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1 favourite place in your country?

Not to sound like an advertising poster — but there are numerous locations I fell in love with, both industrial and nature-vise. But I’ll narrow down to two)

Leningradskaya oblast is an endless sea of blueberries and pines, unnaturally low skies (I kid you not, feels like the world is elongated), swamps and forests, both uncanny in the best way possible.

Ural has absolutely beautiful old mountains varying from cliffs and pillars to hills, rich multi-colored forests, over a thousand lakes, perfect clean and white -20C winters, picturesque villages, rich folklore and most importantly my grandparents, so it wins)

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Holy fuck, you're still using this site too?

Well it’d be silly to completely abandon it. I have a big archive of stuff here that’d be lost if I deleted it! I hate it when artists delete their accounts out of thin air, I like having the backlog available!

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tbh if christians are going to use leftist Discourse as a field of sectarian internet fights they should at least do it in the way that is amusing and aesthetically pleasing, like what is the nature of Christ, are visual depiction of god is blasphemy, et c, et c

tbf a lot of those were more covers/expressions of other political tensions. Like the post-Chaldecon schism was more an expression of existing tensions between Coptic speakers and Greek speakers in Egypt with the Armenian Apostolic Church joining Alexandria less because several decades later they decided Miaphysitism was the superior articulation of Christ’s nature and more due to a political compromise where the Sassanid Persians agreed to give Armenians living in the Persian half of Armenia full religious autonomy (and even outlawing Zoroastrianism in Armenia and demolishing existing fire temples while also providing government positions for those Armenian Zoroastrians that wished to keep to their new faith) and in exchange Armenians would break communion with the official Roman church and instead entered into the dissident Alexandrian communion.

That said, it does make these kinds of sectarian disputes more aesthetically appealing like you said

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The only actual problem with that comic is that it uses rats and other "filthy and gross" animals as if they're bad and not super cool unless you're a coward

Good point! Rats are neat!

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Extremely glad that I never played the first TLOU game so I can just ignore all this and sleep soundly at morning

Sounds like something a RUSSIAN BOT would say you just hate women

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omnonim replied to your post “This, by the way, is also why I will fight anyone who says Egyptian...”

people claim egyptian art is like this because they couldn't do "proper" one?

So the general perception of modern “realism” in art is that it only came into existence after the Greeks developed a perspectival style. This is what I myself was taught in art school (I didn’t agree with it back then either, but I was only 16 at the time and had zero knowledge of Egyptian art styles beyond “I like the way this looks”, so I couldn’t put into words why I didn’t agree).

Anything that isn’t perspectival is deemed by a good number of people* to be “primitive”. Sometimes these same people will say “non-perspectival” art is to perspectival art what a child’s drawing is to a Rembrandt painting. I’m sure I don’t have to go into the ramifications of calling art styles by predominantly POC cultures “primitive”, or comparing them to children’s drawings.

But, the thing is, Egyptian art isn’t even purely non-perspectival. It’s a very different form of perspective, but there is some perspective in there. Even sometimes in a way that we’d now recognize as actually perspectival. A good example of this is the Battlefield Palette:

As you can see, the lion’s paws are perspectively posed before his victim.

That’s why Emma Brunner-Traut coined the term “aspective” to describe the Egyptian style. “Non-perspectival” just isn’t correct. Unfortunately there are still far too many people who have the wrong idea of it. Egyptian art (and, for that matter, Mesopotamian art) was realistic. It was just a different brand of realism.

*usually people who aren’t classicists or ancient historians

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