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#men in heat so true so trueā¦. 2024 year of the omegaverse.#guess who finally got her copy of the magazine and hasn't stopped re-opening it to stare at this entire shoot#the little pink bows on that beautiful beautiful man (ye hao)........#the fashion magazines in china and korea are doing such beautiful work#i loveeee wintam's work#more of the shoot over insta: wintam0119#also not to hockey on this but tyler seguin you would love this photoshoot#wintam#win tam#photography#fashion#art#long post
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and I just think itās important that Maximus, a man distinctly of the earth and soil and dust, a man strongly connected with the ground and everything related to it, is introduced by watching a bird ā a creature of the sky and air. the bird flies away, which symbolizes that a part of Maximus is always far away, always longing to to be with his family. and I think it foreshadows his death somehow in the way his soul is ultimately not of this world, but the next. and I just have a lot of feelings about that
Gladiator (2000)
#i am bewitched obsessed spellbound awestruck#now THIS is how you introduce a character#forever obsessed with this opening scene#ridley and russell were insane for this#maximus?? deadly fighter and fearsome general???#heās birdwatching#dreaming of his sonās laugh and his wifeās hair#he is so beautiful here#every day i look at his face and wonder how one person can be so perfect#the lighting here is incredible as well#the way it catches in his hair and beard and cape while his face is slightly shaded#the sheer intensity of his gaze?#the piercing eyes and steady expression?#the hint of a smile when the bird flies off because a piece of his soul goes with it?#yeah sort of losing my mind over this#brooo your gifs are always mind boggling to me#they are true works of art#and maximus is the ultimate subject#what a stunning and captivating man#the one love of my heart and the one fire of my desire#eternally burning for him and also weeping for him#yearning longing aching desiring pining and wasting away#gladiator
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Returning home
#I like to think it works like Sophie being old in Howls moving castle#without his friends and family and Arthur Merlin obviously ages#but Arthur makes him feel young again - like who he was with him#because Arthur woke up obviously because thatās what happens#itās true and canon and I said so#(donāt tell anyone im only on season three currently)#my art#Merlin#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#Merthur
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āA thousand generations serve to praiseā¦ā
#listening to the 1996 ending and getting emotional at the last line#thinkin bout how even literally thousands of generations later weāre still making new adaptations of this guy#and still talking about everyoneās favorite lil monkey guy#and after all - isnāt that true immortality?#sun wukong#jttw sun wukong#journey to the west 1986#journey to the west 1996#havoc in heaven#monkey king#monkey king reborn#lego monkie kid#lmk sun wukong#lmk fanart#digital art#my art#journey to the west#Iāve been wanting to make a piece like this for a while#thank god for the symmetry toolā¦#Iāve been really locked into work lately so this was a relaxation piece#my only regret is that I didnāt have enough stamina to shade it#but I still like the vibrant colors a lot so itās cool š#I ordered it by timeline#some of my favorite Wukongs :)
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i hope everyone in nintendoās management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and iām not kidding
#WERE LOSING YUZU AND CITRA. I DONT KNOW IF YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW INSANE THIS IS#game emulation enables piracy yes but itās also an INCREDIBLY powerful archival tool.#there are plenty of games out there that only exist in their original formats due to emulation.#this lawsuit has HORRIBLE implications for video game history. it makes it incredibly easy for companies to scorched earth their products#if theyāre not profitable enough. ART IS GOING TO BE LOST BECAUSE OF THIS. GAMES PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD ON#it wonāt just happen to bad games. it wonāt just happen to old games. they will use this to keep their remake/virtual console model going#forever and you will never be able to play your favorite games in their true original forms ever again.#i am fucking INSANELY mad rn. capitalism is the death of art fr#personal
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One in a million.
#AAAAUGHHH BRO IS IN MY BRAINNN#I was just thinking about how there were so many flowers in the true lab that were also injected with determination#but only one of them worked#this is very self indulgent I just wanted to make a full piece no matter what the subject was#undertale#flowey undertale#undertale flowey#flowey the flower#flowey#my art
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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name moodboard for ākodiā for anonymous
#a true work of art//moodboard#sparks of creativity//my work#moodboard#aesthetic#mb#chaotic academia#dark academia#classic academia#light academia#academia aesthetic#downtown boy#downtown aesthetic#speaking through another//request#do you not know that a man is not dead when his name is still spoken//name mb
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Florence + the Machine heritage post. Literally like this should be required reading for all of their fans it's so iconic
#i heard somewhere that this might actually be satire but either way it's a work of art#and very true#florence and the machine#florence + the machine#fatm#f+tm#florence welch#textpost#my post
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it's time again for the āØ#ADHDCosmicTakeover!āØ my comic this year is about pinballing helplessly between interests and the frustrating feeling of being a "jack of all trades, master of none" (but who said i have to be a "master" of anything anyway? fuck off!)
thank you so much to dreamadoodles for organizing this year! pls check out the tag to see more comics from other contributors š
#ADHDcosmictakeover#actuallyadhd#comic#idk what else to tag this lol! hi#in true adhd fashion i had the layout/draft for this sketched out like 3 weeks before my posting date and i was feeling soooo smug#and then everything piled up and i cranked all the actual work out over the past two days. ha ha#my art
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thank goodness for bsd wan and the existence of teacher dazai. where would i be without you
based on a real-life conversation that happened with me and my students when i was a kindergarten teacher. very small children are some of the most ruthless and funny people i've ever met. it's an absolutely lawless land in the classroom (they were very sweet though!)
