#Byron White

[the-most-faithful]

Snape Gang

Here to remember that Evan Rosier was part of the Snape Gang canonically.

According to Sirius Black, he was part of a group of Slytherins and aspiring Death Eaters which included Severus Snape, as well as Wilkes, Avery and Mulciber.

it is much more likely that he was part of his group than that of Regulus who was a year younger than Severus. So the gang needs to be updated:

Severus Snape

Bruce Mulciber

Edmund Avery

Charity Burbage

Aurora Sinistra

Wilhelm Wilkes

Evan Rosier

Caracod Derborn (my personal headcanon)

The Story of the Prince by G_Monti_E

[slavhew]

thinking about how dean's hair got darker and he got paler from skipping missions + how probably the most he smiled was when hank was telling him abt those

[grapefruit185]

pete white is an oldhead goth and introduces orpheus to bauhaus! this show is so full of music refs, i am FEASTING

[newtgat]

THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE REQUESTS!!! i had a lot of fun drawing these guys i had major fun :) sorry it took so long tho

[sporkazoid]

Some venture bros I managed to draw last month while watching the show (Venture Bros not pictured)

[thefugitivesaint]

Orson Byron Lowell (1871-1956), 'Lighter Than Air', ''Judge'', Aug. 12, 1916 Source

[latibulater]

Byron Orpheus and The Unfortunate Case of Whitewashing

Season 1 above. angular face, brown skin, more pronounced lips and nose than rusty

season 2, his face is a little rounder, but his skin color is actually more saturated and varies more in the episodes he's in top is viva los muertos and bottom is escape to the house of mummies

season 3 his entire forehead and cheekbone are now a curve, but he still hasn't lost his pallor quite (also *COUGH* yaoihands *COUGHCOUGH*)

however its once it hits season 4 that things go downhill IMMEDIATELY

ITS BAD FOLKS......but it gets WORSE

season 5, he only appears in halloween and momma's boys, i would say momma's boys he looks a little better but still by this point he has lost his big nose and defined lower lip

here's his only appearance in daylight in s6 hes only in gargantua 2 not that different

s7 is pretty egregious to me, it's like they finally gave up on just lightening the opacity of brown and decided to make him pink/tan but still not as bad as the movie...

now they lowered the opacity on the pink like they wont rest until this man is actually nosferatu like hank and dean thought he was in the first episode

this really is sad to me :( they took away all of his melanin, all of his cuteness, they made him way too " " appealing " " *COUGH* WHITE *coughcough*

[flaminghotel202020]

I haven’t seen one for The Venture Bros so I said to myself hey why not do it! And so here it is, also my boyfriend told me to post it here as well 

[brightlightsdeancity]

Repost from my twitter bc I was thinking about it again... vbros characters as aquatic animals

Hank/dean - Harp seal(s)

Rusty - Leopard seal

The monarch - Red lionfish

Dr girlfriend - Oarfish/Ribbon seal

Brock - Spiny box puffer/Coelacanth

Dr orpheus - Hooded seal

Jefferson twilight - South american fur seal

The alchemist - Galapagos fur seal

Pete white - Longnose gar

Billy quizboy - Clownfish

Triana - Angular brittle star

Henchman 21 - Bearded seal

Henchman 24 - Yellow cluster anemone

Mantilla - Ringed seal

[speyerboot]

The Venture Bunch Vol.1

[sbrown82]

All that damn shucking and jiving …and them yt folks STILL ain’t invite you to the big house! 🤣🤡

[the-most-faithful]

Sirius: I feel so useless.

Byron: Don't be discouraged, Black. Dung is also useful for growing flowers

Sirius: *murderous look* What?

Read on Ao3

[awesomephd]

I spent more time on this than I probably should've

bonus version of just Professor Impossible and Phantom Limb because this is the only emotional spectrum those cunts have

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Bolt (2008, Chris Williams and Byron Howard)

28/05/2024

[mermaidsirennikita]

frustrating levels of discourse continue happening on twt ugh https://x.com/lara_e_brown/status/1839303817256645101

Lol yeah, I've honestly just given up on reading takes like that because once you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.

It's an extremely shallow reading, using things like "pale", which you can in fact be while having a darker complexion, with both examples relating less to a physical appearance and more to his aspect in the moment (his face is "white" because he's scared; he's "pale and effeminate" because he's in a wan and weakened state). And I say "both" because you tend to come up with faaaar fewer examples of the text relating Heathcliff as pale than... not.

I also find it funny that this user uses Heathcliff marrying Isabella as an example of why he MUST be white, when Heathcliff and Isabella literally run away together because nobody wants them to be together, PARTICULARLY her brother, and this rips the Linton family asunder. Almost as if.......... it was............... breaking a taboo......................

Like, yeah! 18th century Yorkshire wouldn't have accepted that marriage. And if there's one thing we know about Heathcliff—if it's not accepted, he's not gonna do it.

One of the entire points of his character is that he lives against law and taboo and societal norms (while at the same time being deeply aware of the fact that his existence doesn't gel with them). In that thread, that user references the Byronic hero, with the name drawing from Lord Byron and his own literary fascinations. Byron was obsessed with taboo, lived to break them (most famously the taboo of sleeping with people of the same sex, and probably the taboo of incest as well... COME TO MY TED TALK TO DISCUSS HOW THAT COULD RELATE TO HEATHCLIFF, ALSO). One of the reasons why more recent scholarship (and I don't even mean super recent) surrounding Wuthering Heights has come to terms with the interpretation of Heathcliff as a man of color is that he does embody the taboo even more.

And obviously... some taboos (the incest one) exist for a reason. But the book also seems interested in questioning how much we really gain by treating someone (someone like Heathcliff) as other and wrong simply for existing. Again, we go into the cycle of abuse.

