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Crassie was originally a D&D character from around seven months ago who was significantly based off of Hollow Knight (specifically the Hunter), and used to exist in this strange AU I'd made where most creatures were bugs but humans also were a thing, before I decided to make her an actual world. I have an old sketchpage of her not shown here
Heathrow has existed for a week and a half
The Moth of Snakemouth Den, and Bugaria’s Leading Expert in Archaeology
Read the Team Fakemouth swap au by @professorneolith and felt compelled to make this (it's actually relatively short and that blog hasn't been active in a year but idc!!)
(Headcanons, with spoilers:)
- Both moths are the same age as they are in canon, but the whole Snakemouth Lab: Cordyceps Failed Experiment thing happened significantly later, Neo's team is a different, younger one than canon Leif's, and all its members are still alive. (With the technical exception of Neolith.) Leif was never an explorer at any point in time.
- Kabbu got into Bugaria the same way as canon (and never got to enact his revenge on the Beast). Leif was the one who met/helped Kabbu in the Lost Sands this time, and Kabbu and Neo have no relation besides briefly meeting post-Snakemouth in the Outskirts. We don’t actually know anything about Eetl’s backstory but it’s safe to assume it’s the same as canon here.
- Vi ran away to the Wasp Kingdom instead of the Explorer's Association. She was/is general under Hoaxe (I always thought Fuff became general during Vanessa's rule rather than Hoaxe's but I'm not actually sure?), though she's immune to his control.
Not sure how battle would go but I'm assuming that unlike Fuff who's boastful until his backup gets knocked down, Vi's better at combat, underestimated, and too hubristic for teammates.
Going to stop writing now so I can just post this instead of waiting two more days
Attempted to draw some Nosks, but ended up getting sidetracked drawing Caramel's sisters instead so that's the post now
I've been experimenting more with overlays and bright colors
Leif should get to be bright and spiky sometimes. as a treat
Made a winter-themed dragon thing a month ago and forgot to post it because I forgot it was finished
Decided to answer my own question of "how does a person with wings wear clothes" except without taking the easier route of avian/insect wings for once
Am trying to make a Wings of Fire picrew but got caught up in making a new character and designing her mom
I was hurrying so I'm not sure if this is the most accurate representation, but I've joined the summary and here are some of my favorite pieces from 2021!
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Being an idiot on main again
From: @peridots-pixiwolf
To: @mothmanagement
Hive Awakening
so I wrote hive knight fanfiction
(Under the cut, it’s relatively short but I still like it enough to post, takes place post-Embrace the Void)
The Old Light... was fading.
My Queen.
She stood there at a kingdom’s heart, arms crossed in eternal rest. Stood, watching over her beloved Hive just as she had been since...
She had been there for far too long. Uncountable days, him staring up at her in wonder, him reporting whatever notable feat had been accomplished (of which there weren't many, the bees were tense and more restless than ever, though the stasis Hallownest has fallen into in recent times impacted even the ones who wished separation from it), holding one claw raised in a salute as if nothing had changed, him resting by her side and wondering when her dreamless sleep would end...
But the golden heresy seeping into the corners of his mind and vision had left him.
And his thoughts were only his own again, whispers of forgotten light gone now and forever, and he'd had to admit it. The Queen... Queen Vespa, the one he had waited to protect for so long, it was all for nothing, for she was dead.
Some part of him knew. The same part that had already given up. But he wouldn't, not when he and his kin were dependent on her return. Not when there was a threat to their colony, a pale little wanderer bearing a silvered nail…
He hadn't heard from it in some time. It held no significance now.
With her unmoving form revealed a corpse, the Knight of the Hive couldn't bring himself to stay any longer. It'd be some form of torture, keeping the reminder of his failure fresh in his mind.
He needed to leave.
How could he? That would be the most selfish thing he'd ever done, leaving the Hive in disarray without their most skilled knight to figure out what in the Queen's name they were supposed to do now. He was her protector, though almost equally her second-hand. Every worker had their own part to play in keeping their Hive strong (though it was easy enough to hide from a citizen of Hallownest, it was obvious to those who shared his blood that his duty was not one of a drone), and the Hivelings were content with carrying out short tasks while the rank of a Soldier or Guardian called for their unwavering loyalty, defense for their weaker kin. The Hive Knight was Queen Vespa's closest thing to a diplomat. He wasn't occupied with anything other than the promise of cutting down any foe who'd dare to hurt their dear Queen, leaving him free to be granted the highest honor of the more important work, that which concerned Vespa herself.
The thought of him now being...possibly the most important living bee in the Hive by any standard at all was one that hurt almost physically, seemed to leave a pain in his thorax to wonder, considering what he had to lose.
The most important...
Queen Vespa could produce no more heirs, a fact that should go without saying as of her status. New adults were emerging slower than ever, and the number of eggs was gradually dwindling as more were raised to replace them.
A Queen, in her youth, is no different than a worker. A royal diet is all she needs.
If the Hive were to survive, a new queen must save them.
