#i love this painting btw

[maketeaa]

daughters of the sun - ira mukhoty

most of the women of the mughal haraman were, in fact, not wives at all; they were mothers, like hamida banu and harkha bai, unmarried sisters, like jahanara and roshanara, divorced women, like khanzada, single daughters, like zeb-un-nisa and zeenat-un-nisa, aunts, like gulbadan, distant relatives, like salima sultan, elderly dependents, etc. they were not sexually available women at all. and yet they all had a role to play, a duty to perform, and they were respected, and paid, for these crucial jobs.

who were the mughal women behind the veil of the zenana? hidden behind the purdah, little historical accounts were recorded of the ongoings within the harem, and those that were are steeped in orientalism, western curiosity (and ethnocentricism alike) sprouting ideas of languor, lasciviousness, blouseless indian women waiting in their haveli for their shahenshah to visit them. such a lack of probing into the real story led to a disappointing overshadowing of the role played by the harem in the empire. but ira mukhoty casts this shadow away, shining the light of her in depth research and impeccable narrative to delve into the lives of some of the most influential women the world has seen.

mukhoty takes her readers through each reign of the mughal emperors, from babur's escape from samarkand to aurangzeb's mammoth of expanded territory. we hear of khanzada begum, babur's eldest sister, surrendered to shaybani khan and separated from her timurid family for almost a decade; gulbadan begum, who authored the famous humayunama, the biography of her father; nur jahan, the chief consort who had coins struck in her name, who was short of only being announced in the khutba from being the padshah herself; and jahanara begum, the daughter of shah jahan, who went from her glorious reign as padshah begum to her imprisonment in agra fort with her ailing father as her brother took the throne. interspersed are the stories of other, lesser known women of the harem -- wet nurses such as maham anaga; second, third, and fourth wives; and sisters and daughters that fall back to the sidelines. most beautifully of all, mukhoty weaves this all into a complex tapestry of female power, ambition, companionship, and spirituality, displaying in rich hues the kaleidoscope of lives suffusing the mughal harem.

after four-hundred years, the curtain of the zenana is finally pulled back -- along with the misconceptions colouring a vital chapter of female history.

#mughals #mughal empire #mughal history #history #book review #book recommendations #bookblr #historyblr #history blog #book blog #i love this painting btw #noor jahan #jahanara begum #tagged:history #tagged:mughals #tagged:bookreview #♡alizeh reads♡ #tagged:daughtersofthesun #tagged:iramukhoty

[chosisbox]

The god of love and the god of war?? 🤨

I was about to draw zosan for a warmup and THEN this tweet came across my TL and altered by brain chemistry like they are so venus (aphrodite) and mars (ares) coded I-

#one piece #one piece fanart #op fanart #op #one piece zoro #roronoa zoro #zoro fanart #one piece sanji #black leg sanji #sanji fanart #zosan #they fit so hard I'm gonna scream #anime fanart #fanart #digital fanart #clip studio paint #sketch #oda you better do a 2v2 with mars and venus I BEG #aphrodite is the godess of love and you know who has the power of love? that's right #ares has 3 swords in the hades game btw

[arinmoss]

i painted Astarion hehe :3c prints here

#i planned on doing a quick litttle sketch based purely on memory than i was like maybe ill use a ref actually and then i ended up making #a painting of that guy lmao #this took anywhere from 2 to 4 hours idk a good amount of tim was looking at his face and trying to remmeber how to fucking draw lmao #like im bad with making drawings look like someone but i tried! #haven't played the game btw i dont have the moeny nor the laptop for it but i have been watching a lets play of it #want to try and draw more of the companions especially karlach and wyll cause i love wylls design and i love karlach #astarion #bg3 #astarion bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion baldurs gate #astarion fanart #painting #art #art work #digital painting #arin moss #arin moss art #also i know his hairs not that curly but i like drawing hair like this lol #im sure theres more i can fix but whatever i fix it lateer maybe but liekly i wont lol #okay i edited his face a little but idk if this version looks better #maybe ill go back and put the old version in but for now i think this looks a tad better but idk idk #baldurs gate 3 #astarion ancunin #fanart #vampire #vampire art

[megaawkwardhuman]

I'm handling the newest episodes soooo well

#I love peeping the horrors (watching everything go wrong for the characters you love) #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #stede bonnet #edward teach #zheng yi sao #izzy hands #the crew of the revenge #brought to you by ms paint #sorry that some of the text is hard to read btw #I'd go back and edit it but I'm lazy™️

