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A closer look at the teaser animation for DEEPHAVEN, my new illustrated horror mystery novel.

You can preorder a copy now!

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NINE.i LORE EXPLAINED (I'm not english native, sorry for my mistakes) To understand clearly the story, you need to know these boys, at the begining of the MV, standing in this weird blue place, aren't human and aren't the same boys we will saw in the MV. Both co-exist at the same time. You will understand later why they're identical.

The MV show them at the beginning of the story, just before the meteor. If you look carefully, you'll notice this meteor is made of NINE.i Data numbers. The boys you saw ealier are the entities living in that meteor, are, in fact, the Data numbers.

So our story begin. 10 boys are having a pyjama party together, but something already seems off : Vahn don't know it yet, but he forsee their future in a marble.

Plus, there is a hole in the wall, even if no one notice it. This wall has a huge symbolic meaning and that's why they don't see it at this moment.

The TV is showing a shocking news : a meteor is falling on earth. But the boys still don't know it'll hit them. Jiho stop watching the TV as the others notice a weird light outside. They run to the window to take a look.

The meteor is so close it could kill them, but DataNINE., in their own world, are opening a gate to save the boys( that's what the choreography gestures depict). The time stop, the world is glitching, and Vari is the first one to wake up in a new world.

All the boys are safe and sound in an amusement park and begin to play and have fun together, but DataNINE.i are now linked to the boys (DataVari and DataJewon dance together because they're both on the carousel and DataJewon and Jewon's facial expression are similar.)

DataNINE.i also seems to experience what's the real life and watch the world from the boys' room, behind the hole in the wall (the one their meteor create.)But The perfect synchronisation we saw at the first time is broken by their individuality (as the camera focus on specific members). So DataSeowon cast a code : NI1 to "split" them apart as we can read it in the background. DataNINE.i want to get back their integrity.

At the same time, real NINE.i are getting bored of their perfect world. Winnie is feeling dizzy and Jewon feel down. Fortunatly, DataNINE.i sucessfully cast the code. Jiho guide them to the tunnel between the world DataNINE.i opened for them.

All of them are running back home, laughing and smiling, but suddenly, Vari feel again the joy he felt on the caroussel, and can't stop but looking back. That's where he see one last time the DataNINE.i disapear as their bond is fading. He leave with a smile, knowing DataNINE.i saved them, but also learnt emotion because they bonded with humans. Back in the real world, the boys are asleep. Everything could have been back to normal, but we can clearly see a hole in the wall…

A lot of questions remains and I'll try to answer to most of them. First : What DataNINE.i are? Where do they come from? Did they really exist? Aren't they simply the dance parts of the MV and aren't liked to the story ? They're linked to the story. We know DataNINE.i exist because Vari saw them fading at the end of the MV.

The evident answer is they're digital aliens. Their true identity is the meteor's data numbers that coincidentely fall on the boys house. They live in their own world (the blue/violet dimension) and their actions are represented by their dances.

They seems friendly and probably didn't want to hurt humans since they saved them. But by falling accidentally on the boys, DataNINE.i and the real boys bonded, began to share the same humans feelings. They became them. That's why they share the same face.

But DataNINE.i don't want to be human. They split themselves from the boys by casting a code. They were able to came back to their real form by bringing the boys back to their own world. That's why they're fading as numbers at the end. It's their real shape.

Why Vahn saw their future in the marble? Why the hole in the wall is already there before the meteor fall? Why DataNINE.i have the boys face before they bonded with them? Because to save the boys, DataNINE.i cast a glitch that broke space and time. The time flow is mixed up between past, present and future. If there is a hole in the wall in the future, it's also in the past. There is two reason why we can affirm that : Vahn is able to foresee the future in the marble and the hole in wall exist before the meteor felt.

And, fun fact, it seems the reason why they're transported to a amusement park with a carousel is because DataNINE.i create a safe world for the boys with things they saw in the room. There is a merry-go-round behind Jiho. The merry-go-round also represent the "parallel" experience DataNINE.i lived by being linked to the humans boys, as you can see mirrored horses in the merry-go-round.

