#but so obscure

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

#dungeon meshi #chilchuk tims #senshi #Somewhat of an unofficial sequel to the Dragon Comic. I promise I have more versatility in my jokes. I just had to take this opportunity. #Senshi is pretty much a recluse. I think he would know a few of these 'gottems' but not all. #Chilchuck would know gottems that are nearly lost to time. The deep cuts. The ones that you fall for because they are that obscure. #I would also like to take a moment to confess that after the last comic in which I posed a gottem - #I fell victim to a Mind Goblin Attack. I was thoroughly got. I will be on higher alert this time. #So NOBODY be funny in the tags. I am gullible and I like to share things with my friends. Who are *ruthless*. #I have a mild resistance to Vicious Mockery at this point but I can only take so much. #Happy Thistle Thursday Everyone! See you next week!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[wildegeist]

Everyone talks about the joys of someone else being super invested in your OCs and while this undoubtedly feels absolutely awesome, I think there's also something to be said about the joy of being invested in someone else's OCs too. There's just vibes you get out of some people's casts of characters that you can't get anywhere else with their own unique flavor from that person, and they're just sitting there in relative obscurity spawned completely out of someone's mind with no media involvement or anything. Special kind of feeling

#ESPECIALLY if you are friends and they share secret obscure lore with you #and fun lil facts no one else knows #plus people get so giddy about it and it feels GOOD to bring that kind of joy to someone #wildemusings #a wilde hit

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Someone: *mentions doctor who*

Me, vibrating with the effort it’s taking to not talk about something no average show watcher would even have heard of: oh yeah cool show

#it’s so easy to get me to talk about obscure doctor who shit #I will bring up looms #and my options on time lords #doctor who #this is nothing against people who have only watched the show or don’t know any lore I am just insane

[svampira]

snack time🤤

#perspective doesnt matter when your oc looks cute. remember this always #vtm #vampire the masquerade #/elias #vtmb #artists on tumblr #toreador #idk why the image quality is so low but i cant fix it it is what it is #art #digital art #vampire #oc art #i forgot about one pretty important lore detail while drawing this ^^ pretend the window at the back is just like one of those obscured one #that look white or something. anyways hes so cute #scarabocchi #vampcore #oc lore #elias lore

[thrill-kill-kult]

#I hope a lot of people see this #poll #music #metal #Im genuinely just so curious about how people build their music taste #I’d say I most often find an artist on a Spotify generated playlist or in my recommendations #and I’ll listen to their top songs then start going through their albums #but I do love using gnoosic and obscurify #I also love finding small playlists #esp ones made by musicians #huge fan of the aggrotech attack playlist #I like pride myself on having extremely obscure taste in music lol #I love showing people cool small bands they’ve never heard of before #on that note check out My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult #and Xorcist

[kayleerowena]

horror barbies legally distinct pink-themed horror dolls available now from your local t-shirt store!

#kaylee.art #horror art #horror illustration #gothic horror #slasher #final girl #gothic #barbie art #came back wrong #living dead girl #gothic heroine #bonfire #barbie horror #Definitely Not Barbie though. for sure not barbie #thanks to bonfire for being very chill with me updating these designs mid-campaign to not have them taken down haha #figuring out how best to obscure the logo while still keeping the vibes of the piece was fun! even if i do miss the fun text stuff #i did with the logos i do think the individualization there is neat! #scheduling this post at midnight so i don't keep forgetting to post it. hi from 12-hours-ago kaylee! hows it going future-tumblr?

[jaratedeguadalupe]

my first contribution to the fandom in 5 year,,,,,,,,,, how are we looking so far

#ik heavy loves his crazy malewife and this isn't canonically accurate but it had to be done #i spent so much time on drawing the right shoulder only for it to be obscured by the glass #it was fun though so it's okay lol #this has been done to death but here's my rendition #tf2 #tf2 fanart #tf2 art #tf2 memes #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #heavymedic #team fortress 2 #red oktoberfest #heavy #medic

[yourlocalabomination]

Time bastard, You got some place else to be?

