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Hiii, I was just wandering if you wouldnât 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 thereâs a lot of symbolism Iâm picking up on without fully understanding. Like with Deathâs sickle, both a homage to the classic scythe and a nod to the âreaping/harvestingâ of souls. And with pestilence I feel like thereâs something that Iâm skirting around without grasping. The multiple legs strike me as a deliberate similarity to insects, and if Iâm 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 bodyâs, 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 Iâve 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 didnât frighten. People didnât 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
âDeath 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.â
Death is the only horseman that doesnât 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!
A favorite by an artist I'm profoundly grateful to have found some time ago
Your cat has always brought you gifts- dead birds, mice... You and Mittens moved South. The gifts kept on coming, but were increasingly... disturbing. The coyote, okay, sure. The lizard left zoologists stumped. Today,you found her standing atop a corpse best described as Mothman beside your bed
The multiverse is real, and parallel versions of everyone exist. Unfortunately, all of your alternate selves are pure evil. Dictators, murderers, tech CEOs, the list goes on, and they all seem to think you're the only other voice of reason
You are incredibly old. Youâve seen the rise and fall of entire languages. Youâre concerned when someone comes to you with a tablet that even you cannot read.
That's a nice idea, but when you're this old, nothing concerns you any longer.
Maybe it's an alien language. Maybe it's one which existed in secret. Maybe someone just put nonsense onto a tablet as an act of priceless rebellion or a practical joke or who knows what else. Each option is as irrelevant as the last.
People will do anything to avoid looking at the ground under their own feet.
...There's also the fact that learning tens of thousands of languages is very different from remembering them.
It's akin to asking you to recall what color you were wearing on the second Tuesday of February at age eight.
Now go away, my tea is ready.
If you want the help of an ancient, the trick is in getting them to give a shit.
SOMEBODY TAKE ME OUT BACK AND SHOOT ME FOR LAUGHING
You wake up one night with an indescribable urge to fill a large bowl with cold water. When you do, you are teleported somewhere in the woods, with a shrine and a very thirsty bunny in front of it. You've been "prayed too" multiple times ever since that night, not only by just animals.
Lock in now.
gaze
i hope you all fall in love with someone who never stops choosing you and i hope you feel at home when you look at them
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Hi Void!
Uh, oh! Your cousins wedding is this weekend and you told your family that you're totally in a relationship and they really want to meet them!
Which cod character do you bring to the wedding as your fake partner? đ€
Obviously, you pick Kyle.
Aesthetically heâs the most normal-looking choice, not overly loud or sullen, and heâs also an excellent liar. Youâre absolutely thrilled when he readily agrees to do it, so when the day of the wedding rolls around and thereâs a knock on your door, you arenât at all expectingâ-
âMacTavish?!â
Johnny sheepishly shifts his weight from one foot to the other. âGarrick got called into work, asked me to come.â
Oh, Kyleâs a good liar, alright. You had no clue that his intention was to dump Johnny on you for the night. But what can you do? Thereâs no time for an alternate plan, and a last minute excuse to your family would sound pathetic.
âFine,â you relent, stepping aside to let him in. âIâll be ready in ten minutes.â
The mohawk is your boyfriend today, and all you can do is hope he doesnât ruin your image any more than it already is.
In some bizarre twist of fate, MacTavish is more agreeable than you could have ever hoped for. He barely even drinks the whole time, just trades friendly small talk with your folks while his hand rests on the curve of your waist. He doesnât even swear, and the whole thing wraps up unbelievably smooth.
Youâre convinced youâll pay for this. The goddess of luck may have granted you a pass today, but soon your car will get broken into or your apartment will flood, and the universe will set this right.
But for now, you find yourself inviting Johnny back to your place for more drinks and maybe more luck. Thatâs how you end up passed out on his shoulder later, drooling on his shirt halfway through a movie.
Johnny canât believe you went along with this. He takes advantage of your unconsciousness to rest his chin on the top of your head, running his hand in a gentle sweep up and down your arm. He barely had to beg Garrick to let him take the job, and now heâs in your place, cuddled up on the couch as if you actually like him. You havenât even glared at him all day, and maybe itâs all an act, but heâs allowing himself to hope.
the suffering never ends
This is the real process
Resources for you!
Character Ideas:
Character creation masterpost
Character Alignment Chart
More character alignment descriptions
Muslim Character questions
Characters with magical powers
Building a new character advice
How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
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Basic character profile
OC masterpost
Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)
D&D Character Building Tool
Character Design Ideas:
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Character Design Inspiration blog
Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
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Body and hair types guide
Random outfit generator
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Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
Hispanic Surnames
Gothic Victorian names
Huge master list for character things in general
Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
Another name masterlist
How to pick a character name guide
Yet another names masterlist
Creating Background/backstory:
Character Sheet/Development Sheet
Another character development list
In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
320 talents and passions for characters
On writing likes and dislikes that arenât frivolous
Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
Random backstory generator
Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid
Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:
Comparing character height/height references
Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
Describing what different voices sound like
Describing skin tones
Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disneyâs Mulan for an example)
How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
On platonic OC and canon character relationships
How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
When itâs cheap to kill off a character
Writing dialogue
Things you shouldnât do to canon characters
Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
Slang resources
Dialogue tips
Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships
Bonus art masterlist!
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Itâs amazing, some links arenât working for me but those who are, are spectacular.
Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD
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Restraint looks good on him đ
The 21st century was the beginning of the war for humanity. Alien invasions, monster awakenings, apocalypses, dimensional incursions, and more threatened the safety of humanity near constantly. Earth is now the universe's most impenetrable fortress world, and humanity hardened warriors.
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ok but soulmate au with ghost but it's the fucking opposite of rainbows and sunshine. (18+)
you share his trauma. his stress. his anxiety. you do not know who he is, and yet you know the pain of a thousand punches because it's the only feeling he has ever given you. you know the grueling ache of abandonment and the terrible neglect of abuse and the disgusting amalgamation of all your worst nightmares before you even turn 20. everything that he gives you feels aggressive, like it burns, and he only ever gives you reprieve for so long until you just feel it all over again.