#it is a curse that I bear

[agentplutonium]

WIP Wednesday

I haven't done one of these in forever, and once again haven't been tagged. Either way you guys get the littlest update on what I am working on so that I am held responsible for what I do. ANYWAY

(if ya'll wanna do something too you should tag me! I love seeing people's works :D)

This week I wanna show y'all two snippets, one from my OC work and one from a fandom I rarely talk about on here. I'll start with the fanfic stuff first (all is gonna be under the cut because I think it looks cooler that way)

So, here I present a part of my Cher & Sherlock character study. These guys are from NeXus (created by the one and only @mr-laveau which can be found on their youtube channel). This mostly is just me seeing how my Characterizations of these two listener characters play out with one another. That and I have been itching to write something NeXus related since the second video on the channel. Anyway:

The clock ticked on the wall. There was the occasional shout from outside the apartment. Cher sat at the table, shoulders rigid, fingers tapping the wood beneath them impatiently. The wood was smooth under their arm, the back of the chair digging into their shoulder blades. They wanted to keep moving. They wanted out of here. They wanted to keep everyone safe. Cher was dropped off at Alonzo’s and his partner’s place to be babysat, despite what Uriah told them. He said it was for their safety but they felt Uriah didn’t trust them, or that he thought they couldn’t take care of themselves. It was humiliating. Not to mention this was probably putting the lovers out of their way just to be there with them. They did not want to do that to them. They were not worth the amount of effort the two vampires were putting into them.  Suddenly, a mug was placed before them, snapping out of their thoughts. Owl, what Cher has taken to calling Alonzo’s partner, took the seat across from them, a matching mug in their hands. They were silent, not looking at Cher. Their presence wasn’t… unwanted, but Cher still felt on edge. Their fingers stopped tapping. They couldn’t help but analyze the situation, Owl’s body language, the way they kept their eyes on the mug in their hands, the mug that was left suspended between the two of them. But Owl just fucking sat there. The silence lasted for a few more moments. “It’s just hot chocolate, I’m not trying to kill you,” Owl said, those eyes finally glancing at them. “Thought you might like something to do than just sitting here.”

(You will probably be able to find this fic soon on my AO3 :D)

And now my favourite part of this: the part where I get to show off my OCS. If you haven't seen anything before these two are my god characters. They are the sole reason why in my world anything exists. They are literally my heart and soul you guys i don't know if you understand. ANYWAY, snippet of the creation of the Strix:

Terra had been messing around with different designs for a bit, shaping and reshaping the clay in her hands in an almost bored manner. None of the designs were sticking out to her, and weren’t exactly how she was picturing things. Normally, this wasn’t such a problem. She was usually able to perfectly recreate what she was thinking. However, each time she did just that she found that the design was impractical, or didn’t look the way she imagined it would. In all honesty it was starting to irk her quite a bit.

She was about to give up on the design, but tried one more time. This one was also imperfect, but… Terra thought it had potential. It was a small, winged creature that Terra was going for, but there were a few things that she fixed or added. One of them was a short, curved, needle sharp beak. The other was sharper talons as well. After messing with the colours for a bit, making them a clash of green’s and blue’s, Terra brought the prototype to life. It slowly became mobile, turning it’s head from side to side, watching Terra curiously. Terra held out a finger to it, and it readily hopped over onto it, turning back to Terra and giving a small chirp.

Terra grinned, mouth stretching wide as she watched her creation. “Well, hello, little one,” Terra said gently. “You’re not as big as some of your cousins, but I think you look absolutely adorable.”

The creature chirped in response.

Terra only smiled wider, nose scrunching in the process. “Well then, what shall we name you and your siblings? Hm? Any ideas?”

The creature didn’t respond, only tilting it’s head in the other direction. Terra pursed her lips as she thought.

“What about… finches? No, that’s a bit to human sounding. We need something different.” Terra hummed, reaching up to gently stroke her fingers over the creature’s feathers. She had gotten an idea, and her eyes lit up. “Oh, what about Strix? That’s a fun sounding name. What do you think?” The creature chirped again, and Terra smiled. “I’m so glad. We’ll have to tell Caelus next time we see him, I did promise I’d keep him-”

“Tell me what?” Caelus asked, beside her all of a sudden. He settled next to her on the ground, eyes immediately falling to the Strix. “Never mind. I figured it out.”

Terra gave a sheepish smile, holding out the Strix. “Don’t you think he’s cute, though?”

Caelus didn’t seem like he did. He was never very good at hiding his feelings, especially not from her. “He’s… something,” Caelus said.

Terra swatted at his arm playfully. “Be nice at least. He’s technically yours too.”

Caelus looked spooked by the prospect, however he didn’t have time to comment on it before the Strix was hopping onto his knee. Caelus held as still as possible, eyes not leaving the thing.

“Aw! He likes you!” Terra gushed.

“And, uh… what is he, exactly?” Caelus asked.

“I call them Strix,” Terra said matter-of-factly, but she was already getting distracted.

Caelus stayed like that, staring down this creature. If he was honest, he actually didn’t mind this one all that much. It was a bit of an eyesore, but he was a bit smaller than the others. It was roughly the size of half his forearm in height. A manageable size. The creature chirped at him, and Caelus couldn’t help but give a small smile, reaching forward to cautiously stroke the feathers on the creature’s head. It looked like a freaky bird, he commented to himself.

Terra’s words caught up to him then, and he snapped his gaze to her. “I’m sorry, them? What do you mean them?”

“There’s more than one,” Terra said, like it was obvious, “I just haven’t had the time to make them. But-” She trailed off, taping the ground in front of her, at the feet of a few dozen more. They came to life in a blink, all staring at their companion and at Caelus. It was only a second more before Caelus was swarmed in a flurry of feathers and wings. Terra gasped, watching as the creatures settled and Caelus was covered with the birds.

Caelus did not look happy. Terra tried to keep her giggling subdued.

“Get them off,” Caelus said through his teeth.

“I don’t know, I think this look suits you,” Terra snickered.

“Terra-”

“Okay okay,” Terra said, though her amusement was still evident. She rose to her knees, hands reaching for the creatures, fanning them away or moving them herself. “Come on guys, you heard him. Shoo. Go.”

Caelus was relieved when they were all gone, but he was still grumpy. Terra giggled again.

“Oh come on, It wasn’t that bad! Stop being so grumpy. I saw you smiling at the first one, I know you secretly like them,” Terra teased.

“I do not,” Caelus denied.

“Uh-huh, okay, whatever you say big guy.”

Terra’s amusement was cut short when one of the Strix flew over and pecked at her neck.

“Ow!” She cried out, hand flying to the spot. She frowned at the creature who fluttered in front of her, looking up with that curious gaze of theirs. She pulled her hand away, only for it to come back smeared with blood. Her frown deepened even more.

“Are you okay?” Caelus asked, concern in his tone, half reaching toward her out of habit.

“Yeah,” Terra said, more mystified than in pain. “They shouldn’t… they probably don’t know better. They were just created after all.”

Caelus still seemed wary, but Terra didn’t allow for the conversation to continue. Instead, she started herding the birds up to place in a temporary home until she felt like they could join the rest of the world. It was going to be a while before they were accustomed to their new world, and Terra also had to train them on a few things to keep them safe.

This will be fine, Terra could feel it in her very core.

If you wanna read more, I also have this story about Terra and her realization that Vampires exist.

that is all I have, but but I love talking about my things and am open to any questions, and like I said i'd love to see y'alls work too!!

#plutonium_WIPW #plutonium_fanfiction #plutonium_rambles #Plutonium_Files #guys i need to talk about my things in order to get it written #it is a curse that I bear #ocs #original character #nexus #nexus fanfiction #that's right im starting that tag

[sincerelystesichorus]

i have spent so long trying to place who astarion reminds me of

his dry little sarcastic bits gets me every time and like it's automatically funny but it felt so familiar...

this bastard.

and some more similar comparisons i think

thank you for coming to my ted talk

#astarion is a black cat ppl going crazy rn #like yes actually #its me #will anyone else care about this comparison #has it already been done ill cry #salem was my fav growing up i built my evil gay personality around him #and now i have astarion to further bear the curse #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 #bg3 memes #salem the cat #salem saberhagen #sabrina the teenage witch #astarion is a cat #qb #qb shitposts

