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Loving the dungeon meshi anime so far! The manga is one of my favorite of all time and I encourage everyone to read it

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What does owlyjules mean? Is that your real name?

Its not! XD

"Owlyjules" is just a name/handle I made for my blog over 10 years ago and now changing it is kinda hard since its what most people who follow my art know me by.

Its a combination of "Owl" (like the bird because I like them and 10 years ago my friends kept getting me Owl shaped/patterned stuff) and my real first name "Julie"!

I tought about changing it last year but eh, its been so long, at that point might just keep it.XD

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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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Little bday doodle! (well 1 day late)

I got to play around with a new texture pack for it and It crazy how different it look without it!

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Little doodles!~ Drawing on vellum over old sketches with these multi-colored pencils is so fun!:D

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I am currently prepping a big shop update and I was thinking of making a new kind of merch!

What do you guys like for merch?

I am currently hesitating between keychain Lanyards or acrylic standees!

Any thoughts?

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this showed up in my FB memories, the lightning bolt trick! I don't sketch out the lightning bolt much nowadays but it's still super helpful when I need to lay out tricky arms and leg poses. And I still apply the logic of it, especially with how I draw arms :' ) Biggest thing it helps with is shape breakdown and visualization, we gotta use whatever works to break down shapes into simpler concepts for our brains 👏💓

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The Twelve Kingdoms Character Highlights:

Youko Nakajima, The Imperial Kei

The Imperial En and Enki had ruled their kingdom continuously for five-hundred years. To face them and declare, “I shall go forth,” required as much courage as she could muster. She still knew almost nothing of this world, nothing of how a kingdom actually ran, nothing of its political structure. She hardly had the right to call herself an empress. Which was why she had no choice but to venture forth, despite how reckless it appeared. If war was what was called for, then to war she would go. And because she could only keep going forward once the ball started rolling, locking herself away in Gen’ei Palace was unacceptable.

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"Let me tell you something of humankind, Keiki." The king turned to her advisor. "When people feel true emotions, such as gratitude or heartfelt respect toward one another, they bow their heads or clap their hands or embrace--because it is natural for them to do so. These gestures do not decide the content of our hearts; it is the content of our hearts that finds expression through our actions."

- Yoko, Glory-King of Kei in The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn by Fuyumi Ono, translated by Alexander O. Smith

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"It’d been a while since she’d gone toe-to-toe with her enemies. Her gleeful self was looking forward to it. Her wounds had healed, she had energy to spare, and no doubts about defeating them. Hearing the cries of the people who could do nothing but run—many of whom would otherwise be hunting her—sent a strange thrill up her spine.

A rancid smell was in the wind. She prepared herself as the flock of kochou dove toward her. The blood boiled in her veins. The sound of raging seas roared in her ears.

I am an animal. A beast. No doubt about it. I am a youma.

That’s why meeting her enemies on the field of battle was such a great joy."

"Youko stood her ground and did her job. She’d long ago become used to the scent of blood, to the sensation of severing flesh and bone. The sight of dead bodies no longer aroused within her any sensitive feelings. To parry and kill, to draw blood and retreat—when it came down to it, that was all she cared about."

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btw. im not calling myself the patron saint of red haired anime girls. it's her:

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"'Twelve Kingdoms' Anime Setting Art Collection"

Akihiro Yamada

Completely drawn cover art released!!

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I'm sure this has been talked about plenty but I'm still awestruck at how well Frieren handles Himmel and Frieren's relationship. I have never seen the 'character haunts the narrative' story beat done to such effectiveness.

Frieren's regret is that she didn't know Himmel before he was gone- but he exists in everything Frieren does without her fully realizing it. Frieren is a fundamentally different person and we *know* it is mostly thanks to Himmel's influence. The constant flashbacks, the way in which Frieren's logic and everyday routines have been altered by his memory. She collect spells because he and the others complimented the mundane, random spells she had found. The way that instead of her master, Himmel is the person who the monsters choose to immitate.

The flashbacks too, are so so potent in characterizing who Himmel was- not only in regards to Frieren, but in regards to Himmel as the hero. The person who lead his group to kill the demon king. The person who did everything in his power to help those around him. The person who was so clearly in love with Frieren but understood intimately that Frieren would not love him in the same regard and even worse, would be walking a very long and lonely path.

Hell, it's at the start of every chapter, in which time is only kept by the years before and after Himmel's death.

It all comes back to him, in the end

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Little tiny Mindless doodles!

It had been a while!:D

(You can tell what I have been reading and watching just with the themes.XD)

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everyone’s always like falin how could you marry such a shit tier ugly ass elf and falin is like ach…nae…i love her…

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バレンタインは私が主役 #創作百合

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Happy late April’s fool!!:D (Or as I call it in my head, Prucan day.XD)

This year Gil find a bottle with a poor lost little lighthouse keeper.:)

Hope you guys like it!:D