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The way people demonize seagulls is actually unreal. Almost all of their natural habitat has been destroyed (almost all coastal areas have been developed, destroying natural sand dune ecosystems) and they're doing their best to adapt. They're literally just trying to survive. You're in their home. The vitriol some people have for these gorgeous sea birds just because they're not shy about snatching food if you're not cautious is insane
#im malding bc i read an article about some guy who beheaded a seagull for trying to steal his kids french fry#what the fuck is wrong with you
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READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Can’t Escape Its Own White Gaze by Merryana Salem / Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023). Dir. Martin Scorsese
#killers of the flower moon#martin scorsese#lily gladstone#indigenous#media representation#writing#read the full article if you can guys my editors are looking for any excuse to claim i am not good at my job rn#/
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#its dadow hour again#and yes I'm implying ian jr is immortal#also sage if you're reading this this is the meme you predicted I was making#shadow the hedgehog#silver the hedgehog#dadow#sonic 06#sth#sonic#my art <3#also you guys should read this onion article. its hilarious there were a lot more and they slowly got crazier and crazier lmao#when you voluntarily decide to raise your childhood friend because you care about him but you're not even his favorite
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What could he have meant by this
#pop art mash up…..#LICHTENSTEIN??#girl that’s like 30 years too late#60s pop art vs 30s noir OH BROTHER#spider noir#the dog speaks#those monsters better be goblin and.. vulture I guess#even tho vultures like a fucked up guy#not exactly a monster in the sense that I’m getting from this tweet#me when I hear a mutual talking about the fantastic and monsterous aspects they could add to noir: 😄😁🙂↕️🙂↕️#me when I hear the same thing from a studio: 🙁😟#I DONT TRUST THEMMM#I read the article linked too that’s quite literally all he says abt noir
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My fellow fandom frequenters!!!!!!
This feels kind of weird to do because I literally use this blog to talk about gay people and reblog pretty fan art but ya gotta do what ya gotta do:
I am a student journalist and I'm writing an article for class about the way that fandom spaces have changed over the years (especially over the pandemic) and the effects of the popularization of fandoms. I'm looking for people who are willing to talk about their experiences in fandoms, the communities and relationships that they've built, how they feel about the shift in fandom culture (or if they've even noticed a shift), etc!
Some things to note: this is not going anywhere besides to my professor (unless all participants actively want me to share it on Tumblr or something, in case anyone is interested in reading it -- it's really up to everyone's comfortability levels). The mode of interview is, once again, up to comfortability: we can do zoom calls, conversations over DMs, in-person meetups (this is obviously going to depend on where we live) -- once again, this is up to your comfortability!!!
My DMS are open and I would reallllyyy really appreciate any and all participants! Your voices are CENTRAL to this story because fandom is based solely off of the real conversations between community members!!! I'm really passionate about fandoms because it's been like. My whole life since childhood. So I'm really dedicated to making a beautifully authentic story out of this!!
Feel free to DM with any questions :) Or if you know someone who'd be interested, or have some suggestions on things you'd like me to write about or have any leads that I could research, look at, etc. -- just dm or even comment or reblog this and put it in the tags!!!
Reblogs are appreciated! I'll be tagging some popular fandoms in order to get some more traction
Edit: so many people dm’d thank you guys for helping a poor undergrad get a good mark on their paper :’) sorry if it takes a second for me to respond to your dm I’ll get to you I promise!! My dms are still open so if someone is reading this, you can still participate!
#fandom#fandom things#fandom etiquette#I honestly have no clue how to tag this so I hope I don't bother people by tagging popular ships and fandoms#jujustu kaisen#satosugu#supernatural#spn#destiel#bbc sherlock#nbc hannibal#johnlock#hannigram#abigail hobbs#dan and phil#klance#voltron#vld#one of the first scenes I wrote for this article is about reading dirty laundry LMF#the owl house#gravity falls#pokemon#artists on tumblr#genshin impact#bbc merlin#merthur#I miss those guys#the marauders#wolfstar#tgcf
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Hey this is kinda silly but can you convince me to get Brothership?
The art style and animation is so beautiful and bouncy! (I'm a particularly big fan of the Luigi Logic moments in the boss fights.)
You can make a few decisions that will effect what happens in the plot going forward, which is WILD for a Mario game and definitely enhances the replayability aspect.
Speaking of replayability, there are a lot of side quests and new routes that open up as you discover and explore islands. There are so many different little corners to investigate outside of the main game that Brothership is no doubt going to take me a good deal longer than the alleged 30 hour runtime. I want to see everything.
