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chess inspired fashion

#thank youuuuu for all the nice tags!!! :-)

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now i just have to figure out where i should go to see nice moors. if anyone has advice about this

the good news is that a friend agreed to go to england with me this summer :-) the bad news is that she hates wuthering heights

#i should ask on instagram but im so scared. maybe i will #what if they kill me?

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might take a little break from wuthering heights cause my mom lent me a book about fashion and i have to give it back soon, but also it's that i'm at the saddest part and im reluctant to read it :((( i donttttttt want to get to the part where heathcliff leaves halfway through catherine's monologue and misses the important part, it's too sad !!

#i want to get to heathcliff's bizarre marriage plot. now that's fun and entertaining #he's so weird

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Christian Dior HC SS 1998.

Model: Olga Pantushenkova.

#the attitude... #fashion

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the good news is that a friend agreed to go to england with me this summer :-) the bad news is that she hates wuthering heights

#it's ok. i can fix her

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elaborating on my chess fashion. i don't like to talk about my own art too much cause i dont want to impose my reading, but i know not everyone plays chess so maybe this will give some context !

queen and pawn have the same weapon. pawns can be promoted to any piece if they reach the end of the board, and the best piece is the queen, so that would be the most obvious choice, generally

bishops are called jesters in french, so i think of them as pretty mischieveous. bishops are also very mobile because they move in diagonals, which tend to be less cluttered than straight lines. i love them. i pictured this bishop as someone who teleports next to you out of nowhere and bonks you with her staff (instant death)

rooks tend to show up later in the game compared to bishops and knights, and i like to use them as a distant threat, to control a whole line. so rifle felt accurate

knights are knights :-) yayyyyyy

the king has no weapon. cant do anything. useless

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chess inspired fashion

#my art #art tag #original art #chess #i hope you like theeeeeeem i just love designing outfits #and also chess #i was really inspired by the way i use pieces when i play... maybe i'll elaborate in a post

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finished my short comic, titled AJDIG! full comic under the cut :)

AJDIG is a short comic i made for my maternal grandmother. my grandma hasnt seen a lot of my artwork, so i wanted to make something especially for her to enjoy. we dont have a language in common (she speaks chleuh and arabic; i speak french and english), so i also wanted to make something that could breach the communication barrier between us.

she cant read or write and shes never read a comic, so there were some limitations i had to work around when coming up with AJDIG: i obviously couldnt include any dialogue or text; i also couldnt have panels going left to right or right to left, because going from one panel to another wouldnt be intuitive. in the end i went for the format which seemed the most universal - a simple story read from top to bottom (almost no languages read from bottom to top).

this took a very long time to finish and i frankly didnt enjoy all of it - i didnt really have a good time doing the coloring - but im glad to have finished it!

#really love the thoughts behind the choices you made :-) #art

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when i arrived at the daycare, the children were gathered around a window looking at a toy potato stuck outside. they kept saying une pomme de terre… in their baby voices

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im so excited to share my chess fashion drawings but im soooo stuck on that rook. the rook once again blocks my path to victory

#i will find something but i dont have a clear vision like i did for everything else

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Joan @ Anna Sui Fall/Winter, 1993 Ready-to-Wear

#reminds me of courbet's irish woman #fashion

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i love this part where edgar makes fun of heathcliff's hair, who retaliates by throwing hot applesauce at his face, and both nelly and catherine blame edgar for not minding his business. and they're right. who asked you!!

#they're like 12-13 for context #also ''expostulated''? i'll be sure to use this in casual conversation now #wuthering heights

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i've been really into golden raisins lately

#my mom used to buy a kilo of golden raisins for me to snack on. as a treat #when i was a kid

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When I tell you I’m dumb.

I kept thinking your art reminded me of something pleasant I saw in the past - an animation? The illustration in a book I liked? A comic I read, appreciated and then forgot the title?

The feeling was akin to walking down the street when suddenly you smell something that reminds you of a vague pleasant memory, but you can’t pinpoint what the exact scent is or where you smelt it before.

Then today I opened instagram after deactivating my account for a while and I saw dahliamouton’s latest post and EUREKA! That’s the style I was thinking of!

…and yeah. DUH.

I was bugged for weeks because you reminded me of yourself.

helppppppp !!!! sorry for tricking you with my double identity..... my secret instagram life... i really do see how that can happen because i don't talk about my tumblr there and don't talk a lot about my instagram here. i love this ask and the many ways it reminds me of in search of lost time

#also im glad you figured it out because these things drive me insane #i spent years trying to figure out who joe strummer looked like... drove me insane! #it's albert camus. and everyone i told said ''yeah that's very obvious'' #anon #answered

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"who gets to decide if art is "bad"?" me.

#me as well

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#decor

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working on a cover :-) hehe

#the secon sketch is just for fun