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happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 Marlinspike Pride 2024

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So Loud x So Shy

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Welcome to the Quiff Corner™️!

I am an aroace spec digital/ traditional artist and writer, and long time fan of The Adventures of Tintin

As of right now, my blog is mostly Tinchang centric but that might fluctuate depending on how obsessed I am with them lol

I encourage the sharing of headcannons and appreciate suggestions, questions and feedback

Please be kind and respectful to all users especially about headcannons and ships (please DO NOT SEXUALIZE the characters here, it’s uncomfortable) ((personally, I don’t ship the Captain and Tintin and see them as a father and son type dynamic))

Feel free to leave me some feedback, suggestions or questions about, but not limited to, Tintin related content!

Please refer to me as my online artist name, Hazel! I use they/them pronouns :)

Personal headcannons:

Tintin: I see Tintin in his late teens (around 14 in Soviets and 19 ish in Alpha-Art.) I headcannon him as gay, transmasc, and asexual + demiromantic (demiaroace kinda?)

Chang: I see him as a year or so younger than Tintin. I headcannon him as bi and demisexual

Cap. Haddock: I see the captain as being in his mid 50s. I headcannon him as bi, and in a relationship with Ramo Nash from Alpha Art who is gay. Also I see him and the professor either having a short-term relationship or an off and on situationship

Prof. Calculus: I see him in his late 50s-early 60s. I headcannon him as bi and asexual since I see him have being interested in both Bianca and Prof. Terragon (and also the captain) but being too scattered and preoccupied to initiate anything

(More to come, probably)

Also, Free Palestine!!!!

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I've been really enamoured by vintage paper moon portraits. They were a common photo oppurtunity you could find at fairs and carnivals for friends and couples, using a large cutout of a crescent moon as a set. Paper moon portraits were popular from the Victorian period up until the 1940s!

Because friends could also get photos taken I wonder how many queer couples in the past took this oppurtunity to commemorate a date at the amusement park with a paper moon postcard.

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Tintin Tarot, part 2 - the Fool's Journey Continues. Part 1 can be found here! Me and @josephscoat came up with a list of Tintin characters assigned to the major arcana cards in a tarot deck after she realised how well Tintin mapped onto the Fool.

The Hanged Man - Sacrifice, martydom and hesitation. Frank Wolff's death in Explorers on the Moon really stuck with me. I watched the 90s cartoon adaptation of it with a friend recently and even though I knew what was going to happen, it still hit very hard. I replaced the living tree, which represents the potential for growth and knowledge on the original card, with the planet Earth.

Death - New beginnings, metamorphosis, fear of change and decay. Even just for the imagery I had to use Rascar Capac. His use in the narrative seems to demonstrate a fear of the unknown. As the Hierophant and the child from the Sun card appear on the original Death card, I opted to use Rascar Capac as he's in the same story as the Prince of the Sun and Zorrino, who we assigned to the Hierophant and the Sun respectively! Professor Tarragon replaces the dying person on the ground in the original card, and Inti the Incan sun god watches over the scene.

Temperance - Middle path, patience, finding meaning, but also could mean excess and a lack of balance when reversed. Haddock is famous for his tendency to fly off the handle at a moment's notice. But Haddock also has endless patience for Tintin's bullshit. His character arc is one of finding meaning in his life after hitting rock bottom. He is pouring bottles of Loch Lomond, as seen in the Magician card.

The Devil - Addiction, lust, materialism, playfulness. Who else is more devillish than Tintin's arch nemesis, Rastapopoulos? His schemes grow wilder and larger as he pursues wealth and revenge. While sexuality is famously absent from the Tintin series, Rastapopoulos and his associates certainly lust over money and control. Tom and Allan are held in chains, though they are clearly removeable. The choice is theirs if they wish to walk away.

The Tower - Sudden upheaval, disaster, but also an avoidance of disaster in reverse. Calculus' reusable nuclear powered moon rocket was literally ahead of its time, representing a huge shake up in technological advancement in the Tintin universe. However, the moon mission attracted a lot of sabotage and disaster which was narrowly avoided. While the characters had to rely on the rocket for safety, it's not necessarily predictable.

The Star - Hope and rejuvenation, but also discouragement and insecurity in reverse. The phostile meteorite ushered a global wave of panic and speculation initially, but once it landed it became a beacon for competing factions to get to in time. It has a property that allows living things to grow quickly and abnormally large, representing the abundance the Star card is supposed to signal. The Star is supposed to follow the trauma of the Tower. Picking the rocket and meteorite felt thematically appropriate as both have associations with space, a relatively new frontier.

The Moon - Illusions, intuition, fear, confusion, misinterpretation. Professor Phostle jumps to conclusions and makes wild predictions from shaky calculations. He's also conveniently moon shaped.

The Sun - Inner child, joy, truth and liberation from struggle, or sadness and self doubt in reverse. Zorrino escapes the torment and bullying in his village and joins the Inca. Haddock and Tintin are immediately protective over him, with Zorrino being a little younger than Tintin.

Judgement - Releasing baggage, call to action, renewal, moving forward. Ramo Nash breaks free from Rastapopoulos' grasp and saves Tintin's life. I decided to depict the final confrontation scene from Alph Art where he pushes Rastapopoulos off a cliff, to his end.

The World - Culmination, success, completion, but stagnation in reverse. The Fool has seemingly completed his journey - Tintin has it all, a successful fulfilling career, friends who care about him and a manion to live in. But he is, by design, stagnant. Forever a cherub faced boy, stuck in an episodic serial by nature, Hergé wanted to kill him off by sealing him inside a resin statue, freezing him in place for eternity. He will forever be the Boy Reporter.

I dressed him as a Morris dancer because I thought it would be funny

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A knockout! You guys have voted for me to draw and post the entirety of the House of Glass, so here's the next part that follows directly from this.

If you're enjoying this comic, please consider donating to Amira, a 23 year old who was displaced and forced to flee to the southern part of Gaza. Her home, university and workplace has been destroyed, and she's the only source of income for her family since her father passed away. You can read her tumblr @amira-world!

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The penultimate part of my story, The House of Glass. Tintin's investigation hits a wall. Follows directly from this!

If you're enjoying this comic, please consider donating to Eyad, he is a father of four trying to evacuate his family from the Gaza strip. His wife Amal, and their kids, Sami (11), Mohammad (9), Sarah (7) and Saad (5) are currently in a displacement school in the Zaytoun area. Eyad has been separated from his family, and is currently living in a tent in the Dier al-Balah area.

His blog is @abosamisblog

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Castafiore delivers an earth-shattering performance! Update to my story, the House of Glass! Follows directly from this. Drawing this part was intense - crowd shots, buildings, cars, guns - all things I'm not fond of drawing, but hopefully this was worth it!

If you're enjoying this comic, please consider donating to Youssef Helles. He moved to Belgium in 2019 and is trying to get his wife and five children to Egypt after his family was forced to flee on foot to Southern Gaza, then again to Rafah, where they are currently living in a tent.

His tumblr is @4-zien-yousef