the-bishops-cardinal

[the-bishops-cardinal]

More Mortarion on Barbarus doodles + Calas Typhon Because I love how much of a Gremlin he is next to the king of the introverts 🫠

[the-bishops-cardinal]

What Aragon see

Areshkar bringing severed heads of enemy generals to Angron like a bird trying to impress a mate

[the-bishops-cardinal]

[the-bishops-cardinal]

"dante's divine comedy is fanfiction" is just such a boring claim. it fails to say anything interesting about either the divine comedy or fanfiction. and in fact it actively discourages actual analysis of the text by simplifying the whole thing into something more understandable to the modern reader at the expense of real engagement. it attempts to answer interesting questions the text in the most boring way possible.

why does dante chose to include himself as the protagonist? "well it's self-insert fanfiction!" why does dante chose virgil, a pagan poet, to be his guide through the christian afterlife? "that was his celebrity crush!" why did dante chose to put [italian political figure] in [insert circle of hell]? "oh it's just wish fulfillment"

just boring interpretations. these are all real questions that can be asked about the text and that have been asked about the text and that have been answered in more complex and interesting ways. not everything can be shoved into a more familiar context and it's not interesting to approach them that way.

also, it's not interesting to approach fanfiction as just "anything influenced by mythology/prior fiction/history/religion/author's own life/etc" because that would make just about everything fanfiction. and i think there are interesting things that can be said about fanfiction (why it emerges, its relationship to the original text, development of fanfiction-specific tropes/style, etc) but in order to have those conversations we do have to first set sensical parameters about what fanfiction is

let's all hold hands and approach texts with more nuance

[the-bishops-cardinal]

Statue of Dante and the Blood Moon, Naples

[the-bishops-cardinal]

This is Commissar Quincy B. Bentley, he is so smug that I want to beat him to death with hammers.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

God Emperor of Ponykind

[the-bishops-cardinal]

She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

I'm going to cry

[the-bishops-cardinal]

I am currently reading Horus Rising. Here's 2/4 of the goof troupe

[the-bishops-cardinal]

My headcanon is that they both share the same guilt and neuron.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

Gladiator Angron design from an rp I'm in with a friend. TL;DR he's still a daemon but he's been bound inside a new body, which makes him functionally more like what Corvus Corax is (there's a lot more to it than that but still). Feel free to ask me about it, this plot has been cooking for several years and I love it very much.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

Got the books 👍

[the-bishops-cardinal]

Daeom version: (bit of a gore warning)

He's seems like the guy to be ridden with Catholic guilt

Here's hoodless version.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

I made two death guard ocs, they don't have names or story at the moment, but I love them, and I'm forcing yall to look at them.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

He's seems like the guy to be ridden with Catholic guilt

Here's hoodless version.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

after a whole year of avoiding this task, i have finally drawn jyggalag, the only daedric prince my redesign project was missing! the gang's all here!! i also updated vaermina's and sheogorath's colors a little.

[the-bishops-cardinal]

ok this was in my drafts from months ago but since ive been getting frustrated w my uni again im gonna post the pic

one day i will leave this place and never come back (<- daily affirmations)