#I couldn't find it online

[leroibobo]

the church in the coptic monastery of the virgin mary in bethlehem, palestine. this unique church is built inside of a cave tunnel which connects it to the nearby church of the nativity. the holy family is said to have passed through it during their stay in bethlehem. saint helena, who established churches across palestine during her time, is said to have established this one as well. the coptic archbishop of jerusalem purchased this and four nearby homes in the 1950s, establishing the monastery and re-establishing the church. today, the site is maintained by two nuns.

#palestine #coptic #interior #worship #christian #diasporic palestine #cave worship #my posts #found a kuwaiti coptic church with a flickr with a ton of pictures of palestinian coptic churches #so i may post some very soon... #according to what i read about this the nuns are renown for their icon paintings & crafts #but i couldn't find any sort of online description of/by them even in arabic #so i didnt mention it in the caption

[sam-rothstein]

Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), dir. Martin Scorsese

#filmedit #filmgifs #filmauteur #lily gladstone #leonardo dicaprio #killers of the flower moon #martin scorsese #i copied the transliteration from the subs if it's not right lemme know !! #(couldn't rlly find anything online) #.m #.gifs

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

When I first met him... he was the most gallant of lovers. He knew so many things. He delighted in sharing his knowledge. He had a castle full of treasures, and he took such pleasure in showing them, giving them to me. He was so gentle, and his skin felt like white silk against my skin. And I gave what I could give to one such as he. When we made love, it was like a flame: I felt utterly engulfed, utterly loved. Treasured. I have been with many poets, many dreamers... but his love alone was ice and fire. His eyes were stars.

Calliope, in The Sandman #71, by Neil Gaiman

#calliope #sandman #the sandman #dream of the endless #dream #morpheus #neil gaiman #comics #quotes #favorites #sandman spoilers #not spoilers for the new ep as such but it's more-or-less spoilers for show-watchers who haven't read the comics so just in case #(although the most spoilery parts of her speech in that issue are not included here so no worries) #anyway i thought those who are thirsting over dream juuuust a little bit more today would appreciate this quote #it's a long-time favorite and the writing is beautiful so you can appreciate it even if you're not inspired by a muse so to speak #also i couldn't find it by googling at all? you're telling me nobody ever quoted this online before? what in the world

[leoruby-draws]

Fun fact, I named this file as 'Batman loses to babies'.

This drawing was based on the famous statue in Oslo, Norway. Its pretty goofy, but I found it so funny that I had to base a drawing on it.

Well, hope you like it!

#DC Comics #Batman #Bruce Wayne #Dick Grayson #Jason Todd #Tim Drake #Stephanie Brown #Damian Wayne #Duke Thomas #my art #I also based this on a Gravity Falls prodution art piece #where Dipper and Mabel are kinda attacking Grunkle Stan #but I couldn't find it online #if anyone knows what I'm talking about can you link to that art? #thanks!

[kithtaehyung]

ALBUM COVERS : SUGA PROJECTS, PT. 1   ⤷ HAPPY YOONGI DAY 2023! | ig ; twt

#omg i'm on time but at what cost LOL #hope y'all enjoy these and happy yoongi day! #bts #bangtan #yoongi #suga #btsgfx #dailybts #usersky #trackofthesoul #annietrack #shirleytothesea #cyphernet #*gfx #*latest #these were a challenge #but i had fun! #also fun fact the piano pic is mine LOL i couldn't find a pic online that i liked #if you get the first love top graphic then ily #*albums

[rad-roche]

Pulp Covers And How To Paint Them

With the rise of cheap printing in the early twentieth century, mass-marked paperbacks swept the world, each offering lurid thrills for obscenely low prices. Sex, sadism, and incredible violence for as little as ten cents. An easy purchase to slot in between fifty cigarettes a day and enough bourbon slugs to kill a small garden.

