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Oh hello there! :D Favourite colour : Red-pink Hobby : art Profile pic by @vivixrocks

[mellosdrawings]

You are special. You are real.

This one took some time to do X.x So here, enjoy a step by step and my inane rambling below the cut (+ full D3rlord3)

My objective in here was to cram every single major character from the story in one illu. That means of course Avery, D3rlord3, and Hastur, but also Abel (previous sacrifice who wrote the books) and our dear Narrator Wifies (HE IS AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN THIS STORY WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT HIM AS SUCH AAAAAAA)

I think King was the funniest one to add. Could've gone for the eyes, or even his creepy form, but.... nah~

Decided to change the all dark surrounding by two straight dark shapes to emulate doors, so I had to resize the whole illustration. And then decided to make it all golden since they are golden doors and I've recently seen Chinese illustrations with golden linearts and it slaps hard.

Originally I wanted the only visible color to be yellow (plus a full colored Avery), but the red looked too pretty and helped the illustration to pop so there was a lot of messing around with the values.

Also there were supposed to be several different pages of Abel's rambling, but decided last minute to only put the spell over and over and over again.

So. You see where Hastur is now?

Ok now full D3rlord3 because I had to remove details with the other characters and stuff but I didn't wreck my butt to draw all that for nothing. Especially since I wanted the triangles on the helmet to emulate a crown and the various circles to represent eyes.

[pengooplanepilot]

she’s trying so hard nat please just laugh

[larksea]

without reason, without cause

[aliceisnotfriday]

Erm, Ashton art! I'm currently on vacation but I started ts on the plane and couldn't just leave it so.. Welp

Realized that I actually like my current rendering/shading "technique" so now I'mma draw whatever I want cuz grayscale method is torture to do on medibang

Oh and happy birthday espoir!!! We all love and appreciate your work and effort! Especially me :3

AGH HE'S SO CUTE

Yes I did get lazy on the background can u tell

@espoirduvide

[criminallyyoursvn]

What if MC had an emo/punk phase during their high school/college years? And they are embarrassed by those photos and the yearbooks, how would the boys react?

Nik would find it charming! He considers emo bands and their lead singers to be the best music has to offer- hello Gerard Way???

Wes is right along with them 😭 so if anything he’d be very sensitive to offending them by accident. He had a MySpace, he was there when emo was written 🖤

[feefal]

pH balance in your mouth, and how it affects your teeth! Inspired by my dentist scolding me for my daily energi drink consumption, cause it’s apparently detrimental to the health of my enamel… whatever that means

why does battery acid have to taste so good…

[feefal]

Update: you shouldn’t drink battery acid, but you CAN drink blood (recommended by 9 out of 10 dentists)

[sagrogostuff]

[ingridverse]

I can absolutely see each member of Huntrix assuming the other two are not virgins, while all three of them are.

Zoey

Perception: She's so cute and affectionate and energetic and uninhibited!

Reality: Was the Weird Kid in school, has closeness and relationship issues due to her parents' messy divorce, when she dares to make a move she tries to flirt by infodumping or by love poems that are too much for most people.

Mira

Perception: The classic take-no-shit does-what-she-wants bad girl. She must have a string of conquests as long as her hair.

Reality: Didn't like or trust anyone she met when she was still in her family's social circle, now she scares off everyone not brave or perceptive enough to see the lovergirl inside the badgirl. Also a little afraid of fallout from being a hunter hurting anyone close to her.

Rumi

Perception: Gorgeous, confident, in control. She could have whoever she wanted.

Reality: Hello, patterns? Also, trauma?

[moringmark]

[chloesimaginationthings]

Chris Redfield can’t save everyone in Resident evil..

[murder-kill]

alien stage and zombie stage both critique the idol industry, the only difference being emphasis and the main metaphor they use to explore it. the alien poses that idols are alien: another breed of creature, held separately from yourself, and dehumanised because of it. it primarily concerns the conceptualisation of the other. the zombie poses that idols are zombies: an evolution of a human into another form of being, and are objectified by literally turning into an object. we primarily see the harm it causes people when they turn into zombies - both the spiritual and physical annihilation of the self.

the criticism in alien stage extends itself into analysis of people's intimate relationships under hostile environments - each person is alienated from each other because they are taught to treat each other as images rather than people. children are taught specially in anakt garden to be idols: their self is immutable for marketability, their sponsor is god, and others are competition. their relation with their selves and others are warped by this structure, naturally warping their idea of love by extension. this is the most identifiable theme of alien stage since it is spoken aloud to us via mizi's monologue. but it is of importance that this theme is built on a foundation of criticism of industry, the nuclear family, and religion.

zombie stage's criticism leans more physical and literal, as is the nature of the more realistic setting and therefore more direct commentary of the current pop idol industry. topics such as sexual exploitation are explored in more detail instead of being mostly implied in alnst. similarly, the dehumanisation in alnst is presupposed within its setting - humans are aliens, animals, pets - but in zomst, the process of being dehumanised is shown to us. zombification as a metaphor focuses on the body and manifests the trauma of being turned into a product physically. for this purpose, zomst diverts from classic zombie tropes of rot to gemstone, so the zombies may be commercialised based on appearance to be used as criticism of the idol industry. the main idea behind zombies is mostly preserved in translation, ie the consequences of eternity on human nature, but the idea of living beyond death takes on different meanings within the context of the idol industry and capital. the apocalypse in zomst is not the destruction of society, but a reaffirmation of it.

these metaphors do not work without considering the constructed context around them. we must understand alien/zombie as idol, and the stage as the world in which they inhabit. title drop spinning gif go

[autie-j]

Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely

[lady-of-the-spirit]

My possibly controversial take is that in an au where Zoey and Mira find out that Rumi is half demon pre-canon I don't think they would be as supportive as they are in post-canon. I don't think they would hate Rumi or be disgusted by her patterns per se but I think they would fall into the same line of thinking as Rumi and Celine that the golden honmoon will remove them and everything will be fine.

[larksea]

[rumismira]

What do you mean this isn’t canon? (12/?)

[aoki-the-2nd-star]

oh, to be Mizi

letting Sua die in the alnst universe on her own terms

versus going first and seeing Sua become mentally destroyed in zombie stage

maybe she just wasn't as desperate for her

[fra4tas]

The beginning and end of the journey

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/