It’s ever so easy to love what we ourselves do not possess. Those who’ve cultivated skills, devoted themselves to their craft, a lifestyle so foreign that it skews our ability to understand, making a mortal man akin to a wizard. Such admiration that it can only be called love. A verse comes to mind that… Read More The Anime Artisan: Dr. Stone and Wise Love
In this Anime Artisan post, Zion illustrates Natsuko and Luke while reflecting on the series—one our writers have also reflected upon in recent weeks. To be hungry is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? To be just so famished, your own flesh turns against itself, eating to a point of atrophy. The only remedy for such… Read More Zenshu: Where the Heart Is
To be Christlike is to reflect the characteristics of God. As Christians seek to emulate Him, it’s all too easy, though, to forget about God’s creativity, about his power to inspire us to make art—to create something original. On Beneath the Tangles, however, this is at the very heart of what we do; we look… Read More To Himmel, the Human (A Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Monologue)
The submissions are in. The evaluations are complete. And we have our winners for the first-ever Beneath the Tangles art contest, where we asked artists to draw their rendition of our logo, BtT-chan! Before I post the winner, I want to thank everyone who entered the contest! Our judges were impressed and so encouraged by… Read More The Winners of the BtT-chan Art Challenge Are…
Our first-ever art challenge has almost come to a close! Friends from Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Discord have all submitted their version of BtT-chan for our special group of judges to review and award prizes to! But we’re still looking for a few more! For those who are unaware, we’ve teamed up with… Read More Our BtT-Chan Art Challenge Concludes This Friday!
It’s time for our very first Beneath the Tangles art contest! We are so excited to ask you to enter and share your creations with us and the world. The subject? Our own sometimes adorable, sometimes fierce, mascot, BtT-chan! That’s right! We’re teaming up with partner and friend Austin Thurmond to roll our character (see… Read More Enter the BtT-chan Art Challenge!
Happy 15th anniversary (and as some call it, birthday) to Hatsune Miku! She was released 15 years ago today, on August 31st, 2007. There’s been so much lovely fanart coming out in tribute to her, and this is one of my favorites! ★ 【Li Flag】「 夏が終わる 」 ☆ Do you have a favorite Miku song… Read More Happy 15th Anniversary, Miku!
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