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you guys asked for wallpapers, i provide

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chomp

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Nurse... he's out again

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CLEO! 🧟‍♀️ 💛🤍🖤💜

some fun sketching practice done on my phone :]

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guards! read me my bedtime yaoi

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tiny empires gems :O

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they're here!!!!!!!

these will be online for sale very soon :]

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Keep seeing pronoun positivity posts is about he/they and she/theys. That's cool and all but this one's for the she/hes. If you're a she/he I love you and you can take as much mint as you want from our garden

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for my fellow solitaireheads

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PANOPTICON MAGAZINE | my pieces for @mcyt-couture-zine

sooooo delighted to have taken part in this incredible collection of works! find the full zine here, and head below the cut for so so many details about my piece:

TONS of yapping ahead. THIS ZINE PIECE KILLED ME. Literally I'm so sorry to everyone I was friends with who heard me mald about this for six months. Ultimately it had nothing to do with the wonderful modteam or contributors and was mostly me over-committing to a piece... But it turned out pretty cool <3

Very early on I knew I wanted to draw the nosy neighbors (everyone claps) and Limited Life. Pearl and BigB are THEE duo and just felt like the perfect canvas to explore fashion. The goal of my piece at first was transition: using clothing and jewelry to bring the characters through their lives in the Life Series. However, this piece (originally it was a 3-image spread) quickly grew too many limbs and ideas to be contained by one thing. There were animals? And coats? And legs. It was kind of hectic and I ultimately grew to resent the piece's direction soooooooo 1 week before the 3rd check-in I started over BigB's and completely spliced up Pearl's ^_^ (Which was, in hindsight, the right thing to do and I should have done it weeks earlier, but we ball. ANYWAY). Jewelry! I love sparkly things and jewelry and I love gold. It has deep cultural and familial significance to me (and also is just very very pretty). So instead of using the jewelry to express their identity within limlife, I wanted to represent their characters as a whole within the Traffic Series.

PEARL: The Wolf (الذئب) I really love Pearl's post-DL identity as the guardian of her friends, taking a backseat from her lonelier days. I also love coding her as a knight ^_^ As a result, she wears fewer pieces of jewelry which mostly serve as tokens of sentiment.

Clock earrings serve as an homage to the time mechanism in Limited Life

Eye Ring ties her to BigB and his association with the evil eye in my previous works

Claw Nailed-Rings and Wolf Ring to bring some animalism and brutality to everyone's favorite wolfgirl (the wolf ring is worn on her left ring-finger, symbolizing her union with Tilly)

Emerald Mound meant to represent her Mounders from SL

Unicorn Brooch is another symbol of loyalty to BigB (who in the first draft of this piece had a unicorn animal companion... You've seen Thello butterfly-code BigB now get ready for unicorn-coding <333)

Galactic Text: "How to trust after being abandoned by all your loved ones and hunting down your ex only to be spared by him... Exclusive!"

BIGB: THE PRINCE (الأمير) THIS WAS THE PROBLEM CHILD PIECE... As mentioned I completely started over. Checks watch. Around a month before it was due after spending So Long on the original. But it turned out for the better! I love making BigB very princely and regal (and a little strange /pos) in my interpretations of him in other pieces of art, so this magazine-type cover felt like no different of an opportunity. He doesn't get the chance to be glamorous very much, so let's change that, shall we?

Fairy Wings Ring represents the Fairy Fort in Last Life

Heartstabber Ring is an homage to Double Life <3

Lilypad Ring to honor Judge Judy from Limited Life

Wolf Brooch is a symbol of patronage to Pearl, his knight.

Watch is BigB's homage to the time mechanism in Limited Life

Bee Ring is engraved with "The Jester" in Arabic along the side, with an amber-cast bee to symbolize being frozen, stuck in time and older memories.

Evil Eye Jewelry the evil eye has a deep cultural and spiritual history across different regions of the East and ME/NA regions of the world. In my upbringing, the presence of the evil eye was worn on jewelry, woven in to clothes, and hung on tapestries/ doorways to ward off the negative energy of the malevolent gaze.

The name "panopticon" comes from the social theory of surveillance from the 18th century. I'd learned about it years ago in my uni days and the concept of a watchtower-style surveillance system stuck with me: a concept where all participants of the system would be watched at all times, but could not watch back. With how often height, scaffolding, and surveillance were present in metagame play during Limited Life (the Nosy Neighbor tower, Bread Bridge, Skynet/Skynet2), I felt like the term panopticon felt relevant to the unique gameplay style taken on by the players during this season.

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when god closes a door you reach your little paws under it and go mrrwwaaaooow mmreeaaow

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The fact that Shelby and Scott did this hand shake thing at both Twitchcon MCC's that they were teamed is SO cute :D <333

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Hey guys I think I figured out why Chasing Scott is a server pastime.

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projecting my trauma onto fictional characters /j

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vibesss

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PEARL IS HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

GO GOVE ALL THE LOVE TO AWESOME PEOPLE WHO MADE @pearlescentzine !!!

I am so incredibly proud of this, this is legit my best work ever done and I am so happy I gotr a chanse to be part of this zine!

I will ramble a bit about organization, because I am very passionate about it!

I like how in the begging all the themes were devided by three categories each having more popular and less popular. that was an important step for the rest of the topic asigment!

We had to make up the idea for each bracket, even if in the end we end up being drawing only for the one - so thee in total. i knew taht i couldn't submit ideas for Hermitcraft s10 and 9 and 8 and be done - that's a very popular series, i had to choose less popular ones. Which cause d me to watch more of Pearl, which is cool!!!

So as a result I found moments I really liked in less popular series and watched more pearl! And had in general more interesting brain storm!

And as a result the zine itself looks diverse which is cool!

I also really like the timelines. It was just the right amout of time for me to manage zine and my work so that is +1 into mod's karma uwu

ALSO I FOUND FRIENDS!!!!!! MY SILLY GOOBERS!!!!

Anyway awesome experience, 11/10, hope you organize some other stuff I will be very interested 👀