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And Costis heard, as clearly as he'd heard the king speaking, another voice. It said, "Go to bed." Eugenides the man and Eugenides the God, an illustration of one of my favourite scenes from The King of Attolia! This was my gift for @etoilegarden for the @hamiathesgiftexchange!

#queen's thief #the queen's thief #the king of attolia #Eugenides #and Godgenides as a wonderful commenter said #my art #fanart #I had so much fun working on this one

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So I've been watching Clone Wars for the first time and noticed that the likelihood of Dooku showing up when he threatens to...is very low. Benefits of a hybrid work environment I guess!

#star wars #the clone wars #dooku #count dooku #tcw #my art #fanart

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Hamiathes’s Gift Exchange sign ups are open!

If you've done a Yuletide-style exchange on AO3 before, the process should be similar. If you haven't, have a look at the explanation and examples below, check out the FAQ and rules on AO3 and let me know if you have questions!

Also, please spread the word—the more, the merrier. Both fanfic writers and fanartists are welcome to participate!

The signup link is here!

Quick points:

The tagset is big! Consider taking some time to go through it if you want. @jhawkgirl made a wonderful spreadsheet with all the available tags.

Signups are open until Friday, August 11 @ 8pm ET. See what time that is for you!

You'll need an AO3 account to sign up. You can request one here if you don't already have one. We have some extra codes if the wait list is too long so please ping me if that’s the case! 

Please read the rules before signing up so you know what you're agreeing to do

You can see what other people have requested/offered within the exchange itself, as well as on the AO3 Automagic App. Note that you may have to re-scrape in order to see the most up to date signups.

Check below the “read more” for more info on how signups work, the “optional details” field, and how to submit your Do Not Wants. And as always, please reach out here or in the QT discord if you have questions! 

How signups work:

Each of us will use a form on AO3 to make requests and offers.

You must make at least two requests, each of which specifies a character or from the tag set and indicates that you’re requesting fanfiction, fanart, or both. You may make up to eight requests. Each request can also include optional details about your preferences, ideas for prompts, etc. More about that below. Your assigned writer or artist is responsible for creating a fanwork featuring the character or relationship in any one of your requests.

Offers are simple—you’ll just list the characters, relationships, or worldbuilding elements from the tag set about whom you’re willing to write or illustrate, specifying whether you’re offering fanart, fanfiction, or both

An important note on relationships--if characters are connected by &, this refers to a platonic relationship. If they are connected by an /, this refers to a romantic or sexual relationship. For example, if you want a story or artwork featuring Irene, request Attolia | Irene. If you want a story or artwork featuring Irene and Relius as friends, request Relationship: Attolia | Irene & Relius. If you want a story or artwork featuring Irene and Relius in a non-platonic, request Relationship: Attolia | Irene/Relius.

Optional details:

When you're making requests, it can be helpful to give your author/artist a little more detail than just the characters you're requesting. Remember that your author or artist is only required to create a work featuring your specified characters. If you ask for a specific story prompt or for art in a particular style, they may not be able to meet that request, and they aren't required to. Try not to be too proscriptive here—think of it as a way to explain why you like these characters and why you're interested in getting fanwork about them, and a way to kickstart your author/artist's creativity if they need it.

You can include either a link to a letter hosted on your journal or type directly in the optional details box in the signup form. If you're linking to your journal, please make sure it isn't friends-locked, or your creator won't be able to see it!

Do Not Want list:

If there's anything you specifically don't want to receive in your gift, you can include a Do Not Want (DNW) list in the optional details section. Examples might be things that squick or trigger you or 'ships you aren't interested in. This isn't about making value judgments, just about indicating your comfort level and making this a good experience for everyone.

Authors and artists must respect this list. When you're specifying Do Not Wants, please include them in the optional details text box in your signup, not in the letter, so I as the mod can be aware of them. If they are not in the optional details box, I cannot enforce them.

Examples of DNWs: sexual content, kidfic, violence, character death. Treats

tl;dr: if you're open to receiving gifts, make sure your AO3 is set to receive gifts and consider indicating in your letter/optional details that you're open to receiving treats! In February 2022, AO3 released a new setting that allows users to choose whether or not they can receive extra gifts. If a person has the setting "Allow anyone to gift me works" selected in their preferences, then AO3 users can give extra gifts to that person, including Hamiathes's Gift Exchange treats. If this setting is not checked, only a user who has an exchange assignment for that person, or who has claimed their prompts in a prompt meme, can give them gifts.

Because of this setting, we have encouraged people to state in their sign-up or profile page if they're open to treats. Mods can also check who's able to receive treats (especially because users could choose to change this setting during the event). If you're not sure if someone would like treats, you are very welcome to ask the mods.

Please also double-check your own settings if you would like to receive gifts! If you created your account after February 2022, you may need to change your settings from the default.

Happy prompting! 

#I signed up for this! #excited

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My tablet broke a bit over a month ago, and I finally bought a new one. It's coming tomorrow!!

#I got a Huion this time #my broken tablet was a Wacom Cintiq #kind of nervous #very excited

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An icon of my gothic romance mains, Lord Alexander Blythe and Miss Temperance Malenova.

Pose referenced from the film "When a Man Loves" (a snippet of which I couldn't stop watching).

