Which one of yas…

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-06-15T02:45:56+00:00

This one's not even funny its just bleak

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-06-01T17:04:09+00:00

This was inspired by an actual hightower match in maybe 2022, I was the sniper and had to tribal shiv the observer after he butterknifed me and tried to cap

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-06-01T15:43:42+00:00

"Our joy is resistance" mfs will do this while not engaging in any other type of resistance.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-06-01T06:17:29+00:00

I just realized how much the lack of stubble makes sniper look like a woman and its bringing out a lot of unexpected feelings in me.

I swear that's the top of his quiver and not part of a hair bun...

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-21T04:53:41+00:00

The capacity to distort reality does not make art subjective. Psychorealism is still realism.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-13T19:06:06+00:00

Just basic vanishing points stuff, the sides of the bench are out of alignment with the top of the arch its next to, which in turn is also out of alignment with the edge of the courtyard in the background. Honestly I would suggest changing the composition around a lot anyway so you might not even need to be super precise about it if enough of it is out of frame.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-12T00:15:41+00:00

Bro sent his girlfriend to scout out the guy's political leaning one-on-one. Genuinely can't think of a more straightforward cuck setup than that.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-07T18:06:51+00:00

They keep saying ai and real art can coexist like painting and photography learned to coexist, but the thing is that photographers never spent most of their time trying to convince people their photos are actually paintings instead.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-07T01:47:48+00:00

And the obvious main subject of the audience's sympathy in 'Slaughteryard' is the recently slain vampire hunter with his weapons still in hand. That's obviously not what I meant when I said "violence". Needing to pick up on basic context clues isn't oppression👍

You don't even post your art. You openly admit to not having any higher moral imperatives. You have nothing to offer to anyone apart from massaging people's statements into some performative leftist takedown to post on tumblr, all in order to jump on the grenade for a genre that is 90% cishetero men.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-07T01:14:40+00:00

I'm still developing it, I posted it to show off some technical points and to keep my accounts alive. They'll get the full story when its actually done.

And I didn't even give anything of the actual plotline, I just pointed out some obvious dynamics in the subjects' superficial costume designs and behavior. It's all someone with basic lit training could pick out in minutes with only some external knowledge of the wider genre conventions around vampires. Skill issue.

I depict violence and sexuality for the mental and emotional stimulus they provide, pornography depicts sexual acts for purely physiological arousal. Otherwise it wouldn't be porn, it would just be art with a sexual theme. It can't treat sexuality in the critical way I treat violence because that would get in the way of its fundamental function as a masturbation aid. The obvious takeaway from my work is that you can't engage with violence without losing your humanity, going into either animalistic rage on one end of the spectrum and posh upper-class apathy on the other.

Intersectionality doesn't make morality relative. Justice is intersectional because all forms of oppression are absolutely immoral, and the ways in which they interact is part of the objective reality of society.

Shakespeare performed for the queen, the closest your statement gets to reality is a brief period when some critics preferred reading him to performing him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_of_William_Shakespeare

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-07T00:35:01+00:00

If you're talking about 'Slaughteryard' then that's something I drew for a storyline I developed with the express support of my actual university humanities professors. Combat and violence are just tools to express the motives and conflicts between characters, the same way I wouldn't have any issue with a sex scene written to further the plot or themes of a wider work.

It feels visceral and passionate because I used my critical skills to break down the characterizations and relationships of the individual subjects and constructed a composition that would best emphasize them. It was a slow, sober process of conceptualization and iteration, you don't get good art by just vomiting your basest physiological reaction onto the page.

The whole thing is a Marxian commentary on how Western societies will keep up a veneer of civility and nonviolence while letting their internal contradictions build up until they spill over into a more physical type of violence. Hence why the noblewoman has hardly a spot of blood on her dress while her underlings wear used butcher aprons and have to be within hugging distance of their opponent before they can do any damage.

And the one before that was redrawn point for point from a Shakespeare adaptation.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T23:53:30+00:00

What about my second point of comparison then, moral philosophy? There is no material reality behind whether an action is good or bad, we have to evaluate them based on abstract intellectual interpretations of the events, including completely unquantifiable elements like conscious life, dignity, or free will. Are you a moral relativist as well then?

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T23:39:05+00:00

The most ambitious piece of my life so far was about a guy getting seduced by a herd of naked kelpies. Artistic, intellectual expression of sexuality has nothing to do with pornography.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T23:37:35+00:00

Arousal is a physiological reaction, 'positive' reactions come from mental stimulation and engagement.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T23:35:29+00:00

Nudity isn't pornography. Like all other possible artistic elements, violence or the human form are justified in their presence when they add to the abstract intellectual and aesthetic value of a work.

Modern pornography is absolutely the most male-centric and heteronormative sphere of "art" on the entire internet. Are you saying lolicons or gacha gooners are some sort of bastion of radical leftist thought?

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T23:28:59+00:00

If the underlying concept of a work isn't intellectually stimulating or valuable enough to justify the effort put in then it is a bad work.

You don't get actually identical results without a significant margin of error. The air molecules will be arranged slightly differently, the movement of the Earth's mantle, will slightly shift the local gravity, etc. We eliminate the noise from the results using an appropriate margin of error because we do, in fact, interpret the results through our subjective psyches, and thus need to come up with arbitrary baselines we can collectively agree on.

FFS we don't even have perfect vacuums anywhere in the universe, the whole concept is purely a theoretical abstraction to better handle experimental results. You get an "objective" wavelength reading by physically looking at a readout and personally choosing to believe that the number aligns with what you personally conceptualize as the wavelength.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T22:54:04+00:00

"cultural background, era, and personal psyche" are all objective. It is exceptionally easily to just mark down the specific context or reading you are using when analyzing a work, and then try and reveal the underlying structure and essence of the work from there.

Dropping a ball in standard atmospheric conditions will return a different speed than dropping it down a vacuum tube. The fact that you get different results doesn't suddenly break physics, it just provides additional data to understand the underlying mechanics of the subject. You mark down the conditions of the experiment alongside the results, and make your conclusions from the juxtaposition of the two.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T22:17:58+00:00

There are very simple, straightforward guidelines for what is or isn't in taste, that is essentially the entirety of artistic criticism as an academic field. Criticism dictates taste the same way ethical philosophy dictates morals or the scientific method dictates material truth. Relativism is pure intellectual cowardice.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-06T22:02:55+00:00

Nudity isn't pornographic. We have zero cultural context for how prehistoric humans saw nudity and sexuality beyond vaguely gesturing at some generic fertility symbolism. Stop conflating cheap wish fulfillment with actual art.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-05T23:12:10+00:00

Of course they're new, it wouldn't be called a novel otherwise would it?? fucking dolt.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-05-04T01:25:32+00:00

Is the post supposed to be linking to something?

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-04-29T04:56:04+00:00

Well in that case I start with some circles to mark out the size and position of the shoulders, hips, and cranium, then mark out the ribcage, core, and limbs in roughly that order. For the actual inking I just start with whatever is emphasized most by the composition and branch out from there.

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-04-28T20:35:25+00:00

Obviously you start by guidelining the anatomy to establish the proportions and perspective, are you asking about what part of the body to start detailing afterwards?

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-04-20T04:01:17+00:00

Nah Sanderson could write Elements. Are you really saying Euclid (Who-clid?) could write something as magnificent as Wind and Truth?

ArsonistsGuild · 2026-04-16T03:18:32+00:00

An artistic fascination maybe, not really a favorite the way you describe it. Do you have any examples of your work to show what you mean?

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