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wlwanakin · 2 months ago

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what are you peeved about andor’s depiction of chandrila?

oh god lol i feel bad that my first in depth post about this show that i really do like a lot is gonna be me complaining. and honestly that does kinda make me sad not only bc i really do love andor but i also love the chandrila storyline! it’s honestly my favorite in the whole show! but i must speak my truth and my truth is that i fucking HATE the chandrila costuming so much and i feel like i’m going crazy because everyone else seems to absolutely love it.

my first issue is just that what we see in andor does not cohere well with the way mon mothma has consistently been shown to dress in previous appearances. and obviously she isn’t going to dress the same in different contexts and different time periods and her revenge of the sith outfit looking so similar to her original return of the jedi outfit is mainly for recognizability but you can still draw from them for a varied wardrobe. like i just love the loose shapeless silhouette and the kind of androgynous feeling of her first two looks:

like this feels like an outfit from space and it feels distinctive! and then mon’s wardrobe in andor is just…not even close to this at all. there are a couple outfits that are kind of nods to it, but they’re much more fitted and traditionally feminine and generally more conventional and honestly look like stuff you could buy at macy’s. they didn’t even let her keep her haircut until she needed to have it for continuity!

and yeah to some degree this is intentional because of her position, because she’s being suffocated by her job and her marriage and her status or whatever, and there are more obvious hints of that like the scene where she takes off her big necklace that looks like a collar. but clearly that was not focused on sufficiently and got seriously lost in translation because the main audience takeaway about her costuming is that she looks cunty and isn’t it so awful that she got such a terrible haircut and dresses like shit on yavin 4 (and honestly the way people talk about that shift is starting to feel awfully close to misogyny to me but whatever). and also even if they wanted to do something with her costuming being different from how she dressed in the republic or the rebellion to create this sense of restrictive conformity that doesn’t have to look boring! traditional femininity doesn’t have to look the same in space as it does on earth! they could’ve given her some more interesting silhouettes or maybe a headpiece every once in a while! i personally would’ve preferred they didn’t go the fitted route with her but if they wanted to do that there’s a way to go about that without repeating the same exact cinched waist with a stupid little belt shape for every party dress or making her wear turtlenecks and cardigans that look like they could be my mother’s.

and this extends outside of mon, obviously, because we see a lot of chandrila including chandrilan hyper-traditionalism. and to me another key costume that reflects the general direction they went with chandrila and why i dislike it is leida’s wedding dress:

and honestly this one makes me even more frustrated bc i don’t hate it! i really like the shape of her veil (not in this picture), i like some of the fabric choices, it’s not a bad costume overall. but it still feels so unimaginative to me that you’re creating this whole space culture with its own weird space traditions and the route you settle for for the wedding dress is…white sparkly mermaid gown. like come ONNN. it personally peeves me that they just went with white as the wedding color but even that aside because that’s honestly just a nitpick the dress itself is just not interesting. it doesn’t even evoke traditionalism all that much. it’s just a wedding dress.

and then the far more egregious thing to me that goes beyond just looking like a macy’s catalogue is the sheer amount of orientalism in a lot of the chandrila costumes. because when chandrilan characters aren’t dressed like they just raided the formal section of a department store they’re just straight up dressed to look vaguely east asian. like jesus fucking christ man can we calm it on the kimonos?

and orientalism is the star wars original sin so on some level this might seem hypocritical to complain about because i do love the costuming of the prequels and they’re certainly guilty of the same thing. but it feels so much more egregious here because like, man, it is 2025. it’s 2025 and this show is also laser-sharp in its political messaging so i do expect it to be above dressing a bunch of white people in vaguely japanese looking outfits and then being like “yay that’s space clothes.” and it feels ten times lazier than past iterations of this in star wars both because it’s Current Year and because there isn’t even really a reason or any direct inspiration taken from anything that actually informs these costumes (not that that gives the costumes in the films a pass before anyone tries twisting what i’m saying), it’s just kimonos and robes cuz those aren’t t-shirts i guess? you can argue that it’s because they’re supposed to have some cultural overlap/connection with the jedi and like i guesssss but it still looks so lazy to me! like it doesn’t feel intentional, it just feels derivative. and man jedi robes are not doing all that. and i cannot stress enough that every fucking chandrilan is white. not just the main characters, i literally mean every single one in all those sprawling crowd shots. possibly bar a few extras i missed but i do not recall seeing a single non-white chandrilan.

and i feel like the character that exemplifies how frankly lazy these two design directions are especially when combined is vel, whose chandrilan outfits are by and large just a loose robey or kimono-y blouse with some pants and chunky jewelry, and that combo just ends up making her look less like an out-of-place upper class woman on an alien planet and more like a well-traveled succession character:

it’s just so boring. it’s so fucking boring, man. and this isn’t even exclusive to andor at all because most recent star wars projects have had underwhelming costuming, but andor’s costuming despite continuing that trend isn’t nearly as bad and considering they were crafting a culture from the ground up with the only references for cultural garb they had being two beautiful costumes with such a distinctive feel to them they could’ve done something so cool with this planet. and they just didn’t. they almost completely discarded what they had to draw from and then went the most conventional route possible. and it was kinda racist too!

#oh god this is so long #anyway. i like this show i promise #andor #andor critical #mon mothma #leida mothma #vel sartha #star wars meta #star wars #asks

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adamanteine · 17 days ago

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anyway whatever kpop demon hunters verse except it's based on macy's worldbuilding on rumi :p

so yadda yadda yadda demons in iran based on their demonology. in pre islamic iran demons weren’t created but emerged as corruptions of ahura mazda‘s creations and the divine elements were twisted into evil counterparts. each demon embodies a specific mortal failing (one would showcase anger, one would showcase greed, etc.) and they are similar to abrahamic fallen angels but zoroastrian demons are more intrinsically tied to natural and moral decay

amongst the demons there’s a "subsection" called daevas who are not technically demons but were once indo iranian deities but were demonized as followers of falsehood (in the gathas, the oldest zorastrian text, they are not yet the evil creatures they will become, although, according to some scholarly interpretations, the texts do indicate that they should be rejected) and then labeled as demons and because this became the belief it changed how the system worked and thus i am thinking

tabari does not mention any being akin to demons preceding the creation of angels and jinn, bal'ami's redition of tarikh al-tabari also mentions divs created prior to the angels and jinn. according to bal'ami, the div were manifest (ashkar) and evident (zaher) to the people until the time of the great flood. afterthat, they vanished from the sights of people.

it's also worth noting that early persian translations of the quran translated jinns as div. this was problematic insofar as that div refers to irrevocably evil forces, while the term jinn is morally ambiguous. as such, the term jinn was also translated as pari, if regarded as befitting. and this goes into the topic of how what a group of people believe for a prolonged time can change how a system actually works in zoroastrian theology because of the mistranslations that caused a change in what they thought was true.

it also brings in the concept of zoroastrianism and islam in the picture. the concepts of hell and paradise for both are very similar, but there are obviously distinct differences that can cause a very interesting hierarchy and issues regarding the hell of iran.

SO shams as a daeva that existed since the days where they were still worshipped and her and the rest of the daevas are sort of trapped. they would be on a different hierarchy than demons, but in the human eye they are still demons. in regards to the loss of her wings in her main verse, i shall be doing something that ties it to the ruler of iranian hell in the same symbolic fashion

and due to shams being part of the daeva that were alive when they were still worshipped, she is also viewed differently by the newer daevas due to the difference between the original daevas growing up in their culture and the newer ones only living through the traditions the daeva keep alive

and because there's the hierarchy, they're not always "physically" trapped in hell, but they will always belong there. and if a hunter were to look at them, they would sense that they are "demons", because even if their glamour can stay on for longer, the mask will fall off unless there is a willingness to see the difference

#mainly told macy and sage about this but my thoughts? insane #hope the black magic anon doesn't catch me now WHO SAID THAT #anyway . this is mostly for the besties but <3 putting out here #this is mostly just research i've done and it's nothing original but the demonization of daevas is so interesting to me #and i will be going into it <3 #i'm only mentioning islam bc the comparisons and the clear pre and post islamic influences in iran are worth mentioning #but i'll talk about it properly some other day

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stolaz-the-artist · 3 months ago

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MONSTER AU

Why!? BECAUSE I CAN!

