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Helia Shows Flora His Painting, or I Don't Know If You Like It, But I Did It From My Head, is a series of redraw memes based on a panel from issue 36 of the Winx Club comic series in which Helia shows Flora a portrait that he painted of her using only his memory of her appearance. The comic was released in March 2007 and the panel was posted to X / Twitter in June 2024 by a user prompting others to draw their ships over the image, resulting in numerous results.

Origin

On March 1st, 2007, issue 36 of the Winx Club comic, "New Challenges," was published.^[1] In one panel of the comic, Helia shows Flora a portrait that he painted of her, saying, "I don't know if you like it, but I did it from my head." She tells him it's beautiful and they embrace.^[2]

On June 25th, 2024, X^[3] user @charismarika posted the panel, writing, "draw your ship like this," garnering over 55,000 likes and 6,400 reposts in two days (shown below).

Spread

The post inspired numerous redraws over the following days, largely in the quote-reposts. On June 26th, X^[4] user @Ashley66651770 posted a Genshin Impact ship redraw that gained over 1,000 likes in a day (shown below, left). On the same day, X^[5] user @ posted a Honkai Star Rail redraw that gained over 5,200 likes in a day (shown below, right).

On June 27th, X^[6] user @mourningstorms posted a version of the meme referencing Game of Thrones, garnering over 1,100 likes in under a day (shown below).

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