#the symbols are not standard

[bixels]

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

[youryurigoddess]

Aziraphale’s boots

Just in case you haven’t figured it on your own yet, Aziraphale wears dress boots — specifically a model known as Balmoral boots. It was designed for Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, to be used in the rural setting of the estate he purchased for his wife away from London.

Even though Victoria’s role as the ruling monarch required her to be the one to propose, Prince Albert (whom she called “angel”) designed a gemstone set snake ring for her as a symbol of their engagement, which started quite a trend among the British public.

The rather poor and very German Albert wasn’t a favored candidate at first, but his and Victoria’s 21-years-long union is remembered to this day as a perfect match and, together with their 9 children, a model family built on genuine love — so unlikely for their time and background.

[orb-weaving]

Recognition

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The world if people stopped applying their understanding of "conservatism" and "religion/christianity" through a very modern, deeply American view onto Death Note (a manga from the Early-mid 2000s which is very much set in the cultural and societal context of early-mid 2000s Japan and all that entails):

[arthursfuckinghat]

I fully encourage playing video games however you please, but something that (personally) makes me so truly sad is when I see people use the "clean Arthur" mod or edit photos to make characters look "better" - especially the women.

We all have preferences, but I can't lie that scrubbing characters of their wrinkles or skin blemishes or even scars leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth. These details are deliberate and thoughtfully designed, not only make characters look human, but to represent humans too.

I find it so hard to not find beauty in all the ways we differ from eachother, and ageing especially is so wonderful. Smile lines and wrinkles from years of laughter, tanned skin and coarse hands from the hours and hours spent outside in nature, blemishes and freckles and texture that reminds me of stars and the landscapes we tread on, scars and healing wounds that show you survived hard times, chipped teeth and crooked noses that show all the fights won, hair of so many different colours and textures, I just find it impossible to not fall in love with the intricacies of human nature.

I don't deny that people with clear or perfect skin exist, but I just ask to look beyond and see the beauty in all human authenticity <3

[selenophiliiaaa]

got a new book from a local witchy store and i am So Excited to read it - its “Secrets of Greek Mysticism; a modern guide to daily practice with the Greek gods and goddesses” by George Lizos,,, im only a couple chapters in but it seems like itll be a really good read !!

[afroisol]

✿　simple doll themed carrd - 03

custom carrd by me © sicimore

mobile + pc friendly

requires pro standard & above

tutorials will be posted on yt.

interested in my carrds and want a custom crd? dm @afrosol on discord or join my shop to hire me.

[dkettchen]

not plotly not letting me add a trendline to my line graph and my math brained ass deciding I will simply learn how to calculate a trendline myself and write my own dang helper function 😤

[box-number-two]

Semiotic Standard for All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter and Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft. April 16, 2078 by Ron Cobb for Alien (1979)

Transcribed color code: red - viable, alive, sound, alert white, grey - life-supporting condition: pressure, temperature black - vacuum, death, hazard yellow - harmful active process: molecular (heat) atomic, chemical blue - lowered thermal condition green - non-human biological substance, process 

Recreation by Boris Tovmasyan:

Source on Behance

[rebornofstars]

nobody fucking touch me rn i went to see tf one in the cinema and im shaking. they actually made a good transformers movie. what the fuck

[i-am-l-ananas]

oh, hey there, didn't think you'd spot me down here. yeah, yeah that's right, I'm the little guy that chews on the server wires. when the server crashes? all me babeyyy

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Not to be slightly pretentious about my own art for a second but I'm up thinking about the repeated visual imagery I've developed in my wkm fanart

Specifically the twin stars as Celine and Damien post WKM, particularly in their relation to Wil. How it's about them haunting the narrative. How it's about them still being there in Dark and yet not being there at all. How it's about the ways Wil still sees them in everything. How he misses them and how he carries on with that weight, with their legacy (the same reason I often draw him with star motifs of his own. Always carrying them with him in his own little ways.)

[deus-ex-mona]

omg it’s yujiro’s first song as “someya yujiro” what if i cried

[carlyraejepsans]

I’ve started watching Utena because of you. What. Is going on

HI. WELCOME TO THE CLUB, watch the trigger warnings. but yeah, revolutionary girl utena veers more and more towards surrealism the further you get into the series. it often and voluntarily forfeits narrative/logical consistency in favor of visual storytelling, metaphors and symbolism. i was just talking about it with nic the other day, and if the story weren't so harrowing, i would recommend it to everyone who wants to get into literary analysis, because it is SO packed with symbolism EVERYWHERE that it actually encourages you to try to decode it.

whatever you think utena is about, it is NOT. you can't go in and treat it like your 49293th classical shoujo. utena is a firework show of visual symbolism and it very rarely, if ever, explains itself to the viewer. it refuses to handhold you, but it never berates you for trying and getting it wrong either. there is SO much handholding in modern day media, but utena trusts its viewer to take away something meaningful from itself and to piece its message together on their own. it's one of my favourite pieces of media of all time just for that

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

To @thefantasmarex and other Cap adopts Kon AU enjoyers

I just thought something, Captain Marvel isn’t an inherited title. In the OG comics and still in a lot of later ones it’s specifically a chosen one thing, we know that with Billy, but his entire family is honorary members and titles passed between close friends and family specifically to share the power. Not pass it on.

Billy has 3 potential candidates for succession depending on canons; The original being BillBat from the 30th century, Power of Shazam’s CeCe Beck from the 90th century, and Tanist of the 853rd century in the DC 1,000,000 comics.

(Pictures and more below the cut)

Only one is actually related to Billy, and that’s BillBat of earth, his distant descendant. CeCe is from Bindermann and Tanist is from Mercury, both having stumbled into the RoE some how and have no prior relation.

No one in the current Marvel family as they know it is supposed to usurp Billy or replace him, he’s supposed to take the Wizards mantle fully later on in life and wait until his successor is old enough to inherit his power. Billy has to live to see that day, weather it’s 1,000 or 7,000 or 83,000 years into the future, he has to make it to pass the torch to the next being Pure of Heart and Strong of Spirit.

There is no replacing Marvel in the modern day, no keeping his name alive till the next guy needed, Conner has no expected inheritance or standards if he’s taken in as a member of the Marvel family. He can be whatever he wants as long as he’s a good person, he could wear his symbol and call himself Junior or another Lieutenant Marvel but he doesn’t have to.

There has to be a Superman once Clark’s gone, he’s too much of a symbol to fade, he means too much. But in a way Marvel doesn’t, and it’s not something bad or sad in context.

Being Captain Marvel is always shown as a thankless and isolating job, but one that has to be done to keep ancient evils at bay and the balance of Magic in order. That’s why Billy takes the job as Wizard only when Shazam dies, magic needs a warden but he doesn’t want that job right away, when he takes it he chooses Freddy as a champion to be Captain Marvel but they aren’t Shazam, he is. That’s what separates the Wizards champion, which is what Billy is, from the gods champions that his family is.

Conner has no expectation in his family, not because he isn’t good enough or because of a flaw in his upbringing, but because of a highly selective criteria for a job no one really wants.

[hotasfahrenheit]

i've been meaning to post something about this since the first episode last week but shout out to wardrobe on Last Twilight for one of the best fake ear plugs i've seen in a show! it's hard to get the fake ones to give the right impression in the lobe since they're a front piece and a back piece that sit on top of the skin to simulate the jewelry that goes through the stretched hole but they've managed it well enough that i've been staring at various gifs and screenshots all week trying to decide if i thought they actually stretched Jimmy's lobe for this or not 🤣

but yeah they've put the pieces of this together tight enough to give a subtle little indent in the skin around the front, which simulates the way that a stretched hole is shaped as opposed to a regular piercing hole which tends to leave the lobe relatively flat, with any jewelry in it not impacting the surface of the skin much if at all.

besides photos of him taken since filming where he has nothing in his ear, the main tell that it IS fake is the fact that the shape of the lobe is still matching his other ear. being at the gauge he would need for a piece of jewelry that size would be probably either a 0 or 00 (8mm-9mm) and it would cause the edge of his lobe to change shape slightly, which it hasn't.

i know this is a weird detail to pay attention to but as a person with stretched lobes it caught my eye and it's nice to see someone get it right for once!