Local big sister experiences emotions, more at 6
Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.
The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!
She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.
These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!
This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.
ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos
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breaking badifies them. happy pride motng
au elaboration under cut
this is just copypasted from twt i forgot to post yetsterday
I imagine that the Dirkjake dynamic would be down on his luck partyboy and the estranged high school friend that coerced him into a drug dealing operation. For reasons he refuses to elaborate on. Jake doesn't really want to be cooking meth but he needs the cash and sees Dirk as the one stable thing in his life really. Dirk really needs a partner and an in to the business and is most of the brains behind the operation.
Dirk is also doing a fair bit of posturing to keep them both safe but Jake... hooo Jake. Dear whining Jake will become a loose cannon when it counts. The power balance would fluctuate alluringly.
To be honest I imagine their dynamic would be much closer to a hypothetical high school au turned drug-dealing and wouldn't be much like Walter and Jesse. Wanna think there would be a happy ending but realistically they'd sink into their worst traits & probably end up in a saw trap by the end of it. I wanna imagine most plot beats still happen... gf dies... "gale" dies... Codependent yaoi and corruption arc flourishes.
I imagine Dirk's wardrobe would start to resemble more and more of Bro's and some of his personality might too. But I also don't think he'd go as far or be as bad as Walter, since here there's a care and concern for Jake as more than a pawn and stand-in (aka the Walter special). Damage would still be done though. The love didn't save anyone etc etc.
Bro and Grandpa would have a dynamic MUCH closer to the s1/2 duo. Devil-may-care stoner and the guy who needs cash FAST and doesn't have time for this shit. I dont think Bro has the tender heart Jesse but he definitely develops some terrible loyalty complex regardless. Honestly have a LOT less idea how their story would go so I'm all ears
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[ID: A digital greyscale sketch of Alice Dyer and Sam Khalid from The Magnus Protocol. Alice is tall and thin with shoulder-length curly hair, and Sam is shorter and fat with neat, short hair and glasses. They are posing together for a photo, Alice grinning and Sam giving a tight-lipped smile, each with an arm around the other. Text at the bottom reads “Alice & Sam” in all-caps. End ID.]
omg guys she speaks highly of him,,,
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question abt editor’s note: does Aziraphale know Crowley is queer? he seemed very hesitant in regards to Crowley writing a main queer love story, and ik that’s partly because a genre shift like that ended up being a bunch of extra work for Aziraphale, but i also wonder if there’s a little bit of “oh god i hope this ‘straight’ man doesn’t fuck this up”
i’m rlly enjoying Crowley’s level of obliviousness in this fic and it’s making me think of all sorts of potential theories as to how things look from Aziraphale’s perspective, and if he’s just as oblivious or not. either way i rlly love this fic and i’m excited to see the next chapter (tho dont pressure yourself to write if the words just Aren’t Working!!)
i’m sososo happy eeeee that you’re enjoying it so much!! thank you!! i’m having a blast with this one, it’s just as much fun as vamp au but in a totally different way
to half answer your question about what aziraphale knows: we finally get a bit of aziraphale POV in chapter 4 :3 so you’ll find out EXACTLY what he’s thinking, and gain some perspective on everything we’ve only seen from crowley’s POV so far
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Remember how I said I might turn that horror Rayman art into an actual Infection AU? Here it iiiiiiiisssssssss~~
Designs maaaaaay change, but I'm sticking with these for now.
There's a plot for this, so I'm going to give a quick synopsis for it.
"The heart of the world has corrupted, Polokus has become inactive, and a deadly infection has run rampant. It is altering the lums of the world, making them sick. Many have taken matters into their own hands, while many of the Glade's heros have fallen ill to the sickness. There is no clear solution, but many have a feeling that a certain missing nymph may have the answer. Polokus needs his muse back; they just need to find her."
That's enough to not be too spoilery. More to come tho :)
[TW: BODY HORROR, CREEPY THING]
Progress and Rayman stuff under cut:
The infection impacts thingamajigs differently from other creatures of the Glade. Most being (dream and nightmare) turn to mossy stone statues. Others, like the nymphs, are conditionally immune.
Thingamajigs however...
Yeaaaaaaah. Not the best look bro. He needs a snickers.
Also, @rainbow-wolf120 🙄🙄
I'm open to any questions people might have as long as they aren't too spoilerly lol.
Have a lovely day fellas.
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