My biggest flex is that I read all of One Piece in a month (August 2022); I can and will headcanon characters into oblivion, if I like them enough they end up trans women, that’s my daughter fr; find art in “my art 💛” or “my [fandom] art 💛 Open DMs but I get scared of ominous intros
The last chapter of her hands in my hair, the love in her eyes is up! I learned to imbed art for chapter 2 hehe >:3
Athyr grabs Merlyn by both shoulders and hauls her upright, passively concerned by the limp way her head follows after the rest of her body. Merlyn groans unhappily but slowly starts blinking the sleep from her eyes, raising a heavy-looking hand to rub at her face.
the more i talk w/ leftist friends the more i start to realize that they think culture is only defined by food or "traditional" (i.e. "ethnic") garb and nothing else
mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being
When I visited Chicago, the very first thing to weird me out from the airport was… how almost everywhere had revolving doors.
I’m Australian. Sure, we do have those doors, but the vast majority of places in Sydney are automatic sliding doors or old-fashioned manual push/pulls because we don’t need to block out the cold and wind the same way here.
So every day I experienced a culture clash with something as basic as what doors were normal for me.
Americans who say they don’t have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isn’t just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, it’s constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because that’s just “normal” to your daily life. No one has no culture just because they’re not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.
The iceberg concept of culture: only 10% of what most people immediately think of as their culture is above the surface, and the deeper you go, the more emotional depth it gets.
(rocky voice) human atmosphere too cold even through xenonite insulated suit! let rocky in grace skin! does grace want rocky to almost freeze to death again, question
Tell me about your wife(asking for Rachel headcanons)
MY WIFE MY WIFE MY WIFE !!!!!!!
• she/they/ze/fae (+bunch of other neos, they like collecting them) transfem nonbinary
• aspec lesbian !! also polyamorous (first reason being perachelabeth, second being i selfship with her and i'm polyam)
• (stolen from you lol) i am completely sold on nigerian (specifically yoruba) rachel. i just can't see ze as anything other than black tbh
• audhd + i feel like we all agree on rachel with psychosis lol. bizarre thought and speech patterns and memory issues along with mostly auditory hallucinations. especially bad paranoia as a treat because atp i'm projecting 🫶
• extremely cluttered and chaotic fashion sense, usually very uniquely femme but they have days where they lean a lllllittle more masc, every single color, pattern and texture is everywhere, fae changes faer hair fairly often, accessorises to the oblivion, basically maximalism final boss lmao
• style staples i always imagine her with: colorful weirdly patterned tights, mismatched socks (doesnt fold them in pairs, just throws them in a drawer and picks two random ones every time), very big glasses, funky neck scarves, headwraps and bandannas, very colorful and sparkly make up
• for hairstyles i think she usually wears her natural 4a/4b hair out and likes to put braids and beads in it but i also draw her with locs, box braids or thick twists !!
• hosts art trades and giveaways in camp !!! pretty much runs the arts & crafts station and experiments with so many different art forms that they're literally never out of shit to do lmao. she also raises charities for unemployed/under appreciated artists all the time with the opportunity her father's money grants her
• like i said experiments and dabbles in all kinds of art forms, drawing and painting, photography, journaling, crocheting, sewing, sculpting, dancing, acting and so on and so forth. whenever ze gets a chance to try out something new ze latches on instantly
• kiki/key is an aspiring witch who's very very passionate about all kinds of magic faer heritage lets fae witness, when fae first met rachel fae was very interested in her because she's the oracle of delphi lol. like "i need to figure out how you work for research purposes respectfully if you dont mind no touching or talking necessary" with bug eyes kinda autism 😭 but rachel is also a freak so she was lowkey charmed and into it lmaoo
• kiki and rachels ideal date is just them being alone in a comfortable place and talking/painting/making stuff together or climbing the tallest tree they can find and hang out until someone finds their hiding spot so they need to find a new one or them going to plays together or kiki trying out and making up new (harmless) spells to try on rachel/rachel showing kiki hir oracle magic (they got that mad scientist4client except one is a witch and the other is just very happy to be there and indulge)
• tattooed older rachel !!!! fae ONLY EVER get colorful ones though. they actually learn the basics of a tattoo gun at some point as it's their mission to do every art form ever so they got to give themselves and their loved ones a few tats
• gets one of those blank canvas tattoos !! paints it in with normal acrylics whenever she feels like it and washes it off whenever she wants a new thing !
• one of your posts gave me this idea and im absolutely hooked lol. theater kids rachel and annabeth !!!! well they both haven't exactly done theater growing up that much (rachel a little more than annabeth, but still not much) but they pick it up together as bonding time later on !! they host improvs and go to drama workshops together !
• rachel and percy loooove hanging out at the beach together. they make the BEST sand castle you could ever see in your life (with annabeth's insight for the architecture)
plus some ??? images ????? wow spon really upped the budget
if i made a video game where you get to pick the gender of the player character i'd make both the options be nonbinary and you can either have they/them or it/its pronouns. those are your only options
Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back.
The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act.
For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body.
The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser.
Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology.
Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.
"percy holds nico at a distance and only talks to him when he needs something" the distance between percy and nico is established by nico. percy is the one who initiated their friendship by approaching nico after the big battle in botl and talking to him. and he did this bc he noticed that nico didn't join in at dinner or the sing-along, bc, shockingly enough, percy pays attention to nico's well-being in every. single. book. after ttc. nico responds to this by essentially saying "hey, i can be useful!" but percy never asked for that. all percy ever wanted was for nico to be (relatively) safe.
