#beauty in the eye of the beholder

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Man I just love dressing crazy. Star-shaped eyeliner, jacket covered in bottle caps with smiley faces, bright pink glasses, piercings in my face. I thrive in the weird looks from strangers. I love being that person little kids think is a fairy and remember for years. I love giggling at myself while I make faces in the mirror.

To me, this is what it is to be punk. To make weird, messy art. To sing your crooked voice as loud as you can. To be the most beautiful ugly. To be that creature 8 year old you wrote stories about in their school notebooks. To be the greatest you you can be.

There is nobody on this Earth who can do you like you. So why not go out and be the best you the world's ever seen?

#plus i have an umbrella with a duck head that i added gitd stars to the inside of and i think that just adds to it #i think on my next one i wanna use gitd paint to add a firework on the inside #punk #punk culture #self love #beauty in the eye of the beholder #ugly is beautiful #wait until you hear about my (correct) opinion that literally anybody can make music #dance for hours a day #crust punk #baby punk #battle jacket #punk diy #be weird #just ask me and i will give you hours on why the world is beautiful #don't tolerate intolerance #punk fashion

[prettychimesblog]

All my life,

I've been the artist of my muse, seeing the beauty in them.

But what's it like to be the muse of someone, feeling the way I made others feel?

What's it like to be loved by an artist?

(by me)

🩷

@prettychimesblog

#writing #poem #poetry #love poem #artists on tumblr #muse inspo #love #aesthetic #coquette #beauty #beauty in the eye of the beholder #artisticexpression

[johnmarstonisawolf]

I’ve just gotten a mixed consensus in the community. But I’m curious what the poll will say. I mean he’s a video game character but I’m just curious. Regardless, he’s still my favorite character in rdr and rdr2.

#john marston #rdr2 #rdr2 community #rdr2 fandom #rdr2 john #i got polls #character #handsome #red dead redemption community #red dead redemption #beauty in the eye of the beholder

[vintageterror]

#1950s #scifi #alien #human #lol #beauty in the eye of the beholder

[cottoncandylesbo]

you're fucking the hat man for hats?

#this could be about benadryl or tf2. beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[bahrmp3]

[ID: 5 gifs from season 3, episode 5 “second skin” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show kira nerys and tekeny ghemor.

1st gif: the camera shows legate ghemor from the front, waist up and kira from the back. "one more thing before i leave. can i give you some fatherly advice?" he asks her.

2nd gif: the camera cuts to show kira from the front, chest up while legate ghemor is shown from the back. "for old times' sake." he insists, gesturing with his hands. kira laughs and tells him, "of course."

3rd, 4th gif: the camera shows legate ghemor from the chest up. he speaks in a serious tone, "that garak fellow who helped you, who helped us, don't trust him, nerys, ever. he's a dangerous man, and he'd betray you and all of your friends in an instant if he thought it would help him."

5th gif: the camera shows kira from the front, shoulders up. she is nodding slightly, and tells legate ghemor "i'll keep my eye on him." /end ID]

#startrekedit #deep space 9 #deep space nine #ds9 #ds9edit #deepspacenineedit #deepspace9edit #kira nerys #legate ghemour #tekeny ghemour #the same ep garak was like beauty much like betrayal is in the eye of the beholder lmao

[depravedmicrowave]

I’m reading a spideypool, bc sometimes you just need a muscle daddy and danger twink that can have a power dynamic going either way and still be hot, and I got to thinking. Peter’s eyesight has to be like crazy good right? Like what if it was super focused (I think theres like a scene in one of the movies?) and so he sees like pores and skin flakes and oils oozing or whatever. Like kinda gross and maybe creepy at first for him but it becomes normal. But then he sees Deadpool’s face or like the lower lip area when he’s eating (there’s always a scene with this) and Peter kinda zones in on what to a normal person looks like raw ouch but he’s seeing like a cell division version of those migraine auras.

What I’m saying is, maybe, to Peter’s spider eyes, Deadpool’s skin looks like a cuttle fish changing colors and shape in a cloud or flowing way. Maybe he look kinda pretty.

Deadpool of course would take the awed staring as Peter being grossed out but our poor baby is a nerd and just really liked watching the changing face of this handsome guy.

#spideypool #peter parker #wade wilson #cell division can totally be pretty to geeks #wade would be beautiful #oooh what if the fic was called #In the eye of the beholder #dangit #I don’t have time to write fics

[simplyfurnituredirect]

She just says things sometimes

#I'm still not sure what was so elegant or feminine about my walk #Beauty in the eye of the beholder? I guess

[leixinyus]

#choe chan yi #light on me #korean drama #manydramagifs #kdramaedit #what am i doing? oh nothing #just forever crying over shin daon looking at im taekyeong like he's the moon and the stars for 16 episodes #you know. the usual. #but no for real #the fact that i could put the gifs in non-chronological order #because he never stops looking at taekyeong like he's everything that is good in the world #like the sun rises and sets in taekyeong's eyes #and like taekyeong is the closest thing to beholding the beauty of the entire universe to daon #i will forever miss this boy #i skimmed through the episodes for the first time in a long time #for a bigger daon (x taekyeong) set that i've been planning for forever #and i'm emotional over daon as well as his story with taekyeong again

[summerwages]

oh sure..

