#OH ALMOST FORGOT

[airlocksandaviaries]

Redrew a frame from Avengers Assemble as MCU Stevetony because it was driving me absolutely INSANE

reference:

[reds-skull]

Price plays poker properly only when Ghost is involved

(I don't remember how to play poker so they're also playing wrong now)

[snickeringdragon]

isat au BLAST !!

[froglover7789]

ok star wars au where the sequels are what i think they shouldve been and its just luke poorly trying to wrangle a bunch of force sensitive kids while leia tries to set him up on blind dates and han keeps showing up to sleep on lukes couch bc he cant stop fighting with the wife and lukes husband (insert man of your choice here) regularly ponders what caused his life to be surrounded by so many weirdos and idk i think it would be fun and sweet

uhhh in this universe luke senses bens crazy dreams and buys him a space 3ds with space animal crossing new leaf and kylo ren is never born. easy fix if you ask me. rey can be there too why not. and finn. what the hell! bring them all in! who gives a shit!!! this is my mind palace and i write the stories!!! whats canon is what i say it is!!! star wars au where i ignore everything and its a whole different story!!!

[cocokoby]

Isn't this just 315

[waitingforsecretsouls]

[lordofthesillystraws]

18 hours of this guy. i can never get enough.

[rippeanuts1950-2000]

time to share my favorite parts of the new chapter of the murder drones summer camp au im writing. nuzi is the main ship btw:

and here’s the fic itself, got two chapters up already

[purplecladmerchant]

I don't need you to be different... I don't need you at all.

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[drawingwithdonnie]

Artfight attack I did against @blaiddraws featuring the loveliest of worm guys :] they are playing tag and wormmet is LOSING /lh

The ghost worm au is BY FAR my favorite submas au ever so to say I was ecstatic to draw this is an understatement,, wormmet and wormgo my beloveds <3

(also if it's unclear, the "ksh-sh-sh" is laughter)

OH AND MY ARTFIGHT IS ZELDONYX!! FEEL FREE TO ATTACK ME BC I WILL ALWAYS DO REVENGE !!!!!!

[ehatnow]

what up homeslice i posted art again

[eulyin]

[Miko]

My attempt to make a sweet Genshin fancomic (人´∀｀) hope it's good. (Plus 2 extra pages) A song you can listen to for [Miko]. _(:з」∠)_ >> [Hakushin’s Lullaby]

[yonpote]

i finally finished all my phandomgives doodle prizes so here's all of them! alt text will include who each prize was gifted to ^^

thank you so much to everyone for donating and thank you so much to @phandomgives for letting me have this opportunity to create some silly art for such a good cause <3

[murmurmurl]

I saw someone say they wanted to boop switch Wally's nose on tiktok, so I made this!!

I love drawing him 🤲

also, I gave the y/n character some details because drawing grey naked bald ppl is boring, haha!

Author of the switch au: @wally-darling-hyperfixation !!!

Oh, and... uh...

I'm not going to explain this, I guess........

[coern]

I made these like a month ago but apparently never posted it....I think.....tumblrs search function is mesmerizing