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Portrait of Helen Beatrice Myfanwy Hughes, daughter of Billy Hughes, Prime-Minister of Australia (1931) by Philip de László. Private collection.
#billy hughes#australia#philip de lászló#female portrait#female portrayal#1931#circa 1931#painting#oil on canvas#oil painting#art#artwork#20th century art#early 20th century#20th century#art history#history of art#europe#1930s#1930s style#1930s fashion#decade: 1930s#1930s vintage#portraiture#politicians#political figure#british art#british painter#hungarian artist#hungarian art
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#aiart#mythological figure#greek mythology#gender swap#hades#art#female portrayal#ai#lore#underworld#digitalart
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my martha knight au in a nutshell:
Danny/Martha: see up here?
Danny/Martha: *taps skull*
Danny/Martha: intense psychological damage
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Danny/Martha: *upon finding out she's pregnant*
Danny/Martha: oh my god i cant be a mom, I'm fifteen and homeless--
Danny/Martha: im going to be a terrible mother--
Danny/Martha: i live in a cAR--
Danny/Martha: what if the baby inherits my powers? Oh no--
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Danny/Martha post giving birth: i've only had Bruce for a minute and a half but if anything were to happen to him i won't even need to fuse with Vlad, I'm razing this goddamn planet to the ground myself
Danny, to Baby Bruce: you are the last remaining thread of my sanity. I'm going to give you the world :)
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Danny/Martha prior to getting pregnant: Fuck it, if everything in my life has led to this moment, i'm allowed to make one stupid decision. I'm getting drunk and getting laid
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Danny/Martha while Bruce was a toddler: i swear to fucking god i am going to kill the next person who talks to me--
Bruce: hi mommy!! i brought you something!!!
Danny/Martha, immediately flipping on a dime: hi baby!! what do you have?
Bruce, a weird child like his mother: a spider :)
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Danny/Martha, talking to Falcone after he made an unsavory comment at her and Bruce: If you ever come near me or my son again, I will dig up your shithead father's corpse and make you eat his skin.
Danny/Martha: do you understand me
Falcone:... crystal, ma'am
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Danny/Martha new in Gotham: *getting mugged*
Danny/Martha: *grabs man's arm*
Danny/Martha: I AM GOING TO BREAK YOU IN HALF LIKE A TWIG, FUCK BOY, DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH--
(she then proceeds to terrorize Gotham's night life for the next extended period of time, mostly unintentionally)
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Danny/Martha: Danny Fenton?? No. you must be mistaken, my name is Martha Knight.
Danny/Martha: this here is my littlest knight, Bruce.
Danny/Martha: I made him all by myself :]
#if martha could become the joker in one timeline if bruce died then she had to have SOMETHIGN going on up there mentally. im all for it#im a 'martha wayne may have been secretly batshit' truther. subscribing to bruciemilf's portrayal of the wayne parents#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dpxdc#fem danny fenton#female danny fenton#martha knight au#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpxdc au#dp x dc au#dp x dc#giving danny fenton psychological issues since 2022 folks#points at marthadanny: she's a hot mess with unprocessed trauma and psychological prblems. she's hanging on by a thread#LISTEN TO AFTER ALL BY CHRISTINE EBERSOLE THAT SUMS UP MARTHADANNY ENTIRELY#bruce your mom is even crazier than you. how is that possible. her trauma has trauma.#marthadanny: i dont wanna talk about my feelings OR my trauma i want to raise my son. go away#martha: who knew that being a child hero without any support would result in deeply rooted psychological issues and paranoia in spades#marthadanny: im fine (<- experienced liar. is not fine. please god someone restrain her before she claws someone's eyes out)#she has eyebags the size of the savanna and wields red lipstick like a weapon. she's going to rob a rich man blind. she has a baby to feed#what would a mother not do for her child? what heights would a mother not climb.#and you're shaken to your soul with an ache that you cant erase. like the tears you never cried but still keep scrubbing off your face.#there's a pain you cant imagine. the little talk that keeps you wide awake that somehow turns to bold determination that you wont ever make#the same mistake. so you've got to feed your little future and ensure her talent poise and charm might just grow up and save you after all#fun fact bruce and danny's birthdays are exactly one week apart. danny is Feb.12 and Bruce is Feb.19. take that as you will :)
