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Hello, could I request Prompt #23 with Krexie (Tales of Arcadia)

Thank you

023 cold feet warming each other up under the blanket

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16 Douxie and Archie? (platonic)

016 a tender hug, just staying together for a while

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Since it's Douxie's birthday (and since I don't really post my art here given the nature of my works *ehem*) have a compilation of my fanart of everyone's favorite emo wizard boi~

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Arcadiatober Canon Prompt 3:

Wizard

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rewatched the entirety of tales of arcadia, 3 series and .... the movie..

and and i came across and idea somewhere i forgot where, of combining the httyd + Tao universes!

to be clear, i don't mean in a crossover where to franchises meet but the lore being combined into one universe ahah, so events in httyd still happened then idk years and years later toothless the king of dragons is still alive but ancient and has met the champion of arcadia, the trollhunter Jim!

It's been well, so long since his dragons have interacted with humans, so it was quite surprising to see one enter his secret home,

don't have much story or lore in it yet, it is just a fun thought for now, having toothless meet new ppl that remind him of his old friends

sometimes they resemble them a lil too much..

did i mention he talks here now? I dubious choice but idk, i think it would be fun

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・FUZZBUCKETS!・

The second of my two pieces for @demonunderpressure's Tales of Arcadia Zine!

I wanted to do a Scott Pilgrim parody with our favorite rocking Brit! I really love how this one turned out!

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Dark and evil, leather wearing, fuck you up, unhinged wizard boy

With long hair!

This is really a Douxie hair show case than anything else

But now my unhinged writing brain wants to start this fic... even though I have so many others uuggghhhh

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This is my style on the tablet 😍✨🪄

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I made and drew an au for Douxie after I saw Across the Spiderverse last year. I remember calling him Spider-Skull since Spider Punk was already taken 😂

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Guess who's back in tumblr! RAAAGHHHHH

I am so out of my mind during mid-terms bc of research, and hopefully I don't get art block during douxie brainrot. (Def posting the final for his birthday, yaay)

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Prompt: Magic

The most responsible and valid use of magic, if you ask me. Douxie's really onto somethin here. I literally had the most boring interpretations on these prompts I'm so sorry 😭😭

This is the last prompt I'll be doing for Arcadiatober cause commissions came up and they chewed up my art time. Wasn't really planning to complete the full prompt list anyway, so it's all good. What matters is that I did some of them lol

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Who's the best Kaiju and why's it Mothra?

To me, the best and greatest monster will always be Godzilla.  However, Mothra is a pretty close second.

Mothra is unique among Toho’s menagerie of monster for two reasons.

1) She was the first explicitly female monster in the Toho series.  Before Mothra, all the monsters were either not referred to with a gender or assumed to be males of their given species.   It wouldn’t be until 28 years after Mothra’s 1961 debut that Toho would have another female monster in the form of Biollante.

2) She is more of a mystical creature than the other Toho Monsters.  While Godzilla and his ilk are generally considered to be prehistoric creatures awakened and mutated by nuclear testing or creatures from space come to ravage the Earth, Mothra is different.  

Yes, Infant Island was irradiated by nuclear testing but as shown in 1961′s Mothra and even more explicitly in 1984′s Godzilla vs. Mothra, that nuclear devastation was pretty well confined to the coastline while the interior was left relatively untouched.  To me, this means that Mothra was protecting her island and the people who worship her.

Yes, she has worshipers.  Lots of them.

Chief among them are, what we would assume to be her high priestesses.  The Shobijin (or in later iterations the Elias, Cosmos or just the Fairies).  These diminutive twins serve as her handmaidens and translators, speaking her will to others.  

Somehow, this is also a familial position as in 2003′s Godzilla X Mothra X Mechagodzilla: Tokyo SOS there are new Shobijin who have inherited the role of the 1961 originals.

How this is possible is unexplained.  Perhaps every now and then, tiny twins are born to regular Mothers under the influence of the will of Mothra.  It’s a continuous cycle, as is Mothra herself.

Mothra seems to be locked in a cycle of perpetual death and rebirth, like some kind of Phoenix.  The old Mothra lays an egg, sacrifices herself to protect her people/the world and a new Mothra is born.  We see this over and over again in films like Mothra vs. Godzilla, Tokyo SOS and the Heisei Mothra trilogy.

Also part of that trilogy of films is the revelation that versions of Mothra have existed since before the rise of man, at least as far back as the Cretaceous Period.  This further proves that she isn’t a radioactive mutant bug but something far older and more intimately linked to the Earth itself.

And then there are her powers.  In addition to her physical abilities such as firing silk, creating gale force winds and being generally gigantic Mothra also has healing powers.  We see them used a few times, most notably in the Mothra trilogy when she renews the natural world damaged by the resurrection of Death Ghidora.  This makes Mothra a kind of Elder Goddess of Rebirth and Renewal, a balancing force to creatures like Godzilla or a counter to truly evil forces like King Ghidorah who are all about Destruction.

She’s like the perfect compliment to the King of the Monsters.

No matter the continuity, the movie or the creators Mothra always stands apart from the other monsters as something more benign, something protective and divine with a air of mysticism and magic about her that a world ravaged by the unintended consequences of science and progress pursued without conscience desperately needs.

Thanks for the Question!

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Godzilla vs Mothra Concept Art

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Mothra Concept Art from Godzilla Final Wars by Shinji Nishikawa

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Mothra Concept Art for “Mothra vs Bagan”