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Alysa Liu: Promise » 2024 Skate Canada

WIP ask game

Thanks for the tag @valhelos !! ✨

I’ve already listed all my fic wips, so here are the art ones 🎨 I’m generally not that comfortable with posting art wips snippets, but if you ask nicely... I just might 👀

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. tag as many people as you have wips. people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Opale

Daemons

What moonsongs...

Midsummer Night Dream

Artemis Experiments Weird cover

Tagging: I don’t know who I’ve tagged already aargh 😭 Whoever wants to participate please do 💜

Rino Matsuike: Lux Aeterna » 2024 Skate Canada

Foaly ! 🥕

I firmly believe that one of the main reasons he likes carrots so much is that they kinda look like Root’s mushroom cigars and he can pretend to smoke to drive him mad (and it works wonderfully)

!!! KEVIN LIVED !!!

Preach... 🙏🏻 I love Angeline with all my heart, but the books never really did her justice. She was a crucial part of the first book but then she just vanished once she was "cured" - which never sat right with me... call me grumpy, but I don't like the idea that magic can cure something so deeply rooted in the chemistry of the mind as mental illnesses (plural because I really don't think Angeline was simply depressed, the symptoms she exhibits in the first book feel really indicative of bipolar disorder and also schizophrenia). Only in my dreams is her struggle with mental health explored in later books... And TAC is absolute trash imo because it's a huge missed opportunity for more Artemis and Angeline bonding, acknowledging the trauma they both went through during Tim's disappearance... But, we got nothing. It really makes me SO mad to see that the most prominent thing the fowldom has retained from Angeline is the "randomosity" shirt and think of her as some superficial helpless mobwife é.è When Angeline's actually Artemis' most acute emotional and moral compass right beside Butler. So many fics that I otherwise enjoyed annoy me to no end with their portrayal of Angeline.

I'd have so much more to say about my darling, but I don't have the clarity of mind right now to expose all my thoughts in a comprehensible way (all my brain screams right now is FOOD. NOW) but I may come back to it later.

Angeline Fowl is the protagonist’s mother. She is also a wife. She is also crazy. This is basically the extent of what we learn about Angeline in the first book and she doesn’t substantially develop throughout the course of the series. Angeline represents two common tropes in fiction, the mother and the madwoman. While AF is undeniably a fantasy series, it is still rooted in our contemporary world, and so it is not unreasonable to expect a certain level of realism when depicting its mental illness or when depicting its secondary characters, in general. It's just so frustrating that Colfer really opened up such a big can of worms and then did nothing with it, or for that matter, her. :/

Also, again for the ask thing: since I love how you write Artemis, do you have other inspirations for him outside Colfer's books? Like, music, or other characters in books or series, that helps you "channeling" him :3

Oooooh, I love this question !! (and thank you so much for the compliment you’re so sweet 🥹)

To be honest I’ve never really thought about it that way ; Artemis is just a character that I’ve thoroughly obsessed over for almost a decade now :’) so the child is kinda part of my dna now ^^"

But my interpretation of him is probably very influenced by mtv series Daria. This show has been my absolute favourite forever ! My mum had all 5 seasons and 2 feature films on DVDs, and I watched them on loop absolutely everyday, I knew all the dialogues by heart and Daria and Jane were my spirit animals.

I really recommend all of the Fowldom to check this series out ; the main character Daria is extremely intelligent, witty and cynical, she is a great source of inspiration for me in writing Artemis ^^ and also the show is just absolutely great and so freaking funny. (also worth mentioning that I’ve always headcanoned that Juliet had an early teen phase where she was a lot like Quinn ; when I write Artemis and Juliet I’m always inspired by Daria and Quinn ^^)

Another big inspiration, though more recent, is definitely Aurora. She is my absolute beloved, my Stendhal syndrome, her music is everything to me ; and since I am a maniac and cannot be trusted not to combine all my hyperfixations, I’ve always felt like Aurora is very much a “what Artemis could have been", had he had a shot at freedom in his childhood. A lot of her songs (All My Demons, In Bottles, It Happened Quiet, Conflict of the Mind, My Body is Not Mine, Invisible Wounds…) I strongly, strongly associate with Artemis - my interpretation of him at least.

That’s what the key thing must be, though. I think over the years, I’ve really crafted an interpretation of Artemis that really feels like my own. I see him as an initially extremely empathetic, emotionally acute person ; who was broken by his father’s neglectful and abusive parenting, and forced to learn to silence his feelings in the name of Family and Business - and his journey is all about reconnecting with his emotions. I know it’s not that far out there of a take, there are a lot of hints in the books that can point this direction ; but this notion that within Artemis there is a permanent thunderstorm of emotions and deeply embedded guilt, a desire to prove himself worthy of love and respect, is really my main guideline when I write him :)

Thank you so much @laeliana for letting me ramble ^^"

Hope you don't mind if I just;

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃

Happy Halloween in advance!!! Your art is amazing, and your opinions are 100% correct, have a good day/night.

Aww... Thank you, you're so sweet 🧡

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thank you @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask for the tag ! :D

Favorite color: Purple 💜 All nuances of purple, but especially one that hinges towards turquoise blue ✨

Currently reading: 'House of Many Ways' by Diana Wynne Jones and 'House of Leaves' by Mark Danielewski (it looks like a pattern but I swear it's a coincidence lol)

Last song: Black Widow by Susanne Sundfør

Last movie: 'Les Amants du Pont-Neuf' by Leos Carax

Last series: re-binge watching 'Daria' for the 999 999 999th time 😅 my childhood idol and role model

Sweet, Savory, Salty: team salty !

Craving: ✨mac'n'cheese à la française✨ a.k.a a nice warm plate of coquillettes pasta with Saint-Nectaire fermier cheese 🧀

Tea/Coffee: Jasmine tea if I must, but I prefer hot chocolate :3

Currently working on: a 90 chapters Artemis Fowl fanfic 🤓 and also a short docu-fiction film about a depressed girl who cannot cry and her home becomes filled with sea water 💧

Thanks again for the tags, this is fun ! I'm tagging @amaristheowlcat, @laeliana, @artifex-rambles, @orangerosebush, @kayden-i-guess, @kai-atlantis, @jelli-art-blog, @shortace, @bittersuite-iv (no pressure if you don't wanna, just funsies !)