Angeline Fowl - Blog Posts

I like Wuthering Heights because it basically says, "Yeah, you can have a soul mate. But he's basically the worst. That says a lot about you." Like all the other soul mate shit presents the idea that you have your perfect other half. Nuh uh. Your other half is gonna be exactly as rotten as you. And it's gonna piss you off. Seeing all your worst flaws up close and personal ain't so nice now, is it?

When can I see you again? I've been waiting out here for so long and I Don't seem to find the resolve To keep building these castles out of snow

They only melt away When spring is arriving and guilt will be here Waiting to drag me down into your pond

You bury me slowly, you bury me slowly "Take what you can" (Tim) "Give what you don't need" (Angeline) Still I'll let it be known in every parish You are loved, you are loved...

When, Susanne Sundfør

(the bold parts are not the exact lyrics, but what I personally hear)

If Artemis has even only one (1) song that sounds even remotely like that in the musical, to express how he feels about his parents, I'll be a happy woman There is just such a beautifully dark and melancholic undertone throughout this entire book series to me, and I'm so terrified that a musical will not be able to do it justice...

Preach... 🙏🏻 I love Angeline with all my heart, but the books never really did her justice. She was a crucial part of the first book but then she just vanished once she was "cured" - which never sat right with me... call me grumpy, but I don't like the idea that magic can cure something so deeply rooted in the chemistry of the mind as mental illnesses (plural because I really don't think Angeline was simply depressed, the symptoms she exhibits in the first book feel really indicative of bipolar disorder and also schizophrenia). Only in my dreams is her struggle with mental health explored in later books... And TAC is absolute trash imo because it's a huge missed opportunity for more Artemis and Angeline bonding, acknowledging the trauma they both went through during Tim's disappearance... But, we got nothing. It really makes me SO mad to see that the most prominent thing the fowldom has retained from Angeline is the "randomosity" shirt and think of her as some superficial helpless mobwife é.è When Angeline's actually Artemis' most acute emotional and moral compass right beside Butler. So many fics that I otherwise enjoyed annoy me to no end with their portrayal of Angeline.

I'd have so much more to say about my darling, but I don't have the clarity of mind right now to expose all my thoughts in a comprehensible way (all my brain screams right now is FOOD. NOW) but I may come back to it later.

Angeline Fowl is the protagonist’s mother. She is also a wife. She is also crazy. This is basically the extent of what we learn about Angeline in the first book and she doesn’t substantially develop throughout the course of the series. Angeline represents two common tropes in fiction, the mother and the madwoman. While AF is undeniably a fantasy series, it is still rooted in our contemporary world, and so it is not unreasonable to expect a certain level of realism when depicting its mental illness or when depicting its secondary characters, in general. It's just so frustrating that Colfer really opened up such a big can of worms and then did nothing with it, or for that matter, her. :/

🧡 young Tim & Angeline redraw 🧡 So many things I'm unhappy with in this drawing, but since I draw mostly for my mental health, when I start to get frustrated is my cue to just let the piece be done. I'm still quite pleased to see how far I've progressed with Procreate since I first started ! I won't repost the original drawing though, even though it's a testament of my journey it still makes me cringe, it's so bad x')

👑 young short-haired Angeline 👑

I hope the cut of her dress is okay ; I adore low-cut necklines, all my favourite dresses have one.

I'm pretty happy with the colours on this one, I was worried I would be trash again at Procreate after such a long hiatus but so far, so good ^^"

🩵 Don’t let your spirit die, this is just a conflict of the mind 🩵

✨ !!! HYPERFIXATIONS COLLIDE !!!✨

I’m weeks late but the minute I heard my absolute beloved Aurora’s latest song ‘Conflict of the Mind’ I knew what I had to do. It’s a song that deeply moves me, I relate to it a lot but it also feels so much like something Artemis or Angeline would feel but never say out loud.

It was my first time drawing with an actual reference image (from the music video which you must absolutely check out if you haven’t seen it already), it was pretty fun and I do like the end result, even though shadows still prove to be my ultimate nemesis.

Spring 1991. Happier times ✨

I wanted to draw something that felt warmer and more wholesome after my previous attempt at a ‘’big’’ piece. Not very happy with this one, I think I was a bit too ambitious for my skill level lol. I definitely could have worked on it more but I decided to call it quits anyways ^^’ Edit to add - one thing I'm very proud about - I drew the piano without any reference picture o/ For no other reason that I couldn't be bothered ahem, and the proportions are a mess compared to Angeline, but still ! *pat-pats on my own back*

That morning in 1999 ; they just found out…

First time trying a big piece on procreate, i’m glad I went for a monochrome so I could work on my (non existent) shadows skills. I don’t draw scenes like this very often even on traditional media so I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

Sorry for the angst, mental health is a sh*tshow right now 🫠 So i’m torturing my favorite characters because i’m a terrible person ✨

Young Angeline and Tim ✨I’m dumping all my procreate shenanigans since sleep won’t be polite enough to show up

It’s 4:30AM and I can’t sleep, I’m too mad at the scores at figure skating US nationals, Amber should be in first è.é Anyhoo, here’s my darling Angeline 💜 I’m slowly getting the hang of this procreate thingy