LOTS of text coming up!

Harpie - Clay Moorington

Harpies tend to be frowned upon as they're seen as a sign of as a bad omen. Althought in the olden days, Harpies headed to a stormy location to feast on the body's. Modern Harpies warn and help townsfolk prepare for them.

(Don't come after me for the muscles, i fucking tried)

Armour NOT birb friendly (Def not an excuse to draw boob)

Has gotten into a fight or two with Axl for stealing his food)

The reason there are "no airborne" sirens is because Sirens and Harpies bred into one species. So you only see Harpies, but some have a lot of Siren abilities. (The Moorington family have A LOT of them and could call themself sirens, but don't to spare the confusion)

Shield handel is foldable for easier carriage.

Back view

Outfolded

Chimera - Macy Halbert

Got the lion part from her father, and the dragon from her mom

Her chipped tooth is her other fang

Not even chimera can escape the dress

Her sheild is custom made with the receptors + foldable handle

Centaur - Lance (Lancelot) Richmond

Has some unicorn genes in him and will not stfu bout it. (Also has pegasus genes but because he doesn't have wings he doesn't mention it because it feels shameful)

(The sheild is on his back i swear)

Was one of the few on the team who could actually get into "full body" armour

Does a lot of shampoo and conditioner ads for companies that prioritize both human and animal friendly product

Gets weekly hooficures

Tried to convince Clay that he should get his fangs and talons to appear "less threatening". It was said in good spirit and as a genuine attempt to help. Was not taken well by Clay. (Cultural differences, non were in the wrong.)

Minotaur - Axl

Big fucking boy

His family are all centaur and he's the only minotaur

Loincloth made from fabric from his home town

Reynardine - Aaron fox

Shield on back i swear

Will jump up onto the others constantly

Convinced Clay to pick him up with his talons and carry him up in the air

I honestly have no idea what else to say. Unlike the others i made so little changes. I tried :(

Okay so these are like rather old at this point. And i've made more changes since and design updates through out, But uh yeah i think this AU is pretty neat So there is content that i WILL post soon enough!

Also this is not a story heavy AU, mainly design with minor changes to fit this with said designs. Also if anyone has some suggestions for what like maybe Monstrux, Jestro, Ava, Robin, ect, would look like, do tell!

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amphibious-thing · 2 years ago

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Pink is for Boys

"Pink or Blue? Which is intended for boys and which for girls? This question comes from one of our readers this month, and the discussion may be of interest to others. There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." ~ The Infants' Department, June 1918

[Left: The Blue Boy, oil on canvas, c. 1770, by Thomas Gainsborough.

Right: The Pink Boy, oil on canvas, c. 1782, by Thomas Gainsborough.]

Pink is for girls and blue is for boys. But it hasn't always been this way. Colour coding infants as a way of denoting gender was popular in 20th century America. The problem? Pink and blue? Which is for boys and which is for girls?

In 1927 TIME Magazine asked ten of the "leading stores that sell baby equipment" which colour was for which gender. Four stores responded pink for girls and blue for boys; Macy's (Manhattan), Franklin Simon (Manhattan), Wanamaker's (Philadelphia) and Bullock's (Los Angeles). Five stores responded pink for boys and blue for girls; Best's (Manhattan), Marshall Field's (Chicago), Filene's (Boston), Maison Blanche (New Orleans) and The White House (San Francisco). Curiously Halle's (Cleveland) responded that pink was for both boys and girls.

This debate would continue and it wasn't until mid-20th century that pink for girls and blue for boys became firmly cemented in western culture.

However the idea of colour coding infants dates back to the 19th century. According to La cour de Hollande sous le règne de Louis Bonaparte in 1808 in Holland pink was used to announce the birth of a girl and blue a boy. In March 1856 Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia, USA) advises that the ribbon on a christening cap should be blue for a boy and pink for a girl. On the 23rd of July 1893 the New York Times writes that for baby clothes it's "pink for a boy and blue for a girl!"

[The Oddie Children, oil on canvas, c. 1789, by William Beechey, via North Carolina Museum of Art.]