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Actually wait ok i'm not done. i'm actually so serious abt this. I think that a large part of the reason i got attached to metroid when i was younger is because it was the first media i discovered where the main female character was allowed to look like this:
and like. people thought she was cool. BOYS thought she was cool and I had never seen boys think a female character was cool before, much less want to be like one. she had all these interesting traits that I had only ever seen in male characters (person of few words, calm and ruthless bounty hunter persona, highly respected for skill, her appearance isn't mentioned Ever, etc etc). and that was formative for me and my relationship to gender i think
#metroid#talkin#sorry to explain it in such “boys vs girls” terms lmao it's just. this was my experience#also probably a big reason i get so squicked out by zero suit portrayals#because like. that cool trope subversion gets stripped (lol) away#and it's like “noooooo look she really is just another hot female character underneath!! she's a Woman guys!!!!!”#and it's weirddddddd it's so weird. not Wrong in any way just really really not my thing#i saw boys stop wanting to BE her once the suit came off#anyway. TIME FOR THE DAILY METROID RAMBLE
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i find it frustrating when people conflate criticism of drag and its culture with intolerance for gender nonconformity. men putting on exaggerated facsimiles of women's bodies and acting out the most offensive and regressive stereotypes about us for entertainment is very different to a guy who just likes wearing skirts or women who shop in the mens section
i was a very nerdy teen and went to a lot of conventions, where crossplay (dressing up as a character of the opposite sex) was common, so i know men can dress up as women and perform in character without being offensive. i also have no issue at all with guys who want to dress up as barbara streissand or whoever and sing and dance, it's the caricaturing of women's bodies and minds that offends me and other feminists
the hatred of women is a feature of drag culture that can and should stop
#radical feminism#radblr#drag critical#i'm not offended by someone wearing the 'wrong' clothes i'm offended by their portrayal of women through their drag personas#i''m sorry but it is hateful to say your female persona is catty and dumb and dick obsessed#women have been fighting to escape these degrading stereotypes for centuries#also the ones who put on massive hip pads and fake boobs...its just mockery of the female body#crossdress to your hearts content just be fucking normal about women#txt
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I love Steph's origin as told in the Secret Origins 80 page giant- I just overall think it strengthens her character by giving her a lot of pathos and adding to her heroism (which isn't something writers were focused on in her actual intro in detective comics #647 since she was just meant to act as a plot device back then) BUT there is one tiny detail in it i will begrudge, and that is the portrayal of her having a minor love at first sight moment for tim
Secret origins 80 page giant, ID in alt
(or well, technically this was their second meeting in that story (the brick was the first) so...love at second sight?)
Mostly because Stephanie showed no interest in her introduction and only showed romantic feelings towards Tim AFTER this moment here:
Robin (1993) #4, ID in alt
Straight up the progression here goes:
The adventure in 'tec where they first meet -> Tim investigating the same crime scene as Steph -> she beats him up not knowing it's him at first, apologizes but says he shouldn't have scared her -> he remembers her/the moniker she goes by -> they talk about plot for a few pages -> Stephanie starts flirting
Robin (1993) #4, ID in alt
Which...is so fascinating to me and says so much about Stephanie. She highlights the fact that Tim "remembered" her. Like. Steph. Girl. This is our bar? It's sweet but kind of speaks to how much Stephanie is ignored at home/how little and sporadically she's shown interacting with her peers (and rarely ever the same kids twice). Her idea of peak romance is just...being on someone's mind even when you're not there.
