FabricatedGeek

LARP, Costumes, Writing, Art & Always Fantastically Geek Chic

[fairycosmos]

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

[beansfrombeans]

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[veliseraptor]

can't believe it's only tuesday. it feels like it should be at least wednesday and honestly really thursday

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

LOVES me a comic relief character w/ a reputation for The Melodrama—but once you consider their backstory/working conditions you realize they are actually holding shit soooooooooooooooo much closer together than most-o-us could manage in the same situation.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

there are MANY goons and mooks and goofy best friend characters this applies to, but i wanna give a shout-out to the Living Prima Donna Embodiment from phantom of the opera.

woman with 20+ years experience, most respected professional in her field, refuses to work under unsafe conditions (aka shitty colleague literally trying to murder her) and instead of listening to her massively justified concern, the new tech bro investors decide to just have an entry-level employee fill in for her.

Carlotta shoulda personally been allowed bring that crummy chandelier crashing down on her shitty bosses' heads!!!

[transfemgabriellamontez]

YES! YES! YES!

“These things happen” On what planet Mr French Multimillionaire?!? On what planet is that an acceptable working environment! And the Phantom is picking on her and taking her voice because he, one out of thousands, doesn’t like it! And the owners just… fold?!? No!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"UNTIL YOU STOP THESE THINGS FROM HAPPENING, THIS THANG DOES NOT HAPPEN!"

hell yeah Carlotta invoking 👏 her 👏 worker's 👏 rights 👏

[smllscallywag]

reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[grimbeak]

obsessed with just. the entire phrasing and performance of this random tiktok. the uncapitalized 'i's implying the youth of the author. "I think my mom wants me home soon too" SHUT UPPPPPP. only good modern depiction of hades and persephone literally ever. god.

[spacecasehobbit]

Every so often, I feel like fandom could really benefit from more use of "I" language when we talk about things we'd like to see more in fiction.

"I'd really love to see [x] explored more often in fiction." -> Perfectly reasonable, great way to connect with other people who feel the same!

"Writers really need to include [x thing I care about] more often in their stories about [y]." -> I get that feeling, totally valid, but perhaps what writers should be doing is exploring the questions/ideas/etc that they're interested in, while we as readers can put our own effort into finding stories that explore the things we want to see and ignoring the ones that don't match our particular interests?

[fiery-kitty]

Karabela sabre with scabbard (1868)

An ornate karabela sabre presented by Galician noble families to Adam Sapieha. The sabre references the history of the Sapieha family, including prominent ancestors such as Paweł Jan and Lew Sapieha, 17th-century Grand Hetmans of Lithuania.

Type: Karabela sabre, ceremonial weapon

Overall length: 85.5 cm

Blade length: 73.5 cm

Blade width: 3.7 cm

Scabbard length: 75.9 cm

Weight (sabre): 1004 g

Weight (scabbard): 597 g

Origin: Lviv / Vienna / Kraków (Poland / Austria, Galicia)

Material: Pattern welding, gold, silver, diamond, wood (plant material), velvet, topaz, spinel, silver thread

Technique: enameling, inlay, stone setting, gilding, repoussé, chiselling

Decoration: richly decorated with heraldic and religious motifs, it reflects the noble ideological and historical symbolism of the late 19th century.

[whollyunnecessary]

@fabricatedgeek

[primevalthule]

 BGK-Bengiskhan

[rosieandthemoon]

Bryn Celli Ddu - Wales

[moringmark]

[fabricatedgeek]

Me being responsible in the workshop: I don’t know why I’m struggling on this chest press. It’s only like 22.5 lbs per arm I should easily hit 12 not barely 8…

Me at 3am from a dead sleep: That was 65 lbs. How the fuck did I math that so very wrong???

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @kirahti

ooooOOOOooOOoOo my life goals

text: She lookin' absolutely villainous

[ouroborosorder]

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

[ouroborosorder]

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

[manwhorewednesdays]

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

[ouroborosorder]

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece

[earhartsease]

this is really great post to wander through

[dogposts]

[koldefingre]

The reverend daughter