#trad esp

[bevirspnsblmnt]

trad sketches I drew today and then cleaned up and enhanced in ps later

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 astarion #khael tav #disegna e bevi #otp: warding bond #I missed sketching with pencil and paper #I need to get back to it my digital art always improves after a good round of trad sketches #anyway! in order: #vampires lacking reflections keep worming its way into my mind in more way than one and I just have to get it out #I never gave khael nice camp clothes in the game bc they look so weird on him to me but I bet astarion would appreciate lol #the next two drawings are just me being feral about them #esp the last one

[reima-c]

Witch's Heart Inktober 2023

Day 5 - Bad End

"I'll kill you before you can kill me!"

#whnoc #witch's heart #claire elford #sirius gibson #whtober 2023 #aksldllfskll this is my last trad art cuz i take too much time esp in water medium #contemplating that i should've done this i acrylic instead of mf gouache xD #well a little practice wont hurt #drawings #fanart drawings #traditional art #watercolor fanart #gouache #painting #gouache art

[kitsiyo]

do you prefer doing traditional or digital art more and why? sending you hugs

I definitely have a favouritism for digital, as I'm very accustomed to the back button, and appreciate being able to flip my canvas' as well as being able to manipulate every part of my work with ease that I just don't get from traditional work.

Plus having access to every colour at one click, and can try different overlays and backgrounds without having to commit to any of them is nice to my brain. Traditional is fine, but if I have a choice I will choose digital any day

#thanks for the hugs hugging u back telepathically #and sometimes i make the head too big and like that im able to lasso it and shrink it to a more desired size #i know i can erase on trad but its so much nicer digitally #esp if i like the head and dont want to erase it and start over just to make it slightly smaller #goat rambles

[accordionlover]

the problem with making music is That Shit's Embarassing .

#i've got this v frustrating all or nothign mindset w music #like um if ur not going to perfect ur instruments and then record and sell one million records why r u even doing anyhting ever #i kinda miss my band but i am also SO GLAD TO NOT BE IN THAT BAND ANYMORE but also i miss itt......... #no actually i just miss my old bass. #i only brought my acoustic bass w me when i moved out of home bc i never actually had an amp for my electric #just stole my sisters. because they both study music at university. btw. which i feel normal about. #but that means my beautiful girl is sitting dusty in my parent's loungeroom #and i love my acoustic! she's GORGEOUS and makes a nice tone but its just a completely different instrument to a trad bass imo. #esp considering i learnt how to play on my trad baby. and i would always play w very low gain bc i like that kinda smooth groove funk vibe #can't easily play funk on an acoustic. this is my problem. not that i was a good funker anyway. #LIFE SO COMPLICATED #txt

[thedogslegart]

Watchin TV.....

#was a PAIN to make that gif lamo #ok. well back to trad stuff #me op #digital #oc: pumpkin #pics of her cat and dude and pumpkins family and esp tucker in the back :) and from them like of her neice and stuff

[naturalairhead]

more body diversity in goth fashion spaces please please please plea-

#.txt #goth #PLEASE esp pastel cyber and trad goth pls

[gothoevsky]

i wish that all people who compliment goth girls (in a non creepy way) go to heaven no matter what 🙏

#talks #went out in full trad today and so many ppl were sweet #some weren’t but the majority was soo nice 🥺 #a little blonde girl kept staring at me and trying to show me to her brother (no older than ten) and he eventually came up to me #and said ‘my sister thinks you look cool’ and the little girl was behind him just staring i waved and smiled she was soooo cuteee #like sometimes that reassurance is so nice fr esp when i do all the crazy makeup which i did this time so idk i’m :’) rn

[agnesmontague]

i like remembering that white people live in a completely different reality sometimes. keeps me grounded keeps me sober

#rambles #i esp love seeing posts about hyperspecific markers of childhood abuse bc... while i would never fully endorse trad asian parenting #i have always thought it fascinating how eagerly white children will lay claim to abuse for everyone (not just themselves) #when something in the great furnace of childhood was not fired to the exact OSHA standards of euroamerican pedagogy #consider: some of us were raised with different standards and priorities that speak little to the emotional bonds we might have w/ parents #once again i'm not vouching for 100% of my upbringing i'm sure it fucked me up & i'm always chewing on it like a cud #but white people are Crazy sometimes. i just need to say it.

