#Abstract concepts

[chrome-bones]

hi coward (affectionate ) if you were invited to a Halloween party but you COULD NOT dress up as like. a character or corporeal thing or established costume thing/archetype (ghost witch clown pumpkin etc.) and you HAD to dress up as an abstract concept, what concept would you pick and how would you go about dressing up as it. your mental wellbeing depends on how well you answer this question (affectionate)

Personally I would dress up as the abstract concept of capitalist exploitation. Karl Marx likened the way the bourgeoisie exploit the proletariat to a vampire feeding on its prey. This can be seen in the character of many vampires, Lord Ruthven, Count Dracula, Louis de Pointe de Lac.

Additionally in the original text of Stoker's Dracula, Dracula is a representation of xenophobia and a perceived East vs West conflict. Capitalism often relies on instilling these beliefs on the proletariat. If you're too busy fearing immigrants and the country that you see as opposite to you, then you won't realize that these people are not your enemy and you'll vote not in your interest but in that of the bourgeoisie.

For this reason I would dress up as a vampire lord hailing from a distant, vaguely orientalist land. I would tie my turban fancy, dress in fancy Indian clothes from the 19th century, carry a sword at my side, stay inside for a month so my skin is peak gray, and also have my clothes be generally dark purples and reds for the vampire aesthetic.

#abstract concepts #fashion #capitalism #vampires #asks

[koboldfactory]

Converge Reality

#furry art #furry #abstract art #concept art #kobold #koboldfactory

[fu-cough]

you should find another guiding light, guiding light, but i shine so bright~ // adrien agreste doodle

#i listened to dear reader and well #me: you have a lot of things to do you should focus!! #brain: do you mean: get suddenly inspired and do your bi-monthly drawing? #by doodle i mean i just threw in a whole concept and didnt bother with the rendering #my art #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #also i had to manually lasso all the window frames to blur the bg because i refuse to paint in separate layers #(i am forgetful and disorganized) #angst #<- my strange addiction #i also didnt bother with rendering the ads but that was purposeful and it has meaning and it definitely doesnt mean that i just got lazy #something something our boy is detailed the ads are all abstract #the bg is why i will never pursue architecture

[lanada]

MOEBIUS / Jean Giraud

#moebius #giraud #art #illustration #scifi #cartoonist #comic #writer #tradition #humanoides #robots #associes #western #arzak #fellini #lee #miyazaki #antiheroes #imaginative #surreal #abstract #style #jodorowsky #storyboards #concept #design #desert #future

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

THE UNSEEN TEMPEST

by Erskine

#tentacles #fhtagn #erskine designs #demon #angel #concept art #abstract #creature #monster #horror #clouds #winged #fhtagnnn

[furiouskettle]

i saw the post and immediately thought of cliff

#kiwidoodles #dc comics #cliff steele #robotman #doom patrol #mr nobody #frankly w cliff's track record maybe it wasnt even Nobody's abstract concept #abstract concepts in general just have a Thing against the doom patrol #also his shirt was gonna say Witty Retort but i couldnt fit the rest of the letters

[peloblancophoto]

Blurred Ocean Sunset

#digital art #digitalart #digital artist #concept art #artists on tumblr #my art #creative #creativity #create #amazing #art #cool #awesome #image #imagination #imagine #image of the day #abstract #surreal #photoshop #magical #love #happy #digitalartwork #tumblr #artist radar #artistradar #tumblrradar

[poughkeepsies]

I'm still glad I met you

#if someone has done this exact concept before dont tell me ill cry about it #but tell them im sorry #if it helps i bet they didnt make it while half as neurotic as i was #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 abc #buddie #weewoo brainrot #hozier #song is abstract psychopomp btw listen to it if you wanna feel religion #my edits #911 edits

[sctumsempra]

help i’m fixated on the tragic dungeon bat again

#severus snape #pro snape #autistic snape #snape fanart #don’t take this too seriously #i’ve never posted on tumblr before .. scary #i will call him autistic and make his gender an abstract concept i’m sorry #procreate #sketches

[lilacandladybugs]

im done being a person it's time to become a geometric shape. triangles dont know pain.

#math #mathblr #in writing this shitpost i tried to figure out if shapes are an abstract concept and kts a deeper rabbit hole that i expected #short answer is no #i didnt rlly understand tbh

[dj-tunic]

@sleepnoises I love this person's creatures, I have no idea what they're called.

#sleepnoises #art #handmade #wirewrap #wire #wireart #handcrafted #abstract #concept art #fanart? #fanart #house goblin?

