#mutt's collage art

[femboyhorror]

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[grzybjek]

A collage I made for one of the characters from my newest story. His name is Kundel by the way hes an absolute manfail and a menace

[desktopdinosaur]

AAAA THE ROT GOT TO ME AND I STAYED UP TILL 3 AM MAKINHG THIS EUHHDUHHSUHHDUHHDUHHSUHSUH

[shock]

"Don't just play—do something!", Jack Abele, 01.21.24.

This is a companion piece to the collage I made about moving into the first place that felt like my home back in '21 (shown below). They have matching frames and are displayed together above our dining table! This second piece is a reflection on how my relationship to "home" has evolved since then, especially after proposing to my now fiancé last month. I'm really proud of it!

Text transcript:

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

In the cold, thin clouds of interstellar space, written in the precise message of starlight:

What made you so interested in fireflies?

Imagine that they propel the environment into play: they STAND OUT, add color, chaos, curves moving behind and below, inside, outward along feedback loops, perplexing positive panic persuaded to make another form of animal art.

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, a beautiful structure, flamboyantly scuzzy, sassy, a full bouquet of many wild ideas — a dazzling interplay between lightness and unclarity, trying things out, fancy, whimsical records looped with webs, half-truth surface textures composed of swirls within swirls, a performance of information, scene-setting details with many impressive, more tongue-in-cheek, unforeseeable aspects relatively stable and evolving at the same time.

Distinctly transitional.

The trouble with love is it's hard to describe in simple and consistent words. Beyond the jolting familiarity of self-similar, self-referential tessellating hues, the little comedy-drama fictions... you see openness, possibilities toward change; our very existence together antidote to the dull grind of the paradox that we live every moment in an indifferent universe yet having so much fun with friends, local communities, places, faces, even muddy bog holes.

Music! A Tribe Called Quest, The Beastie Boys, The Breeders, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Santana and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, mud-caked at Woodstock, picking up Space Age scrap, cutting collaged paper, playing with magical little lights, heretically evolving in this meaningless, magnificent place fine-tuned just right to allow for life, love, and grunge to exist nevertheless.

Maybe what keeps me here, making art, is how beautiful it is for optimism to become the first expression of hope despite danger amid the disparate depth of our universe created by chaos.

Movement characterizes my "youthful, dynamic" journey, escapes to infinite other places somewhere else, afraid of considering complicated survival long-term, wherein risk is worth the reward. But something about your windy city reminded me what strange, cascading effects the fingers of two hands form together, intersect one another, interfere with fate, interlace like light radiating rays woven, at certain points, into dynamic singularities.

Mutualism is a happy hybrid of symmetry and chaos — a relationship, it's like the entire forest is blinking in sync.

Just as the fun is to make up a great story, the writer in me calls this piece, "Don't just play— do something!"

This time around, living offers a profound pivot from playing a game. Today we confront as animals, we're not far from dogs, domesticated punks at heart, manifold.

I am humbled, exhilarated, afraid yet strangely calm and clear "On Bended Knee"

(The term ground seems inapt.)

...Nor is it possible to describe...

The closest feeling to being the world itself? It is to have loved someone so much that you wanted to spend the rest of your lifetime with them, with each other.

We're writing a book. Adding a stroke of paint and words to illustrate what we became, a bright third dimension that can be seen from space to meet the generations to come, to simulate the uncountable whimsies they could achieve.

The mind already knows before the key touches the lock.

To watch firefly swarms with a mangy mutt.

That must be quite a sight to see.

BECAUSE THEY EXIST

NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.

[battlemaiden13]

What kind of difference will your antiharm have from the usual ones? I know you said something about an iseki(spelling???) story. Is that the antiharem?

OHOHOHO I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED!!!!

So my isekai story is different to the antiharem. the isekai is a slavetale with multiple au's where MC gets trapped in the body of the villan and now has to act mean to the skeletons she collect to protect them because they're her favourites but she's not good at being mean and despite her best efforts all the skeletons like her. She has to try and get them to hate her so they won't get taken away. It's very stereotypical and I see it being full of fangirling.

I freaking love this antiharem idea in case you missed my first two post here are some ideas about it so far:

Part 1

Part 2

I've read quite a few since writing these and here are some things I won't be doing if I write it.

MUTT WON'T BE THE FIRST ONE TO TRUST MC!!! like, why why is it always Mutt? He just always is the one who always believed in MC and their best friends and WHY? Like once or twice fine but every time?! not this time

Papyrus won't be being abused by anyone. Neither will any of the other skeletons, I don't need it please and thank you.

Mc will probably come across as mean but really I want her to stand up for herself, not take shit from anyone else and have super thick skin.

Most of the skeletons are in love with MC but don't know it's MC that they like. Orange likes his gaming buddy, Blue has a sort of Cinderella thing going on, Sans is in love with the person leaving cute jokes on the science whiteboard, Red wants to bang the person from two years ago, Berry fell for her somewhere along the way, Syrup and her get close after a near death experience and Edge.... uh IDK, he has a crush on his 'secret admirer 'at work who keeps leaving him gifts (you're just being nice)

I currently only have like the eight skeletons but I could be convinced to change who the are or add like one more pair of brothers. the Horror brothers could be fun, so could Wine and Coffee WHY ARE THEY'RE SO MANY HOT SKELETONS.

Love the collage au so many tropes to do do want to do them all.

MC might be genderfluid.... I'm tempted to do that

Mc is defiantly a delinquent at school or appears to be and probably studying either art or some sort of science, either way they help in the lab

Some of the skeletons are professors some are students

Mc works multiple jobs including, Lab assistant, waitress at a cosplay cafe, line chef at a restaurant, maybe a cleaner too. They just like working though and don't need the money or anything. all of the jobs are more like hobbies then anything else.

Hobbs would make an appearance as MC's best monster friend. The two yell at each other a lot.

[netverk]

AI Art is Not Collage or Sampling And Here's Why

I rarely feel motivated to make text posts but over the past few days I've seen an uptick in people deciding to defend AI Art, despite them maybe once being against it.

I'm sorry also if this post seems patronising or goes over things which you may already know, I'm writing this for theoretically all potential audiences so I feel obligated to go into detail on things. Again, sorry for the length.