[alsoyooraiyah]

i feel like this comm im working on is like. teaching me a lot more than i expected it to

#like things when it comes to process etc etc #might need to talk to trad painters and ppl with workflows similar to mine #to ask abt how they handle working with someone esp if they typically #dont use lines to start off? #however i also kinda think that its just something to do with me not really being used to rendering more than a portrait #or a landscape #so maybe all i need to do is do it more often and see where it goes #this is also great for making me brave abt this over comm thats been intimidating me bc its much bigger in scope shsjaja lord

[forbiddennhoney]

why do so many white femmes think hyperfemininity is the only expression of gender nonconformity when it comes to femme culture

#personal #idk its just very annoying as a femme to see the only gnc behavior of femmes being celebrated being the hyperfeminine kind #and its a very specific kind of hyperfemininity that is very 50s housewife core cottage core trad woman dresses and skirts ONLY vibe #and those are fun things to wear and dress up as #but seeing white femmes esp equate being femme to wearing dresses adn skirts while simultaneously preaching abt how femme isnt an aesthetic #like its clear that for a lot of u the only femininity thats ok is still extensions on traditional femininity

[all-about-the-tea-parties]

What I do thoroughly love about House of the Dragon so far is it’s unreliable narration. Right from the very beginning, we’re being given a false sense of history, memory, and knowledge.

It opens with script, much like that of a history book, and then narration - from Rhaenyra Targaryen. This is House of the Dragon, so it makes sense, easily goes by unnoticed as a highly important perspective choice, but the rest of the episode puts everything into question. It is demanding the viewer to ask *why*. It doesn’t seem like it at first because the dialogue, while good, isn’t as witty as game of thrones.

But that’s part of the unreliability of our supposed objective experience. In the game of thrones, we get to see intelligent people unleash their tongues on each other, try to trick each other - but we tend to have all the context for the why. We can guess who is good, bad, in it for themselves, or simply being a dick. Here though, we’ve been framed as if we’re being shown events of the past, as they’ve transpired. But remember, George R R Martin enjoys unreliable narration as a style, it’s extremely present in A Song of Ice and Fire - it never truly carried over because Dumb and Dumber don’t actually understand the story. They know that each character tricks other characters, but they don’t realise they’re supposed to also trick *us*. (Where’s my dialogue of Sansa recounting her last moments with the Hound incorrectly?)

House of the Dragon writers seem to know this.

From Daemon’s speech being cut away from, to the Maester pulling Viserys aside, to Otto’s overt worry about King’s Landing, to Aemma casually saying how exhausted she is, and Rhaenyra’s voice over; we are being set up to make assumptions: Daemon wants power, the maester is unassuming (misogynistic maybe, by consulting the man first, but that’s pretty normal), Otto is a good councillor, Aemma is sick, and Rhaenyra is the titular hero. She is going to tell us the truth.

What is the truth? Who controls the truth?

This is a show based on a book written as if it were a historical document. A book in-world called the Dance of Dragons, and by George R R Martin as Fire and Blood.

We’ve been given a false sense of history, memory, and knowledge. We are falsely secure in our ability to perceive the objective truth.

The seat of all knowledge in Westeros is that of Oldtown; the home of the Hightowers, yes, but also the maesters. (YES im back on my bullshit, paranoia is the flavour of the season! A person commented on one of previous posts before and said there’s big suspicion toward maesters in the fandom and now I’m holding red string and pointing violently at a board.) Maesters are loyal to whom? A king or a lord? The sanctity of knowledge? Money? A god? Victors write the history books, for sure… but who actually *writes* the history books? What gets left in? What gets left out?

