The Wizards of the Black Circle redesign vid will be up monday!!!

Can u guess the themes i gave them?

As I've been working on outlining the shit out of my Winx rewrite, I've been thinking a lot about how all the villains in the series desperately need to be treated like actual characters and given real motives. I know everyone loves Valtor and the Trix and the wizards of the black circle, but they're all equally boring as fuck because they're all just generically, black-and-white evil for no real reason. As such, I've started to come up with some potential backstories/motives for all of them, and I thought I'd share since I'd also love some feedback.

Something I think the series set up like it was going to do something with is the idea of the Trix having some sort of connection to the Ancestral Witches. If we keep what seems like the most canon timeline they appear to have settled on in the show, that the fall of Domino and everything happened about 18 years prior to season 3, then it wouldn't be unreasonable for the Trix to be the witches' granddaughters. I like the idea of that connection to the Ancestral Witches being the main thing that originally brought them together into their coven and that, as soon as they discover Bloom's true identity, their primary goal is killing her to finish what the witches started. With this, of course, would be the omission of bullshit rivalry between fairies and witches, though their ongoing conflict with the Winx could still start with Stella's ring, like in the original.

With Valtor, I would want him to be a person rather than a physical manifestation of the dragon flame that was made by the Ancestral Witches. I just think it would make him more interesting for him to have an origin story as a human, living in the world, that leads to his eventual corruption rather than him just being made evil by evil for evil. I have this vision of him coming from some country that was an ally of Domino but when something happened and they needed Domino's help, their allies turned their backs on them, inspiring Valtor's blossoming hatred for them as he personally suffered and watched the fallout of that betrayal. This all would've happened with the previous king and queen before Oritel and Marion btw, but it would take him a hot minute to learn the dark arts in order to pursue his revenge.

What I'd love to see is Valtor actually learning dark magic from Darkar, since I do also think Darkar should be a bigger deal than he was in canon. By learning from the Shadow Phoenix, who is the opposite of the Great Dragon, I feel like his magic would be both better suited to going against the dragon flame and more vulnerable to it. That would also bring back in some sort of dragon flame element without Valtor being a spark of the flame itself like in canon. So Valtor would gather the witches and attack Domino for personal revenge, with his focus being on ending the royal family, hence the way it all turned out with Daphne being a ghost, Oritel being a statue, Marion being sealed in his sword(?), and Bloom getting dumped out of a portal to spare her from the culling.

As for the wizards, I want them to be from Earth and for all their beef to be with Tir Na Og instead of just... all fairies, for no real reason. What I'm thinking is that Tir Na Og is the bridge between the Magic Dimension and Earth, so I take that to mean that Earth doesn't have any real magic of its own and what they have all comes from through Tir Na Og. Because of this imbalance that's so different from how the Magic Dimension is, that could put Earth-dwelling magic users in a position of power over non-magical people, and perhaps that all really starts with and is encouraged/exacerbated by the king and queen of the Earth fairies. I'm thinking it would be the sort of thing where they would've convinced all the non-magical people of Earth that they are deities of some kind and then abuse the shit out of the power and trust that gives them.

The wizards would've seen all the problems that would come with this abuse of power and would seek to destroy it. Knowing that all magic on Earth comes from Tir Na Og's connection to the Magic Dimension, they would decide to target Tir Na Og and take away the magic of all the magic users there before sealing the kingdom off from the Magic Dimension entirely. Their mission when they show up in s4 then becomes keeping Roxy from reconnecting Earth and the Magic Dimension and bringing back all the issues they originally sought to end.

Lastly, just to touch on Darkar, my main thing with him is that it really should be all about how he's the opposite of the dragon, so where the dragon flame creates, Darkar's shadows can only either mimic what already exists or destroy. Just as much as the creative nature of the dragon flame contributes to the dragon's desire to create, the nature of Darkar's powers contribute to his own desires to deceive and to destroy. It's not just that he's evil for the sake of it, he's evil to us because of the inherent nature of his magical abilities and how he himself is the living embodiment of what his powers represent, which I think adds sufficient depth for him to stop being so fucking boring. Also, Relix wouldn't just be the home of some McGuffin he's been chasing the whole time, I think it would actually be the resting place of the Great Dragon and his main goal would be the absolute destruction of everything (including himself) that could only be achieved by killing the dragon.

Thoughts? Feelings? Opinions? Should I go on and also dither on about villains from later seasons?

Not sorry for that either

Oh no... I'm simp?

Ogron Winx Club fan art

so i finally caught up w/ recent news about winx reboot and decided to art dump all winx (or black circle) drawings i did. all of them r like... 8 months old? maybe more.

i have more but the rest r unfinished. prob gonna finish them just in time for 1st episode of the reboot lmao

Wizards of the black circle as the droogs from Clockwork Orange...

Halloween has come, which means it's time for the appropriate arts. (It's my first time drawing the "polaroid photos" format, so for the first time I don't really like how it turned out in the end.)

I probably like Anagan's costume the most here, because here I came up with the idea to dissolve his dreadlocks so that he looks more like that creepy doll, and now he looks very funny. (Don't ask why he's so curly.😅😅😅)

Shipping Darcy and Riven: 😍

Shipping Musa and Riven: equally 😍

Shipping Riven with every single character. Even the ones he has no screen time with or has absolutely been known for hating: 🧠🫀🫁

MY BRAIN AH

MY HEART FEELS LIKE ITS GOING TO SCREAM

AND MY LUNGS HURT FROM ACTUALLY SCREAMING

Riven and Darcy would literally both have Diaspro call them for angry sex and then Helia would figure out why Riven flirts with him and Flora likes it. Everyone in this show is bi or gay and AT THS POINT IT NEEDS TO BE SAID. Riven is a bottom. Darcy is a top. Musa is a switch. Everyone else...I'll let you decide.

I have no excuses but do I need them actually?

>;з

Thinking about Patrizio Prata's range

I'm not sorry

I love the model work in Frontier in Space- it’s a bit limited in motion, but there’s a great array of varied ships and action that keep the story’s 6 parts fresh. They’re not exactly streaking through the cosmos at lighting speed, but they really help the story’s space opera feel.

Random Headcanon About the Wizards of the Black Circle

Gantlos is half-vampire.

Anagan is simultaneously the calmest member of the group and the most adept hand-to-hand fighter.

Ogron is a total control-freak, while Duman basically always ignores the plans, and the two of them frequently get on each other’s nerves.

Duman and Gantlos are together (and my favourite Winx couple).

Duman is almost incapable of sitting still and being quiet (his record stands at two minutes, four seconds).

Anagan is claustrophobic.

Duman can’t cook. At all. He’s a hazard to life and limb in the kitchen.

Gantlos and Duman are both vegetarian.

i have a vision