I have been tracking the development AI image generation for many years. When I first saw the news about DALL-E 2 I was shocked that technology had seemingly advanced to the point that any image could be conjured from the aether, basically. However, in my own experimentation with it, I found it to be consistently disappointing in its results. As time went on, we all learnt of the staggering amount of Art Theft this, and all other Generative AIs, engaged in to power themselves. To see then, posts circulating equating AI Art with Collage/Remix/Sampling is very strange, it as if everyone forgot about the whole consensus agreement that these things stole art in a massive and blatant way. On some level I hypothesise this might be because of the reporting on the fact that AI Art may be used by The Powers That Be (Adobe etc.) to tighten copyright law to an incredibly draconian degree, making it so that individual art styles may be copyrightable, but really, I don't know! Regardless, AI Art is not engaging in sampling, remixing, or collage. It is, to cut a long post short, literally a machine to generate forgeries. Again, I thought this was widely agreed upon, but apparently not!?

In college/university I studied Photography. The debate around AI Art now has shades of the debate around the start of Photography, but not really.

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The instigating post here is by @whompthatsucker1981, who boldly stated:

"i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp’s fountain"

Gay Sex Cats is an AI Generated Image of the words 'GAY SEX' resolving in a group of kittens walking towards the "camera". From a distance it resembles the words 'GAY SEX', when viewed closer it resembles those words and also a group of kittens walking towards the camera. When viewed even closer, or for basically any amount of time, the AI generated nature of the image betrays itself, with the kittens being typically malformed and strange looking.

Duchamp's Fountain is an iconic work of Dada art. It is a men's urinal, turned onto its side and signed 'R. Mutt, 1917'. In invoking Fountain, 'whompthatsucker1981' is on some level politicising dislike towards AI Art. In the tags on the post, he states

Oh, so I guess he really is outright politicising the dislike of AI Art now.

Bluntly, he is completely and utterly wrong about Fountain, and it is an insane false-equivalence argument.

Fountain is hated by Chuds largely because of what it represents. The intent can sort of be gleamed through just considering why it exists and is called 'Fountain'. It's a urinal, but its been de-familiarised and turned literally on its side and dubbed a fountain. It is suggesting that theoretically, anything can be art. If you interpreted it that way, that's basically the 'intended' read! This was the core concept, in his words: "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice".

You can read other things into Fountain. All Art Is Subjective.

Chuds hate Fountain for it doing that. For it to dare suggest that art can have meanings and readings and be, visually, just a piece of ephemera or junk the artist decided to elevate. The Trad-Chud Statue PFP crowd profoundly do not understand art, and believe that art should be purely judged on its visual qualities and in their eyes depiction of traditional and historic scenes. They cannot stand that art is not exclusively Jesus and Imperial History Fanart.

AI Art is ironically really good for people who wish that art was all just meaningless, beautiful images! It does this by literally stealing the works of countless artists present and past.

To loop this around to the first work of ""art"" mentioned, what exactly is Gay Sex Cats trying to say exactly as a work of art?

It... isn't. Of course, that is not to say people cannot read into it like whompthatsucker, as All Art is Subjective. But it is an image not made with any outright statement on AI Art, Non-AI Art, or anything really, in mind. It is a shitpost, it is two words the 'Internet' as a collective semi-conscious has agreed (for whatever reason) constitute a Low Effort Funny, there exist other images of the words 'GAY SEX' rendered in various ways. This image thus simply slots in as the latest in a series.

Therefore the message of Gay Sex Cats is simply to exist, to an elicit a reaction from the viewer, presumably the creator hoping for a little laugh and a like-and-reblog. It is not making any concrete statement about what art means, or really doing anything more than just being a shitpost.

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The thing is, though, whompthatsucker1981 didn't just make a really terrible comparison between two entirely different things made for two entirely different reasons, he also painted Gay Sex Cats. Like, he physically painted the AI image.

This act, interestingly, is quite clearly designed to make a statement 'on' AI Art. Implausibly, the arguments presented in his post responding to various rebloggers commenting in the tags. Let's take a careful look through his statements!

He starts by saying that many of the reblogs are 'missing the point', if you look through the screenshots of tags he included in his post, you'll find that the takeaway of a lot of people is 'hooray, I can reblog that shitpost now and not feel bad about it'. He does note that yes, he was taking a silly meme seriously and was 'trying to make people think about it'.

He goes on to ask the rebloggers:

The thing that 'whompthatsucker1981' fails to get is that it inherently is less of an act of Art Theft by virtue of being hand painted by him. Even should the base image he is practically tracing be made from the mulched together essence of thousands of other images, to make your own work with paint basically means that you... aren't stealing art.

This is the common defense of AI Art Defenders, that it is completely harmless. No one is losing money, no one is actually getting hurt, so why should we dislike a funny image, a fun tool, by virtue of AI.

In literally the same day I encountered this post, I encountered another post pushing the exact same argument, basically. Generative AI is fine, for memes, as memes are free and just posted around! This post was by a bunch of different people all replying to one-another but the main 'top two' levels of that are the ones that matter.

https://machine-saint.tumblr.com/post/729656361855713280/remember-when-the-cool-nostalgic-music-trend-was

The majority of Nightcore uploaded to YouTube quite specifically names the track that has been Nightcored in the title. With remixing, the base track is still often credited somewhere.

Most Nightcore doesn't really alter the base track that much, but one could say that in the choice of song 'Nightcored' there is still some echo of the uploader's spirit. Even so, this argument isn't really worrying about Nightcore/memes making a statement or being something personal to the creator. This argument is simply saying: "Oh, but you steal images and sounds and media constantly to generate internet culture, so how is AI Art any different?" This is why I interjected this post in here, because it puts forward the same argument as the other.

It has been said that 'Everything is a Remix', I make a lot of works sampling other things. One of my favourite emotes in Fortnite uses a song which samples a house track from the 90s. Sampling is very much a normal and accepted part of cultural creation. Sampling and Collage are very much the same things in different mediums. Collage is when a still work collages things from disparate sources, these elements are conspicuously from different places. Much like Duchamp's Fountain and Readymades, the collage artist is taking typically ephemeral imagery and elevating it to art. Fundamentally, in their process they are creating, they are imbuing whatever it is they are doing with a part of their soul, their mind.

