#thepurpah

[heilos]

Some gift art for @thepurpah of her Vtuber fairy character. Honestly such a gorgeous design and I really really like how the wings turned out. Trying to scale back on over-shading my art too much.

[dri-queenie-main]

Just fast passed for Suitor Armor and I am never fast passing again I was blindsided af by the S2 finale (ofc it was really good but DAMN)

[sharkelberrystraw]

update on my last post, i caved and made a playlist bc i’m actually going insane 😭

^^^the link incase by some magical forces someone wants to listen to it

[oakydeer]

✨🦷What sharp teeth you have…🦷✨

Halloween commission for @thepurpah 🫀

[viviskull]

@makima-s-most-smile | Accepting

😮 ; What is your favorite thing about your muse? Vivi

((To keep it short and simple, since I'd probably write several walls worth of how much I love about my icy muse? One thing I love about Vivi is despite being pretty off the walls and quite an intense character she can be with playing around with other people around her, she can be quite the most loving and in tune person when it comes to caring about those around her. She knows she can be a handful. She knows she does push people's buttons when she has her loud personality to push against another with the intent on keeping herself authentic as possible. However, she also knows when to tone it down a little when she sees if someone might get upset or accidentally hurt by her intensity.

Vivi wants to have fun with her friends, with her entire being just being loving and all. She gets super intense when she gets happy or excited. Not everyone can handle that, but she tries to be flexible where possible while trying not to water down herself for anyone. If she likes you? She wants you around and you will know it. She's an oddball, but sometimes you gotta love them for what they are though.))

[vesprynna]

Fav webtoon couple number two are Lucia and Modeus from Suitor Armor by @thepurpah 🥰🌷

I'm so excited for the return of SA in March 🤩✨

[rachelillustrates]

My top 7 Faerie stories/worlds atm 🦋

**Note, I am super dupes aware that I haven't read/watched everything, so please feel free to reblog/comment with recommendations!**

Faerie is the pulse of my heart, and my mind/spirit/etc. spends a LOT of time thinking about it, SO here's the most resonant of depictions of the realm/faeries themselves in my current opinion (and why).

(And not in any particular order:)

Elfhame, @hollyblack 's "Folk of the Air" series and all related books

Arda, Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and all related adaptations

"Suitor Armor" by @thepurpah

Studio Ghibli's take on spirits in Japanese folklore

Brian and Wendy Froud's take on Faerie

"Fraggle Rock"

"Tock the Gnome," by myself!

Thoughts:

(Art by Rovina Cai, from "How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories")

I feel very much that Holly Black gets the lushness and richness of Faerie, plus the trickery of it, and that level of dangerous beauty - what attracts humanity to it, etc. How everything is in extremes, too, but also how parts of it echo the human experience - both in terms of courts, but also in terms of the heart, and the emotional impact of intense circumstances and intense feelings.

I am, admittedly, not all caught up yet since I haven't read her earlier works, but of course I recommend starting with "The Cruel Prince" and reading forward from there (the more recent "Stolen Heir Duology" having an extra special place in my esteem)!

(Also special shoutout to the fact that there are Nisse - Gnomes! - in the recent books, AND that her take on Redcaps is absolutely Orcish 💚)

(Also also, cw: Changelings. They can be a triggering/upsetting subject, considering how our concept of them as humans seems to have come about. She does make pretty heavy use of them, but not in the ways that one might expect, and always from a very emotionally-centered space - not a humans-abusing-potential-fae space.)

So, Tolkien - yes, I am including the world of his works in this because even though he considered them religious and specifically-denominational, he took SO MUCH inspiration from folklore and faerie tales (do not even get me started on what got edited out of "The Silmarillion" istg) that Arda is not wholly Christian, from my Faerie-worshiping queer-ass faerie perspective thankyouverymuch. Not to mention what is being done in fandom with the faerie-races, especially the Dwarves and the Hobbits, AND what recent adaptations are opening up with the Orcs!! Obviously, his take on Faerie is a much more literally-grounded reality - they exist in the Earth-based world (as if Faerie has bled into what we expect Earth to be), they have magic (at least the Elves and Dwarves do) but it's both somehow super ethereal and super physical at once. And divinely connected, since the biggest magic in Middle-earth (or any part of Arda) comes from the lesser Gods - the Valar, and the Maiar who serve under them as well as from Big Sky Daddy Eru, but we're not talking about him right now. So that, to me, really speaks to the spiritual nature of Faerie too - which is always always always personally interesting to me, and Jrrt's take on the fae was absolutely foundational in my budding concept of them, before I even really thought about who they are in a conscious way.

I don't know where to recommend starting, since I got into the world through the Jackson films, first, and I wouldn't change my experience for anything because it's given me SO much. But in fandom, shoutout to the works of @conkers-thecosy (read her fics here!) as well as "A Long List of Happy Endings" by vicious_summer and "The Mushroom Mine" series by @chrononautintraining for Dwarf Stuff - and "Splint" by HelenaMarkos for Orc Stuff. Plus, as much as I know it's divisive, "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is - again - doing wonders about the Orcs AND doing very well by the Dwarves too, in my opinion, showing them as a fully realized and thriving people (though Dwarf women should still have beards, Amazon!! And there seems to be some confusion around how the name of Durin functions...)!! Available to stream on Prime, here.

"Suitor Armor" takes place in a world that appears very similar to medieval Earth, and as such the worldbuilding itself doesn't feel very specifically Faerie - yet. However, with the main character having significant ties to the fae, and with the story still having space to explore their culture once the tale takes the characters there, I have faith that we are gonna see more of this take on Faerie specifically soon. In the meantime, what we have seen so far - how faerie magic works, how they relate to each other, etc. - rings true for me, and is lovely to behold, especially in the face of the tragedy around their circumstances in the Big Plot.

Free to read here (and coming to bookshelves in 2025!!).

As for Studio Ghibli - Miyazaki's take on the spirits of Japanese folklore - which are absolutely Faerie - was SO formative for me growing up. I don't have anything else to say about that except that he's right!!

I recommend "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro," particularly. All available to stream on Max right now (but buying physical media is better, and they're very likely available to rent other places, too).

Brian and Wendy Froud's work has, of course, also been absolutely formative for me - especially when I started getting into Faerie properly. Their work doesn't require much commentary either - they're just correct 💗 Nothing I've experienced has ever contradicted what I've read in their books, and I feel like their work really, really gets the energy of the fae and the liminality of their existence. And that there is kindness, and light, as well as danger.

I recommend "Trolls" and "Faeries' Tales," to start with, and of course the quintessential "Faeries" by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, which started it all.

(Also, considering what's below, special honorary shoutout to their work on "The Dark Crystal." Definite overlap there and absolutely counts.)

Obviously there's some crossover with The Muppets here, considering they come from the same studio, BUT if we're looking at just "Fraggle Rock" on its own - absolutely. Though a very different take than those mentioned above, if you're looking for the whimsy and delight at the heart of the fae, the Fraggles have it.

Both the original series and the reboot are currently available to stream on AppleTV.

Okay, and my own! What I'm doing with the world of "Tock the Gnome" is a little bit different - again, we're looking at a realm that isn't free from some of the physical bounds we find on Earth - but in its vast history there is Faerie at its purest, and the characters are on a Big Quest that will be instrumental in restoring the realm to what one would expect of Faerieland (all wrapped up in a body-positive, sapphic-presenting queer romance, btw). My focus is on Gnomes and Orcs, in particular, since the fact that they're also fae is a big part of my message. Recognizing that, as well as recognizing the importance of connectedness between people and the balance of that and personal sovereignty, and how damage to those things might impact the whole of a magical realm.

All pages available to read for free here, across several platforms (with print issues available here).

🦋💗🦋👏👏

[ryanmaniulit]

✧ 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙚 ✧

SDCC exclusive print made to promote the upcoming Dungeons & Dragon's Webtoon collab that I am cocreating with @thepurpah :)

[xxartgeek13xx]

Fanart for my FAVORITE comic Suitor Armor by @thepurpah 💜 :)

Character: Lucia 🦋

[thepurpah-moved]

MOVED

Hey all! 

I am trying to become more active on Tumblr what with all social media shuffling (stupid X), but after looking through this blog and the sheer number of posts and how it would take me forever to organize and archive stuff I have just elected to move blogs for a fresh, clean start!

This blog will still be here as it has a lot of memories and old art but I will be posting over on my new Tumblr (over at @thepurpah) from here on out!

[vanessaramadrama]

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Once I had this idea it wouldn’t leave me alone. Lucia’s LITERALLY a fairy.

Characters belong to @thepurpah . Based on the John William Waterhouse painting

[yuramec]

I don't have a bunny OC so I borrowed

@thepurpah ´s bun-girl, Kinshu .This is her year after all !

[saunau]

Art inspired by the comic Suitor Armor by @thepurpah

[toastmgoats]

Hey @thepurpah I love ur webtoon Suitor Armor sooo much I'd love to talk. Turn on ur location I just wanna talk that's all 🙃

[viviskull]

[will-do-anything-for-a-dollar]

I JUST READ THE FINALE OF SUITOR ARMOR????

WHAT THE HELL???????!!??!

WHAT AM I TO DO?????

I VERY AUDIBLY SHOUTED AND GASPED

THREW MY TABLET IN SHOCK

@thepurpah ARE YOU MENTALLY OKAY??