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sapphim · 1 year ago

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one more post and then I'm done lamenting bioware's timelines, but as far as I'm concerned I don't really care all that deeply about hashing out the details of specific given dates with any deeper level of scrutiny than went into them. like who cares about the details of how much time bioware thinks passed between Origins and Awakening? all I know, deep in my heart, is that the Battle of Denerim took place on Wintersend. get fucking wrecked on your own holiday, Urthemiel. lmao

#see it's about the symbolism #if 200 years down the line it'll be a better story to fudge the dates and say the fifth blight ended on wintersend #then does the actual date even matter

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linktoo-doodles · 10 months ago

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resurrection is sort of romantic, isnt it

#farcille #falin touden #farlyn thorden #marcille donato #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #my art #Linktoo art #lets get that yuri on the road. who has a good analysis of these two. they have a lot of symbolism but I want to see like #someone get into the feelings they have for each other about how they see each other romantically. if that makes sense #tw blood

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infernal-lamb · 5 months ago

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The Lamb Slaying Death Incarnate

(Part of a larger comic....but I sort of like this panel a lot on its own!)

#cult of the lamb #cult of the lamb fanart #cotl lamb #I hate that I have so many comic ideas and Neves + lamb au ideas THERES SO MUCH I WANT TO DRAW #but they all come with various degrees of difficulty and time consumption #anyways. that shepherd’s crook is not really a weapon they use it’s more. Symbolic I guess #laughing cuz u can see exactly where the text is supposed to go. BLEH!#there’s actually still so much I have to edit. I’m not sold on the textures. Or the colors. Much to think about #my art

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notsogoodangel · 7 days ago

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Purple and Red.

The gods and their loved ones.

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bunnieswithknives · 2 months ago

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OK JUST A LITTLE THING BECAUSE IM INSANE @cubbihue

Song: Plastic by Cheekface

#IDENTITY HORROR MY BELOVED #I want to watch him fall apart #I need him to explode #fop #fairly oddparents #fop a new wish #fairly oddparents a new wish #animation #animatic #art #digital art #fanart #body horror #I sent in an anon ask a bit ago about Chimmy being able to accidentally destroy himself if he realized what he was #and that idea makes me so so so crazy #The slow dawning horror that you arent yourself #followed by the horrific deterioration of your body as a direct result of your knowlege #like a punishment you cant undo #a horrible cycle of falling to pieces reinforcing this horrific reality and that horrific reality tearing you to pieces #you know now. you cant go back even if you want to #and the visual symbolism body horror of literally falling into pieces. AGHGhgh he's hollow in there just so you know #He could stick his whole arm in and not reach the back of his skull its just a dark pit completely hollow and unnatural #I like to think if you looked deep enough you could see stars #AUGHGH STRIPPING CHARACTERS OF THEIR HUMANITY MY BELOVED #removing even their basest comforts. Even their body isnt familiar to them anymore #Its this strange horrifying thing. What will it do next? Was it ever theirs? Should they be afraid?#and in my hands the answer will always be yes #Sorry Im going insane I love your au #I like characters who cling on to humanity that can never be theirs ♥

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bytebun · 1 year ago

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my piece for @thecodywanzine! thanks to the mods who let me go completely ham and cheese on this bad boy. this one's about living longer than you ever expected and not knowing what to do with it

#they're having a leftover sale with free shipping if you want a ridiculous amount of art and merch for an insanely low price #codywan #commander cody #obi-wan kenobi #star wars #comics #codywan zine #i went kinda nuts with the sun symbolism on this one. even i feel like its hamfisted but like listen am i not going to self-indulge #if not in a shipping zine piece then where #hope and love and the sun and etc can be an. omelette. spanish omelette specifically. that you share with your fambly #food cw #its also about looking at your best friend over a table and going. i lvoe you. i love you. i want to spend the rest of my life with you #i want to see the future with you. im so glad we're both alive even though i thought we'd both be dead by now #bytebun draws #lets not talk about the way there is zero consistency in my art style. <3

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coloredlion · 1 month ago

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“what you cherish most”

#nerdy prudes must die #npmd #npmd fanart #Starkid #Starkid fanart #hatchetfield #grace Chasity #max jagerman #grace chasity fanart #lords in black #religious symbolism #crown of thorns #constantly thinking about how grace giving up what she cherished most was played off as a joke #and she didn’t have a choice btw #do you see what I’m getting at here #yeah…#she’s so important to me #holds her gently

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bixels · 3 months ago

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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

