#Mona Lisa I dunno

[thedustyleaves]

For the Artist's ask number 25. FBI thing

25. Based on your recent reference searches, what would the FBI assume about you?

That I'm probably a bit scatterbrained and google random things when a YouTube video makes me go "huh"

[jewelofgems]

If I had a nickel(heh) for every time I had a favorite character who’s main color was red and he fell for a green/teal woman who is also my favorite, and she kicked ass for his safety, and neither were human, I’d have two nickels

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

[twowink]

ok my list of characters that i dislike thinking abt in any sort of relationship is rly funny actually . bc i only kin one of them i dont know abt the other two

[time-woods]

HIII lemme just say u are the most talented artist i have ever seen. like. that nobody who draw the mona lisa? doesn’t matter. you? your work belongs in museums. your artistic talents are incredible but enough of me rambling: do you have any tips (doesn’t have to be specific whatever you want to say) on how to become a better artist AND what drawing app do you use and what brushes?

srry this is so much!! i’m just really interested! i’m a huge fan that’s what i’m trying to (also) say!!!!

thank you so much ! ! thats so nice , , ,

i think the art tip that helped me out most has got to be spending less time on my sketches, being more loose with them, not worrying to much on how accurate or precise they are- personally it help me with having more flow to my art and it keeps me interested ! i find that if my sketch is too descriptive i get bored- so i jump to lineart ! or my sketch ends up being my lineart !

I use clipstudio paint ! (i had it before the subscription thing got introduced and i just dont update it- i dunno whats even going on with that )) and for brushes im gonna be making a list later on ! i just gotta find the time to do it-

and no worries ! ! thank you ! !

[cotc-terminal]

Clash of the Cubes - C3 RESULTS

“Welcome back viewers, to the Clash of the Cubes! I’m your host Pulse, and I still have some final touches to do for the next challenge, which is my favorite so far, hehehe…! Soooo I’m just going to let this video of me explain everything.”

Pulse walks away and a Null holding a CRT comes up with a video recording of Pulse playing.

“Hello hello, It’s me! On a recording! So if you’re there, then make way for this challenge’s results!”

“So this race was pretty interesting, wasn’t it? There’s a bunch of different outcomes specifically from Azure’s rockslide somehow, and a lot of head trauma, physical and psychological, haha!”

“So let me shut up now, and present the voting. And here it is!”

Voting Results

“Aaaaand, Claude and Skye won thanks to how their entry works! Dunno how, but hey, it’s fortunate for the both of them.”

“They’re actually fairly spread out this time, so that’s funny. Anyways, let’s get onto the bonus points.”

Pulse’s Bonus Points

“Now, for the bonus points, you are going to be VERY disappointed on my reveal.”

“The challenge was never about the race. Dead last? First? Doesn’t matter. What DOES though, is your kill count!”

“That’s right, remember the encouragement of pushing, shoving, horseplay, ramming & hitting? Well, that’s cuz the more you get, the higher your hit tally. The tallies are then used to determine the placements, which then determine the points.”

“Now first off, some commentary. Some of you immediately went for the finish. Bad. Although I *DID* present this as a race, so…. Good..? Others didn’t even get a single hit, which is sad. Bite back, ladies. Aaanyways…”

“Azure, what you did what like seeing the Mona Lisa in the screen of a broken 240p screen. I could see those points racking up…in another timeline. Here, you did the rockslide too early. If I were you, I would’ve done it ontop of everyone. Valiant attempt though.”

“Brick, you just struck gold but you didn’t bother selling it. Your shield deflects anything right back to where it came from. And I meant that VERY literally. Have you let yourself get hit by those Nulls longer, you would’ve gotten a jackpot. Although getting two hit is better than nothing.”

“Meanwhile, I think I should have never made that card, since Cassandra absolutely abused her knowledge. For that, I’m giving her a small disadvantage on the next challenge.”

Pulse snaps, and a Ball and Chain appears and attaches to a leg.

“There we go~~ Anyways, where was I? Ohhhh yeah right, the bonus points. Here, and show the totals while you’re at it. I have nothing else to say.”

