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jojaxcola · 4 months ago
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"no one told me back then that i was in the glory days."
[ jojamart mockumentary #14 ]
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supertaliart · 2 months ago
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I spent WAY too long rendering this.
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lavaflowe · 2 months ago
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New Wukong design I made for an animated series that I would hypothetically make if I could
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paintedcrows · 11 months ago
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Watched Pyramids of Mars and... yeah I'm obsessed with this guy
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quillflower-art · 1 year ago
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🔥Emperor & Empress🪨 cr3 ep80
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I'm crawling slowly out of the holidays and into the new year. I think this is a nice start though :]
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rustchild · 1 year ago
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one of the wild things about people’s stubborn insistence on misunderstanding The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is that the narrator anticipates an audience that won’t engage with the text, just in the opposite direction. Throughout the story are little asides asking what the reader is willing to believe in. Can you believe in a utopia? What if I told you this? What about this? Can you believe in the festivals? The towers by the sea? Can we believe that they have no king? Can we believe that they are joyful? Does your utopia have technology, luxury, sex, temples, drugs? The story is consulting you as it’s being told, framed as a dialogue. It literally asks you directly: do you only believe joy is possible with suffering? And, implicitly, why?
the question isn’t just “what would you personally do about the kid.” It isn’t just an intricate trolley problem. It’s an interrogation of the limits of imagination. How do we make suffering compulsory? Why? What futures (or pasts) are we capable of imagining? How do we rationalize suffering as necessary? And so on. In all of the conversations I’ve seen or had about this story, no one has mentioned the fact that it’s actively breaking the fourth wall. The narrator is building a world in front of your eyes and challenging you to participate. “I would free the kid” and then what? What does the Omelas you’ve constructed look like, and why? And what does that say about the worlds you’re building in real life?
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cherylblossom · 1 year ago
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RACHEL ZEGLER at the 2024 Met Gala: "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" (6th May 2024)
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nikoisme · 10 months ago
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Vesna, goddess of spring and youth
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tgcg · 1 year ago
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this is my element (+ album)
asking me to pick my fave album is like asking an orphan matron to pick her favorite baby boy
thats some weird and cruel circumstances to put upon me i feel like it changes every damn week like a rota
i mean what if my beats misbehave and i gotta put 'em in time out i cant play permanent on that theyre too cute
but yknow what i can show you one thing thats been on my mind lately
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so when i was a kid we had this skateboard vid by "element skateboards" on DVD
they were this skateboard kit slash apparel company that was all about progressivism and shit and they did these much lauded comp tapes of dudes riding around on their boards and doing the dopest of macho tricks on the shit
flipping it turnways
putting the rock in the house like a big man
we had some of their merch actually
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so anyways the one we had back then was This Is My Element
released 2007
mostly clips from cali i think and i mean the camerawork is fucking insane on some of those shots
this is gonna sound lame as fuck but i prob spent so many cumulative hours just peelin through the footage and ogling the shit outta it
that framing was tight
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so you may be asking yourself or me
dave you genuine dicksucker i asked about your fav album not your favorite sordid ass display of smooth dudes hardcore riding and grinding them boards in public dude you have a problem
ok well that wasnt a question first of all so jot that down
but anyways to THAT i say
listen to the music
the whole thing has an original soundtrack of ambient beats
got some abstract hip hop jams, got some more indie stuff, lots of acoustic sampling
HELLA underground
and basically every track minus one is done by sampler beast david p. madson AKA "odd nosdam"
dude is my hero seriously
he is the master of the beat machine i shit you not hes always been kinda my idol on this stuff
aside from bro obviously
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obviously.
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anyways he had an E-mu SP-1200 which is a really oldschool sampler invented by dave rossum in the late 80s
revolutionary to the hip hop scene
nosdam had this mega distinct sound to his music that i always wanted to replicate on my own beats
still do
i dont know for sure if he used it on T.I.M.E. but he uses some of the same samples from "vol. 9" which was exclusively SP-1200 so im gonna get a lil j’accuzi on that
it couldve been a boss dr sampler SP-202 though idk
he had one of those
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so aside from beating the shit out of the pause/resume button to flip my whole cranium at the cinematography or whatever i would also kinda play it on loop to listen to the soundtrack and space out at 2am
the lonely broner seemed to free his mind at night
ok shit broner is good but i didnt mean it like that
that was goofy lets just keep movin
it was the only way i had to listen to it back then but i mean the video is 50 mins long so its basically just an odd nosdam album with accompanying ambient skater sounds and random expletives and whatever
random car sequence
yknow what i dont think people respect enough?
the dude who catches all the "mad stunts yo" on camera
i swear to god at least half the time hes ALSO on a board and that shit is bananas to me
bros gotta be on some whole other level of zen to skate good AND catch all them glamor shots of his fellow skater
thats like an express ticket to the ER imo
the ambulance is already on the scene watching you like an eager crow watches a half dead dog
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ok gonna go ahead and lay it out flat
not great on a board myself
kinda dogshit at it actually
so maybe im not exactly an arbitrator of skateboard heinousness
but i always kinda liked watching THEM do it i mean who doesnt?
whats an even crazier layer to stack on the "dave" cake is
and dirk told me this because unfortunately it kinda happened post-2009
he would do all these collabs with one of my childhood favorite underground rappers david cohn aka serengeti
surrounded by daves left and right dude even before all the time travel horseshit
thats like
serendipitous as fuck i think!
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if sburb was just a revolving door of artists called dave that i could bump fists with
instead of other mes in various states of aliveness tending toward extremely dead
i wouldve probably given it something higher than 2 stars on my TGN review
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so yeah you ask me my favorite album its T.I.M.E. by odd nosdam i guess
bump that shit on a walk your mind will go places unknown to man
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simcardiac-arrested · 2 months ago
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i’m hiding in the passepartout!
