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had to repost here bc when i did on bsky it got like 1 like haha i need to stop posting art there anyways, poster-ish Arthur Lester

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Made some cryptid minis. Might mess with some effects later, but I got flats on them at least. Thinking about doing some pins or stickers, maybe even some charms if I can get them to look nice.

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I started listening to Malevolent when I was pretty low and it was a HUGE comfort that no matter how bad I'm feeling, my mans, Arthur Lester has it x100 time worse.

after finishing every episode I went back to where I dropped off with TMA and I had that thought: horrific things are happening to Jon Sims as well, why do I find no comfort in that? And then I realized. In TMA the suffering is kinda distributed between the archivist and the assistants, but in Malevolent it's just Arthur. John too kinda but it's mostly just Arthur.

(maybe it also helps that Arthur keeps on moaning and groaning in every episode too, idk)

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fine... my usual style (sketches bc I'm lazy like that) starting from the first vs last time i drew Arthur Lester + a few John's but I'm still working on the design... (newest to oldest) (first one's darthir btw :)) )

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the very first time when Arthur said John wanted to be human (to Yellow), my thoughts were "Uh... really? he didn't say that... not exactly..." And then when John was yanked back into his body, and Arthur says the same thing to John, that he told Yellow how he(John) wanted to be human, he's nothing like other guys bla bla bla, I noticed that John didn't really... and I'm sorry if I sound like an arshole here... he didn't really convince me that he did.

The further we get into the story, the more I'm thinking that, even though the story STARTED with the objective of getting separated, I think it would only complicate things. They are so used to each other and when they WERE separated, they did everything to scramble their way back together (yes,yes, i like them codependent<3)

My crackhead pinboard theory of why they SHOULDN'T separate was only confirmed when the last q&a came out and Harlan was talking about how john doesn't like projecting because he considers it as his body as well... or at least that's what I got out of it.

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I saw someone drew Malevolent podcast art where Yorik was low-key high-key vally girl-ing and I agree completely because what's more perfect than "John(somberly): there was no way we could have known...; Yorik(cheerfully): I did!" Like yes girlll, you know like all and stuff, that's so you!

But ALSO how funny would it be if JOHN was the vally girl? Picture it!

Ep 1

ARTHUR (panicking, newly blind and not remember what happened): Where am I? What’s happened?

JOHN: Don’ you rememberrr?

ARTHUR: Who are you?

JOHN: Who am I? Girl, I’m bestie, like come on. Bestest bestie cause for like... right now I'm clearly your ONLY bestie. Like, come on, look at you.

ARTHUR: What happened? Why can’t I see anything?

JOHN: Hahaha, I know...

ARTHUR: What do you mean you know, who are you?

JOHN: Chill for a sec, take a deep breath, you're ruining my vibe atm.

(like genuinely saying "A-T-M" out loud")

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I was thinking about (tma)Gerard Keay's childhood, or what we know of it and all that he was exposed to, all he got himself exposed to in order to please his mother. And I'm also thinking about (malevolent)Arthur Lester because horror drama podcasts are apparently all I can think of these days. And I had that thought... if Arthur was this upset with Larson about his daughter... do you see where I'm going with this?

And I know, I know that Gerard (for the sake of the argument and as far as I know) is amab... but again, he was still a child when everything happened and I couldn't help and wonder.

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I CAME BACK HERE TO SAY THIS IS ALSO JARTHUR BC John's out of touch in multiple ways, Arthur's out of time (always), and then "But I'm out of my head when you're not around"

"You're out of touch"

"I'm out of time"

is honestly the peak pairing dynamic, it's giving Angel and Aki, Vash and Wolfwood, (dare I say Will and Hannibal)