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Symbology: The Language of Symbols
Symbology is the study of symbols and their meanings, a field that fascinates me as it connects language, culture, and communication. Symbols are powerful; they convey complex ideas and emotions in an instant.
From the simplicity of a heart representing love to the intricate designs of cultural artifacts, symbols have a profound impact on our understanding of the world. They transcend language barriers and can evoke strong reactions, often tapping into our shared human experience.
In exploring symbology, we uncover layers of meaning that inform art, literature, religion, and daily life. Understanding symbols allows us to communicate more effectively and appreciate the nuances of different cultures.
#Symbology#Symbols#Cultural Significance#Visual Language#Semiotics#Art Interpretation#Religious Symbols#Language and Communication#Cultural Heritage#Iconography#Symbolic Meanings#Mythological Symbols#Art and Symbols#Social Symbols#Psychological Symbols#Design and Symbolism#Cultural Artifacts#Literary Symbols#Communication Theory#Symbolism in Literature#new blog#today on tumblr
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In the Month of June, L.A. Ring, 1899
#art#art history#L.A. Ring#Laurits Andersen Ring#genre painting#genre art#landscape#landscape painting#landscape art#Denmark#Scandinavia#Symbolism#Social Realism#Danish art#Scandinavian art#19th century art#oil on canvas#National Gallery of Norway
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#dont even get me started on the cat/animal symbolism in Aeon Social Link#anyway. all this to say that though hes designed and shown to be a sadboy#i think Minato was happy at the end :) thats all that matters to me#persona 3 reload#makoto yuki#persona 3#minato arisato#p3#p3re#p3p#aishi.docx#my favorite character who's meant to be a silent protagonist but says so much through actions......#i love him so much.#this game quite literally changed my life idk how it did it#so efficiently
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As he lay in bed he could hear Thorin still humming to himself in the best bedroom next to him:
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.
Bilbo went to sleep with that in his ears, and it gave him very uncomfortable dreams.
This moment from chapter 16 of The Hobbit comic adaptation symbolizes the core of the relationship between Bilbo and Thorin, in this version of the story.
Bilbo and Thorin are both awake long after everyone else is asleep, kept up by their anxieties over the journey.
Bilbo’s room is decorated with a bunch of little objects; Thorin is in a spare room that is completely empty. It’s a “visual reference” to the idea that Bilbo has a home in Bag End, and tons of little treasures of his own that he’s very attached to— but Thorin has none, because the Lonely Mountain and its “long forgotten gold” was taken from him.
(You can read the full comic adaptation here on tumblr, on Webtoon, or on Ao3, and tip the artist/preview the next chapters on Patreon!)
#the hobbit#not chapters#the hobbit comic#bagginshield#it’s about the Symbolism#also putting posts together takes#so long!!!!#I’m starting to understand why some artists just have social media teams
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Wardrobe Woes
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#Yes: there are people who read these comics who don't know much about mdzs. Several are my beloved and supportive friends B'*)#This comic in particular is one that I've been thinking about for a very long time and I'm so happy to finally be here!#I was trying to think about how to explain the social rules of the forehead ribbon and the reason lwj was so upset#and the metaphor of 'it's kind of like wwx accidently undoing lwj's bikini in front of a crowd.' came to mind.#of course there's a bit more to it than that but the point here is that - accident or not - it still embarrasses lwj#wwx doesn't get the entire context behind it (at the time. Now he *does* and it all makes a bit more sense)#But he knows he made lwj upset. He knows he doesn't want to put lwj in another embarrassing situation.#Not after all this. Not after everything. Not after realizing that his desire for friendship might be the kind of desire that ruins lan zha#Love the symbolism of the archery outfits being red during this moment of 'whoops only married couples can do that' moment.#What if we accidental proposed............accidental marriage....accidental kiss the bridegroom....accidental fall in love.#Guess we did inadvertently get the puffy sleeves and bikini outfits in the end.#wwx in an old timey bathing suit is so important to me. I'll die on this hill.#lwj's cute little box is inspired by @lazycranberrydoodles's cute fan art <3 I love it a lot
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I just had the dumbest idea but I think it's funny: Do some centaurs grind down their teeth into different shapes as a body mod because they continually grow, like how humans dye and style hair? I imagine that would be wildly inefficient for eating but it could theoretically work if you were careful and I can definitely see it becoming a trend among teens to sharpen some of their teeth to look cool.
Eughhh...... maybe in the multi-clan cities with access to reliable, processed foods and utensils they're doin that.... If you get too wild with it, you would absolutely fuck up your ability to eat food, or risk dangerous abscesses...
