It be like that sometimes

[It be like that sometimes]

[tmmyhug]

o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

[chaos--themralds]

\o/ <- woohoo!

[loqui-mortuis]

<o> <- EXTREME STRESS, LIKE "OH FUCK OH SHIT" STRESS

[annoyedlord]

orz <- the person is on their hands and knees, on the floor, god what happened to them

OTL <- same, but we are now closer to them (mb softly pat their back or something)

[brightsunnydaysofcastamere]

or2 <- the person is still on their hands and knees but they've got a fat ass now

[mary-venom]

OP2 <- still on their hands an knees but this time they've got a fat ass and great tits

[It be like that sometimes]

[hymnsofheresy]

I think one of the most damaging ideologies towards children is the conviction that having children isn’t a calling but a moral obligation.

[hymnsofheresy]

Not to be a crazy radical or anything, but children deserve to be deeply wanted by their parents.

[hymnsofheresy]

Children shouldn’t be a “stage” in life that everyone is obligated to fulfill; childrearing is not for everyone. More importantly, children shouldn’t be state-enforced punishments for “irresponsible” sexual behavior.

Children are people with thoughts and feelings just like the rest of us. They are conscious of the way people treat them. And they can certainly tell when they are unwanted and/or resented.

[letomcfaceman]

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

[ID: tumblr tags. they are: #reblog #i also dont think its enough to want a child. i think you need to want a teenager and an adult too #my mom wanted a baby. when i was too old to pronounce spaghetti wrong and let her put me in church dresses she was done with me #my dad wanted a person. he wanted a baby a child a tween a teen and an adult #my dad wanted to watch a person happen. which was different. /end ID.]

[megpie71]

Boosting all of the above signal.

[It be like that sometimes]

[showtoonzfan]

⚠️NEW EX- SPINDLEHORSE MEMBER - KENDRAWS SOUR EXPERIENCE WITH VIVZIEPOP DOCUMENT AND EVIDENCE. ⚠️

So…this is a VERY big important post guys, so be alert and spread this as much as you can. You may know artist KenDraws, who was responsible for boarding on the Hazbin Hotel pilot, as well as WRITING too. Here is the links to the boards they did below:

kendraw

Here are the boards I did for Hazbin Hotel!  It was entertaining working with these characters and I learned a lot! I hope you folks enjoy!

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Recently, I was given the opportunity to be handed a document they had created not that long ago, about their experience with Vivziepop, and why they and Viv aren’t fond of one another anymore and don’t work with one another. The document includes commentary by Ken themselves, and screenshots of conversations they and Viv had together. The timeline of the screenshots go from 2017, where Viv was developing the pilot, to 2020, where she was pitching the show, where Ken lists everything that Viv had done. Before I post the link, I want to show a message that Ken had said in the end, to why they made this document:

With that said, I ask that you PLEASE read all of this, to get the full context, and as I said, PLEASE share and spread this across the fandom and community. Here is the document link, all written by Ken.

DOCUMENT LINK: https://docdro.id/zyvFyCb

Ken's experience.pdf

Who are you?: My name is Ken, you may know me as ‘KenDraw’, and I used to be a friend of Vivienne Medrano. I would share information about m

docdro.id

Do with this information as you will, but I ask that you spread this, so more people can see what kind of person Vivienne Medrano is, and more importantly, how something like this won’t happen again.

For now, I have no commentary, I’ll say my thoughts on my own posts, but for now I just want to get this out. PLEASE take the time to read it all, and please spread the message, and don’t pester KenDraws. Thank you.

[It be like that sometimes]

Mad Ramblings #1: New aesthetic/literature idea. Pseudo-Solarpunk or Faux-Solarpunk.

1: Pseudo Solarpunk: So the idea came from for for designing “eco-friendly living”. But usually they come from corporations or governments. But mostly there made for fixing or making things better. But most of the time they never fully promise or they never get made. Most of the time there just made for looks. Examples include Dubais’s “sustainable” city or Saudia Arabias the Line City. There plenty of more examples. But I recommend looking into Hanzi Freinacht article   We Must Reclaim Solarpunk from Authoritarian Regimes it’s really good and its what inspired me to come up with this idea.

So basically imagine a setting for a dystopia where the solarpunk is just aesthetics and no practical use. Or can only be used by a select few, aka the elite while the lower classes suffer. Basically the modern day but worse. Also add some authoritarianism into it and you got pseudo solarpunk or faux solarpunk. I might make another post probably going in much more detail, but no promises. 

It’s currently 1:48 am, decided to write this before I forget it, feel free to do what ever with this idea.

[It be like that sometimes]

Chinese influences on European dragons in the early Middle Ages

[drachenwiki]

Yesterday, I read a chapter about the Parisian saint Marcellus from the book  “Time, Work & Culture in the Middle Ages” by French historian Jacques Le Goff. In it, he alludes to the hypothesis, that dragon depictions from the Merovingian era have been influenced by Chinese motives that have come to Europe through cultures from the Central Asian steppe.

That certainly makes sense to me, since the Huns have had a presence in Europe up until the 5th century, but I’ve never heard of this hypothesis before. Le Goffs sources are all in French (for example “La Civilisation mérovingienne d'aprés les sépultures, les textes et le laboratoire” by Edmond Salin), which I can’t read, and a quick search in Google Scholar didn’t bring up anything interesting.

Does anybody know if this hypothesis is still considered? The book is from the late seventies, so maybe it’s something that never caught on or has been discredited since then, but I haven’t found anything on that, either.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Huh, you might be on to something interesting there. What are the sources?

