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In contrary to popular belief, I actually really love the small filler moments between the Crows, in which they are all sitting and just talking to each other. Discussing things, planning things. Because these are the moments that show how human they are, how they are just like you and me. We see them debating. We see them joking around with each other as well every now and then. We see them slumping against a chair, drawing circles on the table with their finger, mussing their disheveled hair and drinking coffee. When they aren't being dangerous crime lords getting involved in some intense action, but just people. Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom prove that filler moments aren't always boring when the characters involved are highly intriguing and their shared dialogue is also a joy to read. It's why I really cherished that one scene in the show during the second episode of the second season, when Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Nina and Wylan were all seated at a table in that breakfast shop and just talking about things. It meant a lot to me and I wanted more of them.
#not everything needs to be action#six of crows#crooked kingdom#grishaverse#shadow and bone netflix#kaz brekker#inej ghafa#jesper fahey#nina zenik#wylan van eck#mattias helvar
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main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:
michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club
*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***
that's it that's the movie
outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative
actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.
aka Michael Myers Is A Republican
but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too
also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain
side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty
i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978
(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)
oh no he's hot

#HALLOWEEN#halloween the movie#michael myers#do you think he's a mike? mikey? to his friends? if slashers had friends?#i'll be honest i was expecting this movie to be way more of a bitch to its female characters#i mean yeah they died but so did some dudes#there's just a lack of cattiness compared to the way most later movies portrayed teenage girls idk#yeah the Final Girl is a Virgin and a Bookworm. but there's no bullying or any strong sense that's she's morally superior to everyone else#mostly she AND the other girls feel a bit sorry for her lack of a social life. one even tries to set her up with a date to the school dance#solidarity! trying to get your nerd friend laid!#overall it's just teenagers being teenagers and then a slasher comes in and ruins everything with his Lack Of Chill#like yeah dude sometimes teenagers have sex. get over it#also something to be said about how while the girl who survives is the one who isn't sexually active and dresses conservatively...#ultimately those things aren't ENOUGH to prevent her from being targeted#you could say that the other girls 'provoked' the villain (the same way women irl are so often accused of provoking their attackers)#but ultimately that doesn't keep the Final Girl safe. it just delays the inevitable.#because violent men never need excuses. no matter how eager society is to provide them.#ultimately she is at the mercy of the same violent whims because it was never her behavior that invited the violence.#gendered violence doesn't need an invitation.#also she doesn't save herself the doctor saves her#it's not her actions or choices that put her in danger OR save her from it--once again it is the whim of a man#no this wasn't intended to be a feminist movie it's just fun how you could argue it that way
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Been drawing dragons lately






#can you tell what dragons are my favs /silly#needed to draw Hookfang after seeing the live action shit. they took his whimsyyyy#and windsheer cuz i wanted to render her metal scales#the rest are just doodles as i was bored or smth#i realized i took a verryyy long break from httyd art but these movies r my everything so. i wanna draw them again#rewatched the first movie for the first time in a while and it still makes me all emotional#i will be going to see the live action but my feelings on it are very mixed. hopefully it'll be worth my time#httyd#httyd fanart#httyd dragons#deady nadder#monstrous nightmare#my beloved#hookfang#httyd hookfang#stormfly#httyd stormfly#love those sillies#how to train your dragon#night fury#toothless#httyd toothless#fyp#my art#doodle dump
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these two shots from the jayvik animatic im working on drive me insane. everyday i contemplate just posting the unfinished version bc i want to share the vision but i think if i do that ill never finish it 😭
#my art#arcane season 2#viktor arcane#arcane#jayce talis#jayvik#arcane fanart#machine herald viktor#wip#trust gang i will show yall when its ready#gonna make a youtube account and everything#everything is all sketched out i just need to go over it w line#so yall can actually see the action#instead of vague gray strokes#mage viktor
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“i don’t follow orders, neither does he.”
“i’m invited to hq? WHOO!”
and the way hobie slings his arm around miles is so familiar and beautiful and i’ll never get over it
#atsv spoilers#across the spiderverse spoilers#and comparing their masks so close to each other#and their wide bug eyes#and their personalities both just udnxsjnddjdjd#punkflower#amazing movie. amazing everything. this scene#i need miles action fig NOW to recreate this shot#miles morales#hobie brown#spiderpunk#spiderman#atsv#across the spiderverse
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breaking the sign in two by how hard im tapping it
#im putting the word queerbait in a very tall box on a very tall shelf and none of you get it back until you actually learn the definition#sjonnies edits#queerbait#queer media#queer#queer issues#there are real queerbaits! a lot of them! but i am SO sick and tired of everything that's not explicitly stated be called queerbait#or when the focus in an action movie is not the full romance#would the hero and the girl have kissed in a straight action movie? sure. but even now more often than not that doesn't happen or the focus#is different entirely#the world doesn't change overnight. but you know what helps changing it? watching the media that's implying it! NORMALISING THAT MEDIA!#showing the studios that it isn't popularity suicide. encouraging actors to diversify and give them the respect they need without turning#every conversation an actor playing a queer character into what their sexuality is!#venom#deadpool and wolverine#loki#911#<- which. btw. fucking INSANE thing to say#also queer characters CANNOT be used for queerbait#QUEER CHARACTERS CANNOT BE USED FOR QUEERBAIT#they can be buried! but they CANNOT be used for queerbait because they. are. queer.
