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I’m always amazed by YA fictions ability to evoke fascist imagery for their villains to signify they are the baddies while maintaining the most fascist eugenicist politics as the entire thesis of the plot the entire time

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if you are not in the discord you perhaps are blissfully unaware of my gunnar haluki obsession. and. i just wanted to ramble about him and marcus for a while because there isnt enough about them out there

and it isnt even necessarily the romantic aspect of it. like the two of them as characters and the little bits we know about their friendship are fascinating. and i think lisa was especially good at this in terms of the early quill-related characters; you can see it in a lot of people (justine, marcus, gunnar, aaron, eva, gondoleery, liam, will blair, general blair, nadia, etc.) whether they try to escape that pattern or try to claw their way back into it, but i want to talk about these two specifically.

because marcus, as we all know, had such a big hand in the creation of quill. sure, maybe it was mostly justine's ideals, and sure, maybe he was her right hand first and foremost, and maybe he just went along with what she said. but it is far, far more likely that he really did believe in it, too, and that it was also his ideas, not only from justine. he helped draw people in, he hurt people, he killed people. he killed innocent children.

and while we know very little about gunnar's backstory, we know he was similar. that he believed in justine, too, became her second-in-command and next-in-line, and that he and marcus had a similar falling out with her ideals, and that they turned to each other.

and i think that's what fascinates me about them. the mutual guilt and shame over what they both did in quill. the fact that they have nothing left to hide from each other, since they both come from such similar places, and yet they still *do* because it's a horrific thing to admit to, even though they can't really ignore it. how long and how deeply theyve known each other especially when compared to other characters. gunnar is still hiding his true identity from quill and from artime; he is at home in neither place. marcus says he has no secrets but still keeps the museum of large closed, even to claire most of the time. theyre both still keeping up appearances but meet in secret and that's the only place they can really be themselves and have to come face-to-face with someone else who knows in detail the things they did?? like come ON. marcus is part of the reason why gunnar is the person that he is and gunnar helped marcus get to this position and do they regret it?? like putting gunnar's betrayal and devotion next to marcus's whimsy and repentance is just. so fun to me. there's something deeply wrong with these two weird old men. gunnar illegally taught his daughter to shoot a gun seemingly for nothing other than fun. marcus is over here planning on faking his death (also can we talk about how he told gunnar and not his own daughter. like. what is wrong with him. and how gunnar knows panther but claire has no idea she exists etc etc).

i dont know there's just something deeply wrong with them and this is my pitch. ponder them with me

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I NEVER SAW THIS AND IM GOING INSANE

i keep forgetting to post this but i spent 7 hours on it so...the evil awful family tree that consumes my every waking thought!

*note: marcus being nadia's father is only a theory, not explicitly canon; "owen" is the name i give to mr. stowe, also not canon; marcus, claire, and emma's eye colors are not canon; the white hair streaks and pure white hair are similarly headcanons

not entirely happy with how the stowe siblings came out but i draw them so often that it doesnt really matter. i was more focused on getting down the faces of the other family members to track similar facial features!

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she left him for a volcano guys. never forget

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just got reminded of the unwanteds... gonna be honest never finished quests, woops. but it's so nice to see the state of the fandom nowadays :,)

I remember getting hate for drawing alex with long curly hair... getting hate for shipping thatcher and henry even tho it was literally canon........ seeing unwanteds fanart where the main cast isn't all paper white is a LUXURY that im so glad the current fans have

and I still stand by my opinion that thatcher should've been the head mage after alex instead of them putting another CHILD in charge

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couple of sillies from the past few weeks

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tapping the sign again this man can't draw black people or cats

Title: StormClan's Folly

Arc: Super Edition

Type: cover art

Country: North America

Characters: Galestar and Stripestar

Artist: Owen Richardson

Source: https://warriorcats.com

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Corpse Collector

UNWANTEDS X MADOKA MAGICA AU GO (extra doodles under the cut)

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So they don’t hurt nobody but me

version with no text below

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this fandom is actually so dead and starved for content

we need more fan art and fan fiction in the fandom please guys i'm begging

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barks

It’s been so long I don’t remember much about this series but what I DO remember is Dev was my son

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sunkissed, v8 ☀️

☀️ v1 — nov 2021 ☀️ v2 — mar 2022 ☀️ v3 — july 2022 ☀️ v4 — nov 2022 ☀️ v5 — mar 2023 ☀️ v6 — july 2023 ☀️ v7 — nov 2023

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he whitewashes black ppl and can't draw cats man 😭

So.

We went from this for Starclan Cats:

To.

This:

Biggest downgrade of my life.

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some alex stowe art for you!! :)

(staff design by @anxiousasalex, everyone say thank youuu)

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Just wondering how many of y’all are out there!

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Nah cause if I was Puddleshine I would've thrown the biggest fit ever about Mothwing strolling into ShadowClan and getting Shadowsight demoted. Keeping peace with RiverClan be damned, saying my apprentice doesn't know what he's doing and can't do anything right is implying that I taught him wrong and I am not standing for that bullshit. You're demoting my apprentice over my dead body