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the-myths-of-styles · 4 months

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HELLO RAINWORLD FANS take the artificer Having been taken in as a pet by a child who loves explosions! the childs name is Billey. may have a slugcat oc in the works -the awesome and powerful Ni

#myths of styles out of comic posts #a myth of styles #billey armstong #rain world #rainworld #slugcat #the artificer #rain world fanart #rain world downpour #rw downpour

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miko-the-kirlia · 1 year

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Howdy

I'm Miko, a Kirlia who likes to make clothes. ask me anything!

#Miko the kirlia #kirlia #pokemon #pokemon fanart #pkmn #pokesona #pokemon oc #oc #kirlia fan art #kirlia oc #a myth of styles

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kelogsloops · 8 months

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The final piece from my recent show, ‘In Harmony.’ The Eastern Phoenix is often associated with harmony and new beginnings. In trying to portray those associations, the body is decorated with floral motifs; little sprouts blooming from its back, and tail feathers resembling a blossoming flower #brbchasingdreams

prints | tutorials

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fluffyartbl0g · 4 months

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My yearly progress!!! past tumblr posts below ouo. I got kinda lazy this year so i dint do any fancy smancy background, but I am quite pleased with how my rendering has improved :D I think my colour choices have become more dynamic. I hope I figure out how to really properly draw hair in the next couple of years ; w ;

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

#improvement #these yearly progress things are never drawn in my usual year style T O T #ik i said last year that artstyles are a myth in developing artists but i feel like i still draw a certain way normally #i think 2016 and 2018 were kinda indicative of how i drew those years but everything else was more different from my usual styles #that being said- the way i draw still leaks into these yearly progresses even if im being quirky #like in 2017 i didnt colour my shading like that. but i did use that thick lineart for everything #so u can still get an inkling of how i drew that year

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my-name-is-apollo · 2 months

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Apollo in the Iliad refusing to fight Poseidon out of respect and Apollo in the Dionysiaca going all out against Poseidon...I call that character development.

#Poseidon #Apollo #Apollo (probably): I don't want Artemis to call me a pussy again even though she got her ass beat by Hera for the second time #too bad Hermes intervened and the fight was stopped #well #maybe that was for the best #but yknow #i love when Greek myths have anime style battles in them #mine #Dionysiaca #Apollo info

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soursoppi · 2 years

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been wanting to do some Chinese Zodiac-inspired MDZS art!

will be doing them in rows of 4~

Row 1: NHS/Cat - JGY/Mouse - NMJ/Ox - JC/Tiger - LXC/Rabbit

Row 2 >> | Row 3 >>

#Nie Huaisang #Jin Guangyao #Nie Mingjue #Jiang Cheng #Lan Xichen #MDZS #Mo Dao Zu Shi #Zodiac Series #the cat isn't actually an official animal of the zodiac #but it's part of the popular folktale/myth for it #the story between the cat mouse and ox actually parallels the relationship between the nie bros and jiggy pretty well hehe #worth a read if you've got some time #you can find it on wiki #also yes i'm aware vietnam switches out the rabbit with the cat #not what i'm doing here however!#also just that bit of Okami inspired #because i really love that style so good #will be turning them into washi eventually if it all goes well haha

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wishmemellon · 4 months

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Achilles this fine night

#trying to improve my art style #I wasn’t happy with how things were turning out #art #the iliad #achilles #patroclus #classics #greek myth #patrochilles

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anghraine · 18 days

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Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms #like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form #and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space #you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc #and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law #and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright #none of those things have fuck all to do with form!#anghraine rants #fanfiction #general fanwank #long post #thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild #ivory tower blogging #anghraine's meta

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bugology · 1 month

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The Moth, The Myth, The Hater

(Experimenting more with posters)

Link to my casting call ! Thank you to everyone who auditioned so far <3

#this is like a redraw of yesterday’s poster #except a different style #my art #digital art #bugs #insectoid #character design #original character #ocs #insects #oc #anthro #oc: vixen #oc: harvey #the moth the myth the legend tag

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thatlittlemouse · 6 months

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"Can you imagine? One day you suddenly wake up in a cave and look around without knowing anything, but you already have a responsibility that you must shoulder. You have no right to see the scenery along the way, and you can’t enjoy your friends and lovers. The moment you regain consciousness, all the beautiful things in your life have no meaning to you.

Zhang Qiling is carrying his own destiny in silence." (DMBJ Volume 8, Postcript)

#dmbj #daomu biji #zhang qiling #ultimate note #the lost tomb 2 is in there cheng yi sneak #mything #happy birthday month xiaoge :D #something depressing in true npss style

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myfashionburden · 7 months

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