During the latter half of the 18th century one of the most popular outfits for young children, regardless of gender, was a white dress with a coloured sash tied around the waist. Pink and blue being the most popular colours, although other colours were worn as well. It would be tempting to assume that the colour of the sash indicated gender but there isn't clear evidence that this was the case. The Oddie Children (above) depicts Sarah, Henry, Catherine, and Jane Oddie. The three girls are all wearing white dresses; two with a blue sash one with a pink sash. We also see Henry Russell (bellow left) wearing a blue sash and Prince William (bellow right) wearing a pink sash.

[Left: Anne Barbara Russell née Whitworth with her son Sir Henry Russell, oil on canvas, c. 1786, by George Romney, via Woolley & Wallis.

Right: Prince William, oil on canvas, c. 1767, by Allan Ramsay, via the Royal Collection Trust.]

Pink was just one of the many colours popular in 18th century English womenswear and seems to have stayed popular throughout the century. On the 3rd of January 1712 The Spectator published an article in which a man recalls seeing "a little Cluster of Women sitting together in the prettiest coloured Hoods that I ever saw. One of them was Blew, another Yellow, and another Philomot; the fourth was of a Pink Colour, and the fifth of a pale Green". On the 1st of May 1736 the Read's Weekly Journal, or British Gazetteer reports that the ladies attending the royal wedding wore gowns of "Gold stuffs, or rich Silks with Gold or Silver Flowers, or Pink or White Silks, with either Gold or Silver Netts or Trimmings;" shoes either "Pink, White or Green Silk, with Gold or Silver Lace and braid all over." On the 24th of May 1785 Charles Storer writes to Abigail Adams advising that fashionable colours in English court dress are "pink, lilac, and blue" such "as is worn at Versailles".

[Left: Frances, Daughter of Evelyn Pierpont, 1st Duke of Kingston, oil on canvas, c. 1700-23, by Godfrey Kneller, via Art UK.

Middle: Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve, oil on canvas, c. 1771, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, via Yale Center for British Art.

Right: Mary Little, later Lady Carr, oil on canvas, c. 1765, by Thomas Gainsborough, via Yale Center for British Art.]

In particular pink was popular amongst young women as the colour was associated with youth. Older women who wore pink were mocked as vain for dressing in a way that was seen as improper for their age. On the 31st of January 1754 Lady Jane Coke writes to Mrs. Eyre criticising old women who wear pink:

As for fashions in dress, which you sometimes inquire after, they are too various to describe. One thing is new, which is, there is not such a thing as a decent old woman left, everybody curls their hair, shews their neck, and wears pink, but your humble servant. People who have covered their heads for forty years now leave off their caps and think it becomes them, in short we try to out-do our patterns, the French, in every ridiculous vanity.

[Folly Embellishing Old Age With the Adornments of Youth, oil on canvas, c. 1743, by Charles-Antoine Coypel, via Master Art.]

For Englishmen acceptable clothing way much more limited. In A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I & George II Monsieur César de Saussure writes that Englishmen "do not trouble themselves about dress, but leave that to their womenfolk". He explains:

Englishmen are usually very plainly dressed, they scarcely ever wear gold on their clothes; they wear little coats called "frocks," without facings and without pleats, with a short cape above. Almost all wear small, round wigs, plain hats, and carry canes in their hands, but no swords. Their cloth and linen are of the best and finest. You will see rich merchants and gentlemen thus dressed, and sometimes even noblemen of high rank, especially in the morning, walking through the filthy and muddy streets.

César de Saussure warns that "a well-dressed person in the streets, especially if he is wearing a braided coat, a plume in his hat, or his hair tied in a bow, he will, without doubt, be called "French dog" twenty times perhaps before he reaches his destination" and is not only at risk of "being jeered at" but also "being bespattered with mud, but as likely as not dead dogs and cats will be thrown at him."

[Reverend Charles Everard Booth, Captain Griffith Booth, and an Unidentified Man playing Billiards, oil on canvas, c. 1775-9, by John Hamilton Mortimer, via the Royal Collection Trust.]

For Englishmen dressing "plainly" mostly meant wearing blacks and browns. In his book on macaroni, Pretty Gentleman, Peter McNeil found that in contrast most English menswear that he describes as generally consisting of "monochrome broadcloth" macaroni wore a variety of colours including green, orange, yellow, violet, red, white, blue, gold, silver and of course pink.

