itchy skelly

its nerf or nothin (instagram @ itchy.skeleton)

[c-e-mcgill]

I am desperate for you to know this was the best book I've ever read. It was such a real and honest experience of being a woman, Mary was so genuine and interesting, she never felt forced. It felt so well researched and intriguing. I kept having to put the book down to scream and growl and pant before I could bare to pick it back up. I was so invested. I couldn't look the book in the eye. I haven't cried like that in ages. I will probably never stop thinking about Mary and Maisie holding hands. You tore open my body, took out all my guts and bones one by one to expose my core before putting me back together and stitching me up. Nonbinary slay.

Oh my goodness, thank you so much!!! 🖤 This message made me cackle out loud on the train, LMAO. My condolences about your guts and bones hahaha, but that is an absolutely fabulous compliment that I'm probably going to have to pin to my little bulletin board of writing inspiration 😂 TYSM!! 🖤

(Ooh, and since you reminded me of Mary & Maisie holding hands, haha - here, have a doodle I made this morning while trying to find any excuse not to work :) )

[itchy-skeleton]

RAHHHHHHHH

[c-e-mcgill]

I just finished the audio book of Our Hideous Progeny and it’s just as delightful of a story as it was when I first read it last year. I absolutely adore Mary as a character! Women can and should be little beasties. My gay little heart must know though, does Mary ever kiss Maisie and get a chance heal that part of her from when she had kissed Catharine as children and thought she was broken and wrong?

PS: I think about “perhaps, perhaps, perhaps!” A lot and it makes me smile

Aww, thank you so very much!! I’m so glad you liked it! 😊🖤 And rest assured, Mary and Maisie absolutely get together after the events of the novel and smooch to their hearts’ content! 😂

I hemmed and hawed for ages over whether to have Mary and Maisie actually kiss in that final scene; but no matter which way I looked at it, I simply didn’t feel they were ready yet. Mary, as you mentioned, is still very much wounded from her experience with Catherine, and I really couldn’t see her making the first move (or doing it so soon, at least) – and Maisie, I think, is still labouring under a huge amount of compulsory heterosexuality. They’ll figure it out eventually, but in my mind what follows canon is a 120k slowburn hurt/comfort romantic comedy of errors, in which Mary pines halfway across Europe and Maisie realizes that it is not, actually, a truth universally acknowledged that women are prettier than men and everyone wants to kiss their best friends with tongue, culminating in the two of them confessing their true feelings to each other on a candlelit balcony above the streets of Paris, returning home to live with Mr & Mrs Jamsetjee, and adopting a very small dog named Creature.

[itchy-skeleton]

ok so who's writing the 120k word slowburn romantic comedy?

[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!

[itchy-skeleton]

dinners ready!

[monorailpink]

feeling compelled to post some of my art. i hope everyone is yurimaxxing this fine summer

[itchy-skeleton]

im always yurimaxxing

[wani-zame]

Scorfuma kiff

[itchy-skeleton]

inconsolable over this

[lilcatastrophe]

finished split fiction with my girlfriend yesterday and have been itching to draw these two since

[itchy-skeleton]

this is so sweet

[itchy-skeleton]

and it was lead protagonist rumi from hit animated movie kpop demon hunters with short hair that got me to post again

[maezanilla]

Gideon Nav, the first flower of her house.

Inspired by this

[itchy-skeleton]

holy mother of pearl

[quezify]

waiter! waiter! one pluribus yuri, pretty please!!

you've twisted my arm!!

[itchy-skeleton]

toxic yuri final boss

[artist-rat]

lyds doodle!! it's not much but it's honest work 💪

[itchy-skeleton]

started playing skyrim again

[selenevassos]

the prisoner

[itchy-skeleton]

peak fiction

[dillusion-art]

[...] Harrow looked back at Gideon, and Gideon's eyes, as they always did, startled her: their deep, chromatic amber, the startling hot gold of freshly-brewed tea.  She winked.

ig: d.ill.usion

[itchy-skeleton]

my all time fave tlt art

[itchy-skeleton]

twin and i dressed up as wirt and greg for goblin market so i drew us pins but also she loves gumshoe so i drew him for her too and she wanted him sparkly

[normally-blue]

The Emperor's Reason

[itchy-skeleton]

tumblr might make me re-read tbh I MISS THEM

[dsinsects]

YURI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[itchy-skeleton]

they've occupied my mind again

[itchy-skeleton]

beloved baby bell beast

[itchy-skeleton]

RAHHHHHHH