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2023 | Lily

A nice WIP, censored with a strategically placed flower 🌸 Inspired by @judilyart 's work. Please check her art out, she has an incredibly beautiful painting style 💜

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OUTLIER

Sarah Waters speculated about an elusive world  

Of semi-historical settings that made the fairer sex bold  

How it felt for these women to love and to hold  

Within pages, I was immersed, engrossed, effortlessly sold  

Sweet, subjective feelings without need for explanation  

Found me on this street of female fascination  

Hit with the sucker punch of dawning realisation  

I examined an ill-defined problem of my own creation  

A failed experiment; visceral butterflies grow large and soar  

Directing mumbled words towards the classroom floor  

Once begrudgingly delivered my neuroticism score  

A pause.  

“You… might be a bit of an outlier,” she hypothesised,  

A wide smile emphasised almond-brown eyes  

A b0 constant; beaming, bemused and more than a bit beautiful.  

A becoming combination of magic and science  

Not that I was looking.  

I wasn’t looking.  

I’m.  

      Not.  

             Looking.  

My face paints an all-too intimate portrait  

Crude carmine drops drench flushed skin  

Correction fluid insufficiently masking who lies within  

Sad appreciator of puns, cool words and grins           

No amount of insight into parasocial relationships  

Predicts colouring at Slavic jawlines and curved hips  

My stress response becomes automatic  

For fear of being deemed a rabid sapphic fanatic  

Anticipating transmission of serial killer vibes  

I will the cortisol rise to wane and subside  

Perpetually relaying nuances of fight or flight  

Which I must battle against, soothe, and overwrite  

Ebony hair framed the apple shaped face  

Of Ringo Shiina, a singer who rolls her ‘r’s  

O jazz goddess who moved my foolish heart  

Inspired confidence in an eccentric ingénue  

Showed me what an “Arikitari na Onna” can do  

My observations aren’t insightful or astute  

Mainly hyperbolic outbursts of “Aww…she’s so cute!”  

Over dorky zeal that’s massively appealing  

Indulging in sugary fangirl squealing            

Gives me this newfound free feeling  

Taking modest, gradual baby steps  

I’ve put my mental set on reset  

Finding my feet, little by little  

Strengthening a brittle, porcelain backbone  

Embracing the identity I developed and honed  

Aware faulty cognitions sometimes need revising  

I’ve stopped damning myself, cowering and hiding  

Knowing that most people I’ve confided in  

Accept me as I am  

An undeniable outlier.  

Though moderated by experiential penis aversion  

I’m still convinced it’s an accurate assertion  

To say my finally manifest homosexuality  

In line with Seligman’s “H=S+C + V”  

Has made me the happiest I’ve ever been  

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2023 | Mew Mint aka Mint Aizawa 💙

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2021 | The Devil and His Detectives 🖤

Chibis of some favourite characters from Lucifer <3 Made in Adobe Photoshop, 2021. Background added with Canva.

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2023 | Take a walk in my massive clown shoes

Reference from The Illustrated Treasury of Fairy Tales (1982) by T.A. Kennedy.

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2023 | All-Seeing

A fun doodle with some pencil and ink. 🖤 The inspiration, as ever, being social anxiety and body image weirdness 👁👁

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2019 | Straying From The Path 💙

Little painting based on one of my favourite stories. Rosaleen from The Company of Wolves 🐺

Digital art. Made with Adobe Photoshop.

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2019 | Princess Emeraude painting 👑

Paint over of a sketch I did a few years ago. Princess Emeraude from Magic Knight Rayearth.

Made with Adobe Photoshop.

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2023 | Quick scribble of Mew Mint 💙

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2023 | Meet the (sort of) Artist Page

Here's a quick bio thing to get to know me a bit 🖤

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2023 | Meet the (sort of) artist 🎨

Hello! Here's a quick cartoon self portrait, which vaguely resembles me 🖤

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2020 | Passing Of Time 🖤

Any excuse to draw a cool alternative/goth character :') Adobe Photoshop.

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2022 | Art Vs Artist

Here's my contribution for the Art Vs Artist challenge with various pictures from over the past couple of years 🌸

Thankyou for all your support!

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2019 | Emilie Autumn 💜

Your painted doll, and your living nightmare.

Digital art. Made with Adobe Photoshop.

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Hello! I'm Laylah Hough. I do a bit of art and poetry when I have the energy. My artwork can be found on this blog, and my writing is on @nonsenseflowerpoetry.

I'm mainly active on Twitter/X (same handle) and Instagram (nonsenseflower.art) 🌼

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2023 | Had the urge to do some personal art at some point, but I haven't had the energy 💀 Quick scribble to see if I can get my usual expressions right ✨