BitterOath
@bitteroath.bsky.social
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✧ Digital Artist ✧ Faeries, Witches, and Wizards ✧ Working on Princeling, a dark fantasy/romance webcomic: https://tapas.io/series/Princeling ✧ (she/her)
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bitteroath.bsky.social
Hello new followers! I'm Bitter, an Illustration student that likes to explore fantasy and the human psyche in art. I have a dark fantasy/romance webcomic about a socially anxious faerie man and his witchy friend~
✨She/Her
✨Webcomic Link: tapas.io/series/Princ...
A man and woman stand beside each other; the man has green skin, long black hair and goatee, yellow eyes, and yellow head wings. He peers out from a long black veil and wears long black robes. The woman has dark hair pinned up, and wears a blue dress. She twirls a lock of the man's hair around her fingers while gently smiling at the viewer. Bottom text says "Princeling". A woman in dark robes and hood walks out of a forest holding a walking stick adorned with star charms, and carrying a lantern. The man hangs high behind her. A creepy mermaid holding a staff - her face is hidden in darkness, glowing eyes looking down at the viewer. Dark wavy hair swirls around her head. A green-skinned man with long dark hair finger guns while wearing a black rodeo outfit with gold fringe.
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Ultimately this sort of thing is highly subjective, I just want magic to be weirder. x)
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I feel like even rituals and components in fantasy magic systems can be more chaotic - especially if the system has an animist undertone to it. Components can become their own characters, in that case, and not produce the same results for every magician. :O
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its 5 am and i can't sleep so i'm thinking about magic
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I get the need to have some consistency in a story, but I also want to be entertained. Fantasy is fun to me when there's ambiguity in how magic works.
I prefer the soft magic systems of Ghibli movies over like...high fantasy worldbuilding with extreme focus on the rules of a *singular* magic system.
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The more I learn about occultism, the more I think that strict magic systems in a story are kind of... boring lmao

Occultists love to argue, give them something to argue about.
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I have a really funky relationship with my OCs and kind of need some boundaries on that. 😅
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With the way things have been going, I'm half-minded about making a discord server for Princeling.
The only thing I'm not keen on is possibly getting fan fiction of my characters in the server - which I'm fine with people doing! I love knowing my work inspires others BUT--
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You look so cool!! ;o; The belt and the dress and the boots, all a 10/10 combo.
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I just want to look at and share some art. It almost feels like disrupting art communities is the point.

Discord communities have been a lifeline for me through these years. u_u
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I've hopped websites like...five times in the last three years? I'm sticking here for now, but this song and dance is getting really old.
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blackkittyartz.bsky.social
Sexy Pumpkin Dance but it's Rob Zombie's Dragula
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At last - it's SPOOKY TIME!!
I gotta do some new Halloween stuff with my mind gremlins >:3c
A young woman with dark hair in two braids, wearing a witch hat and black dress. She's flying on a broom, while nearby a small faerie man floats by her head.
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✨UNCENSORED PUSSYCAT✨

Now that I have your attention, new kitten Liminal has an health condition that requires pricey meds, so ALL my #commissions (add-ons included) are 15%off until Oct 31th.
You can get a slot mailing me or through VGen (see Bio).

If you can't comms, help me share this, please!
Stylized self portrait with the little fur demon in a improvised pouch hanging from my shoulder. Text says 15%off on all commissions from Oct 1 to Oct 31 Photo of the little fur demon.
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Some thoughts on my a(ego)romantic experience for the #Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week. Probably pretty messy because it's still very fresh for me but here we go! Sorry for any typos!
(PART 1/2)
#aspec
Page 1 of 5 of a digital comic titled "Thoughts on My A(ego)romantic Experience".

Intro: "I had established a while ago that I am very likely asexual, and I'd been pondering if I'm aromantic as well.

Panel 1: "But whenever I came across posts like "Signs you might be aromantic" the points were like" (3 bulletpoints on a laptop screen:) "You've never had a crush. You've never had romantic feelings or you don't understand romantic feelings."

Panel 2: (Anni pouting) "I've had a crush!"

Panel 3: (Inner Anni thinking) "Sure, that was like 15 + years ago... but still!"

Panel 4: (Anni spreading her arms) "I DO get romance, and I've thought of myself as a romantic person."

Panel 5: (Anni's hand pointing at her characters smooching) "Hell, I've done a vampire romance BL webcomic for almost 15 years!"
bitteroath.bsky.social
Lucretius~
I was going to clean this one up more, but I've been noodling on it for too long. ;w;
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#art #artsky
A wizard with shoulder length brown hair, mustache and goatee. He wears a thigh length tunic, tight-fitted vest, and a long cape. He is floating with glowing wings on the ankles of his boots. He smiles at the viewer.
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Hehe thank you! It'll take a while to get there in the story, but when it does, it sticks around for a while. :3c
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Another art fight ref I made for Bel - I wanted to give the two options for his hairstyles.
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#art #artsky
A faerie man with green skin; he has yellow headwings, yellow glowing eyes and long dark hair. The image features two version of his hairstyle, one slicked back and the other with his hair draped on either side of his face. His clothing is dark with red and gold embellishments.
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Last time I fiddled with this, I had two comics with separate follower counts, & lost those followers when I deleted the comics. Had to start fresh with my new series. BUT I think announcements you make ping everyone. :0
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feathernotes.bsky.social
Absolutely loved the pilot!

#KnightsofGuinevere #KoG
a digital illustration of two characters laying in wires, a pink background contrasts the shapes
bitteroath.bsky.social
It's more comparable to the Thanos snap, now that I think on it. 🤔
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It's basically Y2K except the Christians disappear to heaven while the rest of us suffer with our "worldliness".
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This is a Christian belief that was developed in the 19th century. Christianity has always been apocalyptic, but the idea of the rapture is more recent and was made popular in mainstream Christian media by the "Left Behind" series. It's fear-mongering proselytization.
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A long overdue post of the art fight reference I did for Eliana. I'm still not sure about her bang design - the braids got tiring to draw for a comic.
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#art #artsky
A woman with dark wavy hair pulled back into a bun smiles at the viewer; she wears a long blue dress with dark blue scarf, belt, and shawl. She holds a dagger with magic sparkles at the point.