“Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people. But too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favor of other. And by the time we realize just how important it is, we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with. But the seven of you have something that nobody else ever had: time. All the time in the world. Time enough to grow indescribably close. Time enough to learn how to care for each other, how to allow yourselves to be cared for. And in the case of Barry and Lup, time enough to fall deeply and truly in love.”
- Griffin Mcelroy, The Adventure Zone , Episode 64
Three people reblogged my art and seeing that they put tags made my heart jump happily! I always appreciate comments about my art in the tags ^^
“Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people. But too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favor of other. And by the time we realize just how important it is, we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with. But the seven of you have something that nobody else ever had: time. All the time in the world. Time enough to grow indescribably close. Time enough to learn how to care for each other, how to allow yourselves to be cared for. And in the case of Barry and Lup, time enough to fall deeply and truly in love.”
- Griffin Mcelroy, The Adventure Zone , Episode 64
Today’s Davenport reminds you to shop at Lowe’s instead of Home Depot. (couldn’t find the empty template so just remade it for higher quality)
[image description: an alignment chart titled: “Goin to the Home Improvement Store” Under “fell in the cacti section while wandering around the gardening section” is Merle, while Magnus is under, “Being yelled at by employees while frantically ascending the Forbidden Orange Stairs”. The next section, “taking sick af selfies in the lighting aisle” has “Lup n Taako” in it. After is, “Tokyo drifting one of those flatbed carts down the aisles” with “Magnus Lup, or Cap’nport”, immediately followed by “Lying on the fucken flatbed, holding on for dear life” with “whoever isn’t currently driving it” with an arrow pointing to the above section. “Loving touching all the carpet samples” has “Barry”, while “Stealing paint chips for aesthetic purposes” has “Lucretia”. The next section has words crossed out and reads, “JUST WANTED [THE] LIGHT AND EVERYONE RUINED IT” with “The Hunger” written in for it. The last section is “escapin in the ship” with “The Crew” followed by a mischievous kitty face. End description]
I personally believe that the reaper squad has no damn clue how to dress themselves.
[ID: a flat coloured, cartoony digital drawing of Barry, Lup and Kravitz from the Adventure Zone. Barry is a middle-aged, chubby, pale skin man with short brown hair, some stubble, and rectangular glasses. He is wearing a jean jacket with his hands in the pockets, grey sneakers, and a white polo shirt tucked into jean pants. He smiles with his eyes closed in a relaxed stance. Next to him is Lup, a dark skinned elf woman with deep brown hair dyed red at the tips and pulled back into a ponytail by a red scrunchie. She’s wearing a short-cut denim jacket over a black dress covered in a flame pattern reminiscent of Guy Fieri’s fashion, and thigh-high lace up high-heels. She also has multiple piercings and a skinny tail with a tuft at the end. She’s standing with one hand on her hip, the other throwing up a piece sign. Next to both of them is Kravitz, a dark-skinned half-elf man with a short, neat beard, an undercut with dreadlocks swept to one side, and a couple piercings. He’s dressed in a spiked leather vest, a flowy grey shirt, goth-style pants adorned with chains and zippers done up by a spiked black belt, and black dress shoes. He’s looking towards the two in a well-postured stance. END]
These two give off the energy of if Morticia and Gomez shared a braincell lmao (Description under cut)
[ID: all drawings are done in a simple cartoony pencil-sketch style.
The first image is a two-panel comic:
In the first panel Barry, a chubby short haired human man with glasses holding a book, is sitting next to Lup, a slim elf woman with long hair in a pony tail with a cocky expression and her cheek resting in her hand. Barry says: “Did you know most of the dinosaurs in museums are casts and not real bones?” And Lup responds: “Huh, did your nerd book tell you that one?
The second panel shows a neutral faced Barry off to the side saying: “No, just a series of very disappointing museum visits”. Across the panel there is a flashback of Barry sitting on the floor in a necromancers robe, holding a book open and raising a hand with necromantic energy. In front of him, a small raptor dinosaur bone mount with a leash added around its neck has been placed on a pentagram surrounded by candles. Barry looks quizically at his book, confused as to why his spell isn’t working.
The second image is a collection of three drawings in the same style:
First is a drawing of Taako, an elven man similar in appearance to Lup who is holding up a burnt-out bowled candle. There’s a box in the background labelled “Taako’s Candles” with a few more burnt-out candles around and in it. Taako has an infuriated look on his face as he shouts: “LUP! Your boyfriend has been using my scented candles to raise the dead again!”
