Doodle For Stand And Face Me By @athousandvictories

Questions From a Worker Who Reads by Bertolt Brecht

Part I/II

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s listened to “One Night in Bangkok” a worrying number of times, it’s like I don’t even like the song but I can’t stop

comrades in weird taste! 8 days into december & i’ve already damaged my Wrapped 2021 beyond repair.

What really gets me is when you're reading a book and the chapter labels have, like, vines or floral details around them or something. it makes me so soft - just- the fact that someone was like 'ooh we can add beauty here, we totally should' and they did it

WIP

OKAY SO I've been having a really bad artblock for days now and when I saw your angel in the backroads drawing I was suddenly blessed with song inspiration, a story to go with the drawing, and a whole world to build around it. I just wanted to thank you for giving me this power. Btw would you mind if I wrote a song based on the drawing?

thank you for getting in touch, it means the world that my little illustration inspired someone else to make art of their own! I don't mind a bit and I wish you joy in your compositions! & if you ever feel comfortable sharing I would love that too

Think on your answer. This is the least of what we can do.

inspired by Evelyn De Morgan's Angel of Death references Senshi Stock featured in  Oh, Raven on Ao3

buttercups // best friends in the whole wide world

HOWEVER despite checking out a bunch of books on the internet archive, I was unable to find a reliable source confirming the existence of Fatima as a cultural figure before 600 B.C. If anyone is still in uni and can find something on JSTOR I’d love to check it out.

I still chose to depict her this way, firstly because I think it’s interesting that attributes of the Moon Goddess as an archetype are preserved across cultures and time periods even as her name changes (Ishtar, Astarte, etc.). I also felt drawing Muhammad’s daughter would run counter to the generally aniconic tradition of Islam. Maybe that’s an odd thing to say, since this is a quote by a radical feminist author and the poem itself is explicitly critical of religion and religious traditions. But I think criticizing institutions and treating individuals with respect and courtesy can exist simultaneously.

Anyway, because of my foggy sourcing, the iconography is not obvious, but the figure’s palm is extended in an allusion to the ‘Hand of Fatima’. I’m unsure (I’m this a lot) about when exactly the hamsa symbol and Fatima as a cultural figure became connected… but to be fair to me, I think many historians are also unsure.

yo quick question what mythology is Fatima from in your art

The incarnation I was going for with my depiction was Pre-Islamic Arabian moon goddess

it’s called GettyImages because

because i get. the inages