[theoldkyokodied]

Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')

#tomgreg #succession #dont even talk to me i started watching this show when i had nothing to do at work and now i watch it with averiel my good friend averiel #and we are going to watch s4 together and i feel physically ill from bein so excited #so ya thats what ive been up to... anyway. i love these idiots they desever nothing but the worst (affectionate) #im also a tomshiv lover btw. im the one who yells 'THIS IS HOW TOMSHIV CAN STILL WIN' while they are actively losing on screen #thats the kind of person i am #dont look at me (lying on the floor) #okay i was not going to say stuff in the tags and let the art speak for itself but i NEED to point out details in the wine Painting.. #i put a lot of work into that one. thinly veiled metaphors and symbolism yknow.. #greg is gripping the stem of the wine glass with his full fist. tom and greg are dressed in the same outfit (sock garters included) #greg look appalled but he is not doing anything about the spill. tom is fondly pouring greg more and more wine. he is doing him a favor #i colored the red wine the same way i would color blood :) oh and tom is not really touching greg #only holding the chair in place. greg is making himself look smaller than he is like usual #oh and @ the person who said that it's the inverse of the tom and nate scene i love the way you think. i did not think of that before #but god. yeah. i actually thought about the scene change from when roman uhh.. christens his office in s1. the one with the coffee machine #i always go insane at that cut. this is not exactly the same since it's more.. about emotions but yknow.. it can be.. the same...

[numum]

teehee

#the owl house #toh #huntlow #willow park #hunter noceda #hunter wittebane #i hope they give him an official last name #it’s prob wittebane honestly but i love noceda #clawthorne will always be my fav tho #anyway huntlow!!! huntlow #he is smudging the paint on his right hand onto his cheek bc he’s too busy staring at her btw #my art #myart #traditional

[araneapeixes]

Throw down your umbilical noose

So I can climb right back

#my first ever painting!!<3 #shadowheart #bg3 #the song is the dead sara cover not the nirvana original btw #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #shar #the main thing abt this one for me is her pose #bc its meant to be ambiguous - she is knelt down to pray but also keeled over in pain #and obviously reaching up - but is it to stand or just to reach for the knife? #and im also happy with how the singular bit of moonlight (!!) makes it pop #i learned a lot in the process but im still so shit at painting. i will love any and all constructive criticism here<3

[rosieofcorona]

gale (color study), 2x2, oil on canvas

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 art #bg3 gale #oil painting #traditional art #my art #i loved painting this #but boy did I fucking struggle #gale has incredible eyebrows btw #eyes of faerun #gale dekarios art #baldur’s gate art

[cherrysmokesaconha]

Movie night with ur (sleepy) hubby. Yeah.

#they're the “hey you know who's gay” guys btw #i love them #gayjoke #grrrrr theyre my otp aaaa #asdfmovie #asdfmovie fanart #tomska #shipping #ibis paint x #ibis paint x animation #gif #animation #lol i love them #idk what to tag #cherries art stuff #cherryverse

[fruitbythefoot7]

been wanting to draw The Painting since forever 👀

#my *cough* five year dragon phase finally paid off #also had some fun actually doing a bg on this one #btw ive never drawn a horse before and it looks so dorky and i kind of love it #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #lucas sinclair #dustin henderson #wills painting #will byers dtiys #my art #stranger things #stranger things s4 #technically

[mildcrow]

Yearning.

Now available as a print on my InPrnt!

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ed teach #digital art #art #artists on tumblr #my art #guys im so normal about the new trailer holy fuck #love ed in his revenge emo era but i still havent gotten over his pathetic dressing gown era #hes so multi faceted and meow meow #s2 it gonna wreck us all i just know it #link is to my Instagram btw check it out if you like my work B) #also obvs heavily inspired by Flaming June by F. Leighton!!! love that painting a lot #fungusart

[mspaint-flower]

have you ever drawn Zundamon? i'd love to see your version of that little gremlin!

the Beast

#zundamon #voicevox #neutrino #utau #utauloid #vocaloid #my art #ms paint #tbh zundamon is going to be in literally any vocal synth program #they're such a Beast..............i love them.... #(btw idk if you meant version as in drawing another version of them but #i just drew their normal fit cus. i don't have ''my'' version)

[twyz]

the domestic 💕

#twyz #hey so!!! #im back with a bang (er post) #ive been feeling a bit better lately so i thought a big post would be fun for you guys!!! #especially after what felt like ages on my part #so have my lovely alien wife (one of two) #magenta supremacy btw!!!!!1!1!1! #rhps #magenta rhps #magenta #rocky horror picture show #the rocky horror show #rocky horror #rocky horror fanart #rocky horror show #rocky horror picture show fan art #digital art #made in ibis paint

