#IMAGO

[bigfatbreak]

imago's here i can post their meme now

[tumble-witch]

This mf brought me back to life, actually

@bigfatbreak your MIND oh my god

[dracolichen]

Mother Trauma, my beloved <3

[maxladcomics]

Someone told me that OFC meant "Of Fucking Course" so I took the logical route and drew a comic. (It doesn't mean that, it can't be shortened to OC)

Papyruses in order of appearance after Undertale:

Papirate (Undercurrent) @undercurrentau

Delta (Rivertale) AU: @official-rivertale-au

Levee (Riverfell) AU: @official-rivertale-au

Amber (Gemknight) AU: @gemknightau

Meander (Riverswap) AU: @official-rivertale-au

Rust (Shortout) AU: @shortoutau

Sharp (Gemknight Fell) AU: @gemknightau

Outertale

Imago (Reveritale) AU: @dark-imagine-robots

Static (Noxiatale) AU: @ask-ufpapyrus

Gravel

Fellswap @fellswap-au

Underfell (About to murder me)

[aldermoth]

(they/them)

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[tempural]

September's sticker club design: a cicada bursting from its shell

If ya want a cicada sticker you should subscribe to my sticker club...NOW! I'll send these out to subs in a couple of days.

[mirigold-mayflowers]

Sooooo…. @bigfatbreak ….

I was on Amazon looking for miraculous ladybug imitation jewelry and looky what I found…

I immediately thought of darling, feral Imago lol

[artbyerry]

“Spring came with awakening, came with innocence and joy.

Spring came with fascination, and desire to deploy.

Summer came with restlessness and curiosity.

Summer came with longings for the things we could not be.

Autumn came with knowledge, came with ego, came with pride.

Autumn came with shamefulness for the things we could not hide.

Winter came with anger and a bitter taste of fate.

Winter came with fear for the things we could not escape.”

“Teach me of the forest, teach me of the trees.

Teach me anything, as long as you teach me.

Teach me of the ocean, teach me of the sea.

Teach me of the breathing be.”

“See me! I am the one creation.

Hear me! I am the love that came from [Animae].

Know me! I am the incarnation.

Fear me! I am the power held by [Animae].”

- Imago by Pain of Salvtion

I just wanted to do some Tenken art based of my favorite song since I feel it’s so fitting. Hope my vision came through tho. Tengen and Kenjaku was suppose to look at the child version on each other, remembering what once was, with different feelings about it probably. But I couldn’t figure out how to make it look right so I split them up in paintings instead lol.

There are a lot of metaphors and symbolism in this too ofc. My fav thing.

**Animae is a god in the albums story.

[pesky--dust]

Imago's two meanings

Su-zakana

Mizumono

Secondo

[reroro-art]

I wish I could find an episode of this animated series...

Imago setting by Dokta

[themusewithinthemusewithout]

"The Sleeping Beauty" (detail) by John Collier, 1921.

I'm thinking of the psychoanalytical or archetypal interpretations of fairy tales, most of these stories are being retold while we rarely examine what lies underneath the surface, the symbolisms and ideas they may hide. Fairy tales are mostly charming sequences of imagery rather than strict narrations, this way they speak to our subconscious minds in a very direct way and they don't lose their appeal as time passes, they are both structured and yet irrational.

[bigfatbreak]

this was posted a while back on Patreon, its Imago's concept art, fully showing their bigass body with some fun facts abt em! can you tell I'm excited to finally debute the part of the comic I want to get to. can you tell. can you tell-

[doomed-jester]

Hey so fun dumb thing: I wrote a book a few years ago called Imago, and it features a concept called "neuroplastic," which was basically artificial brain cells that could be used as biocomputers or integrated into living organisms to modify/repair damaged brain tissue.

Well guess what actually exists now:

I fucking called it.

[blank-barrel]

Recent artwork for my setting with sapient owls, runic rabbit mercs and a giant magical dimensional fish in the sky.

[aldermoth]

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[mightydyke]

The Xenogenesis series is so fucking good. With each book, the ending gets more hopeful, the protagonist is less human and I found myself sympathising more with the Oankali and less with the humans (although I can't bring myself to "pick a side", Butler's portrayal of both is so nuanced and makes me feel so conflicted in the best way possible.) At first the Oankali are presented as colonisers, forcing the humans to mate with them and sterilising those who don't in a pretty clear parallel to eugenics, but in the second book this role is reversed when Akin is kidnapped by human resistors and they want to force him to be more human, trying to cut him off from his Oankali way of life. The scene that really drove this point in for me was when some humans were plotting to cut off the tentacles of those two Construct children, even though it could kill them. There's a reading group question about this in the back of my copy, about possible parallels between this and our own world, and yeah. FGM and the treatment of Native American children in residential schools spring to mind. It's crazy how astute Butler is and how this scene, which is about half-alien children, is still so true to life. But even then, there are sympathetic humans, like Tate and Gabe and Yori. They still make mistakes, but mostly out of a lack of understanding, like Tate not returning Akin to his family and Gabe interrupting him when he's healing Tate.

And the endings! Dawn: Lilith has been impregnated against her will, being led away by Nikanj, her plan to get to Earth and run away has failed. Adulthood Rites: Akin has secured the Mars colony for humans. Despite not being allowed to reproduce and live on Earth, the future of the human race is secured. The town Phoenix is burning, but there's still a sense of hope (also the symbolism of Phoenix adds to this hope. And it's so clever!! I love Butler's symbolism so much). Imago: Jodhas and Aaor have been accepted by a human village, Jodhas plants a seed that will grown into a town. Planting a seed is such a symbol of hope, but this seed will grow into a ship that will devour the Earth of resources, leaving it a husk. Also the different narrators! Lilith and Akin don't narrate their own stories directly, only Jodhas' story is written in the first-person. Lilith is human, Akin and Jodhas are half human, but Jodhas is an ooloi, which seem less human than male and female Oankali. Lilith wants humans to escape from the Oankali, and Akin fights for the humans to be allowed to continue to exist without breeding with the Oankali. But Jodhas is the opposite. It seduces humans into wanting to mate with it. It represents the gene-trade mission. Yet it's story is told in the first-person. I'll be honest, I felt sympathetic towards Jodhas whilst knowing that I probably shouldn't. I found it's relationship with Jesusa and Tomas to be very sweet, I was happy for it! When it didn't tell them that them staying with it throughout it's metamorphosis would hormonally bond them for life, I obviously saw it as terrible. To chemically bond someone to you for life without their consent is awful. And the way that the Ooloi are so good at convincing humans, like when Aaor and Jodhas go to Jesusa and Tomas' community and Aaor instantly gets mates! That humans would immediately want to mate with something they have been brought up to fear their whole lives shows the power of the Ooloi's manipulation. And yet I still feel compassion for them. Butler's writing creates empathy for every single character. The way she writes is as seductive and convincing as an Ooloi's scent.