a lego render of a young girl from a fantasy Ancient-Egyptian-type culture playing a harp, with her name spelled in Ge'ez and the caption: Izael, newly Kerrabar-nar-Izael, a young harpist sold to the wicked and indulgent House of Kerrabar to settle her mother's debt.

surely nothing earth-shatteringly traumatic will happen to THIS woobie after her upcoming meet-cute with The Gayest Little Time Traveler

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Houri, gesturing to a triforce with Oseni wielding a gun in power position, Katarosi wielding an axe in wisdom position, and Ismyrn wielding a sword in courage position: As you can see, Barsamin, there are three kinds of women: gun, sword, and axe. Barsamin: wait, then which one are YOU? Houri, maniacally: AXE.

repost of an old sketch

#gloryinthethunder

mom sold you into palatial servitude to cover her debts? find a new, better, stronger mom.

(sound on plz; music is The Kalendar Prince by Rimsky-Korsakov. This is a cutscene for my visual novel project Glory in the Thunder Act 1)

#gloryinthethunder #lego #visualnovel #classicalmusic

sketch: Aramaz to Tsovinar: you're thirty-eight?! you are REALLY good-looking for thirty-eight. Tsovinar: I also have quite a few different men's blood on my hands for thirty-eight. (caption: it hasn't really come up because every scene with Tsovinar in it has been narrated by a gay teenage boy, but everyone else is smitten by her.)

oh gods it has just occurred to me that I am now the age I picked for Tsovinar when I was like 22 to be a good age for a mature, accomplished, non-young woman

#gloryinthethunder

a new render of Izael on her balcony with her new and improved lego harp

hmm yeah I figured out a better small harp design. (Though I cheated, as I overlapped two of the "string" bricks to achieve an odd length.)

#gloryinthethunder #lego #bricklink

render of a lego city in pseudo ancient Egyptian style, with mudbrick houses, palm trees, golden obelisks and an enormous staircase leading up to a palace with amethyst trim.

test render of the city of Zarranask, year 0 NSF.

over ten thousand bricks. computer screaming and crying and begging for me to just play AAA video games like a normal person

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Ziazan, wiping black blood off her hands: Let's be clear: breaking artifices is 100% not murder, unless the artifice is me, which would be the saddest death ever. Aramaz: [injured and smitten]

Hayr: What do you mean, you were in the closet? Aramaz, you're the straightest boy in this story. Aramaz: UHHH-- Ziazan: he MEANS he was locked in a dark room alone with a woman and DID NOT TAKE THE HINT.

Ziazan: heehee, arrow go boooing~ (flicks an arrow sticking out of Aramaz's chest) Aramaz: AHHHHHHHH Hayr: ZIAZAN?! (Rare lore: Ziazan is a total sadist)

portrait of ZIAZAN, undead handmaiden of the God of Sight Flirty: Ooooh yes master~ Smugly: (he hates it when I say it like that) Stern: MASTER RASHK! Cheerfully: oh, did you finally bring me a big strong boyf–– (she comes face-to-face with a very confused young Hayr) Master, did you kidnap another babyqueer?! Rashk, waving her off: if you say it like that, it makes me sound CREEPY!

@hendric more Bisexual Ninja Maid, coming right up

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sketch: Ziazan, Aramaz and Arth are looking suspiciously over a wall. Hayr pulls Barsamin in close and says: My family clearly disapproves. Barsamin, worried: because we're both-? Hayr: Because an evil god prophesied that you'd kill me, *probably.*

when your family's not homophobic but The Prophecy might be

#gloryinthethunder #lgbt #sketch

Arth, skeptically: Do YOU trust that city boy? Aramaz, arms crossed: Oh, absolutely the muck not. Arth: Well, yer fool brother's in love with him. Aramaz: yeah, *I noticed.*

Aramaz, deadly serious: Arth, if I make the call that Hayr needs to be saved from his own kindness, I hope you'll *have my back.* Arth, grinning: oh don't you worry, I've already thought of twenty-seven ways for us to kill a god and live to laugh about it. Ziazan, popping up between them with a serene smile: are you boys planning a murder in my own house... WITHOUT me?

