Heya, I'm Peridots, your average digital artist/entomology enthusiast—they/it/he or any pronouns, please! Haven't actually posted much art in quite a while, so be prepared for occasional Bug Facts and other such randomness. Spam likes and such are all appreciated here! Terfs, zionists and the like can turn 180° for free, however! Profile art by original-character-chaos—oooooh looks like someone sent me perfectly pfp-shaped gift art of my sona a little too close to april fools!
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I started this quite a while ago and I might add more later, but I'm good with posting just this for now.
Quirrel and Cloth from Hollow Knight in a Bug Fables art style, and Leif from Bug Fables as an HK moth.
Bee/Wasp appreciation post
I FINALLY DEFEATED THE RADIANCE oh my gods
While I'm preparing all the art for the main worlds I'm working on right now, take this!
I noticed there was a lack of good humanized designs (PoC especially) for many of the arc protagonists so I drew my own!
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lesbian
gay
bisexual
transgender
queer
pansexual
demisexual
ace
hopeless romantics
cis-men
cis-women
non binary folks
the whole spectrum etc…
follow everyone who reblogs ;)
Lotus!
Whether she counts as my character is kind of...unclear, as I designed her appearance, her parent, and the AU they live in, yet I didn't play the character and develop her personality.
Whatever.
^^also featuring that one "When Mama Isn't Home" meme
Lotus is the god of Chaos, child of the gods of light and dark, daughter of Mosaïkó. She takes her title seriously, but her power not so much.
cordycat! cordycat!
I was looking through a lot of the posts of @lagt-duck because (hollow knight! undertale! spiritfarer! slime rancher!) and noticed they had, on several occasions, drawn and designed mushrooms. so I thought. mushrooms!
They had designed sort of humanoid fungal creatures, but I, in my love of biology and interestingly, entomology, realized there was an actual way fungi locomote. and that's by infecting bugs and using their undead bodies as hosts! Luckily, fungi like cordyceps can't actually control larger beings/vertebrates like humans and cats (though I'm not sure where the line blurs?)
The cat host is very much dead and Tan is the cordyceps within--not usually smug, but who wouldn't boast after finding a new body to move around in that's like, 28154x the size of your friends?
(They haven't...really...figured out expressions yet)
This is actually the first piece so far that's recent, since I have a lot of art to catch up to!
Blight and Herring.
Both these guys have several different descriptions that still all get the main gist of their characters!
Blight
The main feature defining his appearance gave him his namesake. Splattered thoughtlessly across his pale, otherwise nondescript, variously gradient lime scales, are splotches of purple-brown ringed in yellow, most notably dotting his wings, snout and talons.
A pensive, mildly arrogant LeafWing professor with a painless but harmful disorder, typically lethal to males, that leaves brown stains on his scales and chips away at his membranes, shooting his wings through with pinpricks and holes, is Blight. A biology nerd specializing in entomology and botany, he works at the LeafWing Institute of Education, likes tea, salads, philosophy and spending time in dark libraries, and owns a loyal pet sun beetle named Pachnoda (whom he carries around daily on his shoulders or horns). He can be described as thoughtful, a bit melancholy, leaning sometimes off to the indifferent side and sometimes rather haughty.
While he isn't particularly friendly, he sees no time wasted in teaching someone about something he loves.
Herring
His scales are a light gray-blue, with dark overscales and dapples across his back. His horns are a dull gradient, from blue at the base to green to orange, shimmering like washed rainbow shells and bearing a resemblance to his similarly-blended wings and webs, offering many positive comments from those who stare into them. He has conch-pink underscales, and pale peach bioluminescent stripes.
A writer and a minor noble, Herring is a melancholy SeaWing honing his craft in a studio on the coastline of Pyrrhia. He enjoys long walks, hot water, serene days at the beach, and fancy gatherings (in which he, sometimes, may or may not have a bit too much to drink). His preference for air rather than sea does set him apart from the other ocean-dwelling dragons, but made pursuing his current career quite a bit easier. While living above-water, he travels to spend much of his time at events in the rebuilt Summer and Island Palaces and long-standing Deep Palace, partying amongst the other aristocrats.
He makes a good partner for conversation whatever his mood.
They met through a strange (and beautiful, they both agreed) dragon, somehow-mutual friend, Nephrite, suggesting they find each other.
let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out
*claps hands together, accidentally smushing a mosquito but it's ok because the mosquito was a jerk anyway* gay dragons
Angler and Magma are, too, some of my older and closer-to-my-heart OCs and here they are!
Anglerfish is a SilkWing/SeaWing whose mother kindofdrownedherfatherandleftheratthebottomoftheocean. Not too strange for Wings of Fire parents, though, amiright?
She roamed the depths of the seafloor figuring herself out for a while before deciding to take a risk and find purpose in her life, discovering the surface is super hot and weird and bright, not helping much that she stumbled onto a volcano isle with a stranger who didn't understand her at all.
Magmacore was aptly named for her seething bright insides. After her parents both, collectively, abandoned her, no murder involved, for seeing her winglessness as a mistake, Magma survived only a few days before she found herself heavily wounded in what she thought would be an anti climactic end to her lifetime. There is strange magic in the isle though, and blood spilled incited, interestingly enough, the life-fluids in her core to transmute into boiling lava.
She spent the rest of her life living alone on the sands, hostile to any who wandered near, until a strange pale dragon swept to shore.
There's another fullbody image of Magma, but it's disproportionate and I'll fix it later
Starting off with my basically-main-character, Mosaïkó! They're a dragon god, sometimes going by the mortal guise of Nephrite, eldest and most powerful but oftentimes a calm and kind figure who has experienced...pretty much everything and is good to go to for guidance.
They live with their demigod partner and child in the God Hall, an Olympus-like place with white marble, blue, and gold architecture heavily inspired by the Isu in AC Odyssey, along with the ten other Gods, one of which they might be crushing on oops
They are very much aware of alternate universes and exist canonically in pretty much every world I've made.
^^Dragon and human(oid) refs, in no particular order. The first image is part of my header (cause! I love them enough for that), and the second-to-last was actually drawn by NovaArora on Art Fight, or @mother-of-monsters-verse on this (@ isn't working??? but that's their user), many thanks to them!
Hehe. As of November 2022, I wanted to keep my Stagbells wishlist somewhat discreet but couldn't find a better alternative, so I've replaced the fairly useless text of my oldest post with this.
I'm rather lenient with who I'd like art of, and don't have much of a prompt past "several guys I like hanging out/having a good time"! I'd especially like something with a warm or friendly feel. The drawing may be as shippy or platonic as you'd like, provided it's compliant to the rules.
The following characters are some of my favorites (essentially, a including-but-not-limited-to list): Quirrel, Tiso, the Hollow Knight, Hornet, Ghost, Hive Knight, Cloth, Mato, Grimm, Brumm, the Collector, Herrah, Monomon, the Hunter, or my own OCs! The latter can be found under the tag "hk ocs", or three out of the four here.