#and all that symbolises

[datcravat]

pe ru so na

#MY ART #I SPENT FOREVER ON THIS #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #makoto yuki #okay so while it is super iconic I didn't want to draw someone with a gun to their head (love it in P3 love the symbolism #just dont want to explain it all to my mum or have non persona fans see it at my booth at comic con) #so I was forced to get creative #I hope this comes across #but I wanted to imply he just shot that bullet hole into the background that makes thanatos' eye #the bullet hole also sort of looks like a big glint of than's eye #those white parts on the white are than's hand curling around the MC #and I tried to make the colour scheme CYMK to symbolise how the MC is the wildcard #he is the blueprint and can make anything. #a lot of thought and effort went into this one. persona 3 baby!! hope you like it

[arrimorr]

Ok, while we are on the topic of Malevolent, I decided to post some mlvlnt thingies I drew last year

#malevolent #arthur lester #john doe #yes I gave Yellow my initial design for John #while this type of shape looks like a sun for me it also symbolises a more sharp and unstable personality #(bc of all the different sized “spikes”) #I'm talking about yellow from my previous post btw

[beastwhimsy]

he deserves the world tbh

#adventure time #simon petrikov #simon and betty #petrigrof #artists on tumblr #fionna and cake #adventure time fanart #fionna and cake fanart #simon petrikov fanart #ABOUT THE DRESS. I WANTED TO DRAW SOMETHING TO SYMBOLISE HIM COMING TO TERMS WITH HIS PAST AS THE ICE KING #so a dress in the same colour as ice king's rigout that he can feel happy and pretty in.... do you understand #THE ADVENTURE TIME BRAINROT IS KILLING ME. I WILL NOT SURVIVE <- autism #ice king #<- wasnt going to tag this because I know some people use that tag for the Actual Ice King and not simon after he got turned back #but I remembered all the little ice kings around the canvas :3

[lemonboyjosten]

feeling nostalgic over these covers.

(they are beautiful and they are 10 years apart btw. god bless @korakos for keeping the aesthetic.)

#google says daffodils symbolise rebirth and new beginnings!!! #i’m not crying you are #the sunshine court #tsc #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #jean moreau #jeremy knox #renee walker #usc trojans #edgar allan ravens #palmetto state foxes #nora sakavic knows how to play her game #andrew minyard #neil josten #gay #lgbtq #andreil #the raven king #the kings men

[fear-no-mort]

favourite thing: his new habit of saying uhuh/mhm and also this

#the first time he did it in unmortricken i was like Fuck Yes and little did i know he would just keep doing it the whole time #DESPERATELY hoping they keep both of these things. i Love when characters have tiny little habits sprinkled in their actions #to me these things kinda sorta symbolise him no longer being afraid to really be himself #like he no longer has to hide certain things about himself that inside of the cfc wouldve made him appear ‘suspicious’ #since he IS like so much different than any other morty ever #also barely related but like. em is fundamentally such a good character bc everytime we see him he’s feeling something different #in his first appearance he was cold and distant because at the time he was new to being free and was strictly focused on his goal and wasn’ #even sure if it would work #in his second appearance he seemed hopeful and honest both of these things just being a trap to get the people of the citadel to trust him #and his old colder self unfurling near the end after he successfully becomes president #in his third appearance he seems giddy almost. he’s constantly giggling before and after sentences and he’s super eager to just Get The Hel #Out. and also to reveal the truth to morty prime. make it so that he doesn’t have to be the one to shoulder everything anymore. #and this fourth appearance. apart from a few little details he really just seems happy and comfortable. the entire episode he was just doin #whatever he wanted and nobody got in his way at all. and i could not be happier #normal about this character! #rick and morty #evil morty #rick and morty spoilers #odiespeak

[kaladinkholins]

Taigen x Mizu mentioned in the The Making of Netflix’s “Blue Eye Samurai”

Taken from the livestream organised by Gnomon

Jane Wu:

Next slide, Taigen...

Brian Kesinger:

Everyone's favourite samurai, uh, Taigen. Uh, so, he was designed a bit over the top. The, the, peak of male samurai, even down to the quite prodigious hair bun, which he doesn't have on screen for much. Uh, but, um, he is the visual opposite of Mizu, right, so it was fun to kinda let her design dictate what his design should be, and, you know, I think that, you know, especially for all you Taigen x Mizu fans out there, I think that might be one of the reasons why he's attracted to her. Um, or in my brain, he's attracted to her, uh, is because she is who she wants to be, and doesn't have to put on airs. Uh, and that's a lesson that he has to learn and he literally, I mean, it's on the nose but, he lets his hair down. And that's the start of his journey of discovery, um, which he needs to go. He's, he's got a lot of growing still left to do. Um—

Jane Wu:

I also think he has a, has a talent—he has like a... sword crush on her right, he has like a martial arts crush on her, yeah. Talent crush, yeah.

Brian Kesinger:

Right, yeah. Talent crush. Yes. Yes, for sure.

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For context, Jane Wu is Blue Eye Samurai's supervising director and Producer, while Brian Kesinger is the lead character designer. Others presenting for this livestream were production designer Toby Wilson and art director Emil Mitev.

#WE GOT SOME CRUMBS YALLLLLLL #taigen x mizu #mizu x taigen #taimizu #taizu #blue eye samurai #taigen #mizu #fandom.rtf #shut up haydar #EDITED WITH THE FULL SEGMENT OF THIS DISCUSSION #like i LOVE absolutely LOVE how taigen's segment is almost fully dedicated to his relationship with mizu right #because akemi and ringo are their own individual characters #but taigen is not!! he is literally made as a complement to mizu. literally his DESIGN is DICTATED by HERS #literally supporting all my meta analyses about how taigen exists to support mizu. everything he does and is revolves around HER!!! #remember my post where i said taigen exists to be mizu's accenting colour. yeah. that. #also right after this they actually mentioned how taigen's colour is green RIGHT NOW to symbolise youth (ie growth) #trust he's gonna get a colour scheme change into orange eventually #orange = colour of his scarf. colour he wore as a child. complementary colour of BLUE

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

"Ackshually Izzy had to die because he was a symbolic embodiment of the old ways of piracy" Yeah ok, you know what else Izzy was a symbolic embodiment of? The Revenge ship. And you know how else he could have served a symbolic, metaphorical purpose in the finale? By surviving and living on while the Revenge got destroyed. Its indestructible spiritual unicorn.

#😢😢😢 #nope still not even remotely over it #remember when we all thought the Revenge would be destroyed #and that would be the tragic thing to happen in S2 finale #that symbolised a breakthrough moment and the coming change #Izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers

[lunarharp]

scribbled miserable qifrey comics all night...more later

#witch hat tag #orufrey #since readership has fallen on them i've started bothering less about making comics readable which will..affect readership . Oh Well !! #symbolises my madness. when im in a wild mood where i need to wander on the moors screaming i go back and undo orufrey progression #back to the pain era it seems . stuck in the timeloop forever until we have complete resolution. the dagda of it all

[wis-art]

kroppen/ciało

#lucy #wiki #oc #art #illustration #my art #glowy #digital art #mature #i'll leave it in tags #because i want people to interpret this their own way #but for those who read #them being naked means how comfortable they are around each other #for lucy #she is comfortable displaying her own body to someone else #maybe not all of it #she covers up her scars on the legs with plasters #wiki holding a crooked beat down sword #symbolises how much people had to fight for this kind of love #and sure she holds it lightly #but the sword is the violence #she is not threatening anyone with it but she is displaying what people like her went through #wiki is an angel who fell in love with humanity #when she first met lucy despite having earthly appearance it was rather androgynous genderless #but the more she understands what she wants the more comfortable she is displaying it #perhaps this is unrealistic but she is in a way trans from a nonbinary creature that is truly genderless she chose to be a woman #and the sword also symbolises the struggle #the halo above their hands jsut means how important their love is to them #also despite her holding the sword #she grabs lucy for protection

[birdricks]

my beautiful wonderful morty oc who dies horribly for the plot <3

- angel gets her nickname from her dimension code … and bc shes oh so lovely ^_^ oh and bc she dies.

