Caninuscananeus - The Doghead

Thinking about dolls and pathologic and wondering what kinds of dolls would better represent different characters to the Powers that Be - of course Grief is a marionette, Block a tin soldier, Lara a matryoshka...

I randomly remembered a dream au I had and all I made up after I woke up(and the first thing I did was drawing them before I forget)

It was a Pathologic archaeological au, where Yulia is, well, an archaeologist, and Eva is some kind of a ghost? A miracle? Only Yulia could see her. Eva was some kind of a girl anachronism — all of her clothes was from different centuries btw. She was talking about Utopia where she was from and Yulia almost went insane trying to dig it up or simply understand

And then it was November, the season was over, everyone went home. Except Yulia. She stayed, but in December she had to come back, she has to do work in the Capital.

And also there was Lara Ravel, who was also an archaeologist who could almost see Eva(and also was the one cooking food for the expedition)

And Aspity was a local weirdo who sweared to curse all of them for digging holes here and there

And there was Bad Grief who heard they were digging gold there, came to steal at night bud managed to steal only a shovel

Но посмотрите, какой теперь у меня эскорт,

И змеи вьются в моих распущенных волосах!

im just thinking about Yulia and Aglaya starting their romance while them working for the Inquisition.

How their feelings are strange: unexplainable, unpredictable, dangerous — i guess inquisitors mustn’t show attraction to anyone to stay completely focused even on the dangerous missions, and also because one won’t be able to threat their significant other to manipulate, and millions of other reasons

But they are hopeless lesbians. Even if Yulia’s fatalistic theory predicts they won’t be together for long. Even if Aglaya tries to think rationally. No matter what, they love each other.

They don’t go on dates, they don’t kiss each other in public, they both are allergic to stupid romantic gestures as rose bouquets. For them things like smoking together after work are a thousand times more meaningful.

#I wanna bite them so much #like. affectionately

I wawmnt a happy ending fow thewm 😭😭😭😭

I realized that I've never seen anyone mention it, so here you go.

Trammel, a place where Yulia lives, is called Невод, in Russian. Невод is a very specific outdated word for a fishing net. In most Russian speaking minds it is immediately associated with one and only place where we all have heard it.

Alexander Pushkin, 'The tale of the fisherman and the fish'.

A tale about catching a golden fish.

There's only one character in p1 who is very obviously golden. And lives in Stillwater.

#oh my god #please let me kiss the hands that made this #I love your attention to the detail and the symbolism is beautiful #the two versions just broke my heart. the way she seems reaching up and falling down at the same time??? OH MY GOD

My beautiful wife left me to become a church : (

The fun thing about this piece is that it works both ways