#14c

[comment-exchange]

298. Meetings, Farewells, and Parting Gifts (The Silmarillion)

Title: Meetings, Farewells, and Parting Gifts Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41027976 Platform: Ao3 Creator: Erdariel Fandom: The Silmarillion Rating: General audiences Pairing: None Word count: 2,341 Warnings: None Number of comments: 14 Completion Status: Complete Summary: Morgoth has been defeated and the War of Wrath is over. Eärendil has to return to his task of sailing the Void beyond the world, but first he wants to see his sons again. Hugs and talking happen

[idazzle]

this reminds me of 14c

https://twitter.com/jmdateme/status/1598424044197785600

hi! okay WOW you're so valid for this, anon ❤️❤️💖💖 i love it!

[artsology]

“Cave Gathering,” oil on canvas by Kirkland Bray, seen at Art Fair 14C in Jersey City. #kirklandbray #painting #swimmers #bathers #swimming #cave #oiloncanvas #artfair14c #14c #jerseycity (at Jersey City Armory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6xwffMwid/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nikomedes]

ive seen some great bingo sheets going around for malevolent s5 but i would ask you to go further. lets invent some new 13th century miseries for our failsons arthur and john

EDIT: people in the notes have mentioned they don’t know what some of these are, so i jotted down some quick and dirty explanations below the cut.

the bubonic plague or black death is pretty well known, a horrific illness mostly transmitted by fleas and rats that was responsible for mass death in europe.

marginalia are funky little drawings made in the margins of illuminated manuscripts, largely by bored monks and scriveners. my favorite is the penis beast.

a medieval lord’s military might wasnt made up mostly of knights, who were typically low in number and expensive to field. they largely relied on levies, groups of able-bodied men raised from their land holdings and basically given a pike (a long spear), the bare minimum of equipment/livery, and a slap on the ass, and sent to fight one of the many english civil wars.

leprosy was another greatest hit of medieval diseases that fucked your whole life up.

catholic heresies are super fun! christianity has existed in a sort of perpetual state of “fuck around and find out,” but the medieval period saw a supreme amount of fucking around. here’s a great post rating many of these heresies. check out marcionism for some great Demiurge Discourse

middle english was the form english took at this time. it can be very musical, but its, uh, yknow. difficult to parse these days.

crusades were basically the greatest pastime of medieval rulers. not sure what to do with a heap of gold and all your vassal lords getting antsy and potentially fomenting ANOTHER civil war? ship them off to the middle east to fight a holy war on any pretext you can think of, including “because i can.”

tunic malfunction is mostly a goof, but between hose, sumptuary laws governing specific colors and items different races/religions/classes could wear, tunic length discourse, and how expensive making clothes could be, well. it could be a hurdle

legal proceedings weren’t just for people back in the day. sometimes animals would be dragged to the stand and accused of crimes. pigs in particular were often accused of eating limbs, children, and promoting sin.

13th century well water is your one stop shop for some all-time hit fatal diseases, such as cholera and dysentery! also, even if it didnt kill you, frequent contamination means it usually smelt or looked bad. poisoning wells was a common warfare tactic as well.

[wordfather]

this should be illegal actually.im just a wittle guy

[chrismcshell]

i went out and bought groceries today are u proud of me 🥺

[darkreconstruction]

Since this is a good space to go on and talk for a long time, i wanted to discuss my pieces for Art Fair 14C today.

The orange:

These three pieces are rooted deeply in eco-brutalism. The venom-like orange drips menacing and foreboding, equal parts inspired by soviet brutalist architecture and the chaos magic practice of sigil crafting.

The urge to create a symbol that manifests something into reality, a sign that MEANS SOMETHING, while not universal, is a common desire. It is a practice that, I personally feel helps me to connect to the past while planning for my future.

Many people find brutalist architecture to be boring, ugly, an eyesore. There will be photos of blank, featureless soviet buildings, with no inhabitants or surroundings,and all anyone can say is, oh, how ugly. However, to me, these don't exist in a vacuum. A granny will put a flowerbox on her balcony. Another neighbor will hang up the laundry to dry. Maybe you'll get moss or some green climbing thing growing. Maybe some seeds will take root in the cracks of the cheap, shoddily made concrete. People will be born there, live there, die there, and the echoes of their laughter and the stains of their tears will color the walls and the stairwells.

I felt the urge to bring brutalist architecture and chaos magic mysticism together, to symbolize that no matter how far forward we will push, how far away we will go from the organic shapes and colors of life, we will always feel the urge to look up at the sky to make a wish on a shooting star, to influence the world around us, to make a connection with a higher consciousness, to take a physical step toward making our dreams come alive.

