Absolutely-NO-Shelf-Control August is Totally A Thing, Right??

I might've, uh. Acquired Some Books This Month (Oops). Between preorders and impulse little press purchases AND impulse IRL-but-it's-buy-3-paperbacks-get-1-free-and-look-we-have-so-many-Tor-things-that-have-been-on-your-list, I was only ever doomed.

The Parliament Review: Understanding the Owls

The Parliament Review: Understanding the Owls

A perennial favorite meme in my household—now used as a shorthand in many gift-giving situations—is “I never understood the owls.” Reading The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka is another perfect application of the meme, since who could ever really understand the sudden appearance of thousands of murderous owls? Yep, owls. The ancient symbols of wisdom that …

Title: Self-Portrait with Nothing | Author: Aimee Pokwatka | Publisher: Tor (2022)

me times three

What's going to happen to me now?

I'm thinking abt that pretty fall leaves embroidery pattern post and about how like... it is categorically a repost, it's a reupload. right? a thing that is generally disliked. but because it's credited, it's genuinely boosting the artist in question. and it could ALWAYS be like this. reposting content could ALWAYS be a symbiotic relationship, but because sourcing back to the original creator of something is so uncommon, it's just easier to ask people not to repost it at all. and people still don't understand the difference. or they'll go to the effort of cropping out usernames/signatures to repost something, which is More Effort than literally crediting the creator of something you liked enough to want to repost. Like. I literally don't actually care if my own shit gets reposted, you have to understand. I just don't want it STOLEN. But "do not repost" is easier to write on my art than "you can repost this, but don't alter the image/remove my signature, don't you dare write 'credit goes to the artist' because that is not credit, please link back to my original post or someplace that you can actually find me. please use an actual link/url instead of writing a non-clickable link of my username, because making it text instead of a clickable link cuts the number of people who will go to the effort of visiting my own page in Half." All those aggregate themed accounts, those fuckin annoying as hell instagrams and facebook groups that are like "body positive art we love wamen 💕 hashtag feminism" and then MASS-STEAL plus sized art created by women, if pages like these that always go and steal my older self-portraits and other works... If they just put a link to my prints of those pieces in the text of those posts, or, fuck, my commission info page? I would literally be living on the moon right now. I would have a house on the moon

the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

But baby, it's cold outside.

Okay so I went down a rabbit hole last night re; “”””””Emile Corsi”””””” the totally real not at all AI painter i reblogged once. Basically got obsessed with looking at these totally real paintings you can see in museums guise we SWEAR and noting all the uncanny aspects going on in a lot of them.

This one in particular had me rolling:

Like yeah the aesthetic is very cool and tumblr (here on the blood and revenge and cannibalism website) and I get why it would be reblogged so much. But uh. Take a look at her hand on the left???

Maybe she’s covered in blood because the hand was lopped off and then put back on the wrong way.

Lots of other weird tells if you look. The wall on the left seems to just disappear as do portions of her scarf. The blood trailing down her face and neck makes no sense relative to the shading. The blood on her arms looks more like wet red cloth etc etc.

Most of the TOTALLY REAL PAINTINGS WE SWEAR by this AI bot don’t look this ridiculous (again I reblogged one and now I’m going to make sure not to just trust that a painter and date in a caption is proof that something exists. Yay.) However I’m obsessed with this one because it is so much more blatantly AI than a lot of the others but it’s also one of the more popular posts on that blog and like…. How did this one take off so much when her hand is doing that????? Is it as simple as it being black and red with a lot of blood and looking vaguely mythological?

front/back of a bookmark i made for my program's bookmark design competition

Slf-Portrait with Nothing Review: Masterpiece of Feeling

Slf-Portrait with Nothing Review: Masterpiece of Feeling

I’ve always felt that visual art should make you feel something first, and secondarily aspire to teach, satirize, or otherwise comment on life. Where that feeling falls on the aesthetic spectrum doesn’t bother me as much—disgust can be a fascinating emotion, just as awe or beauty can—but we have to care before we want to …

nobody likes you when youre 23!!

Doodled another fifer from my beloved 22nd regiment—not a direct study this time, but heavily inspired by a (very tired) picture of myself at camp…

andy pancakes; only original girlies remember him

@laeska this hair + beard set is to die for. ;--;

Had a bit of a “regression” this past week where I had stumbled upon and subsequently ripped open an old wound.

I’m always trying to shed my grudges, but their claws are sunk pretty deeply nonetheless. Between the gaslighting and the casual disregard, it’s hard to find any closure. I have to make my own.

I broke my carbon pencil 3 times, at which point I had to call it quits.