maeglin🌿
@elvenking.art
writer, artist, worldbuilder, conlanger My professional work @deadstar.black
early into rigging today. i was not entirely prepared for IK high heels but i figured it out
saren is finished being modelled, textures over half-way done
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
chef d'état-major du maréchal Fressange. visual dev pour Achevé
two short kings who spent fifteen years trying to kill each other and accidentally invented the modern world
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.
There Was One Sex for Two Thousand Years
A Writer's Guide to Sex, Gender, and Bodies Before the Modern Binary
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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
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.
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...
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muscular dog boys this month. we've had girlies and femboys already and i like variety
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?
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:
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 ...
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obedience is the sharpest blade—it cuts both ways Lt. Marion Gore from my upcoming grimdark nautical horror novel, THE REPLY
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:
The Architecture of an Arch-Inquisitor
A craft-focused look into the design and psychology of Origen Thule
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imagine you're mid-foreplay and they whip out the legal paperwork
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