The Knight sat up. He offered one last, pained and prolonged goodbye to the Queen he'd been willing to lay down his life for.
It had been a while since he'd left her chamber. Longer than usual by...what must've been a few days, a few weeks even, he couldn't judge. The warmth and droning buzz of his sisters' wings comforted him, calmed his tumultuous mind. A Hiveling quickly accompanied him, brushing her soft setae against his own, smelling of honey and... and lacking something else.
The orange haze seemed to have lifted.
The radiant sickly-sweetness of Hallownest's blight no longer bombarded his senses upon his departure from the Heart of the Hive, leaving only traces of what once was.
He whispered a command to the Hiveling, who drew her antennae down in a brief nod, before taking off.
Perhaps the Hive would be alright without him.
Perhaps, he would wander. He would return to serve the new Queen, wouldn't he? The Knight's allegiance lasted longer than the reign of one ruler.
Perhaps Vespa was wrong, and the Hive would not be killed so quickly.
I was messing around with doodles that don't fit my artstyle
Had fun and liked how they turned out :D
Gave my somewhat-old Hollow Knight OCs a new ref
Since all the text on that is annoying to list in alt text, or if my handwriting is too hard to read, here it is below instead (paraphrased/edited a bit):
To the right of Hawksbeard reads “Hawksbeard, he/him, Grasshopper, Mosskin”, text to the right of Molini is “Molini, she/her, Millipede”, and to the left of Caramel reads “Caramel, she/her, Carpenter Bee”. Hawksbeard’s section notes that both his fluff and mask are removable though he never takes off his mask, he can jump absurdly high (around eight times his height), he always spends his time alone by experimenting, recording, or collecting, and he lives in Kingdom’s Edge. Molini’s section notes that her face is in fact an actual face and not a mask, her eyes glow, she lost the left arm on her third non-head segment down, and she lives in the Ancient Basin. Caramel’s section notes that her wings are frayed, she can take her mask off but also usually doesn’t, she earned the mantis claw from a Traitor Hunt with her sisters and has been fighting with it since, and she lives in the Queen’s Gardens.
Was drawing a thing with Tiso, stopped myself multiple times from inserting more Real Bug Anatomy than was necessary, so I started drawing a different Thing With Tiso. I did plan on doing more once finished but didn't have the inspiration, so take a dude with more realistic insect anatomy than he normally has
- Horns (spirally/twisted flat horns especially, as of late)
- Insect-like antennae/antennae-adjacent structures
- Long, expressive ears
- Dragons, but mammals and/or with fur (and one or more rows of scales centralized along the back)
- Long tails or insect abdomens
- Six limbs (middle pair often more resembles the front pair. used to be centaurs but now just four-armed creatures ig)
- Wings (usually insectoid, draconic or feathered)
- Insect-looking mandibles but they’re actually just modified teeth (likened to tusks)
- Five digits, opposable thumbs able to grasp stuff (to some extent) with sometimes paw-like feet
- Long necks
- Ocelli/smaller eyes that act like eyebrows
- Long canine teeth, four canines and eight incisors like humans (rest of the dental formula does not matter)
Some of the creature design tropes I always find myself circling back to are:
whiskers/barbels
birds with ears
toed hooves
long torso/ bi-to-quad movement
parrot, because i think their skull is freaky
small.
and more??
What traits do you folks find yourselves adding to a lot of your creatures?
Drew this with the eight true gods of Myrialore (the area which MM/Mostly Mollusk takes place in, encompassing Taranoake, Citadell, Kelsik, Renin and Anemone Reef among others) to figure out their personalities and relationships a bit more
(It is Very Messy but I don't care :D)
Interestingly, the new flower god (Solif) is the only one not native to Myrialore and was instead created through the collective belief mostly of bees, wasps, beetles and assorted colonies further inland.
Both of my mad scientist characters, but drawn as the video game characters they were most inspired by (Ne'Mon as Monomon and Tawny-Buzzard as Doctor H.B)
Forgot about this
I'm planning to do three fake-screenshot-like drawings of gameplay swaps (HK played like BFTES, as shown here, BFTES like UT [probably Kabbu facing off solo against the Beast] and UT like HK [Frisk against Asgore]) because...why not?
I will ~definitely edit this later~ partly because of the pretty obvious difference in the background and not-background (caused by me not knowing exactly what parts of the art style will stay the same?)
