#mimu art

[mimustical]

some more self indulgent art

it was fun designing them as girls

[mimusbirds]

Adeline's got boxes full of plans for Mistria

[wolfaartmation]

Milo got two moods. The first one is only with Camus tho, he's so homosexual for this Fr*nchie fuck.

Milo is also 100% a Saga apologist than Kanon, he got his fav.

I should have draw Camus in the surplice Cloth, but thats a resume of Milo in the Hades arc.

[psikonauti]

Jafari Mimus (Tanzanian,b.1962)

Antelope, owl and birds

mixed media with oil and paint on hardboard

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

Having a little moment to do more with this illustration. The brothers ever 💙❤

Life has been pretty bad. I'm grateful for the people who have commissioned me, but I will still have to deal with some stuff. So, doing some comfort art has given me some relaxation. Hope everyone is safe and happy.

[mimidaeus]

Day 1 - Sight We rode the ladder too, my comrades and I. Once upon a time. Watched the horizon grow and the town shrink below us.

[podartists]

Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Plate II | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[shrub-jay-blog]

Today’s pixel bird is the northern mockingbird, or Mimus polyglottos! After mentioning them in the brown thrasher post, I could not get them off my mind. This picture of a mockingbird came moments before it began to drizzle— I immediately tucked my camera in my bag and started sprinting home.

According to the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoo page on them, male northern mockingbirds can learn 200 songs in their lifetime! They are also the titular bird (at least, imagery wise) of Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird.

They are also affectionately called “mockers” by some. :) They can be fiercely territorial, and sometimes have the gall to try and steal from much larger birds. I witnessed it first hand when I beheld one try and harass an osprey into surrendering part of its fish.

P.S. If you want this pixel art bird as a sticker, you can find it here. :3

[thegreatyin]

arcturus religious arc?? do say more

arcturus is funny because i haven't actually talked about them and the rest of the MCM cast on this blog very much (in fact i don't think i've even namedropped leus?) but they occupy so much of my brainspace. at least 1/339274th of my singular braincell. and lemme tell you that's more than any one OC frankly ever should

anyway! arcturus is religious. like. in the freak sort of way. in the they're Really Fucking Normal about this sort of way. they're so fucking normal right now. you can trust them. they swear. they are soooooooooooooo normal.

to elaborate further would be getting into MCM (and some hints of APF) lore as a whole, which i will do anyway, but under the cut because i like to pretend to respect my follower's dashboard scrolling time

so. the thing about APF and MCM is that they are two wildly different stories taking place at wildly different times in fantasy world history. but they are taking place in the exact same setting with the exact same shared fantasy world history.

this is the full mimue geographical world map, sans cities, primarily made for APF purposes but also featuring MCM's two (unnamed as of right now) focus continents off to the far left. MCM's story mostly spans the northern part of this duo. unlike what i affectionately refer to as "the APF plot triangle" (or eastern mimue, if you wanna get technical) country names are not synonymous with continent names and this is weirdly way more important to MCM lore than you might think.

this is an extremely rough mockup of a "mimue political map". green designating arboret, gold designating sanctus, blue designating requies... and brown designating medeis, with icy blue designating sulia. grey designates a cluster of various smaller border countries that definitely exist but i haven't worldbuilded them as of yet and don't really plan to go in-depth with them because they're mostly irrelevant to anything ever.

MCM focuses on medeis and sulia. and only these two. another crucial element of MCM is that everyone living there is completely disconnected from the other side of the world. the map makes them seem relatively close to arboret but in actuality it's way more like a mutual undiscovered new world situation. the folks in western mimue have absolutely no idea there's an APF plot happening in the first place, much less a cluster. similarly, everyone in APF is unaware of western mimue's existence and they all consider arboret to be the furthest edge of the known world (with just ocean laying beyond that). christopher columbus hasn't attacked mimue yet is what i'm saying.

however. they do share a world history, and setting, and magic system, and hey wasn't there a whole thing with eastern mimue and an angel blessing the world a thousand years ago that encompassed the entire planet in scope and you can go read about it on Ao3 if you feel like it right now?

y'know. that mildly significant part of mimue history that basically overturned the world forever and inspired a new religion in eastern mimue dedicated to following the angel like it's a god. that mildly important minor detail.

yeah, the MCM crew has no idea about any of that. but they were still affected by it. they just... interpreted it slightly differently.

magic in the world of mimue is an anomaly by mimian standards. something New and Weird and Unnatural. eastern mimue, with the context of the blessing angel as a bringer of peace and forgiveness and prosperity, treats it as something to be valued and admired.

