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hoochieblues · 2 months

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Psst. Hey, kid. Want to hear about another bronze equestrian sculpture?

This is The Angel of the City / L'angelo della citta (1948) by Marino Marini, installed at the entrance to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The museum is housed in Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which stands directly on the Grand Canal.

I love this thing. Its proportions. Its strangely bulky angular grace. The weirdly flat horizontal of the horse's top line mirroring the rider's outstretched arms and feet. Those hands that look like the sculptor just said 'meh. good enough.'

The fact they're both so... happy.

So joyful. Or something.

What you might not know is this very important context: the original phallus was fully detachable and unscrewed like a lightbulb. For, uh, delicacy's sake...?

As Guggenheim wrote in her memoir:

“When the nuns came to be blessed by the Patriarch, who on special holy days, went by my house in a motorboat, I detached the phallus of the horseman and hid it in a drawer. I also did this on certain days when I had to receive stuffy visitors, but occasionally I forgot, and when confronted with this phallus found myself in great embarrassment. The only thing to do in such cases was to ignore it. In Venice a legend spread that I had several phalluses of different sizes, like spare parts, which I used on different occasions.”

― Peggy Guggenheim, Confessions of an Art Addict

ART.(TM)

Note, I said 'original phallus.' Sadly, it is alleged someone stole the original bronze cock at least once, and rumor has it that it happened so often the museum gave up and welded a permanent one in its place. This does, however, mean that theoretically at least one person out there owns a very particular piece of art history.

#i have been thinking about this stupid sculpture since the honse post crossed my dash and i couldn't find anyone else talking about it.#which honestly surprised & slightly disappointed me. i'll blame the search function being crap and give you freaks the benefit of the doubt #...this time.#anyway #here it is #art #marino marini #sculpture #peggy guggenheim #god i would be her in a minute. just aggressively patronising the arts in a massive house with a drawer full of bronze dicks.#truly a woman living the dream.

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meoskyan · 10 months

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acephobia is so stupid to the point it's comical

#anyway i struggled to come up with visual that fits to draw in the middle so any suggestions is appreciated #maybe ill add some shadows later #art #digital art #drawing #doodle #poster #poster attempt #asexual #ace #asexuality #acephobia #i was looking at articles about ace report stuff and my surprise at seeing so much acephobia led to me making this #some of the acephobic crap people say about aces is so dumb like what u u actually believe that

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cliopadra · 11 months

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*laughs nervously* Izzy? Dead and gone for good? Naaaah, of course not, he’s just in the gravy basket…or on his way to get sea witch necromancied back by seagull Buttons. He’s ok, he’ll be back…he’ll totally be back 🥲.

#ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death s2 #izzy hands #ed teach #stede bonnet #anyway he crwled out took his stuff rowed into the sunset where he caught up with the revenge and got to live his happy ever after with his #found family and didn’t die until YEARS later where he got killed during a raid or died of some crazy pirate disease or something #cliopadra blabbers on #my art #my art crap

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bigfatbreak · 3 months

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In canon, a kwami's power must be used through a human wielding a miraculous, otherwise it'll have unforeseen consequences. So, in your AU, does Imago stealing Marinette's agonies cause any sort of trouble?

honestly the biggest unforeseen consequence is that this dude is around and being himself

no but for real, there should be a hypermassive consequence for a kwami unfettered peeking their head in, but there's not because of shit we'll get into later.

just consider it like this for the time being: now that Marinette is a sage and is capable of communing with the gods, she as a living being can be used as that intermediate conduit for power instead of the miraculous gems. If it was Tikki, for example, using her power raw with sage!Marinette, Mari would be able to access the power of creation or be swayed by it - however, it would put a massive strain on her, as she's not a miraculous but still capable of acting as that pipeline.

