#Individuality celebrated

[candylandphotos]

beautiful women James

"Feminine Allure in Frames: The Captivating Portraits of Beautiful Women by James."

[k2-truther]

MIDNIGHT ALLEY HYPE!!!

...through Celestial Spear on the gameboy?

(So, fun fact, I started these shortly after Celestial spear dropped but unfortunately lost steam on em'. Then I saw Jacob doing pixel Drawtectives and, well. You know I had to finish up these bad boys! And when better to drop these bad boys than to celebrate SEASON 3 BAYBEE!!!!!!

Also if you saw me post and delete the wrong version of this post, no you didn't.)

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

you open yourself up to the devil by celebrating Halloween in the same way you open yourself up to the devil by celebrating St. Paddy's or Mardi Gras.

if you play ouija or try voodoo, you open yourself up to the devil. if you dress in a slutty costume or take psychedelics in a cemetery, you open yourself up to the devil.

likewise, if you get wasted on Guinness in downtown Savannah, you open yourself up to the devil.

if you twerk half-naked for plastic beads on Bourbon Street, you open yourself up to the devil.

these kinds of bacchanalia are by no means inherent to the holidays in question, and in fact, are extremely recent perversions of traditions which go back centuries. Centuries of Christian history.

[pennywises]

TERRIFIER 2 (2022) dir. Damien Leone

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Florida Cracker

Height: 13-15 hh

Common coat colors: Grullo, chestnut, bay, black and dun

Place of origin: US (Florida)

[justsheerfilth1]

I love you brown eyes I love you crooked teeth I love you big or hooked noses I love you curly hair I love you Afro hair I love you freckles I love you tummy rolls I love you chubby arms I love you birth marks i love you vitiligo I love you anything that isn’t appreciated enough but makes you unique and beautiful

[bellamysgriffin]

DANA’S 5K CELEBRATION: Silence in the Library + Timestamp Roulette (for @benoitblanc) (want one?)

[chut-je-dors]

Now I'm curious cause of your tag. What did Swedish media say about the eurovision thing?

Oof yeah, here's a post detailing it ... here another... Basically they've absolutely flipped over the fact that Finnish public didn't give Loreen points at all (which I find absolutely hilarious) and suddenly started wielding such rhetoric as "the former eastern part of our kingdom" referring to Finland, which is???? like??? do I even need to say how Not Okay that is?

It might seem to some that the Finnish people are reacting to Sweden's (unfair) win and them being sore winners (which, points to them, I didn't know was possible!) with too much drama, but it's all tied to our history together. Finland has traditionally seen itself, and has been seen by other countries (Sweden included) as the sort of "little brother" to the more advanced, better-faring, glorious Sweden. While Sweden to my knowledge doesn't much care about what Finland gets up to (perhaps overlooking/ignoring us and our merits), Finland is always comparing itself to Sweden and trying to live up to it. It's a very common rhetoric and sort of, the atmosphere over here. We know more about Sweden than Sweden knows about us; we're constantly conscious that Sweden exists. Sweden gets talked about in international news; Finland, if mentioned, is often tied to - you guessed it - being Sweden's neighboring country.

We used to be part of Sweden for 600 years. During that time, Swedish was implemented as the language of the culture and the "civilised" whereas the finns living in the eAstErn pArT oF tHe kiNgDoM were seen as "wild" and "uncivilised" and just, generally a lesser people to the Swedish speaking population. We haven't been under Sweden's rule for some 200 years and STILL we can't seem to shake their influence on us. Swedish is still a mandatory language to learn at school (and I have many opinions on that, but that'd be another post). Finnish as a language has been disregarded for its whole existence. Our leading national thinkers and poets in the 19th century, who were the first ones to really push for the Finnish identity instead of us seeing ourselves as part of Sweden or Russia, wrote in Swedish. The first novel in Finnish was published in 1870.

