#fuck i gotta study

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

[leo-bandito]

moar hl scraps…. does a pose

#There's I think a couple repeat doodles srry I cldnt crop it right. wgatever #that 1st one is a study .... I didn't realize how. Fucked up his hev suit is by th end of everything like holyshit..... #I was lookin at the pic I was using for th study and was like. 😟 that's so much blood.... that's just like.. #A big gouge....... uueueeeughh...... #LIKE HIS WHOLE LEFT SIDE IS BLOWN OPEN. CHRIST #I will also say I dont care 4 th hl2 HEV but I like the way the chest piece is shaped #I kinda mix them up when I draw it..... does another pose #half life #half life 2 #hl1 #hl2 #gordon freeman #barney calhoun #freehoun #alyx vance #adrian shephard #opposing force #blue shift #That middle one of Adrian I'm mayyybe gonna turn into a full piece. I just gotta get the pose better... #Anyway listen to cowboy Dan by modest mouse. Adrian song. I know this #Th one with Barney and Adrian is nonsensical I just thought it was funny #In my heart during the black mesa incident I think barney separately teamed up w both Adrian and Gordon. #Not for very long. But I like 2 think about it. #<- making shit up

[eggwishing]

ah....!

#eeber #lol #umm. HELP! #looking at yt videos where peopel are drew scribbly rough anime fights that go fucking HARD #HOW! #u envision those poses all in your head... godg damn... #i gotta study !!!! #IGNORE MY SHIT GRAMMAR THE FOG CAME FOR ME

[kiddokori]

his ass is NOT getting up for his 8am lecture

#skyward sword #loz #loz fanart #sksw link #sksw zelda #sksw fi #ill always come back to link ill never be free of him #i kinda wanted zelda to study history too because shes really into the history of skyloft/legends/etc in game #but maybe that can be a hobby maybe shes more into folktales and mythology than history #i also considered some type of math/stem for fi but idk history/linguistics fits her designed purpose of being a sortof messenger more #i think shes real good with numbers tho maybe she does math tutoring on the side #why are campus stairs always so fucking long theyre such a weird length you gotta fucking lunge every step #and doing that w a giant ass backpack and an artbag and a fucking can of gesso #in the summer. torture i think they were just trying to weed us out #you think art students have any core strength #thats why links so ripped he has to haul all that shit around all day #he definitely lives in a co ed dorm w zelda and they have the most fucked up evil (remlit) dorm cat #groose is there too i just dont have him pinned down sorry buddy #kiddokori

[racmune]

its getting 2 late now but have funny frazbears the movie sketches

idk how i feel about the sauce levels of this ship however they are very funny to rotate in my mind

#also i am very bisexualll and um. HEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHE #racmune art #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf vanessa #fnaf mike #schmelly #vanessa shelly #mike schmidt #didnt wear my glasses to the theatre so i was disappointed to find that vanessa did not in fact have wrinkles like that u_u #whatever man im keeping it as my headcanon forever #bleh i think i fucked up mikes nose tho #gotta do some more studies so i can do funny art for my funny movie

[rexscanonwife]

Not me making a s/i for a game that I'm probably not even gonna play myself 😭🙏 here it is folks some simple ref of my bg3 tav!

She's a half-elf Paladin and a follower of Oghma, the God of Knowledge, with a sage background ♡ she's got an insatiable and somewhat macabre curiosity that leads her to explore things that are sometimes considered a bit disturbing but she finds fascinating! She has a bit of a manic edge that can make her seem a bit inconsiderate at times because she talks faster than she can think, but she means well and is very sweet! And of course she's catching feelings for a certain someone 😊

♡taglist♡: @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @changeling-selfship @crushes-georg @squips-ship @drjohndisco @adoredbyalatus