An AI is not doing anything like that. At the start of the post I mentioned how I studied Photography. In the early days of photography, there was a similar debate over how it can capture images perfectly, how it is mechanical, how it may not be 'art' by such a virtue. In time, it became accepted that photography was art because in the act of using the machine, a photographer is still exerting some degree of creativity. Choosing the precise composition, waiting for 'the decisive moment', or time of day, or staging and lighting a studio a specific way. Photography is a litany of choices, and although due to capturing reality they don't quite have the hyper-distinct mark of an author quite like illustrative arts (unless you put in the work to cultivate a specific aesthetic that becomes linked to you, as with Wes Anderson), they are still works guided and driven by the human soul.

One could argue that AI Art has a human element. Someone typed words into a prompt box, someone used img2img and attempted to steer the generation a certain way. Just like with photography, the artist's primary tool is a machine, just this machine captures that which isn't seen rather than that which is. The thing is, this is not how Generative AIs really work.

As was already described during the last time people discussed AI Art, Generative AIs take a huge corpus of imagery and artwork. Rather than bringing these elements together in collage, the AI kinda dreams up a new image that resembles all the things it is trained on, so you can describe a room and it will generate an image roughly like that. This result is not akin to any sort of prior form of art. There is no more creative input than pulling for 10 in a gacha game and hoping you get what you want. Even with things that can 'steer' it, such as img2img and whatever the heck the thing that made Gay Sex Cats is called, you are still functionally at the mercy of RNG. The images that train the AI are not acquired with any degree of consent, they are scraped en-masse. If you have any delusions that an AI isn't an art forgery machine, simply toggle one of the 'filters' on Playground.ai and then look at the generated image in the history. In an experiment I did, I applied the 'Filter Style' of 'Ominous Escape'. Only when looking in my history did I see that basically meant that it appended the following to the prompt:

elegant, highly detailed digital painting, concept art, smooth, sharp focus, illustration, in the style of simon stalenhag, wayne barlowe, and igor kieryluk.

Again, why is this suddenly now considered OK, when just a few months earlier it wasn't?

Generative AIs have been fed the sum-total of imagery online almost, these images have passed through their insanely convoluted multi-stage digestive systems. You ask it to create something, and it shits out a thing that vaguely looks like what is in your mind, if you're lucky.

Yet at no point in this process is there any true transfer of you into it, your mind, your soul. The prompt is an instruction, but you cannot steer how the machine interprets it too finely. There is no creation, no artistry, no effort. Just the digested mulch of all that came before, shat out, polluting the internet and the world.

This all conveniently answers the last question of whompthatsucker1981's original post.

Yes, quite literally it is worth more because he spent time on a piece of paper making it. It is that simple. AI Art has no value because it is shat out by the digestive system of a stack of algorithms, it is mindless, artless junk. Even for making 'shit'posts AIs aren't OK. In using them you are functionally endorsing how the AIs were created: Through mass art theft on a gigantic scale. It doesn't matter if what you're making is 'harmless and not for sale'. It is not what is being made that is the problem here, it is the literal nature of the technology itself. To reiterate:

Generative AI is powered through non-consenting Art Theft, devoid of any soul or human input beyond a prompt or an image to draw from. The most it should be used for is to quickly brainstorm and iterate on ideas, for inspiration on a personal and individual level, by feeding it your old works. Even then, it runs into the inherent ethical issue of 'Using It At All'. To support AI Art is to support the eventual destruction of the field of 'Arts', from Visual Development and Concept Art down to even actual things on screen. The people developing this technology do not have your best interests in mind, and only wish to create a world where small artists in the production chain of media do not need to exist anymore. The writers may have won a victory against Generative AI, but the battle is not over yet. As I said above, to even use them for silly images is on some level an endorsement towards the vision that this technology is inevitable and 'the future'. Immediately before this, NFTs were touted as inevitable and the future, yet then everyone listened to artists concerns and they never happened.

This technology does not have to be a part of our future.

[cinquecolonnemagazine]

L'arte ready-made e la sfida alle convenzioni tradizionali

L'arte ready-made è un movimento artistico che ha rivoluzionato la concezione tradizionale dell'arte, proponendo un nuovo modo di intendere l'oggetto d'arte. L'idea di utilizzare oggetti comuni e quotidiani come opere d'arte è stata sviluppata per la prima volta da Marcel Duchamp, un artista francese che ha avuto un ruolo cruciale nello sviluppo di questo movimento. Perché si chiama arte ready-made? Il termine "ready-made" deriva dal francese "objet trouvé", ovvero oggetto trovato. L'arte ready-made consiste nell'utilizzo di oggetti comuni, spesso di uso quotidiano, trasformati in opere d'arte attraverso il loro inserimento in un contesto artistico. L'idea principale è quella di esporre l'oggetto in un ambiente che lo valorizzi come opera d'arte, senza alterarne in alcun modo la forma o la funzione originale. Chi fu uno dei massimi rappresentanti? Il primo esempio di arte ready-made lo abbiamo tramite Marcel Duchamp nel 1917 con l'opera "Fontana", un urinale firmato con lo pseudonimo "R. Mutt" e presentato come opera d'arte al salone della Society of Independent Artists di New York. Questo gesto provocatorio suscitò grande clamore e indignazione tra i critici d'arte e il pubblico, ma allo stesso tempo fece nascere un nuovo modo di intendere l'arte e la creatività. Quanto influenzò l'arte del tempo? L'arte ready-made ha influenzato molti artisti successivi, tra cui Andy Warhol, che ha utilizzato oggetti comuni come le lattine di zuppa Campbell e le bottiglie di Coca-Cola per creare opere d'arte che riflettono la cultura di massa e il consumismo. Anche Robert Rauschenberg e Jasper Johns hanno utilizzato oggetti comuni nelle loro opere, creando collage e assemblaggi di oggetti che rappresentano la cultura americana del loro tempo. Ma l'arte ready-made non si limita solo all'utilizzo di oggetti comuni. L'idea arrivò anche ad altri campi artistici, come la musica e la poesia. John Cage, ad esempio, ha creato composizioni musicali utilizzando suoni casuali e oggetti trovati, mentre la poesia visiva degli anni '60 e '70 ha utilizzato parole e immagini di uso comune per creare opere d'arte che sfidano le convenzioni tradizionali della poesia. Quale fu il suo impatto? L'arte ready-made ha avuto un impatto significativo sulla storia dell'arte, in quanto ha rappresentato una sfida alle convenzioni tradizionali e ha aperto la strada a nuove forme di espressione artistica. Ha inoltre messo in discussione il ruolo dell'artista e la sua capacità di creare opere d'arte originali, spostando l'attenzione sul concetto e sulla creatività invece che sulla tecnica e sulla forma. Foto di Stefan Schweihofer da Pixabay Read the full article

[morlock-holmes]

Look, I get a bit punchy because this is the internet, but it really is a pet peeve of mine that discussions about AI art proceed as though most of the last century of art history had never happened.

