#ok sorry for artist’s rants

[hikaruchen]

I’ll keep the king when you are gone away. I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait. — King by The Amazing Devil

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Some details for archaeology nerds (Here we go again AHAHAHA)

First of all the costume Alfred wears in this pic is BY NO MEANS historical accurate, but if we really want to be 100% accurate then to my knowledge there’s a high chance that Alfred wouldn’t be wearing dresses gowns at all (whoever decided to make Alfred wear those pretty cough dresses cough in the show I wish your family to prosper for all eternity YOU’RE A HERO), so instead I just chose to design whatever clothes I want and add some Anglo-Saxon elements in it :)

1. Alfred’s earrings

Took inspiration from the 7th century Anglo-Saxon/Frankish crystal ball, now in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Here’s the thing, I know English men (and the monarchs) don’t wear earrings until the 16th century and earrings weren’t even popular during the Anglo-Saxon period, but once I saw Charles I wearing pearl earrings in his portrait I just can’t help but put something pretty on Alfred’s ears as well lol…Sadly I can’t find the exact size of this one but the official site says that it was used as a pendant/an amulet! Probably for pagan practices though, but it’s pretty, isn’t it? :D

2. Patterns on Alfred’s gown

Taken from the patterns on the Bewcastle Cross in Cumbria (which used to belong to Northumbria, built in around the 7th to early 8th century, aka the period Bede lived in.

3. The woven band

The pattern is taken from the Laceby band found in Laceby, Lincolnshire, dated to early 7th century. It seems both Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons enjoy wearing tablet-woven bands? Saw this kind of things a lot in viking clothes reconstruction as well.

4. …Whatever this is

From fol. 34r in Book of Kells, the famous Celtic gospel book completed in Ireland circa 800 AD. As you can see I got lazy during drawing this lol but the illustrations in the original manuscripts are really impressive!

Now I don’t know if this is a good news or not but I’ve still got like…six wips for alhtred in hand…Good god of arts DELIVER ME

[siyelius]

jericrew pj party

(totally not just an excuse to draw hc body refs post-revolution and rant in tags)

[14dayswithyou]

That is all thank you

ANSWERED: Art credit for da first Ren meme goes to @meo-eiru!!

BUT HELPPPPP THESE ARE SO FUNNY JDSGJH T_T The Moth meme + Uno meme had me CACKLING lmaoooooooo

[elusiiev]

OMORITOBER DAY 14: LIBRARY

i like to imagine spirit mari tossing down her favorite memories for omori to read while peeking around to see omori's reaction :3

i was thinkin of drawing her too, but honestly i wasnt very sure what pose to do and i was a bit tired !!

thanks to @/ntrogensolar for the omoritober prompt list!

extra rant in the tags ab why this isnt a full piece!

[thresholdbb]

Can we talk about The Dying Swan moment in Coda? As someone who was once a very serious ballerina, I need to talk about the Dying Swan. Here's your context --

CHAKOTAY: Harry's clarinet solo was okay. I could have done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the Dying Swan. JANEWAY: I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure you, it was the hit of the Beginning Ballet class.

Have you seen The Dying Swan? It is dramatic.

Here, take a minute:

First of all, this dance is much too advanced for a six-year-old, even if they’re doing it in demi pointe. (Six-year-olds emphatically should not be in pointe shoes btw.) The dance is almost entirely bourees and arm movements done to very subtle musical cues, not the foundational ballet moves typically taught in Beginning Ballet.

This is a very vulnerable, dramatic dance that is effective because of its subtleties. The performer would need to embody that vulnerability in some way for a convincing performance. It's short, but it's a solo piece -- all eyes on you. I mean, it was choreographed for a prima ballerina, BUT THAT'S NOT MY POINT

Can you imagine our unflappable Captain Janeway willingly getting in front of her crew to do this ballet? I get that it’s thematically relevant to the plot of Coda, but since Janeway is only vulnerable in front of her crew when it means putting herself in harm’s way, it seems like a wild decision. She tends to hold herself apart from her crew, maintaining the professional distance of the captain. Further, when she does any creative pursuit, it is almost always in private, since her sister was the artist in the family and she was the scientist. As a captain, she commands Voyager in a much different way than she would as a dancer with this piece. I'm not saying she never shows vulnerability because she definitely does, but not necessarily in this way. Then when she talks about it with Chakotay, she just casually brushes it off with a laugh like no big deal.

There’s also the question of costume – would she have gone full tutu? Done it in her Starfleet uniform? An impeccable yet flow-y white suit? She does get into costume and command a performance in Bride of Chaotica!, but Coda is still kind of early days for our captain. Arachnia aligns more with what we know about Janeway's character.

Granted, it is Chakotay laying down these complements about her dancing ability and he is clearly biased. To be fair, Neelix does too before they leave in the shuttle. If she did this dance and performed it poorly or amazingly, I feel like the crew would look at her a bit differently afterwards.

Canonically she did The Dying Swan, but I certainly have trouble picturing it happening.

