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thunderboltfire · 5 months

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*muffled I Wish I Had An Angel coming from the next room*

(pose references from Adorka stock)

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #Shadowheart #According to an online discussion I've took part in #Shadowheart would listen to Nightwish (and would never admit she likes the albums after Tarja)#so lo and behold #modern!Shadowheart #thunderboltfire's art

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daily-rayless · 1 year

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10 Happy Things

Thank you for tagging me @thunderboltfire

I love making lists (let’s call this an eleventh thing I sneaked in) and thinking about this really picked up my mood.

1. Graveyards: I don’t mean this in any dark or edgy way. I feel like graveyards are extremely peaceful, reflective places. I love wandering through and looking at the headstones -- seeing the different sculpture designs, seeing the names, and inscriptions, making little guesses at these people’s histories. I like the newer graveyards where people make so many unusual design choices (an entire recipe on the back of a headstone! a stone that looks like an electronic device!) and I also like older graveyards where you can feel the passage of time. When my mom was little, her family sometimes would eat their lunches in graveyards on road trips, so I was never raised with the idea that it’s disrespectful to talk and laugh in a graveyard. They’re pleasant, welcoming places.

2. Brush-tip markers: Along with being smooth and velvety and blending so nicely, they let me pretend I’m a Master Painter Painting Masterfully.

3. Used Book Stores: This is a little similar to graveyards. Broadly speaking, there are two types of used book stores, and they’re both good. 1: Bright colorful bookstores with more recent used books, lots of paperbacks from the last twenty years, books you’ve been interested in but didn’t want to buy at full price and here they are. 2: Brown, quiet used book stores with much older books, lots of hardbacks who’ve lost -- or never had -- dust jackets, lots of foil-stamped covers and thick pages with huge margins and frontispieces protected by translucent paper, books you’ve never heard of, without Amazon reviews or back-cover blurbs, that you decide to take a chance on.

4. Finishing a journal and lining it up on the shelf with my other journals: Along with the sense of accomplishment and thinking I’ve made a bit of a record, my journals are mismatched, lots of them gifts from people, and they remind me of those people.

5. Really Old Stuff: This may be because I come from the States, so there isn’t a lot of really old stuff around me, and even the oldest stuff usually isn’t very old. Really old trees, old houses, old knickknacks -- I love these tangible proofs of the past, thinking about where they’ve been and the people who’ve interacted with them. This exact knickknack was sitting somewhere the day I was born. People were clumping across these wooden floors when they heard the Titanic went down. It’s a neat feeling.

6. Meeting Animals: I don’t currently have any pets, so meeting other people’s cats and dogs and horses and goats feels like a treat.

7. Character Building: Landing on just the right name for an oc, or drawing an oc and finally seeing their personality in my pencil lines. I can “see” the character in my head, but putting that on paper can be really hard. Some characters, like Arsen, still haven’t really “appeared” on the page for me yet.

8. Wandering around in fandom spaces and finding art of a favorite character I haven’t seen before. Extra points if something about the art is so good and so spot-on I want to incorporate it into my own headcanon.

9. Names and Words: I haven’t studied it very deeply, but I’ve been interested in name/word derivations for a long time. When I find out that two words, deep down, come from the same root, it’s magical. My dad once speculated that foal and pullet might have a common source, and I didn’t believe him, but he was right. The other day I learned that Lucy and Luna come from the same Proto-Indoeuropean root, and it means both “to shine” and “to see”. There’s something fascinating about the history of the very words we use, hidden meanings and connections we don’t even know.

10. Hot cocoa: I used to drink hot cocoa regularly, but not so much anymore. It’s the best hot drink, in my opinion, and I don’t take it for granted these days.

Please consider yourself tagged, especially if we’re mutuals. This picked up my mood, and I’d love to spread that around.

#10 happy things #meme

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captainofthefallen · 6 years

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30 Day Watcher Challenge- Day 28

Prompt list here

28. playlist: share some songs that fit your watcher!

Here’s the thing. I’m not super great at making playlists, particularly seeing as most of my taste in music is instrumental. I’m going to do what @rannadylin did and leave this open to anyone who wants to contribute. There is no wrong answer! Seriously I would squeal with delight if any of you wanted to suggest a song. Or multiple songs.

Bonus: here’s a link to art of Mara’s beautiful face, done by the excellent and wonderful @thunderboltfire!

#30 day watcher challenge #day 28 #mara emerys

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thunderboltfire · 18 days

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It would be extremely epic, if it wasn't also a Looney Toons situation. (I may have forgotten that Divine Smite exists).

