#ask evyl

I was gazing in awe at your bullseye / rabbit imagery recent andreil work and realized that the tags did not include anything along the lines of "red rabbits." i looked because the imagery there fits the themes and imagery of that fic SO well that i thought it might be intentional.

it's decently well known n popular in the fandom so you may have already heard of it or tried it. but if not! its a really impressive immersive project and digs into some of that haunting, hunted prey imagery/theme.

aaaah thank you !! and yes i actually have read Red Rabbits and i absolutely loved it <3

i didn’t tag it bc this wasn’t intended as fanart for that fic specifically, even though I can absolutely see why it made you think of it. the parallels are definitely there!!

when i was drawing this, i had a different story in mind. in my head it was more canon-compliant, set after the first three books when andrew and neil are finally starting to build a life together after everything. then one day neil just… disappears.

and andrew had no idea what happened. did neil leave because of old habits, paranoia or fear? was he taken? is he even alive? he has absolutely nothing to go on which is why he’s surrounded by darkness. he’s completely in the dark, emotionally and literally. there’s this quiet, settled despair because everything was finally okay and then suddenly it wasn’t.

meanwhile neil is in actual danger. the rabbit imagery was meant to show him as hunted prey, trapped behind something man-made, caught in a situation he can’t escape.

so that was my thought process while drawing it, but i really like that people can bring their own interpretations to it. i think that’s one of the coolest parts of making art. and honestly your connection to Red Rabbits makes perfect sense to me, even if it wasn’t the original inspiration.

some people have asked if i sell prints so i updated my inprnt shop! if there’s a piece you really like that’s missing just let me know and i’ll add it. think of this as my ‘i’m not doing commissions yet’ peace offering

PLEASE 😭 i love the idea of chubby baby andrew so much like let him have his little round cheeks and silly cat shirt for at least five minutes before life starts hitting him with a steel chair

no because andrew’s eyes are literally the final boss of drawing. like they are simultaneously:

• dead shark eyes

• two little windows of “i’m so tired of being perceived”

• the sexiest void you’ve ever stared into

and the fact that he can look at you like nothing matters while communicating everything??? bro he invented eye contact as psychological warfare

Why, in fanart, is she always the plussized partner and never James? I've come to hate this trope with headcanon and fanart in general where the female or fem aligned character is made to be fat but the male or masc aligned partner gets to stay skinny/fit. And you can't say it's because James is in a sport because then what are you saying? He can't be chubby and be sporty? Isn't that a pretty hurtful stereotype for most people?

I'm sure it says something about how this fandom treats women, it feels like putting down a canonically beautiful female character, to the point where she's held as the most beautiful person in the story, to make her male counterpart look "hotter", especially when SHES the only plussized person in the artwork/fanfic.

And I'm not talking about post pregnancy Lily, weight gain is normal during pregnancy, i love when artists change a characters body after they've had a baby, that attention to detail is *muah* chefs kiss, amazing.

What I'm trying to say is stop being scared to make James a little big, you cowards, body positivity in art isn't limited to women!!!

are you actually asking me a question or just using my inbox to vent about a fandom issue you’re frustrated with? (genuine question)

i think there’s a bit of a misunderstanding here between what you’re trying to address and who you’re addressing it to. i’m not in this fandom anymore so this whole conversation feels kind of pointless for me (if we’re strictly talking about Lily and james). i’m not contributing to current trends and i’m not going to be drawing these characters again

the way i drew them before was just my interpretation and that’s not going to change. lily is plus-size in my work because that’s how i see her, and that’s it. i’ve always drawn what felt right to me in the moment (and rn it’s nothing related to hp/the marauders)

also saying that making her plus-size is “putting women down” is weird. that logic leans way too close to beautiful = thin which i don’t agree with. i draw her that way because i think she’s hot.

for james: yes, body diversity can (and should be) applied to men too. and ppl do draw him bigger. if you want to see more of that, support those artists, commission them or (even better) draw it yourself

but this isn’t something i’m going to take on, especially not through an anonymous ask when i’m not even in the fandom anymore

so yeah, this is really a conversation to have within your own fandom spaces. not my circus, not my monkeys