05/27/2024
Continuing from the previous cartoon, St. Joan of Arc's sleepover scheme ends in DISASTER?! (Yes, this still really happened.)
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JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. The Source: This cartoon is based off of characters and events mentioned in St. Joan of Arc's trial. Here are the relevant passages (translated by W. S. Scott): "Asked what [Catherine de La Rochelle] said to her, [Jeanne the Maid] answered that this Catherine said [...] that a woman appeared [to her], a white lady, dressed in cloth of gold [...]. [Jeanne] asked Catherine if this Lady appeared every night; and if so, [Jeanne] would sleep with [Catherine to see her]. And [Jeanne] did so, but kept awake till midnight; saw nothing, and then went to sleep. And when morning came, she asked if the Lady had appeared. And [Catherine] answered that she had come, but [Jeanne] was asleep, and [Catherine] had not been able to wake her."
2. Explanation: Continuing from the last cartoon, St. Joan arrives at Catherine's for their sleepover. She wants to stay awake to see if Catherine's telling the truth about her nightly apparition, but she only stays awake until midnight. The next morning, Catherine tells her the White Lady appeared sometime after Joan fell asleep.
3. Historical / Fiction: The main gist of this story -- Joan's sleepover / stake-out with Catherine -- is historically accurate, based on Joan's account during her trial. In this cartoon, I fill in some gaps and take a few artistic liberties for fun's sake. Here are some of those liberties:
Pierronne: The third wheel in this rivalry, Pierronne the Breton, is not mentioned in the actual sleepover story, but I included her in this cartoon because I wanted a third character to offset the tension with a positive naïveté.
Midnight: In the original account, Joan says she stayed awake until midnight, saw nothing, then went to sleep. This could mean that she chose midnight as her limit and deliberately went to sleep after that, or it could mean that she meant to stay awake longer but could only manage to stay awake until midnight. In this cartoon, I went with the second interpretation, because it flavors Joan's failure to stay awake as a failure of ability, not a failure of judgment. To me, that makes Catherine's claim that the White Lady appeared shortly after all the more devastating, but I really could've gone either way.
Catherine: At the end of Joan's account of the story, Catherine tells her that the White Lady appeared after Joan had gone to sleep, and that Catherine had even tried and failed to wake Joan when the Lady arrived. Though it sounds like a weak lie in the actual story, in this cartoon, I flavored it as cruel gloating, which I think feeds into their rivalry a little better.
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I post my K-Randal cosplay here cause on tiktok many people like it (some of them also made fanart of k-Randal so feel free to do it if you want)
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Bai He and Lady Ivory
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Baigujing took the place of the Monkey King in the journey to the west with her Mistress Kaiming Xiezi and fellow Pillgrims, Zhuzhi, Mo niuwang and Ao Bing. Throughout her journey, Baigujing learned to find perfection in imperfection.
Baigujing knows that Bai he is far from perfection. She's clumsy, naive, and stubborn. And yet, Bai he is everything she wants to be, She's compassionate, empathic, and altruistic. Baigujing sees the perfection in Bai he despite all her flaws and understands that this world is better with her.
Baigujing knows that she can never be Bai he, she knows she'll never be the hero that the world needs. She knows that The Lady Bone Demon will never be The Lady Ivory that Bai he knows and adores.
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@rottonfishie
A lil design for Nezha💕
I wonder what's his reaction to seeing Bingo
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