[artsyvamp]

cool biker guy // frog enjoyer

#I SAID I WOULD DRAW HIM MORE #gilbert is my irl build a bear frog btw #:) #sdv #stardew valley #sebastian stardew #sdv sebastian #stardew sebastian #sdv fanart #stardew valley fanart #stardew fanart #sdv farmer #cigarettes #cursing #my art #artsyvampart

[kingzombear]

Spicy art trade w @pixie-inkk of their ladies from their Cursed Monsters AU!! (@ask-gorgon-ragatha teehee)

Go ahead and flirt w her girl, if you wanna be a stone statue THAT damn bad 🙄

#jealous sapphic hissing #tadc au #tadc cursed monsters au #art trade #bear king draws #hehe i love women #they drew my demon x angel yuri girls YIPPEEEE #tadc #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #ragapom #jesterdoll #buttonblossom #ragapom au #doomed circus yuri #suggestive

[sensitiveheartless]

It's now been two years since I began drawing BSD fanart, and I recently went back and discovered that the very first sketch I ever did was of Chuuya! So I thought it would be fun to go through and line up a bunch of my attempts at drawing him — progress over time, and all that :0

#I still have a lot to learn in terms of — well everything honestly #Still!! Progress! #...parts of this could also be seen as 'senhart tries to learn how to draw hats for two years straight' aksfjksjfksd #my art #bsd chuuya #that first Chuuya I sketched is kind of cursed ngl #what was I doing with the eyebrows?? but for the sake of completion I'm keeping it there #anyway! all that aside I really appreciate all of you guys for bearing with me as I learn new stuff and figure out what my art style is #y'all are awesome!

[agentof-chaos]

We're all aware of the common thing in fanfics where Tim uses Bear as a nickname for Bernard, but I feel like we should give Tim a similar nickname.

I suggest Moth, cause his full first name is Timothy, and if you drop the first two letters and the last letter, you're left with "moth," and I think that's really cute.

Bear and Moth

#also #I think it would be funny if bernard had tim in his phone as “mothman” #tim has bernard saved in his phone as something like “bear” with a bunch of heart emojis #and meanwhile bernard has tim saved in his phone as “mothman” #maybe also with some cursed emojis #I feel like it would make sense cause tim has so many cryptid vibes and bernard loves conspiracy theories #timber #timbern #bisexual tim drake #tim drake #bernard dowd #tim drake x bernard dowd #dc #red robin #dc robin #tim drake robin

[u3pxx]

got the disco meshi au on my mind and i remembered that one time i drew a cursed elf!harry (like if they ever encounter a changeling circle in the au) and this is kind of just the extended version of that idea pftt

this was the original sketch for that. elves in dunmeshi don't really have facial hair so i just had to base what to do with his muttonchops on what happened with senshi's luxurious beard, stubble it up ig lol

#(harry is a tallman and kim is half tallman and half gnome in the au btdubs) #i was like do i think dwarf kim has more facial hair or would it be funnier if he only still had his thin-ass pencil mustache ADFGHDJ #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #disco meshi au #sunnysidemeshi #sunnysidedisco #sunnysidedoodles #id in alt text #described #edit: should clarify that cursed not as in yeah he has cursed amulet cursed as in WHO IS THAT .. THAT'S NOT MY BEAUTIFUL BEAR ..

[foldingfittedsheets]

One of my mutuals refers to me as “golden nipple milk” to their partner. That’s me. Golden nipple milk.

#ramblies #it was because of a story I told them #now I am cursed to bear this burden

[robinfollies]

Been really pondering Fantoccio and the cursed citizens lately… like, if you’re stuck in a city for 15 years with some of your only company being these cursed globby versions of the people that used to surround you normally, you’d start to Notice Things that remind you of who they used to be, right?

