Jun 3, 2025
the consequences of what you did / we won't forget (are you ready, are you ready, are you ready?)
[a bit of fanart for @emilybeemartin's creatures of light trilogy]
#em draws stuff#creatures of light#gemma maczatl#celeno tezozomoc#colm alastaire#caption lyrics from 'are you ready' by nive nielsen and the deer children!!!#the original plan was to theme this piece around 'gingerbread' by nancy kerr but I decided partway through that I wanted to lean on canon#more than on my absolute post-reading desperation to figure out a way to let celeno live and to let gemma keep them both#IS there an elegant way that one could resolve all the col plotlines and keep him alive? well. months of pondering lead me to say No#but is he still very much stored away for safekeeping in the part of my mind where miserable agents of empire with opiate problems go? Yes.#less related to the Hnnngh Augh Emotions of it all I Did really have fun with the visdev side of it all#I really do like getting to play off the established visual language of the setting but also I've very much started putting my own spin on#it as well here... I tend to skew very 18th-19thc by default so I've switched up the seam placements on shirts and the like for a slightly#less defaulting-to-western-european construction than I did last time#& also I had a lot of Thoughts about fiber cultivation doing this (esp. wrt the big shirt here looking rather like canonical alcoran#mourning garb) so. maybe will have to draw something more for communicating that.#anyway. been saving reading floodpath for the summer but am really excited abt that... maybe more art........ bye now............
