Max Kurzweil - The Artist’s Wife (Martha Kurzweil, Sleeping On A Divan), 1902

funny meme right? well then get ready for

I want to play Fallen London again but the problem with Fallen London is that while you're playing it's all perfectly simple and ingrained but the moment you step away for like, a month, then when you come back suddenly the entire game is like "If you really want to continue this storyline you'll have to get 9 Whispers of a Lovelorn Dream and sell them to an authoritarian rabbit in the 87.2th circle of hell where it'll bestow on you the Token of an Inadequate Perfume-Maker, but first you'll need to buy the Indefatigable Jetski from the Fulminating Dowager at Watchmaker's Hill by collecting enough Pieces of the Flayed Corpse of God and converting them into Baptized Rat Kings." and I'm like wow I cannot believe how recently I understood what all of that meant. but now I. do not.

aborted otaku older sister: i would have loved to yell at you for touching my $200 scale figure.. if i were alive..

image from Picasso's sketchbook. i stole this from someone on twitter but i forget who, if the person i stole it from sees this, sorry

Fifteenth century tarot cards, possibly the oldest known deck. Look how beautiful they are! These are from way back before they were used for cartomancy.

this just makes it sound like akio is the demiurge. which. you know. probably

I dont know how to phrase this thought i just had but this picture of ohtori school reminds me a lot of a church, and also that gothic churches were built that tall to represent how powerful and big god was, making people feel small there.

Also in some latim-derived languages like spanish Dios mean God, which makes sense when he falls from the castle in the sky and "bless" utena with strenght because of her 'faith' in him (as she sees him as a hero and is her biggest inspiration) and that makes me think of the religious (catholic i believe) symbolism of utena.

Dios is God, as he falls from heaven to bless the faithful. He comes from a castle on the sky that promises miracles such as the eternity of your happiness and innocence. Ohtori academy is the church, as everyone there is a small thing compared to the creator of everything: Akio. The students are children, Akio is an adult there conditioning them in following his schemes (like the boys are powerful princes and girls are helpless princesses and if they refuse that theyre witches), which would make him the God of his own illusions.

The students are just believers, Akio controls them in his own mysterious ways as the end of the world, but them when someone is defying him he has to take the matters in his own hands.

Akio could truly believe he is a God, shaping students as he wishes in his endless timeless illusion, but he isn't. Dios, the real Prince, God, doesn't exists. Akio just thinks they are the same, but in reality, Akio means Lucifer, and his Godly version of himself is only what the people who blindly loved him (anthy, utena) saw

A grail cultist is a lantern cultist who's been mugged by reality

Art idea: give Battler a witch outfit? He deserves better than his normal clothes plus a cape (a dress would be neat but whatever you think fits his style)

Here you go! You have no idea how psyched I was to take a stab at this LOL

ty to @fisheatingowntail for suggestions/ideas on brainstorming this!

Alcoholic Rika

Rika has many problems, and crippling alcoholism is far from the worst of them...

Acrylic on 7x10 Canvas

Bonus sketches were made in Krita and Mspaint

Higurashi

Final Fantasy II (1990) Artwork: Yoshitaka Amano