Ziazan, sternly: Listen to me. I am grief-stricken, heartsick, and FURIOUS that my beloved new master would be so stubbornly STUPID as to embrace the God of the Storm with open arms. Ziazan, sadly: But... you can't tell two people who've just fallen in love that it won't work out. You have to let them learn why themselves... and, I suppose, give them a chance to prove you wrong.

Ziazan, with enormous good cheer: and if that little upstart hurts my poor sweet Master Hayr, I will wring every last drop of his ruby red blood into the fortress drains! Arth, shocked: ... y'know, you're all right for a town girl. Aramaz, smitten: isn't she?

Bisexual Ninja Maid, what is your wisdom

(CW: comical over-the-top threats of violence)

#gloryinthethunder #lgbt #sketch

(on the docks with a Scenic Windmill) Izael: Vlinder... do you every worry... that you might have forgotten something? Something *very important?* Vlinder, waving around a beer bottle: Ooooh, look at me, I'm IZAEL! I have AMNESIA! My backstory must be very TRAGIC! Not like silly Vlinder, who *drinks to forget!* (Izael gets irritated and pushes Vlinder over the railing into the sea)

Vlinder, from the sea, in Dutch: ROTTEN BITCH. HELLBENT SHREW. NOW MY BEER'S GONE, SCUM OF THE EARTH HOW DARE YOU Izael, in ge'ez script copied from Tigrinya bible: mother of whores and abominations. Vlinder, dripping wet: I told you, I don't speak Asram when I'm drunk! Only when I'm high! Izael: "high"?? Is that what they call "not drunk" here?? Vlinder: haha no.

don't tell the poor gentleman-scholar who spent two weeks teaching me the Ge'ez script that I'm using it to portray my fictional bisexual lady woobies cussing each other out in tongues.

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3D render of a lego model of an Ancient Egyptian style palace several floors high, which has a step-pyramid type stairway to the top floor taking up one entire side. Its main color is sandstone and it is trimmed in amethyst purple.

test render of the Highest Stairs, which should be the biggest building I ever need to make for this story, though probably not the most complex (I expect Ostmenye Castle will be harder)

you can't see them here but there's some *lovely* support pillars inside...

#gloryinthethunder #wip #lego

title screen for Glory in the Thunder Act 1: Izael and Ravelin reach for one another, separated by a thunderbolt.

"But how can we celebrate today's second-most important visibility," I hear you ask, "that being abadidea's birthday?"

Easy! By reading Chapter 1 of her all-Lego visual novel project!

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this will be several chapters/hours in length when finished, but please enjoy Chapter 1 of "Ravelin breaks the world to impress her first gay crush" while I work very hard on the unreasonable amount of Ancient Egyptian architecture I need for chapter 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6KKAW1AN8 […]

please enjoy a complete recording of Glory in the Thunder Act 1 Chapter 1 set to a moderate reading speed. Ravelin Galatti is the world's worst goddess and she's already made it your problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6KKAW1AN8

#gloryinthethunder #visualnovel #lego #fiction

a title screen for my all-lego visual novel Glory in the Thunder Act 1. Izael and Ravelin are desperately reaching for each other as lightning strikes from a cool, uh, stained glass window I guess

horrible time travel accidents: these too are yuri

#gloryinthethunder #lego #visualnovel #yuri

Sparkasuki looking up to the sky from the precipice of the waterfall

Serriden in her Flametender chapel very worried about moody twelve-year-old goddesses

Serriden giving Aramaz a good bonk with her lantern, as punishment for divine sin (flirting with her)

Ravelin reluctantly follows Serriden into the chapel as stormclouds gather. also, horse.

okay. I have finished redoing Act 1 Chapter 1 of Glory in the Thunder visual novel in the lego style. I am very happy with the results. There are fifty - FIFTY - rendered backgrounds just in this chapter, not counting the swappable face layers. Here are four […]

