[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The concept that married people live longer is interesting. I'm sure there is some merit to the idea that if you're married there is someone there to nag you about going to the doctor, but I think much larger factors are having the finances of dual incomes and access to an immediate support person.

Surgeries require having a designated person to look after you. Many injuries require driving to somewhere like an emergency room which can be hard to do if you are the one injured. If you're home with the flu, it's hard to tell when it's bad enough to go to the hospital without another person checking on you. And if you pass out it requires another person to find you like that to get medical aid.

You can prop it up as the benefits of marriage, but I think there's a much deeper discussion to be had about how we've built society around marriage as an inevitable conclusion and neglected to build support systems that function outside of romantic pairings.

[gullahch1ld]

Sometimes it is your fault.. Sometimes you don’t listen well enough, you’re selfish, you’re rude and you aren’t always right. Sometimes you fucked it up and tbh that’s okay. It happens, learn from it, apologize and keep it moving. Just because you fucked up doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Don’t dwell on it

[fiasoupy]

A little animation I did for twst anniversary, but only posting it now (￣▽￣')ゞ

[thulium]

[the-phony-king-of-england]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH Y’ALL~!!

Here’s the original meme for all your meme needs 😎

[tixdixl]

The world would be a dull place without trans people.

[squid-socks]

This is a hard thing to hear but i genuinely say it with care and best wishes:

Keep using your brain and trying that hard thing no matter how foggy. Feel stupid! It's ok! I promise you are not stupid. I promise your brain will appreciate it. And that with time it will be valuable that you tried.

It's so easy to lose a whole week to brain fog. But your brain and body don't just stop existing that week (though it can feel that way). It's so important to try to incorporate puzzles anyway. Cook a meal from a scratch, do a jigsaw, the wordle, sudoku, use your other hand, learn a new card game, watch a brand new show, do simple math equations, write words backwards, learn a new language (or even just random phrases from a few), play a podcast, read a fun article or magazine, try a new creative project. Something! To help you feel better longer and keep your brains synapses synapsing.

Find a way to push yourself into it. Ask a friend to do it with you, set a timer, build it into your routine, have a bunch of fun games on your phone, puzzles by the bed, set your google to open straight to wordle.

TO CLARIFY: neuroplasticity is magic. And CONTRARY to prior belief it does not just stop after like 25. The brain can recover in exceptional ways so if you feel behind, or feel like you lost so much of what you knew due to a deep spell of illness or depression or injury; it's never too late. Never too late to nuture your brain to a better state of health.

So have a glass of water, take a deep breath and please join me in feeling really stupid trying to finish a "simple" puzzle and know we are all doing a very good job. ❤️

[tixdixl]

🪙

You got Culinary Crucible Wesson (SR)!

Prompt

Tag list: @the-trinket-witch @ramshacklerumble @twstinginthewind @cyanide-latte @tinyvirgodoodle

@twistedwonderlandshenanigans @thehollowwriter @theleechyskrunkly @starry-night-rose @boopshoops

@cyn-write @twst-the-night-away @twstchaos @candiedwrath @chryseas

@ice-cweam-sod4

Lmk if you want added/removed

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 3 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[d0esery]

⭐️🌐Take the poll, guys. We need to show this millennial boss that AI sucks!🌐⭐️

AI is not a good thing a majority of the time. Especially since a majority of countries do not have laws or regulations of what it can or can't be used for.

- AI is taking away jobs from humans. (That encourages job insecurity and economic disparity.)

- AI is ruining the environment. (It uses massive amounts of water/electricity.)

- AI ruining any type of art. (Writers, artists, etc. Are suffering. If you are a museum that hosts art and is considering this, that would be incredibly ironic.)

- There is a massive problem with deepfake and illegal images being made by AI. This could spread misinformation/illegal content.

- It has discrimination built in. (AI can learn from historical human data. So that means it absorbs human biases, so it will discriminate against marginalized groups. Many places use it for job application, and it discriminates against the applicants. DEI policies are slowly being erroded, and AI makes it worse.)

- AI is a privacy and security risk. (AI creates privacy risks through mass surveillance. Currently, we are having problems with people pushing online safety, age verfication, digital IDs, etc. Then places can leak it. This happened with multiple companies. The most infamous one being Persona with Discord.)

- They will eventually lose control over the AI. (Some AI researchers warn that as developers build increasingly powerful AI, we risk losing the ability to control/steer these systems. I mean, AI literally made a social media for itself (Moltbook). If that is not losing control already, it is a warning sign it will.)

- AI can spread misinformation. AI can sometimes make up information if it can not draw from a reliable source or sources. That can be incredibly dangerous.

- AND SO SO MUCH MORE NEGATIVE THINGS!

⭐️ I and a majority of people will not stand for any museum that does this. Museums are supposed to be places of actual knowledge and learning. Not AI slop machines!Make that clear to you boss he WILL lose business! ⭐️

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[theinvisiblespoon]

[sheepwater]

cay cay sketches :))

[tixdixl]

Warm up sketch of Oisín from last night

[tixdixl]

"Meet in a Dream"

I had originally wanted to paint this as a recreation of "Sleeping Beauty"'s final climax, in the style of cell animation. But when the crew and I started picked the eras we wanted to paint, and I picked the Romantic Era, I knew I had to paint this.