I also was visually inspired by apocalyptic scenes, especially those from 90s anime and manga, where skeletons of ruined buildings rise up from dust and the abyss. Think X/1999, Evangelion, the Legend of Basara, or even more modern examples such as the gorgeous ruins in My Time at Portia.

The greenery also is meant to bring forth the organic, the natural, the growth and healing and our origins. The trees, the forests, the orchards. The things that grow, an easy and clear symbol of things that come from the earth.

Titles

The titles are jamais vu (a volatile system), deja vu (blood and apricots), and presque vu (the stars are afraid of you)

The titles are a two part equation - one half deals with the common human experience of unreliable nature of memory and the other half, with the much awaited apocalypse.

Jamais Vu (as you Disco Elysium folks may know) is the sensation of encountering a place /situation/moment you have lived through previously, and yet having no memory of it.

Deja Vu, the most easily explained, is the sensation of having been here before, though you have never been here previously.

Presque Vu is the sensation of almost, but never, remember what it is you've forgotten. It's at the tip of your tongue, you can almost taste it, but it just isn't coming to you.

These feelings have been experienced by every human who has lived, and every human who will come after.

The secondary parts of each title come from a certain conversation 🦗from the end of Disco Elysium. It is a conversation that discusses the end times.

Also - how many apocalypses have we humans lived through? Our worlds have ended a thousand times over. Yet here we still are, and here we'll remain.

During the process of coming up with the names of these pieces, I definitely had at least an hour long meltdown over what direction to take them in, so Uhh shout out to my Disco buds who were there for me in my darkest hour, when I actually had to name something.

I wanted to bring a bit of Disco to these pieces, because Disco has brought a bit of Disco into me.

The colors:

A soft sky blue, labeled at the store as "Aztec blue". So many native cultures, slaughtered in the name of expansion of empires and growth of wealth, and now in the paint aisle at the hardware store. It's a little weird. The blue was the prefect shade though, for what I wanted out of this.

Multichrome and metallic blues add dimension to an otherwise flat sky

The greens... I used about 10-15 different acrylic paints in various shades to create the depth and dimension of the leaves.

Orange - neon, vivid, acidic, venomous, vibrant, violent. The antithesis of a natural color. Glows ominously under blue lights.

All together

Together these pieces are a visualization of the past, present, and future of humanity. It contains the roots of our past, the promise of future apocalypses brought on by our own actions, and a hope for a future that we can build to our own imagination. It's a discussion of the unreliability of our memory, and the common things that bind us together.

If you have any questions let me know! Thanks for checking out my work!

[funeralcity]

tonight definitely a 3-4 hour walk type of night

[acaesic]

guys im locked out of my house again

[castielsprostate]

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU FROM THAT YOU HAD YOUR FIRST FALL RAIN TODAY??? WHATEVER IM SO JEALOUS UGHHHH

SCREAM IM FROM THE NETHERLANDS SJSJSJSJSJSJSJ IT'S BEEN RAINING ALL DAY TODAY AND THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ARE GOING TO BE THE EXACT SAME 🤩🤩🤩 with the prospect of it continuing for the next month!!!!!!!

IT'S FINALLY(almost) FALL 😭😭😭 AND I HOPE IT'LL HURRY UP AND BE FALL FOR YOU SOON TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[foxglves]

[bigfishthemusical]

Someone remind me that ac unit is my number one priority when I move out of this place. Due to the nightmare world we live in. I am sitting here by my open window trying to be cold in March!

[idazzle]

I discover fourteen carats yesterday. Loved it, read it all chapters. I refresh today to see if you bless us with a new chapter and then saw that the last time you wrote a chapter was APRIL 🥹🥹🥹🥹. Don’t tell me you abandon fourteen carats!!!

hi! thank you for your interest in my story, i always update as soon as the chapter is ready 😊

[artsology]

Art by Frank Ippolito from his “Trans-lucid” series, art works that are like light boxes, with illumination coming from within, on view at the 14C Art Fair in Jersey City through Sunday, November 13. #frankippolito #translucid #14c #jc #jerseycity #artfair14c #artfair #contemporaryart (at Jersey City Armory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1aMpbO7q9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[basslinegrave]

im sad i didnt find my hat but idk where it could even be at this point but it would make me feel better to have it :(

[shopcat]

r u guys having nice days it is a night almost autumn night... can smell firewood smoke... cold enough for blanky