Hello! I’m Draco! || all pronouns! shake it up! || triple A mess (agender, aromantic, asexual) || Art requests open! || Just here to draw and vibe :) Message me if you're interested in commissions!
Well, hello there! I’m Draco, and I just like to draw :))
こんにちは！ 僕はドレイコ、絵を書くのが好き :)) 日本語がとくくないけど、話せる。よろしく！
I have way too many personal projects, and will rotate through art, writing, music- whatever I happen to be feeling like.
I am OPEN TO COMMISSIONS if anyone is interested! DM me or email at [email protected] and we can chat!
project tags:
chasing thunder - comic about 5 adventures uncovering a terrifying secret and trying their best to make it out alive, abbr. "ct". previously known as "cigam magic" (I haven't gone back and changed it yet)
ash and thorn and sea - book about an ex-pirate and the curse she's trapped under, abbr. "ats"
steps through time - series of illustrations (and maybe comics? haven't decided yet) of the Goddess of Time
Other tags explained under the cut.
Relevant links:
Art Fight:
An art trading game
Bluesky:
Hi, I'm Draco! They/them, just here to hang out and draw :))
Have a nice day!
Actual Tag Directory; tags that I try to always include when relevant to the post for my own categorizing
draco talks - I speak in the actual post
draco reblogs - someone else started it
draco doodles - me drawings
draco writes - don't really use much but when I write
b a b y - cute animals
made me laugh - the funnies
stories - usually actual humans doing shenanigans
writing - fiction/fully written narratives. crispness may vary
people are good - heartwarming and/or silly people loving each other and the world around them
reference - art/writing/creative references
resources - not directly creative; useful in other ways
answered - MY asks that have been answered by someone else. other people's asks generally just go in "draco talks," although sometimes they get "ask" as well
*some tags are occasionally used as blankets for other things tangential to them; snakes encompasses reptiles in general usually and history sometimes is used in place of culture although I haven't been doing that so much.
it's a little chaotic but it's fairly usable, for me at least. trying to get it more under control but eh
Sorry I'm not over the framing of Hadestown as a cyclical story. This is an old, old song, but we're gonna sing it again. We've been singing it for hundreds, probably thousands of years. It is the oldest surviving opera, the second ever written. It is, I cannot express this enough, the most common opera adaptation of all time. As soon as this story existed we were putting it to music and on a stage. This is an old, old song. And we're gonna sing it again. Because we love to sing. And because we love.
SORRY for being crazy (but also not) but i love how eurydice being portrayed by a black actress gives a completely new layer to chant reprise (Hang a chain around her throat / Made of many karat gold / Shackle her from wrist to wrist… Bind her…) in playing opposite to a white orpheus, who is being told by the white capitalist hades… the layering of both misogyny and racism. of owning another person so completely. the misogynoir on complete display. the way jack wolfe plays orpheus as wholly disgusted at hades’ words. it’s the prison industrial complex. it’s the music and language already directly influenced by african american culture; the vernacular, the jazz, swing, working class people living under the thumb of a white person who gets rich off their labour. the environmental racism. euridicye can’t remember the last time she saw a flower. hades is destroying her home, polluting the air, digging up the earth until he literally buries her inside of it.
don’t get me started on persephone also being black. that’s a whole other thing i could go into.
You know what they shoulda left Yao saying “I won’t have anyone on my crew who doesn’t want to be there” in the movie. I think it’s integral to the themes. Yknow, there’s always someone in your corner when you least expect it. People are willing to defend those they know relatively little. Love is a powerful force etc etc
Like having dictator of the world tell u ur fucking going to space whether u like it or not is scary and then thinking god fucking Christ no one will even protest this bc they too must all think I’m a coward is even scarier but no. One guy did protest it. Stratt even directly addressed that the amnesia wasn’t even just for graces sake but to prevent Yao and Ilyukhina’s anger at that act from disrupting the mission. Okay bye
Musicals are time loops. Every night, the same thing happens except for a few minor differences. It always ends the same. If you want the characters to do something different or to make better choices, too bad. The actors are bound by the script and the score. The only way for the time loop to end is for the show to close. But you (the audience) don't want the show to close, nor do the actors who would like to be employed. It's a lose/lose situation. For the actors, audience, technicians, and for the characters, who are forever stuck in the same stretch of time.
Musicals are time loops. Every night, the same thing happens except for a few minor differences. It always ends the same. If you want the characters to do something different or to make better choices, too bad. The actors are bound by the script and the score. The only way for the time loop to end is for the show to close. But you (the audience) don't want the show to close, nor do the actors who would like to be employed. It's a lose/lose situation. For the actors, audience, technicians, and for the characters, who are forever stuck in the same stretch of time.
what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck
