#Claire says stuff

[darklydeliciousdesires]

My nan passed at 9pm tonight. We sadly didn’t make in time to be with her, but at least I got to kiss her goodbye.

My heart is broken. I worshipped the ground that woman walked on. I can’t believe I’ll never hear her beautiful voice ever again 💔

[shoomlah]

Friday was my last day at Valve.

Leaving a job full of people and projects you love is always hard, but I have a pretty good reason for it this time around:

Next Monday is my first day at Cyan.

Feels appropriate to announce this on Riven's anniversary, the game that is entirely to blame for who I am as a concept artist and Art Director. WHO WOULD I EVEN BE if I hadn't had my 11yo mind blown by the little wahrk gallows counting toy in the Rivenese schoolhouse??? It's a mystery.

I can’t talk about what's on the horizon just yet—short of helping to get Riven out the door—but I’m thrilled to finally be a part of this studio, officially, after thirty years of wistful pining. If my ancient Riven fanart is anything to go by, it's been a long time comin.'😎

[alcoholicweiwuxian]

quick sketch of claire

[domokunrainbowkinz]

You’re wasting all your faith on me

[m-aremagnum]

In 1983, geneticist Mary-Claire King (left) explains to Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo [Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo] Nélida Gómez de Navajas (middle) and Estela de Carlotto (right) the technique that will be used to identify their grandchildren stolen during the last civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (1974/6-1983) and prove their kinship in court, el Índice de Abuelidad [the Grandparentage Index]. It's estimated that between 400 and 500 children were taken throughout this time.

Estela was able to hug her grandson, Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, nieto #114 [grandchild #114], in 2014.

Nélida died in 2012 and did not get to meet her grandchild. It was announced two days ago, 28 July 2023, that his identity has been restored. 11 years after she died, 40 years after this photo was taken, and 46 years after his birth to a illegally detained and still disappeared mother, Cristina Navajas, he's been found. His father and brothers are here for him. It is still a victory.

Welcome to the truth, nieto #133, y abrazo al cielo Nélida.

Venceremos.

[swan2swan]

The biggest problem with Dominion is the dichotomy of Maisie's plotline with regards to motherhood, and the way both plots revolve around it from wholly opposite perspectives while never actually clashing.

Her plot starts off simply enough: she's angsting about not being a real person, Claire's trying to protect her, and Maisie spits at her with the "You're not my mother!" line right before she's kidnapped.

This is a classic Finding Nemo setup, which Claire takes to with gusto: she calls on favors, slips into seedy markets, fights a crime boss, eludes raptors, jumps out of a plane, and crawls through a forest to get the girl she calls her daughter back. Most stories would show this as a trial: ye olde "GASP! My parents love me!" story.

But the fact that Claire has no obligation to bring Maisie back is never challenged. Soyona doesn't bother with asking or playing the role of the tempting serpent instilling doubt; the closest the movie comes to that is Franklin giving her the "I told you this would happen" speech. It's all taken for granted, which is...okay, because we have already established who Claire is, but that's not the problem.

The problem comes with the other half of the story: Maisie mopes to Wu about how she's just a close, and Wu immediately points out how no, she was conceived and carried in a human womb just like everyone else! And he calls Charlotte "your mother".

And Maisie goes "Is that my mother?"

And when she meets Ellie, Dr. Sattler is somehow fully aware of who Maisie's REAL MOTHER, the one who created her and who she looks like, is, and gushes about how great of a eugen--person she was. Every single time Maisie talks about "her mother" with the people around her, the word is referring to Charlotte Lockwood, the woman who birthed her.

Meanwhile, that Claire woman is crawling into a slimy pond to get away from a twenty-foot-tall Kreugersaurus because she wants to get Maisie away from kidnappers.

Of course, Maisie runs back to her and yells "Those are my parents!", but there's still something missing there. Claire's side of the story is all about her powering through, risking her life time and time again to track down her daughter...but there's never really a moment between them later. Maisie even posits the "So I was just an experiment to her..." plotline that has been seen before, but even that's immediately refuted.

The movie's not wrong for avoiding the cliches and the oft-used tropes of foster motherhood, but it doesn't really break any new ground, either. Obviously, people can have more than one mom, but there's something of an imbalanced focus on Charlotte as Maisie's mother in the Maisie and Jurassic Park plotline, while Claire in the Jurassic World plotline is doing all the expected Mom Stuff.

I can't wholly express what's bothering me about it, maybe I'm overthinking it, but it...doesn't quite sit right with me.

[finalfantasyx]

只因你們叫我一聲大師兄 所以在我倒下之前 你們一個都不能死 Because you all call me your eldest martial brother...before I fall, none of you are allowed to die.

[clarablightt]

IM IN LOVE WITH THE VILLAINESS IS OVER NOOOOO

i need a season two there’s so much stuff that happens in volume 2 of the light novel that i NEED to see animated

but ugh this story is just so good and has genuinely changed the course of my life. Rae is just like me. but at least i still have the light novel to catch up on!!

[noel-levine-fan]

this line has always baffled me genuinely what is she talking about. what book

edit: anon helped me with this one, apparently this an idiom...! oops lol. see, i have heard things like "you could write a book on x, you know so much about it...!" but never "you wrote a book on x," like, in the past tense, like you actually wrote it. perhaps this is common and i just don't know about it, but either way, i'm happy my question is finally answered...

i'm afraid i do look a little silly now... but that's alright

NOOOOO GUYS STOP LIKING THIS POST ITS EMBARASSSINGGGGG (not genuine go ahead I find it funny)

[darklydeliciousdesires]

Apologies if I'm slow replying to messages/asks/generally quiet, guys. My nan had a fall yesterday and was rushed to hospital. Sadly, she hit her head quite hard and because of such, will not survive.

She's too weak for brain surgery, so all they can do is make her comfortable until she passes. I went to see her, sat and stroked her head and talked to her, even if she couldn't hear me. I told her it was okay for her to go, that we were all there with her. Bless her, she's still hanging on this morning, but it likely won't be for long.

As if 2024 hasn't broken me down enough. Now it takes the matriarch of our family from us too.

[hsslilly-blog]

huntclaire divorce au. everything is exactly the same but wait i was going to make a joke here but i’m actually very invested in this

[shouldntbearevolution]

Excuse me while I talk about how amazing my partner is because??? Omg???? They made the most thoughtful gifts for my birthday including the frog prince snow globe!! Like hello???

And also printed and cut out the Cards Against Hillerska game and made the box for it??

AND made a custom keychain of Every Night Fantasy that is also a NFC they coded themself that links directly to the ep on spotify???

[another-clive-blog]

When the whole team is losing it so you make an intervention about "People who are hurting hurt others", but one only understands the "People who are hurting" part and the other only cares about the "hurt others" part......

(Putting the pencil ones under the cut because I like them more tbh)

[kazz-brekker]

was chopping potatoes for dinner last night when i had the realization that it was extremely inevitable i would become an adar and galadriel enjoyer during season 2 of rings of power considering the number of books i like enough to have a permanent spot in my brain which contain the romance dynamic of "we are fundamentally opposed enemies who deeply distrust each other but we must set aside our differences to unite against a common enemy, develop a grudging respect for each other, and then fall in love." i am predictable in my tastes but at least i know myself!

[dragonspiral-tower]

FIGHT GOODSMILE RACING!!

Today's the Super GT qualifiers at Okayama International Circuit. Racing Miku is a witch this year, so our favorite witch Claire is here to help cheer on the team, along with Irida!

[swan2swan]

Happy Jurassic World day!

...on the ten-year-anniversary, I'll have to figure out how to do it in Real Time.