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#11 Edme
Book name: Wolves of the Beyond
Author: Kathryn Lasky
She is described as both red-furred and dark gray in the books but my preference goes out to her being dark gray.
Lineart by Cryptillian (DeviantArt)
#xenofiction#wolves of the beyond#wolf#wolves#gray wolf#kathryn lasky#xenofiction design project#edme
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Cats of Eden Valley
"Whatever you do, Caph, don't enter Eden."
Cats of Eden Valley is a fantasy xenofiction story about prides of colourful, lynx-sized cats living in paleolithic communities. First following a young and inquisitive outsider, and later three other protagonists from other prides, Cats of Eden Valley tells the dramas, the politics, and the mysteries of the cats in the face of great change coming to the valley.
Caph, in a fit of boredom as she waits out her sister's enigmatic errands, ventures into the valley where she first encounters the cats of Goldspring. Eventually, she's invited to join under the pride name Lotus, where her outsider perspective gives her an edge in navigating the coming change.
Irva is a promising molly with an ancestry of disgrace and a future full of stars. With Coldbank's Speaker retiring, no heir to her name, Irva is one of those cats who might take her place. Her family's history isn't her only obstacle, though, as another molly her age is also in the running for this respected position.
Harrier has always done as his father asks for the sake of his family and their right to be recognized and respected by the three other prides, but as conflict heats up in the valley, he's forced to question what he's spent his entire life knowing.
Emery is haunted by past allegiances. Loyalty to the Speaker and loyalty to his pride have always been two goals that never conflicted, but as of late he's found himself torn between the two.
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Inspired by series like Warriors, Guardians of Ga'hoole, Elfquest, and heavily pulling from worldbuilding I did for a Warriors fanfic. Intended for older audiences, as I plan to explore mature themes in this project.
Not sure exactly what I'll do with this project yet, as the plot, characters, and worldbuilding are ever evolving, but right now I'm having fun making designs and answering questions. Feel free to play in the space with me and make stories and fanart and characters of your own, the only fee is a little word-of-mouth if anyone asks! :P
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You can call me Bones!
I am a queer adult over 20 and I use He/They pronouns. This is a side blog where I post Warrior Cats analysis and discussion, designs, and writing for WC-related projects.
Currently, I'm maintaining the Better Bones AU, a WC conlang called Clanmew, and my Clan Culture series. All of these are free to use, reference, or take inspiration from.
My side-sideblog is @bonebabbles, that's where I do most reblogs, live-read books (currently on Ratha's Creature!), and discuss other media (usually xenofiction). Consider that my 'spam blog' if you will!
Please read this entire post before sending an ask or tagging me.
You are never bothering me with "like spam" or "reblog spam!"
I LOVE seeing people talk in the tags and replies
I adore asks and I read all of them! I can't promise to get to every single one though, please check out my Ask Etiquette
"Can I use Clan Culture in my project?" Yes. Please read this entire post.
Do not ping me for my AU on other people's posts. If you want to know how I will handle something, send an ask.
ASKBOX STATUS: CLOSED
(Doing some cleaning out!)
Better Bones AU, also called BB or BB!AU
My most comprehensive passion project is the Better Bones AU, a revamp of Warrior Cats that aims to:
Fix the tangled family tree and give it clearer rules, expanding on kinship between cats while not neglecting friendships
Make the environment accurate to northwestern England, including education on how different biomes are managed and lists of local flora and fauna
Build out Clan culture by giving the Clans tool use and food preparation, additional traditions and customs, their own language, and medicinal treatment guides from sniffles up to HRT.
Change the themes of canon by addressing (not removing) its problematic elements, giving the cats consistent politics and making the narrative conclusively anti-authoritarian.
Be cool as fuck, with wilder deaths, more clanborn villains, bloodier battles, and even MORE complicated innerClan drama
HERE IS ITS CONTENT WARNING LIST.
Its old name was #Bonefall Rewrite, but was changed as it became more divergent from canon.
Individual posts are tagged #Better Bones AU, and are sorted further by arc such as #BB!TPB, #BB!Po3, #BB!characterName, so on.
