#Spirituality and Distortion

[metal-stills]

Igorrr - Downgrade Desert

Metal Blade Records

2020

Art Direction, Prop Master : Lisa Bruggmann Costume & Make-Up Artist : Amanda Samantha Brooke Costume Laure Le Prunenec : Alexandra Groover Colorist : Aleksander Verholak CGI : Claudio Antonelli

Official Video

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Album 💿 of tha year #intomysoul

Gautier Serre (born June 5, 1984), better known by his stage name Igorrr, is a French musician. Under the Igorrr alias, he combines a variety of disparate genres, including black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip hop, into a singular sound. Serre is also part of the groups Whourkr and Corpo-Mente. The Igorrr project became a full band with the addition of vocalists Aphrodite Patoulidou and JB Le Bail, drummer Sylvain Bouvier, guitarist Martyn Clément and bassist Erlend Caspersen.❤️‍🔥

Spirituality and Distortion by Igorrr 🇫🇷

https://youtu.be/KNJ0B5uU1QQ

Goosebumps traxxx from this piece of art:

Downgrade Desert by Igorrr

Hollow Tree by Igorrr

Barocco Satani by Igorrr

Polyphonic Rust by Igorrr @necro69mancer

[bizarrobrain]

"Downgrade Desert" by Igorrr - From "Spirituality and Distortion" (2020)

[frobby]

madoka magica is a narrative haunted by a lesbian but deciding which lesbian is your own special little treat <3

[angelscarousel]

hello lgbtq community

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

Temporal distortions

And

Shifting paradigms

Are always so much

Simpler

When I can paint them

In rhymes

[euphorictruths]

Day, Night- Jenni Pasanen

[lovelydwyn]

Even from a great distance, with no physical interactions required in the 3D, the sacral energy from the feminine is extremely healing and comforting to the masculine. He is not aware of this consciously, but when he chooses to continually abuse and dishonor the feminine that sacral healing energy is eventually revoked. He won’t consciously know why he feels so rotten, but choosing the distorted path over the divine such as this is just one area where karmic consequences are felt.

[katyspersonal]

When you started drawing? And how? Your works are so detailed and you feel the perspective so Q_Q Your drawing of old hunter from DLC is incredibly cool, I am looking respectfully

Oh- You mean this ( x ) one? Haha, yeah, it was an art commission, so I tried to give it the best I could... Though maybe using something I was paid for as a chance to practice perspective was a little irresponcible :') But the customer was happy, and this is what matters!

To be honest, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember...? I have quite the regrets about having basically none of my drawings from childhood survive, because it's been a LOT. But I've been going over the top with details, colors and settings since the age of like, 4-5 I think? I recall the caretakers at kindergarden REALLY loving my drawing of underwater, because I killed it with variety of fish and seaweed, despite having no references or knowledge! Also, fun fact - the very first art criticism of my life from me was towards a girl that colored every woman in her coloring book as blonde with blue eyes! I criticized her saying that there were other colors for people and that it was boring to be so samey dsfjjdshfsd Had to apologize, but.. yeah, it was the ultimate "I've always been this way" moment if I've seen one. :')

I used to visit classes to practice my drawing in elementary school, though! But it was mostly environment and animals, when I was more interested in drawing people at that time! The period from 8 to 12 years was the one where I kept creating OCs obsessively, and stories for them, and I've had like 6 comics I've been drawing and coloring at the same time (mostly comedy + fantasy)! I think what really inspired me to start creating the comics and characters that were mostly young girls with elemental powers was the Russian comic, Rainbow Knights x) (Журнал "Юла", припоминаешь? хд) I was obsessed with it, and I was obsessed with excuse to use more colors, effects and nature/elemental aesthetic. And yes, it was all trdaitional! I love using crayons, markers, pens and pencils for coloring. My clumsy hands were never good for paintbrushes... I moved more onto digital around the age of 14. It was when I've found a summer job, and earned enough money to buy a tablet! So.. I started prioritize digital art since then! But it had the form of me first drawing something on the paper, and then scanning and fixing/lining/coloring it on the computer for a LONG time! Well, it was taking some time to get used to, as well, so I also had some drawings I did with my mouse and vector tool in PS or SAI, like this:

It is one of the only few remaining "ancient" ones, since most of them got lost forever on the old hard drive! ...I still HAVE this hard drive, I just have no idea how to extract anything from it.. It is kinda broken :U But if I get my hands on very old doodles trapped there, I will share!

^ I believe this was the first doodle that I did 100% on the computer AND with the tablet! Without mouse, without first drawing traditonally and then digitally, but just on the computer, from start to finish! But it was still hard to do, so I kept with the use of paper and pencil for some more while. Like- I hoped I'd find some old drawings for this ask, but all I found were traditional versions of some of my drawings!

