Tumgik
#duatstories
kenyizsuartblog · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
2021 Summary of Art
Not my most fruitful year, to be sure, but it's still something! Hopefully next year's art summary will feature more original work too!
Thank you everyone who followed me this year, I hope you enjoyed my uploads! ^^ May we meet here again next year!
Pictures used:
January - Marada of Nowhere
February - A Perfect Venice Night
March - Tripleface page 13
April - Scorching Sun
May - Trying to draw El'druin
June - Weapons for a God page 1
July - Birth of a New Species
August - TFS Sketchdump
September - Skeletor sketch
October - Four Years of That First Spark
November - Coulrophobia
December - He-man 2002 Favorite Evil Warriors
Original template by AsterianMonarch : 2020 Summary of Art Template (Blank)
2021.12.31.
2 notes · View notes
Text
Three Years of Diablo Fanfiction
Hi, everyone!
So, yesterday was the third birthday of my biggest project yet, That First Spark, and well... it kinda got me thinking and reminiscing about the road up to this point. I know most of my Watchers aren't reading the story, or aren't into Diablo in general, so feel free to skip this journal, you won't miss anything. :)
Not gonna lie, I did not realize for the longest time that it has already been three years since I uploaded Chapter 1 onto Fanfiction.net - and back then, it was supposed to be a oneshot! I just had this idea of “wouldn’t it be interesting if Lyndon found Inarius and rescued him somehow?”, and that was it. But right after I’ve uploaded this oneshot, I began brainstorming. Could I spin into an actual long story, was there enough material to do so? Behind the scenes I wrote scenes for practice (some actually made it into the story proper later, if edited), I was trying to map out the general flow of the first arc, and just generally conducting scientific experiments over it. While I am a Discovery Writer, and thus work with the most basic planning possible, I did not want to actually start a story, if there was no viable path for it.
But… there was a path. And here we are now, 3 years and 55 chapters later. 3 very, very weird years.
I branched out to new sites because of this fanfiction, including Tumblr and Archives of Our Own. On Tumblr, I’ve done and still doing my best to create and maintain a well-organized blog with all the necessary information, and I hope to improve on this field down the road. On AO3, my fanfic inspired another writer to make their own story, which makes me so happy and proud I cannot put it into words, honestly! I would have never imagined my work would have this effect on anybody.
I’ve got dragged into a hidden hive of scum and villainy that masquerades as an “accepting and inclusive Diablo community” on Tumblr to this day. They are lying. Go figure. They backstabbed me for no reason (none they bothered to ever mention) at my lowest and left me to bleed out – that almost killed the fanfiction. But I have also met a single virtuous person in that very same ”””community””” who actually practiced what he preaches, and listened and talked to me when all the others were busy conspiring against me. I still consider him a good friend, and I hope he does the same of me. If not, well, that is his business alone. But that experience taught me some very valuable lessons and shaped my worldview to what it is today. And for the record, no, thankfully my worldview is still very far away from “everything sucks and everyone is an asshole”.
My nephew was born in 2018 and he is the cutest kid you can possibly find! I became his godmother too!
I graduated from my architecture university, after 6 years, and began looking for a job. That in on itself had been one hell of a roller coaster. But I’ve settled down in an office and stayed there for over a year now. How long will I stick with this job, and this profession? Hopefully as little time as possible. Architecture did not become my calling.
Diablo 4 was announced in Blizzcon 2019, and I basically went batshit insane when it turned it Lilith will be the main antagonist. There are no words describing my hatred towards that bitch, I cannot wait to wipe the floor with her for good!
I’ve celebrated my 4-year-anniversary with my boyfriend this year. <3
And most surprisingly, this fanfic taught me to maintain my focus and motivation better. In March of this year, I have decided to no longer excuse my truly horrendous uploading schedule away with “shifting inspiration and focus” and other such nonsense, and aimed to have a new chapter out every month. I’ll be honest, I had my doubts if I could have stuck with it, but here we are more than half a year since then and I’m still going strong! This was actually a revelation to me. I’m quite the opposite of the “Unorganized artist” archetype, I live for organization and good day schedules, but for the longest time I had difficulty to stick with a topic for long, or have an actual framework for it. I’ve still not fully knocked this bad habit yet (why hello there, Megaman fancomic I really need to finish…), but just the fact that I could manage to pull it off in one project’s case boosts my confidence in it.
