#thesis ref

[its-your-mind]

*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

#tma #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp meta #tmagp analysis #the entities #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #mind write a meta post that doesn’t turn into a fucking essay challenge #I literally thought about citing my episode sources here but decided that would get too FUCKING long. #anyway I’m pulling mostly from Gerry’s statement (111) and #and the Big Elias Group Confrontation (92) #and Annabelle’s statement (147) #and then finale - 196 / 197 / 200 #there are other little lines that I grabbed - tbh feel free to ask about anything I’ve said bc I feel like I’m ready to defend a thesis #I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few weeks since the desire thing started going around #I have an obsession with Themes as they relate to Worldbuilding and now I have subjected you all to it as well #I am serious tho if anyone wants me to pull the specific parts I’m talking about (whether cuz you have Questions or you wanna ref them too) #lmk #my hyperfocus on silly media brain might as well come in useful somehow #aight peace ✌️

[viiriidiian]

caleb page to ignore the empire siblings’ unknown status post-apogee solstice... anyways! everyone say big stretch to frumpkin.

i made a matching beau page here for all you lesbians out there

#BIIIIG STRETCH #beau is next i think #or fjord #ive been finding some good pose refs for both #also bottom right caleb was me in college during my research thesis prep #i get it #caleb widogast #caleb critical role #caleb cr #bren aldric ermendrud #caleb widowgast cr #critical role #critical role art #critical role fanart #cr art #cr fanart #cr c2 #critical role campaign 2 #mighty nein #empire siblings #liam o'brien #liam obrien #my art

[rocicrew]

more shippy doodles : the girls edition

#the expanse #naomi nagata #bobbie draper #clarissa mao #camina drummer #draomi #mine : art. #ookay so this started as a poly roci crew vol 2 aka with bobbie & clarissa #but then i remembered i had never drawn draomi soo #the girls are kissing in my head #i was abt to add bobbie/avasarala to complete the girls are kissing but none of the refs Fit and i need to continue working on my thesis #so this is for noww #lmk if you want any of them posted separate or in a large size #coughs the roci's galley gets lots of action bc naomi always look like a snack

[demi-pixellated]

//OC road work ahead

#Chronicles of Cassendenia #Jaden Roan #Valence Roan #Zean Selyt #Kassier #Solanier #OC #coc ref #MSPaint Draw #new design pass for the b plot cast #big changes here being the outfits for the Roan twins #main note: nixed corsets for falhier in gen (not zean tho he's allowed) #the knight's garb has more function than last time but i hope i've kept the showiness somewhere in there #colour might help with that. later tho #padded up Jaden with some leather guards and giving her a buckler bc she was far too under armored for the only frontliner of the party #and i reworked valence's prosthetic again - still on the fence about how much mobility it has if any #but i think i got a better direction in mind for it now #zean n kassi are virtually unchanged from thesis film iterations (which i'll probably definitely one day someday share ) just a bit updated #which means the size i animated him at while shifted is now truth: very big fox

[oofuri2003]

as promised - the phone charms comic!

#oofuri #ookiku furikabutte #big windup #abemiha #my art #can u tell i used my own hand as a ref for that one panel LMFAO #basically my thesis here is that abe is cringe. next #theres also a deleted scene i never drew where mihashi asks izumi hamada and tajima if it was them #and theyre like. no? and then they spend lunch trying to figure out who it was #ignore the way the art style changes every panel. i do not care. sorry

[11syrups]

(Scribbles)

I actually hate them, I hate them so much (lying)

#GHRHGRHR I HAVENT HAD INTERNET FOR TWO WEEKS ok I’m ok #i did. this before I started working at da museum #and didn’t have time to draw after that so WAHOO HERE HAVE A SCRIBBLE #I’ll post more/a full piece at one point but for now accept the sillies #the so Uhh is an incomplete sentence lmao #it’s so Uhh who’s the thesis and who’s the antithesis in this relationship? #ALSO I HAD NO REFS SO SORRY FOR GIVING YOU A SHORT SLEEVE SHIRT GORO #ok good bye school starts tomorrow I will disappear #akeshu #persona 5 #venn scribbles #d0gart2

[skitskatdacat63]

It you liked my Napoleonic au, here is some Fernando from it :)

Under the cut: process

him face:

(I absolutely had to draw his Theee Musketeers look, that's honestly why I did a Ferrari alt)

I mentioned earlier how every time I opened the drawing, I'd just completely change it. Here's what I meant:

The Renault suit really lends itself to the Hussar uniform! Also the Ferrari one is kinda stunted a bit comparatively bcs I accidently drew over the Renault one so I had to recover the backlog and was afraid to touch it any further LOL

#do you ever think about how Fernando's F1 career has lasted longer than the entirety of the Napoleonic era? #because now I do. #I was thinking about how team changes would work/fit in and then realized Nando's career is longer than that whole era 💀 #ah unfortunately no history ramble this time(the hussar stuff was my thesis LMAO) #but yeah i have been thinking about how his career would align with the different kingdoms #ex. 2007 mclaren would just be him being a double agent since the uk and france are enemies atp #every time i draw Napoleonic stuff i always listen to: 1812 Overture and Viva La Vida. every time. without fail. #lmao on the third/final revision you can see how much taking a ref pic of myself for the pose helped me #its generally very difficult for me to use random pics as reference #ig irs bcs its not *exactly* what i want so i prefer to make my own :) #this is kinda based off how i kept randomly standing bcs my back hurt but instead here it is slay #im especially glad tho that i went back to redo his face/hair bcs the earlier draft isnt even really in my art style so #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #fernando alonso #fa14 #catie.art. #f1 fanart #formula 1 fanart #f1 art #formula 1 art #i accidentally posted this even tho i meant to queue it so i had to redo all of this UGH #hussar au

