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Aww, look at Thor with his mouth open.
There’s always a snorer. :)
Sweet jesus, my poly feels. Warm fuzzies in my chest. *dies of adorable*
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Photo spread for an imaginary Sherlock Holmes of the Harlem Renaissance.
Wentworth Miller as Sherlock Holmes.
Idris Elba as Dr. John Watson.
1925: Harlem, New York City.
Sherlock Holmes is the light-skinned, blue-eyed son of a Black mother and White father, a man who has grown up with a foot in both worlds. By necessity, he is an astute observer of those around him, and frequently ‘passes’ as White. Holmes puts his powers of observation and his chameleonic tendencies to good use as a private detective in New York City, where he moves back and forth between downtown (White) Greenwich village and uptown (Black) Harlem, investigating illegal gambling rings, brothels, and speakeasies, where he is not above sampling the wares himself.
Dr. John Watson is a Black doctor who served in an integrated regiment during the First World War. One of the few commissioned Black officers in the U.S. Army, he occupied a respected position in the Forces, only to return to the harsh reality of a segregated society when the war ends. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Watson moves to Harlem in order to establish a private practice, where he can serve the up-and-coming Black middle class of New York City.
In a divided city, Harlem is where the classes and the races meet:
A major element of Uptown allure was its enormous social fluidity; in this urban free zone …the elite not only frequented public restaurants, but basement speakeasies, where they mingled not only with non-Social Register customers but with people of color.
From Hide/Seek (p. 28):
Prohibition…closed bars and dance clubs in white areas, but permitted them to fluorish in black neighborhoods like Harlem. Many white citizens first came to Harlem during Prohibition, crossing a profound racial divide that made Harlem essentially a black city in the midst of a white one. There, they first encountered Harlem’s personalities, social mores, and artistic culture.
The culture these white tourists found in Harlem was notably more tolerant of sexual difference, giving many whites their first taste of an unashamed, well-integrated queer culture. In venues like the Cotton Club, openly queer performers regularly entertained, and as the evening’s entertainment was already in violation of the law under Prohibition, it encouraged a sexual openness unavailable in other parts of the city.
Harlem thus became the center of many white homosexuals’ existence…For many white queers, Harlem was a ‘sexual playground’, and its poverty, un- and under-employment, and racial tensions were less germane to their experiences of the place than its erotic possibilities…
Fresh from the Army, Dr. Watson is thrust into this fervent neighborhood, into a Harlem where black and white, male and female, queer and straight, collide and converge. But his own understanding of himself, his race, and even his sexuality, is challenged when he meets Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating the death of a pair of singers at the Cotton Club. Originally called in to identify the cause of their deaths, the staid and sober Watson is thrown into a world where nothing is as it appears at first glance: a world where black is white and white is black, where the police pay pimps for the right to the street, and where moonshine flows like milk and honey. To make matters worse, the whole investigation is led by Holmes, a brilliant, crazy man who plays the dangerous game of passing as white in the city that never sleeps.
Thanks to AfroGeekGoddess for suggesting Wentworth Miller as a possible Sherlock Holmes in this canon.
This is amazing and I want it so much.
Would watch with SUCH ENTHUSIASM.
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tags: #eight-legged horse guys #it’s not impossible #loki’d #we were all thinking it #right? #oh god #that hair #THAT HAIR #take away my photoshop #avengers #my stuff #graphics #shame
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Auto-reblog for Richard Siken. Cannot get better than this.
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What meal do you make when you want to impress someone? (x)
the flirting is ridiculous. it’s robert downey jr level and climbing.
i’m upset cuz tumblr isn’t showering me with charlize/kristen gifs like they would be if this were RDJ/anyone.
SERIOUSLY. Get on this, tumblr, I need like a billion of these.
Did not realize I needed this so much in my life. AGREED, MOAR. Oh, plz make out hot ladies.
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ilu jenny. STICKIN UP FOR THE INTERNET AND SPEAKIN THE TRUTH.
Another reason why I side-eye the fuck out of academia and its white denizens who dismiss the lived experience of POC (even, or rather especially if we dare achieve greater scholarship than they) and tries to invalidate our superior knowledge so they can continue with their bloodless, completely fucking Eurocentric abstractions
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» Golgothassterror: art post
I just went back through over 900 liked posts and dug out all the art tutorials so i can keep track of them. I guess this might be helpful to some of you guys, so here you go.
Here we go then!
Freeware
Alchemy - this is a really fun program. You play around making abstract shapes until you start to see something in them, kind of like a Rorschach test. Then you use the shapes as a base to draw it from.
MyPaint - a pretty decent painting program that also has the benefit of working on Unix systems.
openCanvas 1.1 - I haven’t used openCanvas in years but it was a nice program with a pretty unique feel to it.
ArtRage - Only used this a couple of times donkey’s years ago just before I got oC, but I’ve heard good things about it.
The GIMP - In a similar vein to Photoshop, but free. I couldn’t get on with it when I tried it out a few years ago, but it’s pretty popular and is available on Unix systems and Macs.Sketchbook copic: a bit different program
Not-free-ware
Photoshop - Standard painting fare. Probably the most flexible program (particularly the latest versions) but not designed to act in a “natural” way. If you’ve used it for painting versus something like Painter you know what I mean. Who the fuck pays for it though? Google “Photoshop tumblr masterpost” and take your pick.
Paint Tool Sai - Far more affordable and definitely worth paying for if you can. The brushes are very decent (especially when they’ve been tweaked a little), the gui is simple and intuitive, and I dare you to find a program with which making smooth lineart is easier.
Corel Painter - My program of choice for most things. More tools than you could ever possibly use and pretty cheap on a student license, providing that you can prove you’re a student! It’s got a few bugs but if you want realism or a more natural feel than PS or SAI this is the program for you.Anatomy
anatomy and rotation of the head
Expressions
emotions and facial expressions
expressions from different angles (love this site)
Poses
Skin tones
paint some life into your skin tones
Colouring
gamut mask tool (very nice!)
5 easy ways to improve your colouring
fucking gradients, how do they work
achieving a painterly look in SAI
kuler (more colour schemes)
Brushes
a very nice setting for the sai acrylic brush
photoshop fur brushes (and tutorial)
Other peoples masterposts
love your fellow artist (anything from prompt generators to animation background here, very nice)
e-books
art e-books (mediafire download)
even more e-books (including human anatomy, animal anatomy, cartoons, animation, composition, design, scenery, perspective…)
Tutorials
a pretty extensive general art tutorial
tumblrs
criminallyincompetent (check out their #reference and #tutorial tags, they’re gold)
I am getting artrage and the copic sketchbook thing to see what i can do it them :D
Reblogging for my own ref, AWWW YEEAAAH
About me
Imma just be here. Reblogging about gender/ feminism/ religion/ sex/ nerdiness/ poetry. Maybe video games. Probably with too much capslock.
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that...”
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When I look,in my rear view mirror, I can’t see the driver of that car. I can see the passenger...
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this makes me feel better
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Mother of God.
Pie on a...
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I call this an extra long vest. others would call it a dress ;) xxx
