#imaginary's ill fated october

[animaginaryartblog]

[Image ID: a digital drawing of a young Afro-Asian woman in a jungle-like setting. The girl is crouched, one hand resting on the ground while the other holds a staff in front of her. Her dark brown hair falls around her face, and her dark eyes are narrowed, looking off to the side with focused concentration. She wears a camouflage bodysuit with dark brown boots, the only skin showing on her head and her bare hands. Four trailing scarf ends wave behind her like extra legs, making her appear almost spiderlike. Dense leaves surround her, with only faint dappled sunlight breaking through. Strange, glowing red vines seem to reach towards her. Glowing green vines wrap around her staff, winding up her body and down her scarves like veins. /end ID]

Also on my DeviantArt

It's Vera! I've drawn her before (and her brother Yarrow, who is also in dire need of an update), a long time ago. She was long due for an update. For this rendition, I decided to tone down the anime and focus on a more realistic style, befitting the tone of her story. I'm not 100% happy with it; I feel like it could use more stylization, and Vera's outfit is just kinda eh. The background, however, I am very fond of. I had a lot of fun creating the foliage with various Procreate brushes.

fun fact: when I first created Vera back in, like, 2017, the sole reference image I had saved for her design was a very specific picture of Kat Graham, not that I knew who she was at the time. I have no idea how I stumbled upon that particular image or why I selected it for Vera, considering in my notes Vera was supposed to be white-Japanese and Kat Graham is... *checks Wikipedia* Americo-Liberian-Jewish? I think? I probably just selected that reference because I liked the hairstyle, but it gave me a dilemma when I was redesigning Vera. in the book she's white-Japanese, yet in my old art and my mind's eye she looked more white-African American. in the end I decided to make her Afro-Asian; a good middle-ground, I feel. her design could definitely stand to be strengthened, but at least the glowy vines look cool.

pose referenced from the excellent AdorkaStock on DeviantArt

#my art #digital art #2023 art #imaginary's ill fated OCtober #my books #my ocs #life death and the other things #original story #original character #procreate #procreate art #image id #has id #image described

[arnoldjaime13]

Blog Tour- DEJA VIEW by @dangerpeak With An Excerpt & #Giveaway!

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DEJA VIEW by Michael Thomas Perone Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

  About The Book:

Title: DEJA VIEW

Author: Michael Thomas Perone

Pub. Date:��October 6, 2023

Publisher: Wheatmark

Formats:  Paperback, eBook

Pages: 275

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/DEJA-VIEW  

Twelve-year-old Bobby Dalton doesn't want to grow up. All his life, he has relied on the imaginary games of childhood with his best friends Joe and Max to get him through the tough times. But this all changes when his Seventh-Grade class buries a time capsule to commemorate the end of the 1980s. Now Bobby is being haunted by visions: ghostly doppelgangers of himself, his friends, and others. He calls them "déjà view." Are these visions real, or has his imagination finally gotten away from him? And if they're real, what do they want? Bobby needs to figure this all out to survive his childhood…and his life.

From the author of the award-winning Danger Peak, Déjà View is a darkly funny coming-of-age dramedy with a sci-fi twist, cranked up to eleven. But even more, it's at once a pulse-pounding thrill ride and a haunting portrait of paranoia, mental illness, and the unbearable sadness of growing up.

    Déjà View Excerpt

 by Michael Thomas Perone

 I picked the following excerpt from my new novel, Déjà View, because for one, I just think it’s funny, but also, it’s the first sign to the reader that things are not quite right in Bobby’s world, and it foreshadows the strangeness to come. Finally, this excerpt reinforces the major theme of my book, which is the death of childhood.

 An hour later, Bobby’s guests were seated around a table in the party room, devouring towers of pizza. Bobby and his friends had a front-row seat to the stage of Chuck E. Cheese’s band, an assortment of animatronic animals: a chicken, a dog, some kind of purple monster that resembled McDonaldland’s Grimace, and, of course, Chuck E. himself. Bobby often wondered why anyone would make a rat the mascot for their kid-friendly pizza restaurant; it seemed unsanitary. It mattered little, though. He came for the food and games, not the dinner entertainment. Every year, these robotic animals would mortify him by crooning “Happy Birthday,” their voices becoming craggier as the robots got older, worn from singing over a thousand birthdays to over a thousand boys and girls.

 “Mom,” he asked, leaning in conspiratorially so his friends couldn’t hear, “can we skip the Chuck E. song this year? I’m getting a little too old for it.”

 “It’s tradition, sweetie,” she replied in a singsong voice to keep up appearances. Before he could respond, Chuck E. came alive, as if possessed by some ancient curse.

 “Hey everyone!” it began. “I hear it’s somebody’s birthday!” Derrick and Joe, seated next to each other, offered sardonic, golfer’s applause. The twitchy robot tried reaching for its guitar as his “bandmates” grabbed their own respective instruments. But the twitching suddenly became a trembling as the robot’s arms flailed past his guitar and bonked the chicken, who in turn bumped into the dog. Now all four automatons were shaking as if caught in their own personal earthquake.

 “Uh, is this part of the show?” Derrick asked Joe.

 “Nah,” Joe replied. “I think Chuck E.’s had one too many birthdays.”

 An announcement came over the loudspeaker that there were some “technical difficulties,” but the perverse show continued unbidden. At once, a comet of sparks burst out of the robotic rodent’s back; for a split second, it resembled a flame-spitting sprinkler. Bobby briefly wondered if the thick red curtain behind the performers would catch fire, but fate was kind, and the sparks receded. In the throes of its last herky-jerky movements, Chuck E. finally keeled over and died, its head collapsing onto the floor with a clunk to stare directly at Bobby with one glowing dead eye.

  “Hep-pee...burth-dee...,” the mangled voice managed to eke out one final time. Bobby stared in horror as the beloved childhood mascot bit the big one. He was never a huge fan of these robot shows, but he never meant to attend Chuck E.’s funeral. Bobby turned to the end of his table to spy Derrick and Joe snickering to each other in a private conversation, and he felt an aloneness he had never experienced before.

    About Michael Thomas Perone:

Michael Thomas Perone is an award-winning author who has written for The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, Long Island Voice (a spinoff of The Village Voice), and The Island Ear (now titled Long Island Press), among others. Online, he has written for Fatherly, Yahoo!, WhatCulture!, and other websites that don’t end with an exclamation mark. His articles for WhatCulture! covering the world of entertainment alone have been viewed over 374,000 times, and his expertise on critical writing in the music industry has been cited on Wikipedia and featured in national press kits. He currently works as a Senior Editor in Manhattan and lives on Long Island with his wife and two daughters. For more information, please visit www.michaelthomasperone.com.

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11/27/2023

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11/27/2023

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11/28/2023

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11/28/2023

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11/29/2023

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11/29/2023

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11/30/2023

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11/30/2023

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12/1/2023

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12/1/2023

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12/4/2023

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12/4/2023

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12/5/2023

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12/5/2023

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12/6/2023

The Momma Spot

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12/6/2023

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12/7/2023

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12/7/2023

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12/8/2023

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12/8/2023

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[mountphoenixrp]

We have a new citizen in Mount Phoenix:

                        Kim Jiwoo, who is known by no other name,                                   a 22 year old daughter of Arawn.                 She is a student and florist at Blossoms of Yggdrasil.

