Greetings weary traveler! I'm a 23 year old demiboy from North Carolina. I write, act, study history and play guitar and sing. Doubt any of that will be really lucrative but they bring me joy. I also roleplay and play lots of video games. 100% Paladin Trash ~Feel free to ask me things
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here’s a definitive and totally subjective rating of davids
donatello: 3/10 honestly pretty embarrassing, but worth a mention. just your run-of-the-mill, oh-you-haven’t-heard-we’re-copying-classical-greek-sculpture-now david. stiff, awkward, and pretty dopey looking twunk. has the same expression of someone being told dona-fucking-tello sculpted this. can’t even hold his slingshot bc it’s too gay. don’t worry there’s a redemption arc on its way.
donatello pt 2: 9/10 fucking superb you funky little gay man. total glow up. a complete deviation from the norm by a well-known deviant. takes contrapposto to sultry new heights. look at this lad’s little hat and boots he’s not a nude he’s just naked. some people say goliath’s head is modeled off of donatello himself literally he was horny enough he said “step on me” in full fucking bronze. goliath’s helmet has little gay greek reliefs on it, not even remotely subtle. look at the feather going up his thigh and tell me u didn’t cross your legs when you did. commissioned by the medici for their palace, which makes it even cooler by association.
verocchio: 8/10 ily baby a perfectly fine lad, looking at him makes me smile. his little dress is so cute with its stylized arabic psuedo-script border, and the floral pasties? adorable. something about goliath’s head feels a little disjointed, but you know what? fuck him. he’s not important. david’s the real star here in his little cheerleader get up. what really makes me biased towards this one is that the model was supposedly verocchio’s star student, the young leonardo da vinci. and look how fucking radiant he is! love it.
michelangelo: 7/10 technically this thing’s great. look at the fucking veins on the hand that’s absolutely mental. but all in all it lacks the overtly homosexual intrigue of some other davids and, frankly, i expected more from well-documented gay disaster michelangelo. obviously a classic but also makes it prone to being too over-saturated. i do love his yaoi hands though.
bernini: 11/10 the man the myth the fucking legend! bernini always delivers and this david’s no expception. look at that movement! the drama! the whole thing screams baroque in the best possible way with the dynamism, the momentary narrative, that cute lil scrunched up face. only complaint is that it isn’t as good as some of bernini’s other work but i’m willing to let it go for the detailing on the fucking rope goddamn gian lorenzo you absolute madman. we stan a sculpting legend.
for some reason I consider majora’s mask steampunk, but if anyone dare says that bloodborne is steampunk, i’ll murder them with a gothic horror novel
bloodborne is greatly focused on the transition from the enlightenment, through romanticism, to the age of realism. it is not about modern technology being replaced by gears and steam power and shit like that.
the technology and chemistry used throughout these epochs is a primary focus, including archaic forms of transfusion, as well as the heavy use of dangerous chemicals such as quicksilver/liquid mercury, and how these “scientific” achievements were misused, and how practitioners inadvertently hindered the betterment of society. the entirety of the game takes place within an inescapable waking nightmare brought on by heavy abuse of these volatile compounds, where everyday citizens are replaced by bloodthirsty lycanthropes to represent the horrors felt by many a victorian writer. even the iconic saw cleaver that most base their steampunk narrative on is nothing more than an oversized straight razor, perhaps based on the historically ineffectual employment of barbers as bloodletting doctors in the 19th century.
meanwhile, the bomb shop in majora’s mask literally has a rocket ship that they plan to use to blow up the fucking moon and there are clocks and gears everywhere and it’s honestly the most unique rendition of a steampunk setting ever conceived, simply because it draws upon medieval fantasy and creates a world of WOODEN modernity, as opposed to the cliche brass