guess who came home today btw... ... ... :') happy

i haven't posted my art here in a while, so. have this piece i really enjoyed making for @bee-pyromancer.bsky.social of their Kion (they/them) & #TheEmperor for art fight~ <3 [ #BG3 #BG3fanart #BG3Emperor #illithid ]

I cherish every piece and honoured to have a number of them printed and framed beside me too! 5. Bunny Abdirak by @uggshape.bsky.social 6. My "Original Form" Haarlep by @sweetmage.bsky.social 7. Femme Raphael x Haarlep by @flowersinbloom.bsky.social 8. Volo x Gribbo by www.tumblr.com/threerattsin...

working on a new council-voted Moss piece. pink fashions my lovely little lotus flower ; u; happy to be painting again...

weirded me out? no. you weirded me in. lets merge souls

Might I interest you in some squids? :3

#tavqotd Moss is basically Marina already lmao, but... They'd be a lavender sisterly octo with a flower crown~ :'3

#tavqotd I think... Moss would watch Shape of Water once and then become completely taken with del Toro's entire catalogue. It's probably a little obvious why... (I think they'd also love Alien & The Thing. They'd be rooting for the monsters, of course. ;3 <3)

the most beautiful thing you can be is very loudly passionate about stupid things and not give a shit

#tavqotd Tell me about your OC ship! Ship name: The Astral Sea / "memps" Names: Moss (Gardenia) & the Emperor (Karpri) Ages: 45 | ? Races: 🦑 Classes: Spore Druid, Psychokinesis Psion | Telepathy Psion Sexualities: 🖤🤍💜 Fun fact: They make a second ustilagor as a sibling for Us & name it Noodles. :'3

Pulling out the best image I ever made. I LOVE OCS I LOVE OCS SOMUCH. I LOVE TOYS I LOVE PLAYING

✨ CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT✨ Meet @flowersinbloom.bsky.social 📸 "Mostly an environment artist, but also the illithid lover your DM warned you about. Writes, draws, crafts, and breathes squid, just wants to show their devastating beauty to the world~ 💜" #bg3vpzine #bg3fanzine

I feel my biggest strength as an artist is the full scope of my range and applications. Years ago, I helped design a TTRPG with a friend, including a logo, card design, assets & more. My comic has two art styles. And my illos have a range of visual narratives and tones (dramatic, serious, humorous).

this is so funny what the hell this is literally just Moss's resume across the universes 😭 where do *i* sign up to join the hivemind??? (www.costarastrology.com/zodiac-signs)

This. Fuck, this so often

#tavqotd Moss will admit it: before their transformation, they... hated bathing!!! Being wet was awful, being cold was awful, being naked was a nightmare & no, of course they didn't bother untangling their bird's nest of hair after. They avoided baths like the plague. Can't avoid it anymore! >:'3

#tavqotd Squids don't have hair. 👍 Moss is SO happy for it. When they were a woods tiefling, they'd often get twigs & leaves (& bugs...) stuck in their hair. While they didn't care, it was such a hassle to take care of. & they had nothing to shave with! Such bliss to be rid of that inconvenience!!

Come with me, my love To the sea, the sea of love I want to tell you how much I love you

if i never knew you, if i never felt this love, i would have no inkling of how precious life could be 🎶 🦑💕 [ #BG3 #BG3VP #virtualphotography #TheEmperor #illithid ]

non-sexual intimacy. my characters are monstrous & seen by their societies as unfit for & undeserving of love & tenderness, so it's important for me to depict them transcending that nonsense. their love isn't physical, but it's still very much real. they are each other's solace, safety, & freedom.

#tavqotd Moss loooves strategy games (though they're not so great at them... yet...!) and you knowww these two are playing a months-long Risk campaign between work downtime hours. Roleplaying schemes is a great way to keep an illithid mind enriched and not plotting up *real* schemes, after all. 🦑🖤

absolutely in love with @luminiari.moe's parasols mod ; w; Moss was made to descend from the sky via umbrella...! linky: www.patreon.com/posts/gear-m... [ #BG3 #BG3VP #virtualphotography #mindflayer #illithid ]

community only thrives when we lift each other up, not when you just expect everyone to be giving you compliments and feedback and you don't ever reciprocate. people do notice when you never share or uplift other's work

Moss but they got hooves

#tavqotd (for organization) Quote with an out of context image that represents your OC and a picture of your OC:

