I revised the hardback case art I did last year for Melissa Wright, because it printed too dark the first time. I had such fun with the tree roots and critters :)
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And now, an entirely bizarre edition of Spooky Tales from the Transmitter Site:
The older of my two sites lies on a weird triangle of land bordered by a levee and a former railroad grade. On the levee side is a slough that's part of the Sacramento River Delta. At some point in its history, someone added a pump to help keep it from flooding.
No one knows who added it. No one knows when it was added. No one knows who pays the power bill for that meter.
It's simply
just
there.
One of the other engineers suggested to me that at some point in history, a former engineer used to do something to run and maintain it.
About three years ago one of my coworkers saw a crew doing repair work on it. He didn't know who they were.
They just.... were. Just as it just.... is.
But it's both forgotten and not forgotten. This tag suggests that someone fixed up the power to it but left it turned off pending verification that they wired it right. See, this has a three phase motor on the pump. If you mix up the wires to one, it will run, but backwards.
I think the pump (obscured completely by the pitch black water, sorry!) is a vertical impeller type. My suspicion is that if you were to run it backwards, you'd get next to no water flow and a lot of cavitation noise.
Out of curiosity (and desire to prevent the weird old thing from just being consumed forever by the stinky slowly rising water), I took a gamble and turned on its switch... and it very quietly and dutifully began yeeting water out on the other side of the levee.
And out of this rusty object too, I suppose.
I may never know the mysteries of this thing, but at least it looks like it'll help avoid flood damage.
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Moonlight Misstep
Join the VERY good witch Gilli for a walk among, atop, and within the Jack-O-Lantern patch.
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Midjourney, Photomanipulation and Digital Painting. Prompt below the fold.
Prompt: painting of dana scully dressed as a halloween witch in the spooky woods by Gil elvgren, Enoch Bolles, Alberto Vargas, halloween costume, skirted suit, dark hose, spooky, coy, quirky, macabre, flirtatious
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@rapmonkive
-- continued thread; trigger warnings needed!! please read tags --
"We can do this. We just need to keep a cool head. To not get frustrated. Eventually someone will come looking for us. We are under contract, HYBE won't let us disappear." He commented, trying to bring some humor to the situation, for himself as much as JK. He was attempting to calm himself as well, doing it out loud for the benefit of the both of them.
"We'll mark this tree and then we'll figure out which way is north." He patted JK comfortingly on the shoulder and began the stride back to where they came, but he only took a couple of steps before something shot out, whizzing through the trees and the cutting the air.
Then with a blinding pain, an arrow imbedded right into his thigh. JK would hear a cry of pain and he fell to his knees and grabbed the arrow as if going to immediately pull it out.
Before JK could react, another arrow was shot and imbedded right into JK's left shoulder.
Namjoon’s right—of course he’s right. They’re idols of a well-known company, and their group is one of the money bringers, the wouldn’t just let two out of the seven vanish and not come looking for them; what would they do without their main rapper and main vocalist? He nods before replying, “You’re right.. what would they do without us?” He jokes lightheartedly.
He turns to dig the key into the bark of the tree, marking the nearest one as far away from the animal as he could get. Though he flinches at Namjoon’s shrill cry of pain, spinning on his heel to check if he’d somehow hurt himself only to see an arrow imbedded in his thigh. And before he can react—before he can even think about running over to the elder, another arrow came and lodged itself into his left shoulder causing the vocalist to cry out in pain.
Shakily—but quickly—he brings his right hand to the arrow and wraps his fingers around it, swallowing thickly. His face is screwed up in pain, though fear is very obvious both in his expression and body language. “Hyung,” He manages to get out, voice sounding strangled as he holds back his pain. He’s scared and not sure what to do—all he knows is they’re in danger.
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Here’s the art I did for the hardcover case of Beyond the Filigree Wall by Melissa Wright (coming 2022) :)
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A new character introduced.
It’s Mithos, Collector of Souls! He’s one of Marva’s brothers, there’s another one.
It’s his celebration day, so I made him a lil drawing, and put down your pitchforks, the girls will come back soon.
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