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It's plague time, wheeeeeee — slightly belated (as always, rip me), but here is my piece for the 2024/25 DaiSuga Bang for @kings-highway 's awesome Historical AU "Danza Della Morte" (on Ao3) 🕺🏻💀👍

(Please click for better resolution — Art by me, concept by King — This art may not be used or copied by anyone else for any purpose!)

Aside from that autumn slump (and mediocre ArtFight turnout), tis was a pretty solid art year (shout out to the Sword & Sorcery Bang for really getting my art game up, especially in the backgrounds/scenery and posing department) 👍🌟

Individual pieces can be found through my art tag #charleedraws as always and now on BSKY as well (same handle as here @/charlythelee) ~

Also, another year full of zine fun, thank you all for the support on the Frieren, Trigun and MSBY4 zines 😊💕

Not quite in time for his birthday but here's the 2nd part of my HQ!! Fantasy BB Pinch Hit, featuring the man, the myth, the bard 🎸🎩

⇢ Read "Bard Without a Song" on Ao3 by @savannahlovena (Beta by Alaina) ⇢ Hanamaki (MatsuHana) Art

Slightly belated pinch hit for the HQ Fantasy BigBang — have some MatsuHana angst and please check out the fic, the AU and world building are lovely ☺️💕

⇢ Read "Bard Without a Song" on Ao3 by @savannahlovena (Beta by Alaina) ⇢ Akaashi Art

And my 2nd & ½ piece(s) for the HQ Fantasy BigBang—More Fem!SakuAtsu being fancy and pining for each other 😩💕 (Can you spot all the cameos?)

⇢ Read "Eternal Return" by Hannah on Ao3 (Beta by Alaina) ⇢ More Art

My 1st piece for the HQ Fantasy BigBang—I had some big time fun with Fem!SakuAtsu and low-key obsessing over their little, domestic vegetable garden 🥕🥖🍎

⇢ Read "Eternal Return" by Hannah on Ao3 (Beta by Alaina) ⇢ More Art

ArtFight revenge for @sunnythesheep 💕

Thank you for the lovely attack of my sona ^-^

A little late, but here is my piece for the DaiSuga BigBang 2023 ~ I had a ton of fun with the panels and the atmosphere!

Please check out Sibel's (@daisugababy) awesome Hunger Games AU on Ao3, I'm biting my fingernails reading, it's so gooood ✨

(Also shout out to the mods for being so dang patient with me and for the amazing organization 💕)

No-Text version under the cut ~

Guess who had a shite art year? Ironically though I did have my 2nd best ArtFight year with 11 pieces & at least I was marginally more inspired to write than last year.

Thank you all for sticking around, also for the zines, which have arguably been my focus in 2023, so — here's to 2024 ✨

Third year of @hqbb and as always I had a ton of fun participating ~  This time around with Aria (malewifereoagenda) and their super sweet UshiSemi fic "A Love Once Lost" (Preview | full link following soon) 💕

I had the joy to not only contribute my own fic to the recent @spyxangst zine, but also make some spot art for @fallsintograce super angst-juicy fic "The Face of Love" (on Ao3) ~ 

The whole zine is free to download, so please check it out, there are so many amazing pieces in there ☺️✨

⚡ Zine Release ⚡

The result of our mission is finally ready! Enjoy the wonderfully angsty works of over 30 creators, available now for free!

⇝ Download here: https://luhua.itch.io/spyxangst

Thank you for reblogging! 🌟 @zinefeed @anizines @zine-scene

2023 ArtFight Dump

Aaaand all other ArtFight Attacks from this year for people without a Tumblr ~ This year definitely had something of a green theme <3 1. "Wisecracker"/Sorsin for AbigailBozarthArt (on DA) 2. Mateo for 4LeafRose (on IG) 3. Blair for SpoonStew (on AF) 4. "New Friend"/Eloise for dragon_loaf (on IG) 5. "Sprout"/Peanut for CocoAndJumbo (on Twitter)

ArtFight attack on @erictmason ~

Thank you for all your nice comments 💕 It was fun drawing for you!

ArtFight revenge for @pocket-hidgens ~

Thank you for the nice attack, I enjoyed drawing your character ☺️

ArtFight attack for @bioluminescent-bat ~

Love drawing birds with cool hairdos 💕

Very VERY late ArtFight attack for @riyamilea ~

Little candy stealing gremlin creatures for the win ✨

ArtFight attack for @kakiloutre ~

Really cool characters and world building, I had so much fun drawing this and getting a bit more creative with poses than I usually do 👉👈

Art Fight attack for @imimoken ~

I first drew Kiskadee back on Amino in 2017 and now I have FINALLY had a chance to redraw her 💕 She's just a good bean.

Feathers, Crow, Fire, Stars - crown the sky above. Stand here and reach, between the realms of men. Crown the land below - Jewel, Sword, Fruit, Blossom.

