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"Did you just kill my mom? Well shit. One of us is going to have to roll a new character now."

-Rogue after the sorcerer had a wild magic surge that sadly caught Rogue’s mom in the crosshairs. 

This was session 1. 

#dnd

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comms for @caffiiend

#dnd

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Do you think Mordor has a “wtf?! how did I get defeated by a freaking hobbit?! what even IS a hobbit?!” support group?

#lotr

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Friendship is not background noise to your love life!!!! Friends are not secondary characters in your romance plot!!!!

Fall in love with your friends! Treat them well! Treasure your friendships!

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they need to make more study places for bitches who don't want to expose their back to an open room

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"But NORMAL People's Bodies Didn't Look Like That!" ...right?

Some of you may have seen my post about Baroque artists and their realistic depictions of human bodies as having skin and fat.

I've had a lot of negative and frankly fatphobic comments on that post, calling the people in the paintings "fat" and "obese," mostly along the lines of this:

"It's because the artists are depicting rich people, who were fat and lazy. Normal people didn't look like that!"

The idea, of course, is that these artists wouldn't have ever drawn bodies that looked like those in the Baroque paintings, if they weren't painting super-rich people that stuffed themselves with food all day.

Supposedly. We'll see how well that holds up.

Today I was in the library looking at a collection of drawings by Albrecht Dürer, and learned that in the early 1500's, Dürer tried to put together essentially a "how-to-draw" book, showing how to draw people. His work was controversial, because of his technique of "constructing" figures using rules about proportions. (A quick and easy method of inventing realistically proportioned bodies out of thin air? Cheating!!)

However, in his "constructed" drawings, Dürer had to figure out how to handle the range of variety in bodies, and ended up breaking down how to create a variety of body types in correct proportions.

I'm showing the women, to contrast with the post on Baroque paintings. Here are some of his drawings that I thought y'all should take a look at.

These are a couple of his more "average" women—the one on the left is from his drawing book, and the one on the right is one of his drawings.

Here's a "strong woman" and "A very strong, stout woman"

This is what he refers to as a "stout woman."

Here's where it gets interesting: this is what Albrecht Dürer refers to as a "peasant-type" woman

^That. That's what a "peasant" body type looks like.

He labeled this one "A peasant woman of 7 head lengths"

in case you missed it: this figure drawing by a guy in the 1500's is literally labeled as being of a peasant woman! this is what a "peasant woman" body type looks like!

He did draw similar amounts of thinner figures, but they're not particularly emphasized over the "Strong" and "Stout" figures. Nor is there exactly a "default" figure. He's just...going over the range of variations that there are?

Here's another "stout woman," covered in notes on how to draw the proportions:

now that's too technical for me to make any sense of but

this was in the 16th century!! This body type was apparently not incredibly rare in the 16th century. This body type was important enough for you to be able to draw, as an artist, in the 16th century to be handled in detail in a 16th century artist's drawing advice

In conclusion: yes this is just what people look like, yes it's important to know how to draw fat bodies, even this dude from the early 1500's is telling you so, Die Mad About It

all of this is from "The complete drawings of Albrecht Dürer" by Walter L. Strauss

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“Actress Jean Acker was involved in a lesbian love triangle when the smoldering Italian star Rudolph Valentino fell in love with her. She hoped marriage would save her from a scandal, and Valentino was unaware of her sexual orientation. On their wedding night in 1919, Acker locked her new husband out of their hotel room and they never consummated their marriage. He, however, did not pick up on her sexuality and wrote her love letters for months begging her to take him back. But eventually he must have been clued in and the two separated.”

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wake up babe the long-awaited Slavic diva Adrianna Dużyk-Gradkowska just dropped

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thanks pinterest

#this is how university life is treating me rn

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on a scale of trent reznor to billy corgan how well did your meeting with robert smith go

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We all love the “becoming the very thing you sought to destroy,” trope. but I have a growing fondness for “destroying the very thing you sought to become”

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literally nothing more insufferable than people who WANT nuclear war and just assume they'll be fine or something

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The Bathers by Thomas Benjamin Kennington (Late 19th-Early 20th Century)

#art

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it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

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i can't believe sans undertale is gonna kill the queen

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*reads news about queen*

*opens tumblr*

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