Hyst/Mick | Cult of the Lamb Time
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Illustrator and cartoonist || SVA Cartooning '21 || They/Them || 26 || Commissions: OPEN ✨ Hystericalrt@gmail.com ✨ Linktr.ee/hystericalrt ✨ Micktardy.com
![An illustration featuring Siffrin, Mal du Pays, and Loop, all stacked a little like a matryoshka doll.
Only the upper half of Siffrin's face can be seen; they're looking just past the viewer with a dead-eyed expression. The top of their is head open like a lidded, red-rimmed container, out of which Mal du Pays' face creeps. it's making direct eye contact with the viewer. A hand of its is also squeezing out of Siffrin's head and clutching it, its fingertips digging into the bleeding (but obscured) wound of Siffrin's left eye.
The top of its own head is also open (and sporting a red rim), Loop's head emerging from it. Loop is looking up and to the left sorrowfully, wiping the tears pouring from their right eye with one hand. Faint stars are also visible in the pupil of that eye.
The image is mostly in black, white, and red, with sharp cyan accents throughout (mainly around the edges of Siffrin's hair/bleeding left eye, above their right eye, and above Loop's own right eye) giving the whole piece a chromatically-aberrated look. The background is bright red, starting as a solid colour behind Siffrin's face before transforming into a jagged burst of light behind Loop's. Glitchy text is overlaid throughout, most of which is unreadable save for a few chunks. From the bottom up:
To the left of Siffrin's eye: an excerpt from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats: "Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
In Mal du Pays' eyepatch: "far away far away far away thou [...]" Across Loop's head: Left: "On Repetition" "The night The night repeats itself, And repeats itself And the morning Repeats itself:" Right: "The tremour [sic] of veins cold and hot" "The flutter of banners [...] and vanquished [...] tales of killer and the killed, [...] of jesters."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eruzewn3mbjpfd3kpok3fw2k/bafkreiel4af7tbnoinus2qwgmnmvu7ozhlk3cnicgsiznzx3gzraidfgeu)
