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I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

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Speaking out of nothing but love, I am begging artists, especially young or beginner artists, to be unashamed and comfortable drawing unique hairlines and wrinkles and unique jawlines. This goes for any characters with this, but particularly for older men (looking at you, Ghostbusters fandom). If you're drawing them and you're scared of any of those things, the likeness of your character could be totally compromised.

Your viewers will have to check your caption to know who they're looking at, and even then, they will be confused. Hairlines and jawlines can be a HUGE aspect of likeness, and wrinkles are the best way to show a person's age and help with expressions—think Kermit the Frog's iconic scrunch.

You can even have fun with it! For example, I turned some of the wrinkles on Lance Henriksen's face into a robotic feature for his android character Bishop from Aliens. They're not canonically like that, I just thought it'd look cool for the character!

I have noticed that a few of the artists I see this from the most happen to actually be very attracted to the characters they're drawing, and trust me, I know well enough both the crash out of drawing a character you might be embarrassed to be attracted to AND the halo vision you can get when you look at a character you're attracted to. Don't be scared. If you draw them as they are, it lets everyone know that you love them as they are.

If you would really like to sell your vision and make those old men feel as pretty as you see them, I've found it's very effective to yassify the eyes through lashes and sparkles and occasionally the lips through appealing curves and whatnot. 😉 Maybe pinken those cheeks, too.

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You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

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It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

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Hi Ghostbusters tumblr,,,, doodles of Egon and also my Boyfriend's ghost OC/sona Thorn

Teeheehee.... yearhp,,,,,, I am. Obsessed with these two atm. Let me know if you guys want to know their lore,,,,,,

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I just want to delve into a little wormhole about how Egon always pops his collar as it's a small detail that has always interested me.

If we go back to when Egon isn't in the Ghostbusters uniform he wears a suit and tie, making him look like a stereotypical old-school scientist. He is never seen in a t-shirt or a shirt that is unbuttoned which is clear in a deleted scene in Ghostbusters 2 when he is the only Ghostbuster who does all of the buttons up on his shirt when they are committed to the psych ward.

The fact Egon never wears anything other than a blazer, shirt, tie, and trousers when not in the Ghostbusters uniform suggests that he is the most comfortable in these clothes, even if they are considered formal and only suitable for special occasions. This implies that Egon is uncomfortable in more comfy clothes like t-shirts as he has multiple opportunities to wear them but never does.

This means that the Ghostbusters uniform would be a big step outside of Egon's comfort zone as he doesn't wear anything different and if he does, like his pyjamas it still has a collar and buttons. Therefore, popping the collar may give Egon a sense of security and comfort as it reminds him of the collar on his shirts, which is a part of his normal, comforting clothes.

I also think it's clear that Egon doesn't like change as even his usual clothes are the same; he has the same dark grey blazer and trousers on in every scene and more often than not he wears a grey jumper under his blazer. The tie changes (though they are usually in the same colour pallet) and so does the jumper as it's sometimes a different shade of grey, but I think it's likely that the reason it changes is because his usual light grey jumper was unavailable as it was being washed or something, but the main thing is - it's still grey.

It's obvious that Egon keeps to a pattern with his clothes and the Ghostbusters uniform completely breaks this pattern. Therefore, it makes sense that Egon would pop his collar as he would be keeping the pattern of having something around his neck e.g. his shirt's collar, but he would also retain a sense of regularity and comfort as he has a bit of his normal, comforting clothes with him even if he has to create it by popping his collar.

However, there are some instances when Egon's collar is not up but is actually down. Most of these occur because the collar has been forced down by an activity or a movement and he instantly puts it up when he gets the chance which is shown when they get let out of the psych ward in Ghostbusters 2 as in the background you can see (barely but it's there) that as soon as Egon has his uniform on and before he's zipped it up he goes straight to the collar and pulls it up. However, sometimes it is purposefully down and that mostly happens when he is with Ray.

It's clear that Egon and Ray have a great relationship and the strength of the relationship can be verified by the way Egon wears his clothes.

This picture has always fascinated me firstly because Egon has not popped his collar but also by the fact that the zip on Egon's uniform is undone. In every other scene the zip on Egon's uniform is close to the top, so close that you can barely see the black t-shirt underneath but with Ray his zip is completely undone and I think this shows that Egon is the most comfortable around Ray. When Egon is around Venkman or Winston he wears his uniform with a popped collar and a fully closed zip but with Ray he does not do this. When he is around Ray, Egon wears his clothes in a more lazy way, which is a complete contrast to Egon's usual character implying that Ray makes Egon feel relaxed and comforted as he drops some of the formalities within his clothing and doesn't pop his collar.