The gameplay runs smoothly and is a ton of fun, and when things begins to get repetitive it throws in some new tool or ability to switch things up and keep things interesting. Fights are pretty easy at the beginning, but as you go along the game slowly ramps up the difficulty in ways that feel both challenging and fair.
It's a Mario and Luigi game, so of course almost all the characters are brimming with charm. Mario and Luigi's characterization in particular is A+. They are so sweet and wholesome.
I'm only partway into the plot and it slaps. I hear word it's got one of the most intense stories out of any Mario game, so I am super excited to see how things play out.
I say, if you're considering getting this game, go get it! Ever since I got my copy I've been waking up in the morning with my first instinct being to get on my switch to see what happens and what else I can discover.
#blossomaaoc#askbox#mario and luigi brothership#as someone who read that IGN article and got worried... I don't know what that guy was on#this game is great and the few flaws it has are easily buried beneath all the good aspects
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Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J. Herman / Illustration from the Mabinogion / The Quest for Olwen, trans. Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland / The Story of Merlin, trans. Rupert T. Pickens / Illustration from The Quest for Olwen, Margaret Jones / Wace's Roman de Brut, trans. Eugene Mason / The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest
a collection of sir kay and sir bedivere: companions/lovers/worse, for @queer-ragnelle's may day parade
#fellas is it gay to forever be linked to your companion throughout texts and time#them being the first of arthur's knights ohhh im so emo about them.... arthuriana's most eternal couple#you guys should read that article i linked if ur interested in how kay changes over time btw!! it's really good#bedivere#sir bedivere#kay#sir kay#culhwch and olwen#vulgate cycle#mabinogion#arthuriana#arthurian legend#arthurian literature#medieval literature#knights of the round table#kay x bedivere#bedikay#i think ive seen people using that tag?#may day parade#I know this isn’t art so maybe it doesn’t count but the formatting alone should count as an art this was nightmarish to create#kay tag
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While some of both Davis and Crawford’s work could arguably be described as camp (for the former, King Vidor’s Beyond the Forest; for the latter, later-era films such as Strait-Jacket and aspects of the wondrous Nicholas Ray film Johnny Guitar), that their entire careers and places within film history are defined as such does a disservice to their artistry. But they aren’t alone in representing what has become a troubling trend when it comes to women’s work. As camp entered the mainstream lexicon, especially after Susan Sontag’s landmark 1964 essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” the term has been increasingly tied to work featuring women who disregard societal norms. Camp is often improperly and broadly applied to pop culture that features highly emotional, bold, complex, cold, and so-called “unlikable” female characters. I’ve seen films and TV shows such as the witty masterwork All About Eve; the beguiling Mulholland Drive; the stylized yet heartwarming Jane the Virgin; Todd Haynes’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol; the blistering biopic Jackie; the deliciously malevolent horror film Black Swan; Joss Whedon’s exploration of girlhood and horror, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the landmark documentary Grey Gardens (which inspired the 2009 HBO film starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore); and even icons such as Beyoncé and Rihanna be described as camp. Look at any list of the best camp films and you’ll see an overwhelming number of works that feature women and don’t actually fit the label. Usually, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the film whose behind-the-scenes story provides Murphy’s launching pad for Feud, will be at the top of the list.
While camp need not be a pejorative, that hasn’t stopped it from being widely used as such. In effect, being labeled as camp can turn the boldest works about the interior lives of complex women into a curiosity, a joke, a punch line. The ease with which camp is applied to female-led films and shows of this ilk demonstrates that for all the (still-paltry) gains Hollywood has made for women in the decades since Davis and Crawford worked, our culture is still uncomfortable respecting women’s stories.
That major Hollywood icons such as Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford (and, more recently, Natalie Portman, thanks to Jackie) have been roped into this lineage isn’t surprising. Society doesn’t know what to do with women of this ilk without discrediting their very womanhood. Take artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s offensive description of Mae West in an essay on camp: “[She] played with androgyny to the degree that her final performance — her autopsy — was necessary to prove her biological femaleness.” In his 2013 essay “Why Is Camp So Obsessed with Women?”, J. Bryan Lowder expands on Sontag’s most well-known line: “It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman.’ To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role.” Lowder writes, “‘Woman,’ the concept within the quotation marks, is not the same thing, at all, as a real woman; the former is a mythology, a style, a set of conventions, taboos, and references, while the latter is a shifting, changeable, and ultimately indefinable living being. Of course, there may be some overlap.” But if all gender is a performance, where does the “real” woman begin? And why does the presence of camp hold more importance than the actual work and voices of actresses such as Crawford, who have come to be defined by it?
