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knowledgebear

2 months ago

Promoting this because I wrote a thing for it! Go check it out! Lots of awesome artists and writers poured their hearts into making this Zine, there's a lot of great stuff, trust.

TALES FROM THE GATHERING HUB! RELEASE!!!

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loppiopio

3 months ago

a light tarot reading, because i'm still fond of what i cooked up here. expect allusions to the ending of aci and general detailing of my intentions throughout. some nuances omitted because i want to see if anyone else catches on to them....

probably the most obvious thing is the card itself, wheel of fortune. generally it suggests change, cycles, some big turning point in your life. with the eye cutout slashing through the sphinx i meant to encapsulate izaya's plan of flipping the wheel over on the game makers and throwing them under an imitation of their own work.

there's a distinction in the meaning of the card when it's upright or reversed. looking inward, the card reads upright towards him and reversed as presented to the onlooker. throughout the chapter there's a lot of emphasis on the lack of sincere connections he has, how no one seemed to reach out genuinely concerned about his absence. his attention drifts to his phone a lot as he works, and he continues to work until the end of the chapter which i'll leave here.

it's hard for me to articulate but i hope you can see how i also wanted to convey izaya's personal development at this point of the fic.

less obvious is the positioning of izaya's finger keeping the lion out of view. i know shizuo is technically an aquarius but that thing looks boring and i'm not partial to the zodiac anyways so to me he's the lion in reference this bit from the first chapter.

you could also read shizuo as the bull hidden beneath izaya's shadow which i was also considering as a nod to a bull charges at the stirring of a cape. regardless it can work both ways in keeping him out of view for this part of the plan.

and this one just fell into place for me but wheel of fortune happens to be the element of fire!! which if you know you know.

there's a lot i tried to work into this composition and i have to thank rosa again for putting up with me and making it look amazing.... collaboration with me is pretty intensive but rewarding to see the initial ideas get visually realized.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

This is a collab I did with my friend @loppiopio when we were fanfic book clubing "A Cheap Imitation" back in 2023 man, good times good times

Linking the fic here in case anyone is curious

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durarara shizaya izaya orihara i made a thing i wrote a thing a cheap imitation chapter 49 pretty heavily revised from march 21st 2024 i might share process sketches and dms in a separate post so it looks neater and i have more time to draft it and i could throw in more pics lol there was a lot of back and forth with this one even after i'd figured out the broad strokes i wanted to convey in the piece i ended up having to do a face reveal in taking direct photos of myself at the particular angle and pose i wanted and certain things changed as we tried to make it work the scars were rosa's idea she snuck them in with the lineart and really wanted to have them so i just told her to flip the comp 👍 an added layer to this was to reference the tarot card pieces rosa made for her own ocs https://twitter.com/RosaMaltz/status/1630957731610804226 to imitate them so to say it grew a lot from there but that was the initial root of the idea to this piece i actually came up with the idea for chapter 50 a while before this and that one felt like a deep cut reference that only note could appreciate in full so from there i tried to come up with something rosa would be able to appreciate to help balance it out lol i was already really struggling to come up with anything for this chapter and that helped narrow down the scope and the thought of tarot cards struck me as i recalled some signalis gameplay i'd briefly tuned into earlier that day signalis was also what inspired the previous chapter's wallet idea anywayyys i yearn for someone to notice these decisions and feel excited about them articulate stuff i am bad at articulating here it's my fave thing to do with other people's work and this one is like made made for it moreso than the others

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loppiopio

4 months ago

so i think. there is something special in the way izaya rifles through wallets to catalogue people. i hesitate to call it a love language because, i wouldn't even know how to even define that but.

this guy takes in every scrap of information he can get on someone and starts mapping out the kind of person he thinks they might've been. i know he doesn't care about them individually but i still think he's genuinely fascinated by people and enjoys knowing more about them.

but okay, he'll keep most of that in his head and prioritize keeping only the most essential things directly on him (i like to travel light) so that's his own belongings, polaroids of a family he wants to know more about, sim cards taken from people's phones, condoms, jakow's id, and… shizuo's wallet?

keep in mind that izaya is very deliberate about even the information he documents on his phone (because silly recordings of shizuo are so very important) and of all of the ids they come across he only pockets one. he leaves every other wallet and their cards on the ground!!

the fic doesn't explicitly show us what's still in there but i choose to believe he kept the whole fucking thing. because here, is a record of shizuo. nothing overly personal sure, but proof of his presence as just a guy. a guy who takes public transport, who prefers to use cash, who just has a slip of paper in there that serves no function (it's an old ticket for one of kasuka's movies), who likes to eat at particular places, often, who has connections with others in his life, who feels bad about breaking people's cars, who always carries a condom even if he never gets the chance to use it under the impression that he wouldn't want to be in a relationship, a guy that isn't aware that condoms expire and shouldn't be kept in wallets. and something happened to that condom.... all mundane and carefully preserved with, a few additions.

you're probably not going to understand all of it just from looking at it, and neither would izaya. that's the beauty of it i suppose. but tell me why?? this bastard must've had this thing smuggled away since chapter 6!! y'know, when he totally wanted that guy dead?? 🤨

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