#bsd#bsd dazai#bsd atsushi#bsd chuuya#that episode where he was a preschool teacher saved me#and its true because kids really are like that. they would blow you up#i hope he reappears in wan season 2 (DELUSIONAL)#one of my students thought i was in my 30s#i was 19 when i was working there. imagine my face#they also didnt know if i was a boy or a girl and they never found out#art tag
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Real fan art is coming one day, but for now I really wanted to see if it was feasible to simplify their gradients into something that would fit a simple style like Blueyās š
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#aaaaaaaaaAAA#they're so precious I can't ;m;#I still haven't watched Bluey so I can't really comment on show accuracy but to me these look spot on#if you ask me the gradients work really well#if you look at them and unfocus your eyes they look like their normal markings#Vasco might benefit from having one more band between the base yellow and the lighter brown but that's totally optional and might take away#from the simplicity of his design#their colors are so true to the way I color them which is both cool and kind of uncanny#like Machete's pink details which in reality are very peachy almost closer to light orange than true pink#and their colored linearts which use the same colors I use for my colored linearts#I don't know I thought that was really cool attention to detail#they're adorable#thank you!#gift art#apupcalyptic#own characters#Machete#Vasco#their lives would be a lot less stressful in bluey universe I reckon
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she turns, makes direct eye contact with you, smiles,
#dimension 20#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#fhjy spoilers#kristen applebees#kipperlilly copperkettle#buddy dawn#cw: blood#cw: gore#cw: violence#hello this is the first post on this blog. welcome. I need to offload my art somewhere outside of my usual sphere#anyways yeah. yeah#I just think making direct eye contact with the person your murder victim is supposed to mirror before murdering them is kinda vibe#thinking abt kipperlily and kristen and how kipperlily was meant to be riz's foil but#genuinely kristen works so much better as foil for her instead. like how would beardsley ever not have swooped in to steal this off of#murph's plate. order vs chaos. embracing the rules vs rejecting them for having always fallen through the crack by your nature#so my busted ass brain saw this moment of kipperlily KILLING kristen's foil and I went insane like she took him out of the equation#HE is no longer kristen's foil. KIPPERLILY is now. deranged I need to draw this Immediately#kristen seeing kipperlily with true sight... smiling at her..... the interference that now narratively connects them do you see#can anyone hear me. hello
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so. i recently had an idea.
#lamb is very fun to draw with long hair#i am still working out the details for this au like idk who to make the horse but#might twist/change some stuff in the original tangled story just to fit cotl better#like for the bishops#but i have MANY THOUGHTS#cult of the lamb#cotl#narilamb#true devotion#narinder#the one who waits#shamura#cotl aym#cotl baal#ratau#cotl tangled au#my art
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Me when Iām in a being coerced into parenthood competition and my opponent is sun wukong
#what is it with this guy and getting the gift of motherhood thrust upon him#big monkey and small child is a tried and true method#sun wukong#journey to the west#digital art#my art#jttw sun wukong#lego monkie kid#monkey king reborn#monkey king hero is back#yes letās give the suicidally impulsive demon monkey a child#his ass does NOT wanna be a parent š#everytime I think Iāve seen the last swk movie more keep coming up that Iāve never heard of#animations favorite special little boy#heās like the Chinese madonna#donāt read into that statement too much I say that about everyone#thereās so many of them#there being so many versions of sun wukong out there is lore accurate#his clone ability at work#also kinda laughing my ass off at how this dude is under 4foot but his energy is so tall people keep drawing him long#what +1000 aura does for you
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a collection of DCAS memes so far
#disventure camp#dcas#disventure camp spoilers#alec disventure camp#fiore disventure camp#hunter disventure camp#ally disventure camp#tess disventure camp#ellie disventure camp#jake disventure camp#gabby disventure camp#james disventure camp#lake disventure camp#ashley disventure camp#the james one was inspired by a doodle by sadlyglad_ on instagram so please support his work as well!#it's really good especially if you like james x aiden#also all of the forest backgrounds were assets taken from the show i did not draw those myself#why the hell did jake appear three times#he's just the man of the hour i suppose#i started drawing these before episode 6 and thankfully nothing happened to make any of these no longer relevant/true#hopefully i'll have more meme redraw ideas in the future but for now this is all. hehe disventure camp >:)#my art#fanart#comic#also i finally learned how to use the text tool in procreate! wish there was a better way to add outlines though#huntessally
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