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Tudor miniature portrait challenge 🖤

Days 7 - 15

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Painting some haunted places for Halloween. First one up is the Lizzie Borden House, Fall River, Massachusets , USA 🪓

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Loved how the answers to V’ger and Spock’s question of “Is this all that I am?” lie in such human concepts of love, acceptance, union. The completion of their sense of selves are not dependent on the two men, but rather so much more fulfilling, real, and tangible through loving them and everything that comes with doing so.

Side note: love being a want or need for union is a philosophical take i don’t 100% agree with (narratively speaking it’s so romantic, though, especially in this movie’s context LOL), but Marilyn Friedman’s twist on love as more of a separate, “third” unified entity (a federation of the lovers’ selves) was fun to think about ^_^

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‘You coming in?’

A little haunted elevator to start out spooky season!

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do not comfort me i am terrified

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Oh, wow 😳

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Okay so, a little Red Dwarf rant up ahead because I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I need you guys to be sad about it with me:

We all know that despite Red Dwarf being a comedy show the premise is super depressing, especially with all the characters experiencing loneliness in a different way. Lister is the last human alive, Rimmer is a hologram who is dead and cannot fully interact with his surroundings, Cat has been separated from the rest of his species and Kryten has spent ages on the Nova 5 assisting crewmates he didn't know were dead.

But what about Holly? Because I have a LOT to say! :")

I can say with confidence that Holly is one of my favourite RD characters, and that is because I adore the concept so much - the idea of a sarcastic computer who's tasked with keeping the entire ship together is just so funny to me, especially since one thing I've noticed is that over the course of S1-5, Holly has slowly felt like more of a member of the crew rather than just the ship's computer, yk? It might have something to do with Hattie Hayridge's portrayal of her because she subtly gives her a bit more expression which I really love, but she feels like she has more emotions later on, and throughout the course of the series, she's always cared for the others despite being, yk - a robot.

And the events of S5 Ep6 "Back To Reality" really prove that. Idk guys, I just love that *she* was the one who saved everybody from the despair squid, like yesss!!! She is a valuable member of the team, and I love her for that! ^-^

But what I've been thinking about lately is what happened between S5 and S6. We're told that the others lose contact with the Red Dwarf ship - and Holly as a result. Now, imagine how that must be for her - maybe the others went on some kind of adventure before this huge disaster occurred, and she was waiting for them to return, and they never did.

Imagine the original Red Dwarf, floating around in the depths of space, completely empty except for the old computer who slowly realises that she will never see the others again. :(

Idk maybe I've messed up the continuity somewhere bc I need to rewatch S6 again, but I've just been picturing a lonely computer waiting for her crewmates that are never coming back, and it's just so sad, like it really proves that the Red Dwarf characters are all so deeply tragic! 😭💜

I need everybody's thoughts on this because I may or may not have made an illustration based on that concept and I need more people to be sad about Holly with me! ♡♡

(Also S7-8 don't count, they find the Red Dwarf again but it isn't the original. That version of the ship has been revived as essentially a duplicate of the ship before the radiation leak in S1. The Holly aboard is also a duplicate, which must mean the original is still stuck in the vastness of space, I thought it was important to add that for continuity purposes hehe! 😅)

Also I'm sorry this was longer than it had to be, but oh my god, I'm so sad now!!

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A graphic guide to Cemetery Symbolism. To convey the lives of the people buried beneath them, and the expectations for what comes after death, symbolism has long been part of tombstones. Above is a guide to some of the most prevalent cemetery symbols. 

Click on the above pictures to enlargen.

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Hal and Dave

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I’ve been rewatching Red Dwarf and it’s making my heart extremely full

sometimes a family is a vindaloo-loving scouser, a hologram of his dead roommate, a lifeform that evolved from a cat, a pedantic cyborg with an american accent, and an AI who likes pranks and agatha christie

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I drew something pretty silly 🙃

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Boothill from Honkai: Star Rail

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Boothill from Honkai: Star Rail

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Emotional about kira nerys… like her entire life was under the cardassian occupation and she experienced so much pain and trauma for years and years but the show begins right as it all ends. Her story starts after she’s endured the worst and so her entire arc is about living on after trauma. Figuring out how to reconcile the person she had to be to survive with the person that she’s now able to grow into. She’s living on deep space nine and she’s getting three meals a day and sleeping in a soft bed for the first time in her life. She’s this skinny angry thing in season one and you can literally see her gain healthy weight over the course of the series. She dates around she has a child she falls in love she changes her hair. And she holds on to bajoran faith and culture like a lifeline because it is. I’m not even saying anything novel here this is like the premise of her character arc but it’s just so insane to me. I love her so much

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