#the arcana projects

[sumeriasmith]

So I finally finished cleaning up the scan of The Magician, second entry in the MXTX major arcana series. Lots of fiddly bits in this one.

The magician is typically depicted with an infinity symbol above his head, which I dispensed with (Though I attempted to allude to it in the shape of the belts), and holding a wand, with one hand raised to point to the heavens. This is another one of the character associations that required basically no thought.

[aro-aceattorney]

more dndads tarot cards!!

[baalzebufo]

THE WEIRD AL-CANA - THE MAJOR ARCANA, INSPIRED BY WEIRD AL YANKOVIC SONGS

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ho-ly shit, this actually got finished. this was so much work for something that is so incredibly niche, but im so happy with it. this was SO MUCH FUN to come up with, to think of songs for each card, to slip in silly references and make my little border designs... thank you so much everyone else who has been enjoying these posts!

tumblr wouldnt let me upload the full-size stitched canvas so I had to shrink it a little, so if you want to see all the individual cards at their full size PLEASE look at the individual posts on my blog HERE! this was the first time I ever got the tumblr warning that a photo was just too big, haha.

this post also goes out to everyone on the weird al side of tumblr- yankoblr, y'all have brought me so much joy in such a small amount of time with your posts and memes, even though i just got here and started randomly posting one day. i went from being very self-conscious about what i considered an 'embarrassing' interest to wholeheartedly goofing and it feels great. keep being silly no matter what guys

stay weird, y'all :)

[hajimedics]

welcome home persona AU, aka mostly an excuse for me to draw my human designs in classy children’s fairytale-inspired outfits

[minthe-drawings]

my hand hurts-- (from twitter comments)

[sleepyminty]

I cant unseen this

[sco07ut]

human/pre-deal sprites of val and gora for a project i’m working on :]

[lemme-just-oops]

Your Obey Me blorbo based on your Arcana Twilight guy:

Spica: You either like Satan or Lucifer. Probably Satan, since they have more physical similarities.

Alpheratz: Belphegor. You want a lazy and cozy guy, same.

Sirius: You like the red flags, dont you? Belphegor, with a hint of interest towards Asmodeus.

Pollux: Leviathan. You want the emotionally not yet mature guy who likes animes and games like you.

Arcturus: Diavolo, Simeon or Beelzebub. You are into cottagecore.

Vega: Barbatos. Listen, I cannot rant about this forever, but once I began to explain, I will have a masters in either Psychology or Anime.

Rigel: No man or woman of Obey Me will satisfy your void. You can cling to anyone as much as you like, but it is not enough. You want content for a man that is only a loose memory of developers.

[kaitlyn-pink]

I JUST REALIZED I MESSED UP ON HER SPRITE

HER STRAND OF HAIR IS GONE

(spica shaved it off- it drove him crazy)

bonus;

[sumeriasmith]

Meanwhile, I finished cleaning the scan of Tarot Card # 2, Binghe as the Emperor. Traditionally depicted on a throne with a mountain behind him, holding an orb and a scepter, which you will see I took some liberties with, the Emperor represents authority, control, structure, etc when upright, and tyrany, recklessness, lack of discipline, etc reversed. So this one was always gonna be Binghe.

[ramyeonguksu]

So I am absolutely insane and drew three cards for Emblem of the Arcana, a Fire Emblem Engage themed tarot project, AND I AM READY TO SHOW THEM TO Y'ALL ONE AT A TIME OVER THE COURSE OF PREORDERS

First up I drew Saphir for Queen of Swords! Preorders are open until Feb 4th so GET YOUR COPY IF YOU'RE AN ENGAGE FAN

Buy your copy here!

[heartorbit]

still chipping away at that pjsk major arcana

[venusinverted]

Where have I been? Oh... Maybe starting a bit of a project There's very little art and merch of the "less popular" Persona characters, and as someone who has several niche faves, I felt this was unacceptable. So, I've decided I'm going to (try to) make stickers for every Persona arcanas character! Every. single. one.

I started with Justice! Hidehiko, Katsuya, Ken and Chihiro, Nanako and of course Akechi. You can find these designs on my Redbubble or Society6 (both under the same username, and will be reblogged with links in a second)!

If you like these, could you please reblog to share them around? It's a huge undertaking and I'm super excited to be done with the first set!

[hellothereiplaygames]

Some thoughts on Asra's route...

Replaying Asra's route after having played Muriel's really hits different...

In one of the other routes Asra and Muriel appear to start a romantic relationship, and in Asra's route it's very clear that Muriel cares very deeply for Asra and dislikes the Apprentice. He mentions in one of the paid? dream scenes that he's worried about Asra and the Apprentice fading into their own world and leaving everyone else behind (again, apparently), and that he's determined to stop this from happening. His concern for Asra and initial hostility toward the Apprentice may be rooted in jealousy, not only because his oldest (and only) friend was more or less taken from him, but perhaps with romantic connotations as well.

In Book XI: Justice, Asra and Julian stage a mock trial by combat against Muriel. Though he apparently agreed to participate and is implied to have returned to the Coliseum of his own volition, presumably out of concern for Asra, who has been accused of being Julian's accomplice... he is still more or less backed into a corner and forced to play along with Asra and Julian's plan to stage a fight.

