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My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!
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#kingdom hearts#kh#kh kairi#kh xion#kh namine#i don't really feel proud of my own stuff usually but#i really think this is the drawing i'm most proud of from this past year!! it made me think 'oh maybe i can draw' haha#i'm still kinda bad with colors but something clicked with this one. and i feel like i got the sentimental feeling i wanted!#ooh but this project's about flower symbolism so ramble incoming:#protea symbolizes resilience transformation and diversity; hollyhock means 'please remember me.'#so my general theme was finding a sense of self.#these 3 have struggled with finding their own identity; they tend to get left behind both in-universe and in general plotwise#and naminé and xion both resemble kairi and were overshadowed by her memory. but i feel like all 3 have transformed into their own people#xion and naminé have their faces covered partially by hollyhock to show their wish to be remembered for who they are-#instead of the parts that they share with someone else#and the protea bouquets show how they each held on and resiliently grew into their own person despite it all#i put a little swervy path on the hill behind kairi to give that hopeful sense of growth and moving forward. it's a little hard to see#hopefully that makes sense! i really love symbolism but i think in visuals so i'm really bad with words#but gosh working with everyone on this project was so fun. it was like impossible not to get swept up by the team's hype for this zine#i need to hunt down everybody's work and rb it#ohh and everybody's flowers are so crisply drawn it's insane!! i think if i lined all these flowers and leaves i'd die haha#fan art#my art#project stuff
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angey hear me out when i say bianca is orange cat, angell is black cat, and du ruo is white cat…
…I can see it.
#⛓️ interrogation complete#funnily enough actually#I believe bianca is more snake coded than cat coded#she has a lot of snake symbolism and accesories on her design#but before that I too thought that bianca was cat coded#ptn#path to nowhere
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Of course. Of course Eraqus' side of the room has the windows open to let more light/air in. ("Run like the wind!)
#rambling about dim path#ch tag: xeh#ch tag: era#Fellow plays 3#How much symbolism is imbued into this one scene?
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Cross's assumption is correct, that's exactly what I'm implying. So be a good boy and lay down pls :3
Cross: you-
Killer: implying what?
Cross: that they're gonna break my leg
Killer: .
↓ Damage Count ↓
999999999
999999999
999999999
999999999
#cross sans#killer sans#anon#bandages#violence#knife#murder#threats#death#the symbol on the anon shirt is supposed to be a leg with a crack running through the middle#Ink and Killer being so different yet so similar the beloved#they're both such powerhouses but Ink deals no DAMAGE ever while Killer always deals disproportionate amounts of DAMAGE#the only reason there's not so many more nines on the DAMAGE COUNTER is cuz i'm lazy tbh#found family being protective the beloved#Killer would probably find a way to stab someone even if both his arms were broken which they're not even damaged here so#plus anything Killer can get his hands on he can throw with deadly (literally and figuratively) aim#he can pluck big enough arrows straight from their path not because i think it's realistic in any sense of the word#but it's funny to imagine Dream having to downsize his arrows#so this horrible thing couldn't literally YOINK them out of the air like a baseball or whatever#queue
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beautiful!
#demon slayer#kimetsu no yaiba#rengoku kyojuro#kny#rengoku#kyojuro rengoku#my art#i meant to draw rengoku a long time ago but had trouble deciding how exactly#i rly liked his spirit and life philosophy so that's what i wanted to capture#so...✨symbolism✨#he's walking head high towards the night aka demons and death#but still looking towards the day and life and enjoying the colorful path he walks
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Thinking about "your weakness is how you always want to be the hero" and how the series returns to this at the end
Li Lianhua hated how he acted as Li Xiangyi and spent years trying to distance himself from it, but ultimately he still fell back into the similar patterns, for all his added experience
His main priority was always to "do the right thing" regardless of how that would impact on those around him. And it *did* impact those around him. From Qiao Wanmian and Shan Gudao as Li Xiangyi to Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng as Li Lianhua
Giving the Styx flower to the emperor so he could use it as leverage to guarantee Fang Duobing and his family's safety. Using the last of his power to save Yun Biqiu. Constantly putting others above himself whilst actively refusing to recognise that his self-sacrificial nature would hurt those he cared about most
And sure, he thinks he's going to die anyway. They're going to be hurt regardless and he can't do anything about that. His odds are low of the Styx flower even working. But ultimately, he refuses to even consider trying. Li Xiangyi has been dead a long time and Li Lianhua is just there to tide things over. What value is the life of a ghost
To the end, he lives and dies a hero. To the end, he refuses to live for himself.
