#anti 50 shades of grey

[filmnoirsbian]

Don't you guys get tired of saying the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over? Your brain is dying. Feed her an original thought.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

Theory: ND watched the original she-ra, shipped She-Ra and Catra (which is why sea hawk was made into a buffoon) and eventually was able to bring their fanfics to life

yeah, spop was basically just an expensive and badly written fanfic. yikes.

[blueclearcloud]

It's genuinely fucked we live in a time where fanfic movies are supposedly everywhere and ppl love complaining about the the scurge of fanfic but all of them are the worst white cis het things ive ever seen in my life.

And weirdly passively rich. Like these characters will live in a hipsters mcmansion or beach houses and never acknowledge it.

[reachartwork]

Being anti copyright is the only coherent politics for fandom (Nintendo is a threat to ambitious fanworks, the "Disney vault" is just a cutsey way of withholding legal availability of media of the public, if we want to preserve and transform things more rights and freedoms to do so should be fought for. Like, have you heard about what happened with American McGee and the rights holders to his games legally threatening him if he ever touched alice in wonderland again? Its fucked. Why don't people see this.

The only reason to be a pro copyright fan artist is of the belief that you will eventually become the next vivziepop or 50 shades of grey or whatever or get your IP bought by a huge company and cash out. We generally call this being a “temporarily embarassed millionaire”

[myfandomrealitea]

I would genuinely love to know what kind of mental gymnastics antis do to hold mainstream media/producers and fandom media/producers to different standards and accountability demands.

Like the guy who wrote Game of Thrones isn't questioned whatsoever but the moment I write incest fanfiction about the incest characters, I'm a degenerate awaiting the noose?

"But you're doing it for gratification!"

How do you know George R. R. Martin doesn't play the pink maraca to the Lannisters, huh? How do you know he isn't AO3 user GoldenManeGlory writing 14k of incestual cumplay and breeding kink?

"But his smut wasn't explicit and clearly written to be arousing!"

50 Shades of Grey was considered groundbreaking in terms of explicit smut in professional publishing, and I would like to remind you that these quotes constitute as groundbreaking.

And these.

"You write it because you want to do it in real life!"

My brother in christ if I went to hook up with a guy and, without asking my safeword or even my name, he pulled out a taser and a gun, I can assure you the literal first thing I would do is phone the cops.

Say it with me; what is arousing in concept is not always arousing or wanted in real life.

Or even realistic, for that matter.

And again, I seriously doubt George R. R. Martin wants to bang his relatives and mass murder people with green fire.

(Although he does probably want to run around with cool swords and wear fancy outfits. He both looks the type and, lets be honest, most of us want to run around with cool swords and wear fancy outfits.)

"Nobody gets aroused by the things shown in mainstream media!"

Most of what is shown in mainstream media is specifically orchestrated to be appealing. All those slow-mo shots of half-naked women and men getting out of pools? All those ten minute long sex scenes? All those vaguely sexual fight sequences?

They. Want. You. To. Enjoy. It.

'Sex sells' is not just an off-hand observation.

So, again. I'm asking you. What's the difference between mainstream media, and fandom content?

[just-antithings]

I just now realized, I used to LOVE Dominic Noble's reviews— but he's a massive Anti and spread misinformation about the relation between the psyche and the fiction we consume all to shit on 50 Shades of Grey.

Mf it IS badly written but otherwise people aren't really falling to abusive relationships due to it.

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[spopsalt]

Spop fans: " omg, your so obssesed with hating catradora! "

me: says the person who is also obssesed with an incest abused ship and at least us anti C//A shippers don't support abuse irl

Spop fana, when they see a glimmadora fanart or when they see a valid opinion about hating C//A: " always the glimmer stans "

me: oh sorry, i didn't know having a valid opinion was forbiden in spop fandom also if you don't wan't to see glimmadora fanarts maybe block the tag so you cannot see it

srs friend, spop and C//A are the most childish fandom i ever seen, like they critic us for having valid reasons to dislike the ship but they always act rude and mean toward us anti C//A comunity just for hating c//a ?? i mean did they now the word " respect " or "opinion " ?? but well looks like for them shipping sister and abuse is their whole world for them but well here are the questions: do you wish the fandom would be less childish and that learns about respecting opinion ? what do you think when a C//A make comments like " always the glimmer stans " or " C//A on the top " in a glimmadora fanart or edit ? also do you wish there would be more anti C//A shippers ?

