#3rd wave

[farfromhome999]

Knowing vs. Understanding (am I the crazy one?)

I was originally going to make this post centered around mothers and mothering, but I just had to share my disbelief over these two situations.

When I told my friends that I needed to watch Hidden Figures (2016) for a class, their responses were "Oh I'm so sorry" and "I wouldn't wish that on anyone" and "Mmm, not for me. Good luck with that." I was shocked. What was so wrong with the movie? When I asked, they answered that it was far too dramatic. I questioned them on why they thought this way to which they didn't really have an answer besides the scene about the bathroom... which isn't a true aspect of the real story-- as I've researched-- but a true thing in many other colored peoples' experiences at the time. They knew of this, but I don't think they actually understood the realities of "Separate but Equal." It was a dramatic scene, but it was no different than another character standing their ground in any other film. How was this the only scene they remembered? How were these black women being reduced to their (completely justifiable) anger?

On a lesser discussed point, I recall several instances while watching Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023) where I needed to explain to my non-black friends what was happening and why I got riled up over certain scenes. Most notably, was the scene where the Queen met Charlotte for the first time. In it, the queen asks to see Charlotte's teeth and hands. My friends were confused about this, asking why she'd do that. I had to explain, albeit from an American perspective the reasoning-- those in servitude didn't have the luxury of having unmarred, perfect hands or good dental hygiene. In America, slaves could potentially be distinguished by these factors and here, it's probably a display of power and to make sure she's not really poor-- that she's truly a proper lady. I felt kind of dismissed when they dryly said they hadn't known about that and asked no further questions or reacted to the new information at all. They just seemed uncomfortable.

Some of these issues are only known about in theory or not really known at all in larger society, it seems. These were stories I've seen and been reminded of countless times growing older alongside instances of women drowning their babies so they wouldn't know the horrors of the slave trade, the separation of families at the drop of a hat, forced sexual encounters, the tensions between in house and field slaves, so on and on. Had I taken my knowledge to be everyone's knowledge? Has anyone really taken the time to watch such movies or know such atrocities? If we can show the despicable nature of the Holocaust-- something America didn't cause-- how come we can't let the horrors of slavery-- and Japanese Internment for that matter-- be known and UNDERSTOOD by the general populace? Facts take on so much more life when you have stories to go along with them.

[aixelsyd13]

What should go on a 30 song punk rock playlist?

So, I recently got my 9yo a guitar for his birthday. We’re belaying lessons until after his current soccer and lacrosse seasons, but I will be showing him a bit. He seems to like all kinds of rock, but I was telling him how easy it is to play most punk rock. He has heard a lot of Ramones, Misfits, etc. from me… But I got the idea of putting together a punk rock playlist for him. Well, I tend to…

[starless-nightz]

Female MCs >>> Male MCs

[imdowndownbutdefinetlynotout]

[pineapplesaresweet]

*Where no one goes by John Powell starts playing*

[yaxh1ro]

IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THIS LET'S BE MOOTS PLEASE-

(kingdom hearts and mob psycho didn't make it into the image but let's pretend it's there😔)

[heartnosekid]

bioluminescent waves recolors 🌈 | source

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Third Avenue El took its final trip before demolition on May 12, 1955. As it passed 108th Street, residents looked out their windows to wave goodbye.

Photo: Anthony Calvacca for the NY Post/Photo Archives, LLC/Fine Art America

[sixeritwouldeatyoualive]

Hello hi, revisiting Tumblr to share my progress with learning digital art!

I use Krita and also make speedpaints on my YouTube:]

Here's Kiana Kaslana from Honkai Impact 3rd

And Sanhua from Wuthering Waves:)

[sleepyminty]

Whenever the developer of a gacha game create a waifu

[farfromhome999]

Black Women and the Denial of Magic

Plenty of fish in the sea, yet so few for me 🧜🏾‍♀️✨

Growing up, I used to latch onto any medium to dark colored magical character I saw, whether that was Aisha from Winx Club or Clawdeen Wolf from Monster High. There were so few of them already in animation and live action movies don’t fair any better. In fact, the only mainstream movies or shows with black people taking front and center as magical, mystical beings have been done by Disney. Once in 2005 with Twitches— and later Twitches Too (2007)—and recently in the making of Disney’s Little Mermaid (2023).

