#unusual materials

[killyridols]

majin buu by anthony akinbola, 2022, durags on wooden panel, 96 x 108 x 3 inches

#anthony akinbola #american art #textile art #cloth #durags #unusual materials #pink #2020s

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #my post #friendly reminder that there's nothing indicating that Elizabeth was exceptionally pious or that her piety was 'beyond purely conventional' #(something first claimed by Anne Crawford who simultaneously claimed that Elizabeth was 'grasping and totally lacking in scruple' so...) #EW's piety as queen may have stood out compared to former 15th century predecessors and definitely stood out compared to her husband #but her actions in themselves were not especially novel or 'beyond normal' and by themselves don't indicate unusual piety on her part #As Laynesmith's more recent research observes they seem to have been 'broadly conventional' #A conclusion arrived at Derek Neal as well who also points out that in general queens and elite noblewomen simply had wider means #of 'visible material expression of [their] personal devotion' - and also emphasizes how we should look at their wider circumstances #to understand their actions (eg: the death of Elizabeth's son George in 1479 as a motivating factor) #It's nice that we know a bit about Elizabeth's more personal piety - for eg she seems to have developed an attachment to Westminster Abbey #It's possible her (outward) piety increased across her queenship - she undertook most of her religious projects in later years #But again - none of them indicate the *level* of her piety (ie: they don't indicate that she was beyond conventionally pious) #By 1475 it seems that contemporaries identified Cecily Neville as the most personally devout from the Yorkist family #(though Elizabeth and even Cecily's sons were far greater patrons) #I think people also assume this because of her retirement to Westminster post 1485 #which doesn't work because 1) we don't actually know when she retired? as Laynesmith says there is no actual evidence for the traditional #date of 12 February 1487 #2) she had very secular reasons for retiring (grief over the death of her children? her lack of dower lands or estates which most other #widows had? her options were very limited; choosing to reside in the abbey is not particularly surprising. it's a massive and unneeded jump #to claim that it was motivated solely by piety (especially because it wasn't a complete 'retirement' in the way people assume it was) #I think historians have a habit of using her piety as a GOTCHA!' point against her vilification - which is a flawed and stupid argument #Elizabeth could be the most pious individual in the world and still be the pantomime villain Ricardians/Yorkists claim she was #They're not mutually exclusive; this line of thinking is useless #I think this also stems from the fact that we simply know very little about Elizabeth as an individual (ie: her hobbies/interests) #certainly far less than we do for other prominent women Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth of York;; Cecily Neville or Margaret Beaufort #and I think rather than emphasizing that gap of knowledge her historians merely try to fill it up with 'she was pious!' #which is ... an incredibly lackluster take. I think it's better to just acknowledge that we don't know much about this historical figure #ie: I do wish that her piety and patronage was emphasized more yes. but it shouldn't flip too far to the other side either.

[mariocki]

A very brief turn by Frazer Hines, as stable hand Jem, in Peter Diamond's pilot for a proposed adventure series Lochinvar (1968). There was little interest in the pilot or any subsequent series, and ultimately the sole filmed episode was never transmitted - it survived in the hands of director/producer Diamond until his family donated the film stock to Kaleidoscope a few years ago.