Yeah, the stans are really childish. One of them blew up at me because I used one of their few seconds gifs, and like I expected, they went straight to insulting me. They could've ignored the post or calmly asked me to remove the gif, but nope! They complain about seeing our posts like they can't just block the tags. They also called us obsessed for hating a show that ended years ago....but people hate twilight and 50 shades of grey, and that ended years ago? Make it make sense.

[ladyandith]

Polin playlist

Dandelions - Ruth B.

The Man - The Killers

Dancing On My Own - Robyn

Yellow - Coldplay

POV - Ariana Grande

Focus - Ariana Grande

Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift

Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift

Watermelon sugar - Harry Styles

Adore You - Harry Styles

John Hughes Film - Maisie Peters

Stuck with You - Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber

Earned it (50 Shades of Grey) - The Weekend

Sorry - Justin Bieber

Not Over You Yet (Metro Radio Edit) Diana Ross

Our Song - Anne Marie & Niall Horan

Into You - Ariana Grande

Belter - Gerry Cinnamon

The Very Thought of You - Al Bowlly

Love is The Sweetest Thing - Al Bowlly

Your Touch - Blake Lewis

Ooh La La - Goldfrapp

Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal - Custer Larue & Nicholas Dodd

You Give Me Something - James Morrison

Apologize - One Republic & Timbaland

Stay - Rihanna & Mikky Ekko

The First Time I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

Can’t Resist - Texas

Wonder - Shawn Mendes

Monster - Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber

Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding

I Need Your Love - Ellie Goulding & Calvin Harris

[derschwarzeengel]

[Photo ID: cover of the novel Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton.]

Checked this book out from the library yesterday, because 1) saw this listed in another book by the same publisher and figured it would be a dark romance thriller, which I also like; and 2) it's currently being dragged all over BookTube for being something BookTok likes.

One of the very first pages of the book after the title page, dedication, and reading playlist?

[Photo ID: Text from the author’s note page in Haunting Adeline, which reads as follows:

“IMPORTANT NOTE

None of these conspiracies derive from a belief in antisemitism or Q Anon, but from my own demented imagination, common conspiracies in the media, and a’many occult horror movies my dad used to watch growing up.

“This book ends on a cliffhanger. The contents are very dark with triggering situations, such as non/dub con between the main characters, graphic violence, human trafficking, stalking, child trafficking, child sacrifice, mentions of child death, and explicit sexual situations. There are also particular links such as gun play, somnophilia, bondage, and degradation.

“This book was previously taken down due to the warning, but you can also find them in reviews, on my website, or feel free to message me directly. Your mental health matters.” /end ID]

This is prime “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat”. The author KNOWS exactly what sort of book this is and warned appropriately.

If people (BookTubers, Antis / Fancops) read this warning and still clutched their pearls, that’s on them.

Especially since books written by Christian authors for “good Christian girls” have this exact same content (or straight up marital rape and the "heroes" being complicit with genocide if it's a historical Christian romance novel) with ZERO warning.

And most erotica or adult romances don’t have content / trigger warnings either. That’s only become a thing within the past few years (as in, since the COVID-19 pandemic), and I’ve mostly seen them on “dark romance” novels.

Hell, the 50 Shades of Grey series contains stalking, (attempted) kidnapping, domestic abuse, mentions of drug addiction, non/dub con between its leads, explicit sexual content, abuse masquerading as BDSM kink, and a gross misrepresentation of BDSM (along with other specific kinks)—absolutely none of which is warned for. (It’s a common joke that the only reason Christian Grey isn’t an UNSUB in Criminal Minds is because he’s rich.)

I’ve seen content/trigger warnings in fanfiction circles more than I have professionally published novels.

There is a dead dove in the paper bag, which was clearly labelled. I don't know why people opened it expecting anything different.

[gaiuskamilah]

the silly vampire visual novel whose cover is a clear reference to a 50 shades of grey photoshoot can contain so much incest family abolition and anti-christofascism in it

[mooestriovermind]

I followed you before because your art was awesome. I follow still because it's still awesome.

Honestly love your use of shadows and sheen.

I'm glad you like my art! :>

I will now take this opportunity to describe why I think my art is good!

I learned most of the techniques from watching tutorial videos.

