#arty-e's six kids

[thatgordongirl]

I tried to Six the musical-fy Richard III because he’s a personal favourite of mine. I was inspired by @arty-e design of Elizabeth of York. Most of his design is pretty self explanatory, but the reason I put the roses on the back of his head instead of the front was because all his severe head injuries were at the back of his head. There a ribbon around his waist because someone stabbed his corpse in the ass, not joking. I tried to make him look more wise like his original portrait before it was altered by the Tudors. 

#arty e #richard iii #six the kids #richard plantagenet

[uhhhh-em-draws-stuff]

How I picture my six the kids meeting

@arty-e ‘s kids

#six the musical #elizabeth i #six the kids #mary i #edward vi

[natlacentral]

How Kiawentiio went from a ‘little arty kid’ to the star of Avatar: The Last Airbender

You know that classic actor’s arc, painstakingly building from bit parts to bigger roles, withstanding rejection and despair? Yeah, that’s not Kiawentiio’s story. The Mohawk Canadian actor was cast in the first thing she auditioned for, the hit CBC/Netflix series Anne with an E. Her next role was the title character in Tracey Deer’s wrenching, semi-autobiographical film Beans, followed by a gig on Rutherford Falls. And now she’s the second lead in a gigantic Netflix series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action reimagining of the beloved animated series (2005-08), shot mostly in British Columbia, arriving Feb. 22. And she’s only 17.

We meet via video call, and even on that flattening medium, Kiawentiio sparkles. (Professionally, she goes by that mononym, pronounced Guy-a-wen-di-jou.) She’s poised and friendly, without any child-actor posing. Now and again she glances over her shoulder into a corner I can’t see; turns out her mother is there for backup.

Her Anne with an E audition was a lark – or as Kiawentiio puts it, “It came out of nowhere and happened randomly.” Growing up on the Akwesasne reserve on Kawehno:ke (also known as Cornwall Island), which straddles the Ontario/New York State border, she was “the little arty kid in the corner, who stayed inside at recess to paint and draw,” and dreamed of going to art school. Her dad chanced upon an open casting call on Facebook, and they thought, might as well try it. She was the last audition of the day.

Landing Avatar: The Last Airbender, by contrast, required more of a campaign. As a kid, Kiawentiio loved the animated series – its environmental and spiritual themes, its thoughtful depictions of Asian and Indigenous cultures, the battle scenes of Benders wielding the four elements, “the character arcs, the sheer craftsmanship. It would fill me.”

So when she heard rumours a few years ago about a live-action reboot, she had a feeling she’d be right for Katara, 14, a novice Waterbender, the last in her Southern Water Tribe, traumatized by the world war being waged by the Fire Nation, yet undaunted and hopeful. Teaming up with Aang, the title character (played in the series by Gordon Cormier), she begins to realize her potential. Kiawentiio asked her agents to keep an eye out, “just in case the universe is listening.”

The audition, when it came, was veiled in secrecy – fake project and character names, disguised scenes, all via Zoom. After a month-long series of “adrenalin-pumping” chemistry reads with other actors, showrunner Albert Kim delivered the news: Yes, it was Airbender; yes, they’d been searching the world for their Katara; and yes, it was her. She and her family burst into tears.

With her co-stars, Kiawentiio spent six weeks at “bending boot camp,” where each learned the martial art their movements are based on: wushu for Firebending, tai chi for Waterbending, Hung Ga for Earthbending and Bagua for Airbending. They shot on a cutting-edge mix of green screens, practical sets – Kyoshi Village was built in a working quarry in Coquitlam, B.C.; Jet’s hideout was filmed at WildPlay, a ziplining park in Maple Ridge, B.C. – and volume stages, including the world’s largest LED video wall studio, a near-circle lined with 2,500 LED wall panels and 760 LED ceiling panels, at Canadian Motion Picture Park in Burnaby, B.C.

“That stage was warm,” Kiawentiio says, laughing. “Wearing Katara’s big blue parka, pretending to be in the Arctic while being in a microwave.” Watching the animated series come to life was “surreal,” she continues. “When you see Appa in front of you” – a flying beast that combines bison, hippo and manatee – “or even small things like my necklace – I remember being almost in tears.”

Canada’s Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Kim’s Convenience) plays Iroh, brother to Fire Lord Ozai (Daniel Dae Kim); the actors playing Katara’s parents, Rainbow Dickerson and Joel Montgrand, also played Kiawentiio’s parents in Beans. But she didn’t get to hang out much – “I was in high school at the time, just trying to get through 11th grade,” she says. “Fun fact, I’ve never been to a first day of high school with my classmates. Every year I was doing something, travelling somewhere.” Now graduated, with a five-year option for possible future seasons, “I’m saving my next few years for the show and whatever else may come from it. But I plan on going to school in the future.”

