so im taking this to mean you all want to see the rest of the garfield dsmp art 🧡🧡

DreamSMP Heritage Post

like this style specifically

did this extremely quick and dirty, so don't zoom in

AND the last version is the coverslip, but you take it off, and underneath is this:

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this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and "marched" less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city

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this is why folklore shifts are so fascinating

the earliest known version of the story is "the Adventure of the German Student," (1824) which is set in the 1780s and involves a young man who happens to meet a beautiful Frenchwoman with a diamond choker around her neck. he takes her to his lodgings where they make love, but in the morning he finds her dead in his bed when he awakens- dead, and seemingly dead for over a day. he runs for help, and the men who respond exclaim that she's a noblewoman who was guillotined early the day before. insert choker removal and expected result here

the most common version currently circulating, published in the children's book In A Dark, Dark Room (1984) adds the green ribbon most English-speaking adults are now familiar with...but involves the girl/woman growing old happily with her husband and finally giving him PERMISSION to remove the ribbon as she's dying

based on the notes, it looks like the idea of someone hounding the woman to remove the ribbon- and similar symbolism to OP's post -comes from "the Husband Stitch" (2014) a feminist short story that uses folktale and urban legend imagery

it grows and develops over time, as people bring new emotional baggage to the tale. we take the stories we grew up with and infuse them with meaning from our own lives. we shift and stretch them to communicate our experiences

UPDATE: there IS an earlier Violation Variation! In the 1970 children's book "Ghostly Fun," the husband harasses his wife to remove the ribbon and finally cuts it with her sewing scissors while she sleeps

that's fascinating because it's still not as explicit as Husband Stitch in being an active attempt at symbolism. beyond the fairytale element of "don't do the forbidden thing or bad results will ensue"

authors notes: there is absolutely no one true meaning intended for this piece, but I guess my thoughts while making it were the plain, boring and literal way you talk about the world after seeing something traumatic , or the way things seem to lose all meaning and significance . and also the way you minimise an event to make it sound like it's not so bad , the way you remove detail from the memory.

like .. there is something over the river . there is something unspeakable over the river . when you recount it , you have to make it seem so small . it's just a body. the state the body is in can't be made out like this . you hide the details from yourself to forget how bad it really looked . you hide it in general - so insignificant you could miss it entirely ! it was just a body and The Something that killed it looming , and birds flying away .

and the world could be full of colour , but you can't see it that way any more . the grass is just grass . the trees are just trees . the fish in the river that's just a river are just fish , and that's just a body .

Also SPOILERS for anyone who wants the solution to the eye-spy:

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