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i feel like i'm at a creative low rn, sorry for not posting (⁠ب⁠_⁠ب⁠)

Anyway my version of the arcane order has strayed so far from canon i'm thinking of incorporating them into my oc stuff ngl

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Only day you can rb this

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HAPPY PRIDE TO EVERYBODY BUT TIM DRAKE

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My part of an art trade with amazing @just-a-normal-d-mo ✨️

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I need to just *gush* about this real quick waaah

Everything about this is so perfect, especially baby Skrael, like- hello?? Look at them?? The cuteness aggression goes crazy 😫

And the human versions look so good drawn like this, i love their expressions oowaaah (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

Yeah i'm eating these, absolutely scrumptious five-course meal, thank you for feeding me, insanely bonkers doodles /pos🙏

I need more arcane order human au 😫

Design are by: @just-a-normal-d-mo

And @bellrocoftheflames

And me!

Also do you guys like when I only upload sketches? I always seem to post doodles, so I feel like my blog can be boring😓

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Need you guys to know I am soooo anti generative AI. In case that wasn't clear. It's bad for the environment, unethical, theft, and will never be as freaky as me. It is inferior in every way

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woah would ya look at that, another arcane order post

pre-Order Bellroc (plus angy Order Bellroc in the corner), a Skrael w.i.p. inspired by an Aurora song, and some Nari doodles

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seems we have a winner!

in need of advice (⁠◕_⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Been thinking about changing Bellroc's face tats a bit but cant rlly decide on what i wanna go with, so i'm letting y'all decide

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in need of advice (⁠◕_⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Been thinking about changing Bellroc's face tats a bit but cant rlly decide on what i wanna go with, so i'm letting y'all decide

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this was such a fun art trade (⁠◕_⁠◕⁠✿⁠) had fun doing my part (ignore the funky anatomy in the second image, i was trying to do smth with the perspective) ->

My part of art trade with stunning @just-a-normal-d-mo !!

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Recent silly Arcane Order doodles + tattoo overview & pronoun headcanons

also some "older" ones (featuring Deya, Morgana and Merlin)

Bet y'all couldn't guess who ma fave primordial wizard is

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so ever since watching Wizards and RotT I've been deep in the rewrite/AU rabbit hole and decided to actually write my ideas down instead of just having them float around my mind

This is what I'd imagine a sort of magic hierarchy would've been like, created in central europe amd spread around the whole world during colonial times, i'd say magical creatures went into hiding around the same time as not to be used as instruments of violence basically

I'm also changing the dynamics between the Camelot characters & what the fantasy-political climate of the time was like

So for anyone willing to decipher my fugly ass hand writing, here are my surface level notes on what i'm changing the character dynamics into:

I've also been playing around with character designs, because - and please noone take this personally - i absolutely loathe what some character look like, especially the characters in Wizards, like, ugh... Armor design isn't my strong suit but maaan... Also, can I just say that Morgana looks whack af?? Like, girl's NOT from medieval times - not saying that my design is much better on that front, but it's not like this is my job or anything, i don't get paid for this, it's just for fun

I also changed Merlin, to... maybe smth more generic, but idk i like long, flowing fabrics and long haired old men, sue me

Additionally I've been taking notes on how I'd characterise the Arcane Order as I am not a fan of their treatment in canon

Bellroc is by far my fave of the Arcane order to think about, so i've got the most notes on them

I'm probs gonna be updating my notes on them as I go, but these are to serve as my personal guidelines on how to write them

I've also got these dumb doodles, the one on the left was done in the middle of the night while i was taking notes on the arcane order, the other ones were just character design exploration

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Started reading this fic today where Willis was alive the entire time (I saw someone recommending it on Tumblr), but then it mentioned poor Timmy's trauma because of Titans Tower & I got the ick, so I stopped reading it.

Why the fuck is fanon so obsessed with woobifying Tim and retelling the Tower story like he was a tiny child who got brutally beat up & nearly killed when this ISNT HOW IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED? Why are we talking about the Bat-patriarch's #1 fan like he's the biggest victim on earth and pushing this white damsel in distress bullshit?

It's funny because in a lot of popular comics, DC portrayed Tim as an up-and-coming alpha male who endures Batman's challenges like a badass and then offers his unconditional support to what Batman symbolises. They would NEVER write a scene where evil-crazy-destitute-bitch Jason Todd beats Tim in a fight (and certainly not easily) because it would make him look bad.

The entire point of Jason's return was to continue the trend where we shit on his death because it was His Fault for being a Bad Victim and disobeying Batman. Once he returned making arguments against Batman's cruisade, DC portrays him as weak in conviction. His views are treated as hypocritical because, like most of Batman's opposers, Jason is a villainous loser who doesn't really care about helping people; he just wants alpha daddy Batman's attention (this is basically what Judd Winick said about Jason's character in his UtRD interview).

Views that oppose the justice system are intentionally portrayed as evil in DC & they intentionally portray characters with a low socio-economic status background as bad people when they demonstrate these views.

This kind of subtext is very apparent in both Tim & Jason's canon stories, and with this in mind, I think it's kind of dull how people choose Tim to be their princess of trauma & victimhood. His many failings as an overall person (e.g. classism & sexism) are almost never mentioned in fanon. To top it all off, almost every shitty thing Jason has done to Tim is:

1. Brought up constantly, either by the batfam telling Jason off or by him apologising & beating himself up for it.

2. Exaggerated way beyond what actually happened in canon because everyone needs more reasons to pity poor white boy Tim.

The common opinion here seems to be: "Why give the experience of a Bad victim like Jason any real sympathy when even DC's writers were only using it to make him look unfavourable? Anyway, it's soooooo much cooler to use rich boy Tim as everyone's favourite good guy victim for projecting our problems onto."

At this point, the majority of Jason fics cater to this delusional empathy for the two most privileged batfam members. Even in some stories where Jason getting abused is spoken about in triggering detail, it eventually turns into fucking abuse apologism all topped with the tag "Bruce is trying to be a good dad 🥺".

Really wish we'd normalise tagging these things accurately, but I guess people see nothing wrong with their subtext.

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Sonic approves

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OH MY GOD

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