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all of your art is gorgeous but i looove how u draw the women of KCD. im gonna be feasting this week, thank u!!!

Ahh thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰 And enjoy!!

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#(also is the bottom left figure a toulouse lautrec ref ? great choice of ref if so !!)#<- prev.#Interesting#I thought it was a reference to Igor Shcherbakov's “two on a bridge”#which Lautrec painting does it remind you of? (via @artnrefs)

I can answer that because you're both right!!

They're both in my reference folder :D

Day 1: A Woman’s Day @kcdfemslashweek

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ohhh I think it shows up now!! At least for me

ahh..... My day 1 kcd femslash drawing is too spicy for Tumblr and it's shadow blocked (can be seen if you directly visit my blog but won't show up on the dashboard) 🫠

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ahh..... My day 1 kcd femslash drawing is too spicy for Tumblr and it's shadow blocked (can be seen if you directly visit my blog but won't show up on the dashboard) 🫠

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Day 1: A Woman’s Day @kcdfemslashweek

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I think Demian by Herman Hesse rewired my brain tbh

Hesse really has that effect on people

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this is a list of articles about hesse i found, i've read some, others require access 🥲

Relevance of Hermann Hesse: a systematic review of different perspectives. Antony Jose, V.M. Berlin Grace, Jibin Jose, D.David Wilson RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 28(4), 845–858. http://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-4-845-858

Knapp, B. L. (1984). Abraxas: Light and Dark Sides of Divinity in Hermann Hesse’s Demian. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 38(1), 28–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.1984.10733546

Nelson, D. F. (1984). Hermann Hesse’s Demian and the Resolution of the Mother-Complex. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 59(2), 57–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.1984.9935402

Seidlin, O. (1950). Hermann Hesse: The Exorcism of the Demon. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 4(2), 325–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.1950.10732324

Jan, F., Ashraf, S. I., & Khan, A. (2022). Deconstructing Hermann Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund with a cross-cultural lens. Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ), 6(1), 70–88. https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.lassij/6.1.6

Danilova, Tatiana. The Way to the Self: The Novel "Steppenwolf" Through the Lens of Jungian Process of Individuation.

L'influenza della psicologia analitica su Hermann Hesse. Una lettura junghiana di Demian e Narciso e Boccadoro. master theysis by Riccardo Memo. this is in italian, but the bibliography is also useful

Hesse; a collection of critical essays by Ziolkowski, Theodore, 1973

these are not hesse related but learning more about the context was super interesting to me

Ecstasies of the Young: Sexuality, the Youth Movement, and Moral Panic in Germany on the Eve of the First World War. John Alexander Williams

On Behalf of Hermaphrodites and Mongrels: Refocusing the Reception of Magnus Hirschfeld's Critical Thought on Sexuality and Race Article in Journal of Homosexuality · October 2019 DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1661686

Ohhh thank you, very interesting!!

These that aren't easily accessible, could be worth checking on sci-hub/anna's archive

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Hm... I feel like I'm being watched, can't tell why....

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i know I said I'll stop talking about Hesse but Hesse's books are really so much my taste it's unbelievable, and ever since reading him I've been subconsciously comparing every piece of media to how Hesse-esque it is 🫠

I don't know how to convey that, but the way Hesse wrote is what I've been trying to convey in my art for years, a certain degree of melancholy and tenderness and unconditional affection

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Kcd femslash week tomorrow 🥹 I’m half nervous, what if noone participates

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just wanted to say welcome to spain and i'm glad that you seem to be enjoying the chattiness! a lot less people here are fluent in english, compared to other european countries, but we soldier on enthusiastically. elderly people will sometimes raise their voice a lot to get their point across but they mean well. i love your art and i hope you enjoy your time here!

Thank you! 😊 I'll be attending Spanish lessons, I hope I'll learn it eventually 😭 but so far I've been managing! And I am enjoying it so far, thank you!

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regarding your post about spanish people's communication style - i work in a museum gift shop in a major polish city and idk all people from mediterranean area are incredibly loud and communicative comparing to most tourists from baltic area. recently there was a spanish woman who i believe told us her entire story in spanish not caring me and my colleague couldn't understand a word (personally i can count to ten and ask donde es la izquierda and this is it). she was incredible and will forever stay in my memory

haha I wish her all the best, truly

But see, I can kinda expect it when it's tourists being like that, they're chilling and you're in a place they specifically came to see; but like... In a way I almost expected hostility towards me because I don't speak spanish and live in a city with an extreme tourism problem that makes living difficult for the residents. But I still experience this pleasant chattiness, and if the other person can't speak English and they see that I can't speak Spanish, they just pull out google translate on their phone and continue jkgk

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I'm starting to feel a cultural shock for real coming from Germany to Spain... Why do people, like....... Communicate so much in here...... I mean like, in a professional setting like hr when you discuss a job, or when you get a new sim card, or when you have a scheduled visit to the doctor's or when you call for a plumber.... And they kinda like... Communicate??? I'm confused

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ok I now have seen Spare Me No Mercy (which I found endlessly entertaining), I Feel You Linger In The Air (which was extremely gentle... like Hesse-level of gentleness..... and I can't believe I got a well written GL in my BL show!!) and Triage (I didn't care for the main couple but I found the writing really good, the ending was a bit messy but it was a really interesting take on the time loop storyline), I liked them all!!

I feel my interest is wavering again though and I still don't feel like drawing just yet..... I might disappear into some mountain....

hnm.... I kinda want to watch some more bl dramas........

Does anyone know any..

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anyone remembers that Dionysus fucking a wooden dildo myth? what was that about

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hnm.... I kinda want to watch some more bl dramas........

Does anyone know any..

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update on my living situation: I now rent a proper apartment instead of the hostel-like company owned temporary places AND I live next do a gay bar and a gay sauna