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Started drawing characters for a comic idea (which I have decided to tag with "bunth" for reasons that aren't as funny to me as the tag itself) that's slowly taking shape in my brain. There's gonna be a lot of drawings eventually and the original plan was to post them all at once when they were done but I changed my mind because I think spreading them out over multiple posts is better for my hashtag discoverability.
Anyway here's Bosse. She's a goblin lady named after a goblin lad I made like a decade before her and forgot existed until I was done drawing. A buddy of mine on Discord heard she was around 5'7" and posted three pleading emojis in sequence. She'll get to punch a dragon in the face one day probably.
Separated at birth?
Imagine Your Favorite Character
Imagine hearing a tap at your window. You then go to check to open it to see your favorite character, they then grin at you and ask you if you would like an adventure with them.
Imagine Your OTP
Person B raises their eyebrow with an attractive grin.
Person A: “Oh, I am incredibly attracted to you right now!”
Alternate to their reply: *Chuckles* “My hearts in danger!”
“I didn’t think it was possible to be more attracted to you then I already was!”
You can’t tell me, Kano’s not their child from another world, but maybe he got brought up in the wrong world, this boy needs love; what better way then a ex gang leader mom and a powerful informative dad
Do I get the 10 bonus points yet? c:
I will never ever get enough of this goofy grin.
the grin ever... 🤣
So!!
THESE GUYS are my LONGEST RUNNING OC's, and the protagonists of a little novel I've finished the first draft of called Spellbound. If you've followed me on any of my other (now defunct) art accounts elsewhere, it's likely you've seen these guys before. They are my favourites and I really don't draw them enough at the moment.
From top to bottom, left to right: Vice-Commander Grimm (chick with the thick eyebrows), Vice-Commander Grin (guy with the short curly hair), Nebula Solonoff (guy with the mark across his eye), and Valerie Solonoff (chick with the long lashes). Both are brother-sister duos from very different worlds that find themselves caught up in something bigger than they could've imagined that involves them all.
Hope you'll get to read it one day!! (Or maybe you've read some of it in its current form where I posted chapters ;) ) and I hope you like these guys!
As for the song I picked, the lyrics of each "noun" line (I couldn't include all the words) matches the character arc of all four pretty well, so if you decide to give it a listen, it gives minor hints as to the story of each character.
Additionally, I attempted this drawing YEARS ago with all four and the song lyrics, but only managed Nebula and Valerie. Comparison in the readmore!
Behold, approx 2014/2015 Nebula and Valerie vs current (2023) Nebula and Valerie.
Tell me if you'd like to see more of them or know more about them!!
hi tumblr first real post it's gonna be TASQUE MANAGER BABY
she's my favorite deltarune character ever
random observation
I say :grin: alot it's silly I think it doesn't matter that it doesn't become an emoji the point gets across better that way
none of you can BEGIN to comprehend how much tasque manager is the character in existence she's like one of my favorites thing EVER and everyone has to know why does she have like 3 lines I need a billion of her she's the only character in detlarune the fact she's had the reputation and if I say about it anywhere people will be >:( and it makes me GRRRR cause she is my silly!!! she's just like me fun fact for people who didn't know already they changed the task manager shortcut on windows from ctrl+alt+del to ctrl+shift+esc keep that in mind if you want to open it quicker
I see at least one cool bug a day, and usually many more, but it’s not because I live anywhere particularly rich in strange, wonderful creatures (I live in an unremarkable corner of Pennsylvania, USA) or spend all of my free time looking for bugs (well, just *most* of it). in my experience, finding interesting bugs is less about actually locating them and more about looking closely at tiny things you’d otherwise ignore!
this very long post was compiled over a couple days in late July, although I spent less than 10 minutes at a time searching. there’s a lot of fun creatures just out in the open.
plants are always a good place to start when looking for bugs, and I chose this small fig tree (Ficus carica) with a mulberry sapling friend. feeding on the sap of the fig and mulberry is the first group I’ll take a look at, the planthoppers:
these two are flatid bugs, Metcalfa pruinosa and Flatormenis proxima. flatids are slow-moving bugs that can be approached closely, but once they get tired of circling around stems to avoid you they may launch themselves into a fluttering flight with spring-loaded rear legs.
