#dark vs light

[lightspringrain]

My first two redraws I ever did were a Tech/Crosshair combo. Dark wings vs Light Wings.

Prints are available at my shop And my Etsy

#tbb #thebadbatch #tbb fanart #star wars #star wars fanart #star wars tbb #the bad batch fanart #the bad batch tech #art #illustration #tbb tech #tbb crosshair #sw tbb #bad batch #tbb season 2 #tbb season finale #tbb season two #clone trooper crosshair #dark vs light #lightspringrain

[lilysether]

Boy Beauty

#vogue magazine #vogue korea #lee felix #photography #model #bvlgari #perfume #dark vs light #photoshoot

[lustaidaily]

Light vs Dark

#digital illustration #digital art #digital painting #art #ai artwork #anime #anime and manga #ai art #beautiful #light vs dark #dark vs light #dark #light #white #black #anime art #dark angel #angel #angelic

[tomz1ng]

dark vs light

#south park #south park phone destroyer #reidi #dark vs light

[enbeemagical]

OC time!

#ocs #hero #villain #dark vs light #spoiler alert: mr. angel halo there is the evil one #and mx. flower crown who looks all innocent and sweet gets to punch his stupid smug face

[byeclownguy]

Here have some of my experimental junk✨

#art #my art #my artwork #artists on tumblr #digital art #oc #digital drawing #lion #anthropomorphic #mermaid #beta fish #dark vs light #sun x moon #deep blue #deep sea #monster #god #cryptic #night and day #night #day #sun #moon #dark #light

[anonomonopoetry]

Together

...-waves from behind a curtain before hiding again-

“There is dark and light in me.  Fighting to overcome the other. 

What is light, but goodness and warmth and never-ending support? Darkness is not just the cold and the sadness.

Dark and light complement each other. We are synonyms together.

What is meant to be will be,  What are we meant to be? Are we meant to fight? To die? To love? To dream?

Yes. We are meant for everything we choose to be, to have, to hold.

I don’t know where my life will lead. I don’t know where yours will. We diverge now, will we meet again? 

If the fates and our minds will it. 

You have to want it too. I have to want it. 

The dark and light toil against each other.  I will overcome. We will survive together.”

----PA

#my poetry #my poem #my work #dark vs light #several things going in with pa rn #we can do it

[liteee]

Inverted default outfit colors

#liteeart #0329 #march 2024 #sona #furry #dragon #dark colors are pretty nice cause you can do more visible shading and lighting on it vs white

[iamf-i-n-e]

Sometimes...

I am the darkness and sometimes I am the light.

I know that to be true. I know that is a fact. I just need my heart to learn that too.

It feels awful to be the darkness. So awful it's like I'm obessessed with NOT being the darkness... and then I become it anyway.

I can't remember the last time I felt like the light. Well, I guess I can, but if I became the darkness right after, does that even count?

It does count though... it's about duality. It usually is...

I'd like to commit, today, to just being. Myself. Not (trying) to be either way. Just being whoever I am...

#duality #light vs dark #dark vs light #aj

[lightspringrain]

When one's world fall. There is no greater punishment then what we do to ourselves.

Something a little different. I was experimenting around. See what worked and what didn't.

The Batch Batch prints are available at my shop! And my Etsy

#tbb fanart #tbb #thebadbatch #star wars #star wars fanart #the bad batch fanart #star wars tbb #art #illustration #tbb crosshair #the bad batch crosshair #the bad batch fanfiction #dark vs light #lightspringrain

[deepestbreadbarbarian]

Watch "dark sonic vs light sonic" on YouTube

You should definitely check out this video in the morning.

#dark sonic #light sonic #artists on tumblr #artwork #fan art #dark #dark form #dark vs light #light form #light form of sonic #dark forms vs light forms #Youtube

[petermorwood]

More on pre-electricity lighting.

Interesting to see this one pop up again after nearly two years - courtesy of @dduane, too! :->

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After experiencing a couple more storm-related power cuts since my original post, as well as a couple of after-dark garden BBQs, I've come to the conclusion that C.J. Cherryh puts far too much emphasis on "how dark things were pre-electric light".

