All my will to draw has been snap out (that's how you say it?) because of work and the hell of finding a place to rent ok ok bye bye 👋👋👋

Maybe I'm feeling a spark of inspiration to draw a fanart of Copia. I'm sick and tired and already have 1000 in progress projects tho

Maybe I'm feeling a spark of inspiration to draw a fanart of Copia. I'm sick and tired and already have 1000 in progress projects tho

Are you readyyyyy!!! 🗣️🗣️

So.

How are we feeling now that Ghost dropped a teaser ?

Update update~

Hello there, quick update ! ✨

My new retail job is going great ! I'm bounding with my coworkers who all are exceptionally kind, it's a real pleasure to work there. I still don't have a place I can call mine but I'm lucky and so grateful to have amazingly supportive people helping me so damn much to go where I want to go at my steady little pace. I'm really happy rn even tho there still are many things worrying me. But I'm at peace and that's already so much.

Anw. I'm still working on that silly Webtoon, Wrecking Ball, and I'm writing 2 other stories that probably will become a (web)comic thing, nothing's settled yet, it's a bit too early to say.

There'll be a time when I'll be more active on this blog. Idk when, but it's coming.

Thanks to those who are still here despite my silence. Take care and see ya ! 🫶✨

Thank you so much everyone for the avalanche of love this one is getting back these past days !

Everytime I got a notification about it and read your sweets words in tags I can't help but smile.

Maybe one day you'll forget about it but I'll keep in my heart and mind a piece of warm love for y'all.

Close up on my last drawing ! 🌬️✨

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From December issue of Billboard Magazine: Tobias on why the Grammy recognition matters & the band's "for your consideration" ad.

"When you’re working with art, you normally do not have a whole lot of the sort of moments that you have within sports. In sports, the win is very momentary: Either you win or you lose. Whereas an artistic career is usually over the course of time. Even if you’re somewhat successful as an artist, it’s very, very rarely happening overnight. When you’re nominated for awards, that’s the closest you can get [as an artist] to that “One second ago, I didn’t have it, and now I have it.” [Winning a Grammy] is one of the few moments I’ve had throughout my professional career where I really felt [how things] could have felt very different had I not achieved what happened 10 seconds ago. The rings on the water meant a lot of things professionally in terms of quote-unquote “being taken seriously. Radio, promoters — if you for some reason might be looking for a new label — all of a sudden, when you’re nominated, it’s a stamp of approval that will automatically make potential collaborators, partners, what have you, give you more chances. That is not to say that you can come in and be a dick. You just automatically get a bit more of a gravitas in maneuvering within the different aspects of your career in a way that you might not have, had you not had the stamp of approval of getting a Grammy nomination — or, even better, winning it. But as with most things, what you’re getting is a bag of tools. And you can choose not to use them. Over the course of many, many decades of artists getting awards, there are many that have gotten an accolade and then just faded into nothingness. Because it’s all about momentum. You should see it as a steppingstone. It’s part of your journey, not the end of it."

Kind reminder the Grammy Awards will take place on February 4, 2024 and Ghost is nominated in the Best Metal Performance category with their rendition of 'Phantom of The Opera.' 🫶

I've only just thought of putting them together.

Era V

Sneak peek~ 🌝✨

Aurora, again~°.•*

Time lapse video coming soon !

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About damn time.

Just out of a Shaka Ponk show ! I have to say, they are part of these bands that I enjoy more live than on record. They are true beasts on stage. Proud of my french artists. ✨

I'm so amazed to see people fighting over each other's Spotify's Wrapped. "uuuuh, you listen to that too ?? Then you're not a real fan of this !! You hypocrite.". How is it possible to enjoy music and be that toxic about it ?

'guess I'm not a TRVE Ghost's fan as they aren't in my tops this year. Like, look at this. What an abomination.

And look at that atrocity. Taste's like vomit.

Yyyurrrk.

(unless you're only listening to problematic artists, I don't see why we should judge your music tastes.)

