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hoidn · 9 months

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okay so i watched all eight episodes of 1899 in one go on monday and i cannot stop Having Thoughts. quite honestly it is the most superbly executed narrative i've ever encountered outside of literature. the sheer thematic scope and complexity is breathtaking. THEY WROTE A GREEK TRAGEDY about all my favourite things and it begins with an emily dickinson poem. !!! the universe was aiming its arrow right at my brain with this one.

(so of course it wasn't renewed. given that la révolution also wasn't renewed, i'm forced to conclude that tptb at netflix have something against thoughtful and nuanced excellence in storytelling.)

this is one of those times i especially miss metafandom because i'm sure there've been discussions about everything my brain is yelling at me but how the hell does one find the good shit anymore? or even the bad shit, for that matter. so here you go, tumblr frēonds, have yet another brain dump that nobody asked for or cares about.

a list of topics covered by 1899 that i recall after watching the entire thing once, in no particular order:

the nature of identity

the nature of reality

how grief warps both the self and the perception of reality

the often inexplicable nature of trust

the human brain's capabilities

the inherent untrustworthiness of memory and the irony that it's all we have

explorations of female identity

the many meanings of freedom

communication!! — trying to understand and be understood through barriers of language, of levels of reality, of technology

the destructive nature of religious zealotry (and christianity in general *internal sigh*)

classism

patriarchy

homophobia (both social and internalised)

the beautiful and horrific acts humans will commit in the name of love

the looming shadow of the male authority figure

space as a concept, both literal and psychological: liminal spaces, confinement

'the odyssey', obviously

the trope of the mad woman in the attic (this one gets its own post because I Have A Lot To Say)

now let's talk ancient greek references!

[1] the names of both ships come from ancient greek mythology: prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to humans and was sentenced to eternal punishment; kérberos (or cerberus) was the multi-headed dog who guarded the gates of the underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.

[2] in ancient greek philosophy, there were four classical elements; this concept was taken up in western alchemy, which made a hobby out of giving everything a glyph or symbol. the symbols of the four elements are triangles:

🜂 = fire 🜄 = water 🜁 = air 🜃 = earth

[3] it's been four months since the prometheus went missing. what, i wondered, is the significance of the number 4? in greek numerals 4 is represented as Δ´. oh, look, a triangle. and what's a triangle in three-dimensional space? a pyramid. and what's a pyramid geometrically speaking? a tetrahedron! which has 4 faces and 4 vertices. it's also the smallest possible platonic solid and plato associated it with the element fire. i don't know enough about geometry or philosophy to take these associations any further, but, as shakespeare would say, come the futtock on. this level of detail is RIDICULOUS and EVERYTHING TO ME.

#1899 #1899 netflix #it's not a show it's a FIELD OF STUDY #alas metafandom we knew ye #yes i did quote upstart crow #i regret nothing

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smallerdelusions · 1 month

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Excerpt from Observations on the Order Draconia in Europe, with Notes on the Oriental Breeds by Edward Howe

As a lifelong birder, I couldn't stop thinking about a comment from an earlier post about the possibility of dragon-spotters in England. So I (naturally) mocked up a page based on my bird field guides to show differences in size, weight and wing shape between the common british dragons. These are all the undersides of wings as they would be seen from the ground. The book title/author is stolen directly from His Majesty's Dragon.

I'm still basing the shape/silhouette/function off of birds, listed below if you were curious:

Jade: Common Swift Greyling: Albatross Winchester: Sparrow Grey Copper: Pheasant Anglewing: Plover Reapers: Duck Parnassian: Crow Regal Copper: Goose Celestial: Fish Hawk Chequered Nettle: Hawk Longwing: Crane

Thanks for reading!

#temeraire #his majesty's dragon #dragons #the lightweights are not completely in scale because i wanted to show detail: they should be a lot smaller :/#i want to draw more fake pages for this book #if you had a dragon field guide what would you want in it?#this also comes from me doing actual studies on bat wings so they're far more accurate than the last ones

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julianina58 · 17 days

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🥨 noel fielding scrap 🥐⋆.˚

#artists on tumblr #artist #digital art #digital artist #digital drawing #digital painting #digital scrap #scrap art #art study #digital study #great british bake off #great british baking show #noel fielding #digital wip #unfinished art #unfinished digital art #woman artist #female artist #clip studio paint

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undedkat · 9 months

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Why can’t people just use AI for normal things like classifying cancer cells instead of trying to put artists out of a job.

#there’s a lot of research on these fields! there’s studies showing ML can classify potential cancer cells just as well as humans can #I literally work in wildfire prevention #there’s always more research to be done on these topics though so we might see that data change #don’t even get me started on the environmental impacts of generative AI #unded rambles #technology

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ransomhart · 10 months

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“And, did it suck for you? Getting rejected from the Field of Reeds?”

#I only draw scenes that make me sob in the shows I watch #moon knight #moonknight #marc spector #artists on tumblr #digital art #procreate #marvel #marvel fanart #moon knight fanart #fanart #scene study #field of reeds #marvel tv #oscar issac characters #oscar issac

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thedevotionaltour · 4 months

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i love writing an extremely sleep deprived rushed essay on the insane interest of my mind. through the power of love I Won. she also loved my essay on black cartoonists last semester she put up with two semesters of my comics in my fine art history classes. love her forever. "your catalogue was a bright light in the grading pile and i am sincerely grateful for it" I WON.

