#blog essentials

[four-bastard-bustle]

Thought about throwing Red Leader into my tordmatt breakup and ohohohohohohohohoohohoh things just got SO MUCH more fun

[vastrophel]

★》 INTRO ! (again...)

☆》 Hello !!! I'm VASTROPHEL (all caps if alloted), but you can call me Arty, Astro, or Vast, however that last one I get called that and not asked to be but its fine it's a funny nickname and i like that!!! [He/It pronouns, please!]

★》 Below is more about myself!

☆》 I looove formatting posts to reflect how I talk IRL, but i'll be happy to tone it down if it helps the post or makes things readable! I also. do tend to have a few typing quirks that only show in messages from time to time but. Still.

★》 I'm an artist !!! However, I tend to upload more on Twitter [here]. I also write rarely when I don't feel like drawing, ramble about media I like, or try voice-acting or making songs (very, very rare.)

★》 So anyways ! Yeah ! That's me !!! Right now, always subject to change in the future—

[slothmonth]

I agree that "in Germany your boss legally has to provide you with work while you're at your job" is a bit funny considering the German stereotype. But I am really annoyed at people who act like this is some horrible hypercapitalist thing on that post about pushing people out of their jobs by just not giving them anything to do. When really it's very basic worker protection (within the context of German emplyment law.) Because under most circumstances you can't just be fired from your job. Your employer has to provide a reason for firing you if they want to get rid of you. You also have a right to specifially the work you were hired to do.

So your boss having to give you appropriate work makes illegal any of the following:

a) Making you clean toilets instead of (or in addition to) the clearly defined office job you agreed to do

b) Not giving you work and then firing you for not doing your work

c) Waiting for you to crack under the intense boredom of having to stay on one place with absolutely nothing to do for eight hours a day while your coworkers are roped into it to shun you (or hate you because for some reason you're the only one who doesn't have to do any work) until you quit "voluntarily"

or d) waiting for you to crack under the aformentioned pressure until you do what the people in the notes said they'd do, like watching movies or doing a second job instead which is something you then can be reprimanded and fired for

[xxplastic-cubexx]

alternate apocalypse ending or something who the hcrist knows anymore

[anghraine]

It's always been intriguing to me that, even when Elizabeth hates Darcy and thinks he's genuinely a monstrous, predatory human being, she does not ever perceive him as sexually predatory. In fact, literally no one in the novel suggests or believes he is sexually dangerous at any point. There's not the slightest hint of that as a factor in the rumors surrounding him, even though eighteenth-century fiction writers very often linked masculine villainy to a possibility of sexual predation in the subtext or just text*. Austen herself does this over and over when it comes to the true villains of her novels.

Even as a supposed villain, though, Darcy is broadly understood to be predatory and callous towards men who are weaker than him in status, power, and personality—with no real hint of sexual threat about it at all (certainly none towards women). Darcy's "villainy" is overwhelmingly about abusing his socioeconomic power over other men, like Wickham and Bingley. This can have secondhand effects on women's lives, but as collateral damage. Nobody thinks he's targeting women.

In addition, Elizabeth's interpretations of Darcy in the first half of the book tend to involve associating him with relatively prestigious women by contrast to the men in his life (he's seen as extremely dissimilar from his male friends and, as a villain, from his father). So Elizabeth understands Darcy-as-villain not in terms of the popular, often very sexualized images of masculine villainy at the time, but in terms of rich women she personally despises like Caroline Bingley and Lady Catherine de Bourgh (and even Georgiana Darcy; Elizabeth assumes a lot about Georgiana in service of her hatred of Darcy before ever meeting her).

The only people in Elizabeth's own community who side with Darcy at this time are, interestingly, both women, and likely the highest-status unmarried women in her community: Charlotte Lucas and Jane Bennet. Both have some temperamental affinities with Darcy, and while it's not clear if he recognizes this, he quietly approves of them without even knowing they've been sticking up for him behind the scenes.

This concept of Darcy-as-villain is not just Elizabeth's, either. Darcy is never seen by anyone as a sexual threat no matter how "bad" he's supposed to be. No one is concerned about any danger he might pose to their daughters or sisters. Kitty is afraid of him, but because she's easily intimidated rather than any sense of actual peril. Even another man, Mr Bennet, seems genuinely surprised to discover late in the novel that Darcy experiences attraction to anything other than his own ego.

