#expressions of nature

[bujoette]

Reminder that Leah Berman aka expressions-of-nature thinks NFTs are fun and doesn’t think it’s weird she photographs nature that gets eaten up by minting them, because “nature was already ruined” and some methods event totes aren’t that bad guyssss.

She received this ask January 15th 2022, and then deleted the post when people in the comments didn’t agree with her totally not condescending reply (no surprise there, and I can’t believe she didn’t see it coming). I still see her stuff regularly circulating, despite my best efforts to block and avoid her entirely. I get pretty pictures are super nice to look at, that’s how I was there to see this in the first place, and no one can do a background check on everyone on a silly blogging site™. I also know a lot of people wouldn’t like her side hustle if they knew about it.

I’m not trying to get her cancelled, and I urge you do not go send her nasty messages. This is just a “I still have these screenshots, I was there, did you know this happened on a public platform so it's not libel" post.

Here’s a link to her NFT portfolio that’s still up on the 1st of October as proof she hasn’t changed her mind so far. https://leahbermanstudio.com/portfolio/nftart

#not saying anyone is a bad person for liking her pictures. shes very talented but shes also a hypocrite and a coward. people have layers #nature #photography #photographers on tumblr #nftcreators #discourse #online drama #if i get deleted you know #expressions of nature #expressions-of-nature #nature blog #nature photos #nature art #photoshoot

[fungalnebula]

What I love most about Gandalf big naturals is how much it eases my chest dysphoria. I can sleep without a shirt on now because of Gandalf Big Naturals. Knowing that the artist made the original image while recovering from top surgery and said the image was like a final parting gift from their boobs makes me feel even better about the image's effect on me. Men with big naturals makes me feel much more good about my body than those old posts on here that were like "trans men! Some men have pecs!!! So don't feel dysphoric <3". It's much more meaningful to see a hairy, bearded man with a huge H cup rack not letting his tits get in the way of his masculinity.

Most of all, Gandalf Big Naturals helped me love my body the way it is instead of hating something that's a part of me. Of course I still want top surgery but the fact that I can live with my own big naturals until then without wanting to guillotine them off is really important.

#losers lament #gandalf big naturals #I queued a drawing of Gandalf big naturals where he has a hairy chest and that one's my favorite #since I started t I've been growing chest hair and I really like how my cleavage looks with the hair #so when I saw that picture i knew that I would be able to keep the love for hairy big naturals #instead of losing them forever when my own hairy big naturals get removed #and it's like I'm giving them to him #I love the way gender expression has progressed on this webbed sight

[leahberman]

synthesis; expressions of nature

#photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #nature #landscape #wildflowers #art #original photographers #leah berman #naturecore #flowers #spring #midjourney #portrait #pastel #expressions-of-nature #curators on tumblr #aesthetic

[fleshdyke]

i wish so fucking bad that schools would teach even the most basic nature and wildlife literacy. bc what they teach now is how we get these godawful lawns and monocultures and an endlessly growing list of extinct animal species. like i can’t even count how many times i’ve been trying to explain to people why mosquitoes/moths/bats/flies/wasps/etc are so important and people have gone “but that’s what bees are for (pollination)” or “birds can just eat other things” or “things decompose on their own”. it has to be in the dozens. nothing makes me as upset as when people simply cannot wrap their heads around the fact (fact, fact, fact) that every single organism has its purpose in nature and there is *nothing* that is “pointless”. ignorance like this is what leads to barren monoculture lawns and deforestation and “pest control” and devastating invasive species and expanding extinction/endangerment lists. i just wish schools would teach that every animal and plant has its place, and *nothing* needs to be exterminated as a whole, *especially* native wildlife. but of course capitalism can’t thrive on proper environmentalism so i guess we’ll just have to deal with this.

