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titaniumions · 5 months ago

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everyone's favourite german siblings

#reverse 1999 #r1999 #reverse 1999 enigma #adler hofmann #greta hofmann #sketch #fanart #titaniumart #i really like how greta turned out #enigma ....... i'm unsure #like yeah i don't imagine him being like. conventionally attractive #but still this doesn't 100% fit the vision in my head yet #yes i was going for a more realistic look for them both #hope i managed to portray their ages well #it's hilarious how greta has her forehead mostly exposed whereas enigma's is completely covered by his stupid bangs #when i bully enigma it's because i like him btw.#we do a little tormenting here

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msue0027 · 9 months ago

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In bbc merlin you hear all the time about the Old Religion - which implies existence of the New Religion. Only recently i worked out what it's ought to be.

It's Christianity.

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coern-art-very-cool-and-nice · 10 months ago

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encore nnks

#you guys have no clue how many times I've drawn this stupid scene.#(<- enjoys it every time)#I think this is my first time actually Posting it though #usually I'm too nervous....lmao #and now I'm finally posting it :DDD good job me #my art #my aus #encore au #project sekai #nenekasa #nene kusanagi #tsukasa tenma #by the way. I spent like three or four hours on this. jesus.#I usually only spend ~1hr on like everything #but also this is Completely Painted #like. I didn't even do lineart. I made a very messy sketch and colored in messy then Did Shit #until it looked good #I kept having to redo nenes handssss #I don't really like her right hand still #but also there wasn't really a sketch I drew five lines as fingers and rendered them #so I think I did pretty good.#whenever I look at tsukasa your adventure plays in my mind cause I put it on loop and spent SO LONG struggling on his clothes #i had to do another sketch for his clothes. i literally pulled thed esign out of my ass becuase i didnt wanna pull out my old ref from like #a year ago #anywaanywayfnwaybywa. post

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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 5 months ago

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If I could be arsed to learn how to edit videos and had some kind of mic, I would 110% make a two part video essay series on the politics of Jurassic World because MY GOD, there's so much to dissect.

The first part would be about how the park is the epitome of neoliberal futurism for techbros, including the way the park so easily falls apart though I doubt that aspect is purposeful. Everything is aesthetic first and function second, and we can't possibly use any of the reliable infrastructure we've already come up with because a train is not gonna get us to Mars, but a monorail might.

And the second would be about the buckwild terrible gender politics going on. The movie is deeply unsympathetic to Claire seemingly because she's a woman who prioritised her career as it's both centre to her character arc and also an inciting event of one of the plots. Not to mention the whole Zara thing or the Owen and Claire thing or the stupid "him, I meant him, line. The movie is rife with misogyny, but it feels like that specific misogyny was isekaied over from backlash to second wave feminism.

I could talk about it all for so long because in a way, it feels like a perfect time capsule for 2015. Back when people took Claire running in heels to be this feminist statement to be made fun of and not just a deeply misogynistic movie trying to sell you feminism. And back when Elon Musk managed to get away with his "I'm the real life Iron Man" shit, and people believed he was smart and all his plans would come to fruition. 2015 was a great time to be a tech bro in Silicon Valley with people just throwing money at all your fake promises.

Yeah. See. This is what I mean when I say I could talk about it forever.

#kai rambles #jurassic world #one of the reasons why this has ended up one of my favourite movies is because it kinda got rounded up and out as a big dumb action film #but like.#look at elon's robovan or libertarian sea pods or the hyperloop or the straddling bus or the vegas sphere #then look at jurassic world #and tell me all these stupid dumb ideas and constructions wouldnt fit in perfectly in jurassic world #and that the really dumb way of thinking that creates those concepts wouldnt be the kind that gives you ''lets make a new dinosaur''#tell me this movie doesnt perfectly encapsulate that way of thinking #including the lack of redundancies and procedures and the complete lack of guard rails and the way it just falls apart #i dont think it was on purpose #i don't think the movie is clever enough for it to be satirising tech bro led neoliberal futurism #because those are two long words that many people dont know the meaning of because they didnt take sociology at some point #but it is a decent satire of it #meanwhile its gender politics are in a dire situation #and i also dont think that's necessarily purposeful?#i think maybe the character of claire began as the hollywood cardboard cutout of a Feminist��#and then since they were copying the first film so much they decided they needed to have kid characters running around and a family plot #and then also they were like well obviously we need a romance arc because thats how these movies work #and so they gave claire the opposite traits of owen because opposites attract #and then oops this character is a deeply misogynistic caricature of a woman #and we really dont have many other women in this cast who do much so you know.#its just. theres so much #guys there's so much