[barfville]

sketchbook dyump of a few lil comics.

anyone elses father make them insane even though you've never even had much contact with the bastard

[fredoesque]

not against the proliferation of pitch correction in the sense that i think it's somehow ""cheating"" or that i care if someone edits their vocals in any way but incredibly wary of the assumptions that seem to underlie its near ubiquitous use; that the perfectly pitched version of a song is necessarily the most beautiful version and that the most beautiful version is necessarily the artistically superior one. assumptions which i feel have terrible implications for both the quality of the art and the self-image of artists

[alchemiclee]

I don't know why most other artists i've faced in my life refuse to help or support or befriend or work with me in any way because they're obsessed with making art a competition. i'm the least competitive person you will ever meet. what's being kind and helpful and supportive and cooperative towards me going to do to you?! i'm not good enough at art to even be a threat if I tried! I don't get why they act like this towards me. I cant do anything to hurt your art career, so why are you trying to hurt mine?! I don't get it.

[parkitaco]

hi do you have plans on writing a sequel to the way life goes?

hi anon!! i don’t currently have any plans for a sequel, and tbh i really like that fic as a stand-alone since i based it off a song and anything i wrote beyond the og fic wouldn’t be true to the song anymore, so a sequel would probably be Unofficial if it ever did exist :^)

[meateater-rabbit]

metal elitists when they find out there's different genres of metal

[echo-rambles]

sometimes I see specific fics on ao3 where I read the summary and realize that it doesn't matter what the ship is because op is just trying to recreate the changjin dynamic. you're going to make jisung a tortured artist in one fic? you're going to make hyunjin chan's muse? changbin chasing after felix?

TRYING TO RECREATE CHANGJIN WITHOUT ACTUALLY PUTTING THEM TOGETHER IS MY VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY.

[scythiesscienceshoe]

Video game concept??

Wouldn’t it be cool if u were some relative of a very strong entity and you got to choose an op weapon at the beginning of the game? But the catch would be one weapon deals .5% max hp always and the other can be used in combos and is affected by buffs, which would you choose? The latter would be better for early game but as the boss’s hp starts ranking that’s where a percentage damage would be really helpful. Plus there would be fragments all over the map to increase the percentage dmg/ cool armor and buffs for the dagger. (Possibly Elden ring type style)

Would u play a game like this?

[layalu]

Hate how i got into the habit of (objectively!) criticising/pointing out flaws with my work to compensate being overpraised as The Gifted Kid TM & how it makes me sound like i'm being self deprecating

[girlcalledwhatsername]

So many people's idea of a "good horror film" now more than ever is just a horror film that abhors and actively avoids all the tropes and themes and dirty bits of the genre. A "good horror film" cannot be cheesy it has to be about some intellectual stuff it has to be a whisper of a ghost that represents some concepts haunting you it cannot be too gory it cannot rely on jumpscares it can have violence if it's clean and aesthetically presented (no intestines in the toilet anymore please!) it can have killers but it can't have anything else morally reprehensible because that's too icky it can have monsters and ghosts as long as they are vague stand-ins for an imagined anxiety.

Idk I just feel like horror is getting defanged because as we sanitise more and more media horror loses its place in the process. And everyone wants to make and watch "high brow" horror that has something "meaningful" to say and what they don't realise is that all that cheesy horror with the guts and the gore and the actual literal ghosts had something to say too. It has always been symbolic it has always reflected the anxieties of a generation it has always been more than what's on the surface, but now we're taking away the cathartic representations that became a canvas upon which to unabashedly paint and process those anxieties. Cheesy horror had something to say already, we didn't need to do away with that to make it "meaningful". All these new age horror films and modern remakes of old horror films with high critic ratings just leave me feeling completely empty.

Everything is either under ten layers of irony mocking the genre five hundred times before they're allowed a Trope™ or it's sanitised and served up like the film version of those unfulfilling fancy restaurant meals and I'm tired of it. Everyone doesn't have to like horror okay it's fine it doesn't have to be for everyone just please give me back my guts and jumpscares and taking the genre seriously and allowing messy characters who are all godawful in their own ways and immoral hideously horrifying actions with revenge fantasies and blood that looks messy instead of artistic and ghosts that are ghosts and scare the shit out of people please just give that back to me

[francy-sketches]

Hope you’re ok btw ❤️

yea im ok dw <3 just kinda bummed out by the whole thing but whateverrr we move on twitter doesn't matter anyway ^_^

also idk if you sent me another ask or if that was a different anon but. I'm not gonna answer it bc I don't wanna create more drama (and also I'm trying to resolve it in dms rn so. don't wanna ruin that by being petty) but thanks for the support same goes for the other anons 🫶

[horrorwebs]

hate it when she goes "when they have the same music taste as me 😍😍💖" NO motherfucker. you mean when they have the same music taste as ME. you barely had ANY taste before meeting me. it is MY music taste and you saw it and said it was YOURS. would you even know these bands without me? FUCK OFF