#gothic #gothic romance #temperance #my art #original art #temperance malenova #alexander blythe

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curious about Jarnu and the house 👀

"Jarnu and the house" (working title: Holmwood: A Study of Scarlett) is one of the stories my partner and I are working on together, set in our fantasy world of Ashvatyr. It's a bit of a story within a story. While reading Sherlock Holmes, Francis and I decided the characters in our universe needed their own detective stories to be fans of. Jarnu is a fantasy version of John Watson, and the snippet below shows him unsuccessfully looking for lodgings.

There were twenty-two houses on Cherryhill Lane, twenty-one of which satisfied nearly all of Jarnu's lodging requests.

Numbers 1 through 21 were well-situated and spacious, with square gardens and brightly painted doors. Number 4 was smaller than the rest of course, the paint on 12 was cracked, and 15 sported violet glowing hedges from an overuse of pruning spells. Even so, he could have accepted their deficiencies. 

Jarnu looked down at the paper in his hand, a red circle carefully drawn around "Number Twenty-Two" in the advertisement section. He tapped his walking stick on the ground and trained his eyes on the building in question. A tight budget meant tight compromises when picking a rental but he felt, as any gentleman would agree, there were certain things which could not be borne. 

Number 22 Cherryhill was as well situated as the others he supposed, and spacious. More spacious in fact, as it stretched above the roofs of the other houses, above even the old oak tree by Number 20, and disappeared somewhere in the clouds. It could have been an illusion. Jarnu shielded his eyes from the sun, unable to make out a roof. If so, he personally would've added some illusory flowers to the cracked grey stone, and kept off the red painted  "BEWARE".

#WIP meme #Ashvatyr #Holmwood: A study of Scarlett #replies #gloriousmonsters

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I was tagged by @gloriousmonsters (who is amazing).

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Temperance

Feb 2023 Igneous Heart

Vampire Drabbles 2

Jarnu and the house

Birch short stories

All of these are original projects, and most are in their early stages of writing (with a couple of them only having some exploratory snippets + planning documents). Some of them have related art WIPs so I'll post those too if anyone picks a project with a corresponding drawing!

Tagging @nakimochiku and anyone else who would want to do this. It's been ages since I've done one of these games. I'd love to do more of them, so if you would like to be tagged in future please let me know!

#how do you tag these kind of things? #ask game #wip meme #writing #? #I'll workshop it

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Happy birthday to my sister, Gravity Falls style! Love you lots.

#my art #personal art #Gravity Falls #it's me

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Glam rock Lestat (for that 80s aesthetic). Always pictured him with big curly hair when reading about his rockstar era.

#Lestat de Lioncourt #Interview with the vampire #iwtv #the vampire chronicles #tvc #the vampire Lestat #my art #fanart

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80s glam rock Lestat anyone? Had a lot of fun drawing his rockstar big hair.

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #the vampire chronicles #tvc #I need you all to know I made my partner pose with our swiffer so I could reference

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"There's a ghost at Edevane, one only Temperance can see."

This Valentine's Day, I figured I'd post the first drawing I made of the main characters from "Temperance", my WIP gothic romance novel.

Oh the left, Miss Temperance Malenova, the titular protagonist. With the strange glowing pistol to the right, Lord Alexander Blythe.

I'm working on a proper summary and some more art to share as I continue working on their story.

#gothic #gothic romance #writeblr #temperance #my art #original art #temperance malenova #alexander blythe

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Happy New Year! Here’s a drawing I made of my family for Christmas, in A Song of Ice and Fire inspired clothing.

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #my art #original art #it's me

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I may or may not have bought myself a set of custom fangs, so I made a few changes to an old Halloween icon I drew of myself as vampire

#vampire #halloween #artists on tumblr #my art #original art #it's me

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I drew my friend @pomplanaki's main characters from her upcoming YA novel, "Journey to the Winterlands"! (Which FYI features adventure, friendship, and DINOSAURS, so you should definitely read it when it's out!) Top to bottom, left to right: Entilu, Aaro, Cori, and Saka.

#my art #fanart #book art #journey to the winterlands #pomplanaki #I love these 4

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Group shot of our Lancer RPG MSMC crew. From left to right: Watcher, Shrike, Gemini, and Archmage. (Click to open full size) We named ourselves "The Angel Killers" at the end of our last (for now?) session. This crew has lived rent-free in my mind since we started playing.

#lancer rpg #lancer #ttrpg #tabletop rpg #my art #shrike #watcher #gemini #archmage #original art

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Last members of our MSMC group - my partner's Lancer RPG pilot Gemini! Gemini is made up of Esrin the human and Shadow the NHP. As of more recent game plays, Esrin has moved Shadow's casket into his brain. They are both very happy with this development.

#lancer rpg #lancer #ttrpg #tabletop rpg #my art #original art #esrin #shadow #gemini

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A very self-indulgent Star Wars AU drawing of my partner (the handsome zabrak) and me (a pantoran)! In this AU, Francis is a bartender in for a rebel front and I'm a reporter, looking for stories with my recorder droid co-worker.

I finished this ages ago and forgot to post it here. At this point we've both changed our look and style so much, I need to do another drawing!

#star wars #zabrak #pantoran #my art #original art #fanart #tagging it as both I guess #beloved #I have never in my life attempted a background like this #I should try to draw more backgrounds #it's me