a good image to repost on tdov

lolita #thistle for today

Yasushi Nirasawa, 1990.

old post, but always relevant flawlessflesh.tumblr.com/post/7782793...

You draw a comic at least three times. Thumbnails to plan the panel layout and page count, sketches for writing, planning & text placement, inking. Then if you're nasty you can do the extra step of coloring/shading. (This is unless you're French and go straight to inks, the French are not real)

it's been long enough that looking at my 2024 thistles can be kind of scaryyyy

another lolita #thistle from the archives

Tiles with a Lion on a Shield https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/463957

The guardian

today has felt vaguely ridiculous, since the moment i woke up i've been doing one chore after another. everything is clean, beautiful, and put away, but i still feel like i wasted my time

and beyond the jokes about grrm not knowing what ages mean - some of my favorite pov chapters are from the stark children and dany and how they understand & negotiate a world that is incredibly hostile and new to them compared to their adult pov counterparts. what they miss, and what only they see

lrt - thistle isn’t a protag, but the exhausting age discourse reveals a lot about if the person arguing thinks a child’s pov is worthwhile, if only a character who has reached their 18th birthday according to the holy guide book could have relatable or serious thoughts and actions.

fascinating to me how people negotiate the age of the main character(s) of a work with the intended audience, and how it relates to 1) whether those mcs are processed as people or characters 2) how seriously we take the perspective of a child

whats your favorite flower? — i've never thought about this even though i like flowers...maybe the lovely classic rose 🌹 when i get roses i like keeping them until theyre all wilted and dry 🥀 tetratto.com/posts/32qTfg...

(wip) everything’s chill now, i’m drawing the king’s royal hole

lave comic

again sorryyyy for all the circular journalposts lately, it helps me to understand my feelings by talking it out this way where people can see. it isn't my intention to scold ppl! it all comes down to 'do i get any satisfaction from making niche fanart, or should i just pivot to original works'

can't help journaling in posts lately. this does not need to be said, but i do like delgal as a character...i don't hate him lol

i dont like the idea that any suffering a character experiences is like divine punishment for their sins. because im not catholic (joke) suffering is completely random and any sense of “deserving” is applied by the victim or the perpetrator. but it isnt a Truth

the second i see a post is leaving my sphere and 'standard bsky users' are interacting with it, that shit is getting deleted. i do not need my peace disrupted like that

del moodboard

Reflection upon undress #ælfsie

who’s everyones favorite asoiaf character… you can say like top 2 or 3 if picking one is too hard HCJFJJF

i wish i could enjoy the greyjoys/iron isles but theyre just too “Vikings…But Boring/Lame”

misato/ritsuko

i didn’t like having a separate account for r18g but i’m still not totally at ease posting it here…when i draw sex and violence it doesnt feels Erotic per say. and i have no idea how to categorize it or how people will react to it

i wish i could just draw comics all day, but i have a job and then i have to do the daily tasks that keep my sims life meters maxed . and then if i have energy i can draw.

big fan and huge guitar dork here, cecil's guitar looks really really cool in the few drawings you've made that show... — hey, thank you! i'd like to, but i must confess that i know next to nothing about guitars and designed cecil's entirely off of vibes. i have no... tetratto.com/posts/32pGfD...

i see a picture of two maids kissing on my timeline and i'm like whatever, maids are always up something in this online world. but in reality it probably means a lot to the maids. i'm becoming desensitized to the feelings of others.

Wound fingering comm

that’s why i’m trying to stockholm all my beautiful friends and followers into supporting the true king and his impending castration

lrt lol dont i feel it…

this did numbers on tumblr and i feel it here a lot

assassination attempt on the mad sorcerer

icks to get into him

with delgal, thistle has the sway that a parent has over their child…it isn’t that exact relationship of course, it’s much more tangled and confused. but it draws from a similar emotional core as obeying when mother tells you to do something. a feeling of ‘thistle knows best’

thistle is straight-up giving delgal orders here LOL i love it. blunt tone, no honorifics, expecting to be obeyed. and he is!

thistle + the kingdom’s vague unexplained religion…in the end the lion deity that thistle didn’t believe in is used by the demon to tear him down to consume until there’s nothing left. notable that religious visions are the motivator for delgal & yaad finally moving against thistle…

(request) thistle thinks this game is stupid

happy birthday Dark Souls III and my favorite set piece in a souls game (5x7" ink on claybord - 2023)

Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott.

my account must become the king degradation headquarters

do we think i can lock in and finish penciling my doujin by the end of this weekend. less than 10 pages left

do you see what we have to deal with

i wish bsky had POLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does del think he deserves to live? - yes he does, to our consternation - no, but he is too craven to die

flipping through manga i have to look at the paneling, ahhhhh these two, these two…..