#Ophidia

[bigfatbreak]

here's the concept art for marinette's snake miraculous form! it was up on patreon last month, but I figured I'd post it for the update crowd too~

[lavendoodles]

a fanart i've been wanting to finish for a literal month.

she is complete. it really has been a full month. I started this on the night of November 30th and finished it like 10 minutes ago on December 30th.

(The marvelous design belongs to @bigfatbreak !!!! Thank you for dropping this masterpiece omg)

I'm not gonna lie, this is the first reason I wanted to open a blog in the first place.

(if you want to read my rambles and see a closeup of the drawing, i'll put everything under the cut!)

A few months ago, a friend introduced me to the absolute jewel that is Bigfatbreak's Miraculous Ladybug AU, and I was hooked from the very beginning. I mean, you have all the stakes, all the drama, all the edginess that the original show could only dream of having, and the art is so pretty!!! The color palettes used for each chapter are always so pleasing to the eye, and the "halos" are a beautiful addition to the characters and the visuals when important moments happen.

I knew that I would make some study doodles for myself at some point, but as soon as that chapter dropped and we got to see Marinette as the snake Miraculous holder... I dropped everything and RAN to my tablet. Her design is STUNNING and I couldn't express my admiration in any other way, I HAD to draw her.

For some reason, I wanted to go for something big with needles and a tarot card as an inspiration. So I spent maybe the next three days working on it, but uuuuh that wasn't it. I also wanted to include snakes and some tulle fabric for the background, without realising how hard these two elements were to draw, especially the fabric (it's torture. I'm very open to tips or resources if you've got something). Then I felt like I couldn't get the tarot format to work. Then the rendering sucked. And I still couldn't make the background work. I gave up for a month. <3

And I suppose that it's in those moments of creative emptiness and lack of motivation, that everything suddenly clicks as if it was obvious from the get go.

Let's just go for a simple, eye-catching background with very soft rendering and a mysterious glow emanating from twelve sewing needles turning counter-clockwise. I know this piece is still full of potential, but I wanted to finish it before 2024 and before my mind had a chance to make me give up.

I find my mind to be incredibly insulting when it happens. But uh, considering that I haven't done anything solid in a month, I still take it as a small victory. Small victory is classy snake speedrunner seamstress. You go, Marinette.

[sp00ntaneous]

'Ophidia' wooden spoon carved in Australian Lacewood with ebonized walnut base.

[kiraofthewind]

The Ophidian Revolution, part 2

Part 2 of my loredump. I've applied tags, but be aware that there was a lot of shit happening during the revolution, so content warnings apply. Particularly for death, murder, slavery, sexual acts, and heads exploding.

The night of the Revolution occurred on Razum 23, which correlates to October 10th on the Terran Calendar. A chill autumn night. Ophidia chained her husband to the bed using manacles given to her by Farnel. She sneaked into her sons’ bedroom and did the same to them. Lira (about 15 years old and involved in the plot) helped out. All across the planet, women did the same. Many chained their husbands to their beds. Many shot them with their guns. Lord Selfishness created portals linking the Makai to Orochi so the demons of the Makai could help out. It was a massacre. Overnight, men were killed, beaten, tortured, and enslaved.

The King of Orochi did not have a wife, but rather several concubines. The concubines waited until demons distracted the guards, then they ganged up on him. They tore off his golden crown and jewelry. A few days later, they would melt it all down and reforge them into golden manacles and collars. Noblemen from across Orochi were gathered in the capital, Ophiuchus, and forced to run down the streets while women beat them with whips or whatever they had handy. Those who survived to the end of the gauntlet were usually executed, but Ophidia kept the ex-king chained to below her throne until his death a few years later. Her husband (the First Slave) was also chained there for the rest of his life. Rumors say Ophidia would force her husband and the ex-king to give each other oral sex, but there’s no evidence for this being true. Some other rumors state their penises were cut off, so it would have been difficult to do that. The gauntlet became a yearly tradition called the Royal Parade, though since there are no more noblemen, they just use slaves who have committed grievous acts.

