#blyndeffswap au

[tunaf1sk]

Do you have access to a copy of the epithet art book yet? Lorelai's section in particular has a lot of interesting context about the character designs of the Blyndeff family that could be useful for the Blyndeffswap AU. For example, each Blyndeff is represented by a color, in Molly's hair. This is why pink is the least prominent of the colors in the designs of the other family members. I think it would be interesting if, in Blyndeffswap, they had more pink and less yellow.

Currently I don't have the art book (this ask was actually the first place I'd heard it was even out) but it would be fun to have in the future! As for the color thing, I actually had a hunch that it might be the case and designed the Blyndeffswap versions to always wear some amount of their designated color (Lorelai always wears at least some purple, Molly always green, and Calliope always pink or fuschia).

This is also as good an excuse as any to share the concept art I've made for the Blyndeffswap "soft reboot" (don't know what else to call it).

(These images were drawn over a few weeks, hence the difference in style between them. Calliope's was more a proof of concept than anything else)

It wasn't very intentional, but Lorelai is the only one here to wear any substantial amount of yellow, albeit as an accent color. Maybe that could also work in one way, with Lorelai being Martin's "successor" in a sense?

#my doodles #asks #I hope the notes aren't too small to read... #epithet erased #molly blyndeff #lorelai blyndeff #calliope blyndeff #blyndeffswap au #that soft reboot that may or may not ever get finished

[solarvh]

since its AU day of epithet week, I wanna post an AU we made a while ago. It's a swap AU but like different from Epithet Swap i swear. It would be apt to call it something like an anime campaign swap but its not really that either since all the character changes carry over from epithet? It's a weird grey zone between anime campaign and epithet erased so I decided to name it Sugar Cookie Shuffle. yknow because the working title for epithet erased was Sugar Cookie Jazz, which is kinda like an in between of anime campaign and epithet erased.

ok so Sugar Cookie Shuffle is a swap AU that swaps:

Molly and Lorelai Calliope and Martin Giovanni and Rick Sylvie and Mera Indus and Moot Percy and Howie Ramsey and Zora Trixie and Feenie Charles and Guile Dan Gansley and Don Infusio Naven and Yoomtah

lets go over each of these in no particular order

Zora and Ramsey Zora is gonna stay a cowboy but is now an Only Sane Man archetype, the combination of which is extremely funny. Ramsey is now a Suit Villain, which means he's gonna always look like this and thats cool as fuck because LOOK AT HIM

epithet swapped made ramsey into a cowboy and made zora into not a cowboy and that is a travesty. Ramsey is basically built to be a Suit Villain. also suits are cool and hot and i love them.

in place of turning Bugsly into a baby, Ramsey just fucking turns Arnold to gold.

Sylvie and Mera in anime campaign, sylvie had a murderous hatred of mera and mera did not give a single shit about him. That dynamic is good actually. In Sugar Cookie Shuffle, Sylvester Ashling is a genius with intense narcolepsy caused by his epithet. He slept through 60% of university and only barely failed to get a doctorate. He's very salty about that and wants to get the Arsene Amulet to research it but also blah blah blah Mera backstory also since beefton was awake when sylvie was asleep, he's just as much of a genius as his waking self. Just more prone to destruction because its fun.

Mera is physician who wants to research epithets' passive effects on biological processes. has a Napoleon complex. slightly just kinda pathetic.

Indus and Moot Moot is Sylvie's bodyguard to protect/hide him whenever he falls asleep due to narcolpsy. also to protect the people around him because he passively turns his dreams real and like doctor beefton and whatnot. She's also looking for her brother Indus because blah blah blah Indus backstory

Indus is edgy now. His barriers have spikes because hes edgy.

Guile and Charles Guile just can't keep friends because he always feels the urge to shoot them.

Charles is on the Gaslight gatekeep girlboss grind and intentionally gets into relationships and then emotionally destroys them Like in AC, they still manage to have a good friendship despite all the issues with themselves. Charles has a soft spot for utterly hopeless people and that's how she stays friends with Guile and Mera.

Molly and Lorelai + Calliope and Martin Martin dies in this one instead of Calliope Molly is better about it. Lorelai is worse about it. (blyndeffswap AU is basically this premise but done well) Calliope and Martin balance each other out so instead of Martin's braindead idiocy an Molly having to do everything, its Calliope's breakneck efficiency and Lorelai not being able to keep up. to parallel Molly being depressing and cynical, Lorelai is like monumentally morbid. She has creation powers and uses them in the most fucked up ways possible. "My parents are ghosts! DEAD GHOSTS! Feel bad now?" "My dads a ghost! Look here he is!" Makes a fucked up dad ghost "hiiii lorrieeeee"

Phoenica and Trixie Trixie Roughhouse is from a line of dastardly sorcerers, villains, and knaves. also Trixie is also constantly haunted by ghosts and stuff. Phoenica's still rich but like uhhh. idk ok?

