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[curiouscolours]

Collab with @rachel8889 and @junohsartdumpster to recreate the iconic image (a screenshot is shared below) from second ending is SuperS with our Palladium Senshi!

Rachel/Entheory did the sketches, I did the lines, and Junoh did the colours! I also put them together and imitated the background from the original shot. One version also has extra lighting + a noise filter on it :)

Characters from left to right:

Sailor Ive belonging to GlitzyPixiee

Sailor Chaiel belonging to @teamvanessacloud-fandoms

Sailor Ediona & Sailor Palladium belonging to @junohsartdumpster

Sailor Nolif belonging to @alu-kor-d

Sailor Meida belonging to myself @curiouscolours :)

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don't repost!

birthday art for @teamvanessacloud

i hope you like it! i wanted to do something with your oc, oki and inui since you ship them. and i didn't know what to do with the bg so i kinda thought just sitting in the park together was something they'd wanna do for a date

[shadowsphere21]

This is my portrait of Rei Hino, Sultana of the Ottoman Empire, part of an artwork done in collaboration with @teamvanessacloud Inspired by the Ottoman theme of the manga Yume no Shizuku. This was my first artwork created with Clip Studio Pro, thanks to some new brushes I had acquired.

Find her print here on INPRNT.

[fansenshialliance]

A commission I got from the lovely @pookie-penworks-blog !

(posted with permission)

I am completely in love with how magical it looks!

From left to right:

Sailor Media belonging to me, @curiouscolours

Sailor Chaiel belonging to @teamvanessacloud

Sailor Ediona belonging to @junohsartdumpster

Sailor Sphrite belonging to @rachel8889

Sailor Hinil belonging to animecolourful

They are all part of the Edionan headcanon.

[aelloblu]

Happy Valentines Day from FSA

The Fan Senshi Alliance had a valentines day challenge and everyone who participated got a lil reward. From top to bottom. Sailor Fortuna and her beau, Felix. Fun fact, he's Mau!- Belongs to Sailor-Fabulous.

Sailor Charon belonging to @teamvanessacloud.

Sailor Sphrite belonging to Sailor_Sibyl, from the fun Edonian System.

Sailor Earth belonging to ktenshi@da

Sailor Tres belonging to YaBoyEli

And finally Sailor Mimas with Sailor Saturn belonging to Sailor_Mimas.

[kaleidodreams]

Get To Know Me

Got tagged by @teamvanessacloud to do this!

-Three ships: Chibi-Usa/Helios (Sailor Moon), Otabek/Yuri (Yuri!!! on Ice), Layla/Yuri (Kaleido Star)

-First ship: Hmm, probably Neflyte/Molly in the first Sailor Moon English dub.

-Last song: I think it was Taylor Swift's "Mastermind"?

-Last Movie: Probably a Christmas move? I can't remember which one, though. Might have been "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town".

-Currently Reading: The first volume of the manga, "A Sign of Affection", and the latest issue of International Figure Skating magazine, if that counts!

-Currently consuming: Nothing.

-Currently craving: I'm just about to get ready for bed, so I'm not really hungry at the moment!

Consider yourself tagged if you would like to do this!

[chibiranmaruchan]

@teamvanessacloud

I tried to answer this succinctly, but it turned into an essay. (Sorry.)

The Princess and the Frog was not accurate, strictly speaking, but dinging it for that would be like criticizing the Lion King for not being a realistic wildlife documentary. Accuracy wasn’t really the point. Given the fantastical elements and fictional nations like “Maldonia”, I suppose we’re meant to understand this as a bit removed from the real New Orleans. It’s more a a jazz-flavored fairy tale than a historical fiction.

But for discussion’s sake….

Is it fashion-accurate to its 1926 timeframe? Ehhh, sort of. It pays homage to 20s fashion trends with cloche hats, furs and feathery headpieces, but without fully committing to it. The waistline on almost all of Tiana’s clothing is too high for the 20s, and the the shapes of her fancier costumes take a lot of liberties, or deviate wildly from the style of the period.

In the 20s, dresses (including workaday stuff) tended to have a straight up-and-down shape to it - kind of a low-waisted rectangle that de-emphasized curves instead of highlighting them. There are valid reasons to play fast and loose with that, though (something I’m definitely guilty of as well). One of those reasons is communication. 

For instance, speculatively, the filmmakers wrote Tiana as a hard-working waitress and wanted her to look the part, so they made the choice to clothe her in something familiar - that gingham dress of mid-century shape that we broadly associate with diner waitresses. Actual waitress uniforms of the 20s had a fair bit of overlap with maid uniforms at the time too, and I can see why they wouldn’t want to risk the confusion. It’s more important to communicate clearly with the larger audience than to appease a small faction of fashion nerds who’d notice or care about the precision.

I don’t think it’s a case of the designers failing to do their research - I’m sure they had piles of references, and maybe even consultants - but they also had to have priorities.

With her hat and coat on, she looks a lot more 1920s-shaped.

Pretty consistently, the indication of the characteristic 1920s drop waist is there, but the approach otherwise ignores the 20s silhouette. The clothes hug the body too much. This may be about appealing to a 2000s audience, visually speaking, but also could be an animation thing. Maybe both. For practical reasons, clothes in 2d animation are usually more a sort of second skin than something that wears or behaves like realistic fabric.

These are not in the 1920s ballpark at all. Tiana’s blue gown looks like your basic Disney brand invention. Strapless things would have been extremely unusual and the overall shape is far out of step. Excusable, I guess, because it’s a costume in context. Charlotte looks like she’s heading for a mimosa brunch in a modern maxi dress.

Charlotte’s princess dress did seem to be calling back to the ultra-wide pannier side hoops of the 18th century - something that made a reappearance for part of the 20s, albeit in much milder form called robe de style. I’m not sure if the filmmakers were alluding to that at all, really, but either way, her dress is hilarious.

They only went about halfway with the cloche hats. The 1920s cloche really encapsulated the cranium, almost entirely covered bobbed hair, and obscured much of the face from certain angles, so it’s easy to see why they’ve been somewhat reined in for the film. Still, it ends up looking more 1930s, where the hats started to recede away from the face, evolving in the direction of the pillbox.

Similarly, Tiana’s hair is not very reminiscent of the bobbed, close-to-the-cranium style of the period, but I think that could legitimately be written off as characterization. She’s not at all the type of person who’d fuss about going à la mode. Not everyone bobbed and finger-waved their hair.

The clothes Prince Naveen is introduced in are very 1920s collegiate in spirit - the wide-leg oxford bags, the sleeveless pullover sweater, the flat cap, and high, stiff collar. The ukulele and banjolele were pretty trendy instruments at the time too.

Definitely some Josephine Baker vibes here. Also, the look of this whole fantasy sequence was reportedly inspired by the works of Aaron Douglas, a luminary painter of the Harlem Renaissance known for his depictions of the lives of African-Americans. (The mural is in Topeka, Kansas.)

They pretty much nailed the Art Deco. It’s gorgeous. Looks somewhat inspired by the interiors of some of the Ralph Walker-designed NYC architecture, plus some French Quarter balcony flair for the final manifestation of Tiana’s Place. Her dress here does resemble some gauzy mid-1920s looks, too.

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Culturally speaking…

New Orleans is an unusual place. Because some of the colonial Spanish and French laws and conventions that New Orleans evolved under persisted even after its inception into the United States; because it was such a heterogeneous hub of indigenous and immigrant peoples; and because it had a considerable population of free people of color (mostly Creole), it did not function quite like the rest of the South leading up to the Civil War, nor for a while after. Its particular coalescence of cultures made it its own unique sort of culture within the country, within the region, within the state of Louisiana even. By the early 20th century, though, regardless of the not-very-binary nature of New Orleans, Jim Crow laws were enforcing a literal black-and-white distinction, and not an evenhanded one, by far. In that aspect, the city had begun to resemble the rest of the South.

The film nods at the wealth disparity, but goes on to paint a pretty rosy picture of race and class relations at the time. Still it’s not unbelievable that some people were exceptions to the rules. You could probably find a few compartments of old New Orleans society that resisted segregation or certain prejudicial norms, preferring to do things their own way. That aside, the film wasn’t trying to confront these topics. Not every piece of media should have to. Sometimes breaking away from miserable period piece stereotypes is refreshing. I’m not sure it could have handled that meaningfully given the running time, narrow story focus, and intended audience, anyhow. (But you could perhaps also make a case that family films habitually underestimate younger audiences in this way.)

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Raymond the firefly I guess is the film’s Cajun representation. There’s not much to say about it, except perhaps to note that Evangeline is a reference to the heroine of a Longfellow poem of the same name. The poem is an epic romance set during the expulsion of the Acadians from the eastern provinces of Canada and the northernmost reaches of the American colonies (now Maine) by the British in the mid-1700s. Many exiled Acadians gradually migrated south to francophone-friendly Louisiana, settling into the prairies and bayous, where ‘Acadian’ truncated into the pronunciation ‘Cajun’. Evangeline has become an emblem of the heartbreak, separation and faithful hope of that cultural history, and there are parishes, statues and other landmarks named after the her throughout Louisiana.

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Voodoo does have a very historical presence in New Orleans, having arrived both directly from West Africa and by way of the Haitian diaspora (where it would more properly be called Vodou). While I don’t think Disney’s treatment of it was especially sensitive or serious, it also wasn’t the grotesquely off-base sort of thing that media of the past has been known to do. It was largely whittled down to a magical plot component, but it wasn’t so fully repurposed that it didn’t resemble Voodoo at all either - and that’s mostly owing to the characters, because it does appear the writers pulled from history there.

It’s apparently widely held that Dr. Facilier is a Baron Samedi caricature - and likely that’s true, in part - but I have the impression he’s also influenced by Doctor John. Not the 20th century funk musician, but the antebellum “Voodoo King” of New Orleans. Doctor John (also called Bayou John, Jean La Ficelle, and other aliases) claimed to be a Senegalese prince. He became well known as a potion man and romance-focused prognosticator to people from all corners of society. Though highly celebrated and financially successful at his peak, he seems ultimately remembered as an exploitative villain.

To my recollection, the film sort of gingerly avoids referring to Facilier as a Voodoo practitioner directly (I think he’s more generically called a witch doctor in the script?) but it does seem to imply his 'friends on the other side’ are a consortium of loa. It’s mostly abbreviated into nebulously evil-seeming special FX, glazing over any specificity or dimensionality, it does also loop back around as a vehicle of moral justice. Loa are all very individualistic and multi-faceted, but they do have reciprocal rules for asking favors of them.

There’s also the benevolent counterpart in Mama Odie’s character. Her wearing ritual whites has a definite basis in Voodoo/Vodou practice, and her depiction as a fairy godmother-like figure isn’t entirely out of step with how a mambo may have been perceived…in a very general sense. They were/are ceremonial leaders and community bastions who people would seek out for help, advice and spiritual guidance. More than just emanating matronly good vibes, though, some have wielded considerable political and economic power.

(Just my opinions here. I’ve done a lot of reading on the subject for research but I’m no authority with any special insider understanding of Voodoo, and I really shouldn’t be relied upon as an arbiter of who has or hasn’t done it justice in fiction.)

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In summary–

Culturally, I think the film is respectably informed but paints a superficially genteel picture. The set pieces are gorgeous, but the story mostly delivers a sort of veneer of New Orleanishness. And as for fashion, well, it’s the 1920s run through a Disney filter. It’s very pretty, but it’s only as proximally accurate as seemed practical.

I don’t know that any of that really matters so much as whether or not it achieved what it intended, though. As a charming yarn and as a tribute to New Orleans and the Jazz age, I think it’s mostly successful. It’s also really beautifully animated!

[curiouscolours]

Another screenshot edit collab! This time it's just a bunch of random senshi in the iconic SMC image! Did this one right after the last one lol

Left to right:

Sailor Fortuna by me!

Sailor Lethe by @uwu-scraptrappy

Sailor Leda by me, for @teamvanessacloud-fandoms

Sailor Cygnus by @purelunaris

Sailor Flora sketch & colours by me, lines and ownership = @garnetgirl0410

I also did the background recreation :)

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don't repost! (c) sailor moon

took me a while, but I'm happy with how this turned out. birthday gift for teamvanessacloud starring Usagi and her SM OCs, Chantelle and Mihiro. Chatting and eating at a cafe, I made the background simple just to focus more on the three of them chatting and enjoying food with tea.

I hope you like it!

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Broke out my old chibi base a while ago to do a quick pic of @teamvanessacloud-art 's new Edionan Palladium Senshi, Sailor Chaiel!

[chibiranmaruchan]

@teamvanessacloud

"ANIMEGU 30th" Anison Cover Mini Album

■ Jacket illustration: animator Tadashi Hiramatsu (Evangelion, Jujutsu Kaisen etc.)

■ Release: February 5th, 2023 by Lantis

■ Price: 3,080 yen

30 years of Yu Yu Hakusho also means the 30th anniversary of Megumi Ogata as a voice actress. She debuted in October 1992, in the role of Kurama. To celebrate this moment, she is releasing a mini album with some covers, from the ending theme of her latest work "Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie", to the opening song of her debut work "Yu Yu Hakusho". Ogata-san conveys her love for her works and characters, and gratitude to her fans ♡

The cover of "Hohoemi no Bakudan" (Smile Bomb) debuted on the NHK-FM "Radioman Jack" radio station last Saturday, January 7, 2023. This is not the same cover from the album "Yu Yu Hakusho Super Covers". This new one features members of the famous band Angela, KATSU was in charge of the arrangements and Atsuko sings in the chorus.

I tried to record the song from the radio, the quality is not high, but you can get an idea of how it sounds.

■ Tracklist:

① Seija No Koushin (聖者の行進)

"Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi" Opening Theme (Tatsuya Kitani)

② One Last Kiss

"EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 Movie" Theme Song (Hikaru Utada)

③ Reverse Dream (逆夢/Sakayume)

"Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie" Ending Theme (King Gnu)

④ Ready

"Akudama Drive" Ending Theme (Urashimasakatasen)

⑤ No.7

The Mokke voice actresses (Yuri Yoshida, Chitose Morinaga, Mai Kanazawa)sing in the chorus "Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun" Opening theme (Jibaku Shounen Band)

⑥ Hohoemi no Bakudan (微笑みの爆弾)

Arrangement: KATSU (Angela) Chorus: Atsuko (Angela)

"Yu Yu Hakusho" Opening Theme (Matsuko Mawatari)

[kaleidodreams]

I posted 9,166 times in 2022

54 posts created (1%)

9,112 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@moonlightsdreaming

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@lou-is-lurking

I tagged 298 of my posts in 2022

#sailor moon - 47 posts

#question - 44 posts

#yuri!!! on ice fanfiction - 38 posts

#yuri!!! on ice - 37 posts

#fanfiction - 35 posts

#sailor moon fanfiction - 35 posts

#questions - 26 posts

#heavenly pearl - 19 posts

#reblogging for otabek's birthday - 14 posts

#recs - 13 posts

Longest Tag: 108 characters

#which is actually pretty fun because my mom got the idea to nickname me meg from jo's sister in little women

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

For my second fic for Sailor Moon Rare Pair Week, I wrote a Reinako fic!

Summary:  When Minako spends the night with Rei at Hikawa, secrets are revealed and confessions are made. (FF.net)

11 notes - Posted March 28, 2022

#4

So...this story originally began as an entry I wrote for the @smquickies2022 event a few months ago. The challenge was to write a sexy fic in a thousand words or less, which I managed to do...but I wasn’t particularly fond of the result, to be honest. The entry ended up focusing almost entirely on the sex to the exclusion of everything else, so I decided to expand the story for Smutember using the Day 16 prompt of “Something New” for the original @smutember event. It can also fit under the Week 3 prompts of “First Times” and “Friends With Benefits” of Sailor Moon Smutember, hosted by @floraone. (It wasn’t Setsuna’s first threesome, but it was Usagi’s and Mamoru’s.) 

Anyway, I’ve also included the original smquickies entry (Theme: Lace) as a bonus chapter for posterity, but there’s really no reason to read it if you’ve already read this chapter...unless you really are just interested in reading the smut part. In that case...have fun!

Summary:   Looking for something new to spice up their sex life after a thousand years of marriage, Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion invite their good friend Setsuna into their bed for a memorable night together. (FF.net)

13 notes - Posted September 16, 2022

#3

Get To Know

Thanks for the tag, @lou-is-lurking!

Rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know/catch up with

Last movie at home: I watched Hotel Transylvania 2 last night and will probably watch the third one later tonight.

Favorite color: Black (But I also love purple, blue, and deep red!)

Last song: “Oh, Holy Night” - Mariah Carey (Hey, it’s the eleventh day of Christmas -- don’t judge!)

Sweet, savory, or spicy: Hmm, it’s tough to decide between sweet or savory... Right now, I’m leaning savory.

Currently reading: Manga-wise, Knight of the Ice, Bakuman, Wotakoi: Love Is Hard For Otaku, and the last volume of Takane & Hana. As for fanfiction, the multiparts I’ve been actively reading lately are Beneath Your Beautiful (YOI) by EmHunter and Bunnycube, The Runner-Up (SM) by @daikon1, and Puppeteer (SM) by @floraone.

Currently working on: Final edits on my last two stories for YOI Rare Pair Week (Leo/Otabek and Minako/Celestino), a Chibi-Usa/Helios fic for @sailormoonrarepairweek, and a Victuuri fic for the YOI 18+ Discord server’s 2022 Winter Olympxxx event. Oh, and my YOI Big Bang.

Don’t feel obligated if you don’t want to, but tagging: @lilliebellfanfics, @quicksilverblue, @danni-bunny, @vchanny-og, @artimas, @teamvanessacloud, @venuscrescent, @moonlightusa, and @tinacentury.