[arthuntblog]

Ugo Rondinone [Switzerland + USA] (b 1964) ~ 'Red yellow blue mountain', 2016. Stone, acrylic paint, threaded rod, pedestal (41 × 148 × 36 cm).

#art #contemporary art #art hunt streak week #Ugo Rondinone #abstract art #concept art #sculpture #assemblage #stone #painting

[ghirahimbo]

it's been so long, he gasped

#revalink #pinesong #lmao feels almost too abstract to even tag but i'm liking the concept #might do more with it someday

[tigirl-and-co]

How Finite is Love?

This is a short little piece set in @shirecorn‘s super cool mlp AU! This is just a first pass at it, I’ll definitely refine it if I post it to a fic site. I just HAD to get this out though, the au hits all my sweet spots!

Shining Armor considers the ponies he loves, and how a mortal pony can love goddesses.

Shining Armor held no resentment towards his two favourite mares. It wasn't their fault. They had no choice. Shining wasn't certain he believed in destiny, but whatever happened to his wife and baby sister sure was close.

First it was his wife, and that he could handle. She was an adult. They had fallen in love in highschool, they had grown together, Shining knew how strong Cadance was. If anypony deserved ascension, it was her.

If anypony could weather this, it was them.

He loved his wife with every bone in his body, every fiber of his being, every ounce of magic he could channel. And he knew she felt the same. If she didn't... this never would have happened.

Can love be a curse? Can loving somepony too much damn your soul? Can it save it?

About a month after Cadance gained her horn, Shining Armor decided dwelling on these questions wasn't helpful, and the answers didn't matter. He loved Cadance, and Cadance loved him. He couldn't change the past, wasn't sure if he even would -- but he was dead set on building a happy future.

At least as happy as he could give her. He couldn't guarantee that the love his mortal body held would last into her infinity, but he was determined to try.

He hoped it wouldn't destroy her to leave him behind, when the time came.

He loved her too much for that.

===

He had celebrated when The Sun took notice of Twilight.

The young stallion was oblivious to the looks of quiet worry on his parents' faces, the body language that said they were resigned to a cautious optimism. How could the attention of the source of Equestrian life bring anything but fortune?

He wasn't yet old enough to have heard the whispers. The old fables weren't circulated in school for fear of divine retribution, and Shining Armor was not as studious as his sibling.

Now?

Had he the power, he would have torn The Sun from the sky.

His baby sister, the sweetest and most sensitive mare he had ever known, damned to an eternity of watching her friends die.

She was a child (she was older than Cadance had been) she needed protection (she had brought down false gods) she wasn't ready (The Sun had learned from its mistakes, this new goddess was more than prepared).

She needed him.

Didn't she?

(She did, once.)

He was proud of her, of course. And if he had been watching for the signs, he wouldn't have been surprised.

Twilight Sparkle had always had an innate love for those around her. Before she had locked herself away in that tower amongst the tomes, she had been a kind filly. And even then, she had never quite managed to harden her heart.

She was still openly affectionate with him, with Cadance, with Twilight Velvet and Night Light. She shared her knowledge with them because it was how she said 'I love you.'

Leave it to a goddess to exploit that trait.

When Shining managed to find time to talk with his Twily after she had earned her wings, she had said her job as goddess was 'to spread the knowledge of friendship' and to teach others what friendship truly meant. She sounded excited, happy. She had found a purpose for her research.

Shining Armor wasn't sure if his baby sister hadn't yet considered the consequences of eternal life, or if it simply didn't bother her. He didn't ask.

He realized that while she was still his Twily, and would be until the day he died, she was more. She was Ponyville's friend. She was Celestia's Twilight Sparkle.

She was Equestria's new goddess.

He renewed his vow to remain her BBBFF forever, to keep her safe from turmoil and danger.

He swallowed down his anger and despair that night, in favour of his inevitable role as protector. He had his cutie mark, and he knew what it meant.

===

Shining Armor loved the mares in his life, and he would go to the ends of Equestria to keep them safe and happy, whether they needed him or not.

He was glad, at least, that they would have each other.

