#mbb2024

"The skull-splitting blare of trumpets – loud enough to shake the earth, to fill the entire universe. Arthur flinches, the breath punched from his chest, as the King materialises. He drifts above them, his massive crown blotting out the sky, flowing robes of silk and gold rippling out from his body like water as he begins his graceful descent. His face is inscrutable, incomprehensible, his unmoving gaze locked with John’s."

Illustration for The Essence of a Soul by Calamitatum (@calamitxtum on tumblr) featuring a deliciously twisted nightmare scene!

Please check out the fic! It is a beautiful and viscerally written study of John's psyche after accidentally taken over Arthur's entire body, leaving nothing of him behind after stumbling into a ritual site.... So it is up to John alone to get Arthur back!

Thank you so much to @malevolentbigbang for organizing the event! It was a great time!

I am also thankful for my fellow artists in this fic: @physical-manifestation-of-spite and @marimo-art

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[ID: Colored illustration of Arthur walking through the cavern, as a shadow (John) emanates from him, separating from Arthur.]

I had the pleasure of drawing these illustrations for my first Malevolent Big Bang with the company of @Samantha_g14 (on twitter), the fic, written by Hazel (@hazelnutchai), inspired on the Orpheus and Eurydice legend, you can find it here:

go read @shadowy-dumbo-octopus fic, posi is such a wonderful writer, come cry with us on this 100k journey

I made my first animation for this!! its on chapter 22 :D

[ID: A gif of john hunched over a sink looking into a mirror. he shuts his many eyes to will his monstrous features away leaving him looking like a man. they quickly reappear and the gif loops.]

Spoilers: all of the artists on our team came together to do a big collab for the epilog and aaaaa it looks so good!

@pikachic did the sketch, @michaelshelley36 did the line art, @chaocorvus colored, and I did the shading!

[ID: A digital drawing of Arthur and John sitting at a piano. John has both hands resting on the keys, and Arthur has his right hand on the keys and his left hand resting on John’s right hand. Arthur is wearing a button up shirt, a waistcoat, and a tie, and John is wearing a shirt, a waistcoat, a suit jacket, and large dangling earrings. They are looking at each other fondly. In the background is every scene from the epilogue, separated by golden cracks reminiscent of kintsugi.]

Its posting day for @malevolentbigbang !

I had a pleasure to work with @toastydumpster, @aktrashpanda on a brilliant fic by @tallangrycockatiel . Check everything and everyone out, it is amazing!

"Is that– me?" he asked, awed by the imposing impression – and even moreso by the comforting familiarity of it. "As near an approximation that can be made by mortal hands,"

Second illustration for Quid Pro Quo in which Larson introduces Yellow to what his former glory looks like (approximately).

This was a ton of fun. I particularly enjoyed figuring out the background and integrating it well, and I am happy with how it has turned out.

Thank you to @malevolentbigbang

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Check out:

The dance scene (ft. frittypabbles) || Arrogant little gnat

It's time for Malevolent big bang!!!!! I was chuffed as hell to be matched with @fangirlshipper's fic, Are You Still Afraid of Nothing?, which is set during the gang's 13th century jaunt. So of course my heart said to make bas reliefs inspired by Medieval carvings.

I also had the pleasure of working with artists @luckychinacat, @wizzabethgray, and livielightyear, go check out their rad work (and also just look at all the art and writing in the big bang tag because it knocks my fucking socks off wtf)

My piece for this year's @malevolentbigbang ! I was paired with my writer @jaegereska for their lovely fic A Light in the Darkness which is now up and readable on Ao3! This piece was inspired by the descriptions in the fic, as well as some motifs inspired by the Archangels. If you can spot them that's great ;) Tumblr's quality absolutely BUTCHERed it so hopefully the details are still visible. If not a higher quality image is HERE.

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Here are the pieces I made for this year's @malevolentbigbang~

They belong to the fic And I Will Always Be Hungry by @croik

A big shout out to @chuckableimp, who was my art bud for this event and who made a deliciously disturbing piece as a companion for this story, too~ (cw for gore, eye trauma and body horror)

It was lovely participating on this event, and I cannot express just how good this fic is, folks pls go read it and go bask in Scrimshaw's art gogogogogo \ò w ó/ Note: the comic posted here is a censored version. The original version is posted on my AO3, and it's the same one which is embedded in the fic.

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[First image ID: A wide profile view of the King in Yellow's throne room. The room is in shadows, and there are weird architecture elements in the background. On the right of the scene, the King in Yellow is sitting on his throne, in darkness. On the left side brightness and light particles are pouring in through a door, outlining a very, very tiny humanoid figure with large horns and a veil. The whole image is done in scales of yellow, brown and black. /End ID]

[Second image ID: A five-panel comic, with the first and fifth panels spanning the width of the page and the middle three panels side-by-side between the first and last panel. The first panel shows Larson, a humanoid man. He is mostly nude save for a sheer loincloth, and has pearlescent skin, with legs that transform into golden roots at the ankles and large golden antlers with a golden veil attached to them coming out of the top of his head. Instead of eyes, there is gold pouring out of his eye sockets, which carved grooves in his face, and drips down his chest. He is standing in a doorway with a grand, powerful pose and a smug smile as he says, "Your Majesty."

The second, third, and fourth panels are close-ups of Larson's eyes. A hole progressively opens in the gold throughout the three panels, akin to a pupil forming.