#always a reflection

[finalset]

I love drawing <3 I just bought some rainbow pencils that I’m excited to use and incorporate in my art. I’ve been having so much fun since I let myself do smaller artworks in my sketchbook instead of big fully shaded pieces or nothing.

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

lived my whole life in guilt bc i thought i was responsible for people's feelings. newly realizing that other people are responsible for their feelings and reactions, even if they make it seem like i'm the problem. a lot of the time it really has to do w them and their own emotional regulation. i can't keep thinking i'm not allowed to have space bc of other people's insecurities. like i literally refuse to dim myself. other people are responsible for their feelings just as i'm responsible for mine.

[galehowl]

unfinished doodle of Holydramon and her tamer

[triona-tribblescore]

So, whats with the suit?

[maxiglow]

JZ

[maxanor]

SEVERANCE | Season 2, Episode 6, "Attila"

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[dellamortte]

They have cioccolata calda. It was my favourite drink as a child.

[housecow]

Just when a normal person would day “holy shit, this too much weight”, you just keep going. What drives you to get fatter and fatter?

never ending lust for life 🥹 do you know how lucky i am to be living the dream of (likely) millions of people that lived and died before me? some girl sat in a cave 75000 years ago and thought “damn i wish i was fat as fuck”

i’m going this for her ❤️ and me. BUT also for her ❤️

[mj55]

ohh ohhhh he went against his fathers wishes for once but hopes to be proven right and for the decision to be validated by him in the future… god the horrors of constantly having to prove himself continue free him!!

[nobeerreviews]

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

-- Grace Ogot

(Regensburg, Germany)

[jonnywaistcoat]

Have you heard of the “dark academia aesthetic”? If so, do you like it and have you employed it into the ~vibes~ and ~themes~ of some of your work? Asking because I’ve seen many people interpret Magnus as belonging to that kind of vibe and wondering if that was your intended vision

It's hard to articulate why exactly this ask a amuses me so much. Essentially "dark academia" tends to be a slightly cartoonish fashioned-up vision of old British scholarly institutions, as interpreted by American kids who are just picking up on the vibe. As a Brit who's spent most of their life in London, Oxford, Manchester and the various libraries and museums therein, it's not an aesthetic or a vibe - it's just what I know. Also, from what I can tell one of the other main inspirations for "dark academia" is adaptations of Victorian and Edwardian spooky fiction (James, Blackwood, Dickens, etc.) which are exactly the sort of ghost stories I was reading as a kid and which inspires a lot of my work.

So, I guess my feeling is Magus wasnt aiming for a dark academia vibe - dark academia is aiming for a *Magnus* vibe. And it's not nailing it.

[nothorses]

I think the other thing about it is that sometimes what you get out of art says a lot more about you than it does the artist. and what you see in people says more about you than it does them.

the people who looked at Gaiman's work and saw beauty and love for humanity and a life worth living may have been looking at the mask of a monster, and they may have been seeing a bit of something real in an otherwise abusive person, but what they were definitely seeing was a reflection of something already inside themselves.

your relationship with art isn't just about the art, and it isn't just about the artist. it's about you. you are a lens the art shines through, and you are a part of the conversation the art is having, and you are reflecting and being reflected through and by the art, and you are echoing and interpreting pieces of yourself alongside pieces of the art.

it's not foolish to see good things in art made by shitty people. it's not foolish to see good in people who are lying. it's not foolish to trust, believe, hope, or love. I think you might just have hope, love, and joy in your heart, and you might just be finding it in all of those places because you carried it there with you in the first place.

[millenianthemums]

“you’re not pure evil, you’re a person just like everyone else who’s in total control of their actions and choices” would upset Bill more than any insult ever could

[lizardkingeliot]

You're circling something. You're getting close to something you want distance from.