YEAH WE BIG ❤️🩷
i drew this in late 2023 in honor of the really cool fanwork "project shadow" by joao santiago. him and his team did an incredible job bringing this story to life in a meaningful, impactful way and i hope his career goes places.
i really liked the scene with shadow looking up at the rain while his expression softens. i thought it was beautiful. i interpreted it as the planet crying for/with him about his loss as well as shadow bittersweetly appreciating the rain and how it feels on his fur - knowing full well that maria would have loved to feel it too.
Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.
thinking about how identity is explored within blue eye samurai more as an affliction rather than something that is assigned by the self...
how mizu never once called herself a samurai (referring to herself as a 'swordsman') but others will assign virtues to her as though she is - only to get upset at her when she does not fight with honor
how mizu must perform masculinity, but how this is inauthentic to herself. as is every other performance of gender for her.
this also extends to characters like akemi who also have their identities 'inflicted' upon them from all directions...
come here knuxamy fans. i will feed you. i will keep you safe.
father + mother's day doodles specifically 💙🖤🩷
I've been headed to the top Just to look back down And over my shoulder Every smile comes unwound again I'm a little bit of a monster.
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Those new wings forced me to hop on the bandwagon. I drew this with the song 'bit of a monster' by vylet pony in mind. sure, the wings are cool, but i can't help but to wonder how shadow feels about them?
one of my favourite routes in shth (2005) is "the tragedy's conclusion" (154) where shadow realizes that she's kind of a monster that never should have been created in the first place. after all, it was shadow's very creation that lead to so much destruction and despair in the first place.
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