#dring

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[californialanyards]

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[aleandriottopiercing]

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[katepluwu]

Kate with Pepsi :3❤️😘🎉 ❤️🎉 #furry #furries #fandom #art #artist #draw #drawing #sztuka #praca #rysunek #plastyka #program#kot #furry #film #movie #candy #love #dring#pepsi #led #pink

[chillis-woof-stuff]

Black leather collar with purple napa lining and black hardware. 💜🦴🖤

[jestiree]

It's 3am and im writing a two part burningvanilla fic

Certainly a decision to make

[baddyzarc]

Performing gimmick puppet ftk while drunk is an experience

[portraituresque]

William D. Dring (1904–1990) - Self portrait

[fictionalred]

DING DING y'all

[icannotreadcursive]

I'm not doing this in a reblog because it's not worth starting a fight, but I just saw a post that was saying that if your characters are under 18, they should never be naked on screen, no matter how old the actors playing them are.

And it went on for a bit about unreasonable and exploitative on-screen nudity is, and that there's no good reason to ever have young characters naked.

And it never outright said that all nudity is inherently sexual, but it was so obviously coming from a place of seeing all nudity as inherently sexual, to an extent that I find mindboggling and frankly sad.

One of my all time favorite movies is My Neighbor Totoro--which is animated, so there's no actors on screen, but our main characters are little girls. The younger sister is about 3, and the older sister is only a few years older. There's a very sweet scene of the two of them (and their father) taking a bath and laughing loudly to scare of spirits. This is a cultural in which communal bathing is normal. Nothing at all untoward about it, it's a family bonding moment, and of course they're naked, they're taking a bath.

Pan's Labyrinth also has a couple bath scenes--del Toro has a bit of a thing for using baths as places of sanctuary and introspection in his films. Our protagonist Ofelia is 10, the actress who plays her was 11 during filming. And guess what, she was never naked on set. I have seen the costume department notes for that film with my own eyes, she was wearing a skintone bathing suit and I promise you there was somebody standing by with a robe to bundle her up in as soon as cut was called; del Toro has a rep for being very conscientious about making sure his actors are comfortable on set. Point is thought, character nudity =/= actor nudity, not necessarily.

In fact, because of the laws and regulations around working with under-age actors, a lot of the time you can't have the actor nude. If it's a case of Dawson casting with a 30 year old playing a 17 year old? That 30 year old can make their own decisions about their willingness to do the scene and the character isn't real, the character is fine.

And if you're watching a scene like that and are really that fixated on the young characters' nudity, I think there's something wrong with you, not with the movie.

Are there issues with the ways in which actors--especially young women actors--are often pressured into on screen nudity? Yes. Absolutely. And it's worth it to step back and think about what role nudity is serving in a film or TV show--and, if you're on the creative end, to consider ahead of time if you need to put your cast in that vulnerable position and how you're going to protect their comfort and dignity if the answer is yes.

But nudity is not inherently sexual. On-screen nudity does not inherently require on-set nudity. On-set nudity (and partial nudity) can be done in ways that are respectful and comfortable for the actor. Children have bodies and sometimes those bodies don't have clothes; this is an entirely nuetral fact of life and there is absolutely nothing wrong with film and television reflecting that reality.

This is not the most coherent or in-depth write up I could do on this subject, but I just needed to spit these thoughts somewhere.

Somethingsomething Americans don't see their grandma's tits and it makes them weird.

[nopenototdaysatan]

On an Island Alone

Hi, everyone. I have found myself in a place where I feel incredibly discouraged and lonely as a Poet. I try so hard to keep pushing forward but it's hard. I feel like as a poet there's less support... And so I feel alone.

This has been a build up over many years. And I blame the public school system for everything. Fuckers only make it look like there's a billion rules to follow. Which there's not! And you don't have to follow the "rules" anyway.

...at the end of the day I feel a little bitter that prose writers can more easily find betas and help while I'm over here staring at my work for the fiftieth time trying to figure out what's wrong with it.

I love my fellow writers and I'm so glad they do get that... But having to do all this work just to get jack shit is frustrating. I feel alone and sad like a lonely ship adrift at sea. Please give love to your poet friends. They're going through some shit. (It's finding the right word. *Glares at a running thesaurus* "Get back here you dumb fucking thesaurus I need you to give me the perfect word!")

Anyway TLDR: I wrote a poem about being sad and lonely. Enjoy.

Being a Poet is rewarding…

But it feels so lonely.

We’re one in a million

And being a poet means being an expert?

I don’t feel like one.

I’ve never felt like a professional.

Just someone who put words to an emotion

Feelings to a thought.

I just wanna talk about my stupid rhymes

And my loose metaphors

And the dumb wording I used to create images.

Or the rhyming of the same word. Lol.

I feel like a magician

Putting on a wonderful show

But no one wants to see the tricks behind the magic.

They don’t wanna see the words of my magic.

And it makes me feel so sad.

And it makes me feel so alone

Lost and left alone on an island of one.

Left alone to just make more.

I’m just a content creator alone

Because no one wants to look at poems critically.

Because they think they’ll look stupid

Because they think they’re too dumb to understand.

But you were never too little.

You have always been enough.

You’re not taking a test.

There’s no right answer.

There never was.

Because…

Poems are emotion

And images

And feelings.

I’m just here to paint you a picture.

I’m just here to make a scene in your head.

I’m just here to make your cry, laugh and smile.

There will never be a wrong way to poem.

So, please.

Don’t leave me alone.

On this island of hopelessness.

On this island of having to come up with ideas, and then write them and then edit them alone.

Please,

Don’t leave me alone.

[justineportraits]

Dennis William Dring (British, 1904 - 1990) The Hat Shop 1938

[starpros-sunshine]

it's not like i dislike myself or anything I think I'm okay. Nothing special nothing too bad just. Ok. But I wish I could be cooler I want to be the 1980s rock star kind of cool I would just kind of like it if people thought I was. idk. cool like that ig. but I'm just a meek little thing that's too scared to talk most of the time for fear of saying something weird and off-putting and always looks a little off overall because it never quite got the hang of moving and emoting like a real human being. And also I don't do drugs which was a very big thing with rockstars in the 80s so there's that too ig.

[escapefromnewyork1997]

"Long Live" being in quotes makes me think its an album title

[misty-missdee]

if you've ever interacted with me, please understand I'm an alien. thanks.

[chillis-woof-stuff]

Rainbow! Leather collar with 🌈 stitching and hardware 🏳️‍🌈

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