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agalychnisspranneusroseus · 4 months ago

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An underrated sashannarcy dynamic is them starting as a V-shaped relationship and the hinge realizing the other two are also in love and trying to set them up. I wanna see Marcy playing matchmaker for her two girlfriends who hate each other and also love each other but they also hate each other and

#sashannarcy #my posts #Anne and Sasha having a really big fight and being in super bad terms and only putting up with each other for Marcy. do you see the vision #trying to get along to spend her birthday with her (they planned for two very different things and refused to coordinate or communicate)#dropping Marcy off at each other's places with smiles that disappear as soon as Marcy turns around #things like that #they want each other so bad it makes them look stupid #one of the most ridiculous reasons why they won't make a move is because they don't wanna cheat. on marcy #their shared girlfriend #also ☝️ the potential for marcy angst... neither of the three families get it #her family thinks it's childish and ridiculous and that she can't ''string them along'' forever. she needs to settle down and have #a ''real relationship'' eventually. the Boonchuys would be more accepting if they didn't see Anne angsting about it all the time #(she doesn't have a problem with the arrangement. she just thinks sasha is an annoying piece of shit)#they don't get involved but they kinda judge her in silence while misunderstanding the situation #the waybrights just think she's cheating on her daughter in broad daylight and humilliating her completely #defending her is probably the only thing that gets anne and sasha to agree on something these days

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princehendir · 1 month ago

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should i play fallout be real with me o wise one

That depends. If you are thirteen or fifteen years old then I, without a single caveat, highly recommend that you go purchase and play the first fallout game you can get your hands on and do it right now. Immediately. But if you're an adult then Well it's complicated. Because they are not very good.

#i kind of completely adore fo3 however it is kinda hard (which i enjoy but you may not) and the writing is *very* bad #but its very bad in a way I personally think is charming. because im insane.#fnv is. okay look I know im very hard on it but it IS iconic for a reason and worth playing at least once #(if you can get it to run.)#fo4 is very fucking fun to play however it is deeply stupid. just a really dumb game and not always charming about it #however simultaneously i do not feel that it is not nearlt As Bad as a lot of people act like it is. it won goty for a reason yk.#idk idk. I don't have a normal relationship with fallout. you should try it if you're interested they are fine games #but buy them on sale if you can.#its kinda the cilantro of games. if you dont have the gene then you're basically just paying AAA prices for soap

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ferryfoam · 9 months ago

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Why did they give AOS Spock such a bad haircut ?? Where's the pointy fringe? Why is it round?

#before I got properly into Star Trek all I'd watched were the AOS movies #which at the time I thought were fine and good #and I still generally hold that opinion story wise #but now that I've actuall watched TOS and other treks #I am not massive on the casting and costume decisions #Benedict cumberbatch as Khan I do not like. why did they give him a turtleneck??? he looks so lame #and they didn't even do anything interesting with his hair or makeup or whatever #it's straight up just ol Benny in a black turtleneck and normal ass pants #Og Khan's costume was way cooler. but whatever #anyway I don't think AOS Spock looks like Spock. stupid fringe and no eyeshadow???#and Chris pine or whoever plays Kirk (I forget) is kind of completely incorrect and also not right personality wise #but that's being nitpicky I suppose #they aren't bad movies #they're fine to exist on their own #but I do think casting could have been a little better #Simon Pegg as Scotty was perfect though #I love you Simon Pegg #ferry yaps #star trek #Star trek AOS #Star Trek tos

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redefiled · 12 days ago

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God my last relationship had me making vent art about 2 months in. Do you know how BADLY you have to fuck me up to get me to make vent art of all things...?