At times, camp can feel like a suffocating label. Its proponents often misconstrue the fact that recreating oneself as a character is not merely an aesthetic for women, but rather, for many, a matter of survival. Living in a culture that profoundly scorns ambition, autonomy, and independence in women, girls learn quickly the narrow parameters of femininity available to them. When they transcend these parameters, life can get even more difficult. Women often pick up and drop various forms of presentation in order to move through the world more easily. Performance as a woman — in terms of how one speaks, walks, talks, acts — can be a means of controlling one’s own narrative. Camp often limits this part of the discussion, focusing instead on the sheer thrill of watching larger-than-life female characters cut and snark their way across the screen. How these works speak to women, past and present, becomes a tertiary concern at best, and the work loses a bit of its importance in the process; it either comes to be regarded as niche or, if it still has mainstream prominence, as abject spectacle. In turn, the conversations around these works become less about the women at their centers and more about how those women are presented.
Much of Baby Jane’s camp legacy comes down to how more recent audiences have interpreted Davis’s performance. She’s ferocious, frightening, and grotesque. But framing Davis’s performance as camp, as Murphy does, doesn’t take into account how dramatically acting has shifted over the course of film history. In some ways, camp has become a label used when modern audiences don’t quite understand older styles of acting. Modern actors privilege the remote, the cold, the detached. The more scenery-chewing performances that make the labor of acting visible — such as the transformative work that Jake Gyllenhaal did in Nightcrawler, or most of Christian Bale’s career — is typically the domain of men. (Or, at least, it’s only men who can get away with it without being called campy.) As Shonni Enelow writes in a marvelous piece for Film Comment, “[Jennifer] Lawrence’s characters in Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games don’t arrive at emotional release or revelation; rather than fight to express themselves, her characters fight not to. We can see the same kind of emotional retrenchment and wariness in a number of performances by the most popular young actors of the last several years.” Davis’s work as an actor was the antithesis of that; she painted in bold colors. Even her quietest moments brim with an intensity that cannot be denied.
#I love being the guy who posts the article and gets to completely tear it up paragraph by paragraph until I have all my favorite parts#together 💗 but I’ve never seen Jackie and she does several paragraphs on Jackie that make me want to watch#reading#angelica jade bastién
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bro what
#destiel#supernatural#us politics#not tagging this as trump or whatever the fuck because I am not touching that with a ten foot pole#anyways yeah. i don't think this was actually an assassination but like what the fuck maaaan how the hell is this the world we live in. wil#had a friend read the article live in vc and knew what i had to do#man it's so crazy that it's normal for a guy to have a bunch of guns in his car huh? huh? that isn’t normal?
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Whether or not anyone from Taylor’s team actually spoke to CNN about the NYT article, let’s all be reminded that:
* Nobody speculated on Taylor’s sexuality. The author points out various ways in which Taylor flags queerness in her art and that suggests to queer people that she may be one of us. That’s not a speculation, that’s fact.
* The article is also largely about closeting in the entertainment industry. And that’s still very common (also fact) whether you like it or not.
* This beautifully written and heartfelt article makes a point for the kind of world that queer people deserve to live in. If you call that ‘inappropriate’ I think that says a lot…
And maybe most importantly: IF SHE WAS AN ALLY SHE WOULD NOT BE OFFENDED TO BE ASSUMED QUEER! Being gay is not offensive and if you think otherwise, that’s homophobia.
At no point does the author dig into her muses or speculate on who she might be dating. That’s a level of journalistic professionalism that a lot of lesser publications could learn from.
Anna Marks (if that is your name) you are a brilliant writer and journalist, and I hope you do not take any criticism from old white men on CNN!