- hes super good at knowing what appeals to ricks and so tries to help the other citadel mortys (and notably emorty) to… act right. and hopefully keep their ricks. and not get hurt

- she gets lucky with her first rick being nicer than most… but his next rick is ur standard abusive rick. he ends up getting angel killed through carelessness or smth similar

- emortys closeness w angel is part of what endears him somewhat to morty prime later on. if anyone cares.

#more notes under the cutttt :] #rick and morty #morty smith #… can i use that tag for this or will i get attacked by wolves #morty oc #morty a-831 #artsbotz #YAYYYY MY BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL SON …… #ok ummm some more stuff i didnt wanna type up properly #designnn wise. ok this is a silly specific thing i decided on where mortys have their hair parted on the right. but emorty is on the left #like hes mirrorrrrred. and also silly right = good / left = evil symbolism #i loveee eye colour symbolism too w mortys (and ricks) … #i think most mortys are like an even mix of blue and brown eyes #but angel has blue specificallyyy to match morty prime. yahhhooooo #oh and emorty has brown to contrast them both … and to parallel c137… etc #the long hair is just for fun and gender reasons BUT the hair over the eye is supposed to symbolise like. emortys eyepatch #(and also the fact that she dies from getting shot in the head.) #the hairclip does smth similar. #oh speaking of. im not totally decided on how emorty gets the hairclip back #but current idea is he manages to bust into where they keep all the dead mortys #he seems to have a pretty extensive knowledge of the inner workings of the citadel even early on sooo. its just a matter of When and How #he learns different things #btw he keeps the hairclip forverr. takes it w him out of the curve and all #anyways ig the main concept behind angels relationship w emoty is like. she does everything perfectly. acts exactly how she needs to #and its still not enough. shes still victim to the vicious system of the citadel and is thrown away like garbage either way #i imagine emorty to be kinda disillusioned stright out the test tube lol .. but this is part of what solidifies his hatred for the system #AND. for Sellout Mortys. #ok i can barely think n read rn . POST

[ivegotalongmemory]

a messy exploration of victor outfits, the sexualisation of victors, the lack of sexualisation of katniss and peeta, and a brief analysis of the symbolism of the wedding attire worn in the quell interviews

fyi: includes mentions of forced prostitution and things like that

also fyi: this is a big thought dump, not very well edited

In my headcanon, most of the victors (especially those who are likely in the Capitol more often, like Finnick, Cashmere, Gloss, etc) have more personalised styles that have been developed by their personal stylists. Still relating to their districts, but more nuanced to fit them as an individual, or rather, to fit the image that the Capitol created for them. Take the ‘prostitutes’ for example. People like Finnick and Cashmere who we know are incredibly popular, and I imagine a lot of their image in the Capitol is based around their sex appeal. We can also throw Gloss into this category (and also likely many other victors, but we’ll keep it to these 3 for now). From what we can see, their quell outfits are definitely reminiscent of their respective districts, but it’s also clear that they’re made to look extra sexy and attractive and glamorous, because that’s their Capitol image. We know the movies obviously had to change things to make it PG-13 (I still wish we got an 18 rated series, but it’s understandable as to why we didn’t), and so a lot of things are glossed over, like the whole prostitution thing, and a lot of other more cruel and brutal aspects from the books. The clothes are also different. I mean, we obviously didn’t get Finnick’s net outfit from the tribute parade, which from what I remember is probably the most explicit outfit that’s mentioned. It’s obvious just from that; Finnick is a sex symbol, and it’s likely most of his outfits, are equally as risqué, and this probably goes for the others that Snow sells out, or that are deemed attractive enough to be popular in the Capitol.