For one thing eyes adjust, dilating in dim light to gather whatever illumination is available. Okay, if there's none, there's none - but if there's some, human eyes can make use of it, some better or just faster than others. They're the ones with "good night vision".

Think, for instance, of how little you can see of your unlit bedroom just after you've turned off the lights, and how much more of it you can see if you wake up a couple of hours later.

There's also that business of feeling your way around, risking breaking your neck etc. People get used to their surroundings and, after a while, can feel their way around a familiar location even in total darkness with a fair amount of confidence.

Problems arise when Things Aren't Where They Should Be (or when New Things Arrive) and is when most trips, stumbles, hacked shins and stubbed toes happen, but usually - Lego bricks and upturned UK plugs aside - non-light domestic navigation is incident-free.

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Here are a couple of pics from one of those BBQs: one candle and a firepit early on, then the candle, firepit and an oil lamp much later, all much more obvious than DD's iPad screen.

Though I remain surprised at how well my phonecam was handling this low light, my own unassisted eyes were doing far better. For instance, that area between the table and the firepit wasn't such an impenetrable pool of darkness as it appears in the photo.

I see (hah!) no reason why those same Accustomed Eyes would have any more difficulty with candles or oil lamps as interior lighting, even without the mirrors or reflectors in my previous post.

With those, and with white interior walls, things would be even brighter. There's a reason why so many reconstructed period buildings in Folk Museums etc. are (authentically) whitewashed not just outside but inside as well. It was cheap, had disinfectant qualities, and was a reflective surface. Win, win and win.

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All right, there were no switches to turn on a light. But there was no need for what C.J. describes as stumbling about to reach the fire, because there were tinderboxes and, for many centuries before them, flint and steel. Since "firesteels" have been heraldic charges since the 1100s, the actual tool must have been in use for even longer.

Tinderboxes were fire-starter sets with flint, steel and "tinder" all packed into (surprise!) a box. The tinder was easily lit ignition material, often "charcloth", fabric baked in an airtight jar or tin which would now start to glow just from a spark.

They're mentioned in both "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Oddly enough, "Hobbit" mentions matches in a couple of places, but I suspect that's a carry-over from when it was just a children's story, not part of the main Legendarium.

Tinderboxes could be simple, just a basic flint-and-steel kit with some tinder for the sparks to fall on...

...or elaborate like this one, with a fancy striker, charcloth, kindling material and even wooden "spills" (long splinters) to transfer flame to a candle or the kindling...

This tinderbox even doubles as a candlestick, complete with a snuffer which would have been inside along with everything else.

Here's a close-up of the striker box with its inner and outer lids open:

What looks like a short pencil with an eraser is actually the striker. A bit of tinder or charcloth would have been pulled through that small hole in the outer lid, which was then closed.

There was a rough steel surface on the lid, and the striker was scraped along it, like so:

This was done for a TV show or film, so the tinder was probably made more flammable with, possibly, lighter fuel. That would be thoroughly appropriate, since a Zippo or similar lighter works on exactly the same principle.

A real-life version of any tinderbox would usually just produce glowing embers needing blown on to make a flame, which is shown sometimes in movies - especially as a will-it-light-or-won't-it? tension build - but is usually a bit slow and non-visual for screen work.

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There were even flintlock tinderboxes which worked with the same mechanism as those on firearms. Here's a pocket version:

Here are a couple of bedside versions, once again complete with a candlestick:

And here are three (for home defence?) with a spotlight candle lantern on one side and a double-trigger pistol on the other.

Pull one trigger to light the candle, pull the other trigger to fire the gun.

What could possibly go wrong? :-P

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Those pistol lanterns, magnified by lenses, weren't just to let their owner see what they were shooting at: they would also have dazzled whatever miscreant was sneaking around in the dark, irises dilated to make best use of available glimmer.

Swordsmen both good and bad knew this trick too, and various fight manuals taught how to manage a thumb-shuttered lamp encountered suddenly in a dark alley.

There's a sword-and-lantern combat in the 1973 "Three Musketeers" between Michael York (D'Artagnan) and Christopher Lee (Rochefort), which was a great idea.