Suppose I were to say to you, "True art, as opposed to mere craftsmanship, depends on subject matter. Art deals with certain rarified subject matters and anything that does not deal with those subject matters by definition cannot be art."

We're on Tumblr, here in the amazing space year 2023, so naturally if I said that you would disagree. You would think of me as a reactionary trying to put together a cargo cult dedicated to a thoroughly outdated and bizarre view of art.

A big part of the reason why this would be obvious to you is the work of a variety of artists and art movements throughout the 20th century.

I wrote something I'm fairly proud of about why Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal to an art show and its worth noting: That's just a urinal he bought from a plumbing supply firm.

An unsigned editorial appeared in the Dada magazine "The Blind Man"

"Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object. "As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

An article by Louise Wood says,

To those who say that Mr. Mutt's exhibit may be Art, but is it the art of Mr. Mutt since a plumber made it? I reply simply that the Fountain was not made by a plumber but by the force of an imagination; and of imagination it has been said, 'All men are shocked by it and some overthrown by it'"

Given that we have now spent more than a century arguing over that particular urinal, there may be some truth to this.

Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love says,

TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM   Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are – an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.*   * Example: when dogs cross the air in a diamond like ideas and the appendix of the meninx tells the time of the alarm programme (the title is mine) prices they are yesterday suitable next pictures/ appreciate the dream era of the eyes/ pompously that to recite the gospel sort darkens/ group apotheosis imagine said he fatality power of colours/ carved flies (in the theatre) flabbergasted reality a delight/ spectator all to effort of the no more 10 to 12/ during divagation twirls descends pressure/ render some mad single-file flesh on a monstrous crushing stage/ celebrate but their 160 adherents in steps on put on my nacreous/ sumptuous of land bananas sustained illuminate/ joy ask together almost/ of has the a such that the invoked visions/ some sings latter laughs/ exits situation disappears describes she 25 dance bows/ dissimulated the whole of it isn’t was/ magnificent has the band better light whose lavishness stage music-halls me/ reappears following instant moves live/ business he didn’t has lent/ manner words come these people

As Dada moved on to Surrealism, collage became part of the mix; consider Max Ernst's "A Week of Kindness" for example; a book literally made of pictures that had been cut apart and recombined.

Here's an image I generated a while ago with an AI program:

I'm going to assert to you that without knowing which model I used to generate this image, it is impossible to figure out which artist's images went into this picture.

The same cannot be said for the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein:

Or, for that matter, his pop art contemporary, Andy Warhol, who didn't invent the Campbell's soup can.

I'm not trying to justify AI art on these grounds, truly. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Marcel Duchamp as an artist and I tend to think Roy Lichtenstein was little more than a common plagiarist, and one who often diminished the impact and art of the people he copied.

What I am trying to say is that all this stuff, collectively, fed into the vast filthy ocean of modern culture. The process of the cut-up, the collage, and the mere recontextualization all feed into the ideas we have about art today here on Tumblr.

Particularly, ALL of the people named above play a major role in our modern perception of commercial art as fine art. To a very large degree the reason you think of fan-fiction and fan-art as capital-A-Art is exactly because of the kind of people who really did, in fact, just cut words out of newspaper articles to make poetry.

The same experiments which meant to challenge ideas about what subject matter was integral to art were also meant to challenge our ideas about what processes were intentional to art.

I think it really is worth knowing where this kind of thing comes from.

anti AI guys keep making AI sound so fucking cool

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• you can call me lovett or domina

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NOTES:

♧This blog is not minor friendly so I will not take any responsibility for minors choosing to read my content since they all will have a nsft tag which should be blocked.

♧ I'm all over the place so my posting schedule will be all over the place as well

♧ usually new fandoms that I join get a celebratory fic/post about it. (For example if I were to get into Harry Potter I would add it to my list AND do a fic, meme, something, on it to alert those that follow me that it's now incorporated into my writting)

♧ I am currently planning on re-writing my blog (mainly intro) into fitting the theme of a multifandom hell and kinda play into my name a bit as Well as add a masterlist.

♧ It may take a while for me to get to fic related asks or the like since currently I am only really active to check blogs I follow, work on my writting, memes and just fuck around.

Latest problem: all my fics in progress (over 30) got deleted with my phone breaking as well as over 2,000 notes in general. Two years of writing different things from fics to poetry of mine and ocs gone. They are not retrievable so far. 🥲

[shock]

Hey, it's Mutt! My computer of six years fell apart without warning yesterday (6/7/21). I made the world's worst graphic on my friend's Mac for this (sorry!). I'm trying to job hunt and recover from losing my temporary job that would've helped with July's rent. I need to raise funds to buy a new laptop, pay rent, find work, and prepare for my upcoming hysterectomy. Right now I'm doing collage commissions, pet portrait commissions, and marker pages. Shipping is free to anyone in the US, those anywhere else will be quoted! I can take payment through Venmo, Paypal, or Cashapp. Prices are in USD.

Collage Commission Info I've collected hundreds of magazines, comics, books, vintage publications, and other materials; I can make collages with a wide variety of themes. I like to do poetry on them, but I can do compilations of subjects without words, too. Some examples of ones I've done are up above, but there are more at this link.

Surprise Custom: You pay me for a collage, I go wild, and then I ship it off to you. This option is for people who might want a collage from me but aren't really sure what they want/don't have any specifics. ($35.)

Custom: You give me any themes, moods, subjects, or topics you want me to draw from, and I make something for you specifically. Some that I've done in the past for others have been "death and decay", "rejecting a bad father", and "angelic imagery", so you can request anything! ($35.)

Pet Portrait Commission Info

You give me references of a pet or animal character you want drawn with an attention to detail (I can do anthros, too!), and I send it out to you. These are always done at 9 x 12 so you can easily frame them! Most of my art is done digitally, so I don't have a lot of examples on hand, but you can check out my art tag at this link to see what I can do.

$80 for pencil drawings on mixed media paper.

$100 for colored pieces done with Prismacolor pencils accented by Tombow markers or watercolor on mixed media paper.

Additional characters/pets in the same piece will be +$40 and +$60 respectively, so a pencil portrait with two characters will be $120, three will be $160, and so on.

Marker Page Commission Info The last three pictures are examples of marker pages. These are experimental and design-based. You give me a theme or a concept or a creature and I'll fill up a page of ideas for it! Colorful, fun, more whacky stuff than the realism of my other portraits. The last picture is just another reference for what I can come up with design-wise, but the colors will be done in marker the way the previous two references are! ($40.)

If you're interested in commissioning me, please feel free to either DM me directly here or shoot me an email at dingoinnuendos@gmail.com!

I also have a Ko-fi here if you're not interested in anything but want to help out. I appreciate it a lot either way, thank you all so much!

[everlarkholidaystyle]

Thank you to @567inpanem​ for coming up with the prompts…so excited. 

The rules are simple chose a prompt write a story, draw a picture, make a meme, make a collage, or a music video, or even a soundtrack to the holidays. And submit it here starting on the Winter Solstice Saturday December 21, 2019 and extending to January 6, 2020 the End of the Holiday season…

Bake Off

*Peeta easily wins best baker title in his district with his special ginger bread recipe. But now he’s baking against the best of the districts! Will he be the Mellark that finally brings the grand title to 12? Intrigue! Deception! Sabotage! Bribery! It’s the grand quarter quell bake off has it all! Who will be crowned top baker and forever enjoy the special 25 yr title, fame glory and fortune! Your host Caesar Flickerman, with guest star taste testers including…Katniss desperate, agrees to work as secret agent, get close to Peeta, steal recipe and plans for a very special top secret gingerbread house, mess up his ingredients, make him oversleep after wild sex, anything necessary to keep him from beating the career district contestant! Will Peeta take home the big prize?

*Story of 1000 origami cranes in one year for luck or wish. Peeta makes 1000 (mockingjay) cookies?

D12 Fall Harvest

*Harvest Festival in D12 provides opportunity for all to not only celebrate bounty but also to give thanks, exchange gifts, participate in matching ceremony in anticipation of annual day of matrimony held on the winter solstice. Snapshot of Peeta and Katniss through the years? 

*Harvest Festival is competition like Olympics or Highland games? Winners awarded cornucopia of food for the coming winter?

D12 Parcel Day

*The way those Parcel Days could have gone to forge relationship between Peeta and Katniss if it was something more, if for example they had to work together on things like what goes in them (maybe start off cold, then argue over differences, then get to know each other, grow together).

Thanks Giving

First Feast in 1621 lasted 3 days, 90 native Americans Wampanoag and 53 Pilgrims, celebrated successful harvest - feast, games, military exercises, diplomacy. Only 4 of 20 Mayflower women survived to the feast! Men helped cook for the party. No oven. 1863 Lincoln declared holiday. Make Katniss either survivor of voyage or Native?

Christmas & Hanukkah

See Prompt Nine.

New Years

Old college friends dispersed after graduation, but the group meets up every New Years for a night of drinking and catching up on the year and reminiscing and resolutions. At least for a while. But then they drift apart, skip years… until one (ok, I just realized this is getting closer to the movie big chill with every tweak). Or st. Elmo’s fire. But I like the concept of Katniss and Peeta having something in college and kept it secret but something happens and there’s secret is exposed….

Peeta and Katniss have crushes on the other one, attend a masquerade and neither one tells the other what there dressed as and they meet at the party and they do not realize they are attracted to their friend; maybe this can be an arranged marriage effort to match people attracted to each other by personality, not appearance, and the positive match confuses them? Or attendance is a psychology course requirement? (My intro psych had 1,000 students.) 

Canon Based Non-Holiday Specific

something about coal…legend that La Befana witch flies down chimney, left gifts for good children, coal for naughty…Epiphany January 6 = end of Christmas season, day 3 wise men arrive manger BUT once Katniss is Victor, has $, sneaks buckets of coal for all the seam children to keep warm fire going, Peeta sneaks small raisin nut loaves? Or maybe this is parcel day beginning of legendary Mockingjay flies and delivers coal and sweet music. Maybe we can leave it like an open-ended thing parcel day in the and the districts how do you think each district celebrated partial day

 Prompt #1 A Dog’s New Year’s Eve Prompts -  

A dog living on a college campus in Columbia observed that paying cashier = get a cookie. So, for the last 5 years, dog picks up large leaf, carries to cashier, gets cookie, too. What if cashier is lonely baker Peeta? Stray dog actually belongs to Katniss. Because dog always snarls at Haymitch, he calls it “Katniss.” Peeta overhears, assumes the dog is “Katniss.” Haymitch doesn’t correct him.

Peeta reads horoscope for 2019 Year of the Dog: “For single people, they have a large possibility to meet some excellent friends of opposite sex and develop a romantic relationship with one of them.”  

Peeta needs to find a date for New Years Eve and is running out of time!  Hears Katniss over the radio reading the article he wrote “…Dog girls…need to pursue or express affection of boy dogs bravely. In addition, joining in more social activities on weekends is also an effective way to find true love…” Followed by a “BAHUMBUG Love is dead…dogs do not fall in love…hell like people dogs fall in lust’” Peeta wants to find this woman and set her straight…Love is not a Bahumbug. 

What if dog getting too heavy like Columbian dog, vet accuses Katniss feeding dog junk, Katniss follows dog, catches baker feeding her now overweight dog, confronts him. But, Year of the Dog! So, HEA magic.