#personal #delete later #no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together #seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy #say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices #in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony #redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation #(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite #if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc #if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same #if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same #while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level #a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you #i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics #and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with #if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter #i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures #(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years #i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing #classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)

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swampybogg · 2 months ago

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#vampire hunter d #vhd #art #D the horseman of death (〃‿〃♡)#Hello Hello I hope you're all doing well 🥹🥹#Sorry that I only draw D haha I can't help it (❀ •̀ᴗ•́ )♡#I started Tyrant Stars recently and I finished gold fiend about a week ago?#Honestly I miss the stories where D would stay in one town in the entire story and be a little detective #since pale fallen angel it's been a lot of traveling ....🥲#and it will never not be funny to me that D has pockets full of dirt 😭 D take a shower man.... or wash your clothes please💀#2 versions because as much as I like white hair D he looks like alucard here because of the gold accents ( •_•)#I've never actually watched or played any of his games idk it does interest me? but not enough to sit down and watch it yet #I wanted to experiment with a black out style ( I tried incorporating red but I got too annoyed.#I intend to render it at some point!#so it might end up looking completely different #well...If I get myself to complete this and I like how it looks in the end I think I might make a little bookmark out of it for myself (〃‿〃#I think it would be neat...#....you see me drawing poppies a lot forgive me 💀They're just my favorite flowers💀 The symbolism works out for this drawing....

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raycatzdraws · 4 months ago

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A Linked Universe meets The Dark Crystal AU! I don't even remember what started it at this point. I remembered that the Dark Crystal and Age of Resistance are things I like, blinked, and woke up three days later with an AU and a bunch of art.

The designs and the story are a wip and for fun so expect a lot of variation! (I have a few different beginnings, ideas for different designs, etc)! :D

In addition to #linked universe I'll be using the tags #the dark crystal lu au and #courage of the dark crystal!

#linked universe #tdc aor #the dark crystal lu au #courage of the dark crystal #lu au au #lu legend #lu hyrule #lu four #lu wind #I've made an au of the au I've gone too far help help-#I gotta get better at drawing gelfling! Their facial structures are very distinct #ALSO I went really big with the ears here lmao #the hugest ears ever seen on gelfling #TRANS ROOLIE TRANS ROOLIE TRANS ROOLIE YIPPEE!!!!#I drew this last month (except for Four) sO HAPPY PRIDE! Roolie gets WINGS! :D #I'm SO pleased with Wind's design! he's a lil fishy! and Four with the horned headband/armor in place of the lil ups in his bangs #gonna try to put the aureyal or symbol of the conjunction and triangles on all of them #IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AU PLS ASK THEM #I'd love to tackle some worldbuilding mayhaps?!#I'm thinking of placing them somewhere before the first battle of stone-in-the-wood in the arathim wars #or after the events of the comics with Kensho and Thurma somewhere #and just figure out another reason for the crystal to be shattered. so many possibilities!#where's the crystal shard this time and how can I split it between them? >:3 niiiiine shards made whole >:3 #quest for the ~~triforce~~ crystal #Hello from summer camp also! Lots of shenanigans!#I'm surprised I was able to draw Four at all last weekend I've been so busy!!!#having fun tho!!! we're having a lunch cookout at archery and campfire is tonight!!! It's going good! see ya!!!

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chalkrub · 7 months ago

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been doodling some bri'ish wildlife - love seeing these guys. because they are the classics aren't they?

#my art #animal art #illustration #''love seeing these guys'' has only ever seen 6 of them #as if the elusive dormouse would ever grace my presence. and i still doubt the existence of snakes in england #drew the fox and pheasant because they're symbolic for two of my silly ocs then was like why not make a whole page of these suckers #lots of fun! if anyone's interested i'm gonna open up some slots to draw animals like this on kofi or something soon #can be pets etc. ocs too maybe but they'll be more expensive. not sure how much i'll charge for them but we shall see #lots of art to come...........i swear on it...........i'm about to go for a walk and maybe i will finally see a grass snake #(it's raining so this will not happen)#animals: ring necked pheasant. grass snake. european badger. red fox. barbastelle bat. mole. red squirrel. hazel dormouse. and hedgehawg #i had to compress this to hell it's so large #i need to take like a base photoshop class to learn how to actually use it cause the size of my files is actualy getting ridiculous #if i didn't compress this it would be 30 mb. this cannot be normal

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koszmarnybudyn · 8 months ago

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The teens are okay, for once :)

