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2013 - Blog Posts
Well,well it's..MISHA'S BIRTHDAY.!!!
HAPPYYYY BIRTHDAYYY.!!!!
Wow..feels like he's NEVER,EVEEEERR geting oldddd.. :O ..when I found out Misha is around 39 I was screaming:"SHUT UPPPPP!!THERE'S NO WAY!!" but I had to accept it.! :P ..so what,right??
Anyway..
So..HAPPY BIRTHDAY.!May your every wish come true.!May you stay Forever Young.!Keep the good work coming..!!
Oh,and I think we'll all agree when I say..DON'T let then ruin the wholee Destiel thingggg...!!! ♥ ..
Well, my "Hannibal" piece didn't get accepted to Banquet, which sucks because I worked really hard on this and I think it turned out really well.
On the positive side, I have an illustration that I worked really hard on and it turned out really well!
I was inspired by sweetmeats -- food made from offal, such as intestines, testicles and the thymus -- and floral china plates.
Also, I learned that Hugh Dancy is really fucking hard to draw. Mads Mikkelsen has such a distinctive face that he's rather easy to draw, but with Hugh, if you get some detail just a little bit off, it doesn't look like him anymore.
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I got kissed by a turtle dove upon a cold Paris manger I was waking up to my love, first moment dawning danger everything was new every sock and shoe my face and your face, tenderly renewed
tenderly renewed
"Christina's Farm" by Antony and the Johnsons
Based on a photograph of a man who survived a gunshot to the head during World War I.
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you are my son and i am saturn do you see it? this is you and me i want you to know as you're being eaten the lights will be on and that this is you and me
"Saturn" by Xiu Xiu
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I'd forgotten how much I enjoy doing these random geometric scribbles. They allow me to be obsessive-compulsive but in a very soothing manner.
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My unsuccessful submission to Happiness Comix.
Musician David Eugene Edwards.
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Submission for Jar of Zines' second issue
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I found some perfumes I forgot about lol:p
Bored:(
Oh yes, Transformers Animated is a gem among the others TF shows and Steven Universe is surely more than meets the eyes.... for a shameless plagio.
A quality cartoon series about inorganic, long-lived, humanoid aliens who learn to call Earth home as they protect humanity from others of their own kind and act as parental mentors to a half-human, half-alien child who is learning to wield their powers:
Great night, and great year#nye#2013#silkroad #avici#toomuchdrinking (at Silk Road)
Girls' Generation 少女時代 'GALAXY SUPERNOVA' MV Dance ver.
wait im posting too many mvs with space theme rn! 🛸
Guys I am doing my 10 year anniversary pure heroine listen and I know I have completely recovered from mental illness now because I listened to ribs and I didn’t even astral project, I just felt vaguely fond, and a little sad for the little me who related so hard to that song. 21 sure is different than 11 holy lord(e)
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As per usual high praise for every Beatle except John. And then these write ups get bandied around as being even handed. Seems like he wanted the get in with John and be part of the cool kids crowd and because John was selective about who he opened up to, he was off handed or referred to as brooding. Where is mention of John’s intelligence, humour, daring/pushing the boundaries and kindness that we know existed in abundance? This crap pisses me off
The Beatles and Martha during the Mad Day Out photoshoot (1968)
Q: Give a brief thumbnail sketch of each Beatle as you perceived him.
Ken Mansfield: Paul was the energetic one, the one that seemed like the popular kid in high school. He was the one whom you would cruise main street with your arms hanging over the car door edge, pressing tight to make your muscles look bigger. He would be the guy who would wave at the girls and slow down so they could jump in the back. I never felt a strong personal agenda coming from Paul, and by that I mean that it didn’t feel like you had to figure out who he was or where he was coming from. He was always presenting the next project or place to go. It was the sheer impetus of purpose that put things in motion so what you saw was an idea and a goal, and none of it needed complicated examination. “Here’s what we are about to do and that was exactly what we were about to do.”
