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i think a lot about the word "apostate" and its use for mages who don't live within a circle (who are either specifically and consciously choosing to devote basically their entire lives to remaining free of the circle or else who just... don't live in an andrastian culture and the chantry simply doesn't care because it's an evangelical organization). because like... apostacy is specifically the act of turning your back on a belief, and often specifically on a religion. irl.
apostates exist because of the chantry. without the chantry, the very concept of apostacy would be nothing. and the word, the concept, applies to those who renounce not the beliefs of the chantry, but a single, specific practice. linguistically speaking, that is enough for a mage to be declared separate from the chantry entirely. either you submit to the circles or you are apostate. separate. you have turned your back on the chantry and you are no longer truly andrastian, no matter what you believe, no matter how much you believe. because you didn't obey. i just have a lot of feelings about apostate mages who hold onto andrastianism despite andrastianism rejecting them. they are unwelcome, heretic, and still trying to make themselves part.
#it's why anders' luther moment was writing out his 93 theses with sala petrae and drakestone and nailing a chantry with it
#it's also why sebastian and anders are opposites
#anders believes but doesn't adhere to dogma
#sebastian follows dogma but
#seems to struggle believing
#letter vs spirit of the law faith vs practice
(tags via @grandmaswormsoup)
Testing bolder line weights, more skin color jittering (And accidental underpainting), and battle scars! ft. Deaglan
Testing lineart, color jittering for skin, and top scars ft: Winter Virgil
Virgil, Page of the Fey Courts, Mouthpiece of the Gods
Eladrin Bard of Creation who’s working to find and tell the true story of the gods.
Deaglan \ Hill Dwarf \ Scoundrel Rogue
Running from a terrible crime he committed in his home city, the Merchant’s son travels for the chance of a brand new start.
A collection of all the wizards I’ve drawn over the past year or so! Some of them used to have gray backgrounds, but now they’re all nice and colorful 🧙♂️✨
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Glass Onion spoilers ahead! - long post
These parallels in the movie are so *chef’s kiss* ✨️
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what a combo these two make! ♥
So like… is she tokyo cyberpunk or seattle cyberpunk?
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Emphasizes human relationship to technology, identity, psychological transhumanism, and the human-as-resource. In Tokyo Cyberpunk - Capitalism wants to own you.
Seattle Cyberpunk: Emphasizes class analysis through technology disparity, physical transhumanism, and the disposability of humans. In Seattle Cyberpunk - Capitalism wants you gone.
Aesthetically speaking…
Tokyo Cyberpunk showcases nightlife where clean streets are illuminated by neon signs tempting you into consumerism as a therapy for your alienation. It’s percieved cleanliness acts as a symbol where corporations justify their rulership through the illusion of social progress. The robot is friendly, companionable. Societal problems and capitalist contradiction are silenced and swept away without the common person knowing.
Seattle Cyberpunk showcases a nightlife of homelessness and decay with corporate monoliths on the horizon. The streetlights no longer work, but the darkness is kept partially at bay by the neon tubes of bars where people watch wishes of their youth vanish at the bottom of the bottle. The lucky ones working for the corporations do so with the fear they will be kicked to the street. The robot is an expression of force intended to keep the common person afraid. Corporations do not try to justify their rulership, social problems and contradiction are solved with force.
Tokyo cyberpunk and Seattle cyberpunk are the same setting from different class perspectives.
in ‘the creation of adam’, Man lies back indolently, reaching out idly in response to the forwards-thrusting touch of divinity, well within reach but lacking the drive to take it, representing the naive state of original mankind, unburdened by consciousness or desire.
In this fascinating modern take, however, the artist instead shows Man as a driving force, frantically throwing aside all barriers and restrictions in pursuit of his goal: a goal which remains impossible to reach. Fast food, representing compromise for survival in the face of an uncaring and overstressing world, hangs awkwardly in the center of an uncrossable abyss. Note the use of highly-rendered tensed musculature to imply physical effort, emphasized by the contrast with loose, hanging fabric, and also the lack of effort on the part of the employee: She is trying, and were she reach out just a little further, then through their collaboration would Man attain his goal. But, the strictures of her position allow only a certain amount of human generosity and kindness. The structures we build as humanity prevent us from doing all that we can to help one another, and this remains true even when presented with a fellow human willing risk death, to survive.
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