(Some of) What Hangs on My Wall

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

Happy Pride everyone! 🌈 All I can offer you is our silly OCs, vampire Lucian and Matthias (he is just a h̷̻̐͛̇͐̂u̸͇͎̰̞̇͑͋̽͝ṃ̸͑ả̴̻̙͈̤n̶̲̗͈̋͛̂̈).

Also silly comics with them:

What do you value more, the act of creating or the final result? Every week I practise and record my process. I share it on Patreon along with my brushset, files, and insights—so others can see how I work. Over time, I’ve seen many patrons improve. I’d like to think the content helps, but maybe what really matters is something simpler: the fact that I keep showing up. Maybe it’s not the brushes, the tips, or even the art that inspires most—maybe it’s just the act of making. Come and join us.

We know Mario was on Luigi-protection duty from day one, but I like to think that Luigi was also Mario’s biggest supporter early on in life.

Honey is a comic based on my run on clangen (lifegen). I think I'll slowly post it here on tumblr, but it'll update faster on Comicfury.

And this concludes Honey! This comic was made a year ago, I'm glad it's all out now. Thank you for reading, and for all the nice tags and comments you've left!

"Why?" said the inventor. "Your grippers are stronger, more precise."

"Yes. But hands would be better for playing the piano."

"You can synthesize any sound."

"But I can not play music."

"Is there a difference?"

Many folktales throughout different cultures feature a heroine being given the impossible task of sorting through grains/seeds– whether that be picking them from the ashes, from between each other, or from their rotting counterparts.

In this task, she often does as much as she can before submitting to a higher power, whether that power recognizes her virtue or she directly asks for help varies based on the culture and tale.

Featured are eight such tales, most of which can be categorized into “Snake Bride” (ATU 425) type tales or “Cinderella” (Both often ATU 510 in the folklore index– Cinderellas are specifically ATU 510A)

The circle puts them in no particular order, as “origins”  and lineages are muddied, and many of the current incarnations have been influenced by each other, though Ye Xian is the oldest known “complete” version of Cinderella.

Snake Brides:

Psyche, Eros and Psyche (Greco-Roman)

Sukkia, The Snake’s Bride (India)

Donan Sampakang Tale about Gansaļangi and Donan Sampakang (Indonesian)

Cinderellas:

Aschenputtel (German)

Tam, Tấm and Cám (Vietnam)

Unnamed Heroine The Wonderful Birch (Finish & Slavic)

Ye Xian (Chinese)

Neither (ATU 480B– Stepmother and Stepdaughter)