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I will be waiting for you on the other side of the frozen pines.

[ID: A line of frost-tipped gray-green pine trees under a cloudy sky darkening at the top.]

#art #lyric art #lord huron

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his name is definitely Alphard.

some other things I have decided about Alphard:

he wears a device in his ear to help regulate his telepathy. this is initially not actually very helpful to him because it’s primarily designed to make other Time Lords more comfortable around him by dampening his telepathic emissions. however as he becomes more comfortable with himself once he gets away from Gallifrey, he starts tinkering with it to make it better suit his actual needs

although his disability can be debilitating, especially when he was living on Gallifrey, living with it meant that he actually got a lot more practice controlling his telepathy than most Time Lords do, as well as building up a stronger resistance to telepathic assault. he doesn’t really realize this for a while. 

he wears long sleeves and gloves in part to diminish the risk of telepathic reading by touch but also just because he likes to

he enjoys big floppy sweaters and slightly oversized clothes in general. also has a thing for stripes. no fashion sense whatsoever but he’s a Time Lord so what else is new

he’s really fascinated by human fiction but because he’s very new to Earth he has a bit of trouble sometimes working out which parts of said fiction are made up

the inconsistently drawn scar over his eye is from his maiden flight from Gallifrey to Earth which involved a lot of crashing around and general havoc because he had no idea what he was doing

he’s got a big sweet tooth. the first time he had hot chocolate was a borderline religious experience

he’s the Time Lord equivalent of being like in his early twenties basically but he’s actually on his second incarnation. he regenerated once when he was very young. it was not a happy experience and left him deeply terrified by the thought of ever having to do it again.

he chews peppermints when he’s anxious, which is pretty much always, because peppermint is a natural mild-moderate anxiolytic for Time Lords. that’s right I just made that up you can’t stop me ha ha ha

[image description: three messy blue sketches of a man with short wavy hair and bags under his eyes. in one he is seen from the side, wearing a long scarf over a turtleneck; in one he is wearing a vest over a turtleneck and gesturing with both hands, and in the last one he is holding a hard to his side and blushing awkwardly.]

#art #fanart #doctor who #original characters #alphard and story #alphard

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I have come up with a name for the Time Lord’s friend: Story.

this was probably a bad move. OCs are like stray dogs, once you name them, they never leave.

[image description: a blue sketch of a sturdily built woman with long somewhat disheveled curly hair, wearing a shirt with a flower design and the sleeves rolled up, high cuffed jeans with a hole in one knee, sneakers and striped socks, with a flannel shirt tied around her waist.] 

#art #fanart #doctor who #original characters

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combine Koroks and Kokiri to get leaf kids in masks

[image description: a child wearing a long, torn, muddy green tunic belted with a brown sash, and brown cuffed boots. the child has mottled green skin and is wearing a green butterfly-shaped leaf mask with mismatched eye holes. they have pale green hair and are holding a stick with a few red berries on the end.]

#art #fanart #the legend of zelda

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the problem here is I’m so far behind on Doctor Who that I’m really vague on what the current canon re: Time Lords is so I have no idea how well any of this fits in 

however here are some thoughts

Time Lord dude is disabled by Time Lord standards as he is unable to properly regulate his telepathic abilities, being both over-sensitive, and over-projecting, which other Time Lords find uncomfortable

there’s no way those arrogant jerks aren’t ableist so he had a real hard time

how exactly he got off Gallifrey I’m not sure but I think he was quite desperate to get away 

as is custom, he stole a TARDIS, might be one that was originally fitted for war but was damaged and about to be decommissioned

he does not initially get along with his TARDIS at all, as it’s quite angry with him, dumps him off on Earth (everyone ends up on Earth) and refuses to go anywhere else with him, but they eventually make up and he helps refit it into the more peaceful machine that it wants to be

the TARDIS translator doesn’t work perfectly, possibly because it doesn’t sync well with his own telepathy, so occasionally it bugs out and he lapses into Gallifreyan for a couple words which really weirds people out

he crash-lands in the backyard of a woman who also does not yet have a name, or a definitive design, and she’s tired and life has not gone great for her and she’s real skeptical about this alien business but he was in her backyard bleeding from the forehead so she gets him a band-aid and a cup of tea and things snowball from there

he’s a huge dork and a total disaster because that comes with the territory when you’re a renegade Time Lord. 

[image description: a blue sketch drawing of a man with wavy hair, wearing a coat and striped scarf, standing next to a woman with frizzy hair tied back, wearing a jacket over a hoodie.] 

#art #fanart #original characters #Doctor Who

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oh no

oh no

I’ve become attached 

[image description: three blue sketches of a man with a long face, wavy hair, and a small scar over one eye, wearing a long-sleeved shirt, pinstriped pants, and gloves. in the first drawing he is holding a pulling a scarf down around his neck, in the second he is holding one hand to his neck awkwardly and looking away; in the third he is saying something with a circular Gallifreyan glyph.]

#art #fanart #doctor who #original characters

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inktober, day twenty-two

the tall man walks between dimensions, and no one ever remembers him when he goes. 

[image description: a man with long dark hair and pale skin, wearing a brown coat and red scarf. he is fading into the gray background.]

