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Leiden Sygdom

@leidensygdom / leidensygdom.tumblr.com

[25 | they/them] Welcome to my blog! I go by Sygdom. This is my art blog. I do a lot of TTRPG / Dungeons and Dragons related art, featuring plenty of drow, dark elves and tieflings. I also have a general interest in fantasy and cyberpunk. My ask and DMs are open, so feel free to ask me anything you'd like to know! {My twitter handle is also @leidensygdom, and my instagram one is @sygdom} https://linktr.ee/sygdom
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I was long due for a pinned post update, so hi!! I'm Sygdom, and I’m a queer digital artist focusing on fantasy artwork, specially character art and design. My current focus is on TTRPGs, mostly Pathfinder 2e and Dungeons and Dragons. I have a particular interest in cyberpunk / fantasy art.

My art tag is #sygdomthings , and you can find all of my art posts with it. I also use character tags, such as #yxala , #siegmund or #argyros ! I tag things pretty consistently overall.

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Commissions are currently closed, I will update this once they are open. I have information about them in my website.

If you’d like to support my work, consider checking out my Patreon- I upload TTRPG content there, as well as early art, WIPs, and even monthly commissions!

If you have any question, please feel free to send an ask, it's open with anons on!

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🌟IKARION🌟

Final species illustration for Fen's Guide to Myriad Realms! In which I collaborated with the amazing Arpeggiosmelody to create this radioactive specimen.

If you're curious for more about this species please check out the Kickstarter! Which at the time of posting is ~60% funded!

Fen's Guide to Myriad Realms - #humanart
Four Realms, Endless Adventure: Explore new Species, Classes, NPCs and Monsters in this 5th edition supplement! 100% #humanart
Kickstarter
#godssss the colors!!
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Commission Post

Eyyyyy I'm bad at promoting myself but my comms ARE open!

I'm open to most things, Fantasy, NSFW, Sci-Fi, etc, though some items may be subject to additional charges (but I'll discuss that before billing).

DM or comment if interested!

#Boost!!!
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Here's Urion on a very thrifted wizard-core outfit! Based on few pieces we found while searching second-hand stores. Even if I couldn't get clothes, I get to put them on my OC, as a treat. Despite the looks, Urion is actually a (drow/earth genasi) bard. But everyone can be a funky wizard, as a treat!!

#drow#dark elf#elf#dnd#dungeons and dragons#fantasy#fantasy art#character design#original character#ttrpg#wizard#wizardcore#urion#sygdomthings#syg2025#bard#dnd art#dnd oc#artists on tumblr#illustration
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when ur wizard girlfriend is tall and strong

tested out some new microns (haven’t used microns in YEARS lol) I picked up to see if they would work well for quicker lining, so did a quick sketch of Xundiira and Briza back before life suddenly changed directions for the both of them

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con cryptids: a post

So, I tabled at a con this weekend and had a grand time. However, cons are ripe with cryptids, situations and events. I thought it'd be a good idea to compile some of them, because it's been quite the eventful one. Here's some of the encounters:

