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Will post some more later.
Most of my papes are at 1080p, but since I recently replaced my old monitor, now I'm seeking 4K ones, and I don't care to upscale.

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Not sure if this is what you were looking for but I will post a few.

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>>8036206
Thanks for contributing.
Essentially, any picture that you look at and think "I don't get what's going on here, but I'll bet it a great story!" It's kinda vague, but I enjoy pictures that really set up an atmosphere of enigmatic literature. When you look at an image and think "Why are they doing that? What's that thing? Why is she acting so calm in the middle of an emergency?" That kind of thing.

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based papes

>>8036155
That's just Solaris.

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>>8036963
That's equally wholesome and existentially threatening. Nice example.

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>>8036902
Ah, never experienced Solaris before. That picture always amused for it's "What the heck's going on there?" factor.

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>>8036610
I have so many questions...

>>8037125
That's what you get in the book iirc, been more than a decade since I read it.

>>8037125
It did leave me with more questions than answers, but I enjoyed the sets and the ideas that were being floated; it's definitely not the kind of thing that's meant to be fully understood in one go, so you get to think about it and come up with more interesting ideas

At least that's how Tarkovsky's movies feel to me, even if I havent watched all of them yet

>>8036153
cringe

>>8036216
>bruh
That's some Ozymandias level shit. You're cutting pretty deep.

>>8036154
she's still gonna accuse him of upholding patriarchal views, and for not respecting her power as a woman, as soon as she makes it to safety.

>>8036459
it's a cool concept, but it's a bit phallic.

>>8036966

where do come this pic pls ?

>>8041054
you know this is part of a comic right? it's called ghostblade

>>8036157
Love this one

>>8038023
Why do they have target crossbows? Those sights are clearly target sights, not something you'd want to use in combat.

Very weird.

>>8041054
get out of your incel bubble and talk to real people. also stop inventing imaginary people to present yourself a stupid and wrong narrative.

>>8036926
>Tell my wife I love her very much
>She knows

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>>8044657
Always loved these ones

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>I wanted the ambiguity of not knowing the releationship between the marine and the broken alien pod ship. Is he administering first aid? Making sure it is dead? Scavenging? Destroying vital information? I think it is more interesting when you can let the viewer read into things a little.

>>8047484
Here's a fun artist fact. When an artist says shit like this
>I wanted the ambiguity of not knowing the releationship between x
It doesn't mean that they purposely left it up to interpretation to make it fun for the audience, it means they just don't fucking know but want to cover their ass to make themselves sound deep. It's the "you wouldn't understand!" when you confront a writer about an obvious plot hole (like the Institute's goal in replacing everyone with synths in Fallout 4).
7-8 times out of 10, an artist doesn't actually know what the fuck they're going for until it's done and then they make shit up about it at the end when someone asks them about it or they have to say something poignant about it. Obviously if they have a purposeful goal and concept in mind that's fleshed out, it's different, but when they're just making something without that, it boils down to "this looks cool" or "this is a neat concept, I'm going to keep going".
It's perfectly fine to make something that looks cool for the sake of looking cool, but it's dumb as fuck to try and make up what it's about after the fact. You didn't have any grand narrative in mind, but made something you liked. Just own up to it. Not everything in art has to be pretentious as fuck.

Source: Artist that used to do this shit all the fucking time. It's something drilled into you in art school so by the time you "graduate" you're huffing your own farts.

>>8052886
>an artist doesn't actually know what the fuck they're going for until it's done

Or basically, the same sort of thing A.I. does when it creates art, only it's the human observer who thinks "this looks cool" instead.

Not the guy who posted the pic.

>>8052936
Nah, you give an AI an image of static and tell it it's an apple and it's like "oh yeah, I see it". It's the digital equivalent of finding shapes in clouds.

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>>8054332
I can see this artstyle being used for a Pikmin-like game.

