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[Greek-Italian accent 🤌🤌🤌🤌 INTENSIFIES]

Zani fanart I made a while ago

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Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to some of your favorite mutuals 💌

I was tagged by @sideadde, thank you so much!! Sid tagged me on my personal blog but I'll just go ahead post this here since it's a music post - this blog has been pretty dead too as I mentioned on my previous post, so this is a good way of posting SOMETHING here, at least. SO, I dont have a favorite-FAVORITE playlist, so I'll just use this opportunity to activate my Brazilian music playlist - accurately named "Tropical Gothic" bc our music is very fun and lively but also a lot of them is more melancholic than y'all from outside might think kkkkkk

Let's do this!

Milton Nascimento - Peixinhos do Mar ("Little Fishes in the Sea")

Starting strong! The song seems to be an adaptation from folk music and it shows - he says "Who taught me how to swim / It was, oh sailor, it was the little fishes in the sea", which is very whimsical. Then, it goes on and it also mentions how Portuguese came from overseas to Brazil, "bringing gunpowder, lead and bullets, we want to fight wars". You see what they did here, lol

2. Zé Ramalho ft Belchior - Garoto de Aluguel ("Rentboy")

This one is a huge favorite of mine djkfhdjhgf It goes HARD on the tango, accordion and all, it's just SO good. Zé Ramalho and Belchior (and Milton from the previous track) are like... legends, they are incredibly important figures to the brazilian music history, especially Milton and Belchior, really. I highly recommend going for their stuff if you're interested in more MPB ("Brazilian Popular Music" in Eng)! The song itself, it's literally what it says on the tin lol. It's about this prostitute guy and how he goes on with his life. This one might or might not be in my OC Cassie's playlist kdjfhkdf

3. Nana Caymmi - Flor da Noite ("Night Flower")

Jfc, this one. So atmospheric, and Nana's voice is very deep and smooth. And the fucking strings in this arrangement???? Iconic and gorgeous AF. It talks about someone reminiscing far into the night about past events, especially about a love that ended long ago. She keeps saying that if the person she loves meets someone else, than her former lover shouldn't talk to this new person about the past, and what's gone. It's such a beautiful song ahhh <3 3. Casa de Caba - Cílio ("Eyelash")

Oh dang, it's another Brazilian Sea Shanty time! Or at least, that's how I see this one, with all the instruments they use and the vibes. He starts mentioning a bunch of imagery to tell us the character singing is tough and is here to fuck with people in ways they WILL dislike, lol, such as "I'm the eyelash falling in your eye, an eye that cannot see", "An ugly, poorly-made ceramic pot that never breaks"; at the same time he's also "the word that guides you, the caress that comforts you, the delivery food you order and always arrives quickly", haha. Then the chorus, he's pleading: "Janaína, Janaína, Mother of my February, take me back, to the seashore" - Janaína is another name for Iemanjá, or Yemoja, the mother of seas and deity of oceans in many afro-brazilian religions, who came from the Yoruba culture. He mentions February there in the lyrics because Iemanjá is celebrated here on Feb 2nd! :)

5. Margareth Menezes - Faraó ("Pharaoh")

OH GOD YESSS! Probably the most creative track in here - the music genre is called "Axé" and very based on African / Afro-Brazilian instruments as you'll hear. Here, POWERHOUSE DIVA Margareth Menezes will fucking give you a fast course on literal Egyptian Mythology/History ("The ascension, not even Osiris knew how that happened /The order or submission of His Eye was transformed into true humanity"; "The Epic of Geb's Code, and Nut who gave birth to the stars"; "Osíris asked Isis in marriage / And the evil Seth, full of wrath, assassinated him"); then, she uses that as a way of saying we should look at our African roots in awe and joy, and how the black people is still fighting to this day for basic respect and equality, even originating from the land of legendary kings and queens and golden gods. It's SUCH a powerful song, and it's catchy af. Depending where you are, if you just scream "EU FALEI: FARAÓ!" (I said: Pharaoh!), people WILL answer to you with EEEEE, FARAÓ back lol that's how fucking iconic this one is and I love it so much

Hope you like the songs on this one! <3 Tagging @dravenxivuk @feykiller !