#can’t believe the first piece of serious starkid fanart Iv done in 4 years is of a man who canonically has a P hub premium account #can you tell I have no idea how to do dramatic lighting? it was done purely on vibes and bullshit #anyway this took like 6 days so any love you show it would be highly appreciated x #btw the person obscured by the cube is Charlotte - she’s still there in spirit #ted spankoffski #theodore spankoffski #tinky #t’noy karaxis #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgwdlm #tgwdlm starkid #tgwdlm fanart #starkid #starkid fanart #team starkid #time bastard #starkid time bastard #nightmare time #starkid nightmare time #hatchetfield nightmare time #time bastard nightmare time #hatchetfield #hatchetfield universe #hatchetverse #nmt #nmt2 #nightmare time 2 #joey richter #fanart #my art

[notablenotation]

ONCE AGAIN. MY TERRIBLE TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS RESULT IN ME PULLING AN ALL-NIGHTER TO FINISH A CONTEST ENTRY. FUCK

anyways, made this for track 1 of the fontainalia film festival poster contest hoyo was running. im never drawing shouki no kami ever again

#genshin #genshin impact #genshin impact wanderer #wanderer #kabukimono #scaramouche #shouki no kami #genshin impact fanart #fanart #my art #digital art #i ended up rendering the colors in a BIG HURRY once again aggghhhhhhhhhhh dying dying #i did so much work for the big robot just to mostly obscure him cries sobs #such is the result of when you have a Vision for a piece

[ellmovy]

no way! I actually did it!! here's all 93 hetalia characters, my beloved

the last time I did one of these was like 7 years ago 🥲 here's the previous ones: 2016//Sept 2015//Feb 2015

hope you all enjoy, this is my little treat to the hetalia fandom, also the last digital art I'll do for the next 5 months but I've got something else big to post in a while plus sketchbook stuff!

#hetalia #hetalia fanart #aph everyone #my art #included all the very obscure characters this time! #no humans and also not the german states or japanese provinces or whatever the hell else exists #was gonna label them all but didn't have time feel free to ask who someone is #it's actually forbidden knowledge to know all of them #anyway this was genuinely SO much fun i love these idiots

[mimilllion]

happiness has to be fought for

#myhouse.wad #fanart #how do i even tag this. this feels so obscure #horror #digital horror #surreal #abstract art

[novicedraws]

I'm so normal about them

#helllo people #i come with some sketches from a couple of weeks #before i go back to obscurity lol #if i could write fanfiction i so frinken would #art #my art #doodles #mortal kombat 1 #railao #mk1 raiden #kung lao #i have personal beef with raiden hat #its on sight #i swear i do draw other mortal kombat charactes LMAO

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

Some Extras from HoM AU Act 1: What was Left Behind.

Character Sheet references of the Boys (+extra about height lol) I made, to help myself draw the comic and some pages/panels without effects/unobscured because I am proud of them ;)

#hom au #heroes of millennium au #danny phantom #danny fenton #jake long #american dragon jake long #randy cunningham #rc9gn #randy cunningham 9th grade ninja #dp #adjl #im always so proud when i manage to draw a panel and then i get sad because i realize i have to obscure it for r e a s o n s #like ;( i drew very hard why brain #man honestly refs were just fun to make even if i kind of got lazy with randy's haha

[onionninjasstuff]

Part 1

Part 3

i wanted to post it all at once but i figured it'll be more fun this way 😌

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt bad future #uhhh how do i tw this #tw sibling death #tw family death #hhnghnn why does mikey have to be so round #he and my handwriting gave me the most trouble #the balance between too obscure and too melodramatic is tricky in this one #ough i hope its turning out alright

[punchedlines]

"the parallels between Bruce and the robins all becoming orphans young" ok that's nice but the parallels between Bruce and Cass both having lost their innocence after being confronted with death at 8 years old. The way they both have let the grief, the guilt, the impotence haunt them ever since and transformed it into more. The way they both, though in different ways, lost their parent(s). The way that the traumatic instances (and their upbringing until then) couldn't have been more different, yet it affected them so similarly and are the pillars for their current moral code and suicidal tendencies. Can't think about them too much or I go insane

#Batman #batgirl #Bruce Wayne #Cassandra Cain #batgirl 2000 #batfam #I also think its worth noting Cass first realizes about Batmans identity while seeing that tear streaked childhood picture of him #which is so interesting because his eyes are the portion most obscured by the cowl. she'd never seen his eyes before #she really read his grief his pain his loneliness and it clicked immediately because THEY'RE BOTH THE SAME #dc comics