FC NAME/GROUP: kim jiwoo loona CHARACTER NAME: - AGE/DATE OF BIRTH: 20 october 1999, 22 PLACE OF BIRTH: seoul, south korea OCCUPATION:  student, part-time florist at blossoms of yggdrasil HEIGHT: 160cm (5'3") DEFINING FEATURES: flowing hair, impressive athletic abilities.

PERSONALITY: jiwoo is a kind, loyal, honest, polite and passionate humanitarian who strives to see the best in others. some would say that she radiates sunshine that she seems like spawn from sun or flower goddess not daughter of the underworld. sadly is quite naïve, always believing in the best of people, and places the needs of others above her own, becoming apologetic when she feels she has let someone down. jiwoo hides her feelings of fear and sadness while encouraging her humans friends to express themselves in her place, only the dead ones tend to the know the truth as she feels most comfortable talking to the non-living.

HISTORY: Once upon a time, her mother fell in love with a stranger for one rainy night and that’s how this strange little girl came to be yet there was another love before her godly father. Kim Dan-bi was married woman at one time, she was happily married to sweet man named Jiwoo, he was mortician who help grieving families plan their funerals with such care and consideration. Danbi was florist who would create flower arrangements for any occasion, one day the two as they worked together on one funeral, soon they bonded, fell in love and got married. It all felt like fate brought them together yet sadly fate decided to take him away, despite his sunshine deposition he hide the fact he was dying from terminal illness and that he couldn’t bear any child of his own until he reveal this dark secret a day before their wedding. Danbi decided to stay with him to very end, making his short life & splendid one. The married couple live, laugh and love to the fullest until he died. The recent widower look back fondly on their memories together, remembering his smile, always finding light in the darkest moments. It was only few weeks after the funeral, while Danbi was mourning at her late husband grave, a supposedly man offered a umbrella and some kindness. The rest of the love affair was kept hidden, only the god of underworld and Danbi know the truth. He blessed her with a child to fill the empty hole inside, to give all that love she had to offered to someone special. She gave birth to a daughter named her Jiwoo, to honor her first love and the meaning of her name is the universe/purpose, she is Danbi’s whole world and reason for living once again.

Raising a child is never a cake walk yet the florist raised to the challenges of parenting and being single mother along running her own flower business. Danbi loved her little flower girl, constantly nurturing her, teaching her importunateness of compassion and how precious life is along of the beauty life cycle. Everything seems near on perfect until she reached three years old, small strange occurrences started to begin. Jiwoo would love throwing tea parties for her imaginary friends, speaking words in different tongue. At first, she put it down to her mind being creative creating imaginary friends and not unable to speak Korean correctly yet. Until one day, she overheard her child speaking to someone called Jiwoo, “Name twinnies!! Wee! Best Best Friends!” she would chant happily always giggling and smiling to herself too. That was the moment when she realized something wasn’t quite right with her sweet daughter and pray that she would grow out of this stage like most normal children do. Years passed as her mother watched bloomed into wonderful little lady, constantly smiling always willing to help others, bright student who had knack of selling flowers to customers due to her charming personality. In Danbi eyes, there was nothing wrong with her anymore, little did she know there was more to what meets the eye.

On paper Jiwoo seems like the perfect little student, she worked hard, friendly with everyone she meets even treated the bullies with kindness. It seems nothing affected her. The only thing she would have conversation with dead people, lonely souls who needs someone to talk to. She would spend her lunch time doing her homework at the local graveyard soothing souls while figuring out the answers to math equations. No one really knew about this, she knew that if she told anyone that they would think she is weird and would treat her differently. Jiwoo worked so hard to maintain such perfect cover of being such normal girl. It was truly exhausting yet she would only share their woes with the dead. In everyone else eyes, she is the girl with sunshine smile who always know how to cheer up their day and best cheerleader they could ever ask for. Surrounded by people who weren’t really her friends, they just feed off her bright attitude knowing she would do anything for them. Jiwoo would channel her inner anger through the martial arts which she found natural knack for since she surprisingly strong for someone so tiny.

Everything seem to going smoothly, her plan was going well, no one truly suspected a thing ( ignoring the strange whispers from people behind her back ) even preparing to head off to university to learn about Environmental Science & Plant Studies as nature fascinated her, while she worked hard to get scholarship, Danbi worked hard to save funds for her daughter future too. It was tough for them both yet eventually she went off to university studying what she dreamed of, learning how amazing this planet is and environment which needs to be protected too. Sadly, fate had to intervene as her mother fell sick on her last year, as much Danbi protested for Jiwoo to stay at university to finish, she came home to take care of her along with the family business too.

One year later, the florist was blooming yet Danbi passed away, at least Jiwoo & Danbi could be together again. She can always talk to her mother too, so death was never scary concept to her. It felt too hard to keep the flower shop open after the passing, it felt this chapter in her life had to come to a close. Like magic, another opportunity came knocking, along with questions she never tried to answer as she afraid of the answers. A letter from Mount Phoenix informing her of her bloodline, offering her safe haven and the chance to met her birth father. The demi-god took the leap of faith, took the offer, enrolled into Phoenix University to finish her major & minor while honoring her mother by taking up part time job as florist. A chance to shine, new chapter of her life, learning who she is and never need to hide her powers without them thinking she is strange little girl.

PANTHEON: celtic CHILD OF: arawn POWERS: Ability to communicate with the dead. Enhanced physical strength. Only once year she can raise the dead for short periods of time, but this takes a lot of energy.

STRENGTHS:

( + ) she is able to communicate with the dead without much effort

( + ) she is athletic and strong making her surprisingly good fighter

( + ) she is always can find the bright side despite how dark things look

WEAKNESSES:

( - ) she can only raise the dead once a year even then she end up sleeping for days upon end since it takes a lot of energy out of her.

( - ) she can be easily distracted especially dead start talking to her.

( - ) she can be clumsy & forgetful about her own strength causing accidents.

#kpop rp #krp #loona #kim jiwoo #loona chuu #mp; welcome

[lgbtqiahistoricalromance]

LGBTQIA+ Historical Romance Novels with Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gothic themes 2019 - Updated October 17

A list of titles that either came out after the last update in 2018 or were published this year. Many series!

Gentleman Wolf by Joanna Chambers

- An elegant werewolf in Edinburgh…

1788. When Lindsay Somerville, the most elegant werewolf in Paris, learns that the man who held him in abject captivity for decades is on his way to France, intent on recapturing him, he knows he must leave the Continent for his own safety. Lindsay cannot take the risk of being recaptured—he may have been free for a century but he can still feel the ghost of his old chains under his fine clothes.

… on a mission…

While he’s in Edinburgh, Lindsay has been tasked with acquiring the “Naismith Papers”, the writings of a long-dead witchfinder. It should be a straightforward mission—all Lindsay has to do is charm an elderly book collector, Hector Cruikshank. But Cruikshank may not be all he seems, and there are others who want the papers.

… meets his match

As if that were not enough, while tracking down the Naismith Papers, Lindsay meets stubborn architect Drew Nicol. Although the attraction between them is intense, Nicol seems frustratingly determined to resist Lindsay’s advances. Somehow though, Lindsay can’t seem to accept Nicol’s rejection. Is he just moonstruck, or is Nicol bonded to him in ways he doesn’t yet understand?

Note: this is the first book of a duology – the story continues and will complete in the second book, Master Wolf.

