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I love Yoshino so so much 😭 at first I thought it was just because I like when girls get to be tanks in fiction, but I think it’s more about tenacity as a trait, and not having a narrative impose sympathy? Like when Zoro’s getting beat by Kuma, the narrative is framed to have the audience admire his conviction, tenacity, and ability to take damage.

Redrew this scene from the manga because the Amaterasu cave analogy is gorgeous, and I need to practice art. Genuinely the manga is gorgeous and I’ve been recommending it to everyone, forever. I’m hoping the anime is just as good

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I spammed Yaelokre to finally sit down and finish drawing but I’m rlly happy w/ my results! (Harpy Hare fits so well??) I was fleshing out a villain oc based on Catherine the Great and found 2 similar paintings after Antropov and Roslin and thought it would be cool to draw her old and young, with higher and lower contrast, light behind and before her. It was genuinely so cool actually finishing my drawings and rendering clothes??

I was trying to come up w/ a villain for the sapphic isekai Sibs and I r working on and basically ended up doing Catherine the Great unchanged? Little tweaks here and there but so much of her history works so so well for interpersonal drama.

Smth smth mother of the crown prince, gentle face, ruthless. An empress whose innovation lead the country to great fortune, but whose policies grew increasingly regressive in old age. She cares for her son in a way but wants to keep him from amassing political power or entering court. The conflict w/ the MCs come from trying to marry him off to a loyal vassal family. She's deeply paranoid about him overthrowing her as he grows up, and talks down to him while saying everything is for his sake. He would grow up knowing that she overthrew his father, hearing rumours that he’s illegitimate and that she ordered his father’s death. I think it'd be fun if she very much resented her dead husband for having everything given to him, never working hard, and almost bankrupting the country, but a part of her is sympathetic from living together as foreigners in this country since they were 14. She didn't kill her husband but she was certainly very relieved that he died. Where once she lead a bloodless coup, her increasing ruthlessness in politics bleeds into her personal life as her son's more legitimate bloodline makes him a threat to her rule. I'm still undecided how much she cares for her son and what his vibe will be in the plot.

(I know the black ribbon had connotations in Degas' time but the first world is bad off-Europe rofan so I'm just gonna say that that doesn't exist here. Maybe it was given by her husband and she wears it as conquest/mouring?? Undecided if it's him or a spinster relative)

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So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

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The style but also. Scatter went so hard

Remember, you’re strong now

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Forgot how hard this hit?? You’re my best friend

you’re my best friend.

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The actual coolest thing I think I’ve ever seen

love me. love me. love me.

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Not done the finale but K2. I’m actually gonna spontaneously combust

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This has such a chokehold on me

(wip) slowly figuring out how to draw them......

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Made a paper craft of this drawing of mine to destress! please look at my son!!! i love u, riz gukgak.

I think I'm gonna do more because I had a lot of fun with it! I think it looks pretty good for my first time doing this ://]

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DO NOT try to eat yogurt in the barbarian classroom at 3am

(EDIT: fixed the shadows on Gilear plz rb this version lol)

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Everything in episode 17 was wild but I was so stressed seeing Fig cast atonement on a corrupted god. Instant EXU: Calamity vibes and I was so ready for indignation and betrayal. I had to keep reminding myself the genre was different. BUT ALSO THE ART THIS EPISODE WAS INSANE AND AMAZING!! Ankara my beloved

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The shapes??? The movement and colours and style??

So how about 'Dawn of Justice'???

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Was absolutely obsessed with Ankarna as a mountain summer rage god turned fiend. Absolutely taken by the idea of pulsing blood pumped so hard in your body that it crystallizes after you can’t sustain the rage anymore and combust!! The conquest and new vibes from episode 13 kinda change my old headcanons but I drew this before and still love the concept.

I sketched up a more rural, strong, divine mountain goddess with goat inspiration (herding goats = summer mountain???) and immediately thought she would look so cool corrupted. The idea of this massive, divine, mountainous body eating itself, turned skeletal - rage consuming and destroying the physical self - seemed so cool. The mountain goat worked rlly well for a fiend form too and I just could not stop drawing until my idea was executed.

I could break down all the reasons for my old headcanon design of Ankarna and I’m so so passionate about them. I physically cannot shut up with my friends. I’m super proud of their rendered body and all their piercings, but was worried about showing family and friends so added conveniently placed cape strands (they absolutely have every piercing in both divine and corrupted form)

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Drawing an old Emily Axford neverafter screenshot and then was hit with the realization I could make it Fig with 3 quick changes! Guard dog fig stealing my heart (She’s absolutely able to do everything and no one can tell me otherwise. Paladin, warlock, bard - she could 100% finish 4 years of cleric in time to teach the cleric classes)

But also looking back on Fig’s bard class conversation stuff. Like her saying I don’t think I’m a bard, I think I’m just a good friend. Artists doubting their right to identify and take pride in their art because they don’t have creativity - as if that means something. Comparing themselves to others as if they owe it to others to improve or be more skilled. It’s such a. Like she enjoys creating music. Dooms??? the inbetweeners to rock. Ur success or skill as an artist doesn’t define ur right to be an artist. If u enjoy creating, then create! Bard doesn’t have to be all she is, but she is absolutely an artist?

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Fantasy high junior year started!!!! Loving everyone’s development but especially looking forward to Kristen’s gym rat + self motivation + failing as a cleric arc.

And also low key scared that this mediocrity + adult stress + everything matters + all you’ve earned is WORKING THIS HARD FOREVER. I’m afraid this is gonna swerve and hit me thru the screen. Did not expect it from my fun, lighthearted comfort show but. It’s gonna emotionally devastate me in a hopefully comforting way.

It finally got me to finish my old colouring book design for a Fig and Ayda pirate AU tho! Absolutely no thought behind it. Just magicky pirates. (I couldn’t figure out how to draw Ayda as a phoenix - just didn’t try)

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Snow white’s vibe may be off but… smth very cool about waking up at ur funeral and breaking out of ur coffin. Like the wrongness and… wait it’s just Jason Todd. Snow White is Jason Todd.

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Ok so hear me out. We know that canonically some people in genshin impact are bi because when they flirt with the traveller their dialogue stays the same regardless of the traveller’s gender. But! (and I’ve never played genshin so this may be inaccurate) the traveller never flirts back. Therefore, both twins are aroace, thank you for coming to my tedtalk