#don’t talk about her like that!

[gothprentiss]

i watched near-universally acclaimed movie silence of the lambs after reading the book (acclaimed to me, and probably in general but that doesn’t matter.) which was really not the way to experience it. like, okay, “book better than the movie” is rarely actually true— often what i assume this means is “movie not the book, which is bad, because i am a fan of book,” or even “movie doesn’t look how i thought book looked,” or maybe “book doesn’t really translate to movie because literature and film have frequently different ways of making meaning so stuff didn’t hit the same”… you get my point. and largely the case with silence of the lambs is the third— in adapting the story a lot of quite separate parts of the narrative get mixed into a single scene, which is of course not uncommon but not always good when done; and also thomas harris is a phenomenal writer of the mind in ways that are very difficult to do cinematographically. in film you typically need the body to perform and signify the sorts of things harris is writing, and he’s writing them in ways which are really divorced from the body, so.

and also i took UNBELIEVABLY huge issue with the direction jodie foster got. truly the whole thing feels like Strong Female Character discourse in a nutshell: thomas harris set out to write a strong female character (explicitly those words) and i think one aspect of that is that clarice starling has got a white-knuckled grip on herself. so after the initial interview with lecter in the hospital, when she’s smarting from getting cum flung at her and also riding the bizarre high of very nearly getting her way through it, she sits in her car fuming and thinking about it. there’s this great line in the book about how she sits there breathing until enough condensation forms inside the windows that she’s got a bit of privacy. that’s, for me, one of the most incredible parts of how harris writes— his description of it is that he didn’t see himself as fully understanding starling, and that often works as moments of privacy for her, where we only see her as others do, or see her obscured. anyway in the movie as you may recall she sits in her car and cries. i will not bother with being like there is nothing wrong with women showing vulnerability. there is obviously something wrong with this.

and one thing i think about often as well is that— i don’t remember where it’s from, but there was an interview with anthony hopkins (i think) and jodie foster where hopkins is saying something about that shot in the opening sequence with diminutive trainee agent starling stepping into an elevator full of older, taller, senior men, and how well it illustrates her position as a woman in a man’s world. and like, sure. sure! it’s efficient! it also occludes a far more interesting moment of gender and positional alterity in the book, which is when starling is at the county morgue in west virginia with crawford and in a room full of men crowding the scene who haven’t spared her more than a second of thought, and leans on the memory of her mother’s presence— and then all of a sudden we’re in jack crawford’s perspective, and he’s hearing her speak with a pronounced southern accent, and thinking of her as a woman in a lineage of rural women who cared for the dead. which is interesting because, on one hand, the book is presenting that very straight; on the other, it’s not presenting that specifically as a position she’s assuming for herself (contextually, you might think she’s putting on her best southern mom voice). there’s also a quite interesting thing going on in the book that i think is just not visually as possible, which is the way that starling is so rarely engaging with the various negotiations with and perceptions of gender happening around her. for example, when chilton first meets her at the hospital he’s immediately like “oh the fbi has girls now? wanna girl with me to dinner, miss fbi agent?” and she’s so dog with a bone about her assignment that she sort of bounces off it, and only once he’s clearly not trying to help her does she think she could have gone about it a different way. being a woman and being a poor southerner are two aspects of her identity that she’s tried to evacuate of meaning (i.e., keep from working against her)— this makes her less able and willing to use them, and it makes this moment of crawford perceiving her so much more interesting, because it’s both of these things at once, and in conjunction.

fundamentally i think the book has a particular way of looking at clarice which is highly tied to perspective and interpretation in a very different way than demme’s movie is. the book makes no bones about starling being very effective— she’s absolutely in over her head, and highly unqualified, but she’s got a really fascinating mix of extreme self-control and instinctive impulsiveness, which almost always makes her brash. whereas the movie is trying to look more directly at her, and in so doing is assuming her grip on herself isn’t as good as it is— it takes these moments where she speaks out before thinking and generalizes them. she trembles when she’d be still, cries when she’d be quiet and thoughtful in anger. i DO think there’s something very insulting about misreading a book that deft and respectful in its treatment of her.

[remxedmoon]

y’know what? fuck you. *UNGRAYSCALES YOUR ISATS*

no wait come back there’s greyscale versions under the cut :(

[tanjir0se]

I’m so sorry other character stans but Toph Beifong is THE character of all time

Disabled, doesn’t “overcome” it but adapts and forces others to adapt instead.

Spoiled rotten rich kid with refined rich kid manners but chooses not to use them unless weaponizong them, can should and will kick your ass, but honest and good at her heart

A PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER EARTHBENDING MASTER AND HUSTLER AT AGE 12

Literally the definition of swag from womb to tomb

Do I even need to bring up metalbending?

