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Finnish-Huayi Illustrator who plans comics & talks about history and tokusatsu from time to time / contact email: [email protected] / / portfolio: https://aleksisshi.com / https://csarracenian.tumblr.com / / patreon: https://patreon.com/sarracenian
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#portfolioday Hi, I'm Aleksis, a Finnish-Chinese Illustrator + comics artist, I do anything that catches my fancy, which in this case are historical+fantasy art and 90s anime-inspired art and characters.

Email: [email protected]
Portfolio: aleksisshi.com
csarracenian.tumblr.com
My character Moumou in the summer against background somewhat inspired by 80s-90s summer pop album art. Parody of a Judy Toyota Sakura Wars promo art. Mock poster for the movie "Legend of Eight Immortals" My character Moumou in various 90s sitcom fashions.
sarracenian.bsky.social
One of the comics I've been doing: bsky.app/profile/sarr... #portfolioday
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Black Swan Ace (1/4)

a short #comic pilot to test the waters with this new character & story concept, 'cause I got into horror, pulp stuff & Showa aesthetics #art
pg. 1

Lan O. :
"I want you to think about dead trees. To you and me, they’re exactly as is. Just sitting there,  in the wild, slowly decaying, and nothing more. But beneath the surface, it teems with life that You cannot see, eating  away at its insides, slowly changing the husk from within...
Now suppose, that the same applies to  any places people aren’t looking at. Not just in nature, but everything around us... Cities, houses, rooms...   There are 6 billion people, with more places filled up each day. More walls... more corners... more places away from direct sight... Places that can hide anything, and before you know it, become something else it wasn’t before. 

So suppose once again, when you turn your eyes away..." pg. 2
Lan O. :

 ... How would you  know, what is happening behind you? pg. 3

Introduction: 
Inokawa Luke (age 17) - Straight-A Student/Part-time shelf-stacker
Method-Master Lán O. (age 17) - Detective/"Part-time" student

LUKE: "No."
LAN: "No? No?!"

LUKE: "Yes, hell no. My shift ends at seven. We talked about this, Lán! I’m not gallivanting around on another case until the term is over."

LAN: "Gallivanting?" Rubbish! You would choose to abandon this responsibility?! Forsake Your duty, LUKE, to your fellow man, to aid in these desperate of times? just to pack shelves all night?
LUKE: "I hate it when she talks like that..."

LUKE: "Yes, and maybe pass my A-levels too! We have tests tomorrow! YOU have tests tomorrow!" pg. 4

LUKE: "To put in your terms, maybe us common clay need to work twice as hard because we gotta live with half of what you take for granted. Sorry, but some of us are not privileged enough to be born with genius brains and live on the easy street like you are...
... or afford to throw my life on your amateur hobby sleuthing."
LUKE (thinking to himself): ("No no no you idiot! stop talking! You are going to upset her you dolt, Why do you always do this?!")

LAN: "Fine! Forget it! I will go alone!"

LAN: "If I don’t come back tomorrow, you will know what happened."
LUKE: "I- You are not gonna die, LAN..."

LUKE (thinking to himself): ("She might, she might, she might…
#@€%&# damn it...")
sarracenian.bsky.social

#portfolioday Hi, I'm Aleksis, a Finnish-Chinese artist, I do character arts and commissions and I do comics, often retro anime-inspired plus historical+fantasy.

Email: [email protected]
Portfolio: aleksisshi.wordpress.com
csarracenian.tumblr.com
Space Cassette Moumou in summer advert, character I designed. Space Cassette Moumou's origin Xiwangmu meets King Mu of Zhou Black Swan Ace page 3.
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katherineleese.is.tired.fyi
This is going to sound weird, but this is genuinely why I’m a firm believer that Cybermen should have visible human hands & eyes like in The Tenth Planet

A horrifying constant reminder that there is someone under that suit; someone who’s had everything that made them human ripped from them

A husk.
An OG cyberman from #DoctorWho
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murmurlilies.bsky.social
been over a year and this hot rat lady's still got me in a choke hold 🔥
artwork of the character Jane Doe from the video game Zenless Zone Zero. she leans forward with a smug facial expression, pointing at the viewer with her right hand while her left is held behind her back. her tail curls around the backs of her legs, the tip moving upwards to hover near her right hand.
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I had read Kid Eastwood #27 without any prior knowledge of what it was, and it was very enjoyable and excellent read! One of the highlights of that day

Felt like this combo of One Piece and cool Cartoon Network shows, and carries those parts really well.
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connortierney57.bsky.social
Issue 27 of Kid Eastwood made the shortlist for best narrative at the Selkie Awards!!

I’m Incredibly honoured to be up there with such great looking books!!
selkieawards.org
BEST NARRATIVE

🦭 Kid Eastwood #27 by Connor Tierney
🦭 One More Year by Simon Birks (Writer), Pietro (Artist), Rob Jones (Letterer)
🦭 Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage by Eve Greenwood and Spire Greenwood
🦭 Sacred Bodies by VER
🦭 The Silence of our Fathers by François Giro
sarracenian.bsky.social
I've only known of Bleach in theory but I think I could prob get along with Rukia Likers
sarracenian.bsky.social
It adds genuinely a lot to the character and the comedy that she can speak Chinese decently
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prozdishere.bsky.social
I voice MOUSSE in RANMA 1/2, i absolutely adore Rumiko Takahashi’s work and it is an honor to be part of such an iconic series, he was so so SO much fun to play
sarracenian.bsky.social
This all started from a conversation where I was wondering what the vibe around Attack on Titan is now that it's over, and realising it's actually not super easy to intuit it other than "controversial".
sarracenian.bsky.social
Academic (lesbian) roommate: "Mikasa is Rukia for normies with no tastebuds."

(She has not seen either Attack on Titan nor Bleach sans a couple of episodes)
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tofuplusbeast.bsky.social
you can purchase and play DEVOTION directly through Red Candle Games' own website, which I highly recommend instead of using steam!

I'd also add that it's not just a critique on religious cults, but there's many overarching themes and ties to Taiwanese history and culture. shop.redcandlegames.com
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notgodzilla.bsky.social
oh btw if you guys liked Silent Hill f may I suggest Detention. It's by the same studio that made Devotion. It takes place during White Terror in Taiwan and has some really great horror elements from Taiwanese mythology.
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derachi.com
The greatest to ever do it
tokujoe.bsky.social
Shotaro Ishinomori
Page from the Kamen Rider manga by Shotaro Ishinomori
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maxidango.bsky.social
look at my trouble consultants dawg💔😩
sarracenian.bsky.social
Its funny looking back at all the mechs in Zeta and realize they're basically mostly all building off the Gelgoog design also.

On the one hand fair enough Gelgoog's one of the coolest but my goodness that's a lot of them
sarracenian.bsky.social
What I especially also liked in 79 is how there is a clear, linear progression of technology. Every new suit feels like a clear escalation trying to outgun, & gives all the goofy gimmickier toys a lot of grounding, so by the time everyone started using beam weaponry it felt like the culmination.
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maxidango.bsky.social
female convict scorpion
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I've forgotten like half the mobile suits that were actually in Zeta by the end of it and I'm still not sure if the wiki is fucking with me hahaha
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splendid.land
i love that they've never remade gundam '79. i remember people hoping for it after space battleship yamato 2199 and the origin OVAs but it's still never happened. it feels like they're saying "trust us, it's good"
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