Aesthetic teeth grinding I think would not be being teenage counterculture thing, but a social status signifier. Grinding down the teeth to be LESS pointy would ironically probably be the most common (and safest) version of this, particularly for social roles intended to be non-threatening, like mediators, entourage members, spiritual guides, and doctors. Another person in the asks inquired about tooth engraving, which strikes me as more likely than grinding teeth into wild pointy shapes.
#teenage rebellion in centaurs would not necessarily involve counter-culture fashion and body mods...#particularly in cultures where body mods have significance as social symbols of clan hierarchy#jaytext#runaway to the stars#rtts centaurs
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Eye contact is hard for me emoji? Need visual for aac!
EYE CONTACT ISSUES
Coming right up because we needed this too
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faceless eye contact issues (yellow)
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eye contact issues (yellow)
upset eye contact issues (white)
upset eye contact issues (yellow)
X-ed out eye
#emoji blog#custom emote#custom emoji#k9emotes#discord emoji#emoji#emotes#aac emojis#emoji requests#eye contact#bad eye contact#anxiety#social anxiety#aac emoji#aac#aac symbol#aac image#autism
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In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.
#my art#gravity falls#Stanford pines#ford pines#bill cipher#comic#eye strain#TIME TO DUMP EVERY ONE OF THE 27483949 THOUGHTS IVE HAD INTO THE TAGS BABY#OK!! SO!!!!#I feel like Ford would wonder why he and Stan (being identical twins) aren’t. yk. identical. shouldn’t Stan have polydactyly too?#as a kid he would dream about secretly being nonhuman and being whisked away to a fantastical world full of people like him#finally free of new jersey‚ finally somewhere he belongs#a lot of this disconnect from humanity came from utterly failing at social interactions while others (including stan) navigated them easily#the feeling waned after Stan was kicked out and he didn't have that direct comparison but it never left#then out in the wilderness of gravity falls‚ his isolation and immersion in Weirdness dragged it back up to the forefront#he deserves to have a breakdown over questioning his own nature. as a treat <3#color symbolism time bc I have a problem and use it at every available moment!!! blue and yellow get more vivid#the further from humanity the subject is#bill is entirely made w pure rgb blue and yellow (+ approximately 2674835 textures/layers/blending modes. I reached 150+ layers. help)#I like the idea that he would appear to ford like pure math considering hes a geometrical motherfucker and how the rest of the mindscape wa#I tried to mostly use trigonometry and related stuff for the Math Greebling. as well as fractals i love you forever fractals#MORE SYMBOLISM:#the grid-ish diamond pattern in all of the mindscape bgs (and elsewhere) is a penrose diagram of spacetime#which shows other universes on the other sides of black holes#SOMEONE ASK ME ABOUT MY EUCLYDIA HEADCANON LATER. IVE DUMPED ENOUGH DUMB HCS IN THESE TAGS ALREADY#BUT I THINK ITS VERY FUN#anyways. fuckt up guys n their egos influencing how they view humanity. bill tells ford hes as human as they come bc he was so easily foole#ford cant reconcile with his humanity bc of a failure to perform in one area#and then the immense guilt and shame over what hes done <3#I have So many ford characterization thoughts. no man nor god can stop me
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char. design stuff and map update
The greek alphabet name system is for more technical classification, while names like ,,Children of Eos" [group Epsilon] and ,,Wish for Tomorrow" [group Tau] are used more by public and for grandioser introductions in political meetings.
#rw#rain world#oc tag#rw ancients#rw iterator#rw slugcat#oc: three sparrows#oc: the tinkerer#oc: orion's pathway#philosophy sessions au#my art#procrastinating on revising iterator anatomy/spirit body works and social structures + architecture by making a year due reference.#no more flipping through like 7 images half of which are ns|fw to get 'Row's damn markings down hallelujah..#yes those symbols are translatable and exist outside of my creation. one day i might make a conlang at this rate but not now
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Athena calling Antinous a dog as an insult vs calling Telemachus a wolf as praise
#epic the musical#the wisdom saga#i know its symbolism cause ody is a wolf#but it feels the wrong way around#antinous is the one not bound by social expectations and acting more on instincts#he knows what he wants and he will take it#no command will get him to heel#meanwhile telemachus has been trained from birth#hes never been in a fight hes never had to defend himself#hes not a wild animal hes been raised in captivity
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Hey, I was wondering why you think Roxy was destined to end up with Eridan? I get the shared wizard interest and the quirk foreshadowing I guess, but that still seems like a large stretch. It's kinda like saying that Equius and Dirk are going to end up together because they both like robots and horses. It's just seems like the sort of character remixing that Hussie uses a lot in Homestuck. But what do you think?
