#ayilings

i drew this while ago?? a year ago?? the project’s wrapped up and the final donation was made (yay!) so i can share it now :)

when i was first drafting this, i wanted to mix both adolescence and tv anime versions of utena and anthy into one narrative. something that feels, like, appropriately angsty mid-20s lesbian with all the iconography i want in there!!! like our lady of sorrows and the arrangement of swords and a crucifix on page three (even with reverse image search i could not find the source for the life of me, but it’s referenced from a photo of a statue!).

i have a bad habit of thinking of cool imagery or references before actually writing dialogue though lmaooo. i think i was listening to a lot of preacher’s daughter at the time…..i know what i want to work on for future comics now at least >_>