#its totally anatomically accurate !!!!

[wowiezowiebaby]

Someone provided me with the idea of pumpkin patch but as a Dullahan, so I drew it !! Unfortunately I can't draw horses for the life of me (trust me, I tried for about 10 minutes before weeping and throwing away all of my art supplies forever) so you just get pumpkin .. and a small portion of horse ..

[aahsoka]

felt good about my drawings but nope my teachers grading scale always makes me feel not good lmfao

[serpentface]

GUARDIAN LIONS

An Odomache guardian lion cult statue (alabaster with gold plating and inlaid pearl and lapis lazuli), of the curved-reposed maned lioness variant.

Guardian lions are a Wardi architectural/artistic motif that confers protective benefits to the buildings or utilitarian objects on which they are placed. The practice of artworks depicting lions as place-guardians long predates the Faith of the Seven Faced God, and has been translated into contemporary practice as aspects of the Face Odomache.

This Face has core functions as a representation of sovereignty and military might, but additionally is interpreted as both a protective patriarch and nurturing mother to Its people. Lions represent this function well, as a powerful and venerated animal capable of both tremendous ferocity and gentleness (these functions combined in their renowned fierce protection of their own cubs).

Guardian lions come in three distinct sex variants, which impart different meanings.

Male guardian lions most typically are used to represent the Patriarch Odomache, the Face as a divine father that watches over the collective household of Its people. This iconography is most common in architectural guardian lions placed upon homes, as a representative of the father's intended function as the protector and arbiter of his family. They effectively 'guard' the culturally important private familial sphere, with their presence being a reminder to potential trespassers (literal and figurative) that retribution will be severe.

Maneless guardian lionesses are used to represent Odomache as a protector of pregnant women and children, in a form that suggests both an underlying ferocity and a feminine ideal of gentle nurturing. These are less common than the other variants, and mostly appear on smaller art and ritual objects used in conjunction with pregnancy and childrearing. Their most prominent core use is being a standard decoration on the carved ox horns used by midwives to bear oil (anointed upon mothers and newborns) and to pass over women in labor for spiritual protection. They're also common as small art objects or toys for babies and young children.

Maned guardian lionesses express a totality of these functions. Core depictions of the Face Odomache usually use a maned lioness, with the androgyny unifying Its functions as the Patriarch and the nurturing mother into a protective guardian mother to the collective people. These depictions have ubiquitous uses (the only context you Rarely see them in are as household guardians), and are the typical variant seen in important public spaces, and standard as cult statues to Odomache.

The guardian lion is a very old motif with regional variants, and comes in a variety of stylistic forms. There is very little standardization to the style (with some standardized elements only just beginning to develop in cult objects in recent history). However, there are very well-established conventions for the lion's posture that often distinguishes these guardian figures from non-functional, generic lion art, and imply more specified meanings.

STANDARD POSTURES:

Nursing lioness:

Glazed pottery nursing lioness. This is a decorative art object with guardian functions, likely to be placed near a child's bed.

The lion is at rest, belly turned out to the side to expose teats (occasionally accompanied by suckling cubs). Some unique variants are partially anthropomorphized, placing humanoid breasts in the chest area (rather than the more typical anatomically accurate teats). The posture is relaxed but alert, and will be positioned so that the face looks upon the point of approach. This pose is almost exclusively used for guardian lions as protectors for children, displaying a fierce animal mother figure in an entirely gentle, nurturing form.

Reposed:

Unpainted stone statue of a reposed male lion.

The lion is at rest. There is little active threat in its pose, instead invoking a relaxed, self-assured guardian. This motif appears often in non location-specific decoration or general public spaces.

Curved reposed:

Sketch of the curved-reposed alabaster maned lioness as seen from above, as it would appear in a temple shrine. A bowl is placed for libations, a tray for small offerings of flowers and grain.

The lion is at rest, with its front positioned to confront the viewer while the length of its body is simultaneously visible. It is a relaxed pose in a resting position, but the body's contortion makes it more confrontational towards onlookers, suggesting that a cautious and humble approach is necessary. This is most common in cult statues (where offerings will be placed along the length of its body).

Seated:

Seated Loberan house statue guardian, painted stone.

The lion is seated on its haunches, suggesting watchful alertness and an implied threat, but that the animal is secure in its strength and at rest. This type is the most common as an architectural feature for homes, representing patriarchal guardianship of the family and the domestic sphere within. This pose is almost always male, with very occasional maned lioness variants.

Standing/Striding:

Painted marble statue showing a standing/striding maned lioness. The statue is three dimensional with its sides carved in high relief; the pose will appear to be static when viewed from the front, and is mid-stride from the sides. The tail between the legs is unusual for a guardian lion motif and its placement is entirely due to the physical restrictions of this statue's form.

The lion is standing at attention or depicted mid-stride (often both simultaneously), suggesting readiness to strike. This confers a sense active protection and intimidation, and most often appears flanking the entrance in high status public spaces like temples and palaces. As a person approaches a standing+striding variant, they are greeted with a static front staring them down, and the lion appears to walk as they pass, suggesting they have entered an important space being guarded with high alertness- they can feel safe under its active protection (or know that it can and will (figuratively) come after them if they are a trespasser).