#artfarts #self insert #self ship #bg3 tav #bg3 self insert #bg3 #crush: 🗡 #OUGGH I NEED A SHIP TAG 😭😭 #thats the only thing i need to make wyll an official f/o...👉👈 #GOD IDK HOW I FELL FOR HIM LIKE THIS #i cant help it he's so fucking sweet and romantic and he's so so so devoted to u when u romance him 🥺💖💖💖💖 #maybe thats it devotion is a huge thing for me ajfjfk #if ur character will love with everything they have then im gone. and if the character is good with kids ajfjfk #WHICH WYLL IS BOTH #and idc if i dont have the game thats not gonna stop me uwu #i gotta draw us soon but alas...the call of dinner and needing to make it #but yeah her belt buckle has the symbol of oghma and her outfit is pretty simple but thats ok #between her studies she'll bash ur head in btw 😂 shes got no tolerance for nonsense #can u tell shes imbued with autism? specifically my autistic fixation on dark things #all my s/is have autism but the specific FLAVOR varies between them #and oughghh she'd be so enchanted by wyll 🥺🥺 #and shed be so interested in karlach and astarion bcs she does a lot of reading about vampires and tieflings #she's just never met them before #thats what i mean abt MAYBEEE being a lil insensitive bcs she might not be the most soft about what she knows #but once they all get to know one another she'd be a very good friend to them and she'd throw down for them without hesitation 😤😤😤 #speaking of karlach. uh 😳 uhm 😳😳 uhhhh #might want her too ngl 💘💖💘💖💘💖

[grinchwrapsupreme]

literally not the point of any of it at all and not even in the top 10 reasons to hate him but James Somerton's videos are so badly lit like babe get a flashlight or something christ

#james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #i'm watching todd's video rn and every clip of him is either dark as hell or so flatly lit that he disappears into the background #even the shot where he's lit blue and the background is pink/red it's just so bad #also unrelated but i hate his deliveries of everything but especially when he makes things up #he really thinks he's doing something and does that airy or kind of snooty delivery that i hate #again #not even top ten #but i've just gotta say it i hate both these things so much #especially knowing he's lying throughout idk man #oh god i just got to the hitchcock section oh god oh fuck he's so wrong about everything oh god #<- has a degree in theatre and studied kabuki as part of that degree and the shift from theatre into film and was also raised on hitchcock #anyways

[buglaur]

#i miss my fave old guy 💔 #ts4 #sims 4 #i'll get back to macmahons over summer i promise #3 more exams to go and i'm fucking DONE #this week has been the longest ever #i've got art history and business studies tomorrow #and i've gotta wait 8 days until the 23rd to go in for my final one #which is economics #i had today off so i took some cas time #ts4 cas

[murdrdocs]

i’m telling u hazel would love this mf LMFAOOOOOOO

oh. my. god. DO YOU KNOW THE CAN OF WORMS U JUST OPENED ????

#w the fucking example image ???? #idk i gotta do a character study atp #like i need to create a hazel if i can’t have her #hazel callahan

[ianashas-palace]

Soooo... someone mentioned my Joker Joker design would be a good shadow design so I kinda went with it and spat this out

Throwing Akechi in there for fun cause ya know. Also I am quickly realising a pattern in my akeshu stuff. Akechi seems to be the one being flirted with lmao

Lineart under the cut

#can't just be drawing joker joker now #i gotta throw in akeshu as well #Y'all this absolutely KILLED my pc to render #i use so many layers it is unhealthy #it used like a minute each time i wanted to save and I'm just sitting there praying it doesn't crash #Worked on this while studying for exams #and then while playing the new zelda game #good thing I've had a good amount of free time cause man have i been doing stuff lmao #anyway drawing akechi's shoulder pads was an absolute pain that I do not wish on anyone #also I chose the prince outfit cause I felt it was a better contrast to Joker Joker's outfit #and I will not draw that fucking helmet #I'm sorry but his black mask outfit is going to kill me #I've rambled enough in my tags now. Time for the actual tags #persona 5 #p5 #Joker p5 #Ren Amamiya #Akira Kurusu #Amamiya Ren #Kurusu Akira #Goro Akechi #Akechi Goro #persona 5 protagonist #Akeshu #Shuake #joker joker #Okay I can feel myself going mad overthinking about posting this so just gonna say fuck it we ball

[ahamkara-apologist]

Actually you know what. I'm in an oc-loving mood and want to hear about other people's Young Wolves rn and how they intersect with what we get in canon. Do y'all have reasons why your guardians are so quiet in canon/why they prefer to be called by their title rather than their name, or is that something you disreguard entirely as a blank space Bungie left for you to fill in? How do they mesh with canon in that reguard?