  • That one girl who asked me if I had HP merch. The excess of pride flags on my booth did not deter her, I guess.
  • The few people that were on my booth when that happened, also wrapped in pride flags, who did a collective grimace at the girl when she left.
  • Girl who lost her phone in the bathroom- I noticed it right away when entering after her, but she had already vanished the second after. I kinda awkwardly waited on the bathroom because I knew she'd notice at some point, and few minutes later, she came back crying and sobbing. She hugged me when I told her I found her phone and had been waiting for her.
  • This group of women in her 40s that all dressed up as the jawa (is that how it's spelled?) from Star Wars. They had little ID cards with their names, which were all puns. They had a TTRPG group together where they passed the DM torch with every session. Honestly, I look up to them
  • This person in an Ao Oni cosplay that consisted of a bright purple bodysuit and a very well crafted, unsettling-as-hell mask. They mostly just stood in places and stared at people without saying anything.
  • The people who had a sticker for Eileen (the Bloodborne plague doctor lady) to gift me when they saw me on my plague doc cosplay
  • This one... Very little girl. 6-7yo? She came to my booth and looked at my (many) stickers. She really liked the warlock one (it's a d20 with "warlock" written on it, with few eyes, demonic wings and a black-purple-red scheme). She did have no idea on what a warlock was, nor what was dnd, but she liked the design and asked her dad to buy it in sticker form. He thought he wanted the holographic one, and gave her money for that- But she wanted the plain one. So she bought a second sticker. She was undecided on which, and I suggested a cute little witchy black cat, since it's very popular with kids. Instead, she pointed at my Mothman sticker and went "I want this one, it scares me!"
  • About 10ish minutes later, this girl returned to my booth. She wanted the same warlock sticker, but now in holographic and pin format. Her dad didn't know why, but he just gave her money for them anyways.
  • And about half an hour later, she came back once again. This time, she... wanted the warlock charm. Which her dad was more than happy to get for her.
  • The endless amount of kids that come to my booth, point at my thicc yellow among us sticker, and go "omg!!! he's got a butt!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • The way my OFF print almost sold out this year. I never thought that the one print I made of an indie RPG maker game made by some Belgian dude 20 years ago would be my 2025 hit, but it sure was. The people who bought it were surprised by the fact I was surprised about people recognizing it. It was my most sold print, beating stuff like my Hollow Knight one by a massive mile.
  • People bought a bunch of my Blasphemous print too. They also all commented on names for the Penitent One that they used. Most of them don't translate well to English, but they ranged from "The Drama Guy", "The Penetrating One", or even better, "Pepe". We also joked a bunch about leaving cookies out for the Penitent One, since it's the Holy Week in Spain.
  • This one guy that already came to my booth last year who tried to get me to join his cult. He completely forgot he also tried that last year, for the record.
  • This one person who, talking about TTRPG stuff, mentioned that he played a dual character once. One of them was a bear, I think a barbarian. The other one was a woodpecker, who was an artificer. One of them played the banjo. The other one played the kazoo.
  • He also was currently playing a character that was a "fire baboon monk who wanted to kill god"
  • The endless amount of people who bought my Hornet-with-a-Clown-Wig sticker, who were very sure that "nah, Silksong AINT coming out, that was bait!"
  • Every single year, I manage to sell one (1) genderfluid sticker. This has remained true once again. There's always a moment of connection between me and the one designated genderfluid person who can only find a little relevant sticker on a singular booth in the entire con.

I had quite few more fun encounters, but these were kinda the main ones. All in all, a fun time- And a lot of fun oddballs to meet!

#con#con booth#con artist#long post#text
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Few intelligent things survive the festering corruption that now overtakes an once thriving city. But amidst the over-grown and mutated flora, the Memory Keepers still dwell: these constructs, immune to the excess of magic, are now the only echoes of the cities' previous inhabitants. However, they were fueled and moved by the memories of the living, and they still erratically seek them many centuries later. Their forms are almost a mockery of life now: Amalgamated in twisted forms, they don't quite comprehend the subtleties of those made of flesh. But still, they seek them, knowing they play a part in their own functionality.

I'm finally allowed to share this beast, the Wandering Ward, a type of Memory Keeper! I got to create them alongside @/goobsimar (on bsky), where he did the writing and I did the illustration. The project this was made for, Fen's Guide to Myriad Realms, is a 5e supplement made by +80 writers and artists to promote human made art- If that's something you're interested in, check our Kickstarter out, we're already halfways funded!

#aaand next day bump!!
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Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

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This is a variation on a much older scam that often results in the victim being out money and also out whatever they were selling. It goes something like this:

- victim posts an item for sale on craigslist or w/e

- scammer contacts asking if a check is ok

- scammer then asks if they can write a check for more than the agreed-upon price and for the seller to give them the overage back as cash, often with some excuse about it being an out-of-state bank, they don't have a card and need some cash for something else, or whatever.

- scammer gives check, gets cash and item, and bounces

- guess what the check does, too

ANY kind of structure where you supposedly get money but have to give some of it back to someone should twig your scam radar, frankly.

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Reblogging because some people need to refresh their scam radar, or start building theirs. I see far too many people fall for traps, and don't dare say for a second "this will never happen to me" because all it takes is a momentary lapse in judgement.

#Psa
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