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pale decay
#disco elysium#another comic page#harry du bois#dolores dei#dora ingerlund#jean vicquemare#jimplied (jean-implied)#kim is also technically kimplied but im not adding his tag
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you open my Super Important Documents and its just pictures of charles xavier
#xmen#mcu#xmen movies#xmen first class#charles xavier#professor x#snap sketches#todays schedule has been ruined by my ever occurring need to practice drawing movie charles its horrendous#i started this sheet last night but then i kept adding to it and i keep wanting to add to it but i MUST stop myself#in an ideal world i get paid to draw charles xavier and erik lehnsherr but no i live in this baka society#sleepless charles WAS inspired by me starting this at 1AM and forcing myself to sleep at 4AM#and then here i am picking i up still later .... i need professional help i fear but i aint got time for that#NEVERTHELESS I THINK IT GOT IT NOW. I THINK IM OK. i think i know how i wanna go bout drawing him now ...#chat can i confess that like. .5% of the reason i barely draw FC charles i because of his hair#for some reason some demonic entity prevents me from drawing it easily i am in STRUGGLE CITY#the only thing that gets me is that whenever i draw him i can only think of the likes of a disney prince but man thems the strokes ig#i also drew a quick dark phoenix charles but i figured id just keep this first class oriented#anything else i want to say ? uh. hm. its funny i never do any of these sheets for erik#genuinely On My Life made One (1) sheet and was like 'no yeah i got it. i got it down'#literally not my fault his head is So Shaped and defined but anyways. this aint about him.#i mean it could be. i still wanna do a doodle page concentrated on drawing how his powers show#more specifically how do i wanna draw the glow cause i cant decide on it ... also i wanna draw the 'levels' ...#but thats for another time. for right now i should probably eat i havent eaten all day#bye bye !!!!!! here's to hoping i draw something thats not a doodle sheet one of these days
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RUINS, pt.11
first | <<prev | next>>
#this update was supposed to have 3 more pages but i injured my back before i could finish 😔#apologies for it ending in an awkward place bc of it#add another update yet again lol#bonus links#bonuslinks#bonuslinksdotjpg#main comic#loz#loz au#skyward sword#botw#breath of the wild#OH ALSO i know the hylia statue is in a different location in game i uh. added a new one. or i moved it. make up ur own reason lol
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rewatched Kurogiri's holiday story from ultra impact (not related to sketch at all)
(but it did inspire me)
on another note
finally!!
#fanart#sketch#my art#bnha#shigaraki tomura#tenko shimura#kurogiri#I cried a bit while playing it I missed the classic LoV I missed Kurogiri WITH the LoV it's been so long :(#and it feels like last chapter (423 atm) broke the seal of sketching them as anything but something static#it took me two or so days to just understand that Kurogiri is... yeah#I can't believe it took Horikoshi so long to bring him back but as I said and will say it again I glad it happened at all#after some thought I just want to sit with the chapters#anyway getting the preordered book was so much fun#it was full of LoV from Toga and Dabi talking about her house to Tenko being upset over being told that he doesn't have friends#and everything in-between basically only Compress left to join in the next volume#I think????#I actually want to get another one already they're so goodddd#and the translation sounds pretty good but I checked some pages not the whole book it'll be boring#it's actually so weird to think that I started a goal of reading the whole series ad it was now officially coming out like this back in 201#and now it's 2024 and the translation is pretty much ahead of anime and maybe it'll be faster than viz volumes too#since it's 2 in 1 basically - I think it's really great since I save some money but get LoV chapters every time#because they appear every 2 books at the start of the series and back then it was hard for me to get them#but I felt content seeing all the books that I bought when I was visiting family for holidays this month because there are so many of them#and I don't need any wi-fi or internet in general to read them back to back now with an addictional volume#they have some mistakes but I don't mind them it feels good to just hold all of them (and a bit heavy after like 8 books) and now it's 18
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so I was thinking about MakoHaru a lot recently,, they are so cute 🥹💕💗💕💗💕
