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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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2018 tumblr post:
1: why do they call it a boner when theres no bone in it
2: there used to be
3: why does this sound so ominous
2025 tumblr post:
1: forward my shambling soldiers and slay without thinking. let blood flow into every crevice of this rotten land
2: yes my lady
3: yes my lady
There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.
Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.
It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.
Hey, reblog this version instead, please!
Man i feel really bad for the guy who wrote this article because the article actually manages to raise a very very very good point but the way the headline is phrased completely omits 95% of what they were trying to say
And because i know people won’t even bother to click and check the article itself i’m gonna screencap it, it’s fairly short, give it a read:
tl;dr: the article’s point isn’t “corporate satire is not funny anymore as in “we should stop making fun of corporations””, the article’s point is “corporate satire is not funny as in “it’s extremely depressing to live in a capitalistic hellhole and corporate satire aims more to poke fun at that without actually making you think about our world or giving you hope for a better future, and therefore it’s just lost its bite””
Thanks for the screencap, I did try to read the article but the ads on that site were insane.
whatever you do at the crossroads
basketball dracula isn't real dude he can't-- *sudden squeaking noises from the shadows*
*two pool toys having sex tumble by in the wind* oh thank god
*thunderous slam dunk noise*
Nobody loves denji like pochita loves denji
Thinking about Chiaki Nanami.....
I remember when I first started streaming, and people were consistently impressed by how fast I pick up a given game. They called me "the only vtuber who's actually good at games." But I don't think I'm particularly excellent at any specific type of game. I just have an easy time with, like, all games.
I'm not a speedrunner, I'm not winning tournaments, I can't do frame-perfect exploits or top a leaderboard. I just have strong fundamentals. Something about the way my brain works makes it easy for me to understand games. I intuitively comprehend their systems and what is expected of me. Once I understand the rules, I immediately see the possible strategies, the way my abilities could synergize. Then all that remains is execution. When people are impressed, I don't really get it. To me it just kinda feels like everybody else isn't paying attention...
Is it autism? Is it experience? I was raised on old PS1 platformers, action RPGs, card games, racing games, and real-time strategy. Later on I took an interest in shooters, stealth games, detective games, fighting games, rhythm games, and some roguelikes. If there's any genre I struggle with, it's metroidvanias, due to my poor sense of direction. I think what made me the gamer girl I am is just... variety. It's rare that I encounter a game I don't intuitively understand. I've been all over the map.
My name is Emily Pyro. I'm the Ultimate Gamer, and I'm a fan of all genres.
Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again
My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [Complete]
do not. address it
this is poetry to me
Hiii, I was just wandering if you wouldn’t mind blabbing about the symbolism and stuff behind some of your design choices with the horse men that you might not have mentioned. Like with pestilence and death specifically I feel like there’s a lot of symbolism I’m picking up on without fully understanding. Like with Death’s sickle, both a homage to the classic scythe and a nod to the “reaping/harvesting” of souls. And with pestilence I feel like there’s something that I’m skirting around without grasping. The multiple legs strike me as a deliberate similarity to insects, and if I’m right I think that the rider is bound in a body bag type deal, similar to how disease and pestilence is so often both spread through the improper disposal of body’s, and how wide spread pestilence leads to mass graves filled with disease and the horrible anonymity that comes with being just one face in a pit of hundreds etc? All of this is, ofc, to say that I’ve adored your series of the horsemen so far and would go absolutely rabid for some insight on some of your design choices<3
My horsemen of the apocalypse! I will add the original commentary and some extras, less about the symbolism and more about what brought me to design them the way I did.
The symbolism is for you to chose, there is no wrong answer.
WAR
I can't bring myself to represent war with a cool knight. It's horror. War is a bound child crowned with shrapnel, tied to a wounded horse that is being pulled forward by unseen people.
I've read a handful of books regarding war. A lost quote said that it should be shown as horror, it should make generals vomit, it should make you sick. I haven't seen war but my family has.
It was the first horseman I've designed, and it was in my sketchbook for months (maybe over a year, maybe even more) before I had the courage to draw it. I was really scared about how people would react to a mutilated child.
