#RetroSpring

[nomatopeya]

mama a PARALEL CANON behind you 💜

[yourdarlingness]

　Futaba Sakura (green) retrospring layouts

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[kiochisato]

♡　＃　𓂃　Xiao Retrospring Layouts ! ❥　.　➶　 requested by @adoringscars. enjoy ! idk . unanimated icons below cut

[minimechacowboy]

John Doe asked: ur tgirl mondo has been spinning round in my mind for weeks now… tell the class more abt her… 

She is here to torment everyone but hell yeah, I love talking about her. lets see, I think she likes wearing hair extensions (This is definitely not me just making excuses for why I draw her hair different all the time) at a point I think she had to make the choice to cut her hair, I imagine it was really damaged with all the things she's put it through in the past and I love the idea that Mondo is really sentimental about their hair so cutting it makes them feel physically ill to even think about and was a very big step for her. So figuring out that she could just add in hair extensions really lifted her spirits and gave her more freedom, also makes her hair routine take just as long as it did when she was in high school lol. [Smile or comment on the answer here](https://retrospring.net/@Minimechacowboy/a/112747356757259270)

[speeshularts]

AHHH I'll try my very best! Been trying to draw more so I hope you come along for the journey ;w; Thank you for the kind words!!!

[inky-forest]

Retrospring doodles part 2! 🖤

[wondercakes]

hhhey... cccan i rrrequest either shiraishi an or shinonome akito stamps... 𝓱𝓮𝓱... 𝓹𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓮...

Akito and An Stamps (Project Sekai)

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[brightlyidol]

✮ ; dark - themed diluc retrozpring lytz !!

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[angevinyaoiz]

Haha thanks for appreciating my art! 

Yeah, it’s funny because I think Henry II/Young Henry is objectively some of the BEST lesser known Dadson dynamics out there that’s sadly underexplored—you have political bedsharing, “the son and the father are one,” Co-Crowning ceremonies (There should be more dadson AUs that steal the concept of associative kingship) bodies and souls bound together, guilt, shame, divorce, the Love and Fear of faetc etc… 

the only unfortunate thing Is that dadson is generally not something I get super excited about personally. >_< I can see the visions and recommend them but it’s not really what gets me going….I’ll leave that to the pros (tho I DID have some art concepts here and there in mind but who knows if I’ll ever get to it..)

Anyways, back to the main subject—for memory lane look at these, the very FIRST art I did of him I’m pretty sure! Alongside Frederick Barbarossa and Richard. You can tell I was just working directly off random ref images without knowing anything lool

Also this one! Early art. Where he’s extremely shota. I still think this is cute, but it doesn’t look like HIM to me.

I still like these pieces…I had fun with them. I miss putting him in the historically inaccurate green caftan

Philip’s design overall has been an interesting process! I think my initial designs for the Plantagenets have refined over time, but they more or less stayed the same from the beginning, while his was kind of an evolution. It’s a bit hard for me to look at my old Blondelippe art because it’s so different from how I think about and draw him now, lol.  I was initially influenced by a few things:

there were a couple of fanarts/drawings of a Philip that was blonde, so I ran with that .

I think I might have initially mixed up art with that of Philip IV Le Bel, who has had portrayals where he’s a Pretty Blond

In some medieval artworks especially in later centuries, there are portraits of him that look blonde but only because of the stylistic conventions.

Also, my initial fandommy delusion interpretation of his character (when i was mostly dabbling from the TLIW stuff only) was influenced by the certain BL and shoujo archetype that pops up that usually consist of blonde, french-coded characters with childhood sexual trauma who are also guarded and conniving and sometimes straight up evil. so I thought it would be fun to run with that, and also be an obvious visual signifier that I was working in more a Yaoi Delusion state than a Realistic Historical state.

I ended up kind of veering away from this as I started to do more research and realized I was a lot more interested in reading about historical details. I was less familiar with Philip, but I had fun reading and getting to know his character I think a lot more in a way that I liked. My art is influenced by my aesthetic fujo preferences, but I also like a sense of background knowledge and consistency in my brain. For me I wanted the Philip, both the historical philip and the rpf dolly i’ve reconstructed, to feel more specific to me. There are already plenty of conniving blondes out there (I didn’t want people to mistake it for an APH France…lol) so kind of designing him as brunette with the goofy, severe bangs (influenced by his statues, and by the 19th century portrait) was a fun design. It also worked a lot better for black and white comics, like in “In Exchange for Honor,” And as well serves as a nice visual contrast since I draw the brothers + Henry usually as all varying degrees of blonde/redhead… THAT’s for Yaoi aesthetic reasons lol

I’m actually not sure if there IS any info on his hair color in real life, and tbh I guess i’m not interested in that (also he balded so it becomes irrelevant). I think it’s fun because I can draw him very pretty for my delusions if I want but also has a kind of dorkiness to him that I think is extremely important to lean into. I also feel like, I wanted a design that could look distinct and cute, but also could look more Adult if I wanted to, I draw him a kid a lot but I wanted the vibes to translate into older designs as well.

