#its evocative

[nails-teeth-neck]

I dont know how to say this in a way that doesn't make me sound evil but I like it when they do fantasy discrimination... like yeah people would be fucked up cunts about elves and magic have you seen us

[ellowynthenotking]

Love and your world ending feel just the same don't they?

Join me while I sit upon my rooftop as the world crashes and burns. The flames won't reach us from up here, and I'll hold your hand if you want.

[rthwrms]

im reading a book on the history of notebooks and the author is positing that the reason there's a huge shift in european art around the 1200s from earlier byzantine-style religious art to a more naturalistic classically "renaissance" style art (i.e. cimabue and giotto) is due to the very recent accessibility of paper in florence. because before paper became readily available in the region, there was parchment which was expensive and time-intensive to make. so any art made on that material was your first and only shot at making that piece. but with the much more accessible paper? with paper you can sketch.

[pa-rou]

always within

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine looking at a character whose entire premise is that in every stage of his life, he's made every version of himself into someone that inspires people to such a degree that EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF HIM has people wanting to literally follow in his footsteps in some way or another.....

And coming to the conclusion that like.....the most important things about him are the sum of all his trappings. His entirely homemade developed from scratch could not exist if not for what he already was and brought with him BEFORE crafting this newest version of himself trappings, with his greatest trait throughout all of it being his adaptability; his ability and willingness to roll with the punches and not try to simply weather any opposition or changes to his life but instead reshape himself as needed to better fit INTO whatever new shape his life and the world around him takes. All while managing to carry the most innate, fundamental and necessary aspects of himself from one version to the next. Thus every single version of himself is different but simultaneously every single version of himself is also undeniably the same person.

The strength of this character, to me, will always be that he can be so many versions of himself, he can become so many things, all without ever actually losing or discarding any of the aspects of himself he considers most essential, the things he's not willing to lose or give up just to keep going. Finding that road not taken by most, usually because most never even think to look for it as an option. But one that he's always able to find because the one trick he's mastered in his tumultuous life is threading that needle of not just digging in his heels in an unproductive way but rather being selective about when and where he makes a stand and decides "this is not a thing I'm willing to compromise about" but here are places and ways I can and will change and evolve and adapt in order to make it possible for me to hold onto these parts and keep them as they are.

And that's why its always so mind-boggling to me that so many writers can't seem to think of anything else to do with Dick Grayson other than invent some new reason for him to just....not be that person, or to like just take the character whose most basic fundamental trait he's NOT about to compromise on is willingly giving up his spot in the driver's seat of his own life.....and make him just a passenger in his own life and stories.

Dick Grayson at age nine....at age nineteen...at age twenty nine....the one core thread running through all versions of him is the only way he's standing back and letting you call the shots for him or putting him on the sidelines in some way is over his dead body.

HOW he goes about that, what that looks like, who he becomes and what aspects of himself he plays up at some times and what traits he lets fall by the wayside at other times when they offer less in service to his primary goal here....that changes constantly. He changes constantly.

But those changes are almost always (or at least they used to be/should be IN MY OPINION) made with the intention of keeping certain things about him or his life as consistent as possible.

That's the duality of Dick Grayson that I'm here for. The inherent contradiction of him that COULD allow for endless conflict and breaking new narrative ground in all sorts of ways if mined properly:

His eternal willingness to compromise....but only ever in pursuit of doubling down on the ways he's not willing to compromise.

Forever walking that tightrope in ways that only a kid born and raised in a circus could ever hope to.

[velvetwyrme]

sometimes i listen to one song over and over again for weeks on end. other times i listen to AM's Hate monologue on repeat HFJFBDKS

[eli-void]

the dust from the explosion that settles on the cardinals' shoulders and heads, is it like the ash for ash wednesday, reminding them that they too, are mortal beings who will eventually turn to dust? is this anything?

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for being a crocodile that tries to steal bananas from a gorilla?

[glamfellens]

a lil progress on a tarren portrait (->)... the avowed soundtrack has me INSPIRED

[deoidesign]

If William had to fall in love with ONE cursed pirate, who-

uhmm, I guess Scrappy and Big are pretty busy being lesbi- GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE

[alkemylabz]

it's you! / despite everything, it's still you.

[tapeworm-loser]

I am Jack’s smudged sketchbook

[always-and-forever-a-killjoy]

Speak to Me (2023) by Depeche Mode // Cemetery Drive (2004) by My Chemical Romance

Is this anything?

[aroanthy]

of all the things one can say about episode 33, one ive been thinking about a lot recently is disrupted sleep. like, the day/night cycle and character's sleep schedules alike are being messed with here. akio's fucked up endless highway is perpetually night, so that certainly contributes to it, but i just think-- there is something so viscerally upsetting to me about spending the day at an amusement park, going to bed in a hotel, and being driven home from that hotel when it is still dark. you know? i thought about anthy's disrupted sleep in the black rose arc too, and how akio wakes utena in the car by brushing her cheek. that idea of being in and out of sleep, of not getting enough of it... and then the (family) day-out nature of this trip to the hotel, the way utena is so thoroughly positioned as a child in this episode. what if i got stabbed to death by some swords real quick

[wiltking]

trans artists are so cool