#or to make it strictly post story

[fairy-spring]

gonna finish tomorrow but uhhhh i keep fucking this boy up help

[britneyshakespeare]

you know i'm usually the last person to have strong opinions on movie casting announcements but the idea of jacob elordi playing heathcliff stirs a fiery sense of indignation in my heart

[hundredowls]

silly oc doodle..... ballroom yuri

[idiopath-fic-smile]

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery (Podcast) Relationship: Grant Fenwood/Tim Anderson

Words: 2,653

Summary:

Growing up, Grant Fenwood understood that his house was haunted. It didn't especially bother him. Or: this is a love story. Also, a ghost story.

Read here.

[un-pearable]

yknow i understand ian flynn haters from an intellectual standpoint - just like every other fan community and ESPECIALLY comics, inevitably there will be people with interpretations you dislike, and sometimes you will have the misfortune of those interpretations being the ones in “official” media - but they seriously cannot stop obsessing over this guy. he has zero power over you. if you do not like his takes you can ignore them. there is enough media in this franchise to do so. rabid haters are putting this guy up on just as much of a pedestal as rabid fans are when at the end of the day he is legitimately just some freelancer that SEGA pays occasionally to write some translations or tie in media. it’s really not that big a deal whether you like him or not

[daydreamerdrew]

Tales of Suspense (1959) #92

[robitherat]

Genuinely think it's so funny how everyone latched onto "Jay is canonically a gay man" when it was "confirmed" thru an ask to JACKIE who didn't write for the original series and also considering it held literally less than no relevance to the series itself. Like fuck man if I wanna say Jay is a she/they faggot I'm going to it literally doesn't matter. It has no plot relevance and the series came out in 2009. I will make up as many genders for these fuckers as I want to. They're all transfemme now.

[monsterbisexual]

jesus n judas sure were doomed by the narrative :D <3 but did not kiss on the lips :'( </3

[tomwambsmilk]

“The book was better” “the movie was better” actually film and written literature are two entirely different mediums of storytelling that require radically different approaches, and so the exact same story will be a wildly different experience in each medium. A good adaptation will make substantial changes to the source material in order to better fit the medium of film. The vast majority of “faithful” film adaptations are objectively mediocre movies because they capture the letter of the story at the cost of its spirit. Because of this it’s largely pointless to compare books to their movie adaptations, because inevitably when people do so they either judge the book against the film experience or the film against the book, rather than considering each an independent work of art that should be evaluated on its own merits

[incorrect-web-novels]

Actually, one of my 3-4 Main Complaints with DPA (which I'm overall very fond of) is this whole Mass Guilt of the characters who were at or aware of the contents of Reinhardt’s Public Interrogation in Chapter 446-447. Like, if someone has been lying to you for over a year, you probably cannot trust them! It’s not weird to say, "Hey, this guy is the leader of our probable enemies. It would be highly dangerous and negligent to listen to him without any suspicion." Should they have at least listened to him? Yes, but if bank robbers kill their hostages because you didn't arrange a getaway car for them, it's still predominantly the bank robbers fault, even if the leader of the bank robbers wasn't on board with the robbery in the first place.

It's so strange to argue that every single main character that didn’t side with Reinhardt is feeling unimaginable guilt and (in their eyes) are the absolute worst for not trusting someone who, frankly, did not trust them with the truth, even if that mistrust was justified. Leaving your entire life and endangering your family is so much weirder and arguably less justifiable than not trusting someone whose father you killed and whose kingdom you destroyed.

[suitetarts]

so astarion x durge. amirite

[nerice]

i was social for (1) day (evening) and now i need to be as far away from people as humanly possible again

[void-kissed]

Had an idea. It may not be for the best. I may be attempting it anyway

[squishy-min-mochi]

It’s important to recognise that Barbie (2023) criticises both the patriarchy AND the matriarchy. Yes, the Ken’s are just accessories to the Barbies. Yes, they don’t have any say in the government they live under. That’s the point, you’re supposed to feel awful, you’re supposed to want the Kens to have their own agency, you’re supposed to want equality. The Barbie movie explicitly states that the way Barbie treats Ken is wrong, so much so that once he finds a safe space for his masculinity and individual identity he’s so excited to share it with the other Kens.