INVENTED METALBENDING

Violence to show affection

Aang and Sokka quite possibly the only thing holding her back from straight up murder several times.

Definition of “do you want me to kill that guy for you? Cause it seems like he sucks. And I’ll totally kill that guy for you”

^ this is the real reason we never got a Toph and Zuko teamup, it would probably take her 3 minutes to convince Zuko to just kill his dumb lame dad already

I’m soooo sorry but she is UNMATCHED. Toph Beifong for President

[morganbritton132]

Eddie: *overhears some girls gossiping about how Steve and Nancy got in a fight in an alley and the police got involved*

Eddie: *hears someone else say that Nancy Wheeler was taken to the police station*

Eddie: *sees Steve jumpy as hell with bruises on his face*

Eddie: *notices that Steve doesn’t talk to his friends anymore. notices that Steve and Nancy always seem miserable together. notices that only one of them is trying to please the other*

Eddie: *witnesses the halloween bathroom fight*

Eddie: *sees Steve confused, beat up, bruised to hell, and single the literal next time he sees him*

Eddie: *puts the pieces together and draws a conclusion*

Conclusion: *is wrong*

Eddie, accosting Steve at lunch: Hey, did you know that if a guy is getting hit by somebody that it’s abuse? Even if it’s a girl doing it.

Steve, confused: Oh-kay?

Steve, deciding that Eddie is reaching out to him for a reason and draws the same wrong conclusion about Eddie: I mean, yeah. That’s - yeah? That’s true. And messed up. You should tell someone if that’s, uh…going on.

Eddie: Yes, exactly. You should.

[thejadecount]

To anyone who wants to talk shit about bad story/character development in Deadpool & Wolverine CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP! I CAME TO SEE 2 HOURS OF DEADPOOL MAKING META & SEX JOKES AND HAVING HOMOEROTIC TENSION WITH WOLVERINE AND MARVEL DELIVERED EXACTLY THAT

[alabasterpickles]

Some more random Botw/Totk/Aoc sketches I WILL post on instagram once I’ve finished another handful I have sitting on procreate!

I’ve got it stuck in my brain that following the events of Age of Calamity the Yiga clan work closely with the castle and I like to think Kohga prides himself on his new promotion

Though he’d never put himself in harm’s way, so I definitely see that third drawing happening on the castle grounds where Zelda is definitely not in any danger

(Also? Daruk and Mipha? Definitely gossip buddies)

I JUST *LOVE* THEM ALL SO. MUCH.

[fisherrprince]

Instead of writing a fanfic like a normal person this oneshot turned into two separate, contextless things,

[fridayiminlovemp3]

HELP

[sydneys-adamu]

I just want it known that sydney adamu is a person. a human. with human feelings which now more than ever will be annoyed. angry. frustrated. regretful. and she has every reason to be. she shouldn’t need to be defended with every argument as to why she is allowed this room for her feelings. what she is, is a human, not the obedient little girl so many people seem to think she should be. where as her white male counterparts can scream and yell and nearly tear the place apart, she can’t even be mad about it without being called “annoying” or “ungrateful”. she may scream for the first time. she may yell. she may decide that she’s fucking over it and she may have to be convinced this is still worth her time. carmy may have to fucking convince her that HE is worth her time. she cares about him, and about every other person in that damn restaurant but that doesn’t mean she has to smile about it 24/7. I don’t want to fucking hear your stupid reasons as to why a young black woman isn’t allowed to be overwhelmed into making decisions you might not personally make. literally shut the fuck up.

[colbyheartland]

So I love Dandadan actually because through those first seven episodes I couldn’t stop repeating to myself “Wow Momo is so fucking cool” like she’s such a genuine badass. My shounen senses were primed for her to just get saved over and over again, maybe just helping out every now and then but no SHE’S the one doing the majority of the saving. She and Okarun both feel like real people and they’re setting up a sweet and genuine romance that doesn’t feel creepy. The voice acting is also so good like she is SCREAMING out here.

Usually when an anime has two protagonists and one is a female she feels like a passive observer just getting swept along for the ride even when they’re supposed to be “tough” it fades away or they are made lesser to make the male lead look better. But Momo and Okarun actually work together!!! They both act like human people!!!! Including the ugly parts with Okarun’s avoidance tendencies and Momo regretting when she does lash out because she knows she’s in the wrong. And they talk about it after she does!! It comes with a healthy dose of “teenagers are kind of mean because they’re still maturing” which is normal and amazing to see.

This anime is healing something I didn’t even realize was broken when I found myself not having to cringe away from little moments that make me uncomfortable. There is a bit of fanservice going on (thanks grandma) and yes I get episode 1 starting off as a bit much for people but honestly, genuinely, did you think aliens WEREN’T going to try and probe someone in the Alien Ghosts Anime TM. Kidnapping humans and cows for experimentation is what they’re most famously known for. You are meant to be uncomfortable and weirded out by this episode. An episode that ends when she unlocks fucking psychic powers and blasts that alien through the wall of a SPACESHIP like hello??

Momo Ayase is that character you give a gun to if you want to shorten the book by half and the author gave her one in the form of psychic powers.

[ottosbigtop]

Isabel Lovelace gets too much of a badass woman treatment in fandom that I think does a disservice to her. I have never seen a woman more stressed out in her life.

[remxedmoon]

HAPPY (kinda late oops) BIRTHDAY MIWA!!!!!!!! ignore the other two LOOK AT HER!!!! IT’S MIRABELLE MSUNDAY!!!!

greyscale versions + my very normal color ramblings below!

ok full disclosure i already had this post drafted before realizing that mira’s birthday was coming up. i kinda debated just posting the mira doodles on their own but!!! i want to talk about my craft/general color headcanons still. and the mira art is part of that!! so be warned. also, this is going to reference my post about my craft headcanons a lot so like. read that if you so desire.

i personally think that mira’s healing craft is some form of creative craft, since the game describes her holding her palms up when she uses it (iirc anyways). this doesn’t really have an effect on anything, but it’s why i decided to color it yellow!

(also i ended up making mira’s scissors craft a lot more orange than i initially planned but that’s ok!!! i think both of her crafts would be pretty Orange. just thought i’d mention that since it’s a bit different from my first post)

i already explained sif’s craft in my last post so now i get to talk about the change god!!!!!! this is like. probably the most out there in terms of my color headcanons? but i have a reason for that. since the change god is, well, a deity, i thought it would be fitting for their design to match the colors of the 3 craft types (red, blue, and yellow)! this was a little hard to work around given that i also try to give my vaugarde designs warmer color palettes, but i think it worked out!

i also gave them a few slightly different palettes, since i think it’ll make sense for the change god’s colors to be variable. they never look the same, so why would their palette look the same? + i’m indecisive and liked all of these palettes lol

sorry for the ramble! i really like talking about character design and i’m not. very succinct. thanks for reading all this (if you did, perfectly fine if you didn’t!), here’s the greyscale versions as promised!!!

[anna-scribbles]

you know all of those movies and shows about princesses and twins and twin princesses and swapping places etc etc. well miraculous ladybug is actually also one of those shows, it is just told from the angle of “what if the twin princess was your mom and she gave you so many issues”

[pinkcheesecake7]

I can’t take criticism on Mel seriously because most of it is done by jayviks who say she’s pretty and call it a day then act like they love her😭. Like sorry, I’m not taking you seriously when your account is filled with only jayvik and you only talk about Mel to objectify her and seem like you don’t hate “the female character that gets in the way” that’s simply not enough. A lot of these hardcore “Mel is a manipulator” people are very obviously biased lmfao. “Jayce dumped her” except that never happened? They talked and then he left and fucking died lol, one important thing to remember is that these are CHARACTERS and there is writing behind them. What I’m saying is that they were handled poorly by the writers and they never actually “broke up” or should I say he never “dumped her🤓” they just.. had a thoughtful conversation and it was never brought up again. I feel like yall only say he “dumped her” so it fits the shitty narrative that Jayce dumped Mel for Viktor which is NOT true and literally never will be. You guys literally call her an “independent black woman who doesn’t need a man” except in different wording to make her seem unlovable. Yes, she doesn’t need a man but she WANTS a man. Stop acting like you actually want her to be independent, you just want to get her out of the way but also still seem like you’re an “”ally””.

[actuallyjustabiscuit]

…

I have thoughts

I’ve been seeing a lot of reaction channels put this image in their thumbnails (for good reason it’s a very wtf moment)

It’s meant to be unsettling out of context yes, but in context Ragatha’s subsequent reaction feels a little…off.

The sauce is supposed to make you stupid, so why is it causing Ragatha to hallucinate horrors of the uncanny variety?

If I had a bad trip like this I would not be giggling.

Then I looked at the following frames more closely

…It’s very likely that the entire time Ragatha’s under the influence of the sauce, she’s actually trapped in her own mind, like her consciousness was split.

The effects we see on the surface has Ragatha experiencing drastically lowered inhibitions and loss of motor skills, but I feel like this scene is implying that Ragatha is also quite possibly dealing with some nasty inner demons. And she’s incapable of making anyone else aware of them.

Just a thought

[oleryn]

alicent hightower has been giving me brainrot for days my BABY

we saw so little of young her as queen. what were her first days like? her wedding night? did she tell rhaenyra she was with child herself or did viserys take the news as his own to tell? do you think she ever tried to make connections with her handmaids? Did she ever have a friend other than Rhaenyra?

young queen alicent trying her best in an impossible situation she was forced into against her will they could never make me hate you