#i could rant about this for HOURS #it all ties into capitalism. it all fucking ties into capitalism #if anyone wants to add on PLEASE do i am ALWAYS down to talk abt this #sir david attenborough. one of the most famous and influential environmentalists in the world. has publicly expressed that for nature to #thrive capitalism MUST be dismantled #rambles #capitalism #capitalist hell #environmentalism #naturalism #climate change #infodump #100 #1k #10k

[canisalbus]

sometimes i think about natural hair machete

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#OOHH #natural hair Machete! #I've drawn him with the trimmed fur for so long I had almost forgotten he's capable of being floofy as f- heck #shedding becomes instantly ten times worse #really captivated by the way you rendered the fur #it looks so soft and voluminous and the way the tufts curl just seems so three dimensional #the shading auh #the little bit of pink on the elbow #and the expression as well #he comes across a lot more casual and relaxed somehow #that's nice #such a lovely surprise! thank you! #gift art #alwaysoutofpaper #own characters #Machete #from pencil neck to mane

[ignitesthestxrs]

there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.

and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.

idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.

which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'

*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.

#tlt #the locked tomb #i don't really have an answer lmao this is more #an expression of frustration and discomfort #over the way posts about john gaius seem to have very little connection to the background muir actually gave him #like you cant describe him as an educated leftist bisexual man #without INCLUDING that he is māori #that has an impact! that has weight and importance! #that is a background to every decision he makes #from the meat wall to the nuke to his relationship with the earth #and it also has weight and importance in the decisions that muir makes in writing him #it is not a neutral decision that he's known as john gaius lmao #it's not a neutral decision that the empire is explicitly of roman/latin extraction #it's not even neutral that this is a book about necromancy #it's certainly not a neutral fucking decision that john was at one point a māori man living in the bush #when the nz govt decided to send cops in #like that is a thing that happens here! that is a reference to nz cultural and political events that informs john's character and actions #and with the nature of who john is in the story #informs the narrative as a whole #and i think the tiresome part of this experience is that #in general #americans are not well positioned to understand that something might be being written from outside their experience as a default #like obviously many many americans in online leftist & queer spaces are willing to learn and take on new information #but so much of the conversation starts from a place of having to explain that forests exist to fish

[somedragongu]

So I’ve been watching Bluey

#Bluey #animation #seriously it’s so good #i cannot express to you how natural the characters are and how believable it is that they’re a family/real people

[tenderanarchist]

Current life goal is Get More Weird.

#release my shame and embrace my interests and natural mannerisms etc #I’ve been crushing my self expression for so long worrying about what other people think

[finchwingart]

no.2 favourite animal; cheetah!! I made this one probably a bit too fluffy but I love when they’re in their scruffy teenage phase

#cheetah #finch art #big cat #they just have such damn cool shapes #and the grumpy lookin expression and the tear markings #nature used her whole body to design this guy

[turrondeluxe]

of fathers and daughters sharing similarities

#mikey and yi got the same smile and moja copies miguel's expressions to the point it just comes naturally to her #did this as a warm up today and then went. yeah thats all im drawin. im not drawing anything else lmao #peepaw and babies au #lasting romance #shellslinger #tmnt #tmnt the last ronin #the last ronin lost years #tmnt mikey #tmnt michelangelo #tmnt yi #tmnt moja #miguel o'hara #spiderman 2099 #my art

[404sketches]

Wow how random that I happened to end up drawing Garak and Bashir at the same time. What a coincidence!

#also wow garak was a tough one #his face is super distinct and finnicky and the cardassian features are quite detailed and required simplification #and he's also a constant source of all those incredibly layered and intense expressions #no wonder I find him such a delight to watch on screen #bashir was naturally far more straightforward #ds9 #star trek ds9 #deep space nine #ds9 fanart #elim garak #garak #ds9 garak #julian bashir #dr bashir #ds9 bashir #deeeeefinitely not #garak x bashir #404 ds9posting #404 sketches

[tdsharkgirl]

are we brave enough for gwawn

#no they have never breathed the same air. yes they would be INSTANT soulmates. trust me #dawn would LOVE gwens drawings and weird journal poetry and cool self expression. #gwen would LOVE dawns mysterious vibe and her love of nature (lest we forget gwen is a nature loving girlie too!!) #werid girls unite basically #tdi #total drama island #td gwen #td dawn #dare i… #gwawn #also yes i will confess i was the gwawn anon on real td takes