The "Ten Prayers" spans the border between Karasuno and Aoba Johsai. Little is known about the way that it was built by the first settlers of Miyagi, only that travelers used to hold a ritual following each of the pillars on their way across. But their exact words have long joined the myths.

(Concept, Fic "All the King's Blades" & Art © me) -> AU Masterpost

feel the wind

Don't mind me, just trying stuff out after 2 months of art block—couldn't be bothered to properly shade anything so have whatever this is instead 👉👈 (also guess who had a haircut and finally got her hair to do the poofy thing)

Art & Character Charlotte © by me!

I don't even have words to describe my headspace this year other than simply... MEH. I did a lot of small writings so at least there is that ~

Hence, no large dramatic speech this year, just... thanks for sticking around (even if half of you are porn bots but that's live on Tumblr for you I guess 😂).

Another attempt at a chibi (kinda, since my dumb ass didn't check the file size before) instead of writing my papers 🥲. It's been almost 2 years since I last drew her and I think I'm really settling into the new design.

Character Leviathan & Art © me.

A while ago I had the chance to work on the Cosmic RarePair Zine (on Twitter) and write a Sachiro/Atsumu fic centered around soulmate companion animals. I also took a run at lineless art for the first time in ages and made this piece of spot art. It's no comparison to the actual artists' pieces but I'm still low-key proud of it for my standards 😌

⇢ Read: The Heniocha Dyops Effect (on Ao3) (Preview)

Art & writing © me ~

Another year, another collaboration for the @hqbb , this time with NerdTree @sportanime-maniac — I had an absolute blast with their OiSuga SciFi AU so please check out the fic 'Diamonds & Rust' (on Ao3—link will follow soon) 💪🏼✨

© Art made by me, concept by NerdTree

& Bonus Character designs, since we had so much fun with this but the actual art only shows them from the back ~

Another day, another preview ~ This time for my piece(s) for the Haikyu!! RarePair Zine "Cosmic" 🎉

I had an absolute blast writing a Sachiro/Atsumu character study centered around soulmate companion animals for this zine and also drawing my first ever zine art piece. Check out all the other contributors on the zine's Twitter and give everyone much much appreciation 🥰

2022 ArtFight Attacks & Revenges ~ I have been in a real slump for all of July and just barely managed to scrape together three drawings for this year's fight but for now I'm thankful they at least turned out okay-ish &lt;;.<

Characters belong to: Top left: Amy (on IG) Top right: Fira & Vihapiiras (on IG);

Art © me; May only be used by myself and the respective character owners — do not trace, copy or heavily reference!

Haven't drawn my sona in a while and since I didn't have the nerve to go lineless, I tried something chibi instead 👀 Might re-do this soon but still pretty pleased with the result ^-^

Art and Character © by me!

On their way home with a nice afternoon snack after a busy day of studying annoying IwaOi 🍕

More UrbanFantasy University AU art, you know the drill >.> This time with wind spirit Hanamaki and half-centaur/half-dullahan Matsun.

[IwaOi]

The Torch Carrier—Child of the Pyre, Child of Death

(yes, more Royalty/Fantasy AU Suga art—so sue me 😤 and apologies for the abysmal gif quality)

-> ATKB Masterpost

(and once again this is gonna be some massive spoiler for anyone actually reading this AU, but like... pls, I can't stop myself)

The Crossed Torches are an old symbol for a gateway to the realm of the dead. Karasuno in particular has a deep connection to death and its manifestation—The Angel of Death, Azrael.

Once every blue moon, the angel, who has no permanent physical form in the realm of the living, chooses to take hold in a human who then becomes their vessel. The vessel provides their body and their soul as new habitat for the angel and offers themselfe as tool for the angel should they decide to take action in the corporeal world—whenever they act, angels usually choose to modify the body of their vessel to reminiscent their ethereal form. In return for hosting the angel, the vessel can use its power and call favors from the entity.

Suga was offered as a vessel by his father, in the hopes of Areal being able to cure his sickness. Not knowing the details and conditions of vesselship, Suga accepted in the hopes of now being able to die. However, it did neither what he nor his father wanted, as vessel ship is a soul-bond under the protection of mother fate and made his live her property (so that fate alone could influence it—he can neither take his live nor can Azrael prolong it). Since then their relationship has been rocky. At first, Suga was angry at Azrael for deceiving him but eventually came to the realization that he now had to make the best of the situation—from there on he quickly learned how to call upon the angel's powers, for example by reassembling the spirits of authors of rare books and make them help him reconstruct their works, translate them from their original languages or teach him in their field of expertise. Over time, Suga has gradually grown into his role as vessel and managed to find a harmonious co-existence with the universe-shaping entity making snarky comments inside his soul. The only things they repeatedly clash over is Azrael's increasing interest in Natsu (and Daichi's adamant dislike of the entity, although Suga is more annoyed with Azrael for teasing his husband than angry).