#In focus

[deakyjoe]

I bought the Pedro Pascal In Focus magazine with posters 🤭🤭

In the UK it’s available in HMV stores for £10!!

[drzito]

Las imagenes galardonadas en los 2024 Natural Landscape Photography Awards.

[reading-past-my-bedtime]

In Focus Manifesting

I just picked up a few new ARCs to read, and I'm really excited about them!

Or, at least, I was until I started reading the first one. The author of In Focus Manifesting is also publishing In focus Shadow work at the same time, so I picked up that ARC too. I was excited to read both bc I haven't read much on either manifesting or shadow work, and was just considering getting into them so the timing was impeccable.

But this book reeks of white, american, christian, holier-than-thou toxic positivity! Not to mention that it's just the law of attraction re-packaged for "the modern witch". Did I mention I'm only 40 pages in?

Now I've lost all hope that the shadow work book is going to be any good.

[punksvspreps]

Steffani Jemison

[premetheus]

Taken Wednesday May 24th 2023 at 11:14 AM.

[labelleizzy]

@luninosity this reminded me of the scene where Leo is playing the space-villain...

Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[baristabomb]

...weird amount of dunmeshi fans have been saying being a caretaker in a relationship is the worst thing ever..marcille must want to killl everyone soo bad because doing things for people suuuucks sooo muchh

it's an act of love, not just a job i promise. we all want someone who's willing to take care of us in some way, just like how senshi shows care for others by cooking for them :'|

[nullarysources]

Here's the winner in the Common Places category of this year's Natural Landscape Photography Awards, "Morning Glory" by Anil Sud:

"I was intrigued by the beautiful symmetry of the tree plantation and accordingly, spent a few days exploring what the area might yield photographically. On my final return, I was greeted that morning by a scene bathed in backlit fog simplifying the composition further while providing for a stark silhouette against a muted gradation of light as a backdrop."

This is obviously not a real photo, clearly hand-drawn art of some kind

(as always, this is from The Atlantic's In Focus, which has more selected pics)

[pencildragons]

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

[free-my-mindd]

[mutualcombat]

*bites ur scruff*

[full on twitter]

[drzito]

Las imagenes ganadoras del concurso Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[dsmsix]

you KNOW she and Peggy Carter fucked nasty