Aplos simplex, a member of the related family Issidae, also likes fig sap. its “tail” is actually a tuft of waxy secretions, which get shed along with the bright colors when it assumes a lumpy, bean-shaped adult form.
cicadellids, or leafhoppers, are just about everywhere on plants, but can be hard to approach without scaring them.
Agallia constricta on the left is a tiny species that feeds on grass, but many were scared up onto the fig by my footsteps. Jikradia olitoria is a much larger species that does feed on the fig; juveniles like this are curled, creeping goblins while adults’ rounded wings give them a pill-shaped appearance.
this big, pale leafhopper belongs to genus Gyponana. it’s tricky to get to species ID with these.
Graphocephala are striking little hoppers that eat a variety of native and nonnative plants. G. coccinea is the larger, more boldly colored one and G. versuta is smaller but more common locally. they’ll sit on the tops of leaves but take flight if you get too close quickly.
another group you’re almost guaranteed to encounter are flies (Diptera). these are a very diverse group, so much more than houseflies and mosquitoes (though I did run into both)
where I live, any plant with broad leaves is almost guaranteed to have a few Condylostylus, long-legged flies that come in shades of blue, green, and red. despite their dainty physique, they’re agile predators, typically feeding on other small flies.
next, a few hoverflies: the ubiquitous Toxomerus geminatus and a Eumerus that I’ve been seeing a lot of this year (but maybe I’ve just noticed them for the first time). syrphids have varied life histories, but most adults drink nectar and many of the larvae are predaceous on aphids.
the metallic green soldier fly is Microchrysa flaviventris, nonnative here. Coenosia is a fun example of a “fly that looks like a fly,” with big red eyes and a gray body, and you might think they’re just another dung-sucking pest, but they’re actually aggressive predators! this one seemed to have nabbed itself some sort of nematoceran fly, maybe a fungus gnat.
many flies are very tiny, just millimeters long. the first two little fellows are lauxaniids, while the last one, an agromyzid leafminer Cerodontha dorsalis, burrows through grass leaves as a larva.
while moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) are drawn to plants for their flowers or to lay eggs, many small moths can easily be found resting on or under leaves during the day.
these first two are tortricids, many of which are flat, rectangular moths resembling chips of bark or dead leaves. the apple bud moth, Platynota idaeusalis, feeds on a wide variety of hosts, while this beat-up old Argyrotaenia pinatubana would have developed in an edible tube nest of pine needles.
Callima argenticinctella feeds in bark and dead wood (a resource used by more caterpillars than you’d realize!) while the last moth, possibly an Aspilanta, is a leafminer.
although beetles (Coleoptera) are famous for their diversity, I didn’t find too many on the fig. the invasive Oriental beetle Exomala orientalis resting here can be found in a wide range of colors, from this common tan to to deep iridescent black. the other beetle is a Photinus pyralis firefly, sleeping under leaves as fireflies do.
a few spare hemipterans: a Kleidocerys resedae that blew in on a wind, and below, the mulberry whitefly Tetraleurodes mori feeds on its namesake host. as for Hymenoptera, I saw manny tiny parasitic braconid wasps and various ants attracted to the planthoppers’ honeydew excretions—always worth checking underneath roosting hoppers for things having a drink.
a couple handsome spider boys were scrambling through the fig seeking females, a jumping spider Paraphidippus aurantius and an orbweaver, Mecynogea lemniscata.
and to round it off, a young Conocephalus meadow katydid and a Carolina mantis, Stagmomantis carolina.
there’s 31 species of arthropod in this post, and I probably saw some 45, not all of which stayed for photos. if you walk slowly and look closely, you can see a sizeable chunk of your local biodiversity in under fifteen minutes! of course this will depend on where you live and what time of year it is, but there’s almost always more cool bugs out there than you’d expect, even on just a single plant.
here’s an interesting female Chinese mantis I found hanging out in a porcelainberry patch. the yellow neck and green body is a very common color morph in males, but this is the first female I’ve seen who wasn’t a fully green or brown morph. she’s rather tiny for a T. sinensis too
she also had “heterochromia,” with one eye a bluer shade of green than the other (doubt anything about this term applies to a compound eye, but what else would you call it?)
I wonder if I’ll see her again in the few weeks she’s got left, certainly a very distinctive individual
THE SILLY CAAAAT, old art but still silly