>>8052936
Not really. The whole process is different. With AI, you feed it word prompts and it references databases, wait a little and it spits out a hot girl with 3 legs, 7 fingers and perfect boobs.
You can keep refreshing the prompt to get something different, but it's a very linear/derivative workflow.
Artists can throw shit at the wall, mess up and learn from it, then come back and do it cooler/better next time. It doesn't have to make sense as long as it can suspend your disbelief long enough for you to agree that space ship fights would be awesome (even if fire can't exist in a vacuum). I think it's great when art has a reason, but sometimes that reason is just to explore ideas/concepts that we can't access through real-live experience, and are forced into the mind-scape to find. You get to enjoy that idea as long as you're drawing, writing, painting, or whatever. Even if you're just staring at it. AI is like a burp you get to laugh at, being the creator of something (no matter how silly or nonsensical) is a slow-burning enjoyment. A log in the creative fire, compared to the metaphorical tinder AI provides. It has its place but is a gimmick, and will never satisfy the creator in the way genuine art does.

>>8036219
You just know

>>8042949
Because the guy that painted it was ARTistic, not AUTistic

>>8036153
"yuup, thats me"

>>8052886
>It doesn't mean that they purposely left it up to interpretation to make it fun for the audience, it means they just don't fucking know but want to cover their ass to make themselves sound deep
>Source: Artist that used to do this shit all the fucking time

That's surprising. In writing, deliberate ambiguity is one of my favorite narrative devices.

>>8040226
This looks like Mormon art

>>8036213
I want to be the main character of this story

>>8044640
dragon :D

thanks anon

>>8036154
brother eugh

why post simp shit

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Great thread, OP.

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>>8066023
NEWFAGS CANʻT TRIFORCE

>>8039336
GIWTWM

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>>8044641
Mixing sci-fi futuristic elements in a medieval fantasy world is very interesting worldbuilding for sure

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>>8064555
Never heard of Mormon art. Do they deserve a thread?

>>8074622
Is this from something?

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>>8074644
The artist has rendered several scenes starring these maid characters.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Xn1e43
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/AqvYNo
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0nZPB4
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/48VWl4
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d0KDaQ
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/eJYVdb
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kQadOz
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BXYdN9

>Ok i have to know. whats the story with these maids now? whos in the room? whats going on?! this is the second one with these ladys. this one is REALLY well done!

>I'm still trying to come up with the next frame, dunno how the story will end up yet haha. Stay tuned!

>>8074648
Amazing, thank you so much.

>>8056465
What is this even from google and yandex give back nothing

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>>8074968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_La_Hogue
It's been flipped horizontally.

>>8036153
I like that one, OP
I like that one a lot

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Whoops, forgot to add pic

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>>8076647
WHOA

>>8036160
Too many mods in skyrim

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>>8042949
http://www.philsp.com/mags/action_for_men.html
1968 v12 #4 Jul

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>>8073256
actually yeah.

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>>8073256
i never considered it, because i left the church at like 18, but there is a SHITLOAD of mormon art that's really good quality, but odd subject matter if you don't know the stories.

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>>8073256
sorry to keep replying on you specifically but like. holy shit. so many mormon works fit this thread perfectly.

>>8081533
>>8081532
kino

>>8036154
plapping + breeding in 59 minutes.
I wuv white men

>>8036160
the end of Kill La Kill

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>>8081532
How come all these guys have metal armor exactly...?

>>8044655
I inmediately thought about blacked when I saw this

>>8082903
He's Albanian and he's sending her to his organ harvesting farm.

Stop being a race-obsessed porn addict.

>>8085687

Stop glorifying the extermination of the greatest race on Earth.

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I'm not sure the origin but I like to think this a reference to one punch man.

>>8036165
Send those Rhodoks back to their caves

>>>/wsr/1517354

>>8038084
I liked it

>>8040222
> hey, that's my ship!

this whole thread screams jewish nonsense

>>8037340
read the book

>>8041054
Or maybe you are just stupid.
>>8067434
Shut up retard

>>8099624
That is because you got cocks in your ears.

>>8090429
Would watch

>>8074648
Reminds me of these stories
https://www.literotica.com/series/se/453262362

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>>8036153
Only papes that *look* like there's a great story behind them, or do you accept a pape that has a story behind them?

Pic related, filename. Nabbed it from a /wg/ post years ago. I no longer remember the exact details, but as I recall there was a thread made by an anon who wanted to dump papes. One of them was this one.

>>8044654
with all the time machines in the universe they still fucked everything up

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>>8036963
OP here. Loved this so much I decided to purchase the original artwork and post it here in higher resolution.

>>8084706
stop gooning loser

>>8036163
That is not canon...

>>8103496
Bunnies are a great source of meat because they reproduce quickly.

>>8091618
It reminds me of another viking or warlord themed picture in a similar or the same style, but it's with a dude lying down and getting ridden by a girl. Could it be the same artist?

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>>8090421
The dog is arguably more human than the jigaboos smiling at the thought of harming the little children.

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>>8090429
Absolute fucking kino.

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>>8106015
What the photographer wanted to say with this:
>love is more powerful than chaos
What the photographer actually said with this:
>violence makes people horny as fuck

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>>8096916
>the eskimos bought a Chrysler 300

>>8090429
The Lion Slayer

Prologue: The Warning

>“Not too far, Whiskers. It’s going to snow more soon.”
>The girl stood on the back step, bundled in flannel and boots, one mitten off so she could scratch the cat’s ear. He leaned into it, purring.
>She smiled. “You always come back. Just don’t make me go look for you, okay?”
>Whiskers turned toward the wind. The first flakes were already drifting. He hopped down into the snow, tail high, and padded off toward the barn.
>The girl watched him vanish into white.

>>8111926
I. Shelter

>Werrit pulled his hood tighter and spat into the snow.
>“Tell me again why we didn’t hole up in the last stump town?” he growled, stomping his numb feet.
>Droff marched beside him, shoulders hunched under a pack that looked too big for his size. “Because you said their cider tasted like mushroom piss and their firewood burned too fast.”
>“I didn’t say that.”
>“You did. Loudly. To the elder’s wife.”
>Werrit grunted. “It did taste like mushroom piss.”
>They trudged on. The wind howled like a hungry wolf, and the snow stung their eyes.
>They were gnomes — real gnomes, the kind that slept in rabbit dens, fought rats barehanded, and pissed on thistle for fun. They’d crossed frozen rivers on fallen twigs. Fought hornets. Seen squirrels steal babies. There wasn’t much in the world that could scare them anymore.
>But the cold was getting through.
>“Shelter,” Droff said, pointing with his chin.
>A dark barn loomed ahead through the snow, leaning like an old drunk but still standing. No lights. No movement.
>Werrit sniffed. “Smells like livestock and old wood. Good enough.”
>They found a loose plank at the base and squeezed inside, boots crunching on frost-covered hay.
>It was warm by comparison. Stale. Still.
>They climbed a bale and sat, backs to the beam.
>“This place’ll do,” Werrit muttered.
>Droff nodded.
>They unslung their packs and pulled out hard cheese and bark jerky, chewing in silence for a while.
>“You think we’ll make it to Cragbarrow by spring?” Droff asked, mouth full.
>“If you stop wasting my time asking stupid questions.”
>“Just trying to picture what retirement looks like for a pair of stump-sniffers like us.”
>Werrit chuckled. “Retirement’s when someone finally buries us.”
>“I’ll make sure to piss on your grave.”
>“Only if I’m lucky.”
>They sat in companionable silence, chewing and listening to the creak of rafters in the wind.
>Then the silence shifted.

