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Guys, I got six gifts this year and they all knocked it out of the park. I also did 2 artworks, linked down at the bottom.

All of these are roughly PG or G rated, so no worries about opening at work.

3 artworks, for Little Red Riding Hood, Discworld, and The Mandalorian.

Lost in Thought (0 words) by Odalyn
Fandom: Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale), Little Red Riding Hood - All Media Types

A stark image in black, white and red, with wonderful graphic design, depicting the moment before Red's life changes.

Confused math Vimes (0 words) by laughingpineapple
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett

One of my Generic Prompts is for paparazzi photos of the characters, and laughingpineapple ran with it.

Family Portrait (96 words) by embraidery
Fandom: The Mandalorian (TV)

Another one of my Generic Prompts is, instead of a picture of a character, a picture by the character, and embraidery nailed it with this hilarious image.

3 fics, for Hades/Persephone, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Bad Batch:

Sugar Free Poetry (428 words) by Missy
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore

For my Ancient Greek Religion & Lore prompt I mentioned that the author could take inspiration from the myth and put it into a different genre, SF, eldritch horror, coffeeshop AU, whatever. Missy took "coffeeshop AU" and ran with it, achieving that Dark Academia nostalgic vibe I lap up. :)

into the darkness they go (the beautiful, the tender, the kind) (687 words) by ofmagdala
Fandom: Little Red Riding Hood (Fairy Tale)

ofmagdala's story is a lovely, powerful complement to Odalyn's image above, this time depicting what happens after Red's life changes.

Threads (879 words) by ambiguously
Fandom: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)

ambiguously is a powerhouse in the Star Wars fic-writing fandom, and gave me this lovely story about what happens when Wrecker damages his favorite doll, and Omega steps in to help.

I did 2 artworks this year, primarily 3D renders:

with dreams and infinite longing (0 words) by Irusu
Fandom: The Unspoken Name - A.K. Larkwood
Characters: Talasseres Charossa
Summary: Tal's being picturesquely dramatic again

Fun story! I originally matched with this person on a different fandom, because I screwed up and marked that I offered fic as well as art, and they only wanted fic for it. However, they wanted art for The Unspoken Name, which was something I'd dithered about offering and eventually decided not to. I liked their prompt and so ended up producing a work in this fandom after all. :)

Lazy Afternoon (0 words) by Irusu
Fandom: Original Work
Summary: It's a lazy afternoon, a good time to sit and study a chess book, or just to sit and drink.

This is a picture of Burn & Calli from Deadfall/Deadwater. How did I get away with doing a picture of my OCs for a fandom exchange? Because the recipient is my alpha reader. yhlee asked for two characters playing chess in the "Original Works" fandom, so I gave him a picture of Burn & Calli. Are they playing chess together? Up to you. In my mind, Calli's teaching herself chess strategy from a book while Burn's mostly keeping her and a couple of bottles of something strong company, but you could interpret it other ways, and they're all valid. (It's also a scene that, if it ever takes place, would be many years on from the events of the stories I'm working on now.)

I've bought a number of things for DAZ in the past months, more than I've had time to play with. The DAZ store has good sales, and since Thanksgiving has been having some especially good ones that change daily. At any rate, I don't remember exactly when I bought this plugin, but I just started playing with it today and HOLY SHIT...

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I finished that image of the angry sword dude today and posted it both to Etsy and ArtStation.

You may recall the 3D oops I posted which spawned the fake grimdark book cover (AO3 link).

Here's the image I was actually trying to do.

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Now I get to figure out exactly what I'm going to do with him. I was aiming for practicing grimdark covers and hopefully coming up with a premade I could post, so now I need to start figuring out how best to do that.

the military science fiction cover from yesterday is now up and live on Etsy! Will I sell it there? I'm rather doubtful at the moment because most premades up on Etsy are romance, urban fantasy, and thriller but YOU NEVER KNOW.

I did my best Baen Books impression on the typography. XD