Pulp fiction is where some of the greats of American literature cut their teeth, including the big three, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett. The contents of these stories, both the dizzyingly good and astoundingly terrible, have been absorbed and digested and remixed and regurgitated in nearly every permutation imaginable, fuelling pop culture some one hundred years on. This isn't an essay on that. Nobody likes to open a tutorial and be greeted with a wall of text. The history is for another time.

But it is about how to paint it.

Don't let the pre-amble intimidate you, it's not as hard as it sounds. You will need:

Painting software with some image editing capabilities. You don't need all the bells and whistles of Photoshop, but I wouldn't recommend something like MSPaint, at least not to start with. I'm using Clip Studio Paint.

A really beat-up paper texture. The grungier, the better.

A lightly-textured brush. Here are the specific brushes I use, 99% of which is the well-named rough brush. Try and avoid anything with any impasto elements.

Go to your colour-picking tool and use the 'select from layer' option. Doing all the painting on a single layer is going to make your life easier.

A complete willingness to make mistakes and, instead of erasing, painting over them. It generates much more colour variation and interest! Keep your finger off the E key.

Good reference! That painting is a master copy of Mitchel Hooks' art for Day of the Ram. Find a style you really love and want to learn? Have no clue where to begin? Do direct studies!

Let's not worry about whatever is happening in the background. It's probably fine. Let's get started! Pulp magazine art is a lot more varied than you might first think, so don't agonize over having a style that 'fits' or not. I'm also specifically aiming for something you'd see on the cover after printing, not the initial painting they would use for printing. The stuff I'll show here is a pretty narrow band of it, but here are some general commonalities. This is a painting by Tom Lovell.

Let's dig into this.

The colours are very bright and saturated, but the actual values, the relative lightness and darkness of them, are actually grouped very simply! You can check this by filling a layer full of black, putting it on top and setting its mode to colour. If the value of a painting looks good, you actually get a lot of leeway with colour. But here's what I think is the most important thing to keep in mind.

The darks aren't that dark, and the lights aren't all that light! Covers are paintings reproduced on cheap paper. Anything you wouldn't want to happen in the printing process, you lean into. Value wash-outs, lower contrast, colours getting a weird wash to them, really gritty texturing. So let's get painting! Here's my typical setup.

That bottom folder is the painting itself. The screen layer is the grungy paper texture. To get the effect you want, put it down, invert its colour, then set it to screen. That washes out your painting far, far too much, so to compensate, I put a contrast layer up on top. Fiddle around with the settings, but this is where mine ended up sitting.

Note I'm saying this before even starting the painting: you want to do this as early as possible. This is where the 'select from layer' colour picker comes in handy. You can paint without worrying about the screen or contrast layer. Something not looking right? Enable your value check layer and keep painting. When you turn it off, it'll still be in colour. Here's a timelapse so you can see what that looks like.

And when you check the values...

They're pretty simple! This isn't a be all and end all, but I hope it serves as a decent primer. I want thirty dames on my desk by Monday!

#rochedotpng #art tutorial #art resources #couldn't find a thing online about this style so here's how i do it #pulp #it's how i did the death shroud one more or less

[heumilch]

tbh but like as zodiac signs

#tbh #yippee #autism creature #meme #autism #zodic signs #my art #art #earth signs #water signs #air signs #fire signs #tbh creature #creature #yippie :3 #I was sure someone had already done it and I was searching for it online... but I couldn't find it so now I made it myselfe

[transbuck]

Nobody really cared, so it never really mattered It never really mattered, so it never really happened What's the point in fighting for a happy ever after?

- identity // grandson

#911 #911 edit #911edit #evan buckley #evan buckley edit #evan buck buckely #everyone clap forever #this took. so long #and i had to make the scratch animation myself since i couldn't find one online #(it wasn't actually too hard i was just sooooo picky with how it looked) #i have like. three other gifsets that are half done but this came to me while i was in canada and i HAAAAD to do it immediately #so i've been working on it all day asdlfjalskd #i'll get my wip wednesday up soon #now that this is out of my system :) #myedits #mygifs #atlas.txt

[project-sekai-facts]

The 2DMV for Twilight Light contains various references to previous 25-ji, Nightcord de. media, as well as lots of imagery connecting to the members.