#fave spotting #frazer hines #lochinvar #tv pilot #jamie mccrimmon #doctor who #classic doctor who #1968 #peter diamond #an unusually small role for Frazer; he may not have been lead material‚ but he's barely onscreen 30 seconds here and was a well known tv #presence thanks to stints on Emergency Ward 10 and of course DW (which he was still starring in). possibly he did this as a favour to #Diamond; a ubiquitous stunt arranger and fight choreographer‚ this was Diamond's attempt at breaking out into production and direction but #he would have known Frazer from various jobs he'd done on DW (including Frazer's intro story The Highlanders‚ where Diamond had been fight #arranger as well as having a credited acting role as a sailor). this was shot around July '68 so presumably between Frazer's work on The #Mind Robber and The Invasion; apologies for the slightly weird stretcg effect on the pics but that's true of the materials themselves #strangely Lochinvar is not in 4:3 aspect‚ despite being quite definitely a tv pilot‚ but in a strangely unnatural widescreen as if the #masters were altered at some point in post production (perhaps for a potential cinema release as a support feature?). i can only conjecture #tho. unsurprisingly there's almost no info out there about this obscure tv film that sat in a rusty can for 50 years unseen. #also my immediate thought on reading about it was that the shooting dates Very Nearly coincide with The Mind Robber shooting #(nearly but not quite) and i excitedly wondered if maybe Frazer's infamous bout of chickenpox that saw him replaced for ep2 of that serial #had secretly been a little mischievous excuse to go away and have some fun playing with horses in Buckinghamshire... alas no #Diamond would reunite with Frazer (and Lochinvar co star Noel Coleman) for the following years The War Games where he'd again #be pulling double duty as fight arranger and (uncredited) actor. later in life he would end up doing a little more directing work for tv #but afaik the Peter Diamond Productions company that made this film never worked again

[brain-empty]

Found a thingy :3

its not very correct tho :/

@olliesneweyes @poisoned-sugar11 @inc0gnit0-m0de @socks-wizard-money-gang @thegalacticidiot + whoever else

#im very unusual but boyfriend material is a lie

[heroesriseandfall]

Regarding your post about the Titan’s Tower thing, I think it’s a little irritating how many people treat it in fanon. In canon, Jason beats Tim up badly but doesn’t do anything too extreme, so it makes sense that it wouldn’t be Tim’s biggest trauma at the time. Fanon ramps it up to 11 and often makes so that Jason gleefully tortures Tim to the point of it being irredeemable. But then they double back and try to make us feel bad for Jason and try to make both of them reconcile by saying “it was the pit that made him do it”. I find it tasteless and honestly a little triggering.

Yeah, it’s a little bit backwards because in fanon it seems like a lot of people are writing about Titan’s Tower to try to...fix Tim and Jason’s early relationship, I guess, while still keeping it angsty? But without reading Teen Titans #29 or the surrounding comics, there’s no context for what they’re trying to fix. I think a lot of them don’t realize that the throat-slitting thing was in Batman: Hush, for example, not at Titans Tower. So they make this particular attack worse just by adding that in.

I’ve also noticed a lot of confusion over ages, making Tim much younger than he was (like 13-14 instead of 16) and Jason a bit older (he should be 18, but fics often seem to have no idea--and tbh that’s fair because the comic artists didn’t seem to know either lol). Which, like with the Tim vs Damian issue, it does change the dynamic of the fight when they have a larger age gap.

Also IMO Jason wasn’t even trying to leave Tim for dead, like I don’t think that was the point of the fight for him. It honestly seemed like the fight itself doesn’t last long and it was mostly Jason venting and seeing what Tim is like, along with kinda sending a message of “I’m here and I’m different than I was before; I did this.” Which doesn’t excuse Jason, I just don’t think people really get what the motivations were. If Jason wanted to kill Tim, he could have, but I honestly don’t think that was the point of the fight for him.

And yeah, the mischaracterization of pit madness is a big part of it. Not that Jason couldn’t have been affected by the pit at all (Ra’s seemed to think there was some influence), but he DOES have full autonomy over his actions, the pit can’t take full control of Jason and make him do things against his will—in comics, pit madness is not really an embodied force of the pit with an autonomous will to control peoples actions so they do specific things it wants (can a vat of mysterious chemicals even want anything?).

Jason is not really being mind controlled or possessed by the pit...because the pit isn’t an entity that can do that, at least not in any comics I’ve read. But fanon does treat it like it almost has a mind of its own, giving him glowing green eyes when its influencing him most (even though Jason wasn’t even dumped in a green pit, it was orange; and his eyes were still blue because the pits don’t usually change your eye color...).