Then when it comes to Katniss and Peeta, we get the opposite of this, and there’s many reasons which I’d like to dive into. Firstly they’re teenagers, but then again, when has that ever stopped the Capitol? I mean we have previous tributes like Glimmer, who’s whole persona is based around being “sexy”, and probably hundreds of other “attractive” tributes. Finnick, again, who was 14, was likely pushed down this route too. The key factor in Katniss and Peeta’s case, though, is Cinna. Cinna, who we know is likely involved in the revolution to some extent. From his very first appearance, he doesn’t want to make District 12’s outfits stupid. He’s different, and that’s shown to us from his very first line. Yes, Cinna is there to glam them up, just like every stylist, and he does. Katniss especially is sporting heavy makeup for her Capitol appearances, with elaborate hair etc. They still make her look more attractive for the Capitol’s eyes. But their outfits are nothing like the typical sexed up, revealing, or even humiliating clothes that most of the tributes and victors are probably forced into. They’re entirely modest, and as far as Capitol outfits go, relatively normal, even boring on occasions. So as far as fashion goes, they were lucky to have Cinna.

Another factor is that Katniss and Peeta (at least as it appears to the Capitol) are together. They’re a couple. And very in love. I imagine a lot of the ‘sex symbol’ personas of some of the victors relies on the fact that they are single. I’m paraphrasing here but somewhere in the books Katniss says something about Finnick having ‘a string of lovers in the Capitol’. Essentially, she’s saying he gets around. We, as readers/watchers, later find out that this is not true, and that he’s in love with Annie. We can assume Snow forces his sold victors into keeping up an illusion of being womanizers, or maneaters, and to most of the public, both in the Capitol and in the districts, it looks like they’re willingly sleeping with half the Capitol. It’s all a form of control; it keeps the victors and their images tightly in check, which is what Snow wants. The demand for buying victors that are seemingly off the market is likely much less than it is for the others, although probably not completely zero, but that’s another sick conversation to dive into another time. Katniss and Peeta are the Capitol’s favourite couple, and I strongly believe that had there been no love story and no rebellion, they both likely would have ended up with the same fate as people like Cashmere and Finnick. Ultimately, their fabricated love is what saves them.

Speaking of the wedding outfits themselves: the Capitol literally get to choose Katniss’ wedding dress, so they’re clearly invested in the 2 as a couple and adore them. They see them as a young, innocent, pure couple, truly in love, and so the sexualization just isn’t there (at least from what we see). It’s still all a form of control though. We know Snow essentially forces Katniss into wearing the wedding dress. It’s a ‘fuck you’ to the other victors and a reminder of what many of them will never have. If I remember correctly from the books, Cashmere scoffs at it. It’s unclear whether this is from her knowing it’s a typical over the top Capitol choice, or whether she is genuinely bothered by the insinuation of Katniss wearing this in regards to herself and her fellow victors. Either way, Snow knows it will cause tension.

The fashion choices for both Katniss and Peeta’s outfits here also seem deliberate in regards to putting a message across to the districts, especially Katniss’ family. For one thing, like every Capitol outfit, they’re expensive. I mean, just look at the wedding dress. Yes, it’s stunning, but it’s also the peak of luxury. Not a single person in the districts would ever be able to have that kind of clothing, not even the richest of the rich in districts 1 and 2. I’d go as far as saying that even those of the lower Capitol classes could only dream of something like what Katniss wears. She’s the vision of envy, and all it does is further separate her from the ‘ordinary’ people of Panem. And finally, while it’s obvious, the wedding clothes are white. It might seem typical, but think about it. The people of District 12, where they spend their lives coal mining and the like, or District 11, where they’re farming all the time, probably never wear white clothing. In fact, most of the district people probably don’t, simply for practicality. White gets dirty very easily. It’s not practical, especially when you’re doing hard labour most of the time. Most of the district 12 kids are wearing white or other pale colours at the reaping, so we can assume that they save these for their best occasions and get them out only once a year. We still do this these days, I mean, we all have ‘nice clothes’ that we only wear for special occasions and that we don’t want to ruin. I wouldn’t wear half the things in my wardrobe to go farming or tree cutting or fishing. Katniss and Peeta’s outfits are pristine, something that is likely foreign to the districts. It pushes the tension between the districts and the Capitol, and it’s telling the districts to look at the victors, this is the life of luxury they’re living now, etc etc. It’s a way of saying, “these kids are not yours anymore, they’re ours.”

