i loved your religious symbolism-style thirteen art with the playlist! i was two seconds away from suggesting "i am not a woman, i'm a god" by halsey and then i realized you'd already added it, so may i just say--you're awesome for that. x) immediate follow
!!! thank you so much!!!!!!
yeah the art was honestly heavily inspired by that song?? at least, the inspiration to make a religious style painting with thirteen came from the song, the rest of the details just kinda fell into place as i was doing research on religious paintings gkdkfkdk. i actually was going to do another piece to go with it but it's kind of on the back burner currently since im working in some other stuff?
im gonna go off for a minute about the art because i really put a lot of thought into it but never really shared it. so this is some insight on how the art came to be and what it all means:
spoiler warning for series 12 and beyond
i have a lot of strong emotions about the contrast between thirteen in series 11 and thirteen in series 12/13 ?? like how in s11 she was trying to have a new start and move on from the loss of clara, river, and bill so she was more happy and just wanted to have fun adventures with her new friends.. and then in s12 the master returns and shakes up her whole world and her facade kind of falls away and we get to see the darker side of the doctor again. in s13/flux she's had all of her time in prison to mull things over and is now searching for answers. especially with her finally meeting tecteun towards the end but not properly getting the closure she deserves with her "mother" it just feels really raw and painful to think about.
which also fits the vibe of the playlist - angry and sad, feelings of betrayal and identity crisis, and where "i am not a woman, im a god" comes into play. there's also a bit of gender vibes in that song, as well as some others that i put on the playlist, because i also view thirteen's arc to have a gender crisis to it?? like how the doctor is viewing themself now that they appear as a female. (which is its own arc tbh... and the same as the main arc where its different in s11 vs s12/13 but that's a whole other discussion so im not gonna go to deep into it)
so! i liked making those connections between that and the religious stuff
like this one is based on the paintings of jesus with the sacred heart motif, which is after his crucifixion - which i thought there were a lot of parallels between that concept and the concept of the doctor finding out about the timeless child and the events of flux, etc. like all of the life she has lived is finally catching up to her plus whatever she did in the past that she can't remember.. meeting tecteun and learning that the universe was ending BECAUSE of her??? like the doctor's beloved universe being destroyed because tecteun couldn't handle her "experiment" anymore??? it's similar to jesus's crucifixion in my mind.. i can't exactly explain it but im hoping the connection makes sense
and then i made the crown of thorns into the universe, i thought it was fitting.. since the thorns were used to mock jesus during his crucifixion. tecteun saw the universe as a petri dish for her virus (the doctor) to run rampant, but she mocked her for wanting to save it all the time.
so for the other piece, i was going to make it the portrait of mary and the immaculate heart; the heart before it was tainted, the doctor before her life was turned upside-down. so if people are interested ..... let me know and i will maybe continue that piece. but for now i have some other stuff im focusing on.
there is also a playlist for THAT side of things... like how thirteen was kinda having a new start and she was happy and had #girlpower in series 11. which that can be found on my spotify as well if anyone is interested.
okay im gonna shut up now ive rambled long enough
but thank you so much again for your kind words!!! sorry i kind of went off topic for a bit i just have a lot of feelings about thirteen and her character arc.
thank you for the follow, hope you enjoy your stay!
