#atuarto

[wha-archive]

Hot off the press! Edited scans (from yours truly) from Volume 12: Two transparent illustrations from the cover (back cover and back flap) and the illustrations between chapters ♥

Will be up in the archive once I've got them all correctly named.

[niinnyu]

My hands keep slipping. Oops.

[wysteribun]

vgen comm! 🫡

[saccharinescorpion]

witch hat atelier spoilers (up to chapter 66)

the thing about Galga and Atwert is like. you're introduced to them like that and you're like "oh that's nice :) gay rights :)" and then That happens to Galga and you're like "wait was Galga being gay just introduced to make it hurt more when he's (symbolically) killed off??? i expected way better from this series :/" and then Atwert comes back and it turns out he's a lot more than just the side character soft boy boyfriend. And Then he figures out how to buck the law and save Galga from being sent away, but it's only by making him his apprentice. and that's so tragic and- and i don't think this is unintentional- actually reflects the reality of same-sex adult adoption, a practice many gay couples were forced to partake in to retain their rights, and a practice still alive in Japan (see "Why I Adopted My Husband"). AND THEN Galga ends up saving Ininia, the one who took his memories in the first place, and bringing her along with the two of them, inadvertly recreating the family unit with his forgotten lover and the source of their misery, with all parties having differing levels of knowledge of what "the truth" is and being unable to disclose it. and then you're like, wait, did Kamome Shirahama just take the token Wholesome Gay Background Couple you see a lot of nowadays, and then introduce tragedy to them, but then also eschew "Bury Your Gays" (symbolically in this case) to keep them together, and then make them a cog in the main story in a way that engages with the overarching themes of the narrative AND touches on real world issues? did Kamome Shirahama just do " what if they were a wholesome found family :)" but in a way that's actually really fascinating and bitterly tragic and ironic? are comics good???????????????

[petricorah]

[wip] witch hat anyone?? [id in alt]

[emanondareka]

The best thing about that couple, is that no one can tell me shit like “ you can’t draw them like so, they are not a canon”

Bwujahahahha!

[exotic-inquiry]

panel re-draw of these two <3

[cyellolemon]

Too many characters from wha i wanna draw... but them... i love them a lot

[modrzewek]

what why did no one warn me there are ACTUAL GAYS in the Witch Hat Atelier manga?? bro I'm so used to queerbaiting that I still don't believe my eyes 😭 and they are so cute too

and they appear more or less at the same time as the topic of SA, where the women speak up and the moral is that they are not "exaggerating" or "saying this for attention"?? I swear this author is BASED I already love her

there is much more I could say about this manga, but for now I'm gonna enjoy how stunningly beautiful it is and share this bookmark that I got

[dorinoke]

found old art with Atuarto💚🤎

[beesinspades]

ATUARTO MY BELOVED 🥹 I hope we'll see him again soon.....

[wha-archive]

New art from Shirahama! Caption below:

[Machine translation]: My friend and I haven't been to fairs lately, and we want to eat yakisoba and shaved ice, so we decided to bring a potluck to our house. I'm happy to have good friends. I really like the yakisoba at the street stalls where the cabbage is still very hard. Nostalgia that sometimes makes you want to eat so much. The image is Atwart and Garga enjoying the fair

[sothasil]

gay little wizard

[wysteribun]

pics of my wha holo charms 💫

preorders are still up on my shop !

[misarumis]

trying to get used to drawing on a tablet (regular not pen tablet), its definitely fun for doodling!

[tegurra]

sketches ~