went ahead and polished up these monster high prints!! process gifs under cut :3
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went ahead and polished up these monster high prints!! process gifs under cut :3
No because if I were Jackson and Holt, I'd be pretty upset my friends decided not even an hour after me getting almost executed by Normies.
.... That they decide to throw a monster normie party with me DJing it.
Like sorry I get you guys wanna be friends and that.
Be proud of your flaws.
But I was literally facing death and was imprisoned for who I was.
And now you wanna party like it didn't happen?
Monster High x DC Crossover Memes 2
the drawing dump continues
the risen dead have a certain... SWAG to them, wouldn't you say?
Yeah this is to determine Tumblr's favourite undead.
The Rules:
No Horde undead(e.g Zombies) they are mostly mindless, and thus swagless.
Vampires, Skeletons, Liches, all allowed as long as they are an individual.
ONE character per submission. You can submit as many as you like, but only one per submission.
Dracula from Dracula, Vecna from Dungeons and Dragons, and Strahd Von Zarovich from Dungeons and Dragons are my personal shoe ins.
Yes, Sans and Papyrus are allowed. I know somebody wanted to know that.
addendum: Real people(including youtubers(and yes, that includes the DSMP)) allowed. Sorry that I forgot to say that to begin with.
Submissions will remain open until May 1st or until I have collected 250 submissions. You may call me(Showrunner) the Necromancer.
Submit your undeads. We will watch them murder each other... well, they're already dead.
Which Undead should the Necromancer raise to do battle?
Other polls for visibility: @bestfictionaldivorce @bangerbattlethemes @finalbossthemethrowdown @ultimate-sword-showdown @sans-au-war-ii @worstutfanonthingpoll
Reblogging for fandom interest.
Someone who knows more about the characters than me should put submissions in for some of Monster Highâs undead (Frankie, Cleo, Draculaura, Ghoulia, any of the ghosts etc.)
Everytime I read Frankenstein, the same line makes me put the book down and stare at the wall. Itâs my favorite line in the book; it has its own highlighter color in my annotations. The first time I read it, I literally detoured after my last class just to tell my lit teacher how much I liked the line because I couldnât wait until second period the next day. Hereâs the line:
âLife, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.â
This is said by the creature. He wanted to live. He wanted to live life so badly even though he had had such a difficult one. He still loved the song of the birds and the smell of the flowers and the joy in the world even if he never got to truly experience that joy. I just. AHHHH.
He wanted to fight for a life he never got to live.
The creature grew up in a world were he wasn't loved. Yet, he loved the world.
I do wonder how workplace safety would be different in a world that has people with stuff like long ears and horns
Don't ask why I know too much, but!
Noise canceling earplugs are definitely a common thing I wear every day for construction. There are different types of headphones that wrap around the ear, I assume these would be good for gaming/general listening. (Assuming they've been accommodated for for a while and not just appearing out of thin air, there possibly might be some alternative solutions)
Gloves can easily accommodate claws with minor modification. Likewise, there are also a range of boots available for non-humanoid feet. It should be reasonable to stick a steel-toe in them when needed.
Longer, floppy ears would need to be restrained. Bands, clips, and other hair restraints should suffice.
Likewise, tails (especially with long fur/hair or tufts) would need restraint as well. Not like "tie it to your body" restraint, as that may fuck with balance. But if it has long hair, bag it. It would be hell if that shit got caught in a machine. In tighter working environments with lots of pinch risks, it might be safer to wrap it around yourself and use extra caution.
Helmets and hard hats both can be modified! Horn caps would also be a good idea. Protect your precious horns from breaking off as well as any falling object from getting impaled. A slat can be cut along the side of the hat and re-secured with a buckle for easier wear. (Sticking pool noodles on the horns of goats, cattle, and other animals is very common when working with them in medical settings. Imagine that as you will.)
Much longer gloves, potentially masks or face shields would be required of fuzzier folk when working with food. Fur isn't exactly sanitary.
Head lamps, flashlights, and LED bands are common for night/cave work. Even a simple neck reading light could be useful to those who have trouble making out minor details in low light.