So, DataNINE.i looks like the boys before the events happened because thoses events will happen one day. Their real shape is data numbers, but they're forever linked to the boys because they broke the time and space, and at the end… it may not be fixed. And that's the role of the hole in the wall.

This MV can be seen as metaphor that illustrate the lyrics. The meteor is a moment of wonder. The moment they learn to felt amazed by the world and learnt look at it. Before the comet appear in front of them, they all seem bored and the lyrics express their apathy. Words of color are dominants in lyrics. As they say in the chorus, they want to be save from the "grey" world by someone. It's not a coincidence if a colorful meteor blow their little room and send them to a colorful world full of wonders and amusement.

But it's not the amusement park that saves them from the grey world. It's themselves. While they didn't seems to interract with each others and looked bored, Jiho came closer to Joonhyoung and initiate a friendly contact. That's when the meteor came and the music accelerated. That's the meteor, the colorful world and amusement park they're looking for : human interraction.

They already had everything to have fun in their little room : a lot of toys (even the merry-go-round the boys will ride in the amusement park) and of course, each others. They just didn't understood what makes theses things special before, because they didn't knew how to look at each other, at what they already had. That's the role of the hole in the wall. DataNINE.i looking at the humans boys from the hole in the wall is an introspection. They're looking at themselves from "outside of themselves".

The hole in the wall was made by the meteor, but was also there before it happened and will stay there after. They always could have watch behind the wall, try new things, but the meteor catch their eyes and taught them to "look".

At the end, the amusement park is not what makes them happy. They have a lot of fun in this park as long as they played together, but as soon as they're alone with themselves, (Like Winnie and Jewon) this isn't amusing anymore and that place even looks a little hostile to them.

They'll find wonders and have fun as long as they're together. They left the amusement park and their "twins" disapeared. They came back into their own world because they learnt their lesson.

Parallel universe is about learning to find wonders in the world, thanks to people around us. Nothing really happened to the boys. They realize something we didn't knew before. And that's how all of this is linked to Young Boy era. Because Young boy is about traveling through time. The music has 80's songs vibe, the album is about growing up, VHS quality in the MV intro…

In the MV, a lot of numbers hidden to let us know the link may not be broken. For exemple 91 on Jewon's shirt while is data number is 9164037 (91 = first numbers). A 21 was incrusted on Joohyoung sleeve (data number 3661112) : it's his last numbers reversed.

The S in Seowon's part in the first part of the song looks like a 5. Then, in the second part, he put 2 star on the window. His Datanumber is 11124625. He's spelling his datanumber in reverse because he want to go back in time.

The reason why they're able to reverse the time is because the time were broken in Parallel Universe. It's the meaning of Young Boy. They have to reconnect with their inner child to get back the bravery they have lost while growing up… to be able to grow up. And NINE.i continue their introspection to understand themselves better and enjoy their life fully.

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my piece for the Hemisphere: a Witch Hat Atelier seasons themed zine! thank you for having me! they're having a leftovers sale until stock runs out 🖋🍀🌷🍁❄🌧 WIPs + inspiration board + symbolism under the cut! got some requests to put this on my inprnt! the site has sales very often & you can grab it as a small or big size print.

I had a pretty good idea of the composition from the get-go. I took inspiration from art nouveau (primarily Alphonse Mucha), German fairy tales, and some 1920s perfume ads. I wanted the girls to look like fairies, akin to The Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers.

Olly just didn't work out in this drawing due to time restraints. I do love him very much though.

I actually kinda stopped making illustrations like these (including the TGAA/DGS tarot card + TGAA/DGS zine pieces a while back) because they were starting to get very hard on my arm, as I had an RSI (repetitive strain injury) a few years back during school. (Not putting the onus on the zines at all ofc! I genuinely love working with zine projects! it's def a me thing WAHAHAHA. my style was getting too anime and too detailed for my liking and everything was just taking forever to finish ngl. but I didn't have time to experiment with a more simple style outside of all of my deadlines)

I think that realizing you need to stop is okay. It's something that Shirahama teaches us in her story and I want to learn to take it to heart.

