#performance modeling

[justdavina]

Check out my AI Gurl Jen M at Pinterest.

She's HOT! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[bendableperformer]

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ITS MY FAVORITE GUYS EVER!!!! LOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!

I’M SO JOYOUS 🥰💚🩵💖🩷💙🥰🥺🧡💛💜🥺😭🥰💖💝🩷🥰🥺

ALSO IT’S POPEE’S 25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST EPISODE AIRING!!!!

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[coraorvat]

SAVOIR FAIRE: I'd worry in Necktie's place, lieutenant can get quite creative with a piece of fabric~ I have seen several cases where people were mixing Electrochemistry and Horrific Necktie and tbf they're pretty easy to mix, but there is a slight difference: EC is your pleasure center which wants you to feel good no matter the source, while Necktie is your imaginary drinking buddy who want's you to party hard like young people do (by getting drunk/hight, sleeping with younger women and doing stupid shit for lulz).

So I'm pretty sure our *bratan* won't be Kim's biggest fan (and vice versa), EC on the other hand…

[tayloralisonswift]

i know that i'm a handful, baby, uh!

[thafreedomwall]

[mad3lyncline]

𝑹𝑶𝑳𝑬 𝑴𝑶𝑫𝑬𝑳 . Sally, When The Wine Runs Out ( x ) .

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I love how "what would Wyll do" is typically understood as like, referring to super Good things, things your mom might ask you to do, things that would have you in a local newspaper where you're praised for your charity and kindness, etc, but it also refers to situational murder and theft.

Edit: look at my reblog boy I added more

[world-of-celebs]

Miranda Kerr arrives at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

[magicsprat]

The aesthetics/mood boards of Patti LuPone's characters.ㅤLucia Beltran — Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (musical)

[chipjrwibignaturals]

are we all collectively mature enough now to acknowledge that mcyt is inherently a liiiiittle rpf and thats ok. or is that still too spicy a take

[bendableperformer]

can you make Popee and Kedamono hug it out

Crying about this.

(Also look guys!! I got all my assets together into one file!!)

[fumifooms]

I should have touched on dark elves in my beauty standards post... Let me just slap this on here real quick. So as we went into there, beauty standards can show political dynamics and sort of reflects the politics of who get to be seen as human, who get to be seen as desirable and promoted within a society. So like, beauty is power right, in the sense that beauty standards are highly influenced by the ones in power, the ones who have the time & resources to look a certain way and the power to present that look as desirable to large groups. It’s complex and diverse but generally beauty standards are upheld by the elite, the influential.

By the former 'time & resources' thing I mean stuff like clothes, health, makeup or even cosmetic surgeries, or even simply the freedom to only go out in public when you look your best— Meanwhile the latter, the power to present that look as desirable to large groups, usually applies more to situations where it’s about a whole category of people like an ethnicity that was uplifted as the ideal. Not just in a political or economic dynamic, but discrimination on a systematic level without regard for individual appearance or action.

For example in the former, not all people who wear makeup are rich, and while makeup did historically help signal status, if you’re poor and wear nice makeup you can still touch some of that beneficial association with the beauty standards that makeup helps you attain. In the latter……. Well you get, "no, all elves are good! So the elves who do bad things must be something else!". Where, in trying to have uniform standards for a whole group, you kinda just get erased or othered if you don’t conform to expectations. The elves especially put effort into giving off this air of perfection, which they've successfully made tallmen populations believe. So, for those people, the answer that "But elves are inherently good and beautiful and perfect?" asks, isn't "well elves mustn't be inherently perfect", but instead is "there must be bad ones too, innately too." A similar phenomenon happens with the reverse too, where people will say there are "the good ones" within a group that's seen negatively.

"But Fumi, in this case the difference is purely linguistic and perceived, there’s no visual difference!" Yeah, and there being little visual distinction between two groups has never stopped people from being discriminated tbh. Different types of christians seeing each other as heathwbs for example, or the deep british vs irish hatred that has existed. A tidbit of history I find fascinating was the infamous use of "speak white" from english-speaking canadians against french-speaking canadians especially, because complicated history aside, last century as the business owners the anglophones had the power over the majoritarily francophone working class and a lot of political sway even though they were the minority in the Québec region. There’s a different cultural and ethnic identity there, and language was the most important difference between the two groups- and I suppose the most noticeable one.

The way we as social creatures and social groups categorize people and the groups they form is complex, interesting and very important to our society and the way we approach both the world and social interactions, and that's what leads to discrimination. We decide what’s important and then we decide it’s what people should be judged and distinguished by. Belonging to a group is a show of status, and can be a weaponized both ways, for and against. If you’re not worthy to be an elf, a "good" elf, then you’re not.

