Secretmellowblog Art Sideblog

Hi I’m Mellow and this is my art blog! Check my pinned post to learn more! Find all my projects here: https://linktr.ee/mellowblog - Follow my main @secretmellowblog, my comic adaptation of the Hobbit at @retellingthehobbit, and my lord of the rings blog at @overthinkinglotr :3

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Hello everyone! I’m Mellow and this is my art blog! Here are some of my comics on tumblr. I love it when people spam-like/reblog my posts so go ahead.

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Longer Comics

The Butterfly Boy

The Little Mermaid

The Hobbit [full sideblog; this is my longest comic so far! I started it years ago.]

More coming soon!

Short comics

The Lady of Shalott

Vague Flashes on the Horizon [Dogs and Wolves]

Sly Cooper […short, for now!]

Non Comics

Check my #Les Mis, #LOTR, #the Hobbit, #the amazing digital circus, and #animation tags!

Who am I? learn more about me below, or visit my pinned post on my main blog @secretmellowblog for more non-art Lore.

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No context WIPs of a Polite Lad:

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I’m trying to get better at using tumblr as a sort of chill conversational place, like discord: just sorta throwing art & poasts out there, talking to people about it, maybe deleting it later, no pressure at all. Just brief conversations with a couple people for a day or so, rather than things that are meant to be popular. So if you notice my Poasting is erratic that is why; I’m trying to move a little away from any influencer-y-ness here and just be more weird and impulsive.

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more mermaid behind-the-scenes from this year. It's fun to see them Emerge.

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i REALLY like your teethguy art. its frying me so bad. im simply obsessed. please continue

Thank you thank you!!! I'm glad you enjoy the uh, the results of the Amazing Digital Brainworms that have afflicted me. My face while reading this:

I have now seen the finale, so all my finale-related or finale-spoilering Circus art will have to wait 'til it premieres on youtube. But I do have some other wacky stuff I might share til then.

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Happy Barricade Day! Here's a painting of the Rue de la Chanvrerie barricade <3

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The peril of predicting where TADC is going to go based on its actual themes and storytelling is that I have a lot of WIP art/comics that are not spoilers *now*, simply because I haven't seen the finale yet. But once I see the finale tomorrow and the things are confirmed, they will be spoilers. Because I will be right. A predicament. And then do I refrain from posting those things, even if I've had them drafted for weeks? SMH, SMH.

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A random mermaid process WIP I wanted to share from this year.

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The Amazing Transgenderism Circus [featuring Jaxxine's internalized transphobia & cringe-phobia.] A post-episode 8 "Caine gets a redemption arc & joins the humans as Just One of the Guys" AU that I'm sharing before episode 9 drops.

This comic is here to be Goofy, but I do think Caine's whole deal is meant to tie into the series' overarching trans themes [even if he's not canonically trans.] I think the show's trans themes are broader than a few characters; it's a show about people who are forcibly assigned bodies & names they don't want, forcibly assigned "archetypes" & roles that don't reflect their real selves, and struggle to express their despair around this because their bodies & roles are so ridiculous that their despair is easy to mock. It's safer to play along with your role, when exploring the alternatives can easily make you an object of ridicule. Caine fails to understand Zooble in episode 3 because he is constantly performing the role he was assigned at his creation, and doesn't allow himself to acknowledge his deep insecurity with it-- so he's confused that Zooble can't simply accept the thing they've been assigned. After all, he's accepted what he's been assigned. He refuses to recognize that Zooble is dissatisfied in a way no "adventure" can fix, because that would mean acknowledging the possibility that he could be dissatisfied in a way that no "adventure" can fix. So instead he throws himself into performing an inauthentic caricature of the role he believes is "all he exists" for & is not allowed to ever exist outside of, even as that performance just leaves him feeling "used" "broken" "defective" and overall extremely unhappy. The parallel to the series' Gender themes feels very clear to me. But anyway, I believe all these little guys can figure themselves out eventually.

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@castielrisingabove replied to the original post with an attack helicopter reference that sounded like it could be Jax dialogue, so I continued the story. The comic dialogue is basically a reverse of the episode 3 therapy session: also featuring Zooble's later character development and redeemed Caine being slightly better at listening to people. Anyway: silliness.

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A quote from Paradise Lost included in an epigraph for Frankenstein. A relevant thing to consider for any misbehaving Creatures you may create.

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#frankencaine #tadc #the amazing digital circus #caine# teethguy has shrimply captivated me #look if you make up a guy and get mad at him #he’s gonna ask why you made him up

eeeeee I am so happy and honored that you made art with the quote I suggested!!! 😍 Ever since I read Frankenstein, it's always stuck in my mind as an Honorary Frankenstein Quote. It fits "Creatures whose creators got mad at them for how they were made" so well

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Yes, thank you for the suggestion! Truly powerful & accurate!

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A quote from Paradise Lost included in an epigraph for Frankenstein. A relevant thing to consider for any misbehaving Creatures you may create.

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[Part 1 here] [Website/More Comics]

Hans Christian Andersen's the Little Mermaid: Part II.

For Mermay this year, I picked up where I left off adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale last year. The world below the water is painted like black & white shadow puppets, while the world above the water is painted like stained glass. The shadow puppets call back to old fairytale storytelling traditions and the work of Lotte Reiniger, while the stained glass imagery reflects how the original story associates the world on land with churches and holiness and the question of who gets to have a "human soul."

Thank you all for following me this month again, including people who were here for last year too!!! I'm so glad other people enjoy this little project, and I hope to see you guys again next year!! <3333

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Adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale every day for May 2026: page 29. The final page! Look out for a compilation post tomorrow. [This is part of an adaptation where the underwater world is painted like shadow puppets while the human world is painted like stained glass.]

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The Amazing Transgenderism Circus [featuring Jaxxine's internalized transphobia & cringe-phobia.] A post-episode 8 "Caine gets a redemption arc & joins the humans as Just One of the Guys" AU that I'm sharing before episode 9 drops.

This comic is here to be Goofy, but I do think Caine's whole deal is meant to tie into the series' overarching trans themes [even if he's not canonically trans.] I think the show's trans themes are broader than a few characters; it's a show about people who are forcibly assigned bodies & names they don't want, forcibly assigned "archetypes" & roles that don't reflect their real selves, and struggle to express their despair around this because their bodies & roles are so ridiculous that their despair is easy to mock. It's safer to play along with your role, when exploring the alternatives can easily make you an object of ridicule. Caine fails to understand Zooble in episode 3 because he is constantly performing the role he was assigned at his creation, and doesn't allow himself to acknowledge his deep insecurity with it-- so he's confused that Zooble can't simply accept the thing they've been assigned. After all, he's accepted what he's been assigned. He refuses to recognize that Zooble is dissatisfied in a way no "adventure" can fix, because that would mean acknowledging the possibility that he could be dissatisfied in a way that no "adventure" can fix. So instead he throws himself into performing an inauthentic caricature of the role he believes is "all he exists" for & is not allowed to ever exist outside of, even as that performance just leaves him feeling "used" "broken" "defective" and overall extremely unhappy. The parallel to the series' Gender themes feels very clear to me. But anyway, I believe all these little guys can figure themselves out eventually.

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No context wip:

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Adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale every day for May 2026: page 28. this is one of my favorite lines. [This is part of an adaptation where the underwater world is painted like shadow puppets while the human world is painted like stained glass.]

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Adapting the original Little Mermaid fairytale every day for May 2026: page 27. We finally return to our girl. [This is part of an adaptation where the underwater world is painted like shadow puppets while the human world is painted like stained glass.]

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