Prompt Idea #2 (Cultural Holiday)

*Pliny the Elder, a Roman who was one of the world’s first known naturalists, thought the Druids’ beliefs about mistletoe (that “mistletoe, taken in drink, will impart fecundity to all animals that are barren.” and hung it over their doors for luck) were silly, but the reputation stuck thanks in part to a Norse myth: definitely something with mistletoe and drinking its properties to become fertile 

*Frigga, goddess of love and marriage, loved her son Baldur so much that she and Baldur’s wife teamed up to make all the world’s plants and animals to promise not to hurt him. Well, they got all the plants, except mistletoe. Loki, god of mischief, realized the mistake and made a spear out of mistletoe and killed Baldur. As Frigga cried over the loss of her son, her motherly tears turned into mistletoe berries. Those berries somehow brought Baldur back to life, so Frigga declared mistletoe to be a symbol of love. According to The Smithsonian magazine, “Mistletoe would come to hang over our doors as a reminder to never forget. We kiss beneath it to remember what Baldur’s wife and mother forgot.”

Prompt Idea #3 Candy Land Hunger Games edition

Weird holiday hunger games - Arena is a winter wonderland of marzipan mutts, “Snow” monster, Peeta and Katniss are gingerbread, she reattaches his leg with frosting, in crystal candy cave he can’t stop from taking a nibble she’s so delicious, it rains lemon drops, it snows powdered sugar, watch out for milk lake danger… 

Prompt Idea #4 Misfit Toys

*On the Island of Misfit Toys, one new toy (Katniss?) perfect but with broken or lost heart, damaged toy soldier Peeta? determined to help with other toys (victors or tributes?) 

Prompt Idea #5 Holiday Dueling Booth 

Katniss and Peeta’s relationship has gone sour. For extra cash, Katniss opens a seasonal booth at the farmer’s market selling simple homemade baked goods, like apple cake, acorn flour scones. Peeta tries to get her attention by pushing her buttons, opens an upscale baked goods booth next to hers. 

Prompt Idea #6 Tim Burton Holiday

Too much eggnog, Katniss nightmare: Mad Capital scientist builds a “Edward scissorhands” boy mutt but with kitchen gadget appendages. D12 turns on him. Katniss goes on daring journey to find only person who can help. Dr Wires lives underground with oompaloompa-like helpers (former victor mutts). 

Prompt Idea #7 - Story Book Hero

Katniss is a working mom who doesn’t have time for all the school volunteer opportunities, but finds herself signed up for weekly storytime for December - The Story Book hero comes to life

Prompt Idea #8 Holiday Shopper

Wealthy Peeta and Finnick like betting on the stupidest things, each hires a professional personal shopper, tries to come up with Christmas shopping list item that will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. But Katniss desperately needs the money, resolved not to quit. 

Prompt Idea #9 -  Open Ended Holiday Prompt -be creative any HG Parring any and all works

Looking for perfect gift Hanukah / Christmas

Eight Days of Hanukah 

Office parties

School art projects

Deadlines 

Should old acquaintance be forgot

Singer / Caroling / Rock Band / TV Show

Resolutions -  

Snowstorms - 

Holiday show

Gift of the Magi

Let’s find your smile (like a treasure hunt, by end found happiness)

Secret Santa party games

Gift Exchange

Twelve days of Christmas 

New Years masquerade ball

Oh and one more thing don’t forget to #Everlarkholidaystyle2019

[tothewaterhq]

ACCEPTED // ARES CARNAHAN

district two → trainer →  Matthew Daddario fc

positive traits: confident, charming, intelligent negative traits: manipulative, attention-grabber, unsympathetic

tw: blood, violence, gore

Specialization: Swordplay, hand to hand combat 

describe their arena: The arena of the 67th Games was a larger-scale Roman Colosseum. The Cornucopia being in the center of the fully erect stone walls with holograms of screaming fans. The tributes were adorned in gladiator armor of the color code of their Districts. The Cornucopia ended up being consumed by the dirt as soon as the Bloodbath was over, leaving whatever weapons and supplies the tributes had taken the only ones in the arena until the sponsors sent more.

The map of the arena changed on a daily basis. The first of the four days of the arena was a maze that the only exits were into the underground catacombs. The second day, the tributes were trapped in the catacombs where the mutts of the wild animals were caged as a taunt. The third day, the coliseum flooded in an effort to kill off a fraction of the kids. On the fourth day, the water drained, the coliseum was left as an open area, and the animal mutts were set loose on the final four tributes in the finale.

bio:

Ares Carnahan was born the fourth of five children to Eladora Carnahan, the Victor of the 39th Hunger Games for District Two. While Eladora had been a fan favorite of the time, that quickly dwindled for her. She started to become more and more lonely overtime and thus bedded multiple men from different parts of her life. She never told her four daughters and her only son who their fathers were, only that they didn’t share the same father. Ares always found that funny, always wanting to know what his other half was. For a long time, he was sure that his father was of District Two origin, because otherwise, why else would he be so good at what he did?

Ares’s three older sisters, Persephone, Mikala, and Seraphina had been their own women. Seraphina was three years older than him, so she was the one who partnered with him on a lot of their adventures as children. When his younger sister, Leta, was born, Ares became almost obsessive with having attention focused more on him. So he became determined to show his mother how much he earned and deserved the attention so he excelled in District Two Academy. As it turned out, as he became more and more prominent within the school, his mother’s worries surfaced and she admitted to her son that she would rather not see him in the arena as she had been, that she’d rather have him there with her, safe and sound.

Except that made him angry. He refused to give up on the fact that he could be as great as or better than his mother, who only vied for the attention of men. So as he turned seventeen, he had gotten the nomination to volunteer for District Two, and against his mother’s wishes, he did. When he did, he immediately wanted to get the attention of every Capitol citizen to make sure that he became a fan favorite. He would win the 67th Hunger Games.

His time in the Tribute Tower was mostly spent charming other tributes. Ares made sure to form an alliance quickly with his tribute partner and District One. He purposefully left District Four out of it, not wanting to get the group too big. He didn’t need that many people targeting him. His training came with a breeze, showing his worth almost immediately. His training scores reflected that with a glorious 10, knowing full well that he would get it. His confidence was soaring and he knew he would defeat whatever obstacles were thrown at him.

Upon arriving in the Roman Colosseum arena, he was adorned in a gold armor with red adornments. When he went into the Bloodbath, he was one of the first ones into the fray, grabbing a hold of a sword and decapitating the girl from District Six first when she got into the area. Seven tributes died in the Bloodbath, including his own District partner after a well-placed dagger by the boy from District Four. He would have to keep an eye out for that one, he remembered thinking. So he disappeared with the two from District One, knowing he was at a slight disadvantage due to his District partner’s stupidity.

