iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Aaaaah they look so good! I love your gesture sketches too, they're really dynamic!

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

She is! She was very quiet when we first got her, though she's grown out of it a bit now. :)

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Haha I hope it's messing in a good way! Thank you :)

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This one's about dog DNA! I get asked what breed Wednesday is a lot. (I also misspell Germy Sheppahrerd a lot) #dog #dogcomic

Comic: titled Wednesday the Dog, showing a black pup with pointy ears and a long tail in a smooth coat, with a bit of white on the chest.

Text: when I originally posted Wednesday's photos on Instagram and invited people to guess what breed she was, a lot of people were very confident that she was some sort of Shepard.
Photos: three photos of the same dog - laying by a window, looking up from under a table, and sadly sitting outside in the rain wearing a Costco dog hoodie
Image: a doodle of chekhov wearing a red sweater, holding the dog in their arms. Both are looking up thoughtfully.
Text: and I guess I can understand that logic! If you don't know that I live in Japan, or if you're only familiar with western breeds, any dog shaped dog will look like the most popular one near you: for example, the German Shepard. But even though I'm familiar with them, she didn't look like a German Shep to me at all. So out of curiosity and for the sake of keeping tabs on her health... (a big arrow points to a handwritten message with DNA strands) we did a doggo DNA test! (Thank you to Brandy Saltzman for the coupon)
And the results are in! She's 100% mutt!
Image: chekhov holds up Wednesday simba-style. Wednesday seems happy, and her tongue bleps slightly.
Text: or more specifically, a Japanese/Korean Village Dog! It's not really a breed. It just means she's local!

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Time heals all wounds and makes all puppies 200% less scared of things. #dogcomics #dog

Comic: The title shows a black dog with pointy ears in a green collar, wagging a long tail next to "Wednesday the dog".
The comic is split into right and left sides - the left reads "what we were worried about" and the right "1 month later"
The first image is a drawing of a puppy cowering in a crate. "She's so shy..." says someone off to the side. "She may never get fully used to people." Next to it is another image that shows her now: jumping up on the owner excitedly as they say "Hi! I've only been gone for 5 minutes!"
Another set shows the left image as the dog hiding behind the door, shaking. "She can't even convince herself to go out the door. Maybe walks are too much..." Right next to it is the dog in her harness on a walk. She is standing in a stream and shaking around a piece of something green violently. "Girl, you've killed the moss, good job," says the owner from off-screen. "Let's go home please..."
The last panel reads "What we should have worried about" and shows the dog chewing something eagerly while the owner grabs her and reaches into her mouth. "What's in your mouth!" yells the owner. "Don't chew faster, just give it to me!"

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Dog tax (she is about 6-8 months here I think?)

Photo: a shorthaired black dog with a long tail and pointed ears. She's wearing a collar and a bright orange harness, standing beside some rocks and staring at something in the distance.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

More Wednesday comics. She is good at climbing.

Image: a simply drawn comic titled "Wednesday the dog"
Panel 1: Text on top reads "What song is (probably) playing on loop in her head during walks" A black dog with pointy ears and a long tail wearing an orange harness pulls someone along on the leash. She has thought bubbles that read like lyrics: "Climb every mountaaaain~ Fooord every streeeeam~ Eat every bug, and follow every dream~"

Image: a simply drawn comic panel. A black dog wearing an orange harness is at the top of a hill, looking down and her owner, who is down below, holding the leash in one hand and a poop bag in another. The owner says "okay, congrats, how are you getting down?"

Image: a simply drawn comic panel. A black dog in an orange harness is still at the top of the hill, with the owner down below. The dog looks off to the side, clearly thinking about her predicament.

Image: a simply drawn comic panel. The black dog sits down at the top of the hill, seemingly resigned to her fate and content to remain where she is.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is her at about 4 months! :)

Photo: a black mutt puppy in a green collar. Her ears are half floppy, and she has a triangular white mark on her chest. She is sitting on the wooden floor, looking off to the side.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I never posted any of these here! This comic is over a year old now, but still! #puppy #dogadoption #shelterdog

IMG: A simply drawn comic. TITLE: So we got a DOG.
Panel 1: two people - Chekhov, who's wearing a red sweater, and their partner, who's wearing a blue sweatshirt, standing next to a table with a brown crate between them. They're both looking at the crate in awe. There's a pair of eyes peeking out of the darkness of the crate itself.
"My partner and I recently moved, and have decided to adopt a pup! She's a rescue, about 5 months old. I've had dogs before, but she was incredibly distrustful of us and all people in general at first."
Panel 2: A crate covered in a grey towel. The door is open and a small black dog face peeks out nervously.
"With rescue dogs, there is something called the 3-3-3 rule for decompression: 3 days of hiding/adjusting. 3 weeks to get used to routine. 3 months to fully settle in. I trusted it, but it seemed unlikely that she would ever stop being such a careful and fearful dog. she was scared of us, of the leash, of doors..."