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voluptuarian · 5 months ago
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Sometimes I just want to enjoy some new Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass-inspired media, but somehow every single adaptation seems to be a version of one of these
straightforward adaptation of the book(s)
mental illness metaphor (clever)
mental illness metaphor (tacky)
Oz and Wonderland exist together somehow
YA #dark #fantasy #royalcore series
claims to be inspired by the book(s), actually based on the Disney movie, no one involved has ever actually finished either
porn
manga/anime with little resemblance to the original plot and every major character is a hunky man for some reason
Disney-branded cash grab ahoy!
Dark and Edgy (and probably perverse) "subversive" or horror retelling
Hot Topic Aesthetic™️
Combination of two or more
pretty sure you could do just a drinking game of Alice adaptation tropes, pick literally anything, and be drunk out of your mind in no time. Drink when there's:
asylum
harem situation
"killing game" (for some reason??)
red queen/queen of hearts conflation
"the real story"
grouped with traditional fairy tales???
"it's not 'Wonderland,' it's [insert similar-sounding but darker alternative term]"
something victorian patriarchy something something corsets hysteria something something
scheming royal families
drug metaphor
Not saying none of these ideas has been done well, but they've all been done, many times! I just think there are far more interesting possibilities out there that aren't being pursued. Jabberwock as Arthurian questing beast! Card kingdom courtroom drama! Genuinely deep fantasy world building exploring the reversed time-space dynamic in Looking Glass Land! DO SOMETHING INTERESTING WITH IT BY GOD
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if you don't mind sharing what's the elevator pitch for your novel? Everytime you've mentioned it it sounds really interesting. But I understand if you want to keep personal projects to yourself
Yes! I'm going to paraphrase the pitch my beta reader wrote for me -- I'll have to find the exact thing when I'm not on mobile.
Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
10 years ago, Emma's childhood came to an abrupt end with her father's cancer diagnosis. Forced to move from Iowa to Guangzhou for his care, she left behind her friends — and left behind the secret country she tells herself she no longer believes in.
10 years ago, Ty answered the door to police officers with hands on their guns. Ready to extract a confession and get this case solved. It's always the boyfriend, they concluded when Olive disappeared, and this boy has no alibi.
10 years ago, Olive opened a portal in the middle of a corn field and walked through, never to be seen again. She never had a childhood in the first place, aside from the stolen moments in Ty's and Emma's homes.
10 years ago, a boy walked out of that portal. He calls himself Ian, though that isn't his name. He came to Earth for ibuprofen, for elevators, for conversion pants, for prosthetic legs that fit like 3D printed gloves. He came, as well, fleeing a secret.
Today, Emma finally has the chance to travel back to Story City, Iowa. Ty knows that Emma isn't crazy; Emma knows Ty isn't a murderer. Together they're going to recruit Ian to help them find Olive and clear Ty's name... but Ian's past is about to catch up to them.
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084392 · 9 months ago
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been wanting to revisit these twos designs from this post for awhile now...
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planetsandmagic · 3 months ago
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🕯️ Irfan, The Roving Trader
"Bound by Oath to an endless quest for hidden knowledge, Irfan struggles to abandon their beloved world for the unknown."
Meet the paladin I designed for @/SleepyWyrm_Ed's Book of Devotion, a book full of unique deities and their devotees! Thanks so much for having me in the project ;w;
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jon-sedai · 8 months ago
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And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....
Oh yes he would!
One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014
GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017
In fact he already has ☺️
#asoiaf#jon snow#yes grrm has criticized neo-tolkein fantasy - a lot!#but like....dpmo#I need so many people in this godforsaken fandom to familiarize themselves with grrm's engagement with the genre#he isn't trying to say “chosen one boy protagonist bad” where tf did people get that???#he's directly trying to challenge the more unsatisfactory elements of lesser copies of tolkien's legendarium#the ones that lift lotr wholesale without actually understanding what makes tolkien's writing snap#at the same time he has admitted himself that he has borrowed from lotr albeit with his own twists#but people in this fandom need to know that ye old man LOVES sword-and-sorcery fantasy#he LOVES a good epic#he LOVES pulp fantasy and sci fi#and those inspirations are directly reflected in asoiaf#the way he's named arthuriana/lotr/MST and many pulp stories with brooding dark heroes as key inspirations#almost all of which have mcs who fall into the typical fantasy hero role#and they inspire elements that are reflected back onto jon more than anyone else in asoiaf#like seoman snowlock = jon (+bran)#frodo - who btw is the mc in lotr not aragorn!! = jon (and bran)#FUCKING KING ARTHUR IS JON SO MUCH SO THAT RLJ IS LITERALLY A 1:1 COPY OF ARTHUR'S BIRTH STORY LIKE??!!!!#anyone who's even a little bit familiar with le morte d'arthur will be like oh yeah jon is literally king arthur like 😭😭#same with anyone who's ready the once and future king - which grrm has directly identified as his fav take on arthurian lit#ntm that jon is based on some of the most prolific characters in arthuriana - percival/galahad/lancelot etc#did you know that there's an iconic sci-fi series whose main character is called Eric JOHN STARK?#well grrm has directly quoted that series and the mc as a foundational book in his life#funny that huh? 🙂#do people even know what tf they're talking about when they say stuff like this???? ajdhhjshsbvshja#grrm engages very heavily with traditional fantasy tropes but he of course provides his own spin on them#never has he said that he's trying to avoid stories with hidden princes or chosen ones as boy protagonists#like someone find me a direct quote of him saying that - but I bet you can't smh
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