Mochi Broken Heart

so i was scrolling through my gallery and it hit me. the regret of not posting most of my art. see for the past couple of years i've been feeling like i hadn't made anything worth showing, so i basically disappeared from social media altogether. no idea if anyone noticed

when you lose everything, that's when you're finally free // mae aniseya

thought process/meta under the cut!

“ 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒. 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒, 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒.”

This timeline 🥹

Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet and Dónal Finn as Tom Hayward | The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

A little detail I loved in "Beach Reads": When Patricia first finds the Your Turn book, a fly circles it — the way flies circle something rotten or smelly. Odd, because the book looks brand new, pristine, untouched. Then the twist hits. It is rotten. What Patricia saw as a clean, modern copy is actually an ancient spell book in disguise— and it's been that way from the start. The dark magic was already working on her before she even knew what she was holding.

Rivals, if it had an 80s Romance book cover

Happy 40th Birthday to Labyrinth, a film that continues to inspire me, comfort me, and fulfil me. I have been a fan of Labyrinth for the majority of my life, but about 10 years ago specifically I was inspired to try and recreate one of the props from the film.

I wasn't setting out to find a new hobby for myself, this was just a new thing I could try. It was just me squinting at blurry screenshots and trying my best to turn what I saw into a tangible prop that I could put on my shelf. I finished that first prop and thought it was so fun and fulfilling that I soon started work on the next one...

And here I am 10 years later, and I look at my shelves full of props and I think about where I started and how far I've come. How much I've grown and come to respect not just the hobby of prop replica making, but the artistry behind Labyrinth. Every minute I pour into one of my prop replicas, I can't help but think of the amazing people behind the screen some 40 years ago who made the original props I try so hard to recreate. How did they build this prop? Did they struggle with figuring out what to do next like I am? Maybe some of the steps and techniques I'm using were the same exact ones they used 40 years ago? It makes me feel a strange sort of kinship for folks who I've never met. I hope that my replicas can do their work justice. 

It's genuinely hard to imagine where I might be in my life without Labyrinth, it's a movie that's really come to shape me as a person in surprising ways. So on Labyrinth's 40th Birthday, I wanted to share some of my favourite Labyrinth prop replica projects I've made over the years. I learned so much, and still have so much more to go.