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dramatic angle of Izael glaring down at the camera, and Callian facing away because something horrible definitely happened to her. Ravelin's speech bubble: "I literally made THE biggest mistake in the entire history of the WORLD."

everyone's first crush is embarrassing, but Ravelin's went worse than usual. #gloryinthethunder #lego #renpy #visualnovel

lego model of Ravelin hiding behind an apple tree to take a peek at teen Katarosi. narration word balloon: "Ravelin did not dare mention that she'd been to Antaram, before the war, before she'd been born, before her mothers had even met. Ravelin had seen the free Antaram that people like Serriden missed so much."

abusing time travel to find out what your mom was like as a teen: it's normal for girls

#gloryinthethunder

local god attempts to provoke the wrath of a higher power: his mortal priestess

this is a scene from my VN-in-progress, Glory in the Thunder volume 1 😌 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zFafpuIZs

#gloryinthethunder #visualnovel #lego

lego scene: the kids lean in from out-of-frame to listen to Uncle Aramaz roll a 1 on flirting with Serriden

the kids know where the drama's at.

#gloryinthethunder #lego #mastoart

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please enjoy this recording of the scene I finished today: Ravelin is the worst. Her brother is the worstest. Uncle Aramaz on the other hand is the best 😊

(this is a recording of a visual novel. the reading speed is under the user's control in-engine.)

#gloryinthethunder #lego #visualnovel […]

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I am very pleased with this render I made of Sister Serriden so I mashed her theme song (which I am also very pleased with) onto it, please enjoy #gloryinthethunder #music

Serriden, horrified, to Ravelin: What?! No, of course not! Nobody is doomed by their HAIR!

(Ravelin imagines her ancestress Sparkasuki, Queen of Birds with her sick hover-axes) We just... seem to have a history of turning out not to be great people.

one big advantage of the lego approach over the pixel art approach I tried last year is that it's so much easier to set up special shots that are only used for three seconds but have a striking visual impact #gloryinthethunder #lego #gamedev

Ravelin with a pouty little side-eye as she hauls logs for Serriden's stupid sacred fire

stop judging her. she can feel you judging her

#gloryinthethunder #lego

(side view of the Flametender chapel with Ravelin hesitating to approach Sister Serriden) The chapel ought to have felt like the safest shadowy corner in all the world, but crossing its threshold – which by ancient right of all women was the edge of absolute sanctuary – made Ravelin feel only impure.

who up feeling impure in holy places that they nominally have a right to, hashtag queer childhood #gloryinthethunder

intro banner for the character of Serriden, with her name written in Armenian. (I decided it was two different r's.) "Serriden of Antaram, Sister of the Flametender order and resident priestess of the Antaramin Court-in-Exile."

me: it'd be cool to show each character's name in the real-world writing system I associate with their fictional cultures

me, half deaf: [squinting at IPA recordings on wikipedia, trying to figure out if "Serriden", a name I made up, has one type of 'r' or two]

#gloryinthethunder

Serriden, flustered: o-oh, you’ve misunderstood, I’m just a Sister, not a Chapel Mother — Aramaz, giving her side-eye: You are manifesting the powers of the mother goddess of the human race through sheer BUSYBODINESS.

Someone said Serriden is the best mother in Glory in the Thunder #gloryinthethunder

local queer and neurospicy child remembers she exists (sound on)

#gloryinthethunder #gamedev #renpy #visualnovel

(lego illustration of Ravelin reveling in clocks) and that would be Ravelin Galatti, archaeologist-adventurer, historian extraordinaire, renowned expert in inconvenient family backgrounds, and literally the GODDESS OF TIME. Twelve years old, if one insists on such LINEAR ideas.

have you met my terrible daughter #gloryinthethunder #oc #visualnovel

"A red star struck her brow." lego render of Sparkasuki at the waterfall on the Night the Stars Fell

if you hate AI-generated Content™ and love intentional art direction and handwritten stories, then Encourage Me because this is a lot of work

#gloryinthethunder #lego #gamedev #mastoart