#oregon #spring vibes #wildflowers #social distancing #beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[bbiiiichan]

how people see Anya vs how sy-on boy sees Anya :))

how we see her smug face:

Anya's smug face through Damian's lens :)))

us:

Damian:

a cutie pie

sure Damian, sure:

#spy x family #spy family #spy x family manga #spy x family anime #spy x family spoilers #spyxfamily #anya forger #damian desmond #forger anya #sy-on boy #anya x damian #forger family #manga #manga panel #oh lover boy :)))))) #just like they said eh #beauty is in the eye of the beholder #hehe #SHE'S STILL ADORABLE IN EVERY VERSION THO

[saints-who-never-existed]

you had quite a compelling thought going in your tags of that bridglar gifset about loving something that cannot love you back... it would be a pleasure to hear the rest of what you had to say about it

I don't know that my thoughts on this are fully formed quite yet, but I'll tell you what I'm thinking so far and I'll start on a personal note.

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I've always been fascinated with mythology and folklore - that fascination informed my artistic practice back when I was properly practising and is a huge part of the reason that I then progressed into the field of history and heritage.

As fascinated as I was, though, I found that I didn't actually believe in any of it which got me thinking - what does inspire that kind of feeling in me? That belief? That sort of religious-level ecstasy?

The simple answer was the great outdoors, the landscape itself.

I ascribed my own personal mythology to the landscape around me and ended up pursuing a literal artistic pilgrimage through key locations in the Highlands near my home back in Scotland which culminated in climbing my own personal 'Holy Mountain'.

(That was literally a decade ago and, let me tell you, my toes still haven't fully recovered from all that hiking!)

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Which is all to say that when it comes to the idea of loving an entity that cannot love you back, I wonder, now that I've thought more on it, if perhaps it's a matter of perspective and expectation?

Yes, it's sad to think of how much those men would've loved the sea itself and how the sea did not, could not love them back. How it was the sea itself that doomed them, at least in part.

I think a lot about how they possibly could have reconciled that but then I remember my own experiences in the landscape, the love I feel for it and the joy it continues to bring me. And I think perhaps that you just don't and shouldn't love something of that magnitude in the first place for anything else but what it is or with any expectation that it'll love you back.

As I touched on in the tags of that earlier post, most of those men would have been at sea since their childhood/youth and built their entire lives around it, would've known it intimately.

So yes, while the sea is a cruel mistress who could not love them back, I think that there's perhaps a more positive spin to be found here.

That there's perhaps something quite beautiful and profound and, dare I say, holy, in the notion that they would've known full well the unloving, cruel, and capricious nature of the sea and that they would've carried on loving her regardless.

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I've waffled on long enough now so I'll end on a more historical/Terror-specific note and say that I think there's also a really interesting conversation to be had about colonialism/empire vs the sea/landscape.

Though the men don't love the empire itself per se, their lives have been defined by it and everything they've done within their careers has served it in some way. Yet at the end of the day, it is just another entity that, for lack of a better phrase, doesn't love them back, doesn't care for them at all.

The key distinction to be made here, I think, is one of 'can't' vs 'won't'.

It's sad that the sea doesn't love or care for you, yes, but that's only because the sea is a natural entity that cannot love or care for anything. Think of how, despite it all, the love still endures for Peglar and there is at least something approaching closure for him as result. Even as he's dying he still loves Bridgens and he still loves the sea, even after all it's put him through.

To live your life, however willingly, in service of an entity like colonialism/empire is another thing entirely though. That's a man-made entity that doesn't care for you not because it can't but because, quite frankly, it doesn't fucking want to. An entity that had the choice and the power to care for you and chose not to. Think of James Clark Ross, for example, and the way his face drops when he realises that, despite everything that's happened and everything they've given in service of it, the Admiralty and the Empire still care more about finding the Passage than finding the men lost to it.

Now that's a tragedy!

#And behold once again my complete inability to give a succinct answer to any given question! #Or a coherent one for that matter #This is such an intriguing thing to me though and I'll be thinking about it a while yet #Coherence impending #I'm thinking about Goodsir too in particular as another person whose love of the world around him most explicitly endures #'This place is beautiful to me even now. To see it with eyes as a child's. There is wonder here Captain.' #The Terror #Asks #Friendos!

[atticcreationz]

I know everyone is excited for Fantasy High to get the new d20 production treatment with Junior Year (and believe me, I am too, especially excited for having a full opening credits song and animation!)

But while I'm rewatching the last section of FHSY before the new season starts, I'm remembering how much I love having all 7 of them on screen at the same time. I love being able to watch the players react to Brennan's descriptions, watching Brennan react to their wonderful character interactions and awesome combat strategies, love being able to see the players joking across the table, checking notes and planning moves with each other. Not a bad thing at all, change is good and there's pros and cons to everything!

Ultimately I think it's special that we have a campaign in d20 that has lived through so many different formats! Classic fire hazard dome with the block colours, live stream, pandemic stream, and full dome projections!

#i will say just as a matter of personal taste im not huuuuge on the more out there dome projections #like i looove the hazy vignettes or colour patterns or even the shadow puppet stuff #but a lot of the rest of it is too much visual clutter on the screen for me #i am but a simple basic bitch unfortunately #i cant look at everyone's faces; HP bars & other info; subtitles; minis; all against a beautiful drawing; my eyes are too weak to behold it #but im glad it means more artists and more art! #you knoooow im gonna be wanting them for desktop backgrounds #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #d20 fantasy high