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Thomas Matthew Crooks is from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, and is a registered Republican.
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#destiel meme news#destiel meme#news#united states#us news#us politics#donald trump#tw death#tw shootings#tw shooting#gun tw#guns tw#tw guns#tw gun violence#assassination attempt#anti trump#trump shot#trump assassination attempt#thomas matthew crooks#someone find his socials i need to know everything about him#christ this is wild because like I'M 20#chat he shoulda been gearing up to go to the club next year he shouldn't have been planning acts of politicol violence#registered republican but he donated to a progressive political action committee
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The musical episode.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangyao#nie mingjue#Remember jin guangyao: If you do any treachery you will face the wrath of five horses.#When are the horses going to come into play? You'll see.#s2.ep8 had beautiful music... I listened to it on loop while drawing!#Good music to chill out to before you fly into a rage.#This episode really cements how JGY's mind works - It is a matter of long-term outcomes at the sake of nearly everything else.#Morals do not matter to him if the outcome is more favourable.#and at the center of it all - he has learned that the only person he can truly trust is himself.#In turn - the only person his actions benefit are himself.#He will do anything and everything it takes to reach a position of power - not just for the power. But because it means safety.#Because it was something he was denied and the idea of not having control in his life again is unforgivable.#'Happiness' isn't a goal. We are looking at someone still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.#Everything and everyone is a piece in a game. Bonds and friendships are assets. People are dispensable.#He wants to climb for the sake of climbing. He wants praise and recognition because he feels it is deserved. It's all so hollow.#We could go deeper into his psyche on this.#But these are also tags under a comic in which 'evil penis music' is the punchline.
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this is the Gaza Family Funds Directory, a spreadsheet of palestinian families' gofundmes, sorted by the amount of support they've received thus far. please choose as many as you can from this list to donate to, even just a dollar.

in addition, the sheet also contains a link to a gdrive folder with designs for flyers/stickers that you can print out and place in your community. if you truly can't spare anything directly now, please consider doing this so you can get these links in front of people who can donate!
it also remains urgent to keep the people of palestine connected in the face of communication blackouts; please contribute esims! it is very easy to do and is fully explained on this page: https://gazaesims.com/
if you cannot afford the price of an esim individually, there's a campaign currently running on twitter to which you can contribute whatever you can afford ($1, $3, whatever) to a larger pool which will then be used to buy esims collectively. there's also the crips for esims for gaza fundraiser, which operates similarly. there are probably more than this! i chose these two for this post bc they are currently active + both have easily vettable proof of donation (screencaps in the qrts of the twitter campaign, financial accountability document in the crips for esims campaign.)
finally, look into local grassroots organizations in your area so you can stay in the loop on protest activity. many such orgs have accounts on instagram. if you are in the us, looking for local chapters of the PSL, the palestinian youth movement, or national students for justice in palestine can be a good start.
please, please, please: pick something here and do it. i know it can feel overwhelming and there may be an urge to tell yourself that you'll reblog this now and get around to it later. instead please choose one thing. even if it's just finding orgs in your area and following them so you'll be notified the next time there's a protest. even if it's just downloading the flyer designs and looking up a print shop where you can run off a stack of copies. make a decision to do something tangible right now, even if it's just a first step.
#this is not an exhaustive list of fundraisers or avenues of action at all. it's just what's in front of me right now#let seeing stuff like this be a jumping off point for looking more in-depth and finding stuff in your own area too#at the end of the day everything helps -- including just boosting things -- but to get anywhere we all need to individually engage#free palestine
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because there is nothing to lose the people saying biden should resign now so kamala can still be the first female president are absolutely right but why stop there? inauguration day is 70 days away let's make "president for a day" a real thing. say "fuck it we ARE going to do the arbitrary quota DEI bullshit you accuse us of" and speedrun first [category] presidents. revolving door type thing.
