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Hello once more time keen swimmers! We are now in the final stretch with the last week of Stricklake month, and or prompts for this week are:
Water / Fire
Have a look at our info post if you need more information. To participate, pick one or both prompts and tag your posts #keenswimmers2023. As always, have fun creating and keep an eye out for @pinkytoothlesso11's roundup post on Sunday. Additionally, there will be a big roundup with ALL the entries on August 31, so keep an eye out for that as well!💙💚
#keenswimmers2023#stricklake#barbara lake#walter strickler#trollhunters#tales of arcadia#fandom event
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✨Third week roundup✨
Once again, another week for keenswimmers2023 has come to the roundup post! There's been some great fills so far and thanks to @undeadchestnut for the weekly post for these prompts!
Mysterious stranger by @lexel05
Mysterious Stranger by @ollie-alooffloof
Mysterious Stranger by @megan0013
Childhood friends (?) by @justmebeing--me
Intrigue: Mysterious Stranger by @changelingchangewing
Childhood friend/mysterious stranger by @joethehoeee
Childhood friend/mysterious stranger by @selenestrickler
Mysterious Stranger by @yavannah
Our Love For Eternity chapter three: Mysterious Stranger by pinkytoothlesso11
Mysterious Stranger by @joethehoeee
Ties That Bind Us by @whitherwanderyouspirit
Extra:
TONAL WHIPLASH LES GO by @toodrasticallydumb
Didn't know where to put this, but thought it should be included, fanart for 2 week two guardian prompts by pinkytoothlesso11 and @joethehoeee.
Please do let me know if I've made an error, missed a late submission, or any submission, or if a fill for this week, (or even last week) is running late or upcoming so I know to be aware of it, also bare in mind I'll be doing a final roundup post on the 31st, so there's no rush yet for late submissions!
#keenswimmers2023#stricklake#thank you once again for the roundup! 🙏🏻#love seeing so many great entries <3
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Hello again keen swimmers! Can you believe we're already halfway through Stricklake month? Me neither. D: Here are our prompts for week three:
Childhood Friends/ Mysterious Stranger
Check out our info post for more information! To participate, pick one or both prompts and tag your posts #keenswimmers2023. Keep an eye out for @pinkytoothlesso11's roundup post on Sunday, and as always: have fun creating! 💙💚
#keenswimmers2023#stricklake#barbara lake#walter strickler#trollhunters#tales of arcadia#fandom event#(((maybe this week... I will draw something...and even catch up on some fics... maybe x_x)))
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Thanks so much again for commissioning me! Had so much fun drawing young Vendel and designing his grandpa! :D
A little necessary context. Brought to you by Trollmarket's grumpiest elder.
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2/6 om/focuriousity25-blo
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like before, the artwork was done by @undeadchestnut. Once again, thank you so much!! :D
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✨Second week roundup✨
Hello again keenswimmers! We are now officially halfway through Stricklake month 2023 and we have even more amazing fills to show this week for the Royalty/Guardian prompt. Thank you @undeadchestnut for posting the weekly prompts.
Royalty/Guardian by @selenestrickler
Third condition by @albentelisa
Guardian by @ollie-alooffloof
No one can compare: Royalty by @changelingchangewing
Our love for eternity chapter two: Guardian by pinkytoothlesso11
Guardian by @joethehoeee
Royal AU by @enniyart
Meant to be protected by @albentelisa
Guardian by @seekerofblades
Queen and her loyal Guardian by @yavannah
Guardian by @megan0013
'A MiStAkE' because I haven't updated in ages—Royalty/Guardian... The Queen's Hound by @toodrasticallydumb
Royalty/Guardian by @joethehoeee
A Royal Harvest by @megan0013 and @renee561
Please do let me know if I've made an error on the roundup post, if I've missed someone's fill or if there's a late submission, otherwise see you all for week three of Stricklake month!!
#thanks so much again for the roundup! 🙏🏻#great to see so many submissions again! :D#keenswimmers2023#stricklake#trollhunters#tales of arcadia
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Striklake month, Dystopia. Though my version looks bit of a apocalyptic.
#whatever barb is roasting over the fire- I don't trust her cooking skills xD#always love how much story you're able to put into your screenshots!#stricklake#keenswimmers2023
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Week one of keenswimmers2023
Prompt: Dystopia/Utopia.
I personally decided to do Dystopia and I know I am late but I can explain-
No actually I can't...dosen't matter, It's there.
I uhm decided to do a world were Gunmar broke free in season one and actually killed Jim. Strickler obviously was shocked but we all know that season one him is a ...well...kind of a dick, wich means he "got over it"...until he realized how fucked up this actually is.
He did keep his promise tho, he protects Barbara. He eventually tells her that he is a changeling but he bends the truth how he needs it to be. Strickler leaves Gunmar after finding out that he will kill every human and he decided (after veeeeery looooong thoughts) that Barbara is more worth than his selfish plans.
Barb would eventually find out the truth after Strickler left Gunmar for her and he tries to survive or at least he is trying to keep her alive. Barb can't forgive him. She won’t forgive him.
How does it end...? They both probably die...