#persona 5#persona 5 royal#ca3 art#makoharu#p5 makoharu#okujima#makoto niijima#niijima makoto#I havent drawn them in a while#also this started as one drawing and then i just kept adding to it--#at least i got this out of my system lol#i kinda wanted to make a second page but maybe another time#wheeee makoharu plushies too!#return of the sleepover wear i drew before lol
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mac forgot to warn charlie he wasn't gonna b @ school nd now dennis is bothering him lol
#charden#chardennis#iasip#always sunny#fanart#mine#casually adding more and more freckles every single time i draw charlie lmfao#pissing all by urself handsome?#this is the last charden art i had i forgot to post it finishd it 2 weeks ago or w.e#and somehow just got ANOTHER job lined up next week wen usually im unemployed for months @ a time lol#but i am still drawing that comic i added more pages again cuz im insane
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Pict
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#legend of zelda#legend of zelda link#loz#loz link#minish cap#majora's mask#Lost Woods AU#HEY LOOK FINALLY ANOTHER COMIC!#Please disregard the vast difference between the first and second pages#the second page had actually been done when I was still in the beginning process of doing the reference sheet#so it's from MONTHS back#but I thought it might not make sense on it's own that it's meant to be Minish & Co meeting Pict#so I added another page before it#Majora Stop Harassing People Challenge: Impossible#LW comic
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gregory house stimboard with red, fire, and explosions for anon!
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#if you want one w/o all the medical stuff feel free to send me another ask and ill do it#i skimmed his wiki fandom page and saw hes a doctor and thought why not hit two birds with one stone and added red medical stuff#but if you want one with just any old red stims thats perfectly okay#stimboard#my boards#request#house md#gregory house#red#medical tw#tw blood#fire tw#fire stim#medical stim#explosion stim#tw syringe
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In Time and Stars
#in stars and time#isat#siffrin#josh art tag#been wanting to practice less “literal” drawings....#like people doing a certain thing or being in a certain place or even just standing there#and instead do more like conceptual stuff?? idk how to word it#but i love doing stuff like this#and i feel like i havent done it in a while#i think last time i did was early in the year when i was still really into the Magnus Protocol#and was illustrating lines from each episode#some of which are my best performing art ever lol#i still remember my sibling telling me they had come across my art on their dash and later on their insta explore page#they had apologized since me and my sibs have an agreement to not search for or interact with each other online just for privacys sake#but i found it both funny and kinda insane#was not expecting my art to get big enough to find its way to that sib lol#uuuhhhhh anyway back on topic#ive had this idea of a siffrin illustration where either have their face or the back part of their head being a clock#and i tried a couple drafts in my sketchbook#and ended up liking this one! it had the addition of the shooting star and from then i toyed with the idea of adding the title text#i have another less literal piece for zelda that i wanna do#but i also wanna work on my isat animatic#....and i also wanna play stardew....#i need more hours in the day 😔
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through hardships to the stars <3
#necessary art after that page on the website#WE WON!!!#i have another piece about it i'd like to make at some point#but i really enjoy the star imagery with these two#there is always hope <3#stanford pines#ford pines#grunkle ford#mabel pines#gravity falls#thisisnotawebsitedotcom#thisisnotawebsitedotcom spoilers#<- i guess?#code to see the page is ad astra per aspera btw ^^#joeys art#id in alt text#image described
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Teruhashi with her ideals/beliefs about femininity and being a women.
Kubuyasu and his ideals/beliefs about masculinity and being a man.
#parallels#has anybody made this connection yet#Cause this fascinates me#They should bond#I don’t think they were meant to be parallels#But. Parallels#saiki k#the disastrous life of saiki k.#teruhashi kokomi#kuboyasu aren#also not relevant but this is part of my kubosaiteru agenda#Tho it’s more teruyasu agenda#another page added to m0ss's agenda#thats my tag now I’m making it a thing#I crawled out of my cave to make a post and now I crawl back into the depths of my cave#See y’all in like a month lmao /j
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Tumblr isn't letting me find again @fictionadventurer's and my own posts on epistolary novels, but I have been thinking about it again, because I fell down a Goodreads review rabbit hall and I have thoughts again.
So many people dislike the style, and honestly, I don't blame them, because it's so often done... not well. It is in some aspects, a deceptively easy one, and in others, deceptively hard. And because I'm trying to write a novel with this format myself, I have been thinking about what makes or breaks an epistolary novel.
I talked yesterday about TGLPPS, because it is an interesting case to analyze. I have thought many times about it, and cannot think of a single non-merely-aesthetic reason for it to be told in an epistolary style. A lot of it depends on -British- people who have survived some terrible war conditions willingly opening up to a stranger about their experiences, and that's made... even more difficult if the medium is letters? typically writers will appeal to tropes like making the reserved character drunk, or have them share an extreme experience in isolation with the stranger to create sudden intimacy. None of this is possible in writing; if anything, one is much more self-conscious about the things one writes than the things one says; verba volant, scripta manent.
It seems to me the story would have flowed much more naturally if Juliet had been stranded on Guernsey for some reason -like the first author herself!- suddenly Dawsey commenting that he got a book from her library makes so much more sense! Yes, certainly, if you met a stranger out there, and they introduce themselves and you realize you have a book that once belonged to them, you would tell them so! And it is in this way that the epistolary format does violence to a story that would otherwise sound much less contrived.
Another problem is the large cast of characters and multiple settings. For all I complain about Dracula, Stoker manages this pretty well (of course he has the model of The Woman in White, but TWiW has fewer povs), at least on the first half, because structurally the storylines of the characters are converging, and that does a lot to guide the reader in the understanding of the character's relationships. TGLPPS's relationship structure is more of a multidirectional flow chart, and that becomes confusing really fast.
Another novel I read reviews for recently is one set in WWI, composed of back and forth letters between two lovers torn apart by war, and one common complaint was... that the climactic scenes, the times they meet, etc all happen... off-camera. It is a fair complaint, but also one I cannot really blame the author for, because that's what usually happens with real life compilations of letters of that kind. Sure, usually the editor/compiler will fill in the blanks sometimes and add an epilogue of sorts explaining what happened afterwards, and that is possible if you are writing it fictionally too, but some may think it spoils the effect of immediacy and whatnot, which, fair too.
But it makes me think of how aware Jean Webster was of these difficulties, and how deftly she managed them in both Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Both novels have aged badly in terms of content and message, but they are very interesting stylistically.
DLL is a bildungsroman with a dash of romance; through Judy's letters to daddy long-legs we can see how she grows as a person, gaining independence intellectually and economically, and as a writer, as her grammar and vocabulary change and grow. Between making Judy an orphan who hates the orphanage where she has lived her whole life, and one where she lived past the usual age of being thrown into the world, Webster does away with the need for letters between Judy and her friends and family: all her friends and family are her college roommates and her benefactor, who is the person she writes to. The benefactor scheme also makes it so that she doesn't have to write dll's replies, which in turns makes it much more natural and acceptable for the reader when Judy writes him the ending's love letter describing the feelings and impressions of their finally meeting in person and in truth; Judy has become a writer, and she is so used to write to him as another person all the time, that it just makes sense for her to write to him one more letter at the point where her benefactor and her lover become one and the same person. She has written a novel where the core is the correspondence between lovers AND managed to include as well all the moments of their meetings that we would otherwise miss.
Dear Enemy is a similar, but longer and more ambitious story. Instead of one relationship-connection (Judy and Daddy's), we have Sallie as a nod of connections: she's Judy's friend, Jarvis' "employee", the boss of several characters, has a tense colleague-boss relationship with the visiting doctor, a boyfriend of sorts in Washington, and a family we have met before. It is, in that way, a similar setup to TGLPPS: a urban girl of means becomes a fish out of water in a different setting till she ends up assimilating to it, and settling definitely through marriage. But Webster does a few things differently to make it click.