[inkskinned]

if you're smiling you're vapid or flirty or vain or contrite or insipid or a massive bitch or coy or cunning and if you've relaxed and are just watching-back, you're enigmatic or mysterious or sexy or a massive bitch or coy or cunning and if you're frowning you're hysterical or overwrought or the voice of your people or hard to please or a massive bitch or

and you stand there reading the little plaque next to pictures of people who aren't really like you because they're rich and they wear satin but they are like you because they had to watch other people paint their pictures without getting to paint them by themselves and you think about the fact that something like 80% of "fine art" on the walls is only made by white men and how so many of these pictures are of white women and how many are of naked women and how many are of bloodshed, and how the women are all looking at you and watching you and there are so many discussions about what kind of a person is she

but she isn't in this painting, is she, she's watching like a ghost behind you, saying a man told my story and you know what that's like because her facial expression defines her personality (what if she was just happy? what if she was holding back a sneeze? what if she is a kind person who relaxes into a frown when she's not focusing?) and on trains and in public if you hunch too much or let your "resting bitch face" show (it means you're not-smiling. you don't even have to be frowning. you know people who think they have "resting bitch face" and really mean they don't look delicate and pretty when they're relaxing; their facial expression isn't even intimidating it just isn't lovely) like congratulations that's your whole personhood

oh it's lovely to be in art circles and of course you've had some similar conversations because you do your homework but when you point out that maybe it doesn't actually matter if the mona lisa is smiling, that maybe we need to look at something other than her lips - people tell you that you just don't get it, so maybe you don't, but your skin crawls because you picture someone taking a picture of you and saying is she coy? is she clever? what do we see? and you think. well, i'm hungry, and stressed, and i've got those rent bills incoming

and it's not like you can say it doesn't happen with men because of course there are conversations about it but you've noticed that a man with a blank face is empowered or showing leadership skills or calm or even kind - that he gets good attributes faster for less effort - and it's not like you're even a professional in these circles but it still feels like you're trying to express something very akin to - if you were one of us, you'd need no explanation for it because you can look at a picture of these women and something in your heart rings and something else in the back of your mind says - this isn't for everyone, this is only for us and you know that no matter what you do or say about dehumanization and how we are people at the end of the day and how not every woman who smiles at you lies on a spectrum of "flirting" or "devoid of wit" - no matter what you do, they're not going to get it.

#whatever this is #i love discussing art btw #i just have noticed a very specific pattern about this #that men in paintings are Powerful #where as a woman looking at the artist without any specific expression is ''enigmatic'' like bro she's just chillin

[ccomilk]

turns out the trick to breaking art block is ms paint <3

(ID below cut bc it is quite long!)

[ID: various MS Paint doodles of Hermitcraft people. the first drawing is Grian and Scar hugging each other, while both putting "kick me" signs on each other's back.

the second image consist of Scar and Jellie, Grian looking angrily at Scar's chest and them in the "cover them up slut" meme, Mumbo comparing his height against Ranboo (who is significantly taller somehow) while Grian stares up from waist-height, and Grian riding on Mumbo's shoulders.

the third image is various drawings of Creature Grian. he is jumping around, sleeping, and looking generally monstrous. in one doodle he's hugging Mumbo. a small doodle at the bottom is of OP giving a thumbs-up and saying "how to kill art-block: MS Paint".

the final image is drawings of Ren and Doc, including Ren as a puppy, Ren yelling at something, and King Ren giving Doc puppy eyes, who is coldly saying "no". End ID.]

#art #digital art #sketches #ms paint #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #grian #rendog #rentheking #docm77 #mumbo jumbo #my art #btw creature grian is based off of sss-eriema's AU which is v fun and you should all look at #and also 'covet' which is a fic on ao3 which is extremely good #i love both AU's dearly #anyway this is just the first batch of ms paint doodles so i will be back with more soon #o7777777

[arcademgmt]

varying fire emblems. mostly just wanted to get some visual hcs down

#fire emblem three houses #fe3h #claude von riegan #marianne von edmund #hilda valentine goneril #fe3h rhea #i was not drawing everything on rhea's outfit i did not Feel Like It. #btw hilda paints marianne's nails for her and you can't really tell but they are chipped bc she bites them #also claude is my beautiful beautiful wife of four years love u baby hashtag gay pride