#yes I am an art student

[2rats1gogh]

[egophiliac]

BIRD SSR????????????

NOOOO I wasted all my keys on Platinum Malleus, HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME

(I do kinda love that this is officially "Raven Jacket" Crowley though) (does this open up the possibility of a selection of future Crowley fashion cards)

[keymintt]

some public art illustrations for a change! these were printed on vinyl for the sides and top of a traffic cabinet !!

[no-tengo-ojos]

If there’s one thing you should know about Malevolent fan artists it’s that they all a subconscious desire to make the detectives hot

[thatmahblog]

Most academics are a bit mad when they see the 1%, the minority, who has it easy, who doesn't have to work so bad to afford it, and those who already know they're going to work at daddy's company. It's a whole world that is not properly shown in media. Because media cares more about that 1% than the real population.

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

[miusato]

Ahh yes, the autism brothers 🤝🤝🤝

[mooneytried]

i couldn't make her iconic sweater so i was like "would mabel wear a sweater full of button pins?" And here we are

[kcbwood]

The nether!!! Shoutout to the ghast that almost made me lose all my stuff

Also, this is available as a print on our InPrnt shop, The Cloudy Cottage!

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thecloudycottage/

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

heyyyyyyy so in the malnourished fwhip explanation post you said you'd get back to the thing about gem and fwhip not liking that they got first pick during the famine and i fully agree with you. if it also you said you'd get back to it and you didn't and you're good at articulating things so I would like to hear you elaborate if you are willing

OH yeah. i had planned to get into that in the section where i talked about fwhip continuing to use the corrupted fertilizer because it works so well that it means his people are fed, but i didn’t elaborate much further than that. so i shall now!

(context for this can be found here, in case you missed that post!)

so as i said previously, when famine strikes the grimlands and the royal family have their food needs prioritized, this is something that fwhip and gem, despite both being very young, find awful. i think both of these kids have very strong senses of justice (cough because they’re both autistic cough), gem especially, since she’s the one being trained to be the next countess, so she’s a lot more worldly than fwhip at that point. fwhip is approaching this from a basic fairness standpoint- everyone needs to eat, it’s not fair that he and his family get priority. gem is approaching this based on her experience in other empires and her conversations with other to be emperors- this is not how a good ruler treats their people, a good ruler tries to put their people first always.

i think this manifests in a variety of different ways when they get older. for fwhip, this manifests in putting his people’s food needs above his own when it comes to the corrupted fertilizer. if the fertilizer was giving everybody else nightmares, he would’ve heard about it by now, so clearly it’s just him. that means the fertilizer is a net good, so it stays. i think fwhip is a weird and very distant ruler, one who thinks of himself as a little too equal with his people, and that can be good and bad. something like this, where he puts the people’s need for food above his own wants is (for everyone else) good, but it also means he doesn’t really register how much more important his actions are than anyone else’s. for someone else in the grimlands (or even for fwhip just a few years ago, when he was still the kid brother to the rising countess), blowing up your friend’s house might get you in trouble, but it’s not a big deal. for modern day fwhip, it’s literally an act of war. “peace is boring” is a very frightening attitude for a ruler to hold, and he holds it because he wasn’t properly trained to be count, he’s still very young, and he views himself and his people as pretty much the same when, unfortunately, they just aren’t.

for gem, i think what this does for her behavior doesn’t manifest for her a while. she ran away from the grimlands because she wanted to be a wizard, she wanted to be anything but countess, and i think she did fundamentally believe fwhip would do better than she could. so she becomes a wizard in a very insulated community, and then her instructor disappears and leaves the entire place in her care, and that freaks her out. yes, she was trained to have far greater responsibilities than this, there aren’t even any students for her to train yet, but being in charge scares her still. she so desperately wants to be a good ruler, a better one than anyone in her family line has been for a while, because she’s been up close and personal with bad ones. and i think for gem specifically that manifests in her wanting to be a just ruler. very few people are ever fully beyond redemption for gem. her pillager students just need to put their weapons down, and then they’re ready to learn! see, they weren’t really evil, just angry and armed. sausage has good left in him, even at his worst, she knows it. she just needs to draw it out of him, at any cost. scott didn’t mean to hurt her, he was just scared and she pushed him too far, that’s on her. i think the only person she sees as truly, 100% beyond redemption, who she never really changes her tune on, is xornoth. even the other emperors she isn’t a fan of i don’t think she thinks are irredeemably evil, they’re just assholes and she’s gonna be an asshole back (or she’s gonna let the other WRA members do it). (the only outlier to that is maybe joey. at some point after he gets the crown from xornoth, somebody says he’s most likely beyond saving, and that somebody might be gem but i can’t remember. if it is, i think she had simply run out of energy for second chances for him, and he’s not her responsibility anyways, so she feels less bad about doing it to him than say, a student of hers. if she isn’t the one who says that, disregard.) she is trying to extend justice, to extend second tries to everyone. arguably she even tries this with xornoth, when she tries to learn more about him when he first shows up, but he also made it very clear he had no intentions of improving, so.