The reason Marinette has no ill effects from Imago, however, is because Imago is playing with a catch 22. Their purpose was to take agony away from Marinette, so even the exhaustion of accessing the unfettered power of a god was something he stole from her, so it seems like zero consequences have been had. In truth Imago is now SO tired holy moly and they DO NOT LIKE IT LMAO

#replies #we'll play with more gods later! it'll be great #sass will talk about how there's a reason people worshiped many gods back in the day #cuz back in the asscrack of time gods were capable of blessing people with their power. or cursing them #but they gave that shit up to become real when the first sage created the miraculous #so its not like Imago peeking their head in would've collapsed reality. gods used to do this crap all the time #but the doorways are almost rusted shut from lack of use; for lack of a better term #its only the fact that marinette is now accessible to the gods that let imago yank that janky door open #anyway don't think about it too hard. we're here to have fun after all

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bixels · 1 month

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The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.

#personal #delete later #this isn't even worth talking about in depth #but it's crazy that we're rehashing the “artist intent vs fan interpretation” crap again.#read stuart hall's encoding/decoding.#is it so terrible that laius reads to nd people as autistic even though the writer wasn't thinking about it #is that really something to criticize #also you may think the last sentence is me exaggerating but that's literally what the twt discourse is about #anyways i feel bad for the interviewer who's getting harassed over this #i'm seeing every side of discourse be super uncharitable toward them because it's funnier to make them sound outta touch and confrontationa #like. i'm seeing posts from cool people making the interviewer look like they asked “why did you make laius autistic??”#when the actual text of the interview goes “a lot of nd people interpreted laius as autistic. did you have that in mind when writing him?”#and obviously i think a lot of fandom people upset about this are weird too. joking that kui. a real person. is probably autistic is weird #but who am i more willing to criticize. the overeager parasocial fans taking things a too far and making things kinda weird #or the “kill the woke mind virus” weeabo/otaku terfs who still use the r-slur against queer/nd teen anime fans

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narusasuart · 10 months

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Look at them cuddle.

#This was way too complex for a first animation project #It's ridiculous how much work goes into a video as short this #And it's crap #But take it anyway #sns #naruto #my art #naruto uzumaki #sasuke uchiha #sasunaru #narusasu #sasuke x naruto #naruto x sasuke #my fluff

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egophiliac · 1 year

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they're baaaaaack

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 6 spoilers #<- are we still tagging those? i don't know where en is #tagging basically just because it's college ortho #anyway HOLY CRAP THEY'RE BACK #TSUMSUTE 2: THE STACKENING #the disappointment at the lack of episode 7 news is tempered by my glee at the return of the most delightfully stupid event of all time #sometimes i think about how the characters were canonically visited by tiny stackable toy versions of themselves from another dimension #twice now!#it doesn't get any better than this #eyes #itty bitty little ominous eyes #look i know it's going to just be more charming shenanigans until the tsums abruptly ascend back to heaven(?) until they're needed again #but if they decided to do like. a tsum slasher flick parody. i would lose my entire goddamn mind #that's why we have fanart i guess

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the-lavender-clown · 5 months

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Peepaw Donnie doodles for you starved souls

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that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction · 7 months

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Arthur: Seriously, Merlin? The tavern again?!

Merlin, covered in blood and exhausted from running for both his and Arthur’s lives through the woods: yeah… sure…

#he doesn’t even drink #I think Arthur would be most upset about that #Arthur: I worried about you. I was going to stage an intervention!#Merlin: oops? Ale tastes like crap anyway.#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merlin emrys #incorrect merlin quotes #medieval husbands #gaius merlin #merlin bbc #i’m bad at tagging

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espresso-ships · 1 month

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Idk who needs to hear this, but

Whenever I see a self ship double, or a popular canon x f/o ship and feel sad/insecure about it, I like to imagine that it's an "alternate universe", meaning that it's just a different version of your f/o.

The real version? They're with you. They're yours, and love you only.

No one can change that fact.

They love you, so damn much.

No one else - nothing else - matters.

YOU are their canon partner.

"I am my f/o's canon and real partner" - say it, manifest it, because it's true.

It's real. 💕

[Pr0ship DNI. Please respect my boundaries]

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pharawee · 12 days

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"You want to be a hero, huh?"

—JACK & JOKER: U Steal My Heart ♠ 09.09.2024

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stealingpotatoes · 1 year

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hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)