Mouth guards are already pretty customizable! The ones I use for hockey you boil in water, and then bite down lightly so it gets the perfect shape for your mouth. Fangs would work fine. Flatter teeth would work fine. If diversity was prevalent, I'm sure that longer/other shaped guards would exist.
Goggles might be the only option for those with floppy ears. Glasses don't stay up too well without ear support. Goggles are safer in most cases anyway though. I do have special protective glasses that can go over my prescription ones, so it's reasonable that some accommodations can be made.
This is such cool information to have, thank you!!!
Is this what it feels like to actually like your art??
Looks like regular Houndstooth fabric, but when you look closely, itâs little bats. Designed by Rachel Hauer, itâs called âBatstooth.â Cute?
https://www.freespiritfabrics.com/batstooth-white-scaredy-cat/
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where does the mustache-twirling silent film villain comes from? And who was the first ?
Well, hereâs the thing about that specific archetype of villain so near and dear to our hearts: They donât actually come from silent films. They are pretty specifically a product of stage and vaudeville shows playing up parodies of classic villains, and then these parodies made their way to film and cartoons through characters like Professor Fate and Snidely Whiplash.
But if you want the history lesson as well as the reasons why these characters are such an effective visual shorthand for villainy, you can trace this pretty directly back to Edward Hyde.
Right from the start, the common image of Mr Hyde was that of a twisted ogre dressed in gentlemenâs clothing, the kind that people actually wore at the time of Victorian England. And thereâs been much said over the years in regards to how Hyde taps, intentionally or not, into social prejudice, into a fear of the lower classes and their integration with people from higher social standing, of Hyde as a stand-in for poverty and crime and vice and etc. Thereâs been a lot of reinterpretations of the book that took a specific angle with Hyde, mainly a sexual one, others that focus heavily on the battle between good vs evil (which really misses the fact that Jekyll wasnât much of a good person in the book to begin with), and so on, thereâs of course much room for reinterpretation.
But these usually miss what else was happening in England, after Mr Hyde became a household name. You might have heard of it.
Through a stroke of fate, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde debuted just two years before the Jack the Ripper murders took England by storm. In fact, newspapers regularly referred to the murderer as Mr Hyde because of the story, and thereâs a particularly famous story of actor Richard Mansfield being publicly accused of being the Ripper because of his scarily-convincing performance as the character.
And from that point onwards, the image of Mr Hyde, of the sinister criminal dressing up as a gentleman, became not just the public image attached to depictions of Jack the Ripper, but the image of villainy itself.
Go ahead, picture the most basic silhouette for a villain in your head. Here, let me make it easier for you:
I googled this on incognito mode just now, and as you see, even before Star Wars and Disney, there you see the sinister figure in top hat and cloak, knife or cane optional. The universal shorthand for villain, partially because of Mr Hyde.
I mentioned earlier when talking about Count Fosco that the reason he was made an Italian is because at the time (1860s), Wilkie Collins assumed his crime to be âtoo heinousâ for an English villain. Which is funny now, considering that English fashion AND accents have become the go-to signifiers of ultimate evil since forever now.
Before Mr Hyde and the changing paradigms of fiction that followed him, the most common idea most people had of âevilâ, of an evil person, mainly took the form of either a poorly dressed street criminal, or a foreigner. In fact, the term âvillainâ in the first place has the following origin:
âbase or low-born rustic,â from Anglo-French and Old French vilain âpeasant, farmer, commoner, churl, yokelâ (12c.), from Medieval Latin villanus âfarmhand,â from Latin villa âcountry house, farmâ
The most important phases of the sense development of this word may be summed up as follows: âinhabitant of a farm; peasant; churl, boor; clown; miser; knave, scoundrel.â Today both Fr. vilain and Eng. villain are used only in a pejorative sense.
Which is maybe the most obvious fact to consider anytime the discussion of âwhy are villains so popularâ takes place.
Hyde was obviously not the first villain to dress up in respectable clothing, even in popular Victorian icons Sweeney Todd predates him by a few decades. And obviously this didnât change overnight, mind you, but you can see the pattern: Mr Hyde debuts and his arrival crashes the cultural paradigm in waves. Not just in the idea of man as a creature of duality with the extraordinary beast lurking inside, which as Iâve argued before in writing about Tarzan, is in the bedrock of the very concept of the superhero and also the ultimate connection between hero and monster in fiction, but also in the terror of knowing that the most hideous crimes against humanity can, and are, being committed by those who sit at the highest points of respectability, the doctor and scholar and gentleman, who wears the same clothes he uses to heal and lecture and help, to trample children and assault and murder people (which is obviously not even remotely as unthinkable now as it might have been to Victorian audiences at the time)
Two years later, a string of savage murders committed by someone with medical expertise shakes up Britain to itâs very core, and suddenly the story doesnât seem quite so much like fantasy, and suddenly, villains all over the place in fiction are showing up dressed in gentlemanâs clothing, because now writers and artists are tapping into the fear felt by Dr Jekyllâs high society friends: the realization that the monster is one of them, that gentleman and villain are one and the same.
It wouldnât be long afterwards that the likes of Dracula and Dorian Grey would further popularize evil aristocrats and gentlemen and murderers in evening wear as not only enduring, but omnipresent villainous archetypes, particularly on stage, which is where we are gonna find the other major figure responsible for popularizing the specific villainous archetype you mentioned: Tod Slaughter
If Mr Hydeâs omnipresent popularity was instrumental in defining the look of the stage villain, then it would be Tod Slaughter who would be responsible for popularizing the comically over-the-top gentleman villain in the stage, to be cemented as a vaudeville staple and later a staple of pop culture itself. And heâs never gotten even 1/10th of the credit he deserved for it, certainly not after his death.
Born with the name Norman Carter Slaughter and performing initially under the name N. Carter Slaughter (I wonder where weâve heard a name like that before), he initially performed conventional leading men roles, until after his service in the war, when he was reviving âblood and thunderâ melodramas, including Sweeney Todd, and bringing barnstorming to the stage.
And itâs those kinds of melodramas that also led to the creation of âgrinning villain in evening wearâ as a staple of the stage, even before Slaugher made a career out of those, and it was bringing barnstorm acting to the stage that cemented his particular brand of villainy. The earliest cartoon example of such a villain I can find, Oil-Can Harry from Mighty Mouse, debuted in 1933 in a show specifically called âmellerdramaâ, as a parody of the kind of show Tod Slaughter had helped revive and play.
He renamed himself Tod Slaughter in the mid-1920s, and in the 1931, he rebranded himself âMr Murderâ and started really going full in on villains from the 1930s all the way to his death. Heâs played Sweeney Tood 2.000 times on stage, heâs played Mr Hyde, Jack the Ripper, Spring-Heeled Jack, Long John Silver, and many other roles in stage and film. He was never popular among critics, but he was a household name, one of Britainâs biggest stars in the early 20th century, and really I think those of you who follow me are already quite familiar with household names extremely popular in their times still fading into complete obscurity.
Slaughterâs body of work â no matter how poor it may seem by todayâs standards â was a bridge between the Victorian blood and thunder melodramas and the gore and flash of Hammer Studios in the early fifties.
The film work was censored as often there would be cutaway edits or fade to black during the more harrowing moments. The âX certificateâ for audience restriction had not yet been created.
Tod Slaughter pointed the way to gore, and this in turn became taboo subjects in horror.
He was the first to use gimmicks, such as having doctors and nurses in the theatre during performances in case someone fainted. They were called upon, too.
Tod would often go to the theatre bar during the interval in full make up with bloody apron (as in the case of Sweeney Todd) and sit muttering and ordering drinks. Not a soul would go near him and a showmanâs mystique was created.
Tod Slaughter passed away of a coronary thrombosis in Derby in 1956, which was also the year Bela Lugosi died. His work slipped in to obscurity. - Article by spookyisles
Seriously, just look at him, look at him acting. Donât get me wrong, he took his work incredibly seriously and it showed, he wasnât intentionally out to create a parody archetype, but this guy had such an energy to him that really made his characters stand out in a way unmatched, and it was his specific style of performance that was ultimately carried over from stage to film and then, to pop culture long past his lifespan. Itâs an utter shame that somehow we didnât immortalize this guy in pop culture along with the other horror greats.