western mimue does not do this. western mimue basically got blasted with magic with zero context of what was going on across the ocean, and everyone is CONFLICTED about it. some believe it's a favor from their gods, others believe it's a curse from those that scorn them, and still others shun anyone with "too much" magical ability in the first place.

by-the-by, completely totally definitely unrelated to that above statement, who are those western mimue gods?

well.

while those in eastern mimue have largely abandoned mimue's old ways and barely anyone has any real recollection of The Before Times, western mimue is desperately clinging to those exact same old beliefs. to its old gods, for lack of a better word.

no, seriously. who were these old gods?

dragons, of course. they're the primary subject of worship in western mimue- and a dying one, at that. in modern-day MCM (and by extension modern-day APF, though it takes place a long while before MCM) most of the median and sulian population haven't seen a real "godlike" dragon in centuries.

but they are still very much around. just. hanging out. being worshipped and served by mortals. fully sapient talking dragons held up as gods. are they actually? that's debatable, but also a debate topic that'll get you a lot of stink-eyes in sulia and some especially devout sectors of medeis.

speaking of.

arcturus! remember when this was an ask about them and not just a mimue theological history lesson? yeah i don't either. but lets discuss them anyway.

a lot of what y'all can know about arcturus (without spoiling MCM too much) can be found in their point-of-view story, wherein they admittedly don't spend a lot of time ruminating on their faith but do namedrop their draconic overlords at the very end all dramatic-like.

they briefly allude to their backstory though! that's something!

to keep an even longer rant about medeis political lore short, arcturus is in a position roughly equivalent to the president. their official in-universe title is Honored Exemplary, but in terms of real-world-analogy it's essentially just being president of the united states.

y'know. if the US was an expansionist empire with technology far surpassing anything else in the world and was also powered by a monster kept in the basement that has to be fed live sacrifices weekly or else the entire thing goes to hell. and also the president and the head of parliament had a weird toxic yuri situationship going on and it's probably inevitably going to end in either murder, a double suicide pact, or both.

so, just the US, really.

the funny thing about arcturus is that they aren't actually native to medeis. parallax is! they aren't. their original home was conquered early-on in their youth, and they've basically grown up surrounded entirely by median society and technology.

and they've adapted like a fish to water. they're like if the country mouse discovered cars exist and became an absolute sicko over it. meanwhile parallax is like if the city mouse just really yearned to be eaten alive by moss (neither of these fucks are normal or honestly entirely sane)

worship of the great big questionably-deity lizards was a BIG part of what little they can remember about their old life. and they're like. REALLY into it. they're the guy who insists you have to pray before every meal and spends an hour daily kneeling in front of their dedicated God Shrine asking for repentance. they latched onto dragonology like a dying man in the desert latches onto a water bottle. they're very very very big on punishing themself for the whole technically-being-a-serial-killer-by-feeding-the-basement-monster thing and they see religion as an outlet for exorcising their own sins. which is really normal behavior, im sure.

and also magic tends to be viewed in a really negative light by Hardcore Traditionalist People™ and they were raised in that environment and as a mutant with zero magical ability to speak of they were basically uplifted as a savior and a favorite of god from day one and they've got an absolutely horrible case of hyperempathy + religious savior complex because of it. so y'know. that's also a mildly important factor. just a tad bit.

TLDR;

arcturus does this. but like. for dragons.

[mimustical]

haven't drawn shipping stuff in such a long time but something about the religious and ethereal imagery with these two got me

[mimusbirds]

Hugo Vlad's phantom thief nonsense just makes me think of the tuxedo mask meme I'm sorryfi

[sharkyy599]

Yes Mimu is standing on a box 😔 hes short

Also they are sleeping or just have their eyes closed [wings can sleep standing so maybe devon is]

this group would be chaotic in a car

I LOVE IT!!

His wings are so comforting! Also, we would TOTALLY be chaos in a car!

[nicklethefool]

Made some bangin vent art the other night.

Do I have any idea what it means? No. But it helped, so that's something.

[spacefinch]

The mimic of many tongues

(That’s what the Northern Mockingbird’s scientific name, Mimus polyglottos, translates to.)

[mimidaeus]

Hark! Paloma

[kaylocia]

first set of art fight attacks!

first row: "millie" - belongs to @kttykyute "care" - belongs to pinktrap

second row: "augusto" - belongs to @justanawkwardclau "kayla" - belongs to @galaxyfish20

third row: "tluang" - belongs to rosywitchartist "mimu" - belongs to bellebear