Kind of also adds layers to Steph's proclivity towards jealousy later on, a manifestation of her insecurity and loneliness (though don't get it twisted, she's not written this way bc Dixon and co think it's an interesting character flaw, they wrote it bc they think it's an inherent character flaw of (particularly young) women/girls, which is very apparent in how he approaches Ariana's character as well from what I've read)
Also the fact that Steph becomes so smitten for Tim almost immediately after this is (a few issues later she aggressively flirts with him during AN ACTIVE HOSTAGE SITUATION. WHERE SHE'S THE HOSTAGE) again is kind of a mixture of kind of funny and sad. One boy is nice to her once and she's fully ready to wife him. Girl you are deranged (affectionate) (concerned)
#ramblings of a lunatic#dc comics#stephanie brown#tim drake#timsteph#meta#< ??? ig#robin 1993#made this post and forgot to finish. saved it in drafts. saw posts that annoyed me. proceeded to finish it#the subset of fans who think they're doing a righteous feminism by giving steph more flaws than she has in canon...headaches#yes flawed female characters are important representation no i dont think you projecting chuck dixons conservative values onto her-#-is doing her character a great favour. if so you need to commit to the bit and make tim a stone cold nark /j#sorry okay im done vaguing. there's real things going on in the world that matter. the bad take is the mind killer etc etc#anyway the zero to 100 progression of early timsteph is fascinating. on the one hand i know it's mostly a product of its time#both in terms of portrayals of romance (esp teen romance) and partially of women and girls by dixon (not extremely boy obsessed-#-but there's a. dark shadow of the boy crazy trope. a gentle whiff of it in the air. just a little)#but bc this aspect isn't blatantly/egregiously author bias i choose to analyse it#i could also analyse how steph in general is portrayed as liking guys she can't/shouldn't have a little#(her crush on the much older detective in bg2009 and also tim a little bit w/ the secret identity thing)#(but that's a whole other discussion. also that aspect of the romance in bg2009 is. also a little sexistly motivated-#-and also dropped part way through to an extent so like..not exactly ripe for analysis)#ANYWHO i love you Steph <3 you're unwell and yet so adorable and compelling Steph <3
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Maybe it's just me and I just don't understand the arc. Or maybe this arc will get some grand conclusion I'm really starting to doubt. But like I'm sick and tired of Tashigi being used as Zoro's misogyny proxy. Like the "a woman swordsman could never beat a man" belief and trauma made sense for both Kuina and Tashigi and was a very valid fear way back in the East Blue when they were still fighting relatively normal people and had no scope of how big the world is
but at this point where there are literally 20 feet tall dudes and people can blow up a whole city with just Haki the only reason Tashigi is still weak is because she is being written that way. Which is really hard to understand because it seems now more than ever One Piece has been getting more and more strong female characters so I don't know why every time Tashigi is on screen with Zoro we have to rehash this. It's even worse cause all she does in the scene is prove Zoro right by getting in a fight that she can't handle and needing saving. It's such a confusing message and honestly doesn't really apply or come up anywhere but with Tashigi and Zoro (outside of that one time where Zoro yells at enel for blasting Robin because she's a woman which was weird because Robin's been in a lot of fights before but seemed there just so enel could point out just how ruthless it is.)
Hell with the exception of the G5 all being in love with her. She is treated like a regular character and not just "the woman"
It honestly feels like both Tashigi and Smoker got lost in the narrative and Oda just doesn't know where to put their arcs. It feels like she was being written to help Zoro overcome whatever mental block Kuina's death instilled in him about facing female opponents with his sword. But she is just sooooo far behind him it renders the point moot and strengthens his convictions (it's weird that he will literally crush a woman's face rather than use his sword and is the only reason I won't say he doesn't fight women he does he just seems to have a mental block about cutting them down especially if they fight with anything blade like) but also we've only ever seen him face female character he knows can't challenge him it would have been interesting to see what he'd do in a fight against someone like big mom, tsuru or smoothie doubt that will happen though. But here's to hoping for Tashigi to have an actual arc.
