Squidvetica - Comic Artist And Cat Enthusiast

Did the color wheel challenge but used my own OCs from my comic lol

Lunos Vorath - Ruler of Planet Xarion

So here's the first ever image of them alongside my brainstorming journal entry when I was trying to find a name for them! Very fun stuff we love to see it! 💖✨

Wan’t gonna color him in, but did it anyways! ✨🫶

You know them- you love them! It’s the lesbianssss! This is a redraw of one of my older works, featuring Cosmia’s new dress! 😌💖

YOU BET IT ISSSS!!!!!!

I don’t have many uploads and haven’t updated in a hot minute- this is true. But I do be working on it behind the scenes every dayyyyyy (well. most days anyways.)

Character development, story development, dialogue, lore, worldbuilding- all done by MEEEE and someday it will pay off but until then y’all get out of context art as I improve my skills. >:)

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I will love you literally forever if you check it out and also subscribe for more hehe 💖

I typically don’t post stuff like this on my art blog but this is something I feel somewhat passionate about considering I am a fiction/fantasy writer. Sometimes (not all times) people ask these questions in bad faith. If it’s a stranger, I’m more likely to be inclined to believe it is in bad faith than if a mutual or friend asked me about my world building.

World building is absolutely important, but some people love to ask these questions in an effort to shut down your idea entirely; They want to make you feel stupid for even having the idea in the first place.

My rule of thumb is:

If someone asks a question about your worldbuilding, it may be important to ponder the question to flesh things out more, but at the same time you don’t owe people immediate explanations and you have time to think about things! It’s okay if you can’t figure out what a megafauna in your story eats until you’re deeper into development. It’s okay to not know yet!

And I’m gonna be honest here:

It’s ABSOLUTELY okay for some things to “just be” because they’re cool. I have this weird elk creature in my comic that comes up in a flashback event, and someone asked me in bad faith

“How does it even run around in the forest as a predator, its antlers would hit the trees”

And you know what? That may be true if it were real! But it’s not real. I like my design of the creature and that’s good enough for me. Not everything has to be analyzed and dissected under a microscope.

You do not owe your audience perfection. Grow your worldbuilding at your own pace, it’ll come in time.

When you are a queer author, or an author of any minority group, people love to pull “Gotcha” scenarios all the time to shoot you down. It’s important to keep this reality in mind when speaking on this because there are a lot of bullies out there looking for blood when writing is supposed to be liberating and fun at the end of the day.

The thing about fantasy worldbuilding is that verisimilitude and the rule of cool are not enemies. Someone who looks at a pod of flying whales and asks "what do they eat?" is not being a spoilsport – they're engaging with the premise. There are any number of much more serious objections to aerial megafauna than lack of any obvious role in a trophic web that could have been raised if they just wanted to shoot the idea down; a person who wants to know what the flying whales eat is all but explicitly yes-anding the idea. Sure, you might not have an answer at your fingertips, but acting like it's unimaginative for them to have asked is a really fucking weird way to react.

My first two attacks!! :)

First character belongs to Pure_Daydreams on ArtFight and the second character belongs to @grimothy5 ! Both of their designs are sooo fun! If you’re reading this you 🫵 should attack me! (I might just attack back 👀)

First 19 Pages of my comic, “Journey From Ashes”.

I know people typically don’t check my tumblr but I thought I’d show you anyways! 💖✨

Thank you for reading- if you want to see more recent stuff as well as an author’s note update, check out the comic here!

Love you guys! ✨⭐️

Happy Birthday to my 6’8”, 23 year old elven son!! 🤣

Xoinu’s official birthday is on August 15th, but I thought I’d post this now since I finished it.

The Eastern Pillar that’s in the pic isn’t the best since I’m not thaaaat great at drawing architecture but whatever it’s Good Enough™️. (Just don’t look too closely haha 😭)

I sure do love these farmers yeehaw pardner! 🤠🏳️‍🌈💖✨

(Also I hate drawing heads at that angle jfc)