Conquering:

An oil lamp depicting a conquering maned lioness. The trampled figure's nudity in this context codifies him as a 'barbarian', while the artificially lengthened skull and long beard distinctly identifies him as a Finn king. This is a piece in the ancient artistic tradition known as 'seething and coping'.

The guardian lion stands over and/or actively tramples a prone form, usually human. It shows the conclusion of the guardian lion's function- the defeat and subduing of a threatening enemy. This enemy figure will often be expressed as a generic 'barbarian' (usually coded via nudity) or representing a specific population by depicting recognizable (real or imagined) practices of dress and adornment. Animals sometimes appear as 'enemies' instead, which can vary depending on the purpose- a dog (generally disliked animal) casts the enemy figure as pathetic and easily destroyed, a king hyena or crocodile (respected/feared large predators) casts the enemy as powerful but overcome by greater might.

This motif most often occurs in art used in state/military contexts (where it quite literally shows an embodiment of the state trampling a foreign enemy to death), but is used in everyday objects as well. The 'enemy' figure (whether a human caricature or an animal) can represent any number of threats perceived by an everyday person - bad luck, curses, a hated neighbor, thieves, livestock predators - and conveys a guardian spirit overcoming these threats.

[mistfallengw2]

How do charr hands function? Here's my headcanon (with drawings!)

So I made this poll earlier today and I ended up making some sketches to explain how I headcanon charr hands and their supposedly retractable yet too big claws. The idea is that both the game and the books are partially right: claws can be big (not as big as the models), and they're semi-retractable (so fully-fluffy paws). [Disclaimer: I am bad at anatomical drawings and did not try to make them super accurate :')]

Basically charr fingers are made of three phalanges, but functionally they're just two, with the 2nd and 3rd being much shorter and sort of "merging" with the claw itself, which is mostly supported by the 3rd and starts very close to the knuckle between them. The palm is covered almost entirely by a skin pad/paw pad, which usually extends to the first phalanx of each finger, and the fingertips are covered by pads as well.

The claws are semi-retractile, though the exact range of motion depends on the individual's genetics (claw size and shape + hand anatomy) and preferences (how much they trim the claw). The ability to retract their claws is managed by specialized extra tendons and muscles in the hand's structure, and they can lock the claw in place or move it, even while the fingers are bent, though with some limitation at the extremes of movement. While the claw at rest will stay at a "safe" angle, the claw's bed can shift on the cartilage structure when pulled, sliding back into a "sheathed" position or be pushed outwards. [note: I was too scared to go too far with the "x-ray" sketches and probably the claws could go a bit further back in the finger lol]

Ancestrally, this system kept the claws from always digging into the ground and losing sharpness when running on all fours, while still allowing for extra grip when necessary (similar to cheetahs) and the use when fighting or taking down prey. During the evolutionary transition in which charr started walking upright most of the time and using tools, it lost some of its ancestral necessity and functionality. However, instead of turning into something vestigial, charr evolved the ability of controlling each claw's movement independently from the rest of the finger, allowing for greater precision, fine motor skills and dexterity.

The pad grants grip and softer manipulation of items, while the claw handles movements finer and more precise than the pad allows, and other races find it complex, fascinating or a bit freaky. Some say that charr are as dexterous than humans, if not more, which is quite an accomplishment for creatures with such big hands.

That said, variety is huge among charr. Some have stubby paws with big, wide claws, while others have long, slender fingers with narrow claws.

Claws are still used as a natural weapon by many soldiers, but it's totally not uncommon for charr to file their claws down or keep them blunt, as there's a huge variety of reasons for not wanting sharp knives on one's fingers (job requirements, handling of delicate materials, safer interactions with cubs or creatures with softer skin, personal preference, etc), and some even keep their claws at different lengths for specific uses.

That said, claws can't be trimmed beyond the quick without bleeding or potential damage, and since it extends out of the sheath it's not possible for a charr to fully sheath their claws. Claws grow quite fast to make up for the daily wear and tear, so upkeep must be done regularly, as trimming too much might temporarily impact coordination. Declawing can happen during combat or following injury, and those affected might wear prosthetics/fake claws to make up for it.

[ceasarslegion]

“Sometimes that’s what it takes mentally and physically to get the male penis inside the female vagina” I am DYING why would they phrase it like that but also, of course they would phrase it like that…

ITS THE FUNNIEST FILM THEY SHOWED US IN SEX ED

I have not been able to find it since, but i distinctly remember the whole plot because of that one line. It followed the protagonist, who was a teenage boy, from the moment he woke up and realized puberty had started, to when he went to bed at night knowing what sex is. Incredible learning curve btw. Dude was cooking.

He woke up realizing he had a wet dream and told his mom about it, who told him he must have hit puberty and went over how the things he dreams about now are perfectly normal and nothing to be ashamed of, but are still sometimes private and often not to be acted on in real life. Great lesson to instill in kids, but insane conversation to have over frosted flakes, which were what he was eating. This was how it STARTED btw. Our health class was at 9 in the morning.

