And on the next day Rumpel starts coaching Regina.

Great, now she's green.

Also, Zelena knows why her dad needs that stupid portal, in my mind she's grown up on stories of her older brother, lost and alone in a cruel magicless (gasp!) dimension, and how they need to find and save him. And in all her teenage overcompensating glory, Zelena decides to look for Baelfire herself. Then Rumpel will see how great of a daughter she is, and that she totally won't have to commit patricide, and she, her dad, big brother and magic will all live happily ever after.

Zelena goes to the different worlds she does have access to, which leads her to Oz, because why is it that they can hop between these worlds and not to the one Baelfire is in? Maybe if she goes to Oz this time, from there she'll find a path to another world, and from that one to another, and if she keeps hopping between different dimensions, she'll come across the right one. After all, the wizard of the Emerald City is from there. He got there somehow, if she could just figure out how, then she's golden.

But then the whole thing with Glinda happens, and it is not pretty. Zelena's had eighteen or so years of direct exposure to magic and Rumpel's rancid vibes, she should have grown up absolutely vicious in this AU. I want her to drag Glinda and read her for filth. Like, what do you mean "Dorothy must have powerful magic to have defeated an evil witch?" When a house falls down on you, you die, it's basic physics! This is a child that is lost, she is not interested in your sorceress secret society, she wants to go back to Kansas, lady! So you always wanted to get rid of the Wizard, huh? Well, why didn't you?

(Glinda in this show to this day makes me so irrationally mad. What on Earth was that storyline?)

The obvious parallels between how she was treated by Glinda and has been treated by Rumpel give Zelena a reality check and upon returning to Rumpel's castle, no closer to finding Baelfire than she had been before leaving, Zelena has an explosive argument with her adoptive dad. Zelena takes out the RECEIPTS that have been piling up throughout her teenagehood. The argument ends with her yelling that Baelfire is so hard to reach now, because he just wanted to get away from Rumpel that badly.

Zelena’s officially disowned, but still alive, so that's cool.

Zelena takes permanent residence in Oz and stews in her misery. The only thing that can make her feel better is making her dad’s life harder. She probably meddles in his relationship with Belle a lot. Maybe she even gathers the courage to try and connect with Regina.

Speaking of vulnerable young women who lost their safety net and are at the mercy of powerful geriatric men.

Hades enters!

Now, you’ve lasted this long, but I’m gonna ask you for some more patience.

Hades in this AU is just a Little closer to the source material.

And by that I mean he asks a woman’s father for her hand and then kidnaps her.

You cannot tell me Rumpel wouldn’t have agreed immediately. Zelena can be and has been enough of a nuisance and an outright obstacle to his plans that he’d want her OUT of the picture no matter what means he has to take.

Now she’s trapped in the Underworld, tricked into eating the pomegranate seeds, biting her tongue lest her dear husband has the bright idea to spike her wine with Lethe water. His family is SO WEIRD, her sister-in-law offers to adopt her because of a loophole that would let her see sunlight for half a year, but her brother-in-law WILL try to seduce or rape her if they’re ever left alone together and her father-in-law keeps moaning in her and her husband’s basement. “Sure, honey, I will help you overthrow your creep of a brother. Of course, you’ll take the throne. Who else? Your bajillion nieces and nephews that have been eyeing the position for millennia? Pfft, you’re so funny, darling.”

Speaking of family. Sitting side by side, they judge her birth mother and her adoptive brother she’d never got to meet. Both leave her unmoored and emotional, but in completely different ways. Maybe she gets closure with them, maybe she doesn’t. Time goes by, and Zelena dreads there won’t be any familiar faces left to see at the trial.

Finally, she sees her father there. And her husband thinks she’s excited to punish him, but, in reality, Zelena knows Rumpelstiltskin. He will not be staying dead for long. This is her chance to escape. Then she can kill him again.

In conclusion, Zelena obliterating Hades with a lightning bolt is less of a sacrifice and more of a divorce in this AU. I want her to be a mirror to Regina after the gang rescues her in a way that Zelena is a great sister, but she’s still evil. I know that’s basically canon by the end of the series, but imagine the opportunities of this dynamic if it had only 15% of its canonical emotional baggage. The absolute chaos of it. Wait, does that make her Henry’s aunt times two?

Do you see the vision now?

