#AND I HAVE AN AESTHETIC TO MAINTAIN
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bixels · 5 months ago
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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.
#personal#delete later#no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together#seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy#say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices#in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony#redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation#(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite#if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc#if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same#if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same#while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level#a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you#i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics#and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with#if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter#i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures#(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years#i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing#classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)
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greenlantrns · 6 months ago
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Wishing all non-aesthetic regressors a very ‘your regression doesn’t need to be pinterest worthy, it just needs to bring you comfort’ evening
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bumblebree1903 · 10 months ago
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Can someone explain to me why Gerry being happy and his badly dyed hair not being mentioned means he can’t be goth? I feel like there’s more depth to the reasons, I just keep seeing “he’s happy so he’s not goth”. I’m genuinely curious I want to hear the variety of reasons bc I personally LOVE happy goth characters.
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electric-plants · 9 months ago
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cyno: could you give me advice on how to get closer to alhaitham?
kaveh: huh?? why are you asking me? i hate alhaitham
cyno: haha oh yeah that’s one of my favorite jokes you do it’s so funny :)
kaveh: …..one of your favorite what?
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bagelwizard · 5 months ago
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Made a Phighting OC for the Thieves' Den faction, they're based off of the teddy bear gear in Roblox.
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regaleur · 5 months ago
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// Tag list 2
#♛ —— ❝ he might have a claim to the throne or he might just be a pawn 》 vadik musings#♛ —— ❝ a little shit who liked to taunt the cat 》 young vadik verse#♛ —— ❝ a puppet prince on a throne of ice 》 vadik main verse#♛ —— ❝ the last of the lantsov’s 》 vadik post row verse#♛ —— ❝ he dressed absurdly drank excessively and dithered about with stupid good cheer 》 count kirigin aesthetic#♛ —— ❝ now he was to live decadently spend wildly and maintain a reputation as a notorious libertine and social climber 》count kirigin head#♛ —— ❝ wasteful. grotesque. obscene 》 count kirigin musings#♛ —— ❝ a count’s son is not made for the infantry 》 count kirigin first army verse#♛ —— ❝ his name had become synonymous with both wealth and buffoonery 》 count kirigin main verse#♛ —— ❝ a certain west ravkan general is conspicuously absent 》 general zlatan aesthetic#♛ —— ❝ he wouldn’t risk being this far behind enemy lines 》 general zlatan headcanon#♛ —— ❝ so it's true? west ravka means to secede? 》 general zlatan musings#♛ —— ❝ we need to break away from the old country 》 general zlatan main verse#♛ —— ❝ for the true ravka 》 ravkan civil war verse#♛ —— ❝ a king without a throne 》 alexander lantsov aesthetic#♛ —— ❝ gluttony is a sin 》 alexander lantsov headcanon#♛ —— ❝ you have no right no authority. who are you to sit in judgment on your king? 》 alexander lantsov musings#♛ —— ❝ i blame myself. i spoiled you. you’re a hothouse flower. you’re nothing for the world. you’re not made for it 》 alexander & vasily#♛ —— ❝ you are a weakling and a fool. full of common sentiment and common blood 》 alexander & nikolai#♛ —— ❝ what’s best for ravka is a lantsov on the throne 》 alexander lantsov main verse#♛ —— ❝ you screw them up. you hurt them. and then you watch them squeal 》 alexander lantsov modern verse#♛ —— ❝ this country doesn't give. it only takes 》 raevsky aesthetic#♛ —— ❝ keeper of the north 》 raevsky headcanon#♛ —— ❝ a boy pushed into a life he never wanted 》 raevsky musings#♛ —— ❝ the greenest and most useless grunt he ever had the misfortune of commanding 》 raevsky & nikolai lantsov#♛ —— ❝ for faith tsar and fatherland 》 raevsky main verse#♛ —— ❝ general of Kribirsk 》 raevsky kos & row verse#♛ —— ❝ rëvfeder 》 magnus opjer aesthetic#♛ —— ❝ wily old bastard. foxfather indeed 》 magnus opjer musings
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waterfall-ambience · 1 year ago
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🏄 or 🐑 for Luna please ? Putting that guy in Situations
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🐑 - OC in farmer wear
or, the gods vs luna's call to agriculture
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13eyond13 · 7 months ago
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trying to start S2 Ep 6 of IWTV and I've already paused it like 10x in the first 10 minutes because it's just kinda getting hard to care what they're going on about and I keep getting distracted tbh
#idk if i will end up finishing it#it's kinda losing me#idk it's frustrating that this show def cares about the characters & the source material but there's just a few too many things bugging me#like i havent watched any other VC adaptation before that actually felt to me like the actors and writers had read the books#and cared about the deeper parts of the characters other than this one (and MAYBE tom cruise as lestat in the 90s movie actually lol)#so thats a nice win for it#but also its just not doing it for me aesthetically and some of the show writing choices and changes ruined certain big things for me#like ruined me sympathizing with lestat and/or caring about his relationship with louis at all. and some of the stuff about claudia too#and now im just getting confused by the plot and i dont know if it's because im zoning out or mixing up the show timeline w the books#maybe ill just take a break from it and finish rereading the third book instead#this is kinda why i dont watch shows or ever finish them either usually too like#they so rarely stay good all the way through and its just hard for me to stay interested past a season or two regardless#i feel like i can only maintain interest in short form videos (like movies) and long form writing (like novels/book series) sometimes#not a big fan of short stories and not a big fan of long tv series#i have no idea why#other than i find tv series often overstay their welcome and short stories often leave me unsatisfied in the opposite way#p#vmpcs
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mobiused · 2 years ago
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If u have an opinion on the subject, why do u think hyeju hasn't made an Instagram account?
A lot of people have different answers for this ranging from she hates everything about LOONA and the idol industry to she's taking a mental health break and being forced to post on Fromm, but I think the easiest answer is that Hyeju just... doesn't like taking photos of herself. She mentioned recently on Fromm that it's been hard to take photos for the app because she simply doesn't take photos of herself unless it's for work, and she's mentioned before on multiple Vlives that she pretty much only takes photos if she thinks she feels obligated to for the benefit of fans. More than that, she doesn't even like looking at her face, it's awkward/uncomfortable, so I think maintaining an instagram where fans would expect her to post selfies, as well as keeping up on the aesthetic side of things (like how the feed looks, or social stuff like responding to stories and comments) is probably exhausting even just as a concept to her. Inexplicably she's very self conscious about her aesthetic sense, and often turns any arts and crafts endeavor (like with Vivi's birthday 'card' as seen in LTV) into a joke to avoid scrutiny.
Of course she's literally under no obligation to post selfies and she could just post landscapes or sunsets, which she does like taking photos of, and I'm sure few would complain, but the pressure as a celebrity to post selfies specifically is probably what makes her reluctant to.
And in case it needs saying explicitly, this is just speculation and I couldn't possibly know why
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daftpatience · 1 year ago
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You gotta get from the men's line, it's bigger 👖
i hate to break it to you but i am fatter than men too
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soft-serve-soymilk · 11 months ago
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Cannot sleep :/
#just pav things#lying awake here with Inigo meta thoughts#specifically the nuances of why he never intervened when Archie and Dism were fighting#He is torn between these two ideas of reality— whether Archie is dead or alive. That is true.#But eventually the latter idea takes more of a foothold; which is just a recipe for mental disarray#It’s a break from the comfortable cycle of self-hatred and destruction. So this new thought has to be counteracted to maintain inertia#So as I understand it he’s now caught on those lingering feelings of abandonment that Archie has left him with. and he is Not Happy.#Because just as he interpreted himself as being a replacement for Dism#He’s interpreting Archie and his little motley crew as a further refusal to move on from the past#And because Inigo acts on impulse (as seen best with the 💥 arm getting blown off) he’s using that momentary anger#to distract himself from the core issue as he lashes out ✨#He’s kind of a hypocrite that one. Stresses the importance of embracing unpleasant memories as a fundamental part of your character#(To the point of berating Idyllia for going the total memory wipe route instead)#but he is ALSO an escapist at heart. Neither of them want their definition of pain so they both have terrible routines to try avoiding it ✌#I’m sorry if this made no sense Dolphin I will probably do a retake with more braincells in the next few days#You know I’ve been analysing the design of this kindergarten in sydney for VCD#It’s called Nubo. Now I’ve always had a fondness for Scandinavian aesthetics but this is PEAK#So I went down a research rabbit hole and I came out of it with a clear concept for what Amonea Montessori School should feel like!#It’s this sort of cross-concept between stereotypical Australian architecture and hygge#Those oak panels and muted colours and glass everywhere#And I can carry through to an overall unique visual identity for Amonea#After all Byrgir should feel similarly detached from Earth in it’s own subtle ways#Tapping more into solarpunk and that overall comforting feeling for Amonea in particular~#I’m so happy :D
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wickedhawtwexler · 11 months ago
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the thing with sims 4 is that like. when it WORKS it is actually such a fun game!!! ts2 will always have a special place in my heart because that's the first sims game i played and i met so many great friends through ts2 fan forums, but sims 4 is genuinely so fun. when it works. and when does it work? not often!!!
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longagoitwastuesday · 2 years ago
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you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??
Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").
I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:
— Thoughts by Pascal
— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron
— The Iliad by Homer
— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky
— Othello by Shakespeare
— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
— The fragments of the Presocratics
— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín
— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein
— East of Eden by John Steinbeck
— Vita nova by Dante
— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor
— Caligula by Albert Camus
— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic
— Metamorphoses by Ovid
Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.
#I talk too much#I wanted to say The tragic sense of life by Unamuno and Philosophy and Poetry by María Zambrano#but I thought maybe they'd be hard to find in translation. They're both approachable texts of philosophy beautifully written though#Unamuno's essay Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (translated as Our Lord Don Quixote in English according to Wikipedia?) is also beautiful#I adore Schopenhauer and Nietzsche but I'm not sure I'd recommend them to anyone. Probably you can't go wrong with Kierkegaard though#I know what some of these books look like (like Wittgenstein's Tractatus or Cantor's Foundations)#but I swear they're approachable without specific academic background. The last line of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of my favourite#lines ever in the history of anything‚ philosophy or literature‚ but to be as hitting as it is you need to reach it at the end of the book#I think despite what it looks like both Cantor and especially Wittgenstein have an aesthetic intent in their writing#Wittgenstein in particular reminds me of Kierkegaard and Rilke and also of Unamuno and Zambrano. And of course Schopenhauer et al.#The Tractatus is very similar in my opinion to Huidobro's Altazor which is just amazing but I don't know how it would translate#These books I like in form and not just in content (although form is content like I think happens in Wittgenstein's Tractatus)#so when possible I'd read them in their original languages.I myself can't read German and know but very little of Russian and Ancient Greek#and a bit of Latin so I must be missing a lot of those. Nonetheless they're great in what I can get through translation#Perhaps you'd have the chance of enjoying them in full#If you can't read Russian I am actually quite specific with the translation of Crime and Punishment haha There's a concept#Razumikhin develops through the book at several points and often translators aren't consister with the word which makes the readers lose#the view of this development. And I happen to think the development works alongside the narrative of Svidrigailov#and also with what happens towards the end with Porfiry and Raskolnikov so I think it's important#In English there are several translations that maintain the coherence such as the one by Pevear and Volokhonsky#(the only one I can remember right now but I could check the rest). Garnett's translation is everywhere but that one doesn't do it#Hmmm Pedro Páramo in English takes some liberties and La Regenta isn't as funny which is what happens with Wuthering Heights#and The three musketeers in translation even when the translations are more accurate#I haven't recommended Wuthering Heights because I take you've read it but that's my favourite book#And I haven't recommended Pandora Hearts because that's a manga and you asked for books but it does some very interesting things#that I think are in line with many of the books listed here (as I said‚ I basically like the same few things retold over and over haha)#There are many books I am itching to recommend but that I can't do freely without some knowledge of the person asking#Like Steinbeck's arthurian novel or idk Gone with the wind#I hope this list is enjoyable enough. I'm not sure if I've been able to avoid being too partial#I suppose one has to bear the conditions of their existence and can't ever entirely get rid of themselves haha
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alteredphoenix · 1 year ago
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Thinking about that one YT video that goes in-depth about liminal spaces in video gaming by sorbino, and how people that view them fall into one of two categories: those that are endowed with nostalgia and the sense that they've been there before (regardless as to whether or not they were born in the era those spaces originated from), and those that feel the looming dread and fear and the hint of otherness, that sensation of wrongness that scrapes along the surface of your brain just looking upon them.
