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[magical-ely]

I might have binge-watched all of vampires smp and now I'm slightly obsessed

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[absolutejamer]

grace is not rocky's dog

grace is kept in a clear, airtight container filled with a completely different environment with a carefully maintained life-support system that, should it fail, he will quickly die.

grace is erid's fish.

[galacticsabc]

Two of Us

[magical-ely]

Look at the besties omg 🤩

[magical-ely]

Just watched Project Hail Mary, and by god, do I now understand why people love this film so much. It's just amazing!

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

[greenishness]

i'm thinking about charlotte brontë spending her last years editing and publishing her sisters' writings and about christopher tolkien dedicating his life to the protection and meticulous reconstruction his father's life's work and about johanna van gogh publishing the letters between vincent and theo that would propel vincent van gogh into fame because she knew how much her husband had loved his brother, and about how so often art isn't just a reflection of the artist's mind and skills but a testament to the fact that they were loved

[greenishness]

My sister just quoted this post at me over dinner bc it was discussed in her philosophy class & I can't even smugly inform her of its authorship. Due to the mindhunter yaoi state of my most recent blog history.

[lakemojave]

Look I don't really care for AI. I'm scared about the increasing over-reliance on tools like chatgpt and Ai assist that repeatedly give flawed or false information, I reject the promise of AI writers and actors that might infect mainstream art. But like...y'all need to change the way you look at this stuff for real. So much popular anti-AI language is so abstracted from any material reality and human truth, making up slurs for Ai bots like that's a normal thing to do, wantonly accusing artists of using Ai like a witch hunt, and talking about the human element of art supplanted by AI in very Christian terms, calling it "sacred" or coming from the soul. You don't have to like AI, but I really encourage you to examine how you feel about it and what it's been making you say. Cause it's apparently making you say ethnic slurs

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hate AI bots being forced into every product and making them so much worse while the blind inflation of this economic bubble causes massive waste and inconvenience for everyone and the perpetuation of falsehoods, theft and slop becomes massively easier than previous so it drowns everything; you (not OP, the people they're talking about) hate AI because you're all secretly hardcore protestants championing the inherent goodness of labour while terrified that the touch of the sinful robot demon might taint your soul, apparently. We are not the same, but it's basically impossible for me to be mad about AI being forced into random programs and services without being mistaken for one of you.

[evilnonbinarywizard]

Can someone explain to me why in the fuck the Wizarding Council just banned "Summon Greater Xylophone?!" How on Earth was that spell being used such that it was bannable?

[monsterfucker-research-wizard]

It was overshadowing "Summon Grand Piano", and the creator of that spell has a lot of sway in the council.

[sunderwight]

The official reason is supposed to be that the spell is too open to modification mid-cast and can allow infernal influences through if done in an insecure plane or next to too many resonance objects, but that's true of like 99% of summoning spells, so yeah it's pretty much definitely the piano guy.

[sunderwight]

[bethanydelleman]

Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)

[janeeyreofmanderley]

oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.

[obi-troll-kenobi]

I raise you:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)

[archaeos]

Friedrich Carl Gröger, self-portrait with foster daughter and the painter Aldenrath (1802). Gröger and Aldenrath met in their teens and spent the rest of their lives together, even raising Gröger's illegitimate niece Lina together.

[weaver-z]

This is the most powerful call to ratio I've ever seen. It's like she's performing an incantation.

[duncebento]

“NO!….RATIO!!!”

[adamsmasher]

Honestly obsessed with her

[geocaprican]

[the-astro-ambassadors]

[ballofstress9]

Absolutely based

[transgirlsgetswords-deactivated]

always reblog bonnie

[blaxolt]

I'm not even sure if they do still make tumblr

[bambitek]

[transmoobs]

“why do trans men get surprised when they transition and their friends start treating them like a gross man” its bc our transition shouldn’t make our friends lose trust in us just because of how we look and identify. its not about the man part its about the gross part. if u treat ur transmasc friends as inherently gross or dangerous the second they start transitioning, it makes it seem like u weren’t really even our friends to begin with if u don’t know us well enough that u equate us as individuals to the stereotypical man youve built in ur head.

[magical-ely]

Have another cause I am on a roll!

[magical-ely]

I just had to he's so cute <3

[scutesketch]

YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

[portlandalites]

《Made a visual guide of how to get there, because it's under a weird tab.

Go to your blog (you have to do this for each individual blog) and the visibility tab

It's this last option here

Hate this shit, but turn it off babey》

[magical-ely]

Friendly reminder

[dduane]

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

[liliacfaerie]

your life should not be a museum