#paper coms

[smallpapers]

Commission I did a few months back for @gracefulsouffle ‘s Hunter-centric time loop fic, Again and Again, (Chapter 17!) Go check it out!!

#the owl house #hunter wittebane #hunter noceda #the golden guard #Toh hunter #Toh fanart #Toh fic #myart #palisman #Toh comic #paper coms art #paper coms #gracefulsouffle #I thought I posted this last time but I didn’t! sorry it’s so late #everyone go read rn!! it’s forty chapters that’s so amazing how do people write fics!

[marlenacantswim]

my cringefail autistic babygirls nine and ten in the style of "doodles i'd do during class back when they passed out actual physical worksheets"

turns out if you set your procreate pencil to 60% opacity on accident, the graphite effect becomes a lot more believable. who knew!

[Image ID: A digital drawing of the busts of the Christopher Eccleston Doctor and the first David Tennant Doctor in profile, facing right and left respectfully. they are offset vertically, and the style mimics that of a traditional graphite pencil on computer paper; the background sports slight texturing to reinforce this. both doctors are wearing their traditional outfits. each has text written next to them, saying 'nine, last of the Time Lords, the one who loved' and 'the one love bore, Time Lord victorious, ten' respectively. / .End ID]

#this is my first time doing image id; let me know if i fucked it up majorly or anything #anyways i miss being able to go absolutely ham on a piece of paper during a class or lecture #my art skills developed so much during my high school math classes Let Me Tell You #canvas dot com is stifiling me creatively #instead i shall mimic the energy via this digital simulacrum #doctor who #nuwho #the doctor #9th doctor #ninth doctor #10th doctor #tenth doctor #christopher eccleston #david tennant #running my mouth #made this with my hands #my artwork #doctor who fanart

[docgold13]

New Gods of the Fourth World Paper Cut-Outs

#New Gods #Jack Kirby #Fourth World #DC Com #dc comcis #cut-outs #paper art

[nerdyqueerr]

The Ulysses Dies At Dawn research project thesis is COMPLETE. Lets fucking do this

#this is how i announce to tumblr dot com that im writing a paper on UDAD for my classics and their reception course #its very ambitious and the course itself isnt great but like #i went to office hours and im making it work #its about the synergy and the cobbled-together retelling narratives. or smth. #synergy is a good word.... anyways #will keep yall updated #also huge shoutout to makers of the mechs brainrot docs i will be using your transcripts #the mechanisms

[miscriont]

Okay I've thought about this as long as I can stand and--am I the only person who thought this was *awkward*?

I've been chewing on it, reading about other people's reactions, studying frame by frame the movements of Aziraphale's hands and like. I *see* it, I see how y'all get to the "brief moment of reciprocation" conclusion, but.

It is AWKWARD. It is one of the most awkward onscreen kisses I have ever seen.

Why is that??

The characters have chemistry. The narrative has established their relationship. The actors have chemistry; each of them has a proven track record of standout performances. And it's not as though either of them is new at this. So why, with all that on the table, does this look like amateur hour?

I got curious about it, and my hypothesis is this: they're reading from different playbooks.

"Saw it in a Richard Curtis film".

It feels like a throwaway line, something to wink-nudge a laugh out of the audience. There's a bit of confusion immediately afterwards regarding Jane Austen, Prolific Novelist and Jane Austen, Jewel Thief and Crime Lord, and isn't that funny haha look at the clueless celestial beings but almost NOTHING in this show has been just filler, or meaningless.

So who was Richard Curtis and why is he the model for Crowley's attempts at matchmaking? Turns out Richard Curtis directed some of the more iconic romcoms of the 90s and 2000s. I'm talking Notting Hill ("I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her", remember that one?); I'm talking Love Actually; I'm talking Bridget Jones Diary--which, funnily enough, is at the very least inspired by Pride & Prejudice. Sappy monologues and kissing in the rain is this guy's bread & butter.

Aziraphale, on the other hand, wants to try the Austen-esque approach of having balls. There were fairly rigid rules to courtship back in Austen's day. Rules that HAD to be followed, in the right order, or else face social ruin. Austen made her career out of poking fun at those even as her characters worked within them. Point is, you only get to kiss at the end, and one of you better be wearing a wedding dress.