But they go overboard and replace a matriarchy with a patriarchy and now the same issue exists but in reverse. That’s the POINT!! THATS THE POINT!!! Barbie is not anti-men it’s pro equality PLEASE understand this

13th Aug 2023 UPDATE:

Heeeeey howdy!!

Due to the IMMENSE comments and discussion on this post (thanks ya’ll!!) I’ve decided to update my post with my recent opinions and hopefully clearer explanations!!

First, my original post only considers a very small and very vague analysis of the film!!

Since making this I've read all your comments and learned quite a bit about the matriarchy as it appears in human civilisation. Originally, I was pitting the patriarchy and the matriarchy against each other as though the results of their implementation were equal in the film.

They were not!! Below is the definition of matriarchy I’ll be working off of.

Matriarchy Simple Definition;

Matriarchy is a social system in which women hold the primary power positions in roles of authority. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

There's a lot to talk about in the Barbie film that would fit better in an essay, so I'll try and condense it into this;

To me, Barbie (2023) is a film about the female experience and the shared connection between women that persists through childhood and adulthood, support and harassment, suffering and joy, mother and daughter.

It uses Barbie as its figurehead because of the immense societal and political impact the doll has had on women, both good and bad (as explained in the film).

The male experience as seen in Barbie (2023) is not the sole focus of the film- rather, it's an accessory (as the Kens are) to Barbie's story, and a necessary aspect of exploration to truly highlight the importance of individualism and healthy personal exploration.

I want to make clear that I in no way think the treatment of the Kens was just as bad as the treatment of the Barbies. I also still agree that the matriarchy fostered by the Barbies wasn’t good for the Kens.

Additionally, I’m aware that this take on Barbie (2023) works strictly within the assumed heteronormative boundaries of gender. There is a lot of nuance in the Barbie film and I don’t think everything can be covered or explained in on Tumblr post— but I hope this clarification helps!!

I hope you're all coming to your own conclusions and analysis of the film in a way that makes sense to you. And for those of you engaging in online conversations and discourse about it, I hope you're keeping yourself and others happy and safe!!!

Much love to you all!! < 3

[arolesbianism]

Every now and then I remember that oni in fact will eventually have more lore added and I get so excited and scared for a moment and then I remember that it could take months until we see any of that and I proceed to forget abt it again and the cycle repeats

[sleidog]

re: last reblog not really true. op said a lot of false things (like blurring/resizing removing glaze) also op is an ai 'artist' so take that information as what you will. nobody has countered it for now. every person whose tweets op has screenshotted is also either an ai enthusiast or invested in ai firms. justine moore for example was invested in civitai which hosted ai generated csam for over a year while her company profited off it and did nothing

glaze/nightshade work in it that they do what the team said they do. their use might be limited to future models, but they still work for now.

On a place like tumblr; its basically pointless to use them

I've gone into this at length that the tumblr ecosystem doesn't benefit from this as a whole

Delete your work; it still exists in reblogs

Reupload your work with preventative measures; the old version is still in reblogs regardless of you removing it, you just make another copy of it

Delete your account; oops your work is now orphaned with a 'deactivated' username, now no one who cares abour your work can find it without jumping through additional hoops, even if you were to edit the old posts before deleteing to include your socials/website, the reblogs wont have those

Listen; i want there to be a genuine and quick solution to all of this, i REALLY hate this is the only thing on my dash and everyone is whipped up in a frenzy/panic

But i've been on the internet now for longer than a lot of people involved in this have been alive and i dont care to make the handful of people who enjoy my stuff jump through even more hoops to find it, nor do i particularly care about adding prevention to my stuff either, i would literally stop drawing before i did that

I barely get time to draw as it is and if half of my process is watermarking the crap out of it and layering it with prevention then i'd rather just not engage at all

Consider; to fight something you need to understand both sides (in terms of technology involved, not understanding why AI bros feel AI art should replace real people, thats a whole different can of worms)

You dont have to agree with me; i understand your stance, but it's simply a step too far for me and my process, i promised myself as soon as art was no longer enjoyable to me i simply would not draw anymore

and i dont want this to be what causes it