#mad marge

[rhendarzon]

Aveyond 1: Rhen's Quest Cinematic Poster (2023)

(Please click into it for higher resolution!) My biggest, most ambitious edit yet. I used AI to create the base characters, which I then used Illustrator and Photoshop to extensively alter and change the aspects to fit their characters more - like hair, clothes, hair and eye colours, etc.

Hope you all like this!

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Some additional stuff below too.

First of all, I want to apologise to anyone, my artist friends in particular, if I have indeed hurt your feelings at the mention of using AI to generate the base characters - it was not my intention to do so ;_;

I'm conflicted. Like I said on Twitter and Discord, I love how the program aided me in my vision for this particular fanart - however, I hate where it mines its data from and I completely understand if anyone is upset with me ;_;

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I tried my best to get them to look like their characters, and I’m pretty satisfied with how they turned out. I also altered a lot of their clothes and hair, especially Te’ijal and Dameon’s.

Oh yeah, it was frustrating when the AI refused to make Lars look more South East Asian, so I had to really amend his look and skin colour (hope I did him justice lol since he’s my fave). Also PJ and Elini were particularly hard to generate too, because their skin tone kept getting lightened - of course, I darkened it myself, and I think I did a decent job.

Also, I tried my best to get diverse facial features, but, AGAIN, the AI kept making them look like models lmao (recurring pattern here! sigh)

Anyways, hope you all like this!

[flyinghellfish]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[allieinarden]

I think it’s fun how Marge is always asking “if you love me then why don’t you love my sisters?” while Homer is more “if you love me then why don’t you hate my dad?!”

[mycological-mariner]

Heard a woman say that King Charles had a “strong sense of justice and morals” and that he was being “heckled by some silly Australians on his commonwealth tour” and I didn’t mean to point and laugh but

[smilingmxsk]

((I need y'all to know that I just counted a total of 7 people who said she's been on something))

[robinniko]

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[toomuchracket]

drunk me bought a weighted eeyore. i had way too many avacado margaritas

i feel like a weighted eeyore is a necessary purchase actually

[whippedcloudsofcream]

The Simpsons S11E21: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge

[retropaypurchase]

FOURTWENTY ! 🔥🌲💨

[francy-sketches]

why do people ship jon and margaery lmao

[truebuggy]

Who are some fun characters that knit that y'all know? I'm trying to compile a list

I've got: Gromit, Marge Simpson, Morticia Addams, Arthur (apparently there's an episode about it I need to watch), Babs from Chicken Run, and Constantine from the Muppets

[intotheclash]

Mad Marge and the Stonecutters - Shake

[toongrrl-blog]

My Style Analysis: Cyclical Iconic Fashion and a Missed Prom

Originally posted on Reddit

Anyone notice something about Devi's prom dress? Something retro?

The chiffon, long flowing dress, the neckline, the ruffles, the florals and pinks feel very retro. Like very 1970s (look I know per ShopYourTV that it's a recent find from Nordstrom's) maybe 70s does 30s...

In fact Devi's dress slightly reminded me of Marge Simpson's prom dress in "The Way We Was" which was set in 1974, 49 years before Nalini almost had a heart attack seeing her daughter and Ben in bed together (albeit with clothes on). It's all there: the pink, the apparently lightweight fabric (chiffon or rayon or polyester or a combination, that was a staple of the era), the ruffles around the neck. Marge's pink dress (surely from Gunne Sax, which was fondly remembered by Boomers and Gen Xers alike) and Homer's baby blue tuxedo were so iconic that they were made into figurines.

In fact Devi's dress falls into good company with some other examples I listed in a old post on Tumblr about this frilly, utterly feminine aesthetic in fact I want to show another Mad Men example and one from the 1930s period piece The Group (1966).

Every outfit looks so floaty here and these were promos for episodes set in 1970, thankfully our girls up there have much happier endings than the former Mrs. Drapers.

Here is your 1930s example with The Group, which focuses on graduates of a Seven Sisters college as they navigate adult life in Depression era America and the patriarchy (it's rough as hell). The brunette in black is future Lucille Bluth, the late Jessica Walter. Bonum est mulier.

Eleanor's look sort of reminds me of: Cher, Selena, and Liz Taylor. All very iconic women who followed their passions boldly and became icons without blindly following trends set for either fashion or for their gender.

(EDIT: Much better example)

As for Fabi? Well the tuxedo is pure androgyny. Calling to the OG ladies in a suit, Bessie Smith (EDIT: Gladys Bentley) and Marlene Dietrich and Annie Lennox

All these women flouted restrictions regarding gender expression admidst the jeers of conservatives, pearl-clutchers, white supremacists, Jim Crow, fatphobia, and one even told Hitler to go fuck himself (okay maybe not those words but you get the gist).

The red may be a call back to predominantly African-American men in the media donning a red suit, as noted in u/eve_salmon's "A Cinematic Guide to The Weekend Pt. 3", Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr. (known for a flashy yet very traditionally masculine sense of style) donned a red suit for the film Poor Devil, whom like Fabi, was Black and queer in an era that was even more racist and queerphobic than the present. We also see Richard Pryor (comedian for those not in the know) donning a red suit along with Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Casino. The red is likely a sign of pure confidence and defiance, keep in mind that Pesci's characters and Pryor (as well as Davis) grew up in eras where looking a white person in the eye can get a Black person made past tense to use a TikTok phrase and where Italian Americans were still looked down upon, so dressing well and in a manner that commands attention was a act of resistance.

Both examples of Marginalized Men in Red Suits and Gender-Bending Women Looking Sharp-Dressed, speaks well to Fabiola's own development as a character and taking ownership of her identity in a world that tells you to be a laundry list of things to be acceptable (be girly, be outgoing, be into pop culture, be straight, listen to your parents, focus on what boys like, fade into the background, wear uncomfy formalwear that ain't you) and points for the series highlighting HBCUs as up there with the Ivies; where the Ivies represent mainstream power, the HBCUs represent how a community managed to carve their own space to let it's members thrive and accomplish more (also while Princeton waited until 1969 and Columbia until 1983 to accept women, Howard been doing that since it's founding!), what better place for Fabiola whose journey is about owning her sense of self?

What can Iconic Lady Joan Holloway say, well I can think of her Bonwit Teller shopping spree where she decides what to take with her fabulous black dress with ostritch feather cuffs: "I'll take the boots, the tan heels, the chiffon (in a cooing voice), the red (even more cooing), and this (to her flamboyant dress)", in other words, she approves.