Once upon a time...

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

the reason I haven’t posted in a while is because I was working on these professor layton tarot cards!! I was reading up about the meanings of the major arcana cards a while back, and I thought it would be fun to make a series of them with layton characters that I thought suited the meanings of the individual cards

I’m actually pretty proud of these?? I tried to step out of my comfort zone, and I worked really hard on them over the course of a month (god it’s weird seeing them all together like this…. this is a lot of drawings)

All of that, and yet, Bronev still cares more about the lost loyalty of his sons.

Okay, so maybe Bronev wasn’t aware that the revered archaeologist ‘Professor Sycamore’ was his eldest son, Hershel Bronev. Maybe he never even saw a photo of Desmond. Maybe he just heard Desmond Sycamore refused to join Targent too many times and ordered his agents to take out Desmond’s family. Maybe Bro even felt a little guilty when he found out afterwards that— whoops— he just approved the execution of his granddaughter and Desmond’s spouse.

Bronev does NOT have that excuse when he threatens Hershel Layton’s parents in the Nest. He knows Hershel Layton is his son… Anyone with half a brain can see how much Hershel resembles Rachel. Bronev’s naive enough to fall for the Azran Legacy but he must know—

After the fall of Azran sanctuary, Bronev informs Hershel that Theodore Bronev is his real name. Hershel dismisses this, but says he hopes they will reunite one day as fellow archaeologist and as friends. 

Bronev does not say a single word of farewell to Emmy. Maybe he’s trying to keep her identity a secret and save her from being arrested too—

No. Emmy’s cover’s already been blown. She’s leaving Layton and London, regardless.

No, Bronev doesn’t even give Emmy one last look. Just like he didn’t look at her when he finally decided to enter the light beams. Because Hershel Layton is there and Bronev’s biological son is far more important to Bronev than the random girl he took in.

It doesn’t matter how much Desmond and Hershel refuse or defy Bronev or outright sabotage his plans. He wants their loyalty, even when he can’t have it. Maybe that’s part of the reason why he’s so obsessed with controlling them.

If he had just forgotten his sons and focussed solely on Emmy… maybe letting her become an archaeologist in her own right, then Bronev wouldn’t have needed Hershel and Desmond. He could’ve understood the Azran Legacy better if he just worked with Emmy… But no.

That’s not to say Bronev never cared about Emmy at all, but he cared more about his sons, even when one despised him and the other had completely forgotten him for thirty years. I want to think this was intentional writing on Level 5’s part but then I see the end credits picture of the Bronev family (Bronev, Rachel, Hershel and Theodore)… and I see the picture of Bronev speaking to a crowd that parallels Hershel lecturing to a crowd.

Professor Layton as onion headlines: part 2

Professor layton as onion headlines: part 4

I saw your animatics on yt (When I Met You is in my playlist because of you btw) and they fueled me through my post-lockdown animatic phase.

I didn't know you were on tumblr, so it took me a while to understand why your art style seemed vaguely familiar when your stuff popped up on my dash.

you're really cool, is all

Your style is so expressive and evocative while retaining everything that makes the characters recognizable and charming, not just in Ave Attorney stuff but in the variety of fandoms for which you illustrate.

I just felt compelled to take a minute to express how wonderful I think your work is!