Take Me Out to The Ball Game ♫

This ended up taking me way longer to finish than i expected. The uniform are based on the Chicago and st Louis uniforms from the time period, with Marius and Jack sporting the road versions. Source

I don't know if the uniforms had fem versions as well that looked like this but i thought it would be more visually interesting for them all to be a bit different individually.

Other than that i played around with Eveline's colors a bit. I thought it might be neat if her fur was a bit more muted than Marius' to reflect her current mental health.

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i really have no other explanation for this than i'm a simp

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A Lesson in Beginnings

IT'S FINALLY HERE! :christmas_tree::christmas_tree::christmas_tree:

Happy Holidays everyone! Please enjoy my holiday short story, A Lesson in Beginnings, which takes place 8 years before the canon events of Under the Dragon Moon.

Read on ITCHIO

https://mawcehanlin.itch.io/a-lesson-in-beginnings

or Ao3!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52528285

When you hear an audio that kind of reminds you of your blorbo and think: maybe ill do something with that. But then its to late, you've already made an animatic with colors and a background. And you spent 5 hours finding, downloading and learning how to use a new video editing software.......

I know the quality is not great but im trying my best. Might be a bit too introspective for Jack but oh well, its the vibe that counts.

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Do you have any OC’s for Lackadaisy who didn’t make it into the fic or who were made after you started writing? I love hearing about all of them so much

;v; wagh

So 2~3 of these kitties are connected to Devil's Moon characters but probably won't show up (or at least, will only be mentioned), and two arent related to it at all.

Viviana Carmina Holst - Slyvester's wife, who Ive thought so much about but may not even show up "on camera" LOL. A calico with auburn hair she keeps in a fairly old-fashioned style, to match her more modest dress. She's thin and has big, bright green-brown eyes.

She's quite sociable, observant, easygoing and a terrible cardshark. She loves company and doesn't get it nearly as much as she'd like; they live in a modest yet well-decorated home outside St. Louis city limits. Carmina comes from a large Italian family. She was the first of her siblings to be born in America. She's always been known as Carmina to them (there were already three Vivianas in the extended family), and Vivi to her husband.

Because she and Slyvester could not have children, they adopted three nephews after the boys' parents passed (Carmina's side). The boys are now grown and the two oldest are quite successful. The youngest still lives with them to help his mother, as Carmina is disabled and Slyvester works a lot, and they've yet to find a live-in nurse that suits them.

Carmina and Slyvester grew up together in the same Italian-majority neighborhood; his family is Danish and was one of the few non Italians on the block. Carmina's parents approved of him bc he agreed to convert, they knew he wasn't a drinker, and they were relieved their sickly daughter was able to get married and have someone take care of her for the rest of her life.

Flynn's Family - I've thought a lot about them but I don't think they'll be super relevant or come up, alas. His older brother Seamus is fairly important to the business, but rarely makes himself known. He has some pretty bad physical and mental damage from the war, so tends to be anti-social, plus years of Flynn's emotional manipulation have taken their toll. Tomas was the youngest and the golden child, died in the war. Flynn couldn't stand him. Sorcha was older than Tomas but younger than Flynn, I'm still unsure what happened exactly, but she's not around her parents anymore. They didn't really dote on her like they did the boys, or Tomas.

Their mother was tall and slender, while the father was more stout and broad, and a little shorter - only Seamus had his build and coloring, the rest of the children were looked and were built like their mama. All of them had orange and black markings but the Flynn we know is the only chimera.

I keep wanting to think of more for the family - their history, and appearances and whatnot, but then I pull back because it "won't be relevant" in Devil's Moon ... well, might do it anyway bc I just like writing family dynamics and drama, lol. I already wrote a ton about Carmina so might as well.

Okay these two are 100% not UTDM related and from an Arkham Horror board game/kinda tabletop bc we rp'd it a ton. The setting is 1920s anyway, and I forced my friends to play and make lackadaisy OCs (it was my birthday damn it 😂). These two characters rotted a crater in my brain for 2 weeks straight and I still like em a ton. Sister Marguerite was mine and Father Elijah was initially my partner's but I have since stolen him haha.

Sister Marguerite, formerly Adelaide Whitaker. Wheeww... so much to say here but I'll condense it. Originally from a wealthy East Coast family, she was forcefully sent to a "wellness and manners" sort of school for "esteemed ladies" that was really just a ruse to hide her pregnancy. It wasn't a Magdalene asylum/laundry, though. She lost the child, but a handful of nuns showed her such kindness (and she'd had religious-fixated OCD for years that her family actively made worse anyway) that she converted to Catholicism and began the process of becoming a nun once she was old enough. She's happy with her current life, enough that her OCD has lessened somewhat, but ofc there are still bad days. She often fixates on physical purity, baptism and "healing water"; most of her sisters chalk her "peculiarities" up to her extreme devotion and are willing to overlook her bad, spiraling days bc shes v dear to them. She's a good-hearted woman, quiet, and doesn't scare easily. Puts others before herself again and again.

As a cat, she's white with unsettling sectorial heterochromia, big slender ears, and an odd face. Lackadaisy cats are generally pretty cute but she's meant to be more "homely". Her eyes are more unnerving than striking. This is the photo that was the first inspiration for her, though this kitty is very cute, haha. If she were human I think she'd have bright eyes and a very plain face. I've drawn her but my art is pretty oof! I need to keep practicing bc her face and headshape in particular are kinda different.

Actually considered reworking her backstory to be one of Jack's many siblings; he did have a sister who ran off, but thats kinda irrelevant in UTDM rn. If anything itd be mentioned in an epilogue.

Father Elijah - A handsome man from a good Midwestern family. They were disappointed when Elijah joined the church, feeling like he was wasting his potential. He's always felt close to God and wanted to help others, but he's also a deeply scholarly person and loves theology, even if some things he studies would be considered heretical. This doesn't necessarily mean he's open minded, especially to those he considers "irredeemable", but he's always polite, protective of his flock and usually a pretty affable guy.

Elijah certainly has some kind of mental stuff rolling around in his noggin; I don't want to call it disorder or illness, especially since he doesn't really have a name for it at the time period (like Marguerite with her OCD). In the tabletop, they came to Arkham together as allies and quickly became rather ... obsessed with each other. He's very fixated with Marguerite, believing her to be a pinnacle of what a godly person should be, and later believing she can actually speak to angels (or is one??). He wants so much of her attention, to hear her opinions and interpretations of faith. To say he puts her on a pedestal is an understatement. Calling it "romantic" interest isnt the whole picture, and too simple for... whatever the hell he's got going on. Marguerite admires him deeply but in a more "inspired" way. Platonic is also too simple for what she's feeling, but her attachment certainly isn't as deep as his.

As a cat he's an orange tabby with pretty blue eyes. Meant to be a really tall good looking dude, a contrast to Sister Margy. Maaany women in the church have admired him but he's never considered or indulged in feelings like that until Marguerite; he doesn't even consider his appearance much. Just tries to keep tidy. I also terribly drew him real quick for the tabletop. I think his ears should have kind of a cute shape and he's got extra fur around his face :3 Still not sure on what sort of tail he'd have, though.

Shoutout to tabletop!Father Elijah who dual wielded a pistol and giant crucifix on the regular, constantly threw himself into danger to save Margie and slowly became twisted by the dark powers he was trying so hard to stop 👍🏽 One of my favorite scenes was both of them jumping into a portal together, then getting separated bc we rolled poorly and they both got HP/Sanity down to 0. Elijah woke up in the hospital in extreme pain, left without fully restoring HP and ran all the way back to the church to find Marguerite. They held each other at the altar for a while and she gave him her rosary bc he lost his crucifix in the void. and they promised to never leave each other again and stayed attached at the hip in spite of the usual eldritch horrors. normal arkham horror things. I'd love to make Arkham LCG cards for them; theyve already got custom cards for the 2nd edition board game (but now my other fixations and nerdness is showing so ill stop here).

(shoutout to that poor eldritch-corrupted NPC who sister marguerite believed needed a baptism to restore him, so father elijah held the dude down while he almost drowned and margeurte prayed over him and one party member witnessed all this and told the others so EVERYONE avoided "those catholic freaks" for the whole session sdkdskfs)

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Fit for a night on the town

working on a drabble but i just need to get it proof read so in the meantime here's Máire in a snazzy outfit. I feel like the few times Máire smiles its like a smug smile so i imagine thatch whats happening here. I dunno, i didn't put much thought into this other than i wanted to draw Máire so.

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Ya Hurd, now they talking nuclear war, maybe, says Biden https://www.instagram.com/jokes24_/p/CY_dj--utdM/?utm_medium=tumblr

A Holiday Surprise

Hello Fellow Gremlins!

Recently I have been working on a little surprise for the holidays, and I am so excited to finally be able to announce it!

Set 8 years prior to the canon events of Under the Dragon Moon, my debut novel set to release in 2024, A Lesson in Beginnings is a short story about the Kid’s first holiday with their adopted dad, Mael, and his family. It’s an exploration on the meaning of family, finding belonging, and the unexpected blessings that change can bring.

For those of you subscribed to my newsletter (hint hint), you'll be getting this short story on December 21st. For everyone else, it will be posted publicly on the 25th! If you're not subscribed to my newsletter, I highly recommend you do so here! Not only will you get short stories like this days early, but you'll also get newsletter exclusive content like sneak peeks into my novels! I also recommend you follow my other socials for more frequent updates! I'm @MawceHanlin on pretty much everything except here!

I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season, no matter which holidays you are celebrating!

~ Mawce

Coping with the inevitable pain of whatever is going to happen to Malwina, in utdm by imagining a world where she has a normal life and goes to school and is Ivy's bff.

The initial hyperfixation has slowed down so its been a minute since last i posted. But the blorbos are still rotating around in the back of my mind. There was a week i did nothing but draw utdm in my free time lol. a while back I asked Libra who out of the main Lackadaisy cast their oc's would best get along with and for Malwina they said ivy and the thought of them hanging out hasn't left me. Maybe Ivy would take on Malwina as her project, Wicked style and give her a makeover and go shopping for some cute outfits.

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yall know who Ivy is

Hi, Libra! Roughly what would you say the age rating is for Devil’s Moon? 13+ like Lackadaisy, or around 16+ because of the more implicit focus on things like sex work and violence?

hmm i dunno? i dont really want to tack an exact age on ...

I guess the "on screen" stuff is alcohol+drug abuse and violence, while the stuff discussed but not "shown" directly is assault, sex, sex work and child abuse. tho the sex hasnt been discussed openly yet, it's just alluded to. cause yanno, yall are living in a brothel and the MC can potentially be a former or current sporting girl.