#beetles!

[purply-green-love]

We got a lazer engraver and some phone stands, made this up using some pics I found off google.

[pandora-rosier-official]

I FOUND SO MANY BEETLES IN MY YARD WHAAAAAAAATTTTT

[koleopteros]

I drew this a couple of months ago during an art phase where I drew nothing but beetles (there are like 5 pages of my sketchbooks that are just completely full of beetles, it’s great), and this was my best/most rendered one, so I wanted to share! It’s pencil on sketchbook paper. Let me know what you think!

[fans-of-the-damned]

📷

haah beatles

Haaaa love it!!!!

I love beetles!

They're all sooo different!

[ltrizzo]

Beetles. Julian drew one, he’s accused of murder, which is a crime. Vlastomil has a beetle brooch and a room full of them. Crimes against fashion and nature. Lucio had a whole swarm of them in a beetle-based protection racket. That’s also a crime.

Beetle crimes.

Crime beetles.

Alright, I’ve got nothing.

[theprincessmorphologies]

Brave also includes a clever visual reference to the most famous literary work set in Scotland, as many people on Tumblr noticed immediately.  Queen Elinor's dress is based on a costume worn by Ellen Terry while playing Lady Macbeth in the late 1880s.  (The sparkly things that look like sequins?  Jewel beetle wings.  Seriously.)

It is an interesting commentary on Elinor's position as a powerful woman in medieval Scottish society.  She is not nearly as ambitious as Lady Macbeth, but her decisions have equally powerful ramifications for the kingdom.  

It also reveals a certain amount of initial ambivalence, at least for any viewers who also happen to be John Singer Sargent fans.  At first, Elinor appears to be positioned as the villain, as she and Merida spend the first third of the movie in pronounced conflict.  However, she soon begins to behave in ways specific to the Proppian sphere of the hero, including receiving the magical agent (the enchanted cake), transforming into a bear (while shedding the symbolism-laden dress), departure, fighting with the villain Mor-du, triumphing over him, and finally transfiguration back into her human form.  (That's 14, 11, 8, 16, 18, and 29, for those of you counting along.)

Yet Merida is the narrator and protagonist of the film, and also behaves in notably Proppian ways: departure (into the woods), first function of the donor (the witch/carver), pursuit (by Mordu), branding (the cut on her arm), and liquidation (the resolution of the interdiction).   

So who's the hero?