Feel The Wind

Masterpost for my IwaOi centric Haikyu Royalty/Fantasy-AU fanfiction “All the King’s Blades”

-> Read on AO3 HERE

Up Next: Chapter 2 || Status: *I really, really swear I am working on it, okay >.<’’*

The man allowed his eyes to travel across the land unknown to him. The revival of a gifted dynasty, the awakening of an angel, the birth of a healthy demonic halfling and the rising whispers between the trees and the wind. So many centuries after his own kind had been hunted and banished from these lands - Magic was returning to Miyagi. And no one could foresee what would follow it

After their daring coup d'etat and ascending the throne of Aoba Johsai, Iwaizumi believes him and Oikawa deserve a little break. But the universe doesn't seem to be willing to grant them one. From Prince Tobio hitting puberty, a rapidly rising Karasuno and tensions in all of Miyagi, to owls and cats messing with them - and in between trying to stay alive and together, the past is catching up to them.

This fanfiction was inspired by @findingschmomo‘s amazing work “And All the Prince’s Men” and can be considered a continuation of their story, although by now I have fallen so in love with it, I created a whole ton of my own lore around the scenario they created. I highly advise reading their work first, so you know the character dynamic and also because it is freaking amazing, but I guess with a little bit of headwork you don’t necessarily have to.

Additional contents:

Map of Miyagi (+ Continental Lore)

High Council Chambers (Scenery Art) Ten Prayers (Landscape/Scenery Art)

Sanctum of Kings—Temple of Death (Suga + Karasuno lore) The Torch Carrier (more Suga)

Coats of Arms (+ Lore on individual Nations) - Karasuno & Aoba Johsai - Dateko & Shiratorizawa - Nekoma & Fukurodani

Character Designs (+ Lore on Characters and Mythology) - Oikawa & Iwaizumi - Suga & Daichi - Kageyama & Hinata 

Jusssss 👋🏼

Currently fighting my way around a pretty stubborn creativity block - this kind of just…. happened.

Levia vs. the Art Block

-Lv 1 - The Gatekeeper -

Been like forever that i did a traditional piece - also sort of style experiment? Idk anymore

(Pls ignore that hind leg - my little sister barged in while i was lining and i slipped)

Also introducing my second sona Leviathan to Tumblr. She’s my demon and a snarky girl (secretly she just wants to be petted but she’ll chew off your hand in the process)

Art was made by me / Character also belongs to me! Dont use!

On their way home with a nice afternoon snack after a busy day of studying annoying IwaOi 🍕

More UrbanFantasy University AU art, you know the drill >.> This time with wind spirit Hanamaki and half-centaur/half-dullahan Matsun.

[IwaOi]

Just a smal collection on where else you can find my art (and where I post much more - oo)

Arts&Oc Amino as Charly Lee and on DeviantArt as CharlyLee

And just in case someone here wants to have a random chat with a random artist, my Discord is Charly Lee#3029

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I'm an artist who lives in a perverse fantasy with unrealistic expectations

Hi! I know you're very much "in" the zine community (i loved your hqmm zine!) so I had a question that I was wondering if you could answer. on projects where it was a physical zine, how did you order them/manufacture them? because most places refuse to do fanworks. Thank you & have a good day!

Hi there & good day to you too 👋🏼

Firstly, thank you so much for the compliment, I'm really happy you liked the Murder Mystery Zine (it was a really cool project with a lot of amazing people) 💕

I am by no means a big production guru (there are mods out there with years of experience and dozens of projects more than me who really know almost every single manufacturer there is and have tried and compared them all) but I'm always happy to answer zine related questions and help to the best of my knowledge — I'll put the booklet related tips below the cut but if you have any other zine or production questions, please don't hesitate to ask again or DM me ☺️

To answer your question, for physical booklets, I, personally, tend to use Mixam UK, because in my opinion they have the best price/cost relationship (there are certainly manufacturers who deliver a better quality and more paper options, but if you are trying to keep costs low, then Mixam UK does a very good job! You need to pay attention though, because Mixam also has a US site, but I would advise against using them, because they are both more expensive and their quality is at best acceptable and at worst subpar — depending on what size and page count you have it can also be cheaper to order from the UK site with shipping to the US that ordering directly from the US site, so be sure that you are on the right Mixam site. There is also a Canadian & Australian site but I have not yet worked with them so I can't speak to how they compare—as far I remember the hearsay though, they seem to be doing okay) ☺️

I have also been part of 1 zine where the booklet was ordered with PixartPrinting (though not as a moderator), who seem to do great work with their finishing (though that was some years ago and last I checked they don't offer shipping to the US/international anymore, only EU, but you might be able to get more info if you contact customer service). I have also heard good things about Jukeboxprint and Skating Bear (especially if you want things like foil on the cover, etc), but never actually used them myself because from what I hear and the prices that I have been quoted for past projects, you need to reach a high quantity (250 & upwards) for the costs to balance out. Mixam has recently also added foil options but I have not yet tried them so I can't judge their foil work.

All of these have a website where you can order directly, except Skating Bear, who operate via Alibaba.

I have also never heard of any of these manufacturers (or any other) cancel or refuse an order because it was fan work, so not sure where you have that information from 🤔 I have only heard of a single instance where a sticker manufacturer wanted proof that you could use the designs (I guess they became suspicious because the designs had different art styles?) and it was all resolved by the respective merch artists sending them a message that the project had permission to use their designs—as far as I recall this was a very small, local manufacturer though and it was also some years ago. So, if you are trying to print locally and go somewhere in-person, small shops may very well have individual policies on not printing fan works or be more pro-active when checking the designs for originality 🤔

If you had a big/online manufacturer refuse your order because it was fan work though, I would be really curious to hear which company it was, if you don't mind sharing! That could be really helpful information for future and ongoing projects which company to avoid or have a backup plan for.

I think that was it, my 2 cents on making physical zine booklets, and I really hope that it all makes sense and was roughly the information you were hoping for 😅 If there is anything that you are unsure about or want more information on, please don't hesitate to ask or DM me directly 💕

I only got my first 2 zines to completion because I had amazing co-moderators around me giving advice and sharing experiences, so I am always open to passing on that knowledge to others and help them realize their zine ideas ☺️

Still struggling to find a good format for my art summary, I hope I can come up with something more efficient next year.

This year felt so gawd damn long and my creative process was super weird with many, sudden bursts of motivation and then long, long droughts and months where I just barely managed to get any art done at all (no comparison to my absolute writing block though—big oof on that front! Maybe I'll try a writing summary next year to see if that motivates me to make something every month).

Thank you all still for putting up with me again this year ~ you can find all individual pieces and some more in my art tag #charleedraws if you are interested ✨

Guess who had a shite art year? Ironically though I did have my 2nd best ArtFight year with 11 pieces & at least I was marginally more inspired to write than last year.

Thank you all for sticking around, also for the zines, which have arguably been my focus in 2023, so — here's to 2024 ✨

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Icegold - a half feral/half werewolf - belongs to them, the art was made by me, only the two of us may use it in any way!

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This!