#my writing #mlp #fanfiction #shining armor #princess mi amore cadenza #twilight sparkle #dude it took me half as long to get the formatting to work as it did to write what the HECK #i don't know why sometimes i get the text editor with colour and sometimes I don't #anywayyyyyy #i am considering a follow up where he ascends and becomes the god-prince of protection #and the three of them become considered a trifecta #they are the abstractions as opposed to the sun and moon's concretes #i'm usually not into happy endings i'm very into bittersweet stuff #but the tantalizing concept of creating a god. a mythos. well that's something i'm very into #silly shining! just because they don't*need* you doesn't mean they don't *want* you! #and that's why he's not the god of love

[secretmellowblog]

i just dont really understand why theyd target les mis? and like. its interrupting the work of actors and crew and house staff who dont have anything to do with fossil fuel corps. people who just paid to see the show who dont have anything to do with it.

i understand les mis is a show about rebellion and humanity but to me it doesnt make any sense.

( i say this as someone whos probably very unaware and very slow to realize the deeper meaning of things so i apologize if it comes off snobby i am just confused !! /genuine )

I'm very sorry if this comes off as rude but like.... "I don't understand why people would use Les Mis as the symbolic centerpiece of an act of protest/rebellion against the government" is just a very strange thing to say, and I'm genuinely not quite sure how to begin to respond XD. Like....it's literally Les Mis. It is Do You Hear the People Sing. The original novel was written to be a political rallying cry, it was written to bind together activists, and it has been used that way thousands of times since its publication in 1862. It's Les Mis, I don't know what else to tell you XD. Also I know this next comparison isn't perfect, but:

“I don’t understand why Les Amis interrupted Lamarque’s funeral.  Obviously I agree with Les Amis’s goals, but was this really the right way to protest? Obviously the government is doing something bad— but was this symbolic event really the right place to talk about it? Why even choose to interrupt this event, and the lives of the workers leading it and everyday people attending it? It wasn’t responsible for what was happening! 

Okay, yeah, I get the funeral is ‘symbolically significant.’  I get that Lamarque has become, in popular culture, a symbol of rebellion and resistance against a government’s unfair policies.  I get Lamarque’s funeral is a pretty big public event that has a lot of symbolic significance ties to ideas of rebellion against the state.

I get that Lamarque’s words are often seen as a rebellious call to action, so illegally interrupting his funeral could be a statement about resisting tyranny. It could be a call to action playing off the popularity and symbolic role that Lamarque has in the public consciousness.

 But at the same time— shouldn’t Les Amis have just gone to the palace and attacked the king directly? Why disrupt this symbolic event instead? They’re not really going after the people responsible! 

After all, there were so many people there who just wanted a normal day. They weren’t responsible for what the government was doing and had nothing to do with it.  They wanted to see the procession, to hear Lafayette’s speech and grieve a political figure they cared for. They wanted to hear people praise ‘resistance’ in the abstract, without actually doing it.

 Weren’t Les Amis disrupting that?  

Aren’t Les Amis bad activists? Isn’t disrupting people’s everyday lives for the sake of 'activism' always inherently a bad thing? I’m not against activism, but isn’t doing that kind of disruptive activism rude? Isn’t disrupting the lives of ordinary people just doing their jobs or going out for a special event evil— no matter why you’re doing it, or what your goals are, or whether the government actually is doing something vile that we should start to stage great events rallying against?

Even if this Lamarque's funeral has special significance because of its symbolic pop cultural ties to rebellion against tyranny—shouldn’t they have just avoided rudely interrupting some regular people’s everyday lives? 

Protests shouldn’t disrupt things. they should be big parades that don’t make anyone uncomfortable, don’t interrupt anything, and don’t disrupt any aspects of ‘normal people’s daily life.’ No one should ever target symbolic events— like a funeral for a political figure or a musical about revolution—  to make a political statement. Protests should be little quiet festivals that cause absolutely no interruption in everyday life so that we can all just safely ignore them, until the climate catastrophe they’re warning us about arrives.”  

#les miserables #les mis #sklajdfsf sorry if this comes off as rude its also not my intention. im just a bit baffled XD #but slakdjfsdf #no hard feeligns though kinda #but protest is supposed to be disruptive and to prevent life from continuing as normal #and using Les Mis-- a story that is theoretically about rebellion against tyranny-- as the symbolic centerpiece of a disruptive protest #makes a lot of sense #and protests angrily decrying fossil fuel companies is important! #ive noticed its really easy to glorify the concept of protest/resistnace in the abstract #but its hard to deal with the fact a lot ground-level protest. is disruptive to every day people #because its suppsoed to be #and honestly the climate crisis will affect our daily lives far more than student activists interrupting a show #so people wll need to get refunds XD

[yellowmanula]

Once, I happened to become a living canvas :)

#body art #bodyart #artistic nude #nudephotography #nude art #art nude #female nude #abstract nude #implied nudity #female art #artistic nudity #fine art nude #concept art #modelka #aesthetic #black & white #natural body