Radiolaires' doodles

Radiolaires. 30s. she/her. French. Hobbyist. Art blog of: https://onaperduamedee.tumblr.com Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/radiolaires.bsky.social

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Miss her something bad

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WoTtober + Inktober 2025

Day 1: Pact + Mustache

Because I'm a fool who cannot make up her mind I will attempt to not only do a Watercolober instead of being kind to myself, but also try to combine the WoTtober and Inktober lists.

Here is Thom merged with Noal sacrificing himself in the Ghenjei tower because that would have been a brilliant ending for this storyteller.

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We were melted in the furnace and the pit—    We were cast and wrought and hammered to design

— The Secret of the Machines, Rudyard Kipling

I regularly think about Moiraine's quote about "A tool made for a purpose is not demeaned by being used for that purpose." About Moiraine as one of the Moirai, or all three at once, for the Emond's Field 5. About forging people for great purposes, throwing them, and herself, into the fire. About the weaves of fire Moiraine uses so often. About the fact she is described as ice, when it's the fire of her hope, her belief that fate could be gamed to save the world, that kept the embers burning for 20 years.

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More backlog from after the finale aired. The likeness isn't the best, but I was so heartbroken that I just needed to scribble them happy fast.

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Sometimes processing your favourite character's death means doodling canon freaky furries. Meaning I revised my design for the Eelfinn, integrating the show's palette because I'm very attached to their funky chops

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In continuation of this drawing showing Siuan's hair going white from shock after her stilling, I wanted to draw and reflect on women and violence in fiction, and letting brutality and age and survival mark their skin rather than enshrining their youth in death and memories.

I have a lot of feelings about narratives exacting terrible violence in life on women, and then keeping them eternally young and intact in death, often elevating them as symbols, images rather than people, thus turning them into immutable objects of meaning rather than letting them live with scars, heal and eventually grow old.

One of the reasons older women are so important is that they live bearing scars and wrinkles like a tally and a stamp of persistence on their skin.

All that to say, I appreciated greatly the show's decision to keep on screen Moiraine's chest scar in season 2 and had great hopes for Siuan getting similar visible scars after her deposal and torture.

It wasn't meant to be in this life.

So here's my turning of the Wheel where they lived on to cherish the other's body that had gone through so much.

(The Lichtenberg scars on Moiraine's back and shoulders come from pien-art because Moiraine gets beaten up by the One Power with a notable frequency and gets back up often enough to earn cool scars.)

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A small stylised Siuan because I miss her so fiercely

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In my head, sometimes stilled channelers go white with shock so have a little Siuan post stilling

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Expect a little of an art dump in the upcoming days because I'm so pissed with Amazon it has jolted me out my Siuan-shaped grieving hole

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After many years of procrastination, I've taken the plunge and opened a print shop! I ordered test prints and was pleased with the result.

I will be adding more of my drawings progressively, but If you are interested in a specific work, don't hesitate to message me so that I can upload it to the shop.

Shop gallery quality art prints by Radiolaires.

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If you are interested in getting a print of a drawing I haven't uploaded don't hesitate to ask. I have no idea which art people would be interested in getting!

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What really affected me with Egwene's dreamwalking is that this is a woman who has lost a bit of herself and her connection to others due to trauma. She uses Tel'aran'rhiod to reach out to her loved ones, whether they are physically or emotionally cut off from her. They cannot see or hear her though, so Egwene is haunting them, content in seeing them at peace again. In turn, we see through the characters' dream that sleep is the space where we can find again those we lost, those who are far away from us, those we will lose, even those we can never be.

Sleep becomes the last refuge from grief. Unlike memories it is a world in its own right where the people we lost persist and where we can meet them.

And that might be one of the truest, kindest depictions of grief I've seen recently.

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Let me uncover the silver in your dark hair The weight of your bones I want to witness the beauty of your repair The shape you've grown

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After many years of procrastination, I've taken the plunge and opened a print shop! I ordered test prints and was pleased with the result.

I will be adding more of my drawings progressively, but If you are interested in a specific work, don't hesitate to message me so that I can upload it to the shop.

Shop gallery quality art prints by Radiolaires.

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I've dreamt of you so often that it is doubtless no longer time for me to wake. I sleep standing, my body exposed to all the appearances of life and love and you, who only count today for me, I could touch your forehead and your lips less easily than any other lips and forehead.

— Robert Desnos (tr. Mary Ann Caws)

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I'm nuking the art on my Twitter account and migrating everything on bluesky where the block features are incredible and the crowd delightful

Come and say hello if you want!

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Whoever decided we should get one Siuaraine moment per trailer was right

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I think I prefer it like that even if it messes up the highlights

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Whoever decided we should get one Siuaraine moment per trailer was right