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The woman before Yoko, the Lady Lennon that helped keep the beatle superstar at ease, it's Cynthia Lennon

I recently finished reading Cynthia's 2005 book about John and it really opened my eyes to the pressures she would've been through, Cynthia put up with so much

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old yellow submarine art i made a while ago :B!

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*Hits Sam Tan with the magic girl beam*

Here's my Fem! Samantha design (Modern iteration) inspired by 90s-2000s Fire uniforms and Sam's series 5 design, with her torch and stripes and station emblem on her t-shirt held by suspenders

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*Hits Sam Tan with the magic girl beam*

Here's my Fem! Samantha design (Classic iteration)

inspired by 1920s women's fire uniforms aswell as old nurse uniforms since the fire service would've taken on paramedic roles before that was expanded in the 1970s for pre-hospital care

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treating my mutuals' fandom lists as watchlists. if you see im watching something you like chances are its BECAUSE OF YOU. how else am i supposed to find things to watch. surely not my irl friends and their specific suggestions.

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In the original concept script for Fireman Sam, Bella Lasagne was originally gonna be Jamaican (while also having Dily's role before that got swapped), being inspired by the appearance of TV chef Rustie Lee, so I decided to draw a potential redesign for Bella that would've put more emphasis on this scrapped concept.

I've called Jamaican Bella, being called Bella Bammy (Bammy being Jamaican flatbread

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a redesign for what an Older Horrid Henry would look like

taking colour palette inspo from the Killer Boy Rats and more emo/goth detail to show that this is a Henry that embraces his love for rock music and spooky things, donning a spider brooch collar thing, some fingerless gloves, web patterns on his jeans and bat sleeves, the stripes being restricted to just his sleeves to signify the stripes as part of his past with some slight eyeshadow and nail polish as if he has officially joined the killer boy rats in this timeline

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It's that pissed off Telly doctor, it's House MD!

(plus a background shot of the hospital hallway I referenced)

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A ragdollie and her brother! I found an old handmade set of these two at my local thrift store (and snagged them obviously) and I really wanted to draw them, they have the cutest little nautical print clothes!

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Sam Tan as the 5th Doctor

(yes the celery is on the wrong side of the blazer, ignore that, when I mirrored my reference image i forgot that detail)

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Sarah Jane! in her outfit from the 1974/75 special The Robot

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someone on instagram requested that I draw the tenth doctor so here he is

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I'm going to say these things as nicely and as kindly as possible, because I think the RoV fandom needs to hear them:

Not every thought or idea or headcanon can be considered an interpretation of a canon work.

Not every "interpretation" of a canon work is reasonable, sensible, or valid.

Not every "meta" or "essay" is written in good faith. Many are biased. Most are trying to convince you of something.

Finally: words mean something. To you, to me, to everyone.

We are all people existing online within the same space. When you post in the main tags, you're posting where your words can and will be found by people who enjoy RoV. Are they something people looking at the main tag will want to read?

I want to encourage everyone to think critically, and by "think critically" I do not mean negatively. I mean: be aware of the words you and others use. Are those tags appropriate for that post? Is that a good discussion or is someone just using buzzwords in an attempt to sound smart? Are those posts actually bringing up good talking points? Is that essay discussing the source material fairly? Are those interpretations actually interpretations or are they just shower thoughts? Is that post engaging in the fandom and in the source material(s) in good faith?

Sometimes you'll find an essay that puts words to a feeling you've had for a while but could not express. Other times, the "essay" is just nonsense.

Not all essays are created equal. Not all takes are hot. Not all that you read online is valuable, valid, or well-intentioned.

Don't let yourself get gaslit by the dissonance sometimes found between Rose of Versailles and some of the RoV fandom. There are some people who are not engaging with Rose of Versailles; they're engaging with something they've made up in their heads because they don't actually like RoV.

(Let me make myself clear: if you have to change the whole meaning of the story and you have to change the characters because the way they're canonically portrayed isn't to your taste...then you don't like Rose of Versailles.)

Everyone has thoughts, ideas, and headcanons; there's no shame in that. But the way you phrase them and the place you put them matters.

Tangentially related: I've been in and out of the RoV fandom for a great many years, but over the last six months, I've noticed that this fandom has a real issue with misleading potential fans into thinking the series is great [x] representation when those ideas are not present in the source material. (I'm not specifying what [x] is, here, because multiple things apply.)

You cannot call RoV good [x] rep if it's just your headcanon or a ship you like. Anyone eager to read that rep will be disappointed if you recommend RoV to them with that as the selling point.

Unfortunately, this has already happened more than a few times. "I was told RoV was [x] but I watched/read it and I'm not seeing it. Am I missing something?" What you're missing is that people in this fandom continually conflate their own ideas, shower thoughts, and interpretations as canon and recommend the series based on what exists in their head rather than the reality.

Worse, sometimes they recommend RoV because they read somewhere that it was good [x] rep but haven't even confirmed that for themselves. Yikes!

RoV is not great [x] representation for the average modern audience member. You're not doing anyone any favors by calling it [x]; please stop saying it as if it's the definitive truth presented within the canon. It's not.

All that does is set expectations incorrectly for people who haven't seen/read it, and ultimately new fans oftentimes end up disappointed because they did not get the thing they were sold.

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absolutely nobody asked for this, but after a friend said that some of my sam fanfic dialogue sounded like a David Lynch Film, I decided to draw some Ponty Peaks

I went for a more realistic style this time, making Sam look more like his original English actor John Alderton as they had similar hair

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After seeing the amazing reception of my Pinky and Pepper Forever fanart, I decided to design my reinterpretation of what Ginger Jones would be up to in the Pinky and Pepper Forever universe, as she's the one character from the Pinky Cooper doll line not shown in the forever graphic novel.

my reinterpretation of Ginger is that she's a 90s style whimsigoth witch type, studying fashion and into tarot and true crime, I like the idea of her being a former friend of Pinky and Pepper prior to the events of forever or learning about them via detecting them with her witchy psychic signals, a very lydia deetz or the craft type of role.

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Test Card F, When the BBC went off air in the pre-digital era of television, viewers were greeted by a photo of a young girl playing noughts and crosses with her clown toy Bubbles, this lasted from 1991 to 1997 but would pop up again in other test card variations and popular media.

the girl is Carole Hersee, who would go on to be a successful costume designer for films like Flash Gordon.

as an artist that dabbles in more niche/kitsch subjects from time to time, i felt like doing my illustrative spin on this iconic image.