A Hidden Beauty by Jamie Craig

- Student of letters, Micah Yardley wants one thing: to meet the poet Jefferson Dering. After hearing his idol speak at Harvard, Micah travels to Jefferson’s home in nearby Wroxham, entertaining visions of discussing poetry over dinner and drinks. What he experiences exceeds anything he ever anticipated. Jefferson finds Micah mesmerizing and passionate, everything he has ever wanted. But after getting caught in a compromising position with another young man a decade earlier, he exiled himself from Boston and from affairs of the heart. Jefferson represses his longing for Micah, but his tumultuous emotions cannot be contained. Micah denies the truth of his desire for Jefferson. Jefferson refuses to act on his passion for Micah. But all it takes is a single kiss in Wroxham's haunted church to change the course of their lives ... and ignite the flame that could fulfill a generations-old promise.

Deosil by Jordan L Hawk (Whyborne & Griffin series finale!!!!)

- Whyborne, Griffin, and their friends have faced down cultists, monsters, and sorcerers. But their greatest challenge is now upon them. On the return voyage from Balefire Manor, Whyborne receives the worst news possible: Widdershins has fallen before the onslaught of the Fideles and their servants. There’s still time to stop the return of the Masters, but that window grows shorter by the hour. Together with Christine and Iskander, Whyborne and Griffin must reach Widdershins to face the ultimate test—and decide the fate of the world, once and for all.

The Ingenious Mechanical Devices series by Kara Jorgensson (bisexual, pansexual, asexual, persons with disabilities, and POC characters in this series!!!)

Book One = The Earl of Brass

- Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London's aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, but the craftsman isn’t quite what he expected.

Fenice Brothers Prosthetics is in trouble. Hadley’s brother is dead, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and finish what he started. When clients begin turning her away, she fears she will fail until she crosses paths with the enigmatic Lord Sorrell. In exchange for a new arm, he offers her a chance at adventure in the deserts of Palestine.

Beneath the Negev’s sand lies something far more precious than potsherds or bones. A long lost crystal city has been found that could change Eilian and Hadley’s world forever, but they aren’t the only ones who know its secrets. Will they make it out alive or will they, too, be buried beneath the desert sands?

Shinigami by Xia Lake

- A coming-of-age love story between an orphan and the heir of the richest family in the Land of Yamato. The human world meets the yōkai in a power struggle for the fate of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu. While he battles to find his own path, Hirotsugu finds solace in a boy who will become his secret friend, then his salvation, and then as they become adults together, the love of his life.

The Sea May Burn by Rose Lerner (Part of the St. Lemeston universe, a f/f retelling of Jane Eyre!!!) COMING SOON!

- Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Mary Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.

I was the perfect choice to give Mary a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.

I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Mary’s mother, Sir Kit’s companion, Goldengrove’s mistress.

All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.

Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on the guitar I found in the music room, why all the doors in the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night…

Lost in Time series by AL Lester

Book One = Lost in Time

-  Lew Rogers's life is pleasantly boring until his friend Mira messes with magic she doesn't understand. While searching for her, he's pulled back in time to 1919 by a catastrophic magical accident. As he tries to navigate a strange time and find his friend in the smoky music clubs of Soho, the last thing he needs is Detective Alec Carter suspecting him of murder. London in 1919 is cold, wet, and tired from four years of war. Alec is back in the Metropolitan Police after slogging out his army service on the Western Front. Falling for a suspect in a gruesome murder case is not on his agenda, however attractive he finds the other man. Both men are floundering and out of their depth, struggling to come to terms with feelings they didn't ask for and didn't expect. Both have secrets that could get them arrested or killed. In the middle of a murder investigation that involves wild magic, mysterious creatures, and illegal sexual desire, who is safe to trust?

We Met in Dreams by Rowan McAllister

- In Victorian London, during a prolonged and pernicious fog, fantasy and reality are about to collide—at least in one man’s troubled mind. A childhood fever left Arthur Middleton, Viscount Campden, seeing and hearing things no one else does, afraid of the world outside, and unable to function as a true peer of the realm. To protect him from himself—and to protect others from him—he spends his days heavily medicated and locked in his rooms, and his nights in darkness and solitude, tormented by visions, until a stranger appears. This apparition is different. Fox says he’s a thief and not an entirely good sort of man, yet he returns night after night to ease Arthur’s loneliness without asking for anything in return. Fox might be the key that sets Arthur free, or he might deliver the final blow to Arthur’s tenuous grasp on sanity. Either way, real or imaginary, Arthur needs him too much to care. Fox is only one of the many secrets and specters haunting Campden House, and Arthur will have to face them all in order to live the life of his dreams.

The Clearwater Mysteries by Jackson Marsh

- Book One = Deviant Desires

The Victorian East End lives in fear of the Ripper and his mission to kill rent boys. Silas Hawkins, nineteen and forging a life on the streets could well be the next victim, but when he meets Archer, his life changes forever. Young, attractive and rich, Archer is The Viscount Clearwater, a philanthropist, adventurer and homosexual. When Archer suspects the Ripper is killing to lure him to a confrontation, he risks his reputation and his life to stop the madman's murders. Every man must play his part, including Silas. A mashup of mystery, romance and adventure, Deviant Desire is set in an imaginary London of 1888. The first in an on-going series, it takes the theme of loyalty and friendship in a world where homosexuality is a crime. Secrets must be kept, lovers must be protected, and for Archer and Silas, it marks the start of their biggest adventure - love.

Highland Haunting: A Townsend Halloween Story (The Townsends) by Lily Maxton

- For the past few months, Ian Cameron and Robert Townsend have been settling into their new life together, but when a series of odd events occur at Llynmore Castle, Ian begins to suspect that he's being haunted. The question is, is the spirit malevolent or benevolent? Does it want to harm him or warn him of something to come? As Halloween draws closer, the ghost becomes stronger. Ian and Robert will have to trust each other and trust themselves to find the answers they need before it's too late. *Highland Haunting is 16,000 words and features the main characters from A Scot's Surrender

The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell (f/f!!!)

- Heatherhurst Hall

Cumberland, England

1892

American heiress Kit Morgan is heartbroken at the wedding of her dearest school-friend. At her lowest moment, she is rescued from her agonies by the mysterious and alluring Alexandra Cranbrook, sister of a visiting English baronet. Alexandra is beautiful, charming, and effortlessly beguiling. Kit cannot help but fall in love with her.

When Sir Vivian Cranbrook proposes marriage, it seems natural for Kit to accept—if only to live with the woman she desperately loves.

But the Cranbrook’s ancestral home of Heatherhurst Hall is not all it seems. The attic is forbidden. Strange scratching noises echo from within the walls. Wraiths stalk the corridors by night. And worst of all, Alexandra’s love has turned to scorn.

Still, Kit is determined to earn her happily-ever-after and save the Cranbrooks from the horrors of Heatherhurst Hall.

If only she could know Alexandra loved her in return.

~The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall is a Gothic romance rife with horror and heartache, wherein an American heiress makes an ill-advised marriage to bring herself closer the woman who’s stolen her heart.

Read by Candelight series by Gillian St. Kevern (7 book so far, with m/m and f/f love stories!!!)

- Book One = The Secretary and the Ghost: A Gothic Paranormal Romance

Pip Leighton is in a fix. His sister’s marriage hinges on him staving off the family’s impending financial ruin by taking the job of secretary to Lord Cross, a reclusive man with a temper befitting his name. Developing a passion for his employer was not on the cards. Neither was getting caught up in the deep mystery surrounding Foxwood Court and its resident ghost, but Pip has never been one to shirk a duty. As Pip delves deeper into the past, he discovers that his only hope for a future with Cross may depend on a man long dead—a man with a curious resemblance to himself.

