#SRQ Con

[niennanir]

The Library opens at 10, food trucks will be on site. Downtown parking is not free in most areas, please plan accordingly. Hope to see you all there!

[silviakundera]

Does it feel like they're trying to redeem the dickless bore? idk if he's doing a con on her or they're showing he has real feelings for her wasn't the novel different?

One thing I'm really noticing in the Princess Royal (Grand Princess) adaption is that they will 'play it straight' with characters like Su Rongqing and the Emperor: giving the character similar dialogue and facial expressions as they would have in the novel -- except without PWX or LR's internal dialogue of 🙄 why u lying???

🙄 lol ok sure

😒 oh i see, back on your bullshit again

😤 the AUDACITY

😬 oh shit oh shit danger BE COOL

The consequence is that if you take everything at face value, the Emperor seems like a reasonable guy and not up for The Absolute Worst Dad award. Under the surface, the novel reader knows he is acting out a play and coldly calculating every interaction with Li Rong, the Crown Prince, and Consort Ruo. Every single scene with him, Li Rong is in peril and she knows it. She's pretending to be his sweet, obedient 19 year old daughter who believes in him and is following Pei Wenxuan's direction and acting as a puppet, making moves that he has already approved PWX to make. The Emperor's pretending that this play isn't supposed to end with LR and the Crown Prince taken down & the power transferred into Consort Ruo and the other prince's hands.

The viewer can just interpret all the words coming out of a character's mouth as facts & just believe everything they claim about their motives/real agenda as true. Or they recall the implied horrorshow of Life 1 and view all of these interactions with a cynical eye, questioning what else could be under the surface.

With SRQ, that guy is so fucking complicated. I think actually he's portrayed in character. Nothing we have seen isn't .... him. At least so far, as of ep 19 he aligns with the novel.

But 3 different factors: A) The music is romantizing him; B) The audience is given a couple internal-thought voice overs from him, which other antagonists don't get; C) With those voice-overs, the screenwriter has chosen to affirm his love for his brother and LR way earlier than the reader has it confirmed in the novel (where he is intentionally kept a total mystery for far longer, while the reader is the math lady meme, trying to piece together clues to figure him out).

And ultimately, when in SRQ's PoV in the drama, we have to deal with him being the hero of his own story. He is absolutely sincere about himself and, as has been revealed, in his own way he's sincere about wanting LR and his brother to have a good life this time around.

So does that mean the writer intends to do a swerve in the narrative arc and redeem him in the end? It's totally possible. Maybe?

However, not necessarily.

#1 There is a certain refrain from many of the great cnovel/drama villians: I had no choice! You all forced me to this!

We saw it from Shen Yurong in The Double, we saw it from Meng Yao/JGY in The Untamed, and in the novel (and I presume in the drama), we're gonna see it from Su Rongqing.

And it's the reason why they become villians who can't be saved. Because so many people suffer in life or experience unfairness. But they don't turn around and use this as an excuse to enact horrible cruelties on others.

Out of the billions of people in the world, few have no problems but so many of them actively chose to do good, or are willing at least to turn back and be better.

#2 imo the reason LR has historically been bad at reading people's hearts but has an exquisite read of SRQ, his flaws & darkness, is THAT'S HER FUCKING MOM. And I do think ep 16-18 put that out there in the text, if you're looking for it. He and the empress are the same sophisticated aristocrat who is clever & educated but with a narrow perspective limited by their privilege and desperate need to maintain the status quo. So sorry bro, but no wonder she might have settled for marrying you in the first life if you wanted to, but she was never gonna fall in love with you 💀.

PWX can see that SRQ loves her and he thinks that matters, so it scares him. LR has tender nostalgia for her empress mother and her former companion but she's all too aware that their love for her will not necessarily get in the way of stepping on her to protect the social structure of a powerful aristocracy class operating at a higher level above the peasants and restraining the throne. To them, this is safety and stability that guards the realm.

(ofc both those characters are complex and when it comes to LR's life & death we can't be confident on what they will always choose. that's part of what made all the palace drama aspects of the novel incredibly suspenseful. So many of the suppporting characters are layered and tho everything they do makes sense when it happens, you can't often predict people's hard choices when their back is up against the wall)

Story of Kunning Palace and The Grand Princess say that caring about people and trying your best to understand them, wanting what's best for them by listening to what's best for them, can make a huge difference. But not everyone is willing to change.

[ptrawles]

Hellboy gender flip Hellgirl drawing I did last weekend at SRQ Con.

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

🔞 Reclaiming Titles ⚠️

Qrow: (shivers) Whoa...did anyone else just feel that?

Taiyang: Yeah, it was almost like a glitch in the matrix or something. You don't think....

Qrow: No way. No one could have possibly-

Raven: (kicks down the door) THOSE KIDS BEAT OUR SEX RECORD!!!

Summer: (re-appears after years of absenteeism) DID YOU FEEL THAT?!

Raven: You better believe I did! We need to reclaim our title!

Taiyang: (stars in eyes and gasps) Do I finally get to have the whole team at once?!

SRQ: NO!!!

Raven: You'll just slow us down, 1-2-3 pumps you're out. Summer! Got the energy drinks and liquid IV?

Summer: (holds up a trunk) And the water, lubricant, snacks, and toys for when we start cramping.

Raven: Atta girl! (slaps Summer’s ass)

Summer: .......

Raven: .....I’ve made a mistake....

