Arian Zackril

How many times have I drawn these two snuggling? I have lost count.

A piece inspired by one of my favorite fics ever, from any fandom, The Fly Agaric by @les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques This one is...HNNNGGGG. Inspired by Phantom Thread, if that gives you any indication of how HNNNGG it is.

Finally put my Palais Garnier pics to good use… been wanting to draw smth of the interior for a while now

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

(Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;

       For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

       That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

He stick he leggie out real far.

VERY quick feral Erik sketch inspired by this by @les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques, which was, in turn, inspired by Masquerade in NYC. (I've not seen it, which is KILLING ME, but I'm on the opposite end of the country and plane and hotel tickets are outrageously expensive to go anywhere at the moment because of the state of the U.S., so I'm living vicariously through everyone else's Masquerade photos and stories PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING.)

Ref was from the Royal Ballet's production of Mayerling! I've always adored ballet and Erik strikes me as balletic in a very unsettling way, so he will POINT THAT TOE, BABY. (He's a large spider).

My bones do break and my hands do shake As I lie in the wake of time's cruel slaughter

-Caroline, Colter Wall

"Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me–wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove."