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Farcille Friday!

Payback time >:-)

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I gotta say ur like my FAVORITE artist for Falin and Marcille stuff even outside of obvious ship art for them. Like you just draw them so “bestie whom I kiss” shaped it’s insane. Like Falin’s big and round and Marcille is just a string bean and you can just tell she gets the life squeezed out of her everytime Falin gives her a hug but she wouldn’t trade it in for the world because she loves her silly gf so much (I’m literally gifting you my first born cat son for the banger farcille art you provide)

true. true true true. true true. insanely true. have farcille art i made for halloween. it was for you specifically but dont tell the others ok. kiss.

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Literally just posted one of these but WHATEVER

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St. Xenia of Petersburg, by Alexander Prostev

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Hahaha again hahahaha again

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Redraw of my cyberwoman redesign

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Redraw of a piece from 2021

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Happy Accident

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I think i met an angel on the train

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Hi again!! What's your opinion of people drawing/writing Amina (and her mother and sisters, for that matter) wearing a hijab? Thanks :)

Oh this is interesting!!

Okay, so I have two answers. One is that as a fan, you can interact with a character however you want. If you want to imagine a hijabi Amina, you are so welcome to do so - that version of her is yours, and it belongs to you. She stopped being my character alone when I published a book about her - we all share her now!

My second answer, though, is that in terms of historical accuracy, no, she most likely wouldn’t have worn the hijab. This was something that came up in my research, and that I found super fascinating. Obviously fashions were very different then, but also (as far as I understand, please know that I am not an expert on this) the way people expressed their faith was quite different. It wasn’t as usual for wealthy Egyptian Muslim women to wear the hijab - instead they tended to wear (among other things) this devastatingly cool little hat/scarf combo:

I actually went into creating Amina’s character intending her to be a hijabi and came out of it realising that she wouldn’t have worn the hijab! (NB - again, please note that I’m sure some wealthy women did, and also that I think it was more common for working class women to do so. I’m not making any absolute statements here!)

While I’m on the subject of Egyptian women in the 1930s, I remember that I had to cut out a scene where Amina’s mother ran a women’s poetry/writing group. There was a real literary scene in Cairo in the 1930s, loads of women were published poets and writers and thinkers - it was really such an interesting time and I wish I’d been able to include more about that!