Summer: Oh, yes you have. (slaps a dog collar around Raven’s neck and hooks the d-ring with her finger) The best kind~~ 🤍

Raven: (squawks as she gets jerked away)

Taiyang: awww...

Qrow: ......

Taiyang: (puppy eyes)

Qrow: (sighs) Fine... I’ve held out for twenty-five years. But I top!

Taiyang: Yay!!!

-6 hours later-

Taiyang: (laying smug in bed with a cigarette) New record! 2 rounds!

Qrow: (blinks in surprise and new PR of 15) Well... Summer and Raven weren’t kidding when they called you a three-pump chump... But DAMN if you aren’t a giver before hand!

-Down the Hall: X hours later-

Summer: (pulling on the leash wrapped around her hand and wrist while Raven plows into her) Come on, you sexy bird! Give it to Mommy!

Raven: (lost all coherent thought ten rounds ago and is going solely on instinct like a feral Tengu) 

Scroll: *Ding!* Con-grat-u-ations! New- Record- Thirty- Two - Rounds - Complet-ed.

-Somewhere in Vale-

Yang: (shivers) Blake, did you feel-

Blake: (grabs Yang by the hair and drags her to the bedroom) I AM NOT LOSING THAT TITLE!!! I DIDNT LET YOU TURN MY PUSSY INTO GROUND MEAT TO BE BEAT OUT BY TWO MILFS!!!

Yang: (screams and moans as her semblance sparks) Mommy!

Sequal to this! For those who were wondering.

[loslocosartistas-blog]

Datos de la salud mental en Colombia

2)      Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social (2018). Boletín de salud mental Salud mental en niños, niñas y adolescentes.

“A nivel global entre 10 y 15 niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNA) de cada 100, presentan problemas y/o trastornos mentales, los cuales se han asociado a la presencia de consumo de alcohol y otras sustancias psicoactivas, abandono escolar, conductas delictivas y otros problemas sociales.” (MINSALUD, pg.3)

 “Los expertos consideran que el desarrollo de las habilidades sociales y las capacidades de afrontamiento, ayudarán a prevenir enfermedades como la depresión y ansiedad, la anorexia, la bulimia y otros trastornos alimenticios, así como el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas y algunos problemas relacionales; ya que permiten que los niños y adolescentes reaccionen de mejor manera ante situaciones difíciles de la vida diaria” (MINSALUD, pg. 3-4)

 “En adolescentes de 12 a 17 años, se aplicó el Cuestionario de auto-reporte (SRQ por sus siglas en inglés); el 12,2% fue reportado positivo para algún síntoma de trastorno mental (…) el 10,1% tuvo síntomas sugestivos de psicosis (…) El 17,8% ha consumido alcohol en los últimos 12 meses y el 3,5% ha consumido marihuana alguna vez en la vida (de estos 48,8% lo ha hecho en los últimos 12 meses). El consumo de cigarrillo fue de 3,4% el último año.” (MINSALUD, pg.16)

 “¿Cómo ayudar a que los niños, niñas y adolescentes sean mentalmente saludables?  Promoviendo estilos de vida saludables  Fortaleciendo las redes de apoyo social y comunitario  Desarrollando una comunicación asertiva  Fortaleciendo la cohesión familiar  Con el desarrollo de habilidades de afrontamiento”  (MINSALUD, pg. 21)

             Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social (2017). OBSERVATORIO NACIONAL DE SALUD MENTAL

 “El artículo 3 de la ley 1616 de 2013 (Ley de salud mental), define la salud mental como “un estado dinámico que se expresa en la vida cotidiana a través del comportamiento y la interacción de manera tal que permite a los sujetos individuales y colectivos desplegar sus recursos emocionales, cognitivos y mentales para transitar por la vida cotidiana, trabajar, establecer relaciones significativas y contribuir a la comunidad”. (MINSALUD, Pág 16, 2017)

 “Colombia ha invertido grandes esfuerzos y recursos en diferentes estudios de prevalencia de eventos en salud mental, entre ellos las encuestas nacionales de salud mental, realizadas en 1993, 1997, 2003 y 2015 y el Estudio Nacional de Consumo de Sustancias Psicoactivas en Colombia de 2008, 2013, así como en las Encuestas de Salud Mental de 1993 y 1997 también se recolectó información sobre el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas (SPA)” (MINSALUD, Pág 18, 2017)

 “El Observatorio Nacional de Salud mental es la instancia técnica responsable de consolidar y proveer información relacionada con la salud mental de la población colombiana, así como de proporcionar evidencia a los responsables de formular políticas, planes y programas, orientados a mejorar la capacidad y oferta de los servicios a nivel nacional y territorial…”  MINSALUD, Pág 24, 2017)

[niennanir]

SRQ con was this past Saturday at Selby Library in Sarasota. I love me a good library con and this was a really good library con. For a small scale show it really had engaging programing. I spent some time in the maker lab painting a viking shield and did some screen printing, made some new friends, had an all around good time.

[niennanir]

Heading out in just a few minutes. If you make it to my panel at 11, be sure to say hi!

The Library opens at 10, food trucks will be on site. Downtown parking is not free in most areas, please plan accordingly. Hope to see you all there!

[niennanir]

Just a few days left... I should probably iron things

The Library opens at 10, food trucks will be on site. Downtown parking is not free in most areas, please plan accordingly. Hope to see you all there!