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Listened to Blu's new video, watched a few episodes of Sailor Moon, painted this, and got the warm fuzzies watching my friend talk about her new partner. that's all I did today. Ideal day.

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Dreamscape Crew!!! The Dream team!!! (This is the piece that will be doodled in the upcoming speedpaint/doodle yipee!)

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For some reason yours truly is allergic to making proper reference sheets of my ocs, so you instead get weirdo fun fact sheets I guess.

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??????? You've confused the waiters ????????????

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Kayla has an awful idea, Kayla has wonderful idea, Kayla has a wonderful awful idea.

This was originally part of a comic idea I scraped, but this page was really funny so I adapted it.

Also yes! You read that tag correctly. Kayla is technically a Nightmare-Verse fan character, she didn't start out that way though. It's a long story for another time. (Feel free to ask about it in my ask box)

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Another redraw of an old peice from 2021 featuring Orbit!

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Redraw of a peice from 2021 featuring my Original Character Orbit. I would kill and die for him, trust.

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Expression practice with Chester Dumpsky :)

Doubles as practice for. . . Something I'm working on ;)

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These were some doodles from June! which game me the idea for the pride flags ❤️

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How odette died, presumably.

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I'm especially fangirly today so I've decided to get over my weird posting anxiety and just spam art. Enjoy.

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I have been slowly listening to A Blade So Black which is pretty good so far, although definitely one of those YA books that was written with a teenage audience in mind and not just marketed to them. (Which is a very valid thing to be but puts me outside of the target demographic and it’s very noticeable sometimes.)

But I’m a little more than halfway through so I can be sure this is a real pattern now and I must report that this book, while marketed as an Alice in Wonderland adaptation

is very much equally a Sailor Moon fanwork.

Now, both in terms of ‘broadness of marketability’ and ‘legality’ it’s obvious why only the former affiliation is advertised, but this book in spite of technically having its own worldbuilding and magic system that has pretty much nothing to do with either source material is very much a Normal American Teen OC starring in a Sailor Moon AU wearing a Wonderland hat.

We keep getting little aesthetic nods to Carroll, names of things mostly and Hatter liking teacups and things like that, and technically the original Alice has been incorporated into the setting’s history. (Though none of the events except ‘little blonde girl in headband visits Wonderland via hole in the ground’ are recognizably similar to the source material; the vibe of her visits seems to have been much more like if the Oz series were less relentlessly bizarre.)

And our Alis is a Sailor Moon fan, which is why she’s worn two separate cosplays (and failed to recognize that the boy with a crush on her put together a Tuxedo Mask costume to match lmao) and uses Sailor Moon battle cries when stabbing nightmare monsters, and doing magical cleansing of dark influences.

And of course monsters formed from and preying on humanity’s fears is a pretty common trope in the genre, so that’s not a notable Sailor Moon resemblance really, and she gets to keep her evil-fighting superpowers permanently and they aren’t magical girl levels of flashy, at least so far.

But the mode in which the good queen’s heart being overwhelmed by darkness and turning her into a terrifying villain is described? The conceptual treatment of the MacGuffins? The visual style and descriptive focus of the detailed gorgeous magical palaces? Those are Sailor Moon also.

The tragically dead little princess has Chibi-Usa’s hair!

Basically Wonderland is being engaged with here on a very surface level while Sailor Moon is being engaged with at a heart and gut level, but because of copyright law only the former can be acknowledged.

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I have been slowly listening to A Blade So Black which is pretty good so far, although definitely one of those YA books that was written with a teenage audience in mind and not just marketed to them. (Which is a very valid thing to be but puts me outside of the target demographic and it’s very noticeable sometimes.)

But I’m a little more than halfway through so I can be sure this is a real pattern now and I must report that this book, while marketed as an Alice in Wonderland adaptation

is very much equally a Sailor Moon fanwork.

Now, both in terms of ‘broadness of marketability’ and ‘legality’ it’s obvious why only the former affiliation is advertised, but this book in spite of technically having its own worldbuilding and magic system that has pretty much nothing to do with either source material is very much a Normal American Teen OC starring in a Sailor Moon AU wearing a Wonderland hat.

We keep getting little aesthetic nods to Carroll, names of things mostly and Hatter liking teacups and things like that, and technically the original Alice has been incorporated into the setting’s history. (Though none of the events except ‘little blonde girl in headband visits Wonderland via hole in the ground’ are recognizably similar to the source material; the vibe of her visits seems to have been much more like if the Oz series were less relentlessly bizarre.)

And our Alis is a Sailor Moon fan, which is why she’s worn two separate cosplays (and failed to recognize that the boy with a crush on her put together a Tuxedo Mask costume to match lmao) and uses Sailor Moon battle cries when stabbing nightmare monsters, and doing magical cleansing of dark influences.

And of course monsters formed from and preying on humanity’s fears is a pretty common trope in the genre, so that’s not a notable Sailor Moon resemblance really, and she gets to keep her evil-fighting superpowers permanently and they aren’t magical girl levels of flashy, at least so far.

But the mode in which the good queen’s heart being overwhelmed by darkness and turning her into a terrifying villain is described? The conceptual treatment of the MacGuffins? The visual style and descriptive focus of the detailed gorgeous magical palaces? Those are Sailor Moon also.

The tragically dead little princess has Chibi-Usa’s hair!

Basically Wonderland is being engaged with here on a very surface level while Sailor Moon is being engaged with at a heart and gut level, but because of copyright law only the former can be acknowledged.