>>8111928
II. The Cat

>It was the kind of sound you didn’t hear with your ears, but felt in your chest — a change in the air pressure. A predator’s presence.
>A low thump, somewhere in the hayloft.
>Werrit stood slowly, pulling his dagger free from its sheath.
>Droff rose too, drawing his short sword. “You hear it?”
>“I feel it.”
>Movement above. A rattle. A creak.
>Then it dropped into view.
>A barn cat.
>To humans: fluffy, plump, charming.
>To gnomes: certain death.
>It was massive, striped and sleek, with muscles that rippled under fur. Its green eyes glowed faintly in the low light. It sniffed once. Then it saw them.
>Its pupils narrowed. Its tail lashed.
>Droff didn’t speak. Neither did Werrit.
>They moved.
>The cat lunged, paws slamming down like boulders. The hay exploded. Wood splintered.
>Droff dove under a broken cart wheel. Werrit rolled sideways, blade drawn, aiming for the belly.
>Too slow. The cat twisted, caught him mid-strike, and sent him flying.
>He slammed into a beam, bones aching, vision spinning.
>Droff was already climbing — fast and sure — up a rope to the rafters. He shouted to draw the beast’s eye.
>The cat turned toward him, eyes locked.
>Droff leapt.
>He came down hard on its back, blade plunging into the fur. The cat yowled, arched, twisted. It clawed at its own spine.
>Droff held on.
>Werrit rose, limping, and sprinted back into the fray.
>They fought like demons. The cat was stronger, faster, and far more agile. But the gnomes were practiced, precise, and full of the kind of rage that only cold and hunger and years of hard living could create.
>Still, it wasn’t enough.
>The cat caught Droff on a spin — a paw, a flash of claw, a crunch — and his body flew limp into a stack of crates.
>He didn’t get up.
>Werrit screamed and charged with the grim precision of a killer.
>He vaulted onto the cat’s back, drove his blade deep behind the shoulder, and twisted.
>The cat roared once.
>And then it dropped.

>>8111929
III. Cold Remains

>Werrit stood in the wreckage.
>The barn stank of blood and piss and cracked wood. The wind outside had stilled.
>He limped over to Droff.
>The younger gnome lay broken, twisted, eyes wide open to the rafters above.
>Werrit closed them.
>No words. No rites.
>He dragged Droff’s body to a dark corner, piled hay over him, and sat beside the cat’s corpse for a long time. The body still radiated warmth. It steamed slightly in the cold air.
>Werrit drifted out of consciousness, warm, dry and alone in the shelter of the barn.

>>8111931
IV. The Story Grows

>He made it to Cragbarrow two weeks later, ragged and frostbitten.
>He said little.
>But word got out.
>“Werrit Redcap came in alone.”
>“What happened to Droff?”
>“Dead. Killed by a beast.”
>“What kind of beast?”
>And so the story spread.
>To humans, it was just a cat.
>But to gnomekind, that meant something. Cats were monsters. Unkillable. Untouchable. Things that ate gnomes, that stalked camps and dragged children from nests.
>No one had ever fought one and survived.
>Except Werrit.
>He didn’t boast. He didn’t correct anyone.
>He just sat by the fire and drank.
>But the name caught on.
>The Lion Slayer.
>He was summoned to speak at barracks. Asked to tell the tale in guildhalls and moot circles. He never embellished. He didn’t need to.
>One cat.
>One survivor.
>That was enough.
>A sword school was founded in his name. A tiny iron monument was raised where he said it happened — a figure of a gnome standing atop a fallen cat, blade held high.
>They never found Droff.
>Werrit never looked.
>He retired by the sea.
>No wife. No children. Just the ocean and the silence.

>>8111932
V. Whiskers

>The girl found him the next day.
>Frozen stiff, curled under the hay, one eye shut from blood and pus. There was a wound in his ribs. His fur was matted and crusted.
>She dropped to her knees.
>“Whiskers?”
>He didn’t move.
>She touched him. Cried out. Pulled him into her arms, rocking gently.
>She cried for a long time.

>>8067616
this one always hits a little too hard

>>8090421
image has no source. why's that?

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Thx, god and angels bless you

>>8074982
damn
The colors. This looks delicious

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I’m guessing there’s a plot somewhere

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>>8116465
I have several questions.

>>8067479
>Portals to your world
>Ensorcells you
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves

The absolute state of being a Mountain Dragon in *Current Age*

>>8097555
Why does this make me think of the Internet? Or Discord, the messaging app.

>>8041054
This was actually a good comment. Sometimes it's hard to vocalize the truth. We live in a matriarchy.

>>8090421
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>>8114543
FILE - In this file photo dated March 29, 2000, Pippa van Rechteren, left, and her two-year-old twins Catherine, second from left, and Elisabeth, third from left, are blocked from leaving their house on the white-owned commercial farm, Chiripiro, by Zimbabwe war veterans in Centenary district, 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Harare, Zimbabwe. (AP Photo, File)

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