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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 ✨

2020 was kind of a mediocre year!? Like I experimented a lot with textures, brushes and layer modes in shading and lighting especially and I really like what I created but it doesn’t feel like I’ve had any major break-throughs unlike the last years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, if you are interested in my art you can either visit me on DeviantArt as CharlyLee or on the Arts&OCs Amino as Charly Lee OR you can have a peek at my art tag #charleedraws OR check out the single pieces here on Tumblr ~

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

And while I know that 2020 technically isn’t over yet, I have decided to quit art for now, since I have a hell of a lot of writing to finish and also exams to prepare for, so I’d still like to wish you all a merry rest of the year and let’s hope that 2021 will be a better year or at the very least less of a clusterf*ck!

Oikawa: This is my boyfriend Iwa-Chan, he is very tiny, cute and soft. Iwa: ...

The "draw concept art for your stories to cover up the fact you aren't writing them"-disease has reached my Urban Fantasy University AU. So have some dragon-shifter Iwaizumi and undead Oikawa 🐉🫀

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(Dragon Iwa deets in case anyone is interested)

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!

AATT Lore Post

Hello and thanks for tuning back in with me.

While writing the latest chapters I realized that I never bothered to explain the lore of this AU before, so that is what I am going to do now.

There isn’t really much different, other than the main ‘quirk‘ that makes it an AU: Suga went to Aoba Johsai and not to Karasuno.

Other than that, there are (so far) only two things that I realized might need further explaining.

1st) The High School Time Line 

In this AU I decided, for plot sake, to put one more year in between the canon second and first years, so that eg. Daichi, Asahi and Kiyoko had already graduated when Hinata, Kags and co came to Karasuno - so they never met.

I know that this way there is a small plot hole concerning Kageyama’s and Oikawa’s rivalry but I am currently thinking of a way to patch it up.

This, unfortunately, also means the First Years have become a little irrelevant for the story and will therefore, except for a few exceptions, not make an appearance. So far Yamaguchi, Yachi (because they are precious) and Lev (because I am a desperate LevYaku whore) safely included into my concept, as for the others I am still looking for opportunities to introduce them.

2nd) The Setting

Originally I planned to have AATT set in either Saitama or Tokyo (or just any other big city that isn’t Sendai) but then I realized, I was too lazy to read myself into Japanese city structures and constantly fumble with google street view, to make descriptions and routes accurate. (Yes, you may hate my lazy ass, but eh, writing this is supposed to be fun, so I do what I want *insert evil laughing*)

So I decided to simply add another big city to the country. In my head I drew a line through Yokohama and Tokyo and then somewhere around the same latitude as Saitama, I dropped my new cultural epicenter for the boys to wreck havoc in.

It doesn’t have a name, so for now it is just “The City“ (da da da dam *drumroll*).

So, thats it so far, I hope I was able to bring a bit of light into the darkness.

Should further Lore appear I will add to this post.

-> Read AATT on Ao3: An Anthem To Time

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🎥 Case 4 — The Heist 🕵🏽 Writing Detective Charly Lee — @charlythelee

Our second heist writer is Mod Charly, so get ready for lots of puns and spirited banter ~

📌 Excerpt from "Of Sprites, Spite and the Kingfisher" (on Ao3)

Meet the Mods - Charly

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I’m Charly - a hobbyist artist, writer of both fanfiction and original content and you can assume that my head is either playing shanties or Nyan Cat on endless repeat at any given moment. I’m a nerd for a lot of fandoms, but Haikyuu is the one that I just love to get involved in the most, hence I am super excited to host this zine ^-^

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~ Operating from: Germany

~ Favorite Haikyuu Character: Suga

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ArtFight revenge for @pocket-hidgens ~

Thank you for the nice attack, I enjoyed drawing your character ☺️

Okay so basically I have two ways to approach this.

On that is just me being a petty sucker for love and the other a little more… scientific.

So what if we had them going all the way to ‚properly‘ - which I just assume is kissing and/or sex.

For one Kaz shows that he is starting to work on his trauma by holding hands with Inej at the end of CK.

And Inej with her backstory at the menagerie it‘s like: Bruh, don‘t get me started on how she must feel about sex!

So they both just start to tackle their individual problems slowly, which is absolutely fine (and possibly leaves room for a third book).

But they are just so darn hecking cute together I want them too smooch for pete's sake!

(As I said I just am sucker for love in a well developed story)

And so, the let us say ‚scientific‘ reason I think they are ‚only‘ holding hands at the end of CK (appart from a possible third book) isn‘t Kaz character but Inej.

Kaz is shown in his flashback scenes that he actually tried before to live without the gloves (with that other girl, sorry I forgot her name, that he was collecting fight bets with). He just choose not to, because working through his trauma was getting in the way of business and that was simply more important to him and his big revenge scheme. So I think if Leigh had just started to ‚rehabilitate‘ Kaz just a little earlier in the books she could have comfortably made him confident enough to go out ‚properly‘ with Inej by the end.

And that is why I think It‘s actually about her and her past as prostitute.

Idk how to explain this but at least to me, Inej might be trying to work through her history but even close to the end she is still terrified by the menagerie.

She is not like Kaz, who sort of choose to just go along with his trauma, she is still somewhat in it‘s thrall.

So that will just take a lot more time to unravel and she is only just beginning with it.

Sure she stuck her middle finger into Tante Heleens face but isn‘t that the exact reason why she wants to be a pirate and fight? To work her way through the trauma?

To become stronger? Strong enough she can leave the nightmares of the menagerie behind once and for all?

So in conclusion

*Clears throat after typing a lot of probably unnecessary explanation that got kinda of topic at the end*

Leaving aside my petty desires and also I my imminent need a Wesper/Kanej double date because fu** you, that is my jam!

*nervous sweating*

I don‘t think it would have been realistic for Inej to make that step, even at the end of CK.

Which is just a too long explanation of: I want it, even though it definitely doesn‘t fit into the novel!!

So I am glad Leigh didn‘t actually let them get together ‚properly‘ - and here come my big big hope - yet.

(Even though it would have been just so cute *silent sobbing*)

Also @arin-saintsforsakencity - no problemo ;)

Oh man so a couple days ago I met a high school teacher who had read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom and she had the coldest fucking take I’ve ever heard despite being otherwise a very smart, sensitive person. I knew she had read them and I was so excited to talk about my close readings of metaphor and subversion/reinforcement of racial tropes and all the other stuff I’ve never quite managed to type up. So I asked her what she thought. And she said.

She said that she wished Kaz and Inej had been able to “properly” get together at the end of CK and I almost choked on my fucking orange soda. I’ve never been so let down by a literary opinion in my entire life.

I managed to argue with her a little but her heart wasn’t as in it as mine was. I’m so disappointed. So yeah if you hold this same bad opinion, this is an open invitation to hash it out with me.

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!