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averlym · 11 months
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litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)
#at some point i wanted to make an illustration for each character but in retrospect maybe each is multiple song-coded..#drew the sketch for a quincy thing after a chat with a mutual reminded me this song existed dfsghjkl and then spent weeks rendering this#quincy cynthius martin#adamandi#i'm finally done with this! the saints especially were joys to paint and the halo a menace.... this has been the most ambitious one so far.#but it also took quite long because i only worked on it <engages with quincy> when mentally okay to deal with the themes. i'm not religious#but i do identify with the irrational(?ish) guilt + family legacy + academic achievement + disregard for self. also more complex thoughts#about love [but depsite quincent being a large part of quincy's character this piece deals with mostly the Rest of it. so another time..]#anyways! in the original sketch- the saints had heads bent towards quincy so the halo spikes pointed at him. but this worked better! halos#of the saints implying/creating one for quincy was a concept from the start though. in the show they don't touch him directly here but#differences in mediums i think- i don't have time in an image to craft a narrative so everything has to be happening. also artistic liberty#misc inspiration for this includes stained glass windows. i might have maybe misinterpreted the saint costume but i think i logic-ed it out#as the cloth part following a nun's habit w the hood. and then halo above. the material is also more transparent originally but i had. um.#too much fun painting fabric folds.. if you look closely you can see the basis of faces though behind the cloth; but only the vague shapes#because smth obscurity + inhumanness// cassian is the only one i gave a mouth though. that stems from melliot's post about the saints and#st cassian as spokesperson (<- did research teehee!) that's also how i found out which costume = which saint. speaking of which.#left to right: 'st lucy take my hand' // 'st lawrence give me strength' (presses quincy forward; but hand on shoulder connotates guidance)#/'st cassian help me smile' (quincy's mouth is btwn a grimace and a smile; tilts up at side. also no direct touch bc added insidiousness.)#//'st jude [...] i hope your causes burn' (jude's hand is in two places to show movement- nearing the flame and then snatching back; burnt)#other notes: at the midst of the flame the core is shaped like a human heart /the saints and their wax are all melting like the candle for#fun visual effect and also this way they are even less tangible <real>. perks of painting as a medium i guess. // also insp from icarus?#wax and burning imagery; looking at the halo and rays as parallel to sun that burns. too close to the sun; melting; hurting; hurtling //#candles at bottom are a nod to the frankly gorgeous set// also the entire composition kind of stems from the lyric <what use is a candle if#both ends aren't burning>; the two sides between the concepts of catholic guilt and academic perfection that spur quincy#the halo above (saints and guilt; litanyofthemartyrs) and the 'halo' below (academic papers; insp from choreo for perfect at school)#the papers were originally supposed to be more glowy. but i like the idea of it now being a reflection of how quincy's priorities shift#also of note is that <candle> in centre = quincy; w burning candle + aforementioned heart in flame -> most human; idea of love + passion#last thoughts: kneeling + hands close tgt = prayer //wax dripping onto the red As make an effect that looks like blood. because i like#hiding that within the adamandi pieces :OO continuity!! // i've run out of tags but yeah! had fun with this one! every so often i go a#little insane in making art and the final result astounds even me. ngl i'm quite proud of this one. pretty colours <3333
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an-au-blog · 7 months
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Oh, your love is sunlight
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Happy (late) Valentine's Day (version without text ↓ +description in tags)
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#east blue asylum wing au#zosan#zoro x sanji#zs#first off if its bad quality - it's a huge canvas and it's more pixelated if i try to export the picture than if I screenshot so... :/#I sometimes like assigning songs to different dynamics and or characters I play around with and I've been recently listening to#a lot of Hozier again and I'd like to think that Sunlight is how Zoro sees Sanji - he is Icarus flying to the sun and he is willing to get#burned if only to reach the sunlight - it's a deathtrap... because of course it is... all attachments are but Sanji's love is the death tra#that he welcomes like a moth to a flame because even Icarus felt the bliss and freedom before his wax melted#I haven't depicted it here but Sanji's Hozier song for Zoro would probably be NFWMB because in his eyes Zoro is this untouchable force#that would watch the world go up in flames and when the time Sanji wouldn't mind being a tree just to fuel his fire (im well aware how#cheesy that sounds just bare with me... or better yet listen to the song its really good trust me ok?)#the world starts and ends with him and where they lay#and their shared Hozier song is Francesca because if anything in this au zosan are two lovers stuck in Dante's inferno and sprinting back i#only for the chance to get back to their lover and if that meant going back into hell to look for each other then so be it#there's a part of the song that goes “My life was a storm / Since I was born / How could I fear any hurricane?” which is pretty fitting imo#op#fan art#my art
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toyastales · 23 days
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Come on baby light my fire 🔥
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date idea: i am icarus and you are the sun
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sketchyandsketches · 11 months
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What if Icarus was a tiefling trying to escape Avernus
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lesbicosmos · 8 months
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THIS SONG IS SO AGNES MONTAGUE
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prismatic-skies · 8 months
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𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊 at the Joanna Angel wax melts 🪦
𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒 Pudding | Vanilla | Butter | Almond | Honey | Pistachio | Heliotrope
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[Top left gif isn’t pasting into the credit properly, so just know, it was from @mike-stims ‘wax melt stimboard’!]
An Orange Stimboard!
I tried to add a lot of different types of stims, and shades of Orange. A colour is a broad category after all.
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Tfw some dudes are coming over to do your basement windows and your basement has never ever smelled more like cat piss than it does right now despite you mopping repeatedly and deodorizing those litterboxes like your life depends on it
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prairieghcsts · 4 months
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tag drop 1
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One of the best investments you can make is cozy mood lighting for your room
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theempireofjiaal · 1 year
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A special amenity of the inn; an Eguri shrine with charms hung for each earthly goddess, and sconces for oil or scented wax to burn. The marks of their great mother and father were painted onto the stone foundation, beneath a roof that provided shelter from the dripping spring rain.
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adorablenonsense · 2 years
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I’m finally using my Rome Burning wax melt in the bathroom. Every night, I turn on my wax warmer to use as a nightlight and just to have a pleasant scent to wake up to in the morning. Out of my wax melts, Rome Burning was the stinkiest because it’s the smell of Rome Burning from Spaceship Earth in Epcot. My husband can’t stand the smell since it’s monstrously strong. He doesn’t know it’s in the wax warmer. I can smell it through the bathroom door. He’s going to be so upset when he goes into the bathroom tomorrow morning.
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rambling-maddly · 1 month
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Ah, watching candles burn out, my favorite evening activity. Best experience is in consuming silence within a pitch black chamber. Preceded by a drink of choice with cold cuts of meat, cheese, and bread. You will sleep satisfied.
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musical-chick-13 · 3 months
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No one:
Me: I AM NOT THE GIRL! I SET OUT TO BE! LET ME MAKE MY GRIEF!!! A COMMODITY!!!!!! AND DO!!!!!!!! WHAT I CAN TO SURVIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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vitamin-zeeth · 6 months
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im actually insane about this song
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