Did the vision come to me when I was re-watching St Trinian's and heard the snootiest, brattiest, most British "Daddy" in all cinema history? Yes, it did.

#i just realized that these zelena and rumpel are basically rothbart and odile #in other words this au has not been cooking for almost seven years for nothing I am proud of myself #the dark one’s daughter au #the better zelena’s relationship is at the moment the more gold she’s wearing #like uh oh your daughter’s wearing a silver necklace today mr gold what did you do this time? #this is my first last and only contribution to this fandom I hope it’s as cursed as I intended it to be #zelena mills #rumplestiltskin #mr gold #ouat #once upon a time

[taylortruther]

shower thought in tags

#do y'all think there's any relation to 'peaked at seven' and 'twenty year dark night'? #has this been discussed already #seven #daylight

[nano-blob]

oh man i REALLY need to get some refs for my ava/m human designs up anyway

here is a very old somft human dark and chosen self indulgence doodle. does blob have an explanation for this? the answer may surprise you! (the answer is no)

(actually the answer is i think they'd both be touch starved and i want to see them hug,,,,)

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#[blob art] #animator vs animation #ava the dark lord #ava the chosen one #alan becker #uhhh does this count as ship art?? ngl i just simply think they need to get cuddles hsgshsjs #*rubs my little gremlin raccoon paws together* TIME TO SPREAD THE PRETTY CHOSEN AGENDA OHOHOHO #i am a little the art blocked rn so. posting old art my beloved #seven years.... real

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Get a look at the covers to Joseph Schmalke's Seven Years of Darkness!

Get a look at the covers to Joseph Schmalke's Seven Years of Darkness! #comics #comicbooks

Joseph Schmalke and CEX Publishing are launching a new series: Seven Years in Darkness. Seven Years of Darkness tells the story of the first group of students to enter a wizarding school in over a hundred years. 72 children are selected for the new class, but only seven will graduate, alive. Joseph Schmalke is the Co-Publisher of Black Caravan and a comics creator, writer, and illustrator…

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#bill sienkiewicz #cex publishing #comic books #Comics #joseph schmalke #seven years in darkness #seven years of darkness

[fooltofancy]

wanna bg3 so so so badly but there are so many things i need to work on before i can play without guilt, not to mention head hurty enough that i cant even do THOSE things

#i want to take like three days off to play SO BADLY but i just technically took like seven days off and i canttttttttt #v petty complaint ahead but it sure is frustrating to have waited for three years for it to have come out at literally the worst time #for me personally #dont need a vacation from my vacation but i DO need a vacation from my brain #or perhaps a lobotomy #clearly still the vin complains abt stupid nonsense blog so essentially nothing has changed im sorry #have called the pharmacy and taken the meds so hopefully like three hours dark room will mean i can finish this commission later #hell or high fuckin water

[deep-dark-fears]

You can be smoothie. A fear submitted by Felix to Deep Dark Fears - thanks! You can find original art in my store over HERE!

#comics #Deep Dark Fears #Fran Krause #fears #blender #So here's the story #folks. #It's been a crazy couple years #and I haven't been posting every week like I used to. #But the truth is that I've still been doing this comic every single week. #It's published in a paper out in Vermont called Seven Days - Hi Jeff! #Anyhow - I haven't been posting it online because I've just been very busy the past year or so #But this week I've finally gotten around to formatting all these comics and I'm going to see what happens when I publish a year's worth #in a few days. #Who knows? #Hope you're all well! #Your pal - Fran

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#things in my life are actually getting better #but i don't really know how to cope with that because it's been about seven years since anything really good has come my way and i #i am freaking out #i might be having a mid-life crisis a little early #i'm a year behind but some of the BIG plots I've been scheming and dreaming of are finally about to come to fruition #and i cannot be even remotely normal about it #i feel like i'm paralyzed #i am so so scared of everything right now #i just want to hide myself in a dark corner and never have to see a single person ever again #it's not the first step on the path #but it's the first one where the end goal is FINALLY in sight and i have worked SO HARD for this for five years #(but really seven because for two years just hanging in there and not dying was harder than any of the work) #now that my goal is within my grasp #real and tangible #i don't really know what to do with myself #it's terrifying #and exciting #i feel like i can do anything but also like i'm going to crash and burn #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh