Cleanne Art

New Art Blog - Visual novel dev - Webtoon Artist - OC Artist - Current interests: The Hundred Line, Pokemon, Otome games, Epic

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For the Nakahiro Summer Week on Twitter! Day 5: Date Day

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My OCs Rayan & Roméo and Rayan & Diane from my visual novel: what WILL.remain();

They're holding the queerplatonic relationship flag!

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These characters are from my visual novel "what WILL.remain();" (still in development)

I drew Rayan (the protagonist) with four gifts given by each character: Liam - Love letter ✉️ Diane - Chocolate hearts🍫 Romeo - Dog plush 🐶 Will - Flower bouquet 💐

The visual novel focus on platonic / queerplatonic relationships as the protagonist is demi aroace!

(Liam won't have a route in the actual game, it's pretty much just fanservice that I drew sometimes on the side)

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PLA Anniversary Week Day 6 - Free @pla-anni-week

When you first encounter Volo at the beginning of the game I thought his smile was a bit sus, but then he sends out his togepi and then I thought it was so cute that I let my guard down. Doesn't help he is friendly throughout the whole game!

Anyway I enjoyed Pokemon Legends Arceus a lot, and this character is one of the main reason!

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🎄My holidays illustration with my OCs (from left to right): Roméo, Liam, Rayan, Diane, Will & Héléna

Roméo is chilling with his dog, Will is talking about his hyperfixation (plants) to Héléna, Diane is helping Liam to kiss Rayan under the mistletoe, and Chouchou is hiding inside a gift box 🎁

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ah yes.... aotsuki nagito and komaeda eito

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big day for fujos who can afford a nintendo switch

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(Commission) Alastor in his ace outfit!

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Pocky Day 2023 & 2025 with my OC Liam (purple haired guy) & Rayan (eyepatch guy)

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Whatchu think of that Penelope of Sparta movie in production?

Idk much about it— I think it’ll be cute and I like the art style. But I am worried Penelope will be mischaracterized, and that that mischaracterization will become mainstream interpretation.

Penelope fights with her cunning mind and clever tongue. Her weaving is symbolic of this, of her intelligence. Her epithets are “wise,” “prudent,” blameless.” I know of no accounts in greco-roman mythology of penelope wielding a spear, I feel like there’s a lot of different myths that would fit this soldier-but-woman narrative they want. There are plenty accounts of women wielding weaponry. The Amazons—could have a story about Hippolyta, or Penthesilea. If they felt like the amazons were overdone in media (which. Cmon), Atalanta participated in the Calydonian boar hunt. I think she’s a really fascinating character and would be well received. They could even write about Clytemnestra or Medea.

I guess my point is: A lot of “girl power/empowering women” media just place a masculine role upon women while still shaming and disregarding typically feminine traits. I hope they don’t do that here. And if that is what they want to do, why on earth did they choose penelope???

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I find it deeply ironic that The Odyssey, an over 2000 year old epic poem, that was written in a time period that was no doubt more patriarchal and misogynistic than today on average, managed be more "feminist" (putting feminist in quotes because the concept of feminism as a political movent did not exist back then) in it's writing of Penelope, where her strength was directly tied to her womanhood, where her femininity was in fact her strength, not her weakness, compared to quote unquote feminist retellings or au's that position Penelope as a warrior, inadvertently implying that she is strong despite or in spite of her womanhood, or because she rejected the traditionally feminine, and instead assign her strength to what could be considered toxicly masculine ideals of strength (that the only way for a character to be strong, man or woman, is for them to be physically capable of fighting, emotionally stoic, etc.)

And this not to say that women cannot or should not be warriors or the like, they absolutely should! But more so that *only* having women be shown as strong through our still horrifically misogynistic ideal of strength that equates what is viewed as traditionally masculine with said strength creates a dichotomy where the traits that are the opposite (and as such viewed as feminine) are then presented as weaknesses. It gets worse when a feminine character (because this does not just apply to women, but to any character that would be considered feminine or presented as feminine by the text) is either assumed weak by the audience despite the opposite being presented or, because of those traits (as is often the case with female characters) have their entire character overhauled to better suit what we as a (western) culture associate with strength, which also is what we associate with masculinity.

I guess it is just frustrating to see people be so...dismissive of Penelope's actual accomplishments in the Odyssey solely due to the fact that they where not achieved with weaponry or physical strength. She *is* strong! She doesn't need to be able to wield a spear for that to be true, she doesn't have to be emotionally stoic for that to be true. Hell, *Odysseus* himself, who does more closely fulfill traditional ideals of strength, is not emotionally stoic! He weeps, he is afraid, he loses himself to anger, but never does the text present him as weak for these emotions! Neither does the text present Penelope as weak for hers!

Idk, just stop trying to put characters into neat little boxes. A weaver can be strong and resilient, and a warrior can be emotionally open and vulnerable (and vice versa!) These are complex characters, whose strengths do not lie in one thing solely, but rather in the combination of who they are in their entirety.

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Vampire Yuri AU for Halloween 🎃🦇

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My EPIC design!