MINTSUGA
elissastillstands:
“First, cast your eyes up to the sky. Does it look the same to you, or has it changed? Can you hear me? Can you answer me? Whose head do you hold in your hands? // (adapted from Bacchae 1264-1277)
Opal from Critical Role: Exandria...

elissastillstands:

First, cast your eyes up to the sky. Does it look the same to you, or has it changed? Can you hear me? Can you answer me? Whose head do you hold in your hands? // (adapted from Bacchae 1264-1277)

Opal from Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited, based on Gustav Klimt’s “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” (1901). 

Very rarely do I post thoughts about an episode right after watching, but dear God above, Opal putting on the crown of the Spider Queen is the very thing I have been wanting since the very first episode. I have wanted this for so long. I am shaking from sheer triumph. I am delighted.

What a finale, y’all. 

#cr spoilers #exu spoilers #cr finale #exu finale #VINDICATION FOR ME AND ME SPECIFICALLY #TRIUMPH #i wanted this so much #and i'm not used to shows actually going the way i want them to! this is the first time that has happened in a very long time #thank you aimee and aabria #my queens my lieges #for seven and a half episodes i was like: put on the crown. put on the crown. save your sister. put on the crown. #and i thought it would be in vain! i thought they were just gonna carry around the vestige and do nothing with it #BUT THEN AIMEE CAME THROUGH #i can and will write more about how this is such a bittersweet arc for opal #she spent so long trying to be her own person #trying to establish a separate identity from her twin #only to lose ted as a sister #lose the person she knew for 19 years #and also accept another presence into her mind #a betrayer god who will continue to whisper in her ear and change her face and chip away at her #all for love of her sister #and she'll never be alone again. and that's a curse and blessing entwined #and she'll never be powerless again. but that does not mean she'll have agency #for the 3.5 people who follow me for cr: stay tuned for fic. to everyone else: i am so sorry
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I watched Madoka Magica for the first time with my partner and I haven’t thought about anything else since. Kyoko Sakura is the light of my life.

#puella magi madoka magica #pmmm #madoka magica #pmmm kyoko #kyoko sakura #sayaka miki #sayaka x kyoko #kyoko x sayaka
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The main elements of Harrow are complete! This is my first cosplay, which feels fitting because it’s a meld of all of my favorite things: space fantasy, medieval fantasy, and a heavy dose of religious iconography. I wanted to really lean into the latter and took inspiration from Catholic reliquaries. Everything is built from a plastic skeleton, cardboard boxes, foam clay, and luck; these photos were taken on the front-facing camera of my phone.

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt cosplay #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow cosplay #i'm so happy with how this came out. i've never worked with foam clay before #a little bts: i've been working on this in bits since april #and all through summer while studying for one of my comps #and i took these photos the week before i took the comps as a distraction but didn't post them #and i felt like i would be jinxing myself if i shared them #but i passed my first round of comps!!! just got the results back
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Three nights in the Daye household with Macbeth on the TV.

I’ve had a first draft of this comic in my files for two years now, and I was never satisfied with it. This past week, I pulled it back out and reworked it, because as we all know, fall is time for one thing and one thing only. I am so excited for Sleep No More!

#october daye #toby daye #seanan mcguire #tybalt king of cats #litedit #sir daye i love you #i also love stories about people overwhelmed by/breaking out of glamour. so sleep no more has me even more hyped
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It’s been a year since Calamity aired, and I still have not been able to stop thinking about it. This was drawn referencing Michelangelo’s Pietà, as a spiritual successor to the Creation of Adam redraw I did when the finale first aired.

#critical role #exu calamity #critical role fanart #zerxus ilerez #exandria unlimited #exu asmodeus #exu zerxus #zerxus x asmodeus #la pieta #i'm sure you thought you were safe. i'm sure you thought it was over. #but no i had reading for class/exam prep that sent me into a tailspin. #saint augustine of hippo. get out of my house.

If they were right, Nonagesimus, how much more can we take until you and me achieve omniscience? (from Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 51)

What can I say, the space fantasy Catholicism and Oresteia allusions have bewitched me (to say nothing of Harrowhark).

#the locked tomb #tlt #locked tomb fanart #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #griddlehark #i'm at the pathei. i'm at the mathos. i'm at the combination pathei mathos (literally thinking about the agamemnon parados for a living) #pathei mathos is at aesch. ag. 176-8 for anyone who is interested #anyways these books are like candy to me. truly have everything i love. they are so fun. #i'm making my first real cosplay and it's gonna be harrow.

It’s nearly been two years since EXU first came out, but I’m still obligated to draw every meme that comes out of the Barbie movie with my best girl. And who better to be her tired and spiraling counterpart than Orym? 

#critical role #exandria unlimited #exu #orym of the air ashari #cr orym #opal of byroden #cr opal #liam o'brien #aimee carrero #it is my deeply held belief that orym is a very tired guy in his mid-thirties at least. no i will not elaborate. #and adding ''and opal'' would have been the full bit. but. thinking about opal's whole thing with her own independence #and her desire to be unique and shake off her own secondariness and be someone other than ted's twin. #yes it's just a bit. no i cannot stop myself. it is that deep to ME.
elissastillstands:
“The moment I saw this meme going around, I knew who it had to be.
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elissastillstands:

The moment I saw this meme going around, I knew who it had to be. 

#once more unto the breach
The moment I saw this meme going around, I knew who it had to be.

The moment I saw this meme going around, I knew who it had to be. 

#critical role #critical role fanart #barbie movie #exandria unlimited #exu #exu crown keepers #opal exu #opal of byroden #opal exandria #aimee carrero #black goo barbie. champion of a betrayer god barbie. #exandrian barbie. barbie of my heart.

elissastillstands:

I’m asking you to open your heart…to chaos!

Some of the scenes from the Mighty Nein animatic I made a while back. The animation was done by rotoscoping frames from the Mighty Nein Reunited trailer on Procreate; I might’ve bitten off more than I can chew, but it was still really fun! Check out the full video on YouTube HERE.

#once more unto the breach #i am very proud of these!

I’m asking you to open your heart…to chaos!

Some of the scenes from the Mighty Nein animatic I made a while back. The animation was done by rotoscoping frames from the Mighty Nein Reunited trailer on Procreate; I might’ve bitten off more than I can chew, but it was still really fun! Check out the full video on YouTube HERE.

#critical role #critteredit #mighty nein #cr2 #critical role fanart #tm9 #fanimation #cr edit #beauregard lionett #jester lavorre #yasha nydoorin #caleb widogast #astrid beck #eadwulf grieve #essek thelyss #nott the brave #veth brenatto #mollymauk tealeaf #caduceus clay #critical role fjord #i spent so long on this so i will be posting about it for the next year #i couldn't fit my avantika animation onto this post but i am very proud of that one. it's in the video.