But it's not just the macaroni of the 1770s & 1780s that wore pink. We see pink in descriptions of feminine men's dress (both real and fictional) throughout the 18th century.

On the 2nd of June 1722 Sarah Osborn writes to Robert Byng:

I believe the gentlemen will wear petticoats very soon, for many of their coats were like our mantuas. Lord Essex had a silver tissue coat, and pink color lutestring waistcoat, and several had pink color and pale blue paduasoy coats, which looked prodigiously effeminate.

On the 18th of October 1729 the Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal published a story where an "effeminate" man's clothes were described as follows:

He had a flower'd pink-colour Silk Coat, with a Green-Sattin Waistcoat lac'd with Silver. Velvet Breeches, Clock'd Stockings the Colour of his Coat, Red-heel'd Pumps, a Blue Ribbon at the Collar of his Shirt, and his Sword-Hilt he embrac'd under the Elbow of his Left Arm,

[Sir Miles Stapylton, 4th Bt of Myton, oil on canvas, c. 1730-35, via Art UK.]

In The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) the effeminate (and queer coded) Captain Whiffle is described as follows:

our new commander came on board in a ten-oared barge, overshadowed with a vast umbrella, and appeared in everything the reverse of Oakum, being a tall, thin young man, dressed in this manner: a white hat, garnished with a red feather, adorned his head, from whence his hair flowed upon his shoulders, in ringlets tied behind with a ribbon. His coat, consisting of pink-coloured silk, lined with white, by the elegance of the cut retired backward, as it were, to discover a white satin waistcoat embroidered with gold, unbuttoned at the upper part to display a brooch set with garnets, that glittered in the breast of his shirt, which was of the finest cambric, edged with right Mechlin: the knees of his crimson velvet breeches scarce descended so low as to meet his silk stockings, which rose without spot or wrinkle on his meagre legs, from shoes of blue Meroquin, studded with diamond buckles that flamed forth rivals to the sun! A steel-hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and decked with a knot of ribbon which fell down in a rich tassel, equipped his side; and an amber-headed cane hung dangling from his wrist. But the most remarkable parts of his furniture were, a mask on his face, and white gloves on his hands, which did not seem to be put on with an intention to be pulled off occasionally, but were fixed with a curious ring on the little finger of each hand.

[Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount Irwin and His Wife Anne, oil on canvas, c. 1745, by Philippe Mercier, via Art UK.]

On the 28th of July 1780 the London Courant reports:

A few days ago, a Macaroni made his appearance in the Assembly-room at Whitehaven, in the Following dress: a mixed silk coat, pink sattin waistcoat and breeches, covered with an elegant silver nett, white silk stockings with pink clocks, pink sattin shoes and large pearl buckles, a mushroom coloured stock, covered with a fine point lace; his hair dressed remarkably high, and stuck full of pearl pins.

On the 6th of August 1792 The Weekly Entertainer published Sketches and Portraits form the Life by Simon Tueopnrastus which included the following description:

Mercator was a youth of some genius and expectation, but by a strange perverseness of disposition, notwithstanding the extreme natural stiffness of his limbs, he had acquired an early attachment to the most finical and effeminate finery; so that, while yet a boy, he would exhaust every expedient of a fertile invention to procure a laced waistcoat, or the most foppish toy; would dangle a watch-string, with brass seals, from each fob, at a time when the frugal care of his parents would not permit him to wear a watch in either; and would strut in a fine pair of second-hand pink silk breeches, and a light blue coat, with all the formal dignity of—a soldier upon the parade.

[Left: Thomas King in "The Clandestine Marriage", oil on canvas, c. 1792, by Samuel De Wilde, via Yale Center for British Art.

Right: Edward Payne, oil on canvas, by Arthur Devis, via Art UK.]

