#critical landscapes

[essektheylyss]

you ever start on a piece without a plan and then just roll with it? anyway I was just fucking with paint textures and somehow we have ended up here (I do not know if Ruidus is visible from any coastline okay we do not have to worry about geographical accuracy it's about the vibes)

[wardensantoineandevka]

genuinely, I don't know why people are so worried about Caleb and Beau when we could all just be choosing to believe that they're both currently facedown in the middle of the Turst Fields or wherever

imo right now there's no reason to believe this teleport thing happened only to Bells Hells

[reagomyeggo]

‘cause it’s burning through the bloodline, it’s cutting down the family tree, growing in the landscape, darling, in between you and me

[maacbrem]

Wouldn’t that be something

Quick messy flat-colour doodle of what they deserve :’) (pose reference from @mellon_soup on Instagram)

Expression close-up:

[court-jastor]

Ever wanted to see the glowing waters of Yios? How about the extraordinary Cerulean Palace? The perilous Malleus Key? Get wonderful views of these iconic sights and more at CRLand's new Marquet expansion!

Marquet as seen through the lens of an old theme park poster for CR Land for @artists-guild-of-exandria 's CRLand Project!

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

The Road to Traveler Con by Kent Davis

[hyacinthsgrimoire]

text from @ohno-myfeefees

[exandrianpunk]

my mom asked me a bit ago who my favorite lovm character is, and of course i said vax

i figured it was for a holiday gift or something and promptly forgot about it

but then this morning my Omi (mom's mom) sent pictures of the pumpkins she painted for Halloween...

i think it's safe to say her first fanart was a success!

[fictionadventurer]

The BBC lady blowing my mind by pointing out the parallels between the endings of North and South and Jane Eyre (man brought low after losing his fortune, woman has gained wealth and comes to his rescue so they're now on equal footing).

She also pointed out that North and South is a continuation of issues Bronte explored in Shirley (to the point that Helstone is named after a character there), so I guess I may have to read that book one day.

[artandhijinks]

The Age of Arcana

I finally got around to watching EXU Calamity and decided to draw something inspired by the age of Arcana.

Prints available on Fine Art America and Redbubble

[undead-knick-knack]

I saw Essek's new official art and immediately got the urge to put his floating ass in the woods

Artwork titles and artists below the keep reading 😁

“An Alley of Trees in a Park” (c. 1810) by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld “The Brushwood Collector” by Adolf Kaufmann “Winter Landscape with Rising Moon” by Adolf Kaufmann “Forest Creek” by Grigoriy Myasoyedov "Autumn Morning" by Adolf Kaufmann

[nicollekidman]

still wrapping my head around the fact that midnights got almost universally positive critic reviews..

the thing with midnights is that it’s ranked last and largely a miss for me but still has like. two or three of my favorite songs she’s ever written like… she’s still taylor. however i fear that midnights critical overinflation is a sign of the bubble about to pop….. the market is saturated and built on shaky foundations…. however if the tide turns and she takes a break then comes back with reputation (again) the cosmic poetry will be worth it (copium)

[elzorton]

There's a storm brewing.

It's comforting.

[lmaster37]

was going to send a really snarky reply to somebody having a Bad Take on Izzy hands (obv i'm being somewhat facetious here) (like i do think their reasoning was bad but it's fine to just not like a character) (their reasoning was bad tho imo) and then decided not to do that and instead vaguepost about it here. peace and love on planet earth ❤️

[landscaping-your-mind]

The Flesh in The Magnus Archives is associated with Christianity in MAG 5 - Thrown Away, MAG 19/20 - Confession/Desecrated Host, MAG 58 - Trail Rations, and MAG 130 - Flesh, and I think that's very interesting, because I started thinking about it yesterday, and I knew that The Flesh was associated with Christianity, but I have Thoughts.

There's a lot of stuff with Catholicism, with the whole eating the flesh and blood of Christ in MAG 19/20. There's also the Lord's prayer appearing in MAG 5 and MAG 58. And then of course the Gnostic temple in MAG 130.

There's also the whole mormon -- and probably other types of Christianity -- idea of heaven stripping away all your flaws, which is actually pretty horrifying if you think about it, and if you're not good in the eyes of God, then you won't go to heaven, and that's often just not being allocishet and other similarly fine things to be and do. And like in the season 5 Flesh episodes, a lot of it was wanting to be seen as useful and good to others at the expense of yourself, and that came with body image issues, and literally marching to your own death -- because if you don't, then you'll be not useful and dead.

I'm not entirely sure how to articulate my thoughts here, but I am thinking. Sure am thinking. Please, think with me.

(AND yes this is an @a-mag-a-day thing, bc MAG 130 got me thinking)

[isan0rt]

I saw your Dedue post you made recently and OMG THANK YOU SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT. I’d love to message you further about your other 3houses opinions cause gd your mind.

Honestly like lmao I wasn't specifically trying to call anyone out in particular but it's so so so hard to find interpretations of Dedue that like. Actually consider that perhaps he has complex reasons for talking about himself like he does before the time skip, that rationally follow from his experiences and aren't just like, oh he's got such poor self esteem. Dedue's not Bernadetta, he's as assertive as it's safe for him to be given PEOPLE EXPLICITLY WANT TO KILL HIM for just fucking existing.

If Dimitri wasn't protecting him he would have gotten straight up murdered well before he learned to tank as hard as he tanks, and that's not even counting that first time Dimitri intervened in people actively trying to murder Dedue after successfully murdering his family for the crime of Existing While From Duscur. Like, hello!!!! He's been isolated from his community, from his language, from his culture, surrounded by people who hate him, but with nowhere else to go. Literally everyone else he knew died and his homeland was burned to the ground.

Dimitri is the only person in the WORLD who wants him to live. Of course he's neurotic as fuck about Dimitri. Dimitri is literally all he has left in the world to cling to, and people keep trying to kill Dimitri! It's 100% reasonable for Dedue before the timeskip to feel like he has fucking nothing if he doesn't have Dimitri. Objectively that's true!!!

Like, after the timeskip, he comes back having spent time back among his own people, seeing that his culture isn't gone and he does have something to fight to preserve. He survives because his community comes to save him. He comes back wearing VERY expensive full-body armor (like for real that's absurd amounts of steel and master craftsmanship) with Duscur's motif enameled on the pauldrons, wearing Duscur-woven clothing and accompanied by a whole group of his countrymen fighting alongside him to reach Dimitri. His post-timeskip design screams that he's been reintegrated into his home culture. Of course he's in a better place after that!

None of his emotional development happens in a vacuum! Dedue struggles with his self-worth when he's cut off from his community, and is able to self-actualize only after reconnecting with his community. Azure Moon has so many themes about community healing after trauma, and about relying on support in order to lift all boats together. All the Lions start the game fractured and damaged because of the breakdown of the social contract in Faerghus and improve through Azure Moon by banding together and healing the fractured relationships. Dedue can't be his best self when he's isolated from his roots. Ignoring that I feel like really misses the themes Dedue brings to the table.