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Hello, I am relativley new to Tumblr and messed up when creating my initial fandom blog, @ancientspirit2000. On that blog I couldn't follow or like other blogs/posts, so I'm starting over! I want to be able to support other artists/authors/fandom creators/etc.
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Landscape Painting
Meant for this to be a simple background, but now I’m 2.5 hours in and still going.
I haven’t even gotten to the characters yet lol, send help
Artwork created for @parameciam's fan fiction:
loving leads to bleeding
This artwork didn't get much attention in my first post, hidden behind the spoiler tag but it took me a long time to create, so I'm posting it as a separate post.
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Witch Hat Qiflings Each Represent a Pro-Brimmed Argument
Disclaimer: This isn't an argument for or against brimmed/pointed caps. I believe they're two extremes and in my experience, any extreme has problems.
***Manga Panel and minor spoilers ahead***
Hear me out:
Obviously, the manga has a gajilion Coco Brimmed Cap hints/parallels. She has an inate love for magic and both sides are trying to get them to choose their path and advocate against the other. Even though she's obviously aligned with the Pointed Caps, her whole story is still centered around that conflict. (There will be more on Coco in Agott's section.)
But then I saw this panel:
And, lowkey, the shape of the ribbons, had they just been a little higher, would look like a Brim around her hat, right? (Maybe I’m reaching, idk, but it reminded me of Ininia's hat.) Either way, it got me to thinking. Richeh’s whole motivation is anti-control. She doesn’t want to be forced into a box, always masking her true self until she loses sight of who she really is. It’s her worst nightmare.
What is Pointed Cap Society if not a box? A rather rigid box that you’re forced to confine yourself to or risk the memory nabbing grabby hands that literally make you forget who you are. The Brimmed Caps whole thing is largely a rebellion against this control.
After that I started thinking about the other two girls.
As of right now, we know the least about Tetia's orgins, and I'll be interested to see if/how her backstory plays into this, but we do know that her main motivation is to make people happy. This is reflected in everything she does, from the spells she invents to the way she wears her hair.
At first, she believes that Forbidden magic only ever hurts and Orthodox magiconly ever helps, but as the story progresses she's forced to ackowledge that it's not so cut and dry. In the Silver Eve arc, she starts to see all the ways the Pointed Caps limit her ability to make people happy. By the end of it, she very nearly gets in trouble for arguing against the healing ban TO the Knights Morales.
Last but not least, Agott.
Agott is, in a lot of ways, a foil to Coco
Coco was born an outsider. She was introduced to magic by a Brimmed cap and is in someway the child of Forbidden Magic. Their “Child of Hope”. Despite Pointed Cap society being set up specifically to keep outsiders out, Coco was given sanctuary there thanks to Qifrey. If things had been just a little different, it might have been Iguin who picked her up after the accident.
Agott is a direct decendent of one of the original Pointed Hat witches. She’s practically the poster child for Orthodox Magic, but was still rejected as being “not good enough.” Agott has repeatedly had the world of Brimmed Caps thrust upon her, despite being born into a position that would have kept her fairly separate from them.
The eyeball motif used to depict Agott’s trauma is also interesting. As far as I can remember, (and if I’m wrong, please let me know), the only other times we see this swirly/creepy eyeball motif is in relation to the Brimmed Caps. (Iguin/Sasaran’s outfits, the smoke surround Euini was made of swirly eyes) Part of me wonders if that’s purposeful symbolism.
To elaborate, Coco clings to PC rules because BC manipulation led to her mother being hurt by Forbidden Magic. Her main motivation is to save her mom. Agott chafes against the rules after being rejected by the PCs, (her mother among them). Her main motivation is to prover herself to her mom. Could that eyeball-esque flashback be the moment that drives Agott towards unorthodoxy in the same way that Iguin's negligence drove Coco away from it?
Although Agott has never done anything explicitly unorthodox, she yearns for power and strength and grows frustrated every time she's held back by the confines of time, her age, etc, even going so far as to notably fudge the rules and cast her beacon spell in front of outsiders before her second test. She frequently mentions being dissastisfied with her current self and wanting to become greater, stronger, and more capable.
Sasaran noticed and spoke on this during their confrontation: "...the [Pointed Caps] of today are feeble, too afraid to grasp at true power. Thanks to them, you languish in the confines of their petty constricting rules." (And honestly, that whole interaction was so creepy and could be paralleled with Coco and Easthies' first meeting. Restraining a little kid and forcing your will upon them is NOT a good look. Also, funnily enough both attempts were thwarted by anti-control Richeh.)
Anyway, just some of my observations. As always, Shirahama is a genius and I am so excited to see where the story goes.
Mechanical pencil and finger smudge drawing for fun
I don’t have a ton of experience with traditional art but I was bored and my iPad was dead so we made do
Drawing based on a picture of Leah Chase (New Orleans “Queen of Creole”)
“Just when you think that the road’s straight ahead, is when the devil shows up on your dashboard again.” - Dashboard, Noah Kahan
Something about Jiang Cheng being obsessively, painfully unable to look away while WWX is too tired of it all to even look at him.
(This is technically a WIP in that it’s part of a bigger project, but this slide is complete.)
Whoops didn’t realize I forgot Jiang Cheng’s braid 😅 it was in the sketch and everything. So correction: this slide is 98% complete.
Braid obtained 🥳
GENUINELY WHAT THE FUCK DOES “not all aspec people are LGBT:)” SUPPOSED TO MEAN. WHAT THE FUCK. CISHETERO DEMI OR GRAY-ACE/ARO OR ACE/AROFLUX PEOPLE ARE QUEER. BY DEFINITION THEY ARE QUEER. THERE’S NO ASTERISK AFTER THE A IN LGBTQIA+ AND YOU KNOW WHY. BECAUSE YOU DON’T GET TO EXCLUDE INHERENTLY QUEER PEOPLE AND EXPERIENCES FROM THE DISCUSSION. FUCK YOU.
Katara, Sokka and Parentification
Small ramble because I find this topic really interesting and also have personal experience.
With the surge of new ATLA content, I've seen a lot of renewed discourse on Katara's character. Some people see her as annoying and immature, while others view her as maternal and strong-willed. Here's my take: she is all of the above. One of my favorite things about ATLA is how complex each of the main kids is. They're all traumatized, and that presents differently in each of them. Katara is no exception. She has control issues, lacks emotional regulation, and struggles to express herself effectively. She feels responsible for the group's emotional well-being and frequently tries to mediate and/or guide the others, sometimes stepping on their toes or creating conflict herself.
Parentification is frequently brought up in relation to Katara. Parentification is when a child is placed in the role of an adult, expected to care for and protect other children and/or the actual parents.
I saw a video recently - Unfortunately, I forgot to save it, and I couldn't find it in my history anywhere, so I can't link it - but it brought up an additional point. This creator said he didn't see Katara's supposed maternal qualities and instead believed Sokka was the parentified child in their family.
I believe they were both parentified. Sokka was placed in the role of a chief. He was responsible for the entire village's safety, in a way he would never have been able to accomplish on his own. He had no training and no resources, but his dad left him in charge, and he took that incredibly seriously. He became paranoid and overly critical of everyone around him because if people didn't follow the plan, they could be hurt, and he would have failed.
Katara, on the other hand, was responsible for Sokka. She took care of him and tried to counsel him when he got too caught up in his head. This likely led to more fights than anything, but if she didn't call out his flaws, who would?
The thing I see most people forget in this debate is that parentification DOES NOT equal maturity. It sets you up for failure. Anyone who tells a kid that they're "mature for their age" forgets that the definition of mature is "fully grown, aged, or developed."
Ergo, No child is mature.
Being forced to grow up gives you a facsimile of maturity, but the difference can be likened to that of a trained martial artist and someone who learned to fight because the only alternatives were to get the crap beat out of them or die. It's not maturity, it's pattern recognition and a need to survive and keep the people around you alive.
Parentified kids are very rarely good at the roles they're placed in, and ATLA's depiction of Katara and Sokka illustrates this perfectly. They're both just doing their best and trying to keep everyone alive in the only ways they know how. Katara gets jealous of Aang's talent because she's a kid who's had to fight for everything she has. She fights with Toph because Toph is difficult to control, and that makes her hard to protect. Sokka has to unlearn several unhealthy/prideful thought patterns early on. He makes dumb mistakes and tries to ineffectively micromanage each step of their journey, bringing a lot of hardship on himself in the process.
All in all, they're complex, relatable characters, and I love the writers for that.
“Everything you see out here will die. It’s just a matter of time.” - Noah Kahan; End of August
There’s something about young WWX and JC running around Lotus Pier as kids that makes me really fricken emotional.
Twin Prides of Yunmeng: The Great Divide
“Everything you see out here will die. It’s just a matter of time…” -End of August, Noah Kahan
Idk if someone has done this already - (I wouldn't be suprised considering how absurdly Jiang Cheng coded Noah Kahan's new album is) - but this is a redraw of The Great Divide album cover with young Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian running around Lotus Pier.
OG album reference:
Richeh's Nightmare
“I don’t want to become a witch who isn’t Richeh. Richeh wants to be Richeh.”
I wish I had had half her bravery when I was a kid but I leaned more towards the Euini side of the spectrum.
I really believe this manga/anime is one of the best out there. The levels of representation are off the charts.
Witch Hat Atelier Manga Thoughts. (No Spoilers)
Hot take: Witch Hat Atelier has some of the best writing I’ve ever seen in the genre of “kids fighting adult battles.”
The energy around protecting the children is SO much more clear cut than other stories like MHA. (Just an example.) Like no, you can’t always keep them from danger but you CAN acknowledge that it’s the adults responsibility to protect them as much as possible.
Plus all the disability representation is absolutely amazing. And the WAY they do it is some of the best disability representation in media that I’ve personally come across. It’s layered and complex and the writing looks at it from many different viewpoints.
MXY and XY in Ch 4 of Fate's Gift
“Plus you have these cute little chubby cheeks like a mouse.”
Art for Chapter 2 of my fic “Fate’s Gift: the Demon’s Wings”
Concept:
Mo Xuanyu survives the Sacrificial Ritual, but now shares a body with the infamous Yiling-Laozu.
Excerpt:
Their head swiveled from side to side as the Yiling-Laozu observed their surroundings. It was interesting. Feeling the way his mind worked. Though there was a degree of separation that kept him from knowing the exact conclusions being drawn, Xuanyu could sense the unique blend of logic, intuition, curiosity, and imagination that lent to the clever genius this man had been rumored to possess in life.
“Well, first things first,” the man said, after several breaths, “what should I call you? ‘Guy-who-dragged-me-back-to-the-land-of-the-living’ is a bit of a mouthful.”
If Xuanyu had still been in the “driver’s seat,” so to speak, he’d have blushed in embarrassment. You’d think that his mother hadn’t drilled propriety and manners into him from near-infancy in preparation for his father’s world. In his defense, the whole “waking up post-suicidal ritual with a new mental bunkmate who also happens to be THE most notorious dead man in recent history” thing kind of threw a spoke in the wheel of his ability for rational thought.
Fate’s Gift: The Demon’s Wings
Current: 4/? chapters - 19,403 words
Richeh’s Nightmare (sketch)
“Richeh just wants to be Richeh”
Finished drawing coming tomorrow