In the second drawing, Barry stands with a sleepy expression and his hands in his bluejeans pockets. His shirt reads: “Reduce, Reuse, Re-animate”.
In the third drawing Barry and Lup are sitting on a blanket on the ground in a graveyard with a picnicking basket between them. Barry’s wearing a dress shirt and jeans, both of which are slightly singed, and Lup is wearing a dress and holding her still smoking wand. Burnt and destroyed Zombies are laying all through the graveyard around them, as they stare lovingly into each other’s eyes. The caption reads: “Date Night”.
Image Description: A long form comic including three pages, all set in a dingy necromancy store and illustrated in a cartoony, fully-colored and shaded style.
In the first panel, a hooded figure sits behind a desk with his back to us.
In the second panel, we see part of his face which has a big sly smile on it as he looks over his shoulder. Behind him, a door opens with the ring of a small silver bell.
In the next panel he spins around in his chair and says: “Welcome to Blood-Bath and beyond, your home for necromantic wares! Anything I can help you find–”
Next: “…Today?” he finishes, seemingly dumbfounded. In the middle of the frame are three new people. Barry Bluejeans is in the middle, he is a white middle aged chubby man with brown and grey hair, stubble, and wearing a white shirt, brown coat and glasses. To the left is Taako, a dark skinned elf with straight choppy dark brown hair died lavender at the bottom, wearing a large purple wizards hat, a purple cape with gold stars, a frilled shirt and high-wasted pants. To the right is Lup, a dark skin elven woman with a face identical to Taako’s but with longer curly dark brown hair died red at the tips, and wearing a wine red wide-brimmed hat and wine red dress. The twins each are resting an arm on one of Barry’s shoulders, framing him.
In the next frame, Barry has a finger resting on his chin as he says “Uh… yes, I’m looking for a spell book with level 12 or higher spells.”
Next is a close-up of the shopkeeper’s eye, squinting forwards with a thought bubble that says: “Level 12?”
Next is the same close-up of the shopkeeper’s eye, only this time it is wide and looking up past Barry.
Next is a frame of just Taako and Lup, with Barry just slightly out of frame. Taako covers his hand as if to whisper something to Lup as they both look judgmentally in the direction of the shopkeeper. A speech bubble comes from offscreen as the shopkeeper says “Right away, sir.”
Starting the second page is a frame of the shopkeeper dropping a large book onto the table in front of him. The book looks to be stitched together from skin, with a large green eye-shaped jewel on the front cover and small fangs on the spine.
Next, Barry has picked up the book and is looking at it with a smile of curiosity as he says “Oh, neat!” The twins both peer over his shoulder as the shopkeeper looks at the three startled.
Next is a close up of Barry’s hand sliding a collection of very different looking coins across the table, including some golden hoops, a silver perforated coin with a dragon emblem, a pale blue coin, a canadian loonie, and a thin gold bar with line markings on it (it’s not a loss easter egg don’t worry about it)
The next panel is shot from over the shopkeeper’s shoulder. Barry excitedly shows an interested but calm Lup something in the book as Taako rolls a bunch of teeth around in one hand, bored. The shopkeeper thinks: “Who is this guy?!”
Next is a panel showing half of the shopkeeper’s face, the border of the panel cutting him off vertically as he stares forwards intently.
The next panel is exactly the same, except he has narrowed his eye, the pupil now glowing, as the words “true sight” are spelled above him
In the next panel, Barry is shot from the neck up, looking excitedly at something offscreen.
Next is the form of Barry’s red robe litch form, shot from the exact same position as the previous panel. He glows a faint red, the inside of his hood empty and black save for two glowing white eyes.
Starting the next page the shopkeeper recoils in surprise, his thought bubble reading: “A litch!” In the foreground, Barry and the twins are starting to leave, Taako dropping the coins Barry had paid for the book with into a small bag.
Next the shopkeeper lunges forwards with urgency, shouting “WAIT!”
Next, “Who are you?!” he shouts at the trio. Barry is looking over his shoulder at the shopkeeper, and Lup had put her arm over his shoulder.
Next is a very close shot of the bottom of Barry’s face, his mouth in a null position.
