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hekateinhell · 2 days
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The fever dreams Lestat has about Claudia in TotBT will never not fuck me up.
Something in me broke as I stared down at her, at the exquisite face in its frame of fine-spun hair. I lifted her, and rose, placing her in the chair before me and I dropped to my knees at her feet.
"Claudia, listen to me. I didn't begin it. I didn't make the world! It was always there, this evil. It was in the shadows, and it caught me, and made me part of it, and I did what I felt I must. Don't laugh at me, please, don't turn your head away. I didn't make evil! I didn't make myself!"
How perplexed she was, staring at me, watching me, and then her small full mouth spread beautifully in a smile.
"It wasn't all anguish," I said, my fingers digging into her little shoulders. "It wasn't hell. Tell me it wasn't. Tell me there was happiness. Can devils be happy? Dear God, I don't understand."
"You don't understand, but you always do something, don't you?"
"Yes, and I'm not sorry. I'm not. I would roar it from the rooftops right up into the dome of heaven. Claudia, I would do it again!" A great sigh passed out of me. I repeated the words, my voice growing louder. "I would do it again!"
Stillness in the room.
Her calm remained unbroken. Was she enraged? Surprised? Impossible to know as I looked into her expressionless eyes.
"Oh you are evil, my father," she said in a soft voice. "How can you abide it?"
I think there's so much going on in TotBT in the context of Lestat's maker trauma, which obviously we see very explicitly when he's turning David against his will, like how he himself was turned—Lestat tells him to fight him and it's horrible. In my opinion, the very worst moment in TotBT.
Yes, fight me, fight me as I fought Magnus. So sweet that you are fighting me. I love it. I do.
Yet Claudia also didn't consent to be turned, she was the age of a (now) kindergarten child and already dying. She couldn't have, really, even in the best scenario. And Lestat knows it. When he's saying 'I didn't make evil! I didn't make myself!', he's begging her in this hallucination to tell him that it wasn't completely awful, that there was some goodness in all the evil he wrought.
But he's Lestat and even in his own imagination he doubles down and becomes incredibly defensive because his subconsciousness is hurting himself in reminding him of his colossal sin.
It's his own voice in his head telling him: 'You're evil, Lestat. How can you abide by it?'
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justarandomgirly · 3 days
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They were glowing
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sepezzz · 3 months
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Lineup of the Magnus charas I've done ref sheets of so far!
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wonderweird · 10 months
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I don’t repost art here nearly as much so maybe you guyd might like seeing this again?
My Pride comic about a shapeshifting monster father and his unconditional love for his child
Sequal can be found here!
Happy Pride Month! 
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betseyswig · 2 months
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magnus protocol has watered my fields, my crops are ready to harvest, my brain is fizzing with energy so insane im going to crawl up my walls and become one with the spiders whilst clutching onto my sketchbook as if it were a totem and vomit up fanart onto the pages because MY BRAIN HASNT BRAINED THIS GOOD IN A WHILE
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dingo-the-draw · 8 months
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thb
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ihatebrainstorm · 7 months
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Alternate version:
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Saw this turtle video on instagram and had to do what I had to do
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weremagnus · 2 months
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A batch of Magnuses drawn for a live art demo about telling a story with character design that I did last year.
In the lecture portion of the demo, I was trying to demonstrate how to tell a story visually through a character, which is a very complex task, but I broke it down into three core elements: expression, posture/body language, and costume. These were my pre-drawn examples to show how each of those elements can function in isolation, and Magnus served as the example character.
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tailsandco · 3 months
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he has a hat.
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mysticalblue09 · 5 months
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Imagine for a sec with me. One day, Annabeth dies while defending a bunch of mortal children from a monster and, for the sake of this what if story, Percy doesn’t lose his shit and attacks the gods. He realizes he’s gonna see her again one day so he continues on living. Fast forward about 5 years and Percy dies in a drunk car accident (I can see the irony) and he ends up in hades. He goes through judgment and gets sent to Elysium. He gets there and immediately starts to look for Annabeth. He sees all these familiar faces. Jason, Beckondorf, Silena, Zoe, Bianca, and so on but he doesn’t see his wise girl. He figures she must be in the Isle of the Bliss because of course Annabeth is and he walks over to Bianca to ask her if he can talk to her dad about just visiting the Isle to see Annabeth. Bianca looks him in the eyes and says she’s not here. Percy is like ya I know she’s not here that’s why I want to go and see if she’s on the Isle. Bianca shakes her head and says Percy, she’s not there either, she’s not here in the underworld. Percy just stares at her, confused and asks if there was a mix up and she’s actually in the fields of asphodel. Bianca starts to tear up as his friend starts to form a circle around him and says, I don’t know how, but Annabeth Chase’s soul never made it down here into the underworld. And that’s when it hits him, Annabeth died with her knife in her hands. He remembers Magnus telling him how people ended up in Valhalla. Percy falls to his knees and starts to wail uncontrollably as he realizes that he’ll never get to hold Annabeth, his Wise Girl, ever again.
Cut back to 5 years ago to when Annabeth first wakes up after death. She’s confused at first but quickly realizes where she is after someone tells her welcome to Hotel Valhalla. It doesn’t bother her at first, thinking that with Percy’s luck, he’ll die like she did so she waits. She waits in the lobby for decades until one day, Magnus sits beside her and gently tells her that it's been over a century and that Percy wasn’t coming. Magnus looks over at her and sees the silent tears streaming down her face. Deep down, she’s known for a while but didn’t want to believe it. Magnus holds her as she cries louder into his shoulders, all the while, Annabeth is wondering to herself how can the fates be so cruel?
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agentcricket-art · 1 year
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happy taz graphic novel release day to all who celebrate! here is my annual (?) celebration piece for it
did i leave filling the billboard to the absolute last minute? you betcha, but hey what can ya do, enjoy the like, 4 barely hidden easter eggs i included
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theriverbeyond · 25 days
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hey me and my cavalier saw you from across the haunted castle and we like your vibe
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vantabats · 9 days
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A Magnus!
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sepezzz · 3 months
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Magnus characters part five! Woman put THROUGH it.
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wonderweird · 10 months
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Gotta repost the sequal to the Monster Dad Pride comic too!
Where you might be someone who prefers to keep your identity lowkey, but it doesn't mean its not an important part of you.
First comic can be found here!
Happy Pride!!
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im-secretly-mothman · 6 months
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How are we feeling, Magnus Archives Fandom?
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