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was feeling a bit insane about hector so i wrote a poem about him using only words and phrases from some articles. this poem has eaten the wikipedia page on hector, the wikipedia page on horse training, and how to break a horse (with pictures)

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(guy who doesn't know how to shade voice) i know just what I'll do for my next attack!

here is @sfaira 's charlotte because the world needs more frostpunk ocs. i had fun with this one! hope you like it!!

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Just realized I've posted nothing over here for a long while, so have some more art fight.

@sfaira's Kamyk

My first attack this year, here's hoping I get a few more finished in time.

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cannot get over this lighting

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If you want to make your backyard a safe haven for lesser dragons, you must keep a close eye on your pets. While it is unlikely that a curious kitten will be able to cause a dragon physical harm, the egos of these small wyrms are as fragile as they are beautiful.

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WHY DO PEOPLE THINK YOU LOOK LIKE SAM REICH WHATEVER THE HELL HIS NAME IS YOU TWO LOOK NOTHING ALIKE. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VIBES. (also you two's facial features aren't that similar you both are white guys with completely different styles)

It's very frustrating, but I am learning that a lot of people abstract "suit" to mean "jacket + shirt & tie + pants" and don't see any other differences.

These two looks are effectively identical to a lot of people. Even though the personas these outfits evoke are very different:

All of the other visual language of these garments has been compressed to the point of being rendered meaningless. (Thanks to the folks who have admitted in followups that they truly could not distinguish between these outfits, much less know their physical and cultural functions are for a modern gameshow host style vs a vintage country gentleman.).

It's also why people think I am dressed "Victorian" (or even older) here. They see the "suit" (I am wearing low rise jeans and a casual button up, mostly J. Crew stuff) and the color brown, as those are quickly becoming the only meaningful indicators of "Victorian".

So, these fits are likewise identical to a lot of people (the third is less because of the look of the outfit and more that people are bad at assigning century to fashion. But some will insist I am 18th century nonetheless):

Same thing with beards. A full beard on a man is a full beard, brain shut off. People cannot articulate how the beard changes face shape and I wonder if they can even *see* the differences (For example, Reich has a very bottom-heavy triangle shape with his beard and I have a more diamond shape).

The uptick in this phenomenon makes me wonder if it's fallout from the sheer amount of content people consume, and the speed at which they do so -- instead of broadening their palette, everything get flattened into an increasingly narrow slot.

Capitalism ruthlessly mines aesthetics to sell products, instead of caring about how design communicates culture and other meaning. Context, form, and function are becoming increasingly detatched. Non-verbal and non-written communication is rapidly becoming forgotten, while even the spoken and written word degrade.

And AI, of course, continues to make this all worse. We're losing a lot of cultural language very, very quickly as fashion, music, *everything* is treated as interchangeable and exploitable.

I do not expect people to be able to define what makes *my* aesthetic my own, but I am getting increasingly frustrated at how detatched folks are getting from culture - to understand that art and even the look of functional objects have *meaning* - to the point where people don't even realize how detached they have become.

And what really sticks in my craw is the absolute, arrogant confidence at which some people say all of this stuff is the same, and that any differences are superficial/meaningless and that I should bow to their ignorant, content-rich blandness.

I am at a loss at how to combat this at scale, as an individual. Other than shunning AI and the tech bro mindset, I can only encourage people to be curious about what they consume. And to think critically about what their own tastes mean to them -- being able to articulate what you like and do not like about something (a fashion trend, song, painting, whatever) and be able to learn more about it and its influences.

And above all, create your own art, examine it in the same deliberate way. And if it's art you like just because it "looks cool", I desperately urge you to unpack that, to ask yourself what "cool" even means to you -- does it actually resonate with you, or is it some commercial shorthand you have been spoonfed?

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this is like lingerie to me

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This recently was added to the things that make me angry inside.

I read that since ozempic took of as an actually helping medicine in weight loss journey and one of it's effects is reduced apettite fast food and snack companies immediately went on a quest to find new ways off making food addictive to bypass the drug.

I truly hate the world in which money drives actively searching for ways to make people worse for money.

It’s so infuriating that teen smoking rates were at an all time low in the US and we were on track to basically eradicate smoking and nicotine addiction in teens like it was flat out uncool to smoke and then They came out with nicotine injector flash drives that light up and taste like cotton candy. And have lead in them.

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back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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second week on artfight!!

another week another bunch of attacks and another post for yaallll!!!! this week was REALLY heavy in terms of fights, i went above and beyond in terms of shading, composition and overall execution of the art pieces… all while being away from home too :'] drawing on a laptop with a tablet on a desk that wouldn't be able to fit only one of the two is not for the weak. would not recommend

feel free to drop your usernames and characters down below as i'm looking for people to attack ^^ bookmarks have obtained spiderwebs from the lack of characters in them..

scroll down for art VVV

eira [belonging to @sfaira ] and kalliope doux [mine!]

[REVENGE] alan/alex and x/xavier [belonging to ineteaq on artfight] and zareb hallet [mine!]

[REVENGE] solas and silas [belonging to paloduns on artfight and tiktok]

aether [oo lala] [belonging to @theletzie / @letzie]

samael [belonging to @dragonduckie / @dragonduck-art], kieran james of ekrixies [belonging to sunnyteaartistry on instagram] and allena [mine!]

additional credits just in case yall wanna check the ocs' owners' other socials and platforms :3 VVVV

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Watched s2ep4 with Tristan's birthday. Gosh I love this episode. I wan to hug him SO MUCH.

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Your honor, I love him

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i dont think the queer community fully understands how isolating it is to be a queer slav and seeing the fucking hammer and sickle fucking everywhere

not only did our families live through the horror that was the ussr but now we gotta be reminded of that shit constantly in the community that we're supposed to share as queer people

not to mention that the ussr wasnt even communist it was just fascist. why are u communists using the symbols of fascists. it just looks like ur idolizing a fascist state.

i just inherently do not trust anyone using the hammer and sickle nor the ussr flag as symbols of their communist ideologies

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Being found on here by community of ACGAS 2020 fans and learning of cosplay and fanfics is just about as heartwarming as the show itself.