I understand people like the supernatural element of all that, but there’s already a supernatural element to the Lazarus Pit, just not in that way, and adding all of this would require reworking a lot of other things. Jason was absolutely the one who chose to go after Tim, even if his psyche was changed from being healed by the pit. And while Jason very much needed help because he was traumatized and mentally unstable, his need for help doesn’t absolve him of responsibility over his harmful actions—and it was his responsibility, not the pit’s or Talia’s.

Honestly, creating a new excuse for Jason’s actions does a disservice to his character and to every other character he hurt at the time. It doesn’t actually change anything Jason did, it just shifts the blame and autonomy of his actions away from him, even though he canonically did it of his own accord. Which then makes everyone else’s reactions look less reasonable just because they correctly recognize his autonomy in the harmful choices he made. If you don’t like what Jason chose to do in canon...maybe change his actions, not his responsibility over them?

It also completely undermines Jason’s point, which is that he is the one who did it. He set up the whole elaborate plot specifically because he wanted everyone (especially Bruce) to know it was him doing it. If you make the pit do it, that defeats the point. There are so many good ways to make Jason’s return kinder to his character, without changing nearly every feature and context of his story (and everyone else’s).

#closest to fanon pit madness is nora fries in batgirl 70 and even that isnt like fanon—and it was meant to be an unusual event #jason todd #tim drake #lazarus pits #dc comics #I hope people know im not trying to be mean or anything. have fun. i just wish people would do more research abt the source materials... #canon vs fanon #heroesriseandfall #batfam #anon #asks #inbox #bonds: no one could forget you #teen titans (2003) #fandom critical #ig? #dc meta #dc

[luna-the-bard]

Skeemus Main Storyline - Act II (Part 1)

The self-indulgent fan oc lore continues! Woo!

Act I <- x -> Te'rra Intermission

Samus’s ship, and, by extension, her living space, is very neat. Being a bit messy isn’t unfamiliar to her, but at large her ship is very tidy & organized. Everything has a place, or at least an “everything bin”; it’s functional. Having someone sick to care for brought a reasonable amount of chaos into this tidiness. Samus found herself cleaning at least twice as often as usual - mostly throwing out used tissues and changing sheets, but also disposing of empty IV bags and syringes and all else that is medical in nature. She had to dig up some old T-shirts and cut them in the back to make them fit around the alien’s wings, because her old clothes had to be discarded both due to wear and tear and for the purpose of decontamination.

A couple days later, after the little alien’s fever goes down, Samus notices her watching, intently, as she goes around her day. The next morning she notices all the used tissues stacked up neatly in little squares at the edge of the bed. Samus appreciates the effort. She makes a mental note to buy a small bin for paper trash to put by the bed once they get to the nearest port - she didn’t really need one before, but it would make cleaning a bit easier now. Since that moment she regularly took notice of the little ways in which her guest tried to be as low-maintenance as possible.

It comes as a shock when one night, about a week in or so, the avian makes a nest out of pillows and blankets and refuses to let Samus leave for the cockpit where she’s been sleeping. Samus has to bust out the drawing pad, because she can’t understand what the little alien is trying to say, yet, and her just aggressively patting the bed could mean pretty much anything. Samus has to make sure everything is okay.

The situation turns out to be a lot more awkward than initially assessed. Turns out her guest noticed not only the fact that Samus has been sleeping in her pilot’s chair, but also the way it had been leaving her neck and shoulders more sore with every passing day. The alien made space for her to sleep besides her - she stopped being contagious as soon as the fever went down, and Samus had just changed the sheets this morning, but she hasn’t had to share a sleeping space since her days in the Federation Police - and even there, she still had an individual bunk. On the other hand, waking up sore every morning was a real pain in the neck… Literally. 

Samus makes perhaps the most uncharacteristic decision of this month - it’s only until Skeets fully recovers and she can drop her off back on Te’rra, what could go wrong?

Besides cleaning, Samus spends her time in passionate research. It takes her a week to even identify the girl’s species - the last publicly available entry on them is dating over two centuries old. Samus feels as if she uncovered an ancient relic. 