#Epitaph #I mean honestly it's kind of funny in retrospect how long I was in denial about being completely miserable #because I was so lonely and they were the only ''reliable'' person in my life since I had JUST moved across the country.#And when I finally realized I was miserable I just thought...Fuck. I don't have anyone else to turn to. No friends or anything.#My roommate was a nightmare. I was completely alone and had no choice but to stay under their thumb or I'd have literally no one.#I think they knew that. I think they did it because they knew they could get away with it.#Ugh sorry this is so much to drop into my online diary before 8am but whateverrrrr.#At least I can look back and chuckle and shake my head at my past self's desperation and stupidity.

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0246h · 17 days ago

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misophonia + sensory issues are torture. i'm so tired of all of this.

#misophonia #i'm so tired of being so triggered by sounds. can't function day to day without plugging my ears 98% of the time #trying not to relapse in sh and skin scratching but it completely fell through over hearing a spoon hit a glass bowl #i think dealing with noise triggers is one of the hardest things to cope with. i just cannot do it #i've tried watching mukbangs & people using utensils my whole life to adjust and “get over it” as so many have told me to #but oh my fucking god i can't i want to smash my head into a wall until i can't hear anymore #i've spent so long isolating and avoiding everything just so i can't hear trigger noises #even in therapy my therapist played audio that triggers me & tried to do tapping exercises to help #but i fear i'm doomed #i wanna vomit tbh. this makes life hell. it makes me feel so stupid #also makes me feel childish with people because their responses are always like “you should have grown out of this by now”#because my whole life it's been “you'll grow out of it” i genuinely looked forward to that day where i would grow out of it....#desperately couldn't wait for my time but now since being diagnosed with autism + adhd & learning more ik it's just stuck with me #i can't grow out of neurodevelopmental disorder or symptoms. i have sm grief w this diagnosis bc it can't be 'fixed' i thought everything #could be fixed one day... even seeing certain movements triggers hearing the sound in my head when it isn't there. i can't rest.#repetitive movements also bother me and make me want to rip my hair out #like i wish my brain would chill and give me a break. i try so hard to mask everything too around people but i still fall through so much #it's so exhausting #i'm so frustrated and tired #i want to throw up.#i also despise when i've communicated this to people close to me & they'll say they understand + tell me their triggers to relate to me...#then when i have to hang up out of panic on a call... or put my earplugs in in front of someone while talking.. meltdown.. or walk off-#i'm then met with confusion / irritation / anger despite communicating a million times #people are valid to get tired of me over these things. i get that. it's excessive & frustrating. i'm tired of me + these issues too.#but i wish people that said they understood... really did.#i've been called dramatic for years and yeah it is very dramatic. it's fucking awful and has ruined so much for me.#i have huge emotions over it. i'm glad people can brush it off as dramatic and not personally deal with it.#i just laugh and claim the dramatic title a lot of the time because those who say it just really don't understand. it's lonely. i'm so alon #always will be.#tw vent

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wonder-worker · 1 year ago

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"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

