Loreleï Simon 🎉 💜 ✨ 🌈 💖 @lores@kitty.town

#Introduction
I'm an illustrator and a 2D artist. I'm agender and I like spaceships, lots of colours 🌈, SFF and cute stuff! I read a lot of comics/manga/manhwa/BD/webtoons/webcomics and watch a lot of series!! Here are some pictures I made!!
✨ Website : http://loreleisimon.eu ✨
✨ Twitter, Insta, Facebook, Tumblr, Artstation : @loreleisketch✨

Over the years, I've grown very anxious of social media, I know I have to post but sometimes (a lot of the time) it makes my anxiety skyrocket and I don't post anything. I'm just glad I found this mastodon instance, so far all the conversations I've had have been wonderful and positive, and I feel better thanks to all of you. You're all awesome!! 💖💕

Lavender Valley <3 #landscape #illustration #art

#SailorMoon again!! #illustration #art

A #Vampire #Cutie <3 #art #illustration

#WIP #PrincessSerenity #SailorMoon #art #Illustration not finished!

Some alternate versions #utena #art #illustration

#Utena #art #illustration

So anyway because I posted this long annoying rant I'll post some illustrations I made :

It was 2 weeks ago and I'm still tired and depressed because of it. The other experience was last week I saw a coach in personal branding, and she kinda checked my tweeter and told me I didn't have enough followers (or rather a bad ratio following/followers), and she also told me I can't post the same pictures on all social networks because people get bored, which is weird because I know if I post a picture on tumblr and not on twitter, someone will probably do it for me. I'm very confused now.

Anyway, I let it go and just said hmm for the next half-hour, because I felt exhausted and humiliated. But at the very end, she said that a healthy identity comes from the balance between personal (private) identity and professional identity... And I was like... No, I can't let this one pass! If it was true it would mean students or unemployed people have a less complete identity than people who have a job they like. And I argued again but we paused for lunched and I left and did not come back.

Every person was like "yes" "yes" "hu-hu", 6 persons like that until it was my turn and I said "No" again, arguing what I said in the previous toot & saying I myself have several friends who are soccer fans and it's never been an issue. She asked around several times until she thought "Maybe that's not a good example, let's say manga fans!" which is an even worse example since I'm a manga fan myself and most of my friends are too, but we talk about so many more things than manga!

She said that we only make friends with people that are like us, and as an example of ppl you would never befriend, she gave fans of soccer, who live and die for soccer. And I said I disagreed, I like to seek out people different from me, and that her example was extreme because even soccer fans have other interests and other discussion topics. People are not that monolithic and if someone like that exists I've never met them. So she asked every student "Yes? No? Maybe I'm weird?".

I'm feeling down these days because I had two bad coaching/formation experiences. The first was a long 4-hours formation with a teacher who told us things about identity that I think are 99% 90's bullshit. We were seven and I was the only one disagreeing and it made me feel different and excluded that everyone else just went along with it. Instead of acknowledging I was disagreeing she kept coming up with new examples as if I was just too thick to get it the first time. It was humiliating.

Oh, there's a behind the scene documentary!!

I just watched the #sense8 finale, and it was so emotionally intense, and it shared such a complete, absolute, contagious love for life, that I'm afraid to watch something else or put music on, out of fear it might dispel the comfortable warm feelings I have right now.

Here's an old #dailysketch to illustrate what I meant! #illustration #landscape

This reflexion has been brought to you by Please Save My Earth by Saki Hiwatari, which is a good read (but also tw: rape & underage stuff) but where the aliens are humans, look like humans and call themselves humans, the only difference being that they're one inch tall. I think it's a poetic license, because if the aliens were weird, the characters wouldn't feel the same towards them, and it wouldn't have the same emotional impact but still. What are the limits of readers' empathy?

Also : humans. I know there are stories about anthropomorphic animals but I'm not talking about that. Is it possible to tell a story about an alien species that looks nothing like any earthling animal, with no scifi elements to explain why and how? Is it still possible to build empathy? Or do you always need to have some kind of familiarity with the characters you're following to empathize with them. (I'm mainly thinking about visual stories, I'm guessing it might be easier with writing?)

I'm trying to find stories where there is no space exploration (as far as people can tell) but where humans live on a very different world, and it's normal. All I can think of is Discworld, but the fact the world is different is central to the story. Is there a fantasy story with a gaseous giant in the sky but zero scifi elements?

What made me wonder about that was ATLA, the world is clearly very different from our own, culturally and historically, all the continents are differents, and everything is build around bending, and yet, there it is! The moon, just like ours, with legends and superstition very close to our own! Is it possible to tell the same story with no moon, or different moons? Or do people need to know why humans are not on their homeplanet? Is it too weird to maintain suspension of disbelief if different?