So, for ArtFight this year I had a "Design A Demigod" section to help me get the designs for these 500+ campers I've been working on to flesh out the camp population throughout canon, and to my delight, I got thirteen* designs out of it, which I am very grateful for! I've now managed to give all of those kids their own icons in my own style (and assigning them their names and/or beads where necessary), and am now showing them off because these original designs were all amazing!
*I can count, I promise - one of these was given to me outside of ArtFight, because this is not a thing that is limited to ArtFight and more info about the project will be at the bottom of this post if anyone's interested!
The kids shown here are...
Top row, left - Maria Waltz, daughter of Terpsichore. Original design by @worlds-oldest-teenager
Top row, middle - Penelope Oswald, daughter of Morpheus. Original design by @kitsartblog
Top row, right - Chimere Neal, daughter of Hypnos. Original design by @txny-dragon
Second row, left - Enya Tolliver, daughter of Hephaestus. Original design by @saszor
Second row, middle - Rhys Garcia, [unclaimed] child of Aphrodite. Original design by @choconoru
Second row, right - Oli Blair, son of Athena. Original design by @paradisepudding
Third row, left - Aidan McKinney, son of Hephaestus. Original design by @paradisepudding
Third row, middle - Sirius Blecher, child of Hephaestus. Original design by Inkandquill150 [Instagram/ArtFight]
Third row, right - Naomi Rose, daughter of Aphrodite. Original design by LovelyNight [ArtFight]
Fourth row, left - Kei Winship, child of Dionysus. Original design by callie0hpee [DeviantArt/ArtFight]
Fourth row, middle - Emily Brown, daughter of Eris. Original design by acrophyll [ArtFight]
Fourth row, right - Georgie Bond, daughter of Demeter. Original design by @krystalguitarthemums
Bottom row, left - Aoife Kearney, daughter of Ares. Original design by @austinwehaveaproblem
Bottom row, right - Grace Faraday, daughter of Athena. Original design by @austinwehaveaproblem
So what is this project?
Basically, I'm populating the entirety of the camp from 1998 through to 2020 for fic reasons. I've worked out all the kids' names, parentages and camp dates, and have opened the floor for people to help come up with visual designs for all of these kids. If there's any general interest on tumblr, I'll put up details of what I'm looking for later.
Europe (yur·uhp) is an exotic peninsula in the extreme westernmost reaches of Asia with many fascinating cultures and landscapes and home to many of the world's last remaining feudal kingdoms, offering a glimpse back into a more simplistic way of living.
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Favourite colour: Everything! All! All colours are beautiful
Last song I listened to: Clair de lune
Currently reading: The three body problem
Currently watching: Dungeon Meshiii and Dead boy detective
Coffee or Tea: Love both but I consume a heck of a lot of coffee.
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Favourite Colour: Blue and purple, any and all shades, but I do like the darker ones!
Last Song: Best Day Of My Life by American Authors
Currently Reading: Nothing at the moment (I just got done with my last book) but I am looking to buy the Maze Runner books!
Currently Watching: The Social Dilemma on Netflix, really interesting documentary about social media in society!
Currently Craving: Hmmm onion rings
Coffee or Tea: Never been much of a fan of coffee, but I love tea! Perfect drink to get me in a writing mood!
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Jesus of nazareth - smash or pass?
I'm catholic 🥺
Happy APAHM and here’s a poem comic about my experiences being trans and Chinese I did in three days for my English class!
"bluntly honest" autism but in the sense that i absolutely cannot refrain from complimenting strangers if i like their earrings or their shirt or i think they have a friendly-sounding laugh or i think their art is beautiful or i think the fic they wrote portrays the characters so well. "bluntly honest" doesn't have to mean "mean". i love to tell people things that are kind and also true.
I hate the “Thoreau’s mom did his laundry” criticism so much, it drives me crazy.
Henry Thoreau did not go to Walden Pond because he thought it would be a fun adventure. He went into the woods because he was deeply depressed and burnt out. He was running from the horror of his brother and best friend recently dying in his arms, and the haunting memory of causing the Fairhaven Bay fire. His friend Ellery Channing literally gave him the ultimatum of either taking some time off to write and think, or else be institutionalized.
I think Thoreau’s mother saw her depressed son choosing to retreat into a small cabin in the woods, and was worried about him. Of course she did his laundry - just as Ralph Waldo Emerson probably brought him firewood and bread. These were not chores of obligation to support a “great” man, but services of love to help their deeply depressed 28yo son and friend.
And if you ask me, there’s a lesson in that - to “suck out the marrow of life” and “live deliberately,” one must also accept help offered from the people in your life who love you. There is no true transcendentalism or individualism without love and friendship behind it.
"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.
You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.