#durka

[evviejo]

thirteen's era appreciation: 494/?

[diablo1776]

Brrrrrrrt!! 💥💥

[marblescorner]

My fantrolls interaction doodles bc once in a million years i remember their existence

[magdadurka]

Sam Ryder performs at Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace.

Creative Direction: We are Black Skull; Sam's costume ddesigner: Luke Jefferson Day; Dancers & band costume design & styling: Joanna Hir;

Dancers' costumes making & pattern cutting: Magda Durka

[zavuya]

[themisterhip]

💪TRAINING HARDER!💪 REVERSE AU MADE BY @zurka-durka

[daddy-deathslinger]

Could I please get some more of tarhos outt of the fog and with his s/o in their time ?

Just like, imagine if his s/o had a cat, and that cat didn't like him and randomly kept bitting him in the leg. Only the leg, and only when he's not on guard. What does he do? Does he deal with it? Will he square up with a cat? Will this series of bites cause him to have an existential crisis bc he went from a feared cold blooded killer night to a man living in his partners home getting bullied by a feline who's like 3 pounds

Hey there! That was such a fun idea, let’s see what HC’s we can get out of it!

The Knight/Tarhos Kovács with his S/O in modern day and age

So, Tarhos finds himself living in a two room apartment with his S/O, you.

… and your cat.

Tarhos never cared much for felines, or any other animals besides horses that he could ride. But boy, oh boy does this cat make itself known.

It’s all sweet and cuddly on the day when you are home, but lord, by nightfall!

You work the night shift, so Tarhos has taken it upon himself to guard the apartment during nighttime. Sure, you said that there is no need, but Tarhos doesn’t trust the “cops” around here, what even is a “cop”? No, he has to protect the apartment, your home, otherwise anything could happen.

But the cat. During nighttime, it’s a completely different beast.

It runs around, on the floor, the walls! It chirps and makes other noises Tarhos cannot comprehend, and worst of all: it bites him.

Not that it hurts, but it bites his leg every time it runs past him.

Tarhos keeps good manners and doesn’t shoo the cat away, you wouldn’t want that. Instead, since no one’s around, he tries to speak sense into it.

It doesn’t work.

Eventually, Tarhos finds himself in his fate: He is a cat’s plaything now. He has to admit to himself, it is a bit silly and cute at times. Only at times.

If Durkas or Alejandro saw him now…

Well, he's been through worse. Torture, humiliation, what not. What's a small cat's anger issues compared to that?

When the sun finally rises, and you come back from your night shift, the cat is cuddled up in a chair, sleeping. As if nothing has happened during the night. As if Tarhos' pride hasn't been injured severely.

Oh well, he'll let it slide, if he gets to live together with you.

[sitp-recs]

What Drarry fanart would you use a cover art for your favorite fics :-)

Omg what a brilliant ask!!! I love it 🙌 ok so this took me ages because I tried to match art I’ve seen with my favourite fics, meaning some fics I really love aren’t here because I couldn’t find the corresponding art. I’ve had so much fun doing this, thank you!

1. Far From the Tree by aideomai can’t be paired with anything but @bluebutter-art’s brilliant art, dilf Draco to the rescue!!!!

2. this art by @istehlurvz gives me big The Boy Who Only Lived Twice vibes, power couple!

3. art by @kk1smet and art by @creeeee for @tackytigerfic’s Modern Love, eternal fave

4. art by @ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm for Away Childish Things by lettered, perfection

5. this art by @zigster-ao3 is a lovely fit for korlaena’s A Sword Laid Aside

6. King Draco & Knight Harry by @swymsuyt for astolat’s The Compact 👑

7. @bluebutter-art’s gorgeous posh Slytherin Draco for Astolat’s Slithering

8. this art by @missmrah always makes me think of Super Rich Kids by @thusspoketrish

9. this art by @bluebutter-art for Turn by SG 🥺

10. this art by @artdecielle fits Little Red Courgette by @blamebrampton like a glove

11. this art by @danasauurr would be perfect for Mijan’s Eclipse

12. this art by @trashcanprince for Aideomai’s Dwelling, one of my favorite scenes

13. art by @ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm for All Our Secrets Laid Bare by firethesound, my heart!

14. this art by @zurka-durka takes me right into the comfort of Like Lightning at Your Fingertips by potterwatch

15. this art by @ginkirikirikiri for eleventy7’s Running on Air, a classic!

Bonus: the amazing The Liars Department by @dorthyanndrarry already has an exceptional cover art by @snarkyships-drarryside and same goes for this breathtaking art @bluebutter-art did for @pennygalleon’s Game On. Love these!

