#looking glass

[cdx1016]

Looking Glass.

Darien, CT

(viacarad1016)

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass - Avenel - 1984

[thatsbelievable]

[falcoworks]

Day 18 -- Looking Glass

The most irritating part about harvesting cockatrice eggs was remembering your left from your right in a mirror.

[faux-404]

Inspection

[enquire]

Looking-Glass Kinjos

This idea has been in my sketchbooks and drawing program for a really long time.

I've been wanting to draw some art for one of my fics properly for a while, so here's my best attempt at depicting " Kinjo " (Kinjos?) from The Other Side of the Looking-Glass. Yes, perhaps this is just a shameless plug for my own fic but y'know what I've put a lot of time into it and I think it's alright.

I picked out some quotes from the fic so there's a little snapshot of what's going on. It might not line up perfectly with any particular scene, but you can get a view of what they're each like.

“I trust you, Yuki,” he says simply, allowing him to leave without any resistance, skepticism, or disappointment. Yuki’s heart drops into his stomach. It shouldn't be wrong. But it wasn’t right .

Am I the only one…? Not even Tsurugi is…

Too many of the things that make Tsurugi, Tsurugi, have suddenly disappeared. Just like with Akane, Teruya, and Mekaru, but even worse. Because almost all of the many pieces that make him are sharp; unyieldingly so. And yet, now, they've simply been softened away.

A shining sword, dulled, and suddenly no longer able to pierce anything. It shouldn't be that way. Even though Yuki has seen the wounds inflicted, on himself, on others, and even on Tsurugi himself, he knows that. 

“Keep that name out of your mouth.” Kinjo’s voice is hollow. “No one is coming to save you.”

Combined version and extra thoughts below:

I've been trying to draw these two (I guess I'll call them abyss kinjo and sunset kinjo respectively) for months. Honestly, I still don't feel like this quite matches up with what I had in my head while writing, or that it's really a result I like... I've wanted to play with shapes and color with these two for ages too, so at the very least that was interesting. One with all sharp edges and nothing left inside except a singular goal, while the other has been dulled and softened to the point of unnatural warmth. I don't think they actually appear this different from one another (Or the actual kinjo) in the story, but the eye color change is an actual described thing and one I tried to capture here. Abyss kinjo has eyes that reflect well... the abyss, so they're an ocean deep blue with only a tiny bit of red/purple left. Meanwhile, sunset kinjo has warm, soft eyes that aren't exactly red anymore, more of a sunset orange, reflecting someone else.

[pigfartsviatardis]

Reposting this gorgeous art I commissioned from @corviddenart for my jayvik fic Looking Glass , to celebrate it cracking 4k hits on ao3 🥰

It’s directly post canon, set in mage!viktor’s AU, but with our Viktor and Jayce. If that sounds intriguing to you, check it out!

[feralmushrm]

looking glass falls