The Gentleman Attraction: a short victorian mm paranormal romance by Connor Peterson

Emerson Mallory never mixes business and pleasure. His eyes might wander but he certainly wouldn’t risk his professional reputation over a tryst. Not even for a silver-haired scoundrel who clearly knows his way around a bedroom and makes his heart race with just one look.

When a flirtatious train ride turns into a weekend in close quarters, Bennet Clarke doesn’t agree that it would be best to leave their attraction at the door. He gave up worrying about human sensibilities the night he became a vampire centuries ago, and right now he wants more than one taste of Emerson’s charm and unnerving ability to see past his cavalier masks.

Their host has a few secrets of their own and a madcap plan that requires Emerson to enlist Bennet’s help. When the inevitable happens, Emerson begins to think that maybe Bennet’s way of looking at things isn’t so bad. Bennet, however, is faced with a dilemma. Keep up the ruse, or confess that Emerson has no idea who he’s gotten involved with.

Amidst the flurry of activity surrounding their host, the two men will have to keep their affair secret, plan a successful party, and decide if forever is too much to ask.

Spellbound: A Paranormal Historical Romance (Magic in Manhattan Book 1) by Allie Therin

- To save Manhattan, they’ll have to save each other first… 1925 New York Arthur Kenzie’s life’s work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric…and the only one available has sworn off his abilities altogether. Rory Brodigan’s gift comes with great risk. To protect himself, he’s become a recluse, redirecting his magic to find counterfeit antiques. But with the city’s fate hanging in the balance, he can’t force himself to say no. Being with Arthur is dangerous, but Rory’s ever-growing attraction to him begins to make him brave. And as Arthur coaxes him out of seclusion, a magical and emotional bond begins to form. One that proves impossible to break—even when Arthur sacrifices himself to keep Rory safe and Rory must risk everything to save him.

Hayden Thorne is reissuing many of her LGBT romances this year, with some of the most original content in the genre. Many are YA options, but very enjoyable for adults!

Extensive 2018 Halloween List 

Since links have been failing in Tumblr, here is the URL for Halloween 2018: https://lgbtqiahistoricalromance.tumblr.com/post/188457088709/lgbtqiahistoricalromance

[sixorsevens-blog]

Here’s Kumi’s bio for people who can’t access pages on mobile!!

General Information

Name: Koizumi Kumi (last, first)

Alias: NANA

Age: 22

D.O.B: October 30th

Sexuality: Bisexual

Height: 5'8

Weight: 55kg

Ethnicity: Japanese

Job: Fashion Student (aspiring designer); Cosplayer

Stand: February6

Background

Nana, stylised on her social media as N/A/N/A, is a cosplayer who rose to fame quickly. Her outfits drew people’s attention, looking professionally made and detailed down to the tiniest intricacies. What was supposed to be a hobby quickly turned into a job, too- and that was perfect for paying the fees to one of the most prestigious fashion schools in Tokyo.

Meet Koizumi Kumi, Nana’s true identity; known for her height, fierce gaze, and talent as a designer and seamstress. It’s said that the fire in her gaze consists of her passion for fashion, fueled by a burning desire to become one of the top in Japan. Contrary to her looks, she isn’t really that scary of a person- unless deadlines are coming up, that is. That’s when she gets snappy, very irritable, and incredibly blunt. Kumi may not smile a lot, but she is a polite, well-mannered, easygoing individual who follows the beat of her own drum, enjoying the freedom she only recently gained.

Born into a very traditional Japanese family in Kyoto, Kumi had expectations placed on her ever since she was born. Namely, ‘become the perfect housewife who can do all the stuff expected of a traditional Japanese wife’. And so that is how she was trained- taking lessons in addition to her schooling that would ensure she was a good candidate for the ‘many bachelors’ that she would eventually meet. To no one’s surprise- no, scratch that. To her family’s surprise, Kumi hated every single bit of this life. And it didn’t help that compared to her younger sister, Kumi was considered a problem child.

The first issue was that she was left-handed. This trait may have been slowly growing more accepted in society, but it was still frowned upon in the eyes of her conservative parents. They forced her to be right-handed, going so far as to bind her left hand so she would have no choice but to learn how to do things with her right hand. She would later re-teach herself how to be left-handed, as an act of rebellion against her parents.

The second issue, which was considered more of an oddity, was her imaginary friend. Kumi fell deathly ill when she was a child, but right after she recovered, she began seeing a figure whom she dubbed ‘February6’. She didn’t grow out of it for the longest time, and her parents began to worry; eventually, she just stopped talking about her imaginary friend, despite still being able to see her. Eventually, Kumi found out this was called a Stand.

If it had only been this, coupled with her general disdain for her ‘fate’, Kumi’s parents might have been fine with that. But two things happened that pushed them to marry their daughter off at the tender age of 18: their family business nearly failing, and catching Kumi kissing her ‘best friend’. Who was female.

If Kumi’s metaphorical leash was tight, then it practically choked her now. She had no freedom, forced to be a meek, shy person when she was nothing like that. After only one meeting, she was married off to a man over a decade older than her, who took one look at her appearance (long, straight black hair, no makeup, incredibly plain at the time) and decided that he’d rather hook up with other girls. The only reason why this was a good thing, was because he cared so little about Kumi that she could pursue her interests without him saying anything- those interests being anime, games, cosplay and fashion. Kumi endured this marriage for one year. One year of forcing smiles, cooking for her husband (and messing it up on purpose), and pretending that she was fine, totally fine, why wouldn’t she be? But enough was enough. Kumi cut her hair, packed her bags, and moved to Tokyo, telling no one.

She survived through accepting modeling jobs and a career as a professional cosplayer, but Kumi knew that she wanted to be more than that. She applied and was accepted into a prestigious school for fashion, aiming to create her own brand and rise up to the top ranks of the Japanese fashion industry- aided by her Stand, whose ability is to control threads and cloth. Kumi knows nothing about Stands, but weird things have been happening that she just might get caught up in.

February6

Appearance

It’s humanoid, mostly vermillion-colored. Its most distinguishing features are its arms; its left hand grips a sewing needle the size of a kendo sword, while its right arm is made entirely out of white thread. Its right hand is clenched together, bound like Kumi’s left hand was years ago; and while Kumi herself uses her right hand mostly, February6 is left-handed.

Ability

February6 has the ability to manipulate thread and cloth, via assimilating the threads from its right arm into the fabric. How well she can control the fabrics depends heavily on what it is made of; cotton seems to be the most receptive to manipulation out of any other materials, and fabrics with mixed fibers are a little harder to control. Synthetic fabrics are the hardest to manipulate out of them all.

The fabrics under February6’s control can tighten, loosen, or even completely unravel to form something else completely. It helps Kumi while she does embroidery, fixing her mistakes (she doesn’t often use her Stand to sew, preferring to rely on her own abilities unless necessary). It can also strengthen the fabric as well, depending on how much of February6’s thread is used, as it is much more durable than regular ones. It could even turn an outfit into a makeshift armor, temporarily, with the cost of using up its entire arm.

The needle February6 brandishes is used mainly as a weapon- so it’s rarely ever used. Though Kumi really, really wanted to stab her husband with it.

#ooc #hope it works!