I may be stating the obvious but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it so: one layer to Crowley's and Aziraphale's brainstorming session on how to get Nina and Maggie together is also their way of subtly indicating what they themselves find romantic, and would want someone else to do for them to demonstrate their interest. For Aziraphale it's dancing and atmospheric lighting and having everything just so and *conversations that clear up everything*. For Crowley it's tearful speeches and getting the chance to tell the truth while streetlights glitter through pouring rain, where the protagonists seem to be pulled into a showstopping kiss almost as of by magnetism alone. There's a formula to each of the kinds of romantic storytelling that inspires their different matchmaking styles.

For Aziraphale, The Kiss (because you know this bitch(affectionate) would use the Capital Letters for Emphasis And/Or Significance) skips several steps in the courtship dance he thinks they've been doing. From Crowley's Perspective, Aziraphale is three acts, two scenes behind from where *he* thinks they are. Their kiss looks awkward because they are desynchronized, out of step with each other.

In other words, and in many more ways than just the one, they are not on the same page.

But you know who these two numpties have in common?

William Fucking Shakespeare. My outlandishly speculative prediction for season 3 is their reconciliation will have something to do with Shakespeare's comedic works. The perfect turnabout would be modeling it on Much Ado, with Nina and Maggie playing the bits of Hero and Claudio in fabricating evidence to get them back together: Crowley and Aziraphale messed about with their lives, it's only fair they should get to dish it out.

#personal #writing #film #good omens #good omens 2 #WE'RE GETTING SEASON 3!!! #not just a modern author aticking 2 paper dolls in romantic situations #I've been chewing on these thoughts like cud and haven't gotten any further than #“crowley thinks they're in a rom com and aziraphale thinks they're in a regency novel” #as in work written during or at least contemporary to the regency period #i leave them with you gentlw readers

[yurigi]

that ant is kinda small

#smallant #sowwy for lined paper #referenced from images on picturesofsmant dot tumblr dot com thank you

[potatoobsessed999]

Thinking about the commonalities in Dracula between cutting-edge (for the period) innovations and traditions from past centuries that have passed out of common knowledge. (I do want to mention that according to the text these traditions clearly haven’t passed out of common Transylvanian knowledge, but since Stoker treats traveling eastward as functionally equivalent to traveling into the past, for our Western-European protagonists it comes to more or less the same thing.) Under the cut for length.

The protagonists have been using both modern innovation and forgotten tradition to try and thwart Drac - Jonathan’s use of shorthand and even his journey by train to Budapest are both modern, but the crucifix the innkeeper gave him is more traditional; Lucy is kept alive via modern blood transfusions and traditional garlic flowers (which themselves are only available out of season from a modern greenhouse); Van Helsing has to return to Amsterdam to get his books, which presumably cover folkloric traditions such as the garlic, but he’s only able to go back and forth so quickly because of modern transportation.

I know quite a few people in the tag have already brought up this mingling of old and new, but what’s really striking to me is how much Drac operates in the lacuna between these two sources of knowledge. I remember someone mentioning that Mrs. Westenra was probably brought up believing in miasma theory, which would explain why she thought the garlic smell would be bad for Lucy’s health - but she was not brought up on the superstitions/folkloric traditions that would have warned her Lucy’s illness was not mundane, and that the garlic’s presence was protective. The Transylvanian peasants’ traditions obviously didn’t prevent Drac from terrorizing them, but they did help - if they hadn’t, he would presumably not be bothering to move to England. (I also think the relative infrequency of Drac’s and his roommates’ feedings while Jonathan was in the castle might be due to those traditional protections making vulnerable prey scarce.)

One thing that’s really interesting to me about this dynamic is that it positions the Enlightenment as - not necessarily a bad but a dangerous thing. By pivoting to a new worldview, a new philosophy of knowledge, Western Europe has discarded old beliefs that did genuinely hold great value - and even as technology improves, gaps are left where old knowledge would have served but new knowledge has not yet advanced enough to fill. The suggestion seems to be that an inaccurate scientifically-based worldview is more dangerous than a folklorically-based one - see Mrs. Westenra and miasma theory. Neither is the folklorically-based worldview devoid of truth or merit. I do think the text suggests that the scientific worldview is superior - look at the Transylvanian peasants’ cowed terror and their purely defensive anti-Dracula measures, vs. Van Helsing’s proactive blood transfusions saving someone who’s actually been bitten already - but it isn’t presented as infallibly accurate, and without a supplemental reliance on tradition it leaves dangerous gaps in the characters’ understanding. (Such as Seward’s complete misunderstanding of the reasons behind Renfield’s actions.)

Ultimately, the most important thing is knowledge, whether that knowledge is old or new - and the protagonists are best able to combat Dracula’s efforts when they combine those sources, patching holes in the one with information from the other. Conversely, Drac relies on others’ ignorance, whether that be Jonathan’s dismissal of the villagers’ warnings as baseless superstition or Mrs. Westenra’s mistaken belief that bad smells will make her daughter sicker. And it’s by friendship, cooperation, and interchange of ideas - both between individuals and between worldviews - that the protagonists are able to fight back.

#jonathan harker #van helsing #mrs westenra #dracula daily #dracula #dracula meta #whee look at me i’m supposed to be writing an overdue paper for class #instead i’ve written one about dracula to post on tunglr dot com #oh well #maybe my brain will now be in writing-papers mode and i can focus on the one i actually have to write

[cerealmonster15]

Stupid silly sketchbook doodles of beloved basketball club shhdfbfbgby it’s so important 2 me that they act like annoying brothers to each other and also that everyone in nrc acts like they’d rather be shot than develop a crush on one of their bitch classmates

#cereal tries to draw #twisted wonderland #ummmmm. i don’t wanna tag anymore I’m embarrased LOL I wasn’t gonna post it #I was just doodling for private funsies but like yknow how Ywannatalk about ideas with people #even just goofy little headcanons lol #but like u don’t wanna directly place ur thoughts and feelings in front of someone sometimes #bc then it’s DIRECT and STRESSFUL A #but u also don’t feel like it’s worth a Post For All To See #we r keeping it casual here on cerealmonster15 dot tumblr dot com #I just wanna bully my sons #ok literally tho can u read my handwriting. this is the natural state #of on paper and normal not written with intent for others to need to see lol #anyway I think of Ace liked deuce he’d be soooooo complainy about it. and in denial #but I think once he wasn’t in denial he’d be bitching constantly #and I think Jamil would also want to die if he started liking azul lol #Floyd would bully them both. he’s having a great time. god for him I guess #Ace: well hang on let me pause my agony to go baby bro mode and annoy Jamil real quick #get the heat off him (which he started by complaining loudly first) #Floyd: haha you two like dweebs #can u imagine the turmoil of third years developing feelings #they r all allergic. except rook I guess but he’s his own flavor of freak #lilia is dad he doesn’t count he already had his romance agony [REDACTED BOOK 7 SPOILERS] #first years also allergic EXCEPT applejuice. Epel and deuce together are like bro I love u. #second years are mostly allergic but also contain Kalim and silver #shoutout to the light magic users mwah #actually silver I don’t know. I don’t think he’d be resistant but I think he just wouldn’t realize what he’s feeling at first #he’d be so 🧍 about it I think #well bitch you (me) better figure it out since ur actively writing Kalim/silver!!! girl help #ok I need to go to bed I have a long weekend ahead of me #Jamil blows Ace up with his mind the end

[findstenicht]

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#hate hate hate when you have to mail someone important documents if they dont send you any confirmation that they received them #like. i even wrote in the email that i wasnt sure which email address they wanted me to send stuff to #and im *pretty sure* that they checked that account and likely got my docs but. what if they didnt #also my anxiety levels are skyrocketing as is #i have to do so much stuff for work rn #plus this project im working on is. a trainwreck not gonna lie and my project partner is *not* helping #also my health insurance situation is still kinda weird #also the bone marrow donation agency (?) wants me to preemptively fill out some form about my health status and idk how to communicate that #im fine on paper but theres most likely something wrong #also my grandma passed away on saturday. yeah. thats also something that happened #right. sorry. once again i cant find my physical journal so. oversharing on tumblr dot com it is i guess

[che2rybomb]

I kinda wanna talk about the parallel between the erotic queerness inherent in the blood-sucking vampirism, especially in the sexually-charged dynamics of one vampire creating/reproducing another by letting the other suck on their blood that flows from their open wound, and the imageries of medieval Christian mystics sucking on Christ’s bleeding wound, which has been interpreted by modern critics as an inherently queer act because 1. Christ is a hermaphroditic figure who is endowed with both divinity (= masculinity) and humanity (=femininity), 2. Christ’s body is seemingly male but on the Cross it’s wounded and permeable (which is a feminine quality) and its nurturing power (he literally gave birth to the Church) is maternal…which make his body so fluid and so QUEER, and 3. medieval mystics sucking on Christ’s life-giving blood and deriving ecstasy from that act has….it goes without saying….erotically queer connotation.

I think the very scandalousness of vampirism comes from the fact that while it is a fundamentally blasphemous, profane, soul-damning act, to become and to be a vampire takes a form that is dangerously close to or perhaps intentionally mimics the Christian religiosity in its inverse. And especially if you add queerness to that equation, these two look almost identical and I think it’s interesting (insert iCarly meme)

#rambles #some musings about iwtv obvi #this might be a com. lit paper in the making #AS A MEDIEVALIST #interview with the vampire #iwtv #vampire #vampirism #gay vamps on amc #iwtv book #iwtv series #medieval mysticism

[smallpapers]

Commission for @adr-n-sketchy 💚💛 , with the lyrics from “out of my league “ by Stephen Speaks

#the owl house #huntlow #willow park #hunter wittebane #the golden guard #toh willow #toh hunter #toh fanart #myart #paper coms #adr-n-sketchy #paper coms art

[isa-ah]

I'm gunna e beg by the end of the week I can feel it LMAO

#weve reached the point in moving where were sitting on the floor eating scraps off paper plates #we really cant afford to eat out bc i havent had the time to make eat out money #but even once were there we wont have much food so ill have to somehow scrape together grocery money OvO; #im resigned to eating a lot of trail mix for the next 2 days but like. yknow #yknow #maybe i can open coms to work on next week? #and the payments can get us TO next week #we wont have internet or potentially even electricity when we get there so hmm #we also wont have those things by tomorrow afternoon tho #HMMMM

[ilovedthestars]

that post went around a little while ago about missing school & convincing yourself you really want to write essays and i'm feeling it a little right now ngl. except for me it's not the essays it's the art. and also you know i am still actually in school so this is really not the same thing at all lol. i am just Thinking about school because i recently got a move in date and it's less than a month away and summer is suddenly Ending.

i'm taking a class next semester called Color. four and a half hours of color theory every week!! for a whole semester!!! color theory and nothing but color theory!! in case it is not clear this sounds incredibly fun to me and i am sincerely hoping it lives up to expectations

i am Yearning for some paint on my fingers. yes i could just paint something right now but that is not the same. possibly i should do it anyway though. but not at 10pm. maybe tomorrow

anyway. i'm not sure why but i am currently feeling weirdly nostalgic for painting tiny squares of paper in a dorm room at a time when i would have preferred to be asleep. i miss going to the art building on the weekend when i can have one of the big classrooms with the huge tall windows all to myself and sit there cutting cardboard with a box cutter and hot gluing it back together for three hours and call that my homework. i miss trying in vain to get charcoal dust completely off my hands in one of the ten million random sinks in the hallway that all have big signs about how you should please not wash mineral spirits down them.

you know it really has been too long since i did art that wasn't digital. i should do some art just for the feel of it. not to make anything just to smear some charcoal around with my fingers or something. maybe do some exercises, but do them like i have to bring them into crit tomorrow and i only have a couple hours this evening and it's our first time with this technique anyway so they don't have to be that good. it would be good to remind myself why i'm doing this art school thing in the first place

#stars rambles #this is the most stream of consciousness thing but i'm gonna post it anyways #every month or two i'm allowed to post a weird yearning ramble on tumblr dot com #i gotta do some art with my hands. i should get out my giant drawing paper and my board and my charcoal and make a big mess #digital art is fun and easy and i've been leaning on it a lot lately but i should do some art that by its very nature can't be *clean* #i really am excited to get back on campus though. even though i imagine it will feel more like regular boring homework when i get there lol #art school stuff

[godofsmallthings]

matty healy didn’t even survive 24 hours before going back into filtering jail

#this is def a sign to get off tumblr dot com and write my paper lol #i just...ksjdfhlkjahdfkjsdhfkajsdhfkajsdhfklasdjfhalskjfbaksjdfhaks;jdfhak;sjdfha;dkjsfhaskdjfhlaskdjfhasjkdf #sorry to vaguepost about the discourse without participating in the discourse ik that's annoying but this whole thing has just been so #fucking frustrating #with the way it's been talked about #like in the fandom i mean #idk #vi is typing...

[pierog]

anyway im getting sooo excited about going to animal school next year 😊 i <3 to learn and know things

#i felt kind of dumb about going back to study but i'm starting to get hyped about this course #hands-on stuff will be good for me i think but im especially looking forward to the anatomy + physiology paper #my life fantasy is to follow the footsteps of sci com naturalists gerald durrell / mary roach / david attenborough #follow your dreams... #personal

[allxgene]

“Wriothesly you need to arrest a blonde and ginger. Crimes? Taking a melusine.”

#dash coms;; #Neuvi: they’re MY daughters!! make your own! #//Neuvi needs written consent and papers to #let this one slide lmao