#the allegories

[the-commonplace-book]

just realized my follower count has like... quadrupled in the past few months. meaning about 3/4 of y'all haven't experienced my vampire lore whore side that's been on hiatus :)

#o ho ho #out of the crypt it comes #it's dracula daily time again my friends #also i'm almost done with the next installment of my vampire comic #and ALSO i'm almost done with the script for one of my vampire video essays that was on hold for about a year #look 17th~19th century gothic literature is my jam #it's all about the metaphors #the social stigmas #the allegories #t; vampires #dracula is actually one of my least favorites #i have beef with bram stoker's portrayal of women #(his contemporaries were doing much better in that regard so no it wasn't just a different time it was just him) #and the whole second half of the book is a pacing mess #with an anticliamactic blink and you miss it ending #but the first half of the book? stunning incredible amazing showstopping #also renfield's whole part is so good #and quincy p morris #love our cowboy

[consumebread]

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #first Dunmeshi fanart :Dd #marcille donato #falin touden #laios touden #chilchuk tims #senshi #mb i misspelled allegory and i dont want to change it

[coolxatu]

she allegoried on my cave til i [JOKE PENDING]

#guys stop reblogging this from the source post the other version has the punchline youre leaving out the funny #ok jokes on you guys reblogging this from the source actually reinforces the original punchline #welcome to cave allegory 2 electric boogaloo

[hopsof]

Lamb to the slaughter

#Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #mithrun #fanart #spoiler #my art #the canaries #digital illustration #procreate #digital art #fantasy #goat demon #symbolism #painting #allegory #the flower is a dried up white rose. it represents death but white roses also signify purity. it's pretty but #like young mithrun it's rotten #it is covering the demon's eye because the demon took mithruns eye specifically because it was his pride and joy #there's other symbols but i think theyre more obvious

[jupiter-suggestion]

consider the sperm whale and the squid. an ancient rivalry that dates back millions of years. we know the whales eat the squids. we know the squids do not make it easy for them. we know this because of the scars the whales carry, scars on the outside of their body, and on the inside as well. how badly must you want something to endure wounds inside your mouth? inside your gut?

consider the whale, who is harmed by what sustains her. consider the squid, whose flesh is soft and delicious but refuses to go down easy.

#mine #suggestion #this is not a direct allegory to anything i just think about whales with scars inside their stomachs and i Feel Things #oh i do know what its like to fight the thing you need. i do know the bittersweet taste of victory for a price. #y'all ever relate to a whale? #50 #100 #500 #1k #5k #10k #25k #35k

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Conradyn Cunaeus (Dutch, 1828–1895), "Allegorical Depiction of Loyalty and Love" (detail)

#Conradyn Cunaeus #art #painting #dutch art #19th century art #animal painting #animals in art #birds #bird painting #birds in art #art detail #allegory #allegorical art #pigeons #pigeon #loyalty #love #aesthetic #art history #19th century

[the-evil-clergyman]

Evening Mood by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1882)

#william-adolphe bouguereau #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #allegory #evening #classic art

[escapistcatontheinternet]

i love the extras of dungeon meshi in how it fleshes out the world because they make it so much more evident how race affects every part of the story while avoiding the zootopia racism problem. like obv a main theme of the story is like, humanity and desire, 'to eat is to live', etc, but since the majority of it takes place in the dungeon isolated from society and thru the lens of laios, the racial aspects play out more like shadows on a wall for most of the story.

then in the extras we get comics like this

which at a glance fleshes out the racial aspects via a character explaining the racial rules of universe - humans have x amount of bones, while orcs and kobolds have more. however, if u take it less straightforwardly, it points out how the concept of 'human' is a constructed concept in the world. the fact that there are different categories of human in different parts of the world based off of what types of humanoids occur there is already a demonstration of this. in response, the bones explanation seems to kabru and the characters as an objective way of measuring humans vs nonhumans.

but obv, when the culture was deciding what humanoids were humans and nonhumans, they weren't blindly analyzing skeletons and then deciding. just visually, one can glean that orcs and kobolds look less like the ingroup of tallmen, elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc. the bones explanation appears as a justification for that immediate prejudice under a scientific guise - I'm sure that one could come up with the same number of physical differences between a gnome and an elf that they would find between a tallman and an orc. it sounds a lot better to say 'well, an orc has 230 bones while a human has 206' then 'well, an orc looks ewwww yucky yucky to me while a human looks normal'.

