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Color practice with mcd garmau…I have an illness I need a doctor I’m insane still after 9 years….

Drew these during my rewatch of MCD I’m on S2 Ep. 66 as this is written.

Now here’s where my thoughts on the series come in (feel free to ignore I’m just yapping):

I have this hc that Garmau is endgame in mcd as he’s been there for her as a friend and loyal guard. He’s been there to support her from the beginning, and despite his betrayal and immature actions, he learns to grow from it. Aphmau, post-Aaron death, can learn to open her heart to him once she forgives Aaron for leaving her. I like to think that Garroth puts his feelings aside for the umpteenth time to be there for Aphmau while she grieves and helps her raise Lilith and Alina. I think it’d be too tragic for Aphmau to never love again after her first relationship.

Tl;dr Aphmau learns to love again after Garroth supports her through her grief after Aaron’s death. She appreciates his companionship and opens up her heart again.

(Don’t get me wrong I love aarmau as much as the next person but for me in diaries garmau makes a lot of sense…and aarmau in mystreet is mcd aphmau’s second chance to be happy with aaron)

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Aphmau at Donna's wedding. She hasn't danced before so she's probably a little out of rhythm. I was so focused on motion that now she's perpetually stuck on generic toothpaste advert smile 😔

It's been a while since I've drawn blonde fine shyt 💛 fumble-man 💛

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Update for Aphblr because I need to make everything about Garmau so I painted over my piece from yesterday

Might make this into a print sometime in the summer + rerun old prints that ppl rlly liked

Close ups here:

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the lord, the head guard

originally painting inspo from frank dicksee, la belle dame sans merci

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There is so little of them I had to make my own </3

I’ve b een having aphmau brain worms

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MCD Character Cards: "Unofficial Lord" Aphmau

she's a baddie yall trust

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rewatching mcd and decided to sketch herrr,,, many more are coming fellas

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garmau comm i did for my oomf cosmic :P not sure if they have tumblr.. :raised_eyebrow:

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the world's most decent little princess

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Scum Villain concept where Qiu Jianluo survived being stabbed and almost lit on fire.

So let's say Shen Jiu, in his murderous disoriented baby criminal haste to kill every guy in his path and escape the hellhole he'd been enslaved in, didn't exactly verify that Qiu Jianluo was dead and also didn't start lighting shit on fire until he was at least halfway out. He deposited Haitang on the side of the road and headed off with Wu Yanzi to his next round of trauma, while on the other end of the estate, Qiu Jianluo dragged himself out of the range of the smoke and eventually got rescued.

He didn't immediately put together that Shen Jiu and later on Shen Qingqiu had any connection, but much like with Haitang, eventually the information came his way. However, by then Shen Qingqiu was a peak lord of Cang Qiong and thoroughly beyond his reach, insulated against anything Qiu Jianluo could think to do because he'd reached a higher rung on the social ladder. In that situation, Qiu Jianluo's best bet was just to hope Shen Jiu never figured out that he'd survived, because otherwise he'd probably got stabbed again and this time it was doubtful the guy would miss his vital organs.

But, then rumors start to spread that Shen Qingqiu has lost his memories. Qiu Jianluo is skeptical. Perhaps it's a trap. But it's also the best opportunity he's ever gotten, so he has to know if it's true. If Shen Qingqiu might not be on guard against him, might not remember him? Well then he's got a chance to finally get revenge. Not even to simply sabotage or kill him, but to potentially get him back into his grasp and take his time with it. He could actually lay a trap that might work.

Qiu Jianluo dons a disguise, fashions himself as a wealthy patron interested in paying top dollar for some specially made commissions courtesy of Qing Jing Peak, and finagles a meeting with the peak lord.

Lo and behold, the rumors are true. Qiu Jianluo doesn't doubt it. While he's cautious at first, by the end of the meeting he's let Shen Qingqiu get a good look at his face, and the total lack of reaction has no other explanation except that Shen Qingqiu really doesn't remember him. On the one hand, that bothers Qiu Jianluo a lot. He was definitely trying to leave an impression on Xiao Jiu, a mark that should have been impossible to erase.

But that's a petty concern in the face of opportunity.

Anyway, cue Qiu Jianluo trying to attic-wife SY!Shen Qingqiu while disciple Luo Binghe tries to covertly arrange his death, and even ends up conscripting Ming Fan and Ning Yingying's assistance (creepy guys hanging around Shizun are an evergreen problem, but this guy is especially unsettling), Shen Qingqiu struggling to figure out what kind of subplot is going on here (clearly something is afoot), and everyone tripping all over their traps and counter-traps until one day Yue Qingyuan stops by for a visit at the exact same time Qiu Jianluo is leaving.

Qiu Jianluo had no idea that some other street urchin he barely remembered encountering had also joined Cang Qiong and somehow become the sect leader. His last thought in this life is a niggling sense that he's seen this guy somewhere before.

Yue Qingyuan has never forgotten Qiu Jianluo's face, on the other hand. The sect leader just on the spot going from zero to murderous and drawing his sword to fucking SMITE some seemingly-random rich guy on the spot is a story that will be going around the peaks for decades.

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1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

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unfortunately my brain sees no difference between drawing pale mydei with an upturned nose and being hit by a bullet train

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what does your blood taste like to a vampire

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Burn the witch.

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hylk yuri

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These two losers the second someone let them near an altar apparently

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who out there dooming their ships