[drachenwiki]

You can find a digitalized version of Le Goffs book here: https://monoskop.org/images/a/ab/Le_Goff_Jacques_Time_work_and_culture_in_the_middle_ages_1980.pdf

He alludes to the theory on page 170-171, and mentions a source on page 333, the above mentioned  “La Civilisation mérovingienne d'aprés les sépultures, les textes et le laboratoire” by Edmond Salin, which is available online here: https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1959_num_103_2_11068

But I can’t read French and I don’t trust google translate on such complex texts.

[theload]

I’ll reblog this too. Anyone know French who could help?

[a-book-of-creatures]

Speaking. The Salin paper linked above is not, in fact, the source cited, but rather a summary of findings in that book. So no emphasis on dragons, apart from (translated for your reading pleasure):

In the VIth Century, a wave of animal art came in from the Pontic regions (the fish, the hydra, the cicada, the eagle from High Asia). Then, with the Lombard invasion, a very important wave of animal art of Scytho-Sarmatian origin (griffons, various dragons, rolled up monsters, etc.) reached the West.

Not much on dragons here.

Fortunately, the entire four-volume set of La Civilisation Mérovingienne is available to borrow on Archive! I’ll see what I can find in it.

(Have I mentioned how important Archive is today? I’ll mention it)

[drachenwiki]

Can’t be mentioned too often…

[a-book-of-creatures]

To be fair, Le Goff doesn’t seem to think much of Salin.

… the author, following J. Grimm, gives the rather improbable and in any case derivative interpretation of the dragon as guardian of a treasure.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Alright this was a ride. There’s a lot there about dragons and griffons in Merovingian art, the two-headed monster, the decorative dragon. I’m going to focus on the one you were specifically looking for though, the monstre enroulé (the curled-up or rolled-up monster).

Anyway! Translation my own, any errors are entirely my responsibility:

First of all, in Gaul and in the times of the Tène, the curled-up monster appears on a Boii stater (plate K, 4); a ball is found in the center of the circle drawn by its body. A similar depiction also evokes the monster Tiamat and with it the oldest myths of the Middle East. Oddly, the monster that adorns a jade Chinese ring from the Han period (plate K, 3) is so close to the Boii depiction, with its dorsal crest and its tail curled at the extremity, that a convergent phenomenon seems excluded: the two images must be issued from a common source.

We can distinguish similarly on the foot of a Chinese Zhou vase a curled-up monster (plate K, 2) singularly close to the monster which decorates the damasked Merovingian plaque without known provenance (plate K, 5b).

It is, as has happened before, the World of the Steppes which must have served in this case as a liaison between the East and the West. The Scythians had known in fact, the curled-up animal, as witnesses this median medallion from a bronze belt buckle, belonging to Scythian art from the VIth Century BC, found in the necropolis of Olbia (mouth of the Dniepr) (plate K, 1). More ancient than the preceding, this depiction here, does not seem monstrous yet; one would say it was a rabbit or a squirrel, but its tail already shows the curling that we found on the Han jade ring or the Boii stater.

Going back to the time period that concerns us, it is possible that the Merovingian curled monster is the Midgardsorm, distant descendant of Tiamat. But the sense attributed to the depictions has, as we know, evolved often, and we should retain another aspect of Germanic legend: the curled serpent holding its tail in its mouth is, effectively, the guardian of a treasure which it surrounds with its body; as it grows, the treasure increases as well; when the coils of the serpent loosen and a space exists between the mouth and the tail, then it is possible to slip through and steal the prey over which it watches. [footnote: cf. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie] We find here the legend of the treasure-guarding dragons and this is the one that in this case seems to apply the most often to depictions of the Merovingian curled monster whose tail touches its mouth or even enters it. [italics in original]

The plate in question:

And that’s! @drachenwiki @theload anything else I can get you?

[drachenwiki]

Awesome. Thank you very much for the translation. The similarities are indeed fascinating, but I’m not sure if they couldn’t habe appeared independently. I wonder why this hypothesis doesn’t appear in newer texts.

[a-book-of-creatures]

I’m going to guess lack of support and/or interest. Seems to have been a stretch.

However, history/folklore/ethnozoology grad students, if you’re looking for a paper to work on…

[merpdaberp]

Wait I thought European dragons where influence by geco-roman and ancient celtic myths? Then again it could be possible. But if I remember must legends of European dragons usually live in places like Africa and India. Which make sense that both places of venomous and large snakes living there.

[It be like that sometimes]

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[It be like that sometimes]

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Night Emporium by Yuri Hill

[It be like that sometimes]

[tomato-bird]

some doodles from twitter. Felt like drawing my birdsona and angelsona delivering an important message

[It be like that sometimes]

[tachyonmemories]

Paintings and Drawings by Wayne Barlowe for an unrealized project called "Cryptozoo." Barlowe hasn't revealed much about it other than that he's written a screenplay for it and has been shopping it around for years now. Personally I can't imagine how this would work as a movie, but it seems ideal for the Barlowe's Guide format...

1. Griffin
2. Phoenix
3. Manticore
4. Another sketch for the Griffin design

[merpdaberp]

Wayne Barlowe is a legend! I have the original copy of Expedition and I hope Cryptozoo becomes a thing because Barlowe is an underrated storyteller in my opinion.

[It be like that sometimes]

[dstears]

I always get a lot of comments about the 2-key pony keyboard. I wanted to explain how I think they could work.
I've been told there is an input device called orbiTouch which works on the same principle.

[merpdaberp]

I dont know what to say but this is pretty cool!