#emily types

[wahoopli]

drop the sanderson thoughts lmao. did you read the wired article everyone’s talking about?

yes i did read the wired article. it was weird? fine? i agree with the take that the writer thought it would be more interesting, and then had to come up with a story on a deadline.

tbh i feel like the more interesting story is that mormonism is a settler colonialist monument to white cisheteropatriarchy, and that really shows in sanderson's writing. stormlight especially really demonstrates this. it's structured to be all about oppression (darkeyes, the singers) but sanderson's narrative continually prioritizes the oppressors. that's so mormon! the book of mormon is so racist and present-day mormonism is so invested in whiteness and imperialism, esp with sending missionaries to convert people of color in the global south.

and like... we talk all the time about how sanderson is great at writing queer characters when he's not trying to. how his romances really fall flat. to me it's all connected to mormonism. he's talked before about how he doesn't really have emotional ups and downs, and the article kind of touches on this too. mormonism is such a passion-less religion. if you've ever been in a mormon church building, they're the most boring buildings alive. there's a complete lack of culture, art, life. mormonism is designed to produce nuclear family clones who have the same opinions and have a very "nice" society.

i'm rambling, and i have lots more thoughts, but i just think the way sanderson writes romance really positions it as a Thing You Put In A Narrative and not, like, a messy human experience. and that's so mormon. you serve a mission for the church as a late teen and then come back and are expected to marry. marriage is one of the essential Steps toward exaltation.

obviously the other really interesting thing is that the magic of the cosmere tbh is extremely mormon in a way I find very interesting and sometimes like! one of the key doctrines of mormonism is that if you live your life perfectly, you'll become a god and create your own worlds the same way god did with us. it's a complicated and fascinating idea, and i don't think it's terribly difficult to make the connection to whiteness and the settler fantasy of it all. but in the cosmere, humans become gods. gods are bound by rules (also important in mormon theology). ruin and preservation created scadrial and built it and humans from scratch.

idk i just feel like if you've read sanderson's work (which the wired writer says he did) and have a solid understanding of mormonism, there's a much richer and more interesting story to tell than what that article gave. it barely scratched the surface imo.

disclaimer, i say all this as a white queer exmormon who has lived in utah her whole life. i love lots of things about mormonism, and i can't separate my personal and family history from the church. it's defined my life up until the last couple of years, and that's the place i'm speaking from.

[stil-lindigo]

bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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creative notes:

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all my other comics

store

[magentasnail]

as a non-gamer, i've been watching too much stardew valley content lately, and I wanted to draw some of the bachelors/etts for fun !

[stardewvalleybut-i-draw]

Hair cuts!

"Make sure you're using the right blade next time"

This is a reference to two things!

1- Shane's old hairstyles, that being long and the side buzz cut he had for a sec

2- the "damn I messed up, we gotta go bald" is from a meme video

I do find the headcanon of Emily helping out Shane with his hair to be a fun wholesome idea

OH and that Emily uses Haley's vanity mirror.

(Haley's wallpaper is fun! but tacky as hell)

ANYWAY, this was yet another attempt at backgrounds and this one was a lot more enjoyable :)

Looking at Shane's old art did give me another funny idea but I'll have to draw it another time, I want to get better at drawing the other bachelor's so it'll have to sit on the back burner for a bit!

[philzasjuicyass]

I need Michael to be the embodiment of ''love the sinner, not the sin'.

Like, Lucifer (understandably) thinks Michael hates him cus he never stood up for him/agreed w the Elders that his ideas were dangerous (or even was the one to banish Lucifer.)

Meanwhile Michael's crying himself to sleep abt how much he misses his lil' brother/whatever they were

[elation-station]

You know she would be parading around in a different fancy outfit everyday just to show off to the farmer ♥

[fkapple]

would shane emily and abigail have a threesome yes or no

I think the answer’s no, probably not

[alexluvsskittlez]

LOOK AT HER

SHES SO CUTEEEE <33

[angel-fruitcake]

scrap the final ep of season 15. imagine Cas is saved from the empty and reunites with Dean, they have a sickeningly sweet emotional moment where Dean reveals that's he's also in love with Cas. cue a desperate frantic steamy needy softcore sex scene of 10+ years of pent up sexual tension finally being resolved. i'm talking cinematic shots of Dean pressing Cas against a wall picking him up while he sucks on his neck i'm talking Cas spreading Dean out on a table while they make out so sloppy and wet i'm talking those guys falling into a bed just all over each other shedding clothes like they'll die if they don't feel skin on skin right fucking now

this is a requirement for spn season 16 thanks

[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

[wahoopli]

A Memory Called Empire is the best book I've read in a LONG time and I'm begging anyone who loves me to read it

[sevengoodusesofacadaver]

Emuhlee. Elizabeth. Prentiss. That’s not your wife, even if she looks just like her…

[itsraining-honey]

hot opinions straight off the stove! 🥘🔥

[amekeii]

Criminal Minds Characters as Cocktails

SPENCER REID - ESPRESSO MARTINI vodka vanilla | coffee liqueur | brown sugar syrup | espresso

AARON HOTCHNER - OLD FASHIONED bourbon | sugar | angostura bitters | orange twist

EMILY PRENTISS - AVIATION gin | maraschino liqueur | simple syrup | lemon juice | crème de violette | cherry

DAVID ROSSI - NEGRONI campari | gin | sweet vermouth

PENELOPE GARCIA - PORNSTAR MARTINI vodka vanilla | passoã | passion fruit puree | pineapple juice | passion fruit half | prosecco

JJ JENNIFER JAREAU - GIN & TONIC opihr gin | yuzu tonic | lime wheel

DEREK MORGAN - MAI TAI dark rum | white rum | orange curacao | almond syrup | lime juice

PART 2

[frankiebirds]

man i love how quickly you get a sense for what emily's relationship with her mother is like. when she sees her she literally calls out "mother" rather than a more informal title and then the three expressions she goes through:

she goes from shock (what is my mother doing here?) to pleasant surprise (my mother is here!) to (at least to me, the last one is a little harder to read) disappointment (oh...she's probably here because she needs something) here's a still image of that last one since it's a little hard to catch in my shitty gif:

(also: shoutout to paget brewster for cycling through three expressions in a single second and communicating so much so quickly. love that)

[firelise]

Film & TV I Think About A Lot » The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) dir. Desiree Akhavan

Is part of the reason why you watch those Tandy Campbell videos 'cause she's kind of hot, huh? We shouldn't encourage each other's homosexual attractions.