#very important#I will defend this article with my life#it’s so much bigger than Taylor#ask chely wright#One last time for the people in the back#IT IS NOT OFFENSIVE TO ASSUME SOMEONE MIGHT BE GAY#or else I’d be offended every time someone assumes I’m straight#Straightness is not the default#and FFS she has never once denied being queer#you guys just can’t read…
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y'all go from being feminists to tearing these women down within seconds oh my god it's 2024 can we please stop viciously tearing one woman down to bring another up i don't care what side you take but saying vile shit about either woman and their music is disgusting, please grow up
#seperate the art from the artist please oh my god#for the record i like both billie and taylor#the variants being a major thing but i know thats not to hurt billie like yall say its it's to get more money (which she doesn't need????)#like let people have opinions oh my god its not that deep#and some of yall (not naming names yk who you are) went from loving billies new album to saying the most vile shit within a second which is#+shallow as fuck please learn to separate the art from the artist#you're allowed to dislike someones music but dragging them down as a person is shameful and not something to be proud of#and some of the shit ive seen said recently is disgusting please think before you speak#and ill be honest the swifties are saying most of the horrible stuff#i love taylor as much as you guys but it is not an excuse to say disgusting shit about other women please find something better to do+#+with your time#most of my mutuals are swifties but tbh if youre offended by me saying not to drag women down then i don't want you following me anyways#luc posts#billie eilish#taylor swift#i will not rant about my hatred for the variants and consumerism thats a post for another day#also have yall considered that this whole argument thing is pr so they can both get more streams. bc uh that was my first thought ngl#edit like 10 minutes later: i read an article and yall are blowing shit out of proportion it is literally not that deep omg
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You know what the Giyuu bath scene Aniplex was too much of a coward to give us really needed? A gay awakening. So sayeth the lord (me in my google docs)
#just got his ass kicked by sanemi in a spar#goes home to have a gratuitous bath scene thinking ‘well I can’t NOT fuck him’#you’re right Giyuu!!!#postcards from stupid town#Giyuu is taking the am I gay online quiz#and sanemi is reading a buzzfeed article called top ten ways to show affection and feel love without channeling it into violence#they’re closing the web pages when they don’t get what they want#I’m a real writer guys#sanegiyuu
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thesis updates: sent the draft to my advisor -> she said it was "incoherent" and that she was "shocked" at my work and instead of telling me anything in detail as to what's wrong directs me to the writing center then proceeds to cc my committee members saying that she's at a loss with what to do with me -> was confused because... did i send her the wrong draft?? it seemed pretty solid to me?? like i was genuinely proud of it??? -> next day she sends me another email saying that actually my draft isn't bad at all and it just needs some reworking ???????
#you know what the problem is.#she's been telling me to write my thesis like a research article so i've been copying how it is in the articles she sends me#and so im like. clearly this isn't working if she's upset by this and didn't expect this. go rooting around my uni's websites to see#what the hell im doing wrong bc i must be doing something wrong but i dont know and my advisor wont TELL me what's wrong with the format#no examples of theses on the theses/dissertations page of my uni. knew that already but checked again#no examples of theses on the theses page of my program. knew that but double checked.#ended up rooting around for an HOUR and then stumbled upon a bunch of theses from my program#that is [1] not linked ANYWHERE on my program page or on the thesis page. [2] literally by good luck that i stumbled upon this cause it has#a bunch of MA theses from the past 20 years on here#read like 20 of them. realize that there's a specific format that my advisor just NEVER TOLD ME????? TO WRITE IN??#realize that i just kinda need to restructure my work a bit but it's actually not as bad as i expected#also. during my 'fake' defense last semester she was pissed at me about my charts but...everyone is using the format of charts i did ??????#oh. that's another thing. my advisor said that i 'defended' to the program coordinator even though i didn't actually defend anything and#she just told me flat out it was a no go so. lol.#anyways. it's. 4 am and im working on this stupid thing. im SO over it.#guys. im starting to fear im not the problem but my advisor is LMAO
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#obx spoilers#outer banks#outer banks spoilers#{This is on par with that last season of How I Met Your Mother in levels of clownery from the writers.#And if you're like 'oh but Rudy wanted to leave!' 1) I DON'T BLAME HIM! SOME OF Y'ALL NEED TO TOUCH GRASS/HAVE SOME SHAME!#2) there was a way to write him him off of the show without killing him off. And a good writer could've done it.#and 3) I read an article that quoted the Pate's and they were pretty giddy about how JJ's real dad killing him was like SO evil of him#and he's SUCH an evil guy. And like… okay. Killing your own son is pretty evil. But also thanks I hate it you ass clowns!#Also if they try to make Kiara/Rafe happen next season I'll burn everything… though I honestly don't see myself watching season five of OBX#Like unless it starts out with JJ's death being a fever dream or something.#tldr: killing JJ was shitty and lazy writing. If you disagree argue with the wall}
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#I don’t think I really like Taylor Swift that much anymore#and today just kinda cements that#like I’m just not interested in reading another article about how fucking successful she’s been this year#like I just do not feel connected to her artistry anymore like I used to and that’s a shame#but oh well#not me complaining about Taylor swift to my majority swiftie following#sorry guys#but I’m over it
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