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I did it. After a lifetime of using light mode on all my devices, I switched to dark mode. My eyes just can’t take it anymore, and after a few days of using it, I decided dark mode was actually kind of cozy and nice. So it was time to update my light mode art with a new version!

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The fallen angel and the son of God

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gotta love that Madoka

4, 10, and 19 for the artist ask? :D

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

I've been trying to draw Madoka for years but it's really difficult to adapt her to my style. I really like Madoka Magica

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

Currently listening to the sounds of live singing from a neighborhood party. Sometimes I listen to my front neighbor play piano.

Let's take a peak at the most recent playlist I've made; it contains Trixie Mattel, Lorde, Marina and the Diamonds, Florance and the Machine, Utsu-P, among others.

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

Metallics, especially god. Very unsurprisingly!

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Does your art style have a name/is it heavily inspired by a named art style? I've encountered other art with similar vibes in various places (Slay the Princess gives me the same feeling) but I don't know what to search to find more of it. Something about it just scratches my brain and I want to mimic it but I can't figure out what the style is called or where to go to figure out how to draw in the same way

Good question!

I don't follow any specific style guidelines. I draw according go what feels right to me, prioritizing shapes/silhouettes and values over rendering and realism. I was very inspired by the works of Yoji Shinkawa (the bold strokes) and Ayami Kojima (the inked works) but maybe that is more reflected in my thought process than in my art. How I approach things.

I'd love to hear everyone's else's opinion on how one would categorize my art and if there's anyone who draws similarly

(I am aware that the "what type of art is this" is often used for AI people to train their toys but I feel like anon is genuine)

Thanks!

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Hiii, I was just wandering if you wouldn’t mind blabbing about the symbolism and stuff behind some of your design choices with the horse men that you might not have mentioned. Like with pestilence and death specifically I feel like there’s a lot of symbolism I’m picking up on without fully understanding. Like with Death’s sickle, both a homage to the classic scythe and a nod to the “reaping/harvesting” of souls. And with pestilence I feel like there’s something that I’m skirting around without grasping. The multiple legs strike me as a deliberate similarity to insects, and if I’m right I think that the rider is bound in a body bag type deal, similar to how disease and pestilence is so often both spread through the improper disposal of body’s, and how wide spread pestilence leads to mass graves filled with disease and the horrible anonymity that comes with being just one face in a pit of hundreds etc? All of this is, ofc, to say that I’ve adored your series of the horsemen so far and would go absolutely rabid for some insight on some of your design choices<3

My horsemen of the apocalypse! I will add the original commentary and some extras, less about the symbolism and more about what brought me to design them the way I did.

The symbolism is for you to chose, there is no wrong answer.

WAR

I can't bring myself to represent war with a cool knight. It's horror. War is a bound child crowned with shrapnel, tied to a wounded horse that is being pulled forward by unseen people.

I've read a handful of books regarding war. A lost quote said that it should be shown as horror, it should make generals vomit, it should make you sick. I haven't seen war but my family has.

It was the first horseman I've designed, and it was in my sketchbook for months (maybe over a year, maybe even more) before I had the courage to draw it. I was really scared about how people would react to a mutilated child.

Recommended reading: The Red Crown - Mikhail Bulgakov, a short story about a man coping with the loss of his brother in the war

FAMINE

Someone who lived thro a famine shared that their head was only occupied with thoughts of food. Famine consumes your mind. All animals were eaten. Neighbors gave their pets away cuz they couldn't do it themselves. People walked around town as if in a dazed dream, slowly

Recommended reading: The Last Witnesses - Svetlana Alexievitch, a collection of testimonials of people who were children when WW2 began. Some quotes below;

'''A cat! A cat!' Other children saw it and started chasing it. The educators were local habitants, looked at us as if we were insane. In Leningrad there were no living cats left...A living cat was a dream. Food for one month...We talked about it, but they didn't believe us.''

''During the first year of evacuation, we didn't notice nature, everything that was nature provoked in us only one desire - taste to see if it's edible. Only a year later I noticed the beauty of the Urals''

''I dreamt of catching a sparrow and eating it...''

''A candle burns and the shopgirl cuts the bread pieces. People follow her with their gaze. Her every movement...with burning eyes...crazed...and all that in silence.''

''People walked slowly through the city like shadows. Like in a dream...a deep dream...As in, you see it, but you think you're seeing a dream. Those sluggish movements...floating...As if a person walked on water and not on land.''

''In Leningrad there are a lot of monuments, but one is missing that should exist. They forgot about it. The monument to the dogs of the seige. Dear doggy, forgive me...''

I don't like talking about it. It made no sense to draw Famine with a horse.

PESTILENCE

Based on the notes of a doctor who said the most frightening thing about viral disease was how it didn’t frighten. People didn’t know or didn't care. They lived and spread until it was too late and they became another name on the record

The clothing being made out of shredding plastic is no coincidence; pollution is a form of pestilence too

Recommended reading: Notes from a Countryside Doctor - Mikhail Bulgakov. Roughly translated quote below;

''Ah, I verified that here syphilis was frightening precisely because it did not frighten. That was why I evoked that woman.* I remembered her with a kind of affectionate respect: because she had been afraid. But she was the only one!''

*Early in the chapter, doctor mentions a woman that appeared in the clinic with a letter from her soldier husband, where he wrote that he had syphilis and told her she should go to the doctor too.

DEATH

Recommended reading: Voices of Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievitch. The Death of Ivan Ilitch - Lev Tolstoi

“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”

Death is the only horseman that doesn’t need to mount their horse; they will reach everyone eventually. Who is the saddle for then? Open ended question because this one you have to figure out personally

Many people pointed out how the horse is a Clydesdale. Good eyes! I purposefully asked a friend to guide me towards what type of horses are the sturdiest and most-friendly looking. I drew the horse grazing. It's not injured, it doesn't gallop. It's grazing peacefully because life moves on.

This is the only design that had a painting serve as a base - The Reaper, by Alexey Venetsianov. Not much or nothing at all is written about, I saw it in a book. It is a literal reaper but it haunted me, as if it's portraying more than a person.

The choice to make it a woman was due to a book about a crematory (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty) that connected women to death because everyone born is bound to die.

Ahhh, I don't want to give it all away. It's fun to figure things out. About them all. From the enviroment, to the movement, to the horses themselves. Many people even mentioned details that I did not notice and didn't add purposefully that were so inspired and amazing. I truly mean that the interpretations of the public enrich the works even more than my own words. And it's an honor to share that work with everyone.

Thank you anon!

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Natasha, reading a recipe: Beat three eggs...

Yelena: At what? Hand-to-hand combat?

Natasha: Must be.

Wanda: Out of the kitchen! Both of you!

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I somehow only just discovered that Wanda was wearing Natasha's jacket and here we are

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ELIZABETH OLSEN as Wanda Maximoff / The Scarlet Witch CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR | 2016

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this ate so hard i had to repost here such a good kate x yel edit

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht Rising (Walpurgis no Kaiten) 2nd Trailer

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Spin your GF 'round and 'round

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Skater Sayaka and Kyoko

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I like how the general consensus (which i wholeheartedly agree with) is that Kyoko is Homura's favorite after Madoka, and is the only magical girl Homura trusts to any extent, despite that fact that Kyoko doesn't actually cooperate with Homura anymore than the others. In fact, Kyoko is the only one who straight up lies to Homura, or rather goes back on her word. Like, Homura asked *two* things from her:

1) don't start fights

2)help fight Walpurgisnacht

LITERALLY THE SAME DAY Homura talks to Kyoko at the arcade about wanting to settle things with Sayaka "peacefully", Kyoko goes to Sayaka's house, makes fun of her wish, criticizes her ideals, and picks a fight.

After Sayaka witches out, while talking to Madoka Kyoko verbally acknowledges not only her alliance with Homura, but also that neither of them could beat Walpy by themselves. She then suicide bombs Oktavia, leaving Homura to fight alone (or with madoka, but y'know).

The bar for Homura's friendship is IN HELL, but so are the Holy quintet so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Tumblr, I propose a battle of wits!

I have put Iocaine powder in one of these two goblets. You choose, then we both drink.

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Wedding night

(Part 1) (Part 2)

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June 2004: An LGBT rights group sailed to an island off Queensland Australia, and declared it a sovereign kingdom in order to perform same-sex marriages, which were illegal in Australia at the time.

This led to the Australian government formally recognising it as a hostile nation in order to ban pride flags from government buildings.

Despite this, Australian governments did largely act cordially with the Kingdom, with government departments addressing communications to "The Gay Embassy" and acknowledging the Kingdom's mission in a number of letters.

The Gay Kingdom declared peace with Australia in 2017 after same-sex marriage was legalised, and formally re-united with the mainland shortly after.

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