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I haven't drawn in a hot minute, but here is Kusuriuri (again.)

Art under the cut :)

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mmm.... moths....

refs under the cut

all the moths from the drawing are from here except the bottom left one, that guy is chinese moon moth

the plants in the background are different amaranth flowers

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100% believe that Ri Kusu looks as pretty as Kon Kusu under his face markings but the one time we saw him without them he was having the worst day of his life, and I defy anyone to come out looking their best after that.

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a familiar face

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I have drawn fanart for Mononoke before but, haven't really posted anything before since it's more on the challenging side to draw Kusuriuri/ Medicine seller.

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Sufjan Stevens - (This Is) The Thing

From Beginner's Mind

I love my tragic orange LMAO

Read from left to right!

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fontaine quest gave us crumbs so i gotta draw it myself smh

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“This sanctuary, is but a vision…”

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To that one reblogger who said welcome back and thanked me for the Childe food

May you have a good day, I bring more food

(the Childe brainrot is so real)

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these are all said to him one after the other

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So apparently some people new to Tumblr think a repost and a reblog are the same thing, so when they see creators asking for people to not repost, they're thinking the creators are saying to not reblog 😭

Y'all, a repost is when you copy/download the work and create a new post using the work making it seem as if it's yours. A reblog is you using a site provided feature to share the creator's post directly from the creator so that it's still credited to them and they still get all of the traction/notes from the work.

Please, reblog fics/art/etc. that you enjoy! Reblogging is not reposting! Creatives need support too, and reblogging is a way to do that!

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Some of my quick sketches from a Mononoke themed life drawing session I did recently (:

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due to an incident while investigating a ley line, our past selves have appeared..?!

part 1-4 of ?, short comic series about kabukimono + ajax meeting childe + scara

i have a general storyline in mind but nothing set in stone for specific scenes, please comment stuff you think would be fun to see these four doing🕺🕺

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Can't keep up, comrade?

Artblock hit me like a train for months but I'm back baby

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Apropos of recent discussion around whether or not the Medicine Seller fucks, I do see him as very much a sexual being, and I think that part of his nature is significant. I think he embodies sexuality as a primal, generative unity of masculine and feminine, in keeping with the philosophy of yin and yang. He represents sexuality as something sacred - hence maybe the paradoxical impression that he's both highly sexual and also untouchable.

I also think his sexuality relates to the mind-body connection, which is important in Eastern medicine: the idea that the relationship with the body is connected to the relationship with the mind. (This relationship is why physical grounding, usually through focus on the breath, is important in meditation practice: it's as much about reconnecting with the body as it is about reconnecting with the mind.)

The Medicine Seller's work is with the mind, but in Mononoke the body is also a central theme. Especially important in every arc is the way women's bodies are treated. Mononoke explores a world where women's bodies are abused and exploited and their wishes and desires are denied. Their negative experiences of sexuality and with their own bodies are what create all of the mononoke - manifestations of their mental and emotional pain. The zashiki warashi are created by their mothers' pain; the umi bozu is created by Genkei's denial of Oyo; the nopperabou is created by the repression of Ochou's desires; the nue is created from the body of a woman men treated as an object; and both bakeneko arise from extreme violence done to Tamaki and to Setsuko.

Especially for women, I think the Medicine Seller's influence facilitates a healing of their connection to the body and to sexuality. He presents a concept of sexuality that women can experience as positive and that's as much about their desires as it is about men's, and he also presents an image of the feminine as something beautiful and deserving of respect. His presence becomes a grounding force that draws injured women back into contact with their physical experiences along with their mental ones - allowing them to heal their relationships with their bodies by confronting their physical trauma at the same time as it allows them to heal their relationships with their minds by confronting their mental trauma. Both are needed for complete healing, or for exorcism of the mononoke, since they're equally significant aspects of the Form, Truth, and Regret.

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Oh my, here we go.

"Perhaps this is his Samsara."

From my latest Mononoke fanfic on AO3, His Samsara.

Four? Five? Words. Let's see... i don't have many mutuals that I know are writers sobbing.

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RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

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sorry for tagging some of u when we dont talk, i had a 16 word sentence lol.

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