Roxy
- fucking LOVES WIZARDS
- is a hipster and literally wears a colorswapped version of eridans scarf
- is pink and bubbly
- uses riflekind
- has a perfectly opposite powerset to eridan (can create anything by stealing its void away vs. can destroy anything with pure belief) and are connected to each other through the matriorb
- has a crush on a troubled, eccentric prince so you know that's her type
- quirk cameo with momlonde
Eridan
- Is a wizard
- Is a hipster and literally wears a colorswapped version of roxy's scarf
- Uses riflekind
- Had a huge crush on Feferi, a bubbly pink girl whom he (wrongly) believed to be so nice she might not even be capable of pitch, so we know that's his type
- The equal and opposite powerset & quirk cameo
At the end of the day I can't tell you what to ship, nor am I interested in making anyone ship anything, but I'm kind of just saying, the things that make Roxy predisposed to liking Eridan are, like, the biggest parts of her character, and Eridan is very easy & would pretty much say yes to anybody, but Roxy is also definitely His Type and Eridan is a simp who thrives under any sort of positive attention & would do anything someone asked if they were giving him positive feedback. or attention at all. case in point kanaya fucking hates him but at least she talks to him and he's constantly praising the shit out of her
Jane and Jake also have their introductions IMMEDIATELY followed by talking about how they've got a thing for "cobalt" hunks and "cerulean babes" respectively, so setting up roxy with eridan also fits into a pattern of the b2 kids being set up to date a dead troll. still rereading this part of the comic, but it really jumped out to me how blatant it was for jake and jane
#ship what you want to ship idc but#imo the foreshadowing is pretty blatant#which also fits with eridan because pale erikar was one of the most heavily foreshadowed things in the comic#and imo pitch calliope/eridan was also in the cards though less blatantly#calliope has 'biologically compelled to spades guys that remind her of her brother�� disease (moment of silence)#and eridan has literally been described as a proto-caliborn and also kind of is that#an evil wizard boy obsessed with murder and genocide who has zero social skills#the angel killer and the cherub whose adult form is a snake with wings#the destroyer of hope and the cherub whose adult form features white wings that look like the hope symbol#im just saying they're 50/50 at winning in chess bc theyre that one meme thats like#'my gf who doesnt know how shes losing' 'me whos eating the pieces when she isnt looking'#'BELIEVING IN YOUR PIECES IS NOT A VIABLE CHESS STRATEGY!!!!' like can you imagine#it'd be so goddamn funny if theres anyone capable of hating calliope itd be eridan#eridan (idiot) (mentally ill) (zero social skills) (derogatory)#erirox#eriroxy
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Something that drives me absolutely crazy about Jon and Rickon is that while the rest of the Stark kids love Jon, they’re all too cognizant of his “otherness”. Robb, Bran, and Arya love him as one would love any brother, but he’s always separated from the rest of the family: Ned Stark had five children, and then a sixth who was separate. And even when the Stark kids think of the direwolves, Ghost is always set apart from the rest of them. We’re always reminded that six pups were found in the snow, five huddled together and one who was white as snow separate from the rest of them.
But Jon is not separate in Rickon’s mind. During the royal feast, at an occasion where the social schism between the Stark children is all too apparent, Rickon is too caught up on “where’s Jon? Why is he not here among us? Why is he separate? He should be here!” And we see this when he waddled to where Jon was sitting with the squires, only leaving when big brother set him back on the path to the dais, thus enforcing a social boundary that he himself was not aware of. And the crazy thing is, Rickon is a bit of an other in a way. Shaggy, Rickon’s familiar, is not brown or grey like the other wolves. He’s black with green eyes, a visual representation of northern mysticism just as Jon’s Ghost is.
And it’s going to come to a head when Jon’s true parentage is revealed to the world. And Ghost’s difference becomes even more pronounced. But what a stark (pun intended) reminder it will be to know that Jon is not alone, and he is wholly accepted just as he is. Rickon is so young and full of ignorance. But that childish ignorance could go a long way, especially in reminding a very insecure Jon that he does indeed belong, all differences be damned.
#jon snow#rickon stark#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls#their relationship is probably the most underrated among the stark kids but they’re soooo special to me!#I have so much to say about rickon and shaggy and how they too are othered and why that matters - especially within a magical context#I’ll get to it someday…I hope#but anyway I do think it’s so symbolically important that Rickon goes to meet Jon where he is#below the dais and among the squires fully intending to be there with him#the physical differences of the social gap don’t matter because to rickon jon will always be big brother#and a bit of an unpopular opinion but I think rickon’s love will especially prove to be the deciding factor in how Jon moves forward re#robb’s will…but that’s a story for another day
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socially selective embroidered dog patch
#my posts#stim#sensory#stimmy#stimblr#stim gifs#petcore#patches#embroidered patches#examining#dogcore#puppycore#black#red#yellow#socially selective#no pet symbol
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S1E5, 17th minute roughly, Will and Hannibal in his office
"Jack gave you his word he would protect your headspace, yet he leaves you to your mental devices."
