#i'm not one of ur fans

[tapeworrmart]

Deep water

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

Shoutout to Long Face by the Vampire Lestat for being an actual real song that actually made it onto my top 100 songs this year btw. Do you think Lestat will make one of those little "thank you fans" videos to thank all of us who streamed his music?

[hercarisntyours]

local sparkling bullies old man

[camellcat]

some doctor who cyanotypes I made for my photography class that I just realized I never shared

[gemini-queen42]

So My friend gave me their old drawing tablet recently, and coincidentally a very Fitting song for this character dropped around the same time, sooo-

what better to test the tablet out than some simple art of her?

Meet Venuette! Amalure's mother, Villeneuve's local bitter hermit woman, and my favorite morally grey fascination<3

(Note: this art is depicting her ~10? years before the Main Events/Plot of OTH. (Minus the doodle of her in red, there she's a teenager).

(even w/ that I feel like I didn't visually age her properly but oh well<3)

Bonus: I feel so professional drawing w/ this thing lmao

Og the plan was to get this done yesterday quick enough that the song on loop would suffice but- that clearly fell through lol

[izloveshorses]

here's a little wip share!

Since I've been out of art school for a while now I've been craving a good long term project, and what better subject than my favorite show? :) I'm pretending like Anastasia is an animated production/video game/whatever and I'm in charge of putting together a 'concept art book'/illustrated guide (for lack of a better term). Which means there would be extensive artwork of each costume, character lineups, background/set paintings, and prop studies. I'm currently still working on drawing and rendering all the assets and once they're all drawn I'll arrange them in a page layout as if they'll be printed in a big book!

But since it will be several months/year+ before it's finished I thought i could share some of my progress so far and possibly document the process as we go along. Here is an act i lineup of the principal characters, some examples of character costume sheets, and a couple screenshots of some ensemble costumes in various stages of completion. I've also rendered several props and I've started a couple background paintings, but I'll share those later.

Why embark such a tedious project, you ask? Well! because. i want to. So far it's been pretty fun. my obsessive collection/scholarly archive of reference photos of this show are finally being put to good use 🙈

Feel free to send any questions about the project my way! <3

[abetebleu]

i watched iwtv and now i only think about that 75% of my thoughts are related to it

[anarkissm]

one of the most fascinating aspects of the Alien series's xenomorphs is the way they impregnate hosts as murderous parasites: an allegory to the horrors of pregnancy/birthing, specifically the ways it can violently disable or even kill the human body. this was an intentional parallel that H.R. Giger made when he was designing the xenomorphs, artistically expressing his own personal phobia with childbirth. compounded by the symbolic eroticism and copulative violation of the xenomorph's impregnating methods. the forced penetration, the insemination. the pain, and the inability to escape it, as it happens. it will literally kill you, if you try. the conventionally "feminine" shape of the xenomorph and its homogeneous hive controlled by its "queen". this is, at its core, body horror. horror of the reproductive or birthing body, and horror of the seemingly inescapable suffering of gestation.

it becomes even more evident when the yautja are involved: an ancient enemy of the xenomorph, considers xenomorphs their god and the perfect predator, are a primarily matriarchal society but not homogeneous, conventionally "masculine" but biologically intersex. in many ways, the yautja are the antithesis of the xenomorphs. known to capture and sadistically torture xenomorphs in erotic positions of submission:

it is also important to note that unlike the yautja: by all accounts, the xenomorphs are biologically engineered. "unnatural" in the sense that they were created only for destruction, a weapon; exploited by capitalistic industries.

in a way, the yautja prevent this violating act on the xenomorphs' victims by ritually killing them, preventing the realization of Giger's phobia or at least minimizing the infestation. the complex and "warring" relationship between xenomorphs and yautja hunters are that of equals and opposites. "masculinity" and "femininity". darkness (xenomorphs, which are stealth hunters that blend perfectly into the dark) and light (yautja, who literally bend light around them via shiftsuits). yin and yang. etc. a paradoxical harmony that the yautja seem to recognize, and viewed as sacred. this is why they hunt the xenomorphs, embodiment of a corrupted darkness.

this allegorical dynamic between yautja and prey is not exclusive to the xenomorphs. yautja hunters and their human prey are often illustrated in suggestive positions, creating a jarring juxtaposition of sadism, eroticism and death (possibly as a metaphor for domination).

I have already covered that the yautja's prey are exclusively mercenaries, special forces soldiers, killers and cops. Essentially, they hunt predators. the yautja's relationship with their human prey is almost always an exercise in domination; they view these murderers as their equal in terms of brutality and sadism (which is why they enjoy hunting them so voraciously; to them, human killers are dishonoring the hunt by killing civilians and unarmed souls), if not in sheer strength and technological prowess. human killers often choose to fight yautja hunters with brute strength or a hail of advanced firepower. and, predictably, it never works. survivors defeated "the predator" with cunning, ingenuity, and the ability to use their environment and limited resources to their advantage. Moreover, these survivors usually only face one or two at a time, which offers them some advantage.

Ultimately, the yautja (with the exception of many bad bloods) revere the ancient harmony of the universe and all life in it, as they understand the origin of creation came from their mother-serpent (ancient meteors which germinated the perfect chemical soup in the beginnings of "the big bang", which then traveled across the universe, spreading life throughout: panspermia); they use their strength and power to protect the prey of these human pedators.

[itscoffeetime-world]

‼️JEANNE WANTED POSTER ‼️

Some of the process :D

I love her sm

[foundfamilyhq]

[smoozie]

If I see one more fanfic where Scar's only friend is Cub I think I might lose it

[blighted-elf]

I just need every person who has ever made a mod for fem Adaar to know that I love them dearly

[lillotte17]

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[basofy]

i feel a little bad remembering how in my mother days there was this rly common perception of thinking 'well lucas would be so pessimistic after what happened and he would hate flint cuz he sucks and he would hate everything!!' and i would believe it just cuz i was still relearning a lot of things i didnt know if that was what i was supposed to think but it always felt like people who saw things this way wanted to force others to do too

[fisheito]

slithering out from under a rock or something to inform you that you DO have followers who are yaku lovers <3 he's been my fave since day one and i would love to accompany him to the farmers market

ah.. i sit corrected... valuable confirmation of intel. *enters it manually into the nucadex* where to find yakufans: farmer's market (they will be farming and/or marketing)