yours, rusalka.

andriy vutyanov

“you intolerable lunatic” ( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)

Aaaaand (after a small delay) the fourth and final bonus Sketch-a-Wish from my 2nd Patreon anniversary - a frequently requested scene from Uprooted, featuring Sarkan (the Dragon) and Agnieszka! Phew, I'm art-pooped after this one. 🫠

I think that by making Sarkan such a difficult man to live with Uprooted asks the question "what if your immortal hot boyfriend actually had the personality of an insufferable grumpy old man? Would you still hit that?" The answer is yes, absolutely.

"it's okay, i can peel back the layers of you until i find the soft and gentle core of you you've had to work so hard to hide"? no. no, it's okay, i know you're hollow; i'm here anyway. you don't have to pretend it isn't masks the whole way down. whatever face you want to wear, i still love you. i don't need you to be good or unflinching or the antonym of violence. if i did, i wouldn't be here. i wouldn't ask that of you.

i have nothing against a character who is layers of scar tissue and callous protecting a small little sliver of their before self, who just wants to be safe to let that sliver grow and heal

however. when the only thing under all the scarring is more scarring. when there's nothing of the before self left at all. when there was a precipice, and they tumbled over it, and even if they got back up they'll never heal right.

and then to have someone still say i care for you. you are broken and i can't fix you and i'm here anyway. so what if you're a ghost of yourself? you can haunt me

A great tree on a riverbank - William Fraser Garden , 1892.

British, 1856-1921

Pencil, pen and black ink and watercolor on paper , 28.3 x 38.8 cm. 11.1 x 15.3 in.

Tea and Coffee - Anastasia Dukhanina , 2017.

Russian , b. 1983 -

Oil on linen , 100 x 73 cm 40 x 29 in.

Under the sky    -     Eva Harr , 2015

Norwegian,b.1951

Lithography,  62 x 62cm,

People should make more doomed by narratives siblings relationship.

Like with lovers you can just sever it and not have it related to you ever again but with siblings how could you?

You grow up with them you raise them or they raised you you both know how unforgiving the world is to both of you? You would die for them but will hate them for doing the same and yet none of you would regret it and both of you know it. They could be the person you loath the most and miss the most cause you still remember how they sneaked a candy into your hands. You can sever the tie but you can never look away at what you've lost, at whom you've lost because fate doesn't allow you to be together, eating dinners in quiet peace, if only there's another life, another time, where i can make you another plate of pancakes i would im sorry im sorry im sorry —

Bibi Zogbé (Lebanese, 1890-1973), Untitled, c.1950s. Oil on board, 44.5 x 34.6 cm.

Northen Lights -   Gottfrid Kallstenius , 1915.

Swedish,  1861-1943

Oil on canvas, 100 x 110 cm. 39.4 x 43.3 in.

dream by the sea; big sur, california

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