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#i love him so much #ph

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🎁🌈☕!!

Hello anon ty for the ask :D!!

🎁 and ☕ have been answered here

🌈 Do you use more warm or cold colors?

This is a very interesting question to ask because I rarely ever colour my art lmao

Choice of colour pallettes largely depend on the vibe I'm going for in each piece and I don't really have any colour that I'm particularly partial towards so I go for anything that feels fitting! I usually try to maintain a balance but I guess I do lean a little more towards using warmer tones than cooler ones :>

artist ask game

#sorry anon i would've liked to add examples but i lost a bunch of my older digital pieces a while back #and i haven't really coloured anything much lately so :((( #but!! i finally feel motivated to colour more of my stuff so ty :D #anon asks #asks #ask game #🍀

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🎁🐵☕ for ask game hi hiiii

Hiiiii Lina ty for the ask :D!!

🎁 Do you prefer drawing fandom stuff or your own characters?

I wouldn't call it a preference but I do draw fandom characters more often yeah. I make my own character designs every once in a while but most of my ocs with any semblance of backstories stay exclusively in my head lol.

And I am but a simple man who loves exploring character dynamics so most of my art tends to be of characters with established lore.

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

I do simple warmup exercises like these before starting to draw

I cross hatch when I feel like my hand isn't steady enough and the circles help loosen up my shoulder

Not sure if they count as warmup sketches but I do timed gesture and figure drawing practice every once in a while

🙊 Share your latest silly doodle with no context

Couldn't choose just one so have a little compilation

This one isn't exactly very recent but I'm adding it anyway :3

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#these were fun ty again for the ask :D #asks #ask game #🍀

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#dunmeshi

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Source: Delicious in Dungeon Danjon Meshi ダンジョン飯

by Ryōko Kui

#dunmeshi

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doing my duty of drawing skeleton falin

#augh #dunmeshi #art

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giving falin armor because she looked really happy wearing it :]

#she's soooo <333 #dunmeshi #art

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#yep #i do get a bit overwhelmed if i'm around them for too long #but pretty much all my cousins who have kids either live abroad or in diff states #so i don't get to see the kids very often(kind of also a bummer tbh. they deserve to get spoilt more often) #they also usually respect it when i say i'm tired and would like a little quiet as long as i give them something engaging to do #so yeah kids are fine

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tgcf is like if xie lian was faced with the trolley problem every single day and every day he said "i'll choose a third option!" and that option was throwing himself in front of the trolley to stop it but instead it flips over and kills/maims everyone on both tracks and xie lian himself

#yeah that's the plot alright #tgcf

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tgcf is like if xie lian was faced with the trolley problem every single day and every day he said "i'll choose a third option!" and that option was throwing himself in front of the trolley to stop it but instead it flips over and kills/maims everyone on both tracks and xie lian himself

#yeah that's the plot alright #tgcf

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like okay im just going to be real right now. do some of you not understand that children grow into adults? like seriously. because the way some of yall talk about them makes me feel like you think of children as an entirely different species and not people who in 10 years will be expected to function and understand society. were you cloned? do you come from a tube? did you jump out of the artificial womb as a fully formed 25 year old

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🌼Artist Ask meme!🌼

There’s probably a lotta these out there but I wanted to make one of my own! Hopefully these are fun<3 

Send an emoji for each question!

 🖍️ When did you start drawing? Do you remember?  

 ✏️ Do you prefer traditional art or digital to relax?   

📏 What’s your go-to canvas size?

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

🙃 Which is easier: faces facing left, right, or front view?

📚 How many layers do you typically use?

🐻 Your go-to things to draw when you need comfort?

🎁 Do you prefer drawing fandom stuff or your own characters?

🌈 Do you use more warm or cold colors?

🎼 Your favorite music to draw to right now?

🙌 Draw a doodle with your non-dominant hand

📐 Whats your favorite kinds of lines to draw?

💐 Do your drawing suit your aesthetics?

🦋 Do your drawings resemble you?

✨ How often do you draw?

🌗 Is night or day better for drawing?

🍭 What’s your main art blog / what do you tag your art with?

🍀 You wish your art was more..(fill in the blank)

🌊 What’s the hardest thing for you to draw? 

🙊 Share your latest silly doodle with no context

#send me stuff i wanna ramble abt my art

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I've been rereading more slowly through SGRS since I binged through the whole thing in one day the first time, and god.

In Kikuhiko's first rakugo performance after he and Sukeroku do their play, he does a story about a woman searching for someone to commit double suicide with her. Specifically, the only bits of his longer performance that are transcribed into the manga are snippets of this central character picking out and beginning to seduce the man she wants to target.

Kiku finds himself when he does the play with Sukeroku. He finds something fundamental in both the female role he puts on and the way he's able to command the audience's attention to him. And that's what becomes his connection to rakugo—it's a place where he can find belonging and adoration showing off that aspect of himself. So as the first performance after that, Kiku's performance of Shinagawa Shinjuu is a beginning of sorts. It's the start of his true love affair with rakugo.

And in that moment, we're shown Kiku performing a scene of a woman choosing the man with whom she'll commit lovers' suicide. Kiku—the man who decades later muses constantly about taking rakugo as an art form to death with him—starts his career in earnest performing as a woman who's just decided who she wants to take to death with her.

Then the scene goes on, and we get a little snippet of Kiku as the woman beginning to seduce her lover to death. In the same way as Kiku is seducing his audience into his story, and just as rakugo is truly seducing him. Kiku is the seductress in the story and in his performance, but by nature of the art form, he's also the naive man seduced to death. He's playing all roles. If Kiku wants his love affair with rakugo to end in death, then equally, rakugo leads him to his own demise.

As an old man, Kiku sets fire to the theater and just about makes that double suicide a reality. The building is eventually rebuilt, however, and Kiku's family and friends carry on the torch of rakugo. It's only Kiku himself who dies not too long after. He's saved in the moment by his chosen family and connections, yes. He says that he was ultimately denied his lovers' suicide. And yet, his final performance to the dead seems to mark the beginning of the end for him.

Kiku's first performance after the play is, in every way, a brilliant moment of intertextuality. Kikuhiko is Osome deciding she wants to die, implicitly tying his discovery of what rakugo means to him to suicide. He's Osome choosing who to die with as he truly chooses his art form. He's Osome entrancing the audience like they're the foolish Kinzo. He's Osome seducing rakugo itself to die with him—taking the first true steps down the path that will lead to him becoming the be all end all of the art (emphasis on the potential for him to end all). He's Kinzo being seduced by the offer of suicide with rakugo. He's Kinzo being entranced by the adoration of the audience like Osome's so-called love.

For this moment of Kiku coming into his own and entering his doomed love affair with rakugo, there's no narrative that could have suited him better.

#i've always loved how the title isn't translated anywhere because it adds to the mystery of it #it only truly hits you once you've completed reading and sat down to contemplate everything you read #sgrs truly is such a masterful work it's a pity how underrated it is #sgrs

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t shirt that says Niche microblogging influencer who has kind of fallen off recently

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Smirkin cuz he stole candy from the candy jar (Emily told him to do it).

Making this my pfp

#love the red highlights on his hair omg #ph #art

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I just had a thought. What if our lovely Machina's real name is Carmilla? It definitely fits the lady-loving vampire theme we've got there.

Oh, interesting thought!

Besides being very wlw, Carmilla is also quite an early example of vampires in literature. It has predecessors, but aside from The Vampyre by Polidori (which kicked off literary vamps in the first place), the only one generally cited as having a major influence on the genre is the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire, the source for the name Francis Varney. In other words, August Ruthven and Francis Varney currently have names pulled from just about the earliest possible examples of literary vampires. That means that making Francis's real name Carmilla, Varney's immediate followup in the timeline of major pre-Dracula vampire works, would be a nice touch to keep all that consistent.

I can't think of many connections yet between Machina and the story of Carmilla itself yet besides the queerness, but still. Fun theory!

#interesting theory! #vnc #vnc spoilers