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ARTBLOG 10

⚠️ALL OF THESE ARTWORKS (except the last 3) CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR ISH'S 1000 PLAYER RICH & POOR CIV EXPERIMENT⚠️

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month end thoughts:

i always come back to my roots huh, i always come back to minecraft roleplay.

i already sung my praises for ish's 1000 player civ experiment: rich & poor on my favorites page but it seriously and completely yanked me out of my artblock. if you could not tell, the whacky new characters i've drawn repeatedly in this batch originate from that video. life circumstances are pretty much the same as my last update, except now i have something comforting to accompany me. it's really funny, because i had JUST been falling out of love with PTC and the month of, i discovered ish's civ series/stateSMP and the creative ideas come tumbling back. i don't feel very fulfilled unless i have some characters to chew on, and for years that had exclusively been my own. i never ever draw fanart but leave it up to mcrp to be the exception I GUESS.

i guess this one's also pretty special in my eyes bcs of the specific narrative decision to explicitly show that fluixon DID frame saparata for the murders, and not make it an overarching mystery. i do love a story about an ordinary guy being put through the horrors. i continue these thoughts in this art post. i've never felt the need to pick apart two characters so intensely before, it's really crazy.

the rest of the cast is AMAZING as well, cynikka is my favorite second to them, with legacyAN as an underrated favorite of mine. despite cynikka being depicted as the big bad in the end, her character actions were some of the more realistic in terms of being a leader imho. she had ONE thing she considered sacred, and for the rest of the event, everything she did vowed to protect it. she didn't even fall into that villainous role until the other nations' selfishness had twisted her hand. YEAH she got a little power-hungry but can you do when the FIRST EVER CROSS-ISLAND ALLIANCE IS ON UR ASS for merely DEFENDING UR LAND??? she never "doubled down" on her beliefs - her beliefs never changed. what changed was the insurmountable international pressure that had her scrambling for ANY allies she could get. the tragedy of having to desecrate the volcano to even give her people a better fighting chance isn't lost on me, infernus really deserved so much better. and lingu deserved to die UHH WHATTTT WHO SAID THAT?????

i also LOVE state s2.0 to death. i have a LOT i want to say about that video also, but i'd rather wait until i have designs for turkey and elanuelo before i start. and what i have to say isn't even 100% about them, because my favorite thing about 2.0 is actually the desert plot alongside the very interesting historical revisionism discussion surrounding it. stay tuned & look forward to it :] in the meantime, i think this video is funny

while i'm here, may i drop some fics that have not left my mind since i entered the fandom?

• nullus amicus carior, nullus inimicus acerbior - polarityduo, survivor guilt, unreality
• the lot of man - fluxarata, visceral obsession/descent into madness
• blood in the water, sun in the grass - seraphiel, character study, love/hate + knight/queen dynamic

additionally, some sick as hell animations:

• day 10 - @bunnycarrot // @MilkTea543
• they both reached for the gun - @yellow-py

muse(s):

the song that's accompanied me when drawing these months

it was still 80-90°F scorching hot and sunny even during october so i was still sort of in the summer mindset. on a whim decided to take an impulsive day trip to the beach, only for it to be totally cold and windy there. when i got back, the fall weather suddenly kicked in, what terrible timing LOL. this song came on my radar again and i was really feeling it these months. the leaves have come down, walks feel so eerie, and my days feel so short since daylight savings. it should nawt be normal for summer weather to exist in fall but i still miss summer ackkkkkk