Kōji Wakamatsu

- Ecstasy of the Angels

1972

- Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw

2004

Masao Adachi

- Revolution+1

2022

i want all meta writers and/or people with s3 predictions to please. pretty please. write the fic. otherwise SO MUCH is being lost in translation in your explanations and your 15k theories with screenshots and sources in a format that would rival my grad school essays. like have you heard “shakespeare must be performed not read”? that’s the exact same principle with s3 predictions. all the academic writing and web weaving posts in the world won’t accurately depict what you’re seeing in your head, it HAS to be experienced in practice both on the writing end and the reading end. JUST WRITE THE FIC!

Taimizu Headcanon

During some point in Taigen’s character arc, Mizu ends up writing sutras on his body to point him in the direction of self acceptance the same way she did for herself. Except the sutra she writes is specifically the one Taigen quoted to her in the mountain pass (S01 E03) that she seemed to brush off and ignore. Thus showing that she was paying attention to something important to him in one of his first attempts to connect with her, even if she didn’t care much at the time. And ofc Mizu would be painting the sutras on Taigen’s naked chest or some shit in the most sensual, slow, intimate, erotic, drawn-out, fluffy, and angsty way possible as he stares at her like he’s ready worship at the alter of Mizu for the rest of his life (he totally is).

this hc of taimizu sutras body painting is partially inspired by an illustration @lillymakesart created a little while back :)

Title: Passagem de Humaitá

Artist: Victor Meirelles

Year: 1886

Medium: gouache on paper

Image source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/estudo-para-passagem-de-humaitá-victor-meirelles/OQFEZMiH3O4dZg

Second Anniversary of Giuliani's Last Stand

"...you're fixing up my old tower..."

Aaaanyways, since I am finally done with finals and my contest entry for Webtoon, I decided to finally deal with my Owl House brainrot.

This drawing idea stems from the entire theory that Caleb married a Clawthorne and they had a kid he never got to see. And when I heard that line from Dell in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" about Eda fixing up her dad's old tower (which later became part of the Owl House) a thought popped up into my head: "What if the tower had not only belonged to Dell and Eda, but also to their ancestors?" Hence a hypothetical design of the house during the Deadwardian era! :D

Caleb is dead but he gets to be there, too. He's a ghost.

Kōji Wakamatsu

- Ecstasy of the Angels

1972

- Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw

2004

Maybe taylor finally will come out when gaylor articles start to pop up in media without referencing karlie kloss and DA (but especially KK), i have the feeling she doesn’t want to drag karlie into her coming out story. And it is finally happening, suddenly articles are appearing without mentioning karlie which it’s probably tree’s work

so anon i take it you didnt see this 😆

also i think (or i hope it’s just that) you’re not noticing the chicken and egg situation here. more so-called museless articles are coming out because gaylors have been working to normalize and popularize speaking about taylor’s gayness and the gayness of her music in a museless way. and reporters get their info from these people and their tone is also informed from these trends.

Stripey trio. I keep begging myself to do something more simple for these assignments, because I sincerely do not have to be doing this to myself, but I get excited about the cool (challenging, time consuming) ideas, and every night I'm standing at the kitchen counter painting these and cursing my hubris

its suggested in a handful of places in the text that Corona and Ianthe might have their own goal that they’re working towards, and that they’re close to achieving it - do you have any thoughts or theories as to what that goal might be?

I’m ready to be surpised! I have vague thoughts, though I wouldn’t stake anything on them.

One important thing that is sometimes overlooked when discussing the twins’ plan, or anything about their lives pre-canon, is that Ianthe becoming a Lyctor was completely unexpected, changed everything, and made Ianthe infinitely more powerful. Yes, she was a skilled necromancer, but a skilled “normal” necromancer doesn’t even come close to what a Lyctor can do. (Harrow was a prodigy who has been moving her parents’ bodies around since age 10, and she got bloodsweat from fighting Gideon in GtN!)

I think that sometimes we forget that 1) Ianthe post-Lyctorhood has access to a wealth of power and knowledge that drawrfs anything she had before; and 2) pre-Lyctorhood, the twins planned to keep up their ruse for their entire lives, with Coronabeth eventually becoming leader of the Third; and 3) they could NEVER have planned for what happened.

IMo, whatever plan they made couldn’t have survived the impact of all the changes that happened from the beginning of GtN. Not only the political landscape and their personal circumstances changed drastically, but their relationship deteriorated, they were separated for over a year, and in that time they both changed (and Ianthe gained a much greater understanding of her new powers).

I think they had plans on how to shape the Houses as much as they could during Corona’s future reign, and maybe the vague shape remains. I can also believe that they made contact before Corona was taken by BoE and Ianthe has a very vague idea of what she might have been up to. But I doubt they had the means to restructure whatever plans they originally made to adapt to their current situation,because they haven’t been in touch and because they are working with an incomplete picture.

Ianthe in NtN strikes me as being pretty overwhelmed and in over her head, and I think her only goal is only to wait out the current situation until she’s more enthrenched in her power and position and knows where she stands, even if it takes decades, and for now the only thing that matters to her is to make sure that Corona lives that long. Ianthe has been studying the Resurrection since before canon, but now she actually has the power and maybe the means to use that knowledge to make Corona immortal, and that’s what she’s working on.

Corona, I think, is a bit more proactive. I think she joined BoE out of necessity but is playing them like a fiddle and using them for her own ends, which definitely aren’t the destruction of the Empire, just reshaping it.

I don’t think they are currently “working together” in any way, but have each adapted their vague original plan individually, and whatever goal they’re working towards absolutely includes the other. But I’m reasonably sure Corona wouldn’t be satisfied with the place she occupies in Ianthe’s plan, and viceversa.

tldr this was a very long winded way to say, I have no fucking idea! But I like to think about it

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Mr kenobi if you post about nevarro I will ascend. Landscape theory is objectively the best thing in academia

If you have institutional access to academic articles I highly recommend Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism by Bonds & Inwood. There is also a chapter of Creswell’s book Place: An Introduction called Genealogy of Place, which includes discussions of fascist conceptions of space/place (particularly the writings of Heidegger, who wanted to create an “intellectual” basis for the “soil” part of the Nazi’s blood and soil slogan). I haven’t read that one in a while so my exact memory of it is hazy, I just remember it being very informative. and if you can’t find it I can send it to you. If you want papers that explicitly engage with colonialism, I recommend Envisioning Amazonia: Geospatial technology, legality and the (dis)enchantments of infrastructure by Vurdubakis and Rajão, who critique the concept of “natural resources” as an inherently colonial framing of land, as well as critique the Western idea that the Amazon is an “untouched” natural environment devoid of human involvement.

A dogwood from my neighborhood in bloom

Triadic color scheme with added support colors

Stephanie Hsu by Cole Saladino