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@elvenking.art
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writer, artist, worldbuilder, conlanger
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i think i'm finally happy to point people to
@deadstar.black
where I've been active for the last year with professional stuff! or go to
@fangs.black
if you like anthros and hybrids
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4 months ago
chef d'état-major du maréchal Fressange. visual dev pour Achevé
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5 months ago
two short kings who spent fifteen years trying to kill each other and accidentally invented the modern world
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4 months ago
the romans assessed sex by voice, skeleton, and temperament. the talmud had four categories where we have two. then the enlightenment needed women excluded from citizenship and two thousand years of medicine got replaced by a checkbox. i wrote about what was lost.
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There Was One Sex for Two Thousand Years
A Writer's Guide to Sex, Gender, and Bodies Before the Modern Binary
https://logbook.deadstar.black/p/there-was-one-sex-for-two-thousand-years
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4 months ago
fressange
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D. S. B l a c k 🔪🫀
6 months ago
this week's craft essay is for everyone still sprinkling "he crossed his arms" between dialogue and calling it physical description. about Primal, wordless storytelling, and building scenes that work on mute.
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The Cathedral of Silence: Primal's Wordless Storytelling
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal has no dialogue. Here's what prose writers and narrative designers can steal from its wordless mastery of show don't tell.
https://logbook.deadstar.black/p/cathedral-of-silence
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i think i'm finally happy to point people to
@deadstar.black
where I've been active for the last year with professional stuff! or go to
@fangs.black
if you like anthros and hybrids
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6 months ago
this week's craft essay is for everyone tired of being told they're morally suspect for liking complex characters. about diegetic writing, why compelling beats likeable, and why fiction isn't an instruction manual.
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Stop Making Your Protagonists Sympathetic
Why the most interesting characters are the ones (other people say) you shouldn't like. Learn why diegetic writing and morally complex protagonists create better fiction than sympathetic characters. C...
https://logbook.deadstar.black/p/why-compelling-beats-sympathetic-characters
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f a n g s 🩸
6 months ago
cover of upcoming dec zine
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would or would not....? 🐛
about 2 years ago
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❄️elfophilia contagiosis❄️comms open
10 months ago
there's something in the dark... (12
#artfight
attack, on
@elvenking.art
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#art
#elfenjoyers
#artsky
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❄️elfophilia contagiosis❄️comms open
10 months ago
vicious grace (13
#artfight
attack, on
@faedread.art
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#art
#elfenjoyers
#artsky
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f a n g s 🩸
7 months ago
muscular dog boys this month. we've had girlies and femboys already and i like variety
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faedread
7 months ago
your average consumer: i wanna pay with paypal artists that need the money: paypal and patreon are morally shitty places, support my living here if you want to your average consumer: i dont wanna, wanna just talk instead?
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7 months ago
from halloween🐺turned him into a wuff
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7 months ago
what if your⚓officers' uniforms didn't just show rank, but encoded what gods they survived meeting? wrote about designing naval uniforms as worldbuilding—color as theology, insignia as mythology, and why competence can look like divinity 🔱 full craft breakdown:
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How to Make Your Officers Look Like Gods
Naval fiction has given us competence. I want to give you apotheosis. What happens when you bring Gothic symbolic density to naval fiction. A craft guide to designing uniforms, insignia, and material ...
https://logbook.deadstar.black/p/officers-as-gods-uniform-design
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12 months ago
aeldari
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
obedience is the sharpest blade—it cuts both ways Lt. Marion Gore from my upcoming grimdark nautical horror novel, THE REPLY
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8 months ago
🩸demons for spooky season
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8 months ago
In a galaxy that screams, the most dangerous man whispers. Wrote about designing Origen—the character architecture, visual choices, and why stillness can be more terrifying than spectacle. Full craft breakdown:
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The Architecture of an Arch-Inquisitor
A craft-focused look into the design and psychology of Origen Thule
https://logbook.deadstar.black/p/the-architecture-of-an-arch-inquisitor
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8 months ago
imagine you're mid-foreplay and they whip out the legal paperwork
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8 months ago
mad abt it
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12 months ago
even in blood-soaked ruin
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9 months ago
my commitment to method acting is absolute. to write the perfect byronic hero, I have embraced the full experience: the brooding, the emotional unavailability, and the subsequent, crushing social isolation. my characters have never been more authentic. I have never been more alone. the process works
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9 months ago
trust is the anchor that drowns the most fools
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10 months ago
madness is a tide that comes for every sailor
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adar
10 months ago
#ocart
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10 months ago
you claim to abhor emotion, yet you linger, watching. as if you're waiting for something.
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Cartoonists United
10 months ago
Members, the Coop is calling on you to participate in our upcoming zap sessions to take collective action regarding censorship & pay discrimination for 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists. Look out on Discord for more info about when and how to join, coming soon. Art by
@itsnero.com
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Motheatenwizard 🔞
10 months ago
From Whose Lips Our Moon Speaks - The gorgeous Olyzas who belongs to
@staurozoa.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
syraeth for
@faedread.art
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the fit
11 months ago
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what if boyfriends
11 months ago
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fluffly pubbly
11 months ago
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boutta hit you with a bunch of my weird sphinx people art watch out
11 months ago
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artfight again. ill do my best........... busier than usual this time around but w any luck my house probably won't explode with mycobloom a second time
artfight.net/~elvenking
#artfight2025
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12 months ago
his blade is the only answer he has left
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couldnt care less if my art is posted to pinterest, but when you crop out my watermark and claim its your OC, then we have a problem
12 months ago
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about 1 year ago
🩸🦇 heinrix
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adar
about 1 year ago
H₂O lizards
#neuvillette
#ocart
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about 1 year ago
WIP gift for
@faedread.art
cause syraeth just turned 2 years old
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about 1 year ago
i prefer this version
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Cake
about 1 year ago
shoutout to artists who have a clear type and keep making different ocs of that type because no one is going to stop you
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about 1 year ago
🧜♂️mermay with the boys
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about 1 year ago
🧜♂️mermay with the other boys
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about 1 year ago
nethetana
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#mermay
i'm enjoying poland, here's smth while i am away
about 2 years ago
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early for
#mermay
because I'm travelling tomorrow
about 2 years ago
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