christmas is the best because one moment you're just looking for presents for your friends then the next Little Guys Have Appeared On Your Fridge (thanks for having cool stuff on your redbubble!!!)

THIS IS SO CUTE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING ❤️❤️❤️❤️

i hope you had a good one!

Some Namis, for your consideration

today's sillay handicrafts (had no time for aira sobs)

hello gang!

redbubble and inprnt are running black friday/cyber monday sales. i'm not sure on inprnt, but redbubbles ends december 2nd! if you ever wanted to buy my art from these places, now is an excellent time.

new prints have been added to both including all of my released zutara week pieces. my final zutara week piece will be added after it's posted as well!

you can find me on both services under the name fabdante (links here as well: redbubble and inprnt)

finally drew something so good i dont even want it associated w my tumblr im gonna sign my actual artist signature 🥲

Happy (vb au) quinntina day!!

dc give me a chance babe

i can't pick a version with or without the logo, so have both. also you can get a print of this on redbubble or inprnt

and let me know what else i should put there, i haven't updated my redbubble in years

should have done this earlier smh. but anyways Gus and Emily modeling ✨the stardrop saloon ✨ shirt design i just posted on my redbubble.

updated version of the a/d i made under just incase yall are sick of my capitalism

UPDATED MY FAMILIAR’S GHOST POSTER!

The comic has changed a lot since its inception, and since Dolly became such an integral character and we’ve now met vampire Guillermo, I really wanted to re-do it! So here we are!! You can even get a print/sticker/shirt/etc on RedBubble if it strikes your fancy!

Confused? Check out the comic from the beginning!!

You can also find the latest pages on Patreon!

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ID: In the style of a movie poster. Ghost Guillermo, wearing that same sweater and a ghostly tail instead of legs, takes up the center of the frame, glowing in hues of blue, green, and purple. He has a translucent black cloak over his shoulders, tugging the hem close with his left hand, and is holding the forefinger of the right to his open lips in a shushing gesture. Behind him in the top right is the vampire residence at a low dramatic angle, lights and windows glowing as lightning strikes the sky beyond. Just below are busts of: the Guide with an indulgent smile, hands clasped together at her chest; Stu in a gas station work polo, giving a little wave with an awkward grin; Lilith with a dazzling if slightly crazy-eyed smile, looking over her shoulder with her hand poised dramatically upon it; and Derek in a gas station work polo, looking up at Ghost Guillermo with some trepidation. In the top left is a close up of Vampire Guillermo from below, wearing the same dress shirt spattered with blood, far side of his face set in deep shadow and chin held up in superiority as one glowing orange eye stares down at his ghostly self. They are all lit by the greenish-blue glow from ghost Guillermo. At the bottom, Nadja, Dolly, Laszlo, Colin Robinson, and Nandor stand waist-up in a row looking up at Ghost Guillermo. Nadja is slightly open-mouthed and less concerned than she probably should be, holding Dolly in the crook of one arm. Dolly is looking up with a similar expression, porcelain hand laid on top of Laszlo's on her knee. Laszlo, body turned completely to face his wife, has his head turned toward the viewer with a pinched expression, his eyes not on Guillermo but looking toward Colin at his back. Colin looks uncertain, frowning up at Guillermo with a laptop clutched to his chest with both arms. Nandor looks distraught and worried, wringing his hands together as he stares up at Guillermo. They are all lit in the same greenish-blue glow. The tagline is written in ghostly blue: “moving out… doesn’t mean moving on!”, and the title is listed at the bottom in dripping red font: “My Familiar’s Ghost”. At the bottom further ghostly blue text reads “a wwdits season 5 au” and “created by beansprean”. /end ID

Hi! I love your "not because it's easy" quote and was going to try and buy merch of it on redbubble but saw there wasn't a sticker (or maybe I missed it somehow). Do this becoming an option? I'd love to get one for my laptop!

Updated, should be there now!

Fundraising Update

No new design approvals seem to be happening with the holiday, so here are my most popular Palestine designs so far (shown here on stickers):

I want to thank everyone who has pitched in to help my best friend. For those who have not seen my posts my best friend in the world is Palestinian, and a lot of his friends and family all around the Levant are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the increasing Israeli raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries (West Bank stuff in particular has been rough for them). We're also on limited budgets as grad students, and I really don't want him to feel pressured to neglect school to support his family. He's an absolutely brilliant scientist and deserves to be able to focus on his research (as well as he can through the emotional toll this has taken of course). So, I'm selling Palestine related art and ALL PROCEEDS will go to him to help him get his loved ones through this. Honestly I didn't expect fundraising like this to do anything, but you all have been amazing!

