#aja romero

[contemplatingoutlander]

"The narrative predetermines not only what information you receive, but how you interpret it and order it within the larger story. As Duncombe writes, 'We understand our world less through reasoned deliberation of facts, and more through stories and symbols and metaphors.' Received in a community of devotees, such stories and symbols often morph into esoteric codes only true believers can see, from 'Q drops' to signs that Louis Tomlinson’s baby is fake." [color/ emphasis added] --Aja Romero

I've often thought the way that extreme fans (or "stans") form communities centered around celebrity "narratives" and conspiracies is very much a similar phenomenon as what we see with certain Trump voters. Aja Romano does a great job of describing the troubling parallels between celebrity "stans" and Trump's MAGA followers. Below are some excerpts from the article:

It’s a common observation that modern-day politics increasingly resembles fandom: Both feature communities created around and united by passion, and both are often heavily fixated on a single public figure. [...] In both subcultures, the rise of social media echo chambers has fomented toxicity, extremism, and delusional thinking. [...] OUR EMOTIONS INCREASINGLY SHAPE HOW WE VIEW REALITY AND WHAT WE’RE WILLING TO DO TO PRESERVE THAT VIEW Applying the concept of a shared narrative to political activism imbues that activism with all the heady intoxication of a fantasy role-playing game, whether it’s a fantasy of progress or a fantasy of extremism.... [A]uthor Stephen Duncombe observed that Trump won the 2016 election not based on facts — he lied often — but upon his ability to create fantasy masked as truth. “Facts, it seems, are not things that are verifiably true or false, merely components in a story,” Duncombe notes.   [...] This distortion of reality is partly inadvertent slippage. After all, when all your friends are playing the RPG with you, it can be hard to re-enter reality. And when all your friends are creating the narrative with you, it can be hard to remember what parts are real and what parts you constructed together. That communal narrative is crucial connective tissue between politics and fandom; it unites people around not just a shared sense of identity, but a shared story and the idea that they’re building that story together. These narratives aren’t just entertainment. To their proponents, they have a higher moral purpose, whether it’s “draining the swamp,” rooting for your favorite characters in a series to get together, or freeing Taylor Swift from the oppression of the closet. [color emphasis added]

I highly recommend that you read the entire article at the link above.

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[joezy27]

HAWKEYE - Comic Books Analysis

Mouvement in Comics - Hawkeye Videos by Strip Panel Naked

[mysterycitrus]

oh man i thought i was the only one getting Kinda Sick of redondo’s inability to draw more than one and a half types of facial features (all of which are Wide And Muscular)

like he’s objectively a good artist, i’m just… he’s never drawn dick in a way that looks right to me

ive never been a massive fan of redondo’s art because it’s kind of the metaphorical cherry-on-top for how reductive tom taylors nightwing is. i don’t think it’s controversial to say that the layouts and style (as well as the writing) are very similar to fraction ajas hawkeye, but redondos art just feels really….. idk. sterile? which is a really really weird thing to say about a comic set in bludhaven. where’s the grit?? the grime?? why does everyone look like they’ve had the pores airbrushed??

aja’s style is very distinct and like… textured. it’s purposely minimal so when he focuses on on the details it’s easily legible to the reader. there aren’t many artists who can successfully go through a whole issue of a comic with almost no dialogue twice over and still portray some exceptional storytelling. like this is so gd good

but regardless of ajas style, i think those kind of page layouts are much more successful with artists like leonardo romero, who does draw characters distinct to each other, and also does really great splashes

even ignoring that tho, and ignoring that dicks skin colour is literally blinding white, i also haven’t ever liked how he’s been drawn and how everyone looks so similar. idk like technically he’s very skilled, but his art reminds me more of expensive corporate advertising than comic books

[justinsentertainmentcorner]

Aja Romero at Vox:

One of the things that made Macklemore’s Gaza protest rap “Hind’s Hall” so electrifying when it dropped on May 6 is how unexpected it was. It wasn’t just that Macklemore, who hasn’t really seemed culturally relevant since his notorious Grammy win over Kendrick Lamar a decade ago, was suddenly headline news. It was that no one, relevant or not, seemed to be making protest music anymore, least of all about the Israel-Hamas war. Macklemore’s blistering anthem takes aim at Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, where more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, following the deadly October 7 Hamas attacks. The song comes at a time when student protests around the country are pushing the conflict and America’s role in it to the forefront of cultural debate. Though Macklemore doesn’t have the reputation for political activism that other artists have, it’s not for lack of trying: He’s been producing politically themed music ever since his debut album in 2005.

Macklemore also occupies a rare position: As he himself says in a “Hind’s Hall” verse, his status as an independent artist, as well as a white one, allows him to take a bold political stance. Most artists would risk career-ending repercussions for speaking out, especially about such a polarized subject as Gaza. The post-Trump era has been a fallow period for protest music, though the current revival of campus activism could usher in an adjacent revival for the genre. But if “Hind’s Hall” hints at a return, there are other complicating factors at play when we think about what protest music even means in contemporary America.

Macklemore, surprisingly political

“Hind’s Hall” doubles as a song of support for student protesters across America and as a form of protest against Israel’s Gaza offensive itself. The song title refers both to an informally renamed building at Columbia University, the nexus of student protests there, and to the hall’s namesake, Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was allegedly killed by Israeli troops in January, along with her family. The Israeli military also allegedly killed the ambulance crew dispatched to rescue her.

