#I wanna post it now

[ohno-the-sun]

Being impatient, lazy, and a perfectionist all at the same time is aaaaaa

I wanna post my project now but it’s not done, but I wanna show what I have done, but I don’t think it looks good enough yet, but I also just want it done and out to the world now, but I also don’t feel like finishing it

What a strange looping cycle I’ve found myself in

[frodoenjoyer]

“We have always needed escapism, and we always will.” Exactly! This reminds me of a a section from Tolkiens essay On Fairy Stories:

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all.”

And primarily,

“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter.”

Tolkien fought with those critics with such passion and never denied that his stories were escapism: that was their exact purpose. They’re so genuine, and you can feel within his words while reading that he unabashedly knew in his heart that escapism, at its core, was essential to people. He didn’t care that critics gave him shit for it. He embraced it and fought for it. While all other Oxford linguistic professors passed off “fairy-tales” as stories for children and did not bother to read nor write them, Tolkien outwardly disagreed and wrote his “fairy stories” anyway. Love it.

I recall in an interview, which I believe was from 1964, that the interviewer asked Tolkien “where and when on earth does the story take place?” and he responded “It’s not apart of our world. We cannot apply what we know about our world to Middle Earth.” (that was based off memory so sorry if that’s slightly off LOL) That was the point of it, to be away from everything like a breath of fresh air and wonder, and that’s what made it so great.

Today there is a wide love for fantasy and escapism - with a few silly exceptions that come from people (which is pretty much negligible) - and we have Tolkien to thank for it.

the lord of the rings is so honest. so raw. so sincere. so unabashedly from the heart. no snide fourth wall jokes, no attempts to alleviate the heaviness. it is is wholeheartedly earnest in its dedication to portraying hope and love and faith and loyalty and courage, and that is what makes it feel like home to so many of us. it's true to itself. it doesn't pretend to be cool and care less. it cares, a lot, and that is a rare, beautiful thing. it warms our hearts to care for a piece of fiction that was made to care about and be cared about

and we know we aren't going to be punished or ridiculed by the work itself for loving it! no characters killed off cruelly, no plotlines abandoned, no shrugging of shoulders and "well real life is like that. get used to it." we have always needed escapism, and we always will. and middle earth will always be there to escape to

[phanfuckingtasmal]

im sorry but i cannot stop thinking about isha's pastel memories that play during her sacrifice scene.

look at how full of colour this beautiful fuckin shot is:

it's been well established in episodes 4-6 how grim and dark the undercity has become under cait and ambessa's new rule. but look at how isha sees/remembers it - because of jinx.

jinx, who went through a severe childhood trauma that has carried over into her present self - she covers extremely destructive weapons and grenades in bright pinks and blues, neons, childlike doodles, graffiti. (joy and destruction, powder and jinx, a contrast so striking it becomes like a signature for her).

and then we see the world through isha's eyes. when we meet her in episode 2, she's running through sewers, from goons dressed in black; it's grimy and grim. and then all of her recent memories are done in these childlike pastel, almost crayon-y sketches. because what isha saw was jinx covering a dark and grim world in colours.

and so isha covered her world in colour, too.

because jinx made her world bright.

isha looked at jinx and saw the child in her. she saw powder and she saw jinx. she saw joy and destruction. and that's why jinx gave isha so much hope. isha knew the world was grim and dark - but then she watched jinx, and she learned that you can paint over all that grim darkness with neon blue spray paint.

that's why isha believed in hope. that's why in her final moments - in a scene that is lit dimly and dramatically - she sees nothing but a bright world coloured in pastels.

never underestimate the hope of a child.

[lesgay-loser]

"wdym you're a man, you were born a girl and youll always be one" = general transphobia directed at a trans guy

"why would you want to be a man, all men are horrible" "clearly you only want to be a man so you arent oppressed anymore" "gender traitor" = transandrophobia

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[bastardiando]

posting across the targetverse here bc it did numbers on twitter

[salamispots]

dream wip

[buckleydiazmp4]

rat…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

[butchlifeguard]

we need to destroy the idea that girls should wear makeup. normalize bare faces on prom queens and flower girls and cheerleaders. no products at all instead of '7 product simple makeup routine.' no more 10 step skincare and regular facials and dermablading and gua sha just to be comfortable with yr natural face. i want to see eye bags on the funny librarian and acne on the swim coach and wrinkles on all our adult role models. i want to see a 16 year old girl that has never tried putting on eyeshadow. i want to see a 7 year old girl who doesn't have to go out and buy powder for her dance recital. i want to see trans women and girls everywhere to never have to wear makeup, regardless of how well they 'pass.' no more 'contouring to look masc' either. a post-beauty industry world is possible

reblogs are on but if you bring up the stage makeup point that i have addressed three times yr blocked on sight ☹️

[vongulli]

old drawings from like 2022 of my cat lady theif, Natanya!

[windwenn]

UHURA!!!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[heroictoonz]

Here’s my pitch for season two like hear me out guys

[yooboobies]

yoongi and his thousand ways of feeling joy | laugh series fin

{cr. 0613data namuspromised}

[xxplastic-cubexx]

alternate apocalypse ending or something who the hcrist knows anymore

[gearbroth]

twitter meme