So this is monumental to us, to have the whole word watching Finland and not Sweden. Finland has a lot of merits, especially considering how small a people we are (just 5,5mil). To have a song in our language, in Finnish be this popular, is something we couldn't have imagined. We as a people are humble to the extreme, so much that we might easily scorn anyone who is too successful (not a good thing!), and this is the first time in my life that I'm seeing the whole country rally behind someone like this. When we say "Our Jere" we mean it with our whole hearts. We're so so proud of him, everyone is, and for once Finnish people seem to think in unison that someone deserves all the praise and the success.

SO, to have Sweden in this UNIQUE moment of Finland raising its head and being "we're so amazing", with the rest of Europe going "yes you're so amazing!!", spew rhetoric like this, is just, unbelievable to me. Like I can't just believe that in the 21st century there are people in Sweden who hold up 200 year old thought patterns of our country. It's been shocking 'cos though there's always been rivalry, it's felt more... tongue in cheek. We "love to hate" Sweden over here. It's been "I hate Sweden (affectionate)". But now we find this unbelievably condescending and belittling attitude towards us raising its head, and we wonder, we thought we two were okay?? But have they always held these beliefs???

So there's a sense of betrayal in the air as well. And just, full on disbelief. And maybe we're starting to see that it has been like this all along, but we've decided to turn a blind eye to it? True colours shining through? Perhaps not... but yeah.

Sweden not looking good here!

(here's one more post that says the same that i did but was better at making it SHORT oops)

[toiletpotato]

One of the things that brings me the most joy about the Public Theatre's production of Merry Wives is that the character of Anne Page (pictured on the right, played by the lovely Abena) is played by an actress who is both fat and Black. Anne Page is the most sought after character in this play. She is the most beautiful girl in the whole town. She has not one, not two, but THREE suitors.

There is a rampant racism and fatphobia issue in theatre, especially in casting, so to see Abena occupy that space on that stage, to see her be the most beautiful woman, one of the driving forces of the play, brings me immense joy.

[candylandphotos]

beautiful women James "Captivating Beauty: Exploring the Allure of Beautiful Women Through the Lens of James."

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

[khalliys]

Critical Role is just such a warm and wonderful gift for wlw representation.

We have the two who saw each other from opposite ends of a bumpy broken road, who braved rain and thunderstorms and faced obstacles and hurdles but were always on track towards each other - even when they didn't know they were, even when they couldn't see they were - until the rain got lighter and they started walking with purpose. And then they finally reached each other in the middle, embraced and never let go.

And we have the two who started on a bumpy broken road together, who are braving red sand storms and go over obstacles and hurdles side by side and where at some point intertwining each others hands for support and comfort - so that they always know they're still walking together, even when they can't see and there's too much sand in their eyes - and then never letting go was just the right descision to make.

[otasunedaily]

day 40!🎉🎉

[spotaus]

Woah, the Guys are getting their Apocalypse Christmas after all!

Doing the tagging rq: @xpau-official / @kuuuuro

I had a great time drawing these guys on this card base, and it's great to see that xpau is continuing on the legacy of cpau! Glad I stumbled across the account!

Other notes that I'm holding under here:

These guys are Dust, Geno, and Reaper, but from my lil au called Ec-4o.verse! Their universe has been in an odd robotic apocalypse for decades, and they're some of the few monsters who actually *remember* what Christmas is besides the robots w/ history files. It's a plot-point that there's a 'snow' and they decide to show their younger members of their survival group what Christmas was ♡

Also, these sweaters were designed by @satsukidoodles404 my wonderful partner in crime for the Ec-4o.verse project! Last year they drew these three in Christmas outfits, and I never had the chance to doodle them! (And Dust's Dino pants were a suggestion from @/neonsix67, my roomie, cuz I felt like Dust would wear Christmas pj pants too.)

I was gonna add in Blue and Horror (the two who would be the most enamored by the idea of a holiday) but I didn't have the energy lmao-)

[sunkissedlouis]

HAPPY 1D ANNIVERSARY!!!!! 💝✨