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Actually I never really do much story or OC talking here so I'm just gonna shove some stuff on here. Very much just copied and pasted from a larger thing I wrote that had more context, which I'm too bored to paste ALL of bc I'd have to make sure everything's clarified.

Lucien is plotting his revenge, his entire life has become about revenge because he knows once he starts picking off his enemies, they'll realize something's wrong and start going into hiding, so he has to take them out quickly, one after another, and so has been planning for years and years. And then one day, Yuki is on an errand for some of the older nuns and happens to see Lucien in the street as she's walking by, and she recognizes him and she questions if she's seeing a ghost, because how could she forget Lucien's face, but also how could he possibly be alive? She's caught between two overpowering emotions: fear and longing. She has been alone for so long and missed all her friends so much and thinking about reuniting with Lucien after all this time, she knows immediately that it's all she would want. But she's also afraid, that she's going crazy, that she's actually seen a ghost and she's being haunted, that she's going to have to live on with all her pain forever, even after trying to run away from it, or even in the best case scenario, she somehow DID mistake a total stranger for Lucien and then she'd have to accept that Lucien is just gone, again, all over again.

No. She steps towards him. If there's anything that her time as a nun has given her, it's stronger faith and courage. She has no reason to be afraid. She knows now that she can overcome her pain. "Lucien." She says his name confidently knowing it is him. He turns and his eyes widen when he realizes who is there. Unlike Yuki, he hasn't spent all these years strengthening his faith and courage. If anything, his faith in others has only ever weakened. And he IS terrified to be confronted by Yuki of all people. There was a time in his life when he sought redemption, and of everyone, Yuki was the one who forgave him the most. She was the kindest soul he ever met but knowing again how he had swerved off the "path of righteousness", he did not dare look into her eyes for fear that she would no longer be able to forgive him. One day, I will go too far and you will no longer be able to forgive me, but I do not want to be there when it happens. "Are you really here? Are you really still alive?" Yuki asked. Lucien's eyes remained turned towards the ground and he simply shook his head. "It is better if you know nothing," he said. But Yuki firmly replied, "No. If the truth brings me pain, so be it." Thinking about what life must have been like for the others all these years, Lucien could only mutter, "I'm sorry." Tears welled up in his eyes as he continued, "I missed you. I'm sorry." And the tears kept coming, for with each apology he uttered, he saw the same glow in Yuki's eyes that came with, "I forgive you."

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I cannot believe these are the same characters

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I also really need to draw Constance and Lorenz together again since they actually have supports in Three Hopes now (and due to who the two characters remind me of, I WILL create a timeline where they're married)

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I have so many AU ideas

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they got me going

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I haven't been drawing much lately.... that I've been happy with anyway. So some of this is much older and some of it recent, and they're all drawings I like in one way or another

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I never give enough time to shizuairi but after everything that happened with this tier, I have to rest. sobs

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what I've learned is that it's really great to take a bunch of characters from a piece of media, force them into a sekai together, and have hatsune miku tell them they have to start a band

I'm so exhausted from the past three days of nonstop drawing this comic which will end up being 150 panels long, which is a crossover between two games, and also prominently features my self-insert. Why did I do this

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I'm so exhausted from the past three days of nonstop drawing this comic which will end up being 150 panels long, which is a crossover between two games, and also prominently features my self-insert. Why did I do this

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October 28, 2022, 7:11 P.M.

For whatever reason I enjoy thinking about Diana Wynne Jones' writing as a whole and picking out unexpected or resonant trends. For example, some things that comes up often is:

She'll fabricate a world (right down to its cosmology), fill it with memorable characters, set one or two short novels in it... and then never touch it again. On to the next one. Rinse and repeat for her entire career.

The concept of multiple/parallel universes appear half a dozen times in different novels/sequences, but always in completely different ways. The multiple worlds of Chrestomanci function very, very differently from the multiple worlds of The Homeward Bounders, which themselves function so different from the Ayewards/Naywards of Deep Secret, or the walls between the worlds in Dark Lord of Derkholm. More importantly, all these approaches to multiverse explicitly contradict each other. There is no larger DWJ multiverse; there is no way to coherently combine any of them, much less all of them. I love her for this. Every book is its own project. Franchising be damned.

With one exception (which is the Dalemark quartet, oddly enough), none of these worlds are sealed-off secondary worlds. Our own Earth appears in all of them, though usually from the 'wrong' end of the telescope. Meaning, it's stuff like reading Charmed Life and assuming you're reading a magical secondary world fantasy for most of the book... up until the point when Janet is pulled into the story due to Gwendolyn's spell. The reader instantly understands that Janet is from our own world, from the 1970s when the book was written. She never makes it home, either. She never sees her parents again. She's a supporting character who becomes permanently stuck in the world of Chrestomanci, as a casualty of Gwendolyn's spells.

It is interesting, though, how there are almost no sealed-off secondary worlds in DWJ's oeuvre.

There are lots of neat things to say about how DWJ did this, and why she'd do it, and the implications in the storytelling. But tonight I'm thinking mostly about how it can be a moment, narratively, that makes you halt and have to recontextualize all these things you thought you knew (or were assuming) about the nature of the story.

In Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Urras is obviously the metaphorical capitalistic stand-in planet for our own Earth... up until a moment right near the end, where we realize our own Earth exists in this novel too and is an ecological wasteland due to unchecked climate change.

Urras may be the distorted-mirror, uber-capitalist version of our own world. But it's also a planet with a functional ecosystem. It's a planet where society is careful about maintaining that ecosystem. We're not going to be Urras, says Le Guin. We'll be lucky if we become Urras. To become Urras means we wised up in time to not go extinct.

And suddenly, little subtle moments in the worldbuilding around both Anarres and Urras—their shared attention to their own ecology—come into a different light. All because our own, devastated Earth turns out to be present in the novel too.

And in Howl's Moving Castle, Howl is a magician who fits into the fairy tale landscape of Ingary as naturally as anyone else—until the chapter when he has to go home to retrieve a lost spell, and you realize home is in another world, aka home is our world, aka Howl is fucking Welsh and found his way into Ingary by pure accident. And Ben Sullivan, Ingary's missing royal magician, is no native of Ingary either.

To Sophie, it just means that both magicians travelled to Ingary from the same enigmatic foreign land, which is as strange to her as any spell.

To us readers, it means "oh my god he's Welsh too? Just how much is Wales secretly connected to Ingary? Next thing you'll tell me Ben Sullivan's a rugby player as well—"

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I FORGOT THIS WAS THE FIRST INTERACTION I EVER DREW FOR THEM

I spent all day thinking about angst with these two so I was forcibly reminded of how much I've drawn them (also that I have a partially complete video of them set to Romeo and Cinderella)

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I spent all day thinking about angst with these two so I was forcibly reminded of how much I've drawn them (also that I have a partially complete video of them set to Romeo and Cinderella)

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2 years and 11 months since I last finished a scene in my comic, I finally finished a new scene. Yikes.

I really like the first page of the scene (probably like it more than the rest of scene tbh)

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so I was drawing silly cats and then realized it had the same vibe as my aristocrat shizuku/phantom thief mizuki AU

My brief summary of the AU is just: Mafuyu and Rui work for Shizuku but Rui is helping Mizuki to pull off a heist because she sends a calling card to Shizuku that says "I'm going to steal the most valuable thing in your home" BUT what Mizuki actually plans to steal is Shizuku's heart and Rui is basically just being a third wheel constantly for everyone

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Finished that first playthrough finally. Why is Shez and Byleth's dynamic just so perfect

Their only topics of conversation