Hi! I'm from twitter (simple follower) but i wanted to say anonymously that i love your art <3
Your Alcina depiction will forever be one of my favourite ones. She's so HERSELF & recognisable and i love that you give her a soft stomach and realistic bodytype in general.
It's such a treat among certain male gaze-y depictions (where all her weight centers at two places haha)
Your art is soo impactful and important!! It feels as you draw her while genuinely liking this character (sorry for being an extremely cheesy weirdo); as I've said, certain art feels soulless and objectified way too much
Thank you for being cool and drawing older women the way they deserve to be portrayed
Anon I need you to know I read this at 7am, cried into my tea, went to work, came home, read it again, cried aGAIN, and dug this sketch out of the WIP void just for you. You've left me speechless and I can't even begin to thank you enough for your kind words right now. May The Big Woman™ bring you happiness.
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So I know we here at Startrekfandom love that "came back wrong but from the pov of the wrong" thing and apply it to many different characters and canon situations and I am far from trying to complain about it (I'm "came out wrong" trope myself so I was always gonna obsess over it) but having recently watched a very important episode (you'll know which one) for the first time I think there's a character who hits both tropes mentioned but llike, intertwined, opposite and subverted, and whom I wanna talk about.
Julian Bashir.
From his parents' pov he's "came out wrong but we got him help and he came back better" while from his own pov it's "came out 'insufficient', was destroyed for it, came back wrong and only later slowly came to terms with his new self tho never the process (justifiably so)" and it's heartbreaking because in a way, he's right! Jules Bashir died! His parents had an intellectually disabled child and decided to eugenics him! Julian is not the person he used to be and while I do love the person he is now, that doesn't bring back who he was! Part of me wishes we could've gotten to see Jules at least once and part of me hopes we never do because my heart would shatter.
This isn't a good comparison but nonetheless one I can't help drawing: it's giving similar vibes to anti-vaxxers. "I'd rather risk having a child who is dead than one who's autistic". Obviously this doesn't map over since Julian is still autistic and the procedure his parents subjected him to specifically targeted his intellectual disability and if any folks with id wanna comment on this I definitely recommend you listen to them over me, but it's a similarity I, as an autistic who has encountered anti-vaxxers again and again, can't help but point out. "Give me a normal child or give them death."
This may have been written about already but there needs to be stories about teenage Julian (after finding out and rediscovering who he was) practicing some good ol' recognition of the self through media. I need to hear about how he would encounter a story about someone who came back wrong (I'm gonna assume there's plenty of "wrong" pov stories floating around by the 24th century) and absolutely weep. I need to see Julian mourning Jules, taking years and years to process his feelings, experiencing guilt about how he, the imposter, didn't deserve to live Jules' life.
Came back wrong from the returned's pov but it wasn't an accident. It was done to you deliberately by the people who claim to love you. And now you are here, piloting the corpse of your predecessor.
Jules Bashir is dead. Long live Julian Bashir.
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I can't stop thinking about q!Baghera's lore. Or, I guess it's not much lore and more of a big character arc.
I foolishly thought she would be angry, but overall okay. She wasn't.
I went in thinking in a cold, calculated manner, and thought she'd do the same. She didn't.
Because of course she didn't. It's not that simple.
She has no real parents, she was created in a lab.
She was never here to be loved, only to be experimented on.
She was never really cared for, she was brutally tortured for science.
She was never safe, they found a way to bring her back.
Her origins, where she came from, it's not just a tragedy. Her past on the island is a childhood-long horror movie.
Of course she's broken. Of course memories of it send her in shock.
Of course she'd want to burn them.
I went in thinking we'd get more answers about the Federation and their experiments. In a way, we did.
But that's not important.
SHE is the most important part of her story. This is what we need to pay attention to. Her. How she will deal with her trauma, how far down it will make her fall.
And hopefully, with a little luck, how high up she'll rise again.
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I’m back and I made more!!
I’ve experimented with designing more ‘limited edition’ back designs and I’m kinda impressed with myself lol
The rest are all card shaped I just haven’t done the backs yet cuz I’m moving out in 4 days and I’m yet to finish packing
I’ve had a few people asking me if I would sell these and honestly I would, but, my printer isn’t amazing quality and my uni work is gonna be taking over my free time soon.
I might in the future if enough people ask but for the time being I can post a tutorial or some printable back designs? Idk I’ve never done this before lol.
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Old Witches
i got inspo for eva from the outfit she has in that one good-future manga panel, tried to combine it with something more beato-ish... her jewelry is from an anime formalwear outfit auau was embarrassingly hard for me and i prob still drew stuff wrong, im out of practice lol
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Nightow naming the chapter 'Wolfwood' has always stuck with me, specifically because of the way it makes the chapter end:
We spend a short amount of time at the end of this chapter with the brief belief that Wolfwood might actually be fine. Us, the readers, alongside Vash, are temporarily allowed a moment of denial before reality comes crashing down again.
And then this. Something as simple as the chapter's end notice, here to inform you that no, this is the end. The end of Wolfwood - the chapter and character, both.
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