#kitty in bloom

[theowlreblogs]

Odd OC asks for Seth/ Valak! 🌽🍉🍪

(QUILL!! Thanks for the ask 😭 You made my week)

Context for these OCs: Valak and Seth are childhood friends with soft feelings for each other. They are separated now + Seth thinks that Valak's dead. Valak lost an eye and got his long hair cut after losing a fight. He's in our dimension now, which is... very different of what he's used (He's suffering) Let's go, let's go -rubs hands like a fly-

🌽How does this OC feel about acts of affection? What's their favourite act of affection, physical or emotional?

Seth: He is that kind of guy who is a flirt but serious acts of affection which means truly something-- He will do them very rarely. As an extrovert he likes casually touching everybody so you have to be able to read through him to see when it means more.

When he truly cares/loves you he would compose (nice) songs about you, will serve alcohol in your cup with a soft smile, would touch you more carefully but with more intensity. He would need to have you close. His favorite act of affection is singing nice things about you (Which is a surprise, this bard likes to sing vulgar stuff way too much) That and hugging you with his whole body, all wrapped around you. He also likes licking the faces of his loved ones.

(^That's Damian, a half-demon kid Valak is very fond of) Valak: In the other hand, Valak is much simpler. If he likes you just enough he would become a very sticky demon. He likes touching the people he likes and he thinks it's natural just staying close (sometimes sitting a bit too close, for example) to anybody he feels comfortable with. Bumping softly his forehead with yours, cuddling you, nuzzling your hair, biting you a bit, wrapping his tail around you, doing your make up or hair, feeding the best pieces of meat to you, gifting little tokens, purring when you are near. He doesn't voice his soft feelings, but rather let them be seen with actions.

His favorite act of affection is helping without being asked. He'd decide in what you need that help (lol) 🍉 Does your OC have a particular piece of jewellery that they always wear or refuse to part with?

Valak: He likes to wear a blue crystal his mother gave to him when he was a kid. He never takes it off. When he was exiled and ended up in an unknown place he was ready to pawn every jewelry and gem he had… but that one. Seth: He always wears gold rings on the base of his horns. It was the prize he choose after killing a demon lord who kept trying to cross a line with him. Seth was very proud of winning that fight (His first kill) plus he thinks these rings suits him very well. (Some people started to respect him a bit more after that, which only made him even more proud)

🍪: What is something that's sentimental to you OC? Valak: His black spotted pelt… Nowadays he barely wears it in his everyday, slighty afraid that it could lose the scent of the demon who gifted it to him (Seth). It makes him remember a flowery scented summer. When he's feeling especially emotional he would sleep with it wrapped around him. Valak and Seth used to nap together a lot, so… (It's better if you never ever touch that pelt or you may make him angry for real. It's *his* and only his)

Seth: Peaches. Peach blossoms. He never liked when other demons made him feel too soft, but when Valak compared him to a peach flower… it made him feel as if being delicate wasn't that bad after all (At least not with the right person)

The sweet smell of peaches always brings a bittersweet feeling into his chest.

~ Le finish! I hope that was interesting to read! Sorry for my awkward English (Just as note: I wanted to add one or two doodles to illustrate my replies and then I got carried away. I don't have regrets 'tho (?) )

#my ocs #seth #valak #kitty in bloom #damian

[steamingowl]

Unusual Muse Associations

Tagged by @quilleth!! Thanks for giving me the opportunity of talking about my dear babies ♥

I of course am going to use my OCs Seth and Valak, protagonists of my lastest brainrot

Let's start with Seth! Fire demon, bard, very lively and charming. Valak's childhood friend.

I have a playlist of Valak and Seth here

SEASONING: He likes spicy!!

WEATHER: Warm and sunny. He probably gets gloomy when it's rainy

COLOR: Golden! He adores gold and golden. He also likes light blue very much

SKY: Sunny! He likes evenings and sunsets

MAGICAL POWER: As he would say 'Do you happen to know what is music? Yeah? And a fire demon? Nice. Have you ever seen a Fire demon playing music? I'll let you know what can happen when it's done in the right way ;D

HOUSE PLANT: He probably likes lilies, but he's more a going outside kind of guy, so he prefers trees over anything, especially the flowery ones

WEAPON: A violin! His violin bow has the shape of a fine sword too

SUBJECT: Music! And drama class

SOCIAL MEDIA: I'm afraid he'd be a tiktok guy too. He'd share his sick covers and he'd be quite popular for being far too pretty and charismatic ohoho

MAKEUP PRODUCT: MMM He isn't a makeup guy, but he'd like to use a bit of makeup to make his face glow a bit

CANDY: He likes hard candy! And also little puffy pastries with honey. Honey probably is his favorite

FEAR: Being exposed. Not having any protection at all. Not being able to control his own body. Trusting somebody who secretly just wanted to fuck him up. So in a word? Being defendless

ICE CUBE SHAPE: Little moons?? 'Oh, how cute!'

METHOD OF LONG-DISTANCE TRAVEL: Carriage/horse!

ART STYLE: He'd adore Sorolla's shapes and colors

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Dragon

PIECE OF STATIONERY: Quills!

THREE EMOJIS: 😽😏🌸

CELESTIAL BODY: Nothing, he just is the gentle sky. Always there, like a cloack that can protect and make you feel warm in the coldest nights.

Valak's turn! He used to be a clan leader. He's a warrior, a legend, an hero. Lost a fight a few months ago which made him lose his territory and made him be exiled by the 'new leader' to the human realm. He's hating it so far, acting very bitter and a second away from dying of boredom (Second pic)

SEASONING: Herby, a bit spicy. He likes curry flavour

WEATHER: Warm. He doesn't do very well when it's cold.

COLOR: Blue! He also likes pink.

SKY: Sunny, Valak also likes when there are a few white clouds in the sky.

MAGICAL POWER: He doesn't have much magic. A bit of air powers, but they are not very developed. He can control a bit of hypnosis as demon, but normally he leans a lot in his physical attacks and force brute.

HOUSE PLANT: He'd like plants with *big* leaves

WEAPON: His firm weapon is a Kusarigama, but he likes knives too

SUBJECT: P.E. !

SOCIAL MEDIA: MMMM Instagram, maybe. Just to show pics of plants, nature and some animals. He'd have like 2 likes per publication 'tho.

MAKEUP PRODUCT: He likes eyeshadow! He IS a makeup guy and he won't hesitate in do the makeup of all his friends

CANDY: Valak doesn't have a sweet tooth... He likes candied fruits and fruits with honey from time to time 'tho. He also likes to eat fruits everyday. Peaches and apples are his favourites.

FEAR: Not being able to protect or save a loved one.

ICE CUBE SHAPE: he'd make a little snort laugh if he eves sees little ice cubes with dick shape

METHOD OF LONG-DISTANCE TRAVEL: Carriage/horse! Nowadays by walk... Although I'd like him to have a scooter (One of the few cool things humans have, in his opinion)

ART STYLE: He'd like realistic art style. He's a simple guy

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: White tiger?

PIECE OF STATIONERY: Craft paper

THREE EMOJIS: 👿😒🐅

CELESTIAL BODY: The hazy moon

I tag @soturisi @leporidactic @nooterino ! Have fun talking about any of your fav charries)! OC or fandom wise!

#oc #oc art #art #valak #seth #kitty in bloom

[catfindr]

#petfinder #catfinder #cat #kitten #kitty #food mention #cabbage bloom #grey tabby #gray tabby #me #maine

[arrietty-rune]

Sanrio and Mushrooms ! 🍄

#sanrio #hello kitty #pompompurin #cinamoroll #kuromi #my melody #mushrooms #blooming tree #i wanted to make them all from funguary 2024 but some didn't really fit idk x) #cottagecore

[procrastination-artist]

tell me why dudes be like “it’s not my cat” and proceed to do the most sickeningly sweet and cute shit with them

buy them treats, let them fall asleep on them

like by the end of the week they’re doing stuff like buying them a little helmet to pose on their bike

same thing with dogs but I’m a cat owner so cat men get 1926284735184626273 bonus points in my book

#digital art #procreate #blooming #blooming panic #bloomic #bloomic fanart #bloomic xyx #xyx #xyx fanart #blooming panic xyx #xyx bp #bp #bp xyx #fanart #motorcycle #cat #kitty #mr. and/or ms. Cat #it’s not my cat #mhm yeah sure #keep lying mr #you know you’ll love him in like 2 seconds

[larasarty]

"Feeling like a flower queen in my crown of blooms! 🌸👑

#"Feeling like a flower queen in my crown of blooms! 🌸👑 #FlowerPower #CuteCat #cats of tumblr #cat #cats #kitty #kitten #animals #funny cats #funny #cute cats #cute #funny animals #black cat #my cat #meow #love #humor #haha #pets

[incompleteninny]

The forty-sixth free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

I’m plain exhausted. It’d be nice to spend all day writing and editing and drafting, but The Energy. It eludes me. Or work steals it all.

Avery's consciousness zips back to the world through a dizzying swamp. A journey of swirling thoughts, fluttering eyelids, and an inexplicably dry mouth. It's gross. Like she's got a shriveled up sponge for a tongue. In a few moments, most of the discomfort passes and the world materializes around her: the subtle scent of lavender and lemongrass; rays of early sunset that tint the world red; a steady, eerie creak.

Comfortable, warm, and haunting. Waking up around this time has always felt like that. Felt weird. The creaking doesn't help.

What happened? Where am I?

Her fluttering eyes shoot open and she props herself up. A plush, violet couch supports her now-awake self, herbs creep up from multicolored pots, and Valerie swivels in an office chair behind a mahogany desk. Avery goes to speak, but the words catch in her throat at a rush of memories. The school trip, the girl who lost control, overexerting herself.

Did I pass out?

[...]

#capitalism continues to be a mistake #how am I suppose to work and clean and write and fight that algae bloom in my tiny pond with this many spoons? #I want to be able to just blip out of existence for a bit like I'm taking a trip to the grocery store #but would I even feel rested after I blipped back into existence? probably not #I guess I'll keep destressing by listening to Dear McCracken and Mrs. Potter's Lullaby in the shower #book tags for the road #queer novel #queer protagonists #very good eldritch kitty with teleport powers #probably also gay

[roychewtoy]

succ drawin dump! from the ideas on this post thaaaaaaank uuuu <3 gonna do more.... romtom dogs in suits design by @/tomshivyuri !! :D

#can an ouppy and a kittys drink a milkshake together................. #wanted to draw shiv with flowers and then was punched through the skull with LET A THOUSAND SUNFLOWERS BLOOM ROMEYYYY so....kendall too :p #had fun drawin wow.....gob smacked......chugging chugging chugging SUCCESSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #nearly all my clip studio files r succ drawings lol. so many variations of shivvy...... #romtom #shiv roy #kendall roy #roman roy #succession #succession art #my art #chewtoy

[landgraabbed]

stella finally got a familiar! meet luna :-)

#p #ts2 #sims 2 #sav: bloom valley #y02win #she won't b a regular bc i forget to summon her #lemme find some mod for that #the beauty of her thinking abt sasha as she strokes the kitty is not lost on me #f: rustywire

[glamboyl]

Cyrano & Flowers photo by Tamlyn

#feline friend #white cat #flowers #blooms #cat #kitty #natural beauty #outside photography