[senpa10]

An explanation of what happened to me.. I'm burned out. Day 4 the Internet is lagging, blundering, slowing down, turning off and it pisses me off. the computer decided to give me the screen of death, and therefore the drawing that I drew yesterday was not preserved, and finally, today is Saturday off! But not for me and not for my classmates because we are in class, why? Because January 4 is a world Russian holiday (I'm showing part of the announcement from my college's website: In connection with a public holiday — National Unity Day. November 4, 2024 will be a non-working day.) That's why I'm not going to draw today, it seems, but I'm going to rest a little

Take me to the durka (nuthouse), I need a rest

[los-santos-disastership]

Blog navigation!

I made this little sideblog to collect and commemorate art from fantastic gta v & trikey fanartists with often deleted blogs. Here are their artworks, tagged:

radiopappa (aka epsee)

skoptsy

yahoo

wachtelspinat

loseranthems

ringelrei

slimyfetuss

zurka-durka

yank-a-ton

and the OFFICIAL GTA V ILLUSTRATOR Roxie Vizcarra! (other fandoms wish)

My trikey art sideblog

My trikey ao3

also there's much more that I didn't tag, just scroll down this blog uwu

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 269/?

[psychoanalysisandchill]

The wrathful glare of Kali and the callous gaze of Medusa – the emergence of the femme fatale in the female psyche.

Legend of Kali

In Hindu legend, goddess Durka and her helpers, the Matri goddesses, slay the demon Raktabīja, only to find out that the stains of Raktabīja’s blood act like seed on soil as every drop manifests another duplicate of him. Durka becomes enraged and summons Kali, whom then proceeds to slay and devour Raktabīja and his legion of duplicates. She dances on their corpses and parades around with Raktabīja slain head in her hand, securing the droplets of blood through holding a plate underneath it, so as to prevent further bleeding on the soil. Motivated by her insatiable fury, Kali proceeds with the destruction of all else that crosses her path, but after stepping on the corpse of Lord Shiva, Kali is struck by embarrassment and remorse as her supressed superego is released from her shadow and brings her back to her senses. Lord Shiva’s has the power to liberate Kali from her fury as he is the transcendent Self. He is the benevolent patriarch, yogi supreme, yet also husband and father, suggesting the achievement of harmonious balance between wordily duties and that of holy men. His anima, being integrated, is neither possessing him nor is it plaguing him as a result of repression. He neither falls prey to the manipulative trickery of deceitful women nor does he view women as disdainfully inferior sexual objects.  Only he can liberate Kali from her all-consuming misandry and soothe her sorrows.

Shiva’s non-threatening benevolence makes itself known through the act of laying underneath Kali’s feet. Possessed by wrath, Kali has lost sight of that which is holy. Without recognition of the benevolent aspects of Shiva, Kali’s fury is bound to drown the universe in her flames, however, Durka’s initial intention behind the summoning of Kali was to defeat Raktabīja and his legion of duplicates, rather than bring about the destruction of the universe.

Durka and the Matri goddesses are at loss at Raktabīja’s lack of chivalry in combat and the injustice of his supernatural power. They are the modern-day women whom get harassed by demonic and demeaning men despite enforcing their boundaries. Such men seek to dominate through ridicule rather than reason. The lack of decorum in both combat and dialogue makes the summoning of Kali inevitable for a woman as all else has failed to shield her vulnerability from the malevolence of a demonic beast.

In recent memory, Raktabīja and Poseidon manifested themselves as Harvey Weistein and Jeffrey Epstein, powerful demonic beasts, seeking to preserve their authority whilst uninterested in the discontinuation of their predatory behaviour. The faith in the punitive power of the rule of law arrests Kali from flooding the consciousness of their victims, making Durka and the Matri goddesses persevere in a civilized manner, unlike the instance in which 200 Indian women, armed with vegetable knifes, stones and chilli powder stormed the court hearing of gang-leader and rapist Akku Yadav, dismembering his genitals with a vegetable knife, robbing him of his phallus through a vengeful barbaric act of literal castration, dead in a matter of 15 minutes, leaving his lifeless corpse daggered by kitchen knives on the white marble floor of the court, in an exhibition of gore galore, resembling the sublime beauty of a transcendent piece of art in the eyes of Kali.

Legend of Medusa (Ovid´s version)

In Greek legend, Medusa is the sole mortal among three gorgon sisters, depicted as a beautiful maid with plentiful of potential suitors, longing for the reciprocation of her attention. She is brutally raped in the temple of Athena by God Poseidon as a result of the rejection of his advances. Enraged by the desacralization of her temple, Athena curses Medusa, turning her hair turned into snakes, metamorphosing her into a monstrous form armed with a glare that petrified anyone who dared to meet her eyes.