Interesting especially because looking at the elf portraits page there seems to be many different cultures within the elf race, so yes "good elf" vs "dark elf" is considered something like a race rather than an ethnicity or culture presumably. There's definitely a "main" elven culture since it seems pretty uniform whenever it's brought up in the adventurer's bible and the story, though, wether the differenr cultures form different communities in different places or live together as one nation. But maybe more treated like a mental illness since it’s acquired, or sometimes slang? It's not completely clear wether it's thought of as fully innate or something learned, a chosen moral failure like sin is, but with how they speak about it they do sound very essentialists, even Chilchuck seems to get a chill considering Marcille could be one. Quoting Kui's lore comic, "There are two kinds of elves, nice holy elves and evil elves bewitched by darkness". It’s just considered like an innate thing that separates them from the concept of elves... 🤔 But this sort of category being vague is often a feature and not a bug, because then they can be a boogeyman to bring up just whenever is convenient, that can fit whoever, like calling a kid a "fairy's child" for whatever behavior in the olden days, because if you don't precise a lot what a dark elf is then it can apply to whoever you see fit, and it doesn't need to be coherent or consistent. The sort of discrimination headspace that leads to the classic fascist "the enemy is both strong and weak" type rethoric.

"Dark elves" is interesting within Dunmeshi because it's about people trying to fully separate elves from the concept of bad and untrustworthy people, even though they look the same. "Elf" isn’t just a beauty standard, it is The ultimate ideal of perfection both in appearance and morality, and if something threatens that perception and reputation it has to get rationalized and compartmentalized. Those are coping mechanisms to avoid having your whole world view challenged or shattered. To tallmen who practically worship elves, it’s a huge deal!! To them that makes it make sense! Some elves are born good and some elves are born evil, simple as! No world view re-examination needed!

So for Marcille for example... It’s interesting because she has an outside view of elven society despite being elven herself. She was raised amongst tallmen, aka the people who idolize elves to this intense degree. It had to have affected her dynamics with others— not unlike the academy students, mostly gnomes and tallmen, who looked up to her as some natural-born genius, even though she did do research and study to get her skills and grades. It also had to affect her relationship with having a role model growing up (having none around except for her mother who pretty much renounced her elven culture, a novel series that sensationalizes and glamorizes elves), her dynamic with being elven itself, because even though she doesn't feel like she fully fits into it she's interested in elven culture, and she herself enforces the beauty standards around elves and acts elitist about it- as seen when tallmen actors playing Daltian Clan opera, when men are very masculine rather than very androgynous like with Laios, having long hair, having no facial or body hair. With this angle, all of this behavior of hers is very "internalized high standards that were my bible to follow growing up and so others must follow them too and these high standards must be worth upholding".

Considering everything, elves being looked up to as a role model in appearance and behavior, plus them having the reputation of being great at magic, and Marcille having grown up amongst mostly tallmen, we start understanding that there was IMMENSE pressure on Marcille to conform to that idea of an elf. She has a lot of pressure and a very high beauty & behavior compass to conform to. She also has an idealist and rigid sense of justice and morals, like how Namari is a heartless traitor for leaving instead of coming along to save Falin, and she needs people to believe she has noooo facial or body hair. She probably WAS afraid of being seen as a dark elf, aka fundamentally evil, for her dark magic research. You don't want to be a letdown, do you? You don't want to be the ugliest elf, do you? You don't want to be a dark elf, do you? You don't want to be one of the bad ones.

Shave your facial hair and deny you have any body hair. Take care of elven traditions like hair-braiding and have pride. Be the kind, smartest model student. Do magic by the book. Never do dark magic. Ah shit-

And so she hid the domain of her research, and so she hid being a half-elf.

[world-of-celebs]

Miranda Kerr attends the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.

[bendableperformer]

Today is Popee birthday!!!!

YIPPEE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAREST BLORBO!!!

💖🥳💗🎊💕🎉🩷

Kedamono will not be eating ANY of Popee’s birthday cake.

[magnuspanoptes]

hi i’ve been recently getting into gothic literature and i love your gothic reading of tma so i was wondering if you have any specific reading recommendations!

this is a good ask, thank you! i would ofc recommend everything that shows up in my comparatives, but a general list of works -

fiction

ghost stories, m. r. james

the turn of the screw, henry james

the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, robert louis stevenson

titus groan, mervyn peake

piranesi, susanna clarke (jonathan strange & mr norrell is not gothic, it's period fantasy set in england during the napoleonic wars, but i can't not bring it up while recommending clarke so)

matilda, mary shelley

frankenstein, mary shelley (links to the revised 1831 text)

the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde

the double, fyodor dostoevsky

don't look now and other stories, daphne du maurier

rebecca, daphne du maurier

jane eyre, charlotte brontë

wide sargasso sea, jean rhys

wuthering heights, emily brontë

dracula, bram stoker

carmilla, sheridan le fanu

the vampyre, john polidori

beloved, toni morrison

we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson

the haunting of hill house, shirely jackson

deathless, catherynne m. valente

the bloody chamber and other stories, angela carter (or 'burning your boats', which collects all her short stories. but bloody chamber is a good starting point)

the tell-tale heart / the fall of the house of usher, edgar allan poe

the sandman, e. t. a. hoffmann

goblin market, christina rossetti

fingersmith, sarah waters (alternatively, the handmaiden 2016 which isn't a direct adaptation but is based on the book)

+ duke bluebeard's castle, béla bartók. there's a good bbc version of the opera here

non-fiction

the aesthetics of fear, joyce carol oates

secrets beyond the door, maria tatar

gothic, fred botting

the sadeian woman, angela carter

perils of the night, eugenia c. delamotte

the female gothic: new directions

gothic incest, jenny diplacidi

the cambridge companion to gothic fiction, ed. jerrold e. hogle