Total Points

“And there you have it! Let’s add those points up.”

“So these are your current scores! Pretty…close. Anyone could overtake anyone at this point.” “As always, your next challenge will be in 3 days. My name is Pulse, and see you next tttTTTtiIiiII—i-Ii-

The Null holding the TV just drops and stomps on it. It then looks at another for a few minutes silently, then leaves.

@lumhere @shaidai @orchuris @itzhosya @missmaydae @alionanight @dragongirl2k6 @acn97414 @mahoganystudios830 @pricklythepearcat @blockheadblog @nacora-najita

[murfpersonalblog]

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IWTV S2 Musings - Romania BTS deets! (Pt2: Tentative Timeline Revisions again)

So, a few days ago I stumbled upon Carol Cutshall's Instagram posts about Daciana, Emilia, etc, which I discussed in Pt1. I didn't have the brain capacity, time, space or energy to also address this other post she made even earlier, back in July, which also includes Louis & Claudia's Eastern European itinerary!

The text is SMALL AF so I can barely read anything, but already I see major discrepancies:

Everything up until 1944 makes sense AFAIK, it's not contradicting any of the dates mentioned in 2x1 which I laid out here (x x):

I REALLY wish we could read that list in full, cuz I had wondered what was going on with the Nazis calling them "Black Ukranians;" and if they were trying to enter OR leave Ukraine.

Funny enough, AMC seems to have forgotten that in 1x4 Claudia's diary also says they were in Romania on September 8, 1941--not that that means they couldn't've been there; just that the itinerary doesn't mention it (was that a mistake/oversight, or was the itinerary made before 1x4 was written/aired? 🤔).

So yeah, I'm fine with the 1941-1944 dates.

So here's another revised timeline for anyone interested:

(EDIT: I dunno if we should consider this (old? obsolete?) itinerary as CANON, since the show itself never mentions them in any of these places/dates--this is a truly meta revision; so I'm keeping my original timeline as-is until we're told differently.)

Apparently, the "circuitous routes around the mad army" Louis said they traveled took them from:

Bouras, Bulgaria: they arrived via boat from Greece (so they probably crossed the Mediterranean via the Straits of Gibraltar, and bypassed Western Europe entirely)

Winter 1941 - Crimea, Ukraine: went northeast, crossing the Black Sea

Fall/Winter 1942 - Roslov, Russia: northeast

Winter 1943 - Kiev, Ukraine: northwest. Something about a church, but I can't read the rest *squints.*

Spring 1944 - Tiraspol, Moldavia: was the "ruined castle" supposed to be Cezare Romulo's!? that's super interesting if so, cuz that means at some point he lived in Romania near Daciana, to have killed that circus troupe IN SIBIU (Romania) & stolen their show bear, LOL. Why did he move to Moldavia? My headcanon says he wanted independence (like the IRL Moldavans), to break away from the Romanians/covens in the west and do his own thing out east--Daciana said "he was always a droll one." 👀 Vampire beef!? 😂🤣 Regardless, this might support my suspicion that although AMC filmed Cezare's castle at Tocnik, that was just for convenience's sake--we're probably not supposed to take any contextual clues from the IRL castle, the way I did for Daciana. So Cezare could be from ANYWHERE, really. Very cool!

Spring/Summer 1944 - Botosani, Romania: northwest

But it's as soon as we hit 1945 that a few snags appear.

While it's very cool that we now have an exact location for where Emilia's factory & Daciana's home would've been located (Biertan, Romania--so I was right that AMC was pulling inspo from Biertan!), there's a BIG problem:

Louis & Claudia couldn't've been in/entering Biertan, Romania in Fall 1945, and in France's Saint-Jean Lespinasse in Winter 1945, based on what we saw in the episode itself--namely:

In 2x1 Lou & Claudia were on the convoy delivering the Venus de Milo to Paris, which was already back in the Louvre by July 2, 1945. It had been hidden away with the rest of the Louvre's art for safekeeping during WWII in Château de Valençay (x x)--which is in a totally different commune from the Saint-Jean commune (which is much farther south). But the truck they were on would've still been IN France during the Spring/Summer 1945, NOT way out in Eastern Europe during the Fall/Winter 1945.