The next three days of the arena went fast for him. He, like other tributes, were starving and growing weaker by the day. However, his thirst was eventually quenched when the third day happened and the arena flooded, killing the majority of the tributes. He managed to stay alive by swimming, but so did the boy from District Four. They got into a scuffle before they were suddenly rained down upon with arrows from the sky, so they ended up splitting ways.

On the fourth day, there were four tributes left. Ares, with the most kills of the Game at five people, the boy from District Four, with three kills of his own, and then the girl from District Seven and the boy from District Ten. By then, he was fed and medicated from the injuries he had sustained from the arrows from sponsor gifts. He was gifted a better sword by fans of his work in the arena. His armor and his body were covered in the blood of his kills. As they were all flushed out of the tunnels by the released animal mutts, it was now or never for all four of them.

The boy from District Ten was the first to fall from a bear that mauled him to death before the boy could get away. The girl from District Seven was immediately taken out by Ares when she was distracted by the horde of wolves that howled out from the south gates. That left him and the boy from District Four. They dodged and attempted to move around the hordes of animals as they went at each other. When they clashed, it was epic. Even looking back on it, Ares was fascinated by how evenly matched they both seemed to be. After almost fifteen minutes of fighting, the boy from Four managed to get a dagger into Ares’s side and rip it out, knocking him to the ground. As Ares knew he was bleeding out and the animals would smell his blood, he watched as the boy from Four jumped on him and tried to get in on his neck. Ares held him back, only to smear his own blood across the boy’s face and shove him off with one last gasp.

Then the wolves and tigers descended upon him.

Ares managed to barely get up while holding his intestines inside, nearly getting taken out by animals on his own accord from the smell of blood. He watched as an elephant came stampeding right toward him and a group of cheetahs stalking him before the sound of a canon blew. Everything halted then. All of the animals calmed and stopped moving. The boy from Four had died. Just as the voice on the intercom presented Ares Carnahan as Victor of the 67th Hunger Games, he collapsed in the middle of the arena, having lost too much blood.

Upon waking, Ares knew he would be bedridden for a while after the surgery. Still, he stood and walked for his crowning, not wanting to miss that for the world. He thought he would feel on top of the world, but instead, he felt empty. There was no pride or glory in what he had done. The kind of attention he had gotten from the Capitol wasn’t the kind he wanted. They saw him as some sort of icon for bloodshed. They called him the Blood Prince after he left.

Upon his return home, his mother wept with relief and his sisters were more than happy for his safe return. He wasn’t as eager for attention as he used to be, but because of the pressure the Capitol put on him, he became something that they wanted him to be. He found his old confidence and projected that as well as he could. Eventually, it became like a second skin to Ares to project this air of confidence when he didn’t have much of it at all. As far as anybody knew, the Blood Prince was without mental scars. The scar where the arrow had gone through his leg and the gash in his side were still there but easily concealed. He covered his side with a large tattoo of a collage of the silhouettes of the animals he faced in the arena.

The only time that Ares feels like he’s in his element is if he’s fighting. It’s why he remains in shape and is the first person to train people in the art of hand-to-hand combat and swordplay. He is the type of person to make a joke at someone’s expense and he tries to charm anybody he can in order to get his way. He finds that his nightmares can get unbearable if he isn’t tired enough, or he won’t sleep at all. So he attempts to bed women and men alike in order to tire himself to sleep through the night. He tries to play off that he’s okay, but in reality, the people who know him best know he isn’t quite there. Which for his mother, Eladora, was a big “I told you so” moment for her.

PLAYED BY // TABBY

[architectnews]

"Multiform is the architectural manifestation of our present moment"

As architecture transitions from being dominated by modernist ideals to being determined by automation a transitional style dubbed Multiform has arisen, says Owen Hopkins.

Economics is often talked about in terms of cycles. There are periods of economic growth followed by stagnation and recession. Then after a time the economy starts growing again and the cycle repeats. It's the natural ebb and flow of macroeconomics.

Every so often, however, there's a 'supercycle'. This is when technological innovation reaches a critical mass and sets off an explosion leading to a new phase of long-term economic growth. The usual business cycles still play out, but do so within the encompassing supercycle, which over time reshapes almost every aspect of the economy.

Modernism was a supercycle, setting the architectural agenda for half a century

Architecture follows a similar pattern. This is partly due to the close relationship between construction and the broader economic situation. But architectural cycles also emerge through changes internal to the discipline, as we develop new ways of thinking about and responding to the material and cultural changes of the world in which architecture is practised.

By this definition, modernism was a supercycle, setting the architectural agenda for half a century. Post-modernism is usually seen as marking the end of the modernist supercycle, but could instead and rather more interestingly be seen as the start of the next – a supercycle that has also lasted nearly half a century and is now coming to an end.

Today, the question is what comes next. If modernism emerged in response to the advent of the production line, electrification and the motor car, and postmodernism was the architecture of cable TV, de-industrialisation and consumerism, then the next supercycle will be driven by what is sometimes called the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This is the new world of automation, the 'smart city', the Internet of Things and the total erosion of the distinction between the digital and physical worlds.

Although the pandemic has certainly accelerated many of these trends, we aren't there yet. Instead, the present moment is one of transition.

 The next supercycle will be driven by what is sometimes called the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Looking back, we see such transitional moments manifested architecturally in aesthetic and ideological pluralism, as the unravelling of the previous supercycle allows new ideas to break free. This was the case with modernism, whose early history saw a battle between different 'isms', and it also characterised the competing ideas and ideologies of postmodernism's early 'radical moment'.

And so it is the case with Multiform – the name I use to describe a new and vital sensibility emerging in contemporary architecture and design. Multiform is not a style, but the architectural manifestation of our present moment of profound political, economic and cultural flux.

It is hard to define something that in its very nature is marked by hybridity, heterogeneity and multiplicity. Multiform quite literally takes multiple forms, but can be loosely characterised by design tactics such as collage, reference, quotation, and the bold and expressive use of colour, ornament and materials.

This has led the Multiform tendency to be mis-characterised as postmodern revival, and written off as simply fashion. But this is to fundamentally underestimate its importance and implications. In so far as Multiform appropriates certain design tactics of postmodernism, it does so because of the equivalence between that moment of transition and our present one.

