"You've heard the gist before. Dangerous experiment, dying spider, some poor schlub gets bit and comes down with the weirdest twelve-hour bug of their life, wakes up with superpowers.
Well, mine was a little bit different from the norm. The spider that bit me, well, it wasn't radioactive or genetically engineered, it was charged with a sheer quantity of psychic energy that could have screamed a thought into every mind from Allentown to Montauk, a psi-bomb all in itself wrapped up in a creature with a brain one eight hundred thousandth the size of a human's.
It was the tiny little spider brain that saved me. When the fangs hit my skin, that energy lashed out. Could have reduced all of New York City to a crater, but you can't put a lake through a drinking straw all at once. No, the energy instead earthed itself - not just through me, but into the spider's past, and my past, and even into the branching paths of my future.
For a moment, it was all connected, all laid bare, and then the spider burned itself to a cinder and my brain took a hammerblow that knocked me out on the spot.
When I woke up, I was home. I'd managed to stagger out on autopilot, or something - hell, maybe teleported here, I've never been able to figure that one out. My subconscious spun a psionic web around itself, encased me for a solid twelve hours while my body did its best to tear itself to pieces.
I don't remember much of it. Mostly, I was trying to remember how not to be a spider, drowning in the tiny memories of millions of spiders past, unmoored - the memory of the house helped, I think. Maybe that's where the psychometry comes from, helps ground me into something that's been where it is, being what it's being, for decades or longer.
When I woke up, the cocoon faded. I wasn't dead, and I was starving. Went to grab a leftover burger from the fridge and got a mindful of cow memories... Right up to the slaughterhouse.
That's why I'm mostly vegetarian these days. Figured out how to shield, but that sort of thing leaves a mark. Anyway, what was the question again? Oh, yeah yeah-yeah, mine's the tofu dog, thanks."
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Practicing/Tweaking my Enderman design
Featuring Psyder (a @/cosmic-nopedog OC) & my sona
Returning to a modest ear length
Keeping the "extended" mouth hidden
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The last of the notable ArtFight 2022 attacks. These are ones I really like/I'm really proud of, for varying reasons.
1: Omaira for Sixbane. It's Sixbane, everyone has to attack Sixbane at some point! I love this character design. 5th July, 2022.
2: Psyder for @cosmic-nopedog. I've wanted an excuse to try drawing one of Connor Nopedog's OCs for awhile, and ArtFight gave me the push I needed. This was immensely difficult. I had to make up parts of the design and figure out anatomy that I am very uncomfortable with. So I'm glad I managed to push through. I can see a lot where I could improve, but that's in the past now. 5th July, 2022.
3: Party Rocker for Binghe. This one probably doesn't seem quite that special, but I just really liked making this one. 5th July, 2022.
4: Rogar for Xayazia. I consider this the Magnum Opus of all ArtFight Attacks I made this year. Xayazia made a very beautiful piece of art for me (which is now my desktop background), and has a style far beyond my own range, so I wanted to go all out with this one. The golden veining in the wings was actually a last minute decision, but I think it wouldn't look nearly as great without them. 29th July, 2022.
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MERGLE WHAT IS FAVORITE ACTIVITY -J
I have many favorite things yes yes! naps and snackies and hugs are all nice but I also really like to do magic things with my magic. I can make wings like my bird mom and I can fly and the wind feels so nice and sometimes when I’m a big fluff my moms ride with me too! it makes them happy and so it makes me happy too
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Shhh. They're communicating.
(collab with @noping-out-of-art cuz i like stealing his little doodles and refining them <3)
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I FORGOR IM AN IDIOT UH HERE BAM ART THAT I DID LIKE TWO WEEKS AGO MAYBE MORE IDK WANNA SEE IT WHEN ITS FRESH? CLICK THIS https://patreon.com/ConnorNopedog
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