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$LAYYYTER
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

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@duckwhatduck
Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.
This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.
Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.
Maybe this is too many hobbits.
We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.
But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.
So away you go.
And things go bad in the worst possible way.
Over and over.
You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.
It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.
You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.
Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"
....
There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.
This was a four hobbits problem.
A wizard neither underestimates nor overestimates the number of hobbits needed for an equation. He, er, always has precisely as many as he needs to.
ELROND & ELROS: SONS OF SIRION
i wanted to do a painting for @tolkienfashionweek but alas, time was not on my side so please accept an illustration. featuring elrond and elros in what i have decided is the traditional masculine attire commonly worn in Sirion, but with extra bling since they are, after all, royalty.
so thinking mostly in terms of sand and sea, i drew mostly from Indo-Arab maritime cultures for this one, including the Marakkar privateers along the Malabar coastline. features practicalities like rough/‘sailcloth’ textured shirts, loose harem trousers, ‘strung’ jewelry, simpler and lighter designs as opposed to heavy brocade, lots of light patterned shawls, kohl eyeliner, and headscarves.
my specific headcanon for this picture is that Elrond and Elros posed for and got this painted close to the end of the First Age for a specific purpose, ie to be sent to Elwing via one of the departing ships at the close of the War of Wrath, and she has it hanging up in her tower, although it’s also a bit depressing because the Sirion background is rendered in light, uncertain charcoal because Sirion no longer exists at that point, and the twins don’t live in climes where they can walk around in outfits like that without freezing to death. also, Elrond never sees that earring again because Maglor someone borrows it for a performance and messes up putting it into their ear and threading it through the multiple holes, and it ends up welded there forever.
One of my favorite things is modern adaptations that leave people with the same careers they had in the original material, because unless you’re a cop or a doctor that practically never happens.
Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.
Jonathan Harker can still be in real estate. That’s a job people have. A modern story that still involves Dracula contacting his firm to help him purchase property sounds amazing actually.
A modern adaptation of Dracula where you keep seeing Jonathan Harker’s face on bus stop bench ads for his realtor office.
#“This client doesn’t seem to exist online; a bit strange. But he’s elderly so it’s not that unusual” -Jonathan about to make a mistake – @capslockdoesntexpressmyjoy
I was about to joke about Quincey Morris still being a cowboy, but then it occurred to me that he’s not actually a cowboy in the source material, is he? He’s the wealthy heir of a Texas ranch-owning family who just acts like an Old West cowboy. If anything, that’s even more plausible today than it was in 1897.
let’s see dracula shrug off getting hit with one of these country cosplay motherfuckers
I think it's very unfair that if I try to take a break from Things, when I come back to them there are More Things I need to catch up on. pause button, pls.
When you expect her to kiss the ground you walk on after performing a very heroic last-minute rescue but she lectures you about being late instead <3
i want to read a very specific fanfic and i’m so mad that i can’t (it’s sitting in my drafts) (unfinished)
so glad this post is resonating with people bc it’s still resonating with me as i am once again not working on said fanfics that i want to read
Wip Ask Game
Rules: Make a post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it.
Tagged by @tallangrycockatiel and at the mercy of "where the fuck did I leave all my WIPs they're very dormant"!
Titles are variously uhhh well some of these are what they'll get published under if I finish them and others... aren't.
Also a few of these are collab ideas that I've bounced around enough to have some direction and notes but aren't just mine; fortunately I've seen everyone I've had Fun Ideas with on tumblr recently so like, @ my various Writing People, consider this to be me saying "I am at peace with shared things going dormant just as much as my solo projects, but I'd love to get back to any of these if we can find the time, energy and coordination, and I think fondly of our many true and correct thoughts." But they're, you know, in my WIP folder(s) so I'm mentioning them. :D
The Knights of Easthollow ( <- semi-active, I put ~350 words into this last night!)
The I Should Be Able To Make A Con Pun Here Job (with @tallangrycockatiel)
horny architecture
Dornham University Final Fantasy (with @ravnervn)
Gimladriel's Elaborate Fealty Kink (Featuring Some Geopolitics I Guess) (with @duckwhatduck)
Footwork
(bonus 6.5 "the one middle-aged romance with those two criminally underused class mentor characters" (not actually written down but I was like "I'm sure I have another WIP for that fandom" so it's on the list)
as ever tags are without obligation or expectation but uhhhh uhhhhhhhhh @sinni-ok-sessi @nemainofthewater @xxxdragonfucker69xxx @duckwhatduck @eternalfarnham @xekstrin and @ravnervn as the .5 because bel already tagged you ;)
I will absolutely not be doing this, nope, there are 34 files in there not even counting that collab, some of them are a solid decade old, why would you do this, don't look at me
Anatomical Venus I
Wait please tell me more
I'd be happy to! So there's been an interesting connection between pornography and anatomical diagrams for a very long time. My research was specifically on the Enlightenment in Europe, but you can find examples dating back to the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. There are a number of "pinups" that were made blending the erotic and the medical, with the subject wearing a coy, coquettish expression while literally baring everything to the viewer. When I say everything, it's very similar to what you've done here: they hold up flaps of skin and show off their internal organs, bone structure, etc. There were even "political cartoons" lampooning this trend.