I'm quitting. And I'm struggling to quit. Because my boss is a bitch. I'm this close to call the boss' cops. (You call them "Labor inspection" in English too?)

If someone told me that working in a love shop would trigger my big sister instinct in the best way possible.

One of my customers is a student who moved in town a bit more than a month ago. She's staying at a friend's. Today she came to buy some stuff to have fun with her new girlfriend. Her girlfriend is actually the friend accommodating her. She told me how it's been 2 years since she started having feelings for her and yesterday they kissed and more for the first time and I'm like- 🤌🤧💙✨

She asked me for tips to make her girlfriend (who's in a lesbian relationship for the 1st time) feel the most comfortable possible. She's so considerate and yeah clearly in love. I Need To Protec™.

It's really something to see, again, endless and sterile debates about what is rock and what isn't. From where I'm wandering in the internet lately, and it includes Ghost's fandom, here's what I see:

Spiritbox doing a collab with Megan Thee Stallion is enough to categorise the band as not heavy enough and thus not truly metal and ofc no one talk about the song itself which is- like- good ?? I love the contrasts brought by the variety of sounds in both version of the song. Grammys having Olivia Rodrigo nominated for the "best rock song" award, with a song which... Sounds rock sorry to break it to you. SKZ, a "K-pop" band, dropped an EP titled "ROCK-STAR". I don't want to give you exemple of comments they're getting as the lvl of stupidity is ground breaking.

Maybe it is time to recognise that the richness you can find in rock/metal include pop and electro (and more). Maybe it's time to let other genres play with rock/metal codes too. Why should it be a problem ? You have crappy rock/metal perfo without pop and electro influences in it so I highly doubt this is what's dragging the genres down. I see Ghost fans spitting venom on Olivia Rodrigo's Grammy nomination in that "rock song" category. Ghost is using pop codes like it's nothing and y'all are trying to play the purists ? You're doing exactly what Ghost's haters do and you're the first to go cry when someone say Ghost is a pop rock Scooby-Doo ish band. The hypocrisy.

You can be a metal band and collab with a popstar. You can be a popstar and do a rock song. You can be a band playing with rock and pop codes at the same time. I see nothing wrong with that. And that's why I enjoy so much SKZ take on what makes a song sounds and feels rock nowadays without doing an actual rock song. Mixing trendy sounds, catchy melodies, and still experimenting, not fearing to make bpm and melodies changes, creating something different, something that screams "that's us" before sticking to one genre. Funnily enough, the main criticise they get is that they're not doing music but noises, they are too loud while keep doing their thing and growing despite evolving in a very formatted industry. On paper, they aren't rock artists, right. But fuck it, who cares ? Same to Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo... I don't fucking care anymore.

It's a Ghost fanblog so let's talk a bit more about them. Their Grammy nomination and people's opinion about it is telling a lot. First thing first, well, the Grammy- 🤡 Then, being nominated for a cover of Iron Maiden is definitely something you can flex about, yes, but also nominating them for this precise cover in the "best metal performance" makes me... Conflicted. Like, Iron Maiden, Metal's icons, revisited by Ghost sends both a signal of "let's keep things like Iron Maiden does" but also "let's renew this good old shit". I think they 100% deserve to win the award, like every other nominees in this category, sincerely.

I guess the conclusion of this frenchy-grump-dump is: stop being boring and play gatekeepers, that's the one thing that'll kill your fav music genre. Stillness is the death of every form of art. Let it feed and being fed by other stuff. You don't like it ? Go back to your old loves and wait to see what comes next. You might fall for something new soon or later, who knows.

Not to mention all the crap happening lately. There's a rise of lack of humanity, it's global and it's terrifying. Like, where are we going? Is it really the kind of world we want to build and live in ?

I launched CSP after 2 weeks without drawing anything. I wanted to draw Sunshine. It's a complete failure. The concept and everything were so clear in my head but the moment I started sketching everything just faded away, from my ideas to my will to get anything done.

I guess my soul fully belongs to the demon of uncreative-work-life now.🫠is it what becoming a "average" adult is like ?