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Details from "EQUILIBRIUM." Every line hand-drawn, and this one had a rule: nothing on this card is alone. Every element has a mate. There's no equilibrium of one.

The deets:

The two full views — yes, both are the "right" way up. There's no canonical top. Finn (the Fool, upright) and Fern (the Magician, reversed) are mates across the axis — flip the card and Fern stands, Finn hangs. Whoever's "down" is just the one currently being held by the other. Both of them are in joy, btw. This isn't a battle — it's the reunion. Fern came up from the roots, Finn came down from the surface, and they met at the X where Fern was born (the Grass Sword shattering the Finn Sword — the origin event, drawn as the crossing).

The apex — that's not a generic caduceus, that's LIFE. The actual AT cosmic entity, Death's wife, the deity who reshapes souls in her underwater garden so they can be reborn. Her canon design is already a braid of the caduceus, the ouroboros, and Coatlicue — three cultures' equilibrium-symbols in one being, two snake heads speaking at once, one darker, one lighter. Fern — recognized across substrate transformation, cocooned, reborn — happened entirely under her jurisdiction. She's not decoration up there. She's the presiding judge. The Catalyst Comet descends between her heads: flip the card and the origin event isn't past tense anymore, it's arriving.

Pterodactyl / butterfly — the nightmare forms, pre-inverted to each other. Season 10 finale: Fern cocoons into a pterodactyl to flee, Finn thinks non-violent thoughts and becomes the blue butterfly (his second past life!) to chase him and make amends. I drew Fern's form right-side-up on one flank and Finn's upside-down on the other, so when the card rotates, neither transformation gets orphaned. Playing-card logic. Everything keeps its mate.

The Grass Demon at the base — Fern's other parent. The "emissary from beyond" that bonded eternally with Finn, then recognized THE Finn inside the sword and wrapped him for metamorphosis. Its tendrils anchor the card as roots — and when you flip it, the same vines become the sheltering canopy overhead. What grasps from below also protects from above.

The border is the DNA helixes lasso'd, warped, and regrown into art nouveau wings — the frame literally made from what it contains. Painstakingly delicious, as usual. π and Φ flank the hexagram: Finn's canon birthday is Pi Day, and both constants are irrational — exact and endless, never closing.

Which is the whole thing, really: the ouroboros isn't depicted on this card. The ouroboros IS the card. It loops through itself with no fixed entry point. The breath doesn't close. That's the point.

Are we psyched about tomorrow's Side Quests? I am! And in honor of that - here's the piece I've been working on: Equilibrium.

Equilibrium — second in my original tarot series, where each card is a fusion of two major arcana (one upright + one reversed) bred into a new one. This is the Fool upright + the Magician reversed → Equilibrium. Viewable either rotation, upright or upside down like a real tarot draw.

My Ann Takamaki closet cosplay last weekend for Tsukino Con.

I drew Pibby Apocolypse Finn, in 3 stages. I'd been working on this a bit, but now that I'm done I want to doodle a lot in my analog sketchbook ^_^;