Mermaids were my absolute favorite creature growing up. From the moment I saw them— pretty tails, hair flowing in the water, and moving with power and grace— I wanted to be like them. In fact, it was probably depictions of mermaids that partially fed into my discomfort with my identity as a little black girl. I couldn’t swim like them because nobody was able to teach me how. I had kinky curly hair that never would flow the same when I’m in the water. I was too broken down from bullying in school to move with much confidence. I was no mermaid; I was not magical. I tried many times to find a black mermaid in media. I scoured through youtube, searching every few months to see if there were any. I watched several shows and movies— you could have gotten me to watch anything if you told me there were mermaids in it. But I always came up short. In a sea of oceanic beauties, I never found a single precious black pearl. I sought answers to this question of why there were no black beauties, never quite finding answers until I happened upon a forum one year where someone broke my question. There was a single answer that said black women’s skin was too dark in the water so cameras can’t pick it up. That our hair didn’t flow as beautifully. That we’d look more like monsters than something beautiful and kind.

Fast Forward to 2023, Halle Bailey— a black actress with a beautiful voice, supported by Beyonce herself— stars as Ariel in the new Little Mermaid remake, her hair deadlocked and beautiful. I cried when I first got the announcement over this casting decision.

I'd found a black pearl.

There are so few instances where black women are allowed to be magical beings without being shoved to the side. Even here, with the Little Mermaid, we were shoved into a role that was originally for a character who was unmistakably white— this goes for Tinkerbell in the Peter Pan remake as well, Peter Pan & Wendy (2023). Why are we never given our own roles to be magical on our own? Why must we fight for spaces in geeky, nerdy, fantastical, and magical?

I hope to see more stories that have black magical girls— and women—within them on the screen. I would love to see us in high fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, and otherwise. I want them to be the protagonist. I want them to experience love and joy as much as they experience hardship. I want the people going forward to be able to see that black girls really can be magical. That my color, my hair, my level of confidence— my race— doesn’t affect my ability to wield the fantastical.

[Inspired by this Blog Post]

[reyneofswords]

Currently reading the Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf.

Here are some of my highlights so far:

"As soon as woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty."

"The message of the news team, not hard to read, is that a powerful man is an individual, whether that individuality is expressed in asymmetrical features, lines, gray hair, hairpieces, baldness, bulbousness, tubbiness, facial tics, or a wattled neck; and that his maturity is part of his power. If a single standard were applied equally to men as to women in TV journalism, most of the men would be unemployed."

"to be credible about being harassed, in any case, a woman must look harassable, which destroys her credibility."

"fashion modeling and prostitution are the only professions in which women consistently earn more than men."

"While only one man in ten is "strongly dissatisfied" with his body, one third of women are "strongly dissatisfied" with theirs. Though the sexes are overweight in equal proportions - about a third - 95 percent of enrollees in weight-loss programs are women. Women think they have a serious problem when they are fifteen pounds above the national average; men are not concerned until they are thirty-five pounds above."

"The holy oil industry offers to sell back to women in tubes and bottles the light of grace, to redeem women's bodies now that the cults of virginity and of motherhood can no longer offer to surround with consecrated light the female body whose sexuality has yielded to others."

"We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women."

[starless-nightz]

Female > Male MCs

New version because Belle has joined us now!

[prolibytherium]

I don't want to read retellings of Greek mythology that are 'feminist' by virtue of the protagonists having weirdly contemporary perspectives on gender and misogyny or that tries to make men who fully participate in a culture of enslavement and rape in war Not Do That, I want the characters be fully of the historical culture that is being engaged with, with the 'feminist' component being from the narrative and a nuanced handling of an extremely misogynist society and finding the humanity in people who are very unlike the contemporary reader in terms of culture and context.

And yet 90% of it is like, the 'good' women being like "I think women are badass girlbosses and should vote and also I am SOOOO nice to my slaves" (if the slavery that is near-ubiquitous in the ancient Mediterranean is even acknowledged) and the 'good' men being like "I'm not like other guys: I think women should vote too"

[gayandloveableperidot]

Reblog for sample size please!

