bog creature

i have a lot of thoughts, none of them by choice • any pronouns •

[kosmogrl]

what doesn’t kill me leaves a pit in my stomach that never goes away

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

in monster world they have berries and cream but they call it SCARIES and SCREAM. one of many interesting little cultural differences

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[shadowsayshi]

FIRE4FUN music video raaaaaaa!!!!!!

[yellow-cat]

nothing good left in this world.

[upsidedownsmore]

I've had the immense pleasure to provide illustrations of Vena (proto-Garuda) and Ryoku (proto-Ash) for four Atragraph augment mods!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok here's the individual illustrations below smile

Dread Ward

Seeking Shuriken

Blood Forge

Smoke Shadow

Huge huge HUGE thank you to Digital Extremes for letting me put more funny scribbles in their game, especially in this fashion. This has been such an incredibly cool project to work on between this new(-ish) feature and these characters! Can't wait to see them in-game on June 17th <3

Sketch wips and other stuff under the cut!

Carrd | Ko-fi | Inprnt

And huge thanks to the team and community for all the kind words!!! It seriously means so so much after such an incredibly busy two months split between this and an unfortunately-timed new day job (that I left just last week lol lmao). Lots and lots of things I wish I had had more time and energy for and things I would have done differently, so it's an incredible feeling to see such immediate positive reception in spite of those doubts. Love you guys <3

(I'll try to reblog this post with a timelapse vid and in-game implementation whenever that stuff becomes available! In the meantime you can check it out over on ArtStation (which does have timelapses!))

[eclogues]

i havent done anything or been anyone ever

[shadowsayshi]

being disillusioned to how psychiatry actually functions while everyone around you keeps going on about how i should see a professional is what's actually making me insane

[kosmogrl]

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[rhinco]

i understand that it's unreasonable to expect a band on world tour to play in every country in the world but i do think they should only be allowed to call it a world tour if they play in every continent. we need to make it embarrassing to say world tour and then not even step foot in africa

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[ferrofungus]

Happy pride

[nude-tayne]

[freakoutgirl]

how to do things that everyone else seems to do no problem

[valtsv]

ever since i was young i've been drawn to narratives where a character acquires powers by being premeditatively attacked, subdued, and forcibly empowered by some kind of invasive procedure, leaving them feeling guiltily ashamed, alienated from their own body, and violently uncomfortable under any amount of attention drawn to them despite their new enhanced ability to defend themself and others. for no particular reason.

[ouroborosorder]

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

[ouroborosorder]

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

[manwhorewednesdays]

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

[ouroborosorder]

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece