It is afraid, and wounded, and it cannot know the power it gives without seeing it first in the reflection of a Candidate's eyes
Secret Samol time!
@bronanlynch asked for some Sokrates/Integrity, so this is a lil comic from Integrity's perspective, remembering Sokrates.
(And maybe some incidental Thisbe/Integrity if you squint :3)
TWs for under the cut: canon typical body horror, death of a parent, light nudity (there's undies), blood (but its purple)
I had such fun with this one, sorry it's so SAD. I feel like i am best at lil bittersweet comics XD
This was the first time I've ever drawn a mech and I didnt know how to approach designing it- my references were the ones mentioned on the show (Anubis from stargate and Guyver) as well as traditional Greek clothing.
As a lil bonus: I also made a couple phone backgrounds just for fun!
for secret samol this year, I made a Pickman first-person-shooter game for @queenoftheantz! explore the shape, invoke it, or reject it with violence and a kind of ascension!
So I did go a little bit weird with this years gift.... I did do art! But I also recorded a.... fan episode? Of Americas Playground! It's 1.5h of me alone playing mall kids and recording myself doing voices in a little fan adventure! I'm no professional podcaster (as you can hear), but sometimes you have an idea but don't have time for a 20 page comic and you are not a fic writer, so you gotta do what you gotta do!
You can listen to it here!
The kids are back at the pier- for the Christmas market! And this time it's no air baloon, it's a carousel! Or it would be, if not all the carousel horses had been stolen.... and now there's a mall detective sneaking around, messing up all kind of things.... Eluise, Melinda, Cattie, Sank and Pomp (and the immortal doll and Princeton of course) have to find the horses so they can have a peacful Christmas!
And if you don't want to listen, here are some sketches!
I was so incredibly thrilled to be assigned to you these have been a labour of (many many hours) of love! For the rest of you who didn't get to read my email I give you Lye Lychen and Es, swing dancing and sneaking off from a party you're supposed to be infiltrating you guys!!!
Happy Secret Samol @humanmorph !!! Yo ho ho a pirates life for you!
Id in alt text and also below the cut for legibility
Image one: An Alise Breka book cover. The illustration (meant to resemble an oil painting) features Leap and Figure A back to back, Figure A closer to the camera and Leap behind them. Leap is in a tie dye hoodie, Figure A has a dramatic collar welded to their round torso. Each are holding a sword and fending off attacks on all sides. Laser beams zip across the screen. The title of the book is “High Seas and Distant Stars” and is written on a yellow band across the top of the page. There is a simplified drawing of palisade as a logo for Palisade Publishing. There is a barcode across the bottom left.
Image two and three: Mockup of the inside of the book. Text reads:
The pirate captain, devastatingly handsome — or devastating and handsome, if you put the question to the unlucky sailors across many planet’s seas — lounged about the deck of the ship. A foul wind had blown through the port in the night, and showed no signs of letting up anytime soon. Disadvantageous, and perhaps more terribly, incredibly dull. Exeter Leap had faced down gods and kings and only laughed in their faces; to be trapped here by a measly turn in the weather made his plating itch.
They’d been here a week already, despite no small effort to leave. Unloading, his first mate insisted, takes time if they want it done properly. Leap had insisted he’d never done anything properly in his life and didn’t plan on starting now, but Figure A had tilted their head in that way they had and explained that properly meant more money, which, he supposed, was hard to argue with. Especially considering their other delay. The Bluebird had taken substantial cannon fire in their last battle, and was desperately in need of repairs, as well as the more tedious maintenance work that went into keeping a ship of its size and purpose in fit fighting shape.
So the minutes ticked into hours ticked into days, and here they are, still.
“I’m not a man meant to stay still,” he complains, staring out over the roiling waves.
”Still: up to and including the present or the time mentioned, or still: not moving or making a sound?”
Leap jumps, but only slightly. A pirate can never be too surprised, but he hadn’t realized he had company, lost in thoughts as turbulent as the sea. The familiar red and gold form of his friend leaning next to him is a welcome sight. “Oh- Uh. Both. Either. Not still here, or still physically.”
Figure A nods in easy understanding. They’re better at patience, at being in one place, but Leap thinks they have something restless about them, too. They lean forward as if they have something more to say but then-! A shout! The familiar blistering heat of a laser beam sipping past inches from his face! A scorch mark across metal! Leaps springs into action as
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Image four: A series of sketches of Leap and Figure A.
First sketch; Leap has his arms crossed saying “Thats not how any of that happened!” as he looks over Figure A’s shoulder as they read the book. They laugh and say “I think it’s fun!
Second sketch; Figure A points at the cover and says “Look at my cool collar” as Leap leans forward to look at it and says “it is pretty sick…”
Third sketch: Leap welding a big metal pirate coat-like collar onto Figure A’s torso as they giggle
Fourth Sketch; Leap grins and asks “How’s that?” Figure A says “Thank yo-“ but bonks their face into the collar as they turn their head
Fifth sketch; very small at the bottom of the page. Leap has a hand over his mouth. Figure A’s head slumps forward as they sigh.
my gift to rincewitch who wanted some Es/Syntyche and I ran with the idea of Es’ first photograph with Syntyche. I like to think her true form shows up in pictures. Hope you enjoy!
happy secsam @milkybootscomix !! a piece about open metal and tender sky, together for a moment and now moving inexorably apart. plus the little poem i wrote for it below
there are people who are with each other but never together. not really.
we— we were something. for a moment, we were together. we had our place within each other.
we can’t go back. i wouldn’t ask. you’d never offer. our lines had their intersection. we ricochet into the black, now.
we’re not them. but they were us.
in that moment, we were. in that moment, we are still. it’s there, somewhere in the distance, between the stars. we existed.
we’re gone, but we were there.
open metal, tender sky. in another world, we were a star together.
The adventuring group known as the Chime has been asked to look into a sudden rash of royal disappearances. The clear best strategy is to get Cassander kidnapped, then rescue them from the sinister tower where the royals are being held.
It seems like a simple enough quest... but the tower, and the inexplicable magic that operates it, might have other ideas.
For @trestletables, A COUNTER/Weight fantasy AU inspired by choose-your-own adventure books.
You can play on your browser using desktop or mobile. The story has 2 alternate endings and several branching paths.