You could tell that using traditional paper + pencil were beneficial for anatomy and proportions. And that I used to be better at that, VERY much better. And that it was sorta... easier to 'get lost' in the process? It was a simpler life when not only I was far less depressed and broken, not only I had more spare time in schoo/uni years, but also just... I did not feel burnt out. Or guilty over the fact of not finishing new drawing "fast enough" (and thus, looking like a loser). I also had less things online to drain my spare time, less distractions... I kinda miss that time, really...

All in all, I've never learned to draw PROPERLY. I was self-taught but not studying too hard, mostly I was just analysing art of artists I loved to improve my own, and asking advice from good artists to fix this or that! Hence, my skill used to be better! Year 2015-16 was my most productive year artistically! I've been drawing a bunch of (then) popular cartoon stuff, as well as TONS of fanart for Rick and Morty RP community, and all the things were sooooo bright, colorful and full of energy...

And now meet the man that sorta ended my art career :^) I've picked interest in Mark (Endlish localisation called him Marx and I hate it lol), and that pulled me into the rest of K1rby. Except I could not actually play anything (besides 64 Crystal Shards that I emulated), so I compensated with letsplays and anime. And Super Paper Mario was a side obsession. xD But.... yeah, since MARK, dark ages for my art started. No, no, my art was good! Awesome, even! I kept people begging me to "please draw K1rby again" for years since fandom shifting! Words like, 'no one ever cared about this universe and characters the same way you do'... But! Drawing 'creatures' for 2-3 years completely destroyed my prior (already loose) knowledge of human anatomy and proportions, and I am still struggling to recover that former skill! :')

Finally, year later, around February/March 2021, I've gotten pulled into Bloodb0rne! Badly. And thanks to Mic0lash. Huh, it is always some madman, isn't it? xD But I felt very self-consious about my art... I felt like serious, detailed, dark and beautiful atmosphere of BB deserved better than my "overly cutesy" and "tone-deaf" art.... annnnd if this sounds like something I'd never say, but rather as an unfair criticism from some antsy reddit-ish asshole? It is because it is EXACTLY what it was! :')

But in either case, the Doll was the first time I've used paper and pencil again in many years. I felt so... alive? I recall the feeling I could only describe as 'blood returned in my veins' but spiritual, you know? It felt like so much fun! To remember how to draw traditonally, to break out of my 'round cutesy' comfort zone- heck, I even downloaded brushes for my SAI for the first time in my life, just to color the characters better! Learned new coloring style, too: usually my coloring was very rigid and relying on very concrete colors for shadow and base.. but from this point on, I prioritized more 'chaotic' approach, as I felt it was more appropriate!

....and so, now we are here. x)

You could tell that some of the things I am just used to persisted, and that colorful, "childish" energy is still slipping through the cracks. Soulsb0rne games are ideal for how my mind works... but perhaps not for how my soul works. There is just something in me that craves that sillyness, overly colorful designs and settings, and maybe ER is closer to that aesthetic? Yeah, had I not been criticized on my art harshly upon joining BB, maybe my art would've been way more cute and 'free'! I always loved drawing many details, but something about the route I've taken about drawing made it very heavy. My brain short-circuits at the AMOUNT of the details I keep in mind, yet I can't rest unless I got it "at least 90% correct", even when it is a darn shitpost ;-; I will figure out what went wrong compared with the way I used to draw humans..... someday.

Thank you for asking, though! Ha! Honorable mention: tons of shitposty comics and doodles I kept drawing in classes, both school and uni! x)

[ozymoron]

listening to some music ^_^

[bondruid]

I’m putting this in its own post because the tags of the last one weren’t the appropriate place, and I know the spirit of what I’m saying would get misunderstood and misconstrued

But it’s my earnest belief that ALL women need to genuinely cultivate masculine attributes

And when I say ‘masculine attributes,’ I mean a sense of ‘masculine’ that is detached from sex; I do NOT mean ‘masculine’ as in ‘related to men,’ ‘man-like,’ ‘male-like,’ or ‘aesthetically man-like’

I mean masculine as: the collection of abstract and fundamentally, by-nature unsexed attributes associated with proactivity, self-sufficiency, assertiveness. boldness, self-actualization, pursuit; masculinity as the burgeoning side of humanity that exerts its own will and which exists in every human, irrespective of sex

Masculinity—again, in this sexless sense—puts you in a position of pure independence because you equip yourself with the capacity to seek and obtain by your own will; the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of others are not necessarily dismissed, but they hold no power OVER you in the sense that they no longer exert direct sway over your self-image, your self-worth, your self-conceptualization, or even your course of action

In effect: ‘your opinions have been noted, and summarily disregarded,’ which is sometimes a good thing.