#art #original art #original characters #inktober #inktober2018 #riftweavers

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inktober, day twenty-one

the wisdom of Surak, from Diane Duane’s novel Spock’s World. I think about this quote a lot. 

[image description: two hands, one red and one green, reaching for each other against a background of stars, with the following text in gold and blue on top: “the spear in the other’s heart is the spear in your own, you are he. there is no other wisdom, and no hope for us, but that we grow wise.”] 

#spock's world #star trek #inktober #inktober2018 #art #fanart

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inktober, day 20

‘worm’ (or wyrm or wurm) used to also be an old word for dragons or dragon-like creatures. which. um. I’m sure is not what They Might Be Giants had in mind when they wrote Doctor Worm, but at some point this image of a shy dragon drummer entered my head and stuck there, so...here we are. 

[image description: a bipedal gray dragon with yellow eyes, small wings, a light blue scaled belly and dark blue horns. he is wearing a black t-shirt with ‘Dr. Worm’ written on it in pink letters, and holding a pair of drumsticks in one hand.]

#art #inktober #inktober2018 #they might be giants #lyric art #uh well kind of I guess

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I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin' at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it.

inktober, day 19

I still have a lot of feelings about Nine. 

[image description: the Ninth Doctor, a tall man with very short hair and large ears, floating in space against a red and blue gradient. he is done in simple lines that fade from blue at the top to yellow at the bottom, and colored in dark blue. above his leather jacket are two stylized red-and-blue hearts from which flow black ribbons with star patterns that wind around him down to his feet.]

#art #fanart #inktober #inktober2018 #doctor who

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inktober, day 18

this is Dhuane, yet another OC, using the wingsuit mentioned in this story. wanted to take a pass at visualizing what it looked like. 

[image description: a man hovering in the air with bright blue abstract wings behind him. he’s wearing a short brown coat with a high collar that covers his mouth, dark gloves, brown pants and high brown boots; a chest harness with a glowing blue core in the center, and blue cores set on leather straps on his arms, legs, belt and boots. he has pale skin, short white hair, black tattoos on his face, and is wearing goggles with one eye covered.]

#art #original characters #original art #inktober #inktober2018 #the airship project

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inktober, day 17

I’m not dead yet

so...uh. I happened to find this drawing in my old files of a Time Lord OC that I did a bazillion years ago. I think I had a dream about him or something, he was never really a developed character. but I thought I’d draw him again just for fun, y’know, to compare how much I’d improved, bit of nostalgia, and the group chat encouraged me to go for it. 

unfortunately he uh. may have developed a personality and backstory while I was drawing him. SO THAT’S GREAT. 

[image description: a man with light brown skin, gray eyes, and wavy brown hair, standing with his hands out like he’s surprised. he is wearing a dark blue coat with a high collar and blue buttons, a red vest, a black shirt, purple and white scarf, gray pinstriped pants, gray gloves, and blue shoes held together with straps. behind him is a teal background with overlapping circles of green, blue and yellow.]

#art #fanart #doctor who #original characters #inktober #inktober2018

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inktober, day 13

these are Harris and Steven, a couple of characters from one of my oldest projects ever. they met when they were teenagers and pretty much immediately adopted each other as the annoying sibling neither of them had growing up. now they work in a magic shop together and spend most of their time bickering and pestering each other. 

[image description: a man in a hooded jacket and gloves with long dark hair sits at a counter with one elbow propped on a stack of books, resting his face on his hand. behind him is a woman with short hair in a dark t-shirt, necklace and shirt tied around her waist, grinning and doing bunny ears behind the man’s head.]

#art #original art #original characters #inktober #inktober2018 #the seer project

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I was attempting to make all my inktober drawings this year themed around one project like last year, but then I caught myself thinking “I want to draw this but I don’t have any time with doing inktober” at the same time that I was sitting at my computer for a long time struggling to come up with something to fit the prompt and I realized, hang on, that’s a bit backwards

so I think I’m going to ditch the theming and just post whatever I feel like for the rest of October. inktober worked well last year as a way to develop Mal and Siobhan’s characters but it’s not working as well for this other project and there’s no sense beating a dead horse, eh

#blog chatter

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day 12: whale.

a narwhal pendant on sale in the Undermarket. made of real narwhal tusk, the seller claims, and enchanted for protection from water and cold. but you can’t always trust what you hear. 

[image description: an off-white narwhal amulet with blue-green wave engravings, hanging from a cord against a teal background. ]

#art #original art #inktober #inktober2018 #call to adventure

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day 11: cruel.

“I’m sorry you had to find out like this. But it’s true. Most of our family is...gone.” 

[image description: an old, cracked black and white photograph showing six people in two rows, looking cheerful though their features are indistinct.] 

#art #original art #inktober #inktober2018 #original characters #call to adventure

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day 10: flowing.

there are a lot of odd things down in the caves. they say the water spirit here will answer questions if you toss a coin in its pool. be careful what you ask.

[image description: a dark pool in a cave. water is falling down from above, and a watery figure is rising up from the ripples.] 

#art #original art #inktober #inktober2018 #call to adventure