As someone with both an English and a history degree, this thrilllllllls me. I could absolutely go on a RANT about how the positioning of the written storytelling tradition as the supreme form of historical archiving in large scale civilisations is a control tactic that weaponises the accumulation of knowledge by maintaining a status quo driven by a literacy line, forcing the illiterate to take ppl at their word about history and tricking the literate into assuming that something is honest and accurate simply because it’s written. Oral tradition is the oldest and most common form of knowledge sharing in human history, yet in literate communities it’s viewed as inherently biased and low class.

(I mean you can even *see* this being discussed in episode ONE w/ the way the Targaryens value their mother language, openly engage in it, how Viserys and every! king! that! came! before! him! safeguards a propechy through memory alone, and how Rhaenyra tears a page in half to the shock of Alicent who values it above all else. Alicent who adores history, clutches the proof of it in her hands, a priceless manuscript that she only even has access to because of her status, while Viserys curates the proof of his city into tangible and accessible art, no doubt a piece of work that any person could engage in, while the Targaryens feel the proof of their ancestors in their language and their stories. *Culturally* we are shown that Oldtown and Targaryens are at odds with one another and how they exert power. Oldtown through literacy, Targaryens through magic. Propaganda vs military strength.)

(Dragons may be otherworldly, but fire power is just a shield. Dragons, as weapons, are a recipe for disaster. The establishment of a literacy culture that actively *prevents* just *anyone* from being able to access or curate this knowledge isn’t just a weapon, it’s a noose.)

If you started reading this thinking I had answers I am so sorry. It’s gotten a bit away from me. I feel like the throw dog sketch.

No answers.

Only theories.

We are not meant to take each characters word for truth, I believe. Instead, we are only meant to view them as human. Capable of misinterpretation, miscommunication, assumptions, and prejudices.

This shits going to be complicated. I doubt there will be a straight answer. Nobody will be easily likeable when it’s done.

#paranoia is the flavour of the season #who are the hightowers #what do the maesters have on them #who is manipulating who #the targs come off as the hurt party in the books #but ARE THEY??? #I actually just don’t trust the maesters #you’ve got a giant library and you simply don’t share? #it goes against all my Irish instinct #I come from an oral tradition older that the Christian manuscripts that correct us #I haaaaaate the belief that written trad > oral tradition #esp since it shits on indigenous cultures #can’t gatekeep memory #hotd #hotd spoilers #hotd theories #house targaryen #house of the dragon #theories

[summerfevers]

uottawa bring back all your language programs pretty please pretty please

#esp the 2yr eng-fr-esp trad program and the russian & polish profile of the 1yr world lang ma #i just think theyre neat :( #poplars.txt

[thesnowflake18]

In my opinion, I produce 1 piece of good art per year and then I'm spent. Hopefully this year I'll be able to produce 2 good pieces lol

#snowspeaks #hehe jk I think I'm getting better at my stuff #it's just it really did feel like that for years esp when I did trad sketching #I drew a lot but I rarely felt proud of a any pieces except that oNE #I'm sure most of y'all understand lol

[vampyrjuice]

wish fiddlers green would tour near me...... 😭 and flogging molly. the way I'd die for some irish music rn

#trad irish music esp....... 😭

[aduckwithears]

The early 19th century sure was something for our boys (gn). They were taking things at a FAST pace. (If, of course, you’re immortal and need to layer everything under 6 layers of deniability).

Whatever you do, don’t think about how in 1793 Crowley rescued Aziraphale and then they got lunch, in 1800 he brought chocolates to the bookshop then saved Aziraphale from a heavenly promotion, then in 1827 they went on a date to a cemetery in Edinburgh(prime date spot at the time esp for non-trad couples) and Crowley seemed to be having the time of his life.

Then especially don’t think about Crowley getting lightning-sanded down to Hell and showing up 35 years later in a much grumpier mood and with a request for Holy Water as “insurance”.