(on the topic of neo trio and lorelai i genuinely dont know what ages they should be. like should molly and lorelai switch ages? should the neo trio stay with molly or should they be lorelai's friend group now? splitting the neo trio feels wrong and I cant't think of a good answer.)

Giovanni and Rick Rick likes friends and the boys are his friends. :) Giovanni uhh. Primordial... Soup? wait he's not ocean race uhh. Roughhouse family villainy? we worked on this AU over one night ok we can't flesh out every swap.

Percy and Howie obvious swap is obvious. we didn't really work on this much. instead of turning percy's sword into time death blade, ramsey turns howie's wrench to gold and manipulates it in mid air to make a magic boomerang.

Naven and Yoomtah obvious swap is obvious, we didn't really work on this much.

Dan Gansley and Don Infusio Dan Gansley and Don Infusio

link to spoiler add on

link to part 2

#epithet erased #anime campaign #epithet week #sugar cookie shuffle #i guess?

[days-light]

Blyndeffswap Molly from @tunaf1sk's au!

#day makes stuff #my art #epithet erased #molly blyndeff #ee molly #epithet erased molly #blyndeffswap au

[tunaf1sk]

A fast little doodle of Blyndeffswap!Lorelai and Molly looking uncharacteristically happy - because this AU has been around for a year now! Thank you so much to everyone who’s been interested, all your nice comments and questions have always brought a smile to my face :D

#my doodles #epithet erased #lorelai blyndeff #Molly Blyndeff #blyndeffswap au #I really wanted to do something a bit more involved for today but this was all I had the energy to draw... #I feel kinda bad that it's been a whole year and I still don't have anything more substantial to show for this AU than character designs #But I just haven't had the time or energy to work on it due to a lot of different life factors #couple that with the fact that there's like 30 other things I also want to work on and it definitely ended up on the back burner #I might pick up the pace more once PoP comes out but we'll see!

[tunaf1sk]

Epithet Week Day 7: Alternate Universe

I felt I had to do something Blyndeffswap-related for this one, so here’s something inspired by the S1 opening! 

#my doodles #epithet week #lorelai blyndeff #calliope blyndeff #giovanni potage #molly blyndeff #sylvester ashling #blyndeffswap au #epithet erased #Thanks to art block I spent way too long on it but despite the effort I don't like the end result enough to tag it as 'my art'

[tunaf1sk]

Yet another redesign of Blyndeffswap!Lorelai, with some notes and doodles. 

#my art #epithet erased #blyndeffswap au #lorelai blyndeff #what bugged me most about her old design was the color scheme #I think these softer colors fit much better! #I kept the shoes and pompoms mostly the same because I liked them enough #This is the third post in a row that has just been a girl standing still in a void... I promise I know how to make better compositions #and yeah also spoilers for that fic that may or may not ever get published; Lorelai threatens Ben with a sword

[tunaf1sk]

Blyndeffswap Lori uses her epithet to take over Martins job as toymaker. Lori wants to contribute by coming up with new ideas but Calliope claims that it makes more sense to mass produce whatever stock tends to sell well. Lori interprets this as Calliope thinking her ideas are bad and it hurts her feelings.

My idea was kind of the opposite of this in some ways. Lorelai’s problem lies less in Calliope not appreciating her ideas, and more in Calliope expecting her to work non-stop. The Blyndeff household runs on a pretty strict schedule with every day fully planned out, and most of Lorelai’s schedule is just... work (with the occasional break for studying and the even more occasional day off). Molly is fine with their days being planned out like that, but it just adds to Lori’s stress as she feels she can’t keep up.

While Lorelai is good at making toys, she’s not as fast and talented as Martin was, which leads to her feeling deeply inadequate as Calliope (and she herself, to an extent) expects her to be able to meet that standard anyway while also keeping up with school and anything else that might be happening that week. With an epithet like hers it should be easy, right?

She does use her epithet to speed up the process of toymaking, but can’t just use it to summon them fully made out of thin air. Being epithet summons they’d eventually dissipate when Lorelai runs out of energy to keep them active, and selling things that eventually just stop existing without warning is probably not a viable business model. 

#asks #blyndeffswap au #Sorry for answering this so late #This week has been very hectic for me and I haven't had the time or energy to really do much #Also look forward to all of this getting rewritten once PoP comes out and it turns out I've been way off with everyone's characterizations!

[tunaf1sk]

I guess this is an announcement post, which is new for me but that I hope will make sense...

