Midnight Monarchs

Dark Drag Tarot

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Drag Queens and Divination!

🎵Gimme gimme the Monarchs at Midnight🎶

All Dancing

All singing

All Drag Queens!

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Sketches, studies, side projects, and silliness. Updates on my tarot deck and the first view of completed cards.

About the Artist

Aspen Thorne

I’m a crippled crossdressing trans man.

My mental health is exciting and my physical health is compelling. The struggle is real, bitches, and I’m making art about it!

Long term projects keep me motivated to exist. I like to spend a lot of time on my back—ifyouknowwhatImean—but being bed bound makes it hard to wake up in the morning. Not the cute kinda hard. This project is exciting and I can engage with vertically.

Follow my journey as I paint my crippled fingers to the bone and battle my mental health succubi.

Feel free to chat! Ask questions, suggest your favorite drag queen, give feedback, tell me about your day, whatevs. Human interaction is a welcome break from screaming into the void.

About the Deck

There are so many beautiful Tarot decks but not enough homoeroticism. I’m a huge fan of the macabre and the queer. My new deck will be a gothic cornucopia of queens.

Midnight Monarchs will change your life! Every card will feature a drag queen painted in exquisite detail. This project will take years. It will be worth the wait and you can follow my progress here!

Complete

Death-GottMik

In Progress

The Lovers- Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet featuring Israel Zamora

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Finally completed the burnt tree!! Glad I took the time. I was on the fence about it but I love it. I’m not happy with the fruit tree but I’m not sure why. 🤔

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Lovin the note I wrote about The Lovers in July. I’m a great writer with crippling self doubt and raging adhd. Which means I’ve forgotten what I’ve written and I’m perpetually surprised that it’s fun to read.

Heheh God 👠 👠

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Maybe Yvie Oddly should be the hanged ‘man’…because she is the most hung queen (that I know of)

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I finished grass AND tree! I deserve a treat! Someone get me a treat 😝

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Working on The Lovers while I watch the latest Dragula! Can’t wait to see these 666 nerds do D&D!!

I said I wasn’t gonna do grasses but I am such a good boy. I didn’t half ass it. Praise ME! 🙃

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due to woke the hanged man tarot card is being replaced by the hung woman

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The volcano symbolizes the passion that occurs between a couple of queens when they come together 🔥☄️🧨

I’m a very good boy working on the bits that are the hardest for me first. I’m hideous at backgrounds, but if I do all the fun stuff first I’ll never finish the unpleasant stuff.

I’m a very bad boy because I don’t want to start on the trees or the grass 😭

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The Lovers Preliminary Sketch

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Thank you @sithlich and everyone who got me to 10 reblogs!

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The Lovers Preliminary Sketch

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Gimme gimme gimme the Monarchs at Midnight!!! 😸

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Swanthula

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Dracmorda

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Israel Zamora Study

Those eyes! 🫠

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Dracmorda Study

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Swanthula

I learned an important lesson in this study. No behemoth hair.

It’s gonna be reallly hard to fit three subjects onto one card comprehensively.

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Printed, signed and framed 😍