— J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #my post #friendly reminder that there's nothing indicating that Elizabeth was exceptionally pious or that her piety was 'beyond purely conventional'#(something first claimed by Anne Crawford who simultaneously claimed that Elizabeth was 'grasping and totally lacking in scruple' so...)#EW's piety as queen may have stood out compared to former 15th century predecessors and definitely stood out compared to her husband #but her actions in themselves were not especially novel or 'beyond normal' and by themselves don't indicate unusual piety on her part #As Laynesmith's more recent research observes they seem to have been 'broadly conventional'#A conclusion arrived at Derek Neal as well who also points out that in general queens and elite noblewomen simply had wider means #of 'visible material expression of [their] personal devotion' - and also emphasizes how we should look at their wider circumstances #to understand their actions (eg: the death of Elizabeth's son George in 1479 as a motivating factor)#It's nice that we know a bit about Elizabeth's more personal piety - for eg she seems to have developed an attachment to Westminster Abbey #It's possible her (outward) piety increased across her queenship - she undertook most of her religious projects in later years #But again - none of them indicate the *level* of her piety (ie: they don't indicate that she was beyond conventionally pious)#By 1475 it seems that contemporaries identified Cecily Neville as the most personally devout from the Yorkist family #(though Elizabeth and even Cecily's sons were far greater patrons)#I think people also assume this because of her retirement to Westminster post 1485 #which doesn't work because 1) we don't actually know when she retired? as Laynesmith says there is no actual evidence for the traditional #date of 12 February 1487 #2) she had very secular reasons for retiring (grief over the death of her children? her lack of dower lands or estates which most other #widows had? her options were very limited; choosing to reside in the abbey is not particularly surprising. it's a massive and unneeded jump #to claim that it was motivated solely by piety (especially because it wasn't a complete 'retirement' in the way people assume it was)#I think historians have a habit of using her piety as a GOTCHA!' point against her vilification - which is a flawed and stupid argument #Elizabeth could be the most pious individual in the world and still be the pantomime villain Ricardians/Yorkists claim she was #They're not mutually exclusive; this line of thinking is useless #I think this also stems from the fact that we simply know very little about Elizabeth as an individual (ie: her hobbies/interests)#certainly far less than we do for other prominent women Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth of York;; Cecily Neville or Margaret Beaufort #and I think rather than emphasizing that gap of knowledge her historians merely try to fill it up with 'she was pious!'#which is ... an incredibly lackluster take. I think it's better to just acknowledge that we don't know much about this historical figure #ie: I do wish that her piety and patronage was emphasized more yes. but it shouldn't flip too far to the other side either.

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trans-yllz · 7 months ago

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after drafting, sketching, inking, painting, scanning, touching up, digitally gilding, writing ids for, and writing explanations of my 22 cql major arcana tarot cards over the last four months, they are all finally utterly complete and scheduled to post, and as excited as I am to soon be able to share them at long last, I sort of never want to see any of them ever again

#you know when you get the end of a project #and youve been looking at the stupid thing for so many god forsaken hours #and you kind of hate it #thats how I feel about some of these fucking cards #I've looked at and agonized over them for too long #and now I can see everything thats wronh with them #like So excited to share tho #well. now that its all complete I sort of don't know what to do with my life #but luckily yall wont have to hear about this fuckin project again until I post them #ghost posts #text #cql tarot #I wonder if anyone has that tag blocked JSBNXJXMDB

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beaniebabs · 5 months ago

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fuckkkk my laptop keyboard is fucked up and idk how to fix it. do u think i can play project zomboid on my tablet i literallyjust got the game </3 and also the entire rest of my life is on my laptop or whatever

#i dont know if it's like. a shortcut issue like the wrong button combo got pressed and now it's fucky.#or if i ruined it completely by myself bc i was cleaning it with lysol on a paper towel GDSHSS. i'm . am i just really that dumb #is that what did it. bc also my lil nephew opened my laptop and messed with the keyboard when i wasn't looking.#and i genuinely don't know/remember if it was okay after i cleaned it or if i even used it until i Discovered my keyboard was fucky . </3 #i think it was probably me being really stupid and careless . urg . but i've been hemorrhaging money on stupid shit recently #so i really dont wanna accept that it's probably something i'm gonna have to get fixed and pay a shit ton of money for #i really dont know how much The Real World costs but i'm worried i'm not gonna have enough to move out and pay my own bills SDGSDGJ.#urg . pain and agony and misery on earth

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cephalofrog · 9 months ago

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noah caldwell-gervais is the only motherfucker to have ever been correct about dark souls and elden rings' difficulty. no one else understands

