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"Why are nuns always the scary figures in Horror? Why not monks or priests??? Is it because men don't like it when women aren't sexualized???"
Why are nuns the scary ones? Someone clearly never went to Catholic School.
#I'd love someone to do a count of evil nun movies vs evil priest movies#but like#there's a scary nun in *blues brothers* and that has nothing to do with her fuckability#she's just mean and intimidating#also also#i wonder how much of the legacy of magdalene laundries (and similar facilities) lives on#especially in the modern era#but everyone in ye olden days knew they were places you were forcibly sent to and might never return from#and there's some crossover between the asylum horror trope#there's also probably some misogyny stuff about nuns being in charge of childcare#and people having issues with their caretakers#and working them out through fiction#sub-tumbling#catholocism#horror#catholic school#religion
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Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.
#This is neither a criticism nor a compliment of that artistic choice#I just think it's really interesting#Like even looking at the Five:#Tigress talks in an older style than the others because she was mainly raised at the Jade Palace#While Mantis talks like Joe-schmo off the street because he *was* a streetfighter and an ordinary guy#Shifu and even Tai Lung talk like they're from an old-fashioned novel or kung fu movie#Po talks like a modern guy you'd meet working in a twenty-first century family restaurant#Part of Tigress's initial disdain for him in the first movie is clearly because she considers him to be low-class/a commoner#(And therefore an intruder into the world of the Jade Palace and the rest of the Kung Fu masters which appears to be semi-noble).#Shen looks genuinely off-put and disgusted when he has to respond to Po's greeting with a “...hey.”#And when Po wants to appear more legitimate as a warrior he adopts a more “legendary”/old-fashioned way of speaking.#In the aesthetic language of KFP old fashioned=noble/upper class and modern=common/lower class.#This translates entirely naturally—I think especially to an American audience—but it is wild once you notice it#Because you realize: “Hang on—shouldn't *all* these characters be talking like they're living in the medieval era?”#“And what does it mean that they're not? What is the movie attempting to convey with this—probably entirely subconscious—artistic choice?”#kung fu panda
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started watching digimon :•)
#digimon#digimon adventure#izumi koushirou#izzy izumi#my art#the animation style is literally gorgeous especially our war game#my brother and i watched that movie together in the dub and i loved it so much so i decided to try watching the series#he grew up with the show so he has a lot of sentiment for it and was really happy that i started it lol#such a good hallmark of its time imo the digital aesthetics and modern (90s) world are so good#the colors perfectly encapsulate that era too ahhh i feel so nostalgic for a series i never knew much abt as a kid#i love izzy and matt and joe#yes its 2023 idc
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Sometimes I still think about Hatchet, safe me non-canon eccentric potato farmer cousin safe me
Sillies aside, I love side-characters like "yaas characters that mostly interact with each other talk with that other guy". All the different sides of a character that you can only explore with the presence of a third person and the ways stabilized dynamics can chance under different presences its *chefs kiss*
Also as an end note, Machete deserves more people that try to connect with him and make him feel appreciated. Even if its his weird cousin that is probably a communist and doesn't know what a tumblr is (he's barely in his 30's)
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#ah#cousin Hatchet!#I wonder what he's up to these days#still planting potatoes and raising chickens I presume#save me cousin Hatchet#answered#anonymous#Hatchet#modern au#yes I agree and I know I should involve more side characters#I keep having trouble solidifying their designs#Ludovica (Vasco's platonic wife in canon era) especially
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medda larkin learns how to cook kosher so she can make sure to feed the jacobs kids whenever they’re around
#this works for both canon and modern era#but especially aus where medda has custody of jack#jac txt.#davey jacobs#david jacobs#sarah jacobs#les jacobs#medda larkin#newsies#livesies#javid#jack kelly
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it's so funny seeing people say they want shadow to be in sonic superstars. bestie he's still frozen in his tube at the time sonic superstars is happening. how is he gonna be there
#like i know shadow is a really popular character but come on. he cant be in everything#and as a shadow fan. id rather there be actual thought put into his appearances#than for him to be thrown into every sonic media just because hes popular#i think that deciding certain characters are classic sonic characters and can only appear in classic sonic media is stupid#but characters introduced in the modern era not being allowed to show up in classic sonic media makes sense actually#especially with characters like shadow who just should not be there. timeline wise.