TLDR: i think both roseblings are affronted at the fact that because they are nobility, they are inherently better treated in times of crisis. for fwhip, this is because he thinks it’s unfair, that he’s not inherently better than the people of the grimlands, so it’s unfair for him to be treated as such. for gem, she thinks it’s unjust. a good ruler, a just one, would put their people first. so when they get older, this manifests in a variety of ways. for fwhip, he views himself less as a count and more as just another citizen of the grimlands, a tinkerer with a penchant for explosions and not much more. this means in times of crisis he puts the needs of the many over the needs of the few, but it also means he doesn’t think about how much more weight his actions carry with the other empires than the actions of a regular person. for gem, this manifests as trying to extend justice, a helping hand, a second chance, to everyone she can. even at her detriment, there are very few people she believes are totally beyond saving, and she tries as best she can to save them.

[amuseoffyre]

I don't know about you guys, but I am having a Time of It

Me: look at all the bird symbolism all through the episodes! Also me: OMG look at all the myffic beastie metaphors and the symbols tied up within them and around them! Kraken! Mermaid! Unicorn! Phoenix! Also also me: OMFG I CAN'T BELIEVE THE FISHIE ALLEGORIES TOO! AND THE SHARKS! AND TRIPLE LAYERS OF THEM DEPENDING WHO USES THEM AND HOW THEY RELATE TO OTHER PEOPLE! Also also also me: THEY USED THE FRIGGING TOUR OF THE SHIP MUSIC FROM 1x04 FOR IZZY GIVING STEDE A TOUR OF PIRATE SKILLS!!!!! REPRESENTING A MUSICAL AND TONAL SHIFT IN DYNAMIC AND IZZY INVITING STEDE INTO HIS WORLD LIKE STEDE INVITED ED! Also also also also me: SYMBOLIC USE OF RUBENS AND CARAVAGGIO PAINTINGS THAT APPEAR BRIEFLY IN SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS AND REFLECT THE CURRENT TENSIONS OF THE NARRATIVE!!!!!!!!! Also also also also also me: i need to write another fic right this instant because if i don't get this out of my head i will scream

[oshaskell]

[pilferingapples]

22 + 23 for Grantaire

YAY thank you!

22. If you’re a fic reader, what’s something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don’t like?

I like it when he's a mess XD Not just about Enjolras but like. Everything. Refuses to recognize his own opinions. In his own way about everything. 100 percent mouth writing checks his Everything can't cash. A pile of self-sabotage and vague intentions in Directions.

Correspondingly, I don't like it when he's a Sensible Practical Voice of Reason. The guy's an art student! A FAILED art student! let him be a disaster XD

23. Favorite picture of this character?

OK it's Several pictures of Grantaire but I NEED people to know about this Grantaire comic by @perplexingly !!

[averlym]

a word to the wise sometimes the only true rest is looking beyond what you thought was success

so true! adamandi is full of wise advice such as this, including: "and you'll never feel better if you - fucking die- you stupid ass!"

[astrxealis]

btw to filipino moots im gna be an arenean B) or iskolar ng bayan who knows!

[durchdenspiegel]

25.09.23

This last week has certainly been a rollercoaster... I only had one oral exam left to transition into my master program (grad school?) and I've been stupidly putting it off - partially because I had been so sure I could just take it later. Unfortunately, that was not the case... I am incredibly grateful my supervising professor could make time next week for the exam (I might have cried) and I am a bit embarrassed that my awful organizational skills are now affecting other people, too... But I can take the exam nonetheless and for that I am glad.

Honestly the only preparation for this exam is reading and revising one (1) monograph in a week... If only it weren't so dry...

70/219 pages

[what-even-is-sleep]

What if I made a DP-inspired pipe…