#day of usability

[lesbiangiratina]

Asura System TCG - Testament artwork

Gallery at guiltygear.wiki.gg

[bobombun]

Walking on slippery surfaces with metallic legs? No problem!

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[fisheito]

"I'm a healer but--" duo

[neuropteran]

butter yellow suit i love you [mark owen at the greatest days premiere: source]

[bromantically]

if i see any of u putting pro crab day stuff on my dash im not giving u a second chance before softblocking u. if tumblr will not take care of its userbase, it will negatively impact them. basic cause and effect.

giving them money is not going to get them to use it to improve the site its going to make them go "yoo we can get money even if we ignore them!"

u would not give a dog treats for ripping up the couch in the hopes that itll stop ripping up the couch. so dont give tumblr treats for ripping up the couch. they are going to keep ripping it. ur just showing them their userbase is going to give them money regardless of whatever the fuck they do

[mirioho]

“Sorry, but I don’t think a wish will give me what I want”

[SR] Reyu Carrera- Fairytale Soiree

Event by @angelwishess

Voice Lines Below: ( mentions of Kyra @angelwishess and Victor @theolivetree123 + Closeups, Notes)

💼 Groovy: [Locked]

💼 Home: Everyone looks like they’ve walked out of a storybook, I guess the fairytale theme is in full swing.

💼 Home Idle 1: I’ve been exploring inside and outside the palace, I never know what to expect when I turn a corner.

💼 Home Idle 2: You know where I’m from, some say you shouldn’t eat food offered by fae…But I’m glad that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Everything is quite delicious.

💼 Home Idle 3: I actually really like the outfit they gave me, I don’t think it’s sophisticated enough for the party but the hooded cape is comfortable.

💼 Home Idle Groovy: [Locked]

💼 Home Tap 1: Kyra is quite generous wanting to share the wish she’s been given, hopefully whoever is picked gets what they want.

💼 Home Tap 2: Victor really seems to be putting on quite the campaign to get his wish granted, I respect the effort.

💼 Home Tap 3:  Just because I’m not out on the dance floor doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying myself, there’s lots to see around here.

💼 Home Tap 4: The deadline for the wish being midnight is just another fairytale cliche, huh?

💼 Home Tap 5:  My wish? I already said I won’t make one…But fine…If you insist. Going back home won’t be that easy, so if I can’t wish for that…I’d wish to somehow let my mom know I’m okay. Her peace of mind would be my wish.

💼 Home Tap Groovy: [Locked]

(Close-Up + Outfit Inspo + My rambling)

as you can see above, my vision for this outfit was pretty much taken from the outfit on the right which is one that is worn by the character she's based off in Disenchanted (which is the sequel to Echanted). I thought it would be fitting considering he wears that outfit while the world is turned to a real life fairytale and considering this event is called Fairytale Soiree, it just made sense to me to put her in it.

Now that I look at it, I think maybe the prince outfit from the first movie would've been more fitting for this event, but I'm actually saving an outfit based on that for something else.

Anyways moving on to the background, I wanted to note that I was watching Shrek while drawing and I was very much inspired by the swamp. So I kind of just made a cave with lots of green and all that. And then I added fireflies to kind of give it a more magical and pretty feeling.

And then as I kept watching Shrek, there's this scene where they come upon the dragon, but at first all you see is the green eye. And idk I really liked that and I looked at my art and thought hey maybe I'll add that to the cave since it looked too empty. But after I added it I was like hey Malleus is a dragon, it'd be funny if he was the dragon in the cave. He's not. Or maybe he is? I don't know. It's a dragon eye but it may or may not be his.

And finally, this will likely be the last Reyu art I make before I redesign her. Though it's not so much a complete redesign, so much as me organizing her profile, information, references, etc. Mostly because I was finally able to compile the templates I needed to put all that together. But she'll be pretty much the same, there will just be some tweaks...probably.

[onyourstageleft]

if you have not needed to use a plunger in your current living situation, take a moment right now to assess the availability of a plunger

because the worst time to discover that you do not possess a plunger is when you need a plunger and honestly, no one thinks about the presence or absence of a plunger until they're looking for one

[genericpuff]

i played flute for 6 years from middle school until the end of high school

it means fuck all now because i haven't played a single tune in a decade LOL

[shinesurge]

I was musing about it on mastodon because it's a nuanced issue but it keeps coming up and i really feel like offering bsky as a Tumblr Alternative doesn't make sense, even aside from my own hangups about twitter clones. Tumblr, (bsky, mastodon), discord, personal sites, and newsletters all serve different functions and none of them are expressly Replacements for another imo, it's like trying to replace a screwdriver with a hammer. Offering bsky to me as an art platform backup feels as incongruous as saying "oh hey the marina is closed today but we can take our rowboat to the park instead" lmao

that said like i definitely get it, since cohost failed idk what options there would even be at this point for something like tumblr if it really does go down at some point. everybody's just trying to do their best when our careers (and just!! our art sharing communities!!) are at the mercy of people who don't give a shit so this is less shitting on people eyeing lifeboats and more being frustrated this is a thing on anyone's radar at all rn

[manicpixiedreamlestats]

once more with feeling: cross tagging makes the tag unusable. fucking stop it. ♡

[anishenanigans]

the Spotify app is actually fucking unusable oh my god what do you MEAN I have to pay to actually listen to the song I want to listen to in its entirety when I want to listen to it ??? And if I don’t pay them one billion dollars a month, I have to just listen to other songs I don’t want to hear indefinitely until it finally shows up on shuffle???????

[starmocha]

WDYM WDYM WDYM WDYM

WHAT DO YOU FUCKING MEAN???????

[fisheito]

"Eiden and his companions accidentally run their carriage into two yokai wearing "maid costumes". To take responsibility and make amends, they set off to check out a maid café located in the forest—"

Girl that's just kuya and yakumo on their way back from the island

Wait ,no. Forest...

Girl that's just kuya and garu out for a walk

[thedreadvampy]

Today was such a shitty fucking day and it's all Mark Zuckerberg's fault

[daisy-bugs]

scar's red life shawl is his last life robes after one (1) mental breakdown and a pair of shears. to me.