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                   elle days // courier six        the five of clubs — fortuna, victoire,                            lord of strife

fortune favors those who engage, warning of strife, victory through effort and struggle, delay but not defeat, competition, change, disruption, love, sweetness, affection, restlessness, uncertainty

alt link for high res (in case tumblr fucks it up)

ooh, me next, me next!!

aka, joining the playing card trend started by @atomsace ~ (and a special ty to @uptownlowdown for immediately jumping on me and encouraging me to try it, @omkdear for enduring me babbling about every little step of progress i made LOL, and @nowhereman313 for the A++ suggestions along the way)

i haven't decided if i'm going to do any other of my OCs, but i am, like, SO ridiculously happy with how this came out. i was worried because i couldn't find any art that worked for elle, even with editing on the table, so i ended up deciding to use elle's face claim, kiko mizuhara, and leap into the deep end with photo editing instead. i have zero regrets!!!

sources, original pics, and pre-card elle edit under the cut~

and so my new save begins...

and maul is immediately off being... himself, and without me having to tell him to do anything. so naturally, i had to get some pics

maul: /ranting and raving in a dead language savage: 🧍‍♂️

taffy's graphics commissions — NOW OPEN !

hey y'all, it's time for a new round of commissions~

i'm offering two categories — moodboards and graphic editing!

moodboards can be about anything: your blorbos, your ships, your favorite canon, your fanfic or original story... hell, i've done boards for favorite pokemon. pricing starts at $25, and if you'd like me to collect all the images from scratch, that'll be an extra +$10!

graphic editing is a lot more open-ended. whether it's an RP promo, a fun canon-based card, a collage, headers, banners, desktop wallpapers, etc. etc.... if you can think of it, i'll see if i can whip something up for it! pricing starts at $50, because it's a more intensive and lengthy process than moodboarding.

if you'd like more examples of what i can do, check out my taffymake tag!

payments will be handled through ko-fi or paypal, and tips are always welcome but not expected. <3

so i was reading the comics tonight and i just.

(sorry i don't feel like messing with gifmaking tonight but i just... i had to...)

if you haven't read darth maul: death sentence yet, please do, it's so much fun. they really rolled around in giving him so many fun expressions. and also situations that are only funny if you're audience-side, because they're zero percent funny for the characters themselves...

the ballad of elle douglas

written by @okayinthewasteland

Between her military service and her complex family life, Elle Douglas found herself almost uniquely qualified to survive in The Commonwealth’s wasteland - at least as far as Vault 111 residents went. Now, almost a full year after rising from cryogenic stasis and the horror that befell her young family as a result of the war, Elle finds herself on the verge of breaching The Institute and changing her entire life yet again. The Brotherhood of Steel is beginning to disintegrate around her. As a result, Elle is forced to make choices she never thought she'd make, pursue opportunities she never thought she'd have, and maybe even fall in love with a man who she never thought she would.

nick valentine / georgia ambrose — winter's grip

by @omkdear

what if everything around you         isn't quite as it seems? what if all the world you used to know         is an elaborate dream? and if you look at your reflection,         is that all you want it to be? what if you could look right through the cracks? would you find yourself —                          find yourself afraid to see?

Before the world ends, it frays.

In 2075 Boston, Operation Winter's End should have been a clean strike at a dirty man. Instead, ADA Georgia Ambrose and Detective Nick Valentine walk straight into a knot of missing evidence, stalled warrants, and federal backing that looks a lot more like a setup than support.

The deeper they go, the less the case looks like justice—and the more it looks like a system already rotting through to the frame. Somewhere in that wreckage, Georgia and Nick start circling each other in ways neither of them should.

Winter's Grip is the first year of the unraveling: the deaths, the betrayals, and the fault lines that won't stop spreading.

maul - wallpapers - star wars: the clone wars (s7 e10): the phantom apprentice

screencaps from cap-that

hiiiii, maul lovers. it looks like i'm starting to reach the point of "guess i'll MAKE IT MYSELF" 😅 so. we're starting with some wallpapers. phantom apprentice is probably my favorite in the tail end of the series, so today i finally broke down, found a screencap site, and grabbed these fav frames. eventually, i'll get around to making my own caps, and then we'll ALL be in trouble, but i keep forgetting to grab the series off the media drive...

anyway. all i've done to these is some color and lighting fiddling and a touch of sharpening. his eyes got some special attention though because. well. the "glowing big cat" look makes me completely feral 😂 the second row has two options with a slight variation, because i couldn't decide how bright i wanted them to be

everyone enjoy! if you want to use them for icons or something, go ahead, but if you want to use them for any further editing, credit me here at this blog!!

Original Character Selection ...

it occurred to me i haven't properly introduced my OCs on this blog yet. and, sure, i could reuse stuff i've made before for my RP blogs... or... i could take the opportunity to make some fun stuff for myself (instead of for work or volunteering) for the first time in ages...

so here's a quick intro to my crew -- including elle's fallout 4 AU, which my fic series is centered on, and my non-protagonist-role OCs. now i finally feel like i can reblog ask memes and point people towards this post for options 😅 and, of course, if anyone ever has burning questions about any of them, you don't have to wait for an ask meme. feel free to shoot 'em into my inbox any time!

since i'm going to be pinning this post, here are also some quick links for blog navigation: