i've been busy and feeling under the weather lately so i haven't been drawing much, so here's a short video of what i HAVE accomplished lately:
[ID: A video of a toy brick music box in the shape of a potted mandarin tree decorated with tags and lanterns for the lunar new year. As the tune plays, the mandarin tree in the centre rotates. In the background is my Sun nightlight, glowing next to the music box.]
So I was rewatching the hbomb plagiarism video to get some chill morning embroidery time in and I got to the bit about Radclyff Hall and her book, The Well of Loneliness, about lesbian WW1 ambulance drivers, and the video says all of her books were ordered burned, but I was curious and fam. At least one person hid their copy. It's on Project Gutenberg Australia. So if you want to read about lesbian ambulance drivers in the first world war...
yeah a post I saw just reminded me of how... mediocre the Barbie movie was. as far as a fun movie goes, it succeeded! it was fun! and I'll say there were a few lines that hit but imo...
The movie did not have great writing. Themes were confusing - sure it's about women and the patriarchy and all that but it was difficult to tell for a good chunk what it was trying to say about those things
The jokes did not always land and at times I felt undermined what they were trying to say
This movie is lauded as a feminist movie but did not delve into that topic in any satisfying way. It was all very surface level
The most memorable character in that movie was Ken. ...in the movie that is supposed to be about women. Yes, they used his character to illustrate a point. That point, again, did not delve deeper than a surface level depiction of the way women are treated under the patriarchy
It had a very white lens on what it was portraying. (That one joke was horribly unnecessary.)
So, yeah, fun movie! I enjoyed watching it. But I don't really think it did what it set out to do, and I think, under some simple scrutiny of the themes it kind of falls apart.
Yet, I'm still glad it was made because apparently even this surface level "feminism" was enough to get people up in arms. Which is sad, honestly, but hey, if it moves things forwards a little, I guess that's better than nothing. I just expected a lot more from it.
Can not stress enough the value of having physical copies of photos in your home. First thing we did at our apartment was put up a gallary wall and we've been adding a few more pictures over time and it's so nice. Really lovely reminder of the people we love and who love us.
I'll stop posting wips eventually but it's been five days since I've said anything and I don't want anyone to think I'm dead/dying/stuck in a ditch and withering away, so here's 10% of the reason I disappeared (the duck is stuck in rendering hell) (and my little baby laptop is screaming at me every time I open up this file)
I might still be mostly lurking for a little bit so please be patient with me in the meantime 🙏🙏
HI EVERYONE monday and tuesday are going to be my exam days so once those are over I'll be back to being active here and continue working on everyone's commissions 💚 this is just an announcement to keep everyone posted~ I'll respond to any unreplied messages soon, just give me time!
also, happy birthday to my fellow october celebrants! i'm aware that there's a lot of october mutuals here but i don't want to contact everyone to greet them especially if it's late so here's a generalized one 🎂 cheers to more years to come!
Now I'm curious about something 🤔 Reblog this and put in the tags or comments what ideas or concepts did you scrap for your OC's lore/backstory.
I know an OC's background isn't always going to be consistent or concrete and that's fine! But do you ever have ideas that you either A) didn't have time to work on, B) found too complex to incorporate into their lore, or C) feel like it just didn't fit in based on the standards of whatever universe (canon or original) your OC is in? Or perhaps a secret fourth option, I dunno!