Part Two Of Shipbruary With Days 5-8 Because I Forget To Post Stuff

Today I learned @gooseworx and Toby Fox share a birthday. Happy birthday to you two!

Both of your creations have given me so much joy and have taken over most of my braincells. Thanks :)

Doodled the musical Witch girls played by Idina Menzel who have trouble controlling their powers when they get emotional and are hated by society at some point while watching Wicked

There’s probably a million of these at this point. I may finish it if people like this :)

*breathes in* YEEESSSSSS!!!!

I AM DONE WITH MIDTERM EXAMS AND ESSAYS AND ALL THE HOMEWORK!!!

And fall break starts on Wednesday! I’M FREEEE!!!

Seriously I’ve been wanting to do so many things but school keeps getting in the way.

I know there’s gonna be more later in the semester but that’s a problem for future Ethne

And now I’m gonna make some fanart, catch up with inktober, make Youtube videos, and it’s gonna be really cool :)

Speaking on fanart, I watched Digital Circus episode 3 and drew some stuff. Pomni must be protected at all costs

Drew some Neuvifuri using myself as a reference:

For day 14 of Shipbruary, I drew some Neuvillete x Furina. Kinda surprised I haven’t drawn them yet considering they were my favorite ship of 2024.

I was originally gonna post this on Valentine’s day but I didn’t finish it in time so here you go. Also God bless the Neuvillete birthday art for giving me an excuse not to draw his suit :)

I’ll make the next few days later

Let me introduce to y’all, Gremlin Ethne!

This is the tiny gremlin version of myself/my OC, enabling all my incredibly silly actions.

She came about because I have been feeling way too chaotic recently. I just wanna see silly things happen, and this gremlin is the personification of that feeling.

Do with her what you will, though she may bite your ankles :)

So… Heathers…

Ngl I’m obsessed with this musical. Kind of surprised it took me this long to make any fanart for it.

I based JD and Veronica after Ryan McCartan and Barret Wilbert Weed’s versions of the characters

Origianl image by @sapphellroan

Idea by @book-girl4evaaa

I am incredibly sleep deprived and I’m stuck at a party so take some incredibly terrible doodles I did with a random pencil and red color pencil

Shipbruary Days 21-23

Day 21: Marin x Link

Day 22: Little Misfortune x Benjamin

Day 23: Shrek x Fiona

I shall now go ramble in the tags

Okay so I spent at least 30 minutes rambling about my favorite song of all time on Reddit this morning. I’m sharing this with you guys because why not.

My favorite song is Patchwork Staccato by Toa feat. Hatsune Miku. It’s been my favorite since early 2022.

Miku’s tuning sounds so innocent and sad, the way the instrumental builds gives me chills, and I love the repetition in the lyrics, which is normally a pet peeve of mine but here it works cause it actually adds weight to the meaning.

I like the art in the official upload. Miku looks so pretty in a white dress and it looks like a colored pencil style.

Also I know it has little to do with the official song but I adore the choreography in the project diva music video and the one in the concert. I can lowkey see someone teaching a similar choreography in a dance class like ballet or lyrical

But back to the song, the middle part in the bridge with the high doo doo doos would sound absolutely horrible if the tuning couldn’t pull it off. But Toa DID pull it off and it sounds soft but not screechy which is difficult to do.

Speaking of the tuning Miku’s breathes and her little “ahem” are so adorable and fit in so well

Also with the lyrics, as someone who is learning Japanese but doesn’t understand most of this song, they sound so pleasing to listen to. It’s a similar feeling to hearing clever word choice or rhyme in an English song. Part of it has to do with the actual good repetition as mentioned earlier, but also I just like the way the words are pronounced, it sounds nice.

But also with the lyrics and their meaning, while I can’t relate to the song exactly (the only unrequited love I’ve ever felt that actually hurt was for fictional characters lol) I can still sympathize with the singer. Unable to get rid of your feelings for someone who never loved you back, and when you finally do questioning if you can ever be happy again is so melancholy and heartbreaking I love it. It’s even more depressing when you consider that this song is from the perspective of a young girl (going off of the art and the fact Miku is used, unless Toa used this song to vent, which is even more sad), probably in love for the first time. It’s the type of realistic lyrics and meaning I like in great Vocaloid tracks and why I love them so much.

Also I know I already brought up the song’s buildup but it’s one of the best parts. The way it starts quite with a solo Miku, then they add a piano and a few robotic toy sounds, and then by the end you have tons of vocal harmonies and violins and it sounds so full and sweeping AAAAA I LOVE IT.

I think I’ll stop here before I keep writing until the end of time. I know this isn’t structured well but I just had to share this.

Also Toa used random sounds in his songs before Haraguchi Sasuke made it cool (no offense to him, just a common similarity I found in both works).

Ngl as much as I respect John M. Chu for splitting up Wicked into two films to fix the show’s pacing issues, it also leaves people who know what happens in the second act in a bit of a pickle until November.

Like there is so much that happens in Act 2 that changes so many characters (some for better, and many for worse) that I want to talk about and can’t with every Wicked fan because most want to not know what happens until the second film comes out.

And as much as that is a respectable choice and I don’t want to spoil the story for anyone, we are now at the point where we have to tag spoilers for the plot of THE SECOND ACT of a twenty year old broadway show 😭

All I’m gonna say for now is… the Fiyero haters aren’t surviving Wicked For Good