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some Dustin Nguyen art.

Derek Fridolfs is Dustin’s usual inker for interior work.

tiktok “descenders” always somehow get on my nerves. i understand ppl have preferences for the first 3 movies and thats TOTALLY okay!! those r my favs too. But they always cross the line by hating on the new casts and leaving the same 3 comments on every descendants video.

“cameron wouldnt have liked it” u guys dont know cam😭hes like the most supportive person ever .

lwk tiktok is not the best place if ur looking for a descendants fandom it’s mostly full of hate or ppl just watched it back then n r stuck on it now

#let me know ur experiences or opinions? idk how to word it #descendants #disney descendants #descendants 2 #descendants 3 #rise of red #wicked wonderland #descendants rise of red #descendants 1 #descender #carlos descendants #mal descendants #red descendants #jay descendants #evie descendants

Yay finished! Telsa from Descender, an excellent comic by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen, and Image Comics.

I started drawing this during a blizzard, so I put her on a snow planet.

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Here's something I've been thinking about for a while that I haven't really seen anyone else talk about yet. It's no secret that Genshin draws from Gnosticism, but there are two denominations with concepts that really align with a lot of the recent lore. So I'll try to explain the comparisons I've noticed to the best of my ability, keeping in mind I have no professional knowledge on these subjects and this is just from searching the internet. so yeah, this is all overly simplified and there's always a chance I got something wrong.

Manichaeism was founded around the idea that the prophet Mani is the fourth prophet sent by the Father of Greatness, the others being Zoroaster, Buddha, and Jesus. In their cosmology there exist two worlds, the World of Light and the World of Darkness. The King of Darkness, who is often descripted as being composed of five archons (the sinners), left the Dark World to attack and consume the Light World. So the Father called upon/created three beings to protect itself called the three creations. The First Creation was the Mother of Life, who in turn created the Original Man. The Original man and his five sons representing the five elements (ether included) fought the Darkness, but they lost and the sons were fed to the five archons while the Original Man was trapped in darkness. The Second Creation was the Living Spirit, who rescued the Original Man with the Mother of Life and the two of them with the power of either the Spirit or the Man's sons created the mortal world using the stolen light. They formed the sun and the moon, described as ships (chariots?) and the elements as wheels, sort of. The Third Creation is the Third Messenger, who teamed up with the androgynous Virgins of Light to seduce the demons of the Dark World. After a very long and gross process, this would lead to the first humans, Adam and Eve, to be descended from the demons.

Next up is Mandaeism, which is actually still practiced these days. The story stars off pretty similar, with their being a Light and Dark World. The Light World is ruled by the Great Life Hayyi Rabbi and filled with uthras, which are basically angels. He's called the First Life because he has three emanations that split of from him one after the other. The Second Life Yushamin, also sometimes the first angel, rebelled with his sons against the Great Life but inevitably fail. The Third life is Abatur, son of Yushamin, who doesn't have a lot said about him but he is described as a judge of the dead. Last is the Fourth Life Ptahil who is also one of the two demiurges, creators of the earth. He teams up with Ruha, who is the mother of the King of Darkness Ur as well as the sevent planets and the zodiac. Also Ptahil is Ruha's nephew kind of, it's a bit weird.

These aren't a one for one match and I left out some bits, but there are a ton of parallels we can make. The Descenders and the Four Emanations or the four prophets. The Five Sinners and the archons that make up the King of Darkness. It could also tie into the myth of the primordial human being the product of the god of light and the king of darkness. I don't have the brain to fit this all into a theory, but feel free to let use it as inspiration if you want to.

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