GO SEE ITS MASTERPOST OVER HERE
It even has a TVTropes Page that was created by @halogenwarrior
If you want to see or submit memes, you can hop over to @bb-fennelposting!
Clan Culture
Like I mentioned, I create extra culture for Clan cats and society (tagged #Clan Culture), with a whole bunch of guides that expand on canon-adjacent crafts, meals, medicines, and so on. Clanmew is part of the Clan Culture series.
Go check out the MASTER POST here!
These are free to use for YOUR projects, AUs, FanClans, etc.
YES even things unrelated to warrior cats. You can use it in your pathfinder campaign, rainworld project, etc.
Feel free to send suggestions or ask questions!
Other Things
Canon analysis and discussion
I also talk about the books and the general themes of Warriors! When I’m analyzing characters, themes, plots, or anything else about canon material, I tag it as #Warrior Cats Analysis.
When I discuss the newest books as they’re released, I tag it as #ASC Spoilers.
Fan Work
I've gotten fan art for some of the things I do! I collect it all OVER HERE. I try to contribute to this list as I receive it, and its last update was 2/28/2023
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Hey. Just read the Mufasa mini-fic in question. First of all, cool writing. I like the emotional and very visceral take on a death that, by nature of its own original audience and tone, could never be portrayed as horrifically as a death by stampede ought rightly to be. I can imagine a tiny Simba urging his father to get up in this more realistic and gory portrayal, too-- there are countless examples of animals treating a dead family member or mate as if they were still alive. The animal grieving process is a slow one, I think, because when you don't have the capacity to understand the totality of death then what is left but a slow and one-sided journey towards "goodbye"? I was going to actually cap off this message dragging the freakazoid who called your thing "fetishistic" but I just chugged a cider so I'm feeling emotional. Peace and love, brother
love this message, truly. and not for egotistical reasons (entirely!) i've been out havin' a goof and drinkin' tonight too so i'm a lil silly readin' this huehue, but i'd like to use your insightful and thoughtful message as a jumping off point to say that i'm intrigued by the reactions i've gotten to my wordscribble bc the positive ones have had a lot of chunky, flayed meat to them. you guys rule lmao
if i could speak ahead of myself, i'd love to exercise some of the ideas you present here through a creative project someday, tho probably as media i'm more familiar with like illustration or interactive design. we need more horror xenofiction, goddamnit. Stray Dogs proved to us that animal psychology and how it differs from ours is a great starting point for a horror story
that stuff's where the actual horror is, i think. like i'm not scared of viscera, you know? i see viscera every day. i worked in viscera, i learn in viscera, i study viscera, and when i'm at my lowest i experience viscera. it's all mechanical to me. the gore was just a horror staple i had fun with
but the emotional agony of being incapable of protecting those you love? the gutpunching tragedy of that being the last thought that you ever have? that's the kinda shit that keeps me up at night
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Made a new sideblog where I do designs of animal xenofiction characters!
@xenofiction-design-project
Feel free to give it a follow if that interests you.
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Too tired to make a proper pinned but oh well
Welcome to the chaos of my blog where I reblog shit and draw stuff sometimes.
Jasper / Dorito
He/They/Xe/It
Fireraven is my lifeblood and Firestar is my fav. I think about him way too much sometimes.
Firestar thoughts part 2
Tho aside I also adore: Bluestar, Crookedstar, Ravenpaw, Squirrelflight, Leafpool, and Dovewing.
I also talk about my various xenofiction projects sometimes so check the tag void if you’re interested or have questions.
Playing Lioden and wolvden currently: Lord Jasper on both sites and tagged with dorito plays lioden and dorito plays wolvden
Aus:
Firethree au - Firestar raising LionJayHolly
My xenomoggy
@thetrailofflames
@trialbyshadows
My design blog: @doritodesigns
My unordinary blog @uno-nightshadow
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I posted 214 times in 2022
That's 91 more posts than 2021!
