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dicking around with color palettes

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Sleeping ‘till October (a Good Omens repaint of In Bed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

Never tried repainting something post-impressionist before so this looks a little strange but eh. Close enough.

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Welp, I have to break the chain of mermay for once to post this one piece I did for the GOGTT show in Sendarya's discord server.

To begin with, I never intended to enter this competition as I was still not sure of my own process and painting style to be happy with what I produced. Up to March, I had a chance to collaborate with a writer to illustrate some scenes for her fic when I came across a process where i can start loose and slowly build up the painting which allowed me to feel less clueless when I start painting. Fortunately, I also came across this movie scene from a movie called The Strawberry House which ignited an idea leading to the piece for the competition. I spent about 3 days painting and learning from my mistakes. I have to say this whole process is valuable because I learned so much I could feel my improvement.

Anyways, the piece is about Aziraphale going out and returning home after a long day knowing he's coming back to the one place he could feel the warmth, peace and love.

Here is the link to the video because the entry is in video format.

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i know all about allistic people. they really love loud sudden noises and bad textures

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it disturbs me that a significant number of people think that the issue with sexual violence, gendered violence, and misogyny is sexual desire rather than dehumanization, so they are relentlessly suspicious of others' (and their own) desires while simultaneously never at all interrogating others' (and their own) dehumanizing beliefs about other people, both within and outside of sexual contexts

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The South Downs cottage windows

As promised, here are the windows used in my cosplay of the South Downs cottage.

I used real photos of British cottage interiors and added a few bits and pieces to make each of them tell the story I wanted. Let's see how many easter eggs and references you can spot!

1. Kitchen

2. Aziraphale's library

3. Crowley's plant room

5. Living room, part 1

6. Living room, part 2

7. Bathroom

8. Staircase

Which leads to the...

9. Bedroom. I'll leave the details up to you.

That's it! The great thing about the removable windows is that I can change and update the scenes as needed and so the cottage can be an ever-evolving thing. Let's see where the story takes us!

P.S. if you spotted the ineffable ducks in the bathroom, they are by Shadow Raven Creations: here. I got the AO3 tag sticker at last year's TIC and you can find it here.)

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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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Hey you guys know that one text post, the one with the cat? You know what one I mean. Thanks @sneakyfeets This was supposed to be “just a sketch” but then Crowley had to be a bastard who sits in chairs and it all went downhill from there. 

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when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

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this is so sad 😔

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"autism is a new phenomenon that's on the rise" do you really think the Gregorian monks who spent months writing a single letter H and drawing little pictures of snails on it in illuminated manuscripts were neurotypicals? is that really something a neurotypical would do

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Like Whatever it is Takes to Water 👿😇🦆

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The real secret may or may be not "I'm in love with you and also I've been blessed by Apollo with a flaming sword and now my brother want to conquer the word with it" but sure, "Tipsy and eepy" might be a cool secret too I guess.

Meanwhile, Crowley is having an "error 404 too much affection found" moment

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Summer is running through our fingers, like water from a forest river. Sparkling in the sun, fleeting and rushing away 🍃

Between the grown-up worries, we barely notice as it trickles down.

The nights grow longer, stars falling into the grass 🌿

Let's try to savour these moments of summer magic ✨