Each of the four Airbender nations has real-world roots, including Omashu, Himalayan, Indonesian and Indigenous Arctic cultures; cultural consultants advised on folklore, history and mythology, as well as costumes, calligraphy and artifacts; and the series’ four directors are of Asian descent. That mattered, Kiawentiio says: “It’s 100-per-cent important to me that I represent where I come from, my people and my language. That comes with me to every character I portray.”

Her opportunity to embody authentic Indigenous characters has never been higher, as a spate of recent series attest: Reservation Dogs, Little Bird, Echo, True Detective: Night Country, the Yellowstone franchise. Lily Gladstone could well become the first Indigenous woman to win a Best Actress Oscar, for Killers of the Flower Moon. And Deer, Kiawentiio’s Beans director was an excellent role model: “Being able to see her be the leader, be so strong, opened my eyes to other things I can explore – directing, producing.”

But she doesn’t want portraying Indigenous characters to become its own kind of limit. “Those roles will always be at my root; they are what I can see myself in and relate to. That doesn’t have to be the end of what we’re capable of, though. We don’t have to just play the Indian friend, the Native guy. We can be just that doctor or teacher or lawyer, those regular roles. The days of just getting a role, and not The Native role, are still ahead of us.”

Now that Kiawentiio’s accidental career is skyrocketing, “it’s funny how weirdly normal it gets,” she says. “I understand how people can lose their groundedness. You’re in the air so much, how do you stay grounded? It’s helpful to keep my real life separate, with my family and friends, and have my work self be almost a persona.”

She’s always had a readable face, she realizes. “I can’t hide anything; it’s all in my eyes. But to be able to be in control of that to portray someone else is so interesting. My dad told me he’s never seen me light up the way I do when I’m on a set. That’s when I knew I should stick with it.”

#natla #atla #netflix avatar #netflix atla #avatar the last airbender #atla netflix #avatar netflix #kiawentiio #article #the globe and mail

[inamindfarfaraway]

Edward VI’s song that I wrote for @arty-e’s SIX: The Kids. This is a sad one. Well, they’re all sad, but… God. We know so little about who Edward was inside and how he felt about things because of how young he was and how eclipsed his own thoughts and wishes were by everyone who had more control over his life than he ever did. He was surrounded by manipulators, yet extremely isolated. And it all just breaks my heart. I knew this song was gonna be Pain when I hit upon it being directed toward Henry, like his mother’s. It can therefore reveal his love for and pride in his father, unmet need for his validation and love and even (speculative, but I think plausible and certainly understandable) resentment that he was left to be king and to suffer so much. I mean, Elizabeth was right there, Protestant and everything. But Henry wanted a son, so he brought Edward into the world… and the world wasn’t kind to him. I imagine he must have felt the huge pressure of everyone’s expectation and anticipation and hope and conflicting selfish interests; the weight of the religious and familial turmoil Henry put others including Mary and Elizabeth, who Edward loved, through in order to have him; very keenly. And then he hardly got to make a dent in history. That’ll give you some issues.

Like Elizabeth, Edward recognized and did his best to live up to the Tudor ideal of a ruler: stoic, composed, steadfast, imperious and seemingly transcending human emotion. His own private diary consists of detached, factual accounts of events, not divulging into personal feelings even on matters such as Mary refusing to convert or his uncles getting beheaded. He deduced the role people want him to play/would like him if he played and plays it. So his modern persona is based on the archetype of the outwardly crowd-pleasing, charismatic, confident teenage popstar thrust into fame by adults planning to cash in on them, similar to Katherine Howard’s SIX portrayal, only the male version. There are more frequent stage directions here than in the others because I have recently seen SIX: The Musical for the first time(!!!) and really noticed how complex and dynamic the lighting was, changing with every shift in tone.

Lady Jane Grey’s song.

Mary I’s song.

Elizabeth I’s song.

Intro song ideas.

#i am once again asking for a time machine #so we can get the tudor kids individual and family therapy #six: the kids #six the kids #six the kids song #original song #edward vi #edward tudor #fan song #song script

[so-were-heroes]

Had you heard about six the kids before the ask?

Only saw some art here @six-the-kids

#miraculous ladybug #so we’re heroes? #miraculous ladybug au #ao3fic #six the kids #six the musical #miraculous au

[buttercup-draws44]

Do you have SIX the kids designs of your own?

Nope. I just used @arty-e’s designs.

[toast-the-unknowing]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💖

I feel like I have a standard answer to this question, so I wanted to try to name some favorite fics I maybe don't mention as much:

it all will fall, fall right into place: (Raven Cycle, Adam/Ronan, E rated, aka LA verse part 9) Oh Lord, the work that went into this one. I challenged myself to do about six different things that were new or tough or scary to me but damn if I'm not proud of how it turned out and proud to have a fic with a pretentious arty title and a ton of angst and also has the tag "Fisting".

Careful the Tale You Tell: (Raven Cycle, Adam/Ronan, T rated, aka the witch kid fic) I tend to say that a fic will either take me less than a week to write or it will take me months/years; this one was a weird little exception to that rule, written in something like two to three weeks during just MASSIVELY heavy snowfall (there were like two-three days I got to do nothing but work on this because work was cancelled due to snow which delighted my SoCal, never-had-a-snow-day-in-my-life heart). It was just a cozy dreamlike writing experience that created a cozy dreamlike fic that I'm incredibly happy with.

darling, don't make such a drama: (Raven Cycle, Ronan & Henry, Ronan & Declan, Adam/Ronan, T rated, aka the bartender/artist AU) okay "favorite fic titles" isn't the question here and I'm not sure this one would WIN but it's the one that still kinda cracks me up the most. I absolutely love writing more than just two characters/one relationship and fitting in friendship and family relationships, and this one was just a blast to do. The interactions and the plot (to the extent there is one) all just kinda evolved naturally from very bare bones and I think it ended up in a sort of unexpected but interesting place.

Loose Lips Sink Ships: (The 100, Miller & Clarke, Miller/Monty, T rated, aka the 'sorry your ex's proposal went viral' AU) One thing I really enjoy is writing about non-obvious friendships or combinations of characters, so as soon as that one tumblr post went around of "headcanon that Clarke and Miller knew each other on the Ark" I knew it would be my destiny to write a story where they were bros. One other thing I enjoy is writing shipfics that are secretly as much if not more so about the platonic friendships happening around the couple, and this was just a fun good time writing both of those things at once and also including so many em tags that AO3 broke my html coding and I had to spend like two hours fixing it.

The Visit: (Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Jake-centric gen, T rated, aka the 'I have a lot of feelings about Jake and the finale, especially as viewed through the lens of the episode The Visiter' fic) Funny story, the last person that I hooked up with saw my DS9 tattoo and literally was like "okay we're going to talk about DS9 for a bit and it's not going to be a sex thing, what character do you relate to most" and I said "Jake" and she just had completely no idea how to react to that. (Hers was Jadzia, because, yeah, of course it was.) But I just have so many Jake feelings and this fic isn't my only attempt to do something about them but it's my favorite. Pretty much all my fics, when I think about them, there's at least one thing that I'll remember about them that I wish I'd done differently, and this one does not.

#Anonymous

[oliviakatekitty]

Here’s the drawing of Mary the 1st/Bloody Mary,  I got the fire on Pinterest I’m not sure of the name of the original artist but I wanted to include them and credit them on there from Pinterest and arty-e from her YouTube channel Arty E of her Bloody Mary Animatic (Six The Kids (Mary Tudor)).

Here’s my version of Mary, I still wanted to keep the black outfit but I also gave it some red color and pinkish color.

I might try to post some six the kids art related stuff, but I got my hands tied at the moment of other drawing projects.

Anyways hope you like the drawling. 



#digital art #my digital artwork #six the kids #six the musical #six kids #six the musical fanart #mary i of england #mary tudor

[sleepy-stories]

@arty-e Mary Tudor. It's a redraw.

#arty-e #six the kids #maryi #tudor period

[tavi-the-rat]

nobody cares™ but i made a second part of my six the musical aesthetics! this time it's six the kids!

inspired by @arty-e 's designs!

#six #six the musical #six the kids #arty e #mary i #mary tudor #elizabeth i #elizabeth tudor #edward vi #edward tudor #mary queen of scots #mezza scots #lady jane grey #six the musical aesthetics #aesthetics #moodboards

[arty-e]

Your interpretation of Elizabeth could slap me in the face and I'd thank her.

I feel you, anon. I am more than prepared to give up my life for any version of Elizabeth I.

#elizabeth i #elizabeth tudor #six #six the musical #ask #answer #six the kids #six kids #me #arty-e #i will die on any hill for Elizabeth i #i am prepared to battle anyone who says a bad word about my girl #and i'm not entirely joking here #death warrant #my art on my main blog #art

[laalaaangel]

Six the Kids alicorns based on @arty-e s designs.

#fanart #six the musical #six the musical fanart #six #sixfanarts #arty e #mlp #my little pony #elizabeth i #mary i #lady jane grey #mezza queen of scots #mary queen of scots #alicorn #alicorns #six the kids #six the kids fanart

[alicebldr]

The Six Kids AU John Knox and George Wishart

Continued about John Knox, but also added about George Wishart and their relationship.

16. John has an older businessman brother, William, with whom he has good fraternal relationships.

17. In the modern world, John survived his first wife (reincarnation of Marjorie Bowes), and years later married George Wishart, a longtime friend and true love of his life.