#I HAVE SO SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS GUY HE MAKES ME SOOO SAD. FANTOCCIO…. #i really do think about his time in the city a lot. like a whooole lot. #like ofc these are weird amorphous blobs but yknow. there may still be some semblance of who they used to be within them #they have old habits or hang around in places they used to live idk idk. #they still have some of that old humanity they used to hold i guess… even in their cursed forms… #a little spark of hope that maybe everything will go back to normal someday #i dunno. and maybe eventually they even start to LOOK normal. all in ur head #fanto’s supposed to be younger here btw!! id personally put him at around 12-14 maybe? #also the bear baker’s name is Miss Cardamom!! unfortunately she is doomed by the narrative…. so sad… ú_ù #the bg characters were VERY VERY FUN to design!!! hehehe #billie bust up #bbu fantoccio #bbu the fella #robin’s art #2024 art #didnt mean to go as hard on the art as i did… twas supposed to just be a simple sketch comic HAHA #comicfollies

[elquacktism]

Comic based on @bugflies00 textpost :3

#c!tntduo #tntduo #c!wilbur #c!wilbur fanart #c!quackity #c!quackity fanart #today i bear the curse tomorrow? who knows #digital artism

[daguerreotyping]

Cabinet card of a well-groomed young man and his equally dapper dog, c. 1890s

#he looks so sweet and wholesome that I immediately suspect him of having a cursed secret portrait in the attic that bears all his sins #19th century #1800s #1890s #1890s fashion #19th century fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #men's fashion #menswear #19th century photography #cabinet card #19th century men #vintage men

[sp1resong]

i (tumblr user sp1resong) will see some bugs and go 'is anyone gonna put those in a maze' and not even wait for an answer

#art #my art #rain world #hollow knight #not described #the pale king #the radiance #the knight #hornet hk #hk hornet #the hollow knight #hornet is wearing an upside-down vulture mask btw! #maybe i'll draw the dreamers (all itties) + some other guys later but i cannot guarantee anything #because i uh. bear the curse (executive dysfunction) #edit: fixed a minor mistake

[gunpowdercarousel]

Aww isn't that cute they're sharing a tent lol maybe they can learn to get along and

GODDAMNIT MINTHARA WHAT DID YOU DO I LEAVE FOR FIVE MINUTES AND THIS

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 memes #minthara #halsin #minthara bg3 #minthara baenre #halsin bg3 #i was honestly so disappointed #i was hoping i could lift the curse AND romance minthy but nooooo #someone just HAD to murder bear dad

[hamletthedane]

I hate dating apps I need to meet the love of my life more organically*

*in hand-to-hand combat before the great walls of the City of Troy

#Icariasia daughter of Priam was seized by Artemis who wields the Golden Arrows and the goddess spoke to her: #fast-footed daughter of kings you have run for many a year and bested many great and renowned Trojan men #in all the arts and sports contrived by Athena the daughter of Zeus who bears the golden aegis #but the gods warn you now that you shall soon face upon this blood-drenched field a daughter of the greatest of the Achean kings #who will match you in all of the arts and sports played at funeral games in honor of the gods for practice of war #and though you now curse the name of the golden-haired enraged Achilles for the death of your many brothers upon this field #you soon shall deny my twin Apollo’s libation and make libations instead to silver-eyed Athena goddess of strategy and war #because her daughter of like mind to strategy and arts shall best you in combat and yet shall spare you #and carry you back to the hollow ships beside the sea #and for that favor and for the spangled mind of a child of Athena daughter of Zeus who widens the heavens with thunder #you shall betray your father and return as willful captive to the strange isles where Helen with the lovely woven braids was born #Iliad #homer #sorry uh I think I was briefly possessed by my past life self

[naariel]

Brunebjørn Druid Halsin

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Based on Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon by Theodor Kittelsen. As a kid I always really enjoyed that painting, and the norwegian folktale it depicts. So naturally I had to recreate it with Halsin and Gaia.

#halsin #bg3 #i mean the story isn't very similar at all #just the imagery! #the princess sees a bear with a golden wreath she's dreamed of - she agrees to go live with him in exchange for it #at night the bear transforms into a man #well... she can't resist temptation and she looks #turns out he was cursed by a witch #the only way to be free was to keep the princess with him without seeing him in his human form for x amount of years #now that she's looked him however the witch won and he must now marry the witch instead #so he takes off #she follows after the best she can #and eventually frees him #oh hey that last part actually applies #and then they lived happily ever after

[freshmeatz]

he is my best friend forever 

#my art #leech art #bbieal #baldi #baldis basics #i rlly want chocolate cake so now he must bear my curse