cherrypunch

[cherrypunch]

Hey! I guess I never said so over here but I kind of moved over to twitter: @maarinatto and I'm more active again :)

[cherrypunch]

Waiting for Netflix to retroactively hire you 👀

BPJ Part 151!  (First) (Previous) (Next)

it’s freaking klance time babey 👀

and whoops i’m just now realizing keith teleported in the first shot. OOPSIE DAISY i’ll fix that later

anyway is it strange to water your own crops with your own art because my crops are THRIVING with soft keith and lance interactions. HOPE YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS LIKE I AM

[cherrypunch]

This month I’ve decided to participate in an event called “October,” where for every day in October I’m going to experience a day in October.

Here’s the prompt list I’m using in case anyone wants to join me in this challenge:

Next month I’m thinking of trying out the “No November November” challenge, where I’ll refrain from experiencing November for the whole month of November.

[cherrypunch]

don’t let your creativity die from the lack of support

[cherrypunch]

a song of ice and fire doesn’t translate well to screen because you miss the joy of seeing cersei spend an entire chapter thinking about how smart she is before making the stupidest decisions possible

[cherrypunch]

Ineffable Husbands

[cherrypunch]

You know what Good Omens does NOT get enough credit for? How it never, not once, makes gender presentation the butt of a joke.

Crowley presenting as female to be Warlock’s Nanny? The way this was filmed, acted, and written wasn’t made to be funny whatsoever. She was stunning, I loved the hat!

Pollution using they/them pronouns while the postman used the gender neutral honorific of sir for them? What’s there to make fun of? They’re royalty.

Archangel Michael, who has a traditionally male name, played by a female actress? Never questioned.

Lord Beelzebub’s androgyny? Only respect for the Lord of Hell.

Aziraphale sharing Madame Tracy’s body? Crowley recognized his angel and accepted it no problem. He was right about the dress too, it did suit him!

Crowley’s pure, unfiltered non-binary/gender-fluid energy in general? Fucking fabulous. Who could seriously make fun of this demon’s style? As someone once pointed out to me, you could swap him with Tilda Swinton and I’d see no difference. What an icon.

Good Omens is the first big show I’ve seen to basically avoid transphobia all together when the opportunity presented itself, and even say fuck you to the gender binary as a bonus. If the biggest binary in all the universe, Heaven and Hell, don’t give a damn about it then why should you? 

[cherrypunch]

“There are many times when we’re planning a season that you kind of have to avoid giving the audience exactly what they want because things start to become predictable…” Dave Benioff

Honestly fuck this storytelling style. 

Fuck this style of storytelling that puts authorial masturbation over a satisfying conclusion to a story. Fuck this obsession with “swerves” and “subverting expectations.” 

Fuck this mentality that you have to outsmart the audience in order to make a good product. 

Fuck the idea that “predictable” is automatically boring. Fuck the idea that people who have been paying attention to long-running story arcs should be punished for giving a shit and expecting a cohesive conclusion to a long running story. 

Fuck this idea that disappointing endings are okay if they’re “unexpected.” Fuck this auteur mentality where writers have to prove that they’re the cleverest boys in the whole wide world. 

Tell a goddamned story; nobody tunes in for twists. 

[cherrypunch]

‘The march of the Iron Scarecrows’ New painting from my “World of 1920+” and the ‘Rise of Fenris’ Scythe expansion, cheers! Prints: https://society6.com/mrwerewolf Work process: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LQdBA

[cherrypunch]

why does no one worship the moon anymore? feel like thats a mistake. its pretty big i think. bigger than all of us.

[cherrypunch]

having executive dysfunction, ADHD and just a complete lack of any conception of the workings and passage of time means that i consistently roll a critical fail in punctuality

[cherrypunch]

when artists go to hell they’re forced to draw all the art they promised but never made

[cherrypunch]

[cherrypunch]

this is literally how i dance

[cherrypunch]

the beef between STEM and arts + humanities is so tired. science and art are the same. sister subjects. they’ve fueled one another for years. one cannot exist without the other. they’re both made of the same kind of wonder, one tries to attain long sought after things in reality, and the other impliments the stuff of dreams. logic and emotionality. they’re both exercises of imagination. it’s all just beautiful, academic sludge.

[cherrypunch]

i see your death of the author and raise you: death of the fandom, for when other fans and the content they produce are so unbearably bad that you divorce yourself entirely from the fanbase except for one or two Trusted Mutuals™️

[cherrypunch]

shout out to the amazing @eleonorpiteira who just conquered the heart of Guillermo del Toro so bad he made a portuguese speak spanish