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i lovw you dr james barry i love you billy tipton i love you michael dillon i love ypu alan hart i love you charley parkhurst i lovw you lou sullivan i lo
#historical trans men mean so much to me dudes#especially trans men in the 18-1900s#i identify a lot with the nonshitty ideals of like... vintage masculinity and the trabs men in this era mean a lot to me#i identify with them very much as opposed to my modern brothers and siblings#idk why#queer history#ftm#transgender
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sometimes researching for avatar redesigns has you 6 layers deep into the Japan's Meiji era allies wiki
#im trying to mess with some of the stuff that feels weird about the ways the fire nation is depicted idk#like i do not feel optically it is good for like them to be so heavily based on japan's imperialist actions#while dressed in clothes that come from places japan colonized#but i dont want it to just be solely japanese though i did draw zuko and azula in hakama but its largely cause i wanted to draw hakama#and like the only place with strong japanese influence being kiyoshi island and my own frustration with the modern day samurai depiction#i think fundamentally it isnt a choice that had as much thought as i am putting in put into it but it does raise an eyebrow for me#anyway i think keeping the thai influence is fine despite the brief invasion japan had into thailand due to thailand then allying with japa#and further allying with the axis due to allying with japan#ugh and ive been told not to think this much about it because its fiction but its also fiction so so so heavily based on real places#and when you base fiction on real cultures you fall into some unintentional pitfalls#i also fucking hate the royal fire nation robes they look so meh and the most costumey out of everything in the show#they look like heavy blankets despite being a supposedly hot nation#theres ways to have heavy robes (heian era japan) but they look like i make them out of fleece and velvet blankets#back to kiyoshi island i think the really only aesthetically japanese reference in the show being an island of noble warriors is lame#plus over done#it feels like nowadays theres a lot of people who get all whiney about people saying fire nation is based off japan#but like dude the creators in the comics and korra like go even more into the japanese influence and clearly it was the original intentions#also i do think you could do some pretty interesting world building by having say there be an older cultural influence on kiyoshi island#from the fire nation especially if the place is established as a central port area then you tie in some okinawan or even hawaiian reference#and gives an explanation that makes sense to why kiyoshi stands out from the rest of the earth kingdom you have long term cultural trading#and it establishes interesting relationships even pre kiyoshi time thereby drawing back onto some real historic references#cause for awhile ryukyu china and japan used to be this trading triangle which could explain some of these various influences going on#i think you can get a really interesting harmony when you create the fire nation out of a mix of japan and thailand#i mean both have these floating buildings due to living on some pretty wet lands and theres harmony in that mix#god i did see one person go like “fire nation is more based on china because theres a lot of red and red is important in china”#my brother in christ red is also important in japan#red is important in like many many asian cultures#i mean of course a lot of that importance stems from china and cultural exchange with china but idk kinda silly to say with your whole ches#like if you want to bring china in then the dragons are the biggest thing like sure some mythos has dragons in japan#but a lot of those comes from china in some way
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You are now my love. Forever. That hurt so good that I read it 3 times, back to back, just to feel again.
I'll ask how and why Wanderer was shot? I love how everyone, even her, knew that she loved Dream so fiercely that accepting love from another wasn't in the cards? Mix that with the fear of the curse destroying everything and I'M HURTING.
Wonderful.
WW2, Berlin, following a lead on Corinthian. They assumed she was a spy (but not this time : ) )
And even on platonic level everyone in tibyim universe is so used to seeing those two together, it’s just??? There is no Dream without Wanderer and no Wanderer without Dream.
A certain immortal is going to be showing up next chapter and ask a similar question, so I’ll wait until then to go into more detail on Wanderer’s emotions. But no, despite a few opportunities over the centuries to take lovers, if not more, there could never be anyone else for Wanderer. It never felt right, and for a reason.
