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🌿I AM VERY BAD AT SPELLING, BUT I HAVE THOUGHTS🌿 I ALSO DO ART AND SLAVIC MYTHOLOGY
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Kuga-Kuma.

There were many ways the Plague was personified in Slavic mythology. An old woman, a young woman. But she was seen as a fairy like creature from the woods who brought justified death when people would become too heavy for the Earth. She wasn’t burdened by morality of the dying just the number. But the situation wasn't always dire, there was a way to save a sick child. When a child gets sick, a fresh new outfit would be made and the child would be presented by one or two women for the Plague to except them as their godchild. If she would do so, she’d be bound by this new role to be a godmother instead, protect and spare and save the child's life.

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late-draft

Here's some of my thoughts as a character designer!

The reason why I really like drawing Zuko's villain design is because, even though he's infinitely more unhealthy at that point in time, the design is great. Bold, expressive, it jumps out of the screen and isn't afraid of looking weird and freakish. It's memorable.

And although his end look aligns with the ideas of calmness, I can't help but feel it also does him a disservice to an extent. It's very shapeless, take a look at what it appears as when blurred. It also hides the scar a lot, and I don't think that communicates confidence, on top of that reducing the visual characteristic of his character.

And here my attempt to perhaps add an additional look which would blend the two, and retain some of the shape of the beginning one. I wouldn't want to replace no. 1, just add more! He changes so many looks in the series, what's one more?

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mioritic

"Here are some details of the incredible angel roof on the nave at Cawston in Norfolk. The roof dates from c. 1460. On the hammerbeams of the roof stand eleven six-foot tall seraphim, still with much of their original colour on them. Some have their hands in prayer, others in adoration. On the east wall of the nave at the same level as the roof, is the shadow in red ochre of the long-lost great rood cross."

Photographs and caption via Allan Barton

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mijuillet

"The Pearls of Aphrodite" by Herbert James Draper, 1907

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May the 4th be with you!

In celebration for Star Wars Day I am going to watch bad batch and cry my heart out

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fungalfaggot

"the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully form until yr 25!!" y do u wish to take more agency away from teens and young adults. y do u refer to phrenology to inform yr worldview. I'm about to undevelop yr prefrontal cortex with a baseball bat if u don't shut the fuck up

for the ppl who keep saying this is an objective fact, from the Wikipedia list of common misconceptions:

it's pop science. it's pseudoscience. it's phrenology. it's not real. it's being used as an excuse to call older people pedophiles and take away the rights of younger people. shut the fuck up.

Also, the "development" people refer to is actually specialization of the brain. It removes little-used synaptic connections and reenforces the regularly used ones. This means if you don't train it, nothing will develop other than an increasing difficulty to grow. If you don't let kids and teenagers learn how to make decisions, you end up with adults who never learned how to make decisions and who will struggle more with it than they would have as kids.

The brain is fully formed by the time you're 3. Any further than that, we only get through practice and experience. The way we prohibit kids from gathering much of that experience on their own terms, in their own time, is abuse on a social scale.