Fantastical Art by Kendra Matott

My name is Kendra Matott and I am a fantasy artist. This is a space for me to share my own artwork as well as geek out about my inspirations which range from Brian Froud and Time of the Faeries to Firefly and BBC's Sherlock. In my own artwork, I have always been influenced by the fantastic, and that bleeds into my mixed media work. While I say I am a fantasy artist, many of my pieces are more subtle than some fantasy art. I am intrigued by underground cultures, circuses, rituals, and magic. I make mixed media pieces that express movement and atmosphere with color and contrast. Be sure to check out my website: www.diabolicalwhimsy.com

[221bcumberb]

Sherlock reciting Shakespeare. Henry V act 3 scene 1.

[subtextual-silver-linings-deact]

No matter what happens --

– we’ll always have subtext.

[diabolical-whimsy]

Furniture acting as people.

[bidoctor]

[oxytreza]

Shit, my tea.

Everyone at some point in their life (via oxytreza)

[lecretary]

the stereotype that women talk more than men is infinitely amusing to me because men are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up

[lecretary]

i hope this post gets popular enough that i hurt a man’s feelings

[touch-my-cuboner]

It’s not a stereotype it’s a proven fact you femanazi piece of shit.

[verodwrath]

lmao there it is 

[madmaudlingoes]

You wanna talk proven facts? This shit’s been done, son: researcher Dale Spender in Australia used audio and video tape to independently evaluate who talked the most in mixed-gender university classroom discussions. Regardless of the gender ratio of the students, whether the instructor was deliberately trying to encourage female participation or not, men always talked more–whether the metric was minutes of talking or number of words spoken. 

Moreover, men literally have no clue how much they talk. When Spender asked students to evaluate their perception of who talked more in a given discussion, women were pretty accurate; but men perceived the discussion as being “equal” when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time.

Spender’s conclusion, if I may parahprase: you only think we talk too much because you’d rather we were silent.

Don’t fuck with me, asshole, I’m a scientist.

Edit: I can’t believe I got her name wrong multiple times. The researcher in question is Dale Spender and the original publication of this research was called Man Made Language (1980).

[vetmedirl]

“you only think we [women] talk too much because you’d rather we were silent.”

[luckydecay]

for those who don’t remember, a few weeks ago @chidoriiart made me a Sherlock-themed teapot when we went to paint pottery

today I got it back after it was fired and found a little hidden surprise at the bottom that I didn’t notice the first time round

[officialdarcy-deactivated201607]

Omfg

[always-a-pleasure]

[quotemadness]

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)

[diabolical-whimsy]

Me: *makes a reference only I get and laughs hysterically bc I see what I did there*

[seandmountain]

Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote That age before the world went all awry. But still the game’s afoot for those with ears Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo: England is England yet, for all our fears- Only those things the heart believes are true. A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon this fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here, though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five. Vincent Starrett.

[herestotheyoungbloods]

Dammit Patrick.

[diabolical-whimsy]

Night art making. Oh how I missed you.

[atalienart]

Holmes & Watson

[twisteddoodles]

How to respond to the question ‘Are they twins?’

[tinykriss-deactivated20190730]

manicpixiemommy this made me think of you lol

[raisingwildlings]

ive literally said the different dad thing but like, seriously.

[enbypolice]

Adding from my brother: “You see it too??”

[diabolical-whimsy]

"It is never twins, Watson" -Sherlock

[doeskinandpetals]

“Doesn’t this remind you of another case? Hasn’t this all happened before? There’s nothing new under the sun. What was it? What was that case? Do you remember?”

[consultingfangeeks]

I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own to which in his modesty he has given small attention amid his exaggerated estimates of my own performances. A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is indeed an ideal helpmate.’ -Sherlock Holmes #sherlockholmes #sherlock #sherlocked #sherlockholmes #sherlockbbc #sherlockian #benedictcumberbatch #martinfreeman #johnwatson