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Daniel Arthur aka Daniel Arthury (Brazilian, b. Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil, based Loures, Portugal) - Where's my Breakfast?, Paintings: Oil on Panel

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Here's a fun little detail about "This is what it sounds like". Mira and Zoey start in their "Golden" outfits, as they've had no time or reason to change since all that went down. It's a bit militaristic, spikes, fringes, and the main fabric seems to black sequins.

We get a closer look at the sequins during the start of the fight, when the girls are all coming together along the three stages.

And then the three girls hug, which recreates the Honmoon and rebuilds their magical alliance, and to signify that, Mira's and Zoey's outfits turn white, showing that they've been sanctified. So far, so good.

But crucially, the white outfits don't have sequins anymore. They have something else:

Patterns.

It's subtle and easy to miss, but the post-reunification outfits of Zoey and Mira are both smooth, but feature some subtle pattern work. Zoeys are a bit more playful, Mira's a bit more angular, both unique to them and their styles. But crucially, they match the demonic patterns on Rumi's skin.

The outfits are telling us that not only have the three reunited, not only have they forgiven each other, they're telling us that these girls are a unit. If one of them has patterns, they all will wear patterns, and be proud of it. They're 100% on Rumi's side.

Of course this is also what the text of the movie is literally saying anyway, it's not exactly subtle, but it's great to see it reinforced in subtle ways like this. I'm sure many people noticed it right away, but it took me several watches of the movie and the promotional Youtube videos to notice it.

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Did you know that JRR Tolkien wrote an unpublished epilogue to Lord of the Rings? It's achingly, beautifully wistful in the way that only Lord of the Rings is. I revisited it recently because I'm guesting on my friends' LOTR podcast, and THAT reminded me that I drew a comic of the epilogue back in 2021 (all text is entirely canon). Anyway I thought folks on this website might enjoy it!

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Some people might think I’m an optimist but I’m not. I’m a realist that’s going to try to increase the good things in this world if it kills me.

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A character not hiding an injury, or even intentionally downplaying it, but just being so matter-of-fact and blasé about the wound or injury that their companions are still shocked when they realise the severity of it and dismayed to suddenly recalibrate exactly what the injured character considers to be a routine, unremarkable sort of injury.

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i can change! / digital collage

all images sourced from wikipedia commons

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mrrrrrrry and pipipipin sorry I love them too much

little sketch

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what if we were a demon boy band and we all ran like goofy guys? haha jk...unless? 🤔

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i'm not aro but i find it so annoying whenever i see a well-written, tight-knit friendship & people immediately jump to "they're dating/poly/qpr" like NO. they are FRIENDS. are we familiar with that concept? and it's getting to the point where i am genuinely afraid to write complex friendships because i don't want people to be like "oh this relationship is Too Meaningful to just be platonic" like no??? it's meaningful because it's platonic. ugh

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Ssshh. They're gossiping.

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they are best friends

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anyone remember this vine

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Researching, published in 1940. History repeating itself is fascinating and eerie.

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My god, aren’t you tired