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stagnation, 2022.

( cropped. full painting here. )

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Red Sonja art by Joseph Michael Linsner

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Red Sonja No.14 - March 1979, cover by Frank Brunner.

Interior art by Sal Buscema+ Al Milgrom.

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Yabushige and Blackthorne

The buddy film we need. Mita Komon: Yabushige & Blackthorn

Serving the Shogun, Yabushige and Blackthorn travel Japan finding trouble and leaving their special brand of justice behind them. Aided by gunslinging Lady Fuji and metal diplomatist and naginata fighter Lady Mariko.

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Picture Carmilla pulling out these 17th century glasses she might have been buried with. She really needs the cool case to go with them.

Image from here: https://thepragmaticcostumer.wordpress.com/tag/medieval-glasses/

Carmilla, but whenever Carmilla reads anything, like a book on the natural history of Styria or (gasp!) a novel, she first pulls out a large dorky pair of glasses from her skirt pockets and puts them on, and Laura keeps handing her books to read and staring at her.

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anne bonny scene of all time. woman of all time

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Mucha inspired Eowyn illustration

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lets talk about this

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• see you on the other side 🌊 ( prints! )

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Incredible Black Sails art :)

so i did not have a plan, but i wanted to post something for the show that rotted my brain permanently! so some quick portraits lol

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finally finished the eowyn piece! super glad i got it done after losing motivation and confidence tbh. it was a fun study

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Red Sonja by Bjorn Barends

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Source - https://twitter.com/digaoapboauniao

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The heavy strain of rural nostalgia, the higher man Numenoreans, the near Aryan splendor of the Rohirrim make the book easy material for fascists to cherry pick from. The original brown shirt clowns tried and Tolkien told them in no uncertain terms where to go. Besides, Tolkien's use of race is the least effective to cherry pick from because there is no focus on racial struggle. The point he makes on color is truly an American reduction of the topic of race forgetting that since it is only an ideological term it can be defined in any way needed to justify what constitutes a race. Free speech being what it is it becomes an obligation to speak up in retort to the madness, especially the misleading overly simplified version of race defined by Americans which helps only to perpetuate racism in the country. The article wasn't bad but selective reading and cherry picking the text for supporting interpretation isn't confined to right wing loons. Anyone taking a lens to the text is doing the same thing, for different purposes but still imposing an ideological lens on the text. I have loathed that nonsense ever since Derrida and Foucault came along to pour their intellectual crack on Literary Criticism, itself a dubious endeavor before they came along. Publish or Perish has been a blight on the Liberal Arts in Academia.

If you, like me, are incredibly bummed out by the rising tide of far right reactionaries who like to claim Tolkien’s work for themselves and use it to justify their own insidious beliefs about everything from gender and race relations to Christian supremacy and the (perceived) value of an authoritarian state–may I point you to this article by Rev. Tom Emanuel?

It really gave me a little boost on a day when I’ve been particularly hit over the head with examples of ill-intentioned clowns citing to Tolkien as an approving source for all kinds of gross ideologies. And it’s great to see people loudly and proudly fighting for the version of Tolkien’s work that we all love—the inspiring, hopeful, welcoming version.

Anyway, Emanuel does a good job of pushing back on the right wing bullshit and showing how it represents a single, cherry-picked interpretation of the text, not the definitive message of the text itself. In the process, he takes down the whole idea that the book has any single, definitive meaning. Essentially, it doesn’t matter what anyone else gets out of it or even what JRR thought he was writing about. It’s a work of art that’s meant to be interpreted, so it means whatever we think it means based on our own reading (even if that reading is queer or feminist or anti-colonial or any number of other things that a certain kind of person will insist are wrong). And since there’s no final “correct” or “incorrect” interpretation, there is only “ethical” and “not ethical”, and it’s perfectly damn clear to Emanuel (and me!) which readings fall on which side of that line.

Anyway. For those who are of the particular brand of Tolkien nerd to be interested in the academic scholarship around it, Emanuel is one of my faves, and this is a really accessible peek at his work that isn’t buried in academia jargon (“hermeneutics”—lol) or behind an expensive journal paywall.

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Savage Red Sonja by Dan Panosian

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Not a great fan of AI art because it invariably fouls up with the hands but this was nice. Just ignore that her right hand is missing a finger.