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im looking through my files and realized i never posted this

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I'm on my summertime era👀✨

• An angel and a demon sunbathing in Southern Italy •

I like to think of this one as a postcard Aziraphale would write to Gabriel and Beelzebub with a lot of kind words and exciting news... only for Crowley to seize it from him before he sends it off to keep it for himself ❤️

Next fanart will be... 🔥✨

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What a great game 💗

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Little story time: over the years, I've casually enjoyed Simon Pegg's work, thought he was a good writer and perhaps an underrated actor. Then, the last Mission: Impossible came out, and his portrayal of Benji was (once again) so good that I became... slightly obsessed. Let's-watch-his-whole-filmography kind of obsessed. Let's-listen-to-podcasts-and-interviews kind of obsessed. And because I discovered that the man was even more interesting and smarter and funnier than I thought, I decided to buy his book (because yes, he wrote a book, which has an amazing title by the way: Nerd Do Well). And, because I’m French but I like to read in English, I managed to find a cheap original second-hand copy on a French website. Ordered it, watched more interviews and listened to more podcasts while waiting for it, received it at last... and guess what?

It was signed.

Moral(s) of the story: be unabashedly obsessed, and buy second-hand books.

Thank you, Mr Pegg!

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a little good omens via a joke @bahoreal made on the twitters

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A Tribute to the Best Movie Series Of All Time: Mission Impossible

I haven't been watching this series for very long but as soon as I watched the first one I loved it. Before watching the final reckoning I wanted to make something. And yes I added the forehead touch scene from the final reckoning trailer because to me it will always be part of the movie. ❤️❤️❤️

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The South Downs cottage cosplay (with a garden)

On a random October evening, I decided it could be a fun idea to cosplay the South Downs cottage at The Ineffable Con. So I built one. Out of cardboard, popsicle sticks, acrylic paint, and an embarrassing amount of glue.

This project took me more than half a year and became a journey through visual storytelling, mixed media crafting, fun art techniques, and various engineering challenges. Such as - how do you actually wear a cottage? Or transport it by plane to England?

I needed the cottage not only to be wearable but also collapsible and transportable. Which is why every part – including the cottage itself – uses a system of Velcro strips, neodymium magnets, and metal tape to hold everything together (more on that in a separate post with a ridiculously long video of me assembling the cottage while my friend laughs at me).

Designing this system was challenging but extremely rewarding because now the cottage can travel. Which means I was able to take it to the South Downs, where it belongs. And bring the ineffable husbands home.

The walls are painted with acrylics (because of my trial-and-error painting technique, they now have more layers than a Shakespeare character, but at least the cottage is insulated for winter). The roof, windows, and door are all made from popsicle sticks.

The pictures in the windows are real British cottage interiors that I edited to create scenes from Aziraphale and Crowley’s domestic life. If you look closely, you’ll find quite a few easter eggs hidden within them. (I’ll be sharing the photos in a separate post so you can explore them in detail.)

The miniatures (also coming in a separate post soon) are mostly handmade using various materials. From the St James's Park bench to Aziraphale's spectacles to Crowley's smartphone, they aim to tell the story of two ineffable beings finally coming home to each other.

From the very beginning, the idea was to create a forever home for Aziraphale and Crowley. But beyond that, I also wanted to incorporate fandom references into its very walls - to make the cottage a blend of the fictional world and the real one. Because Good Omens has always been more than an isolated work of fiction. It is also the people who surround it - their ideas, creations, and the love they carry for the ineffable story.

And so, the South Downs cottage is my tribute not only to Aziraphale and Crowley’s happy ending, but also to the creators of Good Omens, and to the fandom that has made this world feel like home.

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Something something.

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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woah its a coloured animatic of sorts spooky!

ramblings and process etc;

I wanted to draw fluffy scenes because... yeah. So was looking for a suitable song for this. Honourable mentions was "Last Pale Light in the West", which fits really well... then I thought about this song

The core of this whole idea is the shot of Arthur riding home after the torture and falling into the hands of the gang :)

my notes:

apparently it could not be just greyscale.

Also built up a ridiculously large file just for figuring out colors... I think its fun to look at

the one character design for little arthur:

very confused about "the quiet are restless" section because my original vision was this:

oh yes the first vision board - readable (subjective) from top to bottom, left to right.... with some exceptions. thing that didn't make it was arthur actually replaced by a strung up deer in the basement.

trying to figure out lineart style that might work...

then went with no lines instead, ha hahhahahah

and here's a shot that I kind of missed. Would have had arthur walking on the right, with smoke trailing behind him - and the two graves in the left panel. This is in "the cradle is burning" section

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This video was edited in shotcut with the whole video split between 15 CSP files of about 10 seconds each to keep the animation layers from getting too bulky and the whole thing from crashing.

Started this on Jun 20th, now it's July 14th :0

look at him go

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I have no reason to post these, I just really needed these gifs on my dash this morning (it’s been one hell of a morning)

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For @benthan-week-forever day 4: Bickering over something, like old married couples do

Didn't plan on doing this prompt at all but inspiration struck!! Hope I can finish the other ones in time. But I'm so happy I can participate this year even if it's just one day :D

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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Indeed, it is 😏

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me every time I have to read the words 'Indiana Jones Reboot'