This is where a twenty-something college student of questionable sanity makes note of things that interest and/or amuse her. It's mostly art and fandom stuff. You have been warned.
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I’ve always loved this mixed part of the message central to Lord of the Rings. The world is changing, renewing itself, Middle Earth is passing to men, but nearly every firstborn son is dead and it’s the old men, the daughters, the least-loved sons who have to rebuild.
Well I’m not surprised, now that it’s pointed out. Lord of the rings is no Narnia or anything but there are a lot of christian mythos being drawn upon in it, in the same way that the monastic original transcriber of beowolf tried to apply it. So the meek inheriting the the new Middle Earth makes a weird sort of sense.
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funnywildlife: The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) are native to the Pacific Northwest and face an uphill battle since being declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s.
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Skazka ob Ivanie-tsarevichie, Zhar-ptitsie i o sierom volkie (1899) by Ivan Bilibin
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Polearms!
The knowledge on polearms, even just their names, is rather muddled for a few reasons. They were easy to make compared to most weapons, and so there was A) a huge amount of variation, B) not a lot of recording going on, and C) creation across language borders. Further obfuscation comes from Victorian scholars, who didn’t bother properly translating foreign texts and used very different names as if they were interchangeable.
Reasearching pole arms drives mental!
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*Drool* Oh Dean.
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This is a post about drawing sexy women.
Obviously, when writing women characters, if the only thing you have in mind is their sexuality, you’re probably going to write a shitty character. That aside though, sometimes you want to draw a pin-up or convey the general sexiness of a character. I know I do.
So here we have three drawings by the inimitable Emily Carroll and three drawings by fan-favorite J. Scott Campbell. Questionable anatomy notwithstanding, Campbell’s women are posed in such a way and their expressions are meant to convey a vulnerable innocence that unknowingly makes them desirable. Many artists (predominantly male) have a habit of putting women on pedestals as unattainable objects of beauty. I know this is meant as a compliment, but it’s also somewhat dehumanizing and reduces a three-dimensional human being to an object of desire.
On the other hand, Emily’s girls, though drawn in a graphic, cartoony style, have a vitality to them that suggests full-blooded human beings. They have knowing eyes, flushed skin, full lips, They aren’t infantalized sex objects, but lusty, passionate women. Their sexuality is under their control, not a result of a “male gaze”. Rather than put them on pedestals, Emily seems more interested in mussing their hair up and fooling around with them. In short, Emily’s ladies are ladies I’d like to know, while Campbell’s are cute but probably not much fun to be around.
So yeah, when I set out to draw attractive women, I’m drawing my inspiration from Emily Carroll rather than the usual run of “good girl” artists.
Excellent advice. People sometimes have a hard time distinguishing between “sexualized” and “objectified,” the latter being the negative element to avoid when portraying a character. There is nothing wrong with a character or illustration that is dominated by sexuality, but if you portray them as an object or infantilize them, you’re not just left with a shallow product but generally a sexist and demeaning one as well.
As is evidenced above, this isn’t an issue of showing more or less skin or anything like that, but a subtler issue of execution and context. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself “is this authentic? Does this feel like a real person?” Illustrators and cartoonists alike should take note.
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iloveitwhenyoucallmebigpapagena:
IT’S FINALLY DONE.
There’s a few glitches that are too late to fix though, but hopefully you guys enjoy it.
I’ll gif out a few scenarios later :)
OH MY GOD SHE FINISHED IT
labish, would you mind if I linked Tom to this??
OH MY GOD
AUCKLAND ARMAGEDDON AVENGERS GROUP, LEARN THIS DANCE, WE WILL PERFORM THIS!
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Dagger with Engraving
Handle: stabilized birch, and carbon steel
Engraving with gold and silver inlay
Blade: stainless Sandvik 12C27
Overall length: 260 mm
Blade length: 137 x 35 x 3 mm
Source & Copyright: Art-Knives
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People say that the opposite of love isn’t, in fact, hate—it’s indifference. That love and hate are united by passion. And Loki hates Thor which means he must, in his heart, still love him.
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Fruit infused coconut water. Mmm…
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Anonymous asked you: You should make a picture of Thor hugging Loki and singing Set Fire to the Rain.
what is going on in my inbox
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