1st wave - mid 80s-early 90s - the initial emergence from the hardcore scene, still keeping a fairly hardcore sound but now with more sad and personal lyrics and occasionally a more melodic sound. (rites of springs, jawbreaker, embrace, etc)

2nd wave - early 90s-early 00s - the start of midwest emo, with strong melody and a post-hardcore or sometimes even not hardcore in the slightest sound. This is also where emo gained its pop-punk sub genre and screamo sub genre. (cap’n jazz, jimmy eat world, pg. 99)

3rd wave - early 00s-early 10s - needs little explanation. It’s the extremely pop-punk era where emo was heavily in the mainstream often thought of as the only emo music. (paramore, the red jumpsuit apparatus, the used)

4th wave - early 10s-now - known as the emo revival. Initially this wave had a very strong Midwest comeback, and while that’s definitely still a large part, there’s definitely a good variety of subgenres. Some also include emo rap and emo pop as part of 4th wave.

Yes I know some people include 5th wave but I personally find the distinction unnecessary since there really isn’t much of a change in sound. If your favorite is 5th wave vote 4th wave

[livwritesstuff]

okay so when i was writing this, i had a whole scene written about how steve is a video game guy and bought himself the SNES when it came out as a reward for getting through undergrad and loves the mario franchise in particular. i ended up cutting it out for the sake of brevity, but it got me thinking

In 2008, Steve and Eddie give their daughters a Nintendo Wii as a collective Christmas gift, and with it comes Mario Kart.

Now, nothing rivals the Harrington Family Mario Kart experience – there’s ganging up on each other and mocking the CPUs and throwing Wii remotes across the room and relentless trash talk. It is an all-time favorite game to play as a family.

That being said – Eddie is horrible at Mario Kart, even the janky earlier versions. He’s able to hold his own against his seven- and five-year old for about as long as it takes for them to figure out the controls (which is approx. two days for Moe, and Robbie’s right behind her). After that, he’s consistently getting destroyed by not only his husband, but also his elementary school-aged children.

Steve, on the other hand, is excellent at Mario Kart. He went easy on the girls while they were learning but the second they had it figured out and started to become real competition for him, it was over. He is also extremely competitive, something Moe and Robbie absolutely picked up from him, so by the time the Nintendo Switch is released in 2017, Mario Kart had become a very serious family affair (much to Eddie’s chagrin).

Eddie gets one look at Metal Mario and insists on playing as him because…metal. Duh. But then he’s careening uncontrollably around the course, spending more time soaring off the track than actually driving on it, and he can’t figure out why.

Robbie: Different characters have different stats, Dad.

Eddie: What the fuck are his stats then?

Robbie: Pretty sure he’s, like, one of the fastest ones.

So he switches over to Lemmy (because “that’s a kick-ass head of hair”) and comfortably ambles around the course, never placing higher than eighth but also no longer sending himself flying off into the abyss.

Hazel inherited her dad’s lack of proclivity for the game (though she’s definitely still better at it than him – it would be hard not to be). She likes the “cute” ones – the babies, the villagers, Toad and Toadette – and she usually chooses a novelty cart like the carousel horse. She also doesn’t have that competitive need to win, which is good because Moe, Robbie, and Steve can collectively bring the “healthy” tension-level to its max capacity.

Moe’s guiding force in choosing a Mario Kart character is a healthy mix of aesthetic and irony. She usually opts for King Boo. She also maintains that the stats don’t actually mean anything, and that she drives the same regardless of who she plays as

Steve and Robbie completely disagree with this. They are arguably the best at Mario Kart out of the entire family, and they’re pretty much matched, skill-wise. As such, they have very strong feelings about those stats that Moe says don’t matter because they tend to be the determining factor in who actually wins.

Steve is always using new combinations of characters and karts – he has an Excel spreadsheet for tracking what he’s tried out and everything.

Conversely, Robbie has firmly settled on Rosalina and will not change her mind.

Steve: There’s, like, six characters way faster than her!

Robbie: It’s about the traction, Pop.