(My Young Wolf is named Aeris, and the reason why he prefers to go either by 'guardian' or 'young wolf' is because it sounds so similar to Eris's name. That they're both quiet Hunters with thousand-yard stares and a penchent for researching aliens/creeping people out in the process doen't help the matter, either. Aeris decided to let Eris be the one with 'name rights' mostly because she's his senior, but also partially because he gets a little freaked out by people he doesn't know using his first name simply bc that's a good metric for them being someone he should remember, and if he doesn't know them then oops he fucked up there)

#i probs asked this already but fuck it im in the mood again #many people have spicy yws so im curious! #destiny 2 #reblog bls I wanna be able to rb them all again to see #gotta go study rn

[sweetmapple]

Forcing myself to draw Astarion with other companions through increasingly bizarre ref pictures part 3 (ref from maliktheoracle on twitter)

#baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #halsin #anti-same face syndrome study #and I just gotta say #I know astarion is the titular “pale elf” #but i have no fucking control over how corpse like his rendering comes out each time #i welcome the pale white boy jokes #i promise I am aware #aware and just dumb #also the og picture is goddamn Shaq

[wariocompany]

More questions because I'm chatty tonight. You can have one relatively mundane item from your life preserved exceptionally well and rediscovered by historians a thousand years later. What do you want it to be?

#I feel like the most obvious choice for me would be my diary #But I think it might be a hastle for historians because it chances languages frequently for no reason #Studying 21st century English in the future might be hard enough you gotta add 21st century French Japanese Hungarian fucking everything #But I think it paints a good image of the average bloke's emotions #Alternatively my cortex mug #because it's just funy

[skrunksthatwunk]

aurghhh ok still rewatching '97 and the way guts and casca only have the room to breathe and really come to understand and care for each other in griffith's absence because he has such a strong hold over them both.... and the way their mutual dedication to him is what causes them to bicker for years (casca thinks he's not serving him well enough, guts thinks she doesn't get that he cares/how much he cares, casca's jealousy over griffith's feelings for guts, how he won his heart without even trying or being aware of it or doing anything with it) and is also a big part of what brings them together (earlier when guts deviates from the plan to save griffith and she commends him, in the cave casca opening up about griffith and her's past, showing that vulnerability, while it's mostly confrontational, leads to guts kinda getting her better, and his efforts to save and protect her (falling off the cliff with her, taking on the 100 men so she can escape, encouraging her to return to griffith so she can help him because it's what she feels she's meant to do (her dream, the direction in life guts shares and yet is questioning because of griffith's speech at the fountain, whether or not it's enough to serve him if it means he'll never be a true friend in griffith's eyes because he's not an equal), supporting the idea of her being with griffith/being his most important person like he won't because he doesn't view it as a competition like she has been since day one) leading to her realizing that he's kind of not that bad a guy and they have a lot more in common that she thought. and how the bonfire of dreams conversation is guts opening up to her in kind, the answer to her talking about how griffith saved her, how she feels. how neither of them ever call it love but it's something they know they both have for griffith. how it's something they're beginning to have for each other, different in ways they couldn't put a word to. because they're equals this time. the way griffith kind of becomes less and less important as they find other reasons to live and fight, as they become less singularly obsessed with him. how griffith is unable to stand it, guts' personhood, that agency and peer-to-peer equality he claimed to want (and perhaps truly did) that disappeared guts from his life, his plans, his side. how it barely even matters to griffith how casca changes because he never wanted her like she wanted him. god i can't fucking stand their shakespearean nonsense drama (<- hopelessly in love with their interpersonal dynamics)

