#frog posting on main

[grassbreads]

I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the history of vampires in fiction and how the vampire as we know it today first entered literature, and the subject is honestly fascinating. The traditional folklore around vampires and vampire-like creatures is largely very different from what we'd think of as a vampire today, and it's also very different from how vampires appeared in even their earliest literary incarnations.

For one thing, there's nothing particularly alluring about most traditional vampires. They're bloated corpses that have crawled out of their graves, not dashing mysterious counts in lonely castles. They're not a particularly stylish or sexy monster.

However, from pretty much the moment that western literature first turned to the vampire myth for inspiration, writers saw something in the concept to sexualize. The poem "Der Vampir" (The Vampire) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder is often cited as the first ever true literary depiction of a vampire (published 1748!), and it is about a man corrupting a chaste and religious woman through his unwanted kiss/vampiric bite. John William Polidori's 1819 short story "The Vampyre" is widely seen as the first work to truly codify vampire fiction, and the titular Vampyre Ruthven is in large part inspired by the womanizing Lord Byron. Le Fanu's Carmilla depicts an intense attraction between Carmilla and her victim Laura. Stoker's Count Dracula is a man with overly flushed lips and hair on his palms, marks of Victorian fears of sexuality.

From the very start, vampires in literature have been a sexual monster. They're emblems of the seductive and terrible—the kiss of death that you can't help but be drawn to anyway. A violent forced intimacy that will corrupt you and drain away your very life force. There's a great deal of xenophobia and fear of the un-christian in early vampire fiction as well, but the fear of sex and sexual assault have always been a driver of literary vampires' horror and allure. Writers seem eternally split between desire for the vampire and revulsion at that very lust, even from the moments that the creatures first graced the page.

There's a great tradition of vampiric fiction both using vampirism to evoke sexual predators and making vampires themselves desirably sexy. Thus, given that it is very concerned with sexual assault and bodily autonomy as themes, often uses predation by a vampire to evoke sexual violence, and is deeply horny about vampires and blood drinking, Jun Mochizuki's The Case Study of Vanitas is actually one of if not the best modern successor to the canon of early vampire literature. In this essay, I will

#rare vnc post on main bc starting off with my obvious vnc icon and url would spoil the punchline #wanna take y'all by surprise a little ;P #anyway this post is a joke but the point I'm making genuinely kinda isn't #you know how it is #I am genuinely fascinated by the ways that vnc is in conversation with the literary sources that it pulls from #it really is riffing on a LOT of the same ideas through a modern lens #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #invasion of the frogs

[warblercore]

can i get a ribbit ribbit in the chat?!?!

'the prince and the frog', yet another klaine au

#my art #glee #glee fanart #klaine #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #except he's a frog for plot reasons #he also looks like a toad in the first one but like. i'm not an animal expert #sorryyyyyy #we were talking about toads!!!!!!!! #shout out to crys and genevieve for encouraging me xoxo #accidentally posted this to main LMAO!?!?!??!!?!?

[givehimthemedicine]

free miracle cure for some of the takes & winning poll options that've been on my dash lately. get well soon

#some of you are basing strong opinions off of inaccurate 18+ month old memories of your last watch and it shows #like if your ship is the main/only part of a show that you care about great. you do you. Ive had shows like that. have fun however it's fun #just. if that's you why are you jumping into arguments about the other stuff #if your perception of the show is built on yt scene packs of your ship spliced together with frog dna to fill in the boring parts #(aka The Actual Plot) where are you getting the confidence to argue dickishly about characters and themes you clearly pay no attention to? #also gesturing vaguely to that post about periodically renewing your license by rewatching the source material #anyway. #don't mind me I'm just an old man grumbling on my porch as I see tourists start to filter back into town as the weather warms up #(resumes whittling) #shitposts

[djsherriff-responses]

Really not safe for kids stuff below

POV you are a frog and convinced the hawk and dog to stop trying to kill each other , but they struggle with sharing so you tried to spend time with them both however it got out of hand

#captain laserhawk #laserfrog #Rayfrog #rayhawk kinda? #What is the ship name for the three of them? #not safe for kids #anyone else see my vision? #Not quite confident to post this on main lmao #I will draw other characters and non ship stuff I just really like the French frog getting smooched (mainly by Dolph)

[banyanas]

something about writing toads as traditionally nomadic and something about sasha always feeling like a wanderer in her own family bouncing from her mother’s to her father’s to her friends’ houses constantly. is that anything.