'-' -=- "..You trying to alienate me from Jack Crofford? "
"I'm trying to help you understand this angel man that you seek"
"Oh, huh, help me understand how to catch him. "
This is such an interesting piece of dialogue between them. Of course, every piece is interesting, but this one especially!
Will is smart, you can't really manipulate him without him noticing, not really. Hannibal already saw him react quite quickly and actively to actually working with HIS mind (from S1E1 introduction of the two to the words that come right before: will noticing that Hannibal changed the topic to his mental state, ridiculing him for it but allowing him to proceed). So Hannibal knows Will knows when his mind is messed with in a psychiatric manner.
Will always asknowledges. He calls it out twice just in this scene, first the analysys and then the manipulation.
Now I wonder if it actually works — because the ridicule and the callouts are Will's coping mechanism of sorts, but the problem was now brought to his attention, and could he really keep himself from seeing all of Jack's actions through the question "has he been dismissive of my state" now?
But what I truly think Hannibal is doing here is shifting the focus not necessarily ON Jack, no, that would be too forward for a man-that-speaks-in-implications. He's shifting the focuse elswhere, away from himself, for now.
And truly the next two lines need to be analyzed in a separate post because they're about another thing entirely, but they go together so why not. Or do they?
The next two are.. Subtle and brilliant. Hannibal reveals his true intention here, to make Will empathise with these killers even more, to make him go into their heads deeper and deeper. Maybe to observe Will do it. But overall, it is truly just for Will to understand the new killer. He does not care for the killer to be captured, the motive is the empathy itself. In fact, he may benefit more form the criminal not being caught, since the longer the investigation, the deeper Will goes (see Hobbs's case).
For Will, he would rather catch the killer faster, so he doesn't have to do it at all. The empathy is even less than a tool, it is an UNWANTED tool — he hates when he has to use it, yet it is helpful, so he feels like he kind of has to. Because not using it means he is allowing people to be killed, basically.
So Hannibal tells Will the raw truth. With a bit of omission sprinkled on top, because the context prompts anyone to believe that Hannibal would want the investigation to succeed too. Only the viewer has this context, and can therefore understand Hannibal's true motive. Will doesn't know, so he can't. But he feels it somewhere in his empathetic guts, and therefore his emotional reaction is to call him out on it. He is annoyed with himself for not getting everything first try, always. And he doesn't quite know it, because Hannibal ruffled his feathers right before by psychoanalyzing him, but Will is annoyed Hannibal is not exactly helping him. Not in the way that hi wants.
#hannigram#hannibal#hannibal lecter#will graham#william graham#since all of you liked the last post so much it because my best lol#would anyone actually read this block of analysys?#we are on social media any post more than 20 symbols long is a hazard
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People are still truly out here asking their fiction to act as models for real life instead of letting them be symbolic. Like, yes, we can def add to our realistic representations of people's lived experiences of poverty and queerness, but maybe the campy ghost show isn't the best example to ignite your criticisms about realism???
#this show is operating entirely on symbolism y'all#and doing so much class commentary through it#but it's certainly not a social realist piece#peaceful property#peaceful property the series#i've actually been thinking about how thai bl's seem to address class so much MORE than other regions#not in a realism-focused way but thematically#love me a penny-penching ho like Shinji from What Did You Eat Yesterday#who renders the whole show into realistic household economic discussions#but i don't need every show to be about that#and I also think there's a spiritual and communal element that seems to be very tied into...#if not Thai ways of thinking about money...#then at least Thai BL ways of considering money#thinking about Uncle Jim in MLC for example
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@sodabranch the Nutcrackers are catfishing eachother/j
Dialogue:
[J: What a tall human! Nice face! He's so...WRONG.]
[W: Such a pretty shell! It's not attacking me, it's kind! It's so..Perfect.]
#Woody is so lucky Fencer tolerates his weird human face and gay tender stares#idk if justice is as much of a fan especially assuming that Woody was a human#woody is way to enthusiastic and heavily relies on nonverbal cues that the fancy kinds probably wouldn't know anything abt#its like trying to do the ok symbol n nobody knows its a meme#not my oc (Justice🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰)#lethal company oc#if you think the post changed no it didn't#woody can invade the social boundaries of a nutcracker but by god will he get its pronouns right
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