I have a really happy update, his girlfriend should be arriving here in America imminently! You all helped pay for her flight and are helping cover their housing, so thank you so much! I really hope you are all enjoying the stickers, shirts, mugs and all the other stuff you have bought! From now on all money raised goes to supporting her stay here and continuing to give my friend the means to help his family back home. Anything he doesn't end up needing he is planning on donating to the various Palestinian charities he works with.

All designs above (and a ton more) are found here (Redbubble will show you a random product, click on each to see more product options). They're available on stickers, shirts, pins, and many other products. Some examples:

answering your asks vol 3

Full context for the Inprnt issue can be found here on this post , tl;dr my shop is closed until I receive my payments from inprnt in a timely manner and essentially won't reopen unless they clean up their act. Regarding the money they owe me outlined in that post, I still have not received it and on Friday I sent a support ticket in to inprnt demanding they send it soon. Haven't heard back since. I think where Inprnt is concerned, it's worth mentioning that they no longer send promotional emails (which used to be a regular occurrence) and there seems to be a complete lack of communication and the only thing about the site that regularly updates is the sale banner (ending soon!!! 🙄)

So honestly I'm of the opinion that the print on demand bubble has burst and that this method of selling art was a very short-lived feature of an internet that doesn't exist anymore. Think about it - I make money on a sale after having spent nothing on promotion, on materials, on postage fees, etc. It's so easy to game the system using bots or stolen art to essentially print free money that I'm shocked it even lasted as long as it did. Maybe I'm wrong but I won't tie myself to another print on demand service that's just going to pull the same old shit redbubble and inprnt have done this year, or one that requires me to constantly promo it like some kind of influencer on instagram or tiktok or whatever.

Will prints come back? I hope so. I am looking into local printing shops and considering the feasibility of handling the process myself but you must understand that if I do that, the price will rise. I won't have the ability to run constant discounts or eat a loss if I order 20 prints and only 7 sell. It is what it is.

And the actual worldbuilding asks below the cut lol:

(referring to this post)

Only if you want to! I've had a few people send me cool sketches and stuff via dms and it's always nice to see but you really shouldn't feel pressured to. After all it's not like I post my rough practice here lol (that goes on patreon ;)

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I'm going to be SO real with you right now - I did not consider that at all. However I do know that tinting flames with various chemical compounds was a huge part of alchemy, part of the whole flashy show of it to impress the layperson. So sure, I bet they do throw in copper sulfate or various other chemicals to produce the coloured flames - these make a huge impression on witnesses who might not even have imagined such a thing possible, and also help identify a holy beast at a distance on a battlefield choked with smoke and dive-bombing serpents.

Fun fact, the flames come from the furnace wells, right. Each well is connected to specific systems, where it can most efficiently deliver fuel to the heart and onwards. So it is possible to 'read' the pattern of flame bursts from the furnace slits - they are not constant, but there'll be one every few seconds based on when the furnace tenders excite each well. You can tell at a distance, for example, that Leun is readying an acid spray, or rerouting power to the rear legs for a leap, or even what direction he's turning. It all runs at a slight delay, which is why the crew inside has to be SO closely coordinated.

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@absolutely-flabbergasted Knights are allowed to reproduce but not marry, because it's sort of accepted theory that blood relatives of a knight will be 'accepted' by the knight's beast when the time comes. This is not true but it means that sometimes the knight's apprentices are their own children. The other parent is mostly another member of the church and usually not identified or considered important (unless they're a smith...). There are usually a decent number of known knight bastards running about.

Smiths are not allowed to have families or marry, because their first devotion should be to their art or their beast if they are assigned to one. If one tries, the kids are taken away, anonymised with new names, and put into the pool of potential novices in some other stable. Now, in reality some stables or churches are just not that strict and have a slightly different culture, so there's often an Open Secret about some master smith's illegitimate family or a priest's secret mistress. This is tolerated by the authorities to a certain degree but if it becomes too rampant there'll usually be a change of management and some sort of crackdown.

Families who give up their second born cannot stay in contact, but if the child becomes successful in some way (say, if the child becomes a knight) the families are sent tokens symbolising this which can be placed in the family/village shrine. This can be a huge point of pride, with some people faking the tokens just so that they can show off about their successful kids that are totally knight apprentices.

