chthonic & platonic

✦ he/they/it, aroace enby, adult ✦ self-taught artist ✦ mostly fanart

reblogs are pretty rare here and tagged with #strelkin's reblogs. my art is #my art, my thoughts, commentary, and just yapping is #not art

some might coincider my works and ships dark or problematic; to that I would highly recommend just blocking the blog and moving on

also, thanks to anyone tagging tw's and cw's, i steal them, so that they come up in all reblogs (is that how it works??) and learn new things to tag in the future

do not use my art commercially/for profit! (but you may print your fav piece and stick it to a wall or something. it's fine and i probably wont know anyway). non-commercial stuff like pfps, as well as creative things like edits, are also fine. if in doubt feel free to ask, and please leave credit <3

my favourite pieces:

and finally a list of my fandoms & the things i enjoy (regardless if i do, will or won't have fanart for) under the cut: (some are clickable)

JOHN: It isn’t me.

I want to thank @ineffablemossy for her ongoing hanahaki fic A Rose on the Grey (verso & / monoco) with this illustration. they are so precious to me, this fic is so precious to me, I think about it at least once a day,,

imagine the peer pressure to achieve, accomplish, leave your mark on history (and don’t get me started on heritage in the form of children, as mentioned in the game). that’s why the expeditions are seen by some people as “losing a year that could better be spent in peace with your close ones”

there’s also that people of Lumière kinda got used to death. they usually view it as expected, inevitable, something to mentally prepare oneself for, and it’s the unexpected death that hurts the most (see Sciel and Pierre). death has become such a normal part of life for them. I know there are cultures and individuals in our world that celebrate and or accept death, hell, that’s what some religions help with, but here the-exact-number-of-years-to-live-for factor adds an interesting flavour to all this, doesn’t it

and there is the Gommage. the yearly ceremony. the event to gather around. the collective loss and pain that unites those who come after. Lumière is festive, there are flowers everywhere. (I had some war parallels in my head but they escaped me)

nope, here it is! i forgor to post it

just for context, as a tma fan one day i thought "i should give john doe malevolent and therefore arthur lester a bunch of glowing yellow eyes, how cool would that be! surely a single pair of them isn't enough!"