#the hunger games #catching fire #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #finnick odair #i could write pages and pages just looking at all the clothing in these movies and what it all symbolises #i live for this kind of stuff #is it this deep? who knows #but in my head it is #its just so interesting to look at the contrasts between the pre-74th victors clothing and public image vs that of katniss and peeta

[blaithnne]

can I say that I like Frida and David's teenage designs way more than their S1-2 ones or is it still too soon

#SORRY THEYRE JUST TOO CUTE #I'm a sucker for big oversized baggy clothes #and those COLOUR PALETTES MWAH #cheffs kiss #umm david wearing blue adn that symbolising how thanks to hilda he's become sm braver and confident #frida's purple and how it reflects her becoming more magical #NOT TO MENTION FRIDA'S BUNCHES #frida's hair is literally mine before i got it cut earlier this year #and david's is pretty close to mien currently #i got an overgrown mullet going on #i love them sm #only reason hilda isnt up here with them is bc her design barely changes #so i like her fits the same throughout #they cooked with these redesigns thats all im saying #hilda #hilda the series #netflix hilda #hilda netflix #frida hilda #hilda frida #hilda david #david hilda #theyre just so soft and cute #i still lvoe their old designs btw! #i just like these ones more

[hi-im-just-a-fan-here]

Fucking finally I made another one of the art Nouveau inspired pieces. It's not the best as I had a long break but I tried.

#my uni started and i had to move and then get used to living in one room with a stranger #and also just in general get used to uni #but i have now awesome friends #and we spend a lot of time together #and i love all of them so much #also ive been trying once again flower meanings! there are (very long) daisies that symbolise innocence #and they turn into carnation that symbolise heartache (there at the bottom) #and that turns into wormwood that symbolises bitterness i wanted that to kind of portrey agotts trauma with her family #but also the daisies are in her hair that sort of means she still has some of that innocence left #as well as heather near the birds-these ones mean protection and i wanted that to be connected to qifrey #thats why the birds are there cause of that one chaoter where she summoned her professor with light bird #but yes i ramble serious tag time #agott arkrome #agott fanart #a.mucha inspired #witch hat atelier #wha fanart

[xxcherrycherixx]

I have no caption, please just think its good 😭 my wrist is killing me and im so tired, its 4:30 am👁️👁️

I looked up flower language for this shit, featured flowers are: red rose, wolfsbane, white chrysanthemum, dianthus/carnation and ivy

( i will put a cheat sheet in the tags so you know what meanings im using instead of having to look it all up)

#ever after high #c.a cupid #blondie lockes #heartlockes #monster high #my art #mdni #tw blood #immortal blondie au #immortal blondie au is basically just my go to for some good angst 💀 #all the plants relate to things like death. immortality/mortality and love #chrysanthemums are funeral flowers. #wolfsbane is legit just really deadly so its given the meaning of death. lmao #the Dianthus caryophyllus/carnation is the flower of gods and deep red usually symbolises love #the dark red rose symbolises deep romantic love but the petals are falling symbolising the slow death of the relationship #the ivy represents immortality and fidelity. #if any of this shit is wrong: blame google. #im going to bed now because my eyes are burning

