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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

used a clear wax crayon for outlines and I'm not sure how well that worked.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I like how the sky texturing came out and the highlighting on the pillar and obs my tiny grasses.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

doing weird sky things with elden ring locations again

watercolour painting. the background is a blue and orange sky with a blobby texture. the foreground has grass along the bottom 3rd, and on the right a spiral pillar and a building covered in carvings, all of them in a dark brown as if silhouetted. on the far right a gold miquella's cross stands against the sky.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

ah no, as far as I know that's the only one! I just saw the meme go around while the lawsuit was ongoing and it feels like it would probably be extra frustrating to have to be in court for copyright *and* have your work shared uncredited when you need the attention

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I often see the "you do not fit in here" "oh no" comic uncredited, it's an edit of Alex Norris' work at webcomicname here webcomicname.com/post/1855884... . unfortunately they've been in copyright legal battles lately

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

been replaying remedy's control so here is a quick and messy slidescape-36

a sketchy watercolour. a group of five dark monoliths are silhoutted against an orange glow, with a dark foreground and sky closing in around them

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

there's a whole bunch of things I am Not Fixing and that's okay. it got me through a couple hours of insomnia, we're good.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I have... issues with the company. but I gotta give genshn credit for having some excellent ruins, and a login screen that to me still feels like visiting an alien world.

Digital landscape. the background is a pastel sunset, in a gradient from yellow at the bottom left to blue at the top right. in the midground, broken and crumbling walkways extend out into thin air and stop, pillars hanging from them broken off and resting on nothing. in the centre foreground, a small patch of narrow path breaks off just in front of the viewer.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

there can be overlap, but you will get some people who are exclusively one category and they are... unwilling to accept alternate interpretations of "shipping"

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

imo there's also shipping as "an aspirational relationship to project onto" and shipping as "I want to put these characters in a situation and see what falls out", given how "but you wouldn't want to be in that kind of relationship?!!" takes I see

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

is that a harsh way to look at NPCs? maybe. I love me a dark souls NPC and am sometimes sad they don't have more to say. but man. what's the AI even going to generate that's half as good as the carefully crafted lines that *do* exist and tell me more about the NPC and/or world?

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

with endless dialogue you very much run into the risks of a) the NPC telling you something *incorrect* and therefore perhaps fucking up the game and b) losing the *important* information in all the endless "hello, stranger!"s

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

the "infinite NPC dialogue" is so pointless, too. like even aside from "I am generally only talking to NPCs to get something interesting, useful, or funny out of them and drowning me in endless variations of small talk doesn't add anything to my game experience"

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

they're all a little cliche, but I like turning them and their general relationship and their pasts and their group and pair dynamics over in my head.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

they date now. and run an inn. the ex-general is the military force guy and bouncer, the ex-chancellor is an excellent poisoner and they don't let him near anything important, the femme fatale ex-spymaster is barkeep, and the ex-princess is magic and cooking.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

my middle-aged villains (and their ex-princess girlfriend) from a political low-fantasy world. they lost the villain-off to the princess' brother, so because they all had *some* mutual respect for each other as opponents, they went into hiding together and then all ended up dating

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

some of the other Discworld strands are more about skewering mythology or literary tropes, fantasy tropes in particular, so IG you could read them as less serious, but they're still a fun read if you like loving deconstructions of the source material

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I assume people see fantasy comedy and/or that his earliest and latest books include YA and assume it's not that deep, but man, there's some good society skewering satire in the Discworld books, the Watch books especially.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

you're gonna love the "he's like a father to him" discourse.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

just an opinion. it's okay to have all kinds of opinions, as long as they're not about anyone in particular, apparently.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

you know, sometimes I'm like... maybe no-one will mourn me, but at least my legacy won't be so many lives wasted in the kind of cruel, hateful, violent ideology right wing ""political"" ""debaters"" sell. I'd rather be a net neutral than a net negative.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

you too can give up all your own ability to make your own choices to let a probability machine give you the most average answer.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

given there's like... some suggestion genAI has adverse affects on decision making skills, it's an interesting choice to choose to show that in adverts like it's a positive :p

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

self-shipping with characters who *were* older than me at the time but are not now, because I age and they don't :p

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

also like... the "Secret Third Thing" folks implying that people out of work are all stupid layabouts who obviously have too much free time and not enough real problems, whether they realise it or not, are edging into some dubious territory that they might wanna unpick a little.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

some days you do the landscape, some days you sit and do the Artblock Putting Paint on Paper :p

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

lord, typo. anyway. this is not a perfect analogy, I just think it's kind of interesting that we'll teach kids that roads are dangerous and how to be safe, even though cars can and do kill people, but... not internet safety. weird, huh.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

rather than teach kids that the information superhighway in dangerous and ways to navigate it safely or stay off it, some people have decided to let them play on the road and ban the cars instead.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

probably gonna have to go back in and fix some things but hey, for once having a slightly wobbly hand really helped on painting those fence wire strands :p