He then went to school, where he disregarded what his mom told him entirely and told all his friends he had a wet dream and asked them what puberty was. One said that he thinks thats a city in france. The teacher overhears the conversation and completely stops her math lesson to draw anatomically accurate diagrams of a penis and a vagina on the board and label them.

After school the kid meets up with his older brother who is visiting from military boot camp (NEVER elaborated on. Malcolm in the middle plagiarism) at an outdoor public park by a lake to talk about sex and puberty. The brother has a big long talk with him about growing up and developing his sexuality over time and what is and isnt appropriate to engage in. This is surprisingly progressive for when i grew up in the 2000s, because he covered consent, said that maturbation is healthy, told him when and how to get STI tested without fearmongering, etc. Honestly they could have cut out all the rest of the movie. But the legendary line was when the brother was talking about how some people experience performance anxiety and erectile dysfunction which is totally normal and treatable with the right medical or psychological help and then he hit that one-two punch of "sometimes thats what it takes mentally and physically to get the male penis inside the female vagina."

And now, sometimes, to this day, in my own apartment, with a college degree, and my job, i will sip my coffee in the morning and my brain will think "sometimes thats what it takes mentally and physically to get the male penis inside the female vagina."

[priestbitmoved]

                                  [ ˑ ˑ ˑ ] 𝑫𝑶𝑵𝑵𝑰𝑬 𝑾𝑨𝑻𝑻𝑺' 𝑻𝑨𝑻𝑻𝑶𝑶𝑺 & 𝑷𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑪𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺 , bramble's quick and easy guide .

NECK, SHOULDERS AND BACK :

donnie has a big neck piece that depicts medusa. her expression is best described as one of serene rage. her eyes are totally white, which contrasts with the heavy black and grey detailing of the rest of the piece. the snakes of her hair fan out around his throat and along the underside of his jaw.

a wilted sunflower behind his right ear, usually hidden behind his hair. got it not long after leaving longing, new mexico. it is meant to celebrate james gallowes.

behind his left ear, you'll find a single crimson lipstick stain that's also usually hidden by his hair.

on the back of his neck, under all his hair, you'll find a biblically accurate angel design.

a laughing skull wearing a battered cowboy hat on the back of his right shoulder, done in black ink.

severed angel wings on both shoulder blades, done with pops of red ink and with several bloody feathers scattered around the area.

a rattlesnake that follows the curve of his spine.

an anatomical heart with a noose wrapped around it on the back of his left shoulder. it was also gotten in celebration of james gallowes.

on the right side of his lower back you'll find a silhouetted version of the two men shaking hands from pink floyd's 'wish you were here' album cover.

just above the pink floyd tat, you'll find a pinup style tattoo of a lady with dark curly hair, and a cowboy hat. she's covered in tattoos and is wearing what looks like an unbuttoned plaid shirt and cowboy boots. she's winking and throwing devil horns with her left hand.

next to the pinup tat, you'll find a skeletal cowboy wearing a battered poncho with a smoking pistol in its hand. it's also got a toothpick in its mouth if you look closely.

EARS :

his first piercing was an animal canine tooth on a chain hanging from his left ear lobe, though this piercing started as a simple silver hoop. he gets a second one in the same lobe, and often switches it up between a simple stud earring or a silver hoop.

he has helix piercings in both ears, and both resemble skeletal hands. he often switches it up between the skeletal hands, belt buckle cuffs or simple silver bands.

TORSO :

there are various lipstick stains ranging from deep purple to bright red on his hips and his abdomen.

a ram's skull with four horns, and a third eye on its forehead done in a detailed comic book style, with twisted branches crawling underneath the design in black ink. this tattoo is located on his pectorals and spreads out across the tops of his shoulders.

on the right side of his ribcage, you'll find a large piece that depicts a demonic creature with bat-like wings, carrying two deadly flails. flanking it on both sides are bats and ravens.

there's a stylised black ankh on his lower abdomen, with the loop going around his belly button, and the rest of it trailing down and stopping on his pelvis, just above his groin.

to the left of the ankh design you'll find the words 'no future' in gothic lettering on his lower abdomen.

a pentagram on his left hip, this was the first tattoo he ever got.

a guitar pick on his right collarbone that was gotten to celebrate his father. it's one of his more recent tattoos.

donnie has nipple piercings. they're simple silver bars that you can totally see whenever he's wearing a tight shirt or a white tank top.

RIGHT ARM :

he has a grim reaper in a cloud of skulls on his bicep. this is easily the most intricate of his tattoos.

a marlboro cigarette box with flowers sticking out, instead of marlboro, the box says 'cowboy killers.' you'll find this one just under the grim reaper design.

the second tattoo donnie ever got was a mountain lion crouching on his forearm, the design is a heavily stylised one, highlighted with pops of colour on the eyes.

there's a cartoon penguin wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses for emma on the inside of his forearm, above the mountain lion.

to the left of the mountain lion you'll find the torso of a knight with a sword, the knight has only a helmet, no face, and several arrows sticking out of his back.

the ac/dc lightning strike on the side of his wrist, just under the bone.

a horses skull on the other side of the same wrist, has an outline of the horse's head around it in dark black ink.

a stylised bat can be found on the back of his hand, this one has been heavily influenced by gothic art styles. there are various stick n'poke spiders and cobwebs accompanying this design, they almost act like a border to it.

on his knuckles and his fingers, there are outlines of the knuckle and finger bones done in crosshatched black ink.

