#lief rambles

I just want to properly and officially announce that yes! I am working on a comic about Phoebus and Amyclae!

It's name is *not* The Golden Boy, Sitting in the Sun (that's the name of chapter 1 of act 1. Yes I am wordy).

The name (as of current and if I do not decide to suddenly change it in the next few months) is - Earthbound Sun!

This will be the horror drama thriller of my dreams hehe. Though the focus will be on Phoebus (and Amyclae) I intend for this to also explore my wider world and all the other charachters that inhabit it.

We are in it for the long haul guys this comic is going to take me years to finish... (there's going to be an ancient greek flashback at some point hehe)

The current timeline is for me to start rolling pages out before the end of the year! It'll be available to read on Webtoon (and possibly Tapas), I intend to make a website to host it eventually (I love comic websites, call out to that era of our internet history!)

The synopsis for Act 1 is as follows:

Phoebus is researcher working for the GBSA, a normal guy living a normal life. His normality hits a hitch however when he is suddenly called to do an autopsy and gets involved in a series of strange murders. Meanwhile he meets and get to know a florist he meets in front of a cemetery.

Little did he know that these two things are more intertwined than he thought.

Hyacinthus and Amyclae visual comparions :D yes the ressurection has sucked the saturation outta him

Apollon! (ie, baby Phoebus :D) He never had a human body so he kinda just, took someone elses... :3

On the left is Daphne! Yes she's blind (and also chronically ill).

On the right is, who's this I wonder? 🤭

Some recent sketches from the depth of my mine…

I`m alive! Life has just been a lot, as usual but I’m getting through it.

Some updates:

+ moved out recently! Never realised what getting my own actual space does for my mental house my apartment is a mess but it’s mine!!! I’m still in the middle of decorating it and getting it all set up, I’m not staying here that long since I’m moving back to Australia before the end of the year but until then this shall be my humble abode.

+ work has been as usual, I think I’ve reached a spot (or rather realised) that I have experience in teaching now and am not just a floundering newbie. It’s kinda surreal to realise how far I have come in the past year.

+ I went to Beijing last last week for the universal resort collab with genshin and it was very fun.

+ my contract finished end of July which means after I shall officially be free! I plan to dedicate all my time after to drawing and making stuff, very excited.

+ which means the comic telling the story of Phoebus and Amyclae will be coming out sometime this year! It shall be a coloured comic in a page by page format. I’m planning to release it in regular chunks but as I intend to finish most of act 1 before that happens, y’all are going to have to wait. Please look forward to when Earthbound Sun can finally be shared with the world :D

+ there are people I owe things to, you know who you are, please know that I still remember and those promises will be delivered…

I drew it like August? earlier or later last year, and I just keep getting notifs for it. Its by far my most popular post, even in that era when I was drawing a bunch of ToA/PJO and general Apollo related greek mythology (which has a much wider reach as compared to my current basically ocs hyapollo) this one fecking post just blew up insanely.

It's not like I hate it or anything, or that I'm unappreciative of all the attention. It's just as I'm working on my current stuff, with all my heart, the constant notif on this old art while my newer pieces get left on the way side, its very annoying.

Not really anything I could do about it, since despite it being better metrics and everything wise I don't have plans going back to focusing on drawing ToA/PJO or even general Greek mythology stuff (not to say I won't).

Anyway here's the play list if U want to get whiplash of what their dynamic is like

... Yeah working on a new fic 🫠

This one is so toxic unhealthy codependent relationship its not even funny.

So if Hyacinthus is the beast, then it could be set during one of Apollo's force mortality stints. He comes across the empty city of Sparta that had *smth* happen to it but he doesn't remember cause he wasn't paying attention. It's sole living occupant he soon finds out is the prince turned monster fiercely defending his home. And also that the entire city's occupants have been turned into inanimate objects.

The story then becomes Apollo coaxing the prince out of his shell and determined to break curse. Yadah yadah yadah love story ya know

If Apollo was the beast, it would still be during one of his mortal stints, except not human. He's lonely and trapped and fuming and smashed like 20 lyres already. Hyacinthus, lost as he is (and injured) comes upon Apollo and despite initial reservations and aggressions, decides to befriend the guy while he heals (Apollo's still a healer even if he's an angry healer)

The eyes observed him, each gaze holding him in place, he try to meet their gaze but he could not, there were far too many for his brain to even comprehend. With each second it took more and more to just realise he was looking at *something* and not just the lights underneath his closed eyelids, his sense felt like they were being stripped away, till all that remain was the awareness of being watched, observed.

Like the lone tight rope walker beneath a harsh stage light , like an insect pinned ready to be examined, like a lone boat drifting above the deepest blues- he was spellbound, held in place by something he could not name.

He should be afraid, any normal person would, a mind numbing fear at trying to comprehend something existing beyond human understanding. But he didn't need to understand whats beyond, the truth for him was simple.

He was in love, and he was very much enjoying being the sole occupier of his beloved's attention, no matter in which form it came.'

Forgot I wrote this