59 posts created (28%)
155 posts reblogged (72%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@penwrythe
@cym-k
@regal-bones
@gittetj
@sarroora
I tagged 152 of my posts in 2022
Only 29% of my posts had no tags
#queue - 53 posts
#objectxenofiction - 42 posts
#xenofiction - 40 posts
#worldofrelics - 38 posts
#themundanerealm - 32 posts
#object xenofiction - 31 posts
#characterdesign - 29 posts
#xenofiction worldbuilding - 25 posts
#objectoc - 25 posts
#xenofiction art - 25 posts
Longest Tag: 135 characters
#...wait are all objectshows technically xenofiction? or at least the ones that explore objects as objects but not stand-ins for humans?
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Update on Sylvania the Elven Ground Staff!
Finally inking her!
Just working through my backlog of WIPs
Initial drawings and refined design
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Feedback Needed on a thingy!
Hi everyone, this is Penwrythe and I would like to get some feedback on something!
Over the past three years, I have been working on my worldbuilding project, World of Relics! This setting has sub-worldbuilding projects: Rise of Relics and the Mundane Realm. World of Relics features living objects in a high fantasy setting. They are kind of like the classic fantasy mimics from RPG games and stories, just without the flesh-eating part, lol.
See the full post
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#3
Update on Pyroblast the War-Torch (Paintbrush II fanart)
I sketched out their facial and head anatomy. I like a naturalistic style with my object characters, so I added a slight curve on Pyroblast's head. I also gave them a fuller pompadour bristle style, too! Details below!
Wing anatomy was something I was stuck on for a bit, mostly because I was bouncing between robotic wings vs a more naturalistic bird-like wing. While designing this, I realized that polearm war-objects like Pyroblast would need some protection on their wing joints and shoulder. So I added a pauldron over the should joint that overlaps with the start of the wing and a segmented couter(?) at the elbow. I also added segmented bands over the metal primary feathers of Pyroblast's wing.
As for the material makeup of a polearm's anatomy: Both flying and ground polearms are made of strong light metals and wood. The wings of a flying polearm are made up of aluminum/thin steel sheets (still researching this) enchanted with spells to strengthen them for combat, flight, and high temperatures. Pyroblast is a Heavy Class General Dread-torch, so their materials need to handle stress from high heat from their fire magic, extreme turbulence from the dynamic flight, and from any attacks from other Dread-torches.
Lower rank war-torches are mostly for aerial attacks on ground armies, while Dread-torches are castle destroyers. Castles would need defense against Dread-torches, either from using Dread-torches of their own (provided from their kingdom's capital, usually for heavily targeted castles) or using other means of anti-air defense.
I'm thinking about using this design for future flying polearms set in the Mundane Realm. For RFR, I might use a more simplified style to show how the first flying polearms still kept most of their original weapon shape before the Inversion Event.
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#2
Broken Mirror - Bygone Era
Feat. Goddess Nikey
Side A
Details!!!
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My #1 post of 2022
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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →
#tumblr2022#year in review#my 2022 tumblr year in review#your tumblr year in review#that last post#I have plans for Sylvania's design....!#let's say it's a long road but the beginning stages of finally putting all my design research together ahahhahahaha
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Another project if anyone is interested
If anyone is interested in a vaguely Ancient Greece inspired xenofiction cat project that is unaffiliated with warriors I've started up a blog @thewindwoods. I'm hoping to turn this either into a novel or a comic depending on which direction I feel comfortable with when I get to that point.
I haven't posted a ton yet, but feel free to poke around as I update it! I'm really excited about this project and sharing my world-building, character design, and plotting progress :)
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#44 Lusa
Book name: Seekers
Author: Erin Hunter
She's by far my fave Seekers protag.
Lineart by Spaacepugs (DeviantArt)
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Hello, you can call me Froggy!
I am bisexual & Gender fluid teen from Poland,15 years old, and use She/They pronouns. Sorry for grammar and punctuation errors, English is not my native language, and unfortunately I have dyslexia and dysorthography, but I will do my best for my work to be understandable for you! :) In this side-blog I will post Warrior Cats characters designs, as well as a lot of things from my wc-Biology rewrite, I will probably also analysis warriors books and stuff.