I guess I would fall into the first camp, although not so much with the familiarity and nostalgia; it's more like I can relax and put my guard down when I see them. It reminds me how, as silly and goofy some of these places used to look, they at least had heart to them. Not like today, how you'd look at them from your window out of the car you're in and see the buildings that once were colorful and bombastic are now just redesigned to have the same cold, sterile, corporate aesthetic.
(That's a deeper dive I can get into that sort of goes outside of the bounds of this topic, but I think you get where I'm going with it.)
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jeanharlowseyebrows · 1 year ago
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i was tagged by @maudeboggins to share my 4 fav comfort movies! ty for the tag!
in no particular order, and assuming that "comfort movie" means "movie i like to watch":
anne of green gables 1980s mini-series (not a movie)
fast five (pinnacle of the franchise and also very much a movie)
the thin man series (not one movie but i literally can't choose except for #not song of the thin man 1947)
spirit stallion of the cimarron (perfect no notes)
tagging anyone who would like to share their 4 fav comfort movies <3
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littleeyesofpallas · 2 years ago
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
comic RiSky(リスキー)
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INFLU-en-SA.[インフル怨サー。]: "INFLUENZA"(grudge)
Shintaikaizou RECIPE[身体改造レシピ]: Body Modification RECIPE
DEATH CAPE[デスケイプ!]
Dokuoya-Kaigo[毒親介護] ToxicParent ElderlyCare
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Fukushuu CHANNEL URAMIN[復讐チャンネル ウラミン]: Revenge CHANNEL
Kedamono-tachi no Shikan[けだものたちの時間]: The Hour of Beasts
Musume, haishinshimasu[娘、配信します。]: Daughter, (internet)Streaming
Yuuhei Shojo[幽閉少女] Confinement Girl
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Aoi Zameta Senritsu[蒼ざめた旋律]: Pale Blue Melody
Kongai SEX [婚外セックス] Extramarital SEX
Dokohe…[何処へ…]: Where (are you going)…
Modoi no Mori[惑いの森]: Forest of Delusion
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Koseki no Nai-ko[戸籍のない子] Family Register's Nonexistant-Child
INFLU-en-SA.[インフル怨サー。]: "INFLUENZA"(grudge)
Midare Karakuri[乱れからくり]: Disorder Mechanism
Shura no Sumika[修羅の棲家]: Asura's House
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Shirahana no Mai[白花の舞] Dance of the White Flower
POWA-HARA de "Utsu" ni Narimoshita[パワハラで“うつ”になりました]: Power-Harassment made me "Depressed"
Korosu Shoujo no Riyuu[殺す少女の理由] The Motive(s) of Murder Girl
YAMI Kawasaki[ヤミ川崎]: Dark Kawasaki
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Tokutei Han[特定犯]: A Specific Criminal
Kusuburu Shitto[くすぶる嫉妬]: Smouldering Envy
MORA-HARA Otto wa SNS Chuudoku[モラハラ夫は sns 中毒]: Moral-Harassment Husband has a SocialNetworkService Addiction
Furueru Me[震える眼]: Trembling Eyes
UraAKA ni Korochireru[裏アカに殺される]: Killed from an Anonymous Account
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Kawaii ATASHI no Kasegikata[かわいいアタシの稼ぎ方]: Cute Me(fem)'s way of Earning
PERSIA Neko o Kau Onna[ペルシャ猫を飼う女]: Persian Cat keeping Woman
PART Murahachibu[パート村八分]: Part Ostracism
NON DRAMA[ノン・ドラマ]
Minato-ku Kounan TOWER-MAN(SION) 35kai[港区港南タワマン35階]: Minato-Ward HighRise Condo 35F
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