#don’t quote me

[s-darling-art]

Yeah I have no excuse for this I just wanted to draw him topless again

[theunwedbride]

@legendarydante

Blue means in love with, red is siblings, green is dating now, dark green is whatever the fuck aurora and my brother were doing.

[lunarw0rks]

How do y'all think gaz got that face scar?

maybe shrapnel? from an explosion??

they’re thin but deep. makes me think it was glass or metal that rained so fast it nicked him (and probably had some pieces embedded in his cheek)

[love-and-books320]

guys help how do I get my maybe(I rlly don’t know and I’m not tryna self diagnose) ADHD brain to do trig hw I don’t understand

[kenslilove]

I dunno but I think I wanna give taiju children

[rosesncarnations]

Wip alert

[killianhemlock]

Feel free to ignore this I was just tired of typing it in the tags like I usually do. Take this all with a grain of salt or just flat out ignore it lmfao

Notes n letters n such describe him in a way that very much sounds like he was somewhere on the autism spectrum. Doctors would often diagnose patients with schizophrenia when they would instead be diagnosed with autism or other things with similar symptoms because of the lack of understanding (and frankly respect to the patients).

Which isn’t to say he didn’t have schizophrenia- both are just as likely! But keep in mind that lots of autistic people were hospitalized and victimized or often feared because people at the time didn’t understand neurodivergence and wrote them off as being schizophrenic or “insane” etc.

The early deaths of his beloved wife and cat left him alone in an ableist time period. This is me rambling but the way his life has been recorded shows that those might’ve been the only family he felt safe with. Or they just weren’t ableist as shit and belittling to him.

I don’t think he lost his mind or went insane. I personally think he was a very sad man who lost a lot in his life which left him feeling very very lonely in a world that refused to understand him. He went through a lot from his possible schizophrenia which no one was willing to help him with (or had the tools to even do so).

I get a pit in my stomach when I think about Louis Wain. It’s a mix of sadness for what he had been through and how little people understood him. But it also comes with a sense of relief. People rallied to help him. His family and friends kept in contact.

All that to say- I agree OP, I think he truly was happy in the end, still drawing all those cats that he and his wife adored so much. :)

Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as “Dark Classical art” and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.

You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He’s the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.

This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain’s deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as “a tragic display of a painter’s failing battle with schizophrenia.”

The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.

Ok got all that?

So here’s the thing.

Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although “Schizophrenia” is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting “normal” pictures of cats.

The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.

Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.

4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly

I knew all about “the Schizophrenic cat Guy” but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.

Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it’s important.

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[spaceaqueerious]

what if i finish that art of valdemar I’ve had sitting in wips since 2021

[eggsarntmemes]

when big tech tried to simplify our lives >:(

gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

…

actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

[everwalldigan]

My favourite thing ever is when Jason is drawn to resemble Bruce because I KNOWW his ass would HATE it😭😭

Dick: hey Jason you haven’t forgotten our meet u— oh my god are you ok?? What happened?

Jason *rocking back and forth on the floor with a traumatised look in his eyes, whispering in horror* someone mistook me for Bruce in the grocery store today.

Random kid at a charity event pointing at Jason standing grumpily in a corner: who’s that?

Bruce (smiling fondly): that’s my son Jason!

Random kid: he looks like you! :D

Jason: *leaves the room*

Bruce (running after him): jason, Jason they didn’t mean anything by it, Jason, you’re going to jump off a balcony just because of a child’s observation Jason?

[lilislegacy]

percy, playfully: on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love me?

annabeth: right now? maybe a 6

percy: what, why?

annabeth, scoffing and rolling her eyes:

percy: what? i’m confu— oh my gods. this again? for the last time, it is not my fault that the store didn’t have my shampoo that you love! you are just going to have to deal with my hair smelling like sea and surf instead of nautical fresh for a little while!

annabeth: you could get it online!

percy: THEY’RE OUT OF STOCK!

grover: i miss when you two fought about normal things. like possibly fatal quests

[shadowhaert]

to love like a dog

ada limón, roadside attractions with the dogs of america // emily wilson, the odyssey // u.k // andrew kane, how to be a dog // mitski, i’m your man // u.k // u.k

[a-great-tragedy]

James: Hey Remus! What’s up? Wanna spend summer at my place?

Sirius: Nice jumper Remus!

Remus: *Internal monologue* They all hated me

[hauntingyourself]

Religious witch-hunter and the guy he thinks is a demon

[whoseblogisitanyways]

tag yourself: intrepid heroes' alter emos as ppl who went to my public high school