My commissions are open btw :) more info in the in the pinned post.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #my art #normal oak #link li wilson #taylor swift dndads #scary marlowe #can you see the care i put into all the clothes? can you appreciate the detail #yes as always theres refrences and symbolism but im not gonna explain it this time #this is a vaguely post canon look at them #also im starting commisions if anyones intrested will post about it soon :)

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linseedling · 1 month ago

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The Ruin and Renewal

#American Bison #Bison #I could talk about the symbolism of the bison in america for ages but I'll just draw some pictures instead #Seeing a huge herd in the Tetons was a very moving experience

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keferon · 3 months ago

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*clasps your shoulders gently and looks you straight in the eye*

Keferon. Please read Ninth by Kyn on AO3. I think you would love it very much. It has a large chapter count, but don't be intimidated, it's very easy to get into. It is currently unfinished, but is being updated regularly.

You are the seventh person that recommended this fic to me so ahahahaha yeah

I’m doing great Help I hate some parts of it but I love the other parts I’m spinning in the blender

…..I made the moodboard….

#chapter 37 #of 120 or something #I must be like 90k words in haha #large word count is not an intimidation. It’s an invitation haha #I love the fics that I can’t read in just one hour:)#I gotta say I don’t enjoy the concept of making robots into organic life #it’s just my preference #seeing them as humans or animals or whatever feels so fucking wrong #the concept itself drives me off #like. Strongly #But at the same time. This fic isn’t about them being ‘haha cute organics’#it’s ‘oh god. I was turned into something I’m not’#instead of teeheee they’re fluffy #it’s please free me from this fucking nightmare. please let me be myself again.#idk how to explain. I resonate I guess #it often feels very disturbing but the characters are also disturbed #So now I’m kind of stuck reading this fic because I just can’t stop lol #just politely skipping the parts that make me too uncomfortable #also #the body horror is….damn. Impressive. I didn’t expect to read about grotesque fleshy creature turning itself inside out #it’s not even aesthetic or symbolic #it literally looks like a fucking nightmare. Which is impressive also.#the flesh is g r o s s #the beginning got me struggling and skipping #but the intermission is currently ruining my sleep schedule #oh fuck….I usually send my posts to the authors of the fics I read…..but I feel like I might offend the author of Ninth if do this……..#there’s a tiny chance they’re following me….if it’s true then I wanna tell I’m sorry pls don’t take this seriously #your fic got me waay out of my comfort zone #huge points for writing Ratchet. Drift in this fic is…the grossest fucking thing I could probably imagine but Ratchet doesn’t even hesitate #he helps him and he cares for him. Which is…..imma be real my first instinct would be to set Drift on fire to end his misery

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months ago

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Market based mistakes.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #wen chao #wen zhuliu #Apologies for how much I skipped in the last part of this episode.#I do love the scene of Jiang Cheng regaining his will to live and the ensuing scenes of Wei Wuxian seeing him off at the mountain base.#At the same time I very much want to keep pressing on with the story.#The notes I have are for scenes I did not draw:#I still think a lot about the symbolism of food in both consumption and giving - especially in regards to the Yunmeng Trio.#Prior to JC leaving we see WWX out buying food for him. Something that initially falls through as JC runs back to Lotus Pier.#But here it comes back full circle. WWX gives away a part of himself to be 'consumed' by Jiang Cheng.#It is about being led by desire (JC wanting revenge to losing his will to live to wanting his core back)#and about being bound by duty to do whatever it takes to see those desires through to the end.#JC can't eat until he has his desire to live back. WWX carves out his own ambitions to help another reach theirs.#And it isn't held up as noble! Not even once! He is routinely punished and criticized for this sacrifice.#Being thrown into the burial mounds really is just symbolism for how we can give away every scrap of ourselves to others-#-and find ourselves at rock bottom. Alone.#When you hollow yourself out it just leaves room for something else to fill it. Something worse.

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mirrorhouse · 24 days ago

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maybe it doesn't entirely track with the way louis kept them in after redecorating the penthouse, but sometimes i wonder if those high bookshelves that louis can reach with a ladder, but that armand can reach much easier by floating, were a decision rooted in something like that first "arun/maitre" exchange: armand holding the umbrella for louis, and louis throwing his lighter away when armand lights his cigarette for him. it's like, "i could do this myself, but i'm staying with you, so i don't need to." an affirmation sorta thing, it symbolises "we're sticking together." louis can reach the books himself with a ladder, but if he wants one he can just tell armand to get it for him, and he will.

#maaaaybe not...... but maybe #it's an idea #also symbolic of armand's devotion/duty as part of their dynamic #it's armand's honour to serve and all that #i can see merit in all sides of the discussion about these shelves #iwtv #loumand

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