This is more of my ‘main blog’ then my actual main blog @frogcat7 where I don’t really do anything, perhaps I will post my other xenofiction designs there but I am not sure yet. But I have also other side-blog @frogkingtheorginal where I post a whole lot of things (by far most are wof doodles). I don’t really care for spoilers, but I don't feel confident talking about topics I don't know well yet, so here are warriors books I have read already: tpb, tnp, po3, oots, dotc (3 books out of 6), SE: Tallstar’s R, Yellowfang’s S, Crookedstar’s P, Bluestar’s P, Firestar’s Q, SkyClan’s D, Crowfeather’s T, N: Cloudstar’s J, Mapleshade’s V, Goosefeather’s C, Blackfoot’s R, Leafpool’s W, Mistystar’s O, Dovewing’s S, M: Tro Scourge, Tigerstar and Sasha, Ravenpaw’s P, Graystripe’s A, SkyClan atS, FG: The Ultimate Guide, ShS: Spottedleaf’s Honest Answer.
So, now I’ll tell you quickly about the rules of my blog, but don’t worry, there wouldn’t be a lot of them 🙂:
Do:
> I am very open for questions 😁, and I would really love to see conversations and debates in the commentary section :), Respond to posts as much as you want, that will really motivated me.
> I would try to respond to as many questions as possible, though I can't promise to get to all of them.
> If you see a mistake, or something I may do better, don’t be shy and write to me constructive criticism, this project is my first as big one🙂. You can write your ideas I will appreciate it as well.
> “Can I use X in my project?” Of course, but don’t forget about credit 😁!
Don’t:
> I am only human and a minor one in addition, so, I can make mistakes, so, please don’t be mean, I will block mean accounts.
> I respect your opinion, so, I expect you to respect mine. Everyone have different look on warriors characters, books or plot, so, live and let live!
> Peadophiles and so, do not interact, (such entities will be blocked as well).
> The biggest crime (for me) is if you use my work and say its yours. This is not only harmful to me, but also to your creativity, so, remember about it!
ASKBOX STATUS: open 😁/ currently at: 0 asks
Biology, Details, Headcanons!
My main and most comprehensive passion project is The Warrior Cats Biology Rewrite, a correction of Erin Hunter’s Warrior cats series which will take place in the western part of US, and in particular in the region of northern California and southern Oregon, it mostly aims to:
> Correct the natural world of Warriors. So, eliminate all the weird, terribly unnatural things that they made in canon (so turtles in mountains, hyper aggressive foxes etc.)
> Spice up Warrior cats belief system and mythology, and diversity it a bit more to not be so, plain and boring. And to create more interest to them thru legends and myths
> Create more details and story to the timeline of Filed Guides and basically everything before TPB, as well as create more lore and sympathy to the long forgotten background characters [ I don’t really think (at least by far) that I will do it in the ‘long post’ form, it’s more likely that all of this will be thrown into the Hedcanons folder]
> I will try to improve plot later (probably) but it seems to me that I will not take it very seriously, because there are just too many great blogs that are already doing really great job. And I’m not really interested in this that much. I just wanted to say that no cat will be deleted in my rewrite, and sooner I will add OC to it, but I will try not to do that, and better work with cats that are already there.
So, for the long time I wanted to do a Warriors rewrite, But I also wanted to make a designs blog, so, I combine it. For the characters I want to do all of them, and by all I mean really ALL, not only main and background cats, but every creature that has a page on the wiki, also the not named ones like The Stranger from dotc, or The Rat King. But also to give more atmosphere to what I do, I planned to draw all the really, really forgotten cats, that some of even don’t have a page about them. Like The random ginger molly with kittens from Sun Trial, or Thunder’s siblings.
In this rewrite I will also use ideas made by others, as I find them magnificent. Those things are: @cryptidclaw ‘s Titles Idea and their meaning, and mostly a lot of @bonefall ‘s stuff, like the Clan and Tribe Meow, The politics ideas, so Fire Alone, Thistle Law etc. and other cool stuff. And I'm sure I'll change or expand some of these things. I will treat them a bit like a progenitor for my own projects. When I will use something from someone, I will tag this person’s name. But when there will be a coincidence (’cause there can be one), like in my rewrite Frost’s and Brindle’s mother is Trans FtM Tawnyspots and their sire is Featherwhisker, and in Bonefall’s Feather is also their sire, I will not tag them.