I was thinking about this because of how often the concept of Darcy as an anti-hero before Elizabeth "fixes him" seems caught up in a hypermasculine, sexually dangerous, bad boy image of him that even people who actively hate him in the novel never subscribe to or remotely imply. Wickham doesn't suggest anything of the kind, Elizabeth doesn't, the various gossips of Meryton don't, Mr Bennet and the Gardiners don't, nobody does. If anything, he's perceived as cold and sexless.

Wickham in particular defines Darcy's villainy in opposition to the patriarchal ideal his father represented. Wickham's version of their history works to link Darcy to Lady Anne, Lady Catherine (primarily), and Georgiana rather than any kind of masculine sexuality. This version of Darcy is a villain who colludes with unsympathetic high-status women to harm men of less power than themselves, but villain!Darcy poses no direct threat to women of any kind.

It's always seemed to me that there's a very strong tendency among fans and academics to frame Darcy as this ultra-gendered figure with some kind of sexual menace going on, textually or subtextually. He's so often understood entirely in terms of masculinity and sexual desire, with his flaws closely tied to both (whether those flaws are his real ones, exaggerated, or entirely manufactured). Yet that doesn't seem to be his vibe to other characters in the story. There's a level at which he does not register to other characters as highly masculine in his affiliations, highly sexual, or in general as at all unsafe** to be around, even when they think he's a monster. And I kind of feel like this makes the revelations of his actual decency all along and his full-on heroism later easier to accept in the end.

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*The incompetently awful villain(?) in Sanditon, for instance, imagines himself another Lovelace (a reference to the famous rapist-villain of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa). Evelina's sheltered education and lack of protectors makes her vulnerable to sexual exploitation in Frances Burney's Evelina, though she ultimately manages to avoid it. There's frequently an element of sexual predation in Gothic novels even of very different kinds (e.g. Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Matthew Lewis's The Monk both lean into this, in their wildly dissimilar styles). William Godwin's novel Caleb Williams, a book mostly about the destructive evils of class hierarchies and landowning classes specifically, depicts the mutual obsession of the genteel villain Falkland and working class hero Caleb in notoriously homoerotic terms (Godwin himself added a preface in 1832 saying, "Falkland was my Bluebeard, who had perpetrated atrocious crimes ... Caleb Williams was the wife"). This list could go on for a very long time.

**Darcy is also not usually perceived by other characters as a particularly sexual, highly masculine person in a safe way, either, even once his true character is known. Elizabeth emphasizes the resilience of Darcy's love for her more than the passionate intensity they both evidently feel; in the later book, she does sometimes makes assumptions about his true feelings or intentions based on his gender, but these assumptions are pretty much invariably shown to be wrong. In general the cast is completely oblivious to the attraction he does feel; even Charlotte, who wonders about something in that quarter, ends up doubting her own suspicions and wonders if he's just very absent-minded.

The novel emphasizes that he is physically attractive, but it goes to pains to distinguish this from Wickham's sex appeal or the charisma of a Bingley or Fitzwilliam. Mr Bennet (as mentioned above) seems to have assumed Darcy is functionally asexual, insofar as he has a concept of that. Most of the fandom-beloved moments in which Darcy is framed as highly sexual, or where he himself is sexualized for the audience, are very significantly changed in adaptation or just invented altogether for the adaptations they appear in. Darcy watching Elizabeth after his bath in the 1995 is invented for that version, him snapping at Elizabeth in their debates out of UST is a persistent change from his smiling banter with her in the book, the fencing to purge his feelings is invented, the pond swim/wet shirt is invented. In the 2005 P&P, the instant reaction to Elizabeth is invented, the hand flex of repressed passion is invented, the Netherfield Ball dance as anything but an exercise in mutual frustration is invented, the near-kiss after the proposal in invented, etc. And in those as well, he's never presented as sexually predatory, not even as a "villain."