The first verse takes aim at US police and features footage of student demonstrations all across the country where law enforcement was summoned to disperse the mostly peaceful protests. Macklemore also implies that speech on social media has been suppressed: “You can pay off Meta, you can’t pay off me,” he sings, referring to Facebook’s reported censorship of pro-Palestinian views (Meta has denied that claim). The third verse takes aim at the Gaza conflict itself as well as President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to pressure Israel to change course. “Where does genocide land in your definition?” he asks. “Destroying every college in Gaza and every mosque? Pushing everyone into Rafah and dropping bombs?” — referring to Israel’s military offensive against the city of Rafah, which was supposed to be a safe zone for over a million civilians.

While protest songs experienced a resurgence in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, musical artists have largely stayed silent until now on the subject of Palestine. But while most people know Macklemore mainly from his 2013 hit “Thrift Shop,” a tongue-in-cheek rap glorifying swag finds from Goodwill, he’s not as unlikely a torch-bearer as you might think for this kind of performance. He’s maintained a surprisingly political catalog, starting with his debut album, 2005’s The Language of My World, which included a track called “White Privilege,” years before the concept of white privilege was well-known within the culture. The song addressed Macklemore’s conflicted feelings on the cultural appropriation of hip-hop by white culture, taking aim at everything from white audiences (“White kids with do-rags trying to practice their accents”) to “controlling” music industry corporations and white artists like himself.

Another track on the album, “Bush Song,” was even more overtly political, mocking then-President George W. Bush for everything from bigoted and sexist politics to the economy and war in Iraq. Macklemore’s most notable political move prior to “Hind’s Hall” came with 2012’s “Same Love,” a song that advocated LGBTQ equality and criticized homophobia within hip-hop culture. 2016 saw him return to the theme of racism with “White Privilege II,” a track he recorded with Jamila Woods. The track covers themes of racist police brutality and the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests over the killing of Michael Brown, protests Macklemore himself participated in.

Macklemore hasn’t escaped political controversy in the past, including an incident that complicates his decision to speak out on the Israel-Hamas war. In 2014, he wore the world’s most ill-judged costume during a performance, featuring a bulbous prosthetic nose, a black wig, and fake beard. Macklemore at first called the outfit “random” but eventually apologized for its antisemitism. Macklemore says on the track that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, but it’s difficult to try to be the one to parse the difference when you’ve previously appeared in this kind of stereotypical getup in public. Still, missteps or not, Macklemore’s status as an independent artist — not to mention a white artist — puts him in a position to take bolder political stances than most artists. Though “Thrift Shop” catapulted him to huge fame, Macklemore primarily used, and still uses, YouTube and social media to reach his core audience. That worked well for “Hind’s Hall,” enabling the track to go viral on Instagram and Twitter before it even landed on streaming services.

[...]

Protest music isn’t what it used to be

We like to think that activism and music have always gone hand in hand, but despite a long legacy of protest music in the US, it’s been decades since we had sustained musical movements of political change and resistance. The ’90s saw plenty of riot grrrls, and the Iraq War generated its fair share of politicized music in response. These days, however, songs like Green Day’s 2004 “American Idiot” or socially conscious rap like Donald Glover’s “This Is America,” 2018’s anti-gun anthem, are rare.

The arguable death knell for protest in pop may have come in 1992, when Ice T’s heavy metal band Body Count released its eponymous debut album, featuring a still-controversial track called “Cop Killer.” The song, which protested racialized police brutality in the era of the police beating of Rodney King, prompted record stores around the country to remove the album from their shelves. It offended law enforcement organizations so much that they successfully pressured Ice T to remove the track and likely influenced Ice T’s label, Warner Bros., to part ways from the rapper at the arguable peak of his success. To this day, authorized versions of the song are difficult to find. “The early ’90s had a lot of really aggressive protest music, and that’s all gone now,” Patch explained in an interview. “And I think a lot of it has to do with the “Cop Killer” case.” He noted that in addition to Warner Bros. severing its contract with Ice T, several other artists lost their contracts in the wake of “Cop Killer” for similar politically incendiary reasons. The backlash created a chilling effect over the entire industry.

Vox takes a look at Macklemore’s anti-Israel apartheid and pro-Palestinian protest song Hind’s Hall and its place in the world of protest songs.

[sixcostumerefs]

Pulled the numbers on what colleges were most common for the US/Can actors. This is mostly taken from the Wiki. May be missing some actors/colleges. I generally tried to only count it when an actor actually got a degree in the performing arts, but it's possible that some of these still went to college for something else. I'll probably do this for the UK eventually, too.

5 University of Michigan (Bre Jackson, Storm Lever, Zan Berube, Cydney Clark, Aline Mayagoitia) AMDA (Gabbi Mack, Brittney Mack, Didi Romero, Joy N Woods, Brennyn Lark. Leandra Ellis-Gaston also attended AMDA LA, but that's a different program)

4 Cal State - Fullerton (Ellie Wyman, Abigail Sparrow, Lauren Mariasoosay, Taylor Sage Evans) Columbia College (Courtney Mack, Megan Leung, Mallory Maedke, Shantel Cribbs) Sheridan College (Julia Pulo, Elysia Cruz, Hailey Alexis Lewis, Julia McLellan)

3 Belmont (Wesley Carpenter, Sierra Fermin, Carlina Parker) Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Kennedy Monica Carsterns, Gabriela Francesca Carrillo, Aryn Bohannon. Honorary mention of Hien, from the non-replica Hungarian cast) Ithaca College (Olivia Donalson, Sydney Parra, Audrey Fisher) Montclair State University (Gianna Grosso, Amaya White, Kristina Walz) NYU (Gerianne Pérez, Princess Victomé, Guilia Marolda) Penn State (Jasmine Forsberg, Amina Faye, Jessie Davidson) TXST (Bella Coppola, Anna Uzele, Adriana Scalice)

2 Ball State University (Terica Marie, Keirsten Hodgens) Baldwin Wallace University (Keri Rene Fuller, Shelby Griswold) BYU (Emily Rose Lyons, Channing Weir) Emerson College (Kathryn Kilger, Erin Ramirez) Elon University (Ruby Gibbs, Nasia Thomas) Fullerton College (Haley Izurieta, Lauren Mariasoosay) Indiana University (Abby Mueller, Caroline Siegrist) Pace University (Aja Simone Baitey, Aubrey Matalon) Rider University (Casey Esbin, Jessie Bodner) Shenandoah University (Kelsee Kimmel, Willow Dougherty) Temple University (Alana M Robinson, Chelsea Lorraine Wargo)

[janedances]

“It’s impossible to be in love with all the six queens’

The Six queens in question:

Megan Gilbert, Ashleigh Weir, Holly Musgrave, Oliver Wickham, Annabel Marlow, Shimali De Silva, Renee Lamb, Christina Modestou, Natalie Paris, Genesis Lynea, Aimie Atkinson, Izuka Hoyle, Jaye’J Richards-Noel, Millie O’Connell, Alexia McIntosh, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Grace Mouat, Vicki Manser, Courtney Stapleton, Adrianna Hicks, Andrea Macaseat, Abby Mueller, Brittney Mack, Samantha Pauly, Anna Uzele, Mallory Maedke, Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert, Courtney Mack, Shantel Cribbs, Courtney Bowman, Sophie Isaacs, Danielle Steers, Zara Macintosh, Cherelle Jay, Hana Stewart, Collette Guitart, Candace Furbert, Hazel Karooma-Brooker, Caitlin Tipping, Sophie Golden, Alicia Corrales-Connor, Viquichele Cross, Bryony Duncan, Natalie Pilkington, Lori McLare, Amy Bridges, Lauren Drew, Maddison Bulleyment, Lauren Byrne, Shekinah McFarlane, Jodie Steele, Athena Collins, Cassandra Lee, Jennifer Caldwell, Harriet Watson, Jasmine Shen, Kelly Sweeney, Jessica Niles, Georgia Carr, Amelia Walker, Liv Alexander, Elizabeth Walker, Maddison Firth, Laura Blair, Chloe Zuel, Kala Gare, Loren Hunter, Kiana Daniele, Courtney Monsma, Vidya Makan, Ella Burns, Karis Oka, Shannen Alyce-Quan, Jade Marvin, Lucy Aiston, Gabriella Stylianou-Burns, Scarlet Gabriel, Rebecca Wickes, Megan Leung, Sophie Rose Middleton, Abbi Hodgson, Kara Ami Mcraenor, Emily Harrigan, Gabrielle Smith, Melissa Ford, Kaylah Attard, Fia Houston-Hamilton, Rhiannon Bacchus, Rhiannon Doyle, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Elena Gyasi, Keirsten Hodgens, Artemis Chrisoulakis, Ellie Sharpe, Sadie Hurst, Melinda Porto, L’Oreal Roache, Wesley Carpenter, Maya Christian, Brianna Mooney, Meghan Dawson, Marilyn Caserta, Ashlee Waldbauer, Adrianna Glover, Alize Ke’Aloha Cruz, Kristina Walz, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Amanda Lindgren, Claudia Kariuki, Dionne Ward-Anderson, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Meesha Turner, Paisley Billings, Danielle Rose, Roxanne Couch, Esme Rothero, Rachel Rawlinson, Lauren Irving, Danielle Mendoza, Shelby Griswold, Kennedy Carstens, Abigail Sparrow, Jarynn Whitney, Madeline Fansler, Channing Weir, Princess Victomé, Sunayna Smith, Chloë Hart, Casey Al-Shaqsy, Aiesha Pease, Jaina Brock-Patel, Alana Robinson, Grace Melville, Leesa Tulley, Harriet Caplan-Dean, Khaila Wilcoxon, Storm Lever, Jasmine Forsberg, Olivia Donalson, Didi Romero, Gabriela Carrillo, Cassie Silva, Kelly Denice Taylor, Erin Ramirez, Kelsee Kimmel, Phoenix Mendoza, Chelsea Dawson, Chiara Assetta, Cristina D’Agostino, Joy Woods, Bre Jackson, Keri Rene Fuller, Brennyn Lark, Ayla Ciccone-Burton, Holli’ Conway, Brianna Javis, Gabbi Mack, Casey Esbin, Ellie Wyman, Sasha Renae Brown, Nicole Lamb, Aja Simone Baitey, Willow Dougherty, Kayla McSorely, Emily Rose Lyons, Chelsea Wargo, Hannah Taylor, Jessie Bodner, Jasmine Hackett, Janice Rijssel, Lucia Valentino, Elena Breschi, Meg Dixon-Brasil, Sarah McFarlane, Reca Oakley, Gerianne Perez, Zan Berube, Amina Faye, Terica Marie, Aline Mayagoitia, Sydney Parra, Jana Larell Glover, Taylor Pearlstein, Aryn Bohannon, Cecilia Snow, Rhianne Louise McCaulsky, Baylie Carson, Koko Basigara, Monique Ashe Palmer, Leah Vassell, Hailee Kaleem Wright, Leandra Ellis Gaston, Bella Coppola, Nasia Thomas, Zoe Jensen, Taylor Iman Jones, Aubrey Matalon, Kristina Leopold, Rae Davenport, Gianna Grosso, Kathryn Kilger, Bethany McDonald, Jillian Worthing, Haley Izurieta, Jasmine Smith, Lois Ellise Reeves, Alyssa Giannetti, Eden Holmes, Jaelle Laguerre, Kate Zulauf, Lee ARumSoul, Son Seungyeon Kim Ji Woo, Sophiya Pae, Park Hye-na, Park Ga-Ram, Kim Ji Sun, Choi Hyun-sun, Kim Ryeo Won, Heo Sol-ji, Yoo Ju-hye, Hong Ji Hee, Nicole Louise Lewis, Laura Dawn Pyatt, Erin Caldwell, Kenedy Small, Lou Henry, Aoife Haakenson, Ellie Jane Grant, Izi Maxwell, Tamara Morgan, Shakira Simpson, Fiorella Bamba, Lucinda Wilson, Caitlyn De Kuyper, Amanda Lee, Gabriella Boumford, Audrey Fisher, Brooke Aneece, Jaz Robinson, Julia Pulo, Maggie Lacasse, Krystal Hernández, Elysia Cruz, Lauren Mariasoosay, Julia McLellan, Darcy Stewart, Hailey Lewis

[menujusenja]

Bepergian Bersama Faisal Reza Irfani adalah My Trip My Adventure yang Sebenarnya - Awal Persiapan

Tulisan ini sudah mengendap ribuan purnama di dalam draft tapi saya masih mager buat ngelanjutinnya. Lalu gara-gara iseng scroll tulisan-tulisan @omteo yang flashback cerita masa-masa SMA saya jadi kepikiran buat nyelesein ni cerita absurd sama seorang sahabat. It's gonna be gaplek story between hundred other stories. Bagaimana mungkin satu orang membuat banyak sekali kekacauan dalam satu kali perjalanan?

Ini adalah awal tahun 2014, ketika beristirahat sejenak usai berpusing-pusing ria menghadapi ujian semester ganjil, ringtone gawaiku berbunyi. Sebuah pesan singkat masuk. Aku lihat di notifikasi, ada nama Faisal Reza di sana. Dia adalah temanku semasa SMA dan kami memang termasuk akrab bahkan ketika pilihan kampus memisahkan.

"Bes, ayo melu nonton Jazz Gunung yok." ajak Faisal.

Wah apaan ni Jazz Gunung? Kayanya menarik banget buat didatengin kan. Bayangin aja acara itu merupakan paduan dari dua kata yang keren abiez antara musik jazz yang mahal dari segi apapun dan gunung yang syahdu nan dingin.

"Piro emang harga tiket e? tanyaku.

Ya sebagai mahasiswa fakir dana dan asmara, pertanyaan yang berbau finansial lebih penting daripada hal esensial lainnya seperti kapan dan di mana acara itu berlangsung. Nonton pertunjukkan musik jazz di gunung yang kayanya bakalan romantis banget tapi sama cowok. Kurang greget apalagi tuh.

"Iki sing tiket terusan 2 hari nggo kelas festival 400 ribu neg satu hari tok 250 ribu, neg VIP luwih larang meneh koe ra mampu wkwkkw." ucap Faisal sambil mengejekku.

Jazz Gunung ini event musik jazz yang diselenggarakan selama dua hari, yaitu Jum'at dan Sabtu di Java Banana Bromo Amphiteater yang terletak di lereng Gunung Bromo. Batasan budget membuat kami harus selektif memilih satu tanggal saja untuk ditonton. Hari Sabtu akhirnya dipilih karena faktor waktunya dirasa lebih luang dan fleksibel. Line up hari itu juga lumayan bagus diisi oleh ESQI:EF Syaharani & Queenfireworks, Nita Aartsen Quatro featuring Yeppy Romero, Indro Hardjodikoro & The Fingers dan Jazz Ngisoringin.

Setelah menyelesaikan pembelian dan pembayaran tiket masuk, kami kemudian merancang rencana perjalanan beserta transportasinya. Faisal yang berangkat dari Solo memilih menggunakan kereta api menuju Surabaya pada hari Jum'at selepas kuliah dan akan sampai sekitar pukul 11 malam. Setelah itu esok paginya baru kami bersama-sama menuju venue. Mengingat kami berdua sangat efisien dan efektif dalam menggunakan uang (baca : miskin dan kere), perjalanan ini harus bebas dari kata foya-foya. Seperti kata Hamish Daud pada waktu itu, my trip my adventure ! Kalo ada cara yang susah kenapa pilih cara yang gampang yee kan.

Jadilah kita membeli tiket kereta api kelas ekonomi Probowangi yang saat itu hanya bertarif sepuluh ribu rupiah saja. Selain murah, kereta ini berangkat sangat pagi yaitu sekitar pukul 04.30 WIB. Jadi kami berpikir bisa lebih santai ketika sampai Probolinggo dan menikmati suasana pagi kota yang syahdu. Kami sekalian membeli tiket pulang ke Surabaya untuk hari Minggu pagi dengan harga tiket yang sama.

Kami berdua belum pernah sama sekali mengunjungi Probolinggo, jadi benar-benar buta dengan kondisi di sana. Agar bisa sampai ke venue secara tepat waktu, kami melakukan riset moda transportasi apa saja yang tersedia untuk menuju ke Java Banana Bromo Amphitheater. Ternyata, ada pilihan bus dan semacam angkutan sayur yang setiap waktu ada di terminal kota. Tarifnya sekitar tiga sampai empat puluh ribu dan memakan waktu 90 menit perjalanan. Masih tergolong murah lah yaa.

Sebagai anak backpaker gaul nan uye kami sepakat anti kemapanan. Pilihan fasilitas akomodasi berupa hotel yang disediakan panitia tidak kami ambil. Hanya orang-orang bermental lemah yang tidur di hotel.

"Di gunung itu menyatu dengan alam dan menghirup udara segar kebebasan bro !", ucap kedua mahasiswa berkemampuan keuangan yang lemah ini.

Perjalanan sudah disusun dengan sedemikian ketat sehingga kami yakin semua akan lancar dan baik-baik saja. Sistem penuh fleksibilitas yang kami usung selanjutnya akan menjadi tumpuan ketika menghadapi medan dengan kondisi dan situasi tak menentu. Aku pribadi memang bukan kali pertama ini berpergian dengan Faisal, karenanya mental sudah sangat siap apabila menemui hal-hal ajaib saat perjalanan nanti. Sesuatu yang kelak benar-benar terjadi dan tak hanya sekali, tapi berkali-kali.

Bersambung yee ~

Bandung, 8 Desember 2023

@menujusenja

[ruke-lanca-blog]

Check out my profile on Wattpad, I'm Vasthi Romero https://www.wattpad.com/RUKEDLANKA?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_profile AJA! vamos a leer otro capitulo! el capi 2 ya esta aqui!

[cupacuphie]

Do you know with this pict? 

Yes he’s my crush. Tapi dia ini anak didikku. Beda umur kita tuh ada mungkin 10 tahun. Jadi berasa nge-crush-in ade sendiri. Karna aku juga punya ade seumuran nih anak. Jadi awal kita ketemu itu waktu ada projek pengibaran bendera 17an. Dia sebagai danton dan aku pelatih paskibranya. Dan aku baru sadar ketika dia udah terjun tanpa masker. Tau ga sih mirip banget sm Bryan Domani. Ada juga yg bilang mirip Derby Romero. Tapi gak lama lagi dia mau lulus dari SMA nya. Terus tadi kita baru ketemu lagi dan bercakap-cakap lumayan lama lah yah. 

Dia bilang aku sombong karna ga pernah nanya dia. Bukan sombong sayang, tapi aku tuh mendem bae di ruang operator. Mana sempet nangkring. Eh tadi akhirnya bisa temu kangen juga setelah sebelumnya aku bilang sm kawan yg jadi operator di SMA nya. Dan sore tadi akhirnya terkabul kalau aku kangen sm ini anak. Terus dia bilang: 

A: “Bu, tau gak?” 

S: “Tau apa?” 

A: “Aku ulangtahun loh bu. Mau doain aku gak?”

S: “Kapan?”

A: “Hari ini.”

S: “Wah congrats lah.”

Dan tetiba aku malah kasih dia simbol hati ala2 Korea. Difikir-fikir kok malu gitu yah. Mana di tengah lapang. Aku baru sadar ketika di tempat si Mas Cuanki sebrang sekolah. Serius malu. Sebelum akhirnya aku pergi jajan, kutanya lah dia mau kuliah dimana. Dia bilang ingin masuk UPI jurusan Penjas atau masuk TNI. Speechless bgt ketika dia bilang TNI. Mau seberapa keren lagi kamu tuh please. Jangan buat cewe2 di sekeliling kamu tuh jadi melting trus nge-crush-in kamu juga. Itu tuh bikin aku muter otak. Aku ini emang ga pantes bgt buat anak bocah yah. Hahahaha. Gila brondong bgt emang. 

Tapi gak hanya suka dia karna parasnya sih. Sifat dewasanya dia itu udah keliatan. Kemandiriannya, tanggungjawabnya. Pokonya the best lah. Yang lain di umur dia yg masih muda cuma mikir main dan pacaran. Dia itu udah punya anak latihan kepramukaan di SMP. Gatau deh SMP mana. Coba gak keren gimana. Kamu pun cewe yg baca cerita ini pasti nge-crush-in dia. Tapi maaf hanya aku yah yg boleh. Yg lain nonton aja. 

Pokonya hari ini hari paling mood booster bgt. Oh iya satu lagi. Hari ini dia ganteng bgt bgt bgt. Jujur lebih putih, rambutnya ga gondrong pokonya rapih. Udah gitu tatapan dia seperti meyakinkanku akan suatu hal. Gimana gak speechless hey. Dia berdiri di hadapanku bener2 di wajahku bgt. Dan berdiri di tengah lapang. Tau kan kaya apa rasanya? 

[noticeablygeese]

i wish cowboys were real

Same.

[readordiebyemilyt]

Hawkeye! I drew Kate today because dang, I’m excited to see the Fraction/Aja run brought to life. (And I’ve got the rest of the Thompson/Romero run to finish this summer.)

[meruz]

I’m replying to asks because I don’t want to answer e-mais

this is tough... I have a hard time looking at my art objectively so I’m not sure which inking styles resemble mine. Like so much of it is not just in the sensibility and light/shadow choices but also in the... hand. How light or heavy of a touch etc. There’s definitely artists I’ve looked at when trying to figure out techniques and I can list a couple of those!

Chris Samnee

Tonci Zonjic

John Paul Leon

Matias Bergara

Jamie Hernandez

Huge fan of also: Alex Toth, Stuart Immonen, David Aja, Leo Romero, Sara Pichelli, Pepe Larraz, Kikuo Johnson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Paul Pope, Eduardo Risso, Daniel Warren Johnson, Lee Weeks, Chris Bachalo, and Frank Quitely. Oh and I’m pretty sure it’s multimedia but I’m obsessed with Alvaro Martinez Bueno’s work in Nice House On The Lake

Ok I think that’s all I’ve got off the top of my head.

He was just feeling in the moment LOL!! it’s ok klefki can float

@the-east-hunter​ Honestly? I want to. I’m kind of trying to get into printing more zines/booklets because I kinda draw too much to be selling prints.. I can never fit them all on my display and no one even wants big prints anyways like so many ppl at cons tell me they don’t have space on their walls or whatever. Also I hate shipping merch, i dont like drawing chibis for charms/stickers and theres no good way to mail posters... it’s easier to ship books at least domestically through media mail. BUT formatting books is kind of tedious I have a hard time even arranging my art into photosets yet alone books. I make more fanart than original art but I need to make a LOT of fanart for a specific fandom before a book feels worth it and idk how I feel about making a multifandom book. And printing them is tough. I don’t like using online printing services but I’ve been moving too often to have a local printer I go to for books.. ANYWAYS im just musing to myself but all this to say: yes, I want to but I don’t think it’s gonna happen anytime soon. In physical form at least. Please check out my itch.io for digital pdfs though

I think Jamie is funny. Love to see him. If I had his powers I would make pokemon real I don’t care about the consequences. YOLO, I guess.

These are just rly nice ;-; made my day. Thank YOUU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

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Hawkeye + Tumblr Text Posts Part 4

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Welcome Bliss 4.0 queens

Gabbi Mack: as Catherine of Aragon

Casey Esbin: as Anne Boleyn

Ellie Wyman: as Jane Seymour

Sasha Renae Brown: as Anna of Cleves

Nicole Lamb: as Katherine Howard

Aja Simone Baitey: as Catherine Parr

Kayla McSorley: as onboard swing (covers not announced yet)

Willow Dougherty: as onboard swing (covers not announced yet)

Emily Rose Lyons: as rehearsal swing (covers not announced yet)

Chelsea Wargo: as rehearsal swing (covers not announced yet)

Hannah Taylor: as rehearsal swing (covers not announced yet)

Christine Sutin: as Joan/Keys

Bia Malta: as Maria/Drums

Jungsoo Lee: as Bessie/Bass

Julia Agra: as Maggie/guitar

Mint Romero: as rehearsal guitar

This is the third US based cruise cast following Bliss 3.0 and Breakaway 3.0. It is the second production to have three rehearsal swings following Bliss 3.0. It marks the return of Jungsoo Lee and Julia Agra who were LIW in cruise productions before. It is also the first time a rehearsal LIW is announced (and one of the rare ocassions the LIW are officially announced).

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Viddying the Nasties # 33 | The Hills Have Eyes (Craven, 1977)

This review contains spoilers.

Wes Craven’s first film, The Last House on the Left, explores what happens when decent people come face to face with real evil, and sets up a campy, innocent surface only to shatter it with unspeakable violence. I’m not a fan (its ambitions are undermined by its technical sloppiness), but there’s no denying that its strongest sequences have a palpable gut level impact. Craven’s stated intention was to reflect the way the violence of the Vietnam War and contemporaneous societal unrest had entered the living rooms of the average American family, and as clumsy as his movie may be in its overall construction, I think it achieves this aim.

A few years later, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre again brought average, almost aggressively banal characters face to face with a kind of savagery heretofore unseen on screen. This time the villains have a more clearly defined family structure (in contrast to the loose association of no-goodniks in Last House), one which suggests parody, but the comedic dimensions of their characterizations might be hard to see thanks to how assaultive the surrounding film is. I think Tobe Hooper’s film is quite a bit better than Craven’s, but both are very much part of the same strain of horror (which arguably started or at least went back to George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead), one which does away with any sense of safety or heroics that might offer comfort to the viewer, and in which society itself seems to be under attack.

The Hills Have Eyes was Craven’s return to the horror genre after a few years of unsuccessfully trying to get non-horror projects off the ground and directing a porno (The Fireworks Woman) under the pseudonym Abe Snake. In many ways it’s a continuation of the themes of those earlier movies and, I would argue, it pushes them further. The heroes here once again find themselves face to face with a kind of horror they’ve never experienced before, one which doesn’t play by their rules. This time the action is set not in the backwoods but in the middle of the desert, the harshness of the environment captured effectively by the rough, dust-caked visuals, individual frames looking like they’ve been left out in the sun far too long. Yet how Craven expands this premise is kind of daring. He mirrors the heroes and villains. And he sets up the heroes to be more than a little unlikable.

Both the heroes and the villains are defined as families, each ruled by their respective patriarchs. The father of the villains was an overgrown, feral child cast off into the wilderness by an abusive father who kidnapped a local prostitute and started a family in the middle of a desert. They’re mean and capable of great cruelty, but at the same time survival is clearly their motivation. Craven invites us to see them how mainstream, polite society viewed the counterculture or how Americans viewed the Viet Cong in the decade prior, which calls our vantage point into question. The father of the heroes is a retired cop who seemingly holds nothing but contempt for the people he was supposed to be policing, using racial slurs and other insults to speak of the life he’s left behind. The rest of his family doesn’t come across much better. The kindly mother makes appeals to their Christianity yet bemusedly remembers the time a neighbour’s dog was killed by one of their own. And frankly, the rest of the characters are pretty annoying. How much should we really be rooting for them?

Of course, once the cannibal family begins their attack, our sympathies line up pretty quickly with the aggrieved party, but even then Craven avoids settling matters too cleanly. The villains are shown to be sadistic, but also intelligent, using psychological warfare in burning alive the father and strategic-minded in using that as a ploy to break into the RV. The film alternates between the perspectives of the heroes and villains, as if to confront us with who we identify with and why (most pointedly in one scene where Papa Jupiter, the cannibal patriarch, speaks directly to the camera). The heroes make stupid mistakes early on, but eventually learn that they can only triumph by matching the savagery of their opponents. Presaging Scream, the characters show some awareness of tropes, particularly Bobby, the clean-cut aviators-donning son who pretends to be tough early on but soon has to step into the alpha male role he was previously play-acting. (That character is played by Robert Houston, the man responsible for combining the first two Lone Wolf and Cub movies and releasing them in the US as Shogun Assassin.) The patriarch of the cannibals is defeated with the symbolically loaded act of the son and daughter using their mother’s corpse as bait and turning their RV into a boobytrap, while another character brutally kills the cannibal who had kidnapped his infant daughter. The closing shot has this character staring at the audience, blinded with rage, the background turning red in a freeze frame. It’s an unpolished image, but one that hits straight in the gut. Yes, our heroes have triumphed, but at what cost?

Alexandre Aja would remake this film a few decades later, drastically upping the gore quotient. As far as remakes go, it’s one of the better ones around as it has an actual sense of texture (greatly enhanced by shooting on location in the Moroccan desert) and a pretty good lead performance, but in aligning our perspective too closely to the protagonist, it loses the original’s most fascinating quality. Aja views the material too neatly a story of good versus bad, while Craven has us questioning which is which and uneasily blends the two. Craven would also revisit the material in The Hills Have Eyes Part II, which he would later disown as a purely mercenary gig, but in my humble opinion, I don’t think it’s all that bad. It lacks the original’s sense of transgression and settles more easily into a slasher movie template, including some of the dumber associated elements (there’s a shower scene in the middle of the desert). But does have a handful of interesting elements (carried over trauma from the original, possible psychic powers) and shares the same dirty, sunburnt visual style. I was never convinced that dirtbikes were nearly as cool as the film insisted (there’s a lot more dirtbike footage than necessary), but by the standards of the average slasher, I found it reasonably enjoyable.

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Six The Musical 2022 debuts

A project I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year! Every. Single. Debut. Of. Six. 2022. And can I just say, what a year it’s been for the queendom! This year saw 9 new casts grace the stage over 3 continents + 6 more swingos. But, overall, March won with the most debuts at 31! THIS LIST DOES NOT INCLUDE REDEBUTS

JANUARY

Marilyn Caserta ARAGON (3/1/22)

Ashlee Waldbauer SEYMOUR (3/1/22)

Shannen Alyce Quan ARAGON (4/1/22)

Karis Oka ARAGON (8/1/22)

Roxanne Couch BOLEYN (8/1/22)

Paisley Billings CLEVES (8/1/22)

Danielle Rose ARAGON (9/1/22)

Esme Rothero SEYMOUR (9/1/22)

Rachel Rawlinson PARR (9/1/22)

Chiara Assetta ARAGON (14/1/22)

Shannen Alyce Quan SEYMOUR (15/1/22)

Karis Oka HOWARD (16/1/22)

Esme Rothero PARR (16/1/22)

Karis Oka PARR (23/1/22)

Chiara Assetta CLEVES (27/1/22)

Shannen Alyce Quan BOLEYN (28/1/22)

Karis Oka SEYMOUR (29/1/22)

Chiara Assetta HOWARD (30/1/22)

Harriet Watson HOWARD (30/1/22)

FEBRUARY

Abbi Hodgson CLEVES (7/2/22)

Shannen Alyce Quan CLEVES (11/2/22)

Chiara Assetta BOLEYN (13/2/22)

Ellie Sharpe PARR (14/2/22)

Esme Rothero ARAGON (26/2/22)

Rachel Rawlinson BOLEYN (27/2/22)

Paisley Billings PARR (27/2/22)

Mallory Maedke ARAGON (27/2/22)

MARCH

Roxanne Couch HOWARD (5/3/22)

Courtney Mack PARR (6/3/22)

Chloe Hart ARAGON (10/3/22)

Casey-Al-Shaqsy SEYMOUR (10/3/22)

Aiesha Pease CLEVES (10/3/22)

Jaina Brock-Patel HOWARD (10/3/22)

Alana Robinson PARR (10/3/22)

Danielle Rose CLEVES (10/3/22)

Chiara Assetta SEYMOUR (11/3/22)

Lauren Irving ARAGON (12/3/22)

Danielle Mendoza BOLEYN (12/3/22)

Shelby Griswold SEYMOUR (12/3/22)

Kennedy Carstens CLEVES (12/3/22)

Abigail Heilman HOWARD (12/3/22)

Jarynn Whitney PARR (12/3/22)

Keri Rene Fuller SEYMOUR (14/3/22)

Joy Woods PARR (14/3/22)

Grace Melville ARAGON (16/3/22)

Leesa Tulley HOWARD (17/3/22)

Harriet Caplan-Dean PARR (17/3/22)

Esme Rothero CLEVES (17/3/22)

Rachel Rawlinson HOWARD (17/3/22)

Shannen Alyce Quan HOWARD (18/3/22)

Grace Melville CLEVES (20/3/22)

Leesa Tulley BOLEYN (22/3/22)

Harriet Caplan-Dean SEYMOUR (22/3/22)

Chiara Assetta PARR (29/3/22)

Khaila Wilcoxon ARAGON (29/3/22)

Storm Lever BOLEYN (29/3/22)

Jasmine Forsberg SEYMOUR (29/3/22)

Didi Romero HOWARD (29/3/22)

Gabriela Carrillo PARR (29/3/22)

APRIL

Kelly Denice Taylor CLEVES (1/4/22)

Cassie Silva CLEVES (3/4/22)

Madeline Fansler ARAGON (4/4/22)

Olivia Donalson CLEVES (5/4/22)

Channing Weir BOLEYN (11/4/22)

Harriet Caplan-Dean ARAGON (14/4/22)