She soon learns the reason behind such lack of up-to-date information: Te’rra has left the big political scene almost exactly a millenia ago, cutting all communications and public relations with the rest of the world. It takes Samus another two days to find a textbook on their language - it’s in a private library of some old philanthropist, but to Samus’s luck there's a scanned version of it uploaded online; it even has an audiobook with pronunciation guides and exercises to go along with it. She meticulously follows them all, making good progress - at least good enough to learn some basic phrases and the word “hospital”, since that’s where she was about to take Skeets (they finally got to a planet with a big enough interspecies infrastructure). Although, she also had to learn the words “new” and “clothes'', as she realized that maybe going out in public in just an oversized t-shirt (which was only held together by makeshift ties at the back, at that) might be a bad idea, and the alien’s condition was stabilized enough by now to not need an ambulance ride. As much as Samus hates the idea of leaving someone unattended inside her ship, she has to do a quick shopping run, leaving A.D.A.M. in charge until she could return with some adjustable pants and shirts that would hopefully fit the little bird. (She guesstimates a little on the bigger side, so the alien looks especially tiny in comparison to her oversized apparel. It would almost be funny if only she didn’t look so.. sad and disoriented in an unfamiliar place).

Samus spends another hour or so filling out all the paperwork for Skeets before they go out - names were one of the first things Samus established once she found that textbook, so now she knew at least who she took in, and if Skeets needed something, she could call Samus over. She arranges a taxi from the port to the hospital, so they wouldn’t have to go through the overwhelming ordeal of navigating foreign public transit. 

They come back from the hospital with a portable oxygen machine and a new set of antibiotics. Samus spends the following month feeding Skeets syringes full of medication (she will never admit it, but she almost laughed at the way the little alien’s face scrunched up at the taste), studying terranian, and keeping contact with the Federation officials responsible for rehabilitation of the rescued group. Skeets asks for some textbooks to learn Common and Chozo too, catching up pretty fast with nothing else for her to do on the ship but study. She makes quicker progress with Chozo, finding unexpected similarities to her native language (they’re nothing more than a coincidence, but an advantage nonetheless). By the end of the month they can communicate somewhat well; nothing fancy or too complex, but it makes a huge difference. Skeets helps Samus with pronunciation and vice versa, so learning is going quite well. 

After a follow-up at the hospital, Samus is left with a long list of physical therapy exercises for avian species and a detailed recovery plan. It’s not really a surprise that a full month of inactivity and illness would have consequences, but what it hurt the most was Skeets’s wings - she hadn’t used them since the Space Pirates’s ambush.

They spend evenings looking through various parks and recreational resorts (some of them take up entire planets!), picking and choosing what seemed best for flying. Samus suggests a couple planets with reduced gravity to start them off.

She can’t get the feeling of Skeets’s dry, warm hands in her own out of her head for the weeks to come. They go flying almost every other day - and every time, Samus makes sure to hold Skeets steady at least for the first few minutes, lest a sudden gasp of wind catch her by surprise and lead to injury. She lets go only when she’s confident that the avian is safe. (Skeets is fully capable of flying in harsher conditions, even after two months of forced inactivity. She accepts the help regardless, out of gratitude if nothing else - she doesn’t mind soothing Samus’s worries.)

As they share the bed, the awkward space gap between them grows smaller and smaller; until one night, about half a month later, Samus realizes that whenever she gets cold at night and tries to cocoon herself into the blankets, Skeets drapes one of her feathery wings over her.

Act I <- Act II p.1 -> Te'rra Intermission

#how unusual #this one is only 3 pages long! #that's because I decided to break it down into smaller more digestible parts #and also because Act II is massive like it's gonna take me so long to write all of it bc #im at 12 pages of material right now and they havent even had their first kiss yet #let along officially in a relationship #you're welcome for the meal by the way✌️ #metroid #original character #fan oc #metroid samus #luna talks #skeets #te'rra lore #oc x canon #oc x canon shipping #fan character #metroid fan oc #oc #oc lore #samus #samus aran

[ruegracieuse]

from reorganising my bookcase this weekend - some of my favourite secondhand bookshop finds. publication dates range from 1947-1970