Next is the same close up shot of the bottom of Barry’s face, only this time he has a large sly smile on his face.
Next is a medium shot of Barry, he has a big gentle smile on his face, his eyes closed and one hand up in a polite wave as he says “Name’s Barry Bluejeans!”
In the final panel, the shopkeeper lays passed out over his desk, a small cartoon of a round ghost floating away from his body as the door in the back of the room closes. A small creature sits on his desk, eating the chocolate gelt which had been swapped out for the real coins.
[ID: A digital illustration of the seven birds from the adventure zone chilling in a pillow and blanket fort.
Lup is a tan skinned elven woman with dark brown hair done up in two buns with bun covers. She is wearing circular glasses, an oversized shirt with the IPRE symbol on it, and cookie-monster print PJ pants and is holding a mug decorated with cheezy flames and is sitting in Barry’s lap. Barry is a fat pale skinned human man with short brown hair and rectangular glasses, wearing a weezer shirt, boxers with prints of tiny pairs of jeans on them, and is holding a green mug with the face of a creeper from minecraft printed on it. He looks over at Taako, a tan skinned elven man with brown choppy hair dyed lavender halfway down and wearing a face mask, head band and a purple house coat, who has one hand on Barry’s shoulder while the other reaches for a box of cookies Magnus is holding out of reach, a frustrated look on his face. Magnus is a dark skinned heavily built human man with straight choppy black hair and black sideburns, wearing a tank top with the gravity falls pine tree symbol on it and red plaid-print PJ pants. In his free hand he holds a beige mug printed with Polynesian artwork stylized fish, as he leans away from Taako and pushes him away with his other foot.
Davenport is a pale skinned lightly built gnome with cochlear implants, short ginger hair and a large ginger mustache, and wearing navy-blue star-print PJs, who sits calmly in front of Magnus, painting his nails and looking up at the commotion. In front of Davenport is Merle, a dark skinned chubby dwarven man who lays splayed on a pillow, his eyes closed, grey hair in a bun and medium beard well groomed, holding a mug depicting a potted plant wearing lingerie and wearing two-piece PJs printed with cannabis leafs. Across from the two is Lucrecia, a dark skinned human woman with medium length black curly hair wearing rectangular glasses, a pink shirt with a cat on it, purple PJ pants, a wrist brace, and holding a mug with the lesbian flag on it. She also looks over at the commotion, smiling softly.
In the background, decorative strings of lights illuminate a fort of pillows, blankets, and couch cushions. END]
AKA Barry and Lup try out each other’s schools of magic
[ID: Two illustrations of Barry and Lup from the Adventure Zone in a cartoony flat-coloured style. In the first drawing, Barry, a pale skinned fat human man with brown greying hair and a white t-shirt is holding a small flame in his hands and smiling softly. Lup, a dark skinned elven woman with dark brown wavy hair dyed red at the end looks at the flame with pride, her hands gently placed over Barry’s. Barry says: “Lup! Look what I made!”
In the second drawing, Lup is wearing a necromancer’s robe and sitting on the floor in a dark room just behind a large red, glowing circular portal surrounded by candles. She beams with pride, her arms held out to gesture towards a large, gnarly demon-like creature which is sitting on top of the portal. Barry is in the foreground, also darned in black necromancer’s robes, with his back to the camera looking at the demon in shock. Lup says: “Barry! Look what I made!”
