WIP

I’m gonna count this as my second paragraph for the calvinball game @hollers-and-holmes started. I started a new rule where the reblogged had to post a paragraph, but I’m not gonna reblog AGAIN cause I think  that will just start a vicious cycle. I’m also gonna post more than one paragrah ~~~~ The trained chugged along, unaware of the two passengers it had left behind. Lucy ran up alongside Marianne. “Give me your luggage,” she panted. “You’ll need to jump first. You’re taller.” Marianne didn’t argue, she passed her suitcase to Lucy who bore it with cumbersome dignity. Marianne dropped back slightly, let the train gain some speed. The luggage car was coming fast. Marianne waited for just the right moment, rushed sideways and jumped on the car’s metal edging, and fell forward against the door, holding on to the inside of the frame with all her might. “Now for this stupid lock,” muttered Marianne to herself. Lucy was still ahead, running hard and looking dreadfully overwhelmed with luggage. She probably wouldn’t last much longer. Marianne’s own sides burned from her exercise. She breathed deeply and brushed the lock. It was a metal latch, rather like the latch on a vault, an iron lever. She would have to heave it and turn it back down without losing her balance.

She attempted it once, twice, but the mechanism was strong and unfortunately she was not. At least not right now, with her hands shaking. Maybe she could do it in better times but she wasn’t in a position to lament. Instead, she breathed on her hands warming them like fire. Then she grabbed hold of the lock. It melted off in her hand, falling to the rails with a dreadful spark. “Drat,” swore Marianne. But it wasn’t “Drat.” She was in no position to fix her mistake even if she could, and the heat from the lock spread across the railway for about twelve feet before fizzling out. It sparked beautifully, and a small fire started on the grass near the edge of the train tracks. All this happened in seconds. Lucy noticed Marianne had the cargo door opened and slowed her pace. “Here,” she hollered. “Take it.” She gave no further warning, but hurled the first suitcase at Marianne. It hit Marianne square in the chest and both fell back into the luggage compartment. The door to the cargo hung open and through the gap Lucy’s suitcase came, spilling all it’s contents out. Marianne struggled to her feet, clambering back to the door. “Lucy, catch my hand!”

Lucy gave a terrific leap, her left foot coming down on the train’s iron step-up. Marianne caught her hand and pulled her in. They fell down together admist the rest of the luggage. Neither said anything for a moment, and presently they began laughing.

“Of all the crazy things,” gasped Lucy between laughs, “this is the craziest. Melting the lock? Marianne, what have I told you about that spell? You can’t control it!”

“Tsh,” Marianne said. She sat up on her hands breathing deeply to stop the next fit of laughter. “It worked out for the best you know.” The door rocked back and forth on it’s slide, the area where the lock had been still smoking from Marianne’s botched spell. Marianne crawled over to close it, but first she looked over the wheat fields that had fallen behind them. “The fire’s gone out. Thank goodness it’s been a wet summer. Then again, Mamma says it’s hard for anything to stay lit out here in the hills.”

Lucy shook her head in amazement but her tone was gruntled and merry. “Maybe Aunt Claudia has a point about us.”

Dnd party

listen. i'm an aemond fan. however the bit in the trailer where he's talking about whether daemon (warrior who successfully fought and won a long-term military campaign before aemond was even BORN) dares to face him when he himself has been in zero (0) battles and killed one (1) person completely by accident really did make me laugh. buddy i hate to break it to you but you are absolutely not prepared for what's about to go down.

I've been bursting to show you all this model! This is my very first dragon design to actually make it from drawing board to brick! And I'm so happy he was ready in time for the year of the dragon!

He's part of a set of models I've been working on this past year themed around fairy tales. I'll post about some of those soon!

Please excuse my arm in the last photo. It does show how big he is though!

the beastie <3

I recently bought an art book on Caspar David Friedrich, whose emotional work stuck with me since I first saw it in a museum years ago. Over the course of a few weeks, I read about his life and at the same time did studies/interpretations of many pieces. It was a really enjoyable and fulfilling project; here's a good lot of them together :)

I was happy to see many people enjoyed Friedrich's work+my interpretations while posting them individually. It took way too long, but I FINALLY set up a print shop for some of these + some other pieces for those who expressed interest. Thank you so much!

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

Delivering mail to the furthest corners of the server ✉✈

Umm... A little help?

CONCEPT: What if HTTYD doesn't take place in the past, but in the future? In a post-apocalyptic setting where dragons are actually evolved/mutated animals after a post nuclear war.

And what if Hiccup gets the chance to explore the world like he wants and finds something beyond anything he could have imagined?

Like a boy who has been asleep for centuries...?

:)

The Blade of Frontiers

EXCUSE ME BARMAID! I’M AFRAID YOU ORDERED THE WRONG OFFSPRING! I ORDERED AN EXTRA LARGE BOY WITH BEEFY ARMS! EXTRA GUTS AND GLORY ON THE SIDE! THIS HERE! THIS IS A TALKING FISHBONE!

figuring out how i want to draw arin

The Dungeon Meshi crew 'leap' into action!