Recommended reading: The Red Crown - Mikhail Bulgakov, a short story about a man coping with the loss of his brother in the war
FAMINE
Someone who lived thro a famine shared that their head was only occupied with thoughts of food. Famine consumes your mind. All animals were eaten. Neighbors gave their pets away cuz they couldn't do it themselves. People walked around town as if in a dazed dream, slowly
Recommended reading: The Last Witnesses - Svetlana Alexievitch, a collection of testimonials of people who were children when WW2 began. Some quotes below;
'''A cat! A cat!' Other children saw it and started chasing it. The educators were local habitants, looked at us as if we were insane. In Leningrad there were no living cats left...A living cat was a dream. Food for one month...We talked about it, but they didn't believe us.''
''During the first year of evacuation, we didn't notice nature, everything that was nature provoked in us only one desire - taste to see if it's edible. Only a year later I noticed the beauty of the Urals''
''I dreamt of catching a sparrow and eating it...''
''A candle burns and the shopgirl cuts the bread pieces. People follow her with their gaze. Her every movement...with burning eyes...crazed...and all that in silence.''
''People walked slowly through the city like shadows. Like in a dream...a deep dream...As in, you see it, but you think you're seeing a dream. Those sluggish movements...floating...As if a person walked on water and not on land.''
''In Leningrad there are a lot of monuments, but one is missing that should exist. They forgot about it. The monument to the dogs of the seige. Dear doggy, forgive me...''
I don't like talking about it. It made no sense to draw Famine with a horse.
PESTILENCE
Based on the notes of a doctor who said the most frightening thing about viral disease was how it didn’t frighten. People didn’t know or didn't care. They lived and spread until it was too late and they became another name on the record
The clothing being made out of shredding plastic is no coincidence; pollution is a form of pestilence too
Recommended reading: Notes from a Countryside Doctor - Mikhail Bulgakov. Roughly translated quote below;
''Ah, I verified that here syphilis was frightening precisely because it did not frighten. That was why I evoked that woman.* I remembered her with a kind of affectionate respect: because she had been afraid. But she was the only one!''
*Early in the chapter, doctor mentions a woman that appeared in the clinic with a letter from her soldier husband, where he wrote that he had syphilis and told her she should go to the doctor too.
DEATH
Recommended reading: Voices of Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievitch. The Death of Ivan Ilitch - Lev Tolstoi
“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
Death is the only horseman that doesn’t need to mount their horse; they will reach everyone eventually. Who is the saddle for then? Open ended question because this one you have to figure out personally
Many people pointed out how the horse is a Clydesdale. Good eyes! I purposefully asked a friend to guide me towards what type of horses are the sturdiest and most-friendly looking. I drew the horse grazing. It's not injured, it doesn't gallop. It's grazing peacefully because life moves on.
This is the only design that had a painting serve as a base - The Reaper, by Alexey Venetsianov. Not much or nothing at all is written about, I saw it in a book. It is a literal reaper but it haunted me, as if it's portraying more than a person.
The choice to make it a woman was due to a book about a crematory (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty) that connected women to death because everyone born is bound to die.
Ahhh, I don't want to give it all away. It's fun to figure things out. About them all. From the enviroment, to the movement, to the horses themselves. Many people even mentioned details that I did not notice and didn't add purposefully that were so inspired and amazing. I truly mean that the interpretations of the public enrich the works even more than my own words. And it's an honor to share that work with everyone.
Thank you anon!
Continuing off from this post about angel halos actually being horns:
Low ranking angels (newly born angels) always have one halo. So long as the horns are conjoined, it’s a halo.
Angels can grow multiple horns to be conjoined into multiple halos. Some halos are so large that the Thrones use them as floating seats.
Angel feathers aren’t actual feathers, but a flaking protective layer grown from the horns. Humans mistake the large angel horns grown so far back to be wings.
Lastly, the larger the horns and more numerous the halos, the less of an individual an angel becomes. High ranking angels like Seraphim are directly controlled by God, and their bodies are no more than hanging husks.
This last part is a little morbid which is why I didn’t wanna draw it, but angels can join their halos with each other to create a “Hierarchy” or a “Choir”.
Although morbid, angels can fuse their halos with each other. This formation has many names, but the most popular are called a “Hierarchy”, “Order”, “Choir”, “Mass”, or a “Chain” of angels.
The largest group of conjoined angels is simply called “Heaven”.
I didn’t wanna draw it so here’s a 200 year old piece of art by Gustave Dore.
