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Looking back at this past year:

Thanks for all your support in 2011 ♥ Here’s to another great year in 2012!

Love this meme 8) Via loveariddle – blank meme template can be found here.

flyin's 2011 Summary of Art

January wall: Akashi-san
February wall: Reach for Love
March wall: Destructive Aftermath
April wall: Cranes for Japan
May wall: N/A
June wall: N/A
July wall: N/A (wow I was dead for quite a few months there)
August wall: CLAMP Mascots Party Wall!
September wall: Himura Kenshin
October wall: N/A (thanks to work)
November wall: Tokyo Babylon – For Tomorrow
December wall: Howl and Sophie – Flight of Fancy

Slightly belated happy 5th birthday, Pixel Ellipsis!

CLAMP Mascots Party Wall!

…as much as I wanted to come up something special for the occasion, this wall took way too long to make. Nowadays I’m really far too lazy to attempt scenic walls – although gradient meshing the crap out of everything was fun. The practice that I got from my Kimi ni Todoke wall really paid off! The perspective of this wall is a bit wonky – I used way too many scans – but I LOVED making the floor, it was probably the most gratifying part of this entire project. I am definitely going to reuse that floor again at some later point in time :D

I have a higher quality version of this scan saved, but I just really liked the caption :D Because man, these characters are seriously some of the most tortured out of CLAMP’s whole repertoire. After the whole reveal with Syaoran I tried to mentally prepare myself for a huge bummer in Fay’s past. Still killed me when I got there, it was so freaking disturbing/depressing. But now Fay is definitely one of my favorite characters ever xD

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(Courtesy of onemanga.com)

Since I’ve more or less caught up with my current anime episodes and am just waiting for the final subs of the final episodes, I decided to indulge in some manga and dived into Tsubasa. I had gotten up to volume 11 or so back when I was last in Taiwan, but haven’t read anything since. Picking it up this time I actually started a loong ways back at volume 4. And things were moving along quite happily with the worlds-hopping, feathers-collecting, budding romance between Syaoran and Sakura “formula” if you will. Until chapter 120 onwards that is, and then it was like WAM. CLAMP fucking kicked in and went, oh wait, we’re CLAMP, we freaking love messing with and messing up our characters, indulging in some pretty-boy violence and making people bleed bucket-loads. TIME TO THROW IN THE DOUBLE-WHAMMY!

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