#I really can’t choose my favourite but the Rubaiyat and the Barret Browning covers are beautifully detailed #I also love the Ionesco cover. so funky! #I’m lucky that my hometown is a university town with unusually good secondhand bookshops #so a lot of old study materials end up there. hence why I’ve found a lot of French language literature in a non-capital Australian city lol #the most expensive of these was $8 by the way. love is stored in the secondhand bookstore #me #mine #another favourite is the copy of Le Petit Prince I have in French with the original illustrations IN COLOUR #how much was it? $2.50. my prized possession

[non-un-topo]

Time to shift into academic mode and close all my fun tabs ;_; (ao3, google docs, research I was trying to cram in so I could write a short fic before the semester.... rip)

#my professor (tomorrow's class) has assigned two readings and a video already DFGNHMGFDSDH #for the first class yo #that's sort of unusual but mkay #it looks like hard work but i'm not gonna panic. hard consistent work means i'll learn the material better and remember it #but no more fun time for me for a long time. it's going to be a busy year #no queer quartet meets boccaccio and has a foursome fic ;o;;;;; #looking at all my other wips and just sobbing #school genuinely takes up more time and effort for me than a full-time job. i don't wanna hear anyone complaining lol #at least with a job you're making money

[ratvich]

soooo like why did i promise to not hurt or kill myslef 😑 stupid .

#vent #brah #why #cruel and unusual punishmenttttt #what do u mean now i have to like #take into account im going to live #what #i am so unprepared #i am so unpreparedddddd #this sucks #UGH !!!! #why did i say that...... ughhhhhhh #im supposed to die why did i promise that stupid shit #UGH #IM NOT SUPPOZES TO STAY ALIVE #ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #bangs my head on . idk. a material #whyyyyyy did i ever say anythinf im so fucking stupid #i knew i shouldve kept my mouth shut #if i did then none of thaf would have happened #i make everything so much worse #i want him to be ok but like #why do i have to stay alive.......

[mister13eyond]

that 'caring for your cermet' video but it's just me making fake instructions for how to care for my ocs

mostly warnings

#'if you dont give vin enrichment he WILL make his own and it WILL NOT be fun for you' #'nik and ike should NOT be separated they CAN and WILL destroy any obstacles between their enclosures and no solid steel will not stop them #'zinnia can ONLY share an enclosure with damian and if you put him with anyone else he'll start gaslighting them and/or stealing food' #'calcine MUST HAVE access to either a criterion collection or several seasons of MST3K on blu-ray. do not think you can just give them a bo #-set of columbo and be done with it. they require a CONSTANT diet of cinema.' #'asphodel is largely docile as long as they have research material but this should NOT be primarily digital. don't leave them with any tech #-that you value or you WILL come back to find your hard drive wiped in new and unusual ways' #my ocs #last rb is just making me laugh really hard #bc if someone tried to take away vin i really would be like #'he's your problem now'

[killyridols]

assemblage art by lev sibilla, via the artist's instagram, july 1st, 2023

#lev sibilla #american art #assemblage art #found objects #unusual materials #2020s

[chromalogue]

A quest for The Princess of Darkness

When I was 7 or 8, my mom, a teacher at the time, brought home a carton of books, the kind that you usually find at the back of a classroom. They all had the same look, like a series. One was called The Junkie and Other Stories. I read the first story in that one, and it was about a teenager who thought he was injecting heroin - which he called "scag" - but it turned out to be rat poison and he died. I wasn't interested in the other stories in the book, though. I think I only read that first one because I didn't know what a junkie was and thought it might be some kind of magical creature.

The really interesting book in the series was called The Princess of Darkness and Other Stories. They were ghost stories. The title story was about a bunch of teens on a yacht named The Princess of Darkness, and everyone kept getting hurt mysteriously. There was one called "Rusty," about a boy who snuck into a public pool at night and was saved from drowning by the ghost of a boy who had died not long ago. And another one was called I think "The Girl in the Blue Dress" about a girl who's just moved into the neighbourhood and meets the titular girl, Rhoda. They hang out, and she learns later that the family who used to live in her house moved out because the daughter died in a freak accident. I remember the last lines really well:

"She wore a blue dress?" "Yes. And her name was Rhoda."