#sth about how he almost managed to live for himself but his past and need to do right doomed him.#those missing years before canon starts were probably the closest he got but even then the knowledge he couldn't use martial arts#must have killed him (no pun intended). because he'd put so much stock in his identity as sigu sect leader + hero + prodigy#so to have such a massive part of his identity stripped from him... honestly it doesn't seem that he ever fully comes to terms with it#but he makes progress and he tries to do better. + that leads to him becoming a different type of 'hero' than the symbol he was originally#deep down he wants to help people with all he has but his capacity isn't infinite + at some point can only be taken from himself#mysterious lotus casebook#mlc spoilers#also to be clear I mention shan gudao not to say lxy should have realised earlier bc for a lot of the time he was too young to notice#and later on sgd did better at hiding his intentions. but more for how lxy tunnel visioned towards his idea of righteousness#and steamrolled over everyone else. both sgd and qwm were placed far below the importance of the sigu sect#and lxy's arrogance made it such that sigu became reliant on him alone as he shut others out (hence domino fall once he went).#idk if he could ever have 'fixed' what was btwn him and sgd bc it was so deep rooted but I do think that his actions#helped convince sgd that sgd was entirely in the right to choose his path#mlc#edit: just went and checked the exact wording of the TL and it's actually 'you like being a hero' rather than 'you want to be the hero'#which is different but still close enough in implications for my point to stand (I think)
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something about how qtubbo's weapon of choice became a chainsaw, the one weapon that delivers true damage. that causes the same damage regardless of your type of armor, or your strength.
in a way, a truly fair weapon.
#tubbo qsmp#GOD i realised this and had to sit down#even in his murderous rampage#the weapon he settles on to go down this path is the closest thing to fair#accidental qtubbo symbolism goes crazy every time#qsmp#qsmp purgatory#chainsaw qtubbo my beloved
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Dear fellow traveler, underneath the moon
#my art#arts#jester lavorre#critical role#the mighty nein#cr2#im just really proud of the concept#first the tarot card border and design is the symbol of the traveler#then the tarot card itself is the card jester pulled from molly#super excited when i found that the original moon tarot card itself#also has a path leading into the mountains#ofc the face in the moon has been changed to the travelers#song is dear fellow traveler by sea wolf!
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HERE IT IS!! after Many moons of chipping away at this OC song comic for my scifi-noir android character Whitney and his bodyguard Bast, it is finally as complete as it shall ever be;; I’m proud of the work I put into this one! Pretty niche, but maybe some folks out there will enjoy UuU
ps: there's also a video for easy viewing!
#song comic#comic#comic art#character illustration#sci fi fantasy#dark art#character art#my scribbles#lyricstuck#an ode to this complicated traumatized morally twisted delusional bastard capitalist#as he becomes that which shaped him into the monster he is#the reality of his existence as an android (marginalized identity in this world)#is at odds with the power-hungry hierarchical worldview he's developed (as a coping mechanism) and is now consumed by#he will Never be one of the self assured entitled elites whose lives/positions he covets#but he can never acknowledge that or the path/ identity he's constructed for himself unravels#at the root of it all#he has vowed Never to be at the mercy of others again#which makes it all the more ironically tragic that the path he sees as granting him the most power is actually just selling himself#to be used as a pawn by the Hijaratha (illuminati-esque organization made up of the same politico-corporate elite#who ruined his life in the first place)#he's so full of contradictions/ hypocrisies and he doesn't even realize it#I find him so fascinating#rotating him in my mind forever#lots of little symbolism things in here#just as a treat for me lol#if you've read down this far- bless you you are now my boon companion#Youtube#whitney
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Having thoughts about Blue Eye Samurai and desire, like this whole entire show is about wanting. Desire is presented as a means of self-awareness and self-knowledge. Who you are is someone who wants, and turning away from your secret lusts is an act of self-deception. It's turning away from your *self* and therefore putting you at war with yourself.