[winterprince601]

so we all know that the got show wildly underutilised the direwolves and robbed them of all magical significance, which annoys me because the starks finding the direwolves in chapter one of got seems to be a direct counter to the existential threat posed by the others in the prologue. they don't just mark the beginning of political upheaval, but also the return of magic to westeros. like daenerys' dragons, they are the magical counterbalance to the evil power of the others - one of the many incarnations of ice in the prophesised song of ice and fire.

having said that, they also have personal roles for each stark. the nominal determinism of the pups has been well analysed but i think you could read thoroughly into the behaviour of each one - for instance, nymeria connecting arya to westeros and her identity as a stark warg and summer matching bran's weird-girl green-seer energy.

to cut a long-winded post short, however, i think ghost is going to have to die in order for jon to be resurrected. i hate the thought as much as you likely do - ghost has been a close companion of jon and the reader throughout the series but unfortunately, that's what makes the sacrifice so meaningful. i do think jon's resurrection will require a sacrifice: it won't be like the show where jon sits up, is sad for five minutes and then hops off the dissection table to swing a sword about.

one of the many things ghost's name seems to foreshadow is jon's resurrection. not only that, but theon suggests the albino wolf is bound for death, saying he will "die faster than the others". however, when jon retorts "this one belongs to me", he takes responsibility for ghost's life. this is what all the starks do for their pups, but in jon the rescue is especially marked: he turns back to find ghost and whilst he is the runt of the litter, under jon's care he grows to be bigger than his siblings. jon gives ghost life and it makes a lot of symbolic sense for that life to be eventually returned. moreover, ghost with his weirwood colouring represents the old gods of the north - jon even muses that he might be some kind of agent of them. i don't think the lord of light alone can bring jon back: it has to be a rebirth of ice and fire, a spring-like mix of both elements of jon's nature.

jon's resurrection will mark a major change for the direction of his character and is potentially the first step towards realising his targaryen heritage and maaaybe becoming a dragon rider. the death of ghost, of his past as the invisible bastard of winterfell, might be necessary for this. however, i don't believe ghost or his identity as a wolf, as a stark, will truly leave him. if he has warged into ghost and lives on for a period of time in his body, it only makes sense that ghost will live on in him even after he has died. prolonged warging can create slippage between man and beast which we've already seen between living jon and his direwolf. we won't lose ghost entirely and perhaps with the affirmation of robb's will and finally turning home towards winterfell, jon will realise he doesn't need the physical emblem of a direwolf to be a stark - he has the wolfblood of the old gods and the first men within him always.

#this is all the logical expounding on what is primarily a looming fear #i just can't shake the idea that jon's soul has to return to his body SOMEHOW #and grrm has killed a direwolf before to symbolise a major change in a character's life COUGH lady #asoiaf #a song of ice and feels #house stark #jon snow #asoiaf meta #asoiaf theory #winds of winter #ghost #ghost the direwolf #bran stark #arya stark #direwolves #got show slander

[hella1975]

going crazy about an oc again. like it's my fault

#this is normal behaviour but i get SO pissed off when it's an oc i make for a fic #bc i only ever make fic ocs when their sole purpose is to symbolise something and/or move the plot #like believe it or not i really do try not to have ocs unless it's specifically for the greater good of the fic #so it's like. you are an object to me. you are a tool. WHY have you got your own playlist #cassie you are so. like she's demented she's haunted by a past that broke her she has tried to return three different times regardless #she's whimsical she's erratic she wants to love the world when she has only ever seen the worst sides of it #she found one person who respected her (didn't even treat her kindly. he just viewed her as an autonomous person. that was enough) #and she latched on and didnt let go and now we're here. she followed him to war. she never wanted to fight #she probably wont make it. what the fuck ever #dog teeth #there's another oc in dog teeth that drives me crazy too but his part is much more minimal #i REALLY went hard with dog teeth ocs like they are all so compelling and painful come ON #cass and sasaki u were real to me. im sorry