As if Medusa hadn’t suffered enough, she was later beheaded by demigod Perseus. Many men had tried to behead her prior to Perseus, but all had been turned into stone at the sight of her petrifying glare. Perseus however, was clever enough to stare into the mirror moments before the beheading, instead of in her eyes. As he flew over Libya with Medusa’s decapitated in his hands, blood dripped on the soil and snakes sprout from the droplets. Medusa’s head is later gifted to Athena, whom attaches it to her shield, supplying her with the power of Medusa’s deadly glare in combat.

The legend of Medusa is one of horrific injustice and betrayal. After the violation of her person through the act of rape, her boss, Athena, does the unimaginable: curse her. The ancient equivalent to the modern-day slut shame of a genuine victim of rape. The horrors of rape alone didn’t metamorphize her hair into serpents, it was that the aftermath of her rape was followed by the ultimate betrayal by a deity she had bestowed with trust.

If Kali’s fury has lit her heart on fire, then Athena’s betrayal has frozen Medusa’s heart into ice. In Kali, the Nietzschean will to power is alive and striving, but in Medusa it is nowhere to be found. Medusa, as a beautiful maiden was pure, pure in the sense that she couldn’t conceive of the unfathomable betrayal of Athena, thus when it dawned upon her   hope in both humanity and divinity was lost. Anyone who’s superego isn’t as disturbed as that of Athena and Poseidon will be overwhelmed by their conscience upon meeting Medusa’s gaze. The burden of her victimization is a collective bearing for all to carry, reminding us of the consequences of vicious cruelty.

Every young boy has looked into the eyes of Medusa as their, otherwise loving, mother coolly hit them with the “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed,” remark. Such disappointment, from women, causes a man to cringe in an instinctive act of clenching the gut muscles.

In yogic philosophy, masculine consciousness is associated with fire and believed to reside in the solar plexus. One believes to be speaking figuratively when alluding to bravery as “having guts” but embodied bravery, is quite literally impossible without having a strong presence in the gut area.

The act of cringing is the act of shame as a biological reaction rather than an emotion. Medusa’s ice-cold gaze, cursing one to cringe in shame, is the true extinguisher of a man’s masculine consciousness, making him think twice before he acts next time, however since Medusa has lost hope in the redeeming qualities of man, there will be no next time, whomever meeting her gaze is doomed to freeze for all eternity. The many men whom attempted to behead her prior to Perseus couldn’t bear the collective burden of a restless conscience and thus instinctively attempt to rescue their phallus from the prospect of psychic castration through beheading the source of their restlessness. Such an act of profanity, is nothing short from foolish desperation, a last resort for restoring balance in one’s psyche, bound to fail from the get go, which is why all men prior to Perseus freeze to stone upon their attempted murder.

Perseus only finds success through looking in the mirror at the moment of execution, sparing his phallus from castration as his conscience remains unaffected, but his heinous crime is not without consequence as Medusa’s spilled blood sprout to life venomous serpents on Libyan soil. Medusa is Mahsa Amini, as the Iranian morality police seem to mistake the beauty of a woman’s hair for poisonous serpents. The serpents sprung to life by Medusa’s blood are the many Iranian women unleashing the terror of their liberated hair upon the morality police. Nothing terrifies fundamentalist Islamists more than the emergence of their own anima, as it becomes projected upon an enchanting woman. 

Raktabīja’s blood stains produce duplicates as a reaction to fair female resistance, Medusa’s blood stains produce serpents as a reaction to horrific injustice and a cowardice murder. The moral of the story is that injustice and disrespect of self-assertion lay the groundworks in which mayhem may flourish.

Lastly, Athena attaching Medusa’s head to her shield is a ploy to harness the power of a victim’s hopeless disappointment and masquerade it as her own. Athena, despite being a deity, could impossibly freeze her opponents with her own gaze, as she created Medusa’s through initiating the destruction of her reputation. It is solely through a masquerade in which Athena cosplays victimhood that she can harness the powers of it.

[magdadurka]

Designer Magda Durka at work for Easy Jet/Eurovision Pr campaign, May 2023; commissioned by Taylor Herring for Easy Jet. BTS.

[flagellant]

Arab Anon here- I have heard the phrase “Durka Durka (the name of the prophet) Jihad” so many fucking times that it puts me into actual rage. I hear it and see red. Fuck you Matt Stone and Trey Parker you pieces of human shit you made middle school a living hell

But thing is I feel like I’m being a bad person for getting on people for that because I frame it in relation to my own arab-ness, which feels dubious at times. I feel like because I wasn’t raised with an Arabic community, I don’t get to claim myself as Arab. My mother gave me what she had, but she didn’t have much. How can I be Arab when I haven’t even met my own Arab family?

