#painted monastery

[aqua-regia009]

Monastery Garden in Snow, c.1829 - oil on canvas ― Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880)

[omercifulheaves]

Monks Walk To The Mountain Monastery of Athos, 1905 Art by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[pleasantwasteland]

it rules that the whole "dying in front of him over and over again until he went mad with grief" thing wasn't even part of missy's epic plan to set up the doctor in a fucked up relationship. like clara just did that.

[nobeerreviews]

...what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

-- Gabriel Orozco

(Krakow, Poland)

[vintage-russia]

"Novodevichiy Monastery" (1890)

Aleksey Savrasov (1830-1897)

[bonefall]

post/734733274896809984/do-you-ever-worry-your-own-writing-might-come-off that makes sense. i was asking because i'm afraid of accidentally writing misogyny myself and i kind of admire what you do

Hmm... I wish I had better advice to give you on this front, but honestly, the only thing I can tell you is to consider the perspective of your female characters.

Women are people. They have thoughts and feelings of their own, so like... just let them have their own arcs. A lot of the worst misogyny in WC comes from the way that the writers just don't care about their girls (or, in the case of tall shadow, actually get undermined and forced to rewrite entire chapters), so they're not curious about their lives, or WHY they feel the way they do or what they want, or any direction for their character arcs.

Turtle Tail as an example. She'll often just end up feeling whatever Gray Wing's plot demands. She's gotta leave when Storm dumps him to make him feel lonely. She shows up again to love him in the next book. Lets her best friend Bumble get dragged back to Tom the Wifebeater, but is sad enough about her death to be "unreasonably angry" with Clear Sky, and then calms down and accept Gray Wing is right all along.

And then she dies, so he can have his very own fridge wife.

In this way, Turtle Tail's just being used to tell Gray Wing's story. They're not interested in why she would turn on Bumble, or god forbid any lingering negative feelings for how she didn't help her, or even resentment towards Clear Sky for killing her or Gray Wing for jumping to his defense. She isn't really going through her own character arc.

She does have personality traits of her own, don't misunderstand my criticism, but as a character she revolves around Gray Wing.

So, zoom out every now and then, and just ask yourself; "Whose story is being told by what I wrote? Do my female characters have goals, wants, and agency, or are they just supporting men? How do their choices impact the narrative?"

But that's already kinda assuming that you already have characters like Turtle Tail who DO have personalities and potential of their own. Here's some super simple and practical advice that helped me;

Tally the genders in your cast. How many are boys, how many are girls, how many are others?

And take stock of how many of those characters are just in the supporting cast, and compare that to the amount you have in the main cast.

If you have a significant imbalance, ESPECIALLY in the main cast, fire the Woman Beam.

It's a really simple trick to just write a male character, and then change its gender while keeping it the same. I promise women are really not fundamentally different from men lmao. You can consider how your in-universe gender roles affect them later, if you'd like, but when you're just starting to wean yourself off a "boy bias" this trick works like a charm.

Also you're not allowed to change the body type of any girl you Woman Beam because I said so. PLEASE allow your girls to have muscles, or be fat, or be old, or have lots of scars. Do NOT do what a cowardly Triple A studio does, where the women all have the same cute or sexy face and curvy body while they're standing next to dwarves, robots, and a gorilla.

Or this shit,

If you do this I will GET you. If you're ever possessed by the dark urge, you will see my face appear in the clouds like Mufasa himself to guide you away from the path of evil.

Anyway, you get better at just making characters girls to begin with as time goes on and you practice it. It's really not as big of a deal as your brain might think it is.

Take a legitimate interest in female characters and try not to disproportionately hit them with parental/romance plots as opposed to the male cast, and you'll be fine. Don't think of them as "SPECIAL WOMEN CHARACTERS" just make a character and then let her be a girl, occasionally checking your tally and doing some critical thinking about their use in the story.

(Also remember I'm not a professional or anything, I'm just trying to give advice)

[nokmietarchive]

drew this for a friend lol (based on this meme) edit hey they do have a tumblr @casualwatson

[zero-zoxx-international]

Griechisches Felsenfenster mit Blick auf das Kloster (Greek Rock Window With View to the Monastery), 2024 by J.G.Wind

[thegirlintheblackdress]

An Addition to the Monastery, by Adolf Humborg

[poligraf]

« Path To Tibet » by Nicholas Roerich

[aqua-regia009]

Monks in a monastery courtyard, Storm over a Lake in the Background (1856) Oil on canvas. ― Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778-1856)

[fine-arts-gallery]

Rebellion In The Monastery (1817-1870) by the circle of Eugenio Lucas Velásquez.

[illustratus]

In Time of Peril by Edmund Blair Leighton

Depicts two young princes, one still a baby wrapped in his mother’s elaborate royal clothing, being spirited away from danger to a protective monastery.

As the adults in the boat await anxiously for permission to enter the sanctuary, the young prince looks over his shoulder and the potential lurking danger.

In a letter, the artist describes the scene as:

“laid at the watergate of a monastery in the fourteenth century;

the outcome of reading of the shelter afforded by such places to the women, children,

and treasure of those who were hard-driven, and in danger.”

“In Time of Peril” remains a favourite painting due to its technical qualities, and the imaginative story it tells evoking western historical royalist fantasy.

[classic-art-favourites]

The Dreamer (Ruins of the Oybin Monastery) by Caspar David Friedrich, 1820-1840.

[bloodwineenthusiast]

Totally about to paint Sensei Garmadon's monastery! I'll update when it's finished.