Mage's Ball

Just a little blurb I did for @occudo 's fantasy AU thing. My writing isn't like... flowery or anything, but it at least put down the start of a brainworm THIS comic gave me. There's more to it but like. I'm really bad at being able to continue/finish fics (I do better at RP) so this is what you get.

It was the middle of the ball, and Tim had been left on his own. By choice, mind you, but he still wasn’t particularly happy about it. Sir Timothy Stoker, knight to Mage Sasha James, had come along to keep an eye on his charge and perhaps… well. He didn’t entirely know what he was expecting, but it wasn’t this. Sasha focused on… Jonathan Sims and his knight, Martin Blackwood. Focused, and chatting so animated about their latest trials and tribulations in the aftermath of the Prentiss incident. Tim was not pleased, and therefore he was incredibly distracted. 

“A knight without his mage- that’s a rare sight. Did they abandon you?” A deep, smooth voice croons in on the knight from nearby.

“My lady can chat without my help.” Tim turns to see who was addressing him, only to find another Mage. “I don’t see a knight by your side either, Lord-” “Delano.” Gerry removed the sheer fabric that had been covering his head to better view this pouting guardian. 

Standing at attention, Tim reached for the mage’s hand to draw the back of it to his lips in greeting. “Sir Stoker. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.” His eyes fell to the fabric at the mage’s waist, only for his eyes to be guided up to the bared skin of his chest. Lord Delano had a considerable amount of tattoos; eyes decorated his skin all the way up to the collar at his throat. 

“Likewise,” Gerry responds, smiling at the display. His eyes traced over the knight for possibly the sixth time this evening, having noticed him earlier in the evening. “I never felt the need to employ a bodyguard for myself- way too much work if you ask me.” Pale gaze lifting, it seems like his interest has yet to bring his eyes back up from his chest, and he sighs in amusement. “Also- my eyes are up here, Sir Stoker.”

“With all due respect, they are also down there, my lord.” Tim couldn’t help but find himself mesmerized by them, among… other things. This was a fancy ball and somehow Lord Delano managed to get away with having so much skin exposed. It was daring, it showed off his nature as a Seer Mage, and it was… well. Distracting. Very distracting. Finally, he manages to tear his eyes away from ink and look back up to the other man with a flush across his cheeks. “I think you’re the only one who got away with going casual,” he jokes with a smile. 

“Casual?” The response comes with laughter, Gerry lifting a hand to cover his smile briefly as he turns to glance around the room. He notices Stoker doing the same, and together they take in all the grandeur of the Winter Mage’s Ball. “That would mean some of those here are a bit over-dressed, wouldn’t you think?” The knight’s own lady was in quite a gown, and he watches with a smile as she laughs and converses with her two current companions. He catches the eye of the shorter mage over there, and enjoys the rather disgruntled look he gets out of it. “Want to get away from here for a little bit?” Tim had been distracted again, both to try and not openly ogle at Lord Delano again, but also because those three looked like they were having quite a good time. Over-dressed? His gaze manages to move away to fluffy dresses and gents looking so prim and proper. Plenty to look at, nothing to see. Hearing the laughter, he looked back at the trio just about when Gerry spoke up again. “E-Excuse me?!” Tim sputters, turning to stare at the taller man. Gerry offers him a smile, and then a hand. “My rented quarters aren’t too far, and it looks like she’s well entertained. There are guards posted everywhere and the room is full of mages. I think she is quite safe, and I’ll admit you have me feeling a little under-dressed.” Tim’s eyes are roaming again, but fortunately it was more than just at his chest. He watches the man sputter again, trying to find words for what he wanted, only to get a- “...give me a second, please. If you would?” Tim has to check in at least once, and that was probably the quickest shuffle he has made to Sasha’s side outside of danger. A quick conversation, with no small amount of glaring from Lord Sims, and Lord Delano gets gestured to. More conversation happens, and Lady James nods her head and offers the other Seer Mage a polite bow before returning to her conversation. Tim returned to Gerry’s side shortly after, offering him a bow of his own. “My services are yours for the evening, My Lord.”

“Well. I’m going to have to get you to say that a few more times while I have you, then,” Gerry muses. He beckons for Stoker to follow, turning to head for the exit doors that would lead them outside. “Come along, then, Sir Stoker.”

Trick or treat? 🎃

Why hello there! Beautiful night for it, though I do advise you cover your neck if you plan to be out long - I've heard rumors of vampires in these parts...

“Speak of the devil!” Jon said, with false cheer. “Tim, Sasha, this is my new familiar Martin. Martin, these are my roommates, Tim and Sasha.”

