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“Saving the last dance” - The Locked Tomb x Leyendecker

Oils on paper, 24x32 cm

Available here if you wish

Close-ups and yapping below the cut 

ALRIGHT. This was a Leyendecker study and I had a lot of fun painting this so let me yap:

Based on Dancing Couple by Leyendecker

I inverted the colors because no way Harrow in light colors and also Gideon/Kiriona’s suit is white so this was a perfect match

The shadows Harrow casts are inconsistent on purpose so that Gideon/Kiriona is there but also not quite, a bit like a ghost

Speaking of ghosts: The pelvis was 100% inspired by Papa V Perpetua’s outfit

Gloves for Harrow cause she’s already showing too much skin

The upper part of the dress is light like the Lyctoral robes sans the rainbow effect (too much work)

Gideon/Kiriona’s wound is purposefully basic and shaped like that to look like the OG wound art

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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God Bless the Bark Beetle

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~3 months traveling in my wife’s home-country -> 100 journal pages

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SHAPE HELL

Yup.

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I love when there's characters that are pair bonded and you know that wherever one of them is the other is also gonna be there.

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Vaginismus of the soul

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"We had touched, in the only way we could touch. We left it at that."

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‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

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honestly if snails were like elephant sized and they traveled in herds and left a huge sheet of slime across the land where evetything dies and nothing can grow, but there was another big herd of pretty slugs that also left a big sheet of slime where everything grew really fast like a trail of plants and flowers and shit, and they were all too big for any of us to fuck with theyre just like rolling monuments that slide around the earth creating and erasing everuthing behind themselves and like infinitely overlapping and replacing the other ones trail like a never ending game of splatoon, and we could never live in the same spot for too long,

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Joshua Clover, “Poem (Sept 26, 2023)”

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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

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i made a list while i was hiking apparently

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"this is an inaccurate adaptation" okay but is it good "this didn't happen in the book" does it make sense in the context of the new work though "they totally changed the plot" and is the new one good or bad "it's completely different" not what I asked "they changed all the stuff I like" then I get why you wouldn't be into it but I'm asking about its own artistic merits "this character is meant to be blonde" I couldn't give less of a fuck

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Whispers in the Wild 🌳꩜ by Antti Laitinen (2019)