There's no tutorial that can, like, tell you how to accurately portray form with shading (which is partially why my art is so stylized), you just kind of have to feel out the shape of an object if you're not using references (which is part of why references are SO important)

but there are tutorials that can tell you the basics of shading (digitally, in this case)! this is the process I usually follow, with some variations depending on context- it uses a lot of terminology that I am assuming you know the meaning of, but if you don't, google is your friend

this is NOT a step by step tutorial to shading, I am just explaining the process that I follow in a manner similar to a tutorial

(long post warning)

Things to keep in mind before reading:

I do NOT use airbrush for shading unless explicitly stated. Airbrush makes ONLY soft shadows, where you usually want a mixture of soft AND hard shadows to create an interesting composition. I personally usually cel shade, which is ONLY hard shading.

This assumes you have basic things down like the position of your light source and how to shade, like, where exactly to put your shadows and what shapes to make them. If you're unsure, try to figure out the shape(s) you're trying to create (everything is made of shapes, break an object down into the most basic forms possible and go from there) or just, like, use a reference lol.

This isn't me telling you to always use this method- I vary the method a lot myself while using it, based on context, so please experiment with different layers and techniques to find what works best for you and your style!

If you're not confident in your line art, shading the piece is not going to make it look too much "better" than what you're seeing. Shading uses value to create volume and describe form, but if the form being described isn't quite right, it probably won't come out the way you want it to (I have learned this the hard way).

Seriously, use references. Multiple.

Use the magic wand tool to select the area around your lineart, then invert selected area and grow your selected area by 1 or 2 px. On a separate layer from your lineart, use the fill / paint bucket tool to fill the selected area with exactly 50% value grey.

This creates a base which you place underneath your line art, which is very useful, because you can then clip layers between it and your lineart directly to the base layer, making it impossible to color outside the lines

(but why don't you just use the fill tool to make a color layer?)

This can be a useful shortcut if you're in a rush, but the fill tool can often miss pixels or have unintended side effects if you forget to turn off anti-aliasing or something else. I also don't 100% understand how to properly use the fill tool sometimes, so avoid using it unless the context calls for it

use a multiply layer + greyscale value to convey shades that are darker than your base color

Even if you put a white that is, like, 90% value, a multiply layer will darken any layer underneath it very sharply. You can use this to put various greys and create volume with darker values. While it can be tempting to make an overlay layer or a soft light layer and put all of your shadows and highlights on it (I used to do that) you can get a greater range of value if you use separate layers for your lighter values and your darker values.

create an overlay layer to enhance darker shadows and begin forming lighter values

Overlay, being the cross between multiply and screen, is a perfect way to start exploring lighter colors in your piece without pushing the lever all the way to bright bright highlights while also making some parts of your shadows even darker

put a screen layer on top of the overlay layer to convey shades that are lighter than your base color and create white highlights

Screen can and will lighten your color to a very aggressive degree. I recommend using darker shades of grey in the 10-40% value range to convey "normal" lighting, and going over 50 up to 100 depending on how close you want the visible color to be to white.

create a soft light layer, set your color palette to 10% and 90% value "grey" and break out the airbrush, set the brush size so the cursor circle covers roughly 1/8th - 1/6th of the drawing

Using the airbrush on top of your other layers and also in a soft light layer is like a cheat code for rounding out your shading where your shading may be a little weaker in some places. As long as you don't overdo it, you can create a very convincing composition by combining the airbrush and soft light layer with your harder shading that has more value range.

use a normal layer to add marks of solid color on top of your drawing, like white lines reflecting on glasses or straight up 0% value black in some of the darkest parts of your drawing. this can also be useful for adding additional details and contour / cross contour lines that may be missing from your line art

This step is not always necessary. It is nice to add a little bit of final rendering, but it can be superfluous, especially if you were particularly thorough in your previous steps.

I also use it sometimes to add things like glasses that just appear as the frame without any rendering regarding the lenses.

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Feel free to repeat any of these layers to get even darker or even lighter values, or add more definition or multiple light sources. Like I have said, the decision to do so is purely contextual, and may vary from piece to piece.

If you have any specific art questions, or any holes I may have left in my process, my ask inbox is always open :>

If you are a digital artist and you see any flaws / room for improvement please feel free to leave criticism on this post or anywhere else like my asks or DMs! I'm always looking to get better.

Thank you for reading my long ass post, or at least scrolling through it all the way.

Either way, have a gold star!

⭐

[cursedvibes]

I've been picking up Killing Eve again. I watched the 1st season when it was initially airing, quite liked it, but then didn't manage to pick up the following seasons as well. Now it popped up on my Netflix recommendation and I gave it another shot. Uff, it's quite different from what I remember.