Sorry ‘cause I won’t post stuff regularly. And I have big problem with motivation but I wish I won’t lose it on this project 🙂
And in the end I just want to say Big thanks to all blogs that are an inspiration to me, and that’s being @cryptidclaw , @fatal-rewrites-warriors , and @bonefall , they are really cool, and if you want I really recommend checking them out!
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Story Pile: Children of Time
New Post has been published on PRESS.exe: Story Pile: Children of Time
I understand that when I talk about movies I’m asking you to engage with me on my thoughts about a thing that’s ninety minutes long; a TV series is often something you can whittle away at over time and isn’t necessarily designed for a scope of attention that covers a lot of time in its narrative or a long time in its experience. I’m kinda a pop culture boy, I do the wham-bam-thank-you style of things for having fun and maybe I’ll try and recommend series of books to you like the Tiffany Aching series, I’m going to do so mostly because every part of that series is a book that’s pretty great and can be finished reasonably quickly.
Not so for Adrian Tchaikovsky (it’s a pen name) and his epic science fiction story Children of Time. This book is a juggernaut – the audiobook is something like six hours, and those are not a breezy set of page turners. If I talk about a piece of media it’s often with the tone of someone who’s very confident that you can go get that media and check it out and then use that media to contextualise what I think and feel about it. In this case, I think that’s a pretty big lift, since we’re talking about a doorstopper of a book and I have an audience who exist on the spectrum between ‘oo shiny’ and ‘books bore me because I can’t use them to open thirty-five tabs on which digimon have been shown wearing shoes.’ Knowing that I’m going to start off by giving you a broad overview of what happens in the story, without giving away specifics.
If you know this book already, if you want to approach things without any awareness of the plot, or if you want a push to check out some big-S big-F Science Fiction and all you need is someone recommending it, I do recommend Children of Time! I liked how it handled the scope of its stories, I liked the kinds of things it saw as solutions to problems, and it did some things that appealed to me in very specific, niche ways. Particularly, it appealed to me with its culture of sentient, cooperative cat-sized spiders, and the war they wage on the last vestiges of humanity and how that gets solved.
That got your attention? The book’s full of spiders.
Spoilers ahead, but most importantly, content warning: Spiders.
Oh my word, so much, with the spiders.
Okay, your kickoff for this book is humanity is in the we’re-fucked seeding-planets levels of interplanetary infrastructure. Despite how badly we ruined one planet, we promise it’s because we just, you know, didn’t know what we were doing for the early game and now we know how to do a good job, all following a scientist on a satellite as she prepares to oversee the seeding and uplifting of a new culture of inhuman hominids – we have a planet, it’s picked out, it’s vibrant, there’s life, we just got to seed it with various lifeforms and then make sure that the monkeys win out on this one (as they should, you know, etcetera). It’s one of those story universes where we didn’t find any aliens and got lonely enough to make our own.
But the project hecks up who could see that coming, and instead of a serene drifting overseer satellite working to maintin the life of monkeys on this planet as they evolve into Humans 2, Now With A Hat, the chief scientist of the project who was, let’s say, not the most mentally stable to start with, winds up jamming her brain into a drifting satellite that’s there to protect the planet while the apes on it wind up becoming Different Humans except oh wait that goes wrong too, and the tools designed to uplift seeded apes that the satellite could then guide lands not on monkeys (the monkeys died on the way to their home planet), but instead on spiders.
And then, as the story sets itself up to the already-fascinating narrative of watching a confused space-god trying to chart a course for the evolution of a xenofiction story of ‘what if monkeys but spiders’, a wrench gets thrown in by the immediate second chunk of narrative being about humans on a long-journey colony ship, in the microwave dinner model of storage (you know, you can refreeze them but you wouldn’t want to do it too many times), as they try to find a new place to live because uh, yeah, humanity really did ruin that source planet. The story that follows this is a generational, kind of chunky-political drama about what different things humanity can do in closed political environments. That story follows a single character as he wakes up to do something, then goes under again, and the result is a sort of jammed shutter vision of a long-term political drama, a bit like the time travel stories you see in shows like Star Trek, but in this case the story goes only forward.
And of course at points, these two stories ram into one another, and bounce off, then circle around to ram again.
