obviously paintings age over time, but the technique of applying a thin almost completely transparent layer of yellow over an image at the end goes back at least to da vinci, who wrote about doing so in his notebooks. i suspect this is why AI images have โ€œyellowedโ€ progressively.
we got some reviews on amazon (all 5 stars, thanks). if anyone is on goodreads they also put me there. i think it helps somehow to get ratings or reviews on there as well, if you feel so inclined: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/31fde6dfc50da8a760ed8d48ac2d73191d38d566e0e458ffd6f9cc68038d452f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/20aac15322b2623cde5f5f40b5f1fe7fc11f6d679b6b901014217416af61bf26.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a1b8460c401c310d2b9d22c86193173efecacfd541e16c398c75f8aac3067a0d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/567d8dae173e4ffc549ad747673e62cf5af401a2f8d0ea1290c3fbeb8cbb48d3.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/930c61d8f10de39f07dfae85e1cdbc22b48eea70a830b9f16d69c2a500e221cf.file
much to consider. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/92aa6fd636e811b032ef5d2e9ec791ab9ac9a019ac0490e09e22c15d23d631fa.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/030f0217fc51145cafa7dc360dd50de99f434d275df414568e525783a67b306e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/08b6d1c995036752c05da62991d1b16f615d91457c8481bf49fcb6b6923dd625.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2c6fed702da8757de3fccd9f226a09f9905a30c0ef3b2643d6f4fb0b1dd5c31f.file
as usual we are left with more questions. who is this mage accompanying saint lucy? what is he doing the rest of the year? is he an angel? a purely terrestrial holy warlock of some kind? i only have intuitions about this. many secrets yet lie hidden in the treasury of nature. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7de064aa391e9d978d98cb57082cfb6d46a7ace934d737d8d388d5d7d1891d31.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a5e61159aed79c7ecc54d042ec14ce0d7d8da5f2580aef717b01b7059f96871f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5f9bf3c22b714e8399713f24a3f4e3fbac0ba2a9f460463ed87f4bea0841517a.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/15bdfd1f4dfadc1e084f80caecccb300a4ad7140ffffe688bff87666e44a2511.file
you may think i have concocted this or i am exaggerating it. i have seen children dressed as the star boy. i have seen my own son dressed as the star boy. here is literal royalty dressed as the star boy. did you know about the star boy. who is it? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9854eb113577792ffad33d818b5024c5a9fdf94b0a7e2ab972d37f88433cd27b.file
this is literally some folk christian esoterica here. who is star boy. not in the bible. is he... a star? is he some type of nordic mage? who is this? why are all the old photos of him elusive, somewhat cryptid-esque? what are they hiding? why is he the familiar of this saint? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/dc0fb0aaa9469af0d3d63aa1116555a60568395519f52b1a3a4c48f99e5f54e8.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ff8aad8f1f05f537101de0215511b75511b1bd967564594ab81c04cb389cd860.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f9782ace26fb45e7943a976ada16a341cb340af442d3bcce8b85f52023cc6b90.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e61ad809d189d27548bbe0a34eb13cd5e99e2f431b30462370dad052930b6d95.file
who is that, on the left. apparently he is a character called "star boy". he's like a... star... boy. usually he's holding a star, perhaps representing the a magi following a star towards the manger. clearly, this is a tiny wizard. we can all see that, correct? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f1b3026964359b2038d1974085c4671e85528f1f108c13143aab4dad185e74e5.file
it's a great look. it also tells the story of the saint - they bake these special buns with saffron in them, and she brings them down into the catacombs to hiding christians. it implies the real story of christian hiding and persecution, for children but what about... the boys? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f62827cef4cd99de6233e51f9955c2bd3ce2ecf91c9f4fce802346db4f31a8bf.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d9382931f1e5f11785e16f742393f8f758010c7d3d17671b6d34a0caca18c0db.file
today is saint lucy's day. a practice i believe to be swedish, but was adopted into other places later (i know it from waldorf) is women and girls dressing as saint lucy, who wore a crown of candles to light her way down into the catacombs but wait. there's lore. folk DLC: ... https://hell.twtr.plus/media/05e472888de2cb1f32c53b48d7f46ded4d86561b544a3e1f1894304fb64700ab.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ace1e919d846b67c31384ff076dde47ea79604a9434c81a45233812652cabc1a.file