(What's interesting is that a famous art piece was indeed (temporarily) hidden in Saint-Jean, at the Château de Montal, but it wasn't Venus de Milo. It was THE Mona Lisa, which was also returned to the Louvre even earlier, on June 16, 1945.)

So there must've been a change at some point where the writers decided to add Venus and just ignore this itinerary--they even make a point to have Louis reunite with Venus later on in 2x4:

So it's not as if it was just an accident that Venus kept showing up in post-war Paris--just as Louis was starting a new romance with Armand under THE Goddess of Love/Lust's auspices.

So this just REALLY make me wonder WHEN that itinerary was mapped out, wrt to what we actually got on screen and in the S2 transcript (and ofc whatever was going on with the writer's strike); cuz it just doesn't make chronological sense to hold those last 2 dates at face value; they're just wrong. :\

*sigh* This is equal parts fun & frustrating; AMC, have mercy~! 😅

[indubioprocoffee]

Portrait - Suptober23

"Does this portrait look strange to you?" Dean asked.

Castiel tilted his head and narrowed his brows. "Strange how?"

"I dunno man. Just ... strange. I think her eyes are following me." Dean took a few steps to the right. He glanced a few seconds at the portrait, before he cautiously went all over to the left, never looking away from the woman. "Yeah, her eyes are definitely following me."

"Do you think it's haunted?" Castiel asked.

Dean shrugged. "Maybe. Did you look for strange deaths?"

"Dean, this is supposed to be a holiday. If the Mona Lisa was haunted, someone would have noticed by now."

He tore his eyes from the portrait and looked at Cas. "So, salt 'n' burn?"

Cas rolled his eyes. "Yeah, whatever."

[literaticat]

Do you have a dream project you'd like to work on that you haven't found yet?

Not really? I guess I don't really have anything that I'm looking for -- like there aren't any holes in my list I'm looking to fill or anything like that -- I'm open to being surprised!

Right now I am VERY INTO nonfiction. Particularly gripping, immersive MG/YA narrative nonfiction that makes me go "whoa WHAT??? Are you KIDDING me rn???" And makes me want to run around and tell EVERYONE about the crazy ass shit I just found out about!

For example: MOST DANGEROUS: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin, which is about Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, and covers the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, neither of which I was alive for, nor did we ever get to in History class in my 16+ years of school. So while I'd heard of all this stuff, and kinda-sorta knew about it vaguely, I definitely didn't really KNOW-know anything about it, and it's EFFING WILD, actually.

Or: THE MONA LISA VANISHES: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day, which is what it says on the tin, about the heist of the Mona Lisa -- which just so happened to take place in 1911, when a wire was able to connect all the newspapers around the world WITH good quality images for the first time. So this relatively obscure painting became an overnight media sensation and everyone in the whole world knew what it looked like and was searching for it -- and the police were so far up their own asses that they ignored the actual culprit (who had means, motivation, NO ALIBI, AND he left his fingerprints all over the place, AND they interviewed him AT HIS HOUSE, like three feet away from the ACTUAL Mona Lisa!!!), because they were like "meh, this is just a workman, it has to be somebody glamorous to pull off this impossible crime!" It changed the way police detective work is done, it changed the way media reports on crimes, and it made the Mona Lisa into the most recognizable painting in the world, and the Louvre the most famous museum. A real roller-coaster ride of a story!

OH and I just listened to THE ART THIEF: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel, which is technically a book for adults though it could easily be of interest to teens as well -- which is about the most prolific art thief in the world, who stole OVER A BILLION DOLLARS (???!!!!) worth of artwork over the course of his international crime spree in the 1990s, never with violence, never breaking into places, just a kid in his 20’s who took stuff from museums in broad daylight in front of guards and patrons, put them under his coat and walked out the door, just because he thought they were beautiful objects, never selling a piece (which is why he didn't get caught for years and years, because usually the only way they catch an art thief is when they try to sell the work!) -- why this guy is not a household name is beyond me, this story has EVERYTHING.