But we also see desire as a tool. Your desires wielded against you, your desires the means by which others can access and gain power, your wanting opening you up to be used by the object of your want. Knowing your desires means someone knows you in ways they can use, if your desires are overpowering enough to make you so singularly focused on them.
And yet muddled desires or misdirected wanting opens one up to aimlessness, to time and effort wasted, to being a piece in the game rather than a player.
Desire is a clarifying, motivating purpose. Recognizing your true desire gives you direction and momentum and moves you from passive reactivity to action, to agency. Singular, overwhelming, crystalline desire for revenge powers Mizu through every challenge. It is the source of Mizu's strength and when it is known it is what allows Mizu's enemies to set traps, to counterplan, to escape when otherwise they'd be caught.
Feel desire. Feel it strongly and deeply and powerfully and with overwhelming force. Feel your desire in every step and breath and moment, until it's all you are, and never show it until you absolutely have to, until you can't hold it back anymore and it explodes out of you.
This show is insane.
#blue eye samurai#bes#blue eye samurai spoilers#Mizu having singular desire and Akemi finding it and Teigen clinging to the only purpose he has as he loses his others and Ringo searching#And Fowler brooding on his for years and years#And Mizu learning to temper that singularity of purpose with the bonds of friendships and family#And yet leaving the symbol of those bonds behind until that desire is released and satisfied#Recognizing the way she could be made stronger and accepting it and still walking the path of desire#Does this make any sense my mind is vibrating this show is ALL about *wanting*
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do you ever think about how mizu's name means water and taigen ran from his fate to follow in his father's footsteps as a fisherman and what does he end up chasing in the end?
#the way his entire character arc is seeing with his own eyes what the path of greatness is#what violence and conflict do to people especially the people he cares about most#and for what?#by the end he's so tired and disillusioned with what he wanted in the first place#he just wants to be happy and happiness is humble#mizu's name is beautiful symbolism for taigen's fate but it goes beyond that#because to love mizu is to have to let go of all pride and pursuit of greatness#at the opposite end from his initial goal of restoring his honour through killing him#blue eye samurai
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the major arcana, shuffled: 9/??
THE HANGED MAN;
⤉ martyrdom, lack of direction, perspective, contemplation
⤈ stagnation, impulsiveness, needless sacrifice, detachment
#ffxiv:tma#.............. we're getting there :]#ft. achille's parents for this one. most notably his dad pelleas that achille has no memory of because he was a baby when this happened#no he didn't off himself he was killed based on false accusations of heresy by tauvane's religious order (she was once a warrior nun)#which led tauvane down her path of self-destruction in both timelines by wanting to burn down ishgard in her grief and rage#messed around with scaling and perspective with the reversed side. why are trees so tall in eorzea#i really wanted to make tauvane scream in agony in the reverse but it wasn't clear enough from this angle e_e#flip your phone around for the reverse side to see the text correctly#since the upright card is upside down i thought it'd be neat to flip the text on the reverse because the image is rightside up#the reversed was meant to be more grayish but i imagine this took place early in the morning#which makes the symbolism gut-wrenching#q.#mygposes.#death cw#ffxivsnaps#gposers#ffxiv gpose#ffxiv oc#hyur
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i feel so bad for the people watching spy x family that don’t read the manga because they’re probably expecting a twilight/yor romance arc this season
meanwhile the manga is on chapter 68 and they haven’t even hugged without one of them being unconscious first
#this is not a complaint i think it’s the best path taken for the narrative#i love their relationship#the symbolism of one carrying the other when they’re unable to continue on their own etc etc#spy x family#twilight spy x family#loid folger#yor forger#twiyor#spy x family manga spoilers
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Not to be slightly pretentious about my own art for a second but I'm up thinking about the repeated visual imagery I've developed in my wkm fanart
Specifically the twin stars as Celine and Damien post WKM, particularly in their relation to Wil. How it's about them haunting the narrative. How it's about them still being there in Dark and yet not being there at all. How it's about the ways Wil still sees them in everything. How he misses them and how he carries on with that weight, with their legacy (the same reason I often draw him with star motifs of his own. Always carrying them with him in his own little ways.)