18. Raises two sons and three daughters in severity and love.

19. John, before starting his career as a singer, planned to become a pastor, but when he saw the Queen clip (Freddie Mercury died 2 years later), he changed his mind.

20. George Wishart at my intrapretation, this is a mixture of Asirafel (appearance, character) and Martin Wheatley from the Prodigal son (sharp tongue and jokes).

21. Arriving on a visit, John constantly brings gifts to "children".

22. George despises parents who use their children to indulge their greed.

23. George is a professor of philosophy at the university.

24. John hates when people cry, and barely endured the tears of children.

25. John knows how to fence (he was George's bodyguard with a sword)

26. It was the first kiss of George and John that returned Knox the memory of a past life.

27. George was born with his memories and he had nightmares from them.

28. Despite the fear and dislike of John, Six and Six Kids love (the Protestant part) and admire (the Catholic part) George and call him the "Archangel."

29. In a past life, it was after George’s death that John became a fierce radical and a hater of Catholicism.

30. John and George are bisexual, with George being a pan-sexual, and John an asexual.

#six the kids #six the musical #six #six broadway #elizabeth tudor #edward tudor #mary sturat #mary queen of scots #mary tudor #mary i #bloody mary #elizabeth i of england #edward vi #jane grey #john knox #George Wishart #arty e #LGBT #good omens #aziraphale #aziraphel #aziraley #prodigal son #martin whitly

[inamindfarfaraway]

Lady Jane Grey’s song that I wrote for @arty-e’s SIX: The Kids. I was struggling with Jane’s characterization because I didn’t want to her to be too similar to Edward. While researching her I was struck by how, despite her brief time on Earth and lack of any tangible historical impact, there have been a great number of adaptations of her life and more importantly her death. She’s been heavily idealized as the model Tudor young woman and a Protestant martyr (often vilifying Mary in the process - one telling even inaccurately claimed Jane was pregnant when she died to invoke more sympathy for her and hatred for Mary). So I decided to make awareness a big part of her character: of herself, the modern audience’s expectations, the rest of the discourse around her and that she’s presently adding to and interacting with it, and likewise for all the other monarchs. This aligns with her praised intelligence and learnedness. Her song’s simple indicative title reflects this self-awareness of people’s persistent fascination with her, well, tragedy, and her resigned, blunt, matter-of-fact ‘This might as well happen’/‘It happened, nothing more to say’ past and present attitude to her pain. It’s also a warning to digital listeners that bad feelings lie ahead.

In my rough daydreams of the rest of the SIX: The Kids play, I like the idea that the competition of suffering is completely genuine. The family’s relationships really are that unhealthy. Realizing how messed up they are due to being Tudor royalty and working to be better is the resolution. The final song describes the ways they’ll make the most of their new lives as ordinary people not torn apart by politics and religion. They can even address the original musical’s twist when they’re coming to their senses, like one of the siblings saying, shaking their head ruefully, “Oh, you poor things, did you think we faked the competition to prove a point? No, no, no. We killed loads of people in the name of a God who literally set in stone that we shouldn’t kill people. We aren’t nearly self-aware enough for that.” But Jane didn’t. And so after mostly playing a passive and understanding, albeit sharply witty, observer, Jane is the one to snap the others out of it when they’re imploding and even Elizabeth is lost in emotion. She explains practically like a professional psychologist how the social pressures they each grew up suffocated by taught them that all of life was a competition for conditional worth, and so they thought comparing their trauma live on stage was a good idea; hopefully blindsiding the audience with her importance to the plot!

The role of the ensemble in the opening and choruses represents all the historians and creators that have discussed and depicted her. Saying her parents ‘make her life a living hell’ is a reference to the real Jane saying that “when I am in the presence either of father or mother… I think myself in hell”. Tudor England was not child friendly.

Edward’s VI’s song.

Mary I’s song.

Elizabeth I’s song.

Intro song ideas.

#lady jane grey #six the kids #six: the kids #six the musical #six: the musical #lady jane grey needs a hug #she needs it bad #jane grey

[deathsaknockingonmydoor]

I am literally obsessed with these.

#six the musical #six the kids #the best literally #Arty E #animatics

[drop-the-curtain-123]

@arty-e, seeing the notification:

So here’s another fanart of @arty-e​ amazing SIX:the kids designs! I really loved drawing Edward so differently from my own design! This one seems so much younger/child-like and it was very pleasing to do!

#arty-e ily mate #six the musical #six:the kids #six musical art #six the musical ed #six the musical edward #not my design really it's a fanart of a fandesign #Edward VI #i'm very scared of being yelled at by the ppl in the historical tag #Edward VI six the musical #Acohol markers #Ohuhu markers #Faber Castell fineliner 0.5 #drawing #art #six kids