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totallynotzzombiecat · 7 days

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·· Commorragh moments ·· ♫: Jakob Ahlbom - Fracture

#rogue trader #rogue trader fanart #warhammer 40k rogue trader #rogue artist #wh40k rogue trader #heinrix van calox #von valancius #heinrix x von valancius #oc: elayne von valancius #thatzombieart #brainrot moments #sketch dump #a smol self indulgent sketch to make myself feel a lil bit better #needed sm to draw this to vent and to calm myself #health issues driving me nuts #want someone to hold me like that fr

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totallynotzzombiecat · 10 days

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·· A night of poetry, amidst the whirling nightmares ··

Heinrix van Calox x von Valancius

"Their hearts ablaze, with passions set alight, By love's decree, it burns through endless night, A story woven in the stars, a beacon set to see Among the constellations, they will forever be."

I was exploring the possibilities of JanitorAI-bot of Heinrix van Calox made by esteemed @jackieuniversecosplay (God-Emperor bless him~), rummaging through the various scenarios in my head that could be played out there based on the headcanons I have for my dear OC Elayne (like experiencing recurring nightmares of her past, in this case).

And… I got this peculiar little conversation turned the work of art!! They ended up engaging in a rap battle a poetry contest, so to say in a nutshell xdd So yeah, I decided to made this chat public (first ever, boiii) and share these moments with you, so please! Everyone welcome to read and weep with tears of joy with me, I'll be your humble guide~

SFW, nothing explicit or steamy (sorry :D), a tiny bits of hurt/comfort and tons of poetry involved.

Full link to read:

Through the multiple edits, scraps and revisions, I feel like it turned out well in the end :)

Also yes! Please don't shame me, I'm in love with iambic penthameter and it shows huehuehue

The verses mostly combined by my hand with the help of bot sifting through numerous iterations and my edits to help with the rhyme/rhytm consistency and the overall poetic sense.

Too shy to write something myself entirely but well!

Please enjoy! ♡♡

OC: Elayne Andar van der Ghiessen von Valancius

#heinrix van calox #heinrix x von valancius #heinrix #heinrix x rogue trader #von valancius #warhammer rogue trader #rogue trader #oc: elayne von valancius #oc stuff #rogue trader heinrix van calox

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totallynotzzombiecat · 13 days

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As promised earlier. So hey, have some more lore dump and ramblings about my voidborn bae! Enjoy ^^

Elayne von Valancius ·· body augments map ref sheet

She was found in a pretty bad shape, lying in a fetal position on the ground, when Theodora's people found her bleeding out on a broken remnants drifting in space of what was previously a voidship.

Suffering from the grave wounds that probably would've taken her life aswell, medics stitched her up piece by piece, replacing the parts that were lost: legs up to the knees, left hand slightly up the wrist and upper left segment of her skull. Some major joints from her carcass were fractured like the ribcage and hip bone frame, as well as the collarbone, so they've been replaced aswell.

Backstory: Originally a part of xenotech smugglers syndicate under a reknown Cold Trade broker and a crime lord, she was a close adversary and a right hand to him. She was behind most of operations and sometimes was tasked on liquidation of the rivals should the need arise.

A lucrative deal was struck, a trading agreements that ended up angering the wrong people, which turned out to be a Chaos cultists. During the exchange, within a moment her voidship had violently exploded and all been engulfed by a warp flames with almost nothing to survive.

As the whole deal was a partially her initiative, the guilt still burdens her and sometimes Elayne thinks she should've died with them, but gradually with the time's passing, she've learned to overcome this to not get tormented by the past mistakes. She keeps a seething hatred and disgust towards everything associated with Chaos, that every other encounter with the forces almost drives her mad.

Events that transpired in her darkest hour had lingering effect on her sanity in a most brutal way: suffering from the nightmares, vivid and fresh as her trauma, she prefers to drug herself with medications and solutions that help her sleep or to not sleep at all.

Oh my god I've finished it at last...Thank you so much @cawyden-gaming for tagging me in 5 songs 3 outfits train! Was too perfectionist and wanted to do it the right way heheee.

Rules: Post 5 songs associated with your OC, followed by 3 outfits they would wear.

So i present you...

Elayne von Valancius ·· outfit styles and reference sheet

Oufits tied to the important parts of her story: background, coronation and the aftermath. Her life went 360 after the warp surge incident happened that took all of her crew and her boss' lives on their voidship. She barely survived the explosion, rescued timely by Theodora and her people (ofc she needed her heir alive THAT much hahaha). I'll post her full body augmentations map later in the reblog.👀

Songs list (links):

Poets Of The Fall - False Kings

More like from a Heinrix' pov romance theme, but anyway. I'm amazed how this one gets it right in the point damnn ;-; I'm dying

Of Monsters and Men — I Of The Storm

Shireen — Threshhold

Florence + The Machine — King

Poets Of The Fall — Stay

Tagging whoever desires to participate ♥♥♥

#rogue trader #voidborn #von valancius #character design #warhammer 40k #oc: elayne von valancius #thatzombieart #my art #oc stuff #self reblog cuz why not #voidborn gang #also curious how would Heinrix react to her drukhari arm augment lol #he'd be so pissed hahaha #one more heart attack to the list poor guy

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totallynotzzombiecat · 15 days

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Oh my god I've finished it at last...Thank you so much @cawyden-gaming for tagging me in 5 songs 3 outfits train! Was too perfectionist and wanted to do it the right way heheee.