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I will reevaluate some of my more complex commission options. Realized that full painterly, more complex commissions in general makes me anxious as hell (with some exceptions like for friends/recurrent clients, but even then it still makes me super anxious)

It makes my executive dysfunction go crazy. I keep postponing it bc I'm afraid it won't be "good enough" and it has to be perfect cause the client is paying a lot and you see how this escalates so fast Imao it doesn't matter that this scenario rarely happened, it still makes me so nervous

I have some ideas, like stopping offering full colors altogether maybe, and offering flats at a lower price but in a "skeb/no revisions" situation. We will see.

(I'm also having trouble in general to make art that's more painterly and super elaborated in general, even to myself, I have several unfinished personal art and fanart wips like that kkkkkkkk)

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Heitor Villa-Lobos, Choros n10 part II - "Rasga Coração" ("Tear Open the Heart") I've been sharing it all over bc I'm so obsessed lately 💛 Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian maestro and composer who mixed lots of BR folk and indigenous influence into classical music. Correct me if im wrong but as far as I know, this was "frowned upon" by other classical musicians at the time bc he was breaking a lot of conventions and mixing in BR / Latin American sounds with orchestra. You go my guy lmao This was written in 1926!!! Sounds epic AF and it's stuff we're seeing in modern videogames OSTs (Genshin Impact and Civilization for ex)

And the lyrics y'all.... 💛💛💛

*screams from the rooftops* bro I love Villa-Lobos so much!!!!

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good lords, my commissions queue atm is a mess and I sincerely apologize!! I have the most understanding commissioners, thanks a lot for your patience guys! 😭

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Everytime genshin drops some more lore about Visions, there's always a slew of "wait... are Visions Bad™️?" and each time I realize that people, in between all the blabber about how Inazuma/Raiden was soooo poorly written, didn't pay attention to a single line of dialogue cuz Ei— at the climax of the whole archon quest —asked Miko if Visions were worth the "price" paid for them...

On the on hand, I know that plot point hasn't been mentioned much since, but the fanbase keeps acting like it's brand new information and acting as if Raiden hasn't been near-explicitly telling us that Visions come with a cost and it was part of her reasoning to let the Shogun puppet do the VHD, and the "cost" is probably related to the HP's wrath that she was so afraid of

What can I say, other than agree with you sdkjfhsdkjfh Anything related to her lore is either completely dismissed or ignored, it's kind of impressive if it wasnt so annoying most of the time

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Im having immense trouble to draw anything more than a 5yo-like doodle or anything past the rough sketching phase, so please bear with me with commissions and the lack of new art - thank you guys in advance for your patience and understanding!! 💛

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“In the moon's pale light, you looked at me […] Beautiful and haunting, but cold Like the blade of a knife - so sharp, so sweet Nobody knows your heart”

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*sighs* cant believe Im reinforcing this but I really think ppl need to hear it after a video I just watched: you are not "old AF" at age 23 lmao

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Portfolio Day post!

I'm Oriel, a nonbinary illustrator from Brazil, currently working with commissions 💛✨

I love drawing characters, fantasy themes and lgbtq+ OCs (mine and other people's)!

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The updated Commission Sheet is here!

I'm a digital illustratior an concept artist, and I'm currently available for studio work and freelance commissions!

I have also begun taking commissions via VGen!

For more information, TOS or booking a commission, please contact: ascoresdaluaarte@gmail.com

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“In the moon's pale light, you looked at me […] Beautiful and haunting, but cold Like the blade of a knife - so sharp, so sweet Nobody knows your heart”

commission info | patreon | Ko-fi |VGen | bluesky

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[Greek-Italian accent 🤌🤌🤌🤌 INTENSIFIES]

Zani fanart I made a while ago

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Claire Obscure "Lumière" theme really be 2025 summer hit bop fr

that mf is so fucking catchy and pretty, I'm singing and humming to it all the time 💛🥖🎨

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Kofi commission of Atreus and little Calliope once again for @arleniansdoodles!! Drawing siblings being adorable is such a blast everytime, thank you so much, Arlenian!! 💛💛💛

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I commissioned @celticbotanart of my wolnpc ship / yumeship and got it back today and 🥺🥺 guys do you think ym wife likes me.....I think .yes

Please check out their art and vgen!

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Lil studies featuring these two yuri icons (Souda-sensei and Yakumo from #RevueStarlight the Live 2)

(Yakumo is a major kickass antagonist during the whole thing, fighting doing literal somersaults around the stage, and in the end she's this pathetic little puppy lmao, what's not to love 🦒💛)

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