Oil Can Harry, Professor Fate, Snidely Whiplash, Dick Dastardly, Dan Backslide, Hedley Lamarr, Robbie Rotten, Seymour Ghastly, Waluigi, Dr Robotnik, all of these and others owe at least some tribute to the original. He is the Grandad of Mustache Twirling and in October we should all grow one and twirl it mischievously to honor his contributions to the finer arts of villainy.
Like Hammer Films, or Carry On, or practically any other low brow populist entertainment of yesteryear, Slaughter was not popular even with the genre critics â if you saw anything about his work in the horror books and magazines of the 1970s or early 1980s, it was invariably dismissive. The official word was that Slaughter was a bad actor who could not leave behind his theatrical performances in his films, and the movies themselves were creaky rubbish.
Yet even as we read this, we were starting to see Slaughterâs films on TV â late night or mid-afternoon broadcasts on the fledgeling Channel 4, for instance â and the films were magnificent. Glorious, unrestrained melodrama, fast-paced and deliciously gothic, all anchored by the central performance of Slaughter, who was less theatrical, more gleeful as he tore up the screen with a level of cheerful villainy that has never been seen before or since.
Slaughter was of his time, perhaps, but that somehow made these films all the more enthralling â you just didnât see acting like this, or faces like this, anymore. Perhaps he was rare, even in the 1930s, and thatâs why he was so popular with audiences back then.
Slaughterâs films had an authenticity about them, a lack of pretension that I imagine also marked his stage shows. He was never going to appeal to the chin-strokers and the academics. Slaughter was too real for that.
He was the peopleâs villain - Article by reprobatepress
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I wouldn't trust Heath to hold my drink, not because i think he'd do something to it, but because i know he'd spill it in the time i was gone.
I wouldnât let Heath hold my drink, not because I think heâd do anything to it but because itâll be warm when I get it back.
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I think I already reblogged this but im gonna do it again because this is a good reminder on how toxic gatekeeping it.
Iâm reblogging this for the amount of thought that was put into figuring out the necessary configuration for a mertaur wheelchair.
MMMMM, the LAYERS to this.Â
Sheâs technically a monster too. She might not look it at first glance and seems mostly human, but it isnât deniable even despite her looks compared to the other monsters.Â
But she realizes that she is still not like the rest of the monsters either and may not have entirely the same experiences as them, which is why she feels that she might not belong to or deserve to go to the support group. By sometimes passing as human, she feels she isnât worthy of the space.Â
The sad reality though is even though sheâs mostly human in appearance, that tail she has undeniably would still cause her some struggle. Humans are still gonna look at that tail and think sheâs a freak. There are probably still accommodations she needs because of the tail that she may still struggle to have access to. Even if it is just the tail, that tail is still enough to other her from humans and cause her problems and discrimination.Â
She should get to belong in that support group even if she gets told sheâs not monster âenoughâ. She still shares some of the same struggles as them that are caused by being a monster, and needs support.Â
This is an excellent demonstration of the flaws in the concept of passing privilege. Bravo to the artist.Â
NOW I will reblog this.
take this gender quiz I beg you it is literally LIFE CHANGINGÂ
Wait i dont get it what am i
Bees
THE MONOLITH FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY FJSTBFTJSCHSCHFBTT
I GOT 3, WHICH IS GREAT CUS 3 IS UNIRONICALLY MY FAVORITE NUMBER
Was feeling the angst vibeâŠ
Uh anyways-HAPPY PRIDE!
[ID Clawdeen Wolf digital art. She's curled up, hiding her face in her knees with her arms crossed over them and her back to a door. She's wearing her 'Room to Howl Bunk Bed & Clawdeen Wolf' sleeping outfit as seen in the playset and comics. Her Icoffin is on the floor beside her, with the screen lit up and a purple speech bubble reading
'FROM: Lala
You're such a great ghoul friend!!'
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âCleo never does anything Deuce wantsâ
âCleo never gives back in their relationship, she just takes and takesâ
âCleo never shows any interest in Deuceâs passionsâ
SIT THE FUCK DOWN HATERS, THAT IS CLEO DE FUCKING NILE PLAYING VIDEO GAMES