[restinpeacesensei]

there was a snowflake

#boueibu #binan koukou chikyuu bouei bu love! #akoya gero #kusatsu kinshirou #arima ibushi #kittykoya #my art #my comic #ME WHEN I SEE A SNOWFLAKE!!!! #im sorry to all the penguins but i think it should be illegal to snow in march #IM SURVIVING....... #snow is beautiful after it falls but then it turns to slush and that's not beautiful ok #and after many months of winter we do not need MORE snow ok it is preventing the beautiful flowers from blooming!! #ok ive actually had this in my drafts for a week and now i feel a little silly bc the sun is out now but i will post it anyway #despite arima's best efforts i think kittykoya and kitty kinchan are going to zoom wildly around the room in a panic for a few hours #before getting tired enough to accept his invitation u-u

[linkerbell]

I told you it was only a matter of time @kitty-c4t UvU

I figured Dilly and Lecia could cause chaos together. >:3

#art fight #art fight 2022 #art fight team bloom #demon oc #my art #kitty-c4t #dilly #Lecia #furby #i cant believe this is the second time ive drawn my own oc #im a terrible mother

[catfindr]

#petfinder #catfinder #cat #kitten #kitty #blooming branch 7003 #blooming branch #mi #michigan

[aychama]

Tis the season

#cats are blooming nicely this year #cat #kitty #cat on a tree #aychama talks

[icewindandboringhorror]

Various images of things

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that -- #1. PIBBINS.... cheering clapping hooting hollering glorious applause everytime I see a pigeon in public #2. Birthday card that I drew for someone. .. kittys... #3. 2023's annual haul of tiny white pumpkins.. i get at least one white pumpkin every year around fall when they have pumpkins in stores #because I just love the color and texture ... bright white and smooth and cold and round.. kind of like a volleyball or something #4. A brief adventure into watching big brother (only earlier seasons of course as I hate all reality shows post like 2013 or something when #they became overly focused on social media and overproduced memeable phrases more.. like even though ALL reality shows have always #been extremely fake and annoying and mindless it's like..... newer stuff seems A Different Kind Of Fake or something) since whenever #I'm sick sometimes I find weird mindless things like that to watch (that one time I had bronchitis I watched all of Flavor of Love in my #half awake illness stupor and now everytime I heat up canned minestrone soup (mostly all I ate that week) I think of flavor flav since #thats just a weird brain connection I have now lol) ANYWAY.. I was sick and watched like 2 seasons of this and then thought it was too #uninteresting and obnoxious to continue (more like 1 and a half since I skipped the rest of one once only boring people were left) BUT this #one guy had a very mischevious looking face and he also said a few things (like the above captioned speech) that sounded like dialogue #some fantasy character would say.. so I took a screencap of him and edited him into a mischevious wizard i guess.?? idk I was sick lol #~your little friend has a poisoned tongue~ is just a very unexpectedly serious sounding wording for some random normal #frat dude looking guy to say while casually chatting on a reality tv show in like 2008 or whenever that was filmed lol #5. FLUFFY CLOVERS!! I'd never seen them be furry and soft before?? inchresting.. #6. Noodle sitting in bed with the cat figurines looming above him... the council of kittys... #7. McDonald's full breakfast platter + asparagus + strawberries & cream (also of course this is old and I am now boycotting mcdonalds etc) #i try to group the images somewhat consistently like.. winter stuff with winter stuff or summer stuff with summer stuff #but I have so many random pictrues floating around on my computer that I never post that sometimes some are not organized or just #thrown into a set because there's nowhere else for them. Like the pigeon picture is from like 3 years ago for example lol #8 & 9 - I think I've posted these before but I just find them very interesting looking flowers. whenever they happen to be blooming #I'll pick up a few when I'm out on walks or etc. ... poof ball looking things #photo diary

[inkspiders]

“I don’t want your copy ‘n paste endearments.” - Ayumi, The Dream and the Weaver

This May, The Dread Machine released their second anthology Darkness Blooms. I was one of the lucky authors to have their story featured and, as imagery was a key theme for me, I wanted to do a mini-blog series about what inspired me alongside drawings of the characters and machines 😊

The Dread Machine’s call was for dark sci-fi stories with themes about identity, community and security.

