space forest

say nice shit about their art. fangirl about it, compliment the art fundamentals or the vibe or the color whatever. share their posts online

it used to be so easy to create an art community online in the past and now it's hellish. fight the algorithms. spam your friends art. they will either rlly appreciate the attention or straight up need it.

theres something slightly heartbreaking about the thought that the people around you don't care about your creations. by all means, you should create art for yourself but also, sometimes that art is a direct window into your inner world and when friends and loved ones ignore that it can sting pretty bad

Sea Trek: Deep Sea Nine

After the island of Bajor throws off its Dutch occupiers, a small force of Siennese troops move into an offshore fortress to keep an eye on things. But before they are unpacked, a supernatural maelstrom opens up offshore that connects to the ocean on the far side of the planet, and Bajor abruptly becomes the hottest piece of real estate in the world! And not just pineapples will come through – a new enemy worse than anything Bajor has ever seen waits on the far side, deep in the abyss.

Beniamino Sevieri: A traumatized but passionate commander, whose hopes of having a quiet life on DS9 are thwarted when the Bajorans declare him their Emissary. (Have you ever actually tried to sit down and describe Sisko in just a couple adjectives? It’s not easy.)

Jacopo Sevieri: Beniamino’s son, an aspiring scribe.

Kira Nerys: A former member of the Bajoran Resistance, now Sevieri’s second-in-command, who is wary of the Siennese presence.

Odo: Like Squidward, Odo is a benthic cephalopod who merges his tentacles into a pair of legs to walk like a humanoid.

Miles O’Brien: pain and suffering incarnate

Bashir Julani: A brilliant young doctor from the Mamluk Sultanate.

Cork: A greedy, devious, and untrustworthy sea goblin who operates a seedy wine-den.

Jacinth: A member of the Witches of Troy, a cult founded by Cassandra that are able to move their minds between bodies.

Worf: A reserved, socially awkward, unintentionally intimidating great white shark with a heart of gold.

Admiral de Cloet: The commander of the Dutch occupation, who shows back up now and again to make life difficult.

Elias Gerritsen: The last Dutchman left on DS9, a tailor.

Keiko: O’Brien’s wife, who is fascinated by the unique flora of Bajor and teaches some of the children on the island.

Nog and Rom: Cork’s nephew and brother, respectively an ambitious cadet-in-training and a jumpy schlemiel.

Weyoun: Jeffrey Combs

Gowron: Leader of the Shark Empire, a bigeye thresher.

Martok: A respected shark general.

I have to say, Lord Occtis Tachonis has an incredible aesthetic. This style is so new to me but I had the best time drawing it! (Round of applause for the 1-2-THREE RIBCAGES I HAVE LEARNED TO DRAW, pls 💀).

Part 1/14 of my @critical_role Campaign 4 series! Inspired by the Dragon Age tarot cards. Occtis has been an absolute delight this campaign I totally get why he’s a fan favorite. 🖤💜💚

Now, I’m not following the official tarot decks, but for funsies which Major Arcana do you reckon he’d be?

Wick knows his family is doing terrible things and hurting people; he hates his grandmother for doing these things and keeping him in the dark about them while smothering him in conditional affection to keep him compliant, but he still thinks there's good things in his family that are worth preserving. You can see this when he encounters his mother Iris and his brother Lioran again. He clearly loves them both dearly, even though Iris was not only an active participant but the architect of him being kept in the dark about the Creed. Seeing them again was a bright spot in an otherwise extremely tense and fraught homecoming for Wick, because even as he's realizing what harms his family is causing both to the world and to him, he still cares about these people.

Much the same can be said of Occtis. As horribly as he was treated by his entirely family and in spite of the fact that one of his own brothers killed him on his father's orders, he's still holding out hope that if he can talk to one of his siblings he can get them on his side. He read Petra and Ryah's letter and interpreted their reticence to rush ahead with Deva Vindicta ritual as them not wanting him killed. In spite of having just been in a fight where he was trying to kill him Occtis still took a moment to create a memorial for Frons. He repeatedly (though to no avail) asked Julien to spare Koral. When Julien asked as part of that exchange how he can still possibly extend any trust to any member of his family after what they did to him his answer was that they're his family. Despite everything that's enough for him to still have some faith in them.

There's also Vaelus and her complicated relationship with Sylandri. As much as she has stated that she hopes she can maybe bring her back it's clear it's less for the sake of having her goddess back, as she admits to Hannan that she hasn't prayed to her in a long time and quite readily hears him out and agrees with him about Sylandri hating the elves underneath her purported love for them, and more because her life with Sylandri is inexorably tied up in the things she does want back. Her memories of living in service to Sylandri are happy despite the limits and control (as seen in her memory of Sylandri refusing magic to Arthas for swearing) because her family is there. The world without Sylandri is also one in which she found herself utterly alone, in particular it should be noted that the death of Sylandri and the death of her sister Maywyn were near simultaneous. She's never known a world without Sylandri but with her family. She wants the happy life she knew with them back, and as Sylandri is a part of that, she considers bringing her back too. That life wasn't freedom and as she eventually agrees with Hannan about, was in many ways not her own, but it had something she has been grieving for 70 years, so it's little wonder part of her thinks that maybe that was better.

There's also something to be said about the orcs' ultimate decision to bless the Conqueror. He ruled and enslaved them with an iron fist and used them as fodder in his endless wars with his siblings, but when the orcs finally won their rebellion and their freedom and one of Azgra's war priests demanded a farramh for him, it was not only granted but granted easily. Agari Shadow, who lead the rite and was not only an orc but an orcish druid (and thusly a member of a people who were harmed by Azgra across multiple axes) said nothing could be easier than giving a blessing for the Conqueror, and lead a blessing that while it did not forgive him, acknowledged who he was to the orcs and how that effected who they became, and that who they became was ultimately what they are celebrating now.