I have improved a lot as a writer, and I cannot wait to continue improving and put all of my experiences from this endeavor to future stories, including DuatStories, and even my own fantasy novel one day, hopefully. Of course there is still a lot for me to learn. The monthly updates and my Discovery Writing style together mean the pacing isn’t all that spot-on, there are important details and information that gets forgotten or come up at a much later time than it was first supposed to, and of course the usual grammatical errors and misspellings. Maybe my next goal should be to learn to plan a story out more in advance! Wouldn’t that be nice. XD
And, well, I know That First Spark is not a super popular story, most of my Watchers don’t read it. And that’s okay! Diablo has a large community but most of it focuses on seasonal plays and builds, so the fanart section gets left behind. This is a fact I have accepted a long time ago and have no real qualms with it. I have fun creating it, and apparently, some people really enjoy it, even if silently. One to the point of being inspired by it! Of course the followers of Belial who cause further division and isolation with their venom do not improve things in this part of the fandom, either. There is no helping that part, all I can do is keep doing what I love doing, and what I love doing is basically drown myself into the lore and use it for a ridiculously long adventure story.
So for everyone who reads this fanfiction, even if you leave no trace behind, I thank you. For your attention, for your time, for your patience. Here’s to years more of running around in Sanctuary like a headless chicken, almost dying every other week and saving the world on the side once per month! Let’s hope I’ll finish this adventure before Diablo 4 comes out ;) I might have a chance for that!
Thank you for reading! And remember, guys.
Everything is going to be alright.
2020.10.16.
2 notes · View notes
kenyizsuartblog · 3 years
Text
Tumblr media
Fast Sketches 21-06-13 - Ra and Seth
An hour-long sketch about the strongest BroTP within my project DuatStories.
Ra's and Seth's relationship started out incredibly rocky: the sun god had tried his absolute damnest to even prevent Seth and his siblings from being born. However, through a series of unfortunate events and weird twists, the two ended up developing possibly the strongest trusting relationship that even survived such massive nukes like Isis's treachery, or Seth's rebellion against the usurped throne. Seth is not only a body guard to Ra on his nightly journeys, he is among the possibly two or three gods in the entire pantheon to whom Ra can and will open up about his inner struggles. On the other side Ra is not just Seth's king, but also his teacher, his point of origo the desert god can always tether himself to in chaotic times, and (ironically) a father figure in some way.
Ra eventually would gift Seth a was ("power") staff made of the rarest and strongest material of all: ba-en-pet ("stone of heaven") which is known today as meteoric iron. As a result, Seth's was staff is leagues stronger and more durable than any other weapon or tool used by the other gods. It is strong enough to endure the energy of Isfet, Chaos itself flowing through it, should the desert god need to cast a spell.
2021.06.13.
9 notes · View notes
kenyizsuartblog · 3 years
Text
Tumblr media
Commission info!
DuatStories - Scorching Sun
"The rage of Re can be inflicted on a town or land. Thus, when the sun god rages on a land, he expels Maat from it. [...] Thus, he makes law, sanctity and justice cease in this land, and makes values scarce in it. He lets nobody trust in it, he makes great its humble people, and humbles its great people and sets the fools over the wise." - from Divine Wrath in Ancient Egypt by Amgad Joseph
Used this absolutely a-MAAAAAZING art of Lilith, the new main antagonist of Diablo 4, as a reference.
"DuatStories" is a background project of mine, I am planning for an episodic story based on Egyptian Mythology, hopefully in comic form (?) It's been going on for a long while, on and off in the background. I do want to make a tumblr blog for its development, eventually, but that is far off still.
Until then, gaze upon my take on Ra, the sun god. A proud and good king who does have his shortcomings. And heavens help the fool who earns his wrath.
2021.04.11
7 notes · View notes
kenyizsuartblog · 3 years
Text
Three Years of Diablo fanfiction
Hi, everyone!
So, yesterday was the third birthday of my biggest project yet, That First Spark, and well... it kinda got me thinking and reminiscing about the road up to this point. I know most of my Watchers aren't reading the story, or aren't into Diablo in general, so feel free to skip this journal, you won't miss anything. :)
Not gonna lie, I did not realize for the longest time that it has already been three years since I uploaded Chapter 1 onto Fanfiction.net - and back then, it was supposed to be a oneshot! I just had this idea of “wouldn’t it be interesting if Lyndon found Inarius and rescued him somehow?”, and that was it. But right after I’ve uploaded this oneshot, I began brainstorming. Could I spin into an actual long story, was there enough material to do so? Behind the scenes I wrote scenes for practice (some actually made it into the story proper later, if edited), I was trying to map out the general flow of the first arc, and just generally conducting scientific experiments over it. While I am a Discovery Writer, and thus work with the most basic planning possible, I did not want to actually start a story, if there was no viable path for it.