LEFT ARM :

there's a barbed wire design around his upper forearm, above his bite scar, with some drops of blood coming from the barbs.

there's a yosemite sam above the barbed wire, firing off his pistols. this was got as a joke with his brother brody, who used to call him yosemite sam whenever he got angry as a child.

he has 'rancid creature' in gothic lettering on his shoulder, and it has been highlighted by a bright green drop shadow.

there's an outlaw riding a bucking horse and firing a pistol on his bicep.

next to the cowboy design is a demon bent over, farting. this was a design that izzy jones came up with as a joke, and donnie liked it so much that he got it.

to the right of the cowboy design, you'll find a couple of cherubs, similar to the ones found in medieval and renaissance paintings, with punk hairstyles and cigarettes in their mouths. both cherubs have guitars slung over their backs. this one he got for his other bandmates, sammy laurel and clara bell.

you'll find a skull with two monstrous hands with claws for nails holding it, so the jaws of the skull are wide open just below this tattoo.

a cowboy boot with a snake wrapped around it can be found next to the bite scar on his forearm.

along the other side of the bite scar, you'll find a simple outline sketch of a long wyvern-like dragon fighting a knight.

on his middle finger there's tolkien's original sketch of smaug from thror's map to the lonely mountain, it's been done in bold red ink, and was gotten as a tribute to his love of fantasy.

on his other fingers, you'll find small tarot-inspired cards, and small stick n'poke doodles, like smiley faces, stars, crosses, crescent moons, suns, and hearts.

on the back of his left hand you'll find a portrait of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed witches hat with a cobweb forming in the curve of it. she's smirking and has wiry, black hair that looks as though it's wet. her eyes are nothing more than white circles, as the top half of her face is cast in the shadow of the hat she's wearing. you can see the hint of her cleavage and nothing more.

LEFT LEG :

there's a longhorn skull on his thigh, done in a bold comic book style.

he has two horses on the outside of his thigh, both are up on their hind legs, locked mid-fight. this one has been done in heavy black ink.

he got an american football wearing sunglasses on the inside of his ankle for lee bennett after he died.

besides the football is a ballet dancer with mechanical legs and flame-red hair. she's mid-pirouette, with a wide smile on her face. this one is dedicated to stacy bennett, who was bound to a wheelchair after her interaction with the same creature that killed lee.

NOTES :

on both arms, you'll find various space-themed tattoos, such as planets, moons, shooting stars, star clusters, galaxies, and so on, in the small gaps between larger pieces.

you may also find some stick n'poke flowers, such as roses or sunflowers, done in these gaps as well. these will have been done by members of rancid creature or by friends looking to practise their tattooing skills on him.

the number of tattoos donnie has before he gets clean is far less than the number he has after getting clean. tattoos are his addiction, and he'll look to get one for literally any reason. all the people who mean something to him, and who have meant something to him, will have a tattoo dedicated to them somewhere on his body. which means that if we've plotted a dynamic where donnie and your muse are close to donnie in any capacity, i'll likely plot with you that donnie will get a tattoo somewhere for them, and he will show off about it.

[memory-is-treachery]

I’m a woman of science first and a mystic second lol I wouldn’t want it any other way… spirituality to me should be secondary most of the time but I have my own personal eclectic practice and religion that belongs to no one but me. No one knows about my whole journey, but sometimes I share some things…

I’ve only told 2 people some of the details of what happened to me in the summer of 2020 and we’re not in each other’s lives anymore, one of them is my old favorite therapist. Trying to find the words to accurately describe the bodily sensations alone in the English language, - perhaps in any human language I presume.. - it felt formidable, comprising, horrifying, profound & overwhelming, indecent.. transcendent…

idk there’s a whole bunch of words I could throw at it but it was generally unfathomable and I’m not satisfied with the language I have to explain it, feeling all of that at the same time synergized it all, so there’s no one word to describe it. It all happened so fast actually. and YES, it happened in Mexico lol.

So like - experiencing something like that I truly think there’s no medical or biological or anatomical explanation for that. But for me it did not heal my trauma and I never had that expectation, even in the days after. This was just 4 days after I encountered the Moth of [Redacted] lol there was something in the soil during that trip!

And there’s my “llorona story” that happed in this crazy span of a week - really I’m sure that Mexican thunderstorms are very different and can produce sounds like a woman crying especially through open windows and the unique acoustics of a house. I’m also positive the heat of a lightning striking coupled with the reverberation of thunder produces quite formidable shock & sound waves, this is why it felt like a bomb detonated nearby. All of my memory from earth science class flew out the window and my mind immediately went to La Llorona lol.

I’ve never felt like I had to face some kind of a spirit so distraught, I’ve been to many haunted places and never experienced anything out of the mundane so I had little to no schematic training for it, Very Ignorant and Uneducated of me yes, all I had was my distant memory of when I read a whole host of ceremonial and Solomonic magic books at the library in the summer of 2015 and even then I absolutely panicked and didn’t dare leave my sister’s side as she held onto me. My life had been fairly mundane for a while before this, it totally caught me off guard.