To begin with, each member is associated with an object or two that which appears frequently in the background of the 2DMV.

"of the box that gently resounds"

Kanade's item is a music box, a nod to the music box her father made for her mother. This music box played a significant role in Kanade's first unit event, Carnation Recollection, helping her to realise why her songs weren't reaching Mafuyu.

"of the sealed up cocoon"

Mafuyu's items are a birdcage and chains. This is likely a reference to the marionette doll from Mafuyu's first event, Captive Marionette, that was kept in a similar-looking cage. This doll was what started Mafuyu's arc of rediscovering her true self and realising her mother was hurting her, which culmintated in N25's second arc ender.

The lyric that accompanies this is likely a reference to Kanade's trained Determination Ignited 4* card, which contains a purple butterfly (representing Mafuyu) locked in a glass lantern.

"Inside of the picture frame that keeps chasing"

Ena's items are a picture frame and a tin of paint. The tin of paint is likely a nod to the Unsatisfied Pale Color event and Ena's trained I Don't Want to Give Up 4* card. The picture frame is a reference to the Portray Yourself set that accompanied Ena's 3rd unit event, Someday, This Wish Will Transcend the Morning Sky.

"Inside of the abandoned mirror"

Mizuki's items are a mirror and ribbons. This is a reference to the IDSMILE 2DMV, the 2DMV for Mizuki's first unit event. Both that song and Twilight Light were produced by toa.

Because of the shared producer, there are also some similar lyrics in both songs, such as "The boundaries have begun to blur, the future uncertain" from IDSMILE, and "The boundary lines where disharmonies resound with each other" from Twilight Light.

There are also a few references to N25's second arc ender, Saying Goodbye to My Masked Self, most notably there being a glitch effect when Miku sings the lines "I still can't hear you, not yet" and "I still can't see you, not yet". When she appears on a phone screen in the second chorus during the line "I'm right here", she also appears glitched. In the event, Mafuyu's phone was damaged, causing the Virtual Singers to appear glitched when their holograms appeared. Miku couldn't contact Mafuyu for a while before the phone was able to turn on again, hence the lyrics.

Miku projecting out of the phone is also a nod to how she usually manifests herself to Mafuyu.

These images appear over the following lyrics:

The melodies that we create, The words that we pull in, The colors that intertwine together, And the scenes that are stitched together,

Once again they contain the items associated with the members in this MV, but the lyrics and on-screen text reference the members' respective roles within N25: composer, lyricist, artist, and editor.

Before the final chorus, the members of N25 are shown with picture frames behind them, another reference to the Portray Yourself set.

This part of the song contains multiple other references too, including:

The heart-shaped apple gem that originated as a charm on the costumes from the Snow White in Oblivion set, and later appeared as it does in this MV in some of the cards from the Where is ♡? set. Ena's card from the latter set also contains the birdcage associated with Mafuyu in this MV.

The apple is significant to Mafuyu as it was the food her mother would feed her when she was sick as a child. It was this care her mother showed her that caused her to want to become a nurse, the very dream her mother shattered. Those apples might also be Mafuyu's favorite food.

The blue butterflies that appear during this part and also at the start of the final chorus, which are a reference to the Samsa single jacket, and the Poisonous Fangs and Peeking Shadows set which had butterflies as a motif, particularly noticeable in Kanade's Determination Ignited 4* shown earlier in this post.

The phone underwater, which is actually a reference to three things. Firstly, this is a direct callback to the in-game jacket for Lower, Mizuki's second event commission.

However the phone falling in the water also links to a plot point from Saying Goodbye to My Maked Self, when Mafuyu's phone fell in her fishtank during a fight with her mother.

