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My pieces for @d20bigbang! These were made alongside @kyonite’s Hunger Games AU fic
(n.) a journey of changing one’s mind, heart, or way of life
A stolen portrait, a dead ambassador, and the Bad Kids coming together for the first time since graduating from Aguefort.
In his senior year at Bastion City University, Riz is preparing for graduation in spring and starting his master’s degree in the fall. His time adventuring has been left behind in favor of holing up in his apartment with copious amounts of coffee, schoolwork, and a minimal amount of sleep. His friends call him paranoid, but he’s sure he has it under control. At least, that’s what he’s telling himself.
it's @d20bigbang reveal day!! this fic has been my baby for over a year at this point and i'm so excited to share it with y'all!! huge thank you to everyone involved with the bb for creating such a wonderfully supportive environment for writers and artists alike to thrive <3
special thank you to my artist j (twt: @bleepbloop96) and my beta sawyer @theinfaethable!! j has all the pieces they made on their twitter right now, please go check them out, i'm still in awe of them!
i hope you all enjoy!!
[image id: a cream-coloured box on a white background with the words, “Can you make it stop?” and two hyperlinked choices below it reading, “No.” and “I don’t want to.” end id.]
well shit! its @d20bigbang reveal day! this fic has owned my shit for the past five months and i am so so happy that y’all finally get to read it. this story is VERY dear to me and im so grateful i got to make it with my best friend @mayodad ! you can see their GORGEOUS art on instagram or twitter.
In hindsight, Kristen maybe should have done a bit more research into the ritual that asks you to drink moon pool water in order to travel back in time before she started roping her friends into actually performing it. But she didn’t, so maybe she doesn’t get to be surprised when it rips a thousand little holes in the seams of reality, and maybe she doesn’t get to complain when she’s the one that has to reach through and stitch them back together. There’s seven hundred and twenty ways it could go but only one way it can end, and this is it.
(or: the bad kids try to remember what happened in the forest of the Nightmare King. It doesn’t go well. A reader-interactive story about doubt, second chances, and the not so far distance between your selves.)
dance in synchronous rotation || fantasy high space au
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“Number one Commander in the rankings, missed out on the draft ceremony for reasons that not a single faculty member will give, and now — stuck with the dregs. The bottom of the barrel.” The girl gestures emphatically around the room. “With us.”
“I object to that,” the small goblin boy says. Fabian doesn’t think he’s stopped moving since Fabian entered the room, fingers constantly moving, tapping against surfaces, fiddling with his clothing. “I’m a perfectly sound pilot and sharpshooter, they just moved me down in the rankings because I hacked into their secure database.”
Fabian gapes. “How the fuck are you not suspended?”
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or, a sci-fi/space opera au, where the bad kids meet for the first time in circumstances about as ideal as detention, and make it work anyways. (that’s what being a bad kid is all about, isn’t it?)
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mature, sci-fi au, part of the @d20bigbang
so excited to finally get to share my contribution for this year's @d20bigbang! it's a companion piece for @adaine's wonderful fic bright minds (dark lights)
[ID: a digital illustration of aelwyn abernant and sam nightingale from dimension 20's fantasy high in a mall ice cream shop. aelwyn is a fat, black elf with blue eyes and long blond twists in a large bun. she's wearing a little paper hat, pink sneakers, a small white apron, and a blue t-shirt with "Basrar's" across the front tucked into blue jeans. sam is a tall, thin water genasi with teal skin, freckles, fin-like ears, and long green/blue hair that changes colors like a wave. her hair is pulled into a ponytail with a large bow. she's also wearing a matching hat, apron, and t-shirt, but is wearing a blue plaid skirt and blue sneakers. sam is sitting on top of the freezer, scowling at aelwyn, who is leaning on the freezer and frowning back. aelwyn's other hand is on her hip. in the foreground, an orcish girl is trying to get their attention from the counter. the store has a blue/white color scheme, and shelves of boxes on the wall behind the freezers. /END ID]
for @d20bigbang, check out my partner seb’s songs here | word count: 7k, chapters 1/3 | read on ao3
PLAY WITH ME - Track by Track Commentary
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Rock stars Fig the Infaethable and Gorgug Thistlespring of Sig and the Sig Figs talk about the surprise new album featuring Gorgug back in the band as drummer once again! While apparently a one-time deal, Fig and Gorgug explore the themes of loneliness, friendship, and adventure in new album PLAY WITH ME.