#bañana post #once again frog posting on main. my bad. #amphibia #listen it’s just Impossible for me to divide worldbuilding from characterization and plot. also this one made my friends sad so i’m posting #and admittedly for every character/plot reason for worldbuilding theres ALSO wanting to think about minute kinda boring details #subsistence logistics spinning in my head like rotisserie chicken wheeeee

[frog4278art]

Drawing OC lore for the first time in forever

#I’ll post more about them here eventually #I know I’ve talked about them a little on my main account #but nothing in detail #Frog art #Frogs OCs

[ragdolls-and-such]

I know I've never posted about my ocs on here before, but I'm really proud of this piece

YES this is a redraw of that one aquabats album (hi-five soup), YES these characters are all based on aquabats songs, YES i would die for them. <3 and NO these are not their canon outfits i just did it for the pic

#ocs #oc art #my art #the aquabats #hi-five soup #i want to tell yuy guys who is who because i love them so much you all deserve to know their names #frog-pose guy is Spike he's an interdimensional mailman #kid with 3 arms and 5 eyes is Benji he's a theater kid #pegasus boy is Luno he's stupid <3 #blonde girl is Sadie she's got Issues and i adore her #and the 11 year old with one eye is my guy Wilson #aka the main character of this story!! #i will probably post more about it at some point!!

[mads-is-tired]

thanks to posts brought to my dash by my mutuals i’ve made a realisation

guys why are we hating on Le Frog from 2006’s Flushed away??????

#i have no idea what to do with this information but i feel i can never go back #i was like ‘huh why don’t we like le frog’ so i looked him up as i’m only on s1e21 #and i forgot to put ‘jrwi’ in the search and had vivid flashbacks of flushed away #i’m too afraid to main tag this what will the masses do with this information. #maybe this is well known and i’m late to the party LMAO #mads makes a post

[ninjakirkki]

Was going through my old sketchbooks since I like to do that sometimes and man, I still adore my first Keroro gunso fanarts I did wayyy back in like 2008?? Anyway I wanted to share some of them!!

You might be able to tell that I had favorites 😂😂 Embrace your old art if you still have it around <33

as a bonus here's out of context little sillies Is it GiroDoro or is it just friends teasing each other, who knows!!

#keroro gunso #sgt frog #ninjakirkkiart #sparing my artblog from this and posting on main lmao #i think the mario one was inspired by that one mario parody episode #my old art is so silly i love it

[elizabethrobertajones]

Have you seen her????

#I've been thinking about how everyone's WoLs are doing over the course of the story #and I have to say post-EW Frog is thriving like ANYTHING #fascinated by what putting a proper rest period into a story does for a main character #only a video game can enforce something like that :') #can actually feel the way you approach the game changing into someone who relaxes on an island all weekend #ffxiv #bounding frog

[withswords]

sebastian's beach body fantasies for Frog Weather <3

#frog weather #crying art noises #i'm posting to my main and reblogging to fwc just in case tumblr nukes it. also because i'm pretty proud of these #stardew valley #stardew elliott

[sinecosinewheel]

just found the ash lake in ds1 for the first time. god damn.

#wheeltext #dark souls posting #like i had found the great hollow but i forgot to actually gonna through it #its insane to me how there are still things i havent seen in ds1 like i know i havent finished the dlc but in the main game?? #anyway ash lake is fucking beautiful the environment is insane the hydra??? yhe fucking hydra????? i didnt know there was more than one in #the whole game!!! and its mobile???? the bitch jumps???? #THE ARCHDRAGON????? #im used to getting spoiled for everything in a souls game at this point so seeing this was nuts it made me so happy #i had also never seen the area in darkroot garden with the red frog mushroom things before which also blew ny mind on a much #much smaller scale #im numero uno thalassaphobe and deep water scares the piss out of me so this area was very effective #the roots/branches you see coming out of the trees way above you look just enough like the hydras heads and tails to make me wonder if #there were more floating above #the skull was kinda weird though #is it supposed to imply there was a before even before the age of the dragons? with big tooth guys #mixed feelings on that but still!!!! exciting!!!!!!!!

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

i have been Considering. watching sgt frog again. bc i stopped at around 119 . and it is a very fun show. but The Horrors

#sgt frog #keroro gunso #i cannot explain to you the amount of mental shit i have to brace myself for when watching this show #its good! dont fucking watch it. please god #its like home//stuck . like im dead serious it has the same effect #everyone who ive asked about hs to. has told me Never to read it #and im going to repeat that same sentiment for sgt frog. Never fucking watch this show /lh #they GET YOU with the first episode it's CAPTIVATING it's UNIQUE its like CANDY #and the rest of the show is one Long #Long #terrible horrible no good Very Bad trip . that IS GOOD. in some parts #but sometimes it leaves you wondering what the FUCK they were smoking in the writer's office #this isnt accounting for how unwelcome in the fandom i feel being a keroro fictive btw. which is its whole OTHER POST that nobody'll read #my point is . fucking . sgt frog sucks (affectionately derogatory) #it aged like the finest Milk left out on a Hot summer day in arizona #and by god we are all consuming the absolutely rotten curds #sorry for that analogy it was trhe best i got #btw i put this in the main tags . bc everyone Knows sgt frog sucks. we;ve all agreed this show sucks Butt and Ass and Balls #i should hope so anyways #because it does. its GOOD dont get me wrong. but Oh My God is it Bad