I'll link the project here, because I'm afraid if I post some of the images the n*fw filter may bury my response.
!!!! This is so cool, thank you so much for sharing! Super interesting to read. And very fun to see images from the past that are literally....the same concept, amazing
"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete
This gotta be the funniest Enterprise-Klingon exchange ever:
You know that the Preservation online theatre community is so grateful for the anonymous user that posts high-quality bootleg theatre performances with multiple? camera angles
#ok wait. Now I'm thinking about it#I'm not sure they'd even have the concept of 'bootleg' tapings or restricting tapings#Because the 'we need to get Paid/we have a bunch of unions working here' complicated reasons#That make legal recordings of shows so rare irl#Don't apply on Preservation. So all taped versions are just normal
Do you think SecUnit ever sees the official video releases of popular theater productions and gets irritated that the cinematography is inadequate and anonymously sends them a bunch of high-quality drone footage and a sarcastic message.
It totally would!
An interesting question though is whether constructs and humans have the same criteria for 'good cinematography'. Like it's not (just) that Murderbot has higher standards and access to better equipment but that it actually processes information differently, and a recording intended to be enjoyable to constructs would have to be optimised along different parameters than one intended for human viewing.
Genuinely hilarious concept. It records a performance Ratthi wanted to see but couldn't get to that evening, edits together a great single video using all the different angles from its multiple drones, and sends the file over. Two days later, it runs into Ratthi and alludes to the play, indicating it wouldn't mind discussing it.
But, while Ratthi thanks it profusely for getting him a copy, he's at a loss for words on how to discuss the play itself.
To say the recording was "unwatchable" is a stretch, but there were... so many scenes where he couldn't see anyone's facial expressions bc SecUnit had decided that the most important thing happening on the stage at the moment were physiological cues and body language — a shot of a perspiring temple, nervous foot scraping, fingers twitching minutely in anger though draped seemingly in a relaxed posture next to the actor's thighs — details impossible for a human audience to appreciate from their seats, but clearly to SecUnit revealed motives, suggesting intentions, foreshadowing later developments.
In several places, the audio has clearly been choked, with a superimposed sound to indicate tension, as SecUnit zoomed in on these small details, indicating the physiological symptoms were more important to the story than what was being said out loud. Whole swaths of dialogue and monologue are lost to this treatment. There's a couple scenes where furniture is being dragged or pushed by actors for dramatic emphasis of their monologue except the camera is fixated exclusively on the furniture, not the actor — once, very memorably, zooming in impossibly close on the grain of a wood chair where it had long ago splintered slightly around the worn and discolored screw that had been driven into it during assembly.
There's even superimposed biometric data in some pivotal moments, showing the pulse rates, hydration levels, and body temperature of all participants on the stage. The reason this data was included in those particular scenes is not something that can be guessed from context. Not by a human, at least.
All in all, it's fascinating insight into the head of a construct, or... this particular construct, at least. And Ratthi recognizes that, values that, and has already scheduled a movie night with Bharadwaj for a rewatch. He's feeling pretty giddy about seeing the look on her face when she realizes what she's looking at. In fact, as a piece of art in and of itself, the film is making incredible innovations in storytelling. But the original play itself... Ratthi could barely follow what the hell was happening. What? Who? Why?
"Loved it, SecUnit. Love me some drama. I hope I get to go to the next one with you in person."
When Ratthi finally sees the same performance two months later (brought back to the stage for a couple nights by popular demand), he's straight up shocked by how, despite the ~similar outcome of the plot, the mood and tone are wildly different. SecUnit's arthouse, avant garde film had been a whole different genre from the play it had recorded, as well as several magnitudes more suspenseful and intricate in interplay.
On his way out, Ratthi runs into Bharadwaj, who he hadn't known was also in the audience that night. They just... stare... at each other. Both can read the thought clearly in the other's eyes:
SecUnit.... made that.... out of this?
Tyelko vs the dreaded puppy missile
Nienna, Valar of grief
"enthusiastic consent" "dubcon" "noncon" ???con where we're both so neurotic and strange about vulnerability and emotional and physical expression that it'd take a crack team of philosophers to figure out whether anything about what we did together was consensual or even semiotically definable as sex
fingon's sexual self-image 🤝 the nirn overly dependent on maedhros coming when expected
fingon's sexual self-image 🤝 the nirn improved by hurin's involvement
fingon's sexual self-image 🤝 the nirn famously centered around fingon getting split open and pounded
fingon's sexual self-image 🤝 the nirn no female characters directly contributed
fingon's sexual self-image 🤝 the nirn sometimes Turgon's there for morale purposes
haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.
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