Unfortunately it failed in execution because the "Hollywood Darkness" which let viewers see the action, wasn't dark enough to emphasise the hazards / advantages of snapping the lamps open and shut.

This TV screencap (can't get a better one, the DVD won't run in a computer drive) shows what I mean.

In fact, like the photos of the BBQ, this image - and entire fight - looks even brighter through "real eyes" than with the phonecam. Just as there can be too much dark in a night scene, there can also be too much light.

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One last thing I found when assembling pics for the post were Folding Candle-lanterns.

They were used from about the mid-1700s to the later 20th century (Swiss Army ca. 1978) as travel accessories and emergency equipment, and IMO - I've Made A Note - they'd fit right into a fantasy world whose tech level was able to make them.

The first and last are reproductions: this one is real, from about 1830.

The clear part was mica - a transparent mineral which can be split into thin flexible sheets - while others use horn / parchment, though both of these are translucent rather than transparent. Regardless, all were far less likely to break than glass.

One or two inner surfaces were usually tin, giving the lantern its own built-in reflector, and tech-level-wise, tin as a shiny or decorative finish has been used since Roman times.

I'm pretty sure that top-of-the-line models could also have been finished with their own matching, maybe even built-in, tinderboxes.

And if real ones didn't, fictional ones certainly could. :->

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Yet more period lighting stuff here, including flintlock alarm clocks (!)

#period lighting #tinderbox #too light too dark #social history #writer notes #research #period tech #sword vs lantern #c. j. cherryh

[karmecfaerry]

*

surrender myself to this physical universe

to free myself in the spiritual *

all we have is now

to live in the moment

befriend the mirror *

With no cracks left to be

I shall place my hand over my

heart

remind myself

I am meant to be

here

now

*

*

*

#1111111 #unconditional love #love #karmecfaery #light #starsnthemoon #me #mine #poetry #dark vs light #thelightshebrings #energiesofwar #phoenix #withoutmyashesicannotrise #nowlevelup #cassbauer #ineedhelpp #colors #fr333 #6thchakra #third eye #lifendeath

[entrisch]

Kingdom Hearts Verse

So I'm making a Kingdom Hearts verse for Ashtellar. I've been wanting to for a very long time. She's probably going to be a wielder of darkness and light. So more for taking care of the baby heartless. But I think it would be fun to create a verse where she can wield a keyblade of darkness and light. Since she is a vampire that canonically specializes in holy power, I would think the mixture would be the best for her. Other than that, her heart is typically strong as she serves her master without question.

#dark vs light #the battle ever rages #kingdom hearts #v; kingdom hearts #ooc;𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼

[suntails]

7.3

#AGAIN!!! AGAIN!!!!! they are two sides of the same coin. the way their UM is the exact opposite of each other im screaming #silvers UM is so hyperspecific its FATE it feels like he was born for it immmmmm dying dyin dyign #i cant express how badly i wanna draw these two a billion times rn. the fucking RAGE from BOTH of them in the confrontation is so tasty #this book is meeting each and every one of my expectations and then some... already my fav book and it still feels like its barely started #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #malleus draconia #the. the parallels. the juxtaposition. light vs dark. a prince vs his own knight. their destiny. fae vs human. im SCREAMING #genuinely i shit u not. GENUINELY the most interesting duo for me to think abt in the game. theres so much fucking lore i just know it #suntails

[lottieshauna]

YELLOWJACKETS -> 2.01 Friends, Romans, Countrymen/2.09 Storytelling

#yellowjackets #yjedit #yellowjacketsedit #lottie matthews #shauna shipman #lottiematthewsedit #shaunashipmanedit #simone kessell #melanie lynskey #96yellowjackets #yellowjacketssource #yellowjacketscentral #antlerqueer #tusermiles #tvgifs #tvedit #**gifs #i remember doing my rewatch and getting chills during the first scene bc of the last scene #ALSO LOTTIE IN THE LIGHT TALKING ABOUT LETTING GO OF THE THING THAT MAKES U SICK #VS LOTTIE IN THE DARK EMBRACING THE THING THAT MAKES HER SICK #there also could be no parallel here and im just crazy but either way - SCREAM!!!