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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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ah ha ha no girl don't use Vampirism, Religion, and/or Cannibalism as a metaphor for all consuming love and obsession you're so sexy ah ha

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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

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finished the sketch for a digital painting and I just know it’s going to fuck incredibly hard I’m so excited

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might fuck around and make my two newest ocs’ romance doomed to crash and burn from the start (yes ive been listening to mitski)

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✨🍊Tanghulu Lover 🍊✨

The character Elyais belongs to my friend @mercurialmagpie!

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i realized that i accidentally made all of my ocs adhd or bipolar or both (like me) and im not mad about this

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my first non-dnd oc in years, wowwww

aiming for 1800s gothic mexico vibes for her town. ekaitza is the daughter of a local priest and she’s cursed to be able to manipulate flesh (wooo body horror!!!) I’ve decided that in her town the women like to paint suns on their cheeks as blush. the cat eyes are just an art style thing but I’m debating making it a permanent part of her character, like a sign of her curse. she thinks a little too much about peeling off peoples skin to see what’s underneath.

when she’s not busy being a girlfailure she helps out at the local hospital treating people with really gnarly injuries (because she can just kinda, yknow, will the flesh to stitch itself together again). she has a crush on the young doctor there because he has very pretty teeth and she wants to put them in a jar and stare at them (and also he’s hot)

anyways she’s weird but she’s mostly harmless and I love her

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things I like writing about

a silly little list because it helps me be more creative

women with messy emotions and anger that isn't pretty

women who are weird about eating and food

women who have a complicated relationship with their bodies

women who are weird about sex

woman who are just unhinged in general

fruit (peaches, apples, pomegranates, oranges, apricots)

characters who are stuck in their grief and can't move on

teeth/eyes/bones

body horror

religious imagery/devotion and worship/cults

characters learning how to heal (!!!!!!)

things being reclaimed by nature/overgrown with plants

cathedrals/church architecture/stained glass

characters with weird/inaccurate perceptions of themselves

mexican/latino characters and cultures

cold water

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turning off reblogs instead of just deleting the post is a coward’s move sorry. anyway

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Three Song Playlists!

Rules: Compile three-song playlists for as many OCs as you can/would like to

I was tagged by @marmeegle forever ago whoops <3 here we go

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Eilana Mercurial

Take Me to War- The Crane Wives

"Give me a fight I can't resist, give me something to break with my fists, take me to war, oh honey, I dare you"

if I could only choose one song to represent eilana it would be this one fs. it's about being so angry and miserable that you keep lashing out at anyone around you, but also you hurt yourself the most. girlie's got a lot of emotional baggage but she doesn't know how to deal with it in a healthy way (being raised in a cult dedicated to making you depressed will do that to ya).

"I am always feeding them the ugliest parts of me"

Cop Car- Mitski

you know that one tweet that's like "here's a glimpse into my dark evil reality" yeah that's eilana's inner monologue. girl get help and stop being so edgy.

ballad of a homeschooled girl- Olivia Rodrigo

"I broke a glass, I tripped and fell, I told secrets I shouldn't tell"

she's very much a teenage girl in her 20s. she has the worst self esteem and this song really captures how shitty and awkward she feels all the time. even after running away from the church of mask, she doesn't know how to be nice to herself :/

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Orion Mercurial

Blood of Angels- Brown Bird

"Maybe I'm not born to die, but to bring darkness to the sky, pull that goddamned sun down any way I can"

this is the most orion song ever imo. he’s got a ton of bitterness and spite built up in him from years of being in the church. he knows he’s awful and miserable and he’s gonna make it everyone’s problem. (no wonder eilana turned out so messed up)

"I tried to be good, I was a failure, so I took to taking all the good men down"

What Difference Does it Make?- The Smiths

"Now you know the truth about me, you won't see me anymore, well, I'm still fond of you"

this one reminds me of his relationship with holly, and how any chance of him becoming a better person flew out the window when she left him. sorry eilana.

About a Girl- Nirvana

he gives me the vibes of an asshole older brother in the 90s/2000s so a lot of the songs I have on his playlist reflect that. also this is definitely another orion and holly song (she deserved better, he sucks)

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I love my characters and I might do this trend again for more of them hehe <3

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✨❄️ Holiday Onesies ❄️✨

Amedove’s not as much of a fan but Rosalind seems to be enjoying her as the cute lamb for once hehe

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they say the notes app is a girl's most sacred space

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when you write a decent amount but you never have anything to show or post because your writing style is just (write a random scene about a character) (write another random scene about that same character but months later) (keep doing that for months on and off and if you get lucky you might get a semi-cohesive narrative)

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✨🍁 Autumn Sweaters 🍁✨

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olivia rodrigo music gives me major eilana vibes. and picturing her doing affirmations for herself like at the end of the song made me very sad laugh

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✨🌷🌸 Pink Faerie 🌸🌷✨