While pink is mentioned in these descriptions of feminine men's dress it's not singled out as the girl colour the way pink would become in the 20th century. I would argue pink is seen as effeminate not because pink is a uniquely feminine colour but because it was used in fashionable dress. In 18th century England being interested in fashion was seen as an frivolous female trait. Men who showed too much interest in fashion were mocked and ridiculed for their gender nonconformity. "A Man must sink below the Dignity of his Nature, before he can suffer his Thoughts to be taken up on so trivial an Affair, as the Chosing, Suiting, and Adjusting the Adornments of his Person," complains a letter published on the 8th of May 1731 in Read's Weekly Journal, or British Gazetteer:

Decency of Garb ought inviolably to be preserved; nor can there be possibly an Excuse for Dressing like a Merry-Andrew: Rich and coloured Silks are in themselves effeminate, and unbecoming a Man; as are, in short, all Things that discover Dress to have been his Study 'Tis in vain for a Fop of Quality, to think his Title will protect him.

[Left: Madame de Pompadour (detail), oil on canvas, c. 1756, by François Boucher, via Alte Pinakothek.

Right: Elizabeth Wrottesley, later Duchess of Grafton, oil on canvas, c. 1764-5, by Thomas Gainsborough, via National Gallery of Victoria.]

English fashion was highly influenced by French fashion. A popular colour scheme in French fashion was green and pink. A famous example of this colour pairing can be seen in François Boucher's portrait of Madame de Pompadour (above left), she is depicted in a green gown with pink bows and flowers. You can see and example of how this style inspired English fashion in Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Elizabeth Wrottesley (above right), who is depicted in a green gown with a floral pattern adorned with pink, white and green striped bows.

[Left: Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, oil on canvas, c. 1776, by Pompeo Batoni, via Wikimedia.

Right: Francis Lind, oil on canvas, c. 1775, by George Romney, via Mackinnon Fine Art.]

Fashionable Englishmen were also inspired by these French designs. Horace Walpole refers to the popularity of the colour combination writing to Lady Ossory on the 19th of February 1774 "If I went to Almack's and decked out my wrinkles in pink and green like Lord Harrington, I might still be in vogue". Almack's is referring to Almack's Assembly Rooms on Pall Mall which is believed to be the inspiration for the Macaroni Club. (see Pretty Gentleman by Petter McNeil p52-55) In a letter to Lord Harcourt on the 27th of July 1773 Walpole writes of "Macaronis lolling out of windows at Almack's like carpets to be dusted."

[Left: Detail of Stephen Fox from The Hervey Conversation Piece, oil on canvas, c. 1738-40, by William Hogarth, via Fairfax House.

Middle: Sir William Jones, oil on canvas, c. 1769, by Francis Cotes, via Art UK.

Right: Portrait of a Gentleman, oil on canvas, by George Romney.]

Men who wore green seem to have been just as much, if not more, at risk of being ridiculed, or even assaulted, for the colour of their clothes as those who wore pink. In Pierre Jean Grosley's A Tour to London (originally published 1772) he recalls traveling with a young English surgeon who was harassed by Londoners due to his green French frock coat:

At the first visit which he paid me in London, he informed me, that, a few days after his arrival, happening to take a walk thro' the fields on the Surry side of the Thames, dressed in a little green frock, which he had brought from Paris, he was attacked by three of those gentlemen of the mobility, who, taking him for a Frenchman, not only abused him with the foulest language, but gave him two or three slaps on the face: "Luckily, added he in French, I did not return their ill language; for, if I had, they would certainly have thrown me into the Thames, as they assured me they would, as soon as they perceived I was an Englishman, if I ever happened to come in their way again, in my Paris dress."

#fashion history #god I spent so long sifting through primary sources for mentions of pink

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pop-pop-pop-popculture · 8 months ago

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Who'd that irrelevant tiktok slut fuck to be able to "perform" at the Macy’s parade???? That is soooo low and disappointing of the company to do!!!! What is she going to do? "Dance" like a slut on a float? I feel so bad everyone involved with the float that she’ll be on…

AUTHENTIC.TALENTED.PEOPLE.ONLY.

I would dead-ass rather it be Olivia Rodrigo than her. Maybe even Billie Eilish since she had a new album come out earlier this year!