13 notes - Posted January 5, 2022

#2

Here’s a cute Victuuri story I wrote for the 2021 Yuri!!! on Ice Big Bang! The artwork was drawn by the talented dreamin.lilo, who can be found on Instagram. Check out the story to see the other two adorable pieces of artwork!

Summary:  “Well, I’ve been thinking… Don’t you think it’s time we had a baby?”

Now that the two of them have officially retired from competitive skating, Yuuri is blindsided when his husband Viktor makes known his desire for a baby. He never even considered the idea of fatherhood before, but when Yuuko calls him last minute, desperate for someone to look after the ten-year-old triplets so she and Takeshi can celebrate their wedding anniversary, they’re given the opportunity for some first-hand experience taking care of children. (FF.net)

21 notes - Posted March 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Here's the first story I wrote for @sailormoonrarepairweek, featuring my all-time OTP, Chibi-Usa/Helios!

Summary: Helios has the ring in his pocket and a great speech prepared, but his plans for the perfect proposal keep falling through during his big anniversary date with Serenity. (FF.net)

23 notes - Posted March 27, 2022

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[komatsunana]

Hello there, do you know the name of Kurata's supervisor? The man with spiky black hair and a mustache who smokes? I looked on the wikia but it has nothing and in my reread I don't recall seeing the man's name. Also I hope I'm getting it right that he's Kurata's supervisor because Kurata seems to report to him, I don't even know the man's job position lol.

His last name is Kudo/Kudou, I don’t think he has a first name.  He is an editor at Search magazine and is specifically in charge of Blast and Trapnest tabloids, I think. He isn’t even the highest in the ranks at Search, just the scummiest lol.

[leondaltons]

Send this to the 12 nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get 5 back you must be pretty awesome. 💕💕💕💕💕💕

Vanessa you are literally an angel!!! Thank you so much my friend 💕💕💕

[chibiranmaruchan]

@teamvanessacloud

Never forget that, in the 1996 Sailor Stars musical, they straight up canonized that:

a) The Senshi have in fact been reincarnated multiple times

b) One of those times was in the Edo period of Japan

c) In that period, Usagi was reborn as a boy

d) Male Fishmonger Usagi and perverted Feudal Lord Mamoru instantly fell in love

[shadowsphere21]

Artbook Rei...you can find her in my NSFW artbook-in-progress A Chaotic Garden, which will be released sometime late this year or early next year.

Tonight

You will die in my arms

And I will scatter you among the stars

Where you will lay in ecstasy

Each breath is my name upon your lips

I was very inspired by Edo period Japan, in particular the Rinpa school of art (which I have always loved) both in the background and the calligraphy, and the geisha/oiran traditional makeup style. The kimono idea came from an old fanfiction I read eons ago where Jadeite gifted Rei a kimono during a period of captivity in the Dark Kingdom. Since the artbook follows a similar vein, I thought it would be interesting to put her in an original design that reflected the Chaos element, and symbolized Rei’s predicament within the Chaos realm. Rei’s obi is undone, and has it’s own symbolism that adds to the story of the kimono (although it’s hard to see). Her makeup is inspired the Kyoto-based photo studio Esperanto Kokoro Kyoto Okazaki, which specializes in traditional geisha and oiran costuming and makeup. I gave Rei the more elaborate oiran makeup design (given the NSFW themes of the artbook), which make her face really glow :D. The gold calligraphy reads right-to-left the original poem written above.

A better view of the kimono...

The process for the kimono design was a laborious one, with extensive research as to the symbolism of each floral and cosmic motif as well as the design of the kimono itself. Most kimono are organized to tell a picture story, and I’m trying to tell one with mine as it’s a chaos aspect in the art book. The ushiro-migoro (the main robe) is symbolic of the Chaos realm, with Rei being represented by the black spider lilies (Asiatic Hybrid), and the gold Phoenix, which is entangled by the Chinese dragon (my symbol for Shitennou of the East Jadeite, whom I personally associate with the Buddhist Shitennō Jikokuten, after much exhaustive research and anime/manga symbolism detangling to confirm this XD). Both the ushiro-migoro and the miyatsukuchi (the sleeves) have red spider lilies, which are associated with death, however in some contexts they can also have an erotic connotation. The fireflies that light up the entire kimono not only symbolize Rei (the fire element), but also death, which, along with the red spider lilies, is the underlying threat in this chaotic garden (I would like to extend a special thanks to @bowldeepfannish​ and @teamvanessacloud​ for helping me with the kimono motif symbolism!).

In this story the Dragon (Jadeite) and the Phoenix (Mars) are entwined together and one will either take the other out of the darkness, or one will drag the other into the darkness. Done in both Clip Studio Pro and Photoshop 2022.