...I don't know if I've ever spoken about this on tumblr but here we go.

I have, I suppose, two tribes. I have the tribe which I am descended from blood, the Tache Yokuts, and due to specific family drama I am completely severed from my culture both as a Yokuts and as an Irish Romani. Everything I have of these is from research and trying to learn in isolation and dealing with the constant never ending grief of knowing that it's pointless. I can worship my god all I want but it will not change the fact that I'm never going to be invited to important rituals and events on my land.

A friend adopted me into the Comanche tribe because in part of that severance and desperation for community and a culture which would accept and welcome me. Since then I've ended up mostly going by Comanche, using my Comanche name, calling myself such, etc.

But I was still Native before that. Pretty much every other Native I've ever met immediately pegged me as such once they knew what to look for. Some even before that. I had to do it myself but I turned my people's entire history into my family.

Don't discount yourself and don't pretend that just because you don't meet white people's expected standards for who you are and where you come from.

[themisterhip]

🦾TRAINING SESSION🦾 (PART 2)

Swap AU made by the awesome: @zurka-durka

I'm obssesed with them HELP-

[semi-imaginary-place]

hnk stuff from reddit

The running joke is that you need a PhD in Japanese Pure Land Buddhist philosophy to understand what is going on. The main thing to get is that HnK is a critique of Pure Land Buddhism.

As for discussions on ship of theseus or plato's save this is anglosphere Westerners trying to use Western philosophical terms (which are more familiar) to interpret the existentialist themes inherent to Buddhism.

Most of this stuff is searchable on the internet. But you can also look up a primer on Buddhist philosophy and Mahayana Buddhism in particular which is the form most popular in East Asia.

Other than that there was this one imgur post going around compiling mythological references but I don't remember where it it.

Specifically ship of theseus/grandfather's axe deal with the question of what is the essence of something (or someone one). If something keeps changing having it's parts replaced with different parts at what point is it something different than the original. To understand a more Japanese perspective on philosophy and aesthetics look up kinsugi, wabi-sabi, or even the shinto influences on Japanese Buddhism. 

 Plato's allegory of the cave is about perspective, experienced versus objective reality, what is real, and knowledge. Some's dude's only seen the world through the shadows cast on a wall, then leaves the cave and realizes that everything they're seen has been shadows. 

 Some basic extremely simplified highschool takeaways for Buddhism is that suffering or discomfort (durka) is inevitable in life, this suffering stems from attachment to the world and desires (of any kind). Life is in a cycle of reincarnation (samsara). The way to break free of the cycle is to reach enlightenment (nirvana) by freeing oneself of all desire. In Mahayana Buddhism someone enlightened may instead choose to remain in the world to guide others becoming a bodhisattva. In the context of history this allowed Mahayana Buddhism to better adapt to local religions as it spread across Asia, incorporating local religions and deities. Thus Japanese Buddhism is descendent from Chinese Buddhism and you can see the Chinese influences in it (same with Korean Buddhism). Chinese Buddhism itself was influenced by other non-Indian cultures along the silk road in Central Asia (Persia, etc). So the route Japanese Buddhism took was from India to Central Asia then China before finally coming to Japan. Honestly just read the Wikipedia page on Buddhism it explains thing better than I can.

I'm not well versed enough in Buddhism to have a good guess but here's some notable plot points in relation to Buddhist themes in HnK.

https://semi-imaginary-place.tumblr.com/post/732170126864105472/ichikawa-intended-for-phos-to-be-a-failed-7

Phos is set up narratively to gain all 7 jewels/treasures (houseki) of Buddhism and then the author deliberately makes it so he doesn't. Phos gets the wrong final jewel. Phos gets shell and agate legs, gold platinum alloy arms, Lapis Lazuli's head, and Achemea implants an artificial pearl eye into their head. The last treasure Phos was missing was a red gem/carnelian/coral. But instead Phos got Adamante's eye and became "human".   

Humanity failed to go extinct. Their souls, flesh, and bones existing separately and simultaneously in the world. Instead of continuing the cycle of reincarnation the Moon People/Lunarians are stuck in a state of neither life of death, stagnant. Instead of striving to reach enlightenment they seek complete annihilation the cessation of existence. To these descendents true humans are as to gods, the only ones with the power to have them die.

There's also a lot of ominous imagery. Like the lotus is probably the most significant symbol in Buddhism representing enlightening and the cycle of reincarnation. And Phos is associated several times with an empty lotus seed pod, like that he has failed Buddhism or something, the lotus failed to complete it's lifecycle and will not be born again from it's seeds.  

I honestly don't have any conclusions what to make of all this, still mulling over it all.