Some Doodles Of Mandrake With My Epic Oc Mariam, Should Do Doodles Of Her Along With Backstory For Her

@chaetocercus has been enlightened me about marsupials and Soundwave w/ his little family and I can’t help but love it a lot 🦘 it’s very cute but also very cool considering how funky marsupials are! Also consider exhibit A: red kangaroo does (females) are also called blue-flyers because of their coloring! Blue mamas that are very jacked 😌 it’s only the best for them (also, apparently drawing kangaroos is fun, they have a fun shape to them)

Late Birthday drawing for @oldmagerambles of our illagers, also first drawing to this blog!

Can you guys pretty please do me a favor and vote for Adoroza in the Sanrio Ranking for me please please I want to see more merch of her that I can actually buy and I’m so obsessed with her aesthetic and the lore of her being born in an egg in a lab. She deserves to hang with Kuromi as mutual goth queens

Do you think “Moon Sailor” was a bit, on the nose?

it was intended to be! i made the pilot while keeping in mind that the magical girl genre is actually somewhat niche

i wanted to make sure people like my parents or my girlfriend's law school peers or people who don't watch anime at all could easily follow and understand what's going on. if i asked my parents to name a magical girl anime, they'd be like "what is that" but if i asked them what sailor moon was, they'd be like "oh yeah i've seen those characters before!" sailor moon undoubtedly iconic and people IMMEDIATELY know what it is upon hearing it. "moon sailor" is VERY OBVIOUSLY a parody of that so it's easy to get in that one second of time i have before moving on.

the tricky thing about doing a pilot is the setup and the trickier thing about doing a SUBVERSIVE pilot is that you have to set up what you're subverting on top of everything else. that's why zira's dialogue and language is also a bit expository and on the nose during the "gasp" part. there are people watching who don't know the magical girl genre and its tropes! like how is someone supposed to know that aika anticlimactically poofing into her magical form was a joke if they didn't even know that a magical girl transformation was SUPPOSED to happen? i thought i spelled out hoshi's whole thing pretty well or didn't really need to go that into it but i saw a lot of people confused about what they were and why they were there at all (until zira tells us that they're a magical mascot).

back to "moon sailor," it's a silly one off joke meant to quickly signal to the audience that zira likes manga/anime and the magical girl genre specifically as well as circumvent copyright. i also personally just like on the nose bits hahaha. like on big city greens whenever we parody a brand we usually just put a "B" in front of it. one of my favorite being "blego blocks"

this turned into unsolicited writing advice and definitely more than what you asked for but i hope its helpful to anyone out there looking to make their own shows!! clarity, spelling stuff out and sometimes handholding is important especially in a pilot. even though it can feel stilted sometimes, it's better than completely losing your audience or leaving them with questions. but now that the pilot's done it's job, any following episodes i might make will be unburdened by too much expository language haha

Golems And Summons

"There will always be a distinct difference between sentience, and subordinance, one thinks and chooses to do as it does, while the other is challenged, ordered, to do an only purpose.-" -Nadalia Dunes

(yes even the bluff is here)

The constructs of all dimensions.

Golem: "a construct made with soul source."

Golems are made of a small source of soul and constructed in a physical body of varying material. Being embued with soul, the golem in question is given the ability to think, to feel.

The more soul a golem is given, the more it's able to communicate, adapt, and thrive. for example if a golem is not given enough soul source, it will act akin to a child, while a golem with a high amount of soul source, it will be connected to the soul it imbues, taking on traits and even a voice if it lives long enough.

"-With these differences however, my son, they both share one factor, the unmovable loyalty that comes with the construction of a golem." -Nadalia Dunes

On unfortunate but bittersweet circumstances, a golem may lose it's creator, but will grow and in turn embody the creator in personality. and may even take on a nomadic life, living as another being in the according dimension. it will make a name, a life, find love, but will never die. it cannot die, for it is not alive to begin with.

Beings of Unlimited Power but Limited Choices.

Such beings are a marvel to see in the wild, like an bluff or a breeze, but to see a summon appear infront of your eyes can be a whole new form of experience. depending on the element you wish for your summon to embody, it will await one command, and it will never stray of it's path.

(yes born in chaos is in this world >:3)

Allays are one of the only summons that have no known creator, ledgend says that they were made by the hosts themselves, to inspire and give hope to all who see their visage. Though in a mysterious form of spite, the spell that the Umevande made was to go against the very nature of the allay, becoming a vessel of discord and destruction known as a Vex.

Vexes and Allays are tricky in nature, but one seeks to do more harm then good.. on the behalf of the vex's summoner.

QnA

Q: Can i be a golem? A: yes!

Q: Is there a modpack for this lore? A: YES me and my gf play on it every so often

Q: Can i play the modpack A: yes! i will share it soon (it would be cool if you used the tag #Stavusstrand)

Hey! Unsure if requests are still open but...

Stimboard for Mandrake from Epic (2013), mayhaps?

(I don't know what to add in terms of aesthetics, but as one says "The strongest thing imaginable is the imagination", so do whatever seems to fit...)

yes yes YESS i love this movie!! thank you for requesting!

Mandrake

🐦‍⬛ | 🪱 | 🪰

🥀 | 🌑 | 🌫️

🪳 | 🏹 | 🦇

Thank you so for the food, that fic was so cute! This grumpy warlord man being the biggest softy for his partner fills me with much joy

- bug dilf enjoyer anon

Of course!! I love writing for the destruction-happy dad!! 😁😁😁😁

Little headcanon as a treat 🤭

Mandrake would keep you holed up in Wrathwood, where you’d be safe and sound and always under constant protection, if he could. But there is something so attractive about you being able to fight and hold your own. Expect him to be very handsy and affectionate, especially if you save his ass, on the battlefield. That wont stop him from chastising you though. Ignore how hot his face is, he WILL nag at you about coming to his aid while trying to bandage either your wounds or his own while also trying to keep his hands off of you in front of the soldiers.

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

Me and My Wives

(Just drawing this casually to learn how they do illustration for the characters)