darkness naming you villainess.

[ track the wolf #userakashi ] this is a secret. and keep it. i am a villainess, and thus, a disdained wolf hating the fleece it was born in.

[aatsukashii]

Hello. I'm Akashi 😄 and I make edits on my spare time which is near to none. I reblog resources and edit inspirations on this blog, mostly. Hopefully. And a few quotes here and there. QAQ

[daburupurei-blog]

how to make lineart gifs

Many people asked me (while I was on break) how to make lineart gifs. It is very easy, I learned it accidentally. I decided to write this tutorial, BUT my English is horrible and my photoshop in Russian (I tried to transfer), but I hope you’ll understand it xd

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[lilyoffandoms]

Thank you for your response about commissions. I'm shy and have anxiety so it's hard to reach out much. My main interest now is TWC and I would love art of my detectives, hope to make them more interesting. But no luck in finding available artists so far.

Ooo detective art 😍 I am alllll for that!

I’m not sure what your budget is so I’m just gonna toss out a few artists I know have commissions open or I’ve heard may be opening commissions again soon. All have been a delight to work with and I highly recommend!

This is by no means an exhaustive list, just tossing a few options out there. Anon if ya want more, say so and I’ll keep adding to it. Also, anyone, feel free if you are an artist/know of an artist that is currently taking commissions to add to it.

@liquidxsin did my banner and is currently working on a few Felix hairstyle busts for me. They are amazing and wonderful to work with and while they aren’t familiar with TWC (other than my crazy ramblings), they take commissions for a number of fandoms. Go there for a commission, stay for the Daforge art.

@mooreaux currently isn’t taking commissions but I think they may be soon (don’t hold me to this). They are amazing at coming up with poses when you have no clue what you want. Their commission info can be found here.

@aelwen-art has commissions open yet (pretty sure). She has done a number of pieces for me for TWC, including this TUA inspired piece. She’s been wonderful to work with and very helpful when I’ve no clue what I wanted and only a vague idea. Her commission info can be found here.

@sosolenoo is currently taking commissions and is probably the most delightful person ever. She did these Ava hairstyle busts for me. She’s done a number of TWC detectives as well so I know she’s familiar with the fandom. Her commission info can be found here.

@eightmonkeys currently has commissions open. They did my most recent Felix x Lucas art and were a pleasure to work with. They have done a number of TWC pieces so I know that’s a fandom they are familiar with. You can find their commission info here.

@javsarts has said she will be opening commissions soon and she is always, always a pleasure to work with and so very sweet. I’ve gotten TWC art from her as well as other fandoms. I know that a current obsession is TWC and you can find commission info here.

@artwinsdraws currently has commissions open. I just commissioned them for non-TWC art but I know they take a multitude of fandoms for commissions. They’ve been great to work with so far and their commission info can be found here.

@delborovic has commissions open, I’m pretty sure and are wonderful to work with. This Falk piece was done by them. Not sure on familiarity with the TWC fandom but they take commissions for a number of fandoms. You can find info here.

[bangast]

Just had to paint her after book 3 demo

[inritum]

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

[loveletter2you]

oh my god

[kingcheddarxvii]

[kaithekiwiloves]

Seriously. I also hate when people say ‘I can’t draw, I don’t have natural talent.’

My Friend. My lovely, yearning biscuit. Natural talent doesn’t exist (outside of being gifted with physical dna-type things like Michael Phelps.)

People who can draw.. love drawing, and spent time and energy improving. It just so happens that they liked drawing so much that they were motivated to improve.

Pick up a drawing tool and start drawing if you want. Just because you’re starting later in life than the person you’re admiring doesn’t mean you won’t be painting well into your old age. And one day you can say something like ‘I’ve been drawing for well over half my life,’ which sounds great! And it’s even greater when you realize that can mean you started at 40.

So.. if you like something.. if you want to be better at something… just do it! Stop comparing someone’s 367288th hour of drawing to your 10th.

[stay-close]

You are your own worst enemy. It is your negative thoughts that hold you back, nothing else.