The house was unfamiliar and I had no chalk no charcoal, not even a marker or pen in the near vicinity. I didn’t know where the salt was, I didn’t know where my family had the holy water, I didn’t think to quickly find a knife and there was literally a pickaxe and shovel hidden in the corner of the room behind a bookcase, but we just couldn’t take our eyes off the stairs leading up. I didn’t even have my amulet with me so I felt absolutely exposed. If I was in my own home I think I would’ve quickly created a schema and act fast. If it was my own home that I had to protect, if I knew where everything I needed was, it would have gone so differently. I would have faced it headfirst but in that home we were in, in the disadvantage of having to run up the slippery tiled stairs clockwise - I just lost it. I used what I could remember and traced a circle around us with my hands but I just didn’t have the physical tools and I was so filled with fear that I had traumatic tunnel vision. Nothing mattered but those stairs leading up, my sister, and my wavering voice. Also very interesting when I called my family to get there as fast as they can, as they arrived, the storm finally lost its fury.

Anyway I did think through the science of it later that night and the morning after. and I was like omg I could’ve just gone upstairs and closed the damn windows LMFAO. Still a very frightening experience. My inexperience with Mexican thunderstorms, my unprepared fear, my lack of my spiritual protection items, & my knowledge of folklore certainly got the best of me.

[moderndayfantasia]

Regarding Psychic Signals:

Hello again Dear Reader! It had dawned on me the other day that I gave a very limited example of these Signals that I have been receiving and I would very much like to remedy this with a further explanation.

So as I stated in another post, these Signals come from places beyond our current Perception of Reality. The main type of individual capable of receiving and potentially capable of the comprehension of such Signals tends to lay in the realm of Creatives, those whose minds are less constrained by the Prison of our world and do not solely confine their worldview to logical thinking.

Examples of Creatives who were both confirmed and potentially capable of receiving these signals are: J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft (Though often a disagreeable man in terms of beliefs on his fellow man and his interpretation of Those Known as Outer and Elder Gods), Philip K Dick, and potentially many of the artists that seem to permeate the internet. I personally have encountered artistic interpretations of creatures I have deemed potentially existent so I believe that even within our Modern Society we are still very capable of receiving these Rogue Signals.

Before, when I described these Signals, I made it seem as if they were merely byproducts of these Cosmological Bodies, similar in the way that Stars and your average Astronomical Bodies produce Signals and they permeate The Void of the Mortal Realm. However, this is not the totally accurate case. Many of these Signals are in fact merely Signals capable of allowing us to define and gain awareness of these Other Spaces, however, there are others that I would classify as Anatomical Signals.

This is a sub-classification of Psychic Signal that is a mental manifestation of a existent being from beyond our Veil. These beings may be something as simple as a new kind of animal, while others can be Energyforms or Psychoforms attempting to manifest themselves into our Veil through the use of Interpretation. Using Creatives to Interpret their essential Information, even if in a misinformed or mildly inaccurate way, as such things go in the Cosmic Game of Telephone, they gain substantiality within our physical realm.

Now, I refer to our Veil as "The Physical Realm" as it is the Veil that humans can most easily interpret as "Physical". However, this does not imply that other Veils do not have their own physicality, only that this Veil is one of the only ones that is physical in the way we humans understand it. If a human were to enter one of these places without undergoing a Ritual or Process to adapt to the new Veil they would likely be destroyed due to a discompatibility. For example, a physical living being cannot exist within the Veil of Dreams due to the intangibility and differing laws of physics, our minds would not be able to comprehend it in any meaningful way and our psyches would likely be torn asunder by a mere unfiltered glimpse.

Due to this "Discompatibility", a Signal must be filtered to conform to the world it is attempting to manifest in or the world itself must conform to the Signal. Due to the vast and intangible nature of these Anatomical Signals the way in which they manifest can differ. As well, a single Signal can have multiple co-occuring manifestations at a single time. As an example of this, There could be an Anatomical Signal for something that is defined, though loosely, by the aspects of Natural Growth, Protection of Forests, and Dwelling Within Darkness. This Signal would then be capable of being interpreted and manifested as a large nocturnal bird whose scat causes new growth to spawn from the impact point, or perhaps, it manifests as a vast shadow that moves amidst the trees in silence and in its path it disposes of Those Which Harm The Wood and their remains feed to forest.

So, basically, a single Signal can result in the manifestation of multiple beings defined by misinterpretations of its base aspects. This shadowy nature protector has no discernible form or essence we humans can comprehend and if it were to be brought into our world in a fully realized state it would likely unravel the very "laws" of our land.

At a later date I would like to further discuss the "Rituals" and "Processes" required to make the mental transition into another Veil. In essence, it is akin to Astral Projection, though this is not a great explanation.

(The Following Segment of This Post Has Been Made Post-H. Lepidoptera Discovery)

Oh my! What a day of research! I have been conducting further investigation of The Camera in an attempt to uncover as much as I possibly can about what this person had gone through.