Being in this position protects you more so from being in a situation where you are vulnerable, dependent, or beholden to someone else's will, either because you are too concerned about their opinions, or because you doubt too much the validity of your own, or because you place greater value on the thoughts of others, or simply do not trust yourself to be capable of both making and recovering from mistakes

And, if the use of ‘masculine’ for these attributes is bothersome or disagreeable (as it was for me, until I mentally eliminated its fundamental tie to men*), you can easily just replace it with the phrase self-actualization, or whatever other synonym you prefer — I just think that doing so tends to feed into the same false dichotomy and fuels the presumption that MEN are masculine, WOMEN are feminine, and these are fundamental truths that can ONLY be subverted, rather than erroneous insistences that limit the true reality (and power) of the human individual, which possesses by right the intrinsic qualities of both.

(*according to society, as masculinity is not emblemic of men and men are not sole-possessors of masculinity, they are simply unhealthy extremes of it, just as women are unhealthy extremes of femininity)

[depravednotdeprived]

[beeapocalypse]

carding thru some igorrr ive not listened to before. listen to this song NOW

[yourealpurpose]

The search for truth in a distorted world is called "polemic". When the media speak of polemics, the distorted call it "truth".

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Anna ▶︎ info: Linktr.ee

[alchemyofmaya]

and if there’s ever any messages hidden between the lines.. it’s that — wisdom comes in the form of Her.

God’s Oracle is his Goddess. That’s why the Creator’s creation is birthed through a Woman. She is the chosen one, and if she was to ever set fire to the ancient pharisees kingdoms, and claim her rightful throne — the world would change.

But they can’t have that.. y’all work better when you’re denied the knowledge and wisdom that comes from knowing thyself — the pharaohs system likes you better as slaves, you’re easier to control when you don’t remember that you’re actually a direct reflection of the creator, and the life force within you could bend the fabric of reality itself.

[vaguely-concerned]

I understand and agree with a lot of the frustrations about the shortcomings of Inquisition as a story. but sometimes when I hear people complain about the chosen one narrative in it I do want to just be like... you know it's a deconstruction of the concept more than anything, right. the inquisitor isn't actually chosen by anything except stumbling into the wrong (right?) room at the right (wrong?) time because they like, heard a noise or whatever. or if you think they are chosen, as many do in-universe, that's something you have to take on faith, the maker-or-whoever moves in mysterious ways indeed-style. the Inquisitor isn't actually a Destined Chosen One, they're a Just Some Guy in a fancy hat, self-delusions of grandeur to taste as you'd prefer.

a running thread that goes through all of the personal quests of the companions is the concept of a comforting lie vs. an uncomfortable truth, upholding old corrupt structures vs. disrupting them, and the role of faith in navigating that. (blackwall the warden vs. thom rainier the liar and murderer. hissrad vs. the iron bull, or is that the other way around? cassandra and the seekers -- do we tell the truth about what we find, even if it means dismantling the old order of the world? and so on.) and your inquisitor IS at the same time a comforting lie (a necessary one, in dark times? the game seems to ask) and an uncomfortable truth (we are the result of random fickle chance, no protective hand is held over the universe, it's on us to make a better world because the maker sure as hell won't lift a divine finger to help anyone, should he against all odds exist). faith wielded for political power... where's the point that it crosses the line into ugliness? is it before it even begins? what's the alternative? will anyone listen to the truth, if you tell it?

interesting how you also get a mix of companion agency in this -- you have characters like dorian who ALWAYS choose one side of the comforting lie vs. uncomfortable truth dichotomy. he will always make up his own mind to go back to tevinter and try to dismantle the corruption of the old system no matter what you say, or how you try to influence him. meanwhile iron bull is on the complete opposite side of the spectrum -- so psychologically trapped and mangled, caught in an impossible spiritual catch-22, that his sense of identity is left entirely to you and your mercy. you cannot change dorian in any way that matters; you can be his friend or not, support him or not, but he is whole no matter what. you are given incredible and potentially destructive-to-him power over bull's soul. it's really cool (and heartbreaking) to think about.

this is a game about how history will eat you even while you're still alive, and shape you into whatever image it pleases to serve it, and for all your incredible power right now you are powerless in the face of the gravitational force of time -- of more than time, of History. you won't recognize yourself in what History will make of you, because you belong to it now. you don't belong to yourself anymore and you never will again. the further you were from what it needs from you to begin with, the more you will find yourself distorted in its funhouse mirror. (why hello there inquisitor ameridan, same hat!)

and to me this is so much the core of what Dragon Age is about right from the Origins days -- how and by whom history gets written, the inherent unreliable narration of it all. I hope you like stories, Inquisitor. You are one now.

I do think it's probably still the weakest of the games narratively, and it's hampered by its structure and bloated systems. but I also find it disingenous to say that there's nothing deeper or actually interesting going on with it, thematically. if you're willing to engage with it there is Some Real Shit going on under the high fantasy-tinted surface.