For starters, it is clear to her that this is the story of Sallie's maturation -I have sometimes talked of Dear Enemy as a novel where a Mary Crawford-like character undergoes a transformation arc. The happenings and stories she meets and tells Judy about along the way serve this arc, besides standing on their own as case studies to illustrate the problems, ideology and solutions proposed to the secondary themes of the story (education and social reform). I feel like TGLPPS is much more interested in Guernsey's survival through the war, in which case Juliet's story is already a frame, which, again, makes the epistolary format cumbersome rather than complementary.
Dear Enemy adds more correspondents, but it is very austere/economical with them, and narrows the letters we see to only those Sallie sends. YMMV regarding if it was too much cutting or not, but the undeniable effect is structural soundness; you are never confused by what is happening or who is writing to whom. We can guess the Honorable Cyrus Wykoff probably wrote some indignant letters to Jervis, and those would be funny to read, but... would they be worth the break in the flow of the narrative? I don't think so. To this effect, just having Sallie write a line to the effect of "I expect at this point you have at hand an irate letter from the Hon. Cyrus" is enough to paint a picture for the reader. Perhaps a letter or two from Dr. MacRae would have helped develop his character more -definitely a first read of the story obscures how much misdirection there is in Sallie's narration to Judy, which in turns tends to create an impression of suddenness to the closing letter that doesn't come across well to the reader.
The choice of Sallie mainly writing to Judy is, IMO, a really good one too. It not only establishes a connection with DLL, but it also allows for the intimacy that makes disclosure believable (something TGLPPS struggles with, as I mentioned above). When you add a few letters to the doctor and Gordon and Jervis, you also get a better perspective of Sallie's personality, how she deals not only with a friend, but with acquaintances, romantic partners and coworkers.
From all this it is pretty evident that for Webster the main function of epistolarity as format is aiding in showing psychological and moral development. But that's not the only thing the format can be really good for: perspective is another, and Austen uses it to great effect in both Lady Susan and Lesley Castle.
Both stories deal with mainly static characters, but who have very strong perspectives of the same situation, and it is this singularity of setting and story that anchors the narrative to avoid confusion, while the variety of perspective brings interest. In Lady Susan, we are dealing mainly with the marrying off of Frederica and seduction of Mrs. Vernon's brother, Reginald. There where Lady Susan paints Frederica as an undisciplined, irrational and ungrateful daughter, her sister in law, Mrs. Vernon, paints her as a sweet girl and a victim of her mother's ruthlessness and lack of love. Both agree that Reginald is being seduced, but, of course, with opposite goals: Lady Susan wants him to succumb, Mrs. Vernon, to escape, and this is a delicious struggle for the reader to follow!*
Lesley Castle being an earlier effort, and unfinished, does show some of the defects I have mentioned before (mainly, the relative confusion of having several correspondents in separate storylines), but illustrates well this same perspective effect: Margaret writes to Charlotte about the new Lady Lesley, and the new Lady Lesley writes to Charlotte about about Margaret and her sister... and in these contrasts lies the main interest of the narrative.
Some conclusions to these musings, then:
Not every story is suited to the epistolary format.
The epistolary format seems to work the best when it is used for either A) showcase psychological and moral development B) to play with perspective on people and/or events.
One of the main difficulties of the format is finding a narrative element to anchor and structure the letters around.
It must have a core couple of correspondents, or at most, two. More than that will make it confusing (unless, perhaps, the story is very short and about a single event or two).
A delicate balance must be found so that the secondary correspondence doesn't cut the flow of the main one, and if possible it must feed into it.
