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hi im basil/fox and i use all the pronouns. this is my art(/writing) archive! you can also find me on ao3 @ sparklingsora :) i follow from @sunless-basilisk!

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hear ye, hear ye! after a year of break i am returning to artfight with an updated character roster, so check out my profile! i will be fighting for team comedy — see you on the battlefield!

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cages

(or, a poem about lapis. ao3 link here)

here comes a new cycle, repeat the five stages while thinking of angels and songbirds in cages five stages of what? for whom, for what reason? for years lost to tides and a crystalline prison? or something laid deeper, that cannot be counted on calendars, clocks, with the hours they sounded it still lives inside you — a part that's been broken it's quiet, submerged, 'til it's dragged in the open resounding through bone with an instinct like lightning to flee from the ghost of a noose ever tightening an angel, a songbird, no longer restrained you're free to take wing at the hint of more pain perhaps moondust suits you; you do look quite pale just realized flight is its own kind of jail?

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drew some more random lines that incidentally arranged themselves into the shape of steven universe fanart

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lonely out here

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whoever made the decision to have her be associated with stereotypical green aliens i love you

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i seem to have caught some sort of disease,

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found a new software to draw bullshit in, life is good

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the anatomy of worship

(or, the poem i wrote for @inspekchin-the-full-combo! ao3 link here)

I wish I could say that I have my head on straight, that my eyes can see clearly, that my mouth speaks anything but what my heart wants to believe, that there isn't a pit in my stomach that I'm always reaching to fill with grasping hands. But I can't, as when they grasp, my hands grasp for you, and it is not my head that makes that decision, but my stomach, because I'm hungry for your eyes on me. Look at me, and I'll give you my heart through your mouth like medicine. Close your mouth, swallow it, and hold me in your hands (you have hands now where your heart would be, after all). I will rest my weary head in the warm glow of your eyes, in your ravenous stomach. I wish I was enough to fill your stomach. I wish my devotion was so sweet in your mouth that you'd be compelled to rest your eyes, your busy hands, and I could press my head just like old times, to your heart. But you no longer have a heart, you just have a stomach. Even so, I stick my head in your bottomless mouth and reach out my hands, hoping they'll find something my eyes cannot — after all, eyes are for seeing, and you need feeling to find a heart. That's why I squeeze them shut and kneel with clasped hands; do anything you ask, though I feel sick to my stomach. And if you find that it's not love that shapes my mouth into prayers, just don't think I've lost my head. It's only natural when we've both got a stomach but share a heart that I'd climb into your mouth and you'd get into my head. So close your eyes, my love, and let's pretend to hold hands.

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wait i just realized that i don't really have any pictures of virginia up on this blog and i had to fix that immediately. well there is the one illustration but she's a corpse in that one and you can't even see her face. here she is Alive and Beautiful. everybody clap or i'll blow up this whole fucking building

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Ooooooh cool! So in the veeswap au does that make Adam the King of Hell? Is there a King of Hell? Ig this prompts the debate of if in canon Lucifer gets his powers from being the "King of Hell" or only because he's an angel. I love this au sm!!

yeah, veeswap!adam IS the king of hell. the way i see it, he's basically an ultra-powerful overlord, and he got his title via the age old rule of "i got here first bitchesss"

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ok nevermind that post i made earlier lmao. rip milo icon you lasted all of 3 hours. though honestly the post is still kinda true because the veeswap characters are basically my ocs atp

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that nice ask i got on my art account made me go colour this swap!val i drew last year that i still really like. been a while since i made a good ol "character floating in the void posing cutely" illustration

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also, we've gone full circle. when i first made this blog, i had oc art as the icon, and now i've got oc art as the icon once again. amazing

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oh and speaking of veeswap au, while season 2 unfortunately didn't revitalize my hazbin hyperfixation enough to draw anything, veeswap!charlie has grown on me in recent times. she is basically a spoiled princess who's like "fuck my parents i don't care what they think anymore!!! i'm thriving and the people love me!!! ........ HEAR THAT MOM AND DAD???? I'M THRIVING AND THE PEOPLE LOVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Hi hi hi I LOVE your vee swap au!! I have some questions regarding Lucifer? If he never fell, how was Hell made? Was Adam the first person to fall? Does Lilith still disappear for 7 years? Does she go down to Hell instead of going up to heaven like in canon?

HI oh my god a veeswap ask in 2026!!!! YIPPEE!!!! hold on i have to go into my mind palace and dig up the lore on this topic

well, lucifer didn't necessarily make hell in canon, did he? it was intended as a punishment for him, as stated in season 2. so i presume that in the veeswap au it was made the same way that it was in canon, it was just made for adam and eve instead, who were, in fact, the first sinners!

no, lilith doesn't disappear for 7 years, but eve does, because they swap with each other! :]

also, while we're talking about this au, can i just say: i feel VINDICATED given how season 2 has shown how vox is essentially an evil charlie. lmao.

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the face of the saint (my piece for @rise-of-the-shining-sun-zine!)