— Leon Brown

[c86]

Taken from Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s

[afro-elf]

Can you elaborate on antisemitism within Dracula and such? I love vampires in media but I can’t continue to enjoy them if I feel they are blatantly antisemetic.

disclaimer! i am not a jewish person, i just have a ba in english and have written and read about vampires a lot, specifically i’ve written and read about dracula like four times in my academic career because every time i read that book i find something new to talk about. if you want actual answers about antisemitism you need to ask a (willing! do not use marginalized people as google) jewish person, they are the experts on their own persecution and i have merely read books and watched documentaries and spoken to people about it

i’m not gonna tell you to cut vampires cold turkey because that doesn’t feel especially nuanced and vampires are their own genre with a variety of lore, tropes, visuals, and what-not to choose from and i think it would be disrespectful to any jewish creators who have created vampire media (what we do in the shadows) to say “throw the whole thing out!”. just like how i would never tell you to completely stop consuming cosmic horror because the architect of the genre had worms for brains since there’s like a huge movement of writers of color and/or jewish writers and/or irish writers taking worms for brains’s ideas and making them good and not shitty. everyone knows i’m a slut for vampires, right? what’s not to love? however, the complicated thing about horror is that it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. most monsters are never just monsters but representations of something else whether it be a fear, a concept, or a people group. monsters, in the hands of the white horror “masters” often just meant anyone who wasn’t a straight white man, and in dracula that’s especially emphasized

in my thesis project which was mostly on jordan peele’s masterpiece get out, i asserted that the vampire, because it’s an idea that has existed in some form in cultures scattered throughout history, can represent different things at different times. just as zombies or cannibalistic monsters can represent everything from lust to capitalism to the poor, vampires can represent everything from lust to capitalism to the jewish people. vampires, in the hands of the antisemite, are especially violent symbols because often vampires are seen feeding off of innocent white women clothed in white living in civilized white western cities and towns or innocent white children clothed in white living in civilized white western cities and towns and well.... that’s blood libel

this is, like, a broad oversimplification of my own months of research and analysis work but stoker specifically ran right into antisemitism with the portion about dracula coming from transylvania to britain to kill a bunch of white hoes and “spread the vampire curse” when quite a few of the immigrants to britain at the time from that region were jewish folk fleeing pogroms. stoker also has it so that when she’s turned, sweet innocent white queen lucy’s hair turns dark and her eyes look like the devil’s and also there’s the fact that christian imagery repels dracula like there’s a lot to unpack here but basically what you need to know is that while stoker gave the vampire genre a lot to work with, so much of the imagery in his novel is, um, gross at best  and built from victorian racial science and fear of the other and the fact that it became the standard for what we know as the modern vampire is uncomfortable but necessary to recognize so that we can figure out what to do about it

basically, we have to ask ourselves re: monsters, what is this text emphasizing about this monster? what makes this monster monstrous exactly? it’s what you have to ask about king kong and evil aliens with “dreads” and the hillbilly cannibal trope like you have to ask “WHY is this scary?”. you might not like the answer most days, but that’s okay because if you’re a writer like me you can attempt to re-wire these monsters to be powerful, subversive, and respectful to those who have historically been disrespected by horror. like it is possible to create a vampire that isn’t an antisemitic stereotype but it takes a lot of research, honest questions, hard work, and research

[captain-kelli]

[grantwilson]

[text reads:

@attnwhitepeople

get comfortable saying:

1. thanks for correcting me. i didn't realize that.

2. i hadn't thought of it like that. i understand now.

3. i was wrong about that, and i've changed my mind.

4. i should do some more research before i argue this point.

there's no shame in being wrong, only refusing to learn.

[email protected]]

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief, and desire, giving us as poetic adage what any number of other fields give us as statistic. But girls can be very good at something else. They can be good at exposing the cruelties of others.

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning; ‘Everything is Nice’ by Maggie Nelson

[judahdesigns]

                                                   02. PRETTY IN PINK

This is a google doc best for single muses, and has some pretty cool features. I went ahead and fixed some things so it should be pretty straight forward when it comes to editing as long as you’re familiar with google docs, but please let me know if you have any issues with it/questions, or need any help with editing it. This is very content based, so keep in mind that larger strings of texts might make things move around. 

FEATURES:

About Section

Song slider - feature a song your muse is listening to

Character alignment + 4 temperaments

Relationships / Mains & exclusives

Verses

Rules

Feel free to tweak to your liking, but please leave the credit intact! I work very hard on these Google docs, and I give them out for free, so just be fair! If you’re interested in a custom google doc, hit me up!

For editing the layered or the smaller text, use your down arrow key to move between lines, and if you cant select the text, just backspace, change colors/font and then write in what you want.

MAIN PICTURE: 803 x 1215 (to change image, right click and choose replace image)

ICONS: 65x65 (to change image, right click and choose replace image)

[goodbyedearfriends-deactivated2]

Latin phrases to use as incantations.