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Tom à la ferme, 2013
The film exudes psychosexual tension and an attractive danger hiding in almost every scene. Dolan does not need a lot of resources to recreate a tangible sappress. The history of the film is formed by a small group of people (among which two - volume and Francis) in isolated farmers, which have their own secrets. The film contains many subtle hints of what mentally unstable characters think about. This helps to explain their sometimes irrational behavior. Tom clearly reaches for violence. He discovers that he is attracted by violence and the danger that Francis exudes. Francis has its own motives for rapprochement with Tom.
The Hobbit - Smaug's Philosophy
Peter Jackson's Desolation of Smaug (2013) had a great impact on me for numerous reasons. When I was introduced to Tolkien's tale, I was in high school and I found a number of morals of the story, that I could revisit now. This time, however, I have come across a thing in Smaug's reasoning, that was brand new to me.
When Bilbo and Smaug have their conversation, the dragon speaks scornfully of Thorin's attempt to reconquer the mountain. He says, that the dwarf if misled, if he believes, that his ancestors' kingdom can be restored. The dragon also argues, that no one has right to Erebor but him.
We, the sons and daughters of modern democracies, which mostly promote both liberal and communitarian values, automatically think, that of course the Lonely Mountain rightfully belongs to Thorin. He is heir to the throne and the land was taken by force by a--so to speak--tyrant. The dwarf's reasoning seems legitimate and just. Smaug's evil and Thorin is virtuous, this is very clear.
But we must bring this conflict to further consideration to understand it in depth. What we actually see is how two philosophies confront each other. Smaug explains this almost explicitly to Bilbo. The dragon argues, that the dwarves have a narrative identity, which gives them ground to make their claims, on the contrary, Smaug says, he has just as much justification. His main argument is probably, that he is stronger, and justice exists only between equal parties but since they are inequal in strength, the more powerful does as he/she sees fit and the weaker obviously can't resist, ergo must undergo whatever the other decides. Smaug's second, maybe less conspicuous argument is, that his narrative identity also gives him ground to be ruler of Erebor: he conquered this land--probably by different means but with the same outcome--just as the race of the dwarves once did and now it belongs to him.
This predicament reminds me of the famous Melian Dialogue, which is in Thucydides' History. In that, the Athenian empire asked the island of Melos to surrender to them and pay tribute but they refused and appealed to Athen's sense of morals: mercy and the respect of neutrality. It is, of course, not an identical case, but what is very similar: the Athenians argued, that there's no true moral argument, that could be made in this case. They said: "For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses—either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us—and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Spartans, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must". Smaug reasoned very much like the Athenians did. He thought it foolish to bring up questions about a code of honor or virtue because none of them can be more morally approved, than the other, since every land comes to be ruled by being conquered. The dragon kept arguing, that he has the right to do as he does by possessing the power that he does.
Naturally, Thorin's claim still seems more justified. Our approval can be traced back to two possible roots, both sufficiently sublime to give us peace about our point of view.
The first possible explanation is, that Thorin aimed to cultivate the land and the neighbor peoples. He wanted to restore a state of prosperity to the benefit of all.
The second possibility is, that Thorin's allegiance was to the side of good or the side of light, as opposed to Smaug's, which was to Sauron and the side of darkness. In this case the dwarf king was trying to reach a divine goal: to overcome evil with good.
Of course both explanations have their shortcomings, mostly because of Thorin's weaknesses, that are often in the nature of morals, but all in all, he is something like a "good guy".
Smaug's reasoning in IR and political philosophy in general is called a realist approach. It's like Machiavelli's "power is power" way of thinking. I believe our disapproval of the dragon's line of argument shows our natural tendency to believe in more than just causality. We have a moral code implanted in our souls. We can, of course, fight it in favor of profit or the "greater good" or whatnot but it's undeniably there. This tendency is a beacon of hope for me. It gives me faith and not just in humanity or a set of ideals, no. It gives me hope, that overall there is good, which transcends our desperate, miserable and depressing world. It gives me hope, that there is God, in whom I can lay my trust.