I think the story is most interesting to me not as a love story, but as a story about Villanelle, where one of her obsessions happens to be Eve. I don't feel much of a spark between them anyway beyond Villanelle being aimless and having mommy issues, and Eve wanting some dangerous thrill in her life. I watched the first two seasons and I still don't quite understand why it has to be them who get together and not someone else. Plus, I think relationships like Villanelle and Constantine are much more layered and interesting than what Eve and Villanelle have going on.

Generally, I find the story interesting, particularly in the 1st season, but I think their handling of Eve is very poor. She gets the worst writing in my opinion. Or more like the writing isn't "bad", it's just very predictable and not exactly deep. Eve often feels very blatantly edgy "I'm not like other girls, I want to finger an assassin and am bored of my husband treating me nicely". It kinda feels like the protagonists of these 50 Shades of Grey-esque books, but wlw. Some of the dialogue she gets is really cringey and just doesn't sound believable. Sandra Oh does her best with it, but man...

Her character development is the crux of it. When the story starts, you already know her archetype and where she's going with barely any new twist to it. From the first episode you already know what will happen. She's kind of similar to Will Graham, but written with way less subtlety. You can just tick off all the boxes as you watch the episodes. Gets a kick out of killers/assassins. Check. Becomes married to her job. Check. Becomes fixed by violence and crime. Check. Neglecting her personal life. Check. Neglecting her husband and resenting him for being a good person. Check. Gets very blatant murderous urges. Check. And the longer it goes on, the worse it gets. They put so much effort into making Villanelle a more three dimensional and compelling character that they neglected who is supposedly the main character of this series.

Also, the stuff this series spouts about "psychopaths" or anyone lacking empathy is just disgusting. Nothing new in this genre, but they do it especially blatant. Just straight up saying people who lack empathy/have anti-social personality disorder are not human, just killing machines, and that they are fundamentally broken. Do they know that these people they're talking about actually exist? And aren't all gleeful serial killers?

Also Villanelle is a terrible assassin. She's leaving evidence and her fingerprints splattered everywhere. If she didn't have such important people covering for her, she would've been found ages ago.

So yeah, my main problem with this is that the writing of Eve is just way too edgy and generic. Everything else is quite interesting actually, but man...getting pretty difficult to watch these episodes and apparently it gets worse in the coming seasons.

[critical-quoter]

April Books

Holy moly, I have surpassed the 50% mark of my reading goal for this year. BookTok still has a chokehold on me so my TBR on Goodreads on consistently over 1200 books, and constantly being increased.

Stay Over - Kaylee Ryan ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Warrior - A. M. Brooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wild Heart - Lacy Chantell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Spark of Obsession - Victoria Dawson ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Plus Size for the Billionaire - R. J. Stevens ⭐️ You Can Follow Me - Jo Brenner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lose Me in the Shadows - Jo Brenner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meet Me in the Dark - Jo Brenner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Owned by a Sinner - Michelle Heard ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Siren - R. J. Lewis & A. R. Rose ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Savage Seduction - Didi Sands ⭐️⭐️ Sick Boys - Clarissa Wild ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Dreaming Forest - L. B. Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Where's Molly - H. D. Carlton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Pieces Left Behind - Ryan Marie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Rebel's Promise - Sara Blackard ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brawler - Colleen Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thalia De Luca - Jaclin Marie ⭐️⭐️ When It Ends - Penelope Black ⭐️⭐️ Sorry. Not Sorry - Emily James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Anti-Hero - Titan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Axel - Samantha Whiskey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ To Wake A Kingdom - Nisha J. Tuli ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Butcher & Blackbird - Brynne Weaver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Til Encryption Do Us Part - Cathleen Cole & Frank Jensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Saved - Hazel James ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fearlessly Bound - Zainab Samba ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Piece That Breaks - N. J. Gray ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Easy Like Sunday Morning - Kenya Goree-Bell ⭐️⭐️ The Pucking Wrong Guy - C. R. Jane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reckless Hands - T. L. Smith ⭐️⭐️ Resisting the Grump - Ashley Muñoz ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Pucking Wrong Date - C. R. Jane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blood of My Monster - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In Your Wildest Dreams - Rebecca Jenshak ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liees of My Monster - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blood of My Monster - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fearless King - Zainab Samba ⭐️⭐️ Saving Vienna - Vikki Jay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evergreen Ivy - Ada Taylor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Payback - Mila Sin & Manuela Rouget ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James ⭐️⭐️ Grey - E. L. James ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Welcome to Fae Cafe - Jennifer Kropf ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Born of Mist and Dragonfire - Ava Thorne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Keeping My Bride - Angela Snyder ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Battle Within - Christina Mattingly ⭐️⭐️ Dark Obsession - Hope Ford ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Small Town Swoon - Melanie Harlow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hate Like Ours - Nikita ⭐️⭐️ The Deal Dilemma - Meagan Brandy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dig - L. A. Ferro ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rancher's Seduction - Nicole Simon ⭐️ I Almost Do - Evangeline Williams ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Plays Well With Others - Lauren Blakely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heart Trick - Kristen Granata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A False Start - Elsie Silver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Falling for You - T. Thomas ⭐️⭐️ Mafia and Protector - Isa Oliver ⭐️⭐️ Recklessly You - J. Morales ⭐️⭐️⭐️ All Rhodes Lead Here - Mariana Zapata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