The God now known as Windesoar was a 4-year-old boy living in Orochi when the Revolution happened. He was declared unfit for breeding, and so his penis was cut off. He escaped from Ophidia about a year later.

Ophidia was declared Empress of the new country, which was named after her, and Lira was her Heir Apparent. Lira was, unfortunately, mentally ill. She’d been abused all her life, and then when she was suddenly given power overnight, she abused that power. Her cruelty was so legendary it was rumored that Hira would feed *just* off her cruelty to gain energy. Rumors of “Lhira” (the idea of Lira+Hira being one entity) spread even to the enslaved men who believed that when Lira became Empress, their slavery would involve mandatory torture.

Side note: A scientist working for Lira discovered a magical acid (hydroiodic acid where the iodine atom is saturated with Death elementrons). It was named after Lira because she enjoyed using it to torture men.

In the year 1, soon after the formation of the Aloutian Empire, the nation of Ophidia also converted to Spiritism. Here’s an account by St. Ancognidel regarding her meeting in the Empress’s court:

The Empress’s advisor, Minako-gozen of House Ayameyama, addressed me. “On behalf of all Orochi-Ophidia, this court, and my Empress Ophidia, I declare that we will joyously worship your God, spread your religion, and pay any sacrifice he demands under one condition.”

            “My brother Lucognidus will not negotiate,” I said. “He will not tolerate being tested, nor will not curry favors with those he conquers.”           

            “I would never be so brash as to ask God for a favor! I am a loyal servant, and I know my place is to serve, not to demand! No, my condition is this. If you are real, Lucognidus, and you proclaim yourself as God, then my nation will worship you only if you strike me dead where I stand!” Minako spread her arms wide and faced the ceiling, mocking the heavens.

            Her head cracked open with a mighty explosion.

Thus the nation of Ophidia converted to Spiritism.

In the year 8, Lira was killed by a man, who was then, of course, tortured and killed brutally. Lira’s death broke Empress Ophidia, who became sullen, silent, and ‘lost her wits’ according to historians. With no heir and no governing ability, power transitioned to the Heads of Orochi, who declared the country would become a Republic after the Empress’s death. Ophidia had been going slowly insane already, however. Lord Emberdyme was the Lord of Insanity and one of the deals Ophidia made to get his support was that he'd slowly make her insane. She was insane *before* Lira's death. But her death only made it *worse*

Empress Ophidia died in the year 8, shortly after Lira’s death. She often went on walks alone in the forest to get away from court life, and one day, she came upon a man sent by his master to catch fish in a pond. The man, knowing this woman was the source of all his ills, overpowered her and held her head underwater, but was surprised to find she was a Water elemental and could not be drowned. He instead smashed her head against a stone, then left her body in the pond. Since she was a Water elemental, she went to the Water Realm, where the Goddess Liqua showered her with praise and love, because Liqua herself became a female supremacist after she learned about Ophidia.

The man who killed Ophidia would, of course, be caught, tortured, and killed for his crime.

[penguinpyro]

Ophidia the dragon

[studionafay]

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[couturebycherry]

gucci ophidia small sequin handbag

[ophidianmon]

Put that little freak back where you found it

[firekitten830]

oh hey here’s an oc I haven’t posted yet. bullying him

anyway I have a hc that sebastian doesn’t wash his hair. greasy bastard

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Inktober Day 6 - Garden

Prompt list by melosprout on Insta

[zurgles]

Tarot Decks I Own (as of June 2024)

I got most of these (after the RWS) when I last quit smoking a couple years ago (think I made it five years) as a deal with myself - I could spend my cigarette budget on indie tarot decks. I started up again but it was a good incentive at the time.