The throbber (loading wheel) on the screen is possibly a reference to the arc ender animation that plays after chapter 8 of the aforementioned event, which can be further backed up by the "Chasing your light, at 25:00" text that appears during that animation appearing in the 2DMV about 15 seconds after the phone is shown.

This part of the MV being underwater also connects to the Searching for a Reflection Beneath the Waters event, which introduced a lake to the Empty SEKAI.

The Heart in Water set from that event takes place underwater because of the new location, which in turn might be a nod to Mafuyu's trained Dive Into Me 4* fes card.

#project sekai #25 ji nightcord de #2dmv #sorry this doesn't include the 3dmv another cuts- clpl banned sharing them online and copyright claimed basically all clips of them #i know for a fact they dgaf about what gets posted on tumblr but i don't have the cards myself and couldn't find any surviving footage #cards #songs #those too

[unpretty]

i feel like the real sign of getting old is that i'm sick of all these stylish fucking couches. i want something so practical it looks like absolute dogshit. sturdy as hell so i can do an elbow drop on this thing and not have it collapse. big-ass cushions. storage in the seats. a cover that i can replace after the cats have fucking wrecked it. grandmas were right about couch covers. i'm sick of having to vacuum this goddamn thing. give me something i can throw in the laundry and be done with it.

#original #when i was very young my mom couldn't afford a couch #so she took a standing cupboard thing and turned it sideways #and covered it in old blankets and pillows up against a wall #so it looked adequately couchlike but also she could keep things inside of it #i think it was probably a better couch than most of these things i'm finding online #my dream couch is a sactional but i'm not made of sac money here

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #(edit: it's been found thank you! original tags preserved below) #I cannot for the life of me find one specific reaction image and its source post #the one where the person is coming to in a hospital bed after a surgery #and they try to eat their own fist #and get stopped #and make big wibbly confused crying faces #it's smooth line images interspersed with text #does anyone have it? #cuz that '🥺???' was me most of the day and I wanted the image so I could convey it #but I Couldn't Find It #and neither my wife nor my best friend have any idea what image I'm talking about #so they can't help #(my partner isn't very online so there's no point asking them lol) #do any of y'all have it pls #I want the original post but I can't even find the standalone reaction image which should be enough to find the post #I've found one iteration of someone drawing their oc in the meme format and that's as far as I got even with as much as I remember about it #favorites

[leroibobo]

when the homes in the depopulated palestinian village of lifta were originally built is impossible to tell and most likely varies from house to house. the area's been known since ancient times, including having been written about in the hebrew bible. it's retained multiple different names throughout history - lifta by romans, nephto by byzantines, clepsta by crusaders, then lifta again by arabs. in more recent times, the area saw battle in the early 19th century, when it saw a peasant's revolt against egyptian conscription and taxation policies. (egyptian-ottoman ruler muhammad ali had attempted to become independent from the ottoman empire, and sought to use the area of "greater syria" which palestine was apart of as a buffer state.)

the village was predominantly muslim with a mosque, a maqām for local sage shaykh badr, a few shops, a social club, two coffee houses, and an elementary school which opened in 1945. its economy was based in farming - being a village of jerusalem, farmers would sell their produce in the city's markets. an olive press which remains in the village gives evidence to one of the most important crops its residents farmed. the historically wealthy village was known for its intricate embroidery and sewing, particularly of thob ghabani bridal dresses, which attracted buyers from across the levant.

lifta also represents one of the few palestinian villages in which the structures weren't totally or mostly decimated during the 1948 nakba. 60 of the 450 original houses remain intact. from zochrot's entry on lifta:

israel's absentee property law of 1950 permits the state to expropriate land and assets left behind, and denies palestinians the right to return to old homes or to reclaim their property. it's estimated that there's around 400,000 descendants of the village's original refugee population dispersed in east jerusalem, the west bank, jordan, and the palestinian diaspora.

