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Doing a little series of comics focused on Briar, Talon, and Katarina around the winter holidays. This occurs in kind of the aftermath of a fic I wrote where a) Kat and Talon made up post Katarina comic, and b) Briar managed to make friends with both of them. Thus, holiday magic. This is one of them .

In loving tribute to the centuries my ancestors spent using Christmas as an opportunity to get absolutely sloshed, as well as every time my sister and I have gotten into arguments helping Mom with the Christmas cookies, I present this.

Side note: until I started working on this little comic thingamajig, I never noticed how weird Talon’s palette is next to Katarina and Marcus. They’re all in gray and black, and then here’s Talon in a blue I’m not even sure Noxian stores sell. Not even their house has blue in it. Looks a bit funny when I’m coloring.

foaming at the mouth thinking about talon being illiterate again.. ik I've talked about it before but him being a shit reader or unable to is rather important to me. it's just so damn isolating.

I know it's not technically canon but I think about how tal's original writer thought he was illiterate and Marcus taught him symbols to use as a secret code and God how awful is that yk?? Marcus would rather communicate via a secret code rather than have talon learn to read bc keeping talon tethered and naive is in his best interest. it's so AWFUL. also I think Marcus would be a terrible teacher but that's an aside.

from an inside angle, having a secret code with your 'father' would probably make talon feel special, but he's still just being manipulated, it's kinda brutal. and I think talons hatred for being bad at stuff would ALSO make it harder to learn to read it's just heartbreaking.

I think on first glance using 'naive' is a weird word for him bc talon has experienced The Horrors, but being illiterate keeps him stuck in place and isolated and he doesn't even know it.

Behold, the project I’ve been working on all week. Turns out drawing a beat up church is exactly what I needed to stay calm about midterms. Enjoy part one of whatever this is

Never have I so wished my sister watched arcane

the divorce scene but better. enjoy

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Writing a multi-chapter fic is fun until you gotta re-read the whole fucking thing multiple times to ensure that you’re staying consistent and not accidentally fucking up your consistency with new chapters and have a whole note page about who knows what and who has what items and who is where doing what

the awkwardness of knowing your brother well enough to predict all his actions, but being too far away to know what he’d do with his spare time