That’s a lot of stuff, and all of that stuff is kind of baseline interesting to me! We have spiders evolving a society and an engineer who Just Wants To Grill as he gets woken up for repeated different versions of Interesting Times, in spaaaace.
A thing that you haven’t heard me mention so far though is names. Remembering Children of Time I don’t remember characters by name. I don’t really remember these specifics, and I don’t think it’s much of a story that cares that much, truly, about the individual agent of any given scene. The ideas in the story that embedded themselves in my memory, the things that I think of easily in terms of wanting to share them are instead about worlds and worldviews.
There’s multiple times that religion develops in these contexts, and it’s treated as having zero supernatural or explanatory power but always some application for social cohesion. There’s a long-running feminist narrative in the story about the dissolution of a simplified vision of patriarchy. Computers made of ants! The ways your worldview changes based on the ways you can engage with the world! The conception of disability as social construct! A full Indiana-Jones style raid against the Implacable Other and it’s done with spiders! Talking To Your Weird Space Mom and convincing her that regardless of if you were Assigned Monkey At Birth, you’re definitely a spider.
It’s strange that I can’t even necessarily conjure to mind the specifics of how it’s written. It’s not much that I can remember specific phrases or text, but I absolutely can think of ideas it establishes.
Cool book, I liked it a lot. And here, I’d like to leave you by telling you my favourite thing about it, but know that doing so involves knowing how the story ends. And I cared about the ending, there were characters involved who I did not want to die and they were all lined up to kill, fight, and die, and it could all go dreadfully wrong. The thing that draws it to a safe conclusion, where the tension of oh no it’s all going wrong, is an instance of humanity being infected with its own ideology.
Then they have to work out what that means.
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Just wanted to say I love ur oppys. Like. Its rare to see sci fi/fantasy/spec fic that is at once like. Prehistoric and nonhuman I guess. But also so cozy! Like, yes weve seen all our fantasy europes, some scattered fantasy asias, and a fantasy africa or two. Which are great! But like. I love seeing projects like this. Thank you. Ur stuff is kinda inspiring.
Also, do you have any plans for what youre going to do with this setting?
Thank you! For people to see my work and to have it inspire them is high praise. This is a long ramble below the cut.
I’m glad you like the oppy’s world. The framing as a prehistoric world is an incidental thing that I started leaning into in the last year or so. The choros have always been somewhat terror bird-like and oppies have become more primitive mammal-esk with their design recently, so it has felt natural to include some other recently extinct fauna in their world. Before this decision I considered making the animals chimeras in the vein of Avatar the Last Airbender, but I never drew much content of that. It didn’t feel right.
That said, while some of the animals look prehistoric, I don’t think of it as prehistoric in the sense of “this is a story from our world’s past.” And I probably wouldn’t call it a prehistoric world on the metaphorical bookjacket of this setting. It’s a fantasy world first, before a sci fi or spec bio one, if the distinction makes sense? I do really enjoy spec bio and sci fi, and really if you see it as sci fi, that doesn’t bother me.
In terms of plans for this setting, I am working on a 2d animated hand drawn short film set in a version of the oppy’s world. It’s about an oppy named Fern who finds an egg on a riverbank! I’ll tag it below so you can see my work in progress. Other than the short film, which is about 4 minutes 10 seconds as of the most recent draft (a huge project because animation is slow), I will continue to draw my characters here as my own ongoing worldbuilding and character project. Some other projects in this setting may pique my interest as time goes on, who knows.
(I could say “I want to write a book” here, but everyone says that about everything lol)
If you’re interested in xenofiction with prehistoric settings, there is the Silverwing standalone prequel set at the point of bats evolving flight, I haven’t read it but I hear it is pretty good? I know even less about Raptor Red, just that it’s dinosaur xenofiction, and then there is Ratha’s Creature, which is supposed to from the perspective of the extinct North American cheetah species? I think? I’m probably embarrassing myself with these recollections. This is just stuff I remember off the top of my head.
It might be a stretch to say Hunters Unlucky is prehistoric, but there are no human characters in it, and there are living thylacine relatives in it, so maybe it counts? Hunters is the only book in this ramble that I’ve actually read myself, and I can vouch for it being really good.
