Hello everyone! With help from @auspex, we are putting together the first Tumblr of Darkness Secret Santa event! This event is where artists may come together, submit their World of Darkness OCs, and we can all draw and exchange gifts with one another! Just a little fun to remind one another that we're a great community!

How to Participate: There is indeed a limited amount of time to sign up to make sure everyone has a fair chance! Applications are open 11.04.2024 and will be kept open until Monday 11.11.2024. - You will be submitting your World of Darkness original characters and link their reference materials so that another artist may draw them! Please make sure you have a link that someone may have open access to. This can be a Google Drive folder, your art tag on a social media, etc.  If you make a Google Drive, make sure your Secret Santa does not have to request access and spoil the surprise. In short, just make sure it's easy for your future gifter to look through! Please don't make it a treasure hunt to find out info on your character just to make things easier. When the applications close, we will then put all participants' names into a randomizer to assign everyone their Secret Santa! Auspex and I will make sure to notify you all as soon as possible as well as provide the reference links so that you can have as much time needed to get the artwork finished. You may go as crazy or mild as you like, but just be aware that artists of ALL skill levels are invited to join! Do not be deterred if you feel like you can't draw - that is the devil talking! Every work of art you make is amazing and any gift with heart behind it is wonderful. - For this year, we asks that the gifts remain art-only. Any medium is fine (digital or traditional) but writing, playlists, mood boards, or anything else won't be accepted. Those things are great, and maybe in the future that could be another exchange, but for simplicity's sake - keep it to art, please. If you want to add mood boards or playlists or write ups as little bonuses to your art - that is entirely up to you! - Please remember these works of art are gifts. This exchange is a community event where everyone is free to participate and share in the spirit of giving during this holiday season. Do not feel bad if you feel like you are not drawing as "well" as somebody else, and please do not make others feel bad if you feel like they're not reaching your standards. This is meant to be fun and for everyone who wants to try! We plan to notify everyone within the next day or two after closing applications, and you will have until 12.20.2024 to draw and submit your works back to Auspex and I so that we may send them to their intended recipient! If you know the person you have and would like to share early, we understand, but please if you would keep it off of Tumblr until the event is concluded just so everyone can be surprised! Once the event is over, have at it and post away! - Please respect the time and effort everyone is putting in! If you feel like something has come up and you won't be able to finish or participate after applying - that is fine. Just let us know as early as possible so that we can either inform your gift recipient or take you off the list.

You will find the application here: https://forms.gle/9VTyd4FsyENwjR4B6

For any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me (crownedinmarigolds) either on Tumblr or through my email - [email protected]. You may also reach out to auspex on Tumblr as well in case I'm unavailable! Thank you all for being a community I love and and I hope we have lots of fun trying this out!

Please reblog so all of the community may see and get to join in!

Hello all! Since there was some interest - I am going to try and put together a little World of Darkness Secret Santa for November - December! I think I will create a place to submit applications, keep it open a week, and then close it to prevent confusion and keep things orderly. The work allotted time would be for a few weeks/month after!

I will happily make a legitimate post closer to the date I'm thinking of, but I think rules are - you provide your World of Darkness OC you'd like artwork done for, and submit the appropriate reference materials for them with your application. I think submitting multiple OCs in one application would probably be fine for the receiver to have multiple ideas to pick from - but I wouldn't pressure anybody to draw group portraits unless they so chose to. You would be getting someone else's OC to draw! I think write ups would be amazing but I do know that writing would probably take a lot more planning work - so if you feel like writing that's awesome but I understand that's a little tougher to manage for Secret Santas! You'd probably really have to know the other person's OC.

If anyone wants to help out with some collecting and application management that would be really cool, feel free to message me! I'm afraid I'm not well-versed in collecting multiple applications so if anyone knows of an efficient way to keep track of doing that, I'm all ears!

No rush for anyone to get to work or to apply or anything! It's over a month away for my application date so please continue enjoying your Octobers! I just wanted to give a heads up!

Behold! Another pair of OCs converted to our World of Darkness canon! We wanted another little bright spot in the gloom, so we have Derrick Kendrick the Gurahl (a werebear!) and Coral, a Wilder-aged Changeling whose true fae form is close to that of a mermaid with legs. Derrick has been blessed by Gaia with fertility, so whatever issues that may arise from a fae and Gurahl's uniting are completely ignored and these two go on to have many healthy and happy kids! They run a quaint seaside cafe with plenty of seafood dishes - some normal, many odd but tasty - and robust coffee. Derrick is the head brewer and Coral is the chef and catcher of all the fish you eat there! They do have a slight Hunter problem, despite causing no issues amongst the town they live in. But if a hater of the Supernatural catches wind of "unholy" unions and "abomination" children, they certainly come a-knocking. Not to worry, mother and father are there to protect the kids!

(forgive me for not going into deeper lore via Changeling - I'm still studying it!)

Fangfest 2024 - Day Seven - The Lovers Lyre the Salubri and Blaire the Silverfang, lovers who found each other as Tremere were attempting to kidnap and move Lyre through Blaire's turf in the Rocky Mountain range in Colorado. In his wolf form Blaire saved Lyre, but this mess of a thing latched onto him and they're not getting rid of each other, much to the chagrin of Blaire's pack. They're both a bit dumb and ditzy and completely unaware of the greater politics around them, which is probably for the best! The Lovers card represents harmony and relationships and passion, a divine union. These two in a way are like Adam and Eve in the garden, innocent and only involved with the other, unaware of the bad things that would tear something like them apart.