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[COMMISSIONS OPEN] ☕Ko-Fi : https://ko-fi.com/atchela ☄️It's a side blog ! Ghost centered. Held by this french musicoholic illustrator Atchela Wander (@atchela-wander). You can call me Atchela, Alex or Lex. Any pronouns. Ask/message me! I won't eat you with my daily baguette, wine and camembert~☄️ (pp by me // Header: Ryan C., Nice ritual 2023 💙)

[atchela-wander]

Ghost lovers,

My fanarts as prints !

Here you can directly access my blog page listing all the artworks currently available ! I recommand you the basic prints, since it’s the only one I’ve been able to test.

If you order a print… Send me a photo when you get it ! 🤗

For people on app: https://atchela-wander.tumblr.com/prints

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Oh yeah- reminder that I have these portraits for sale.

I made them some years ago for valentine day. I've sold the Papa Emeritus II variant, still have these two. They're taking space, in the dark. Poor things.

Send me a DM if interested. ✌️✨

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Papa Emeritus III is SOLD ! Thank you ! 🫶✨

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Aaaand Copia is reserved. Which means I'll start a wait-list.

Note for the wait list: if the person I'm holding the painting for ends up not taking it, I'll contact people on the wait list on a first-come first-served principle. If the 1st says "no" or "idk", I'll go to the 2nd, etc... Until someone tells me "yup, I'm taking it !".

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Oh yeah- reminder that I have these portraits for sale.

I made them some years ago for valentine day. I've sold the Papa Emeritus II variant, still have these two. They're taking space, in the dark. Poor things.

Send me a DM if interested. ✌️✨

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Papa Emeritus III is SOLD ! Thank you ! 🫶✨

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Oh yeah- reminder that I have these portraits for sale.

I made them some years ago for valentine day. I've sold the Papa Emeritus II variant, still have these two. They're taking space, in the dark. Poor things.

Send me a DM if interested. ✌️✨

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

I feel nostalgic opening Tumblr again, even more this side blog.

I've lost some of my interest in Ghost.

I still love the band, I still listen to their sounds, I saw them live last year in Lyon and it was still amazing. But idk about y'all but... For some time now, Ghost felt less like a music band and more like a product some marketing fuckers want to shove down my throat so I've withdrawn from almost everything link to the band aside from my records.

I mean- everytime I was opening social medias and wanted to look up stuff about them I only saw another vinyl re-press, another merch piece, and most of my mutu aren't around there either anymore. I tried to make new mutus by the past and failed (my introverted ass isn't helping to be honest).

So, yeah. I've had fanart sketches gathering dust for years now. Maybe taking requests could light up the spark again...? If you're a fanartist (illustrator, writer, etc) drop a 👋 and let's be mutu if you'ld like maybe.

[atchela-wander]

Someone wanted to see Papa III wearing Cardinal Copia’s outfit.

I finally managed to finish this drrrawing! (clic/open in a new tab for better resolution)  This fanart show how much I need to create a secondary blog… Oh. ‘Seems like I actually did : @a-wandering-ghoulette . (there’ll be doodles, I may do request and post random things about this addictive band during my free time)

I hope you enjoy this drawing as much as I enjoyed creating it! Obviously free to use, for personal use only (phone wallpaper, profil pic, print them and put them on your walls…) . If you repost, please, credit me and don’t remove the signature. Ok? Thanks! ♥

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

I woke up this morning with 50+ notifications from my dead Tumblr app.

Glad to see people are still discovering and liking this one. 🫶✨

Hope y'all are doing ok.

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Hey there. Are there still people around here..? 😶‍🌫️

My gosh. Just woke up (it's 8am when I'm writing this) from one of the best dream I had in a long time. Ghost had a great part in it. Look... I've been in a fucking huge "creative depression". Some will call that art block. I don't believe in that. But what's sure is that I struggle to create anything despite my will to, despite all the ideas I got. Why's that ? Work, having to do that shitty retail job which luckily isn't that bad thanks to my boss and most of my colleagues who are all angels but... But shit, I come home I'm exhausted. Add to that my family situation that is CRAP, aka I got panic attack everytime one of my parents contact me which isn't normal so I recently started to see a therapist and ask them to stop contacting me... Hell.

The past few days I was slipping deeper. But I woke up this morning feeling... Grateful. I dreamed I went to a very private show of Ghost with some of my closest friends. There also was in the crowd people I met during some of the shows I actually attended. The show was cool (as ever with Ghost), a kind of acoustic session a bit like what they've done during Meliora's era. And at the end of the show, I started to feel a strong sens of belonging. One that I've been lacking a damn lot lately irl... Everyone in the crowd were so cool, the staff of the venue were so kind with everyone (like one of them was offering coffee to people who wanted to ? Don't ask, it's a damn dream krrrr). TF who was endorsing Popia's role in my dream gave people goodies. And... Idk. The interaction I got with him just warmed my heart. And I woke up the moment a staff member of the band come to me to tell me to give them my email 'cause TF recognized me and wanted to send me a contract for some merch illustrations.

So I woke up. And I was- like... Wtf ? And how do I go back into that damn dream ?? ;;

Anw. 2025 is almost done. I struggle to draw anything right now. I've lost some of my fire. But I'm still there. I wished I could draw more... Including Ghost stuff.

[stay-flex]

26-07-2025 memory for @/_lee.hyang_ on Instagram who requested Felix !

🫶💙✨

Made with CSP and After Effects.

[goth-queen]

when ur spooky but also super cute & sweet (me)

[cenotaphghuleh]

There's only one correct answer here 🤭

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Y'all. I'm finishing a commission then I'll finally draw Perpetua.

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Lmao look at me lying in 4k !

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Saw that article from 2022 Metal Hammer just promoted again on Instagram about Mary On A Cross.

I'm still baffled at how misunderstood this song is (and the hypocrisy of the haters when it was at its peak of popularity omfg), when I always listened to it as a comforting and empowering song in some way ?

(and the whole passage about how Mary isn't necessarily Jesus' mother- gosh in years I've been interacting then lurking in the fandom the narrow vision of some people is one of the things that brushed me off the most and kinda made me lose my will to interact with the fandom-)

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Je fête mes 7 ans sur Tumblr 🥳

🧓

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

I'm so angry lately. The world's on fire, as a french I've been ultra tensed because of the freedom flotilla and our dumbass government being absolute shit on so many levels, I really want to drift en Dacia dans la cours de l'Élysée. I'm so angry that I let go of some steam by arguing online with dumb metalheads and their brainrot K-pop fan-like behavior. Spoiler: it doesn't work.

Anw. Happy pride. 🏳️‍🌈✨Went to the walk in my city yesterday and some people spotted me and were happy to meet another fellow enby. I wasn't wearing a pin or a flag or anything. They just understood my vibe. 🤧

(And no heat toward K-pop fans, it's just that it makes metalheads very ouin-ouin when you make this comparison. Ironic when you know they're the masters of crappy comparison. The last I saw was: Sleep Token is closest to maroon five than Black Sabbath and Slayer. So many things to say about this one alone...)

[lilspacewolfie]

GHOST & Fredrik Åkesson & Eric Ericsons Kammarkör || Bohemian Rhapsody @ Polar Music Prize.

ft. Papa having several moments™

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Tobias singing Bohemian Rhapsody : everyone can argue that there are better covers all they want, but he didn't butcher it. People who are sucking up goulûment TF's perfo and the one hating it are both drama queens.

When I listened to his take, sometimes I was like "iiiih- feels a bit off but he did manage that part" and sometimes it was truly satisfying to hear sang by him (if you enjoy his voice I guess, ofc his voice's colors aren't for everyone but saying it's crap... Chill). But in the end we're all fucking biased anw.

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

I don't know if any of you are against the no phone policy in current Ghost's shows.

I'm all for it.

Guys. Being able to get front row and get to sing along with Papa at 100% of your capacities when he stops by where you stand; when one of the ghouls come over and you get to interact with them without stressing about how the video looks like- this is so amazing. Even if you're not front row (last show I went to I was far from the stage, seated) damn this is a SHOW y'all ! There is so much to look at and enjoy- and a huge quality of Ghost live: the energy is as good close to the stage than away from it.

I'm not against phones at shows. If it's your way to enjoy the moment, so be it. But I understand the band's pov on it. Idk, when you share something you love with people who enjoy the same thing, it's kinda sad to see them doing something else at the same time. That connexion (as TF talks about in interviews) isn't there, or you can't feel it, you know ? Plus I think we just can't imagine how it must feel to be up stage and see a sea of phones pointed at you.

I hear the "I don't want to forget about what I saw !" point. I get it. I have a shitty memory myself. But, you know. Even if I can't replay my memories like a movie in my mind, I still get the vibe. I know what I saw, how it made me feel, and thinking about it is enough to make me happy. I don't need to rewatch it. I need to experience it again.

[a-wandering-ghoulette]

Fuck.

I was doing some cleaning in my papers (administrative shit and misc other stuff) and I found back my 'emotional support' binder.

(lot of blabla under - from basic 'old fan' stuff, recalling Tobias first TV appearance unmasked to mental health things. if you're struggling with mental health it could help or trigger you, idk. I don't go in details about anything but CW! just in case. Anw, know that my DM are open if you need someone to talk to. You're not alone sweetheart.)

It's a thing I made years ago when I was deep into depression after something like 2 years after graduating from my design and communication degree and struggling to find a job (even outside of the comm and design field, like, retail), having absolutely no support from my parents with whom I was forced to live with else I would have been homeless, in a city I didn't know, far away from my friends (in a at-the-other-side-of-the-country way).

I put a lot of silly stuff in it along with writings about how I felt (it's damn dark omfg). It succeeded in making some joy sparkle in my little cold heart during anxiety filled insomnias back then.

And so it has a Ghost section. I remember making the top one pic myself. I've known Ghost since 2013 or so ? But it's in 2018 with Prequelle that I've been hooked. My mental health has been in a rush downward since my birth, truly. It started getting pretty bad in middle school. Countless time I've been down, like, damn down. And in 2018, while I was working to get my useless degree, it wasn't my darkest time from what I recall, but far from being bright either. And Prequelle was what I needed to find a new spark of something at the moment. That's why this album is still my personal fav' (even tho I love Infestissumam and Meliora so damn much too, and Impera grew on me, and Opus Eponymous is a damn vibe, and Skeletà kinda feel like the sequel of Prequelle but also Meliora , kinda the pic point of the whole disco I guess iykwim). And connecting with the fandom, even tho I've never been the most active member, helped me so damn much. That's why I had to put some shitghost memes here.

There's also a page filled with the first official Tobias Forge pics we had back in... 2019 ? Jeez- I remember being both happy and worried to see him make his first TV appearance unmasked at Quotidien back then, knowing it would be kinda catastrophic because of the lead line the show usually follows when a hard rock/metal artist come (they HAD TO make fun of the metal community by showing him their footage of people showing their asses at Hellfest, they did it to our boys from Gojira too), but also so damn happy to have the honor to see him at one of France's most pop tv show.

Not to sound cliché or come out with having daddy issues but I remember crying over interviews of Tobias talking about his parenthood and what he was wishing for his kids and I was like- jeez. I wished I had at least one of my parents being like him lmao. I clearly remember him saying that ofc I wish his babies would get down a secured way through life BUT he would also do whatever it takes to support them if they ever happen to pursue a creative

So yeah. Made me kinda nostalgic, but in a "ah, damn, fortunately this is all in the past now". Some of you that I know are still hanging around here talked with me during that time... And thank you, friends. Thank you so much.