#cannot stress how LITTLE you see of how wanderer operates in the waking world especially in more modern era#her adventures could be their own story tbf#next chapter tho we see how far wanderer has come though and actually get a lot of finer detail on the curse or more so loophole#asks#fic: today i bury you in me
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I feel like "guy in the walls" type of stuff was a lot more feasible when servants' corridors were still a thing.
#having secret passageways in the walls still fucks tho#but it'd be hell to clean; especially if you don't use it often#and you'd still have to accommodate for wiring and shit in the modern era; would it even be worth it?
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controversial opinion re: "year 2" but i think it's a bit unfair to disregard it based on those 2 panels that state that batman is the only thing that makes bruce feel like himself (and similarly, based on bruce owning a gun and almost using it). they are not even meant to be taken at face value, the opposite, really; the whole book subtly subverts this idea. it showcases bruce getting too close to the darker side of batman (which is, i understand, a dichotomy that many people do not like, but also a dichotomy that barr does intentionally make murky within the wider narrative) and stepping out of it. and i don't think that it cheapens bruce's other motivations as batman; that it cheapens the value of his love and the fact that he seeks out to protect people from the fate he suffered when witnessing his parents' death; i think on the other hand, it teases out the irony of it. and it's not done in bad faith or as a "gotcha" moment; barr clearly has so much love for classic batman stories and for the character, and reading it within his whole dc run makes it obvious. bruce is not just batman; and batman is not only a dark blood-thirsty creature; but batman is an entity that mangles his relationship with the others; that isolates him in some ways; that makes it difficult for him to manage a family. vigilantism is not a straightforward power of good nor evil; it requires careful negotiation between justice and revenge; the civilian identity and the masked one; and that is not always possible. bruce is sometimes wrong, and his lifestyle requires sacrifices that other characters are not happy with; which ultimately might hurt them too. but barr never writes about it without immense sympathy for bruce's character and the characters around him too (look: the way he wrote leslie & alfred, all he said about robin's place in the canon etc.) and that's what makes good comics.
#and of course barr's run is not perfect in all ways#but it is in many ways a very logical extension of the narrative from pre-crisis. i don't think people realise it...#and at the same time it was *the* run to introduce batman into the modern era... and if the writers chose to stick with many of these theme#contemporary comics would be much better#let vigilantism be messy.#let bruce be wrong about things and let him fuck up#and let him love still.#i don't know 'my probable end' is especially such a great moment in the run too#specifically for that reason#there's recognition that bruce is projecting on jay. there's recognition it might have fatal consequences#and yet it's never ever questioned that there's love there.#and they get a happy ending..........#i just miss comics that treat characters seriously without throwing other characters under the bus yk.
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Finally gave her a ref!
[Old designs below the cut!]
Reverse chronological order(?)
(Newest to oldest)
And ig I should also include the previous oc, who also went by Miyako (who isn't her. I transed his gender a while ago)
#levys art#levy draws#levys oc#oc#my art#kny oc#jjk oc#<- shes both!#hehe#oc ref#shes been on the brain a lot recently!#especially since my friemd has been rambling about their jjk au#shes just a teachers assistant who was assigned to gojos class when hes off on missions n stuff#she adores all of the students#gojo bought her a lot of stupid meme shirts when she started workinh with them#because she didnt have any modern era clothes#she has a ton!#but she also has other clothes that arent stupid shirts i swear#starlit expanse
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I just love Flipper okay, and man's might not been known so well, he's just spinning in my head along with Bumlets okay, there brothers, he just a small boy who found comfort in Bumlets okay just-
#when im able i will post a photo of this wonderful boy istg#i could go on tho but#especially cannon era him#and modern#hes so silly#and he loves romace novels#hes besties with Tumbler fr and Bumlets is his older brother#trust#newsies#92sies#1992 newsies#1992sies#newsies 1992#flipper newsies#bumlets newsies
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most annoying dialogue exchange in shows/movies is when someone explains a basic technological concept and the other guy goes “can I get that in english please”
#media#especially when someone just says like. IP address or something#like u live in the current modern era. get some basic tech literacy
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Classic Who explores ideas, New Who explores morals
classic who is like 'i see this trend, lets explore what might happen if that trend continues and let the audience figure out what it's talking about and come to their own conclusions.'
