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Published: 2010-08-24 20:36:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 611; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 7
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Original Meme from and here's the link to the template [link]It seemed fun to do, and it is. Although I thought about it a lot more than I expected to. Also I chose the pictures for the theme they represent, theme that is the influence itself (though I submit drawings here, I'm not so much into graphic art as in writing. Though the theme influence my drawings too, it sometimes seems not to when I draw fanarts)
So here we go :
1- J.R.R. Tolkien's logo. Tolkien is an artist I adore, I couldn't choose between all the pictures/illustrations of TLotR or his other works.
2- Aphrodite, for Mythology (not only Greek, though). I thought about Zeus, Odin or Anubis, but I like the wings, she is angel-like on this picture, which changes from the half-naked representations of her.
3- Male Homosexuality. The pictures is a photograph by Jose Villarubia. I like stories of men falling in love with one another, it's one of mythology's features (I thought of the representation of Hyacinthus's death to put in the map first). I'm not sure why I like it, but I sure do.
4- A Mermaid (by John William Waterhouse). First because I do like Mermaids, but also mythical and fantastic creatures/beasts. She is also a fairy tale creature (and fairy tales are a great influence, but to find the best image is not easy, as Hans christian Andersen's tale marked me deeply, I think a mermaid is the best choice anyway).
5- Symphony of the Night. A great game I like since I first played it (1990 something, I don't remember which year it was released in Europe). I like the gothic side in the game (dark and gloomy castle, secret passageways, monsters lurking in the shadows).
I guess there may be other influences, but here are the main ones.
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Tolkien's work is really great. I was myself influenced by him and the characters from LOTR. How can I forget the nights I spent on my desk trying to understand a whole book in Norwegian, yet my language skill was very poor at that time. Speaking of Greek mythology, I have tried to find my special god/goddess, I think Nike is plenty for me. I also like Blade of the immortal and Hellsing. Hard to believe but they have affected me so much that I still can't decide which one is the best. I am in SS is only for one reason, and that one is too obvious to bring up.
Sometimes I am wondering how my after life will look like. Maybe the day I die I will finally enter the fantasy world of all time...every time I think of it, my fear for death shrinks a bit.
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Tolkien is great, He's done so much, we can feel how he loved his works and his universe.
That's hard to make up an influence map, you should try I'm sure it'll help you sort out what's got the more influence on your art. (I'd be curious to see your map ^^)
Death is so scary, but the fact that there may be something... It just makes me curious to see what's after (though I really am not in a hurry to know !!!)
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Thoughts about death have been running through my mind a lot lately due to high stress level at work. I guess there is no easy way out but out one beautiful day. Really, life is much more than a job~
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I can understand. Stress is really dreadful. Many people get depressed because of it, and it makes me feel less and less self-confident.
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I think self-confidence is really the key to happy days. Hard to keep the spirit up nowadays without saying to myself that I have been doing great.
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I think it's the thing to do. As long as we do our best, I think it's ok. Even if there's something that goes wrong, having done my best makes me feel less disappointed than if I had not really tried in the first place.
I think the real problem is that when something goes wrong, we tend to forget all that has gone right and focus too much on the bad sides of things.
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Best way of learning is failing they say. But if one can't stand failure, the outcome might be deadly. I've finally figured out that optimism is the only think keeps us going.
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Yeah I've heard it too. But no one likes failure, some even less than others. Optimism is never bad, after all there's always a moment when things are very good and fine for us, even if it's not right now, it'll come soon.
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I wonder when the gold price falls...but that kind of swing will not fit my life! The less volatile the better, although some time it is really good to battle and win!
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Well things are always changing, coming back to what they were, changing again, etc. It's kind of like the weather, never the same but at the same time not completely unfamiliar.
Fighting for something, it's tricky depending on the outcome. If you win it's alright, if you lose then it's different, it depends on your motivation to have this something and to try your luck again (or so I think).
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The outcome of sth is never to be seen on beforehand, it is the uncertainty you have to face, a risk you must be willing to take. Consequence is easy to measure on the other hand, but not always 100% correct. Luck, a ironic word it is. I do not believe in luck, yet I have to admit without it life would become such miserable that nothing ends well...I am not afraid of changing in the environment, rather the changes inside me that force me not to stay real. I have never been a narcissist, but I hope I can always look at myself in the mirror with a clean conscience.
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I see life more as a struggle with ourselves than a real struggle with society or the world. It's horrible how easily we can get off balance and do something we'd never want to. Thank goodness it does not happen that often.
Right now, I remember something I've seen in Criminal Minds. One of the psycho serial killers of the series always left a message on the crime scenes, something like "I beg you stop me, because I can't stop myself"... It's as if that man was completely trapped by both his impulses and his conscience, unable to neither stop what he does or shut the voice inside him that tells him he's a monster. We tend to think we cannot become bad people because we have a conscience, but that man had one too, but couldn't help being a monster either. I think this sums up pretty well what we really fear from ourselves (at least it does for me, although this is an extreme example).
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True. Human beings are unpredictable, I didn't know I could see the world differently until things fell all over from the sky. It is scary how quickly we rationalize everything and how flexible our emotions really are. Glad to be back here surrounding by warmth and spiritual freedom.
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Things can change drastically, but it doesn't mean it has to be something bad.
I'm glad you're back ^^ Though I'm not often checking dA myself.
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