and what i like abt the comic is that the characters take the explanation at face value for the most part. when a contradiction is brought up in the oni, kabru can neatly slot them into the predetermined number of bones framework. bc that's kinda how it works irl - there r cultural prejudices that we can posthumously justify, and if we find something outside of it, we can twist it to fit into our predetermined binary. however, since the reader does not live in a world where there are orcs and kobolds to be prejudiced against, we can see that flaw in the cultural logic. when the party encounters the orcs, the number of bones has no bearing on their humanity. They r shown to be cliquish and distrusting of outsiders, but not any more than the elves are later in the story.

tldr dungeon meshi worldbuilding is so good

#just me #dungeon meshi #kabru #there r 10000000 examples of how fantasy racism affects the story of dungeon meshi not brought up in the main story #like namaris backstory and chilchucks union and the oni #augh. tasty manga #girls when themes of social isolation #ppl talk Abt the neurodivergent rep/allegory #the racial allegories aren't half bad either #social isolation guys social isolation

[lionofchaeronea]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep, Mary L. Macomber, 1902

#art #art history #Mary L. Macomber #female artists #allegory #allegorical art #American art #20th century art #oil on canvas #Smithsonian American Art Museum

[cy-lindric]

An angel. Alchemy treaty Aurora Consurgens, 1420-1450

#medieval redraw #alchemy #angel #manuscript illumination #My interpretation of the general iconography is probably very off so take it purely as an aesthetic pursuit lol #all of this is alchemical allegory #i recommend looking up the other weirdo miniatures from this manuscript it slaps

[cemeterything]

an angle i enjoy in cosmic/eldritch horror is when, instead resorting to the old classic "the horrors being so incomprehensible that they break your brain and drive you mad" cliché, the premise is that in comprehending the horrors you are so changed by the experience that your new state is indistinguishable to an outside observer from madness. you comprehend the unknowable just fine, but actually communicating that to anyone else is impossible because they just don't have the mental framework required to understand it. the eldritch horrors don't drive you mad. what does is the ordinary everyday horror of finding yourself isolated, ridiculed and doubted at every turn, no matter how hard you try to make yourself heard and understood.

#🐉 #this is why i liked the way tma did it #where the eldritch is more or less a direct allegory for trauma (among other things) #and how those experiences can make the entire world seem like a different place and make you feel crazy #when other people dont understand what seems so clear and obvious to you #apartment 'complex'? actually i find it quite simple. no guys really its so simple you gotta believe me. why dont you believe me.

[keymintt]

as i stand plainly in the shade, unseen

#art #painting #oil #oil painting #coyote #coyotes #traditional #traditional art #scopophobia #my art #oil painting i missed youuuuuu #i started it a few months ago but i finished this bad boy in like. three days ghlfdhgl #the power of remembering there was a Deadline you wanted to submit things to lol #i'm not holding my breath that the phx art museum is going to accept me for the Big Emerging Artist Award but. gonna shoot my shot! #anyways i love you coyotes my favorite transgender allegory animal #greatest hits

[prokopetz]

Like, I'm not gonna say that the X-Men and their various imitators are anything like a perfect allegory, but "it's a bad allegory because super powers really are dangerous" has never held water for me. Like, are we really just gonna uncritically accept the implicit assumption lurking in that argument that bigotry is only wrong to the extent that its targets lack the ability to threaten the status quo? Hand-wringing over whether certain minorities are inherently dangerous is – and, critically, always has been – a smoke-screen for the real conversation about who has the right to possess the capacity for violence, and you can't engage with that conversation if your opening move is to concede that the only legitimate victim is a powerless one.

#media #tropes #allegory #comics #x-men #politics #violence mention

[389]

An Allegory of Power by Georg Janny  (1864-1935)  

#art #georg janny #an allegory of power #u

[desultorydenouement]

murderbot is peak queer rep because it’s about living as an inherently transgressive form of being, it’s about the complexity of passing, or the complexity of hiding, or the nuance of never fitting binaries and not wanting to even when fitting those binaries is seen as “better”, and it’s about making people uncomfortable just by existing, it’s about measuring forms of freedom and having to decide which you’ll save and which you’ll sacrifice. but most importantly it’s peak queer rep because murderbot is free for like five minutes and it immediately attracts the nearest supposedly-rare transgressive-illegal-superbot (ART) in a hundred light year radius to be its best friend, and what’s that if not your classic Queer On Queer Magnetism

#you ever look around at ur friends and go shit these bitches are gay! #not on purpose but sure are! #murderbot is also equally a neurodivergence allegory ofc #really any marginalized identity allegory #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #artificial condition #network effect #system collapse

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Grasshopper by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1872)

#jules-joseph lefebvre #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #allegory #grasshopper #classic art