The Dream and the Weaver follows multiple characters in a future where productivity is lauded and sleep is no longer seen as a basic right. Workers have installed in their brain a ‘Cricket’, which sits next to the amygdala. This nub processes our emotions and is connected to how we retain memories, learn new things and experience sensations.

Should someone start to fall asleep, the cricket shocks the user to induce a heightened state of anxiety and keep them awake. The humans in The Dream and the Weaver have had to adapt, but, just as the Weaver Mashoka warns:

Drain a battery too much and glitches occur. Messages ping that do not really exist. A logical outcome is not arrived at. A stutter. A freeze. The rule to protect human life cannot be properly or consistently followed if systems have slowed down.

Because of this. People have forgotten how to dream their own dreams.

Sleep is sold back to consumers. Dreams and nightmares are treated like any other form of media entertainment.

Dream sharing is managed by two machines: the Dreamer and the Weaver. The Dreamer links up to a database of pre-designed dreams. The Weaver acts as a firewall. They stop dreams from becoming nightmares and help users ease into sleep, as most no longer know how to access it naturally.

Alongside this is the Web.

Society’s tattered webs drape moonscrapers, dulling stars into embers. Thoughts and store discounts travel through membrane-clotted wires. When a child is born, they are held aloft on the roofs. A strand reaches out, tucks itself in an ear and forms a shawl, just as muslin was thrown over cradles to keep away the scary things beyond. Now the Dreamer holds us all, only masking what screeches past the city’s defenses. Nanites squirm in the folds.

Society is connected via the Web, a satellite system linking everyone’s Crickets. Advertisements are blasted into our minds. Politicians pretend they’ve been hacked when a stray, unpleasant thought is picked up by the public.

While what awaits beyond this cloak doesn’t get a mention in the story, it does appear in a future tale that will hopefully see the light of day - Gulls Are Her Crown - once it escapes my work in progress drawer.

Even though the Web links everyone in the city, isolation and loneliness is at its highest. Why waste precious time interacting with others when the good and ugly thoughts of the mass thrum under the skull?

For someone in mourning, with the roar of the mass making it even starker that one dear voice is lost, it must be maddening to live in such a society.

Ayumi, titled the Widow in this story, has found another use for the Dreamer. After the loss of her wife, she travels through the dreamscape searching for her wife's final moments with the help of a malfunctioning Weaver.

Those grieving are barred from accessing sleep in a misguided belief focusing on the waking world, the living, will heal them. Ayumi has to access sleep illegally.

Ayumi wasn’t the first character I created for this story. She was actually the third after the nameless itinerant worker in the Nightmare section and Mashoka. The Dream and the Weaver was inspired by two old drafts that were collecting dust on one of my flash drives.

The first draft, Dream at A Price, was a much darker story without the hopeful ending of The Dream and Weaver, and focused on the entertainment section. Fight clubs where users plugged into Dreamers, which were then called Dream Sharers, so injuries wouldn’t show on the body. The most extreme of battles could take place, while what the mind went through was left to fester.

The main character was the spirit of the Dream Sharer’s creator. She burrowed into the minds of those accessing the devices, setting out to destroy a machine that had originally been created to cure traumatic memories and had instead been cruelly distorted.

In The Dream and the Weaver, the living reaches out for the ghost.

Dreams were imaginations with the collar snapped off or corrupted memories turned strange and cruel by fear. The machine grasped them in its claw, tore a seam open and invited people to peer inside. All at affordable subscriptions, of course. - Old, scrapped scene from Dream at A Price

The other draft was called Dreamweaver. Humans were put under an eternal lockdown, so machines could protect and nurture the flowers A.I. had deemed superior to flesh.