#ask #answered #2024 #pop culture #macy's

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csny · 7 months ago

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i have nothing against christmas music, other than the fact that i hate it, but hearing it in retail environments is like the most disgusting thing that we’ve normalized. just gets me thinking about the idea of holiday industry and how american culture has capitalized on holiday happiness out of callousness because they realized it can make horrifyingly unreal amounts of money. and we all know it but we don’t know the full scale of everything at play and where the profit goes. the store i work in made over $50,000 this black friday. meanwhile each employee made about $60 each that day. macys has a massive team working year round on their single thanksgiving parade and refuse to say how much money they spend on it. the entirety of their business relies on holiday sales. when i go into any business they are pumping out christmas music covers by artists i can’t even recognize. hundreds if not thousands of them. what’s the holiday music industry like???? surely it must be profitable or people wouldn’t be contributing to it. what can we do except not buy anything. please just don’t buy anything i can’t stand to watch christmas advertising getting bigger and bigger and bigger. and while im here, stop using amazon all year please. i stopped a few years ago and its astounding how easy it is now. surely we dont need all this stuff. surely we dont need it. literally before buying ANYTHING think for like an entire 24 hour period if you need or want it honestly

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praetoravila · 7 months ago

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SPILL YOUR GUTS MAGAZINE'S DANICA LANE GETS THE EXCLUSIVE FROM SINGER MACIE BEFORE HER 6TH ALBUM RELEASE: - More to follow under the cut.

{ TW for mentions of abuse and an attempted sexual assault. If you feel uncomfortable with these topics, feel free to skip this article and look at one of our beauty guides! }

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At just 20-years-old, Macie formerly known by her legal name, Macie Smittens-Garcia, is the new “pop punk princess” on the scene.

Born in Savannah Georgia, but raised in Wilmington Island, the Georgian native has always been a musician - since she was a baby.

“My first words were me asking my older sister Maeve to put on Bills Bills Bills by Destiny’s Child.” Macie said, laughing as she remembered.

“Only I couldn’t pronounce my B’s yet, so it sounded like I was saying Dills Dills Dills.”

Music has always been a big part of Macie’s life, from her roots in beauty pageants to getting signed by Rocque Records at age 13. Since then, she’s released 5 albums, with another on the way.

“Twinkle Lights, is truly an album about self discovery. About knowing who I am. I mean it’s the first album I sing in Spanish on. Which was a big deal for me. I’m proud to be Boricua. It’s part of my heritage. The same way, being Scottish and German are.”

“Culture is important to me. I’m a punk girl, yes, but before that I am Afro-Latina. And that’s a big deal in this genre.” Macie explained, before elaborating.

“Pierce The Veil were some of the only Latinos in the rock genre that I knew of initially. And so, I’m very conscious that I am playing a similar part for young Latina girls.”

“For the longest time, I was scared to be my authentic self in this industry.” Macie said, as she elaborated. “And that put me into a lot of uncomfortable, unsafe situations. Twinkle Lights, is me getting to be authentic, and talk about some of my struggles, and why I am the way I am.”

Macie talked candidly about the sexual assault attempt that she mentions in the title track of the album.

Twinkle Lights, the title track opens with the lyrics of, At 14 years old I finally had to say No, and at 14 years old I finally had to let go. Prior to this song, and the album as a whole, Macie had never spoken about this incident.

“I didn’t have the words at the time to explain what had happened to me. And I struggled with that for a really long time, because I had the words to explain my mom’s behaviour.” she said, referring to her mother Amber Smittens, who is publically known for being Macie’s abuser from age 3 to age 7.

“I knew what CPTSD or childhood post traumatic stress disorder was. I didn’t know what this was.”

“But I didn’t have those words for the situation I went through at 14, or what I went through as a 19-year-old.”

“But with this album, I get to. And that’s a big accomplishment. In, Innocent Party, track two, I have a lyric that goes, The road to recovery was a long one, in case you wanna know, which was honestly mostly a line I came up with after seeing stuff people were saying online about me.”

“I was in such a bad place mentally, and knowing people were saying such shit about me made me so mad. They kept referring to me as an innocent party, as if they pitied me, and well... I got a song out of it at least!” Macie explained, a laugh forming.

The Puerto Rican-American girl continued on to talk about how fame messed with her self perception.

“It’s hard when everyone has an idea of who you are. Just because they listened to your music, or because they follow you on ScuttleButter. Which I have a very calculated version of myself out there for a reason. So when I’m able to be just Macie, it can be quite jarring.”