like many depopulated palestinian houses, some of those in lifta were initially used to settle predominantly mizrahi immigrants and refugees, in this case 300 jewish families from yemen and kurdistan. the houses weren't registered in their names, and the area generally saw poor infrastructure and no resources including water and electricity provided by the government. most left in the early 1970s as a part of a compensation program to move out people who'd been settled in depopulated palestinian houses - if they didn't, they were referred to as "squatters" and evicted. (holes were even drilled in the roofs of evacuated buildings to make them less habitable). the 13 families which remain there today only managed to do so because they lived close to the edge of the village.

in 1987, the israeli nature reserves authority planned to restore the "long-abandoned village" and turn it into a natural history center which would "stress the jewish roots of the site", but nothing came of it. several more government proposals on what to do with the land had been brought up since then. this culminated in in 2021 when the israel land administration announced without informing the jerusalem municipal authorities that it issued a tender for the construction of a luxury neighborhood on the village's ruins, consisting of 259 villas, a hotel, and a mall. since 2023, they've agreed to shelve and "rethink" these plans after widespread objection.

the reasons for the objections varied significantly between the opposing israeli politicians - who see the village as an exemplar of cultural heritage and "frozen in time" model of palestinian villages before 1948 - and palestinians - who largely see the village as a witness of the nakba and a symbol of hope for their return. lifta is currently listed by unesco as a potential world heritage site, a designation netanyahu has threatened to remove several times.

many palestinians who are descendent from its former residents still live nearby. like with many other depopulated palestinian villages, they've never ceased to visit, organize tours of the village, and advocate for its preservation.

#palestine #info #nakba #my posts #the dresses link isnt specific to lifta thobs but provides a good overview #i couldn't find anything online abt lifta's embroidery but some of the book pdfs on palestinian costume i reblogged a while ago have info

[gooperts-gunk]

every time an egg loses a life when he's on online, bbh goes into nerdge mode to find a reason to save that egg with what knowledge he has of the game. he's done it so many times before and the desperation makes me sad but with a not-so-convinced hope. dapper's nightmare is a great example of this, when they were huddled underground for hours waiting for an answer on it. i HOPE it's a nightmare bbh but after the circumstances of bobby's death i can't help but doubt :(((( but i hope it's only a nightmare

#don't get me started on “i COULD'VE been there” for the dead eggs but he just DIDN'T KNOW #he COULDN'T have known. no one told him. :( #he gets so hard on himself when he knows he COULD but he wasn't able to #ramon's nightmare hurt me the most though. bbh was so broken up about it #because he was THERE but he couldn't find him. he was looking the whole time and just BARELY missed him #thank goodness that was a foul play death and it was reversed but it was only because the code went in ramon's house #if that wasn't the case we would've had NO RAMON due to eggs being in danger whether or not parents are online :( #goopert talks qsmp #qsmp #liveblogging #qsmp badboyhalo

[existencebringsonlypain]

yo guys I made some deltarune earrings

#theyre kris n noelle's menu sprites #kris deltarune #kris dreemurr #noelle deltarune #noelle holiday #deltarune noelle #deltarune kris #this isn't kriselle. just two of my favorite characters #was gonna do a susie as well but she wasn't in my party and i couldn't find any screenshots of her menu sprite online #nutdealer posting #my art #?

[cuties-in-codices]

the constellation of orion depicted as a knight holding a sword and a grotesque shield

in an astrological-astronomical manuscript, germany, ca. 1445

source: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Ms. germ. fol. 244, fol. 77r

#the german word for this type of shield in medieval art is “fratzenschild” but i couldn't find much information on it online #or figure out if there's a better english word for it than grotesque shield #hmu if you know more about it! #orion #constellation #knight #sword #shield #grotesque shield #fratzenschild #illuminated manuscript #15th century #medieval astronomy

[theinternetisaweboflies]

#one of these things is not like the other #jk i just couldn't find a good gif from utena with the actual castle in the sky #so we get castle on the highway #laputa castle in the sky #revolutionary girl utena #sword art online #howl's moving castle