IMG: a continuation of the comic "so we got a dog"
"She wasn't used to a leash and panicked when it was put on. She hid when we looked at her, and cowered when we touched her. On top of that, despite being a rather skinny puppy, she didn't seem all that food motivated. But she did eat, and she came out when we were far away enough."
Panel 1: a doodle of chekhov siting on the ground next to the open crate. The dog, barely visible, is cowering inside of it, watching nervously. Chekhov sets down a bowl of food, saying "I'm gonna leave this here."
But boy... the process works.
After 3 days, she began to explore more boldly, let us touch her (not picking up yet, but it's a start!) and even barked once!
Panel 2: A doodle of a black puppy with half-flopped ears, stretching into the longest possible dog, to sniff at something in the righthand corner labeled as "Unknown object (heater)". The back leg is lifted up off the ground, labeled "one leggy up for max sneak".
"We're about to have our hands full with training her, but it looks like despite my initial concerns, she'll settle in fine!"
Panel 3: A doodle of a black, lanky puppy. There is a white spot on its chest. It sits up, looking around with black eyes, and wags its tail. A bit of its tongue is sticking out. There are little wiggles coming out of its head, labeled 'yogurt senses'.
"So, with that in mind, I'd like to introduce you guys to the puppy who will probably spur many more comics yet to come!" Meet... Wednesday!

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Gotta figure out what to repost and how old to go I suppose!

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I should post here??? Or something??? I was equally bad at this when I had Twitter.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

By the way, this was about my dog, Wednesday. She has been with us almost a year now and she is thriving.

A photo of a black smooth haired dog with pointed ears. She's laying on a couch facing the photographer.

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ceej @ceej.online · 10/02/2025

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Best possible reply to this photo

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Hey, thank you for making an account just for me! I'm ok with translations! I have said this before, and it's actually written in my FAQ on Tumblr. All I ask is that you link back to the original comic. :) and please send me a link, so I can add it. www.tumblr.com/ask-whitepea...

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

My urge to share a bit of fun irl news is strong but my natural instinct to hide info of any new life changes until they're set in stone is stronger.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

I had no time to make this look neat. Is that ironic?

A b&w comic. A person wakes up, looks at their phone in the dark. 7:00, drawn in red. They close their eyes. Wake up, look again. 7:21. The coffee maker turns on. The clock on the wall says 7:52. Its hands are red. The same person picks up the pot and pours a cup as more time passes on the clock.
The cup is set next to a muted tv. On it is a weather map, but instead of clouds and rain symbols, there are red alarm clocks and hourglasses. The TV unmutes: "...a fast time front coming in from the south as the trees are blooming even earlier this year," says the reporter. The screen shows a weekly forecast next. "And over the week, we have some fast time as the busy season at work kicks off, followed by a very slow Wednesday night when the results of the election are expected to come in over the course of two hours, which will feel more like six or even eight--" The TV mutes again. The person leans back in the kitchen chair and sips their coffee. There are no visible clocks.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Sometimes, you wake up and check your phone and it's 7, so you close your eyes. And then you check again and it's 7:20. That means time is fast today. Sometimes you check, and it's only 7:03. That's a Slow Time day. It's like time weather. Just depends on the day.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

List under: signs I see and chortle to myself about. For the nice tomorrow... Drug penguin. Just do it you coward.

Image: a photograph of a sign in an alley. It features a simple drawing of a penguin-like charger with the words: PENGUIN. Underneath it reads: "For the nice tomorrow.... DRUG PENGUIN."

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Whatever this is called is my favorite thing. #dungeonmeshi

image: a simple doodle of senshi from dungeon meshi. the top shows him without his helmet, his face shaded and serious, his eyes darkened by furrowed brows. someone's doodled hands are comically holding his helmet above his head.
the next image is when the helmet is slammed down onto his noggin. suddenly the intense serious features are gone, and all you can see through the helmet is the nose, the mustache, and the googly eyes.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Mind you, as the Quote Tweet also states - many creators DO ask for critique sometimes. But we ASK for it - from other writers/artists we respect and trust. Not from anonymous kids who feel like they're big and important behind a screen.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

I decided a long time ago that all art and writing advice submitted to me gotta be presented with a citation of your age and experience in whatever you're critiquing me on. "Im Jared and i think you have too many plot holes in ur story (15, never learned how to read)"

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

People can smell a hiatus a mile away, it seems. As soon as I decide to take march off to sort out some IRL stuff I get - two separate commissions requests - three translation orders for the first time in 8+ months - friends being like "Hey, you wanna do a thing? :)" I wanna help, but the timing--

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Sitting down next to someone else on the bus because no other seat is open is torture. "I'm so sorry to invade your private space and smear my horrid self upon this seat that once held your personal bag and feelings of privacy. I promise I'll leave as soon as possible. I'm so sorry--"

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mukuuji🍉むくうじ @mukuuji.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

ありがとうございました

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

A few days ago I met a pal, an OB-GYN who is working at a service that sends abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) to women who need them in states that ban abortion. She asked me to help spread the word about how to use the service, and asked me to ask you guys to pass on the info. 1/6

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Tumblr is down for me again. I'm still sick as a dog even after 4 days of rest. My new phone still hasn't arrived in the mail since my old one bricked 5 days ago. ...... Time for a coffee I think.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 26/01/2024

People in the North of Gaza are being starved, and humanitarian aid is not allowed to reach them. Doctors have requested #FeedNorthGaza be shared on socmedia so the voices in North Gaza are heard. This is on my other socs to help boost donations. gazaesims.com / doctorswithoutborders.org / pcrf.net

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

"I sent you a question yesterday but you didn't reply :(" Yes but you sent it at 3am my time, and I wake up and go to work at 6am, and I only get home at 6pm, so please give me some room to breathe.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

People who live in a different timezone stop expecting me to reply to emails within 12 hours challenge: Impossible

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

2023 Year Summary! Here's to another year of comics, hopefully more original stuff too. :)

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Ahaha thank you, I'm just having fun here

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Yeah! It usually has a tree stump 🪵 for a head but I made it into a vent. :)

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I also made a YouTube video with a speeddraw of these! If anyone is interested: youtu.be/7BKHAwdvhE0?...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=im0bcLBMazVUFQIR&v=7BKHAwdvhE0&feature=youtu.be

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Oh yeah, I also did that thing I do and drew Gideon and Harrow as Pokemon trainers. Can anyone tell what that thing behind Harrow is? Hint: It's not a haunted toaster. 😂

A digital illustration of Gideon Nav from the Locked Tomb series as a pokemon trainer, drawn in a close approximate of Ken Sugimori's style. She is tall and muscled, her back to the viewer but looking back at you over her shoulder with a grin. Her skull face paint is minimal, and she has her typical aviator shades on. She also has slung a Honedge over her shoulder. It is longer than usual and has a dark Ninth House piece of cloth hanging from its pommel. A Cubone peeks out from behind her leg.

A digital illustration of Harrowhark from the Locked Tomb series as a pokemon trainer, drawn in a close approximate of Ken Sugimori's style. She has her full skeletal garb, but the dark long skirt she wears splits at the hip and trails on the floor behind her, giving her legs more movement. She holds a pokeball in one hand, and in the other she seems to be summoning a Dukull. The Duskull has a little IX roman numeral on its skully forehead. Behind Harrow is another ghost Pokemon that resembles a shiny Phantump... but instead of a tree stump, its head resembles a steel vent, with eerie blue-green gas wafting out of it.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Thank you! :D They were a lot of fun.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Ninth House! Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and Ortus Nigenad

A digital portrait of Gideon from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. She has no Ninth House memorabilia, but she is wearing a pair of reflective dark glasses. Her skull face paint is smeared and simple, but she wears a small grin. Her hair is a disheveled mess, a sort of mullet. A part of it is shaved off in a jagged pattern, almost as though someone tried to shave her and failed. Her one visible golden eye is looking back over her shoulder, as though glancing at someone...

A digital portrait of Harrow from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her hair is short, but elegant, with the front bangs grown out a bit to cover her forehead. She wears a high collar robe which is held up with bones, and decorated with a vertebral column. Her earrings are finger bones hanging from the lobe, though she also has the IX roman numeral earrings on. Her skull face paint is immaculate, and only partially obscured by the translucent dark shawl she has hanging from the crown of her dark head. Her black eyes are peering back over her shoulder, as though looking at something behind her...

A digital portrait of Ortus from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He has a thick build, but a very sad face, which droops a bit. His head is shaped, and he wears the traditional skullpaint of his house and the roman numeral IX earring. His dark eyes are downcast.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Eighth House! Silas Octakiseron and Colum Asht

A digital portrait of Silas from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. He is a shin, gaunt looking boy with pale skin and equally pale hair. He wears the roman numeral earrings of his house on his cartilage and his lobes. There is no color to his eyes. A simple black cord is worn around his neck.

