Hey hey hey! Welcome back to another batch of weekend sketches.

Just like my last post these don't really count as sketches exactly, they're a bit too cleaned up for that. Many months ago I was on a bit of Pokémon kick, and I got to imagining what kind of Pokémon (and jobs) my two demon hunting lesbians would have if they lived in the world of mons.

Sol would pretty much have the same job she has in Earthshine, which is Ranger. She's especially well equipped to travel the most dangerous terrains because of her super powered team, consisting of: an Arcanine (her starter), a Dragonite, and a legendary Virizion that she keeps secret. Her Pokémon aren't really suited to battling, though they are strong enough to win in most fights, and Sol prefers to find peaceful solutions to most altercations.

Nyx is a Pokémon trainer, a junior researcher, and a MENACE. Her team is hyper specialized in battles and Nyx is very adept at it, practically dazzling her opponents with her skill. She has a shiny Luxray (her starter), a shiny Espeon, and a Mismagius. She could also qualify as a psychic trainer, and is a little bit telekinetic. Her main area of research is the power limits of Pokémon, and has been hunting for Legendaries to see how powerful a Pokémon can get. This eventually leads to her getting trapped in a very dangerous mountain range that Sol has been patrolling for the season. Things go about as expected.

This AU has been fun to think about since both Sol and Nyx are happier people in this one, and Nyx's intense self-confidence and pure uncut gremlin energy isn't dampened by a life of trauma and guilt.

Also I get to design cute Pokémon themed fashion for them >:3c

Thanks for looking and reading! Have a nice weekend!

Haha hello! It's been a while!

I kinda fell of the posting wagon there pretty much all over the internet. I ended up taking a 3 week break from Twitter because it had put me in a bad brain space. I also decided to use this break to re-evaluate again how I want to use social media, and do a proper cut from platforms that just raise my anxiety.

One platform that I've been having a lot of fun on though has been Discord, because it's hard to be found over there and with it being chat rooms 2.0 it's actually about socialization rather than fighting the algorithm. I got invited to a fandom sever for The Locked Tomb Trilogy and I fell back into being in a fandom after feeling nothing but increased hostility towards them since quietly leaving the Star Wars fandom last year.

I had already read the first two books in the trilogy last year but hadn't interacted with anyone in the fandom beyond my friend Winter (who had a hand in getting me to finally pick them up). Then after replying to a couple fandom related tweets, in particular ones made by another friend Ren, I was invited to the server and I've fallen back into being in a fandom again.

Though this is different. Where my experience in the Star Wars fandom was just... people sending me inappropriate messages, the regular bombardment of racism, and then the disillusionment that comes from watching the franchise get bought up by a megacorp and then have the creative juice sucked out of it, being in a small book fandom is like a breath of fresh air. The air is especially sweet when the book series is explicitly queer. It's truly a whole other experience where I can enjoy a property that doesn't force me to pick at scraps.

Being in this small group has been fun. I have posted a few of my fanarts online, but most of my fandom interactions happens behind the closed door of the private server. I feel this is the best way to be in a fandom. In the free time that I've had between work I've also gotten back into writing fanfic and have imprinted on one of the rare pairs (typical). This is what the above illustrations are about. I might do a separate blog post about The Locked Tomb Trilogy. The third book has been postponed to early 2022 so I need to decide if I want to blog about the first two books and then do a follow up once the third comes out or wait until I've read all three.

Setting that train of thought aside, I've be approaching fanfic as practice for when I eventually pivot into illustrated novels once I finish my tryst with comics. I've seen some discourse about whether fanfic makes you a better writer or not. My take is I'm approaching it as a form of line making, the same way fanart got me to practice my drawing. There are ways that fanfic can help improve your writing, and ways it cannot. All in all it's been relighting the fire that went out when I experienced Burn Out #2 back in March.

This has gotten long so I'll cut this blog post here. I hope you all are keeping well.

Until next time!