So... I dunno, maybe a book kinda like that, but about something else I don't know about and is rad? ???

[thenocturnenarrator]

🐸

🍪

🦋

🏳️‍🌈

🐰

🌸

📷

✨

🐸 Christmas or funeral

🍪 those ones that have vanilla feeling in them

🦋 nice or evil

🐰 the way they treat others, so their actions basically

🌸 I dunno… my dentist told me I look like the Mona Lisa, I think that’s good ??

📷

✨ in here? So freaking Many xDDDD

Irl? Uuuuuuuuuuuuh not really, my name has always been short so there was never a need for a nickname. Although my sister used to call me Mimini for some reason XD oh right! My cousin calls me Mort -_-

[pixxelcatt]

Hi could you guys ask me questions about my tmnt iteration (Impostor syndrome) so I can lore build—

Pls ask even the most random questions, like “where is *insert character*?” Or like how mutations work or something I dunno 😭

Or you could ask a character something directly, but i probably won’t draw something for it-

List of characters: (because some I haven’t drawn properly)

- Leo, Donnie, Raph, and Mikey (obviously)

- Their older sister April

- April’s childhood bff Harmony (Karai) and her younger brother Usagi

- Elise (Mona Lisa)

- Panda

- Krang and Veevee (Venus)

- the “Other Mutant Ninja Turtles”

- Arnold Jones (Casey, but he’s currently being completely reworked)

[cripple-punk-dad]

I dunno I think the whole:

"You can break as much glass as you want, but glass can be swept up. You can set things on fire, but fire can be put out. People will encourage you to break the glass, less will encourage you to set the house on fire. But no one wants you to burn the Mona Lisa. So when you do, that's when they pay attention."

Message is fucking groundbreaking in a mainstream blockbuster film with a star studded cast. Glass Onion did a great job of portraying that I think.

[tmnt-tychou]

I dunno if you take requests or ideas. Forgive me if I'm being rude if so and just ignore this please.

I know you wrote this really frikin cute sleepy Leo getting his horn on where the GF did all the work.

But what if it was the other way round?

She really wanted to get it going but is just melting on the bed and he does the work?

OR

Sleepy morning surprise from him?

No pressure, though. Have a great day and thank you for the cute stuff you wrote. Made me smile.

Thank you for this lovely ask! What a great idea! Anyone can send me any request related to my works and/or Mona Lisa at any time! For something like this, definitely!

Originally, I was only going to do the first idea, and I thought that sounded like something that would happen more with Donatello. But when I was done, then I did the second prompt with Leonardo.

So I present to you TWO very brief sexy one-shots: one Monatello, one LeMona.

As usual, they are kept offsite here.

@thelaundrybitch @turtle-babe83 @red-phoenixxx @leosgirl82 @dilucsflame33 @akesdraws-blog @fluffytriceratops @beautifulfunanchor @asultrysiren

[whitefangz]

during the worst of the pandemic i was like legitimately batshit insane in so many ways and everyone andtheir mother kept being like you know i think maybe you just have adhd or something and i was like yea whatever maybe and then my life went back to somewhat normal and i stopped being as insane and i was kinda like. Well im mostly normal now so it doesnt really matter anymore. because i can ignore it. and then i got a little bit of graduation money this year commissioned sparta for 1 silly image of my characters and then well. i dunno. i tripped and fell into a months long hole where all i can think about is my own ocs and im doing so bad at artfight this year because i do like 3 measly attacks and then i lock myself in a room and paint what is the mona lisa of my art career 2 me and to everyone else is just my 750th mediocre drawing of some freaks that dont exist. and i started writing again . So yeah i dont know i think i may still have something wrong with me

[nokingsonlyfooles]

The Genders

I hope that Magritte, being a surrealist, would bless this like Dali's little addition to the Mona Lisa. The original, one of a set, is called The Lovers, with the implication that love is blind. If you read it that way, it's very sweet.

