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#59 - 星雨 (xīng yǔ / star shower) - Here to grant you a thousand wishes! 🌟🌌🌠
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Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken
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i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled
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April 27th is International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day! My comic Crow time is pretty much stuffed to the brim with crows, so it's a good way to celebrate these goth little dudes.
READ CROW TIME!
OR GET PLUSH GOTH BOI?? WOW!
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Okay, this is interesting.
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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
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Me: (greets a "guest" at my workplace who is performing an unsafe act)
Me: (explains that this act is unsafe and what the correct procedure is)
"Guest": Oh. Well I haven't been here in a long time, and it seems like your rules change every couple of days. Can I keep doing it like this and next time I'll get it right?
Me: I'm not here to tell you what to do. I just want to give you the information you need to make an informed decision. But if the wrong person sees this, you won't be able to come here anymore.
"Guest": (goes off to do the correct thing without any more fuss)
I swear it shouldn't have taken this many years to figure out this script, but it's so counter to the culture! Here it is for anybody else who has to deal with willful "guests" where they work.
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The photos look whole to me - nothing cropped off weirdly.
Toad King
Ta da! Isn't he gorgeous? I have no idea why his mace is cut off in this photo because it isn't cut off on my end. Maybe it won't be on your end either, who knows? It's Tumblr. They do what they want and they can because I don't pay for this blog hosting.
A little dry brushing here and there and we have a Toad King.
Like I said, three basic techniques. Base, wash, dry brush= incredible miniatures. There are some touch-ups and other things employed here such as I have spent years working on eyes and this is the best I've got. They're nice. Functional. I won't win any awards for them but they look god to me.
I am quite proud of my amphibious little friend here. I did not bring any bases with me though and I won't be home until next week so it will be awhile before I can finish this miniature and put him up for sale on my WillowWind78 eBay page. You'll see him there eventually if no one buys him with lots of pictures. So, even if you aren't interested in buying anything, check out my page for ideas and other miniatures of varying quality.
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150 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Nantes, France. Artist Huang Yong Ping
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Some of this effect is definitely racism. But I wonder how much of it is over-highlighting and the art equivalent of photocopier burn 🤔
Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂
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it’s funny, someone said I was “based” for calling the United States a foreign country, but…..that’s just what it is to the rest of the world! like it’s not a radical or provocative word choice, that’s lIterally just how the majority of people on earth view it
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How many of these orbs do you think you'll have by the end of your Very Busy couple of months?
Mental health origami. Oops, my hands slipped 30 times and I made another kusudama.
This new one I decided not to use glue on and see how it holds up. The answer is "perfectly." The internal pressure of the thing keeps it stable.
Made a peacock out of the remaining paper. And got my hands messy with whatever blue dye is on this very cheap foil paper. I need to stick to simple folds with this particular paper.
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How did magicians back in the day make seals? Was there a science behind it or was it intuitive?
That's a really good question! The answer is extremely complicated!
When most people these days think of seals they think of goetic seals. But the terminology of "seals" actually comes from the idea of sealing a letter. Specifically, it refers to one of the many apocryphal versions of the story of Solomon and Ashmedai, in which king Solomon uses a signet ring with a special magical symbol on it to command demons.
Now, this is one of those biblical stories that people went absolutely nuts for. Jews, Christians, Muslims, damn near every abrahamic faith has their own take on the story, because let's be honest here it's cool as fuck.
But! The original story from the Tanakh doesn't refer to the seal at all, and focuses much more on controlling the sheyd with manacles inscribed with a secret name of God. The inherent magical power of names of God is a common trope in Jewish literature, but later versions of the tale also include greco-egyptian ideas about the inherent magical properties of language, forms, and mathematics.
So when we look at a contemporary English version of a goetic seal, we are looking at something with literally thousands of years of compiled knowledge behind it. I wouldn't necessarily call it science, or intuition, I would describe it as systematic, and narrative. Closer to how campfire stories are improved over generations as people tell and retell them.
Look at this seal of Belial:
The idea of the seal itself? That goes back to Babylonian Jewish ideas about written text having power to control supernatural entities. (Google Babylonian curse bowls if you haven't already.)
See how the letters are spaced? That's important. That goes back to neopythagorean ideas about regular polygons being fundamental building blocks of the universe.
The little crosses? Those are probably cruciforms! That's how you can tell Christians were involved at some point.
See how some of the lines of the seal end in little loops? That goes back to ptolmaic Egyptian ideas about magic. If the crosses are cruciforms, these are probably ankh-forms! You see shapes like that all over magical texts from the 2nd-6th century Mediterranean!
These symbols are the result of dozens of cultures and people and languages collectively yes-anding each other for literally thousands of years. They are DENSE with meaning.
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