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

societies that demonize children and child bearing when their population starts its dramatic decline and women still refuse to have children: 😮

#I'm not saying that people need to be forced to have children #but sometimes social engineering works #if you do bristle at the idea of having children #that repulsion did not emerge in a vacuum and isn't any more natural than the people you think were brainwashed to want them #there's this idea that heterosexual norms need to be constantly enforced because they're unnatural (?) or not the default or something #and it's not clear to me if the idea is that you can abolish heteronormativity to return people to their natural inclinations #or if the idea is that as heteronormativity is engineered so also you can engineer whatever you like #either way #one of the implications has been that having children is slavery and not having children is freedom #and so if you think that #as the heterosexual values were culturally pushed #so also your hatred of children is a cultural expression #your beliefs are not insulated from your society or your surroundings

[kbmrjmd]

i love you creating. i love you drawing and painting i love you writing i love you sculpting i love you cooking and baking i love you songwriting and singing and playing instruments i love you engineering and building i love you graphic design i love you so much

#I LOVE THAT THERES SO MANY WAYS TO CREATE #i love that its human nature to create #i love the act of creation and self expression and and and #its a Human Thing to create and everyone creates that is such a lovely thing #<3333333

[canisalbus]

i've returned for 2 seconds to tell you that they're not leaving my head. (sort of unrelated but i've been thinking as well. what if vasco died before machete ? what would go down)

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#ah this is so terribly cute #makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside #“possessed by the vaschete spirit” you and me both #their expressions are so sweet #couple of dorks #and I like the dusty desaturated color scheme! with pink and darker brown accents #gift art #insect-shenanigans #own characters #Vasco #Machete #as for what would happen if Vasco died first #and I'm assuming of natural causes like illness or old age #I suppose Machete would try to sneakily sponsor his funeral #throw the fanciest burial possible #and maybe add some kind of anonymous half hidden obscure tragiromantic inscription on the grave #about wishing to see him again one day #and then either go on to do what Vasco did and commission art in his honor #or get a bad case of widowhood effect and go downhill quickly after his passing #oh yeah he might start to financially support Vasco's widow so that there was a little less pressure on her to get remarried #as you may remember she's a lesbian and one lavender marriage was probably enough for her #I can see that being a thing in certain circumstances

[lazycranberrydoodles]

hanguang-jun...

lan wangji in ace attorney!! turn on sound 🔊 / traced over edgeworth's sprites :) more info below the cut ↓

also including a bonus Happy Wangji that i couldn't fit into the video!

his share code is YCNKBA! the music used is Recollection -- Light and Shadow of the Film Studio. I thought it had a nice, contemplative feel, between Suspense, which was too intense for the scene, and Heartbroken Maya, which was too sad. the wwx/jc/lwj reunion scene is truly sososo interesting in every adaptation.

→ masterpost here! ←

#my emotional support longterm semi-obscure crossover animation series based off of a throwaway joke #i poured all my thoughts about the jc/wwx reunion into my yiling patriarch shitpost just like. scroll a bit down on my blog #would love for jc to have more expressions in this but sadly if i have to go back and edit a finished piece i spontaneously combust 😔 #lan wangji and miles edgeworth autistic kings #its very funny to me that my sprite with the most emotions yet is the character that famously doesnt emote #i used the internet archive EXR translation again #edited some of the dialogue cause it didn't sound very natural/was too long #but i also found out that the entire series of official english mdzs books are on the internet archive?? straight up?? #by 2042 ill have animated every single character and recreated the entire novel in objection.lol so watch out for that lmao #mdzs aa au #mdzs #aa #lan wangji #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #wangxian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #twin prides of yunmeng #ace attorney #animation #art #my art #pixel art #objection.lol #flashing tw #flashing images tw #flashing cw