Author: Madeira Darling

Madeira Darling is a snarky mystic, devout Satanist, serious Marxist, laughing dominatrix, and writer from San Fransisco where they live with their boyfriend in a house full of altars to their various demons.

Problems In Leftism

thepeacockangel:

  • Manarchists and brocialists
  • People who are more interested in purity of theory than material conditions
  • People who “refuse to compromise” on theory because the current system works just fine for them.
  • Theory.  Just fucking theory.  The more of it I read, the more I think we need to shut up and do stuff/the more I think “this is all bullshit”
  • People who put bourgeoisie environmentalism (and other pearl clutchy moral concerns) ahead of human conditions.  I believe in preserving the environment so we don’t all die.  That’s it.  I have no ethical interest in it aside from preserving human life.
  • Anti-consumerism/anti-stuff rhetoric that’s really irrelevant to people who live in shitty material circumstances.
  • The percentage of white dudes, esp. white dudes who consider themselves the most radical and talk over everyone else.
  • People who are interested in a “lifestyle” more than actual political change.  The point should be a comfortable lifestyle for all people, demanding everyone be a freegan is not helpful and I’m not sorry.
  • People who’ve never actually done any drudgery that wasn’t by choice/people who romanticize the proletarian or lumpen proletarian experience but don’t actually have to experience it.
  • Anti-semitism

I totally take back what I said about theory, theory is great and leftists need to read a LOT more of it

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I’ll always see alves when I see punks … I mean maaaybe you can convince me elves are goth instead of punk but really that’s two fruits from the same tree.

Tolkien elves are chamber music and/or glam rock.  I’m sorry I don’t make the rules.

Historically Accurate Xena Project, WIPs

dgorringeart:

An attempt is made at a sizing scale. Here, Xena’s only on 8 heads, where Gabrielle is on a basic 7- a touch tall tall for an Ancient Greek farmgirl. In the background, some armour work. I’m not sure whether to commit to gorgon tiddies. Seems like a very strong statement, really.

Here, Xena sits at a “heroic” 9 heads high. I think this works better for her, but Gaby needs a bit of a boost (to quite tall for her time) not to look like a hobbit in comparison.

Here’s the pose workup for the nice, fully inked and coloured hero shot that’s in the works. I’m exploring a couple options with Xena’s arm position here, but I’m fairly sold on the early hoplite look at this point.

Let’s have an accurate Heracles, while we’re at it. My headcanon is that, mostly to frustrate pissing contests over who’d beat who, that they get along like a house on fire, and whenever they meet, drink and eat the town dry while telling grotesquely exaggerated accounts of their already mind-boggling adventures.

Lastly, it’s ballgown edition, or rather, classical Minoan/Mycenaean garb. The garments strongly look to have had a boned, supportive corset-like component, given the impressive amount of support that these girls seemed to have been getting on bared breasts in sculpture and frescoes. The dense layers of pleating, tassels, embroidery, and patterning of this era are incredibly fun to draw, and incredibly time consuming. 

So there we have it! Nice, inked, full colour pics are in the pipeline; let me know what you think so far, and if there’s anything Xena-related you’d like to see!