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was going to make some art for the solar eclipse tomorrow on this blog but i will be real i think i am giving up on getting anyone to tolerate or even like the original work i make

#idk i’ve felt really down about my own art/writing. like man i am shit at this and if i stopped working on this i think nobody would care #misc

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this was really fun to do :) i love these designs for @song-ofthesky so much!! i really love the specific shape language in characters like monostatos or even the starblazer. <3

#YAYYYY #illustrations #tamino #pamina #the starblazer #king sarastro #papageno #monostatos #the forsaken molly #the speaker #♥️♥️♥️♥️

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every character in this story is, in some way or form, horrifically lonely. except the speaker who is doing her job

#misc

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is fanart okay? i was taking a look at your designs and i was so enamored

of course!! fanart always appreciated ♥️

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and our protagonists. Undying Idiot and Autism Stare

was playing around in heroforge while panicking earlier today

#tamino #pamina #misc #dress wearing tamino is canon.

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was playing around in heroforge while panicking earlier today

#the starblazer is intentionally meant to look a little unsettling #the starblazer #king sarastro #song of the sky #misc

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How do Pamina and Monostatos feel about one another?

Neither of them seem to know exactly how the whole 'socializing' thing is meant to go, seeing as both have been pretty isolated from others their whole lives (Pamina especially), but they see each other as friends. Monostatos is the only one of Sarastro's affiliates who doesn't treat Pamina like a loaded weapon. Pamina is the only one willing to hear out Monostatos's complaints and side with him when he's going on about how he should be Sarastro's rightful heir.

But their friendship isn't perfect. Monostatos is a bit of an overly-sensitive tryhard who doesn't give Pamina any space of her own and has a sort of fixation on making sure she still likes him, and doesn't understand why Pamina hates King Sarastro so much. Pamina doesn't see anything wrong with manipulating people "for the greater good" and intends on eventually manipulating Monostatos into unwittingly helping her kill his own "father".

They do have some level of platonic affection for one another though, even if they don't entirely understand one another...

#i am glad they have a good friendship. i hope nothing gets in the way of it. #pamina #monostatos

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attention joann's shoppers. there is a freak in the yarn aisle buildinf a nest

#papageno

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this is my third attempt to upload this hopefully it gets through... nothing useful or good today from song of the sky dot blog. voiceclaim video upon ye

#song of the sky #misc

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Uston Galactic Bengal

🐱 Bengal

📸 Marion Moulia [Galactic Bengal]

🎨 Black Rosetted Tabby

#king sarastro

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Pippin, Stephen Schwartz & Roger O. Hirson (1972)

#:3c #misc

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you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act

#:3c

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Self portraits (and handwriting) from the different characters.

Tamino hasn't ever really been taught to draw so he's kind of winging it. The result looks much how you'd expect it to look.

Pamina's sense of what's 'cool' is about the same as a 12 year old who exclusively listens to anime soundtracks and cascada on an iPod Shuffle

Papageno was at first pretty pleased with his drawing but felt bad when it was pointed out that it wasn't particularly detailed and he took up way too much of the page

Monostatos's drawing of himself seems to be of a different cat, who's much buffer and doesn't have all his weird features... and who looks oddly like Sarastro.

The Starblazer has a penchant for stained glass and so incorporated that into the way she draws herself- perfect, angular, symmetrical, aesthetically ideal.

The Speaker, as many members of the council do, idolizes the artwork of Ancient Egypt, particularly in regard to cats (this is much the same as some humans you may know who uphold Greek sculpture to a ridiculous degree). She has learned to copy the appearance of them perfectly and uses it as historical notation

King Sarastro, in his youth, was taught some decent levels of life drawing. He doesn't like to draw and can also only really draw lifelike cats- not much of the artwork the Council commissions is abstract or figurative.

The Forsaken Molly had fun trying to make her self portrait look "as gross as possible". She didn't elaborate on what she considers gross or why she chose to take this course of action

#song of the sky #this is. so dumb #tamino #pamina #papageno #monostatos #the starblazer #the speaker #king sarastro #the forsaken molly #illustrations

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i looooove characters who are sacrificial lamb coded. characters who have never lived for themselves. characters born to be a tool, a weapon, a sacrifice, all of the above. a character raised by the heroes to save the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. a character raised by the villains to end the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. characters who are denied personhood so they can be used as tools instead. characters who never even had a chance to be people because they were shaped into something else from the moment they were born. characters who were born to die.

#tamino #pamina #in different ways. supposedly….

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Let me examine closer *my eyes turn purple and blaze with spiritual power* oh yeah no that’s an egret not a heron, it’s got black legs

#papageno

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big fan of characters that are as pathetic as they are terrifying

#the starblazer #king sarastro

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family group chat

#pamina #she thinks things like this