arcana ☆ silly-pilled & whimsy-maxxing

@undeadarcana.bsky.social

they/them | 34 | just a frog 🌱 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ living in norway | i make art and stuff 🖍 on that anti-slop list and proud 💖 stickers: https://thelittlefrogpond.etsy.com 💕

Two pieces i'm proud of! Finch, my possessed witch and a mystery fella who may or may not be undead who knows!! I want to do comms in this style, if people are interested :3

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You could be a pioneer of *3* literary genres (horror, science fiction, dystopian fiction) and critics will still call your writing “overwritten,” “ridiculous” and “the offspring of a diseased imagination” You’re never gonna please everyone, so just write the stories you want to write anyway! 🙏

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If you are feeling sensitive and Misunderstood about your Art, consider the reviews Mary Shelley got for inventing the science fiction genre:

[From a Monthly Review article on Shelley's "The Last Man:"]

"The utmost efforts of thought are absolutely childish, when they seek to fathom the abyss of ruin, to number the accumulation of disasters, to paint the dreadful confusion, which await that final scene [of humanity's extinction]. Every writer who has hitherto ventured on the theme, has fallen infinitely beneath it. Mrs. Shelley, in following their example, has merely made herself ridiculous... The whole appears to us to be the offspring of a diseased imagination, and of a most polluted taste."

It's my birthday today! ✨ Honestly no special wishes this year - I've been taking things slow while low on energy so there's fewer personal art this year. But what I did draw I love dearly so feel free to share! Dana and Niamh will appreciate you doing so! 😤 #art | #ocsky

Illustration of Dana (a pale, dark haired female elf) with a tiny opossum Malik on her shoulder, a black raven flying next to the two.
She's smirking, light reflected in her eyes. The scene is illuminated like in flash photography
Dana is wearing a white shirt with red trimmings, sleeves pulled up showing red tattoos on her forearms, brown pants, two leather belts with gold details and a matching bracelet with a big red gem.
She's leaning on a tree, the background behind her is a dark dead forest. The There's a decorative border around the background, in the style of her tattoos. dark urge tiefling Niamh is holding a tray of bloody skulls. her gaze is blank, distant, her eyes bloodshot white - something's not quite right.

behind her is a dark eclipse and bhaal's teardrop halo frames her facemy dark urge tiefling Niamh in the style of Hades 2. she's wearing regal bhaalist clothing inspired by the game's aesthetic, lots of reds and whites with gold trims and skull decor. she's smirking, holding a dagger, long hair and cloak flowing in the wind