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Woops forgot to post this here (･ิω･ิ)ノ

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First prize: Two winners will receive a bust pencil drawing of their MC (must have a ref) and Arcana or WTNC character of their choice, or drawing of their two favorite characters.

Second prize: Two winners will receive a bust pencil drawing of their MC or favorite character from The Arcana/ WTNC.

Reblogs only. Must be following me.

Ends Sept 4th

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i’ve been thinking about this role swap au for a while but since idk how to write have uhhhhhhhh some random designs 

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When MC woke up

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ooo this would be cool if you’re still doing them!

! drawing apprentices for fun leave a comment

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this ,,,,

and plus muriel is Buff so i think 5’0 babies would look even smaller 🤥 👉👈

ok i know a lot of us are just. all shorter than muri

but some of us (me) are just blown away by how small we are compared side by side. im 5' even. hes nearly 2 whole ass feet taller than i am

do you see this prime bullshit. i barely reach the mans tiddy, im so gotdamn compact

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Based off of this post by @incorrectarcanaquotes Please do not re-post my artwork! Find me on: Twitter | Instagram

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@thearcanagame Just let them be friends pls there is not enough Muriel/Julian content on this planet I’m dyin plzzz

Bonus:

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i redrew an old piece from a year ago!

first is new, second is old owo

both of these characters are in my game over on @swd-games

the taller of the two is Derrik! and the smol boye is Oliver

theyre besties or,,, something like that?

i hope you lIKE my babies

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everybody say “thank you asra”

based on this post

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You thought I missed dem tiddies, didn’t you

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the arcana + masculinity

i just need to take a second for myself to fully appreciate how the Arcana boys’ masculinity works, because it makes me feel things

fair warning, as a trans man, I don’t have a lot of patience for people explaining masculinity to me, so interact with discretion

It keeps hitting me in little bursts how much loud, proud, and positive masculinity is in this game, from characters of all genders, but the boys especially never fail to get me with how non-toxic their masculinity (and gender expression in general) is. 

Keep reading

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Muriel’s trauma as seen in the new chapter

I’ve finally processed and I wanna talk for a little second about the way Muriel’s trauma is being represented in his route so far. 

The first thing I wanted to talk about was this:

The circumstances of his leaving. I’d never really thought about the exact circumstances of his leaving the arena; I think I’d just assumed that he left after Lucio died and made his deal to keep his privacy.

Clearly, he only made his deal because if he didn’t he literally would have been dragged back to the arena, back to being forced to kill people over and over for the rest of his life. He had Inanna to look after now, and he needed everyone to forget him to keep his, and her freedom.

He calls it a “gift”, a “blessing” because it gave him his life back. It let him escape the man holding him as a slave. He keeps telling himself “It’s a gift, it’s good no one can remember me, I don’t want to be remembered” because it’s the only way he could see himself surviving. He wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth, and anything, anything was better than going back. Even if he wanted to he wasn’t sure he could reverse it, and why would he want to when everyone who could remember him would just think he’s a monster?

Which brings me to the other thing I wanted to talk about. 

His shackles, and the circumstances of them coming off. This was something I saw quite a few people being confused about, and here’s what I love so fucking much about what happened.

There is a lot of discussion in the arcana of self-perpetuating curses. For every love interest, their own flaws are what hold them back the most. They are trapped in a cage of their own making and all of them need assistance to get out of it and grow as people. 

I think of Howl’s moving castle (which the game references so, so many times), when Sophie goes looking for Howl in the middle of the night and finds him at his worst. He tells her “You can’t ever break your own curse,” before flying away and leaving her in the dark. 

This is what the arcana tells us. None of the main characters can break their own “curse”. They all need some sort of help to get through their issues. When the devs said Muriel couldn’t get the shackles off by himself, they didn’t mean he physically couldn’t. He wouldn’t. He kept his shackles as a reminder of his time in the arena, but as much as it was a hindrance, it was also his protection.

You can’t ever break your own curse, and you can’t break your own spell either. We know Muriel is good at protection magic. He’s so concerned constantly with protecting the things that matter to him, and in protecting himself. 

He kept his chains to remind himself of his trauma, but as much as it was his way of punishing himself, it was his way of excusing his isolation. To put walls up and close himself off from everyone else.  It’s an excuse not to get hurt. It’s the reason he cites for being alone constantly, because it’s just better that way. 

“I can’t let anyone in, I have to be alone because I’m a monster. I deserve this. They’ll just forget me anyway, and regardless being alone is a blessing. I can live, I can be free.”

At some point, his magic became subconsciously interwoven with his shackles. He relied and dependent so heavily on using his trauma to shape his life and identity that it became second nature, reinforced by magic. 

MC helps him break his self-perpetuating curse. As he said, they showed him that he could expect more from himself, that more could be expected from him, and that his past didn’t define him. He watched this person pull down his walls and accept him fully for who he was, and the second they kissed him he felt safe, loved, he felt for the first time in his life that there could be a future for him. In that moment, his spell broke. The chains came unbound from him. MC helped him break his own curse, and now he’s free. Properly free. 

Sure, things will be hard, recovery is a process, and he’ll never really forget what happened to him. But it’s a start. He doesn’t have to protect himself anymore, because he knows you’ll protect each other.

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HALOU I LIVE and i wanted to do a giveaway god knows how much followers ago. I can’t actually believe I just…reached a 1000+ people, who like, reblog and generally find something of interest on my blog.

FIRST AND FOREMOST THANK YOU ALL! The support is the only vital thing in these trying times. So here’s a raffle to celebrate that and just you know, give out art~ 

So rules:

Reblog to enter. Likes do not count this time.

Must be following me! New followers are welcome.

No giveaway blogs.

Winners will be randomly generated. Please reply within 48 hours if you’ve won, or I’ll give the prize to someone else.

Ends on August 9th (Friday), 10 PM, GMT+03

First prize: a tarotesque illustration of you OC or any other character of choice, halfbody.

Second prize (for the lack of other raffle at 500+ followers): a charm/sticker design either of sping wedding thing (if you come from the arcana) or any other similar design, really. A flat colored fullbody.

If you have any questions, feel free to dm me!

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𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟮𝟮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝗂 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗄 𝗂 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗆𝖺𝗄𝖾 𝗁𝗂𝗆 𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗂𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾

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MURIEL’S UPDATE HAD ME FEELING 50 EMOTIONS AT ONCE AND GAHHH I LOVE HIM SO MUCH 💓💗💖💘💝💝💞💓💗💗💖💖💘💕💕

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mini arcana twt dump

this game’s taken over my every waking thought atm