So, first and foremost, I have done a small amount of research into these cameras and discovered something glaringly strange about the one now in my possession. It has no battery! Now, this may seem like a small issue, however, I would like to call attention to a small question I have concerning the device. If there is no battery inserted into the camera how is it able to turn on? Better yet, how is it capable of recording?

This is most unusual, I say as someone with very little camera experience, but I do believe this is an impossibility. At least, in the flawed ways we humans and other Veil-Locked beings perceive this world. I have a small theory, bear with me on this one for it will sound rather spectacular.

Perhaps The Camera is being supernaturally powered? See, this individual used this camera as a vessel for holding the knowledge of their faith journey, therefore, it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility that this camera has been affected by the spiritual forces our Unknown Victim was in touch with. Alongside this faith-based power source it may also be possible that their encounter with H.Lepidoptera may have also had some kind of paranormal or supernatural effect upon it. There is little way to know in any form of tangible way what the answer is at this moment however, though I do give at least small merit to the potential of Faith-Based Power Supply.

To return to the topic at hand, The Camera also has some form of strange device installed into it. It seems to be some form of antenna or perhaps Bluetooth device? I am not a techno-wizardry type so sadly I cannot confirm what the purpose of the device is. However, I did fiddle with the odd object and it began to blink at me. I managed to find the Record button on The Camera and the light seemed to change for a moment. I determined that perhaps I should do a bit more investigating before resorting to pressing random buttons of The Camera, after all, I still require The Final Footage of our Newly Discovered Cryptid. As The Holder of the only tangible evidence of some form of unknown creature as well as evidence to support my research it is of VITAL import that I maintain this footage's safety in any way possible.

This brings me to the final topic of Discussion. How do I learn more about our disappearing Victim and the existence of our Mothman?

Well my Dear Reader, such a question is simple to answer!

As I previously stated, I have rewatched The Final Footage multiple times now and have determined a tentative Flight Path for our creature!

So, our Victim was attacked on a dirt path a little ways past The Underpass. I then found The Camera very nearby this area. So, judging by the scuff marks around The Camera I can determine generally where The Victim was being carried.

By my calculations, Our Victim was taken deeper into South Avenue...

For reference, South Avenue is a very decrepit road that leads to the edge of our parish and descends into Old Le'Breaux. Nobody goes to Old Le'Breaux, most people say it's cursed. However, despite the warnings and requests, I will be heading back out onto South Avenue tonight to find anything I can about our enigmatic Victim. Wish me luck and hopefully Cernunnos will look kindly upon my prayer and offering and cloak me with the guise of the earth so that I may find my way and unravel this mystery.

As well, of course, I give my prayer to The Hidden Red God. May his power flow through me and give me the strength to face my enemies and prosper.

Though, I very much would rather have no encounters this time around. I know too little to defend against whatever diabolical fate may unfold from beneath the stygian black wing of this most grotesque of beasts.

Regardless, tonight I make The Walk. With hope, I will find some clue of this lost person.

So, Dear Reader. Once more, Wish Me Luck!

[lakesbian]

I'm ngl you're kind of an asshole and in retrospect I don't know why I ever followed you. Going onto someone else's fanart that shows a teenage character with a skirt and crop top and saying it's "inappropriately sexualizing a csa survivor"? literally on the level of bible belt school dress codes. oh its so shocking you can see his stomach it's not like people that age dress like that in real life all the time oh he's wearing a short-ish skirt because as we know it's totally sexual for (1/2)

i think this rb chain already covers what you're bringing up here so i'm just gonna link to it instead of re-typing it, just skim to the parts clarifying that i'm not making an Intrinsic Judgement about it being slutty for teenagers to wear short skirts, i'm talking about what fanart and fandom trends are implying re them doing that

[maniculum]

Welcome to another installment of Scorpion Sundays! This fellow here is another Zodiac denizen, from the Shaftesbury Psalter.

The Shaftesbury Psalter, Lansdowne MS 383, is a manuscript from 12th-century England, hypothesized to have been created for Adeliza of Louvain, Queen of England and second wife of King Henry I. I would tell you more about it and see if there's anything worth checking out with the rest of the Zodiac, but the British Library's manuscript viewer is down, apparently due to cyberattack. So I guess we'll move on.

This one is clearly related to the Scorpio we saw two weeks ago (link here), who was a few decades older and found in Arundel MS 60. If you look down near the gutter of the page, you can see that this one is even also being shot with an arrow, presumably by Sagittarius again but once more I cannot confirm that due to what I must assume is some kind of ransomware scheme.

A few differences. This "scorpion" is in a slightly different pose, standing all bunched up rather than moving forwards. This artist has also directly attached the wings to the legs in a manner that seems anatomically suspect, but the connection is less smooth and stylized than the Arundel manuscript. Instead of a face like a sad bulldog, this one has a beak that makes me think of a duck; its ears are also longer and thinner. It's overall less stylized and more detailed; also, the artist is doing a black outline that's colored in rather than the red line-art of the Arundel zodiac.

Most relevant to us, this one has a distinct point at the end of its tail that I'm going to charitably consider a stinger.

This is the same basic concept overall, though, so here are the points:

Small Scuttling Beaſtie? ✘

Pincers? ✘

Exoskeleton or Shell? ✘

Visible Stinger? ✓

Limbs? 4

Also -1 for having wings, common mistake but Definitely Wrong.

Vibes are good, I like this one. The goofy duck face is charming in its way. I'm not all the way to "I want to give it a hug" like the Arundel scorpion though. I was going to give it a 4/5, but that face honestly does make me smile so let's call it a 4.5/5.

Total points:

4.9 / 10

Slightly more accurate than its relative, but also slightly less huggable.

[savior-of-humanity]

@rathalascendant

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Laios was no stranger to finding himself in foreign and outright perilous locales. Except, unfortunately, the vast majority of his personal experience was with dungeon-diving and not with being lost in the middle of a vast jungle that was probably also in the middle of nowhere. At the very least he could tell, based on the sunlight that seeped in between the leaves of the upper canopy, that he was somewhere on the surface.

It also meant that he was totally alone.

Well, alone wasn't really an accurate term in this case, for while he may have been without companions, the forest around him was alive with wildlife - mostly unseen but definitely heard. Chirps and buzzes and calls of all kinds that were utterly alien to him. This place was, for all intents and purposes, paradise. The only thing that would've made it better was if the rest of the group were here - but then again, they likely wouldn't have been as thrilled as he was currently (with the exception of Falin, probably).

So Laios went exploring.

To list all of the things that caught his eye would've been an exhausting ordeal; all sorts of plants and mushrooms, insects bigger than his head, even some strange blue lizards that ran on two legs. They happened to run right past him - and at first he thought they must've been chasing down unseen prey.

At least, until he realized that the sound of something particularly large crashing through the underbrush was coming from behind him and not necessarily in front of him. Perhaps, if Chilchuck or Marcille had been here, they'd be urging him to move, get out of the way - but his feet remained glued to the ground not with fear but awe as the source made itself known.

The beast was huge, easily a few heads taller and almost the length of a small house from what he could make of it. The size of it wasn't what caught his eye however - it was that it bore the anatomical traits of a typical wyvern, yet also had physical traits of insects, from its exoskeleton-like armor to the beautifully intricate wings it possessed. Laios would've been perfectly content to spend a couple of hours studying what was surely a new species of dragon (or perhaps even a chimera?!), were it not for his quick realization that it was now standing over him with hunger glinting in its eyes.

Which led to his current predicament; actively running for his life with the aforementioned bug-wyvern hot on his heels. Though, as dire as the threat of being eaten was, Laios found the experience of being hunted to be quite educating, if not exhilarating. So far he'd found out that not only was the bug-wyvern surprisingly agile and fast for its size, but it could apparently conjure green-tinted lightning!

As much as Laios was willing to participate in this 'game' of cat-and-mouse, he didn't have infinite stamina; he'd have to find some means of escaping the bug-wyvern, but through the blur of foliage flying past his vision, and the rush of being chased down while running as fast as his legs could carry him, he didn't see any viable escape routes.

...He was starting to realize that he had a bit of a serious problem on his hands.

[pristyncarereviews]

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[casskeeps]

artemision zeus

basic information

name: artemision zeus (or poseidon)

date: 460 bce

artist: unknown

function: depicts a god

size: 2.1 metres - larger than lifesize

original, reconstruction, or copy: bronze original with inlaid materials

subject matter

this statue depicts a god, probably zeus or poseidon, throwing an object in a similar manner to the way we throw javelins. the object he holds, now lost, is our only true hint as to what the true identity of the statue is; if he held a trident, he would be poseidon, but if he held a thunderbolt (the more popular opinion), he would be zeus.

context

now comfortably into the early classical period, sculptors are more interested in depicting dynamic movement and power as opposed to the idealistic perfection of the archaic period.

composition

the pose of the artemision zeus is one of its most notable features; his legs are at different angles, with the left facing forward and the right facing almost oppositely, twisted outwards to give more impression of dynamic moment. the arms are outstretched, the left with the palm down, a guiding marker, and the right holding the lost object, ready to throw it. the overall impression of this pose is one of dynamism and power - the sculptor is concerned with giving an impression of catching the subject in the moment of his action, instead of carefully posing it.

the anatomy, too, is highly remarkable. the abstract shapes of the archaic period have been left behind, and instead, we see careful rendering of features like the ears and eyebrows, with much more attention paid to the details of these individual elements, as opposed to the flat and geometric appearances of earlier statues. there is another interesting feature (that people tend to exaggerate): the arms are slightly too long for the body - they are two centimetres longer than they should be. the effect of this distortion of anatomy is that the lines creates by the limbs are more continuous (think of the aesthetic appeal created by pointe shoes on ballet dancers) and the overall impression of the statue's grandieur and imposing nature is emphasised.

the most remarkable thing about the content of this statue is that it does not depict a youth, instead a bearded man, clearly mature, yet still muscular and strong. we also see more reflection of everyday nature in this statue; instead of a curtain of beaded braids, his hair is tied into a plait, a common hairstyle for the time.