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #Minthara #over 100 damage in one attack?! Man I love paladins #A shame that in response Minthara got obliterated with an equivalent of a small star exploding directly in her face XD #I might make an actual polished version of this panel with her preparing to smite I like how it came out #thunderboltfire's art #low effort comic

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thunderboltfire · 2 months

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Ah yes, the night-prowling, mean and eternally hungry dude, who enjoys killing a little too much.

Happy National Cat Day!

#BG3 #Astarion #he hisses not to touch him and will imprint on anyone who feeds him #I'm convinced he's your neighborhood unvaccinated stray tomcat #(also he's in his EA/promo outfit bc I like it better than the release one)#I only realised it's National Cat Day here a few minutes before posting but it's a fun coincidence #anthro #digital art #thunderboltfire's art

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thunderboltfire · 1 year

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POV: You’re a Witch-King of Angmar and a tall blonde has suggested you leave her uncle alone.

#LotR #Eowyn #sketch #You know how anytime you take any kind of helmet off the hair come out sort of tangled and sweaty?#I think of this a lot when I read scenes when people take off their helmets in a middle of a battle #I know I've cheated by having her shield obscure half of her face #But if you already have a shield why not raise it #Also a curious fact:#Operating a sword-and-shield combination requires way more physical strenght than a single two-handed weapon #my art #thunderboltfire's art

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thunderboltfire · 20 days

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Do You deem Your head fit for a crown?

Thoughts about the design under the cut!

I've had a few reasons for deerlike association with Gale, and of course most of it is symbolic. Deer are hunted for food by many predators and men alike. Somehow it fits with how what is killing him is described as hungry and never sated and how he's expected to sacrifice his life not as a last, but as a first resort. Deer can symbolise someone who's been used or fooled. While it's a more complicated matter, he also has a certain problem with hubris, and he is a bit of a showoff, both things corresponding with how deer are viewed as proud animals. The crown of Karsus IMO also bears an uncanny resemblance to antlers.

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #Gale Dekarios #Gale of Waterdeep #anthro #anthro deer #I'm experimenting with pattern brushes and I found one that is really similar to the pattern Gale's robes has on its sleeves #(I love the romboidal patterns but that's a completely different matter XD)#thunderboltfire's art #my art

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thunderboltfire · 2 months

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Woe to the one

Who boast in front of the gods

Woe to the god

Who is petty and jealous to mortals

Ensiferum 'Andromeda' --------------------------

I've decided to give oils in Rebelle another go. It's more of a cinematic recreation than what actually happened, but I'm really happy with it.

#BG1 #Baldur's Gate 1 #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #Charname #Sarevok Anchev #thunderboltfire's art #digital art #don't worry about traps they're disarmed at this point #also I'm aware that the only actual source of orange color in the hall of the temple is Sarevok's kickass carpet #but I concluded the fireplace would be a really fun addition #and the carpet has to be lit by something anyway

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thunderboltfire · 1 month

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There is a slight, but meaningful difference between English and Polish version of this dialogue - in the original the sentence reads "You pause, knowing you may not survive the battle to come" and in the Polish translation it's "You stop, aware that You will not survive the coming battle". Whether it's a simple translation blunder or an intentionally more dramatic approach, considering Charname has to take battle after battle in their weakened state that's getting worse, it makes sense they'd feel they've reached their limit.

#Baldur's Gate 2 #BG2 #Iwona the Gorion's Ward #Charname #Baldur's Gate 2 spoilers #I headcanon she looks very sick at this point - almost corpse-like #I guess walking around without the larger part of one's soul isn't healthy #and she's been doing it for weeks #thunderboltfire's art #my art

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thunderboltfire · 9 months

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Attack for Halopromise - Amunet Bruniik in her werewolf form!

#artfight2023 #werewolf #Skyrim #The Elder Scrolls #werewif to be precise #digital art #digital painting #thunderboltfire's art #can You tell that CSP's guache brushes are recently my favourite

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thunderboltfire · 7 months

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You're having fun?

Despite being a size of a large cat (not counting his tail!) Rim isn't really heavy. He takes up quite a lot of place in the backpack, but he can also perch comfortably on Iwona's shoulders, which he often does.

When he isn't causing mischief, scouting, or hunting mice, that is.

#Baldur's Gate 2 #Iwona The Gorion's Ward #Charname #Rim the Pseudodragon #I'm weaponising the fact that pseudodragons can change colors like chameleons #also: behold! a colored version of Iwona's gambeson/padded jacket from BG2 #colored sketch #digital sketch #thunderboltfire's art #my art

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thunderboltfire · 1 month

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