But, I've been feeling this way for the past few days and it's nothing to do with love. So I made an addition. It's not about what they see - or don't see - in each other anymore. It's about how every time I'm in a position to be seen, everyone puts a bag over my head. (And maybe you feel that way, too, I dunno. If it speaks to you, go ahead and use it.)

It's not really everyone, but, oooh, it's vanishingly few who don't, and that's... Well, look at it. It's suffocating.

I popped out of the womb, they assigned me a gender, and they told me that was me. Not a social role or an assignment they inflicted upon me, but me. They said they saw me, and that bag reflected who I was. They taught me that the bag over my head was for the purpose of self-expression. That it was empowering. That, in true 2nd wave "we're all sisters" style, it was a Girl Boss banner for me to carry into battle, so I could slay the Patriarchy.

And, almost immediately, they started telling me I was wearing it wrong.

If you drew that gender in the genetic lottery, you know what I mean. The contradictions. Yes, be a girl, but don't be all girly. Barbie, lipstick, heels, and nail polish are tools of the oppressors. But, no, like, don't go out in sweatpants like that, that looks like you hate yourself. And, here, make sure you grab some things off that patriarchal structure you're supposed to be fighting and claim them for yourself. Be aggressive! But not shrill. Be strong! But not too emotional. Oh, of course your period hurts, but get out there and do your job at or above the standards set by the men around you (men who are also being ground into dust by the Patriarchy), because it's your responsibility to prove that this bag over your head doesn't make you anything less.

And, here's the thing. I don't mind "woman" as a job. I never did. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, household logistics, shopping (God, do you know how much of an effort it is to shop properly on a budget? Not just to buy what you need and get out, but to juggle what you need, what you want, what's on sale, where they sell it, and what you can do with it?), growing and storing food, basic repairs, and everything we call "domestic"? I got lucky. I have that kind of brain. I am happy to do that for society! I will, if I ever get my health straightened out, even care for your children like you like! Now, I can't do that AND a full-time fucking job that pays money - not without serious health support that no employers have been willing to give me - but I will take all that other stuff off your plate so YOU can do some kind of job that pays. And I happened to team up with someone who's willing to do that for me. In that respect, we both look like we're wearing our head-bags like champions.

But for literally everything else? Fuck it, I'm a train wreck. And you wanna know why? It's not just because "woman" is hard. It's because "woman" is not self-expression for me, that's just what you asked me to do to help out. I'm willing to do it! And, shit, of course I respect the hell out of anyone else who's willing to do it - for whatever reason! But that was never enough. You want me to be the bag. Or, well, if I don't like that bag (I never said I didn't!!) you have another bag for me. The gentleman up there is wearing it. How 'bout that?

LGBTQIA, right? People always spotlight aro/ace (and a few privileged folks want to exclude "ally" - you know, that word that will let you access a queer space and escape with your life if you need to be in the closet?) but I almost never see anyone mention agender. That's me. That's what I'm trying to express. And you leave me nothing and no space to express it.

I don't have a clothing department, I don't have a toy department, I don't have a colour, I don't have a bathing suit style. I don't particularly want a body-type - I think it's fucking psychotic to expect people to alter their bodies to express a bag - but men and women have a template to shoot for, and it says something about how you see me that I don't. Everything that exists is labelled pink or blue and all I can do is mix and match.

I don't necessarily mind that either. I have freedom of choice. That's super important! It can even be fun! But I don't have freedom of expression, do I? I have one person in my life who gets it. I thought there must be a few more, but recent circumstances have proven that, no, it's just the one. Someone out there on the internet tightened up the bag to the point where I couldn't breathe...

Anon [tightening the garrote]: "AFAB" is only about who you are, not what we expect of you, right? Well, there are much less "problematic" ways to talk about who you are. Include everyone who shares your gender, or all genders equally, or get out!

...I freaked out, and he was the only one who saw what the problem was. Everyone else backed off from the crazy person who was screaming and clawing at their face like they couldn't breathe.

Maybe they just didn't know what to do to help. I think that's probably it. But that's because they couldn't see me.

I sent up a flare and I attracted one other semi-stranger who was also nonbinary and able to validate me. And that's it. That's... not so hot. If I'm choking and only two motherfuckers know the Heimlich, it's not safe for me to eat. But, I gotta eat.