[basedjamil]

more of this nonsense! i got carried away!

najma and lilia are pals because she thinks listening to your parents is for dweebs

poot

sebek refuses to tell kalim no about Anything but he does live in fear that he's going to harm himself on his watch somehow so he just has to be At The Ready At All Times

regrettably this is just who kalim is as a person

[pinkblossomxo]

The prettiest pink lipstick cases 🎀

[sweetestnpink]

top things for a girl(My addition) ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ ʚɞ ୧⋆ ˚｡

•Brown skin(just black women in general)

•Gold jewelry

•Body shimmer or pretty perfume

•Curls in the hair

•Low rise jeans

•2000s baby phat

•layer your jewelry

•Cute wedges for spring & summer

•cute pink bag with girly keychains

•Rnb girly playlist

[milkoomi]

it-girl school bag essentials. ᥫ᭡

a lot of us spend more time at school than we do at our own homes, so we have to make sure our bags our packed with everything we need! here’s a list of some essentials to have in your school bag!

let’s begin …

୨ৎ — basics

notebooks

textbooks

folders

planner

pens/pencils/highlighters

pencil case

no bag’s complete without the bare minimum! be sure you have any and all your school supplies packed and ready to go!

୨ৎ — electronics

ipad/tablet

tablet pencil/stylus

laptop

chargers (phone, tablet, & laptop)

headphones

electronics case (ipad/tablet/laptop)

chargers case

୨ৎ — personal hygiene

deodorant

body spray/perfume

hand sanitizer

lotion

feminine hygiene products (pads/tampons)

mint/gum

୨ৎ — miscellaneous essentials

disinfecting wipes

tide to-go pen

extra hair ties/clips

lip balm/gloss (be sure your lip balm has spf!)

oil blotting sheets

kleenex

compact mirror

hair brush/comb

mini first-aid kit (bandaids, pain meds, allergy meds, eyedrops, antibacterial spray/cream for cuts/wounds, hydrocortisone/anti-itch cream)

refillable water bottle

snacks

final notes —

every it-girl/person is always prepared no matter where they go, and that means even to school! be that person that’s always got everything on-hand. it’s always better be over-prepared than have those “dang it, i left it at home” moments!

with lots of love, faustina 🌷

[four-bastard-bustle]

back at it again with my convoluded original story wearing the skin of eddsworld

[amorespell]

just girly things

[purple-raspberries]

i love how u draw eddie!! do u have any favourite artworks of him?? (can be yours or anyone elses art)

Oooo! I’ll start off w my fav artists! (Tag jumpscare!) [maybe be subject to editing]

Of course there’s Clown (@/partycoffin) and Huck (@/downydig), the creator of WH and his good friend! Clown is so good at character design and Huck, who helps develop WH, has such a wonderful art style~ (and their other friends who help them with creating the arg!)

@cyanwyrmy has some fantastic renditions of the man.

As do @window-to-oblivion

@carnivalcarrion

@eechytooru !

@/laMnwCNIKJCiQKD on twitter <3

@forgrtashes-blog

THEY MAKE GREAT ART! IM TALKING MORE THAN JUST THE MAILMAN HERE! GO GO!

Fanfic authors (there’s more of them out there but my brain is noodles atp):

@sorin-sunchild (ao3 link) (their ‘Welcome Home Found Footage’ series is tragic and heart wrenching, but so well written! It’s very affecting, mind the tags. I’m still getting the nerve to leave you a proper comment on your pt 2, but I’m telling you now that I loved it tearfully 🥹 and full of grief)

@catghoststories (ao3 link) (‘Lovely to Look at, Delightful to Hold’ is a great read and I loved seeing Frank and Eddie’s relationship develop as they navigated their situation

@gay-ppl-real (ao3 link) many wonderful one-shots with delightful and immersive characterizations and one series centering around FranklyDear

And lastly, my stuff!

Definitely the sweet potato piece and that one sketch that did numbers from a while ago

The contrast is frankly quite hilarious (my two sides lol), but I’m proud of them nonetheless!

[brunettegoldie]

[dallasgallant]

Full movie cast description

Still reading the script, or finally starting and I wanted to share the full of these descriptions. Not just because it was really funny that Randy just exists but, also that apparently the movie always struggled with Dally’s age. He isn’t listed and in marketing material it’s not listed or he’s made older than he is in the book/movie (still 17)

[pinkblossomxo]

The perfect Vday roses 💗🎀🎀