But… there was a path. And here we are now, 3 years and 55 chapters later. 3 very, very weird years.
I branched out to new sites because of this fanfiction, including Tumblr and Archives of Our Own. On Tumblr, I’ve done and still doing my best to create and maintain a well-organized blog with all the necessary information, and I hope to improve on this field down the road. On AO3, my fanfic inspired another writer to make their own story, which makes me so happy and proud I cannot put it into words, honestly! I would have never imagined my work would have this effect on anybody.
I’ve got dragged into a hidden hive of scum and villainy that masquerades as an “accepting and inclusive Diablo community” on Tumblr to this day. They are lying. Go figure. They backstabbed me for no reason (none they bothered to ever mention) at my lowest and left me to bleed out – that almost killed the fanfiction. But I have also met a single virtuous person in that very same ”””community””” who actually practiced what he preaches, and listened and talked to me when all the others were busy conspiring against me. I still consider him a good friend, and I hope he does the same of me. If not, well, that is his business alone. But that experience taught me some very valuable lessons and shaped my worldview to what it is today. And for the record, no, thankfully my worldview is still very far away from “everything sucks and everyone is an asshole”.
My nephew was born in 2018 and he is the cutest kid you can possibly find! I became his godmother too!
I graduated from my architecture university, after 6 years, and began looking for a job. That in on itself had been one hell of a roller coaster. But I’ve settled down in an office and stayed there for over a year now. How long will I stick with this job, and this profession? Hopefully as little time as possible. Architecture did not become my calling.
Diablo 4 was announced in Blizzcon 2019, and I basically went batshit insane when it turned it Lilith will be the main antagonist. There are no words describing my hatred towards that bitch, I cannot wait to wipe the floor with her for good!
I’ve celebrated my 4-year-anniversary with my boyfriend this year. <3
And most surprisingly, this fanfic taught me to maintain my focus and motivation better. In March of this year, I have decided to no longer excuse my truly horrendous uploading schedule away with “shifting inspiration and focus” and other such nonsense, and aimed to have a new chapter out every month. I’ll be honest, I had my doubts if I could have stuck with it, but here we are more than half a year since then and I’m still going strong! This was actually a revelation to me. I’m quite the opposite of the “Unorganized artist” archetype, I live for organization and good day schedules, but for the longest time I had difficulty to stick with a topic for long, or have an actual framework for it. I’ve still not fully knocked this bad habit yet (why hello there, Megaman fancomic I really need to finish…), but just the fact that I could manage to pull it off in one project’s case boosts my confidence in it.
I have improved a lot as a writer, and I cannot wait to continue improving and put all of my experiences from this endeavor to future stories, including DuatStories, and even my own fantasy novel one day, hopefully. Of course there is still a lot for me to learn. The monthly updates and my Discovery Writing style together mean the pacing isn’t all that spot-on, there are important details and information that gets forgotten or come up at a much later time than it was first supposed to, and of course the usual grammatical errors and misspellings. Maybe my next goal should be to learn to plan a story out more in advance! Wouldn’t that be nice. XD
And, well, I know That First Spark is not a super popular story, most of my Watchers don’t read it. And that’s okay! Diablo has a large community but most of it focuses on seasonal plays and builds, so the fanart section gets left behind. This is a fact I have accepted a long time ago and have no real qualms with it. I have fun creating it, and apparently, some people really enjoy it, even if silently. One to the point of being inspired by it! Of course the followers of Belial who cause further division and isolation with their venom do not improve things in this part of the fandom, either. There is no helping that part, all I can do is keep doing what I love doing, and what I love doing is basically drown myself into the lore and use it for a ridiculously long adventure story.
So for everyone who reads this fanfiction, even if you leave no trace behind, I thank you. For your attention, for your time, for your patience. Here’s to years more of running around in Sanctuary like a headless chicken, almost dying every other week and saving the world on the side once per month! Let’s hope I’ll finish this adventure before Diablo 4 comes out ;) I might have a chance for that!
Thank you for reading! And remember, guys.
Everything is going to be alright.
2020.10.16.
5 notes · View notes