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image inspired by the short story "Sredni Vastar", about a boy who's polecat-ferret and Houdan hen held the world for him.Related content
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nice work 
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thank you for your support.
I like this one btw [link]
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you're welcome
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Wow... this is really amazing~
You're getting better and better and better!!!
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thanks so much.
glad that I didn't just get worse and worse and worse.....
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I love the atmosphere in this. It's calming, though a bit lonely at the same time.
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thanks! you are the first to comment on the emotional aspect of this piece.
hah.....it's so nice having you guys as friends. I get so much technical feedback as well as personal ones. =w=
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Haha yep, considering how I can't exactly comment much on the technical aspect. 
But hey I just read the story. It's really interesting (creepy at the end a bit)! I think you portrayed it well, too.
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I actually love having people who don't do art to talk about my work. I think they really carry a different perspective and a fresh eye. their feelings are so honest, and so completely personal.
I love the story btw! you probably realized already, that I'm very enchanted by the concept of devoting one's love to one singular object/person. When that one thing becomes the world, and this friction between that inner world and the outer world. and what happens when that object is taken away, must be like losing the last piece of drift wood in an ocean.
aaahhh, I loved the way he reacted when the women took away his hen. "with her short-sighted eyes she peered at Conradin, waiting for an outbreak or rage and sorrow, which she was ready to rebuke with a flow of excellent precepts and reasoning. But Conradin said nothing: there was nothing to be said. Something perhaps in his white set face gave her a momentary qualm...." that was so well done! and the ending was actually very very satisfying for me. especially after him admitting that he doesn't completely believe in all these things that he so strongly believed in. aaahhhh, it's so good. It's such a non action filled ending, but with so much in it as the same time.
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Haha, that's true. I love having people who haven't studied literary analysis comment on my works as well.
I've actually not noticed that haha...but now that you mention it I can see it, considering a lot of the character you like (i.e. Fai) has that trait. It must be such a lost feeling. But it's also tragically beautiful at the same time, because it's like your being is already fused with that one object/person, and that's something that can't happen unless you give up everything. It's an act of faith: choosing to believe in something even when you aren't sure of it.
Yeah, it's such a great use of litote (litote=understatement...just learned that in AP English haha). By not saying so much, it really emphasizes the emotional impact.
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yeah!
hahaha....yeah, exactly. now you know why I don't like Kuro Fai as a pairing. Because Kurogane changed Fai's character. I guess it's more...healthy this way, but I feel like it in a way denied Fai for who he is. Because his contradictions and distance and foolish obsessions and everything makes up who he is. And that's what I found charming. In my world, Fai would have killed ashura and die too. I told you about ้ฟๅฎๅนปๅค, and how there's someone I really like in there, perhaps more than Fai if the serie went on longer and I met him first. He was very like Fai in that smile over darkness type, but the way his character develops never changed direction. It's the type that after I read his story, I would never want to write a fan fic about him because the way everything happened was already so perfect.
so many fans actually just rewrite that moment over and over, hahaha, it's kinda silly, but it's just so complete on its own already.
litote? okay, I learned a new word, yay~ I like that. XD
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Haha I was just discussing the Princess Tomoyo/Kurogane with B the other day, since I like that pairing too. She was ranting also about how much she doesn't like Kurofai. It's interesting how even though both you and B don't really like Kurofai, she hates Fai and you love him.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I understand you. Ashura really is part of who Fai is as a person. Though I don't think I would have wanted Fai to die...I feel like what CLAMP actually did with that part of the series was pretty awesome. It took Kurogane's sacrifice to make Fai realize that he's actually important to others and not just Ashura. But accepting that fact...it really takes a kind of strength. I really appreciate that in Fai. And while I don't really like Kurofai as a couple, I appreciated what he did for Fai. And I think that even though he's kinda domineering, he wasn't really rejecting who Fai is, but trying to make him realize his responsibilities.
I guess, in a way, I can relate to Kurogane. I told you that K is kinda like Fai right? So I understand Kurogane's frustrations, especially since they are in the middle of a multi-dimensional war, basically...I can be patient with K and accept him for who he is, but Kurogane didn't exactly have the luxury of peace. Fai had people he had to protect, and he wasn't going to do it by dying with Ashura.
