WHO: James Sunderland (Silent Hill) and Meranda Leeds (OC)
WHERE: I don't think we're in Maine anymore, Toto...
WHEN: Roughly eight months post-SH2. Gravityverse/RPverse.
WHAT: No one can control when or if they get sent on an adventure. In fact, logic dictates that adventures will usually strike at the least convenient time.
This is what is about to happen to Meranda Leeds.
And also to the hapless hobo in an army coat who has no idea who she is and just kind of wants to find a missing little girl and go back to eking out an existence.
RATING: PG-13 for violence, language, and Meranda.


( Every night there the headlights are glowing... )

Well, I was gonna wait to post these until after I'd finished some more of those requested drabbles, but with my computer on the fritz, I can't work on much writing. These were already uploaded though, so... HERE. ENJOY!

Total Icon Count: 48
_{Travis Grady: 3
Harry Mason: 8
Cheryl Mason: 3
Alessa Gillespie: 3
Lisa Garland: 1
Michael Kaufmann: 3
James Sunderland: 3
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland: 2
Maria: 4
Laura: 3
Angela Orosco: 3
Pyramid Head: 1
Heather Mason: 3
Henry Townshend: 1
Eileen Galvin: 2
Cynthia Velazquez: 1
Alex Shepherd: 2
Elle Holloway: 1
Miscellaneous (monsters and scenery): 8}
Teasers:


( He was cast to the bowels of the Earth and pecked by birds. )

As usual, please credit either phantastus or dazlious if you take any of these. Commenting isn't necessary but is appreciated-- I'd love to see where these are being used!

The drawn images in this are from the comics (Mary's cameo in one panel) as well as the novelizations of Silent Hill 1 and 3.

The one special case is this icon right here, which is the result of a spur-of-the-moment photoshop experiment and is a perfect example of why I shouldn't be allowed to produce any type of fanwork for an M-rated horror fandom.

It's a combination of an illustration of Harry and young Cheryl/Heather and a background image from the animated film Balto. Because if there's two things that go together perfectly, it's Silent Hill and classic children's films.

If I had to pick out a favorite from this batch, it'd either be that one (despite the hassle it was to make) or Sad Keanu Kaufmann (tm).

LO AND BEHOLD, A SKETCHDUMP POST.

Nothing fancy. Just was going through my Photobucket and seeing a bunch of stuff that never made it onto DA for whatever reason, so I'm gonna shove it all under a cut here.

Enjoy!

... yeah uh most of them look better than this.
Contents:
-Pokemon (lots)
-Silent Hill (LOADS)
-Twin Peaks (a few)
-How to Train Your Dragon (a little)
-little miscellaneous other things (Transformers, Detective Conan/Magic Kaito, Professor Layton, Metal Gear Solid).
-original characters (they pop up here and there all over the place)


( Avert your eyes, citizens. This is an image-heavy post! )

All this art is fairly old, so anything uploaded from here on out should be a bit more recent.
But in the meantime, ENJOY I GUESS.

Title: GRAVITY
Chapter: 2 (Capsize)
Author: phantastus
Fandom: Silent Hill
Rating: R (see 'Disclaimer/Warnings' for content)
Genre: Horror/Drama
Main characters: James Sunderland, Laura
Summary: Free of the Otherworld but feeling lost, James chooses to seek comfort in his old standby before leaving town-- and is unexpectedly thrust into a harrowing situation in which his choices could mean the difference between life and death for someone he already failed once.
Notes: Chapter 2 of my ongoing, obscenely long SH2 fanfic. Set directly after the Leave Ending, but contains heavy implications of In Water. The fic is mirrored over here along with eight subsequent chapters, but I will be posting the most up-to-date edits here for the time being.
This story was initially written (and is still in progress) for NaNoWriMo 2009.
Disclaimer/Warnings: In keeping with canon, this fanfic depicts events and situations that may be considered violent or cruel. This chapter deals with extremely disturbing concepts and should be read with this in mind. These concepts include but may not be limited to:

-written descriptions of physical wounds
-traumatic flashbacks to monsters and shit
-pedophilia/threats of a sexual nature against a minor
-misogynistic and sexist language
-violence
-harmful enabling of such behavior
-mentions of drug use
-religion, cults, and brainwashing
-gross, pervy old men
-James being both more and less useless than normal
-SILENT HILL IN GENERAL

Please read at your own risk.