And don’t think about the context of their last interaction being attempted suicide by poison drink after a partner was lost… no wonder Aziraphale didn’t take the request well and they fought. No wonder Crowley was offended by fraternizing - they’d been way beyond that. Nope, don’t think about any of that.

#I know you can take A’s journal entry in a way that means they met up sooner #but I like this interpretation #lol the whole thing is such a departure from book omens #when Crowley slept thru the 19th century #from a doylist perspective it’s almost certainly to be able to dress the lads in amazing costumes #I approve #the 19th century #good omens #good omens headcanons #good omens s2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens meta #aziracrow #a duck talks

[rotzaprachim]

some smaller bookstores, presses, and museum shops to browse and know about! Most support smaller presses, diverse authors and authors in translation, or fund museums and arts research)

(disclaimer: the only three I’ve personally used are the Yiddish book center, native books, and izzun books! Reccomend all three. Also roughly *U.S. centric & anglophone if people have others from around the world please feel free to add on

birchbark books - Louise Erdrich’s book shop, many indigenous and First Nations books of a wide variety of genres including children’s books, literature, nonfiction, sustainability and foodways, language revitalization, Great Lakes area focus (https://birchbarkbooks.com/)

American Swedish institute museum store - range of Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American/midwestern literature, including modern literature in translation, historical documents, knitters guides, cookbooks, children’s books https://shop.asimn.org/collections/books-1

Native books - Hawai’i based bookstore with a focus on native Hawaiian literature, scholarly works about Hawai’i, the pacific, and decolonial theory, ‘ōlelo Hawai’i, and children’s books Collections | Native Books (nativebookshawaii.org)

the Yiddish book center - sales arm of the national Yiddish book center, books on Yiddish learning, books translated from Yiddish, as well as broader selection of books on Jewish history, literature, culture, and coooking https://shop.yiddishbookcenter.org/

ayin press - independent press with a small but growing selection of modern judaica https://shop.ayinpress.org/collections/all?_gl=1kkj2oo_gaMTk4NDI3Mzc1Mi4xNzE1Mzk5ODk3_ga_VSERRBBT6X*MTcxNTM5OTg5Ny4xLjEuMTcxNTM5OTk0NC4wLjAuMA..

Izzun books - printers of modern progressive AND masorti/trad-egal leaning siddurim including a gorgeous egalitarian Sephardic siddur with full Hebrew, English translation, and transliteration

tenement center museum -https://shop.tenement.org/product-category/books/page/11/ range of books on a dizzying range of subjects mostly united by New York City, including the history literature cookbooks and cultures of Black, Jewish, Italian, Puerto Rican, First Nations, and Irish communities

restless books - nonprofit, independent small press focused on books on translation, inter and multicultural exchange, and books by immigrant writers from around the world. Particularly excellent range of translated Latin American literature https://restlessbooks.org/

olniansky press - modern Yiddish language press based in Sweden, translators and publishers esp of modern Yiddish children’s literature https://www.etsy.com/shop/OlnianskyBooks

https://yiddishchildrensbooks.com/ - kinder lokshen, Yiddish children’s books (not so many at the moment but a very cute one about a puffin from faroese!)

inhabit books - Inuit-owned publishing company in Nunavut with an “aim to preserve and promote the stories, knowledge, and talent of Inuit and Northern Canada.” Particularly gorgeous range of children’s books, many available in Inuktitut, English, French, or bilingual editions https://inhabitbooks.com/collections/inhabit-media-books-1

rust belt books - for your Midwest and rust belt bookish needs! Leaning towards academic and progressive political tomes but there are some cookbooks devoted to the art of the Midwest cookie table as well https://beltpublishing.com/

#Books #shopping reccomendations #Targeted/smaller and more specific presses can be jsut as dangerous even more so as you find so many things you didn’t know you needed! #(But you do! You so very much d) #Esp if you’re feeling like something beyond target book club picks lol