[thirstyplantart]

frob

#dont remember if i posted him on my main #but well #here he goes #frog #thirstyplantart #frob

[meatmensch]

Just saw a post that said "not fair that the cuntiest woman in this world is a muppet (ms. piggy)"...I have actually spoken extensively on this topic and it is my belief that to regard Miss Piggy as anything other than a stunning woman on the same level as any other beautiful woman is disrespectful to the Muppet artform and the suspension of disbelief that we as a society join in when we think of the Muppets and Miss Piggy as a pig and a woman. It's not unfair that the cuntiest woman in the world is a Muppet...of course she is. Who the fuck else? Why would it be unfair?

#i have very strong opinions about this that were mostly inspired by the most recent muppet film; muppets most wanted #the number with miss piggy and celine made me sooooooo fucking angry!!! celine was overshadowing miss piggy! as though it was funny! as #though miss piggy was not THE STAR! a woman that celine should admire and respect and bow before. ridiculous!!! #miss piggy is literally a public figure. 'but she's a puppet' puppets play a very special role in art and in society!!! #also. jesus. all of your fucking posts that joke about muppet productions of stories in which piggy is. not even the leading lady but the #love interest and the main character is a handsome human man. you people know nothing!!! you joke about it like it's so comical that she #would pull a man like that but what is truly comical is the idea that any man in the entire world deserves that honor aside from her prince #kermit the frog. #TREAT MISS PIGGY RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NO LONGER ASKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #my posts #the muppets

[bookwyrminspiration]

OKAY SO LIKE. YOU KNOW HOW A LOT OF ANIMATED SHOWS AND STORIES EXIST. AND A LOT OF THEM ARE ABOUT CHILDHOOD AND COMING OF AGE RIGHT. AND THEY ALL HANDLE THIS GORGEOUSLY AND THEY ALSO HANDLE MATURE THEMES BEAUTIFULLY AND THINGS LIKE THE OWL HOUSE ARE INCREDIBLE FOR THAT. HOWEVER. SUCKS IN BREATH. AMPHIBIA. it's a classic fantasy story girl gets sucked into amphibian world where there are frogs and toads and salamanders and it is like. this big colorful fun escapist world and yet also class differences and this kid learning to be a better person and her friends learning to be better people (<- also the main character, anne, is thai which is one of the coolest things i've ever seen. more southeast asian people in art represent) and LIKE MANY children's shows it gets progressively darker as it goes on. but. it never loses its goofiness. and its love and earnestness and weirdness of when you are a kid in that middle school to high school transitional stage. and in the end the kids have to go home and grow up, and live their lives in the world they were trying to escape. and like. tater and i were talking privately about a bunch of stuff that happened during the peak pandemic era in regards to personal life & also kotlcblr as a whole and how much of a support system it was for us in the sense of like. it being this safe place for us to come and be silly and also have A Talk when we needed it and then how a lot of people kind of aged out for it and then i went OOF. OW. TATER. ISN'T THAT LIKE THE SHOW THAT I JUST FINISHED WATCHING AND U HAVE BEEN RAVING ABOUT FOREVER

I LOVE intertextuality and connection and recurring themes about the human condition and life and growing and how we tell the same stories through different lenses and the love that goes into it all.

2020 keepblr was such a retreat, this whole other world full of such enthusiasm and energy and companionship. for that brief window in time (it was like 2 years ish but compared to eternity) all of our lives crossed paths and we were all so present and important to each other. homework sucked and a lot of life sucked and we were learning who we were a lot of us (not that that's a process that ever stops, but early teen years especially have some shit going on) and had this place to go without fear of judgement--at least not the same as irl judgement. it was so supportive!! there was so much engagement with everything and everyone it was glorious

and it's so surreal to watch people move on. because like...that's what happens a lot of the time. we outgrow our younger interests as we age, we spend our time on different things. we cannot hold onto this moment forever and truly it would be unfair to ourselves to try, to keep us there. sometimes the point of something is for it to be impermanent.

i don't know if i'm making any sense but you get it! the themes! the past! the growing up!

#quil's queries #soryasongsaa #long post #i know amphibia has frongs #and god is a cat #and I think each of the main trio dies once? #but they also come back #i think there's some betrayal.. someone might get stabbed #one girl gets an evil lot of eyes hat put on her #someone falls off a cliff #someone gets stabbed #god is a cat #there's a pink frog #does someone leave their phone in the frog world? #there's a therapist a writer and a frog scientist at the end #and a bisexual #they're called the caIamity trio i think #there's an old frog as part of the found family #there's something about how they each overcome their personal problem/issue at the beginning #like an overachieving student learns to let go and pursue passion #anyway