A digital portrait of Colum from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He is an older looking man with a wide face with several scars. His thin, pale hair is pulled back into a small ponytail. He wears a thick, white rope loosely around his collarbone like a necklace. He also has House earrings shaped like the roman numeral VIII.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Seventh House! Dulcie Septimus and Protesilaus Ebdoma

A digital portrait of "Dulcie" from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her hair is pleasantly wavy, and pulled back away from her face, which is a bit gaunt. Despite this, she still smiles. She is wearing a nasal cannula, (which the artist has drawn incorrectly, because it's supposed to hook into the ears but it does not). She wears no house number earrings but she does have one rose earring. Her visible eye, a tone of teal, is looking directly into the camera.

A digital portrait of Protesilaus from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He had long hair, which is pulled back into a ponytail, and his left side is shaved down, with the outline of a rose visible in the pattern. He wears no House number earrings. He has a pleasant beard and sideburns. His severe face is eerily blank.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Sixth House! Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect

A digital portrait of Palamedes from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. His glasses have a hexagonal shape. He wears simple looking clothes and a black turtleneck covers his neck. He has no earrings. The beginnings of a bears curl along the edges of his jaw, though it has not filled out. His eyes are pleasantly grey.

A digital portrait of Camilla from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing left. Her hair is straight and falls just below her jaw at an angle, and although it obscures most of her ears, she has no earrings either. She looks more severe than Palamedes, failing to smile where he does.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Fifth House! Abigail Pent and Magnus Quinn

A digital portrait of Abigail from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. She looks older than the others, and her hair is neatly collected in a loose bun hanging at her neck. Freckles scatter across her cheeks and nose. There is also a tangled crown adorning her head, which twists into itself and forms a subtle V at the forefront.

A digital portrait of Magnus from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He is smiling kindly, and sports the same tangled metal crown as Abigail, though it ends just above his temples instead of fully joining itself into a circle. He has curly dark hair and a roman numeral V cartilage earring.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Fourth House! Isaac Tettares and Jeannemary Chatur

A digital portrait of Isaac from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. He is clearly in the awkward teenager stage of growth, with his face a little unproportional, but he recovers through other means including his laurel crown and his collar, which is popped and decorated with leaves. He has a cartilage earring shaped like the roman numeral IV, and a nose piercing. There is a hint of eye-shadow on his upper lid.

A digital portrait of Jeannemary from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing left. She is young, with her face still bearing the marks of several zits, but she looks upward with an 'I fuckin' dare you' expression. She has no laurel crown but she does have a nose ring and the same IV earring as Isaac and the same eye-shadow. Her dark hair is streaked with lighter highlights and pulled sharply back into a high ponytail.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Third House! Coronabeth Tridentarius, Ianthe Tridentarius and Naberius Tern

A digital portrait of Corona from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her voluminous hair falls in waves from her brow, but sits prettily under the thin crown she wears. Her collar is ridiculously high, but you can still see her earrings, which resemble Saturn and its rings, which form the hoops. She also sports a little star earring higher up. The only thing more dazzlingly confident than her smile are her eyes, which are a lilac color.

A digital portrait of Ianthe from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her hair falls flat like water, with her three-pronged crown sitting on top. Her earrings, just like her sister's, resemble Saturn and its rings, which form the hoops. Instead of looking straight ahead, Ianthe's eye peers back, almost as if she is trying to look over her shoulder suspiciously. Unlike the rest of the monochrome picture, they are colored a light lilac.

A digital portrait of Naberius from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. His expression is neutral, but confident, underlined by the tilt of his chin. His eyes are a dull blue with brown flecks. His hair is perfectly coiffed into a little bouffant on at his forehead, and he wears an elaborate white collar with little heart shaped patterns. There is an earring resembling the roman numeral III in his ear cartilage.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Second House! Judith Deuteros and Marta Dyas

A digital portrait of Judith from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her skin is dark, and her hair is pulled back in neat braids. She wears a headpiece that hooks behind her ears, where the metal sitting against the temple forms a roman numeral II. Her cohort uniform collar is seen peeking up. Her eyes are sharp, but she looks slightly tired.

A digital portrait of Marta from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing left. She is handsome and dark-skinned. She wears a metallic headpiece that hooks into her ears and the bit that presses against the temples forms a roman numeral II and then extends to keep her hair pulled back. The epithets on her shoulders form a little skull.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I've been avoiding uploading these because there are so many, but here we go. THE NINE HOUSES PORTRAITS. (1/9)

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

It usually goes like this: Me: the difference between whales and sharks is actually super interesting because their evolutionary ancestry was shared so long ago that-- Someone: did you know - whales are mammals! Me: .... Why would you assume I didn't know that. Neither party is at fault here.

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Chekhov @thechekhov.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

I'm unfortunately the latter.

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