Semla

I'm dropping this now because I know most of tomorrow is going to be busy. I'll check posts i'm tagged in in the evening <3 work (as in the dogs i'm watching) has made it difficult to work on art or writing :(

I'll share what I have for my entry for "Dream" from @tes-season-unending-fest. Specifically this is from young Ophelia's pov, her watching a worrying health episode with her mother. :') that's totallllllly not going to affect her sleep later

words: 550 || warnings? minor medical episode

Mama doesn’t fall. Her father catches her before it happens. But still, Ophelia sees the almost of it happen.  

She sees Mama’s face go pale and strange, sees her mouth open around a breath that doesn’t come right. She sees Papa turn her toward him, one hand at her waist, one hand at her jaw, making her look at him. Mama tries to push at his wrist and fails.  

He says something; it’s too low for her to catch all of it, but she hears Mama’s name inside it. Lilliandra. Not Lilli. Not any of the quiet names that belong to their room and the mornings when Mama is still half asleep. He moves her, lowering her into the chair – not her chair at the table, but the one closer to the hearth, with arms she can grip. Mama’s fingers closer around the wood as if the chair might disappear beneath her. 

 “Breath,” Papa tells her. 

Mama makes the small kettle sound again on the inhale. 

Ophelia feels cold from it. 

Her father doesn’t turn from her mother but calls Serana’s name. Her aunt’s hand tightens at Ophelia’s shoulder.  

She doesn’t want to move. Ophelia wants to stay and watch. If she’s taken away, the room will keep happening without her, and she won’t know where Mama’s breathing goes.  

But Serana bends besides her, face calm in the awful way adults are calm when they’re pretending. “Come with me, little moth.” 

Ophelia refuses, her fingers curl around the table edge. 

Uncle Elikar moves fast, moving to the cabinet where the medicines lives. He opens one draw, then another. Glass bottles clink together.  

Papa kneels in front of her mother. Ophelia has seen him kneel to speak to herself, to tie her boot laces, to examine a beetle she brought inside. But she’s never seen him kneel like this. His back is straight; his shoulders are still. One hand rests on Mama’s knee, anchoring her; his other hand settles on her upper arm.  

He speaks low to Mama, still too quiet for Ophelia to catch all the words, but she catches some. “Slowly— Again — Look at me.”  

Mama tries, but the breath whistles again. 

Ophelia’s own throat squeezes. 

Serana doesn’t pull. She waits half a breath, then says softly in an attempt to comfort, “She’s being helped, Ophelia.” Her hand slides down to Ophelia’s hand; Ophelia lets her hold it because Serana’s fingers are cool and steady. 

But Ophelia doesn’t move from her spot, shaking her head in a silent protest.

Elikar comes with the small blue bottle. He doesn’t look at Ophelia. That’s how she knows it’s bad. Elikar always looks at her when adults become too quick. He always gives her one of his little almost-smiles, the kind that means, I see you. It’s not yours to fix. 

He doesn’t do it now. 

Serana crouches beside Ophelia. Before she tries to say another word, Ophelia shakes her head again, her curls moving with it. 

Mama coughs, coughs, coughs, then bends forward so sharply Papa’s hand closes around her shoulder. Elikar says something about dizziness. Papa says something back. Mama makes a sound that might be annoyance if there were enough breath inside it. 

Ophelia can’t focus on the words, her ears buzzing in the fear that’s bubbling up. 

Nix Hound

Another GTA style painting because Nevri in a Bikini felt wrong. Reference under the cut:

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Been really getting into reading and writing, I've read 24 chapters of fics so far just this month! Now I only wish I also had time to draw a little...

Here's a snippet of Rogue Waves (296 words):

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Mannimarco The Traitor - WIP

It was a couple of days I had this idea in my mind. He is such a dashing terrible man. Lovely.

I think it’s been about 3 weeks since I participated? Anyway, for cross stitching, I’m getting close to the end of another row, although this pic won’t reflect it completely because I only took it last time Dagoth was out of the frame lol

It’s all just dark colours now, and then it’ll be time to work on his body again. Yippee

Also picked up drawing, so I have some lineart for what I’m working on for @tes-season-unending-fest

Forgive Voryn, he doesn’t have his nails on yet. He barely put his hair on in time for this post 🤣

Also I was going for the Nerevarine being all ‘hell nah dude’ or startled that ash zombie leapt forward out of the crowd to act all reverent, but I’m not sure if it translated. Oh well lol

Hi hello, it’s me. I’ve been dead the last couple of days because I’m traveling without an internet connection. I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled crazy in about a week and a half-ish. I’m in the jungleeeeeeee. I’ll should have a somewhat more stable internet connection starting tomorrow so I can at least see what everyone is doing and such.

I don’t have any writing because it’s hard to do where I am, but I did see a bunch of people (particularly in the TES community) draw their OCs as the GTA VI girl and that looked fun so I’m giving it a try. (It’s sketch phase at the moment and I have a few things to fix, but it’s going. Someday I also have to put a background in here….) I’ll probably paint over all these lines later as well as I have been. Anyway…

@dirty-bosmer @hircines-hunter @theoneandonlysemla @reaver-of-kirkwall @softeasun @mareenavee @oblivions-dawn and anyone else who has something. It might take me a bit to get there, but I’m alive.

Have some Violet Hawke.

haven’t done one of these in awhile

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Idek how long it's been since I last posted one of these, but I'm finally feeling settled after all the life changes. Returning to old hobbies at long last :))

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Back on my Lucien/Nim crack-fic bullshit: