#Frederick Joseph

[lucybellwood]

“He tilted his head, his brow furrowed. “So how do you think we win?” I stared at him for a moment, weighing the question, the enormity of it. Outside, the landscape blurred past, indifferent to the weight of our conversation. I leaned back in my seat, folding my arms across my chest. “We win,” I said slowly, “by allowing ourselves to be wrong and having the courage to then get it right. Then one day being fine with that version of right not being enough and being comfortable with doing more. Changing more. Being better. We stop balancing and choose.” He repeated my last words, “We choose,” as though the phrase itself were a revelation, a mantra he was learning to carry. He said it again, softer this time, almost to himself, as if tasting the truth for the first time.”

From “An Odyssey by Rail,” a beautiful and meditative read by Frederick Joseph on train travel, the tensions of existing and traveling in America as a Black, chronically ill man, chance encounters, and the gift of attention.

[lostintr4nsl4tion]

We Can't Forget

by Frederick Joseph

How to sing, barefoot on the dew-kissed grass, lost in the gravity of ourselves.

Holding yesterday close.

Eyes turned from the vastness

of tomorrow. We are as young as the last word to leave our lips, as young as the last light trapped in our eyes.

There are lifetimes carved out

in the pomegranate pulse of our hearts.

[diioonysus]

"this is our time, no turning back, we could live, we could live like legends."

[isa-ko]

Drew some art requests from instagram friends to help stop soult-spam drawings (2/2)

[butterflies-and-mirrors]

I've lost count of how many of these I've made atp

[ferry-man-sam]

Lazy little comic as I experiment with lining styles! This stupid idea has been plaguing me for a while

[tonawetnieja]

Long time no posting but here ya go

Some idv fanarts

[sliva6608]

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[mandykurosaki]

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[hitoshura]

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[fyeaheddiemunson]

My opinions on Gladiator 2 that no one asked for under the cut. Heavy spoilers.

But first, and most important take away from the film:

ALL HAIL DONDUS

Firstly, I thought it was an overall good movie. Fun and entertaining. I haven't watched the first one in years and years, really isn't my cup of tea.

The CGI is absolutely horrific. It isn't Scorpion King bad, but it's truly awful. I am a huge baby when it comes to animals being hurt in tv/films...even though I know it isn't real, I still close my eyes and cover my ears. But the CGI monkeys were so bad I didn't care.

The shark scene was fun, but in all reality kind if stupid. Like...how? Why? The naval battle, ok...but who transported the sharks? Again, why?

Paul Mescal was great, as expected. A little dull, but the hero archetype is also not my cup of tea. Dude got in great shape, it was obvious how strenuous the fight scenes were.

Denzel, amazing as always. Except a lot of his mannerisms seemed very modern. Like he transported back in time. I did enjoy his little schemes.

I love Pedro Pascal. I love him. But his character was an absolute snooze fest. He just seemed bland. I didn't even care about his end, he was just meh. I was surprised by his lack of screen time.

The editing was strange and rushed. I heard the original full cut is 4+ hours. I feel like the movie could have extended in length to add to the story because it felt choppy and empty at times.

Connie Neilson is a great actress. But again she was bland and boring. I couldn't care for her character at all. She, Denzel and Paul took up about 95% of the entire film.

Now the emperors. Loved them. But honestly, the teasers showed most of their screen time. Literally. I was expecting a lot more diabolical events to happen. But aside from Caracella being a violence fiend, Geta seemed rather "normal" for the times.

Caracella seemed more of a charismatic drunk, like Aegon from House of the Dragon. Then you find out later, much later, he has syphilis or something of the sort.

They mentioned the evil emperors and the downfall of Rome almost nonstop but you see nothing. There isn't even a full conversation between Caracella and Geta.

Geta's death was pretty cool, expected since Joseph likes to die on screen. But that severed hear. Bruh. You tell me they had this massive budget, and they used what looks like a latex mask bought from Spirit Halloween? It didn't remotely have Geta's features... at all. And THEY KEPT SHOWING IT. I know there's a ton of amazing special effects artists out there...they were robbed because someone else deserved to make that head. It was absurd. I am mad.

Now as much as I love Joseph, as much as I would love to see him win an Oscar for best supporting actor...this isn't the role that will get him that. He just wasn't in the movie enough to REALLY show what he can do. Tyr scenes he's in, he killed it. But I think it was like 12 minutes TOPS that he was in it.

Overall it was okay. I'll see it again, maybe it'll grow on me. But...meh

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[diioonysus]

reading + art

[royalty-nobility]

Christian VIII (1786-1848) and Queen Caroline Amalie (1796-1881) in Coronation Robes

Artist: Joseph-Désiré Court (French, 1797–1865)

Date: 1841

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Depicted People:

Christian VIII of Denmark 

Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg

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