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City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

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City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

6 Oct 2020

City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design: City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition

Exhibition: 31 October 2020 – 7 January 2021 Venue: Aedes Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sun-Mon 1-5pm and Sat, 31 October 2020, 1-5pm

Of the 7.8 billion people on the planet, more than 70 million are now refugees and asylum seekers. With few countries willing to receive these displaced people, many refugees are restrained in tents, or makeshift cities. These temporary solutions often become permanent, which come with significant challenges. City of Refugees – a three-year research by the University of Houston College of Architecture and Design under the direction of the studio professors, Peter J. Zweig and Gail P. Borden – offers a provocative approach to the discussion of new solutions: Four imaginary cities on four continents were designed as prototypes for the accommodation of migrants providing facilities to meet their immediate needs and long-term opportunities for their self-empowerment. The exhibition at Aedes not only gives insights into the diverse aspects of these utopias, but also chronicles the plight and journeys of refugees in contemporary society.

The current global geopolitical landscape is indelibly marked by rising national and international conflicts creating multiple regions and countries beset by massive migrations. Likewise, the consequences of climate change and man-made environmental damage are forcing people to leave their homes. Many refugees are caught between borders because fewer countries are accepting the growing numbers. This often leads to them being trapped in refugee camps: Although these expanding settlements were intended as temporary tent communities, in reality they have become increasingly permanent.

Worth mentioning is the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which has existed since 1991. It has grown to become the largest of its kind in the world, with more than 600,000 people living in an area of just 13 square kilometres, stretching infrastructure and services to their limits. A more recent example of a permanent settlement is the Zaatari camp in Jordan where people have found refuge from the civil war in Syria since 2012. With an estimated 80,000 inhabitants, a main street with market stalls and shops, kindergartens and schools, solar power and a drinking water system, Zataari has become the fourth largest “city” in Jordan. However, the often forgotten, “temporary” communities are most often evolving into haphazard, ill-equipped, permanent locations that are in need of and reliant upon humanitarian support.

City of Refugees A three-year intensive sequence of design studios at the University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, under the direction of Peter Jay Zweig, FAIA and Gail Peter Borden, FAIA has developed a provocative approach to proposing four prototypical Cities of Refugees of varying sizes on four continents, ranging from 50,000 to 500,000 people:

• BRIDGE CITY in South America • gRADIANT CITY in Africa • SWITCHBACK CITY in Southeast Europe • UPCYCLE CITY in South Asia Each city is conceived as being universal in its architectural principles, yet by contrast, relies heavily upon local traditions whereby the residents of the City of Refugees are able to build their own homes: Thus combining universal and vernacular ideas can redefine the very origins of the contemporary city.

The Process: Developing a Utopia Before developing the urban design of these fictional places, the students analysed the annual U.S. military defence spending, which amounts to 700 billion USD. Professor Peter Zweig states: “By reallocating a minor portion of defence spending – less than ‘one-quarter’ of one percent of the military budget – a City of Refugees can be funded. For example, we propose that the construction of one submarine be delayed for one year to build out one entire city.”

It is within the framework of a reinterpretation of Thomas More’s 1516 book, Utopia, that the City of Refugees represents a place transcending the fate of those who have been displaced from their homeland. It is a concept for a city in a new context that welcomes migrants looking for a place to be free and act independently. As a U.N. sponsored, free economic zone, the four proposed cities would create a platform for a new multi-ethnic society based upon justice, tolerance and an economically viable, net zero environment.

These cities redefine the concepts of streets by eliminating the need for cars, rethinking sustainable technologies and engaging an architecture that is both vernacular and universal. Multiple areas around the world were proposed as possible sites for investigation in addition to the four prototype locations that were designed, such as: on the border of the United States of America and Mexico between the cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez on the Isla de Cordoba. This site, called “No Man’s Land” represented a place that could accommodate the rise in population of displaced people along the southern border of the United States and Mexico.

To quote Peter Jay Zweig: “The blending of local and social customs with the imported influx of refugees creates an environment that is committed to the idea of a ‘pledge’ given upon arrival to the city, for social acceptance through community volunteer programs, self-empowerment, education, shared communal kitchens and work spaces. Appropriate infrastructure eliminates the need for cars as the primary means of transportation: All points of the city are accessible within ten minutes. Alternative energy, water collection and locally available food become the primary source of sustenance and power for the city, while waste is innovatively recycled and self-contained toilets eliminate the need for sewage systems. The City of Refugees is a proposition to solve a problem that exists not only for refugees, but as a possible solution to climate change, the waste of natural resources and a commitment to rethink the origins of urbanism, while responding to the current global challenges.”

Exhibition In the exhibition and book, City of Refugees: A Real Utopia (AR+D publishers 2020 by Zweig + Borden) the contemporary global migration flows of those displaced is documented using a variety of maps and data and opens up a view on the profusely illustrated, innovative concepts of four prototype cities. The immersive exhibition at Aedes encompasses two simultaneous formats: one of physical models and drawings and the other in an augmented reality that coexists with the physical exhibition.

Directors Peter Jay Zweig is a Professor and Curator of International Exhibitions at the Gerald. D Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. He is principal of the award-winning Peter Jay Zweig Architects and an author of publications such as: Alternative Architecture, Risky Habit[at], Houston Genetic City, City of Refugees: A Real Utopia. As an exhibition designer, he has curated 15 major U.S. and international exhibitions. He has also received 80 worldwide patents for innovative building systems and materials for affordable housing built on six continents.

Gail Peter Borden is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. As principal of Borden Partnership, his design work has won numerous recognitions. His books include: Material Precedent; Matter; Principia; Process; Lineament and New Essentialism. As an architect, designer, artist, theoretician and practitioner, his work focuses on the role of materiality and architecture in contemporary culture.

The exhibition is part of the ANCB programme Borders and Territories: Identity in Place, which examines new spatial, geopolitical and cultural possibilities related to nations and people on our globe. Together with City of Refugees, the exhibition Purgatory by Ai Weiwei will be shown at Aedes Architecture Forum during the same period. Both exhibitions conclude the 40-years Aedes programme of 2020.

Further information: Aedes

We would like to thank the Aedes cooperation partners Zumtobel, Cemex, Camerich, Carpet Concept

Made possible with the generous support of Gerald D. Hines + Barbara Hines, Dean Patricia Belton Oliver

Description of the Four Utopian Cities

BRIDGE CITY South America | 50,000 people

Local Conditions: The city is located on the Rio Santiago in Ecuador near the Peruvian border just south of the equator. The location runs along a major Ecuadorian highway and is located within two miles of an airstrip. The location is ideal for a self-sustaining city. The resources are abundant for inhabitants to create and sustain a net zero city. The Sol LeWitt inspired structure acts as a bridge for the inhabitants across the Rio Santiago river, while creating local opportunities in industries such as: aqua-culture and a wharf for water markets. The Rio Santiago region is ideal for producing honey, fruit, vegetables and flower cultivation. Traditionally the local culture produces palm weaving and clay pottery, which can now be used in the construction of the homes for the city.

