Saw some people drawing those omori portraits sooo i desided to do it aswell.

They turned out prety gud.

It is Brisket from guilty game

Bridget Riley, final study for “Halcyon” (Repaint), 1971,

Pencil and gouache on paper, 37 3/8 × 36 inches,

Collection of the artist, © Bridget Riley 2023

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People getting steamed about Briget being trans is funny to me because I know no one cared before. Where were all these "femboys" when strive was first announced? I know damn well I didint see a single soul mentiong her except me (and I was at best mocked for even thinking she had a chance). I mained her in accent core. She was everything that made Guilty Gear amazing to me. I scoured the internet for any tips or information and content i could find. If she really was this t*ap legend i would have seen it, there was 20 years of this characters only relevancy being "haha im actually a boy!" Youd think there would at least be a massive repository of f*ta art but nope, this massive group of outraged dudes was sure stealthy if they actually existed before.

No what happened, and I'm being generous here, is that accent core got rollback a year ago and these "femboy" groups that were festering on 4chan sharing the same 6 crusty Astolpho memes for a decade heard about Briget for the first time and suddenly were invested. There is no legacy to ruin, there was only a half hearted creation that needed development.

Its surreal to see my bottom of the wiki murder nun finally get real maistream attention. Watching New players discover her toxic as hell neutral game has warmed my heart. But seeing a sudden outcropping of outrage mongers claiming to be the real vetran fans has been the most surreal part cause they didint exist before.

Briget Riley specializes in art works with optical illusion. I find optical illusion interesting as they are things people can’t see clearly and I find it could be a representation of people who can’t remember correctly. The first two images are just images if you look at for long enough you can see the lines bend. The last two images I found more colorful the third image looks similar to a jixsaw. The fourth piece looks like an image an art therapist might show as the image you see in it can vary.

I’m a big fan of ladybug, so here’s my first art! (This is from my other blog, @mira-cue-lous)

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A gift for @failtrolls of our bronze bloods enjoying some milkshakes 

Bing bong new pinned post

I’m Funky/Budgie she/he any terms. I’m 19 and like drawing and character design and a ton of other stuff but hyperfixations aren’t as important lol

Art is tagged as #funky!art but if you want a blog that’s only art you can follow @funkyzart

^ briget

Saint Birgitta

July 23rd is the Feast Day for Saint Bridgette, patron saint of Sweden, Europe, and widows. St Brigitta 1476 .

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In one of these pictures, I just tried to draw my baby from a photo with no framework, and it looks like a baby, but not my baby. In the other I remembered to sketch in a skull shape and eye placements, and lo and behold, it actually looks kind of like my baby!

1.  Nativity in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold, Winchester, 963-984: Add MS 49598, f. 15v 2. Nativity scene on the Sarcophagus of Stilicho in Milan, AD 400. 3. Scene of the Nativity in an architectural setting with the ox and ass at the manger, Germany (Swabia, possibly Hirsau): Egerton MS 809, f. 1v 4. Nativity with Ox and Ass in a Book of Hours, France,  1400-1425: Harley MS 2952, f. 142v 5.  Illustrated almanac showing the number of years since key events in history including the Birth of Christ (1412 years previously), England, 1400-1412: Harley MS 2332, f. 20v 6. A Nativity scene with musicians in the four corners, from the Maastricht Hours, Netherlands (Liège), 1st quarter of the 14th century: Stowe MS 17, f. 15v

The Ox and Ass in the Nativity

Picture a traditional Nativity scene. The Christ Child is at the centre with his parents, Mary and Joseph, surrounded by a host of familiar characters who played a role in the unfolding events. There are angels, shepherds, the Three Wise Men or Magi (although they can be in a separate scene of the Epiphany), the innkeeper, sometimes even midwives, and, of course the ox and the ass. Images of the Nativity in medieval manuscripts also tend to contain some of these familiar characters. Yet after the three members of the Holy Family, the most frequently depicted are the ox and the ass. This is rather surprising as they are not mentioned in the Gospels, but they are one of the most ancient and stable elements in the iconography of the Nativity. The earliest surviving text mentioning their presence dates from the 8th century (the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, which was not included in the New Testament). However, the first known example of a Nativity scene in art, a carving on the Sarcophagus of Stilicho in Milan dated to AD 400 [Fig 2], contains just Christ in the manger with the ox and ass on either side; Mary and Joseph are absent. One of the oldest medieval images of the Nativity in our collections [Fig 1] contains a friendly-looking ox and ass, watching over Jesus in a rather elaborate crib, hidden in a corner beneath Mary, who takes centre stage. The midwife and Joseph appear to the right (midwives are found most often in earlier images but gradually disappeared from the iconography). This elaborate and stylised miniature is from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold, a manuscript made in Winchester in the 10th century. The ox and ass (or donkey) remained prominent features of Nativity scenes, often found alongside the Christ child. In [Fig 3] Christ is placed above Mary in a raised manger and the animals appear to have their noses in the manger where Jesus lies. Some commentators have interpreted this as a kind act by the animals, breathing on the baby to keep him warm, while for others the animals are feeding from the manger, referring to the passage in the Gospel of John, where Christ calls himself ‘the bread of life’ and promises eternal life to those who feed on him. A charming domestic scene in a Book of Hours in French [Fig 4] shows Mary reading or saying her prayers, while Joseph seems to watch her in bemusement (though his head-in-hand pose may denote that he is tired or sleeping). Both seem unaware that the baby Jesus, again at some distance, apparently has his hand in the donkey’s mouth. Of the two animals, the donkey is often seen as more playful, and so perhaps he is allowing the baby to prod him, while the ox (traditionally a sacrificial animal in the Bible) was seen by early Christians as symbolic of Christ’s sacrifice, so he is often shown as the more serious of the two. In the 14th century, St Briget of Sweden’s vision of the Nativity had a major influence on subsequent iconography. She described seeing the ox and the ass and the Virgin kneeling before a ‘glorious infant lying on the earth, naked and glowing’ with ‘ineffable light and splendour’. And so images of Christ lying naked, worshipped by Mary (and sometimes Joseph) became common in devotional manuscripts. The ox and ass are never too far away, a benevolent presence, Christ’s first playmates. [...] A picture of the two animals beside a baby in a manger is the simplest and most easily recognisable symbol of the Nativity. An example of this is a set of representations of key events in a medieval almanac [Fig 5]. Each event is depicted with the number of years since it occurred, and, following the Ark (4308 years ago), is a simplistic drawing of an ox and ass on either side of a Christ in a crib. The animals make it obvious to the viewer that this is not just any baby, but Christ at his Nativity and so we know that the almanac was produced 1412 years after the birth of Christ, around the year 1412. And lastly, in this rather worrying scene [Fig 6] the Christ Child seems to be trying to leap out of the manger. The donkey is holding him back by grasping his swaddling garments with its teeth. Again, Mary and Joseph are oblivious, though the ox watches in horror. Whether symbols, playmates, transport or babysitters, it certainly seems that the ox and the ass were useful characters at the Nativity.