In conclusion, Egon hates change and has a set of clothes that he finds comforting and deviating from them causes him discomfort so he tries everything to make himself more comfortable, the main thing being popping his collar. The way Egon wears his clothes says so much about his character and the small touch by Harold Ramis of popping Egon's collar says a lot about Egon and his personality.

Sorry for the long post but I just needed to get this off my chest.

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lill baby be sleepy 💕

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Egon “Choked Two Men On Separate Occasions” Spengler

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pov you're Harold Ramis working with your buddy dan on the Ghostbusters script and you're watching him accidentally create the best neurodivergency representation of the 20th century

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Listening to In The Green on shuffle and suddenly hearing "I have dreams..."

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The sentences "Asexuals can still have sex" and "Aromantics can still date" need to go up on the high shelf for everyone except aces and aros talking about their own experiences. From now on, everyone else has to use the revolutionary new phrase "Asexuals and aromantics can do whatever the fuck they want forever."

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How Taylor should’ve treated Animus after all his crap💛👌🏾

@lizzardwitch @infinitysgrace

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Woah mama hating on fat people is a shitty thing to do by the way

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Okay but like I have so many Thoughts about this in the case of In The Green because it's not JUST a timeline montage you get at the end! There's TWO finale songs and they don't just serve the goal of recapping the historical figure's life.

Integration is a celebratory song meant to instil this feeling in the audience that after all the suffering we have accompanied these characters on, the story has reached some sort of triumphant end for the protagonist. And shouldn't we be happy? Hildegard has been dealing with mental illness and sexism trapped in a small cell where she has been virtually powerless to change the outside world. And now she's out! She's been given a platform! She's improving the lives of women in the Church and has gained widespread renown!

But oh! Not everything is perfect. She has to rise up against a looming threat, but she gives a badass verbal smackdown and shuns the corruption in the Church. She's not perfect, but she's trying her best and fighting a noble cause. Because it is noble, isn't it?

Exorcism is a rug-pull. We've spent the entire musical trapped in the cell with Hildegard and Jutta, learning about their world through the glimpses they give us in flashbacks and dialogue; we are the prisoners in Plato's cave seeing the world through the shadows these women cast. When Jutta dies, all we have left is Hildegard, and so it is her perspective that we see the story from. Until we don't. No, the final song of the musical gives us a new perspective, someone we've never seen before, someone who doesn't share the same worldview as Hildegard because she hasn't lived in the same world. She's from the Outside, the place Hildegard was kept from for thirty years. This girl's name is Sigewize. She is one of the "Others" Hildegard rallied against in the last song, she is part of the threat Hildegard assured us was rising. But hang on, she's just a girl, and not only that, but she's intelligent and brave and "too much." She's just like Hildegard. How strange. Sigewize then lays out, in no uncertain terms, the direct impact of Hildegard's actions in the last song. She tells us how Hildegard's words inspired a mob mentality and led to the executions of people in a religious minority.

The song is titled "Exorcism," but who is exorcising who? Sigewize has the floor and lays bare all of Hildegard's faults, but Hildegard is a respected member of the Church, and she has had Sigewize brought in to talk to her, not the other way around. This song flips the script we've become used to and switches Hildegard from the role of protagonist to antagonist. Our conception of this person starts to unravel. But most importantly, instead of rushing through the years and trying to say as many good things about Hildegard and the Church as possible like Integration did, Exorcism pauses and reflects and examines one specific event that is important for understanding the person Hildegard really was. Because Hildegard in In The Green is a character, and like so many characters in fiction she is meant to be sympathetic. And she is, she is very sympathetic, because even though the bulk of the musical is fiction, the character's experiences are real. We understand why they act the way they act because we have also felt their grief and their love and their pain and their joy. We have spent so much of the musical trapped in the cell devoid of the outside world we have forgotten that there are other people in this world. This is why Sigewize is important, she snaps us out of the reverie that the cell's dissociation has put us in and reminds us that in the real world, every action has consequences.

Though I really love Hamilton and its amazing writing, I don't think I can say that it has this same kind of reverie breaking moment, where we get reminded that these people didn't just exist in a vacuum and that their actions have impacted the world we live in today.

The last word of In The Green is a question put to the audience: How willing are you to blindly put your faith in powerful institutions? Who are you willing to hurt to see the order of the powerful be maintained? What are the consequences of our actions?

I love how history musicals just end in timeline montage songs. Like obviously Hamilton did it first now every musical about "this figure you might not know" ends with "In 1490 The KING OF SPAIN SEES ME, 1493 I sail across the seeeaaaa"

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uploading these here!!! this was for a college project where we needed to make posters/covers for a music artist of our choosing (i chose ethel cain) :D uploading without the text, only the illustrations </3

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5th century roman who's only listened to the Odysseus listening to the bible for the first time: getting really strong "the Odyssey" vibes from this Jesus character