#and share books in general

[bookwyrminspiration]

i was at the bookstore today and saw Babel! for like $5 off too. and thought of you. didn't get it though bc i will probably get it from the library instead at some point when i'm in the mood for emotional devastation :3

!!! people think of me when they see twilight, 50 shades of grey, and now babel! everybody loves me <3

Babel is emotionally devastating though, you're very right about that. Whenever you do read it (if you ever do) I hope you enjoy the experience! And I'd love to see what you think, there's a lot to reflect on. And bond over if your devastation loves company

I also hope you had fun at the bookstore--grab anything else? Hope you're doing well!

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[artfulacrostic]

okay, do you want to know too much about st. yves, aka the guy in the litany that appears via matt's narration twice in ddba ep 6? well me and my childhood catholic education are here for you, but let me just say they hit the nail on the head with that one.

first of all: st. yves is the catholic patron saint of lawyers and the law in general (barristers, solicitors, jurists, etc). he was basically well known for fairly upholding the standards of the law, including refusing to accept bribes after he eventually became the middle ages version of a judge, and his big thing was all about helping and protecting the poor and the oppressed, especially widows and children. he was so into charity that he is usually shown with a bag of money to give away in one hand and the symbol of the law/judges in the other (some kind of scroll), or shown as mediating between a rich man and a poor man.

it's super clear to me and probably also you by this point why st. yves is a saint that matt would feel a particular connection with. it's a no brainer. the actual prayer he is praying is a snippet from the end of the litany of st. yves. a litany, in case you're wondering, is a kind of prayer usually formatted as a petition, and there are (i think, don't fail me now brain) five that are actually approved as public litanies that can be prayed at mass, while there are a bunch of other private litanies that you might do on your own or at home, with a bit less emphasis on the call and response format that is so big on the public ones like the litany of the saints.

a litany like the litany of st. yves is usually designed to call for that particular saint's intercession, aka to get them to put in a good word for you to god, since they are basically in the top tier of souls who are in good standing up in heaven. so while the saint themself can't do much, they can be like "yo i think my man matt could use some mojo would you mind giving that a look please?" and god is more likely to bestow some grace upon the person and their prayer intentions.

what's fascinating about the litany of st. yves is that in using it to pray for st. yves' intercession and help with the things that are being listed in the petition, matt isn't just asking for justice (although he is). the section he prays onscreen: "O God, from whom cometh all that is right and just, Thou didst establish Saint Yves as a judge in the midst of his brethren, making him the friend and advocate of the poor. Do Thou make us, by his intercession, steadfast in the pursuit of justice and confident in Thy merciful goodness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen."

great, easy to see why matt relates to the desire to be a friend and advocate to the poor, why he wants to be made steadfast in the pursuit of justice, and why he wants to renew his confidence in god's mercy and goodness. great. nice and clear.

but.

if you're a big daredevil person, you know matt's faith and his willingness to go beat the shit out of evil people in the dead of night are deeply intertwined.

included in the actual petition portion of the litany of st. yves:

"Saint-Yves, devoted to penitence, pray for us."

gee, i wonder what matt feels guilty about that he feels the need to repent for.

"Saint Yves, friend of young people, pray for us. Saint Yves, companion of adolescents, pray for us."

gee, i wonder who the main focus of the episode is on matt saving. (angela.) gee, i wonder which demographic he caves for every time, and does what maybe he shouldn't, from the child he saved from the abusive father because he couldn't bear to listen anymore, to the boy who was kidnapped by the russians, who matt went after even though he knew it was a trap that they were using to try and kill him. (kids.)

"Saint Yves, helper of all who invoke thee, pray for us."

gee, i wonder who came to matt to ask for help, help that he was struggling to give via the system.

"Saint Yves, bright light among men of law, pray for us."

gee, i wonder why matt is struggling to find guidance on what he should do, when doing what he knows foggy would have wanted has been his guiding light—except it's been getting harder and harder to see that the system works at all.

"Saint Yves, terror of demons, pray for us."

gee. i wonder who might be feeling the urge to put some righteous terror back into the hearts of evil-doers.

and those are just the most immediately relevant lines. so maybe they just googled the patron saint of lawyers and jumped on that bandwagon. but maybe matt's looking for intercession for all those things and more. because of course we know that he prays more and more when he starts to let the devil out.