Architecture of the City: The architectural infrastructure is composed of a 30 x 30 x 30 foot grid, which bridges a populated river that is used for fishing, trade and commercial movement. The structural field has been eroded through light and wind apertures that allow for concentrated volumes to emerge within the regular geometry. Activated top and bottom through climatic and programmatic responses, the structure arches over the river and creates a performative rooftop landscape for solar and food production in park-like spaces. The infrastructure is free to take advantage of its location on the equator through hydroponics, recycled waste, water capture systems, and passive and solar energy production.

gRADIANT CITY Africa | 100,000 people Local Conditions: The city is located on east side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the edge of Lake Edward and on the border between DRC and Uganda. The unique site is composed of a very pronounced slope that allows the city design to be based upon the temperature differential of the mountain. As a hillside waterfront city, the urban form of the gRadiant City takes advantage of both the hill and the water through two linear structures. One structure that ascends the topography perpendicular to the adjacent body of water and another that parallels the waters’ edge. The slope generates a significant temperature gradient as one ascends in elevation.

Architecture of the City: The city is organised as a linear figure that ascends the topography perpendicular to the adjacent body of water. The ascending urban structure allows for temperature differentiations to determine the optimal position for crops. The line also exists as a gradient from the water’s edge with dissipating density from urban to suburban and, ultimately, rural as the city transforms from a water-based economy to a land economy. By combining a utopian typology with the local traditions of the vernacular, a unique architecture is produced. As a horizontal skyscraper that hovers over the landscape, the embedded and levitating programmes create shade and a unifying layer underneath the structural, performative roof.

SWITCHBACK CITY Southeast Europe | 250,000 people

Local Conditions: The city is located on the border between Serbia and Romania along the Danube River near the city of Tekija, Serbia. The location runs along a Serbian highway and is built inside of the cove along the river. The location is ideal for a self-sustaining city. The resources are abundant for creating and sustaining a net zero city, as well as an economy that can develop from the local lumberyards. The structure of the city allows for a symbiotic relationship between the inhabitants of the Serbian region, while also creating opportunities in industries such as: aquaculture and lumber for the fabrication of building material products and supplies. The area is ideal for terraced farming, homesteading and fishing.

Architecture of the City: Located in a cove on the river, the city is composed of embedded terraced landscapes that are linked through an ascending field of switchback streets. This unique urban pattern with six-storey buildings (in an organised three units up and three down) allows for a horizontally accessible vertical city. Using the wooded hillside as both an economy derived from the existing timber resources and as the material for the construction of the city proper, the wedge development along the cove allows for a sequentially phased evolution to the city. The position on the river allows for the wood products sustainably harvested to also invigorate the trade with nearby cities. Gondolas provide transportation without cars and make the city accessible within ten minutes in any direction.

UPCYCLE CITY South Asia | 500,000 people

Local Conditions: The city is located on the Coast of Bengal in Bangladesh near the border to Myanmar. The coast of Bengal is a ship graveyard where many unusable ships are stranded. Upcycle City will dismantle the unusable ships and re-innovate shipping containers into warm living units for refugees. Furthermore, the city will take advantage of the existing dam as a part of the infrastructure system. The city is divided into three zones: Sea, Land + Sea, and Land. The sea area consists of unused oil rigs intended as future agricultural centres. The shore will become an industrial zone used to dismantle and repurpose the big ships. The land area will be where most of the population will be living. The refugees will maintain their own free market, strengthened by the various skills of the individual inhabitants.

Architecture of the City: Founded upon the discarded technologies of the oil rig, freighter and the shipping container industry, Upcycle City develops both its economy and its tectonic morphology from these abandoned resources. Occupying the fluctuating waters’ edge between the flooded tidal plains, a railroad, an important highway and an existing dam, Upcycle City is divided into three zones: One is located on the water (oil rigs), the second on the beached edge (ship-breaking) and the third is fully on land (stacked and arrayed shipping containers), which are all arranged to create a collection of neighbourhoods and districts that organise the city. The city contains: circle crops, gondola’s crisscrossing main street in order to make the city accessible, containers enlisted for structural foundations, innovative infrastructural systems that approach net zero and a scaffolding circulation system all contribute to the unique architecture of Upcycle City.

Photography © Zweig + Borden

City of Refugees, Aedes Exhibition images / information received 061020

Location: Christinenstr.18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany

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[Image ID: A digital drawing of two human characters, standing on sandy ground. Behind them, distant acacia trees are silhouetted against the setting sun.

Standing closest to the camera is a young black woman. She is wearing a dark red halter top with a white collar and hem. Her pants have a yellow and orange geometric pattern, and each pant leg splits into two pieces below her waist, hanging loosely around her legs. She has cool, dark brown skin, warm brown eyes, blue-black hair, and a short, muscular build; her upper body is especially buff. She stands with one hand on her hip, the other hanging loosely at her side, as she looks directly into the camera with a confident smirk.

The woman's blue-black hair is barely shoulder-length and carefully styled, with three corn rows braided on the left side of her head. She wears rounded glasses with gold rims; a matching gold cross earring hangs from her right ear. A bead necklace hangs loosely around her neck; from it dangles a white and red beaded cross. Matching colorful beaded bracelets are on both her wrists. On her feet she wears white sandals with beaded patterns.

Behind the woman, a masked figure is crouched as if they have just landed - knees bent, one fist on the ground and the other hand raised as if preparing for a strike. Yellow bat wings arch from the figure's back, and matching ears angle back from their head. The figure wears green and black combat boots; the rest of their clothes are loose, flowing, and dark, hiding the details of their form. Red plaid lines the ends of their pant legs and sleeves, and the same pattern flows from shoulder to shoulder, covering their shirt collar. A matching red plaid cloth is tied around their head. A black mask covers their face, painted with a stylized fanged mouth, bat-like nose, and white eyes. The figure's shadow extends before them, stretching towards the camera. /end ID]

Also on my DeviantArt

yes I'm still at it with this "challenge" that should have ended three months ago. at this point it's just an excuse/motivation to make some new covers for all my Spotify playlists, ha.

anyway! this is Emily Wig, protagonist of my WIP novel Wings of the Dusk, and her superhero alter ego, Bat-Ear. yes they are the same person. Emily takes great care to make her two identities very distinct so as to keep anyone from guessing who's really behind the mask. part of this charade is that Emily relentlessly roasts "Bat-Ear"'s sense of fashion, while Bat-Ear claims to have no idea who this "Emily" person even is. she has fun. more on the drawing below.

this drawing took way longer than I wanted it to, partly due to "oof ouch humans hard to draw" and partly due to "oof ouch clothing and jewelry hard to draw". I'm not sure what the proper term for her hairstyle is (I tried my best with the image ID okay), but it's based off this (I found the image from some article online and took the time to find the actual original source. be proud of me.) Emily's cross necklace is modeled after one I have, albeit with different beads. Her pants are also modeled off some I have that are very flowy and fun. They also have different colors and a more complex pattern but I wasn't about to try and replicate that.

Bat-Ear's sweatshirt is a similar story; I partly based it off a sweatshirt I have that is also patterned around the collar and I did legitimately consider making a Procreate pattern brush to replicate it... but this was already taking me way too long and at that point I just wanted to be done with it, so I just used a plaid pattern brush I found online. another thing for Emily to roast her local superhero for- that, and the very dramatically painted hockey mask.

I considered giving Bat-Ear some sort of actual traditional mask from Kenya (which is where she's from and where she lives), but discovered that a) Kenya doesn't really have a lot of traditional animal masks? and b) most traditional African masks are associated with spiritual stuff and I didn't really want to get into that. so I just went for a general "ooh scary bat" sort of look. something a teenager would paint on a hockey mask to look intimidating. the claws are fake, by the way. probably stole some of her sister's fake nails.

fun fact: Emily's ears and wings are based off of the yellow-winged bat, because I already had reference images saved in my folder and figured it would look cool.