The reason they don't get to stay in touch with their children is due to the secretive nature of the church and its arts. The church has been at war with the neighbouring nations for a long time and only its mastery of engine work has kept it afloat, and nobody wants these secrets to fall into enemy hands. Particularly if your kid goes on to become a scribe, which is if anything an even more closely guarded profession than that of a knight (those engine diagrams don't draw themselves). The laity are usually quite devout and understanding of this. If they aren't, they might attempt to find their child, often without success.

If you want your church kid back: it depends. If you can prove to the church authorities that you need your child's labour to stay afloat or to carry on the family line, they might take that into consideration. Of course, the only children that return are the likes of sweepers, cleaners, altar boys, pages, etc. Nobody who might have witnessed any Secrets. The church is best understood as being in the middle of a cold war for the past few centuries (and sometimes just regular war) so it's far more closely guarded.

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@kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water

It's not likely. Even if the ventilation system worked perfectly, he is still from an older generation of holy beasts and no longer represents the pinnacle of the technology. Leun might have a less sophisticated ventilation system but everything else about him is head and shoulders more advanced - including the crew number he can take on. Leun only requires a single enginesmith in the heart, for example. This is because there's more automation of his systems, and he can actually manage to walk home from battle without anybody inside at all, just based on the knight's input (because the throne chamber is open to the air the knights are technically not inside the beasts). It's not preferable (it can damage the systems) but it is a huge bonus.

Think about how in the early days of commercial aviation, there could be as many as eight people working on the flight deck. In the 60s, a 3-person crew was standard; captain, first officer, and flight engineer. Today there are only two pilots needed. This is down to increased automation, and it means that it is cheaper to fly the plane - the airline has to hire fewer pilots, 'flight engineer' is a nonexistent role these days, and that means you need to train fewer people, have fewer people on call, feed fewer people etc etc. It is cheaper for the church to run Leun than it is to run Krokodilos and even though the church is wealthy, the money and resources are not infinite. Especially now, in times of plague. Leun, for all everybody sings his praises, is basically a reskinned Pantera with better systems - again, cutting costs, because now we can get all of Pantera's old enginesmiths to work on him instead of having to train up new ones on a brand new and wholly unique platform. It's as much a matter of logistics as it is innovation and technology.

also thinking abt opening like. kofi doodle comms hmmm

I NEED YOUR HELP

i'm practicing some chibi style and i need to know what you all think 😩 should i do more?

aaaannnd i'm also thinking about adding them as stickers in my redbubble store (i haven't been updating there for a while...) let me know if you're interested

hey do you like indie comics?

Alice in Grungeland is a comic set in 1990s Seattle. Alice Liddell, frontwoman of local grunge band Jabberwock, has a decision to make and a week to do it and definitely is overcomplicating things.

Technically this is an Alice in Wonderland retelling, but more aptly it's a slice of life story about a week in the life of an artist and the music scene she finds herself in while the world is changing around her which just so happens to also, vaguely, be an Alice in Wonderland retelling.

Praise for Alice in Grungeland includes my cousin saying 'it's like an indie movie' before handing me two of the crinkliest dollars i have ever seen in exchange for issue one and one of my favorite college professors telling me 'you should do something with this' and 'the colors remind me of twin peaks' with no explanation, all glowing reviews.

Alice in Grungeland is recommended for a teen and up audience and will be launching online platforms in April, you can check for update details on my blogs or my Instagram!

art only blog - insta - inprnt - redbubble (image description in alt)

it's kirb2k!!!

last updated dec 17, 12:09pm pst

on sunday december 17th I posted my 2000th daily kirby! to celebrate I did a whole bunch of extra stuff all week long! this is an easy hub to see it all, or you can check the tag [kirb2k] for everything that's gone up and some preview posts as well!

we've got:

commissions are now closed!

the [shop] is open on kofi, with a couple digital goods! but preorders for the merch boxes are now closed!

there's a new [print] on redbubble that contains over 1000 kirbies!!!

the auctions are now closed, but you can still see the photos! a [cross-stitch] and a [painting].

retrospective posts went up over the course of the week! [here] is the most popular gorbs by note count, [here] is all the staff-promoted gorbs, and [here] is my personal favorites!

a [reply roundup] too!

the macarena! with music! [at last]!

the 2000th gorb himself is now [here]!

need the regular pinned post? it's right over [here].

(I'll copy and paste the little disclaimer from the preview post here as well: I've had a really extra rough couple years. my wife should start getting paid again soon but we had to chew through all our savings moving across the country twice, and I've still got a pretty uncomfortable amount of credit card debt considering that my disability compensation appeal is on day 1050+ in the queue. I started on all this in july and I still almost didn't finish in time because my health unexpectedly tanked again.)