#pika la cynique

[galaxyglaze]

by Pika-la-Cynique

[wastrelwoods]

lindsay ellis 2021 LND retrospective video essay welcome home

[ecoamerica]

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[aquitainequeen]

PREVENTING COVID SPREAD - best practices poster by Pika-la-Cynique

[bucket-of-french-fries]

So, fun fact about me, I've got an obsession with the 1986 movie Labyrinth. It's one of those movies I've watched since I was a toddler, and it has consistently stayed on the top of my favorite movie list. I recently fell back down the fandom rabbit hole after discovering a comic on DeviantArt called Girls Next Door (if you haven't read it, you totally should! The creator is Pika-la-Cynique). Anyway, this is what I imagine my gown would look like if I was in the Labyrinth. It's pretty similar to Sarah's because I'm in love with that dress, but I thought I'd add my own touches.

[jaybarou]

Tag 9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

I was tagged by @padmeedala thank you!!

3 Ships: Frost iron, gerr ymichael, vet vimes sybil

First Ever Ship: probably jareth/sarah or Crowley/Zira and Erick/Christine. All Girls Next Door's fault. Pika la cynique was such a great introduction to fandom

Last song: the Taz cantrip video, as background music to study

Last movie: a terrible one that I won't promote by naming it here. A bad action movie with such a dudebro script that tries to be something a la kill bill but falls short, so short, so miopic and. Ugh.

Currently reading: Time to orbit: Unknown (the fucked up spaceship story everyone on tumblr is talking about) and La paciente silenciosa, for the book club I just joined!! And several wip fics.

Currently watching: Dark. Thanks to to @universe-exhale via @curiousserpent XD

Currently consuming: peas, only peas because I'm not feeling fancy.

Currently craving: a new job, please

I tag: @universe-exhale, @alexfireon, @obscureenthusiast, @izhunny, @mag200, @nogling, @rabentochter, @imsoglitter and the usual suspects @llaevateinn, @silverdrip, @starkenstone...

[kittttycakes]

Thank you for your detailed thoughts on Hob’s opinion of Shakespeare! I agree that Grace is smart by removing herself from any Shakespeare adaptation situations!

And thanks for the info on Grace’s nemesis, he sounds like a proper toad.

Any chance we could get some more details on Grace’s publications?

Is Grace’s Mum the sort of person who would be open to accepting that the supernatural or otherworldly?

Have you seen the Disney/Short Story candles? They have a Nightmare before Christmas one, and I feel like if there was a Morpheus was a candle, it would look like that. Definitely scents of petrichor and ozone for sure!

How’s your writing going? If you need some procrastination you should check out (if you haven’t already heard of it) Pika La Cynique’s Girls Next Door webcomic on Deviant Art. I’ve been reading it since 2007 when it first started and even though updates are sporadic now, I kinda feel like it’s something you might enjoy! (from memory Morpheus doesn’t appear, but I think there’s a cameo or two from Death).

I have made the cardinal error of giving Grace expertise and a degree in a time period that is several hundred years removed from my own, but with that said, I also really love medieval literature and I would love to talk about what I think some of her potential publications are!

Grace strikes me as someone who primarily publishes articles and has possibly contributed a chapter or two to a critical collection, but who has not, at this point in her life and career, written a book of her own (unless we’re counting her dissertation). It’s on the to do list, and I imagine she has some ideas, but she expends a lot of her focus on teaching and everything that goes with it, and the writing sometimes goes by the wayside.

As to what she writes: her dissertation was focused on the creation of medieval romantic love in literature as a genre or concept and how we came to have the idea of it that we do now, especially in the age of more modern, vaguely medieval fantasy romances on the page and on screen. After that, I think she pivoted just a smidge and wrote a few articles about courtly love and the bending or perversion of it in literature and what function that serves, including the way The Green Knight queers that system. Just a little before meeting Morpheus for the first time, she was really starting to get into monster theory and its possible applications to monsters and creatures of medieval lit, as a sort of fun little side project and a break from the romance side of things.

Grace’s mum is an altogether lovely woman who would come around to the idea of the supernatural, with time. This is the woman who told Grace most of the fairy stories she knows, after all, and Grace gets a lot of her personality from her. A big part of Grace hesitating to tell her mother is how much of a burden it would place on her, not just to not reveal the knowledge that she has now, because who does she have to confide in besides Grace?, but because it would be so difficult to know how much longer her daughter was going to outlive her.

I hadn’t seen that candle before but it looks so cool! For sure how the exterior would look, I love the crystals on top!

I also hadn’t heard of that webcomic, but I’ve looked it up and this is extremely relevant to my interests! I am definitely going to be making my way through this. Who among us didn’t have a Labyrinth phase? And I’ve been a Phantom fan for ages.

Thank you so much for your ask!!

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[citizen-of-the-fandom]

Behold! The Valentine I save every time I switch phones.

[balu8]

Alyssa

by Isabelle Bauthian; Rebecca Morse and Virginie Blancher

Source; Deviantart

Alyssa FULL PAGE IN ENGLISH 'Highbrow Reading' by Pika-la-Cynique on DeviantArt

[anissapierce]

In honor of one mutuals rewatch of teen wolf n another mutuals watchthru of gossip girl.... Im gonna watch im a marvel im a dc tonight.... I considered rereading roomates or girls next door (pika la cynique ) or mb digging up sunny disposish but those feel more monumental than stop motion action figure show

Ive now actually read comic books so mb ill find it even funnier than i did as a kid

[halewynslady]

@lukaina here is my sweetheart answer. The others will follow another day. ^^  xxx thank you ♡ 

I have many favourite mugs actually. This is just one of them, the most fun one, my Girls-Next-Door mug. 

[jarethsconcubine]

Please look at this Easter themed fan art by Pika-la-Cynique on Deviantart

Title: PEEP PEEP*uncomfortable hoot* PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEPS

[aquitainequeen]

Me: This chapter isn't wooooooorkiiiiiiiing, ugh, the characters talking on horseback is so awkward

Also me:

Also me: Just cut to them 'bonding' over dinner. Ya eejit.

[horribleweasel]

It is genuinely shocking to me that there is seemingly no following for Girls Next Door or Roommates on here. Wild humorous meta crossover comics that encompass like every single fandom seem like they should be popular on tumblr.

[waifines]

WHO WORE IT BETTER 

Good Omens Trailer [2019] vs Girls Next Door #55 [2009]

[.gifs by @fuckyeahgoodomens]

[roseunspindle]

Girls Next Door

Deviant Art was being  a pain and not letting me properly post the link to this.

https://www.deviantart.com/pika-la-cynique/art/GirlsNextDoor-Introductions-73082145

[mecaniquefairy]

INKTOBER 2018: #05 Chicken

When I saw the theme of the day, the first thing that came to my mind was the pika-la-cynique's ''Girls next door'' comic (which I strongly recommend) and I immediately knew that I absolutely had to draw a goblin riding a chicken.... I have no regrets.

GND: https://www.deviantart.com/pika-la-cynique/gallery/772068/Girls-Next-Door