talon wings' collection of things

I had the wodnerful privledge of being commissioned by the amazing wonderful beautiful gorgeous @talonwings to draw the gang from her fic, An Approaching Madness,,,,,

Talon i love you forever i WILL strangle you for commissioning me instead of just ASKING-

if you want to commission someone AMAZING then PLEASE check out my pookie wookie bestie Cotton who i love with my whole heart. they did an insane job with the AAM gang ohhhhhh my god i'm losing my MIND. IT'S THEM,,,,

Soooooo, I have been having a blast working on the official designs for the crew of Ghost in the Machine and An Approaching Madness fics that the wonderful @talonwings wrote on Ao3!!!

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist - Wifies (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Avery | AveryTheMayo & Derek Hutchins | d3rLord3 Characters: Avery | AveryTheMayo, Derek Hutchins | d3rLord3, Alex | xALEXTHEDESTROYERx, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: OFFICIAL AAM CAST DESIGNS WHEEEEE, I AM SO SO SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS, character reference sheets, Art Series: Part 5 of Defending A World That Does Exist Summary:

Official character designs/reference sheets for the universe of An Approaching Madness (and its prequel Ghost in the Machine).

I made this piece for chapter 14 of @talonwings 's fic, An Approaching Madness

guys this piece goes with literally my favorite moment in all of AAM and Cotton made this because they were just. inspired. my heart is SO FULL IM CBGJDGJGGD

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist - Wifies (Web Series) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: AveryTheMayo/Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), AveryTheMayo & d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist) Characters: d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), The King In Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), AveryTheMayo (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist) Additional Tags: AveryTheMayo Takes Care Of Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Alive Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Derek | d3rLord3 Has Infinite Knowledge (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Hurt/Comfort, d3rLord3 Has PTSD (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), He/Him Pronouns for AveryTheMayo (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), It/Its Pronouns For The King In Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Protective AveryTheMayo (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), AveryTheMayo Being an Idiot (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), he breaks into derek’s house, That’s it, that’s the fic /j, Thank you to my beta readers, Gore, Blood and Gore, Eldritch Horror, Eldritch, Derek | d3rLord3 is Bad at Feelings (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Derek | d3rLord3 Has Mental Health Issues (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Eldritch Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), No Smut, Literal Sleeping Together

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HEY GANG!!!!! GUESS WHO’S BACK!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist - Wifies (Web Series) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: AveryTheMayo & Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist) Characters: Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), AveryTheMayo (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), The King In Yellow | Hastur (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist) Additional Tags: AU Crossover Fic, crackfic, crossover of the century, Ghost in the Machine/An Approaching Madness continuity, teenage Avery (AAM), platonic slimeknight (AAM), but a crackfic with potential!!, To You I Pour Corroded Sun continuity, romantic slimeknight (eventually) (TYIPCS), No beta we die like Derek, Eldritch, Eldritch Horror, References to The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers, It/Its Pronouns For The King In Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Eldritch Derek | d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist), Scientology, References to Scientology, ok look hear me out ok its relevant Summary:

It was supposed to be for the meme, but a scientology speedrun goes awry when two other members join the chat.

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AMAZING, AMAZING CROSSOVER BETWEEN AN APPROACHING MADNESS (AAM) AND TO YOU I POUR CORRODED SUN (TYIPCS) THAT I HAD THE ABSOLUTE PLEASURE OF WRITING WITH @talonwings !!!!!1 OHH MY GOD THE WAY YOU WRITE IS PERFECT AND ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS I WILL EAT YOUR WRITING FOREVER!!!!

also you should read An Approaching Madness (AAM) and To You I Pour Corroded Sun (TYIPCS) on AO3 because me and Cotton are really cool and awesome writers and yeah. *finger guns*

Sooo,,, uuhhhhh.... Hello again 👋

I have once more been dragged into the fandom hole, this time it's slimeknight and sfawtde...

So this piece is based on a wonderful friends fanfic Ghost in the Machine and it's sequel fic An Approaching Madness. In it Derek survives the whole ordeal and have to DEAL with Hastur.

SFAWTDE/DAWTDE owns my whole soul and so does this art piece by my amazing friend 😭😭 the texture and composition is SO gorgeous and i’m obsessed with all the little details in every bit of it

Then somewhere halfway through the story it turns out that in this setting, people aren't named immediately after being born. This is a semi-realistic-gritty fantasy setting, after all. Due to the somewhat high infant mortality, to at least somewhat soften the blow of potentially losing a child, babies just aren't named before the parents are pretty confident that the kid is going to survive. The naming ceremony is where a baby is officially aknowledged as an entire individual, a member of the family and a legally existing person, instead of just a gurgling extension of the mother who may or may not disappear from this world. And that timespan between birth and being named is - depending on the situation and the family - somewhere between 1-4 years.

Boatem knights joel and lizzie

Here’s a really old piece from August 2022 that I lost motivation for, way back when Empires S2 was starting! Way back when I didn’t know how to use blending mode layers; I color picked everything here haha. Probably why I lost motivation on it…

“Into the Middle of Nowhere, singing and laughter will die…” /lyr