[ID: a flat-colored cartoony drawing of Barry and Lup wrangling a giant magenta worm-on-a-string. Lup is a dark skinned slim elf woman with dark brown wavy flowing hair died red at the tips, wearing a flowing red robe over a red jacket, brown pants and black boots. She sits near the front of the worm, one hand gripping its fur and the other pulling back on a lasso which has tightened around the snout to form the “string”. She has a big determined smile on her face. Barry, a chubby light skinned human man with short brown hair, rectangular glasses, and wearing a red robe and blue jeans clings onto the tail of the worm, his body mostly obscured as he slips off one side with a foot slung over the body of the worm, a terrified look in his eyes. END]
Day 3 of @blupjeansweek! Couldn’t come up with anything clever so decided to just design some outfits instead
[ID: a cartoony cell-shaded drawing of Barry and Lup dancing together. Lup is a slim, brown skinned elven woman with dark brown wavy hair done up in a messy bun. She wears a orange and yellow dress with a golden ring shaped like a sun at the top, her hair held up by a sun-shaped tie and wearing sun-shaped ear rings. She is following the lead of Barry, who is a stout, chubby pale-skinned human man with rectangular glasses and short brown greying hair. He is wearing an ornate blue and silver 3-piece suit with a blue tie decorated with stars and crescent moons. A silver moon-shaped charm is hooked over one of his vest buttons, and the pattern of crescent moons and stars follows the silver trim of his jacket. They are looking each other in the eyes as they dance and both are smiling energetically. END]
Day 2 for @blupjeansweek! I was at a little bit of a loss for this prompt, but I think it all worked out lol
[ID:
A four panel comic in a cartoony flat-coloured style. In the first panel is Lup in her litch form, a red-robed figure with hands reminiscent of smouldering charcoals and a little spout of flame poking out of her hood where her hair would fall. Under the hood it’s completely dark, except for two glowing white eyes and two sharp white canines. She looks down dejected as she wanders down a darkened street with old-timey shops in the background, the moon and stars in the sky. She is thinking: “want to hug husband want to hug husband want to hug husband”.
In the second panel she looks up, a large lightbulb appearing beside her as a sign on one of the buildings in the background reads: “necromantic wares”
In the third panel, we see Lup’s red robe from the back as she looks at a shelf inside the store. On the shelf is the clown doll from the MBMBaM TV show’s Haunted Doll Watch segment with a tag underneath it saying: “Ready-to-be-haunted doll. Sale! 400 gp”. A thought bubble coming from Lup says: “Perfect.”
In the fourth panel is Barry, a human man with short brown hair wearing a white tank top, as he is sleeping soundly in bed. The clown doll, now posessed by Lup, looms over him in preparation to give him a hug. A thought bubble coming from Lup in the doll says: “This couldn’t possibly go wrong”.
[ID a two panel comic featuring Barry and Lup from the adventure zone. In the first panel, Barry–a chubby older man with short brown hair wearing a white shirt, jackalope slippers and heart-patterned underwear) is holding up a pair of jeans with a large cut down the butt. He looks at it confused and says: “Babe, may I ask why?”
In the second panel Lup–a dark skinned elven women with dark brown curly hair in a pony tail–stands pointing a finger gun. She is dressed in oversized jeans buckled tight around her waist with a belt, and a second pair of jeans as high-cropped shirt, wearing the pant legs as sleeves and a cut in the butt of the jeans acting as the head hole. She says: “Fashion, babe.” END]
When you’re floating around between realities for a hundred years, you pick up a lot of new skills, so why not learn together?
AKA having Barry and Lup draw each other is my excuse to do figure studies of Lup my beloved…
(Full images and image descriptions under the cut.)
Nudity cw, minors and transphobes dni
[Image descriptions:
The first is a pencil illustration of Lup from The Adventure Zone stylized like a nude study. She is a trans elf woman with a slender-medium build and long wavy hair. She leans back, sitting slightly on a countertop with her legs slightly bent. The arm closest to the camera holds her up with her hand on the counter, and her other hand rest against her far thigh. She is shaded in a cross-hatch style, and the paper around the drawing has rough edges.
The second illustration is a scene done in the same illustrative style, however this time colored and with cell shading. Lup, now wearing a wine-red house coat, round glasses, and having her hair put up in a bun, looks intently at an easel in front of her and puts the eraser of a pencil to her chin. In the background, Barry– a fat and muscled pale-skinned human man with short brown and grey hair– lays nude in an artistic pose on a chaise lounge. His eyes are closed in a gentle smile as he says: “How’s it going, babe?” On the paper of Lup’s easel, a crudely drawn doodle of Barry in that same pose with some hearts and X’s and O’s scribbled down on the paper.
Barry and Lup lay on the deck of the Starblaster, stargazing. They hadn’t come out here together, Lup went out first and Barry sheepishly followed her. He couldn’t help it, really; he felt a bone-deep, physical attraction to her. Not horniness—well, not justhorniness—but like a gravitational pull.
The sky on this planet was like nothing he had ever seen. The stars were huge, and their light shifted from a soft lilac to a sea foam green. After what felt like an eternity of gentle silence, Lup looked over at him.
“Do you ever wish you were something else?”
He laughed quietly. ”Hmm… maybe Tom Arnold, or someone like that. Famous, but not too famous, y’know?”
