#chats in the study

[breezeofberillus]

ooh, top 5 books, papers, etc? (any written work :D)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

2. Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost

3. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

4. Handmaid's Tale - Margret Atwood

5. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

[therekinperson]

Ive been thinking about this trend but instead of metaphorical items and junk its just me attempting diff artstyles

(btw thanks for @desklamper for compiling this) (Artists: @bamsara @runningwithscizzorz @konjkitkatty @donutfloats @acis-arts @aveloka-draws @lambment @unwri-ten @stychu-stych @dogiperson + me at the end)

[muffymayhem]

im not finishing this

[nyaa]

「QUMARION（クーマリオン」は、「CLIP STUDIO PAINT」 2013-08-03

[cloudycloudsminusclouds]

i'd like to think that when mumbo died jimmy's ear wing-feathers became loose.. he gets to keep his back wings because wings are cool but if jimmy continues to manage to not die at some point the wings on his ears might vanish entirely

[marichat-purrainrot]

doodle dump #3

get brown contacts pls im shaking /ref

he thinks it's just night vision

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[qingwaaa]

That’s cool bro, but like what if Irkens cried stars tho?

[merakiui]

MERA LOOK

https://www.tumblr.com/mostroloungeofficial/763200443732099072/skully-j-graves-full-live2d-expressions?source=share

HIS EYES HAVE A SPIRAL PATTERN! His stare feels a little fiendish without his glasses, proper scare material right there.

Imagine Skully staring down the object of his affection and gushing about them internally. Meanwhile, reader fearing for their life!

AAAAA YES!! YES YES YES YES!!!!!!! THIS IS THE EPITOME OF CHARACTER DESIGN WAAAAAAA!!!! I ADORE HIS EYES!! Would that I could keep them pickled in a jar!!!!! OTL

This is the stare of true love. <3 there is romance and whimsy spiraling in those wonderful eyes. Aaaaa Skully silently staring down at you with an obsessed expression, blushing all the while, but you have no idea what he wants with you. >_< he’s thinking about how lovely it would be to hold hands and stroll through the forest together!!!! \(//∇//)\ hopeless romantic who looks creepy when expressing it.

[breezeofberillus]

Top 5 favorite plants!!! And top 5 least favorite plants if any!!!

1. Lilies of the Valley

They're timid, but they say that they find comfort in talking to me, which makes me happy. They giggle adorably when I pet them. They bring me so much joy.

2. Moss

They do so much for the environment around them, but they stay very humble about their work. I can tell that they’re happy when getting compliments, so I make sure to give them some whenever I see them.

3. Succulent

There are many different variants of them, but they’re all very calm and supportive. They also give good constructive criticism. It’s nice to have them around when I’m working on a new prototype.

4. Dandelions

They have big dreams of forming florets in the future, so they can float to faraway places. They tell me about all the things they want to see when they can finally be free with the wind. They even let me wish on them when the time comes.

5. Buttercups

They are bubbly and talkative, but none of them can decide on who's speaking first. They like to tell me about everything that caught their eye while I was away. It always takes a while for them to finish talking.

As for least favourite plants, I have none! They all have their reasons and some are just more defensive than others.

[notedchampagne]

i want to fill up my sketchbooks unseriously but ive lost some of my childhood whimsy. im going to start drawing sparklegirls again

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[gros-chat-fait]

I don't know what an automat is.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

give me some whiskey and ill draw The Most Thing i can come up with

bonus:

[thespineoftherighteous]

i just think that. Aaron starts going to night practices sometimes. not to practice but just to sit with Andrew.

[auuwmk]

semi realism photo studies with jhw :33