#very much not what I’m saying

[tsscat]

Not to be annoying or anything but while this seems like two very similar pieces if you don’t know anything about the history of the kind of sculpture on the left, they do seem more different when you actually do know the context, mainly:

The work on the right is very clearly created for sexual/titillating purposes first. I don’t mean this as a value judgement, I just mean that the work was created mainly to evoke sexual feelings and thus choices made in this work were made for this purpose

This means that the features of the body on the right, ie, the big boobs, the pose, and less clothing were made in a sexual context. All of this of course in a modern, likely western or at least western inspired context.

The work on the left however, was made in a much different context for a different purpose. Can’t ID this work specifically but I would say that this work was very likely due to religious reasons, likely decorating a Buddhist or Jain complex of some sort, but also possibly a Hindu temple of sorts. This of course doesn’t mean it was devoid of sexual connotations, and in fact sexuality and religion can often intersect in art. However, the primary purpose was likely not to evoke sexual feelings but rather to depict a mythical figure, mythological event, etc etc

While again, not devoid of sexuality, this kind of depiction would not necessarily read as overtly sexual as the left image reads in modern western context. This is actually a pretty common depiction of the female figure in ancient and medieval North Indian art, tbh maybe even South Asian sculpture as a whole. This specially to me, is very reminiscent of Ajanta sculpture, and Ellora sculpture. If you look at the women in these sculptures, you can notice a lot of similarities between the figures there and this one. Bare large breasts and large hips were more normalized in this style of sculpture, and while not unsexual, certainly did not necessarily have the hypersexual connotations that the piece on the right has.

The pose struck in the sculpture in the left is tribunga/tribhanga, commonly used in Indian sculpture when depicting men and women and derived from certain styles of Indian dance. While again, this wasn’t devoid of sexuality, it also had other connotations such as youthfulness, energy, etc.

Anyways TLDR while these seem superficially very similar, they actually read differently in their respective contexts. Interesting look into how bodies are perceived within different cultural contexts yada yada

[keferon]

Did you think I was done? Ahahahaha no, I have more.

Because chapter 70 of MOMU gave me the very dynamic between them that I missed so much, I just blacked out and started drawing uncontrollably lmao

Also. ALSO. I noticed a while ago that Prowl has the habit of..like…constantly frowning. So. I did a bit of research and made this graph.

In 70 chapters, Prowl frowns rougly 104 times. And the intensity of this gesture is very clearly correlated with the development of his relationship with Jazz, as you can see ahahahahah It might be wrong tho don’t take me seriously I’m not good with graphs

[passionpeachy]

I wish I could see more successful and underprivileged Mexican/latino artists to look up to. Feels like everyone who made it real big in the modern online art space are white people who grew up in the suburbs or with fairly stable upbringings that allows them to pour all their energy into their career. idk I just want reassurance I can one day have my own apartment without fighting for my life I guess

[delusinaldreamer19]

I giggle to myself a little every time I see someone complain that Sebastian gets twink-afied. Cus like- it wasn’t the fandom who did that (entirely), this mf did it to himself.

Your telling me that this back arching, eyelash batting, floor knealing, long haired, long lashed, pursed lipped, smirking, eyes half lidded, long legged, skinny waist, birthing hipped, flexible, androgynes as hell mother fucker DOESN’T look like he’d want to fuck your dad?

[ewwww-what]

an archdevil and a presidential candidate sneak into a gay bar

flatcolor + closeups below :)

[pirateprincessjess]

I’m not much of an artist but I wanted to paint one of my favorite sights from my childhood.

Growing up in Kansas I always loved the way the sky looked when you stood out in a field on a clear night and the illumination from the city was all below the top of the sorghum crop. This is what I was trying to paint, but I spilled black paint near the top of the canvas, so I turned it into a ufo painting instead. I’m very happy with this turn of events

[nicollekidman]

realizing that people who equate cynicism with intellectual rigor are often just being lazy and pathetic has been so helpful tbh

[doctorsiren]

I had the horrendous realization last night that if the age swap au were to take place in present time, Reigen would most definitely be one of those brainrotted TikTok youtube shorts kids and I know this is the truth because my younger brother is 15 and is exactly that way and he doesn’t even *have* TikTok or anything 😭 I didn’t know what to do with this information so now I am burdening you all with it

[sen-ya]

First of all I love your comics!!! I binge read them all, and I periodically come back to binge read them again lmao. And in your comics there’s moments when I’m certain all Law is thinking is “OH SHIT HE’S HOT!!!!!!?!!!” But not so many moments for Luffy (which is understandable because he’s Luffy.)

All that’s to say- do you think there’s anything Law does that makes Luffy go “OH SHIT HE’S HOT!!?!!” or some variation of the feeling??

(This question originated from the face Law makes when Luffy catches him in your drunken confessions comic part two lmao)

Okay first of all thank you for such a sweet message 😭😭❤️ I had way too many ideas for this prompt and I honestly have surprised myself that this is the one I went with 🙈🙈

[cable-salamdr]

are you guys ready to hear me only yap about and draw Morro for the foreseeable weeks or months btw. I haven’t had a good reason to draw him in anything DR related but now I do and it’s gonna be up to y’all to take it. I will never be normal about this.

[kr-210-r2700-prime]

transcript under the cut, but frankly i think this is best experienced blind

“if you see something you like, it’s yours!”

[cartoon boing sound effect]

[nervous laughter] “okay!… wait, so…”

“this is big, huh?”

“you’re too nice! don’t worry, i can take it. not the whole thing, thank goodness, that’d be really hard.”

[loud, repetitive metal clanging]

“yes! this is gonna be fun!”

[clanging continued]

“please, go on.”

[clanging speeds up]

“serves me right! that’s it, make me take my medicine!”

[disjointed metal falling sound, layered with Yes Man’s “woohoo!”]

“you really know how to make a robot happy!”

[cartoon smooch sound effect]

“i love you too.”

[binglepringle]

Idek what this is but here you go 🤲

[ivanttakethis]

Till is better than me because I would’ve leaned in for a kiss 😶

[cheriecoke]

some of you are just so lovely and sooo easy to love and i mean it when i say with 100% certainty that ur favs would be head over heels for you

[fairyofshampgyu]

BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU

[rendevok]

your narumitsu art made me weep with joy and I heard you want more requests 👀

idk if this is the right place to put them but I think phoenix coming with miles to try on his glasses for the first time would be sweet :,) miles asking how they look and phoenix being just smitten. the good stuff

Dear anon… you sure know how to pick em! Things got very out of hand very quickly while drawing, and well. You inspired me to draft a comic! I didn’t want to make you wait long, so here are the sketches for the pages relevant to your request <3

Thanks so much, and hope you enjoy~! 💜