#dev pitch

ICARUS sparkles at the VMAs!

Nabbing moonmen for everything from Best Song to Best Group, ICARUS's many trophies were far from the only bling on stage last night. The band illuminated the red carpet, rocking knight-core like you've never seen before!

Find a closer look at each outfit below the cut.

i do not regret you

band au / exes au / social au

feat. deniall x snowbaz x kerixie

a @mooncello and @monbons collab with special guests @whatevertheweather, @artsyunderstudy & @emeryhall

Eighteen months after leaving his former band—the globally famous ICARUS—Niall Connelly returns to music, with a new sound and new music partner. His best friend and ICARUS guitarist, Baz Pitch, immediately supports him. His shiny new bandmate, Simon Snow, is an unknown and mesmerizing talent. His fans are obsessed. And his ex, Dev Pitch, the frontman and lead vocalist of ICARUS, has a million unanswered questions ... and he's also still stupidly, entirely, helplessly in love.

part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5

part 6 part 7 part 8 part 9 part 10

part 11 part 12 part 13 part 14 part 15

part 16 part 17 part 18 part 19, part 20

part 21, part 22 part 23 part 24 part 25

part 26 part 27 part 28 part 29 part 30

part 31 part 32 part 33 part 34 part 35

part 36 part 37 part 38 part 39 part 40

accessible version available on ao3.

bonus features:

🎧 fic playlists

💿 band discographies

🧵 fiber art

🤘 Rolling Stone cover story

🪽 ICARUS origin story

*Aiden, Dev, and Niall, circa Chapter 1 of "More Than a Footnote"

I was so excited to get Heath for this year's Snowflake Exchange! Not only are they a dear friend, but they're also one of my favorite writers. This felt serendipitous, honestly, because I'd been wanting to draw these three since early in July, and had been sitting on this image of them in my head for months. Truly, there are so many juicy, gorgeous scenes to choose from in this fic, but I wanted to include Aiden, because I love him too.

So, Heath, I know you didn't ask for fanart of your Dev and Niall, but I hope you don't mind it XD More Than a Footnote has become one of my favorite fics of all time, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take one of the images your prose put into my head and bring it to two-dimensional life.

This piece holds the record for digital painting I’ve spent the most time on, just 20 minutes shy of 50 hours! It definitely felt longer, somehow😅 i practically painted the whole background with the knowledge that i would blur it in the end. I felt if i didn’t draw it all, the blur would look incredibly unrealistic and weird.

Jenny and I talked extensively about how the composition should look. Or rather, originally i wanted to fit all 5 people from the scene into the drawing, but just couldn’t not make it work. Jenny was incredibly nice and flexible, and told me that i didn’t need to, since Baz looking at Simon was the important part. Thats how we ended up with this composition

We also talked about how we wanted to represent the bonus content room, and settled on drawing inspirations from long exposure photography. I tried my best to get the effect via combining procreates different blurring options, using a bit of perspective blur and motion blur. Perspective blur was used to keep Simon’s face as a sort of focal point in the blurring, making sure his face was still intelligible. Im not quite sure i actually managed to make the blurring look specifically like long exposure photography though😬 maybe in the future if i get to draw something like this again, i might try some different methods!

Im incredibly happy i could be part of Carry On Big Bang this year! Ever since i read the books in November 2021, I saw fics written for the project and thought it was the coolest thing. Since i adore this project so, i knew i had to give it my everything (something my mother was really unhappy about. At the same time i was in this project, i was chosen for a project to illustrate one of many stories for a book about loneliness, one that would be published, which my mother thought i should prioritize and basically shit on this project🙄 safe to say i didnt agree. In the end i managed both. Take that mother.) (although i did actually put way more time into COBB whoops… but the carry on fandom deserves it)

“I can’t wait to take off this disguise and see your real eyes again.” I murmur into Niall’s ear, tips already red.

“We're late—the ship, your—” He's squirming. Adorable.

From the side of my eye, Baz walks past us with a half-naked man. That's what he's into these days? “Baz?”

His whole body goes stiff upon recognition. Caught him. 

Seeing as I have my knee in between my aide's thighs while in disguise, I suppose it's the alternative: he caught me. 

Without reply, he pulls the half-naked bloke away. “Was that your lover? Ouch! Hey, I'm not judging—Ouch!”

wanted to challenge myself to draw something bouncy and dynamic without a reference and accidentally defenstrated my anatomy lol

Thank you for the tags @monbons! And to @brilla-brilla-estrellita and @you-remind-me-of-the-babe for the tags on Wednesday. I’ve given up on ever being able to not describe a week as having been crazy busy, but I will say every time I get a tag I’m startled that it’s Wednesday/Sunday already. This year has gone so fast!

Anyway, I do have a little to share from my COBB with @rimeswithpurple, whose artwork is currently the wallpaper for both my phone and my ipad. I’ll add that the character in next chapter’s banner is just so cute I can’t get over it. Here’s a little Dev POV from Baz’s shop:

“I’m stressed,” I say, pointing to the word calming on the label.

The git actually rolls his eyes at me. “For skin. It’s calming for your skin,” he says, snatching the bottle up. “Like, redness? Irritation?”

“If it calms irritants, maybe you should put some on,” I reply coolly, leaning back in the large window seat at the front of the shop and crossing my arms. “Go on, Neal. Slather your whole self in it.”

Shepard sucks in a breath but Gareth snickers. Good man. I slide my eyes toward where Baz is perusing some book at the register, either accounting for inventory or reviewing a recipe, I can’t be sure.

“My name is Niall,” Niall seethes, his complexion taking on an interesting colour as he looks me up and down. It feels unpleasant, like he’s taking a measurement that’s coming up gravely short. I can’t imagine why, though. I look as good as ever today, in spite of feeling utterly knackered. My hair is shiny and lying perfectly as usual, and I’m wearing skintight leather trousers with a long-sleeved sheer top in a shade of blue that particularly flatters me, unbuttoned down to there. I narrow my eyes at Niall and return the judgement in spades. He looks sickly, and his otherwise lovely thick hair is pulled up into a bun that’s giving grandmotherly vibes. His eyes are a muddy shade of blue that can only mean he’s tried to spell the colour, and I’d bet my left big toe that whatever hue of brown they are in reality would suit him much better.

I also did a little writing (finally!) for The Field Trap, which is a sequel to Field Trip of Dreams. This is Possibelf’s POV :)

Davy doesn’t even look up as they push their way through the line to stand in front of him. “Simon, Basilton,” he says as he checks off their names. “I trust you boys kissed and made up.” If he hears the rest of the class tittering, he gives no indication.

The Pitch boy smirks like the cat who got the cream. “We did indeed, sir,” he replies.

“Good,” Davy says in a tone that implies they should move along and climb aboard the coach, but Simon is clearly building up a head of steam. He’s gone red in the face and although he hasn’t started smoking yet, that’s what’s always next when it comes to Basil. I take a deep breath with the intent to diffuse the situation, but before I can open my mouth, Simon has turned to Basil and taken him by the back of the neck.

baz and his “minions” (they’re his besties honestly) [id under read more]

version w/o filter + redbubble merch!