#static.soundz #i take great pride in that final comment i really do. you found my comics essay among the many what i definitely assume to be far better #catalogues and not only that but catalogues on fine art which is your specialty and the students who know how to make those #you found mine to be a bright light you are grateful for? genuinely i could cry.#i love having the chance to show people the worth of comics as an art form and how much effort and skill goes into them #like they will never be and never should be considered fine art. but they are an art form worthy of study filled with immense skill #just like all other art fields! i'll always be glad to know i have made some ppl who never thought about comics b4 able to appreciate them

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galarfiend · 1 year

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kiddos

#timeskip design #swsh timeskip #galar kids #gym leader bede #trainer hop #professor hop #trainer gloria #trainer victor #gym leader marnie #gym leader allister #my art #ooh hold on let me say some shit #so uhh hop is a field biologist he studies friendship between pkmn and ppl #bede is a ballerina and a security guard for the vault. he also helps marnie with her work and does modelling every nowand again #marnie is a fashion designer and a pokemon ranger. she kicks ass #gloria and victor are both champions- theyre like a double battle or version exclusive deal #gloria does research with hop and ranger work with marnie- she love any rxcuse to run around and interact with wild pokemon #victor is an artist and runs an online advice column. he helps marnie with designs and covers for bede when he cant make security shifts #allister runs a horror podcast thats halfway between a talk show and a narrative. theyre also the captain of the esports team ive decided #:)#ALSO VICTOR IS A COMIC ASSISTANT MORE SPECIFICALLY

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mymarifae · 1 year

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only on tumblr do you get people so absorbed in their toxic online echo chambers that they think killing animals is no big deal and that posting about incest and pedophilia and shit is “fine” because it’s all “fictional” and “fiction has no bearing on reality” and “i’m a victim of these things so it’s cool for me to ‘cope’ by consuming this content and i’m totally not normalizing and excusing its existence”

#like yeah idc how much you don't want to hear this sentence but killing animals is serial killer behavior.#a child finding enjoyment or stress relief in the torturing of helpless little lives is EXTREMELY concerning #and like no a child displaying those behaviors should not be shunned or punished like that's stupid. that's a child that needs love and HELP #what's really disturbing is nonchalantly bringing up those past killings as an adult without an ounce of remorse #because it shows that you... still do not value life. you still see those lives as 'lesser' than your own.#like what the fuck?#and fiction literally does affect reality dozens of studies show that our brains process 'fiction' the same way we process reality #idc how much you dislike the field of psychology like. bitch me too. some of the 'science' there is bullshit but guess what #sometimes science is like. real. and you can't deny it. there is a particular way that the human brain functions #we are really good at convincing ourselves that our thinking and inner processes are completely different than they really are #no amount of mental illness and trauma excuses repugnant behavior! it just doesn't. it absolves you of Nothing #you still need to take responsibility for your actions #seek help. get off the internet. get out of the circles that encourage and reward this sort of behavior. Heal

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ask-artsy-oncie · 8 months

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Yeah I really have no patience for self-important people who desperately want to inject themselves into creative industries just because they consider "enjoying media" their defining trait that somehow other people don't have. Being a dedicated fan is a great thing for sure, but you become self-absorbed when you think that, alone, is why you deserve to cut out a hole for yourself in the industry and not maybe the fact that you've put in the work to hone industry-specific skills.

Creative fields are not easy money or easy clout or whatever. Believing so is such a disrespect to those skills and everyone who's worked so hard to get where they are.

#Stupid shit #Vent #Don't mind me just get really angry when I see the adult versions of the 'my uncle works at nintendo' types #A phenomenon most people grow out of after entering high school #It's so fucking embarrassing seeing full grown adults acting so childishly just so they can inject themselves out of selfishness.#This also applies to people who claim to actually work a creative field but have absolutely nothing to show for it #Oh you're a graphic designer? You're an animator? A producer? Where's your portfolio? Any posts with your work?#Any proof at all that you actually study and work at honing this creative skill????#Any history of participating in projects and contributing??? Even just financially??#ANY EVIDENCE OF ANY CREATIVE INPUT YOUVE EVER GIVEN?? EVER????#no? You just wanna run your mouth under the guise of having authority on a subject you have literally no experience in???#That's what I thought.#Be fucking wary of these people and don't fucking buy everything they say because they're gonna invent whatever lie gets them attention

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orowyrm · 6 months

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Do you like the fantasy genre? I asked cause your profile picture

oh yeah, for sure. i tend to lean a little scifi fantasy (my icon is actually a warframe oc) cuz i’m a sucker for weird and crazy technology and have always since i was little had a passion for imagining alien worlds and ecosystems…. and i like guns and such from an artistic standpoint crazy scifi weapons are a lot of fun to design cuz you don’t need to be a skilled magic user to shoot someone with laser beams anyone can pick up a blaster and go ham…. but i enjoy fantasy settings immensely also

#i tend towards scifi bcs i like the idea of weird shit being explained away as advanced technology or alien phenomena yet to be studied #rather than hand waving it with ‘magic lol’#altho there’s really not much difference. i take a very biology-biased approach to my worldbuillding i can’t help it i work in the field #show me a beast or creature and i’m already thinking about what its diet consists of and what role it plays in its ecosystem #and most importantly: is it edible. does it taste good. what would you cook with it #for the record i haven’t read dungeon meshi. yet. it’s on my list but it’s not the root of my #passion for seeing a weird fantasy animal and wondering how to eat it. i jsut like watching people #prep fish and other such things

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian · 2 years

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“People use psychiatry as a vehicle for abuse and for dismissing systemic problems with individual solutions rather than addressing the root causes of stress” yes, yes, starting strong.... “The entire field of psychiatry is just made up to oppress people because I read one article stating that depression is more complicated than chemical imbalance and therefore I’ve decided that all mental illnesses are the sole fault of capitalism and we should abolish the entire field” what in the everloving fuck?

#ableism tw #anyway i found a study showing that Black women have higher maternal mortalities so i'm abolishing the field of childbirth #how the fuck is this getting spread around?#did y'all forget that mood disorders are not the only types of mental illness out there?#and then they add a token 'by the way this is not meant to dismiss people who find that psychiatric diagnoses or meds help them'#that's literally what you're doing the entire time #if mentally ill people do not exist or are not cared for in your utopia i don't want to live in it.

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chytilovian-daisy · 1 month

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taken to working out again and did a mile yayayayyyy

#brie rambles #thinks of. idr what studio on gccx where it showed the gym...#i will be buffer and faster than any other game dev thats my mission--/lh #also being in tech in general as my actual field of study/work. i need to be stronger than anyone here.

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flockrest · 10 months

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Since time immemorial, the Rito have been deeply connected to the winds and all they have to offer — in a way that surpasses bare, profound appreciation. For them, it goes beyond physical attachment ( of which is still greatly significant! ) and is indelibly tied to their spiritual and cultural identities.

Seen more as a relationship — where the winds are the source of all nourishments and fulfilments, and they are simply partakers of those boons — this concept is rooted and condensed in a word that doesn't have a concrete, established meaning so much as a contextual one that defines many things all at once: Windlines.

When speaking of the Windlines, one could be referring to the material winds and their boundless touch; or the nebulous "voice" of the winds as perceived by those especially responsive to their movements and paths; or the closely related but separate consciousness of the winds that carries, blesses, curses, or otherwise meaningfully interacts with all beings; and so on. Not quite an entity, almost bordering on a kind of philosophy with how hugely it shapes their way of thought — but believed in all the same!

Knowledge of the Windlines, and hence, this layered relationship with the winds, has been reliably passed down through generations with little to no external nor internal distortion. How an individual develops that knowledge — as well as with it — may differ ( e.g. very few may take it to unprecedented heights, bending the Windlines to their will and becoming masters among patrons, whilst others may be content with simple, competent flight ), but the core foundation is pretty much universal.

Being estranged from the Windlines in any capacity can be unbearable for any Rito. Peaks Among the Ripples saw the worst of this impact during the upheaval detailed in their Songs of the Stormwind Ark: with the Windlines so absent, population health and wellbeing waned, even if nothing was bodily amiss. Essentially, Windlines and what they embody are incredibly important! An integral part of a Rito individual and whole collective!

#* arrowhead / study.#* plumule / study.#* powder down / study.#* field notes / study.#* roosting / ooc.#well i finally got my thoughts together about them Windlines!#even if it feels like i still haven't captured the full weight of what they MEAN to my take on rito sdlkfjdlf #IT IS A VERY SPIRITUALLY INVOLVED THING....spiritual as in like. 'this is a part of an identity we cannot physically show or define--#--the way you might be able to see proof and notes of our culture.' not spiritual as in anything really religious skdfjfd #DO YOU SEE MY VISION FELLAS.....DO YOU SEE MY VISION!!#i will not be making these more formal study posts often...just for the concepts that i feel super strongly about and are #definitely blog-wide rather than muse-specific...#also stream of consciousness posts are just so much easier to make sdfkjk i can mash words however i want there for maximum Feeling #english hard! english fucking hard whaddahell!!#* wisps / study.#* vanes / study.

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klavierpanda · 1 year

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3 exams down, 5 to go

#this one went pretty well #i didn't quite finish but I'm confident in most of my answers as a whole so yeah :))#there was a neat question about lome integrals in R^2 #if you have a differentiable vector field with components P and Q s.t. dQ/dx=dP/dy #show that for two positively oriented simple closed curves C1 and C2 where C2 lies completely in the interior of C1 #that the line integral over C1 of F is equal to the line integral over C2 of F #it reminds me a lot of Cauchy's Theorem for complex integrals #it ultimately boils down to the fact that the two curves are homologous to each other #and I can't wait to study algebraic topology so I can apply it to the proof of Cauchy's Theorem in it's general form #panda's post

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t-u-i-t-c · 5 months

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finished only f*iends