Due to real life circumstances and a simple loss of interest on my part I will be putting development of the Blyndeffswap AU on an indefinite hold. This isn't to say that I'll never post about it again, just that it won't be a focus anymore.

This might not be announcement-worthy, but I don't want to leave anyone who followed me for this AU in the dark as to why posts about it have slowed down so much. I greatly appreciate all the comments and asks I have gotten about Blyndeffswap, they've all made me very happy! I just don't have the time or energy to continue it right now. I hope that's understandable.

#Again I am very thankful for the support and am sorry if this is disappointing to hear #I also want to pivot away from fanart and towards more original art in the future... or at least to different fanart #The AU was already kind of operating on a 'whenever I feel like it' update schedule but I just don't 'feel like it' much anymore

[tunaf1sk]

Bad memes for my dumb cartoon AU pt. 2: This time they’re even worse

#my doodles #epithet erased au #blyndeffswap au #Molly Blyndeff #lorelai blyndeff #Phoenica Fleecity #trixie roughouse #giovanni potage #every time I draw I stare deeper into the abyss #epithet erased

[tunaf1sk]

“What if Molly somehow met Blyndeffswap!Lorelai?”- a scenario that has been been rattling around in my brain for basically as long as the AU has existed. They’d probably have a lot to talk about.

#epithet erased #blyndeffswap au #Molly Blyndeff #lorelai blyndeff #god this is EXTREMELY self indulgent and very cringe I'm sorry #ft. this poor excuse for a background #also bds!Lori has gotten yet another redesign! R.I.P. to her purple jorts #they've been replaced by a jirt #my doodles

[tunaf1sk]

*makes bad memes for my dumb internet cartoon AU*

(edit: A lot of this is kind of outdated now...)

#my doodles #shitpost #blyndeffswap au #Phoenica Fleecity #trixie roughouse #Molly Blyndeff #lorelai blyndeff #giovanni potage #I'm just assuming ee lorelai has the same epithet that she had in ac and that it can do basically the same things #in this au it acts up whenever she gets too stressed which is. often. #epithet erased #epithet erased spoilers #ee spoilers #sort of #I don't know if anyone's actually invested in this au but uhhh

[tunaf1sk]

Mean girl Molly™

Fun fact: The Swedish word for “dumb” (”dum”) has the same meanings as its English cognate (stupid and, archaically, unable to speak) but it can also mean “mean” (as in “mean-spirited”).

Using “dum” instead of “elak” (the other word for “mean” or “ill-willed”) is considered pretty childish though.

#my art #epithet erased #blyndeffswap au #Molly Blyndeff #sorry for the only vaguely related language lesson #I have no idea how to caption things.... #my doodles #this also counts as that

[tunaf1sk]

I redesigned Blyndeffswap!Trixie, because I wasn’t really happy with their design. 

#my doodles #epithet erased #trixie roughouse #blyndeffswap au

[tunaf1sk]

A ref sheet for Blyndeffswap!Lori, featuring a slightly updated design (specifically of her museum arc look), some stats, and my futile attempts to work out how her hair works.

She’s in dire need of a day off.

(Edit: Stats listed here no longer apply. I haven’t worked them out exactly yet, but in an attempt to be a bit more canon compliant her stats have been boosted around the board, although none of them are orbit-level. Her creativity is now 5, at least.)

#blyndeffswap au #my art #Epithet Erased #epithet erased au #lorelai blyndeff #the best way to nerf a character with a potentially story-breaking power is to just. nerf their stamina into oblivion #her hair here is mostly based on how I intrepreted her appearance on the cover of PoP but like everything else it's subject to future change

[tunaf1sk]

Team Troubled Teen Tornado™ or “They needed a catchier name than ‘Blyndeffswap!Museum Trio’”

(I’m kind of breaking my own rules here, since Sylvie and Giovanni don’t have any relation to the Blyndeff family at the start of the series they probably shouldn’t get any alternate designs, but I’ll just say it’s because of the butterfly effect or something)

#Can you tell I basically never draw Sylvie and Gio? #my art #sylvester ashling #lorelai blyndeff #giovanni potage #I just realized that in most of the drawings I've posted of her bds!Lori has a nervous 'oh dear god please help me' smile #lineless art #epithet erased #blyndeffswap au #Giovanni wears sunglasses. indoors. at night.

[tunaf1sk]

Sprite edits of the blyndeffswap!Neo Trio! I’m not very satisfied with them.

(Also, what do braids look like in the EE art style?)

#and also shoelaces. What do they look like #because as far as I can remember not a single character in all of ee actually has shoelaces. Smart move by the art team in that case #anyways behold these horrible garbage children #my art #epithet erased #Molly Blyndeff #trixie roughouse #Phoenica Fleecity #blyndeffswap au #Molly doesn't have any especially dynamic poses so she's just standing