Barry didn’t quite know how to respond. He shook his head.
“I think I’d like to be a sun,” she whispered, almost to herself. Almost like he wasn’t meant to hear. But he did. He spent the next few days thinking about her question, and eventually found his answer.
There was a time, long before Lup entered his life, when he wondered what his purpose was. What anyone’s purpose was, really. Looking back on that period, it all seems so empty and meaningless. Now, he knows what his purpose is.
If Lup is a sun, then Barry is a planet. Orbiting effortlessly around her day after day, year after year, century after century. It’s not a difficult task, not by a long shot. He enjoys the endless rotation, enjoys revelling in her beauty day in and day out.
•••
Lup is in the process of making a killer lasagna one afternoon when Barry approaches her. He looks nervous, standing in the entryway to the kitchen. He reminds her of a small child standing in their parents’ doorway, psyching himself up to confess he threw up.
“Y’know that thing you said the other day?” He asks, avoiding eye contact.
“About how we should call it ‘rubbing’ errands instead of ‘running’ errands?”
“No, about wanting to be something else?”
“Oh, yeah?”
“I’d be a planet.” He finally looks up from where he’d been twisting his hands together anxiously. “If I could be something else, I’d be a planet.”
“Huh,” Lup smiles softly. “That suits you, Bear.”
Barry nods, pleased with his answer. Lup barely pays attention to the rest of their conversation, too focused on the fact that her answer has changed.
IPRE era Taako and Lup because I will never stop drawing these two
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[ID: A digital drawing of Taako and Lup, twin thin elves with medium tone skin and long blonde hair. Taako is wearing knee high boots, brown pants, and a long red coat, he has one arm crossed over his chest, with the other elbow resting on it and is smiling slightly, facing the viewer. Lup is wearing ankle boots, brown pants, and a tan off the shoulder shirt, with a red coat tied around her waiste. She is leaning on Taako’s shoulder and smiling mischievously. They both look like they just put pudding in someone’s pockets. END ID]
Davenport de hoy está aprendiendo a hablar español
[image description: three semi monochromatic panels featuring Davenport, a mustached gnome, and Lup, a long haired elf in red robe. In the first panel, Davenport looks furious and appropriately yells, “SOY FURIOSO” [”I am furious”]. Lup leans over to hear this. In panel two, she comes up and corrects, “No, no ‘estoyfurioso’” [”I am [feeling] furious”]. Davenport stares up at her. In the last panel, Davenport impassively says, “¿Hice tartamudeo?” [”Did I stutter?”] to which Lup lets out an, “Ah” [”Ah”]. End description]
¡Magnus de hoy te desafía! (Insert poderOso joke)
[image description: two panels featuring Davenport, a mustached gnome, and Magnus, a burly human with sideburns. In the first, Magnus meanders in a noodle-ly way nearby while Davenport repeats, “Soy furiOSO”. In the second, Magnus is activated and whirls saying, “¿ERES OSO?” [”YOU ARE BEAR?”] scaring Davenport. End description]
[image description: Two semi-colored panels! In the first, Davenport, a mustached gnome, is leaning back in a chair with his elbow on a table and waves around a wine glass, spilling his drink. Davenport has his legs crossed and has a disheveled appearance as he is mid-conversation saying, “-now mind you we haven’t even TOUCHED upon the inherent homoeroticism of the sea.” In the second panel is the twins, with Lup leaning on the couch Taako is sitting on. Lup laces her fingers and points towards Davenport and says, “Hey Davenport? Listen, I’m loving this convo- but I LITERALLY ASKED if you had any requests for dinner this wee-” Taako cuts her off with a, “Let him speak Lulu”. Taako leans forward, enthralled. End description]
[image description: Three monochrome images, the first panel featuring Taako looking dramatic as he says, “… But the true question is: Can the Oculus make me the perfect man?” Barry, Lup and Davenport stand in a line and all reply simultaneously. Barry points himself and says, “But I’m right here?” Lup gestures to Barry: “But Barry’s right here”, and Davenport points away: “But you’re right there?” The final panel has Lup patting Barry on the back who looks very pleased as she yells, “YES. BABE. Love that confidence!” Taako hugs Davenport off the ground and shouts, “WOW! I can’t believe Davenport is my only friend!” Davenport looks off as he realizes something and replies, “Actually I change my answer to Barry too.” End description.]
