#human influence

[marejadilla]

Martin Wittfooth, "Bloom", oil on canvas, 2015. b. 1981 Toronto, Ontario.

“Wittfooth’s paintings, drawings, installations and sculptural works use allegory and symbolism to explore themes of the intersection and clash of industry and nature, and the human influence on the environment.”  

[tenth-sentence]

Nitrous oxide is now recognized to be the most significant of all human-influenced ozone-depleting compounds.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

[notherpuppet]

This part is taking me awhile but I keep coming back to it. I love drawing Nanny Alastor bonding with Charlie 🥰

[0ketinha]

Picnic with friends

[crazycometspecular]

At least he didn’t overreact

[theabigailthorn]

a musician called Altair sampled the speech I made at my first ever trans pride and turned it into a trance track lmao

okay, now that's fucking cool

[aforgotto]

Doodled some human versions of the mane 6. Not incredibly unique as far as mane 6 designs go, but I think they're alright

[lilybug-02]

Dewi has made a new bug friend! What will he do next?! Who knows!

Bug Fact: Surprisingly, scorpions can actually break glass if they put enough force behind their strikes.

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[kindnessisstillhere]

Farmland

It’s easier to claim it all is,

Than discern what isn’t farm.

Outside of the cities, I mean.

Forests and woods are clear,

Mountains generally defined,

But the land between is unclear,

Is it farm or left for wild?

Usually the answer is a farm,

Grazing for cattle, sheep,

Crops planted regularly,

Controlled, maintained.

What do I know of wild lands?

We’ve made the world controlled.

Human influence is everywhere,

We make ourselves involved.

Outside of cities, of course it’s farms,

Even if I doubt the need,

Doubt we need crops everywhere.

Perhaps that’s just this country.

[blossoms-phan]

this is fucking killing me LMAOOOO poor dan I feel so bad for him 😭😭 I would also be distracted if i was talking to phil lester while he was looking like that but omg

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

massages forehead So Ambessa hid Mel away because she was a weapon in the literal sense, a mage. But Ambessa came to Piltover for Hextech? And Ambessa had nothing to say to Mel about her powers having visibly awakened? Even when Mel offered to go with Ambessa, giving her the ultimate opportunity to make Mel a weapon for real? And Ambessa made no attempt to find or retrieve Mel - not just her daughter and the remnants of the family Ambessa professes to love, but also her ultimate weapon - when she disappeared? And Ambessa trusted Singed and Viktor on their home turf - neither of them hiding how insane and self-serving they are with every reason to take over Ambessa's soldiers or just blatantly turn on her as soon as it benefits them - more than she trusted Mel? While Caitlyn (and by extension Piltover) was visibly and clearly falling away from Ambessa's teachings before Ambessa's eyes? (as if getting rid of certain people allows piltover to get rid of fascism but we won't get into All That)

Not only do I struggle to be hyped for Mel's powers beyond how amazing and beautiful she looks, but I can't help but feel like Mel is somehow less powerful in season 2 than she was in season 1, and not in an interesting way. As if Mel's ability to bend all of Piltover politics and economics to her will in season 1 now means nothing in season 2? You can argue that Jinx's attack led directly to Mel losing ground in Piltover - because I expected Mel to have to claw back that power without being able to rely on people who are too easily seduced by Ambessa and authoritarianism, and she would have to get creative to go toe to toe with her mother. I expected pushback to her mage identity that she would have to navigate. But instead this went either unwritten, or was ignored or discarded. Instead Mel is removed from the main plot, cutting her off from what made her the most interesting - only for all of Mel's very real talents, her very real powers and abilities, to be not only translated but REPLACED with magical powers she doesn't know how to control, and by the finale, those magic powers are the only powers that are considered real. Mel takes a backseat to Piltover's governing and decisions, a backseat to Jayce of all people who was not only new to politics mere months ago but made poor governing, strategic, and diplomatic decisions when he had that power. In season 1 Mel stayed off the "throne" but she did pull its strings one way or the other, and she makes no attempt at this in season 2

In my least generous suspicions, Mel was gentled and quieted to capitulate to an agenda for other characters who had to be correct and heroic - or wrong and villainous - no matter what the leadup narrative said, given her powers to help sell the game and set up future shows, and was effectively ejected from the Arcane story with faceless soldiers and a role she doesn't want because she was inconvenient there

[marejadilla]

Martin Wittfooth, “Pandora”, oil on canvas, 2018. b. 1981 Toronto, Ontario. “Wittfooth’s paintings, drawings, installations and sculptural works use allegory and symbolism to explore themes of the intersection and clash of industry and nature, and the human influence on the environment.”

[mae-i-scribble]

I'm sure this has been talked about plenty but I'm still awestruck at how well Frieren handles Himmel and Frieren's relationship. I have never seen the 'character haunts the narrative' story beat done to such effectiveness.

Frieren's regret is that she didn't know Himmel before he was gone- but he exists in everything Frieren does without her fully realizing it. Frieren is a fundamentally different person and we *know* it is mostly thanks to Himmel's influence. The constant flashbacks, the way in which Frieren's logic and everyday routines have been altered by his memory. She collect spells because he and the others complimented the mundane, random spells she had found. The way that instead of her master, Himmel is the person who the monsters choose to immitate.

The flashbacks too, are so so potent in characterizing who Himmel was- not only in regards to Frieren, but in regards to Himmel as the hero. The person who lead his group to kill the demon king. The person who did everything in his power to help those around him. The person who was so clearly in love with Frieren but understood intimately that Frieren would not love him in the same regard and even worse, would be walking a very long and lonely path.

Hell, it's at the start of every chapter, in which time is only kept by the years before and after Himmel's death.

It all comes back to him, in the end

[c-kiddo]

wildmother designs - i like the idea of abstract gods but also wanted to draw her anyway, imagine her like a big lumbering soft rainforest hill. also, my own headcanon is she has a pretty featureless face often, just like gentle and sleepy, but directly communicating with a worshipper her face mirrors a mother to them. doesnt have to literally be their mother, but a mother. so the first drawing is a firbolg faced wildmother for the clays

[0ketinha]

one click away

[sideblogofawriter]

Diavolo, during a student council meeting: We now turn to the-

MC: Oratrice!

Solomon: Mecanique!

Barbatos: D'Analyse.

Diavolo: Cardinale!

The brothers: ???