A big part that stands out to me reading about the historical Philip is the contrast between how Serious and Sacral the Frankish kingship is how important Philip was as the god-given heir blah blah blah, but also with how WEIRD he was. Making serious and laudable logistical decisions and policies one moment, but also making baffling and confusing decisions in his personal life and relationships. He’s kind of a mess in a fun way, it leaves a lot for the imagination (and evil imagination) to wonder wtf was up with him. In a way, even though the TLIW richphil dubcon backstory is Completely Made Up, to me I feel it doesn’t feel completely out of place thematically, since to me there’s something inherently sus/erotic about the status of purity/sacralness and the transgression from childhood vulnerability that is necessary to emerge into true power…Anyway I could write more Yaoi Essays but this post is meant to be about aesthetics.

It is impossible to escape the influence of TLIW Timothy Dalton in attitude, even if not in aesthetic, since he is probably the only major portrayal of Philip in the anglosphere I can think of. I feel that influence definitely comes through unavoidably, although I also try to round him out a bit when I write him. TLIW!Philip (in both movies and all plays) is showing him behaving at a very specific point in time; he starts off being condescended to, then exits the film smug and unscathed. It’s a big contrast from even modern Philip portrayals like in Confessions de l’Histoire where he’s more of a whiner and Richard’s punching bag.  

In The Devil’s Crown, Christopher Gable in The Devil’s Crown is a bit more subtle, and follows a more subdued and calculating Philip who grows into his person over time. I like him a lot because he’s very stiff and formal compared to Henry and Richard’s expressive gesticulating, but he holds a lot of disdain and rage inside him.  I think his portrayal in TDC definitely has influenced me a lot, I love how he glowers at Richard during all their encounters. It’s both very serious but also kind of cute…Also I’m entranced by his ballet photos. In a way they kind of cycle all the way back to that ethereal kind of “getting bewitched in the woods” unnerving shoujo feeling that I was originally getting a whiff of originally.

FUNNY ENOUGH, I feel I even still get some influence from….Solomon’s Crown of all things.. I make fun of it of course for its uwufication but for all my haterisms natasha kind of cooked with leaning into the weirdly ageregressiony Pure Special Little Boy feeling that pops up fetishistically in that book (in denial of course), the only difference for me is that I feel like that fetishistic aspect can be used deliciously for Evil (“purity” can be weaponized, after all) character traits rather than making a character Boring as hell

[saltrockatansky]

so glad you asked

[yume-fanfare]

anon fairy asked: can u elaborate on tori gender dysphoria ? im curious!

well, that post was about clown crown so i'm guessing you've read it? it and pretty mission are the most telling stories in that aspect, they both pretty much have tori looking straight into the camera and saying "i wish i was a girl".

the tori genderisms have been going on since forever and ever, and while he is usually pretty comfortable with his gender non-conformity, those two stories bring to light that dysphoric side of him. and they're both tied to a very important character: his little sister

his confession in pretty mission is that he is jealous of his sister because he can't marry eichi, but she does. most people focus only on the men-liker side (also correct) but the way he says it, "my sister gets what i want just because she is a girl", implies it is not just a one-off occurrence but something that's happened several times before. in that particular quote, i believe the take away is "i am jealous of my sister because she is a girl"

and clown crown proves that it was indeed not a one-off occurrence. he was a child then, so i'm pretty sure he's doing better now but ough was it something to read. i don't want to just dump on you a whole analysis picking the "my sister wants to be a princess" scene sentence by sentence, so ill do my best to keep brief this already too long ask 😭 but it's just. the jealousy is brought up again, as he talks about how his sister wants to be a princess, so he is then a prince. his sister called dibs already on being a princess, so he doesn't get to be one. and she is a girl so it makes more sense for her to be the princess, right? it's again a very clear meaning of "i am jealous of her because she is a girl" (and thus has things i can't have). there is sooo much to say abt this story even just in gender terms, and i feel it conveys that longing very well (and more kinds of longing too it's so good)

to summarize, i again think that tori is pretty comfortable with himself right now. it is only when his sister is brought up that he hesitates, because since "she is just like him, but a girl" he feels all the more aware of the things he lacks.

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[yourdarlingness]

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[kiochisato]

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[heartwife]

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[lesbianlelouch]

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[inky-forest]

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