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Summary: Tracker, between Spring Break and Fallinel.
Characters: Tracker, Kristen, Jawbone, Aelwyn, Fig, Ragh, Adaine, and the entire Mordred Manor family.
Word Count: 28k
A/N: my finished contribution to the @d20bigbang! you can find the incredible art elin @orimarvales did here, please check it out it’s so!! unbelievably!! good!!
It’s the day of the first full moon after Spring Break, and Tracker can’t breathe.
It doesn’t happen when it would make sense. Not that morning at the breakfast table when she gets her crystal notification reminding her. Not that evening when she and Uncle Jawbone prepare to climb on Baxter’s back to fly to their favorite forest. Not under the trees, waiting for true night to fall.
The Librarians and Guardians of Solace are tasked with the opportunity to make a difference and to save the world, every week. Twice before Friday. So when a missing persons case for one of their own ties into something bigger, they never could have imagined how their pasts and secrets would come to light.
or, a Bad Kids Librarians AU
it’s here, y’all! :’) happy @d20bigbang day! i’m so excited to reveal the first two chapters of this fic!! proceeding chapters will come in the following weeks!
so much love to my artist anika (@zestoflemon on twitter) for her INCREDIBLE, GORGEOUS art (found in chapter 2)!! <3 love to my beta webz! <3 and of course big love to the big bang mods for running this event!! <3
this concept has preoccupied my brain long before the big bang even began, so it has a special place in my heart <3 i hope you enjoy it!
you can view the whole d20 big bang collection here!
here they are!!
for the past few months i’ve been working with sophie @appleciders for the @d20bigbang, illustrating a few scenes from the fic she wrote! it’s a beautiful character study of tracker, and everyone should check it out here.
Cody gets a job at a dumpy summer camp in upstate New York. He's sure he's going to hate it.
i had the awesome opportunity to work with @boyscoutpaladin for the @d20bigbang 2021 event! this was a lot of fun and a lot of awesome people made a lot of awesome things. you can find the fic i did art for here!
final girl by @katherineshoward
my first comic ever for @d20bigbang!!! go read emily's fic here.
this took me forever to put together and i am insanely proud of it - i hope you enjoy!
pairing: pete/sofie notes: written for the @d20bigbang! every shout out and kudos to @relativelyjilly for their wonderful art, which you can find here! summary: pete and sofie, both wandering three years after their fight with the american dream, might just find their way onto the same path, with a little help from very pointed tarot readings and a few forced social situations.
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“Hey, listen, what if—what if we talked about anything that wasn’t Rowan or your mom or anything else that’s just super triggering?”
“Yeah, sure,” Sofie grins, “I think I can handle that. For starters, maybe you could tell me about that new ink.” She gestures to the butterfly when Pete crinkles his eyebrows.
“Oh yeah!” Pete excitedly (and too quickly, by the looks of it) finishes his sip of tea. “That’s Luna, hold on.” He closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and Sofie watches as the butterfly peels itself off the back of his hand and takes flight, becoming three-dimensional like a flip book brought to life.
“They’re my familiar,” Pete explains as Luna dances around his fingertips. “Don’t worry about anyone spotting them; I can control who they’re visible to. Not, like, a bad control, but you know—the secrecy and whatever.”
“You just…got yourself a familiar?” Sofie shrugs. “No big deal, easy as that?”
“Yeah, kinda,” Pete laughs. “I had a dream where they appeared in, like, the Nod version of Central Park and then I woke up and they were just on my hand. Pretty dope, right?”
“Really dope,” Sofie agrees. “Do they—I don’t know how magic really works, do they have any powers?”
“Not that I’ve found yet,” Pete answers. “But I do feel a lot calmer when they’re out, or sometimes I think they give my magic a boost.”
“That’s awesome; La Gran Gata just asks me for fish and then goes hunting with me.”
Luna circles around Pete’s head twice before making a loop around Sofie and eventually settling back into her place on Pete’s hand.
“That’s cool too, though! Hunting’s cool. Not everyone needs a Luna all the time. I don’t even need Luna all the time.”
“Okay.” Sofie swigs back the last of her coffee. “I know we sort of agreed to light stuff but I just gotta ask—have you done a lot of work or something?”
“Work?” Pete frowns. “I mean, I’m always trying to grow this more,” he says as he strokes his small mustache, “and I guess I’ve been bulking up a bit, but I haven’t had anything done.”
“Pete. C’mere.” Sofie puts her coffee down and motions for Pete to lean in closer, beckoning him more vigorously when he looks hesitant. Once he’s finally close enough, she puts her hands on either side of his face. “You’re very, very sweet,” she says, “and sometimes a little simple. I meant, like, you seem so much more centered than the last time we really talked; what kinda therapy juice are you chugging these days?”
alejandra matsui & catherine lee & langston brown, 23.6k, dimension 20: the unsleeping city chapter 2
Langston starts to back up, figuring that that’s what she meant, but as he does so, the thing begins to - well, not speak, exactly, because it doesn’t have a mouth, but that’s the best way Langston can think to describe the way the water shifts in what could be seen as lips moving to speak.
“Langston Brown. Alejandra Matsui-Sinclair. Catherine Lee,” it says, voice low and rumbling. Langston feels his stomach drop - until this point, he was willing to let this pass as some sort of weird mass delusion - he’s heard of things like that happening before. But now, this thing has said his name, and the names of his best friends, and it feels like this is something much more real than that.
or, cat, al, and langston uncover the magic world and slowly unravel the secrets of the unsleeping city
happy @d20bigbang ! i had the pleasure of working with steven ( @midnightfox450 and @/midnightfox452 on twitter) and bee alexander ( @beece and @/boothskeletons on twitter) to crank out this bad boy! i could not be more happy with how this turned out and i hope you enjoy it!! the (absolutely gorgeous) art that steven made is embedded in the fic, and i’ll also link it here <3
“This tour’s weird,” Gorgug says as she starts tuning her bass. “Not, like, in a bad way. It’s just weird.”
“You’re telling me,” Fig mumbles. “I thought we’d be, like, hanging out on a real boat.”
(Seven stops on Fig and the Sig Figs’ second tour.)
Happy @d20bigbang day! I had the joy of working with @paladinbaby to bring the Sig Figs’ tour to life. All of their art is embedded in the fic, but you can also see it here on Tumblr. Faun is such a joy and delight to work with, check their stuff out! <3
“This tour’s weird,” Gorgug says as she starts tuning her bass. “Not, like, in a bad way. It’s just weird.”
“You’re telling me,” Fig mumbles. “I thought we’d be, like, hanging out on a real boat.”
(Seven stops on Fig and the Sig Figs' second tour.)
Happy @d20bigbang day!!!!!! It’s been so much fun working with @waveridden on this they’re so cool and their writing is just beautiful (you should also read their Big Bang fic from last year as well) and I’m so excited for you to follow the Phoenix tour! It’s truly been a joy and a pleasure to work on.
[Image description: A series of seven tour posters for the Fig and the Sig Figs Pheonix Tour
Image one is of Fig and Gorgug from Fantasy High. They are performing under a spotlight on the top of a bus that says ‘Next Stop: Phoenix Tour’. Fig is a pink skinned tiefling girl, in a belted, dark blue dress with a big skirt with a see through cobweb print shirt underneath. She is smiling and looking off to the left. She is playing a raspberry coloured, horned bass guitar and several bracelets including a green friendship bracelet are on her right arm. Gorgug is sat behind her at a matching red drum kit. He is a half orc, smiling with his eyes closed. His hair has light streaks at the front and is tucked behind his ears. He is wearing a sweater, shirt and bowtie. His right arm is raised in the air above a cymbal.
Image two is of Gorgug and Fig on a small, brown boat, with ‘fig and the sig figs’ written in light blue across it. Fig is sitting in the boat with her eyes closed, playing her bass and smiling slightly. She wears a light purple sundress, dark combat boots and lots of bracelets and necklaces. Her hair is braided loosely and falls over her right shoulder. Gorgug is standing behind her rowing the boat, he wears long denim shorts and a cropped tank top with a crab on it. He looks nervously off to the side at an indigo hand reaching out of the water.
