No Iām not apart of what happened, I left due to a completely different matter. Non of it had anything to do with what happened
The creators donāt want to talk about what happened, and their wishes want to be respected. Anymore asks about that in my inbox is gonna be ignored or deleted.
Donāt tassel me into this stupid shit when I wasnāt involved.
Honestly canāt keep sitting here and be excited for nevermore knowing that it goes on break every episode or two
Like ⦠Iām not excited to edit it anymore, and Itās not a comic I can sit here and enjoy when breaks are constant to where idek if weāll get an ep or not when the day comes cause itās not announced until the hour of or the day of
Sad
Itās my own opinion ofc
I still edit it but itās not something Iām excited abt anymore lmfao
All I'm going to say is: everyone's lost me. From now on, my fan art will only be of Spectre Lenore (and especially Lenore with long hair, sorry not sorry). I'm your simp ššš¤ā¤ļøš„āØ
defending lenoreās spectre. this was gonna be a reblog but it became so long that i figured it should be its own post. please donāt start wars!
i think the idea that itās a design based on things one just feels like is cool, not a design mainly based on thought isnāt saying much since i feel like that can be applied to most if not every spectre weāve seen.Ā
berenice wears a minidress with a bunch of cut outs and fishnet tights
montresor literally has his abs out and has piercings on his nipples
dukeās whole jester look having the chest belts
even arguably the heart shaped hole in annabelās chest (not to mention the recent panels of her lmao)
lenoreās is actually less, for lack of a better term, fanservicey / gratuitous than those, especially considering there hasnāt been any special emphasis she gets on particular elements, nor additional detail or lack thereof which is in keeping with the rest of the cast. also, the design wasĀ gonna be something the creators like no matter what the lore was.
on the contrary, it's not like lenoreās spectre is an exception when it comes to design principles, symbolism and how much of the story was taken into account. aside from the clever detail of there being a chance Bloody Mary shows you a skull to hint that you will die before you get married and a lady in red being a jilted lover.
like many of them it reflects how she died (shot in the head while meant to be the groom to annabelās wife, so thereās a crack where she was shot with an inner cavity similar to annabelās one in her chest, plus the red crystal halo that points to the wound and signifies the direction of blood splatter, matching the red crystal dangling in the center of annabel, and the clothes being more or less the same just loosely modified like annabelās wedding dress, the blood on the top coming from embracing her).Ā
who she was before she died (she used to have long hair before she cut it off in pursuit of being with annabel, and the scissor-ish blades also fit with that). side note i donāt like the idea that it clashes with her androgyny or how she presents her appearance gender-wise, long hair isnāt inherently feminine and can be seen as masculine. additionally that wasnāt the primary reason her hair was cut or why she styled herself the way she did, it was to pass as a man for the aforementioned goal. she was never shown having a problem with the dresses she wore in life and even wore some feminine stuff in dreamland. thereās also how it makes her not resemble theo, which was actually on purpose.
and the emotions she felt as she died (annabel can be said to have died feeling grief, and has a giant hole in her chest where her heart was alluding to lost and unfulfilled love. lenore died feeling vengeful, and her seemingly hollow head and bloodied eyes means sheās āseeing redā i.e cannot see reason anymore, as well as bringing to mind the phrases āblood for bloodā, āblood feudā and so on. thereās also how blood is not just associated with death, but itās also a sign of being warm and alive. obviously no one at nevermore that isnāt named pluto wanted to die, but lenore clearly had a strong will to live and keep fighting as well as has some fire imagery. note how annabel is chronically cold in her spectre form just like a corpse, and had very little resolve in their final moments). the other spectres can have just as many things about them inferred.
also i get that it gives creepypasta (which i dont see the problem with), but:Ā
sheās a Bloody Mary, a figure from an old horror legend portrayed a lot as being, well, bloody, and creepypasta are essentially just horror legends but from the internet. they fundamentally have the same tropes, it was kinda inevitable.
a gunshot to the head damages blood vessels which are also in your eyes and i canāt think of another way other than more broken glass-like cracks on the forehead to imply the head wound.Ā
a quick search shows that red eyes really arenāt that common in creepypasta characters. plus, the story is already dark and horror-adjacent to begin with, a few elements that come off as āedgyā are to be expected, this isnāt even the first nor will it be the last lol.
edgy things are a guilty pleasure for me i canāt lie lmao, donāt kill me plsĀ
and on whether or not itās monstery enough, annabel, morella, eulalie and duke all have pretty human-like spectres or designs, along with to a lesser extent monty, prospero and berenice. thatās most members of the main cast already. the Bloody Mary is ultimatelyĀ just a ghost woman, and most ghosts will resemble people with extra sauce for self explanatory reasons.
i also think some of this has to do with the fact that lenore was for so long the only one without a spectre, which led to tons of speculation on what it would it be, combined with stretched out pacing made it so that it would likely never match the reality of what the creators had in mind.Ā
unless you get deep in theorizing (like me admittedly lmao), was there really ever an indication that her spectre would warrant any more significance than other spectre reveals? if annabelās was revealed to us much later and lenoreās revealed first i think people would've also gave hers more scrutiny (i had to go back and check to see how detailed annabelās dress was, it has nothing other than some frills at the ends guys lol). the expectation of more elements related to ravens might also have been from this. beyond the subject being mourned in the poem "the raven" being all but stated to be the same lenore in the poem "lenore" both that lenore and this lenore didn't have a tie to ravens the way pluto has a tie to black cats.Ā
i admit that i'm heavily biased in favor of defending her spectre. that being said within what the storyās identity is it serves its purpose pretty well.
addendum - as someone mentioned, her blades not only reference the scissors she used to cut her hair, but also the raven wings in the series' logo and slightly resemble her wheelchair, and this can be seen as turning what gave her hardship into a mode of revenge seeking!
death or love, tonight. āļø
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Happy Valentine's Day! We promised fastpassers this art if they didn't spoil free readers. There were a few leaks, unfortunately. But we were really impressed and touched by how hard the community worked to get them taken down, so you earned the art by the skin of your teeth! š
What a surprise people donāt keep to themselves, sure criticism is valid in any space, itās expressing opinion, but when that criticism turns into attacking the creator of the comic you love so much, itās not criticism. Itās harassment.
So caught up because your spectre theory didnāt become true so you have to attack the design, after we waited years for her spectre. We finally got it and the first thing people do is āwell this is bullshit why is it so feminine.ā Fuck off??? Take your forced shit away , this isnāt about you this is about the plot point of a comic and major reveal of a character and story.
This isnāt for your theories to become, this has been written way before you guessed the word āhiā from another character
The disrespect even though they still were giving us art, donāt get mad because she stopped posting. Get mad at everyone else who ruined it. Sheās not punishing everyone, sheās punishing those who ruined it FOR everyone else.