Iphiko

She/Her • Adult • Eldritch Owl

[iphiloupe]

Greetings, everyone!

My name is Iphiko, and I warmly welcome you all to my Tumblr blog!

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➻ My main interests include history, theatre, literature, art and cemeteries, although I will also occasionally post about fandoms I enjoy.

➻ I will also share my own art and writing, OCs, and other creative endeavours.

➻ Member of @theexclusiveboxset

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Writing Projects:

➻ The Muses' Cradle:

A trio of historical novels following the loves, lies, victories and tragedies of the Allard family and those close to them, held under the watchful shadow of a secret society whose influence cradles and corrupts the dazzling, decadent world of the French Belle-Époque.

[halfmasksister]

Grow a... revolutionary??

I'm still trying to develop a sustainable design for everyone so that I can draw them the same way every time.

And I like to draw this ridiculously pointy nose for Robespierre..........

🐱🦊🐶

[nic0s-sketches]

Jóska and Friedrich my beloved🤎 (aka one of the rare instances of Jóska smiling at Friedrich instead of feeling the urge to delete him from the real life server)

[iphiloupe]

“Here.” Raphael untied the red bandana around his neck and put it on Tristan instead. “The Renards will know not to touch you. If they do, I'll kill them. I promise you, I'll kill them all.” –Chapter Nineteen

Finished version of that one piece I posted as a sketch! ✨️ Very happy with hiw this turned out, especially as I never experiment with lighting.

Tristan, why couldn't you find yourself another man, smh. Look at him, he's unstable and unhealthily attached to you.

[iphiloupe]

Art of @gingercarnations' OC, Whelk. All hail armoured lesbian doggos. ✨️🗡

[nic0s-sketches]

Friedrich and Jóska, the protagonists of my book "Mort au Tyran", medieval AU😼 (It's been a while since I drew that)

[ariesrin]

“How’s the book going?”

Me: “I wrote 2 words and then rearranged 7 commas. So amazing, thanks.”

[mossybismuth-storyteller]

My Name Is Carnival

today is Filimon's birthday

The Keeper of the Worlds is a traveler and singer of other people's stories. He weaves himself into the lives of people from different Worlds, lingering in their memories as a vibrant carnival night, the light shimmering in his red hair, the miracle he creates with his own hands. No one remembers his name, but his image will remain in their minds forever.

[imjscaden]

does it snow in Paris?

i've never been to Paris but i imagine it does the kind of snow that melts before it touches your eyelashes the kind that makes strangers look up at the same time

i am realizing now that i don't want the forecast. i don't want the clarity. clarity is for tax returns and office lights.

i am looking for the blur.

someone once told me they saw the Eiffel Tower in winter. how the metal bones collected white like a skeleton learning tenderness.

that which is sacred is always half-hidden.

maybe that is why i crave the snow.

i wonder if lovers still kiss when snowflakes interrupt their lips or if cafe windows fog with breath and finger-drawn hearts that disappear when the heat inside shifts

the soul is too shy for sunlight. it needs the steam off a coffee cup. it needs the collar turned up against the wind. it needs to be buried, just a little, so it can be safe enough to speak.

there is this line i read once, about how the feminine went with the feminine and the union was half-concealed how two things can touch so quietly the world doesn't even know it happened

i don't want to see you clearly. i want to see you softly. i want to know you in the spaces where the camera can't focus. in the hush. in the blurry. in the way the ground disappears underneath the drift of something new.

there are questions we ask not for answers but for the space they create between two people

i am asking if the world can still keep a secret.

do you still think of me when the weather changes?

does it snow in Paris?

[writercultureis]

writer with synesthesia culture is wanting to listen to music while you write because you don't have time to do it separately and it's so inspiring but the colors are so distracting you end up typing a word a minute

[571rr-deactivated20251227]

I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.

A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.

AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.

Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.

There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.

I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.

If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...

then it's real.

[iphiloupe]

This is one of the truest and most reassuring things I've ever read on here.

Something that AI has done is made people care less. They don't want to learn to draw, put time into writing (or reading) a novel, nor write a birthday card, an apology, or even put effort into their own academic work.

If you find a creative who will ramble about their work at length, then you've found someone who makes the effort. Few creative endevours are ever done when someone doesn't care.

When we stop caring about being human, then that's when AI starts to win.

[rorydrawsandwrites]

Commission of Selre and Eshar I made for Harfang!! I had fun drawing these star-crossed lovers ^^

(Get a commission like this here!)

[subsequentibis]

not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!

[divorcedwife]

it will be fine!

[fox0war]

Chat, chat what if I drew them interacting

(Characters: Solos, old ENA oc, and Razzle & Dazzle, official Dandy's World characters)

[fox0war]

Chat it's happening

[fox0war]

the sillies!!!!!

[iphiloupe]

Getting back into drawing after a major drought, so have the WIP of an OC/book piece!

Raphael and Tristan in the throes of 19th century dramatics. Neither of these men are mentally stable. 💔