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Kind of related to that Primo and Verdant post from a while ago, but I gave Primo's air ghoul a design as well. Based off a Araripe manakin birb

#the band ghost #nameless ghouls #ooooooooh!! the horns!!!!!!!!!

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i just wanna thank all the gif makers on here. y'all really keep this site alive and we don't freaking deserve you. thank you for all your hard work. tumblr is nothing without you.

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me and the followers i pulled by being annoying about things i like

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ahh i love your art!! Thank u for this :) Can I ask you for more of your prequelle Dew?

thank you!! here's a collage of a lot of Dews I've drawn:

i really like his prequelle era design.

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rhapsody in gween

(for @writingjourney ♡)

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Extremely frustrated because my pastel pencils are just slightly too big for my pencil sharpener but the core is too brittle for me to whittle them with my scalpel so I’m just battling with this shitty little £2 sharpener and praying that I can get my black pencil to a usable state

#personal #art talk #I haven’t been this annoyed since trying to learn oil pastels

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🌹 roses for the cardinal 🌹

bonus:

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the goobers just smacked lips!!! will they hit it off? or it will be just a casual fling?

#the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #nameless ghouls #dewdrop ghoul #yes!!! they love each other your honour!!!!!

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Taking a break from drawing to go get myself a silly little treat from the supermarket for my silly little mental health

#personal #yes I’m still working on the same design #I need to get a decent chair or my spine is going to fall out

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Secondo Emeritus - Naples

Primo | Secondo

Neaples. My beautiful Neaples. My beloved, adored Neaples. It is the city where I studied and grew up in and it is also literally filled with mysteries and legends. I thought Naples would have been the perfect formation place for a young Secondo Emeritus. Let’s see what may have influenced and inspired him in his religious journey.

1 - The musical church. 

Ghost’s music has always been heavily loaded with the Devil’s Tritone: also called Diabulus in Musica or Devil’s Interval, it is an unsettling dissonance produced by an unusual arrangement of notes that gives that spooky, devilish tone to music. In Infestissumam, it was featured on 9 out of 10 songs. The use of the Tritone was banned in Medieval times (In Ghost, its use dramatically dropped with Prequelle, with only 2 out of 10 songs featuring it). So what if I tell you that, in contrast, in Naples there is a church that functions as a musical score, whose music protects it from evil?

Basically, there is a church in Piazza del Gesù that has a particular pointy ashlar on the external facade. Under the side (the one facing the ground, so if you look up from the street you can see them) of each of these little pyramids are carved symbols, which turned out to be Aramaic letters that were later translated into musical notes. So, it turned out that the whole church is a big score, and it’s playable. The whole melody, called Enigma, was played for the first time inside the church to celebrate the discovery. You can hear the music here (sound quality is not the best).

Will it protect the church from Ghost’s music?

2 - The skull cult.

Naples has very intricate underground galleries, almost all visitable. One of these is Cimitero delle Fontanelle, a famous catacomb where the remains of about 40.000 people who died from plagues are stored. It is said the “anime pezzentelle” cult was born here: it is a particular relationship each Neapolitan establishes with a chosen skull. You literally adopt an abandoned skull, which according to our tradition is the seat of the soul, and your duty is to care for it, protect it and also create a special niche for it. In exchange, the soul of that skull will protect you.

A nice place for a Bone Daddy.

3 - Pretty and Evil like Mergellina’s devil.

Knowing the passion our Secondo has for women, here is a story about a very devilish one.

In Santa Maria del Prato church, in the Mergellina area, there is the only representation of the devil as a woman in a painting.

The legend has it that said woman was the beautiful Vittoria D’Avalos, who seduced the Bishop Diomede Carafa, who commissioned the painting in 1542 to represent his victory against the woman’s lust (we're all believing him, right? 🙄).

Now that story has a way of saying that refers to femmes fatales as “Pretty and Evil like Mergellina’s devil”.

I’d say she may be considered among the first-ever Sisters of Sin. 

4 - Who gives life can also take it.

Infestissumam is filled with references to birth and Jesus, turning it into the birth of the antichrist and creating a narrative that is completely opposite to the birth of the Son of Man. Now, in Naples, there is a statue that embodies both concepts.

Back to Piazza del Gesù: On a very high pedestal in the center of the square stands a statue of the Virgin Mary, the Mother. That's all... until you position yourself at a specific point in the square and look up to see the statue transformed into the Reaper. His face is hidden by the cowl, staring straight at you, with a sickle at its feet and a snake crawling on it.

Depending on your point of view, the giver of life becomes the taker of it.

5 - Body and Blood… but especially blood.

What never stops to fascinate me about the relationship of Neapolitans with religion is the very thin line between devotion and pure blasphemy. It is the case of the “miracle” of San Gennaro’s blood. It happens twice a year and it consists in bringing the Saint’s blood in a liquid state again (after centuries it is obviously solidified). The particular thing is that during this ritual, the worshippers (and the priests too) literally insult the saint to convince him to make the miracle happen, because if it doesn’t work, it means that something terrible is about to happen.

(Last time it didn’t work was right before the Covid pandemic 🙂)

I’d say this could have been a great inspiration for Body and Blood and Idolatrine.

Honorable mention to the fact that I have lived 32 years now on this Earth and I never attended this event even though I would like to.

Bonus: Now, I said that Dante would come back in the chapters, and he is. In fact, not only Virgilio died in Naples (and he is the protector of the city) but, apparently, the gates of Hell Dante mentioned in his comedy were located on the Averno lake, near Pozzuoli, not far from Naples.

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MOUNTAIN AND AETHER CONTENT PLSSSS 🙏🙏🙏 I adore them and your art OOOGH

Careful with him, he’s scared of heights

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Pens on tracing paper my belothed. How dare you pretend to be dry and then smudge the second I look at you. Evil. Evil art supplies

#personal #art talk #I’ve been trying to trace and rework the same design all morning please I’m begging #I’ve wasted three sheets of tracing paper I just wanted to change some fucking LEAVES

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The Dracopia brooch. One of the few elements for which I voluntarily take the liberty of modifying the design a little. (Which is why I didn't include it in the pattern pack).

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I thought that until I had something new, I'd post some closes up on my favorite details.

Starting with this study painting I made of a photo in 2022.

#the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #god op I could just stare at your art for hours. it’s so beautiful #like this is museum quality #the full portrait is hanging in the louvre of my heart

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fellas….Terzo in Cardi style suit? I think it was meant to be. We were ROBBED. Idea summoned to life by mamasuperior (on insta)🖤 and I.😏✨

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Papa Secondo + Nameless Ghoul 🖤💚

used the color palette 'Famous Ferns'.

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S: 'Are you quite finished, Cardinal?'

T: 'Obviously not, stronzo. You're refusing to listen to me.'

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