ex altiora

bri • 23 • sapphic • she/they • tlt era

[homeofwyrm]

my art for @ianthesmells ;). Prompt was "cunty outfit" (although I realized as I was doing this idk what a true cunty fit is lol)

Companion piece HERE

[thecreepiestofthem]

TW: blood, violence.

[labratgirlz]

everyone wish hatsune miku a happy fucking birthday or im blowing this whole place up

[wvterways]

source

[magnuficentwo]

[Image id: A poem in black text against a white background. It reads:

And God, please let the deer on the highway get some kind of heaven. Something with tall soft grass and sweet reunion / Let moths in porch lights go some place with a thousand suns, that taste like sugar and get swallowed whole. / May the mice in oil and glue have forever dry, warm fur, and full bellies. / If I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man. End id/]

[water-aesthetics]

Stay with me by Romário Roges

[tedhead]

the gender performance of dolly parton and bruce springsteen (sources: x x)

[vasira96]

spark

[dogwoodbite]

[id: a digital painting, in mostly teals and orange, showing two hands reaching upwards towards a bright ball of light /end id]

[dutchster]

[eveshka]

Chosen.

[elionking-deactivated20191020]

If this were to happen to me i would burst into tears

[leahgardner-art]

a couple of Lincoln Park scenes from ages ago. If you know Chicago, the first is the 3-way intersection at Sheffield, Fullerton and Lincoln, and the second is at Oz Park after a snow day 🥹

[c3rvida3]

Everybody say a silent prayer for me as I smash the head of baby Jesus clean off this statue in the name of art.

[c3rvida3]

I just cannot for the life of me figure out how to snap this kid's neck without breaking his mom, but giving him a new, cooler head is vital to my vision and it simply gotta go.

[c3rvida3]

So the thing about that is, I gave up and crushed it with a wrench and the shards flew all over the place.

Just like in the Bible.

[c3rvida3]

Massive hater alert from the graven images fandom.

[c3rvida3]

Anyway,

Oh, Deer Lord.

[smoluglies]

Lily of the valley 💕🧚🌱✨

[bbybluemochi]

some fairytale lesbians to brighten up your day <3

[boneempress]

Not only are the Scholomance books the only ones I've really laughed out loud at since Gideon and Harrow the Ninth (multiple times even), but they're also built around a surprisingly cohesive and thoughtful class analysis - where the upper class is represented as a series of powerful wizarding enclaves, the largest of which are concentrated in NYC and London, who work largely to protect their own people from being eaten alive and damn all the rest. The analogy to dystopian capitalism is purposeful and effective. Being born into an enclave doesn't make life automatically easy, but it does grant some rather extraordinary, deeply unfair advantages in the "not being eaten by mana-hungry monsters" rat race over those who aren't. The series is really perceptive about those with privilege often being wholly un-self-aware and willfully blind to it, too.

[quiet-nymph]

[katsdom]

Best way to appreciate snow - through a big window, next to a warm fire.

[ikipin]

[anadiableau]

Okay but honestly fucking shit like this when they show Zuko’s scar side when talking about Sozin and then having the bar pass and have his non-scar side when Iroh says Roku is his great grandfather if EXACTLY the kind of shit that elevates this show to where really no other show has ever come and probably never will

[dudeinpyjamas]

I mean if you frame it in a photo it looks much better, in reality it was a moving shot. Still nice but not amazing. What really is an amzing shot is this

Who is realy imprisioned here? The way this shot is framed makes it clear that Zuko is in a prison of his own mind. In fact you can look at how Zuko and Iroh are generally framed in this scene

Zuko:

and Iroh:

Even in shots where Iroh is framed together with the iron bars he is far removed from them while Zuko is right in front:

What takes the cake though is the following shot sequence:

When it shows Iroh it zooms in from this:

To this:

While with Zuko it’s the exact reverse. It zooms out from this:

To this:

Say what you want but man Avatar had some amazing shot composition. 

Also the reason The Last Airbender was better than Korra is because atla had Zuko and Iroh, while Korra didn’t. Fight me.

[e-e-e-s-the-avatar]

In addition to this scene being very well done, the whole The Avatar and the Firelord episode is just genius. It just makes the parallels between Zuko and Aang so much more powerful in retrospect. They weren’t on parallel paths just because. They were on parallel paths because they’re two parts of one lineage: Roku’s Fire Nation lineage and his spiritual-mediator Avatar lineage. And throughout the series the two of them are paired up through visual language, and the show even goes as far as match-cuts between the two of them as they’re in different locations and different fights. I forget where, but I KNOW there’s a shot where Aang is dodging in a fight and basically running towards the viewer and it cuts straight to Zuko doing the exact same thing, like they’re two enactments of one story.

And the twin blades? Zuko himself says they’re two halves of a single weapon, and shouldn’t be thought of as separate. The twin blades which we really first see in The Blue Spirit storyline, in which Aang asks Zuko if they COULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDS. It’s been stated that the blades represent the good and evil parts of Zuko, but isn’t that just a direct result of him grappling with his lineage, which is directly tied to Aang?

In conclusion: I am not ok and will never be ok. Thanks Avatar.

[vympr]

pregnancy is literally a state of mind like you could get pregnant by meditating long enough

[wreakit]

mary magdalene trying to defend that other mary in the group chat