a preview featuring a Shiny Boi because idk, I just like how the shading came out
I was going to wait to take a better picture (and probably will update with a better picture) hence me not posting earlier, but it was my first time carving a pumpkin two days ago (with two of my friends who also like hk) and I'm pretty proud of it
The last three currently (also tags cropped from the previous post) (also I forgot to actually label them lol so here are Descriptions)
Part 6A :
-Ven (with and without mask)
-The OG Drawing (currently Lumi is the only one with a character description, however short it is. Also features pretty much Monomon and the White Lady but as cnidarians)
-Tan
-Pando*
-the Cast Shell Pit/Pando's Tree*
-The Agora*
-Just some lettuce slugs*
-Kritto, Gorge, Rantan, and Lidii (clockwise from top)
-Those four again and Ceras
Part 6B :
-Sketchpage of mostly Rantan but also featuring Lidii, Kritto, Gorge and the Arbiter
-Azent, Monti and Kee (featuring Ceras and Machula)
-Ghost (hm wonder what two characters I could have possibly based them on)
-Ne'Mon
-Left-to-right in top-down rows, Bidibi, Pard, Cranton, Claws, Machula, Nell, Quinn, Carmine and Kalanchoe (but in bug form), Blue-Gills, Tawny-Buzzard, Dune, Allibel
-Ganellak
-Left to right, the Champions Tenaram, Amarmallus and Magtauran
-Allibel and Sepinti
Part 6C :
-Cren, Terret, and Aphids (x2)
-Body language (mostly shown using antennae and mandibles and sometimes the white pseudo-pupils)
Part 5 - Part 6A Here - Part 7
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The second 10 below
Part 5 - Part 6A Here - Part 7
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Part 5 - Part 6A Here - Part 6B (Reblog) - Part 6C (Double Reblog) - Part 7
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Apparently this will have Several Parts Then
An updated design for my main sona because Things
Presenting: Shiny Dragons
(It's kinda long [though not nearly as long as my other worldbuilding projects], so I'll put it under a readmore just incase)
Description:
Springdragons -- Polyceros jubatus
Origin: World with Earth biology
Mammalian dragons descended from carnivorans whose caste system favors perceived beauty.
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The main factors:
-Shiny, bright(ly colored) scales / matte or dull, brown or otherwise colorless scales (most important)
-Multiple long and smooth, spirally curled horns / one or less pairs of short, straight or bent horns
-Long, bright or rich manes / short and very dull manes
-Striking patches of differently colored fur or skin / monochromatic fuzz
-Long top canines (usually visible when mouth is closed) / short teeth
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Minor beauty traits in Springdragons:
-Multicolored scales, horns, and/or manes
-Long eyelashes
-More scales (e.g. extra scales in places they aren't usually, and the scale-border pushing farther down the head, neck and stomach)
-Longer and thinner ears and general face shapes
-Shiny horns
-Brightly colored irises
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Families of Springdragons are very large and those of dulls can consist of up to around a hundred members (though most are closer to 80). Bright families are smaller, with around 50 each, and the Queenscrown family is the only long-existing family with under 20 members. Families are grouped based on characteristics, such as Aryxes and Jakenses having six or four horns, respectively, Valenses having the characteristic heart-shaped scale above their snout, and Markhors having rough curled horns, though some do not possess these traits as they are not directly related, sometimes partners or adoptive children of ones in the family. The major traits of different families are often not mutually exclusive, allowing many dragons the choice to join either/any of their parent families.
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(The following lists the characteristics of the pictured families.)
-Brights-
Queenscrowns: Green scales and mane. Exceed all the primary four Bright characteristics and have most of the minor traits expected of the upper castes.
Aryxes: Six horns and checkered scales.
Banis: Long feather-like scales, curled horns, and longer-than-average canines.
Stellenes: Pastel scales and four horns.
Razzes: Bright electric manes, very pale fur and six horns (though the first pair is greatly reduced).
Willohs: Long, thinly striped manes, light fur and relatively straight horns.
Valenses: Dark fur with the first scale on the snout being heart-shaped, banded horns.
Theriises: Short horns and long curled canines.
Jakenses: Fiery colored with four horns and longer-than-average front teeth.
Markhors: Relatively dull, with rough, curled horns and extra scales above the ears.
-Dulls-
Trias: No horns, stripelike scales and skin pattern.
Silzens: Pale fur, long straight horns, dull purplish scales.
Taruses: Horns bent upwards at the end, dark fur with white patches and dark scales.
Plintis: Thin horns pointing straight up, short faces.
Fenzis: Colorless scales and fur, short horns.
Ineshias: Long manes and horns, warmly colored scales.
Vesvens: Long, fluffy, fur and manes, small horns.
Choccens: Branched horns, dark scales.
Mowsens: Dull scales speckled with brighter colors.
Siufals: Fur between bluish-green scales, flat heads.
Cennis: No manes, large teeth.
Bovsis: Horns bent sideways, short curled manes.
Enkels: Short and dark horns, with paler fur and scales.
I have made my own October drawing prompt for the fun of it (mostly for my own use but it's free to use of course) (inspired by bugs and some typical Spooktober things :>)
Wait I did plan to post pre-Tumblr art, and this wouldn't require much explanation (much less specifically relating to worldbuilding) so here we are:
(here are a few of my Art Fight attacks from this year--particularly the ones I like the most)
Isla! (If you've been on the WoF Fanon wiki in the past year, there's a great chance you've seen her)
Hydrophiinae (named after the sea snake subfamily! cool :>)
(ah yes... Lexi, the sona of the person who is my Art Rival (self-proclaimed))
Winterberry! (revenge for the awesome drawing someone did of one of my own sonas)
Well they all happen to be dragons which is not unexpected of me