All pictures and texts are from the blog linked in the heading; the blog post has more pictures and some more descriptions. The emphases made in this post were made by me.

An introduction on women painters; about Messengers by Briget Riley, Portrait of a Man and Portrait of a Woman by Catharina von Hemessen, Alexandrine-Emilie Brongniart and Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster, Flowers in a Vase by Rachel Ruysch, Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi, The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur, Summer’s Day by Berthe Morisot. All are presented by Fiona Alderton, a gallery educator at the National Gallery in London. A lot of mentions of misogyny: husbands everywhere, the difficulties in learning to paint as a woman, the need for male connections to be recognized and successful, their art being decried as “unfeminine” or “animalistic”, dismissing women artists on the basis of their looks, harassing them during their work, thinking their being painters is a catastrophe and a waste.

Best books of the decade!

 I’ve seen a lot of booktubers doing this and I’m not confident to update my youtube channel yet... So I will make a list!

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!

My sister Jodie - Jacqueline Wilson

At the start of the decade, I was 9/10, and completely obsessed with Jaqueline Wilson books. They were so important to me because there was always some kind of message/awareness of serious topics. My sister Jodie... is dark as heck honestly. I still reread it sometimes. 

 Hush Hush -  Becca Fitzpatrick

This series was the highlight of my emo phase when I was 13. If I read this series now, I’d probably still like it for different reasons. Cheese, a bit like Twilight. I loved this series because fallen angels and edge was my shit. Honestly, I can’t really tell you much because it’s been a while since I read this... but I am planning on rereading this year!

 The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

I really, really, really, really loved this series. Growing up alongside the main characters helped me understand growing up just a little more. I remember being on book 7 and leaving it somewhere in London... I was heartbroken, midway through the book and I lost it... Anyway! It’s a dumb, fun book when you’re a fresh teenager. Even if the romance is creepy when you look back at it and realise that Mia is 14 and Michael is 18...

The Maximum Ride series - James Patterson

I remember one of my best friends being absolutely obsessed with this series. She made me read it and I’m glad she did because I loved it. Kids who were tested on, kids with wings trying to find out where they came from whilst fighting the evil of the lab that experimented on them.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

I have to have at least one classic on here and this book still makes me squeal when I read it. And can I just - 

Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

Because how could I not love Red queen? I have Broken Throne left to read now and I NEED IT because I miss the characters already. How awesome would it be to be able to zap people with lightening? If you don’t think that’s awesome...Then just stop reading...go away... ;)

The characters are just amazing and the build-up is amazing and Tiberias Calore is amazing and I love him and Evangeline - o h  h e c c .

If you haven’t read this series yet, do it now.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe -  Benjamin Alire Sáenz

This book is so fucking pure and I loved every second of it. I found some fan art which is literally my laptop background because it’s so freaking cute! LGBTQ+ rep is right there and it’s beautiful. Beautifully written, the author is a poet and you can tell, this isn’t just a book, its art.

A Curse so Dark and Lonely - Briget Kemmerer

This was like no other Beauty and the beast retelling I have read. Taking place in both Washington DC and the fantasy world of Emberfall. I really loved this book and as I write I am in the middle of the second book. When reading this I could picture it so vividly, it is so well written.

The folk of the air trilogy - Holly Black

Ohhhh this trilogy was SO GOOD SO SO SO GOOD! I am soooo sad that it is over, I miss the characters! I really got into fantasy this decade and this series was a fucking highlight. The fanart out there for this is soooo beautiful! Faeries for the win! 

That’s me done for now, but if I had the energy I would be writing this for decades! What were your favourite reads of the decade?