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my piece for @bodhisattvazine back then i read about hungry ghosts in japanese buddhism and immediately got too many thoughts on geto's karma and endless consumption of disgusting things with 0 chance of actually satisfying his desires (= delusions of a higher purpose)

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Hey I know you haven't drawn them in a while but you're my favorite elleo artist, I love how you draw them, thank you for feeding us!!! 💙💜

They are still dear to my heart so I appreciate this a lot, thank you!

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preview for @delysiumzine! preorders are open <З

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🪩 AFTER DEATH, LIFE AGAIN: A DE ZINE 🪩

After Death, Life Again: A Disco Elysium Zine is an unofficial, split-profit fanzine exploring the past, presents, and futures of Revachol, with 120 pages of illustrations, comics, and writing from our 40 talented contributors.

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UAGRGRH!! LOVE YOUR ART!! i saw someone reblog some of your les mis work so i gocheck ur blog and what do i see? pathologic!! so thank you for providing gorgeous art to both these fandoms!!

thank you for this lmao les mis is still steadily a favorite book of mine tbh, i hope to draw more for it in the future

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pathologic 3 announcement made me return to the classic game and finally play it properly! i think my favorite part of the bachelor's route is when he talks to maria kaina (or whoever's in her body at the time) and they explain that their planned Utopia isn’t even supposed to be a 'perfect' place but instead 'the mystical manifestation of a world inscrutable and inaccessible to men' going back to the original meaning of the word irl and instead of despairing Daniil fervently agrees that this kind of unimaginable leap is worth it, no matter where it actually leads

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so i replayed DA2 recently and oh my god i love them so muchhh ahh, my favorite companions in any game ever unhinged party banter, i wish kirkwall had group therapy... they'd be hilarious at it

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another dnd character ✨

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@ilovedtoomuchdidnti Thank you for your answer! I was curious because i really liked the texture and concept on that satosugu piece you shared, it has an interesting perspective to their relationship. Have a great day!

Thanks, ah actually I have part of it in procreate timelapse where I did the lineart (if you mean this one), but yeah after that mostly just playing around with brushes tbh.

I love your art style!!! I'm curious about your process do you have any speedpaint videos ?

Thank you! It hasn't occurred to me to make those on purpose tbh, sorry. I also have a habit of merging layers together to save space, but I do try to leave some stages there in between... Eh, in my folders I guess the better organised images is stuff from zines, like for Your Truly, Kaeya zine I have this, rough color sketches, approximate lineart, rough color, then rendering -

Honestly can't say I'm super great at following the proper steps. Hm. Among recent ones...

...i really wanted that worm to be there too at first huh anyway yeah i always find one detail or two i don't like and then spend hours trying to fix it, nothing speedy about my art tbh

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I love your art style!!! I'm curious about your process do you have any speedpaint videos ?

Thank you! It hasn't occurred to me to make those on purpose tbh, sorry. I also have a habit of merging layers together to save space, but I do try to leave some stages there in between... Eh, in my folders I guess the better organised images is stuff from zines, like for Your Truly, Kaeya zine I have this, rough color sketches, approximate lineart, rough color, then rendering -

Honestly can't say I'm super great at following the proper steps. Hm. Among recent ones...

...i really wanted that worm to be there too at first huh anyway yeah i always find one detail or two i don't like and then spend hours trying to fix it, nothing speedy about my art tbh

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks....

Oh um! Thank you for the question, I do love that kind of thing, love writing it out... Honestly I think I can track almost a lot of my fav characters to just yaoi but whatever, I'm valid!! Also there might be some spoilers here since it's difficult to write 'why' without them. Sorry for long text, I like rambling about my favs. 1) Currently as is obvious it's Geto Suguru from JJK, I think he just combined a lot of the things I like in a way that really works for him and for the story... The inherent romance in being dead before the main plot even starts, ahh. Also the complexity behind his fall into villainy is sooo well-written, having so many reasons and chains of consequences that lead him to it, a slow and easily preventable descent into tragedy, it's so appealing... I truly believe he could have been saved and dissuaded at any point in his life, even during the events of jjk0, but people who cared about him didn't understand him, while people who did understand him didn't care enough (or actively planned to take advantage).

2) Kaeya from Genshin, similarly because he's a very contradictory character with a lot of inner demons and a tendency towards self-destructive behavior. Also back then the kaeluc of it all forced me deep into researching chinese terminology and similar examples in fiction which made playing Genshin a much more educational experience than one would expect lmao... Honestly I didn't love what the game did with him in the last few years, mostly ignoring the more serious and cunning aspects of his personality and story and focusing on the cute and insecure little trickster persona, it's very ehh to me. But in my heart I still love the version of him that made me obsess for over a year.

