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I tried Paint Tool Sai for this one, instead of the usual Medibang, and I gotta admit, it turned out good. A few more tweaks here and there, it’ll been much better.

This is Tom Lucitor by the way, from ‘Star vs. The Forces of Evil.’ Though I’ve never watched the show, Tom catched my eye so I decided to draw him.

What do you think about the post-June 2014 messages on Search for the Blindeye? I find them strange because some of the messages on what appears to be the Author's side start to sound more like Bill's messages, referring to Dipper as Pine Tree (although maybe if the Author had some way of seeing the normal world ("You're saying no?") in the same way communicates he'd know Dipper by that name?), the little couplets... It'd also be interesting to see if the Author were responsible for the credits.

lol wouldn’t it be interesting if in the next episode, the author refers to them with their corresponding symbols like it’s normal and everybody would be so uncomfortable about it. 

You have a point though. It bother’s me that the year before, right after the “Author” stops sending out messages, “Bill” says “HE’S GONE BECAUSE YOU FAILED” 

When the messages started appearing again, they become more cryptic and it’s harder to tell if it’s the “Author” or “Bill” talking. (Normally Bill is on the left and Author is on the right but now most of the messages are the coded ones on the right)

Some of the coded messages I found interesting were.. 

“ALL THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE COULD BE YOURS. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO MAKE A DEAL.”

—which is presumably Bill since he says something like that later on in Sock Opera. 

But then there’s..  

“SANITY AND CLARITY WERE AROUND AT FIRSTUNTIL I HAD MET HIM AND WAS COERCEDGUILT BUILT UP AND IT ATE INSIDEI COULD NOT FORGET NO MATTER HOW I TRIEDREASON TURNED TO DOUBT AS QUICK AS A FLASHFIND HIS SECRETS IN MY CACHE”

which is probably the Author and “HIS SECRETS” would be referring to Bill’s secrets whatever those are. 

Another one is..

“A WISE OLD OWL LIVED IN AN OAK THE MORE HE SAW THE LESS HE SPOKE THE LESS HE SPOKE THE MORE HE HEARD WHY CAN’T WE ALL BE LIKE THAT WISE OLD BIRD?“ 

You know what has a lot of owl images?

The Mystery Shack. Or the former home of the author. Is it possible that the author has received enlightenment somehow (possibly through Bill)? But it turned him insane in the process?? 

We officially know next to nothing about the author (so far in the series) but all these clues (plus the crazy ramblings in the journal) lead to nothing good. 

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An unfinished fanart of Yeni(?) from the manhwa ‘Seduce the Villain’s Father.’ When I first saw I her, she really caught my attention with her hair similar to cotton candy and big blue eyes, so I just had to try to draw her.

Demon Laurent is confused about the unkempt sacrifice.

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I was thinking about the scene in Prince’s Gambit where Laurent goes off on Aimeric; how you, as the reader, come to understand that his verbal lashing at Aimeric’s naivety re: the Regent is more or less self-flagellation.

We know that Aimeric and Nicaise are mirrors of Laurent. I vaguely recall Pacat herself stating they’re essentially alternate version of him, set on different paths he himself might have taken.

I don’t think that’s strictly accurate, though. I can’t imagine a version of Laurent that didn’t outgrow the Regent, because in no world would the Regent not have discarded him, in vying for the throne.

Aimeric is only a version of Laurent in the sense that, he represents that green boy who is yet to grow up; he is young Laurent in stasis. Their disparity is ridiculously emphasized by Jord’s intervening defense: “He’s just a boy.”

Conversely, Nicaise, who IS actually a boy, is more of an equal to Laurent. In book one he’s outsmarted due to his inexperience in court politics and mind games, but he’s a lot worldlier than Laurent could have ever been at his age.

Nicaise knew that he was running out of time, that the Regent didn’t love him. “He always was smarter than the others,” Laurent says, and I think he counts himself among those others.

Nicaise is in Laurent’s past situation, but shares Lauren’t present sensibilities. I might even assert that in some ways, Nicaise is the boy Laurent wishes he could have been, someone who didn’t blindly trust in the Regent’s love –only a hair’s breadth away from breaking off his influence.

That’s why he invests in him so personally, a possible element of wish-fulfillment: You’re smarter than I was, you can get yourself out of this.

Aimeric and Nicaise are, then, exact inverses of each other: a childish adult vs. an adult-like child. Both recall Laurent’s past, but Aimeric is a ghost, stagnant, while Nicaise is a window to re-writing the narrative, putting things to right.

Another WIP that’ll never be finished U-U

I’m so lazy. lols.

Pando, also known as The Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of a single quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons). The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms. Pando is located 1 mile southwest of Fish Lake on Utah’s Route 25, in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest, at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-Central Utah,

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