He placed a hand on Martin’s shoulder, propelling Martin a step farther into the room. The hand lingered once that motion was done, and Martin couldn’t quite decide if it was meant to reassure him, or if it was Jon making a possessive claim on him to send a message to his roommates about Martin’s hypothetical edibility. Perhaps both.

“Martin!” The man - presumably Tim - stepped forward, his arms wide in greeting as though he hadn’t been talking about eating Martin just a minute ago. “Nice to meet you!” He grabbed Martin’s hand, pumping it up and down enthusiastically. His hands were ice-cold and his grip was strong. Martin gave him a weak smile in return.

“You too.”

The woman - Sasha - crept closer, sidling up to Martin like she didn’t want him to see her approach. She reached out with one hand. Martin raised his own to shake it, and then froze in shock as her hand darted forward to pinch his cheek.

“Are you sure we can’t eat this one, Jon?” she asked, sounding a bit disappointed. “He looks delicious…”

It was the creepiest compliment he’d ever received, and that was including the time a guy on the street had stopped him to tell him he had nice teeth, ‘in case he was ever looking to sell them.’

Jon’s hand tightened on his shoulder and pulled him back a step. “I’m positive,” he said dryly.

It was hard not to feel like a non-entity, being pushed around and talked about like he wasn’t even there. If this was the life of a vampire’s familiar, Martin was starting to rethink the whole idea.

Sasha huffed a dramatic sigh, rolling her eyes. Then her face split into a grin, the peeved expression falling away like it had never been there at all.

“Nice to meet you,” she said, grabbing Martin’s still-raised hand and giving it a decisive shake. “We’ve been bugging Jon to take on help for ages, it’s good to see he’s finally listened.”

Make a confession, face your crush- Love Archives the new visual novel going to Steam- well, never, but I thought it would be funny.

fun fact! according to TMAGP ARG Stuff, February 4th (TODAY!!!) is/would be the 36th birthday of none other than gerard keay!

MELANIE THE HER

Lyrics are from Concrete by Lovejoy, requested by @soupthatwasreheated because Noah is just. The Melanie King guy at this point

Day 10 of posting magpod art daily

(again *whispers* drop a number in the ask box thats between 1-100 and a character from tma itll be fun)

there are plenty of more complex and thematically significant reasons for why i like the idea of hera having a body, but, in my heart of hearts, maybe i just want her to be able to wear one of eiffel's disgusting old star wars shirts.

guys i miss tma so much help

Commission of my ocs Kit and Julia by Occudo (Occudo on both Ko-Fi and tumblr)!

I have a whole novel I'm writing about a group of four characters including these two, but... well writing is stressful. I'll give proper context at some point but Julia (with the cat shirt) is a normal human girl who snuck into magic school with the help of two friends on the inside of said magic school, Feilx and Soulflare. Kit (with the skirt) is a werefox she meets there who's solidly closer to fox than human.

I don't want to tell the whole story here, but they do become friends and eventually fall in love!

I haven't drawn Julia here yet but both the fox and girl in the header of my profile are my art of Kit

Got my groovy mug from @occudo.

A4 Gerry? 😗

Already did that one once, so I decided to redo it with your Gerry design :D Or at least, my best attempt at it

Expressions here.

[ID: a drawing of Gerard Keay from the Magnus Archives. He’s hiding his blushing face behind his arm. The design is based off of @occudo’s Gerry. \End ID]

Martin in the Lonely. This was inspired by @occudo and I had a lot of fun with the monochromatic colour pallete. I left it somewhat sketchy on purpose (Martin is fading and not fully present after all)

Drawing this has helped me calm down tremendously. Maybe I will make a sticker design out of this later. Maybe I wont. We will see.

Okay, so THIS post by @occudo got me reading a fic by @ml-nolan HERE (explicit)

And then I was listening to the Bad Omens cover of Come Undone (Youtube Link) and thought it was perfect. So I had to draw a thing.

Not really like. Super well-done or anything but it satisfied the itch, and now I'm gonna go listen to the song again and pretend like I didn't just start a re-read the day after I finished the initial read...

After Martin saves Jon's life from yet another dangerous foe, the mage and the knight find each other on the battlefield.

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I may or may not have fallen so in love with this piece I commissioned from @occudo that I went and wrote a fic about it so. Here it is. :)

@jonmartinweek Day 4 Tea as Love Language // Beyond the Grave (also a bit of Day 7: Eldritch Powers // Caretaking I guess)

Got some little guys today (courtesy of @occudo)

Sees Michael art by @occudo

Reads tags

Mind creates these:

(Not real shirts they are sadly not for sale, if you do make them pls tag me/credit I would adore to see them)