from a distance, it appears that the artemision zeus looks particularly stoic and unfeeling, but there is detail in the face indicative of effort. this is evident in his eyebrows, tilted downwards in the inner corners, and his upper lip, which is tensed in a subdued grimace. the effect of this expression is that it helps to further demonstrate the effort of this action, making the statue more realistic.

other than the slightly-too-long arms, the proportions are, as a whole, largely accurate. the muscles are well-defined and not overly voluminous, although there are areas (such as the intercostal muscles) that could interact more with the muscles around them, and react more to the action; this slightly diminishes the naturalism of the statue, but doesn't detract too much from it overall.

stylistic features

the use of bronze became much more popular in the early classical period, as sculptors became more aware of its higher tensile strength and subsequent capability for more expressive movement.

the depiction of the musculature is much more anatomically accurate than earlier sculpture, although there is still some room for development in the interaction of muscle groups.

scholars

woodford: "a vivid and convincing figure ... but his success was not total"

harris and zucker: "we look at him and we know that he is a god who controls the fates of human beings"

extra information

smarthistory (harris and zucker)

annenberg learner

[lokh]

wheres that pic of costanza (?) edited to say im shifting into halloween mode. that's me

[faetaiity]

For your dark turtle au. Would Mikey still be an artist ? And if so would be maybe do tattoos? I can picture him doing as a way to able to express some hidden emotions or to show off his skills to his brothers. Bonus if said brothers commission Mikey to do tats for them

Honestly he's definitely given Dark AU! Raph some Tattoos, Donnie made the Tattoo gun and he did the art, they did this for his birthday, it ended up being a very graphic (anatomically accurate) human skull with its flesh melting off.

Mikey does piercings too! All the turtles have some form of piercing from him (Yes, one of them has gotten infecting, no I will NOT elaborate)

All of them have eyebrow and lip piercings

Donnie has a septum and (In the cloaking brooch, he has medium purple colored silicon gauge earrings!)

Raph has a Tongue piercing.

Mikey has Snake Bites

Leo has a nose bridge piercing.

Mikey would totally offer his S/O tattoos, don't accept unless you want some VERY gory tattoos, he's deranged and all he thinks about is murder 90% of the time

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

(Note: All of these asks are before episode 206 (Season 2 finale) so some may be dated.) 1. ok but I love Rachel spent the latter half of 2021 being like ooooh Kronos is coming back!! this is a big deal!! only to timeskip ten years and NOTHING happened. like wow even Kronos isn't a big deal when it comes to how totally not pathetic Persephone is as a 30+ year old doing no work and only being obsessed with a guy she knew for a month. literal masterclass in awful writing. It's almost impressive how bad it is.

2. Deadass I don't even get why RS is like oh yeh nymphs and other creatures should be second class citizens but they're also all "trash" and thus its good and even encouraged to abuse and mistreat them. like yeah that's what was missing, racism where the marginalized group are evil and "deserve" to be abused and mistreated by those with all the power over them. THAT's what mythology was so sorely missing.  jfc. I know a lot of the WT staff are white people and so is Rachel but wtf???

3. It's quite funny how a woman old enough to be my mother cannot draw or write worth shit and there are literal teenagers on this website who are a thousand times the artist and writer she could ever hope to be.

4. This isn’t me trying to be mean but like, why is everything from the book covers to the official merch so ,.. cheap looking? Like these are supposed professionals, not Rachel, doing it, yet they’re still so poorly designed and crafted. It doesn’t help the images Rachel gives time to work with are all in the rushed, ugly style now either 😪

5. I just find it funny that every time an LO fan or even WT promotes it its like ... they ONLY use art from the first 10-ish episodes at best. Like yall, that was over four years ago, why aren't you using current art to be more accurate? Like it's kinda telling on themselves they know the quality declined rapidly after the first few months but are like "just ignore that! look at this three good panels from 2018!"

6. I HATE those panels where RS tries to be anatomically correct to IRL humans and its like omg they look even worse (and are still wildly wrong anyway?? She cannot draw heads to save her life for real). Like lady just work within your stylization, there's a reason people picked up your work off what it used to be versus what it is now.

7. this isnt necessarily LO based but I do find it crazy how people like RS and her fans viewed the original hymn like ugh Demeter is such a bitch why wouldnt she be happy Hades married her daughter like .... you guys are aware ancient brides tended to be married at 14, right? maybe that's why Demeter was pissed and creeped out by him. They're so blinded by their fantasy of this "perfect Hades" that never existed over the truth of a mother defending her literal CHILD.

8. Zeus is objectively the only hot man on cast because he actually has a personality, fashion sense, and pretty hair meanwhile Hades just looks like a dusty old man with zero drip and a million and one red flags 🫣

9. "This style of story telling" what style? just lying and making everything up to where it matches nothing in mythology? my god, she's so concerned over looking like a clever writer who has everything planned out and knows more than anyone else (including actual greeks??? ma'am) over actually telling a decent story. ive never seen someone so self conscious about being perceived as a "real writer" before.

10. Why even use mythology when you won't keep any of the stories true to how they were, change all the relationships, and just make up whatever else instead? At that point just go "this was inspired by the greek myths" and use your own OCs, not claiming you're telling an accurate story with a ton of research put into it. Rachel really just wants to have her cake and eat it too, huh?