61 total books read for April 2024!

[josiebelladonna]

there’s this really bizarre pattern with people who are hateful (e.g., nazis, hamas, anyone anti-israel, the maga crowd, etc.) where they’re incredibly sexually repressed. like they put in this tough, violent, dangerous image and yet, when you lift the lid off their nonsense, it’s like opening the floodgates: you see some of the most lascivious behavior you’ve ever seen in your life.

for example, the idf found terabytes of porn on every household computer in the gaza strip as well as copies of mein kampf. (THAT IS WHO YOU ARE SUPPORTING YOU MEAT PUPPETS)

for those of you in the f1 fandom, notably those too young to remember: max mosley, former president of the f.i.a., the governing body of formula one, got caught in a sex party littered with nazi paraphernalia back in 2008-ish (i remember that, too, i still get a chill up my spine thinking about it). i remember it mainly because richard hammond made a joke about mosley but it was shocking, though.

as for all of you on the left screaming your lungs out about palestine… why am i under the impression all of you are hiding something.

trump’s lechery. hell, the lechery of the entire right wing.

for those of you too young to remember tila tequila… just look her up and take my word for it.

i just think of billie’s misandry, casual racism and sexism, and most recently antisemitism (as she wore that red hand pin to the oscars and as far as i know, has said absolutely bupkis about the war over there), and now she’s dropping an album called hit me hard and soft, especially after she made such a stink about “don’t sexualize me” when she was starting out and now she’s making sexualization her entire image.

listen, it’s one thing when you’re like me and you explore your sexuality at a slow, on-and-off pace because shame weighs you down like the colossus of rhodes. but it genuinely comes off as someone who grew up in an ultra-conservative household and went off to college and is now fucking everything and everyone in sight. there’s nothing sexy about it once you put some thought into it. it’s actually kind of disturbing because a.) it makes me think about all the disney starlets who went through that exact process; b.) with the aforementioned, it gives those of us who are kinky a bad name because now, there’s this assumption that we’re going through the same thing as well; and c.) i honestly didn’t think of this until now: there’s something “off” about that title. nevermind the fact that it feels very try-hard, but it just feels wrong, like i read it wrong or something… because it feels like a glorification of sorts. “i want you to hit me, and i want you to hit me hard.” i bet anyone old enough to remember 50 shades of grey has a puckered asshole right now.

it almost feels like she’s coasting, too, because she tried doing this whole “exploring myself” shtick on her last record.

honestly, i’m just tired of this whole “white girl has false sense of empowerment” thing because it’s not just old hat at this point, but it’s not fair to other women of different backgrounds, other women who have different stories from you, other women who have undergone you-know-what and a sentiment like that can actually trigger some things. and i think of the above, in how hate groups/people who hate others are sexually repressed to of horrific extent…

we get it, billie. you’re not a kid anymore. now take off that damn red hand pin… oh, wait, you did. pussy. i wonder what else you’re hiding or are you too cowardly?

[dont-f-with-moogles]

Terra Darling 💖

What about 50 with Armin ? [The other character(s) involved is/are up to you]

Tysm 😘

Drunk Drabbles 50: "This is girl talk, so leave.” Here you are, Val! Avec Armin as you requested.

Girl Talk Characters: Levi, Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Sasha, Jean, Connie, Historia Word Count: 686 words

Levi stood in the shadow of the old storehouse. Peering from beneath his cloak, he surveyed the empty streets of Trost. The sky was hung heavily with grey; the promise of an impending storm. 

He lowered his hood and retreated back inside the building where he had left the younger recruits. All were crowded under one of the brick arches which ran abreast of the long, dimly lit room. As Levi approached, the clamour of their voices grew even louder.