Recommended Listening:
-Set the Fire to the Third Bar
-Crawl Claw and Scrape
-Burn it to the Ground
-Opiate

(The illustration above can be viewed in full here.)

( I hang my coat up in the first bar. There is no peace that I've found so far. )

SUP FOLKS I FEEL LIKE WRITING TONIGHT between my tags.

Comment here with two (or more) characters and pick a prompt or three-- I'll write you a drabble based on that prompt! These prompts can either be fandom-based (although I'm afraid I'm a one-trick pony and only trust myself to do Silent Hill justice, although I might make exceptions) or based on RP CR that we have.

The prompts are first-come, first-serve-- I wanna exercise my writing chops so try not to pick something that's already been chosen! Feel free to pick as many as you want as long as they haven't been picked already!


PROMPTS
( Theme List is under the cut! )

MORE ICONS.
I don't have a problem.
I CAN STOP ANY TIME I WANT.

This batch is mostly from 2, 4, and 5, with a couple other things thrown in.

Total Icon Count: 35
_{Angela Orosco: 1
James Sunderland: 3
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland: 3
Maria: 1
Heather Mason: 4
Henry Townshend: 5
Eileen Galvin: 2
Frank Sunderland: 1
Alex Shepherd: 6
Miscellaneous (monsters and scenery): 11}
Teasers:


( Oh mama, I can hear you cryin', you're so scared and all alone. )

As usual, please credit either phantastus or dazlious if you take any of these. Commenting isn't necessary but is appreciated-- I'd love to see where these are being used!

The drawn images used are either SH4 concept art, illustrations from the SH1 novelization, or (!!!) my art. I don't usually include any of my own Silent Hill fanart in these icon sets, but the itty bitty one of Heather walking in a field turned out nicely enough that I felt like including it.

Title: GRAVITY
Chapter: 1 (Sirens in His Ears)
Author: phantastus
Fandom: Silent Hill
Rating: G-PG
Genre: I don't even know.
Main characters: James Sunderland, Laura
Summary: Well, James did it. He survived Silent Hill and accepted truth and retribution for his sins.
... Now what?
Notes: Chapter 1 of my ongoing, obscenely long SH2 fanfic. Set directly after the Leave Ending, but contains heavy implications of In Water. The fic is mirrored over here along with eight subsequent chapters, but I will be posting the most up-to-date edits here for the time being.
This story was initially written (and is still in progress) for NaNoWriMo 2009.
Disclaimer/Warnings: This fanfic depicts events and situations that may be considered violent or cruel, on par with the canon source material. This chapter deals with potentially-upsetting concepts including but not limited to:

-written descriptions of physical wounds
-traumatic flashbacks
-terminal illness
-references to murder and suicide
-a butt joke

Please read at your own risk.

ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMER: Although it's seen a few edits since it was written, this first chapter was written a long time ago and as such doesn't necessarily reflect the current writing style of the story. In fact, the author finds it embarrassingly long-winded and ponderous, but has banned herself from going back and fiddling with it anymore in the interest of moving the story forward and writing new material instead. SORRY. I PROMISE IT GETS BETTER.

Recommended Listening:
-This Time Tomorrow
-Machete


The illustration above can be viewed in full here.)


( Zero gravity... what's it like? )

MADE SOME MORE. Ever have those moments where you have a great thread going, but suddenly you realize that a tag requires you to drop everything and make an ENTIRELY NEW ICON to adequately express within 100x100 pixels what the character is feeling?
Yeah.
That's been happening a lot.
And then I guess I just don't stop when it does.
ANYWAY HERE, HAVE SOME MORE ICONS. Mostly SH3 but with some others thrown in for good measure.