first female president. first openly gay president. first transgender president. first president who has been to space. first president gamer president. first mime president. just play president bingo and hit as many categories as possible while we still can. make all of trump's #47 merch unusable by forcing him to be the 115th president instead. who cares anymore let's peacefully transition power but do it in the most chaotic hot-potato way possible
#us politics#politics tw#election 2024#joe biden#kamala harris#this is how bernie can still win!!!#like fuck it even let hillary have it for a day since she wanted it so freakin bad#each person pardons the one before and half the action is just pardons#if they're gonna dismantle the justice system as well as all the other systems of government just preemptively pardon anyone#if there's a policy that really needs to get passed just do executive order chain where each new person goes 'ditto'#make everything so frickin complicated to untangle that the trump admin has to spend the first 100 days#just sorting through paperwork#maybe malicious compliance and bureaucracy was the answer all along#'i guess you guys wanna do autocracy but we're gonna make it really irritating for you'
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ok on a more serious note re: one piece live action chopper reveal, i saw some comments comparing his design to the first sonic (ie fucked up off-putting uncanny etc) but i actually think that the "bad" CGI works in favour for chopper specifically, because he's literally a reindeer-human fusion and people in-universe think he's weird and unsettling and a monster!!! ppl threw stones at him and his own herd abandoned him etc. like he IS fucked up looking and he can STILL be cute!! he literally had a whole arc about accepting himself as who he was (a monster) and his crew still adores him.
anyway tldr i think live action chopper looks so scrungly and strange and i love that bc that's what he is <3
#one piece#one piece live action#tony tony chopper#chopper one piece#chopper op#OPLA#at.txt#ppl are too baby-yoda brained. tbh#not everything needs to be mainstream “cute”#ppl saying wtf he's not cute he's so ugly. actually he can be both!!
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yk adorable group hug and luffy moment aside, did zoro just kick the ground . after he was hugged . is this show even real
sorry but the way nami went 🤨🏳️🌈 TWICE
#i love the opla i love the opla i would die for the opla#UGHHGGHGH LUFFY SHOUTING WITH HAPPINESS IS SO#inaki did graduate from the university of luffyoligy /ref#they mean everything to me u don't understand#they made everyone fruity as hell im#the kayasopp usokaya whatever the ship name kiss also counts#THEYRE SO CUTE?#sorry irrelevant i just needed to talk about it#THE AMOUNT OF JOY THIS SHOW IS GIVING ME i might die#IM GONNA DRAW SO MANY SCREENCAPS#JUST WATCH#(i cursed myself by saying that and now i never will)#one piece#op#one piece live action#opla#spoilers#min watches one piece#zolu#roronoa zoro#monkey d luffy#nami#iñaki godoy#mackenyu#emily rudd
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I both believe "poor people deserve art" and "artists deserve food", but it's hard to reconcile those beliefs. I blame capitalism. And I suppose it mostly matters who you're stealing from?
I don't mean to question you at all, I'm against people pirating your stories. I guess I was just wondering if you had more thoughts regarding the reconciliation the two beliefs I quoted above.
I think the reconciliation is working toward a future where things are better, and authors and artists don't have to beg people not to steal from them because they think every author is Stephen King, who wouldn't notice if you stole the pennies found under his couch when in reality most of us are hunting for spare change down the back of the couch because we are earning below minimum wage.
We need people to embrace the idea that art belongs to the working class, both in terms of consumption but also creation.
If you don't support the working-class creators, you'll only end up with rich fucks with no scope of the world beyond their own narrow view of privilege.
Indie creators are actually working very hard to change the way the industry works, and the publishing industry is shitting itself over it. They don't like the success some of us are having. It's why they keep upping prices while slashing corners on their own production (while never affecting the man at the top) to try and stay competitive within the rat race they've created.
They're not interested in the proliferation of art. They're not interested in making sure their authors can afford to live. They don't want more diversity. They don't want inclusion. They want profit at whatever the cost.
And while indie creators very much need to get paid because we live in a capitalistic society and everything is burning down around us, and a carton of eggs now costs more than what I earn per hour, our creativity is directly at odds with the type of profiteering big publishers want.
The money should go to the writers. Not the CEOs. The money should go to the workers in the print houses. Not the CEOs. No one needs the kind of wealth these people have. It's obscene. We need direct action against these conglomerates. We need unionization. We need a means to fight back so that we can make art and make it accessible.
So, how do we do that? I don't know. I'm just a very tired, disabled creator doing my best to keep my head above water. But I think getting people to realize that art and books are worth saving up for would be a good start.
That putting money in the pockets of creators is just as important as your own enjoyment of their art. Because if there aren't any artists, you've got nothing.
Getting them involved with their local libraries would also be a great start. Educating them on how the industry works is part of that. The number of people telling me they had no idea libraries paid authors is staggering. And that's intentional. It's a by-product of right-wing propaganda to make you think libraries are worthless and just sap taxpayers' money.
They're not.
If they were, the fash wouldn't be trying so hard to take them away.