Rather than a stylistic choice, Multiform represents an attempt at engaging with the aesthetic, ideological and environmental chaos of the contemporary world. Rather than pursue one particular agenda – whether political, aesthetic or financial – and seek to impose some kind of order, Multiform accommodates multiple states of being and existing.

Multiform represents an attempt at engaging with the aesthetic, ideological and environmental chaos of the contemporary world

So, if this is Multiform, who are the Multiformers? We can see Multiform approaches in the work of growing band of architects and designers who work in the urban realm from across the world.

We see it in the intense improvisation of Fala Atelier, the strategic urban eclecticism of Bovenbouw and the postmodern inheritances of David Kohn Architects. It's present in the veiled complexity of Johnston Marklee, the disciplinary and typological fluidity of Jennifer Bonner's approach to research and design and the sampling and remixing of Studio MUTT.

Then there's the superabundant joy of AOC, the luxurious thrift of Office S&M and CAN's celebration of the city's ad-hoc formations. It's in the participatory sprit of DK-CM, in Groupwork's crafted approach and, of course, in the exuberant colour and patterns of Yinka Ilori, Camille Walala, and others of the group dubbed 'New London Fabulous' by Adam Nathaniel Furman, himself a notable Multiformer.

The Multiform sensibility is by no means limited to these architects and designers, nor does it necessarily characterise all they do. The ability to pursue a variety of agendas simultaneously is what Multiform is all about. But what is common to many of these practitioners is that they are of a generation who can remember a world before the mobile phone and high-speed internet, allowing them to operate with one foot in each of the analogue and digital worlds.

The ability to pursue a variety of agendas simultaneously is what Multiform is all about

As a transitional tendency, Multiform is by definition fluid, dynamic and shapeshifting. And in being so attuned to the circumstances of the present, Multiform is inherently marginal and fleeting. Although a bloom amidst a dense thicket is more rare and beautiful than a field of flowers, it must be nurtured and prevented from being strangled.

Already there are powerful forces lining up to shape the next architectural supercycle. Neoliberalism's espousal of the financialisation of everyday life – the politico-economic ideology that underpinned the last architectural supercycle – is giving way to a new ideology that aspires to the datafication of every aspect of human experience. The data-driven fantasies of big tech aim at nothing less than the surveillance city where basic and fundamental freedoms are not just curtailed but abolished.

Meanwhile, others of a more populist and reactionary persuasion hope for a reversion to the past, whether this is so-called traditional architecture or warmed-up state-sponsored modernism. In contrast to the vast forces currently being marshalled by big tech, the idea of somehow finding a way of turning the clock back appears rather quaint.

Multiform is not alone in recognising the urgency of this situation and its impact on the public values that define the discipline of architecture. Riven by anxiety over architects' diminishing role, some are looking outside the profession to assert their agency. Yet, while offering short-term succour, this risks architecture becoming ever more diminished as a force for (re)shaping the world for the better.

Rather than retreat from the discipline, Multiform doubles down on what architecture is uniquely placed to do and reasserts its central importance to society.

It resists architecture's instrumentalisation towards external agendas and the mono-cultures that ensue and instead meets the complexity of the contemporary world with ideological diversity and aesthetic pluralism. As we stand on the cusp of the next architectural supercycle, Multiform points the way towards a richer, more joyful future.

Owen Hopkins is an architectural writer, historian and curator. He is director of a new centre for architecture and cities in Newcastle, UK opening in 2022 and was previously senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum and architecture programme curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. He is the author of books including Postmodern Architecture: Less is a Bore (2020), Lost Futures (2017) and Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture (2016).

Main image is of Office S&M's Mo-tel House in London. Photo is by French + Tye.

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[somethingclever666]

Thank you! You have great music taste btw

Ok so it didn’t save my draft 😭 here we go again

color: yellow is what I commonly get, but @timetravellingkitty suggested blue and I trust that <3

season: summer cause its unflinchingly bright :)

element: gonna go earth cause I’m scared of the ocean, fire, and heights so the others simply won’t do lol

animal: ngl I’m a dog. I like going on car rides and getting treats and also doing a little sigh after settiling into a comfy position

fruit: cantaloupe cause it’s sweet and always at restaurants but usually people don’t seek it out specifically at stores

flower: rose bc it was the only flower my mom liked when she was pregnant with me :) also roses have great friendship meanings :)

gemstone: I don’t really know any other than my family’s birthstones, but opal is really pretty and pearl is my birthstone so maybe one of those

food: hoohoohoo soup

dessert: German chocolate cake bc people think coconut is weird but then end up liking it most times

ice cream flavor: pb and chocolate <3

scent: hmm I’d probably be like one of those target candles you look at the name and think “what?” so you smell it and you think “oh wait that makes perfect sense” (my sense of smell is really poor ok)

type of weather: beginning of summer when the breeze is still cool but the sun warms your back and the days are longer :)

time of day: middle of the day, sun is highest

musical genre: er I’m bad with genres but your neighbors has songs with a bunch of random sound effects and talking and I think that’s it

art medium: collages are pretty neat :) I’ve done a couple and I’m decent-ish at it

character archetype: sorry but prolly leader/caregiver cause I’m always put in charge of stuff and taking care of things other people don’t want to do

story genre/trope: when a character keeps repeating information that everyone brushes off because it doesn’t make sense and then the thing the character was trying to explain happens and all the other characters go ‘ohhhhhh’. That or comedy lol

planet: mars (not meant for humans)

star/constellation: sorry I only know one. Orion

dog/cat breed: mutt. Don’t know what’s going on but it’s a lot, it’s too much, but it’s ok cause they’re so funky and sweet <3

Tags!! @timetravellingkitty @timelordatbuttonhouse @spidezer @internallyscreamingatalltimes @ambercipher and anyone else who wants to :))

i don't know if anyone else has done this but! there's a tiktok trend going around that i really wanted to make into a tag game! share what you would be if you were a...

color:

season:

element:

animal:

fruit:

flower:

gemstone:

food:

dessert:

ice cream flavor:

scent:

type of weather:

time of day:

musical genre:

art medium:

character archetype:

story genre and/or trope:

planet:

star and/or constellation:

dog and/or cat breed:

feel free to ask your friends what they think you would be!

and tag as many people as you want!