#I'm just tired of this woman in fantasy situations still needing to be physically weaker than men#not to actually explore misogny but just because#like one dude tried to argue that Maki is inherently weaker than toji because she's a woman#like what? we are talking about a world where a dude literally has infinity at his disposable biology doesn't matter#stop infecting it with your misogny#or maybe she has this huge final role Oda is the god of bringing back random characters and leveling them up after all#like we are talking about a world where there's a dude literally made of fire I do not want to hear about the biological reality#this isn't reality#youre female characters arent strong because they aren't written to be strong and that's a you problem#I like tashigi 95% of the time she's a great character. But can women just be “weak” without it being because they are women?#can we just do that#been having so much fun in the mishanks/cross guild section of the fandom#I genuinely forgot how much the portrayal of women in one piece irritated me and was a big reason I stopped keeping up in the first place#here's my rant I guess#op#one piece#ranting#mini rant#roronoa zoro#tashigi#feminism#one piece women#I do like that it's a least alot better now with inclusion of more female characters#I do acknowledge that most of this manga was written in the early 2000s but come on Punk Hazard was literally not that long ago#one piece thoughts#women
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Irene Adler
from the Sherlock Holmes series (A Scandal in Bohemia) by Arthur Conan Doyle
#I debated including bbc sherlock irene partly because it may skew votes and mainly because she's a terrible portrayal of the character#steven moffat will see an actual strong female character and say 'damn is anyone gonna fetishise her under the guise of empowerment?'#and not wait for an answer#anyway. alas there are no good original illustrations of irene and I don't think any other adaptations are recognisable enough to include#but y'know. vote based on the original story#a scandal in bohemia#sherlock holmes#irene adler#arthur conan doyle#granada holmes#ritchie holmes#bbc sherlock#classic literature#polls#queer#new post
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Boulevard in Paris (1885) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Turku Art Museum.
#akseli gallen-kallela#akseli gallen kallela#turku art museum#turku#finland#paris#finnish artist#finnish#suomitumblr#suomi#finnish art#19th century art#late 19th century#belle epoque#19th century#19th century aesthetics#female portrait#female portrayal#women in art#art history#history of art#painting#oil painting#artwork#scandinavian art#scandinavian artist#scandinavia#abo#northern europe#europe
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Sword of Kaigen
standalone fantasy set in a rural mountain village at the edge of an empire that still holds traditional values, with families of powerful water/ice magic warriors
follows a powerful young heir who begins to question his beliefs about the empire when a new boy comes to his village from the city
and his mother, a housewife who has tried to forget her youth as a warrior and vigilante in the city since she moved back home to a loveless marriage
when there’s a violent attack on their village that they’re unprepared for, everything changes, and she has to embrace her old skills to protect her family and people
#The Sword of Kaigen#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#I’ve been meaning to read this for years and I finally got around to it! a really unique fantasy novel#I had always assumed this was ur average pre-industrial high fantasy and then was immediately hit with video games/tv in the first chapter#lmao. But overall (aside from the broader worldbuilding/politics) it is closer to the average ‘historical’ fantasy narrative -#so I can see why I got that impression#Some really compelling characters and interesting narrative structure that went in some unexpected directions.#It really focuses in on one village and how devastating a single battle in a war can be to their people - and how much work the recovery is#I feel like most sff is more concerned with a single person and/or the whole war so this felt unique. did also mean that the pacing was odd#- it's a slow start; then there’s a battle that must be hundreds of pages. The last section of the book feels a little too drawn out#and brings up random hanging plot elements that don’t really go anywhere. But I think overall this works for the story.#also one thing I didn’t love - cool complex interesting female character MC sure but also there’s weird moments like:#the first scene we see her is all the housewives comparing their attractiveness; she keeps referring to herself as an old woman (when she’s#and oh so meek and useless etc. And some of this feels like it’s part of the broader portrayal of the misogynist society#but some of it felt clunky or unintentional?#And then especially the end - when she and her shitty husband finally confront each other as equals and he apologises#she basically immediately forgives him and is like oh I was equally at fault because I am a meek woman who didn’t try either#like him realising he was wrong (and her realising he had a reason for being the way he was) doesn’t negate the fact that he treated her li#she acts like it was her fault for not trying too - when we have numerous examples of him berating her if she spoke up about anything?#like im glad he’s learning. but also that doesn’t mean she needs to suddenly forgive and love him wtf#that's the only real thing that annoyed me though.#also btw that 5yo seems kinda fucked up. are you guys gonna do anything about that
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when i say "she's just a girl" i'm 100% talking about devi vishwakumar, rory glimore, princess aurelia, rashta, sumin, hermione granger + ginny weasley, and susie campbell
#devi vishwakumar#rory gilmore#ginny weasley#hermione granger#(the anti portrayals of them are... weird! to say the least)#(like wdym ginny is thought of as a “slut” bc... she had 2 boyfriends?)#rashta#sumin mary my husband#susie campbell#i love susie campbell !!#messy not always morally sound female characters>>>
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Currently on the hunt for some more Bones-centric fics, if anybody has some to recommend I’d owe you a bazillion marsh-melons <3 please and thank you :D
(For this round, I would prefer aos, but would still happily take tos. McSpirk or /OC or /reader would be best, but I’ll explore any pairing rn.)