Now, to be fair to Asra, he states after everything goes wrong that it wasn't supposed to end this way, and it appeared that he was attempting to not only exonerate himself and Julian from their charges but somehow help Muriel overcome his past (he does disintegrate Muriel's chains during the fight no matter what choices you make). There was a point during this that I thought I could guess what Asra's plan was regarding Muriel's past, but being refreshed on how it actually pans out, I can't remember it now. Something about making the people of Vesuvia realize how barbaric the Coliseum was under Lucio.

The thing that stands out to me throughout this whole ordeal is that Asra knows about Muriel's trauma. He knows he was enslaved to Lucio and forced to fight and execute people in the Coliseum. He knows that Muriel is terrified of hurting other people, especially those he cares about. In Asra's route, the only person Muriel cares about is Asra, so hurting him is triggering for him. He literally is in a stupor after the board he was using as a weapon splinters off and hits Asra in the mouth, making him bleed. This is clearly meant to make the reader worried about Asra, but Muriel reacts as well, and appears hypnotized by the blood. I remember the first time I read this I thought he was going to have some crazy berserker-Hulk sort of reaction, but having read his route, it's way more tragic.

Though Muriel did seem to return to the Coliseum of his own volition, it does seem that Asra took this as a sign that he was coming to terms with his trauma. He was willing to exploit Muriel's care for him in order to save his own skin so he can be with the Apprentice. Though I recognize Asra's other toxic traits to some degree, I also have similar ones myself so they don't really stand out to me. This, however, where he more or less disregards Muriel's feelings on the matter, is actually really crushing. In Muriel's route, his whole thing is that he DOES NOT want to fight, he DOES NOT want to even spar with the Apprentice with blunt sticks out of fear of hurting them, so why would he willingly go along with this unless he was more or less in the same position Lucio put him in? Fight in the arena, or something bad will happen to Asra.

Asra knows this, and puts him through it regardless. During the whole fight, Julian's actions are written so as to make it seem like he's the one messing things up--he takes the "finishing blow" that Muriel was going to deal to Asra and gets knocked unconscious. Asra spends most of the entire time doing flashy, dramatic magic tricks that get the crowd cheering for him. After he "wins", he and the Apprentice are carried out of the Coliseum like heroes. Though Asra will try to soothe Muriel if the Apprentice so chooses right before the end, and he does look for Muriel in the crowd, he seems otherwise unbothered or unaware of the impact this may be having on his oldest friend. Which is pretty shitty.

Of course, Asra, Julian, and Muriel are all playing characters during their fight--Asra is the flashy magician, Julian is the rogueish BDSM dagger guy, and Muriel is the Scourge. Asra obviously can't show his concern even if he wanted to because he's supposed to be fighting Muriel. But putting his bro into this situation in the first place says a lot about his character. Though Julian is the one whose route is based around self-loathing because he believes he hurts everyone around him, Asra is the only one who gets what he wants out of this ordeal, and he even says so right before the chapter ends. Muriel was forced to relive his trauma and didn't get the resolution that was intended, and Julian gets KOed by a punch that literally sent him flying across the arena (though he probably enjoyed it tbh, he's a nasty little man like that lmao).

I wonder if this dynamic between Asra and Muriel was intentionally written this way in order to further amplify his tunnel vision when it comes to the Apprentice. Is this is how he acted in the past, causing Muriel to hate the Apprentice as he does and remark that he won't allow it to happen again? Maybe (probably) I'm reading too much into it, but as a survivor of abuse and trauma it rubs me the wrong way much more than Asra's obsessive, clingy nature. Of all of the reversed ends, Asra's is the one that actually scared me and kind of haunted me, because it hits a little too close to home.

These are all just thoughts that I wanted to spill out because I thought it was interesting and I wasn't sure if anyone else has talked about it before.

[karamell-sweetz]

this is suuuch a stretch but now that the wonderland sekai has a confirmed ocean and islands i ALMOST want them to accidentally sail into the empty sekai’s body of water and freak out.

if that’s even possible in the lore. idk i haven’t read a good portion of the vsinger events where they talk about the lore soooo

but like… think about it. after they finish the first round of world link events for all the units i have NO idea what they’re going to do with that event type. coincidentally the vsinger wl (estimated for august) is in line with the 4th anni, and it sort of makes sense that the sekais could potentially connect and lots of stuff happens before 5th anni (usually a good milestone if i’m going off bandori). the only good scenario i have in mind is yk… GROUP SHUFFLES! SEKAI COLLISIONS OR SOME SHIT!! MULTI GROUP COVERS which i know they said they weren’t going to do unless for special occasions but like??

and also im aware that pjsk as it is is actually doing pretty well without doing group shuffle covers and stuff like bandori (by this i mean like the general election special songs like catastrophe banquet) and each of the groups don’t actually NEED that connection with the other groups… but come on. it’d be neat.

*noclips through the floor*

[vampireej]

All my courtier memes and edits ft. Miku, the devil and my ocs

The courtiers if they were a sekia

And the extras