#like a painter or a writer

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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

[liquidstar]

new oc batch ready! 8 more of these guys lol. the whole deal with this set is they’re from the artisan guild- lunar flair! intentionally spelled like “flair” as in “style” or “a flare for ____” rather than “flare”

basically all the members of the guild are different kinds of artists with different niches (and varying degrees of diva-ness). it’s pretty easy to tell who does what based on the everything about them, but if you want more info their bios are still under the cut!

Name: Jupiter

Name Origin: The planet of course

Pronouns: He/him

Age: 52

Guild rank: Guildmaster

Weapon: Lightning rods

Ethos (Power): Gigantomachy. He can make himself (even more) giant

Flaw power is based on: His overly protective nature, especially where the guild is concerned.

Notes: Literally the nicest guy ever until you provoke him though

Name: Erinome (Erin)

Name Origin: A moon of jupiter, the exact meaning of it’s name is murky but it can refer to grace or purity

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 13

Guild rank: 2 star

Weapon: A Book.

Ethos (Power): Poetic Imagery. Illusions cast forth by his her poems that change the appearance of the physical environment

Flaw power is based on: Her escapist indulgence in fantasy

Notes: You know, like, the pen is mightier than the sword and all that.

Name: Pictor

Name Origin: The constellation meaning “painter”

Pronouns: He/him

Age: 23

Guild rank: 3 star

Weapon: Giant paintbrush

Ethos (Power): Ardor. He can create three-dimensional things with his paintbrush. However they are not animate or alive.

Flaw power is based on: His conceited nature in regards to his own work.

Notes: Goes to museums to talk about how he could probably do it better anyway

Name: Oberon

Name Origin: A moon of the planet Uranus, it gets it’s name from the king of the fairies in Renaissance literature. Notably in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pronouns: He/him

Age: 29

Guild rank: 5 star

Weapon: Rapier

Ethos (Power): Fantasia. An illusion of changing his own appearance.

Flaw power is based on: His theatrical nature, of course

Notes: Why is he ourple?

Name: Syrma

Name Origin: A star in virgo, it’s name refers to the train of a garment (Typically worn by actors in tragedies)

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 25

Guild rank: 4 star

Weapon: Giant needle

Ethos (Power): Binding threads. She can create stitches on any solid objects and bind them to each other. Including people- The stitches are manifested energy and do not hurt.

Flaw power is based on: The dependency she often has on bonds- i.e. threads that bind people.

Notes: She makes and models all her own clothes.

Name: Parumleo 

Name Origin: A star in Pisces, it’s name means “small lion”

Pronouns: They/he

Age: 19

Guild rank: 3 star

Weapon: Microphone bardiche

Ethos (Power): Persuasion. If they can make you laugh you’ll temporarily have to follow his orders. Though it’s too weak to call full-blown mind control, and fairly easy to snap out of.

Flaw power is based on: His desire to be liked by others.

Notes: They’re like a lolcat. They can haz cheezburger.

Name: Leda

Name Origin:  A moon of jupiter, the name means swan.

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 28

Guild rank: 4 star

Weapon: Duel ribbons

Ethos (Power): Poise. Complete and utter weightlessness.

Flaw power is based on: Her carefree and utterly absent-minded nature.

Notes: You guys know swan lake right? Well, there ya go.

Name: Styx

Name Origin: A moon of pluto that gets it’s name from the river of the underworld. Yeah it’s also a rock band.

Pronouns: She/they

Age: 20

Guild rank: 3 star

Weapon: Axe-guitar.

Ethos (Power): Vibrato. Powerful soundwaves cast by her axe-guitar

Flaw power is based on: Her brash and blasé attitude

Notes: Calls everyone “baby” or “babe” because they’re a cool rockstar.

[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

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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

[dresshistorynerd]

Unrelated to that but since I'm already William-Morris-posting... Not to armchair diagnose a dead man, but does this sound like someone who doesn't have ADHD?

"Morris wished to do everything himself - he had moved rapidly through the more gentlemanly occupations of architect and painter before deciding to master as many of the crafts as possible."

"He believed in a universal capacity to learn, that anyone could be trained to do anything, and so achieve the rich, satisfying life he felt ought to be made universally available."

A man who doesn't have ADHD: If everyone would just learn all the crafts and skills possible then everyone would be happy and satisfied with their lives, because certainly everyone has the obsessive desire to learn everything at the same time and preferably right now. And this is why we need socialism.

I'm so fucking tired of every book on William Morris or Arts & Crafts Movement in general being like: "William Morris said he's a socialist and yet he ran his design business successfully! Curious! Wasn't it kinda hypocritical to criticise society but also live in society?? Hmm! A lot to think about!"

And they are always soo smug about it. Like he didn't realize that everyone has to still participate in capitalism to survive? Like if you read the things he actually said and wrote he didn't talk about how frustrated he was about the material reality of capitalism, which he had to live in? And like that being a major reason why he in the first place was anti-capitalist????

[butchfemmefan]

As a fanfic writer, i honestly think the internet would be a better place if we disrespected fanfic writers a little more