[midoristeashop]

Hey! Idk if it’s a weird question but I wanted to know how you do your line work and how you color/render things? all of ur stuff looks like those concept illustrations that are put in “art of *insert media*” and I think it’s so so neat, and I rlly wanna see if I could learn how to color that way too, cause I love art solely meant to get a concept behind, and sometimes sketches don’t get it through right

It doesn’t even gotta be a tutorial like literally throw a speed draw or smth (if u want, u def don’t gotta)

Anyways regardless I love and adore your work and artstyle and everything u do so so much and it’s rlly fire and cool, especially how u do lighting and composition??? Like omaiga

Hello again!! I literally need to get better at replying to asks cuz why am I just seeing this from 2024??? U can throw bricks at me I won’t mind

OK SO I wish I could upload multiple speed paints but I am only allowed ONE,,,, (if u have certain posts you’d wanna see a Timelapse for lmk!) but a lot of the time I don’t like spending too much energy sketching (if the idea is there, it must be barfed out immediately ts). I like to sketch with my lineart brush, just so I already have a feel of what the lines will look like in the end 😼

As for rendering, I have like two different approaches for characters and environments. Esp w environments, I like to focus on values so most pieces I start off in greyscale.

Once the values start hitting, that’s when I’ll go in with like a color or multiply layer to feel out the overall color/vibes. I feel that especially when working from scratch/concept work, u want to leave room for yourself to experiment! I’ll probs do multiple versions of a composition before I go further lolz

And for characters, I literally follow the recipe of sketch, line, base, gradient, and texture. Like every time LOL. If I want things to look like reallyy concepty I’ll go in with a watercolor-like brush, but I’ve been slowly fusing out of that since I’ve been liking just flats n lines <3 anyway here’s a human!toothless w some of my layers

I HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE and gives some perspective into my weird process!!! Ty for the ask!!

Also if yall wanna see the speedpaint for my httyd 15 anniversary piece it’s here!

[rathologic]

Pathologic 2 textures: bookbindings (and their sources)

Pathologic 2 contains a set of 8 photorealistic book exterior textures, used decoratively in locations like the Stillwater. I tracked these down. Two are artist-made stock images, one is a wholesaler's retail image, and the rest are historical books with their titles filed off. If your Pathologic-themed book club is low on ideas since the Bachelor ARG stalled, you can click on their titles to find them online.

Book_A_01: Historical book cover free download, date unknown

Book_A_02: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De claris oratoribus (texture), published 46 BCE, binding date unknown

Book_A_03: Manish Enterprise, leather book cover, date unknown

Book_A_05: James Munroe, Beauties of Sacred Literature (texture), 1848

Book_A_06: Ludvig Holberg, Leges Waldemari Regis: kong Valdemars lov (texture), 1886?

Book_A_08: Samuel Rogers, Italy, a Poem (texture), 1859

Book_A_09: anioleczek-stock, Old Book Cover I, 2011. (Note that the artist requests credit, which is not given by Pathologic 2.)

Book_A_10: Bayard Taylor, A Visit to India, China, and Japan, in the year 1853 (texture), 1855.

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

A fundamental issue of all the Dracula adaptations that do the Dracula and Mina are in love thing is that they always do it in this stupid "Dracula's dark and alluring mysterious aura draws in Mina" instead of someone asking at a train station when the train for Liverpool is supposed to arrive with both Dracula and Mina answering at the exact same time in sync and then locking eyes across the station.

[vice-like]

reading this now i can see why the exorcist world was gossiping abt it so much lol two past matoba rivals from "failed" clans suddenly working together would definetly be concerning to the status quo, but bc it's natsume's pov we only get a passing comment here, in miharu arc and most importantly in homura where natori actually is helping matoba instead

now i'm rethinking some things abt this situation, like seiji pointing out that natori was working with yorishima was pretty run of the mill bc he spies on natori ever since world unbent (and loooves some gossip as we know it), but having matsuzaki comment on it in the first homura chapter kinda implies that natori and yorishima getting closer recently is well known amongst exorcists and when you top this off with matsuzaki conspiring with shinobu and offering patronage to natori, well it puts things into perspective

which makes me think if natori was sly enough to make his new association with yorishima obvious to other exorcists on purpose, bc let's face it, if what you see on the surface is this would you ever think natori was matoba's personal informant? like idk if he was thinking abt "sharing burdens" ever since yorishima's introduction chapter, but these circunstances definetly make, i'm assuming, majority of exorcists not even consider him as a "support" for the matoba head, but maybe not shinobu tho

[hotwaterandmilk]

Hello, I found this floating on pinterest and tried to find the source in your blog but I don't know well how to use Tumblr and couldn't find it. Do you happen to remember where is it from?

