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musings on insects, isolation, and how much can change when you're not looking

#i started this like a month ago #and finished it today because i was laughing at how much the sentence 'i'm going bug hunting with my partner' would kill pre-college me #but yeah. i'm still learning to accept that i'm not alone anymore. #learning to love insects was easy. it's a lot harder to learn to love myself #in the wise words of a fic my friend wrote: it sucks so bad sometimes. but even when it sucks it's better. #personal #insects #also all of the scenes in the middle two pages are specific memories that have contributed the most to why neither of those things are true #1. meeting my partner in an entomology class i took on a whim #2. the fateful 8 hour dnd conversation on a field trip for that class that started our friendship #3. trip to a museum (i also could have drawn the part of that trup where i got to hold a cockroach but i don't have a picture of it) #(and i really like that picture of her) #4. seeing a cockroach on the way to class and both of us yelling 'oh my god a little guy!' #5. working at an insect collection together (oh god the things our boss has probably heard) #6. seeing a boxelder bug on the way to see a movie together (we always saw insects when we spent time together) #7. seeing fireflies for the first time when i visited her over the summer :D

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

#thinking about her #everything about him makes me insane fr #friends characters #Rose Loq #fall of mendacon

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justice is blind

#my boy lmao #i rlly do want him to lose his vision at some point. i just think it'd be silly goofy #dnd character #ra'amiel galakiir #favored by the stars

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a little beetle doodle

#is this anatomically accurate? nope! #but it okay. i drew it in like early september #i should get into drawing bugs more #i am an entomology major #bug art

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love a woman with a chainsaw

(the text is a little wonky, it's from this post)

#rose is a character of all time to me #he's not even my character lmao #he's my partners. from a campaign i'm not even in #i'm only second hand insane about her #but yeah anyway she's in the microwave #Rose Loq #fall of mendacon

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i have so many thoughts about these two being alive at the end of the campaign

#they weren't supposed to live #they were a direct parallel to the people penny couldn't save #and we did save them #aughhh this campaign will forever have a place in my heart #no matter how long it's been #fathoms down #drew vo #leigh edwards

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i'm sure Arbiter's absoluteness won't be a problem at all

#we're so fucked dude lmao #arbiter favored by the stars #favored by the stars #dnd character #ra'amiel galakiir

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redrew this a couple months ago and it's literally been sitting in my drafts since

#college man. #i'm so busy i do not have the time to draw properly aughhhh #this one's from literally august i think #dnd character #ra'amiel galakiir #favored by the stars

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some assorted leighjonah’s because i’ve unlocked a deep and ancient brain rot

#the brainrot being 'god i wish that were me' #the top right drawing is from the last scene of my fic :D #i'm still. as of writing this. (august 8th) one scene from finishing the Leigh 5 + 1 fic #i need to get it done before i go back down to visit eli #bc she wants to read it lmao #leigh and jonah really are Self Projection: the ttrpg characters #and it's incredibly funny to me. because that was not on purpose. #fathoms down #fathoms down postcanon #<- that's my tag for all my postcanon art and stuff now. to separate it from the actual campaign #jonah muir #leigh edwards #microdeath

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A well-deserved happy ending

#OUGH #dude i was so scared we were gonna die for all 15 sessions of this damn campaign #well. we did. technically. but we got better! #it's a cheesy ending but i love that we got everyone back #god knows we fought for that #shoutout to gertrude and anthony and their gaggle of queer found family children #fathoms down #brendan vargas #drew vo #gertrude porter #anthony porter #leigh edwards #jonah muir #session: Epilogue

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Stormbringers

#dude i'm so excited to fight ra'am's parents #as of typing this (august 4th) we won't play tomorrow #i'm *so hoping* i can get back from the ren faire in time to play next week #we'll see how it goes #dnd character #ra'amiel galakiir #favored by the stars #peter solis #ravius #they're the three that show up in the drawing. everyone is there technically i just didn't want to draw 7 people on this damn canvas #session: The Eye of the Storm

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literally my entire reasoning for this was going "i want to draw ra'am on a horse". so i did

#i am never drawing a horse again #that shit is hard #dnd character #ra'amiel galakiir #favored by the stars

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Hands™️

#i redrew the Hand Lore #because it had been like a year #and also the original hand lore didn't include peter because he hadn't been introduced yet #ra'amiel galakiir #favored by the stars #peter solis #vrosk #ravius #eldigan

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leigh my beloved

#i miss them!!!! #they were too cool and so they had to die :pensive: #fathoms down #leigh edwards #update because we played our final session: THEY'RE BACK BABEY

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thinking about hands and comfort

#literally insane about this by the way #fathoms down #jonah muir #brendan vargas #drew vo #gertrude porter #(anthony is implied) #and i never decided if the hand with jonah's was leigh's or sam's so. it's up to interpretation

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had the idea of B.I.R.D. receding into his chest cavity like a turtle when frightened and i literally sat there and animated this in 4 hours

#this is what i was doing while i was visiting my partner last month #and she had class and work so i was alone in the house #hyperfixated so hard #and when they came home i was like 'look at this :DDDD' like a dog greeting it's owner #dnd character #B.I.R.D (birdie)

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they're friends :,)

#this moment killed me. killed me #daph is so good at those little moments with vrosk #her talking to eldigan drunk #talking with ra'amiel about why he didn't get along with peter (even though she didn't understand) #giving ra'amiel's childhood toy a friend #i love her so much :( #favored by the stars #session: The Eye of the Storm