#you can thank ally for THis

[harbek]

Get ready for a Game Changer!

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Drawn in Photoshop, animated in Spine Pro. The final art piece I made for my bachelor thesis on GIF as a medium for art.

I've been researching digital art in the context of modern folk art, outside institutional or commercial art. I analysed almost 500 art GIFs across Tumblr, Artstation and GIPHY.

There's almost no academic research on art GIFs, so it was important to me to examine and document it. I also examined the optimisation of GIFs and how it relates to web sustainability.

And because the bachelor program was focused on art practice, I then created my own art GIFs, and it seemed only right that I should do it through fanart of something I've been really into lately. Thanks @samreich and the rest of Dropout for giving me some unhinged content as inspiration. Watch 'Game Changer' everyone, it's great.

[mazeyphaedra]

intrepid heroes the smokeshows that you are

[ygamiraito]

before i sleep, i wanna share an excerpt from a short story that harlan wrote about his beloved wife susan back in 1993 (also titled 'Susan'). (you can read the full story here)

[moeblob]

Look, I just think it's VERY funny and on brand that I thought of an entire premise of colorful characters for half the cast and immediately drew the only one void of color.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Metro-Boomin Spider and Hobie Brown are Best Friends (they told me)

They're both black man with natural hair, a music career, and good style.

They met at HQ when Metro came up to him to compliment Hobie's jewelry and Hobie told M he likes his bomber jacket

Him and Metro trade hair care tips. Metro records music on the system and mic in Hobies living room and shows Hobie rap from the 90s. They start becoming huge influences in each other's music careers - and they take the others input seriously during the music process

Hobie trusts Met's ear and Met trusts Hobie's ideas.

Plus being from the south, Metro (real name Leland - just called Le) knows what its like being a black man facing police brutality. He's street smart as Hobie, just as - in a different way (money minded and glizzies on deck) - so Hobie doesn't have to look it for him like he does Gwen or Pavi

They're go to each other's shows and dap each other up everytime they see each other at work. They're known as literally the chillest duo on Campus and when they're together they're SO FUNNY.

You look over at them and they're like

If they're too far away to dap it up like they see each other across the walkways they'll yell across HQ like 'YYYEEEEERRRRRR' and Hobie will yell back 'YYYEEEEERRRR'

Hobie and Le. Being carefree black men. And best friends. Metro and Spiderpunk BFFs 4ever.

Just thought you should know.

[knowmypower]

this is such an iconic cutscene but have you ever put it into perspective that peach was so chill about everything because she knew the halberd was currently being retaken by meta knight and co? BECAUSE,

[i-like-forcefem]

There’s a bunch of cute trans girls in this discord server I’m in, one just posted “gotta crack a few eggs to make a discord server”

am I in danger of being forcefemmed

Not at all! Don't worry your pretty little head about it, cutie :3 Though just to be safe I would recommend you find as many femboy and trans-pride memes as you can get your hands on and post them in the discord! Just to let them know you're an ally :3

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[alatariel-galadriel]

quick little comic off of my all-time favorite scene scene in @polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup 's The First Step of Kintsugi--the dialogue t never fails to make me (loudly) cackle!

[violixir]

Murder at the Masquerade. Is that anything.

[friendlyneighbourhoodelf]

ooooo!!! id love to ask about ‘obi wan admiring cody from a distance. its about the pining’

hi!! i'm glad someone asked about this one because i'm quite excited about it, its fun to write. i also think that the title makes it sound sweeter than it actually is. because my notes for it include Something something closeness and decay and consumption. Something something the closeness of an autopsy. its pretty common imagery but i'm having fun with it. i'm trying to explore pining but in a way that looks at pain/almost the horror of it. idk its interesting to me.

anyways, have a little section -

Cody’s fingers brushed against his own, and for a moment Obi-Wan thought he might never recover from the spark of contact. He could taste his heart in his throat as he swallowed, the shudder of flesh an insistent and heavy weight against his tongue. The soft heat of contact shivered up his arm, wrapping itself around his neck with all the deliberate precision of a weapon. It would, he thought, be a lovely death if it were at the hand of his Commander. It would be touch, even as fingers bruised against his neck, pressing soft circles into his throat. It would not quite be lips, gentle, so gentle, but he knew he’d gasp into the contact all the same. He wondered if a hand would then reach down his throat, twist around his heart until it snapped free of his body. If the hand would pull it from his throat, letting him gasp desperately around the gap between his lungs. If blood would spill into the empty space, rush up his throat and leave him choking. It was not the distance itself, both careful and unconscious, that would leave him desperate. It was, he knew, the agonising hope that the distance could be closed. That the hand would eventually find its way around his heart.

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

STOP GIVING ALLY BEARDSLEY OPPORTUNITIES

[soloquel]

you're asked at the dinner table what your favorite marine animal is and you say, "i don't know, dolphins maybe?" and levi just bolts out of his seat and leaves the room so quickly you need five seconds to process that, and by the time you do, he's back with an entire power point presentation which he projects onto the wall so that he can teach your uneducated, naive ass about WHY you should pick ANY animal in the ocean EXCEPT those damn fucking traitors. and you're gonna listen.

[gayofthefae]

Will is undoubtably a main character but it remains true that he isn't really in season 1 and is sidelined in season 3. And that is one of the reasons it is so important to me that Mike is queer. Because if you really want to, you can ignore Will when you rewatch. Like entirely. It's difficult and you would have to grit your teeth and bear it but you like technically could, there's enough other stuff. But we see the first two seasons through Mike's eyes. There is no avoiding him. By nature of not being inherently tied to the supernatural plot like Will and El are, he is seldom isolated like they are in that regard. My point is, I want it to be in their face, unavoidable. Will starts in season 2. Robin starts in season 3. Vickie starts in season 4. I want them to not even have season 1.

I want it emphasized beyond a shadow of a doubt to the homophobes that somehow still watch this show that it is FOR. US. And YES. If that means taking it away from them, fucking rip it out of their arms. They don't get to have the demographic broadened to include them anymore. I want to exclude them. I want to take this away from them.

[wond-las]

hey DC. Hey what. What do you mean Raven and Gar were at a pride event at the oblivion bar. What do you. Does. Hey. Are you gonna. Are we. Can we.

[isadora-b-l-e]

the further i get in my conversion journey, the less goyishe friends i keep. not because i don’t like them, but because in the last year they’ve decided they don’t like the “white colonizer” bad ones.

and as we all know, a jew is a jew is a jew. there are only ‘good’ ones until there are no more ‘bad’ ones left to kill.