#god they're the only healthy part of this unholy mind-palace love triangle/throuple aren't they #they could have been the worst qpr/throuple in your social circle. like just insufferable when they're not getting along #if griffith hadn't [oh god oh fuck oh jesus christ] all over everything even remotely good in his life anyway #poor casca's in love with a gay man and then falls for his not-quite-boyfriend and when not-quite-boyfriend reciprocates said gay man fucki #g. Does The Eclipse Stuff. at least partially to get back at you two. oh my godd #i'm sorry i'm so not normal about them. it's starting to leak out into the blog bc i'm finally having a Berserk Moment since starting tumbl #but whewwwww. gotta get this outta my system #hope this wall of text makes sense oops <3 #berserk #berserk 1997 #how do i even tag their thang. their disastrous just horrible agonizing 3 guy dynamic. hm. #gutsca #griffguts #don't even know if anyone tags for griffith and casca. fair because 1) he raped her. yikes 2) he just straight up isn't into her #and i don't know if there's a tag for the three of them but trial and error led to nothing #but i wanna talk about their dynamic. their. (gestures wildly) whatever. it's not about thinking griffith should kiss anyone it's about lik #the agony. the pining and the torment and whatever miura so beautifully crafted for me specifically. sheesh #hope it's clear that i Don't Want Them To Be An Uwu Little Polycule Bc Casca Should Not Be In A Cutesy Throuple With Her Rapist #it's more that i think they kind of are or almost are part of this (gestures wildly again). Thing. with each other and i wanna talk about i #same with griffguts like oh man they should NOT be in a relationship. but i have this deep intense Need to study them and frankly they're #kind of crazy about each other for a while. like they care about each other so so much it's crucial to all three of their characters. #so it's kind of unavoidable. and i wanna talk about it. and have this read by people who also want to talk about it. yeah? yeah. #(and yeah i think griffith raping casca was about her and guts. like 'fuck you for making him okay with leaving me' type of vibe. even #though it wasn't her fault he's just. god. but it sure as hell isn't Mostly about casca because griffith's making eye contact like the Whol #time with guts. he makes him watch. it's just. shooooooooooo aughhhhghhghh fucking. jesus christ. that or it's the fear that his two most #important pawns are going to leave him Together and he just. can't deal with that. especially after the torture internment thing. #he's so weak and he was so close to his dream and now it's falling apart and they're leaving him and he can't even move. it's about making #damn sure they can't escape him or forget him ever again. #or maybe it's even a 'you can't have her she's mine' to guts but it's still largely like. spiteful/about possessing her as a soldier/human #because i don't think you could convince me it's about having her as a lover or about controlling/hurting/possessing her body.)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

dawg my body is so ready for seeing your human versions of the gang. like the need to draw these sillies is JUST TOO DAMN GREAT--(please don't take this as "OMG HURRY UP", i'm just very excited to see your interpretations!)

well shit now i gotta buckle down on brushing up + improving upon my human scribbling skills, which - meager to begin with - have deteriorated due to Puppet Disease (and i say this with playful exasperation. i've been needing an excuse to Practice and this is a damn good one)

though i will say! i'll be adhering to the ~canon~ human versions we've been gifted via Clown's pokemon au. ofc since we don't know what Howdy, Poppy, Sally, and Eddie look like, i'll have to think of something myself

#like the canon designs we have are so so good why would i Not adhere... #i mean i might take some creative liberties here and there but yk yk #also... barnaby's kinda bear-coded ngl.... love that for him #and honestly i'm starting to consider like... writing this au??? tidbits perhaps??? #because i've got a lot more internal creative freedom since this au diverges so severely from The Main Thing #it's one of those aus for easter eggs & keeping characterizations accurate but some freedom to bend them #because of the circumstances of the au & the inherent changes involved #its a fun puzzle of balancing how the au affects things but also keeping things as recognizable / canon-compliant as possible #rambles from the bog #i really gotta make a tag for this au since apparently i will be posting more than Twice about it! lookie that! #ohhhh god i just realized im gonna have to do some outfit design #FUCK that is not something i'm very good at.... in my own life or on paper.... digital paper.... #well im gonna go do a human study #study some styles i like study structure etc etc #nothing like being truly Unwell about something to push that artistic drive & improvement!

[redstrewn]

uhhhh i dont wanna look at this anymiore so haevv it lmao

SORRY HE EDOESNT HAVE HIS SCAR I GAVE UP

#i got tired i tried to do sth in art thats way above my skill level i give up ill try again another time once ive actually done more studies #but i was tryna go from imagination here no fucking reference #i was driving myself insane. i gotta do photo refs first. baby steps. #here have my mess #redstrewn art #leander #touchstarved game