[wyrmgeard]

#wip tag #oc: m #ill delete this later probably gmfDKFG #everyone say thank u wonho for the pose ref but also that mans instagram is a health hazard for me personally #just a littol midnight doodle while i perish in my thesis work #wrote out a schedule for the rest of the month until the due date and felt my soul leave my body a little

[fagmegumi]

if you don't mind me asking, what was your thesis on? :o

OH bestie im still writing it😭 barely

#my undergrad thesis was on gender in the 18th century french public sphere #bc i was a history major #but the one i was ref to is my MA fashion theory thesis #on temporality in cyborg fashion + chapters on rabanne mugler possibly AMQ & probably soem 21st designer /collection i haven’t chosen yet #as case studies #my argument hinges on haraways definition of cyborg obviously.+ the cyborg being a chronotope (bakhtin) #tied time wise to the future specifically the immediate future & location wise to ‘right here’. like a ghost from the future if u will #personal #asks

[vodka-and-ocs]

#here are the last few #i didn't redo them all bc.... lots of them................ i had a thesis to write man #mushi #mushi ref #pendula #pendula ref #i actually really like how she looked so i did very minor adjustments #sedna #sedna ref #hazel #hazel ref #haha funny name. hazel brown #eris #eris ref #wisteria #wisteria ref #i feel kinda dumb that only wis has a proper dragon head ref but eeeh i didn't want to draw a bunch more #oc refs

[kirk-goes-to-gallifrey]

wanted to paint today... didn't have the energy

#I'm sooooo nervous about this interview I have next Monday #spent the day trying to prepare #but I think I just made myself more stressed #hopefully I can concentrate on my thesis the rest of the week #and feel better #maybe tomorrow I can try to paint again #this ref pic has been on my mind for weeks #but I've been too tired for anything #it's still early right now but I think I'm just gonna go to bed #try to recharge for tomorrow

[afortuneforyourdisaster]

hello and welcome to the devolution of my sanity in real time

#hold on should I pin this. literally the thesis statement of this blog #.p #ref

[razz-berry]

A quick little claudeleth while I stress about my thesis defense tomorrow

pose ref by mellon_soup

#fire emblem #fe3h #claude von riegan #byleth eisner #claudeleth #claude x byleth #my art

[feartoxinjelloshot]

i opened tumblr to post my superman ref and realized that apparently i never posted my WW ref either!!! so here are both of them. i'm not terribly interested in creating DC lore outside of gotham, but I spitballed the wonder woman design a while ago and it got the ball rolling in my brain for a couple of characters i am interested in occasionally (superman, WW, cheetah, livewire, etc) so i decided to design them for fun :^) i imagine that in a perfect world where clipsverse is a critically acclaimed batman tv show, they would have a special end-of-season crossover episode or maybe a direct to streaming movie if we all got lucky.

under the cut: livewire & cheetah, superman costume concepts

my thesis for superman's costume was more or less "cowboy king". the cowboy part stemmed half from my dislike of his traditional costume (sorry superman ily im just not with it) and half from a desire to give him a gimmick that tied more into the small town kansas workin' man part of his archetype. the royalty part i thought was a fun kind of nod to his weird alien royalty/savior of the people aspects - it doesn't need to be entirely practical because he's so superpowered that he can get away with having a big flowing cape on him and such.

cheetah and livewire are pretty self-explanatory. this image of livewire is mostly just fanart of her btas self, and cheetah i wanted to give a more naturalistic "feral" look and less "cheetah fur superglued onto a naked human". i like tall furry women can you tell yet

#scribbles #clipsverse #dc #superman #wonder woman #cheetah dc #livewire dc #clark kent #diana of themyscira

[trans-cuchulainn]

unfortunately i think my discovery of a 17th century reference to an 18th century story might actually be significant for the relative dating of them both and. sigh. I really don't want to have to do actual academic work about this but SOMEBODY'S gotta

the thing is. this edition was done in 2008 but it's an unpublished thesis. it doesn't reference that story at all. the most recent thing written about that story was published in 2009, by somebody who did know about this thesis (he's mentioned in several footnotes) but who didn't cite it in that article and who wasn't really focused on the aspect of the story that corresponds with this other text. so. essentially the scholarship on these two texts has not yet overlapped

which means i might be the only person to have noticed that it is very specifically referencing events that only happen in that story

and either this editor fucked up and got the manuscript date wrong by a century... or i'm about to fuck everybody's established dating of that other story. woohoo. which means fucking the dating of another story also since it's been demonstrated they're by the same author. lol whoops.

the GOOD news though is that this text is also written in ulster, like that one, so it is clearly a northern tradition they're drawing on (and arguably could be a ref to some local oral tales that hadn't been written yet so the story could be later even if this is referencing its contents)

#néide vs academia #kinda #need to put this somewhere i can find it at not 2.15am

[hum--hallelujah]

the thing that gets me about Folie is that it opens with a song whose double thesis is, #1, "I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet" (sometimes it was patrick, slight ref: to baking chocolate) and "nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy". and then what starts as essentially a declaration of love then follows to become a tragedy played out in tune. and the irony is, of course, that Pete penned that line, nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy, even knowing it was a lie. people have always wanted "the old Fall Out Boy" back. Grave or Cork Tree Pete, barely a step away from the ledge. all they wanted was the tragedy. and so as the band was falling apart (falling apart to half-time, as it were), that's what the critics got. the tragic rise and fall of Fall Out Boy. because they do want to hear you sing about tragedy, but only until it leads to you torn apart.

#but on the flipside of this coin: there will always be someone who wants to see you whole #sorry guys I think it's folie a deux fall for me #she speaks! #fob #fall out boy #folie a deux #m