Contra~cat

Chelsea - pan grey-ace - prounouns: They/them; She/her - just trying to figure myself out in the magical world of museums... and maybe end-up with a job in the long run. The person that could easily be found under a tree, lost inside a book or dancing my feet off in an old hall. This is just a place to put all the images, ideas, thoughts and thing-a-ma-bobs that catch my eye. There will be a fair amount of fashion, books, tv shows and other such media from literary to genre fiction. Truthfully this is mostly a space for me to geek out over whatever I'm obsessed with at the moment. Though I also re-blog and talk about issues related to education, diversity, human rights and life. This will include love of all kinds and some liberal ranting, so if that upsets you then politely pass on to another blog, thanks.

[orchisailsa]

GuoJiang + Text Posts. The 🥰 one and the 😤 one.

[wintermoonhalo]

Beautiful things are fragile.

[layaart]

Simran & Vina from The Isle In The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri. It comes out in october and is soooo good

(a redraw of on The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton)

[theaologies]

Please go read The Isle in the Silver Sea I love books about stories and lady knights and reincarnation this is of the utmost importance

[layaart]

a bunch of sketches of Vina & Simran from The Isle In The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri!

some very miscellaneous notes:

I don't have particular notes about Vina other than I'm very happy with the top left face/hair, & the bottom left part 2 version....takes her face in my hands. my babygirl.

Simran took a bit more to figure out her face and also both versions hence the two pages... I imagine her more different than the two Vinas.

I get to a certain extent with historically-accurate fashion research then just end up going by vibes, this is definitely intentionally reflecting the canon mix of time periods. (if I were thinking harder I'd probably more distinctly choose different fashions for each part, but I'm lazy)

Her part 2 clothes are not super described other than the ball dress (which is definitely a different style to what I drew here lol), and otherwise generally similar to the librarians - I imagined her mostly in plain/dark/simple high necked dresses.

I went to start drawing Maleficium and had a moment where I was like, wait, what colour cat is she?????? Went back through the whole thing (arc version) and I don't think she's described at all. But I'm assuming black since yaknow, witch, and also I'm a black cat person.

I think the lantern birds are more papery-bird shaped creatures than folding up into a lantern shape like that, but that's just an image i had in my head, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And it's not really obvious here but I am in fact applying the 'moles are kisses from another lifetime' idea. my part 2 designs have a few extra moles. (tho tbh could be more)

pose ref for the last one from royaltycostumes on ig!

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[devinellekurtz]

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

[minahxrker]

eileen gu with the bubbles oh my god thats so cool

[helenekuragina]

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

[helenekuragina]

#and its like. 'what if ive decided its comfortable to be in the box' it is always going to be more comfortable to be in the box #they will reward you for staying in the box and punish you for trying to leave it #that doesnt mean the box is like. a good place to be — @butchfaith

[marzipanandminutiae]

also like

it's not about whether YOU like the box!

it's never been about whether any individual woman likes the box!

it's about how incredibly unfair it is that we as a CLASS OF PEOPLE have the expectation and pressure to stay in the box, and sometimes literal inability to get out of the box!

you can stay in that box until kingdom come because it's about a systemic issue, not your personal preferences!

[justafriend-ql]

ENEMIES WITH BENEFITS Episode 5

[nikolaijanak]

[crafterfive]

My partner made this comic, and it is beautiful and amazing, and you’re all missing out by not seeing the original on paper because it’s even prettier there!

[depsidase]

[embersinthefirelight]

Favorite Trans Characters Pride Project 2026: Sand (The Sign)

[kitkatpancakestack]

WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN

[knightclubbing]

i kissed a knight and i liked it

[lustrabotas]

the taste of her bloodied helmet

[behold-a-knave]

Hope my liege lord don't mind it

[pixel-hoo]

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[baek1nho]

@asiandramanet november bingo: shapes [insp]