Image three is of Fig and Gorgug pointing at a blue map on a wooden table. At the top right of the poster is a cracked compass and towards the bottom right are two blue pens. Fig’s hand is in the bottom left. She has red pointed nails and two rings on her outstretched finger. On her wrist are the same bracelets as in the first poster, one wrapped leather and a green, beaded friendship bracelet. Gorgug’s hand is slightly bigger, reaching across from the opposite corner. He has chipped black nail polish on and a beaded, red bracelet that matches the one Fig wears. At the top of the poster ‘The Sig Figs’ is written in pink, a dotted line leading from the text at the top to more text at the bottom that reads ‘Live in Spyre The Phoenix Tour.’
Image four is of Fig and Ayda sitting on a crows nest platform. The sky is dark blue and cloudy but they are lit by the warm orange glow of Ayda’s wings. Fig is in a skirt and corset top with a white shirt under it. She has her legs over the edge and has one arm wrapped around Ayda’s waist. Ayda is in a leather jacket with pins on the lapel, a white shirt with a short collar and red trousers pushed up to the knee. One of her bird legs rests up on the ledge and the other is tucked under her. Her wings and hair are made of flame, and the right side of her body is covered in glowing tattoos. In the bottom right text reads ‘Fig and the Sig Figs present… Firelight’.
Image five is of a series of picture frames on a wall, each showing a different selection of objects. The objects include two red guitar picks, two candles dripping wax, a photo of a house with a blurred figure standing next to it, a range of jewelry, a teacup covered in red moss and glass bottles. On the left side is an arched frame which Gorgug is inside, looking alarmed and holding the outside edge of it. In the top right a banner is hung that says ‘The Sig Figs’ surrounded by hearts. A dark shadow shaped like a tall figure falls over the whole wall of frames.
Image six is of a white van crossing an arched, cobblestone bridge over a river. The van is driven by Gorgug, his knees are visible through the window, as if the driver's seat is too close to the console for him. On the side doors of the van is a bright pink heart with a graphic tail and horns with red writing in front that says ‘fig and the sig figs’. He is driving in front of a light blue sky with soft clouds over a river, where the van casts a bright blue shadow.
Image seven is of a fireplace and armchair in a dark room. The whole image is cast in dark purple tones apart from the fire in the fireplace which casts a soft yellow glow around it. On the mantel above the fire is a plant pot and an arcane focus orb. A soft armchair sits in front of the fire, with a plaid sheet draped over the back. On the seat of the chair is a wide eyed black cat. Above the chair and mantle is red bunting with the ‘sig figs’ embroidered across it.]
Fig had promised herself, the day all her friends had walked away from her, the day her mother had told her the secret that ruined her life, the day she decided she wanted real answers, that she wouldn’t touch fire again. It would only fucking ruin her life.
But Ayda was watching her, fascinated. Ayda was watching her, like she wanted answers just as badly as Fig did- like the questions were burning her from the inside out.
I did come here looking for answers, Fig begrudgingly admitted to herself, and she is a wizard, right?
I don’t want her to look at me like my friends did, Fig didn’t admit to herself, didn’t let herself think; and stuck her hand into the blazing hearth.
happy dimension 20 big bang day!! its so crazy that i finally get to share this fic and the INCREDIBLE art that goes with it with all of you <3 this is the longest and plottiest fic I’ve written and posted to date and i am both so excited to share it and so excited to be done <3
the first chapter is posted now on ao3 as part of the D20BB collection, and I’ll be updating it with the rest of the chapters as the week goes on, so stay tuned here and on ao3!
I want to give so much love and thanks to my incredible artist Isaac/Julia for all their hard work and I am ESPECIALLY excited for all of you to see their art for this project- its so beautiful I’m genuinely so obsessed with it. You can see all the art they’ve made for this project on their twitter here, and I’ll also be imbedding the images in the fic itself as I post chapters!! please please go check out all the other works in the d20 big bang collection and their tumblr account here @d20bigbang and show some love to all the other incredibly talented authors and artists and betas and mods who’ve put so much love and hard work into these fanworks the last few months 💛