Rules: Post 5 songs associated with your OC, followed by 3 outfits they would wear.

So i present you...

Elayne von Valancius ·· outfit styles and reference sheet

Oufits tied to the important parts of her story: background, coronation and the aftermath. Her life went 360 after the warp surge incident happened that took all of her crew and her boss' lives on their voidship. She barely survived the explosion, rescued timely by Theodora and her people (ofc she needed her heir alive THAT much hahaha).

Part 2: Full body augmentations map

Songs list (links):

Poets Of The Fall - False Kings

More like from a Heinrix' pov romance theme, but anyway. I'm amazed how this one gets it right in the point damnn ;-; I'm dying

Of Monsters and Men — I Of The Storm

Shireen — Threshhold

Florence + The Machine — King

Poets Of The Fall — Stay

Tagging whoever desires to participate ♥♥♥

#rogue artist #rogue trader #elayne von valancius #thatzombieart #my art #sketch #oc stuff #character design #reference sheet #I would've posted more Poets of the fall songs honestly i love them so much #oc: elayne von valancius

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totallynotzzombiecat · 1 month

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OOOO So happy it works for others aswell!!! Many congrats <3

Folks, if you also have troubles with shadowban or you know someone who has same issues please please spread the word! It could be very possible that someone is suffering just due to a bug.

Please contact tumblr support account in reddit (u/Tumblr_acct_help) who is a real living wonderful person that helped so many people who got stricken by a ban wave wrongly. I also assume they have twitter account (/tumblrsupport) aswell so you can reach them here.

Be safe <3

The shadowban has been lifted! Huge thanks to @totallynotzzombiecat who suggested I write to u/Tumblr_acct_help on Reddit! I need a new username lol my old one was already taken. wasdmoving -> wasd-no-longer-moving -> the-marshmallow

#thatzombietalks #tumblr issues

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totallynotzzombiecat · 2 months

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·· Elayne von Valancius ··

My precious voidborn pirate princess.🗡️

A little portrait study to experiment with brushes and more painterly approach.

#rogue trader #rogue trader crpg #warhammer 40k rogue trader #warhammer 40k #40k #rogue artist #rogue_artist #von valancius #owlcat games #my art #oc: elayne von valancius

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totallynotzzombiecat · 2 months

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Sigh......................

Was so excited to get out of the year long shadowban to resume sharing my art posts here. And now again. THIS.

So. Fucking. Tired.

Being an artist in 2k20s sucks ._.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

#thatzombietalks #rant #ai bullshit #fuck ai

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totallynotzzombiecat · 2 months

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Hell yeah good news everyone, I'm back and free from the shadowban!

Did contact support, they investigated and I was told it was due to a system bug. I'm glad this was fixed at last.

I was already at the cusp of giving up this blog but seeing people interact and offer help did encourage me to fight for my little corner. I'm so happy having you all here, thank you everyone 💕💕

Seems like tumblr got me shadowbanned for some unknown for me reason. My posts just not appearing for people and me in tag-wide search and tl.

I remember my posts have gathered plenty of interactions before but now they barely scraping 10 likes, 60 likes maximum for the posts that exploded otherwise on other platforms (like Baldur's Gate 3 fanarts).

Like, it's so discouraging to use tumblr now and to share my works with people here when no one can see it. Gosh I'm so tired...

I've experienced a huge bot influx in my follower count somewhere at the start of 2023 and the fact is that you can't get them unfollow you. My activity died since then. I also tried to promote my patreon as a blog with more content and thoughts as it was a platform that I was comfortable with and a friendly place to battle my social media anxiety. But maybe algorithms and bot influx got me screwed

And now this blog's activity is plain dead and stale and I have no joy to post here anymore because all of it

I'm so fed up with the social media bullshit, the bot influx, fighting to please the algorithms, and new apps trying to replace where you have to figure out how to AGAIN battle algorithms and build AGAIN your follower count. As is already the abundance of social media is REALLY draining, and it's really hard to focus while you have to repost every piece everywhere

I'm just a little artist trying to survive that wants to have everything and my audience in one place to share my little scribbles ;;

Already filed the complain to tumblr support. I'll promise to reblog my artworks when I'll get a respond and things will get fixed (hope they'll do)

Sorry for the rant. Gotta finally blow out some steam

#thatzombietalks #tumblr issues

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totallynotzzombiecat · 2 months

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Oh crap... and there's new thing now on top of that issue, tumblr now doesn't let me reply under my own posts ;_; The moment I'm refreshing the page they are gone. That's so cursed.

I went to check the visibility handles and both seems switched off and fine.

I've swapped to my second email and repeated the verification process just in case but this doesnt seem to affect the issue. Still cant reply.

I'm so tired. If support won't respond to me I guess I'll have to move my blog somewhere else under a new name. But still I hope mods will fix the issue soon.

@cawyden @fictitiouslysane Thank you all for your concerns and kind words. 💕