Basically, we need working-class solidarity and for certain people on the left to rid themselves of the idea that just because something isn't borne of manual labor, it doesn't have worth. We need the artists and the dreamers as much as we need to bricklayers and the craftsmen. Otherwise, what's the fucking point of it all?
#sorry#this isn't an actionable answer to your question#I don't know what that answer is#I just need people to realize art is not the exclusive creation of the wealthy#and treating it as such is making everything worse
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kafka and reno!! I also got caught up with the kn8 manga and ch 101 got to me :')
#kaiju no. 8#kn8#ichikawa reno#hibino kafka#the parallels!!! it's the parallels!!! and the power of. idk! trust!!! & everything!!! aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#eventually i'm going to find my 6 in. plastic see through ruler and im going to do action scene fan art but i need. to find that ruler
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you are a god's best friend. the world is young still, and you are yet younger. he rides with you and hunts with you, and teaches you how to speak to birds and beasts. you are a god's student. you ride in his train and care for a hound that he gifted to you. gods have taught others before. gods have been kindly to others before. your god is your best friend. he gifts you something of his self, a hound of his own hunt.
you are your father's son. your grandfather is dead. no one has ever called you wise, and you are, above all else, your father's son. he swears a terrible oath. you swear a terrible oath. you don't know if you really mean it, but your mother named you well- you are hasty to rise, hasty to run into things. the hunt teaches you patience but you cannot outrun yourself. you are your father's son.
you are a god's best friend and you have sworn a terrible oath, but it is an oath that you hope that your friend can understand. to hunt the murderer of your grandfather, is something that the god of the hunt can understand.
you are your father's son. the blood of elves on your hands does not feel different than the blood of a deer, except in the tight feeling of your throat. except in the thunderous beating of your heart. you tell your brother, who is trying not to throw up, that you need to think of them like deer. he looks at you like he's never seen you before. you are forever doomed.
you are a god's best friend. he does not say goodbye, but your dog comes with you. surely you can fix this, then, surely you are still a god's friend.
you are your father's son. he dies. he dies but before he does, he tells you to burn the boats. you do. you are your father's son. your father dies and, he tells you to swear that oath once more. it is a terrible oath. you have sworn it once. you swore to your best friend once. surely it will not tip the scales to swear once more, if in your mind, you dedicate this hunt to him.
you were a god's best friend, and it is not enough. you are your father's son, and you speak your father's oath. it proceeds to eat you alive.
#tolkien#silmarillion#silm#celegorm#turkafinwe#feanor#feanorians#sons of feanor#orome#huan#its me. celegorm posting again#mandatory disclaimer i am a cringefail celeg truther always#but yeah i think everything is worse if celeg doesnt disavow orome#its about the fall from grace#imagine what kind of person#what force of personality you would need#to be friends with a god. to be close friends with a god.#and that's saying something cause there's feanor and maedhros and finrod and galadriel and nolofinwe and so many strong personalities#and celegorm is friends with a god.#i think it makes his downfall more interesting. makes me want to chew on the implications#i want him to suffer the quencies of his actions#however i am also like... hehe the oath of feanor as a parallel of his oaths to orome#on one hand i loooove “they did this to themselves” interps of the oath#on the other i am OBSESSED with “the oath is literally binding and sentient and they had to struggle against it”#long post
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"wylan almost got away with lying to kaz" this "wylan stood up to kaz" that. WHAT ABOUT MY GOAT KUWEI??! HE LITERALLY ACTUALLY LIED TO KAZ AND GOT AWAY WITH IT (pretending not to know kerch)!! LIKE KAZ LITERALLY NEVER KNEW, THEY ALL THOUGHT HE WAS THE POOR INNOCENT KID WHEN HE'S LITERALLY SO SMART AND SCHEMING!!
#i'm so done with people overshadowing kuwei#like dont gwt me wrong i love love love wylan#but god why do we have to erease everything kuwei has done just to olace wylan on a pedestal#if kuwei has no fans then i'm dead#like i feel like the fandom hatred for kuwei acrually needs to be studied#but the shit hes hates on for is honestly so fucking stupid when in reality anything hes done is the least worrying thing#like what about the fact that kaz is actually morally gray and for all the lives he's helped there are double the lives he's wronged#in that sure hes jot the worst person in the barrel but why do we hate more on kuwei's relatively tame actions than kaz#like a ything good kaz has done was either for his friends or for some sort of reward#sure hes done some good things as well#but the majority of the time it is NOT our the goodness of his heart#(still love him though)#i'll make on actual post explaining my thoughts on kaz eventually#my point is just the kuwei is overhated and deserves more recognition#soc ck#six of crows#crooked kingdom#soc#ck#six of crows kuwei#kuwei#kuwei yul bo#wylan van eck#wylan hendriks#kaz brekker
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