I also find it rather belittling of people to refer to general 18th and 19th century values when discussing how people "would have" seen Heathcliff, or interpreted the text. Because, for one thing—yeah! A lot of contemporary readers did not in fact Get It. Perhaps in part because they did have the biases that people like that user seem to believe would have prevented the author from exploring Heathcliff as a man of color.

... But if Emily Bronte thought exactly as the detractors of her novel (who condemned it as wicked and aberrant) did, she never would have written the book, I think. Who's to say, though? It's difficult for EITHER side to make leaps about what Emily knew or thought, because she is someone who didn't live very long, has been portrayed as an eccentric (and perhaps even maligned by Elizabeth Gaskell's portrayal of her) and definitely had something of an offbeat upbringing. We just don't have much directly from HER. So it's a bit rich to me to make assumptions about the kind of limited worldview she may have had on topics like race, when we really do not have a lot of definitive information about her worldview, but DO know that the book she wrote, which some theorize to be about a man of color, REALLY upset some conventional readers.

Like... why would you contextualize that book within a purely conventional reading when the entire reason why Wuthering Heights matters is that it defies convention?

I do shy away from using the word "canonical" to describe Heathcliff's race, because while I know what people mean when they say it (and I'm sure I've said it at some point) it's just a word choice that people like that user will latch on to. Like I've said before, there is no way to prove with 100% certainty Heathcliff's race either way. Which isn't to say that you have to do so to state that he's a man of color. It's just the kind of pedantic strategy people will use in threads like these.

And I'll notice, too, that she omits Nelly's line wherein she speculates that Heathcliff's mother could be Chinese or Indian. I mean, what's her take on that specificity combined with the lascar speculation? No mention of Liverpool relating to people... not... from America or Spain...?

I do worry sometimes that people see someone's major concentration (say, if someone has a BA in English or something, which for the record I don't) and go "Damn, that's end-all, be-all" A) it's not, there's more to research than getting a degree B) you could also use literal wikipedia footnotes to kickstart your own deeper dive into this, there are tons of people who've made careers discussing books like WH debating the issue C) having a degree of any level never kicks your bias.

To go back to my own degree... I knew old art historians who saw nothing gay at all in Michelangelo's work. You can know a lot about a lot, and it doesn't mean you have an open mind.

I think anyone can read WH, do some research about the era and Emily, and drawn their own conclusions. And you are just going to have to make your conclusions based on your own assessment. There is no smoking gun here, and there never will be because the smoking gun would be a living Emily Bronte willingly telling you what she meant.

And I didn't read Heathcliff as a person of color from the jump, for the record. I was thirteen when I read that book for the first time; I'm white; I picked that book in the context of it being a Great English Classic, and as far as I knew, those were all about white people. Because... that's what you were taught about WH at the time, at least where I was.

But when I was first introduced to that interpretation some time later, it was a literal "OH!" moment. Because like... yeah. There isn't a smoking gun for Dorian Gray's sexuality (and yes, we know a lot more about Oscar Wilde than we do about Emily Bronte; but the absence of knowledge of Emily's interests and attitudes doesn't mean we can assume she DIDN'T have an interest in writing Heathcliff as a person of color) but The Picture of Dorian Gray makes way more sense when you interpret his queerness for what it is. Wuthering Heights makes way more sense when you interpret Heathcliff's race for what it is.

[dreamingpichu]

I would like to present to everyone...

The Clayspiracy.

Aka the biggest family tree conspiracy theory in the Pokémon fandom, all curated by moi.

The centerpiece of this theory is of course as the name implies gym leader Clay of the Unova region.

The goal? To decipher the family tree and further beyond.

As we know this begins with Lian, a warden of the Pearl Clan in Hisui and obvious ancestor to Clay.

However... Have we ever considered that maybe Lian has another descendant? My proposal, is Gym Leader Byron of the Sinnoh region.

Of course then if Byron is related to Clay (which I'd say they're brothers) then that would mean his son Roark is also part of this family tree.

With Roark canonically being Byron's son, then that would mean that if Byron is in fact Clay's brother, then Roark would have a cousin. That being Clay's canonical daughter, Lacey.

Now this has been under contention for a while...who is Lacey's mother? If you've been on my blog for a while you might be familiar with who I think it is. I believe that Lacey's mother is Gym Leader Tulip of the Paldea region.

Now of course, what would Tulip be doing all the way in the Paldea region away from her family? What if...there was another child? What if she and Clay were divorced? Divorce is a common reason for children to be bullied in school...

We know Ortega has an unnamed mother, and that his family owns an apparel company. Tulip is a model, and seems rather busy, like she's making a lot of money...

Now by now I'm sure that you're assuming I'm finished. However there's one last piece in this puzzle. One more character...a character with an unnamed father, mother, sister, and brother...

Yancy/Nancy!

So now, let's go over everything in a more fanfic-y description. Clay is the descendant of Lian, and is the brother of Byron, and uncle to Roark. At one point he moved away from Sinnoh to Unova, where he married Tulip and had three kids, Yancy, Ortega, and Lacey. Yancy would become the TV personality Nancy. Eventually, Clay and Tulip got a divorce, and Tulip left for Paldea taking Ortega with her, where he would be bullied for having divorced parents and thus join Team Star. Meanwhile, Lacey would start attending Blueberry Academy.

And that's finally the end of it. Dropping the MatPat act, honestly do I really believe this? I mean, I don't think it's canon, but it's a cute headcanon. And obviously there's some small details that while not disproving anything do make things muddy. Like, Yancy's brother is said to own a Leavanny, and when she's on her show as Nancy, her interview with Clay doesn't read like someone talking with their father (though that could also just be viewed as just being professional for the sake of television).

Overall, don't take my words as gospel, and just have fun.