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Jo (they/them) Artist

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➤ Introduction before I forget again

Hiii

Favourite classic artists: William Turner, Monet, Joaquin Sorolla, Berthe Morisot, Toulouse-Lautrec Leyendecker, Camille Pissarro, among others

Some of my recurrent Interests (the ones that keep on defrosting): The Illiad, The Picture of Dorian Gray, If We Were Villains, Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit, JJK

My askbox is open and asks are welcome!!

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BTW!! Anyone doin' artfight this year Im manifesting for you so many attacks/revenges and i hope you're having an amazing time! Draw draw draw

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What do yall think of my mane six redesign 🫣

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Hi! I just wanted to tell you how much I admire your TPODG content—your character insights and art have been such a huge inspiration to me. Your work actually sparked an idea for a short piece I just finished writing!

​I’ve linked it here (https://archiveofourown.org/works/85859296) just in case you're curious, but please don't feel any pressure to read or reply to this. I just wanted to share the love and say thank you for being such an inspiration! :D

I need you to know how absolutely ecstatic this made me i couldn't believe it when I read it 😭 you're an excellent writer it's bananas that my embarrassingly passionate ramblings gave you inspiration for your own piece. Art is truly beautiful.

Here's a little sketch I did of them, inspired by Agnus Dei because wowwwwie wow short but intense dear not to spoil anything but the biblical reference went craaaazy

Please everyone gooo read and give love to this fanfic and this author, simply magnificent writing. waaaaah !!

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hey are you guys excited for artfight?

ME TOO!! :0

but do you like doing refs?

oh, you do. ok well you should read this anyway :333

!! in anticipation of artfight, all ref sheet comms will be ON SALE at 25% off their regular calculated price until July 1st! come and grab one :DD !!

make a direct request on my Artistree, linked below :DD orrr, slide into my dms to ask about comms anytime! (and do look out for another lil sale coming soon….)

sunnysideup's Commission Form | Artistree

sunnysideup's digital art commission form. On Artistree, human creators are fairly paid, organized, and environmentally conscious. Artistree

some reference sheet examples also ^^

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All is Vanity

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how didn't I think of making this gif before

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I never knew my mother.

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Sin eaters

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♡　“Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don’t want a life-sized portrait of myself,” answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool in a wilful, petulant manner. When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up. “I beg your pardon, Basil, but I didn’t know you had any one with you.”

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bad news is i barely had any time for art these past days. more bad news is it'll probably continue for another week. i swear i havent abandoned the rumblr.... im just so busy.... hate it here

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I like him (I'm so sorry this was posted twice I think Tumblr glitched a bit🙏 hashtag embarrassing)

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Oh it’s the gangggg

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mercy’s One Good Day as demanded by @whaleshark-in-a-teapot, ft avery

they’re playing the part in pokémon super mystery dungeon where [redacted for spoilers]

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One of my Dorian Gray hot takes is that there was absolutely nothing in Dorian and Basil's relationship that was healthy. I keep seeing posts like "Basil's love for Dorian was so pure, that's why the portrait was so pretty and the real villain of the story is Wotton because he corrupted it"

As I see it, yes, Wotton did corrupt him, but saying Basil's feelings for Dorian were pure is simply inaccurate to the story. Basil says himself he merely sees Dorian as an artistic ideal [Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all; ch1] and admitted he (a 10 year older man, who had power over him) tried to isolate him from other people and "keep him to himself". Furthermore, Basil also plays a big role in the way Dorian sees himself and his beauty, by painting him everyday and not maintaining any conversation with him, he's indirectly reaffirming what Wotton tells him: people only care about you because you're pretty and young. There is also this scene from the second chapter:

Dorian Gray turned and looked at him. "I believe you would, Basil. You like your art better than your friends. I am no more to you than a green bronze figure. Hardly as much, I dare say.

The painter stared in amazement. It was so unlike Dorian to speak like that. What had happened? He seemed quite angry. His face was flushed and his cheeksburning.

"Yes," he continued, "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."

Hallward turned pale and caught his hand. "Dorian! Dorian!" he cried, "don't talk like that. I have never had such a friend as you, and I shall never have suchanother. You are not jealous of material things, are you?-you who are finer than any of them!"

Dorian is even dealing with a suicidal ideation over what Wotton has told him and the way Basil sees him, he needs emotional validation, he's asking to be told there's more than him than that, and Basil's reaction is just─ no. You're prettier than any other object (indirectly comparing him to one, too).

Basil's view of Dorian influences how he sees people as much as Wotton's. For example, to Dorian Sybil was only what she pretended to be, he loved her performance, her acting, how she did exactly what the public wanted (which can apply to Dorian himself), not the real her. She was only an artistic ideal to him, she meant to him exactly what Dorian meant to Basil. He ignored her desires, pain and everything not related to what he wanted to see, since that's what he's been taught he must appreciate.

I also disagree with the interpretation of the portrait as a "pure" reflection of Basil's love (I would personally rather describe it as an obsession, though) and Dorians soul because it's not. At least not entirely. Part of the point of the book is that everyone only saw the part of Dorian they wanted: the portrait represents Basil's idolized version of him, what he wanted to see and how he refused to see Dorian as a person instead of an artistic ideal. That's why he tried to make him redeem himself, because he hated seeing his version of Dorian shatter into pieces. It was never Dorian entirely, not even after aging terribly because that's the result of Basil and Wotton's influence. The portrait was not his real soul, it was a modified version of it other people played with because nobody cared about the whole thing, and the influence was so big those parts became his whole being. It was just an idolized, molded version at first but turned into his real self with the time and the sins. Dorian's soul (the portrait) was constructed upon what others appreciated about him, so when Wotton motivated him to sin, because Dorian's potential to be terrible was what mattered to him, it became ugly and terrible. There was absolutely nothing pure about that portrait since day 1.

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hehe yayy DTIYS for the absolute goat @sunflowers-and-scales. So many congratulations on the 1k (✿´◡`✿) I'm inherently attached to these two (Ian in specific but i love Ryu too aww) because he was the first oc i ever saw of you.. love the little guys

Link to the post here if someone wants to take a crack at it!!! do soooo