#now on to May

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (5/5)

Vignettes for Book the Third, Chapters 10-15

This is it! A warm goodbye to the wonderful work of Rafaello Busoni! 17 pictures in total. (And yes, I didn't realize until too late that there's no unicode fraction for 5/5😔)

1 / 5 || 2 / 5 || 3 / 5 || 4 / 5 || 5 / 5

To my recollection, this was the only illustration in the entire book that took up an entire page without any writing.

That's all, folks!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[canisbeanz]

Silly doodle bc it was the first thing I thought of when I saw Pomni.

[ruushes]

sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)

plus:

[uncanny-tranny]

Not to sound like a person who actually cares about children, but it's so alarming that there's this tendency and trend of not telling kids about their medical conditions that are in their charts.

I'm finding out as an adult that they (though it's not documented who) diagnosed me with a life-long, chronic condition without telling me when I was a teenager. I found out recently when I got curious about my medical charts, and otherwise, I would not have known what's wrong with me. I've been left with more questions than answers, and I feel like a private investigator investigating my own damn health and life.

Is this medical malpractice? Yes. However, I think it also speaks to a broader point of how children are seen to not be entitled to their own lives in any capacity, to the point where they are (intentionally or not) made ignorant about things that are or will affect them.

[kkshowtunes]

google citing ao3 as a source is so unhinged

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[hellsitegenetics]

ive gotten maybe 200 trick-or-treat asks so far which conjures the imagery of my front door being swarmed with children while i desperately throw bugs and yell "TRICK!!! TRICK!!!!"

[galaxystt]

new scar skin goes hard btw

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[notherpuppet]

Art School AU LOL 🦌🎨 based on true stories hahaha

[thenightisland]

people trying to insist a fandom is tiny when it /only/ has a few thousand works on ao3 meanwhile my current fandom is a sixteen book series and has several hundred fewer works than goncharov, a movie that, and i cannot stress this enough, doesn’t even exist