#I love both versions of him desperately#but I’m trying to explore the aos portrayal a little more rn#leonard bones mccoy#bones mccoy#cmo McCoy#Star Trek#star trek fanfiction#star trek aos#star trek aos fanfic#star trek alternate original series#star trek tos#star trek the original series#star trek tos fanfic#mcspirk#leonard bones mccoy x reader#bones McCoy x original female character#fanfic reccomendation#fic rec
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AND BEFORE ANYONE ASKS - YES, ONE VERSE OFFERS THE CLOACA AND IT'S LITERALLY JUST THE MAIN CANON.
#✧・゚・゚✧ | ☾ | : jude speaks.#tbd.#/whacks the CLOACA IS CLOSED sign on the door.#otherwise we follow female anatomy aside from vampire!verse.#coz it's my portrayal and i say so~#HOWEVER. . . things are open for discussion with partners.#and in general coz he's a fucking demon so like it's not definitive.#8))) THE MORE YOU KNOW
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It’s me 🦅
#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#illustration#illustrator#illustrators on tumblr#artwork#female illustrators#my art#sketch#self portrayal
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A follow-up to my Kenari-Bear comic, some more made-up/headcanon stuff mixed in with an idea I've had for a while that could be boiled down to "Museums and galleries have so much stolen cultural art in them and Luthen's is no exception"
#Cassian Andor#headcanons#andor#Luthen Rael#The canine on the mural's colors are based on Zoroark because of p-paradoxa's pokemon au post#And the bit about the sunhawks is *loosely* inspired by the legend of the eagle eating the snake-#-just as a sort of nod to Diego Luna being from Mexico City.#the obscured text on the plaque is a portrayal of colonizers' misinterpretation of other cultures--#--in that they assume the bear is/was a 'godlike beast' to the Kenari people when it was not at all.#this probably counts as an AU right#comics#myart#oats.png#Another fun fact that doesnt come across since i've only drawn the female golden bears so far: only the females have tusks#that's why in the first comic Cassian says “they killed *her*” rather than “it”
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anyways it’s funny that i say i prefer stories that work with themes on a bigger scale meanwhile my favorite piece of fiction in the entire world is nana by ai yazawa, which is so deeply embedded in its characters perspectives that it almost becomes apolitical. like i don’t know if ai yazawa fully realizes that nana k is a csa victim or that ren manipulates nana o with sex or that shin & reira’s relationship is unhealthy. she might or she might not.. it doesn’t matter what she thinks because she’s just fully uninterested in passing judgement on these things, instead focusing on portraying them and the characters’ experiences extremely authentically & leaving the viewer to interpret what it is and what it means. which counterintuitively makes them more compelling to me (the themes enjoyer…) only because she’s so fucking good at doing that. truly i have seen some very well-written characters but i have never seen anything like the characters in nana……..
#and i mean obviously nana is not truly apolitical or absent of thematic cohesion#because at its core it’s a story about the homoeroticism of intimate female friendship & how people trap themselves in unfulfilling#circumstances in the hopes that they can deal with/emulate/move on from what societal constraints bar them from having#you don’t even have to interpret either of them as gay to work w this lens because textually even a romantic relationship is a tool for nan#and hachi to get what they want from each other (the romanticized ideal of love where you can be together forever without doing the work)#essentially making them girls who WISH they were shoujo girls but aren’t. they are real girls so unfortunately they re not guaranteed their#fairytale unconditional love#AMONG OTHER THINGS.#but that is honestly just not as important to nana as it is that we just get to live in these characters’ worlds#in the truest portrayal of “life” i have literally ever seen..#anyways i love nana by ai yazawa that’s all.#nana#frogs.txt#cw csa mention#*maybe* taylor is up there with ai yazawa’s character writing but they are fundamentally different stories that must in turn approach#their characters in very different ways.. so it’s something of an exercise in futility to compare them. imo.#okay i will fucking shut up now. sorry.
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