#my art #digital art #2023 art #original story characters #original character #original characters #original story #my books #my ocs #imaginary's ill fated OCtober #emily wig #wings of the dusk #original superhero #bats #has id #image described #image id #should i also be putting these in the alt? i'll do that now #does it need to be in both the text of the post and the description of each individual image?? #help i have no idea how any of this works

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[Image ID: a digital drawing of two Sonic OCs, a short Ethiopian wolf and a much taller hedgehog-cat hybrid, standing in a smoky, fiery ruin. The wolf stands on the left, leaning against the hedgecat with her arm thrown around her shoulders. She is smiling, eyes closed, other arm extended casually as if in mid-conversation. The hedgecat stands in A-pose, arms out to her sides and legs slightly spread, eyes staring blankly at the camera.

Tooth, the Ethiopian wolf, has brown fur on her muzzle, inside her ears, on her arms, on her legs, and on her tail. The tip of her tail is a darker brown. Glowing blue diamond patterns point out from her eyes and wrap around her ankles. A blue diamond marks her forehead. She wears a worn pink tube top, with equally worn flared blue pants, a matching blue scarf, grey-green fingerless gloves, and a grey-green slipper. She has silver bracelets on her ankles with glowing blue diamonds patterned on them. Her left leg is a robotic prosthetic.

Banana, the hedgehog-cat hybrid, has bubblegum pink fur on her upper half, gradating to banana yellow on her lower half. Her muzzle, chest, the insides of her ears, and the lower halves of her arms are all brown. Her pupils are yellow on top, gradating to red on the bottom. Her hair points straight up, shaped like a bunch of bananas. Her ears are long and curve slightly inward. Tufts of fur droop down on the sides of her head, shaped like banana leaves. Her long tail ends in a bundle of yellow points shaped like a bunch of bananas.

Banana wears a red Hawaiian shirt patterned with bananas and puffy striped green-and-white shorts held up with a yellow and pink belt. On her feet are pink and yellow platform crocs paired with long pink-and-white socks. She wears pink fingerless gloves with white cuffs. Around her neck she wears a necklace of miniature Chaos and Sol Emeralds hung on a string, with a ring hanging in the middle of the Emeralds. A bracelet of miniature Chaos Emeralds hangs around her left wrist; on her right wrist is a matching bracelet of miniature Sol Emeralds. On her forehead is a red bindi. /end ID]

OCtober 8! These are my two Sonic OCs, Tooth the Ethiopian Wolf and Banana the Hedgecat. Tooth I created to be Silver's sidekick, the Tails to his Sonic if you will. She's laidback and sassy, content to chill in the background making snarky remarks. Banana is a Sonaze fankid who is head empty, no thoughts. This is my first time drawing her in a while so her design got a bit of a revamp. Better look below:

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[Image ID: a digital watercolor drawing of a three-legged cat standing in a desert under a pale blue sky. The cat is a silver tabby with blue eyes and a white underbelly. Her right front leg is a scarred stump. Her left front paw is silvery-white. The cat is looking off to the side with a slight smirk. /End ID]

OCtober #3! This is Starsilver, the protagonist of my first NaNoWriMo novel, which was also the first novel I actually finished writing. It was basically just Warriors by Erin Hunter but set in Kenya, awkwardly Christian-ified, and also with slightly more magic. it wasn't very good but hey, you got to start somewhere!

#my art #digital art #procreate #2022 art #imaginary's ill fated october #my books #my ocs #cat #cats #starsilver #<-tag i will never use again #has id #image id #image described

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[Image ID: a digital drawing of a plush toy beagle running in a grassy field under a blue sky. The beagle is red-orange, with a white underbelly and paws and a black "saddle" on her back. There is a colorful pink-and-blue brand on the bottom of her front left paw. Her tail is a faded piece of red felt with a black tip, sewn onto her body with black thread. Her right ear has also been sewn in place. Her eyes are round and dark purple in color. She has a mischievous grin on her face and seems to be looking at something behind and to the side of her. /End ID]

OCtober #2! This is my girl Cendy, an animated plush beagle who's the star of a fantasy book I'm working on. She's a mischievous little goober with a penchant for getting herself and her friends into trouble. More info under the cut:

Cendy's a very old character of mine. She's based on a Webkinz Beagle I had when I was... four? five? I started formulating her story when I was six. Naturally, it and she have both changed a lot over the years. For this latest revamp I wanted to lean more into her plush toy nature. I found references of different actual beagle plushes (shoutout to @plushieanimals and @littleguymart, lots of good inspo and cute plushies to be found there!)

I used a (free to use) photo of felt to add a bit of texture to this drawing. You'll see in the next few OCtober drawings that I started really experimenting with texture, though this is the only one I used an image for; the rest are Procreate brushes.

I'm currently in the process of rewriting the novel Cendy stars in (it's called Missing right now, though that might change), so expect to see more of her and the universe she comes from.

Here are some of the preliminary concept sketches I did to try and figure out her new design:

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[Image ID: A digital drawing of a heavily built young Hawaiian woman floating in space, on a backdrop of countless stars. The woman floats limply, arms partly extended, gazing upward. Her body and clothes are semi-transparent and dark blue, as if she is made from shadows. Her skirt swirls softly around her legs and bare feet. A long-sleeved hoodie covers her upper body; through it glow scars of light, marking her wrists and her chest. Similar lines of light cross her face like tear-tracks. Her eyes glow with white light. Her long, thick hair floats up around her head like a halo. The woman's clothes and especially her hair emit a soft rainbow glow. /end ID]

This is it! The end of OCtober! I only finished it... *checks date* five months late? not to mention posting this two months later than that... ha...

regardless, I had fun with this self-imposed "challenge"! I learned some new techniques and stretched out of my comfort zone (that being Sonic characters). And I created a lot of pieces I'm quite proud of!

Speaking of which, I almost settled with a far inferior version of this piece, but thankfully I decided to keep pushing towards what I originally envisioned. I'm still not 100% happy with it - the posing and line art are a little awkward and flat. I think this would've benefited from more brushwork, less fill tool. Still, considering this is an all new OC who's design I whipped up in, like, an hour, I think it turned out pretty well!

As for who she is: this is Kala! Short for Kailani, Kaimiloa, and/or Kahalaopuna, I haven't decided yet. The idea for her was born from a discussion in a groupchat with two of my friends. @100-percential-human pitched the idea of a colony of beautiful, eldritch space beings living in a destroyed spaceship. we of the groupchat all loved the idea so much, and she gave us all permission to draw our own spins on it. Factora already drew hers and it's lovely. I took a little longer to get around to drawing my girl, but here she is at last. now we're just waiting on you, @100-percential-human 👀👀👀

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[Image ID: a digital drawing of an anthropomorphic dog character, floating underwater. The character is a humanoid African Wild Dog with webbed, otter-like paws. Her fur is primarily light brown, with dark brown and white splotches. Her ears are dark brown, as are her paws are dark brown. Her legs and arms have stocking-like white markings above the paws. Her face, chest, and the lower half of her tail are white as well.

She floats in murky blue water, one hand outstretched towards the light of the surface. She looks towards the light, but her expression is somber, resigned. The other, held low beneath her body, clutches a dagger. Blood rises from the dagger towards the surface, clouding the water. /end ID]

Also on my DeviantArt.