And on Tumblr, @papermonkeyism has worldbuilding about intelligent troodons. (I think troodons have been renamed by paleontologists sometime in the last couple of years but again my memory fails me... I will stick with troodon for now.)
I don’t know any other worldbuilders who have specifically prehistoric settings but I’m sure there are others!
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i didn't realize you designed tabletop games! is any of your work out there?
Nothing published officially yet, most of my work is being playtested at the moment. I can be quite perfectionist, so the revision process takes time. However I essentially have two major RPG projects I work on.#1 - A setting neutral RPG which is different than most because it does not assume that combat is the primary focus. This is my major project which I have been entirely designing from the ground up for the last two years roughly. I am also a huge xenofiction person (stories exploring non-human lives) so I’ve spent a lot of time theorizing how to make a system where the entire story could be about fish living in the ocean - or about robots mining an asteroid - etc. #2 - I’m a big nerd for Old-School D&D. I really want to publish some things relevant to the OSR movement. Maybe my own custom retro-inspired system. Maybe settings, or books about doing different genres well in Old-School D&D. (Ex: How to run a successful Wuxia style campaign, etc) However unsurprisingly the biggest thing I’m focused on is improving the ability to play monsters. I’m playtesting a lot of my ideas with my actively running BECMI game. Either way I would like to publish them as free PDFs and hopefully use a donation model to help support either myself or help with purchasing art for the games.
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Journal entry for NATIK on Comic Fury:
For those of you who have been following the original iteration of "Natik," you've probably noticed that it had become inactive for several years.
Not to get too detailed about my personal life, but I was in a very toxic living situation during that time and as a result of that environment my energy and joy and desire to draw was completely sapped. Thankfully, I am now living in my own place and am in a much better place in life. I'm back in school now, majoring in Fine Arts. For the first time in a very long time, I feel hopeful for the future.
I've spent a good chunk of time this past year improving my art skills and tweaking Natik's plot and script, as well as worldbuilding, character design, and other elements. I promised myself I wouldn't give up on this story, and I haven't. However, I did feel that a do-over was the best course of action for the story.
The comic will be updating on a chapter-per-month basis, as opposed to page-by-page. I'm not sure when I will release the prologue just yet, but the first few chapters are being worked on as we speak, and my goal is to start working on it more regularly once summer hits.
I also want to apologize for such a long absence, I know there were people looking forward to seeing more. I really hope I can deliver with this new version.
I will say the changes aren't too extreme. You'll notice a change in the story's order of events; unlike before, which began with a prologue and then started the first chapter at the very beginning of Amto's story, there will be a brief "set up" mini arc, where we set up Amto's current situation, followed by a "flashback" arc, which will explain how she and Kitki got to their current point. I felt this was a more interesting route than just straight chronological order. The setup arc will also give me a chance to introduce major characters that I otherwise would have had to put off for a while.
There are some slight changes in character design, as I said before. Namely the species' physiology and clothing. You will definitely notice that their former gasters are now more akin to the tail of a scorpion; partially because the nati species are more akin to dromopods than insects in their concept
(minus their eusocial family structures). I also found this easier to draw and more interesting to look at, visually. They have more clothing now, which is more stylized. To make things a little easier for expression, I will change eyeshape to convey emotion, a little bit cartoonishly- I will never, however, have them blinking or closing their eyes, as biologically they do not have eyelids or eyebrows and I want to stay accurate to that. While this is a xenofiction work, I still want the characters to look and feel like individuals without making them come across as too human, if that makes sense.
I'm very excited to start sharing Natik once again. It will always be my passion project, even if I take on other stories as I go.
Thanks for reading! Stay safe.
#updates#natik#journal#there's a lot more i could update with but I'll slowly add those to this blog
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#3 Isla
Book name: Foxcraft trilogy
Author: Inbali Iserles
Isla, the main character from Foxcraft! I definitely plan on designing more characters from this series.
Lines: Cryptillian (DeviantArt)
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#82 Siffrin (redo)
Not my favorite guy, but he's decent. Redo of my old design which was made on a premade lineart.
#xenofiction#foxcraft#fox#foxes#red fox#digital art#fanart#artists on tumblr#inbali iserles#siffrin#art#xenofiction design project
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