Total Icon Count: 53
_{Travis Grady: 1
Harry Mason: 3
Cheryl Mason: 2
Dahlia Gillespie: 1
James Sunderland: 4
Mary Sunderland: 2
Maria: 1
Heather Mason: 14
Claudia Wolf: 2
Douglas Cartland: 12
Father Vincent: 11
Henry Townshend: 1
Miscellaneous: 2}
Teasers:


( A warning to the Prophet, the Liar, the Honest )


As usual, please credit either phantastus or dazlious if you take any of these. Commenting isn't necessary but is appreciated-- I'd love to see where these are being used!

The drawn images are all either from Silent Hill 2 concept art (with colors added by me), or the Japanese cover to Silent Hill 1. Or A cover, anyway. I actually have no idea what it's from, just that it's official.

SO since this is more or less gonna be an art/writing journal in addition to a musebox, I'm gonna kick it off by posting the entirety of my BFA Thesis project, a graphic novel titled Raven Steals the Sun.

This was one semester's worth of work-- I think it could have been better if I had more time.



( Read the comic! )

HERP DERP HERE'S ANOTHER ONE.

This one is equal parts assorted characters and miscellaneous scenery porn (MMM MMM JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT).

Pretty pleased with all of them except the one of Alessa which I had to mutilate pretty badly in Photoshop to get rid of Harry's giant ghostly head. BUT ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

Total Icon Count: 46
_{Alessa Gillespie: 1
Dahlia Gillespie: 4
James Sunderland: 22
Mary Shepherd-Sunderland: 1
Maria: 2
Heather Mason: 4
Leonard Wolf: 1
Alex Shepherd: 1
Miscellaneous: 5}
Teasers:

( We lay side by side, between the moon and the tide. )

As before, if you'd like to use any of these, please credit phantastus or dazlious! Comments appreciated but not necessary.

The drawn James icons are from either that one Silent Hill comic where he made a one-panel cameo (forget the title), or the UFO ending of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

So I think this community is gonna be for my art and writing and shit too or something.

Anyway I just realized I made shittons of Silent Hill icons so it'd be kinda cool to have a whole bunch of them in one place or something.

But in any case, here we go: roughly five thousand bajillion Heather/Silent Hill 3 icons. They range from facial expressions to KIT LOVE SILENT HILL BACKGROUNDS MORE SCENERY PORN MORE MORE MORE MORE. The quality varies pretty drastically because I don't actually know how to do things, I just pretend to, so they're all the results of different periods in time, different photoshop experiments, and different levels of sleeplessness.

Enjoy.

Total Icon Count: 108
Teasers:

WHO: Heather Mason (Silent Hill) and Kaito Kuroba (Detective Conan/Magic Kaito)
WHERE: A shabbily nondescript apartment building somewhere in Portland, Maine.
WHEN: Six months after Kaito returned home from Johto (route_29)
WHAT: And then Styx and Kit got really sad and needed sappy fluff And then two friends were reunited.
RATING: DIABETES.

( And trust is one thing we're taught never to share, but somehow you just seem to shine. )

"Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four, he's got arms made of elastic so they can stretch for two, maybe three hundred miles.
He's been imprisoned in a cave for seven days with no food and no water and no light.
But on the 8th day, he manages to loosen a rock and push his way up through the top and up into the daylight. Just as the sun is coming up over the mountains and filling the sky with this white-yellow light.
And there's this stillness, and in the few minutes he's got before his captor, the evil Dr. Doom, returns, he stops for just one second. And all he can hear is his own breathing. But he's totally overwhelmed by how big the world is, how small and unimportant he is.
And as he turns around you see his face look to the sky and he says very quietly, so that no one can hear him, he says 'Dazlious.'"

Hello! Welcome to the musebox/art and writing journal of phantastus (that's 'Kit' to you goofballs)!
This is a place for many things, but mostly:

— WRITING —	— GRAPHICS —	— ROLEPLAY —
☀ fanfiction ☀ original fiction ☀ drabbles/fic requests	☀ illustrations ☀ sketchdumps ☀ comics ☀ icons	memes☀ museboxing☀ character essays☀

( Under this cut is a list of le muses. )