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Anyways have fun with this :D
Close up from them just bc:
And yes...Barb has a stick...she couldn’t find her broom.
Ohhh and did Strickler broke off one of his horns? Yes he did. Wanna know how? Gunmar did it after Strickler refused to tell him were he hides Barbara.
Barb's scars are easier to see but Walt tends to jump infront of her. He fights for her as long as his body works.
He gives her food and water as much as she needs and takes what's left or eats trash. He refuses to sleep, to watch over her. He holds himself awake as long as nessecary until his body can't take it.
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Coming to Stricklake month! I was thinking a lot about an idea and decided to draw dystopia with those two. It is accorded to my and @elegantjellyfishwerewolf au where Barbara dies because of Walter on his hands. It is very interesting au and I want to tell you more about it but firstly I have to pass my exams well at this month. So I hope to share it with as soon as possible
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Attempting to do Stricklake month! Here is my first offering, with the theme Utopia.
Utopia: an imagined state of things in which everything is perfect.
I feel like Barbara and Strickler would imagine everything being perfect with Strickler in a human form. Walter seemed to be more comfy in human form for a while there, and while Barbara and him definitely adjusted their definition of perfect as their love grew I feel like around the eclipse event the perfect state of things would be having a NORMAL wedding. Human to human, just two sweethearts in love.
So I drew this trying to show the imagined utopia vs the reality around the edges. my composition skills are NOT all that great and some stuff doesn’t really make sense, but I am overall satisfied. I gave up on making a background but I think in future ones I will put more time in! Maybe i will even color lines…
i made Barbara kinda battlescarred in the reality because I was timeslotting this around the big fight
#😍😍😍#lovely concept and perfect execution!#the colors! the pink hues! THEIR FACES#stricklake#keenswimmers2023
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Stricklake 2023 - Week 1 - Utopia/Dystopia
I just think this episode fits well with the prompt!
Also, I have no ideas for next week so... see you in a bit!
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Summary for Utopia/Dystopia: The Trollhunter—an ill-fitting changeling—, now trapped in the Darklands, snared and brought before Gunmar The Vicious, is accursed to the same rock cage, the same stone quarry, the same endless bloodbath, the same scorching glare, the same sun-less verdict, the same viceral nature as he had once been forged in all those centuries ago.
...Well...almost the same.
STRICKLAKE MONTH IS FINALLY HERE BOIS OH YES YES YES GIVE ME MORE OF MY DORKS IN LOVE
I've been waiting around for August since the first time I saw stricklake month was a thing last year (which was coincidentally very recent into my re-obsession with the show and Strickler and Barbara in particular) so to say I'm excited to participate this year is an understatement.
I may be going overboard in a lot of places. But it's fineeeee
I'm going to try to do all four prompts (I'm undecided if I'll do both art AND writing for each but be sure I'll at least do one of the two for any given week it's the curse of being both a writer and artist, I must bear it) so here's week 1's prompt in writing form! Utopia/Dystopia! Because I didn't realize you needed to pick one! And not both! But I technically did more Utopia so!
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The Way it Once Was
Keenswimmers23: Utopia
u·to·pi·a
/yo͞oˈtōpēə/
noun
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
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A wedding ring. A mix of metal and gemstone. A promise of forever.
The ring solidified the love that Walter had for her, and the affection Barbara felt for him. She had gasped when he had taken the little box out from his coat pocket and got down on one knee in the expansive library that inhabited the floating castle. When he had asked her to marry him, she said yes. What else would she have said? There was no other answer in Barbara’s heart: nothing that would ever make her say no.
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They had two wedding ceremonies: one during the day at the courthouse, and a more lavish ceremony at night for the trolls. It was a great way for Barbara and Strickler to embrace both their cultures. Even though practically everyone knew Walter was a changeling at this point, the two of them thought it best to keep things organized. Also, Jim was the biggest part of this, so they agreed that it would be nice to have the low-key event in the morning to make things official with no one but Barbara, Walter, and Jim. Jim appeared to have taken it well, despite the rocky relationship that he and Walter had in the past. This was due to much communication and apologies on Walter’s part, which made Barbara swell with pride every time she thought about it.
When night fell and the trollish ceremony began, Barbara couldn’t find the words. She could barely act out a play in front of people she knew, nevertheless confessing her true feelings to the man she was marrying. She still got butterflies whenever she was around Walter. Barbara considered that a good sign.
Later that night, she, Walter, and Jim went home. Walter and Barbara would leave for their honeymoon in the morning. For now, the three of them wanted to be together.
They lived happily after that…
…
Barbara anxiously fidgeted with the piece of jewelry on her ring finger.
None of it was real. It was all a utopia of lies.
He had promised her forever, but that’s not how things worked out.
Sitting in the chair where Jim had left her for China, in the same snowy area where Walter sacrificed himself for the world, Barbara cried. Breathless, hacking sobs that came from her innermost being.
Why did love always turn out this way for her? For her to love so deeply but be refused that affection in return.
There was no place for love in Barbara Lake’s life.
She wept like that for a long time, until there was a flash and everything went back to the way it once was.