Characters used Dreamweavers to hack into the machines, travelling the dreamscape to reason with the evolved A.I. in the hopes of freeing humanity. This plotline will hopefully be revived in Gulls Are Her Crown.

“They needed a new flavour dream to keep you here. That is why they installed me. I went to the place they dare not let humanity near. To the great oak tree. You saw it within me. You searched and hungered and kept calling, no matter how many times the Observers separated us.” “Trees no longer exist.” There are bone shards in my throat. The more I swallow the harder they pierce me. “We're still waiting for the miracle.” For the land to forgive us. - Old, not so scrapped scene from Dreamweaver

In The Dream and the Weaver, I wanted to focus more on the breakdown of humans/sleep as well as weaving in an emotional connection. This led to the creation of Ayumi.

For this character, Darkness Blooms' themes are shown through the loss of security and community. Her grief has caused her to break her Cricket. Ayumi begins to lose herself in the identities of the Dreamer's past users. The further she dives, the greater the risk her mind will be overwritten by second hand memories. All so she can see her wife one final time.

Throughout Ayumi’s sections, the symbolism used for her are things – machines, advertisement jingles that are near forgotten – which are dying but still have one final spark, and if that spark was nurtured it would blaze into life again.

The Dread Machine have also put up a reading playlist on Spotify. I think, out of the songs, Ayumi most relates to Homecoming – Makeup & Vanity Set and Six Feet Under – Billie Eilish.

I think it’s probably obvious what anime movie inspired me. I watched Paprika when I was around 13, which is a long, long time ago now!

Did I have any idea what was happening? No, but I loved how vibrant the film was alongside the beautiful imagery and suddenness of the ordinary being transformed by surreal imagination. I wanted to see if it was possible to get the wilderness of dreams across in the written word.

Ghost in the Shell’s aesthetic was another influence, particularly the download/upload of the ghosts (although all I’ve currently seen is the first movie and a few episodes of S.A.C. A Modest Rebellion – Android and I is my favourite one so far).

As I wanted to focus on the dream/fantasy elements of my story, I decided to research myths and tools related to sleep throughout the ages, particularly dream catchers. Also, because I am absolutely terrified of spiders, but slowly trying to get used to them by writing about them, spider imagery is common throughout my stories.

Considering spider webs are believed to be able to protect against evil forces, I thought it a good pairing: the sinister effect of a creeping spider along with dreamcatchers that are meant to soothe and protect.

Pixels flutter. Silk cocoons crack, budding with moths. The spider twitches and leaps to the window, packing webbing into its abdomen, until it squats alone in the corner. It drops, legs tickling one another as sticky string spills out. The trap is strummed, luring the moths back. They’ll never escape. I tear the web, wisps hanging from my nails, but it’s no use. The web glitches to the beginning and the spider weaves anew.

The Weaver knows what to do. It curls its remaining fingers around its face. A soft twangy noise, stilted at first, forms a basic tune. The Weaver plays itself like an instrument. Do flies hear such a song, when they come too near the web?

My next post will feature sketches of several Dreamer and Weaver models. After that, I’ll write about the second voice in this story: Seb, the magpie. His section deals with the cost of sacrificing your identity in exchange for community and security.

The Dream and the Weaver, alongside sixteen other great stories, can be read in Darkness Blooms. It is available direct via The Dread Machine’s website – ebook, print or hardcover – and I have to say the hardcover version I received as an author copy is gorgeous.

The Dread Machine | Where nightmares are manufactured.

#darkness blooms #the dread machine #kitty-lydia dye #the dream and the weaver #science fiction #fantasy #horror #dark science fiction #mecha #art #writer on tumblr #anime #spiders #dreamcatcher #writing #haha I've written loads and probably no-one's going to notice #but it's certainly helping with plotting out Gulls #did I write a glossary for the world I built? no And now I'm scrambling to remember everything #books #literature #fiction #scifi #scifi art #scifi writing #cyberpunk #cybernetics