“You can’t apply foundation that thickly,” Mikasa was scolding Historia, “look, you’ve left a tidemark on his neck. You need to blend it further down, like this.” She leaned down to rub the skin of Armin’s neck with two outstretched fingers. 

“This isn’t a fucking makeup tutorial!” Eren exploded, his voice echoing around the storehouse’s lofty ceiling. “If we don’t split up now the anti-personnels will just ambush us!”

“Hate to admit it but Jaeger’s right,” Jean sighed, “can’t he just go like that? I can’t even see a tidemark.”

Levi stood listening in quiet disbelief.

“You know, maybe you two should just go on ahead then,” Armin tried genially, despite the tremor in his voice, “after all this is girl talk, so leave, why don’t you?”

“I’ll hurry this up!” Eren dived upon the makeup bag which Historia was clutching. He withdrew a mascara wand and brandished it at Armin’s face. 

“Tell me how to do it!” he demanded.

As Mikasa stepped aside, Levi could see Armin seated upon a wooden chair, his hands clutching his knees. He was dressed in a white blouse which clashed horribly with the clownish shade of orange coating his face. A long, cotton peasant skirt fell from his waist past his ankles. He was eyeing Sasha who had been clicking an eyelash curler experimentally at him whilst Eren advanced upon him with the mascara. 

“Sasha, I’m begging you… let me do my eyes myself. It’s standard procedure when applying makeup, I believe. I- I’ve read books…”

“But I’ll try my best!” Sasha assured him with a particularly emphatic click of the curler, “um, how many eyelashes do you not need?”

“Don’t pull too many,” Mikasa warned her. “He still needs to be able to blink.”

“Uncanny…” Levi breathed, thinking back to the long night he and Hange had spent extracting various parts of Sannes’ face. He shook the memory from his mind with a quiet grunt of disapproval.

“Oi.”

All heads turned towards him. 

“I told you to never congregate in a group! It’s not safe.” Levi swept out an arm, sending the group scattering like a flock of birds. “Get out of here now!”

As Connie stumbled last out of the door, Levi glared once more at Armin. To the boy’s surprise, he lifted the makeup bag and inspected its contents carefully. Then Levi withdrew an eyeliner pen.

“Stay still.” 

Armin could scarcely believe it as Captain Levi, Humanity’s Strongest, grasped him by the chin. He tilted Armin’s head upwards and, holding the eyeliner in his free hand, bit down and tore off the cap.

“Close your eyes,” he slurred over the plastic cap held between his teeth. Trembling, Armin obliged. Gently, Levi drew a small black flick upon the boy’s eyelid. It was all Armin could do to suppress a flinch.

“You just want to sweep it across the lid,” Levi advised, gently adorning Armin’s other eye. The young scout made a small, nervous sound in reply.

“And if the others ask, I was not part of this girl talk shit. I have a reputation to uphold, Arlet. One word and I’ll force feed you the entire contents of this bag.”

Bonus: Outside, Jean was tugging a dark, brown wig over his sand-coloured hair. He ruffled the top of his head and then stood back to check the effect in a shop window. Swearing, he hurled the item to the dusty pavement. 

“I’m not wearing this! I look nothing like you anyway!” he snarled. Eren, who was slouched by the adjoining wall, gave a shrug.

“Exactly. That’s cause I don’t look like a fucking farm animal.”

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[unemployedbarbiesblog]

I watched Barbie last week. My heart was just full to see a theater full of people wearing pink. I love how there was no memo, and still everyone just knew. The solidarity everyone had just amused me.

And just like most people, I really didn't expect it to give me an existential crisis. One minute, I'm wearing pink and dressing up all cute, and before I know it, I have a whole new personality based on the movie. I went for the jokes and laughs, but then I CRIED when 'What Was I Made For?' by Billie Eilish played.

'Barbie' was so much more than I expected. I don't even have words to explain how I feel about the movie. It was just PERFECT! Every minor detail..just perfect. It makes me wanna write a thesis about the movie.

It's funny how people say 'Barbie' was a shitty movie and how it was so "unfair", "anti-men" and "man-hating", promoting matriarchy and misandry. Did we watch the same movie? DID YOU EVEN WATCH THE MOVIE? I mean, saying you didn't understand the movie was way easier. If anything, Barbie was the exact opposite of unfair.

It's ironic when the hate comes from the same people who are romanticizing the most toxic movies like 'After', '365 Days', and '50 Shades of Grey'. Some people are either so blind to their own biases or they just like the attention.

If you are one of them, hating on everything feminine doesn't make you cool. Did Andrew Tate pick you yet?