There were other books in the series, but they didn't catch my interest at all.

One of the things I've been doing as a gainfully employed person is tracking down all the cool ghost stories I read when I was a kid. So I've been looking for Princess of Darkness and Other Stories, and the best I can say is that I've gotten close. I found, it's called The Junkie and Other Stories for Boys, edited by somebody-or-other Mooney. And that was published by Xerox Educational Editions. The pictures I've seen of other books by the same publisher have the same kind of look as the books I remember. But of The Princess of Darkness and Other Stories I can find no trace. Or rather, "Princess of Darkness" is such a popular title these days that more recent examples predominate.

And yeah. Partly I kind of want to know if anyone else remembers the series, or this book in particular. Partly I just want to get down what I've found so far, so that if I step away from the search for a little while, the progress I made is written down somewhere. I don't have high hopes of acquiring it, since The Junkie appears to be a collector's item going for collector's item prices, but if it's out there I would love to know.

#also if anyone remembers a book about a modern town beset by a witch #where the day after the kids win the authorities kill an unusually large dog #I can't even remember the name of that thing but I loved it at the time #and in my mind it was from the eighties although it might have been able to get away with being the sixties #Princess of Darkness is from the seventies though because it was outdated classroom material in 1984

[deartouya]

stem truly does mean trapped forever </3

#i forgot that stem means i need to be prepared for 3 more full years of school AT LEAST #w/ my elementary education major roomie ;--; #and my history major other roomie/bff ;-; #edu majors final exam in one of her classes was fingerpainting with unusual colors #another one was basketweaving with unusual materials (i.e. plastic coffee straws) #and here i was with four comprehensive exams and a paper #✶ venus stfu !!

[fettiowi]

whats up with my college art classes. this whole time we've just been drawing like cups or something or abstract shapes, and then suddenly my teacher tells us that the theme of our next assignment is HORSES and we gotta like paint it with a sponge instead of a brush

#basically its about using different unusual materials to create a painting #but why is the theme for a project like that HORSES #we have only been drawing vases and shit like that and you expect us to know how to draw a horse #fetti talks

[sharky857]

What if Pierre was dumped into the luau soup and drowned for being a dick

But... But... Pierre is the lowest of the "bad quality food" one could ever dump in the potluck. 🙁 He would completely ruin the soup everyone worked so hard to make tasty. 😔

On the other hand... 🤔

Sam!

Sam might be perfecty capable of dunking Pierre in the soup. They may have banned him forever from dumping anything ever again in the potluck after that anchovies disaster, but nobody couldn't stop him from doing so for Abby's sake, if he ever acted fast enough ('sides, he actually gives zero 💩 about "impressing some old man everyone calls Governor").

#stardew valley #sdv #sharky's replies #anonymous #Sam be getting closer and closer to going to jail... 😂 #but is he gonna regret this one? Of course not~ #what would take him to snap like that? Methinks it could happen during one of their band's private tryout in his room #All three are there and suddenly Abigail has a breakdown and burst out in tears #which is quiet unusual for her to do so in front of others #and once Sam and Seb gets to know what happened Sam snaps real hard #and this time he vows to NOT let Pierre's toxic shenanigans go unpunished #(Seb seems to be chiller than his friend but ya bet he may offer to lend a hand. Just this once) #Abby might try to make him desist (she doesn't want anyone to get into troubles for her) but Sam won't hear any of it. #Fast forwards to the Luau and THAT happens. 😈 #*rereads rambling tags* This... This seems a good material for a potential fic.

[yalen-the-untaggable]

More purple drawings, this time it's the upbeat waifus

#yalen the untaggable #waifu #waifu wednesday #waifu material #ghost girl #ghost fanart #kipo #phanty #phantasma phantom #blue skin #pink skin #unusual skin #anime #halloween #monster girl #furbait