*It is interesting how Love and Friendship, being such a delightful -and I sustain one of the best ever- Austen adaptation, is by force of the perspective switch towards a more impersonal third person, more about a love story between Frederica and Reginald than a struggle between Lady Susan and Mrs. Vernon. Which isn't dissimilar to how adaptations of DLL end up being more about the romance between the leads than Judy's coming of age in college; tropes aside, I feel like if the epistolary format is well embedded in the story, it's going to be nearly impossible to reproduce the effect in adaptation.
#writing#epistolary novels#Jane Austen#Jean Webster#Daddy Long-Legs#Lady Susan#Dear Enemy#Lesley Castle#Thinking about Percival and Nadine of course#and how in the end it is trying to be both a psychological and a perspective story#And that might be more than I can chew#But the story is definitely about growth and change in the main character and love interest#And perspective seems so necessary too#Eleanor is the last person alive Percival feels responsibility for#Of course he'd write to her in a light way with jokes and anecdotae#so that she doesn't worry about him#whereas in day to day life he does not have the energy to behave so towards others around him#and both things are important to understand him!#It's the other way around with Nadine#she keeps the cheery façade IRL but can relax when she writes to Beth#And both seem so necessary to me!#But then there *are* things neither tells to anyone and those I'm struggling hard with#I have considered adding journal entries as well back and forth#and remain unconvinced one way or another#anyways this is the way I'll spend 10 years writing an 80 page novelette at this point XD
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El Blanco - The Legend of the White Stallion (1961) written by Rutherford Montgomery, illustrated by Gloria Stevens
Cover page by me
#another book that was a pain to clean up#it was on the yellowest paper ive ever seen#like something truly out of your grandmas bookshelf#it was a novel adaptation of a disney animation#the cover page on the original was very blocky#so i took out some of the subtext and added a horse#cover page made by me#ok tag time#internet archive#photopia#walt disney#Rutherford Montgomery#Gloria Stevens#El Blanco#cowboycore#cowboy#wild west#cowboy hat#western#cowboy art#mustangs#mustang#horse#horse art#horses#yee haw#illustration#equids#vintage books#vintage
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#i doubt im saying anything new here but yeah. this is why its either saturday september 30 or october 1 in comic.#MAYBE october 2 if the school operates on a saturday- friday schedule like the post office does#paranatural#its wild to me that we basically just missed 2 days of max's life. just caught the beginning of one and end of another#when this page first came out i thought there was just randomly a new day added bc i though that ch4 was the end of day ch3 showed us
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I'm still so upset picrew's fallen to ad enshittification. One of the only big dress-up websites left and you drive away your userbase with ads every second
#cricket chirping#Using it on mobile is a fucking nightmare#Literally from the moment you open the website the ads are inescapable.#You get a million on the discovery page then when you open a picrew you get 3 ads stacked on each other that cover the screen#And then if you DARE try to open another one they're like ''Hi you need to watch a video ad now please <3 you haven't seen enough yet''#And then they do it again and again and again and it becomes a nightmare of corporations shoving stuff down your throat
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grumbling about the Joke i despise cos judging by stan's letter i think he knows full well to dismiss bill as being important at this point and knows how much ford was genuinely hurt and had his life ruined by him
(plus i feel like it's become one line not to cross and make fun of, like how stan would never mock ford's hands while he's fine bringing up other stuff to make fun of or use as insults against ford)
#(plus the whole stan hiding whatever 'still on your mind' means from ford too)#the entire letter is him doing what he can to support his brother!!!#its an endless joke/takedown about how bill sucks!!#there's the coded message to ford that we know he saw cos he told stan not to put a mystery shack ad in!!!#its stan genuinely being so kind about the situation and the fandom's obsession with the Joke makes me go urghhhh#(not like they have another vessel to tell the Joke through tho :/// it'd be weird to have the kids say it)#but also the Joke sucks cos my god. dont ya'll have any other jokes to use.#please don't tell me this is the only one you got for the foreseeable future.#(people forgetting about the lost journal page of that ford mentioning hes scared of stan mocking his situation)#(its something i can believe is a true aspect of the pages at least)
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