#the study of touch

[jazzdailyblog]

Django Bates: The Maverick of British Jazz

Introduction: In the eclectic world of modern jazz, few musicians have made as distinctive and influential a mark as Django Bates. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator, Bates has spent his career pushing the boundaries of jazz, blending elements of classical music, pop, and free improvisation into his work. His wide-ranging musical output, both as a bandleader and collaborator, has…

[wishfulsketching]

hands hands hands

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You keep telling yourself that Namari.

[mrghostrat]

god, i know i drew all day but my brain so empty i just wanted to draw a little more <3

[nepherit]

The winged snakes were Messmer's constant companions.

They were there when the base serpent was sealed away behind his eye. They were there through his eternity of suffering.

They will accompany him yet, in his hideous new form, born when he destroyed the grace granted by his mother. They have accepted his fate as much as he.

I know I said I wouldn’t do anything serious for Messmer until I figured out a definitive style for him, but I had to get this one out of my system, else I was gonna explode 😅

It’s not perfect, his face or hair might change next week, the snake placement’s probably off, but I don’t care. This wasn’t about looking pretty. It was about letting out a feeling that hit me while sketching a sleeping Messmer with the snake wrapped around him (the helmet description really got me 😭).... It’s wild how just a few lines of text can carry so much sorrow! I’ve never cried over a piece of fiction, but reading the heartbreaking lines right after his death almost made me

Here’s my silly sketch if you're curious how it started 😆

[tiredandoptimistic]

Modern science has yet to invent a character immune to my aroace beam

[sforzesco]

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

[ablankboredtoinsanity]

Spock trying to meditate but it's Touch His Tit Tuesday

a humble offering for @self-made-purgatories

[minkkinii]

He would like to plead an oopsie daisy

[ienvysomegays]

brb crying over kevin day and history

[frenchiepal]

24.5.24 🥳 no laptop pics today because i finally finished my ba thesis! my relief is immeasurable and my summer is saved <3

[feligayzed]

some shit about how to be loved is to be changed

[fatehbaz]

weekly navel-gazing update: this week is most consequential event in long time. keyword search: "scared" "is it ok to be scared" "beaten and tortured by the ogre"

[slavhew]

made them to strike fear into my heart whenever i falter in my studies

no text ver under the cut

[somekindofsheepl]

pierced stiddies, now on tumblr

[lesbionia]

Every time a woman says "I'm not going to vote" an angel loses its wings. 💔

Women fought tooth and nail for the right to vote! Voting means having a say, however small, in how your country is run. If you don't use your say, then you can count on being spoken over by the men who are getting out there and voting.

In the name of feminism and in honour of all the women who came before you, PLEASE exercise your right to vote! 🗳️