So, here, I made an art. And I typed multiple paragraphs explaining myself, like usual. But, it kinda sucks that I have to. I can't just say "I'm [word]" and you get me. I can't just put on a hat, or an outfit, and have everyone know. Hell, I can't even do it with surgery.

In the past, I've said "any/all" for my pronouns, because I wanted to mix and match, like my clothes. I say, "As long as you acknowledge the genderless void inside me, call it what you want. 😅" But I can't get people to acknowledge the void, all they see is the bag. Okay. No more any/all. I may dial it back to xe/they when I'm feeling less confrontational, but it's xe/xem for now. Because I don't want this fucking bag on my head.

And, because I'm autistic and I often talk right past people with all my complexity, I'll say it with music:

[party-gilmore]

Im just gonna say tho, the "Mona Lisa was fake because it burned up like canvas not wood" argument like i GET it i DO but join me in the world of make believe for a moment and consider that we are working with a new here-to-fore unseen gaseous fuel source that may or may not burn in a manner we're used to an that perhaps PERHAPS it burns hot enough or has some kind of chemical reaction to cause wood to curl up and burn quick like that i dunno it's just fun to think about Bron fucking up THAT bad like that would be the one thing that could cause him CONSEQUENCES and i want him to face them

[ducknotinarow]

"I just want to stay here with you. Is that okay?" ( 2k12 MonaRaph )

| Muse interaction

Romance was not an interest for Raph, he always sort of turned his beak at it and rolled his eyes with annoyance when movies and shows seemed to show it in. He rather watched the monster or slasher go one with their whole deal instead of having to be made to watch the romance subplot. Often it runined the story he rather know more about the so called villain in the tales, honestly he couldn't blame half of them. They out making out when they should be trying to run no shit they get axed off. He couldn't understand his brothers when they got crushed and just turned into weird versions of themselves making asses out them each. Raph just didn't get it he didn't care for it. Sure people caught his eye and he found them attractive but that seemed different. It was till a trip to space a twist of fate lead him to meet her.

Mona Lisa.

sure it wasn't her actual name but she accepted the nickname because to Raph nothing suited her better than one claiming her to be what he saw her as. The most beautiful women to ever exist. Suddenly it all made sense the moment she hit him.

Butterflies swarmed in his shell when he was around her, he found his stare always on her. He walked with such an air of confidence normally but around Mona? he grew shy. He sighed and stare longing at the stars because they made him think of her. He hummed songs that made him think of her. She was like a song stuck in his head that he never got sick off, now he understood it all made sense now. Why his brothers became such dorks over their own crushes. It's why he can't help but feel like his throat was clog with his heart when she was around. Sitting beside him now as they simply stare out the large glass window looking out to the stars. Yet all he can do is look at her, till she seems to catch on he smiles sheepishly at her.

"Uh... did ya wanna go to the rec room on the ship or somethin' think 'hats where the other took off ta?" He offers to explain why he was staring at here. Hoping not he was enjoying their alone time.

"I just want to stay here with you. Is that okay?"

"Okay? yeah more 'han okay even great perfect! amazin' 'ike you." Foot in mouth once again "I uh mean you're really are amazin' though Mona." He slightly slinks down turning away from her as he can feel warmth crept letting fingers tap against each other. As he looks back to her. He never truly knows when he'll see her again seems random they will meet up again. And Maybe hes getting ahead of himself but, there was something between them maybe it was rash of him but Raphael was the type. "Mona? uh look 'm not the best when it comes to the whole sayin' how I feel thing but uh. I really 'ike you. A lot a whole lot. I never felt how I do when 'm wit' ya an' I jus' want you to know that."

Man this was harder than he thought it be as he swallowed thickly but step in closer to her. "I think it's deeper than 'ike Mona I can' not think 'bout you and when I do my heart dosen' relax. I jus' wanna see you and be with you. I know it seems sudden but I know how I feel when I see you, so I jus' sayin' or askin' I guess but think ya would wanna I dunno be a thing? ya know be together?"