#atlas.art#atlas speaks#i wonder sometimes how many people pick up on it bc everytime i think about this shit it drives me a little insane#they are everything to me do you get it#the fucking 'Woke Up New' Wil drawing still gets me despite all the ass jokes people made about it for this specific reason#it was the first and arguably most effective use of this symbol considering it set the standard for it's meaning#also yes the stars were also a part of the reason i drew the barbie outfit drawing lmao have fun never looking at that one the same again#also not included here but slightly relevant is the google drawing with the stars#considering the specific ideas i have about google's path towards humanity and its relationship to Dark and his humanity so#anyways I'm done being pretentious now probably i swear
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hi. mentally ill about soren and claudia. the siblings in tdp all make me insane but soren and claudia are so. viren's daughter claudia and her brother soren (he doesn't like soren). the fact that at first claudia seems like the nice one but soren questions when he's doing the wrong thing and claudia digs herself deeper every chance she gets. that one scene where to protect ezran (?) (it's been a while since i watched this bit) he threatens claudia and she just looks so heartbroken and determined. they both do. because they still do care so so much about each other, it's just that they've taken such different paths and neither of them is willing to bend, not even for the other. <- not normal
OMG A TDP ASK FOR ME??????????????
Who doesn't love Soren and Claudia.
Like, Soren was willing to kill his father in the name of what was right, and Claudia was willing to bring her father back from the dead ignoring what was right ("I did things...I never imagined I would be able to do"). Claudia in s2 wants to "use [her] words not [her] muscles" but when it comes down to it, she's always going to use the strength dark magic gives her to get what she wants, and Soren has since learned that forgiveness and friendship are powerful things. Claudia has only distanced herself from the personhood of the creatures/people around her further and further (which is part of the danger of dark magic), while Soren has only become more and more aware of it.
Soren would jump headfirst into the sea in heavy armor to save an innocent baitling, whereas Claudia would try and squeeze her former friends to death for the sake of her goal. They both have a completely different understanding of the value of life, at all different levels, with Viren learning that value later:
And I think Soren learning to value life more and more over the course of his arc 1 er, arc, only adds to the fact that he's willing to kill his father at the end of s3.
Had Soren been down in the ocean with the rest of the gang in 5x09, I think he wouldn't have hesitated in killing Claudia either, despite how much he cares about her.
While Claudia's followed the dark path of her father ("Daddy look! I'm following in your footsteps!") Soren's been trying to walk a different path. To follow Ezran and his efforts for a brighter future.
I just think they're neat!
(For context, these scenes take place right after one another. Soren staying on the surface to look after their creature friends VS Claudia who sinks bellow to the ocean floor using the corpse of a pentapus)
Bonus "My eyes for truth" and seeing personhood comp:
#thinking about how 'No matter where you are on the path- no matter what you've done before...every step forward is a choice! I am free'#also applies to walking on the path of light#Like for Soren reaching after Clauida. And Callum doing dark magic again in 5x08#You know what I'm saying#tdp#tdp analysis#tdp parallels#the dragon prince#tdp Soren#tdp Claudia#asks#gumy-shark#also tdp is insane with it's water/darkness symbolism#Like in 5x07 Soren is all like ''If you see Claudia again tell her I said hi'' and then he gives up and prepares to SINK and DROWN#Going back to the abyss are we Soren#Be amazed by how much I can overthink everything
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I think in the end, the ripped sign coming back together and the psychic’s words explained the thesis of it all: “Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of mending broken things with gold. The purpose is to embrace flaws, and in doing so, create something much stronger and more beautiful.” Even the tape back together looked gold: everyone still have things to work toward, emotional growth is still needed, but they took a team that was inherently not functioning well, embraced the best and worst parts of each other, and in the end, it was all beautiful.
#ted lasso#ted lasso finale#I have conflicting feelings over the finale as a whole#but the sign coming together had me in tears#it represented so many narrative paths and in the end#it was a symbol of their entire journey#believe
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