3) Jimmy McGill from Better Call Saul. Again, something about preventable tragedy and how difficult it is to tell where his actions can be traced back to his childhood and family relations, where he was forced and where he chose to make bad decisions himself, he is my poor meow meow 100%. Also has the benefit of being in a well-written show.

4) Princess Carolyn from Bojack, honestly it should have been Diane but Diane struck too close to home for me, while PC is a 'safer' to love option. Highly competent in professional areas, utterly delulu in others, one of the most caring characters in the cast... <З I also just liked her VA a lot, plus she's like a power fantasy in a lot of ways... Super great at her career, loving partner, realising her dream of having a baby, I mean yeah. Not that I want a baby, just that she got everything she wanted by the end, nice.

5) Wei Wuxian from MDZS, same with being dead before the story starts djkgdkjg, also a necromancer and a disaster, need I say more. I think for me a big factor of why I like him is that despite being a talented genius with a steady moral compass he absolutely failed at... everything? Lost everything he held dear or wanted to protect, when revived he doesn't even have any specific goals in the new life he was given. But his endless positivity means that he didn't mind taking that second chance anyway, and as a reward at least learned in detail why his first life fell apart, and also gained a devoted husband in the process, good for him. A rare happy end among things I like actually,, I mean I actually have words to say about the 'happy' part of it but well, as happy as it could have been for him.

6) Grantaire from Les Mis, this one is just very personal I think, a cynical drunk who never accomplished anything in his life, am I right dfjgnkdfg...,, Him being a typical asshole but well-educated and sentimental, loving Enjolras and all of his friends but giving 0 effort to actually supporting their cause, still managing to do the right thing in the end, it's ahh т_т Also I'm still obsessed with him mentioning studying under Antoine-Jean Gros in one sentence which led me down the rabbit hole of researching what real life Gros was like, spoilers he drowned himself in Seine after his artistic career went into decline. You can really see why looking at his works but that makes it all the more upsetting... Like not because of some 1 specific failure but just a lack of artistic progress overall, which his mentor, peers and students couldn't help but comment on... Anyway this isn't about Grantaire anymore but also kind of still is! 7) Vriska, I named my second cat after her!! Honestly one of the better written characters in Homestuck I think (im thinking the first five acts), just everything about her is perfect to me. A huge bitch of course, but at her core just a teenager with pure ambition and insecurities born from consequences of her actions, always trying to prove herself no matter how much she hurts people around her. And yeah like always with characters I like, so many opportunities for her to go off the doomed course, but either herself or manipulative adults always redirected her back, and that was always supposed to be the 'main' timeline, doomed by the narrative etc. The tragic nature of her friends-to-rivals-to-enemies with Terezi was also just sooo... And that Terezi didn't even care about that rivalry as much as Vriska did, or at least pretended that she didn't... Sighh....

8) Granny Weatherwax from Discworld, my favorite old woman. What's so great about her to me is that she's like all those other characters I like, an asshole who wants to solve everyone's problems, always tempted to react emotionally, do the wrong thing,... But she just doesn't, and she's been choosing to be good ever since she was young. The appeal of a powerful witch holding herself in check, mmm, she's just so much more introspective, complex and relatable than say Gandalf in LOTR who had the same issues. Iconic role model honestly.

9) Harry Du Bois from Disco Elysium, or at least specifically the communist well-natured version of him you can play as djkfgdfkfg, not that it erases his complexities and masculine asshole ways but... I mean yeah, he's a cop and an asshole no matter what, but the sheer potential he holds... No matter how low he's fallen, his sentimentality and his empathy, being so in-tune with people and the city, it all leads to a blooming hope for humanity I suppose. That you can get better, always, and not only a-la Grantaire by dying. Of course, you can also always get worse, too, but that's the other inevitable side of the coin (I still haven't played the fascist route since it makes me too sad).

10) Leo from Pandora Hearts! Again I didn't really love how he ended up, but ahhh :^) His unlikely friendship with Elliot, agreeing to becoming his servant to stay by his side more, not realising that he's dooming his friend by doing so, yandere-ish personality plus secret pretty eyes, I mean. Classic flavor.

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“Even so, Gojo’s gaze, covered under the white bandages, had always, always, been staring at the shape of Geto’s soul.” (JJK0 Light novel) Gojo-kesa — monk' s robe of five patches or lengths. “The actual fabric was not as important as its humble origins, and it was of no value to others; thus, a robe made of such material would not engender covetousness or attachment.” (The religious life of a dress: global fashion and faith) “If we do not reject attachment to love, says the master, then it will reject us.” (The Song of the Wind in the Dry Trees)

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dreams

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my first ever dnd character🥺 her name is Olga and she is not a good person

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full piece for a Kaeya-dedicated zine! i think the three of them could be hilarious together