And The Fourth Option... Why Not All Three?

Aaaaand it’s done! I’m dead! My Wings & Ruin montage. I probably could have spent a couple more weeks / months tweaking it to within an inch of its life, but for the sake of my sanity I’m calling it done (it was hella fun, but I think I wracked up about a million hours.)

PRINTS! In  the usual places, for everyone asking. Society 6 and Limited signed copies on Etsy.

Writing Weapons (7): Unarmed Combat (Hand-to-Hand Fighting)

In a fight situation with no weapons, characters will stick with the kind of fighting they're familiar with: grappling or striking.

Grappling

Martial arts: judo, wrestling aikido, jiu jitsu, sambo, lucha libre, glima

Suitable for: entertaining fight scenes

Aim in lethal fight: chock or strangle

Words to use: grapple, wrestle, twist, pull, pin, roll, throw, toss, squeeze, press, chock, strangle

Holding the opponents down to the floor is called a "pin"

Striking

Martial arts: boxing, kick-boxing, karate, muay thai, capoeira, taekwondo

Suitable for: entertaining or gritty fights

Aim in lethal fight: blow to head

Words to use: strike, hit, box, kick, punch, chop, slap, kick, chop, hammer, pound

Mixing Martial Arts

Some martial arts combine grappling and striking techniques.

A skilled martial artist is probably an expert in eiher striking or grappling, but also has basic skills in the other.

Easier to stick with one group for one character - the hero's friends can complement each other if they have different martial art backgronds!

Investing a Fantasy Martial Art

Spiritual Elements connected to the general magic/religious system of your story world.

Mental Focus that allows the martial artist to amplify the effectiveness of attacks.

Small rituals, like bowing to the guru before and after every fight to obtain some kind of "blessing"

Restricted admission to pretigious martial arts academies

Specialist techniques that require combining physical action with spells, or a symbolic act that activates magic.

Exams: students must prove themselves through a series of tough (life threatening) tests to obtain access to the most important lessens of the practice.

Special garmetns

Secret codes between members

Winning Factors

Skill - the most important. A skilled fighter can take on someone who is much larger than them, but unskilled.

Size

Ruthlessness

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“Don’t,” the young faerie moaned. I began shaking my head. I couldn’t listen to him. I had to do it now, before he convinced me otherwise. “Please!” His voice rose to a shriek.

The sound jarred me so much that I lunged.

With a ragged sob, I plunged the dagger into his heart.

This scene of ACOTAR killed me. To see Feyre sacrifice this faerie as well as her soul to save Prythian… I just couldn’t believe it.

“For all that he had done, I had never given him either. Even when I had just… I had just painted something. On him. For him.  I’d- painted again. So I smiled at him, broad and without restraints. -a Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J Maas

This scene in acomaf <3 It needed a quote

To see the full nsfw nude version, please visit my Patreon! I’ve just started on the second book of the acotar series and I’m sitting patiently waiting for something like this to happen :”)

Death and Evie from The Arcana Chronicles <3

I’m finally up to speed after reading Arcana Rising! I think I put off carrying on with this series after finishing Dead of Winter because of how GOD DAMN HEART BROKEN I WAS.

DEATH </3

I really enjoy Arcana Chronicles EVEN IF IT (REALLY) FRUSTRATES THE HELL OUT OF ME. Death is the sweetest of cinnamon rolls and I love him so AND PLEASE DON’T DO IT, KRESLEY COLE. I’m just here for Death.

YEAH ALRIGHT, I MISSED THEM. OKAY?!

Kinda spoilery!!! But I always wanted to draw the Cauldron scene at the end of ACOWAR < 333

Just a sketch, I’m not planning on rendering this one up. PEACE.

Here is my entry for the coloring contest @meabhd has so wonderfully decided to hold.

Feyre and Rhysand. Linework by @meabhd. Color by me. I wanted to keep most of the sketch lines, because I really love them. Thank you for holding this contest!

Edit: Decided to add the more subdued version too. Just a sweet moment between Feyre and Rhysand.

I got to meet the most wonderful @sjmaas today! It was so surreal and she is so lovely, as his her husband! And I gave her two prints, this being one of them. She said she recognised my art and I nearly passed out. It was so amazing and I had the most amazing time, and thanks to the lovely girl that came up to me at the end, you were so adorable!

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