The interview which was done in Reseda, at Macie's first LA apartment, showed a different side to the singer than fans have seen. A softer, more vulnerable side. A side, that anyone who listens to Twinkle Lights, which is scheduled to come out on Macie's birthday in a few days, will see.

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eternallybri · 2 months ago

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Here’s season 2, Episode 2 “The book of Accountability”

First things first, I’m watching as much as I can before falling asleep. I’ll try to keep things as coherent as possible.

• I thought they were all friends with Miranda anyways? This whole “we haven’t talked into two years” screams bs

• Well Miranda, how does it feel, knowing Whitney is the only one that believes you? We’ve all seen want she’s like.

• idk this is not a convo Taylor and Miranda need to start in front of the group

• swing in the weekend is okay, but telling your swing partner you had a sex dream about this isn’t okay 😂 girl are we swinging or not. More like are we sinning or not, I’m sorry

• so Taylor apologize for not telling Miranda right away. But Miranda didn’t apologize for for lying and doing a smear campaign

• Taylor, Maci and Layla looks so good during this happy hour scene 🥰

• I agree with Jessi, but also isn’t your business so respectfully stfu

• Layla’s skirt in the shopping scene 😮‍💨

• JEN STAND UP OMG

• Hulu idgaf about “dadtok”

• “I feel for my son” coparenting is probably the healthiest way for this kid to be raised. Also, I don’t like the way he’s kind of shading coparenting being as Taylor coparents her older kids.

• why has this mfer cried more on my screen than I have this year so far

• i’m so uninterested with this whole scene with the men

• honestly what a most shocked about this season is how they were able to get drone shots of the church. I can’t believe they allowed them to get so close

• lord have mercy everytime there’s a zoom on their eyes it makes me uncomfortable

• “the language scares me” bffr

• I don’t know if I can finish the season if he’s gonna be talking all the time. Seriously did he sound like this last season? He sounds so nasally.

• I hope the parents at least told Taylor that they invited D*kota

• I really dislike Taylor’s mom. I just don’t understand the thought process on loving ppl more than your kids

• I take that back I HATE Taylor’s whole family (maybe not her sister, jury is out)

• I don’t think Taylor’s ever going to heal unless she gets out of Mormonism

• notice how he’s defending himself to her parents and not her

• I have nothing positive to say about this whole dinner interaction

• okay we love her sister bc she’s the only voice of reason

• Jen and Z*c are both narcissistic, full stop.

• she hid it really well during the first season, but it seem to be coming out right now

• oh, he actually suggest a great idea. Color me impressed

• nope nope nope, this is a Halloween party not chippendales

• thank you Demi for the family tree of hook ups

• Jessi planning the party on Whitney’s induction date is so real

• the houses in Utah are so nice, but I’m scared of Mormon culture lol

• Yes Demi clock her 🤏🏾 no one forced her to tell you the marital problems or show the text messages

• I’m going to bang my head off the wall, wtf is going on

• why are Jen’s shoes on the couch 😐

•Jen babe, why are we being up Italy when the conversation is about you and Z*c telling different sides of the story

• I take back my prior state, I understand why Jessi is “scared of the language”

• the way, he doesn’t share his opinions he’d be a great politician (derogatory)

• please not both couples about to Ben Affleck and J Lo

• please the last thing I expected was to see one of them dressed as a f1 driver 😭😭

• my brain cannot keep up with who is hooking up/dated/exes/friends there’s too many ppl

• I don’t like Z*c but him standing close to her Chase and D*kota’s convo is so real

• mind you this is a Halloween party and we’re using it as therapy and to tell sides of the story

•”say that right there” get the fuck off my screen

• “do you know how awkward this is for me” no one cares 😐

• Mikayla’s face 😭 Layla girl you described itlike they’re having a foursome

• the difference between upstairs and downstairs 😭

• Chase’s gf is really giving Hailey Bieber right now😭 but also there’s no way she didn’t think this would happen

• if they came for a noise complaint it just doesn’t make sense in my mind. Her house looks far enough away from the rest of them that yelling inside shouldn’t be a problem.

#okay now i’m going to bed #bri watches slomw #secret lives of mormon wives #bri watches tv shows

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