#tavqotd Let it rain, baby!!! Rain is great for illithid skin. Moss would donate their spot and sit outside, tendrils pointed happily skyward. :3

shoutout to artists who have a clear type and keep making different ocs of that type because no one is going to stop you

#tavqotd To friends, Moss is just Moss. To coworkers and those who don't know the truth about them, they're known by their false name, Gardenia Karpri, though some just call them 'the sword.' To the Emperor, when he's feeling sentimental, they are 'stardust.' For their starfield of freckles. <3

#tavqotd Moss is ace! Why do you think they wear so much purple? :'3 Intimacy is, well, purely cerebral for illithids, given their nothing downstairs situation. But, honestly, Moss & the Emperor prefer it that way. After all, baring your entire soul is far more intimate than baring just your body.

#tavqotd "After all, you were made for each other." There is no Moss without the Emperor, and no Emperor without Moss. They're both outcasts who found solace in the other's other-ness, they saved each other's lives and became each other's freedom & inspiration. Moss loves being illithid. <3

#tavqotd Moss is agender, filling out that space on their forms with 'none, thanks.' 🦑🖤🤍💚

beyond the sea, somewhere 🌊✨ [ #BG3 #BG3VP #virtualphotography #TheEmperor #illithid ]

Fandom needs interaction to thrive, if u want to keep enjoying art, fic, edits, animations, silly little hcs, and all of that gud stuff, give some of the love back that creators pour out for you, fandom shouldn't be /content/ to mindlessly consume, let it be a dialogue of love and appreciation 🙏✨❤️

we've all been there

#tavqotd Name: Moss Race: tiefling ➡️ 🦑 Age: 45 Gender: 🖤🤍💚 Pronouns: they/them Background: urchin / outlander Class: 🍄 druid / psychokinesis psion Sexuality: 🖤🤍💜 Relationship: The Emperor 🦑💕🦑 Fun Facts: They love stealing neglected plants from sills around the city. Their favorite 🍄 are bluecaps.

#tavqotd Moss woke up with *the* migraine of all time... But, hey, at least they woke up. And at least the Emperor was still there when they did, ready to help them enter this new chapter of life. After some healing, the first thing they did was run off to fish their pal Us out of the harbor~ :'3

#tavqotd BG3 inspired me to pick up painting, & though I didn't get as much done this year as I wanted to, here's the pieces of my Tav I'm most proud of. I'd been purely an environment & pixel artist before, so being able to PAINT! My Character!!! in full! by myself! is just... huge to me. ; x;

#Baldursgate3 #TheEmperor #bg3emperor

happy new year, from these squids to yours 🦑💕 may you all have wonderful snacks & company tonight~ (this year was mostly hiding & recovering for me. i didn't accomplish very much... <:') but! i think... i *hope*, next year will be better.) [ #BG3 #BG3VP #virtualphotography #TheEmperor #illithid ]

#tavqotd Decay: as a necessary - a *healing* - part of life. Everything rots eventually, providing sustenance for the new. Despair can, and *should*, be used as fuel to bloom into something better. If you're still alive, you're not too far gone, and you can still transform into your best self. 🦑🌿

#tavqotd Moss's resolution is to make new friends! Real friends, not work friends. Most of their companions returned to their lives or moved away. It gets lonely, not having friends they can be their true self around, & they don't exactly want to lie about the whole 'being an illithid' thing... ;(

Please respect people's boundaries when it comes to their art, virtual photography, ships, gifs and everything in-between. All artists deserve that much, at least. It's not hard to do.

May your holidays be kind and gentle. 🦑💙❄️ [ #BG3 #BG3fanart #TheEmperor #illithid #squidmossart ]

#tavqotd The tadpole. Not the first one, vicious & hungry, and not the astral one, cold & yearning, but the supreme one: as gentle & thoughtful as the hands that raised it & primed it to make Moss's transformation as smooth as possible. It gave them the rebirth they'd so desperately longed for. 🦑💕

#tavqotd Moss is a Yule squiddie through & through, but in a modern, Earthy AU... they'd absolutely, completely unironically, be a sucker for 'All I Want For Christmas Is You.' my sappy little cringelord...

#tavqotd Same boat! ... :'( Moss has a permanent spark of paranoia that the Absolute may not actually be well & truly dead, and that she's just hiding somewhere in the back of their mind, biding her time to strike & try to take over their body again. Nothing terrifies them more than that.