Guys.

Guys.

Y’all.

I…

I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.

Look. Okay.

There are two things you need to know, here.

First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).

Like this one, currently in the Met:

photo of a fish plate from above. it is a black disk with fish designs in red. There are two bream and a torpedo fish around a central divot in the plate. there are also smaller illustrations of a mussel, a murex, and a articulately impressively executed shrimp.

Or this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:

another fish plate from above. It had a large octopus, several large bream fish decorated with dots and stripes, as well as tiny details such as shells and even some tiny octopuses.

They’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.

The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.

Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?

photo of a fish plate depicting two fish and an eel. they all have eyebrows. The fish have arched eyebrows that make them look angry, the eel's eyebrows give it a slightly confused appearance.
a fish plate with a torpedo fish and two other fish. They all have eyebrows that make them look angry. The torpedo fish also has an open mouth, making it look like it is shouting about something.
another fish plate. this one had an eel, a torpedo fish, and another fish. The fish looks angry, but the eel and the torpedo fish both have open mouths full of teeth and appear to be grinning, with eyebrows that make them look like they're gonna cause some trouble.

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1 year ago

One thing that makes the mind control in the Divine Tree arc sooooo creepy to me is how much the brainwashed characters still act like themselves. A lot of the time in fiction when characters are mind-controlled they become zombie-like or robotic, with their original personalities suppressed. Or sometimes they become actively sinister, an "evil version" of themselves.

Obviously Divine Tree doesn't do that. Dimple's telling the truth when he says he hasn't changed anyone's personality, he's just given them something new to care about. "A blessing for those who have nothing and long for a place to belong." And that's horrifying. Both because it feels like in some ways a deeper violation than simply making someone pretend to be a person they're not, and because it means that the effect it creates is basically the same as people who have been taken in by cult rhetoric in the real world. The Divine Tree doesn't use magic to create effects that can only be achieved by magic; it uses it to speedrun the radicalization process.

The Divine Tree Arc isn't the horror of having someone you know replaced by an alien consciousness. It's the horror of knowing that the person standing against you is really your friend, your classmate, your brother, your mentor--they just care about something new now. And it's the horror of knowing that when push comes to shove, they're always going to care about that new thing more than they care about you.


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1 year ago

Another batch of my terumob archive from twitter

Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter
Another Batch Of My Terumob Archive From Twitter

The last one was an art exchange for Sol on twitter

*please don't use my drawings for any commercial purpose. If you want to print one for personal use, let me know.


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1 year ago
Every Frame From My Favorite Gif On The Entire Internet:
Every Frame From My Favorite Gif On The Entire Internet:
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Every frame from my favorite gif on the entire internet:

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Pick a favorite! (If that’s even possible.) 


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1 year ago

Out of curiosity I went to check some stuff about Ron Kamonohashi here on Tumblr because I read the manga a while ago and just caught up with the anime recently and I'm like.... damn.... these guys are GAY™️

And then I saw manga spoilers and I fear what's going on and I think I should go catch up on that now actually.


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1 year ago
Photo of a black wallet with a piece of paper sticking out of it.
Photo of the same wallet, the paper is fully revealed showing the "Do It For Her" meme edited to be about Serizawa Katsuya from Mob Psycho 100. It says "Do It For Him" and there are picture of him taken from the manga.

only the essentials in my wallet

(meme by @/i-love-serizawa)


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1 year ago
October Is ADHD Awareness Month! 🎉
October Is ADHD Awareness Month! 🎉
October Is ADHD Awareness Month! 🎉
October Is ADHD Awareness Month! 🎉

October is ADHD awareness month! 🎉

The memory issues ADHD causes are some of the scarier and more frustrating parts of living with it - so here’s a set of reaction doodles that all my fellow ADHD peeps are welcome to use whenever anybody decides to comment on your forgetfulness ^ 


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