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fanartist! mostly yuri! I like touhou project, the locked tomb books, revolutionary girl utena, and homestuck. sometimes I write fics and make comics too lesbian, she/he | adult | account is 16+ | don't use or re-upload my art https://sidelys.tumblr.com/

A drawing of Virgil and Dante from the game Hell Maiden. Virgil holds Dante's hands clasped in hers and says "The descent to hell is easy, Dante, but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air - that is the task, that the labour." The final phrase is annotated with it's original Latin - "Hoc opus, hic labor est." One arrow points to the text, saying "Aeneid 6 126-129". The other says "Not actually super relevant in this context." Dante gazes up at Virgil, admiringly.
Image description: a digital drawing of Homer from the game Hell Maiden, smiling and holding her lyre tucked under one arm. Text next to her says "she is Like That because she is an amalgamation of the souls of thousands of bards going back to the bronze age and also a bunch of editors under Pisistratus and maybe a couple of guys from the library of Alexandria and maybe also M.L. West.
A Touhou Project fan comic. Yukari Yakumo looks extremely distressed, with a speech bubble above her head reading "oh dear gods what does she think she's doing? it doesn't suit her, it doesn't suit her at all, she must know that she can't pull it off, right? and after she was the one to break up with me this time? she's going to make such a fool of herself, she's going to regret this, she has to regret this what on earth did she think she was going to achieve? it doesn't bother me in the slightest. i don't care. i don't care at all." Kasen Ibaraki stands beside her, saying "huh. why does okina have your hair today."
Fanart of Fujiwara no Mokou and Ariya Iwanaga from Touhou Project, standing side by side and holding hands. Mokou's head is engulfed in flame.
Image description: digital fanart of Mamizou Futatsuiwa and Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou Project. Mamizou carries Mokou in a princess hold, looking concerned. Mokou looks up at her with a smile and touches her neck. There is a wound in her side which is concealed by a decorative spray of camellia flowers.
image description: digital touhou project fanart. seiga kaku holds satori komeji from behind, touching her face and closing her third eye with one hand.
image description: digitally drawn fanart of ariya iwanaga and fujiwara no mokou from touhou project. mokou sits gazing up at ariya, who kneels over her with a golden halo around her head.
A drawing of Hecate from Hades Two wearing a t-shirt which says "Welcome (heart emoji) Hell"
Touhou Project fanart. Chimi Houjuu stands next to Nue Houjuu. They both look worried, and are both thinking the same thing: "Am I related to this freak?" A small arrow points to this text, saying "probably not."
a digital drawing of a blue evening sky with a big moon. the face of yukari yakumo from touhou project is inside the moon.
A digital illistration of Chimi Hojuu from Touhou Project, sitting on the branch of a tree. She has been redesigned to look more creature-like, with long orange hair on her ankles and arms and leaf-like scales covering parts of her back.
Fanart of Hisami Yomotsu and Zanmu Nippaku from Touhou Project playing cat's cradle. Text reads "Touhou Ship Week 2025; Day 6: Unrequited"
Text at the top and bottom of the image reads "Touhou Ship Week 2025. Day 4: Sunshine/Moonlight." Inbetween is a drawing of Mizuchi Miyadeguchi in her shrine maiden clothing, with her back to Reimu Hakurei and Yukari Yakumo. Yukari has her hand on Reimu's shoulder, affectionately, and Mizuchi watches with an anxious expression as a purification rod dances just out of the frame.
Text reads "Touhou Ship Week 2025; Day 1: Stars", over an illustration of Renko Usami from Touhou Project standing by an open door through which Maribel Hearn can be seen, holding a teacup.
Drawings of Ariya Iwanaga from Touhou Project in a semi-realistic art style. There's a portrait bust, a full-body drawing, and a sketch of her and Yuiman Asama leaning in close to one another.
Digital Touhou Project fanart. Reimu Hakurei stands between Nemuno Sakata and Yuiman Asama, both of whom are grabbing her affectionately. She has a confused smile on her face. Nemuno says "come by my place for tea some time, ok?" and Yuiman says "you'll come and visit me again, won't you?"
Digital fanart of Ena and Coral Glasses from the game "Ena Dream BBQ". Coral Glasses sits, visibly flustered, as Ena grabs her tie and pushes her against a wall, smiling.
Image Description: A digital illustration of ENA from the game "ENA Dream BBQ." She has red skin and limbs which float detached from her torso, and stands looking to the side.
Digitally drawn fanart of Rei Askaka and Kaoru Orihara from Oniisama E. Kaoru is wearing a dark green jacket over a floral shirt and jeans, and Rei is wearing poofy shorts with a golden waistcoat and a black shirt with huge lacey sleeves. They have their arms around one another.
An unfinished digital drawing of Okina Matara from Touhou Project
A digital illustration of Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project, posessed by vengeful spirits. She has blood on her face and clothes, and the red fabric on her outfit is drawn to look like muscle ligaments. She holds up one hand, which also has the skin stripped off to reveal the muscle beneath. At the bottom of the picture, Yukari Yakumo's hand emerges from a gap and hovers underneath Reimu's yin-yang orb.
A digital illustration of Juri Arisugawa from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Juri sits at a table in her fencing uniform, face turned towards the viewer. She is cutting Shiori Takatsuki’s face out of their class photograph, and the empty locket hangs from her chair. Behind her on the wall are nine fencing swords, and a painting of the Ancient Greek goddess Athena. Athena’s face is turned to the side, but the gorgon head on her breastplate faces forwards.
A line drawing of Chiyari Tenkajin from Touhou Project, sitting with a cup of sake. She says 'imagine being benned from the hell of blood pools for saying what Yuuma Toutetsu did to that god of the backdoor." Beside her is a small drawing of an okina noh mask with an arrow pointing to it and text saying "Punchline".
A black and white Touhou Project fan comic. In the first panel, Eirin Yagokoro sits at a desk in front of a round window showing a landscape of the moon, looking at a scroll. Text reads "Separated lovers often take solace in the fact..." The panel below shows Kaguya Houraisan looking out of a window at a bamboo forest. The text continues "... That they both sleep under the same sky." Beneath are close ups of Eirin and Kaguya's faces, and text below reads "This is not a given."
A Touhou Project fan comic. Yukari Yakumo, hiding her face behind her fan, stands next to an excited but surprised looking Reimu Hakurei and says "don't worry, Reimu, you'll be compensated..." The word "compensated" is surrounded by hearts. Ran Yakumo stands behind Reimu, looking unimpressed.
A digital illustration of Eirin Yagokoro from Touhou Project, standing with her eyes closed inside a glass box against a starry background. Text on the base of the box reads "Eirin Yagokoro Says Nothing."
A drawing of Maribel Hearn kissing Renko Usami on the cheek in front of a photograph of a red pagoda. Text over the image says "touhou ship week: day 7."
A digital drawing of Momoyo Himemushi and Megumu Iizunamaru from Touhou Project. Momoyo leans in close to Megumu, placing her hands on her collarbone. Their chins touch.
a touhou project fan comic. byakuren hijiri, in the robes of a buddhist nun and with her head shaved, is chained up by her wrists. text points to her reading ‘byakuren hijiri sealed in hokkai’. below is the same image, but her hair has grown slightly. the text says 'byakuren hijiri sealed in hokkai 1 month.’
Black text on a yellow background says 'stygian blue.' To the left of the text is a sketchy and abstracted drawing of Vriska Serket and Terezi Pyrope from Homestuck, embracing.
A digital drawing of Shou Toramaru and Minamitsu Murasa from Touhou Project kissing. With tongue.
A digital collage, multiple versions of the same drawing of Kanaya Maryam from Homestuck walk through a photograph of a snowy forest.
A collage of a variety of cityscapes from different time periods, set within a gold frame. On top of them is a digital drawing of Yukari Yakumo from Touhou Project reading a book, and the words 'twelve fold wall'.
a digital drawing of maribel hearn and yukari yakumo from touhou project; in black, white, and red. maribel is pulling yukari in very close as if about to kiss her. renko usami and okina matara stand to the side, drawn in a more cartoony style. renko is pointing at yukari and maribel with a confused expression, and okina smiles and shrugs
A comic featuring Hisami Yomotsu and Hecatia Lapislazuli from Touhou Project. On the first page, a distressed Hisami says “I don’t know what to do. Whenever I even just look at her I become unable to speak and it feels like I’m on fire and my vision goes all blurry and all I can hear is the blood pounding in my ears and” as Hecatia listens.
black and white touhou project fanart, a redraw of a promo photograph for a production of twelth night. hisami yomotsu kisses reimu hakurei, and zanmu stands behind reimu, gazing back at her. zanmu and hisami hold one of zanmu’s skull-tipped arrows in front of reimu.
a digital illustration of nue houjuu from touhou project, dressed as a medieval japanese shirabyoshi dancer. she holds out a fan, and her tentacles swirl behind her.
A Touhou Project fan comic. In the first panel, a human child carrying a cat asks Reimu Hakurei “Miss Hakurei? Where will my kitty go when she dies?”
monochrome touhou project fanart. mamizou futatsuiwa puts her arm around raiko horikawa as they drink together.
digital drawings of Nue Houjuu from Touhou Project, dressed like a goth from the 1980s with spiky hair. There’s a side profile, a half body picture, a drawing of Mamizou Futatsuiwa standing close to Nue as if to kiss her face, and a picture of a platform shoe with the caption “nue wears the bodyline knockoffs of the vivienne westwood rocking horse shoes. to the club."
A digital illustration of Yukari Yakumo and Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project. Yukari appears out of one of her gaps, leaning in close to Reimu's face. They are standing in front of a torii gate with a winter mountainscape in the background.
a two-panel comic featuring tsukasa kudamaki and ran yakumo from touhou project. in the first panel, ran looks at tsukasa, who has text written above her head saying “inserts herself into the messiest polycules she can find and makes them worse.” the next panel shows ran face on, with a thought bubble saying “if she finds out about the sages it’s over for gensokyo.
a digital illustration of Reimu Hakurei from Touhou Project. She is drawn in profile from the waist up, and holds three of her sealing needles in one hand. In the other, she holds another needle which has a taught red thread coming out of it and leaving the frame.
Digitally drawn Touhou Project fanart. Yukari Yakumo gives a giftwrapped bottle of alcohol to Yuyuko Saigyouji, and underneath she's shown sitting across from Reimu Hakurei, who is picking chocolates out of a box. Underneath again, Yukari watches as Ran Yakumo looks at a framed picture of Ran, Yukari, and Chen. Chen holds onto Ran's arm, excited.
a digital drawing of maribel hearn and yukari yakumo from touhou project; in black, white, and red. maribel is pulling yukari in very close as if about to kiss her.
a digital illustration of yukari yakumo from touhou project. she stands waist-up facing the viewer in front of a pale blue background, wearing her purple dress and smiling slightly.
a digital illustration of juri arisugawa from utena. she’s standing against a bright red background and is in shadow, as if lit from behind. she holds her sword out to her side with both hands and her locket dangles from her fingers.
a digital illustration of reimu hakurei and yukari yakumo from touhou project. they gaze into one another's eyes as reimu holds one of her sealing needles to yukari's throat. the red thread from the needle swirls around them.
a digital illustration of nanami kiryuu and anthy himemiya from revolutionary girl utena. they stand against an orange background, with two towers and two suns. nanami is wearing her cowbell and has two orange horns, and she holds her sword in one hand and covers her face with the other. anthy stoops behind her, holding on to her shoulder and looking out at the viewer.
a digital illustration of yuuka kazami and yukari yakumo from touhou project. yuuka, drawn in her pc-98 era outfit, looks up at yukari who is hanging upside down out of a gap above her.