Madeline Fansler SEYMOUR (19/4/22)

Leesa Tulley SEYMOUR (19/4/22)

Erin Palmer Ramirez PARR (22/4/22)

Harriet Caplan-Dean HOWARD (27/4/22)

Erin Palmer Ramirez BOLEYN (27/4/22)

MAY

Channing Weir CLEVES (3/5/22)

Leesa Tulley PARR (11/5/22)

Cassie Silva BOLEYN (13/5/22)

Madeline Fansler PARR (14/5/22)

Kelsee Kimmel SEYMOUR (18/5/22)

Harriet Caplan-Dean CLEVES (20/5/22)

Kelly Denice Taylor ARAGON (21/5/22)

Kelly Denice Taylor SEYMOUR (24/5/22)

Gabbi Mack ARAGON (26/5/22)

Casey Esbin BOLEYN (26/5/22)

Ellie Wyman SEYMOUR (26/5/22)

Sasha Renae Brown CLEVES (26/5/22)

Nicole Lamb HOWARD (26/5/22)

Aja Simone Baitey PARR (26/5/22)

Grace Melville BOLEYN (27/5/22)

JUNE

Kelsee Kimmel ARAGON (1/6/22)

Cassie Silva HOWARD (2/6/22)

Channing Weir HOWARD (3/6/22)

Kelsee Kimmel PARR (7/6/22)

Harriet Caplan-Dean BOLEYN (9/6/22)

Erin Palmer Ramirez HOWARD (11/6/22)

Willow Dougherty SEYMOUR (16/6/22)

Kayla McSorley BOLEYN (22/6/22)

Roxanne Couch ARAGON (22/6/22)

JULY

Willow Dougherty ARAGON (6/7/22)

Cristina D’Agostino PARR (12/7/22)

Kayla McSorely PARR (20/7/22)

Willow Dougherty HOWARD (31/7/22)

AUGUST

Bre Jackson ARAGON (9/8/22)

Brennyn Lark PARR (9/8/22)

Danielle Rose SEYMOUR (12/8/22)

Ayla Ciccone-Burton CLEVES (12/8/22)

Kayla McSorely CLEVES (19/8/22)

SEPTEMBER

Jessie Bodner BOLEYN (3/9/22)

Jasmine Hackett SEYMOUR (3/9/22)

Janice Rjissel CLEVES (3/9/22)

Lucia Valentino HOWARD (3/9/22)

Elena Breschi PARR (3/9/22)

Grace Melville PARR (7/9/22)

Holli’ Conway CLEVES (12/9/22)

Holli’ Conway HOWARD (17/9/22)

Gerianne Perez ARAGON (20/9/22)

Zan Berube BOLEYN (20/9/22)

Amina Faye SEYMOUR (20/9/22)

Terica Marie CLEVES (20/9/22)

Aline Mayagoitia HOWARD (20/9/22)

Sydney Parra PARR (20/9/22)

Ayla Ciccone-Burton PARR (24/9/22)

Ayla Ciccone-Burton BOLEYN (26/9/22)

OCTOBER

Princess Victomé BOLEYN (3/10/22)

Danielle Rose PARR (8/10/22)

Rhianne Louise-McCaulsky ARAGON (18/10/22)

Baylie Carson BOLEYN (18/10/22)

Koko Basigara HOWARD (18/10/22)

Princess Victomé ARAGON (22/10/22)

Monique Ashe-Palmer CLEVES (26/10/22)

Leah Vassell SEYMOUR (27/10/22)

Jana Larell Glover ARAGON (27/10/22)

Cecilia Snow ARAGON (28/10/22)

NOVEMBER

Aryn Bohannon SEYMOUR (1/11/22)

Leah Vassell PARR (2/11/22)

Cecilia Snow SEYMOUR (3/11/22)

Aryn Bohannon HOWARD (3/11/22)

Princess Victomé CLEVES (5/11/22)

Monique Ashe-Palmer ARAGON (9/11/22)

Taylor Pearlstein BOLEYN (13/11/22)

Jana Larell Glover PARR (16/11/22)

Aryn Bohannon BOLEYN (19/11/22)

Jana Larell Glover CLEVES (25/11/22)

Taylor Pearlstein HOWARD (29/11/22)

Cecilia Snow CLEVES (30/11/22)

DECEMBER

Taylor Pearlstein PARR (1/12/22)

Rae Davenport ARAGON (4/12/22)

Gianna Grosso BOLEYN (4/12/22)

Kathryn Kilger SEYMOUR (4/12/22)

Reca Oakley CLEVES (4/12/22)

Hailee Kaleem Wright ARAGON (5/12/22)

Leandra Gaston Ellis BOLEYN (5/12/22)

Bella Coppola SEYMOUR (5/12/22)

Nasia Thomas CLEVES (5/12/22)

Zoe Jensen HOWARD (5/12/22)

Taylor Iman Jones PARR (5/12/22)

Leesa Tulley ARAGON (7/12/22)

Holli’ Conway ARAGON (16/12/22)

Aubrey Matalon HOWARD (16/12/22)

Leah Vassell CLEVES (18/12/22)

Bethany McDonald SEYMOUR (18/12/22)

Kristina Leopold SEYMOUR (23/12/22)

Monique Ashe Palmer BOLEYN (27/12/22)

Cast members involved with SIX this year but not debuted as of 2022: Sunayna Smith, Hannah Taylor, Emily Rose Lyons, Chelsea Wargo, Meg Dixon Brasil, Sarah McFarlane, Jillian Worthing, Haley Izurieta, Alyssa Giannetti, Lois Ellise, Jasmine Smith