#art transgression

[disease]

ANDRES SERRANO / “PISS CHRIST” / 1987 [cibachrome print, silicone and plexiglass | 60 x 40″]

[acrowbyanyothername]

a safe, sane and consensual sketch

[agirlnamedbone]

David Wojnarowicz | Inside This House | 1990

[bloomingnewwrld]

the things that are dear to me

[d0d0-b0i]

a vector for @starrjoy ‘a swearjar

[kritastrophe]

john the beloved / mary magdalene

[mickules]

Team Seafoam 🌊

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Fresh off my accidental months of absence, Sink or Swim- I'm jumping straight into the deep end by diving into artfight again this year!

Water we waiting for?

Let's go Seafoam!

(pst ~ I know I've been behind when it comes to messages and asks and the like, I do appreciate them! I never meant to let them pile up 😔 This site is so non-functional and I'm so tech-illiterate it genuinely stresses me out when I try to format posts or queue things or manage my asks or use the messenger so I gotta be in tip top energy and brain space before I tackle them, and that's not exactly my default at the mo. I'm gonna be a little tied up with artfight while I get my art-mojo back in order, so please bare with me just a little longer! Yous are honestly so kind to me with your patience)

[lokisis]

And why did I draw you like that

Lots of thoughts but they all boil down to this

[urbigfatdog]

:p man posting

[no-light-left-on]

considering the historical influences in the fashion of Dishonored (and the extent of nsfw fanfiction this fandom has) I’ve been thinking about the layers that would be, realistically, part of the daily dress

which means: dishonored seems to honour the importance of a vest in a properly dressed gentleman’s or lady’s wardrobe

vests were, and I cannot stress this enough, a mandatory part of an outfit, to the point of men wearing only vests if they could not afford a fully tailored suit (trousers + vest + jacket) and a new shirt and opting to only wear a fake collar under the vest for the illusion of a full outfit

shirts were underwear, so to speak. there were no occasions in ‘polite society‘ where one could only wear a shirt without a vest on top.

this is something we see mirrored in both dishonored games, though the style of the vests and clothing have somewhat changed, they still follow the same rules of vests worn with every outfit, as far as we can tell. (we could argue that Jessamine is not wearing one, or that some higher class women aren’t wearing vests under their buttoned up jackets, but since we don’t really see underneath we can’t judge.)

we see the vests be worn even by the Whalers in the first game (which in itself brings up many questions. are whalers, the actual whalers that capture and kill whales, held in high enough regard by the society that they made a vest part of their uniform? or is it merely something that is worn by all? something that every citizen of sound mind would don, were they to leave their house?)

there are a few exceptions to this, of course, but this whole thing came to be by asking a simple question

does the Outsider wear a vest under his leather jacket?

now, in the first game, his jacket is unbuttoned just enough for us to get a good enough peek at what lies beneath. which is to say: there is no hint of a vest underneath. judging by the vests in the first game, the fashion was that the vest would go up high, often covering collarbones or even having a standing collar. what we see on the Outsider is just... an unbuttoned shirt

it’s much the same in the second game, even if we examine his final concept art, his outfit consists of a shirt (more or less underwear) with most of the top buttons unbuttoned, and a jacket on top. no hint of a vest underneath

what I’m trying to say is that the Outsider is a slut

[st-just]

Honestly you'd think generations of Piss Christ discourse would have at least gotten through the idea 'is this a massive dick move/comically unethical' and 'is this effective art' are not even slightly mutually exclusive. All those stereotypes about performance art exist for a reason! Shameless irresponsible provocation has an impeccable pedigree by now.

[puppystylexd]

the june of pups (2024)

[ellathon22]

Pizzaman

[foxglovecove]

The real cause of the tension between Raleigh and Chuck

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Thanks for the request @skellabelle !

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day: the truly great haunting and transgressive outsider photographer Diane Arbus (14 March 1923 – 26 July 1971). All these decades later, her photography continues to fascinate and disturb. Pictured: "Puerto Rican Woman with a Beauty Mark" by Diane Arbus, 1965.

[psymachine]

enemies to teammates to lovers to husbands