new who is like 'this trend is BAD and i'm going to PREACH A SPEECH about why it's going to RUIN EVERYTHING' and it's so much more exhausting
#wren rambles#doctor who#this brought on by me watching orphan 55#which had SUCH a fun concept#and then absolutely FACEPLANTED with the doctor moralizing at the end#like yes doctor who has ALWAYS explored topical and political issues#but never is there a definitive I Am Telling You This Is Right message#whereas now I just had to sit here and watch 13 preaching at me?#ughghg#explore the idea but don't shove it down my throat#classic who had an episode (Ice Warriors) exploring climate change as one aspect of the story#talking about how all the plants were removed and that messed with the atmosphere etc.#but that was just a SMALL PART of the whole episode and it was never outright condemned (it was made clear it was BAD and the root problems#but that was never the BIG ISSUE the Doctor Lectured His Companions about) (not that victoria or jamie could do anything lol)#plus this feeds into my issues with 13's run (which started during 12's somewhat but less so)#where the Doctor is painted as the Narratively Right one#where when she says something that's what the narrative wants you to BELIEVE#which coming from Two and Three's run is WILD#because Two is chaotic and murderous when he thinks he's right#and he's manipulative and deceptive at times#and Three is selfish and pouty and rude#and don't get me wrong Thirteen has her issues and I lvoe them#HOWEVER. she's pretty much always RIGHT she's the Word Of God when it comes to moral things#and this more than anything is my biggest issues with Modern Who#mostly 12 and 13's eras#so i hope we move out of that somewhat in the new era but i'm not super holding up hopes (especially after star beast)#maybe one day i'll write a proper full article about it but GOSH#i don't watch this show to be preached at. I watch it for a fun/tragic scifi romp and also to see interesting ideas explored#and reflect the climate of the world and how society influences media#explore the idea of climate change turning the world into a post apocalypse! that's such a fun idea and topical!
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Reintroducing Andrite and Tero’Ra, I present the ‘stuck in development hell’ original character donut steal Kesi, an oc that was made before I turned my ‘thep khufan aren’t an alien species’ Mutants and Magic au as my default Ben 10 ocverse so she stopped being Kesiris.
Have also this ‘rotating in my mind for forever’ triad pondering how to taste a rock that can’t taste featuring fucked up face hugger petrosapien kissing-
#andrite#kesi#tero'ra#oc#ben 10 oc#ben 10#fanart#you have no idea who kesi is because i have not spoken about her#she is a seamstress and has always been conceptualised AS a seamstress#however she was a thep khufan seamstress that had an ectonurite assistance (tero'ra) who would do the heavy lifting#when i both decided i wanted to make even os more mutant and magic (a la au) and then decided to make it an oc verse#(this oc verse including annie and thus the andromeda 5 thus the heavily magic mutant and neurodivergent plagued ra'ad reliant on this au)#i was left with a character i couldn't (in my head) talk about anymore because i had written out her entire backstory#but looking into who were actually mummified (the mummification process including magic being the justification of the os mummy up and out)#commoners could be mummified even if it is exorbantly expensive#so kesi was a seamstress that instead of being on earth as an alien- she is a seamstress from over 5000 years ago in modern era#some fuck head did what some fuck head does and awakens a mummy- kesi wakes up pissed that her work is being stolen#then she realises that her family scrounged up enough coin to afford a mummification for her- someone who died a little bit too soon#and she sets up a business that welcomes aliens (especially for a work seeking ghost and a dysphoric rock) because how human is she#also they are a poly thems the rules i don't know what to tell ya#a trio braincells on their OWN perhaps but when in the same room? defenestration#it's been so long since the last i've [drawn my alien(adjacent) ocs] lost to this monster the [magic and mutants au]
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