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big ass boulder just dropped on earth causing a massive earthquake, millions died

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The Portrait of Pope Innocent XIV and Cardinal Lawrence (2025)

An homage to Jacques-Louis David's 1808 portrait of Pope Pius VII and Cardinal Caprara during Napoleon's coronation that depicted the Pope's stressful moment as he was forced by Napoleon to travel to Paris.

In this piece I envision that Pope Innocent XIV’s papacy faces some resistance from the traditionalist faction and the weight of it is evident on both their faces.

He wears the Roman chasuble (I used elements of the design by Lisy Christl) and Lawrence wears his pectoral cross (by Riccardo Penko) pinned to his cassock in order to appease the opposition by superficially adopting traditional aesthetics while he implements Church reforms, inspired by the real life reception of Pope Leo XIV by online Trads despite very clearly continuing Pope Francis’s legacy. 

Vincent was also “forced” into the papal throne when he was elected Pope, leaving behind his flock in Kabul, adding to his melancholy.

This will be in my Comic Frontier 21 prints catalog, and is the first in a series of art history inspired Conclave fan art that I have planned for a future personal zine project. International sales and shipping for my other prints are still in the works, but I'll post an update once all is set!

Here's the BTS process with the original paintings by Jacques-Louis David and what the photobash recreation looks like underneath the painting layers.

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ready for another day of torturing myself and wasting my own time

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of course it goes without saying that i am deeply dependent on my illuminated manuscript

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just me and my shit yaoi from a thing thats bad

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starts talking about my emotional state with 2 degrees of abstraction instead of 7 and the sniper across the street who i pay to keep me in line fires a warning shot thru my little hoop earring

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what do you mean I can't control everything, why not

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sometimes i get cuteness agression with my favorite charcters. i just want to put them in a bix and SHAKEEE. i want to bite into them and TEAR. WITH MY TEETH. just rahhgggg. RAGGHHTFJDK. i just want to put them in the microwave, and WATCH THEM EXPLODEEE. love my charcters so much

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i prefer divorce and cheating to putting characters that make no sense together in a polycule tbh

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Are you like. Okay

the character

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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

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mixed response

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the medieval peasant I brought into the present and am explaining society to: So, these "CEOs", they are akin to... burgher kings?

me: hold that thought. We need to go somewhere right now

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TURN UP THE HARPSICHORD! I CAN'T HEAR THE HARPSICHORDD!

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Hetbait kind of goes harder than queerbait sometimes. Queerbait you understand that the creators very rarely could do it even if they wanted to so implication and suggestion was better and safer than being explicit. Hetbait though there's no such justifiable reason they just want to fuck with you.

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