Happy Pride! Most of you know me for my fanart but I'm actually working on my own animated short film called Dragon's Vow
It's a subversion of a classic fairytale trope where a princess becomes a knight and saves a dragon, told through a lesbian lens. I've been posting bits and pieces on my second blog @sapphoandthepoets but I also have bits up on my ko- fi which is free to view
I'll get back to fan works soon! This is a story that's really important to me and I want to tell it <3
I keep thinking about Alice's family and their curse... A lineage of protection witches,,,sure their curse is real but what if they all died protecting people? Alice who beat the curse but still died protecting Agatha, Jen, Lilia, Billy, and Rio. Lorna who died in a hotel fire, how many people did she save before finally collapsing herself? Lorna said she felt her mother die, was she protecting people? I love that family, so tragic, I love protectors.
what if you were a PRINCESS and you were GAY but because your dad outlawed all magic your kingdom was very technologically and socially behind, so you as the middle child get neglected until your older brother, the heir to the throne DIES and you get married off to the guy who killed him but you're a LONG HAIRED BUTCH LESBIAN and so you run away into the forest and meet a HOT DRAGON LADY and the two of you run away together
that would be crazy...anyway here's Ryalla the princess-turned-knight who was last seen with a giant dragon woman
(Designs subject to change, they're for my solo animated short film, Dragon's Vow)
This place builds them. Or, actually, more like it remembers them. And the more times it remembers something, the less it does. Somewhere out there is a guy in a… striped shirt, but in here, he's… remembered. Just slightly wrong.
Beginning & End of Backrooms
Backrooms (2026) dir. Kane Parsons
The headcannons thing, all of them for Rio or Alice (if all of them is too many then 2, 9, 10, 25, 35, 36, & 50)
Going to do Alice for right now, and come back and do Rio's set later. Going to stick with just the numbers for now. Alice doesn't get enough love in the fandom!
2. Given Alice's age is likely to be at least in her 60s-70s (if the height of her mother's popularity was in the 1970s, and when I imagine Alice would have been a teenager)... And Ali Ahn mentioned that she thought Alice was late in life with coming to understand her queer identity (baby queer Alice)--I like to imagine Alice tried kissing a boy she found tolerable when she was a teenager. Both never cared enough to try it again, and she sort of has been on a long streak of not engaging in anything romantic or sexual... Mostly because she worried over bringing anyone into her world. What if they were gotten by the curse? And she has stayed away from most witches, which makes relationship dynamics even more complex. Explaining to regular non-magical mortals the difference of your aging, et cetra. It just seemed like too much work for Alice.
9. Fight! For sure! We see it on the Road when one of the Seven comes down to attack Billy, she is the one who immediately swings back.
10. I think Ali Ahn also brought up that Alice initially found Jen off-putting, and I think for Alice... Some of her pet peeves are people who are too full of themselves and haughty. She also did not like how Jen was speaking to Lilia, saying that Lilia's voice was pitchy. (I would say also that some of that Alice appreciates in Jen, as she gets to know her, because Alice lacks that confidence herself.)
25. For Alice, I headcanon that quality time is a huge love language for her. Being allowed to have someone spend time with and on her, focus on her, especially after being seemingly very alone and everything around her "turns to shit"... That it would mean a lot.
35. Oh man... I am going to say Alice would really enjoy Michiko Nishiwaki!
36. I feel like it is a very common headcanon, but a puppy crush on Jen after the Road. She had finally begun to allow herself the sadness and grief related to her mother, and Jen reaching out and offering that perfume to put on her pressure points... It felt good. She felt safe, for the first time in a long time (potentially ever).
50. I feel like Alice would enjoy being cuddled and cuddling. I think she has not had a lot of chances since her mother passed away. But I feel like Alice gives really good hugs. She just holds herself back from giving them. (She both wants the affection from the hug herself, and also wants to offer comfort to others when she does.)
I hate that I love Alice Wu Gulliver so much that it like hurts to think about the fact that they just killed her off, im so like protective of her too I rarely seek out her tag because I've seen her and Jen mischaracterized so much
the memeification of fascism is a proven method of perpetuating and instilling it in other people. Layers of irony will not protect you once you adopt racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic terminology into your lexicon. you'll be acknowledging and nursing the mindsets and connotations borne of those words.
22 kisses looks fun but i have no more energy left to give this fandom, i will always love Jen and Alice but im mostly focusing on my personal film right now
However if someone does a bloodpotions thing. Tag. Me.
Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.
soooo embarrassing to get obsessed w a specific character when no one else gives a damn. like yeah heres post #574934. heres au idea #26482. heres art piece #9383. yes its all about the same person, yes i am rambling in the corner blair witch style. feel free to shoot me dead for this btw