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week 1 - dystopia
Arcadia’s defense systems are some of the best in the country. The walls around the town are high and sturdy, their arsenal of weapons well-stocked and diverse thanks to a successful raid on Area 49-B, and, oh yeah, they have advanced technology only aliens have ever seen before. Because there are aliens in Arcadia. And a coven of very capable witches and wizards. And a legion of gnomes that have sworn absolute fealty to The Town Council after some incredibly difficult negotiations involving dream houses, nougat nummies, and a full-time hat maker.
And there’s the Trollhunter
His warnings are the reason the citizens of Arcadia were able to defend themselves after Gunmar’s hoards had taken the east coast and started making their way west from New Jersey. Without him, they never would have built the wall in time or stockpiled munitions and non-perishable food. They wouldn’t have known anything about weak spots in gumm-gumm armor and how to take advantage of them, or the typical battle strategies the troll army employed. And they certainly couldn’t have designed the vast, complex system of tunnels and traps that had been used to obliterate whole legions in one fell swoop.
Of course, that’s probably because he’d once been a very prominent tactician in the Skullcrusher’s army.
Not that many Arcadians know this about him. His wife and stepson do, obviously, and a handful of close family friends, but to everyone else he’s just Walter – the guy who loves puns and used to teach history at the high school before everything went to hell. They don’t know he’s one of those scummy changelings or that his armor isn’t the real reason he can switch forms. And why should they? Most people have only ever seen him become a troll when Daylight is in his hand. If they want to believe his stone skin is just a byproduct of being named the Trollhunter, then so be it.
The trolls in Trollmarket, though... Well, they know exactly what he is.
It was a tough sell at first, being accepted, but gaining Vendel’s approval and introducing his small family had gone a long way in earning their respect. Draal loudly declaring he’d only had Jim for a day and half but if anything happened to him he would kill everyone in the room and then himself hadn’t hurt, either.
The few who remained wary of him eventually left for what they thought were greener pastures, or quickly changed their tune in the aftermath of Gunmar’s escape from the Darklands.
And now, after three years of successfully leading trolls and humans alike, the Trollhunter’s judgement has been called into question by his own wife.
At least, that’s what it feels like to him.
“Stalklings aren’t pets, Barbara! They are killing machines.”
Barbara, however, doesn’t look the least bit impressed by her husband’s outburst as she continues strolling through the stable of what was once a petting zoo but is now home to a clutch of brand new stalkling pups and their mother. “Just because you’ve had a few unfortunate encounters with them, doesn’t mean they’re all bad. I mean, seriously. Look at that cute little face.”
The stalkling in question does not have a cute little face. Not at all. In fact, she’s got blood-red eyes and an ugly gray head and terrifyingly large teeth.
“It literally tried to eat you at the supermarket,” Walter says, watching incredulously as Barbara takes the great winged beast’s beak into her hands for a scratch. “You still have the scar on your leg from where it bit you.”
“We surprised her, that’s all. Persephone would never hurt me on purpose. Would you, my sweet girl?”
“Persephone? You named it?” Walter huffs out a sigh, fingers going to pinch the bridge of his nose in obvious frustration. “Darling, you can’t name them. Now we’ll never be rid of it.”
Barbara raises a brow. “That’s sorta the point, Walt.”
Persephone snorts in agreement.
“And, anyway,” his wife continues with a gentle peck to Persephone’s beak, “Jim wants a vespa or a puppy for his birthday, so…”
Walter blinks.
Barbara bats her eyelashes.
Walter frowns. “That’s not a vespa, nor is it a dog.”
“Oh, no, babe. Of course, not. But since all the scooters have been stripped for parts and I’m allergic to dog hair, I thought, well,” she grins and gestures to the five pups chirping away in the corner of the stall, “these little guys might be the perfect gift.”
The Trollhunter whimpers, knowing deep down in his heart that he’s already lost this particular battle and he's about to become the proud grandfather of not one, but five baby stalklings.
“Besides,” Barbara pats his cheek before pressing a kiss to it, “he can’t have Persephone. She’s my pet.”
#Stalkling chicks!!! 😭#about time Barbara got another mom friend#stricklake#keenswimmers2023#fan fic
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Week one of keenswimmers2023, Dystopia prompt:
Jim's reset of the timeline at the end of RoTT doesn't go well. The amulet is destroyed, Gunmar free and the town scattered amid ruins. But Strickler being set up with Barbara works.
Now, with the changeling having a change of heart and the truth out, Barbara and Walter have a much needed talk in private while scavenging for food. And amid desolation, hope, and love, blooms. After some misunderstandings are cleared up of course.
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Sooo... Posted an entry for this week already, but whatever... Enjoy a bonus oneXP
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Happy Stricklake Month, everyone!
Glad to be back. It has been a difficult year so far. Here's hoping this month's prompts help me get back on the writing horse so I can crack down on finishing my WIPs.
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Stricklake week 1 Utopia/Dystopia
I wanted to do a Mad Max and Strain kind of vibe for Dystopia. Of course the ever protective Walter making sure that Barbara is safe and Barbara always worrying about him.
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