#imitation

[catchymemes]

#animals #imitation #art #jiemba sands #tiktok #funny #video

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Mur Murs (Agnès Varda, 1981)

#Mur Murs #Agnès Varda #Agnes Varda #Varda #1981 #documentary #quote #graffiti #metaphor #capitalism #art #work #life #imitation #money

[suuushirolled]

felt compelled to draw Imitation, today... he needed better art than what i gave him

#ocs #terato #monster #sushirolled art #my art #imitation

[xxautumnivyxx]

Needs some fine tuning but for a first time dry run on my Karlach imitation I’ll take it.

#autumn ivy #autumnivy #cosplayer #the bone collector #narrator #actor #costumer #amazon #alternative #cosplay #VO #voice actor #Karlach #bg3 #bg3 karlach #baldur's gate 3 #imitation

[p3ld]

7 days of me drawing Errorcore

Day 4: Initiative

#core!frisk #error sans x core frisk #error!sans #errorcore #initiative #imitation

[matureladiesdressedandsexy]

#ai #fake #counterfeit #bogus #fabricated #forged #phoney #imitation #false #mock #fictitious #spurious #concocted #invented #make believe #pretend #not real #pseudo #sham

[redrcs]

My chili imitating the passionfruit vine

Yes yes, we already know I'm easily amused.

#original photographers #nature photography #plants #chili #passionfruit tendril #imitation

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a modeling competition. For our shoot, we had to imitate cats. I imitated mine and won.

#dream #competition #modeling #cats #imitation #cat

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.

- René Girard (1923-2015)

Frnechman René Girard’s work has been enjoying a renaissance in recent years. He has long been recognised for his theory of human behaviour and human culture. In 2005 he was inducted into the Académie française, and in 2008 he received the Modern Language Association's award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. He was Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

Back more than 50 years ago, René Girard started teaching French literature because he needed a job. He hadn't even read many of the books he was assigned to teach. Then, as he studied the classic novels of Stendhal and Proust with a fresh mind, staying one step ahead of his students, he was struck by a series of similarities from novel to novel. Unbound by any narrow research agenda, Girard discovered a simple but powerful pattern that had eluded sophisticated critics before him: imitation is the fundamental mechanism of human behaviour.

Stories thrive on conflict between characters. By reading the great writers against the grain of conventional wisdom, Girard realised that people don't fight over their differences. They fight because they are the same, and they want the same things. Not because they need the same things (food, sex, scarce material goods), but because they want what will earn others' envy. Humans, with a planning intelligence that sets them apart from all other animals, are free to choose. With freedom comes risk and uncertainty: humans don't know in advance what to choose, so they look to others for cues.

People can desire anything, as long as other people seem to desire it, too: that is the meaning of Girard's concept of "mimetic desire." Since people tend toward the same objects of desire, jealousy and rivalry are inevitable sources of social tension.

#girard #rené girard #quote #mimetic theory #sociology #philosophy #human condition #human nature #desire #wants #needs #imitation #copying #society #mimetic desire

[seijorhi]

rhi, i have a confession. you know i love your writing immensely, right? i’ve at least read every single one of your fics THREE TIMES. i love your writing that much. well... there is one fic of yours i can only handle to read once and never ever again. disclaimer: not because it was terribly written or anything. no, so so far from that. you wrote it so well that i can only handle going through the heart break once of reader being so desperate for kuroo’s love even if it’s just a fraction of how he felt for his late lover knowing deep down that she (reader) will never compare nor will kuroo love her even quite close to her (kuroo’s late lover)

also, wow. remembering that fic and has made me think about how incredibly... sad... obsession can be. now i’m thinking about what will happen if reader dies before the yans whether it may be from an illness, an accident, murder, or natural causes. i can see some yans literally die from heartache (i heard somewhere that it happens 😧) or go batshit crazy killing spree (if it were caused by an accident / murder) or i also can see some try to find an imitation of them to fill in the hole in their heart (that they most likely never fill)

personally, i am not one for the concept of a yan that tries, tries and tries again. it kinda kills the fun (again, for me) when they're willing – eager, even – to just move onto the next one after it doesn't work out. like it didn't matter, didn't rewrite their fucking DNA, loving you.

no, i like an obsession that rots. that twists like a knife, that digs its claws in so deep, even if its wrenched out there's no fixing the mess left behind. which, in a weird way, is why i love imitation.

like i said, normally the idea of a replaceable darling really doesn't do it for me, nor do fics where the reader/object of obsession dies. it's why beyond imitation i'll probably never write the trope again BUT looking at imitation through the lens of that first love? kuroo being absolutely destroyed by her death, and with every failed replacement losing himself a little more?

he was never good, obviously – he stole her, too. he gets worse without her. colder, angrier, more callous. less human. they aren't people to him, they're not her. deep, deep down, he knows all of this is a fool's errand. they'll never be her, so they don't have a hope in hell of filling the gaping, bloody hole she left behind. he's dragging kenma down with him, he doesn't care about that either. the smart, healthy thing to do would be to accept it. there's no moving on for someone like him, of course not, but he could stop hurting other people, stop taking the pretty girls that remind him of her, at half a glance anyway.

but that's not going to happen either. because if he can convince himself, for a single moment, a heartbeat, that he's got her back in his arms, that she never left him in the first place–

he'd burn the fucking world for that.

#rhi answers #also this ask is so cute ilysm!!! #fic asks #imitation

[ilikeit-art]

At the Sydney Zoo, a lyrebird has learned to perfectly imitate the cry of a baby.

#lyrebird #imitation #baby crying

[badkdramatakes]

Being a Lee Jun Young fan watching the Kim Soo Hyun fans not worried about his dramas cause “he always picks good scripts”

#lee jun young #queen of tears #kim soo hyun #love and leashes #imitation #need I add more? ☹️😭 #even this current one like??? #impossible heir

[behonart]

Checking out the Shangri-La Frontier premiere, and am glad the anime tradition of blatantly replicating something but just changing a few letters holds true.

#shangri-la frontier #shangri la frontier #anime #crunchyroll #sonic #sonic frontiers #sonic the hedgehog #sega #parody #imitation #ripoff #gomic frontiers

[vertigoartgore]

80's Mike Zeck style black suit Spider-Man by Dakota Alexander.

#black suit spider man #dakota alexander #spidey #not so friendly now #spider man #black suit #no symbiote #badass #threatening #thunder #rooftop #angry #webhead #no more mister nice guy #mike zeck #80's #80s #1980s #mid 80s #web of #fan art #fake cover #style #retro #vintage #imitation #kraven the hunter #kraven last hunt #vermin #peter parker

[kyungsoosus]

Yunho’s fight scene in Imitation | for @retroyunho

#ateezedit #boyidoledit #mgroupsedit #ateez #yunho #imitation #gif #ateezgif #yunhogif #requestgif #added the part where they practice the choreo too #cuz the actual scene alone was too short imo

[saisons-en-enfer]

#harsh symmetry #best of 2023 #imitation #darkwave #coldwave