#like a painter or a writer

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[reallilystuff]

the expendable shitpost power hour 💪🔥🔥🔥🔥 ft. post-loop doodle for whimsy and joy that MAY be spoilers depending on how close you look. so dont squint at it too hard

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[bluebluebluewoods]

“Was it gutsy” (very softly) “n..no…..”

[pinbones]

Every month my tolerance for uwu small artist crap falls by a small percent. The whole internet is already ads and corporations and now the small business hearted artists are doing numbers in every art community

No, I'm not reblogging your comms post, I don't know you

No, it's not unacceptable for someone to have your drawing as a tattoo or phone background without asking, that's not how art or copyright or etiquette works

No, it's not reasonable to tell people not to 'take inspiration' from things, that's ludicrous

No, it's not an insult to like a post and not reblog it, people don't owe you growth or algorithm obedience

No, it's not reasonable to guilt or threaten people, that's obnoxious at best and harmful to some people at worst

No, IP law isn't a good thing for small creators, it isn't good for anyone but large companies who exploit them

And no, people don't owe you anything. Yes, even if you put hard work in. Yes, this is actually good for everyone, even if it's not ideal for you. There's more to artist communities than sharing each other's paypals and acting obnoxious, and other people's blogs are not walking wallets with eyes. People will engage with and pay for stuff when they feel like it, that's how everything has been forever, stop trying to make people miserable and guilty just for your misunderstanding of how art as business works. Please we already live in hell just take a breather and knock it off

[mortiflyer]

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[loisiru]

Spent the past few days watching Layers of Fear (2023) walkthroughs

[theboarsbride]

random asf but seeing Hannibal fanart reminded me of my (kind of?) Hannibal fic (and this blog's namesake lmfao) and it's making me think about how I want to turn it into an original book-

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Natalie Barney is so iconic.

She really went put of her way to be a great artist, help other artists- specially woman - and date all the pretty ladies and she did it.

Also sry for her dad but if both my wife and my daugther were super talented artists who loved what they did I would be super proud and not be against it at all. Sry but I"m different.

[beretheiv]

you'll really just see me being in solidarity with people I share astrological placements with 😭❤️- like best believe my favorite people in the world has a placement they share with me, in a group of people i have a favoritism yes

[shithitsmynipples]

I'm proposing a hater-ass new rule that you can either be hot or seriously talented not both. like some of us get neither

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 150

Adjective: Emotional

Noun: Paint

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Emotional: relating to a person's emotions; arousing or characterized by intense feeling; (of a person) having feelings that are easily excited and openly displayed

Paint: a colored substance which is spread over a surface and dries to leave a thin decorative or protective coating; an act of covering something with paint; (informal) cosmetic makeup; (computing) the function or capability of producing graphics, especially those that mimic the effect of real paint; (North American) a piebald horse; (basketball) the rectangular area marked near the basket at each end of the court, or the foul lane

[inazuma-fulgur]

Why do 99% of leftists seem to have never questioned their ideas around ownership?

Which is one of the most basic ideas to challenge and still I see almost everyone spread capitalist rhetoric and propaganda, including high profile/educated people

[choking-on-ice]

Blanket permission for anyone who likes anything I do or say ever to bug the shit outta me.

Like fr I spend HOURS geeking TF out whenever someone messages me, reblogs my stuff with a shit load of hashtags, comments on my stuff, anything like that. I literally bounce around and tell my partner everything ppl say or comment because it's so exciting to get feedback from ppl who like the same stuff as me and like the stuff I make.

YOU'RE NOT ANNOYING ARTISTS OR WRITERS OR GAME DEVS OR ANYONE BY TELLING THEM YOU LIKE THEIR STUFF.

!!YOU'RE TELLING THEM THEIR EFFORT MEANS SOMETHING TO SOMEONE!!!

current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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[darkandstormydolls]

PSA to all historical fiction/fantasy writers:

A SEAMSTRESS, in a historical sense, is someone whose job is sewing. Just sewing. The main skill involved here is going to be putting the needle into an out of the fabric. They’re usually considered unskilled workers, because everyone can sew, right? (Note: yes, just about everyone could sew historically. And I mean everyone.) They’re usually going to be making either clothes that aren’t fitted (like shirts or shifts or petticoats) or things more along the lines of linens (bedsheets, handkerchiefs, napkins, ect.). Now, a decent number of people would make these things at home, especially in more rural areas, since they don’t take a ton of practice, but they’re also often available ready-made so it’s not an uncommon job. Nowadays it just means someone whose job is to sew things in general, but this was not the case historically. Calling a dressmaker a seamstress would be like asking a portrait painter to paint your house

A DRESSMAKER (or mantua maker before the early 1800s) makes clothing though the skill of draping (which is when you don’t use as many patterns and more drape the fabric over the person’s body to fit it and pin from there (although they did start using more patterns in the early 19th century). They’re usually going to work exclusively for women, since menswear is rarely made through this method (could be different in a fantasy world though). Sometimes you also see them called “gown makers”, especially if they were men (like tailors advertising that that could do both. Mantua-maker was a very feminized term, like seamstress. You wouldn’t really call a man that historically). This is a pretty new trade; it only really sprung up in the later 1600s, when the mantua dress came into fashion (hence the name).

TAILORS make clothing by using the method of patterning: they take measurements and use those measurements to draw out a 2D pattern that is then sewed up into the 3D item of clothing (unlike the dressmakers, who drape the item as a 3D piece of clothing originally). They usually did menswear, but also plenty of pieces of womenswear, especially things made similarly to menswear: riding habits, overcoats, the like. Before the dressmaking trade split off (for very interesting reason I suggest looking into. Basically new fashion required new methods that tailors thought were beneath them), tailors made everyone’s clothes. And also it was not uncommon for them to alter clothes (dressmakers did this too). Staymakers are a sort of subsect of tailors that made corsets or stays (which are made with tailoring methods but most of the time in urban areas a staymaker could find enough work so just do stays, although most tailors could and would make them).

Tailors and dressmakers are both skilled workers. Those aren’t skills that most people could do at home. Fitted things like dresses and jackets and things would probably be made professionally and for the wearer even by the working class (with some exceptions of course). Making all clothes at home didn’t really become a thing until the mid Victorian era.

And then of course there are other trades that involve the skill of sewing, such as millinery (not just hats, historically they did all kinds of women’s accessories), trimming for hatmaking (putting on the hat and and binding and things), glovemaking (self explanatory) and such.

TLDR: seamstress, dressmaker, and tailor are three very different jobs with different skills and levels of prestige. Don’t use them interchangeably and for the love of all that is holy please don’t call someone a seamstress when they’re a dressmaker

[scribeofmorpheus]

Why Dragon Age Veilguard isn't a "Cathedral"

Concept art by Matt Rhodes

"To disinherit the storylines of past games goes directly against the notion of building cathedrals."

What is inherent with Veilguard that keeps bothering me is the fact that the world's choices truly didn't matter--and it doesn't simply bother me from a player perspective, it's not simply a grievance borne of frustration to what I (as a longtime fan) have lost. It's about the very culture of the arts under capitalism's new media habituation cycle [x][x].

Yes, I spent hours of my life playing and replaying each instalment of Dragon Age. Yes, I painstakingly curated a 'canon' world state by replaying what came before in preparation for Veilguard. Yes, I am even more unsatisfied with the end product--time hasn't helped, it's just widened the divide. But, and I can't stress this enough, these very personal gripes aren't what hit home the most. It's the inherent disregard of legacy. A legacy that the previous writers and game developers were building towards.

In the DAV artbook, "cathedral" is the word used to describe the process of making a game. Matt Rhodes' exact words are: "One artist can make a painting, but it takes a team to build a cathedral." Cathedrals took centuries to build. The architect who drafted the first blueprints would likely never see his work realised, he had to rely on those who came after him, like-minded and passionate, to see it through--for the culture, for the future, for legacy. Painters took on several apprentices for this reason too--giant frescoes were not completed by one man's hand, even if it is one man's name that immortalises them. Similarly, if you weave a narrative around choice, what good does it do to take it away at the final act if not to fall to caricature?

To disinherit the storylines of past games goes directly against the notion of building cathedrals.

Late-stage capitalism and profit-margin-obsessed game producers forcing developers to churn out meager content, to make a known brand into something it's not, to chase a fad or a popular trend... o, how reductive and cliche you've been forced to become Bioware. We have lost the cultural thought patterns relative to Cathedrals. We know only of barn-raised churches--done in a day but unlikely to last the turn of the seasons.

And don't even get me started on the music of Veilguard either. From Origins to World of Warcraft to Everquest to Baldur's Gate to Dungeon Siege, you can hear the intricate interconnected weave of sounds inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons-esque fantasy genre. You hear it in the repeated use of certain instruments, in the harmonic weeping notes of a bard-like singer or the foreboding echoes of drums as if of war. In tavern songs. But then, rather than hire someone who loves these worlds and this genre, who is a hungry artist looking to make a name, a legacy if you will, for themselves with a spectacular score, you hire any already sated composer, one well-into the encroaching years of career fatigue, whose notes repeat in countless projects, who feels less concise and more uninterested with each new project. One who has long since cemented his legacy. Someone in it for a paycheck and nothing else! And, to top it off, you let him compose something so minimalist? I am offended actually.

Cathedrals! We should have witnessed the final tile being placed on the Dragon Age cathedral. Instead, some architects walked up, tore down the interior and installed IKEA furniture and called it authentic before having to call the previous architects to come and fix the "load-bearing issues", forcing them to rush and add a coat of varnish and a few 'aged' details for authenticity.