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I got grass/foliage brushes for my birthday like 2 months ago and this is the first time I've really tested them out

watercolour painting of a landscape. an empty green field under a grey cloudy sky, with the suggestion of trees on the horizon. in the foreground is a barbed wire fence

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I am not good at these games so it takes me a while to get anywhere without dying repeatedly on the way, and you know. frequently Some Number of attempts at bosses. Mohg was probably the hardest so far.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

got Radahn, Mohg, and Rykard down, plus all the base story bosses up until the Foot of the Forge site of grace. done most of the Haligtree too up, just the last boss left, and all the underground sections. probably gonna go do the expansion first, or you know. as much of it as I can

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

been playing a game. it's probably not the *point* that I made my tarnished to my personal taste but hey, I think I'm allowed some personal taste, heterochromia and all

screenshot of the video game elden ring, focussed on the face and chest of the player character. the character has grey skin, grey hair held back by a gold and red headband, and is dressed in highly decorated silver armour with decorative gold chains and gems

screenshot of the video game elden ring, showing the character customisation screen, with the menu options to the left and the head of the character to the right. the character has grey skin and a messy grey hairstyle with a fringe over one eye, and side sections that stop just above the shoulders

screenshot of the video game elden ring showing the character status screen. The left side has a small section of text, showing the character name Samael, followed by a short list of "Body Type: A, Age: Young, Origin: Samurai, Keepsake: Golden Seed". The character's equipment is shown in small icons below. on the right is the full length figure of he character, wearing silver armour and holding a triangular shield of engraved brass and a spear made of spiralling gold bands

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

you'd need images for everything but like, you could frame most of those images with the inside of the windshield. maybe the occasional focus shot on the side window, or a mirror, or the front passenger seat, or the radio.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I don't think it'll be a project I make because man, that feels like more work than I have in me on any given day, but it is fun to think about what kind of things you might see out of the corner of your eye

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

just a weird little horror visual novel about driving at night and the things you see, maybe. couple of branching routes- both in the terms of gameplay and literal driving route

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

my dad's car has this built in system for like, GPS and all that, and every time it starts the Computerised Voice says "starting normal recording" and all I can think is "this implies there is Abnormal recording", which always feels like the start of a horror game lmao

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

"your ship doesn't sail" good! maybe I want to see the whole relationship fall apart and founder on the rocks, wrecking everyone involved :p

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

turns out being "smart" as a teenager, unfortunately, does not fix mental health issues and maybe just adds even more pressure to succeed to the pile.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I wanted to go to vocational college but my mother and my high school decided I was "too smart" for that. so instead I struggled with academic subjects I didn't even really want to be doing but picked because I had to pick something and washed out before uni.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

there also need to be more than One Woman in an age range people are comfortable shipping, which is not as guaranteed as perhaps would be liked

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

yup, there's bsky asking me to verify I'm an adult, fuck that noise.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

if this stupid ID law goes through I'm probably gonna vanish, I don't even use my real face on here what's it gonna prove if I give them a photo

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

p sure acrylic over watercolour is probably An Art Heresy but I like the extra texture and the contrast of harder objects against softer background sometimes

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

one "what happens when I really don't wanna think about what I'm doing right now"and one technically fanart, kinda (but no references so it is more How Game Existed In My Head At Time of Painting)

watercolour painting on textured cream paper of a bunch of curved lines of varying width and length, in assorted shades of blue, purple and black, rising from a dark blue mass at the bottom of the image

mixed media painting. what remains of a white tower rises from the sea, leaning sideways, and slightly further back is a chunk of broken bridge. at the bottom of the painting, in the foreground, is a cobbled road in terracotta. slight texturing from acrylic paint is visible on he bridge, tower and road. the background is a watercolour seascape under a sky that shades from yellow at the bottom to a greyish teal at the top.

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

are they *good*? IDK, but they're generally things I feel like keeping up to date on, which is about as good as I get with enjoying things right now

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hell is Dark with No Flowers, Holy Grail of Eris, Case Files of Jeweller Richard, Yona of the Dawn, Strange House, My Lady Just Wants to Relax, The Daughter of House Albert Wishes for Ruin, Welcome to House Metsapeura, Otherworld Picnic, Moriarty the Patriot, Don't Call it Mystery, Shirayukihime

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I like my mysteries, I like my supernatural, I like my shojosei fantasy romances- unfortunately, they rarely get popular and rarely in anime, lmao. so aside from the already-listed-and-still-ongoing in the top post, the current main reading list is like...

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Ellis/Sand, Romantic Deviant @asthouwill.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

half points to demon slayer, which I finished but have very mixed feelings on, in/spectre which I read but have mixed feelings about, and spice and wolf, which I always think about going back to but still haven't :p admittedly my responses are skewed by *reading* rather than *watching*

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