Haha yay! I really like that word.
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oh yeah, I know that it's the "proper" way. If I knew Fai in person, I would want him to live than die too. I just don't like it as a story, that's all. I don't think it's Kurogane who denied who Fai is, because it's natural that he cares more about his life than his character type. But it's CLAMP I think, who feel strongly against the concept of self sacrifice. It's like a tragic story made happy, that kind of disappointment, and also not allowed to be disappointed.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. Though I think it's like...Fai is important to the rest of the story. Too much so to die there. It's not that they have something against sacrifice, but that he was needed. And also, he was important to the motif of a journey in Tsubasa...that motif of where even if you are displaced, you still have a home because you're with people you care about, or (for Kurogane and Syaoran at the end) you have a home to return to. Tsubasa has this sensation of movement, kinda suggesting that life is kind of like that--a journey. Even when everything in your past dies, you still have to go on to the next world, because that's hitsuzen. And when you die, you must die (or it might mess up the time-space continuum i.e. Yuuko), because that's hitsuzen as well. There's this conflict between fate and free will--sometimes you can't just do what you want to do because fate won't allow you. All the characters had to go through this journey to learn how to deal with it.
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I simply don't like what they did. Yes, him being alive made a point, but if he died in the arch, it would still make a point, it'll just be a different one. it would be about not everyone who begins the journey will be with you to the end. and it will be about Fai forever searching for something that he'll never get. and no matter what other people he meets and who else see him as important, they'll never be as important as that one thing he searches for. and I think this hitsuzen thing is nothing more than an excuse. because whatever that happens will be hitsuzen. if he died, then he's meant to die, if he didn't, then he wasn't meant to die. It's only that he didn't die in that arch that we assumed that's how it's meant to be.
and I'm pretty sure clamp is against self sacrifice for friends. they had a similar arch in XXX holic. watanuki was going to sacrifice himself to save a girl, but someone told him that would disrespect that girl, because he is so important to her.
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/o/ have time to draw for fun now?? 8D
wahhh~~~ so cute =u= the lighting is really nice~ and the texture of the backgrounds fits so well with the atmosphere
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haha, kind of. this is actually a class assignment, but I was only able to spend so much time in it because it is wintersession.
a lot of texture in this piece come from not erasing actually. my teacher talked about this sense of commitment as we put down strokes into the piece, and I really think the lack of that commitment is one of my problem when working. so I'm trying to work without wavering and second guess myself so much.
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Ah~ That's so cool! Which class is this for? o7o ooooh
pfft, that's actually a really good exercise! Especially for digital drawings where we can totally do undo z a bunch of times, which becomes quiet a bad habit if you would say so.
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it's for scifi fantasy class :3
I totally agree. for me it's more just personal problem than digital I think, because I find my self doing that with traditional medium too.
I think I end up trying too hard to control the piece, and shape it into exactly what I envisioned than trusting my hand and feelings more and stay open with what I got.
I think the up side is that the end result carries more life, the down side is that...sometimes the message changes. but I find my self caring less about the original intend now than before.
and off topic a bit, I feel like the same concept can be applied to life too. I think I spend too much time on being indecisive and hesitating in the things I do. so I'm working on that too.
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AHH~~~ That's cool~
=u= You did tell me about how your teacher tell you spend too much time on planning out the idea. But I think having an awesome idea and tweaking it can still be awesome.
Eh~~ Everything can be applied to life since everything IS life 
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the light is so pretty and the layout of the room is just like so awesome and ahhhhh
I want a room like that except I want a proper wall and stuff haha
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haha, yes, walls without holes would be nice.
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holy crap, i thought this was yuumei when i saw it in my messages XD
awwwessomme awww ;A;
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O///O that's....too high of a compliment for me to take.
I'm no where near where she is. ^ ^ thank you though.
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ahahahaha you are doing great
ahaha of course
awman, i NEED to watch the madoka movies DDX"
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go watch it then!! it looks promising :3
I might go watch it too if they show it around my area.
and hey, think they'll play it in fanime? good chance of that, right?
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ahaha awww definetly~~
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