an obstinate despair

Art inspirations and other fixations, bands, shows, movies, too scattered to name. Most of my own art is on my sketchblog: septembre-songstress

[ouiouhie]

the council 🩸

keeping this series going while working on a larger project. took a ton of focus to finish this one!

[sleepyducktime]

Only seven minutes into episode seven and I have a new favourite scene. The chills I got when scanlan asks about the sixth barrel and percys shadow has his gun to his own head.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

FUCK

[louci420]

Matt Murdock’s Apartment Windows🖤

[missstreelight]

just started watching the legend of vox machina and keyleth is really the embodiment of "once i get over my low self-esteem and crippling performance anxiety, it's over for all you bitches"

[katpuos]

Percy De Rolo brain rot has set in for the first time in a year and a half 😩

[sixofclovers]

everytime i get new de rolo content i just come crawling back

[the-grassy-hill]

sorry if i come off as rude my mother didn't like me for several years

[pmamtraveller]

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

[ladykeyleth]

The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2 — Keyleth + Wild Shape ↳ requested by anonymous

Bonus: un-wildshaping

[ascendentashes]

If you want to “shock your audience” maybe you should just try writing a good story.

[hailqiqi]

Preach

[sixofclovers]

theyre fighting a god in the morning

[za-ra-h]

Katara from ATLA

This is a prize piece for a ATLA stamp rally taking place in MCM London.

[sokkastyles]

Been seeing some people say that the Painted Lady and the Blue Spirit should not be paralleled because the Blue Spirit is only Zuko acting selfishly, while Katara's Painted Lady disguise is altruistic. And that's...not entirely true.

While it is true that the good actions Zuko performs as the Blue Spirit are indirect outcomes born from selfish motivations, I would not say the Blue Spirit itself represents selfishness. It represents identity, giving Zuko a mask so that he can act outside of the role that's been forced upon him.

Katara, meanwhile, becomes the Painted Lady so that she can help people who would otherwise reject her. But, similarly to Zuko, what's at the core of this action is an exploration of identity. Although Katara's motives are heroic, she acts in a way that is against the rest of the group, lies to them, and risks them not making it to the invasion on time, not just because she wants to help, but because of her own personal need to take on that responsibility.

A running theme in Katara's narrative is reconciling her idealistic beliefs about how the world should be vs how it really is, and reconciling how she's been hurt by the world vs reclaiming her own agency. Katara begins her story waiting for a savior, and throughout the show, she experiences frustration over not being able to help people in the way they need. Her arc is one of actualization where she realizes that she is a hero in her own right, that she's free to make her own choices, even if she'll never be free of the marks of violence left on her by the war.

Sound familiar?

This dovetails very nicely with her arc with Zuko. It's not a stretch to parallel Katara's need to help even those who reject her, even at the cost of alienating her friends, with her attempt to help Zuko and feeling betrayed by him because of her need to believe in goodness. It's not a stretch to also parallel that with Zuko's quest for redemption and his realization that he can choose goodness for himself even when the world expects less.

[thememedaddy]

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

WOW! I feel both discomfort and awe looking at this nightmarish sculpture by Hiroaki Nakanishi.

[heartsl0b]

hole-in-the-wall cafe

[sloppjockey]

image. gouache painting on paper from 2018