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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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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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cuddling doesn't have to be romantic

cuddling can be platonic.

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

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I'm sorry if you're tired of thinking about ofmd and that whole mess but goddamn... it's incredibly painful to see so many people trying to set up fundraisers to get their families out of gaza and the sudan and desperately trying to get their loved ones to safety, I've seen so many and everyday I check to see how much progress they've made, most of them still haven't hit their goal. It hurts to see people rally around a tv show and raise all this money for a billboard, and it's very frustrating to see how people have reacted to this criticism. Like bro tv shows get canceled sometimes there's more important stuff going on

Someone else said it better but to see a fundraiser for tv show renewal advertisements raise $20,000 in less than a day while it takes days/weeks/months/years/never for fundraisers for actual causes that help real people in need reach a goal of less is absolutely dystopian and shameful

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genuinely save me

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Ooooooooooooh, font mind if I do ^_^

HUGE GIVEAWAY! MASSIVE PRIZES!

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nurse he’s out again

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Mystra... When I catch you Mystra...

it's all fun and games until the comic relief's life is in peril

available as a sticker and charm on my sh0p!!

#killing her #also killing cazador #with knives AND hammers #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #baldur's gate 3 fanart #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #bg3 gale #bg3 astarion #bg3 karlach #bg3 shadowheart #bg3 lae'zel #bg3 wyll #bg3 mystra

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#Withers my beloved!!! #Arabella!!!! #this are is so fucking cute my goodness #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #withers #digital art #Arabella

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Type of vibe I'm trying to bring to the function

Magistrate

Prompt on twitter 💫

Print ❤️

#astarion fanart #astarion #bg3 fanart #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion

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The Main six Baldur's Gate Companions

#so pretty im going to EXPLODE #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #astarion #karlach #wyll #shadowheart #lae'zel #gale #baldurs gate #wyll ravengard #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #mizora

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yes.

#my beautiful girlfriend l #i live her so much #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 art #baldurs gate #baldurs gate fanart #baldurs gate 3 #lae'zel #bg3 lae'zel #lae'zel of k'liir #baldurs gate laezel #baldur's gate lae'zel

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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Happy 4/20, the old man gets ONE (1) joint

i like drawing him yuyutyhriutrhrt

Based off this

#the owl house #toh reblogs #art reblog #hunter #belos

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Keeping prev's tag bc I think they are important

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all