That's right- I made two paintings. I felt extremely inspired to be perfectly honest.

I'll share my notes, different than the ones I made for "Oasis" here, under the cut.

Probably the biggest inspiration for this piece was "The Wanderer Above the Sea Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich, and I'm sure it's influence is evident in my art piece. Unlike the pieces I studied for "Oasis", the contrast present in this piece does the inverse of the others. The lighter colors and monochromatic blues really bring the silhouette into focus, drawing our attention from the sky down to the center of the piece. And unlike the other pieces, the motion of this piece doesn't move in a spiral. Instead, it flows inwards toward the horizon line and vanishing point. I also spent a great deal of time examining the brush stroke direction and character to learn about how the painter successfully created depth in this piece. Though the piece I created has a very different landscape, I tried to emulate those elements in the sky and in the brick.

The other piece that I studied for this was "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli. And in particular, I focused on the subject matter of the piece, the light sources, and how the many different elements interact with that subject. While this piece is horizonal, there was much that I learned from the direction of the composition, as well as the light and how it impacted the mood of the piece. The choice, again, to focus the subject in white as a contrast to the dark blacks of the imp and the horse were elements I attempted to reflect in Silver and Malleus.

Unlike "Oasis", I actually didn't utilize the thumbnails I originally drew for this piece, as after I studied "The Wanderer", I felt like I had a very solid idea of how to compose the piece. And... I just went for it.

I hope you enjoyed the piece, and if you made it this far, thank you for reading!

[cozymochi]

ruggie

[creamyrainbowart]

Old man. 🦇

[tixdixl]

"Oasis"

This particular scene is meant to be a romantic reimagining of Kalim using Oasis Maker in the desert during Book 4.

Originally, I hadn't intended to paint this scene. I had a few different ideas that felt appropriate for the Romantic Era - though not initially this. But after doing a number of painting studies, the idea to recreate this scene hit me like a truck. The Romantic Era truly focused on evoking an emotion and showcasing pastoral imagery, of which I felt this scene in Book 4 - the shock of Kalim being able to just create a solution out of thin air and in a desert no less- really demonstrated with ease.

I'll break down each piece I studied; the notes I made; what I noticed about the themes and motifs of the era; and how we got to this final piece under the cut.

The first piece I examined was "the Lady of Shalott" by John William Waterhouse. (If you look it up without my notes and scribblings all over it, you'll find it's a PHENOMENAL piece.) I actually spent a lot of time with this piece - a whopping 45 minutes when I was live on stream. You can see here in my notes, I examined his usage of the rule of 3rds; when he used thick brush strokes; how he used light to draw our attention to the woman in the boat; and of course the usage of warm and cool tones contrasted with lights and shadows. And you'll actually find that all of these things are motifs throughout almost every Romantic era painting that I studied prior to doing this piece. The cool shadows are used in such a way that they almost frame the warm oranges and pure white of the woman on the boat. It really draws your eye into its off-center, focusing almost solely on the woman. But as you look out beyond her, hidden in the shadow, there is so much detail. And I really tried to capture that in this painting with Kalim.

The next painting I examined was "the Bard" by John Martin. Here again, we see the usage of the rule of thirds, but we especially see a fibonacci spiral here dictating the movement of the piece. Our eye is drawn first from the vibrant sun, down to the lamenting bard, all while the shadows again frame the man and bring him into focus. We again see an image where there is a MYRIAD of detail hidden in the landscape. And both of these elements, I tried to intentionally capture in the piece above. I also especially loved the whimsical oranges and yellows captured in the sky here, especially as they contrast with the darkness off to the right. Though my painting in particular doesn't have much in the way of light, I tried to use this color theme to create the illusion of an oncoming rainstorm.

The last and most messy of my study notes comes from the painting "The Voyage of Life" by Thomas Cole. If you were to look at the actual painting, you would once again notice the angelic, all white figure in the boat, framed by shadows as light pierces over the mountain tops. Once again, we have the fibonacci spiral directing our line of focus, and the rule of thirds indicating the placement of our subject.

In all three pieces, we see a lot of the same placement, coloration, and movement, of which I tried to evoke in my depiction of Kalim. And here is a comparison of my thumbnail, mapping out my painting versus the final once again:

I'm not going to lie, I found this collab and this self-study to be extremely enriching as an artist. And I genuinely feel as though I have grown so much from it. I hope you enjoy! And if you made it this far, thanks for reading!

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

lets bring back sheetwares

[hostagesandsnacks]

also chlamys:

and exomis:

[hidingthemane-deactivated201801]

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

[awhiffofcavendish]

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

[goys2men]

That last one looks dope

[moniquill]

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

[hc-svnt-dracones]

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

[pendragyn]

ancient Egyptian robes

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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[marlynnofmany]

Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

[tieras]

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

[assessthatdress]