#especially with the frogs

[amphibianaday]

It's here! pattern and instructions for my papercraft toad (and hats!) download it for free at the google drive link!

(day 971)

[disloyalbuffalo]

PACIFIC RIM (2013)

PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING (2018)

[azural83]

Here's some appreciation for this concept design for tiana

[s-escapist]

What is phrog anatomy anyway?

[tiktowafel]

cottagecore lesbians for a good friend :)

[scuddish]

COREY FELDMAN as EDGAR FROG THE LOST BOYS 1987 | dir. Joel Schumacher

[ink-the-artist]

drew some funny animals to feel better

[mysunfreckle]

I've seen several people mention that Gerard's backstory of being turned into a frog by the fairy for being a disrespectful child when he was a little prince is a nice nod to Disney's Beauty and the Beast, in which the Beast was also cursed as a child. And I agree!

What I find extra delightful about that parallel is that Gerard clearly comes from a more romantic version of the Frog Prince (the one where he is kissed instead of thrown violently against the wall like the darker version he ended up in after coming back to life). And there actually is a more romantic Frog Prince story collected by the brothers Grimm that has more elements in common with Beauty and the Beast:

It was only included in their 1815 collection and then left out because it was so similar to The Frog King, but in this version (Der Froschprinz) three princesses go to drink from a well, but find it only gives them cloudy water. In the well there is a frog who promises each sister after the other to give her clear water if she agrees to be his sweetheart. The first two refuse, but the last one that goes agrees, because she thinks the frog can't possibly really become her sweetheart. The evening after however the frog comes to remind her of her promise and she lets him sleep in her bed for three nights. Then, on the third morning, she finds a handsome prince in her bed instead of a frog, who explains she has broken his enchantment. They get permission from her father the king to marry and her two sisters are both angry they did not take the frog as their sweetheart themselves.

The agreement to be a sweetheart is close to the agreement to get married from Beauty and the Beast, and there being two (jealous) sisters also fits with the older versions of that story. Interestingly the folklorist Ashliman points out that the first English translator of the Grimms' tales, Edgar Taylor, combined this story with the Grimms' The Frog King or Iron Heinrich. He kept the frog retrieving the golden ball, but changed the ending where the princess breaks the curse by chucking him against the wall into the ending where she lets him sleep in her bed. So still no kiss, but more romantic. And that is the version that English speakers got to know as The Frog Prince!

[byjessicaelena]

i love wonky art!!!! wonky art is the best!! wonk wonk wonk

[carlyraejepsans]

You make me reminded of that phase some of us the writers had back in 2018-2019 where we finally snapped with the fact that papyrus was treated like an innocent child and we did nothing but actually make papyrus complex along with Underswap Sans as well. God, again, you make me want to write for this fandom again and I'm thinking back on my ideas

[burr-did-nothing-wrong]

James Sharples really do be doing all our bois like that

Left to right; Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams 

[hillerskaroyals]

ivar tweeting the trailer has to mean we’re getting more erik in season two right

right???

[thosewiseowls]

My Beloveds

[variousqueerthings]

was at an exhibition about top surgery where the artist had very simply shown lots of different bits that go into this part of transition (also included a section about cutting hair and trying out different hairstyles)

(describing in non-detail what was in that exhibit + non-descriptive discussion about surgeries)

-- included things like images of post-op + the tissue itself + a recreation of the surgery + plasters made of his chest before and after + more abstract sculptures 

and I got to talk with the artist about how ecstatic it felt to see all of this, to share in this experience, to feel the reclamation of talking about it as well as the process of the surgery itself and all the feelings it brought up for him and for the audience

and he said that apparently lots of cis people kept saying it seemed really traumatic/gory/graphic and were disturbed by the presentation, and you know, glad they were there and engaging, but so interesting that other people who want/have had top surgery (+ I assume trans and nb people generally, but didn’t ask about that) were sharing in it as something joyful -- difficult yes, but ultimately a process towards joy, and also just happy to see it through our lens and presented so simply and honestly 

and cis people (some) were scared or disgusted or horrified, as a natural instinct -- not bigoted necessarily, but completely shut off to what the purpose of this presentation was, that it wasn’t for them to feel comforted or for it to be simplified for them or for them to idk, see it and go “ahhh yes this process exactly relates to me now, therefore I can understand it exactly as it feels for others,” (if it did, then maybe you want top surgery...)

it was to tell a truth that isn’t commonly presented in so public a space, and certainly not by and for trans people

and it’s interesting, because a large proportion of people are going to have surgery at some point in their lives (presumably... most people?) and probably a major one. so there’s some questions there about:

1. what horrifies you about surgeries generally that you project that fear onto something that trans people (and any cis person who wants it) describes over and over again as a necessary, wanted process, the aim of which is to bring joy

2. what horrifies you specifically about the idea that someone might have surgery on their chest, and what do you need to do to unlearn that -- and this including cis women where there’s a non-zero chance that they’ll be getting a very similar surgery

3. what do you need to do to unlearn projecting horror images onto trans bodies/bodies that have scars/bodies that have had major surgeries?

4. what do cis people/what does cisnormative society have to do to unlearn the fears about bodies that undergo change, stop glorifying stagnation/stasis as the point of human existence -- because a non-zero part of that instinct towards fear isn’t just the scars, I think it’s the process itself, the showing of what is considered imperfection in a society that is meant to try to present as unchanging/unblemished/youthful (and thin, white, able-bodied, and of course: binary) as possible. If that goal is revealed to be undesirable, if an alternative is shown as simply as this exhibition did, your average cisgender person who’s taken in that messaging even if they’ve considered themselves to be allies (and probably still do) is suddenly faced with questions about what this means to them? It is no longer theoretical, they are looking at an imperfect body!

and to them this is meant to be a horror scenario, so even if it’s abundantly clear to us that it’s not, they just aren’t taking that information in. This process was desired, it was pursued, it was fought for, and their instinctive takeaway is “traumatic” (horror horror horror)

5. how come we don’t have a bunch of cool trans and disability oriented horror movies celebrating scars??? (and a bunch of horror movies centred on the violence of stasis)

-- also the thing that terrified me the most was seeing the bill, because this person was waiting so long on the NHS list that he eventually started scraping together the money to go private, as is incredibly common here..... maybe that’s where the horror should also be? @ the audience

[upperranktwo]

☆Tsuyu Asui - The Rainy Season Hero: Froppy☆

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

If you think Yoda doesn’t give great hugs you’re wrong.