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When Yorick first brings John and Arthur to the Bone Citadel, that's what he calls it - "The Bone Citadel". When John starts talking about it, he first refers to it as a Cathedral twice before calling it a citadel.

A citadel is the *most* fortified area of a town or city. All Yorick sees is the fortification, the fact that no one has or has been able to enter the structure. It may not have been John's explicit intention to build such a structure, but in building the cathedral of Arthurs, he wanted himself to be the only one to be able to enter it, to the point where the cathedral is now a citadel.

something about no one but John referring to it as a cathedral as well, he sees a cathedral where everyone sees the citadel.

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I Died For You [A Malevolent Animatic]

Voice acting and audio by @malevolentcast , who very generously sent me this audio file to use for this animatic. Thank you for creating such a beautiful show.

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I began this animatic early last year after finding the audio on TikTok. Once I heard it, I was immediately struck with the thought of how those first couple of weeks in the Dark World would be for John immediately after Season 2. It seemed perfectly fitting, how John might be tortured by his guilt and uncertainty if Arthur was even still alive, and that torment would only aid his regression to his more… Kingly qualities.

I began to draft the thumbnails of the animatic in my sketchbook before transferring it to my digital workspace, which was incredibly intimidating at the time. This was my first independent animatic. In last year’s InvictusCon, Harlan popped into my stream as I was explaining my animatic thought process to my viewers, shaking with both excitement and terror. I was stunned when he offered to voice it himself. The next day, he sent me the audio file. To this day, I am still stunned he spent so much time and effort to create something. It was the encouragement I needed to finish a longer-form animatic. It may be only a minute and some change, but this is a whole year of my life condensed - my obsession, my adoration, my passion for not only this podcast but for art in general, both visual and audio.

It’s by happy accident that I finished this right at the cusp of the Season 5 finale. It almost perfectly slots in. So… let’s all pretend that this animatic took me a month to do rather than the year I spent sweating on my couch and complaining about the number of times I forgot Arthur’s wooden finger.

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What if he's tiny? What if he's just a little guy? What then?

Silly little one night project I randomly got the idea for. Majorly inspired by @curbledmiilk 's adorable Blob John and @samglyph 's wonderful drawing because I'm incapable of not imprinting on things I like. Lil John and Arthur doodle too because I really wanted to see him being held like a particularly unruly chick :]

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Trying so hard rn to figure out how a throne of bones would logistically be structured

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“i’m not calling you good boy arthur that jump was shit”

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Harry you weird weird man

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With how freaky Arthur's gotten he might too

I’d swoon.

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Pov me listening to Malevolent as I fold clothes

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The way Arthur's voice rumbles and echoes along the cathedral walls like he's some god. The way John's is so quiet and smooth. The way he sounds human, voice laid with mistakes and agony and sadness and regret. He's speaking to the god he created in the cathedral he built with tears asking for penance. A small voice compared to the scared and holy body of Arthur. His previous body, hidden under yellow cloth, draped across the throne made of bones. Draped in pain and reverence with his head bowed like Mother Mary at the dead body of Christ. Her beloved. Asking for forgiveness and trying to warm him with her love and her small hands where she could not warm him in his last moments. A god bowing his head in sadness and prayer to the figure he holds dearest in his memories. They're the only thing left of someone he knew. Someone he loved. The bones are cold under his touch. He warms them with his hands, his body, his clothes, praying for sunlight to warm them in a distant future. Just one. Please, at least one.

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Larthur cowboy AU by @yellows-secret-blog (repost!)

I... No explanation for this but I still like it....

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Moth John

Inspired by Olive Oil on discord!

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Thought I’d post this after Da Capo

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Genuinely distraught over Peter "Parker" Yang. This rough-n-tumble guy who, while physically intimidating, has a heart of gold. A working P.I. who was on a case and just happened to stumble into this drunkard in Jack's Bar, who seemed morose, who seemed like they needed help. And Parker helped him, easing him out of his shell, became his friend, and worked with him. He pulled Arthur Lester out of his self-hatred to help people, and in doing so, helped Arthur Lester himself.

He loved the guy. Brought him to his parents' house. ("They love you!") He's two thousand dollars deep in gambling debt and still bought his friend a piano because he knows he used to play. This man who sounds like he's inhaled more cigarette smoke than air wants Arthur to date his sister because it means they could be brothers. This man who tells Arthur that he's the brains of the operation, that once told him he was at bedrock, tells him to lighten up and not let the past drag him down. This man who knows Arthur doesn't like to be coddled, so he tells him what he needs to hear, but doesn't push too much.

This man who turned on the kettle to make tea for the two of them (how often did they do it? How often did they joke and laugh and start the day with a cup of tea before their first client?), who rushes to Arthur when he starts to shout, whose last words were, "Artie, breathe," who died trying to help his friend.

Parker Yang died from senseless violence from a being that did not yet have any humility or understanding of how precious life was, and Arthur followed him only a few seconds later.

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I think Parker would have cut Arthur's hair ( because it's cheaper ) and I'm 100 procent sure of that.

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“Parker said they were like brothers you can’t ship them-”

Listen here. It is the homophobic 1930s.

Parker knows he could not marry or pursue Arthur in any meaningful capacity without hurting either one of them, however, he loved him so immensely that he wanted to make him part of the family, the closest relationship he could conceive of them having, the closest thing he could get to having Arthur, the man he saved from drinking himself to death, around forever.

He presented it teasingly, a silly inside joke, but there was truth there. The Yangs, every one of them, loved Arthur Lester.

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The first ever Jarthur divorce:

The Manager about to lobotomize them so they can get along and survive for 5 fucking minutes:

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A series of Da Capo art and doodles I made when I listened in Patreon lol heehheeh

My pookies. My poookieeessss