Quick Talita warm up doodle! Love how she looks in green 🤌

Character belongs to @jayrockin

big smile!! 🧡🌌 @jayrockin

@jayrockin 's Talita

Hhgghhhhjjjhggjjh fluffy

This week on Runaway to the Stars.  Catch up with pages on runawaytothestars.com! Read ahead on Patreon!

KATSUP BLAST

(talita belongs to @jayrockin)

some of my favorite creatures

characters belong to @jayrockin @charseraph and @iguanodont

FINALLY

Okay, so. @jayrockin​’s character Talita (when she was little) reminds me a LOT of my cat Haru. So, I tried my hand at doing a few paint-over type things! Featuring my dad (Who is also a fan of the RTTS characters and world) in a couple as Doug. Feral Horse Kitten Time :D Oh, and if anyone wants to see the originals these are based off of, I’ll throw them under the cut!

Tasqueata… GOT DAMN!!!

Talita belongs to @jayrockin

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TALITA DISTANT MODEL SPOTTED!!!!!

It is a crime that I have not drawn fanart for @jayrockin until now. Their stuff is the COOLEST (its what got me into spec bio in the first place!!)

Here we have some doodles of Scuds! (+ a Sea Crawler because I realized that they would probably get along, being vibrant crustacean-esque scavenger aliens and whatnot)

Below that, little sketches of some rtts characters :>

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⚠️ Old sea crawler design // Do not reblog ⚠️

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Fun fact about us: we really, really like doing crossovers, whether between different Things or just between different AUs of the same Thing. We deeply enjoy throwing things into each other and seeing the relative "normal" interact, tinkering with different potential outcomes of the same general thing, fucking around with culture clash and alternate realities, and all of that fun stuff.

Unfortunately, we also get into flavors of media that isn't quite finished a lot, and we often really want to throw together AUs that we have to write ourself together with things, which means that we're nearly constantly running into the same handful of roadblocks: it's really hard to write about stuff when people have no idea what you're talking about, and it's also really hard to write about stuff when you don't know half of what's going on.

This means that a decent chunk of our writing that is finished tends to stay in drafts - fics based on information that needs to be revealed in stuff we haven't yet written, fics based on media where half of the things we need to know aren't yet revealed in canon, and similar situations easily make up our second most common category of "finished but unpublished" and "finished except for That One Thing" fic (our first most common category is "we need to come up with a decent opening and writing a good hook is hard")

This is, of course, a hell of our own creation. A problem of our own authorship, that we still consistently fail to escape because of our sense of pride and unwillingness to turn out anything that isn't at least half-decent. Similar to the way that we force ourself to reread any media that we write fic of for the sake of accuracy before we can publish it. It makes things take longer, but allows us to ensure quality - though it may hold us back from a certain degree of self-indulgence, mischaracterization is the thing that bothers us most, and if we release a misreading or mischaracterization, that'll haunt us more than any level of soul-baring ever count.

Anyways, all of this is to say that peak self-indulgence for us looks like an isekai Dungeon Meshi/Runaway to the Stars crossover where we stick a handful of characters into the dungeon and let them just kind of cope with that for the forseeable future and the only thing stopping us from doing this is a sense of pride and the fact that Runaway to the Stars doesn't actually have finished & published books right now.

This week on Runaway to the Stars. I'm still undecided on whether I want to ping social media every time it updates, or do weekly updates like this. And also whether to do short cropped posts with a link, or post full comics... so I'll try some things out and see which feels the least weird to me. Leave a comment on the site to make my day 👍 Functionally, this book is a back story to a lot of the shorter comics I've posted to social media. It will probably contain a lot of characters people haven't met, and be missing some characters people might expect. It'll be interesting. Catch up with pages on runawaytothestars.com! Read ahead on Patreon!

Species swap of Efrier and @jayrockin’s Talita! Drawn a few weeks ago, but I forgot to upload rip