This is gonna be a long list.

ab intra - from within

ab origine - from the source

absit iniuria - “let insult be absent”

absit invidia - “let envy be absent”

absit omen - “let omens be absent”

ab uno disce omnes - from one, learn all.

abyssus abyssum invocat - deep calleth unto deep

a capite ad calcem - from head to heel

acta non verba - actions not words

ad altiora tendo - “I strive to higher things”

ad astra - to the stars

ad fontes - to the sources

ad meliora - towards better things

ad oculos - to the eyes

ad undas - to the waves

ad victoriam - to victory

adsum - I am here

a fortiori - from the stronger/from strength

a mari usque ad mare - from sea to sea

audeamus - let us dare

audentes fortuna iuvat - fortune favors the bold

audi, vide, tace - hear, see, be silent

beatae memoriae - of blessed memory

bona fide - in good faith

bono malum superate - overcome evil with good

capax infiniti - holding the infinite

carpe diem - seize the day

carpe noctem - seize the night

cave - beware

ceteris paribus - all other things being equal

circa - around

citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger

clavis aurea - golden key

cogito ergo sum - I think, therefor I am

compos mentis - in control of the mind

concilio et labore - by wisdom and effort

concordia cum veritate - in harmony with truth

concordia salus - well-being through harmony

coniunctis viribus - with connected strength

consummatum est - it is complete

corruptus in extremis - corrupt to the extreme

crescit eundo - it grows as it goes

de novo - from the new

de profundis - from the depths

dies irae - day of wrath

dona nobis pacem - give us peace

ego te provoco - I challenge you

esse est percipi - to be is to be perceived  

esse quam videri - to be, rather than to seem

esto quod es - be what you are

ex animo - from the soul

ex luna scientia - from the moon, knowledge

ex scientia tridens - from knowledge, sea power

ex silentio - from silence

ex undis - from the waves of the sea

experientia docet - experience teaches

fac et spera - do and hope

fac fortia et patere - do brave deed and endure

faciam quodlibet quod necesse est - I’ll do whatever it takes

faciam ut mei memineris - I’ll make you remember me

facta, non verba - deeds, not words

fortis et liber - strong and free

fortis in arduis - strong in difficulties

gloriosus et liber - glorious and free

hic abundant leones - here lions abound

hic et nunc - here and now

hic sunt dracones - here there are dragons

hinc illae lacrimae - hence those tears

hinc itur ad astra - from here the way leads to the stars

igni ferroque - with fire and iron

in memoriam - into the memory

in nocte consilium - advice comes over night

libra - balance

littera scripta manet - the written words endure

locus standi - a right to stand

luceo non uro - I shine, not burn

luctor et emergo - I struggle and emerge

mare liberum - free sea

memento vivere - remember to live

more ferarum - like beasts

natura non contristatur - nature is not saddened

nec spe, nec metu - without hope, without fear

noli me tangere - do not touch me

ophidia in herba - a snake in the grass

pro se - for oneself

propria manu - by one’s own hand

quaere - to seek

quod abundat non obstat - what is abundant does not hinder

resurgam - I shall arise

semper ad meliora - always towards better things

semper anticus - always forward

semper apertus - always open

semper fortis - always brave

semper liber - always free

stet - let it stand

tuebor - I will protect

vera causa - true cause

[remanence-of-love]

[storyseekers]

hi, hello !! as inspired by erin morgenstern’s the starless sea and the society in it, we’ve decided to form a ‘story seekers society’ of our own, to share our love of books and stories. now that the story seekers have had a couple meetings, we’ve decided to reopen for more members. through joining us, we hope you’ll be able to find the stories you’ve been searching for, rekindle your love for reading, and make some friends. at this time, we are currently looking to accept eight new members.

what are we?

a place to make new friends

a place to share your love of books

people to reblog your edits

this isn’t specific to any book or fandom so anyone can join!

how do i join?

must be following the network page, cossette & mary

check out the other seekers (not required)  

fill out this typeform by october 21st 

reblog this post and tag it with “entered”

track the tag #storyseekers for updates, we’ll be accepting people on october 25th

[thorndykes-deactivated20161204]

please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry 

[thorndykes-deactivated20161204]

For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

[transwolvie]

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

[foulserpent]

here’s a source with some quotes

[meta-hemeralism-blog]

okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.

But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.

idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.

anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”

IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.

[theroguefeminist]

I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls

[benevolent-atrophy]

The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.

We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”

Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.

[regicide1997]

It should probably be said that this doesn’t work when the problematic author is still alive and making money from the work… don’t give your money to racists and antisemites.