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Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

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At some point, in Tumblr fashion I guess, I want to do a bracket of my favorite characters from the classics I’ve read so far. Obviously since no one has read all the books I have, I’d include little snippets and descriptions for each, but just imagine… Jane Eyre vs Heathcliff who’s taking it. Mrs. Dalloway vs Jonathan Harker I’m sorry that milf would get his ass. MINA though, now that’s a different story

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A quick comic strip I made some years ago. I've never really tried comics. For a long time I thought it would be too difficult for me ! How silly I was, this way to tell stories is the best one ever. :')

My story Libertatem is not about 20K, but it fills the blanks before and AFTER 20k :) But I wanted to illustrate a scene from the book, just to challenge myself first, with a part of the story which is not mine :)

Since then, my designs changed a little bit, especially Pf Arronax.

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Monster Girl October (tarot deck) day 26: Queen Tera from The Jewel of Seven Stars as The Emperor card!

(I'm double dipping into Bram Stoker a bit with this one). The Emperor card implies power, responsibility, and the payoff of hard work. Queen Tera (aside from being a ruler) fits the card for her intelligence and planning ability to bring about her own rise from the dead through possession and murder! If you want to read it, the 1903 version has a far more compelling ending than the 1912 edit which changed it to a happy marriage ending due to controversy.

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Queen Tera you will always, ALWAYS be famous

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all these excellent books come from some random penguins house?

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I just finished Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is 1:55 AM. French literature man. Damn. Maybe it will rain in Bouville tomorrow

Regardless the future reread is gonna go fucking NUTS

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Nausea is really getting me, because for being written in the 1930’s, it feels remarkably modern in its narrative device of being in the form of a diary. That on its own is not particularly deviant from… well a lot of other books that have a diary or system of notes for how the story is told, but it’s in how Antoine will just straight up be like “DAMN, the fuck was I on yesterday, this shit mellow-dramatic as hell” in relation to past paragraphs, and god it’s just so good. Stupid fucking contradictory man…

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Actually scratch all that, the funniest part of the whole book is just Ned’s actual, literal name being Ned Land. Ned Land. Me when I name my character who works hard John Worker, like, INSANE choice Mr. Verne, I applaud you

The four-person dynamic of 20,000 leagues under the seas is actually so hysterical the more I reflect on it,

Annorax, good Frenchman that he is, doing his best and loving his little fishes and mollusks as he is just constantly exposed to the grand and beautiful horrors of the seas.

Conseil, who is like, the epitome of someone who’s pretending to be a human. Everytime he spoke I couldn’t not get the image of a little green man out of my head.

Ned, tried the hardest in gym class, the fleshiest of the bunch I dare say and so comically both in and out of depth (The sea 😁👍 the ship 😔👎)

And all going up against the absolute drama of Captain fucking Nemo - revolutionary, scientist, organ player, like what can’t he do

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The four-person dynamic of 20,000 leagues under the seas is actually so hysterical the more I reflect on it,

Annorax, good Frenchman that he is, doing his best and loving his little fishes and mollusks as he is just constantly exposed to the grand and beautiful horrors of the seas.

Conseil, who is like, the epitome of someone who’s pretending to be a human. Everytime he spoke I couldn’t not get the image of a little green man out of my head.

Ned, tried the hardest in gym class, the fleshiest of the bunch I dare say and so comically both in and out of depth (The sea 😁👍 the ship 😔👎)

And all going up against the absolute drama of Captain fucking Nemo - revolutionary, scientist, organ player, like what can’t he do

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Damn, I was really curious why Three Sisters was called that, and it really is just because these sisters are going the fuck through it. Literally like two other characters in the play are painted at all positively, everyone else is going out of their way to fuck with them. Like, newsflash Andrey, It’s Three Sisters, not Three Sisters and Their One Brother, could you try any harder to not be a complete nonce? Please?

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CHRISTMAS NEMO🌟🎄

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OH, AND I FINISHED 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS! My thoughts? Jules Verne, the questions I have for you, cause what do you MEAN Professor Annorax isn’t in love with literally every male figure in that book? What do you mean Conseil literally lives and dies by him? Jules Verne you’re telling me these men did NOT sloppily make out with each other with the salon window panels down for all the fish to see???

I actually do have a lot more proper thoughts on the structure and storytelling of this book, how the sorta episodic nature of it is both a boon and bane, but I just need to get these out first because I know you’ll all appreciate it that these 1860’s European men definitely fucked and Professor Annorax simply did not include it in his notes

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After an extended hiatus, I’ve returned to my collection of Chekov plays, and wow, just… holy shit? I’m reading Three Sisters right now, and there is something so haunting and visceral about Irina just shouting “Moscow! Moscow! Moscow!” to herself after everything that went on in act II. To be in her position, with literally everything falling apart and holding onto this final long-shot dream of returning ‘home’, and all at 20, god it’s just so good

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Vincent van Gogh

Butterflies and Poppies

1890

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Mary Shelley’s Mathilda

summer semester art project, acrylic on canvas

more pictures and text under the cut

Short novelette Mathilda written by Mary Shelley, the mother of Frankenstein herself, touched me in a certain way since the very moment I read it. Is it the authors writing style? The autobiographical elements snuck into it? The book not being shy portraying taboo elements and feminist ideas, unlike great majority of other books written in the early 19th century? Perhaps all of it.

I really wanted to pay homage to this piece of literature, moments in the plot that struck with me, and to Mary Shelley herself. Correct me if i’m mistaken, but to this day I don’t think there’s any collection of illustrations nor paintings inspired by this written piece, and I’m very proud and honoured to be the first one!

Here! Despite disagreements on my vision between me and my art professors, initial frustration with the poses (incredible thanks to my friend @the-gay-sailor for helping and mental support), months of work when i felt like what I’m doing is pointless, I am ready and satisfied with the result.

I hope you enjoy it as equally as I do :]