[lestatfag]

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

[sasstricbypass]

[outofcontextdiscord]

[morbidfantasy21]

Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three – The Prisoner cover by Julian Totino Tedesco

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Annual reblog of Freddie and his magnificent cats.

[tumbalendar]

happy Pride Eve!

[vis4victory]

Guess who just finished Wizard and Glass 😢👍 🦅🐻🐰🐟

[vivisectrix]

a survey... for science

how do you pronounce "Cöos" (as in Rhea of the Cöos)?

coos (rhymes with "goose")

coo-ose ("-ose" rhymes with "gross")

coo-oss ("-oss" rhymes with "loss")

kir-ose ("kir" rhymes with "blur"), i.e. treating the diaeresis as o-umlaut/oe

other (in the comments or reblogs, perhaps)

Voting ended onApr 3

we'll see how this one goes... i don't know how clear my phonetic spellings are

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[vis4victory]

Dead girl walking

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)

how long

< 3:00

3:00–3:59

4:00–4:59

5:00–5:59

6:00–6:59

7:00–7:59

8:00–11:59

12:00–15:59

16:00–20:59

21:00–24:59

25:00–30:00

≥ 30:00

Voting ended onJun 1

[specialagentartemis]

A lot of us learned certain theory terms--intersectionality, compulsory heterosexuality, Death of the Author--on social media. It's great to be able to discuss them! But it's important to know what you're discussing.

Kimberlé Crenshaw was the Black feminist scholar who coined the term "intersectionality." You can read her initial article coining and describing the theory "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics" (1989), her follow-up article expanding on it "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" (1991), and a (shorter and easier to read) interview with her about what she meant and what she thinks about it "Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later" (2017).

Adrienne Rich was the lesbian feminist scholar and poet who coined the term "compulsory heterosexuality" in her article "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980).

Roland Barthes was a French literary critic who coined the term "death of the author" in his essay "La mort de l'auteur" (The Death of the Author") (1967). This one is 6 pages long.

These are available on the internet - I highly recommend reading them and going straight to the source of what the authors said, and decide how much you agree with them and the uses they get put to!

[vis4victory]

"Respectability politics" was coined by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham in Chap 7 of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880–1920, which I've found Here on the Internet Archive and portions of here on google scholar.

[vis4victory]

I think Ga'hoole books 9-11 are really interesting and they were always some of my favorites but the gradual degradation of the "These are in universe books written by characters who lived these events" narrative is one thing I can't stop thinking about

[vis4victory]

Book 9 is a departure from the rest of the series because Lasky, who primarily writes in third person, starts experimenting with first person. Book 9, in universe, is the character Grank writing a recollection of his own experiences. When Lasky returns to third person for Siv's POV, it's because we're sticking to the conceit that this is Grank recounting what Siv told him she was up to.

Book 10 returns to third person but is still keeping with the "This is a book" narrative. There are several instances where when plotlines converge (like Siv and Hoole) the narration says that they filled each other in. Additionally, the modern time characters reading the in universe book are able to deduce the author's likely identity (Theo) and iirc Lasky made sure that Theo was either present for or told about everything he writes about.

Book 11 departs from this altogether. I first saw this pointed out in a post on the Ga'hoole subreddit but there are significant subplots where everyone dies or disappears without telling anyone what was happening. If we assume that the book is written by a founder of the Tree then there's no one who'd be able to know about Lutta's origins, because she never has a chance to explain everything, dies before the end, and her parents disappear altogether. The modern characters speculate on the lack of an author but reach no conclusions.

There's an interesting narrative implied from this, the stories getting less personal as the Tree is formed, to the point where there's no single author of the account of Hoole's early kingship and victory over the Hagsfiends. However, listening to the audiobooks back to back, I got the sense that this degraded framing device was the result of Lasky getting tired of having to deal with the epistolary-ness of it all, having to remember that these three books each have an author who needs to somehow be let into the know on the disparate subplots.

The best theory I've found on the book's authorship are (1) Lutta, who wrote herself out of the story and settled down in the Tree (2) multiple authors and (3) full on fabrication, the events of this book didn't happen as shown to us.

[penny-anna]

Potential to grade pirate media on a Hard to Soft spectrum

[penny-anna]

Hard pirate:

Literally about real pirates

Soft pirate: whatever this is

[andwhatexcellentboiledpotatoes]

Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???

[savethefirecat]

For those who can’t go to the ocean…. 

…I can bring an ocean to you.

[lynati]

thank you

[portraitoftheoddity]

Adding My Ocean:

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

have some more

[lyrathian]

[nerdeokam]

[relaxxattack]

tbfh i love when people will headcanon characters as being of their culture and then draw little comics of them participating in traditions that the artist is clearly intimately familiar with. like YESSS share your personal cultural experiences with me through the blorbos!!! i love to see it!!!!!!!

[relaxxattack]

the notes on this post are making me smile so hard. please please please can more people do this to their faves. i will never tired of it

[im-mender]

civilization is a term with no historical racial baggage right

[im-mender]

*reads a history book* uh oh

[victusinveritas]