I know I've been saying this a lot, but I am really, really proud of this one. sometimes it's worth it to color with a brush instead of just using the fill tool.

as for the OC, this is Faith! she's a human/African Wild Dog/Timber wolf/giant otter hybrid, created (along with her parents and sisters) to be a weapon of war. due to certain events in her childhood, Faith has a debilitating fear of blood, which is less than ideal for someone who was made to be the perfect soldier.

the handlers who oversaw the training of her family dismissed Faith as unfit for combat, and her only use seemed to be as a hostage to keep the rest of the family in line. everyone sees Faith as weak, harmless, useless. even her own family sees her as the "little sister" who needs to be protected (never mind that she's older than all her siblings).

Faith is overlooked. forgotten. unwanted.

underestimated.

that's just how she wants it.

#my art #digital art #2023 art #imaginary's ill fated OCtober #my books #my ocs #original character #african wild dog #painted wolf #original dog character #original story #faith (CoW) #children of weapons #image id #has image id #image described #fun fact: faith's book was born out of my first tmnt phase #her and her sisters are basically just “what if the ninja turtles were dogs” #they've got the smart one the silly one the angry one and the strategic one #and the plucky human friend #one of these days i'm gonna draw them all in the Rise art style #and it's gonna be great #one day #blood #blood tw #blood cw #best of imaginary

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[Image ID: a digital drawing of a robot character. The robot is modeled after a young human girl, though her robotic nature is clear from her bright pink and blue plating. Her head and legs are pink, while her hair, hands, and feet are blue. Her joints, fingers, and the bridges of her feet are silver. Small wheels are on the heels of her feet, poking through her shoes.

The robot's eyes are cartoonishly large, glowing bright cyan with white pupils and pink "eyelids" that allow her to approximate a glare. Her face has circles of pink on her cheeks, like a cartoon character. Her metal "hair" is styled like a bob with a small green bow, and she wears a green French maid outfit. She holds a broom like a weapon, glaring coldly at the camera. The background is clouded ice, cracks spreading out from behind her head. /end ID]

Also on my DeviantArt.

Meet Anna Raines! She's a robot maid who's become a master of loophole abuse and malicious compliance when it comes to her strict programming. The only people she cares about is her adoptive human family; the rest of the galaxy can burn for all she cares. And if you mess with said human family - well, hell hath no fury like a cleaning lady scorned.

pose reference from the wonderful AdorkaStock on DeviantArt

clearer look at Anna's design below

[Image ID: the same digital drawing of the robot girl, but without the background and the shading, allowing a clearer look at her design. /end ID]

[Image ID: the same drawing, but now Anna does not have her clothes, allowing a clear view of her plating. Her torso, hips, hands, feets, and hair are blue, while her head, arms, and legs are pink. Her joints, neck, the center of her torso, and the bridge of her feet are silver. Round black wheels are attached to her heels. /end ID]

#my art #digital art #procreate #procreate art #2023 art #my books #my ocs #original character #original story #robot character #original robot character #robot oc #anna raines #mind over metal #imaginary's ill fated OCtober #image id #has id #image described #best of imaginary

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[Image ID: a digital drawing of a teenage girl sitting on a ledge, with bright artificial lights behind and below her. The girl has one leg pulled up to her chest, arm resting on her knee, while her other leg dangles over the edge. She wears a white hooded poncho, long dark grey pants, and white boots.

Her long black hair is tied into a braid and draped over her shoulder. Her left temple is shaved, and some sort of glowing device has been implanted on the bare skin. Her skin is pale white in parts, while in other places it is a dark purple-grey. Her face is divided in half, white on the right side and grey on the left. Her ears are pointed, elf-like, and her eyes are red. She looks straight at the camera, eyes narrowed in a challenging glare. /end ID]

Also on my DeviantArt.

super proud of this one, ngl. if there's one thing I've learned from this drawing "challenge", it's that experimenting outside of my usual art methods can produce some really appealing results.

Eris has a soft spot in my heart. all my book character do, really, but Eris especially is one I've just recently come to appreciate. I actually reread the book I wrote about her (back when I was like. fourteen. it shows.) before drawing this and discovered that a) it's actually serviceable? mostly? b) Eris is iconic and c) Eris is basically just proto Pretzel. I really am just out here creating the same characters over and over again, falling in love with the same archetype time and time again.

oh, also! pose referenced from here

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[Image ID: a digital drawing of a dog and a cat, floating over a starry background. The dog is a black Great Dane, poised as if mid-leap. White spots like stars speckle the fur on his back. His left eye is a milky blue-white and has a scar over it. Another scar, shaped like a fang, marks his left shoulder.

The cat is a black house cat. Like the dog, white spots are sprinkled down her back. Her eyes are green, with a scar over them. Her left ear is torn down to a stump. A long scar curls through the fur on her side.

The dog and the cat are arranged in an almost ying-yang pose, with the dog upright and facing left and the cat upside down and facing right. Green leaves pour in from the left and right corners, reaching out to almost cover the dog's scarred eye and the cat's torn ear. /end ID]

also on my DeviantArt

wifi acquired, back at it again. kept it pretty simple for Starwind and Shadow Fang, since they're pretty simple characters. Shadow Fang (the dog) is sweet, Starwind (the cat) is sassy, what more do you need? also they have superpowers.

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[Image ID: A digital drawing of three humanoid characters standing in a snowy landscape. The sky behind them is sunset pink.

On the left is Lia, a tall and lean teenage alien girl. She has pointed, elf-like ears, deer-like legs, and a long tail ending in a point. Her skin is a bronze color, and her eyes are orange. She wears a sleek white and green jumpsuit. On her head is a green circlet of sorts, a prominent crescent moon over her forehead fastened with chains that run behind her ears. Her red hair is pulled back in a braid. She stands with her arms folded, looking annoyed.

Opposite her stands Zock, a short, stocky, white human boy. He has pale skin and black hair, cut into a triple mohawk and dyed electric blue. His eyes are the same blue. He wears a shorts, a turtleneck, and shoes with ankle-length socks. The outfit is a mishmash of yellow, red, and blue, with folds of fabric forming "z" shapes around his neck, across his torso, up his arms, and even around the thighs of his shorts. He leans towards Lia, arms extended as if making a point and a mischievous smile on his face.

Between the two stands Lumi, an alien girl of a different species than Lia, though her ears are similarly pointed. She is the tallest and most heavily built of the three. Her scaly skin is a pale blue-green, while her cat-like eyes are a darker green. She has a long, prehensile tail that ends in three grasping tendrils, almost hand-like. Her fingers and toes are long and clawed, and additional claws extend from her forearms and calves. Three dark green, ram-like horns curl back from her head. She wears a simple pale pink dress, sleeveless and short. Purple vines adorn her torso, arms, legs, tail, and horns. She has her hands clasped in front of her, leaning away from Lia and shooting her a nervous smile. /end ID]

Also on DeviantArt

yeah I'm back. I embarked on a social media fast for Lent, and then Lent ended but I still had school and. yeah. anyway, here are some totally-not-Star-Wars-OCs from an old totally-not-a-reworked-Star-Wars-fanfic book of mine. they are very silly.

lowkey inspired by that one Force Awakens screenshot

#my art #digital art #procreate #procreate art #image described #image id #has id #imaginary's ill fated october #star swords #my ocs #original story #original story characters #original characters #luminita #rosalia silverswift #zoticus zingo #yes that is his name #i took photo refs of myself in each of their poses so if you're wondering why my human anatomy looks slightly better than usual that's why #2023 art #best of imaginary