Metaphoric Muse

***Previously Vogelspinne. I switched that and my art blog so if you're here for my art blog, go to Vogelspinne!

20 years old, studying graphic design while not-so-secretly being an illustrator at heart, and loving tarantulas way more than the average person should.
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Reblogged from rainy-daze-tricks
reichiru: rainy-daze-tricks: behold so majestic

reichiru:

rainy-daze-tricks:

behold

so majestic

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Reblogged from jagzilla
ghkdlfsj: Yiynova MSP19U review!

jagzilla:

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NOTE: I don’t currently own my very OWN, but I’ve more than abused my best friend’s shiny new tablet since she got it & the one I got at work today, and I’m buying my own (100% certain) when I move out). This is post contains my opinions about the Yiynova MSP19U model and things I noted…

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Reblogged from caffeinated-zombie

sweet-bitsy:

breanieswordvomit:

caffeinated-zombie:

So, in the middle of everything today, we ran across a hellaciously distressed momma mallard and a bunch of her baby ducks that had fallen down a sewer grate. Another guy was already trying to fish them out, so my friend and I called animal control before we tried to fish the rest of them out. When Animal Control got there, we had all of them out and the mother duck quacking very happily. I was surprised - none of us got snapped at or hurt. I was even holding onto a bag at one point that had all of them in it and she just watched me. 

I love how the duck is perched on the guy’s butt

I’M SO HAPPY

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Reblogged from necromorph-slayinglovemachine

necromorph-slayinglovemachine:

Sometimes a king needs a queen (◡‿◡✿)

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Reblogged from eyesdownshower
schaudwen: eyesdownshower: lines from last night, trying to show tone and form with contours I really love all the merdetails!

schaudwen:

eyesdownshower:

lines from last night, trying to show tone and form with contours

I really love all the merdetails!

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Reblogged from liberalsarecool
liberalsarecool: The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.

liberalsarecool:

The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.

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Reblogged from loudblackram

No Woman Spends Tons Of Money On A Hobby She’s Not Into To Impress A Man-Child Trapped In Perpetual Boyhood When She Could Buy Things She Actually Likes

sourcedumal:

loudblackram:

A Very Strongly Worded Letter To Misogynistic Gamer-Bros by LoudBlackRam

YES!

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Reblogged from jessiethatcher
“ Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.

Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)

I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.

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And I’m sticking it up here for people who define the “good” in Make good art in ways that I definitely didn’t intend…

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Reblogged from motionburnsthemood

neil-gaiman:

jupiterstarr:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

they say New orleans is haunted… this has proved the theory 100%

I was sending photos like this to everyone when I started writing Nightmare in Silver. There is something uniquely disturbing about abandoned Amusement Parks.

(Source: motionburnsthemood)


Reblogged from coelasquid

coelasquid:

30 seconds, two minutes, five minutes, and eight minutes. I always get distracted drawing butts and run out of time to draw faces. C’est la vie.

Protip: draw all of the life drawing on one page to trick viewers into believing you’re competent at what you do.


Reblogged from browndresswithwhitedots
“ I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain. Jonathan Carroll (via flowing-air)

(Source: jonathancarroll.com, via fuckyeahsexanddrugs)


Reblogged from atomiclanterns
“ I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me. Hunter Reveur  (via shessofuckedinthehead)

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Reblogged from actegratuit

actegratuit:

Ani Reimi-Orsa is an artist from Helsinki, Finland. Ani creates beautiful landscape concept artwork which looks like watercolor painting.

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Reblogged from facebooksexism
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‘They create an environment where rape is funny, where you can be boastful about it.’ An environment where, according to court documents, it’s alarmingly easy to post a video of the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl.

The trolls will always be with us, but corporations have an obligation to set the tone. Free speech isn’t hate speech. Free speech doesn’t look like a group called Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs. And a hostile, violent environment makes the concept of a place built around the word “friend” just a cruel, stupid joke. Or, as one of the letter’s commenters noted Tuesday, “On Facebook, hating a religious or ethnic minority gets you banned, but hating half of humanity gets you Likes.”

 “Facebook’s hate speech problem” Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon (via facebooksexism)

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Reblogged from shoomlah

costumecommunityservice:

shoomlah:

So the problem with designing characters who become popular is that, if you’re a needy bastard like me who tracks the Lutece tags when you’re bored, you’re suddenly exposed to a ton of art of said characters in various states of undress.

I’m not one to discourage this sort of thing- no no, I have sketchbooks full of Remus/Sirius stuff from high school- but I figured I might as well give everyone a leg-up with a more detailed guide to Rosalind Lutece’s potential underthings.  I’ve seen a ton of drawings of her in corsets from a good 50 years before her time and I…  I needed to step in.

Think of this as a primer!  Not a be-all-end-all of Edwardian underthings (heck, I’m still learning this stuff), but it might teach you some new fashion terms/ideas you weren’t previously aware of!  Go forth, young padawan, and draw historically-accurate Rosalind porn to your heart’s content.

…I do not know if this counts as fanart or not since I’m the one doing it?  Whatever.  RESEARCH OR DIE MOFOS

My heart is all a-flutter.