#oops. rant ->#they aren't about overcoming some incredible struggle in order to prove yourself as an insane upper echelon Gamer #they're about allowing the player to create a victory that feels satisfying to them #either by mastering the mechanics #using your brain and coming up with a strategy that works #or just getting some friends to help beat it into the ground #saying “sekiro is designed to teach you that mechanical mastery is sometimes required for victory” is just completely the wrong way around #sekiro exists for the people that preferred to use mechanical mastery to beat dark souls!!!#cause fromsoft went “that's pretty fun may as well make a game based around that”#it doesn't fucking exist so that people play it and go “ah yes this is the way fromsoft intends us to play their other games”#spirit summons in ER exist so that they can create more aggressive bosses without leaving a bunch of players unable to beat the game!!!#like you can like or dislike that game design decision #disliking it is a fair opinion to hold #I kinda dislike it. I don't like rellana as a boss cause she feels reliant on it #but saying that it's bad cause “it teaches you to play the game badly” is so stupid #like it lets you beat the game. what more do you want #the criticism you're looking for is “I dislike it cause I don't like playing the game that way and find it less fun”#which is totally valid and I kinda agree!#but as someone who prefers to fight bosses solo by mastering the mechanics:#stop acting like “fighting bosses solo by mastering the mechanics” is the objectively correct way to play #and deciding that because you play that way all of your critiques are the most valid #and accept you maybe just disagree with some of fromsoft's design choices for ER.#it's fine. you can still like the game. it's okay

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rubiatinctorum · 8 months ago

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when you see discourse about the true meaning of an element in a text and what that implies concretely for the morality or affect of the characters and work and discussions of such

#rubia speaks #there's this one take about dracula of all things that i see from time to time. that's what inspired this #i think there's a lot to be said for reading the certain scene it references in a certain way to understand the horror of it #without shutting down other conversation about count dracula as a character AND a symbol in other contexts #because there are so many.#i think if we look at dracula's transformation of mina SOLELY through the lens of assault that can very easily shut down the #themes of religious defilement that are also present there without going into a really bad place with transitive property #do i agree it could be symbolic of assault? absolutely. do i believe that's all there is to it? well wouldn't that be reductive #and it's kind of nonsense for people to shut down further discussion of the count bc 'He Is A Sex Pest don't talk about him otherwise'#first of all 1) he is not real and the harm he did to mina is not real 2) discussing him is pivotal to much of analysing the book Dracula #and 3) stop confusing the signified for the signifier #i'm not going to talk about a completely different scene and disclaim 'don't stan him tho he assaulted mina :/' don't be stupid

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irithnova · 1 year ago

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One of the funniest things I've seen someone say is "I hate when people try to FORCE POLITICS into HISTORICAL HETALIA" girl I have really bad news for you

#I'm sorry but history + politics aren't these 2 completely separate things #Just like how philosophy + politics aren't two completely separate things etc #And accusing people of “forcing” politics down historical hetalia's throat or something is just nonsensical #People who say this usually don't have an issue with politics being discussed in historical hetalia #They only have an issue with it when it makes their blorbo look bad lmao #Lol #Again I just wanted to highlight how stupid it is to say something like that #Like HISTORICAL hetalia specifically girl yeah maybe there will be talks of politics 💀💀💀#If it was like. General hetalia ok I'd maybe get it #BUT HISTORICAL HETALIA ?#Sorry I'm too humanities brained for this nonsense

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invinciblerodent · 9 months ago

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sleeping with haarlep to get access to raphael's safe ❌

sleeping with haarlep to get pics of your character's tits ✔️

#squirrel plays bg3 #and that sweet little concerned line your LI says when you're about to make a completely stupid decision #u worry for her safety; don't u astarion 👀#(i mean. i obviously reloaded after. but. iona did look very nice there)#every time i am confronted by the fact that she does indeed have a very sweet little pout; astarion was not lying

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