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MILD SPOILERS AHEAD (for those who havent read the story I guess)

each character's symbolism:

- Coco - spring, clovers - Coco is the quintessential spring girl, and I wanted her to symbolize new beginnings, and oh boy did Coco bring a big one. The four leaf clover in particular symbolizes luck and good fortune - to some characters, Coco may have brought fortune, to others her presence brings misfortune, take that as you will.

- Tetia - summer, gladiolus - the name "gladiolus" comes from the Latin word "gladius", meaning "sword", based on the shape of the flower. you can interpret it as "you pierce my heart", perfect for a girl like Tetia, who has a contagious energy, with a romantic and grandiose nature.

- Agott - autumn, marigold - I read somewhere marigolds symbolize strength and power, perfect for our little magical powerhouse Agott. They can also symbolize jealousy (yellow flowers in particular have this association), which reflects on her rivalry with Coco in the beginning.

- Riche - winter, snowdrop - The white color of snowdrops has a strong connotation to innocence, which reflects on Riche's wish to stay a child forever. It can also symbolize rebirth and new beginnings (like Coco's clovers), as the snowdrop is the first flower to bloom in the spring, when the snow has not yet melted. I wanted the concept of "rebirth" to associate with Riche's friendship with Euini, and of his sort of "rebirth" into a new being.

- Qifrey - he does not have a flower per se, but as the caregiver and educator of the four girls, he represents the rainy season - precipitation being the one thing that binds all of these seasons together. (Note some areas of the world do not have a rainy season like where I live). I think somewhere along the line I wanted to put hydrangeas behind him, to really bring out the "rainy" theme, but the thought probably got lost somewhere in translation...

- bg flowers - honestly I just picked whatever. white lily, daffodil, hydrangea, zinnia, tulip

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FINALLY!

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fit check: dying of sepsis in siberia during the paleolithic era 

Fushi/nameless boy from To Your Eternity is done! this project was incredibly fun and satisfying, I loved working on it and am absolutely delighted with how it turned out.

I have a hard time getting into new anime but last year my incredibly good friend Chris pitched to your eternity to me as “ok so theres this orb-” to which i replied with “you son of a bitch, I’m in”. Although i was sold on  O r b  right from the get-go, I liked it way more than i anticipated, and thought Fushi/nameless boy would be fun as hell to make. 

The costume itself is almost entirely suede, pleather, and faux fur, with the exception being the modified olive green jeans. Fushi used a lot of techniques in fur working, weathering and shoe making that ended up making this project so engaging to work on. 

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BXB (formerly known as APR PROJECT & including 4 former members of TRCNG) has released the 1st group concept photo of their upcoming debut album “Flight and a New Beginning” which is scheduled to be released on January 30th.

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Pokémon Timeskip SinJoh Gang

Some Timeskip (early-mid 20s) designs I made of Dawn, Ethan, Lyra, Lucas, and Kris from December lol Admittedly Dawn has two designs actually this is just her skirt design while her main design I’ll upload later but as for the Timeskip verse stuff Dawn is the champion of Sinnoh, Ethan is the champion of Johto, Lyra is the champion of Kanto, and Lucas and Kris are grad students studying in Kalos trying to earn their PhD (Lucas in particular is the one that travels to Hisui for the summer despite him being based off the npc version of him cause I can) I hope you enjoy!

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Nekros Prime

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You have tastes!

i have no idea who these kids are but this..... this might make my top albums of 2022 holy cow 😳

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Vahn's trauma is many people's dream.

he felt threatened

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Rookie boy group NINE.i has released the MV for “Young Boy,” the title track of their 2nd mini-album “I (Part.1).”

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1. I live as__________ 2. Young Boy 3. Paradise 4. Love 5. Loner 6. I AM

[Apple Music/iTunes] [Spotify] [YouTube Music]

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Nine.i- Parallel Universe MV

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miss Juanita my nugu boys NINE.i released a comeback and I'd be interested to know if they still have your sign of nugu approval 🎤

The royal nugu certification is still on☝🏽I went and listened to the EP and I will say they have no bad songs on it (Loner is my fav). They are serving nugu excellence

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NINE.i PARALLEL UNIVERSE