Hi, sure thing I scanned these adhesives from my copy of the PSME Memory Book. This furoku item came with the third issue of Hana to Yume from 1990 and includes paper, postcards and stickers.

Hope that helps you track down the original item. ^^

[stopper-my-heart]

Nothing like Heartstopper S2E8 removing some of Taylor Swift's "seven" lyrics just so that the singing can specifically come back in at "Or hide in the closet" while Isaac is processing difficult emotions related to the book he's reading (i.e., Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen).

Did I mention "Or hide in the closet" hits just as the camera focus finishes shifting away from Isaac?

This is fine

[loopyarts]

The Untold Legend of the Batman #1 released in June 30th to July 1st in 1980 by writer Len Wien, artists John Byrne and Jim Aparo, colourist Glynis Wein and Letterer John Costanza.

Also, don’t be fooled this is indeed Bruce as Robin despite him and Dick looking identical. XD This is why, I make jokes in my head about them being mistaken as being actual biological father/son by accident because of this ha ha.

Anyway, I do think it is kind of important to keep in mind when reading pre crisis and Bronze Age comics in general. Is that Bruce was technically the first Robin here and Dick main inspiration is Robin Hood and not the bird for the Bronze Age comics at the very least.

I will also say this comic is not beating my thoughts on Batman and Robin having some themes of legacy to it. With how the first Batman was Bruce’s father well technically not because it was just a costume for a charity costume party. Regardless of the technicality of it Bruce still inherits his father’s short legacy as Batman in a way. Just like how Dick is inheriting Bruce’s short summer legacy as Robin. I don’t know I just think that’s neat is all.

This story themes of legacy does tie quite nicely into the early to later 80s Batman comics. Notable the Robin comic stories with Dick’s struggles to find his place in the world and to get out of his mentor/second father’s shadow.

Quick bonus fun fact did you know this isn’t the first time Bruce was written to be the first Robin. In fact this comic is kind of a callback to Detective Comics #226 story When Batman Was Robin written by Edmond Hamilton, art by Dick Sprang and Charles Paris which was released on December 10th 1955.

[the-tenth-arcanum]

I haaate it that it's getting so hard to tell when art is ai generated. I've seen a painting three times on my dash now and my first thought was "this is nice" and my second thought was "is this ai" because it had a slightly odd vibe. and I googled the "artist's" name and ended up on the original instagram post and sure enough the op wrote "this is ai generated! :)" when someone asked about the artist. what's the point then. what's the fucking point.

[tricorderreading]

(current books I have, for reference: ~60 TOS, the rest are a mix of TNG, DS9, Voyager, and New Frontier)

Feel free to send me messages/asks if you really are interested. Or why you're not, that works too

[zenia62]

Daendels Accordion Book I made

I finished this last week n already shared it on Insta so I thought I'll share it here too. This is for a college project of the semester and wow finally Zenia shares her drawing 😦‼️ Yea I know it's not THAT good but hey I choose the wrong degree ok. The story is abt the missing remains of Daendels obviously, the backside are a map that I think Daendels either told someone to make it for him or smth I forgot + his signature

[rosenecklaces]

It's so easy to see a post shiting on Azriel/Elriel because of the "too sexual and not romantic" aspect and then when you check that person's blog it becomes immediately evident that they loved ACOSF because it was "full of smut"

[chiscribbs]

Varigo?

Nah, friend. I never got into Varian and the Seven Kingdoms, sorry.

(Plus, I'm a long-time Cassarian shipper, so it doesn't appeal to me anyway.)

[sancta-seraphina]

I wish I felt more like marketing my book right now and I wish I felt more excited about its release :(