I have also traded and given decks away so there are more that I’ve had and lost, but this is my current collection of 27 tarot decks (I’ll make a separate post for oracle and misc decks). I also tried to get these in a way that corresponded to the majors order to help limit my spending but it got pretty neurotic with swapping out deck positions and stuff so I’ve stopped worrying about that as much. It kinda helps me remember my collection though.

I put in parentheses the year I got them in, more or less. I added pictures and I'll update with links to other posts if I ever do deck reviews.

1. Shadowscapes (June 2014)

2. Universal Waite (2016-17?)

3. Numinous Tarot (Sept 2018)

4. Britt's Third Eye Tarot (Oct 2018)

5. Sakki-Sakki Tarot (Nov 2018)

6. Ophidia Rosa (~2020, trade)

7. Cosmic Tarot (2019, trade, trimmed)

8. Next World Tarot (Dec 2018)

9. Persephone Tarot (Dec 2018)

10. Fantastic Menagerie, 2020 reprint (2021)

11. Naturescapes Tarot (2020)

12. Thoth Tarot (May 2019, trimmed, rebacked)

13. Tarot of the Sweet Twilight (June 2019)

14. Spirit Keeper's Tarot, Vitruvian edition (June 2019)

15. Halloween Tarot (July 2019)

16. Medieval Scapini Tarot (July 2019) (bday gift - partner)

17. Tyldwick Tarot, first edition (August 2019)

18. Deviant Moon Tarot borderless (Nov 2022)

19. Golden Tarot of Klimt (Sept 2019)

20. Cult of Tarot (participated, gift from forum creator ❤️)(2020)

21. Tabula Mundi - Manus perfectus (2020)

22. Tarot of Magical Correspondences (2020)

23. Baba Studios Fairytale Tarot (Sept 2019, trade) (no guidebook)

24. Dust ii Onyx travel edition (June 2020)

25. Mine (doodlebob tarot) (March 2019)

26. Spirit Keeper’s Tarot, Revelations edition (2021, unopened)

27. Fantastic Medical Tarot (majors only deck, gift)

[gambittle]

what’s everyone’s names or talents

here's all of their names and talents ^_^

[kradogsrats]

I know I've seen multiple people use this shot from the true-sight serum scene to form/support theories regarding Viren's staff, assuming that the bright light on the left is the stone it contains.

Well, I hate to say it but... I think that's actually the candle. Note the arrangement of book, candle, bowl and coin purse to the left of Viren:

If you look very closely in the shadows, you can make out the shape of at least the bowl and the doorframe... possibly even the purse, but I may be imagining that:

The weird thing is, they're not using the same environment model here as in the establishing shot. The book is in the wrong position relative to the bowl and candle... it's also not even the same book, or at least not the same page.

Aside from the book everything is in roughly the right place for the light to be the candle flame. Even if we assume that the book is in the same position and orientation as the establishing shot and it's everything else that's wrong, I can't come up with an angle that would put the book and staff in the right positions for the light to be the staff.

More importantly the other candle flames look similar, though the ones in front of the mirror glass are dimmed so they don't overwhelm the reflection.

(The candelabra has also switched sides relative to Viren because I think the central table got shifted like two feet to the right so it wouldn't block the bottom of the mirror. There's also a book/scroll there that wasn't before.)

Of course, we could play with the theory that these differences mean something—I like to joke sometimes that the serum was tainted and everything after this scene is Viren's hallucinations—but I don't think they do. I don't know enough about the environment/prop side of 3D animation to know why the changes were made for this shot, but it probably has to do with making as much of the mirror visible as they could. With everything arranged as it is in the establishing shot, the low camera angle on Viren's left would have the mirror blocked by both the center table and the candelabra.

The real question is why the heck does the mirror glow? Well, here's a theory: if the glow is just light, Viren is seeing the light from the other side of the mirror.

[penguinpyro]

A goopy gold dragon named Ophidia.

[studionafay]

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