βCircuit Board Fossil Seriesβ (2012) Art: Peter McFarlane
I think Laios' childhood trauma and CANON hatred for humanity is so underrated and unexplored by the fandom. Like this is a man whose entire childhood was defined by the violence aimed at his family and especially his little sister, whose only escape from that was fantasies of violence that placed him in the role of the monster, and yet he had such a tight control over that hate that it took a literal demon to pull it out of him.
Even through the hate and fear, he stayed kind. He helped people. He gave his love freely, even when it wasn't returned. I think that the discovery that many of his "friends" can't stand him and that the world still viciously hates him must've been so horrible, just a repeat of the constant rejection his family faced and a validation of his belief that he would always be an outsider.
Bugs Bunny could have simply walked into Mordor. He would have shown up at the gates of Mordor in a disguise and been like βEvil volcano inspection unitβ and flashed a fake ID badge to the confused orc.
Love the implication here that the one ring would have little to no effect on Bugs
To be fair, itβs canonically established in Lord of the Rings that Tom Bombadil, an inexplicable magical trickster, is unaffected by the ring, and the only reason they donβt give the job to him is because Tom Bombadil is a silly little man whoβs easily distracted and just wants to spend time with his hot wife.
Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, loves nothing more than fucking over self-important dickheads, and is also an inexplicable magical trickster, so he would in fact be perfect for this mission.
The One Ring may not tempt Bugs, but heβd have other problems with the mission: heβd get lost halfway there (βI knew I shouldβve made a left turn at Albuquerqueβ) and get distracted enough to hand the One RIng to Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam as a prank, only for it to be stolen by Daffy Duck, leading to an ever-increasing number of characters on an increasingly-destructive chase across Middle Earth as everyone keeps stealing it from each other, (Bugs would definitely pull the βevil volcano inspectorβ gag to get into Mordor, and heβd then immediately turn around and pose as a customs agent stopping whoever currently has the ring at the border and relieving them of it as βcontrabandβ) culminating in an all-out brawl at Mount Doom.Β Bugs manages to reclaim the ring one last time as everyone else is busy fighting each other, only for Daffy to come out of nowhere and grab it out of his hands.Β Laughing maniacally, Daffy doesnβt realize that his victory dance has taken him right off the edge off a cliff - until Bugs points it out, at which point gravity reasserts itself, and Daffy and the ring both plunge to the fiery depths below
Daffy would just be crawling out of the volcano, feathers completely gone and heβs brunt to a crisp while Bugs is eating a carrot and just says:
βGot a good tan, doc?β βYOUβRE DESPICABLE!β
Sometimes a dinner can be 2 cups of white rice and 2 dozen grape tomatoes
Pictures like this were everywhere back in my day but now theyre all gone
reliecs from a time forgotten
Personal favorite.
fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation
My brother and I trying to piece together our dadβs life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again
When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were βI told them they shouldnβt have hanged that woman. Well by damn theyβre paying nowβ and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means
My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, βOh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, sheβll be fine.β Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.
No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.
We were driving through Old Country once and my grandpa Sasha randomly went βoh this is where we blew up that bridge as kids, I guess it got rebuiltβ
When filming a short for my film class in high school, my friend and I were using sugar as a visual stand-in for cocaine, so we were trying to cut it into lines (as one does) and failing miserably. My dad casually walked in, whipped out his credit card or whatever, and made the cleanest fucking lines I've ever seen in under 5 seconds.
E.J Sueβs βMechaforceβ is one of the few βHow to Drawβ books I would point newbies looking to get into drawing robots to. It emphasises knowing the basics (Very difficult to draw a robot properly if you canβt use perspective) and fundamental shapes and even arm techniques, and gives a neat insight into how mechanical forms work in art.Β
These are just a few of the examples from the anatomy section of the book. Itβs currently on sale on Amazon and worth checking out, though I will note it is not a βbe all end allβ resource, thankfully you can fill in your knowledge gaps elsewhere.Β
for all my art friends
st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet
Itβs crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives
βWhat will I be if I donβt graduate/donβt get a promotion/donβt get my shit together/donβt make this relationship work?β You would be a perfectly normal human being who is inherently valuable and who possesses many talents and good traits
βWhat if I fail even when I tried my very best?β The world keeps turning and you will find many other things you will succeed at.
another age by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
btw if you wanna see ur OC in my style i can Do That for you
BLACK ARMORY for [REDACTED]
βOne of the most solid pieces of writing advice I know is in fact intended for dancers β you can find it in the choreographer Martha Grahamβs biography. But it relaxes me in front of my laptop the same way I imagine it might induce a young dancer to breathe deeply and wiggle their fingers and toes. Graham writes: βThere is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.ββ
β Zadie Smith (via campaignagainstcliche)
i think the hottest look you can give someone after they commit acts of unspeakable violence is approval. like don't get me wrong if there's lust there too that's great, but staring at someone with gore dripping down their chin and coating their hands to the wrists with undisguised appraisal and admiration. maybe giving them a little nod as if to say 'well done'. THAT'S what says "yeah we're gonna fuck nasty later".
"i could fix him" well i could pat him on the head and tell him he's a good boy