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fresh inking i did today, Cal eating a chunk of solidified dust and having to pretend to like it. i spend my time how i want ok
"cautionary tale" mar 2026
finished this sketch from oct that looked like this:
"wax wine"
tablet, digital. Mar 2026
I wanted to make her red velvet cake themed, but that would make her look too much like Nacre (who is pink-skinned and has yellow hair)
REFUSE SUBLIME Digest : pages 01-004 – 01-006
Our team has arrived at an alien planet, Exeter, to wrap up things with the elementals there. Fern gets really scared, because said elementals are in an advanced state of decay. Lyudmila reassures him.
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REFUSE SUBLIME Digest : pages 01-001 – 01-003
The first 3 pages of the new book.
Lyudmila, Fern, Rae, and Lemojo are on their first real mission together, visiting the planet Exeter, where the metal elemental Fern defeated is from.
They’re planning on returning that metal they ended up with from killing Babbitt. It's not going to be easy.
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GRAYLING DIGEST pages 10-115 – 10-117
In this past week's updates, Eke explains that Hy needs a medical implant and ... 500 plastic beetles? They find the gnarled fragment Lemojo spent the previous night looking for. The snakes are friends, and take requests.
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A color test for Klyre, an Eighvorian tertiary elemental Cal befriends in the Starmouth and ends up dating longterm. He's related to Lyudmila, though they are estranged. His element is a major spoiler and won't be revealed for a long time.
Though I think Klyre might be a little shorter, I want it to be clear he's a lot stronger than Cal. Cal is going to find him physically intimidating. Cal is very tall, but insubstantial and skinny. Eighvorians run big and strong and Klyre's no exception.
He was never a soldier, like Lyudmila, using his physical prowess for entertainment purposes (wrestler, actor, mascot, dancer, celebrity). He's a lapsed celebrity now and lives in the Starmouth part-time to save on resources.
You'll notice that Klyre and Lyudmila are both tertiary. They come from separate dyads. Eighvor has discarded tertiary elemental dyads one after another, so there are quite a few to be found out there, and they don't necessarily know each other very well because they weren't encouraged to fraternize. I can't really call Klyre and Lyudmila siblings like I can with the Faidian elementals.
Anyway Klyre has a ton of secrets, and he kind of deserves a partner like Cal for a few of those. He's not overall a bad guy though, and I think he will be a pretty good influence on Cal, even if he orchestrates some pretty rough stuff for Cal to go through
GRAYLING DIGEST pages 10-109 to 10-111
Fern tries to trick Lemojo into comforting him in a stupid way that Lemojo wisely rejects. Lemojo talks about how he has been feeling insecure vis a vis Hy. I correct auto-correct every time it changes Lemojo to Lemon.
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Pinning down a new character design. Klyre (pronounced either "clear" or rhyming with "tire") is a mystery tertiary elemental Cal befriends in the Starmouth. He's a sibling of Lyudmila, so pretty old, though lacking her pep. A worn-out & disillusioned athlete/overachiever.
