#pretty empowered

[wrestlingmgc]

NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered

[droptoeholdyourhorses]

[fighting-naturalist]

-"It is my right to decide, is it not?" -"I don't know. It should be."

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[champagnexowishes]

[x-nephophile-x]

make you see what's beneath the surface.

[deoidesign]

how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

[theerurishipper]

Since I've seen the argument going around... I don't "blame feminism for ruining the show" or whatever. I blame the writers for not understanding feminism. In my opinion the writers tried to send an empowering message and failed miserably. I wish they had done it right, and if they had I would have loved it, but they didn't. This is on the writers. There's really no point in blaming the characters or something. The only ones to blame are the writers. Feminism didn't make them do this. Feminism is important and I would have loved to see it be well represented. It wasn't.

And I know I do get salty about Marinette, but that's mostly because I really dislike the message being sent through her character. Ultimately, she's a bunch of words and pixels on the screen and nothing else, and any negative message that comes from her character is the work of a writer behind the screen, and that's where the fault truly lies. I don't blame Marinette for ruining the show, I blame the writers for not allowing her character to develop and grow. Really, she's as much a victim of the writing as any other character.

The show isn't bad for trying to be feminist. That's a good thing. The show is bad because it pretended to send a feminist message and ended up being misogynistic and reductive. Simply gender-swapping character roles doesn't "fix" anything. And that's not even getting into the misogyny of men getting excused for their actions without any effort on their part while the women and teenage girls are irredeemable. In the end, the female protagonist was used to perpetuate misogynistic stereotypes, and she still lost to the man.

I don't hate that the show is feminist. I hate that it isn't.

[perfectlyscentedturtle-7]

《SLOW SUMMER DAYS》

[mollysunder]

Jayce and Mel's Future in Season 2

I've been thinking about how Jayce and Mel's relationship will be put to the test next season. Obviously those two survive Jinx's rocket, but how both will react to the aftermath WILL lead to problems in their relationship.

I think they'd both initially agree that a response is necessary, but no matter how even-handed it could be (doubt it), but the next steps would a source of tension. From Ambessa's character bio on the Arcane website, we know Ambessa will act against Mel's wishes in s2, and we know that Ambessa will press for full on retribution against Zaun. So we can put Mel in the de-escalation camp for some point in s2. Meanwhile, we know that Jayce made hextech weapons for Caitlyn and her strike team, and by empowering Caitlyn and by extension Ambessa with hextech, Jayce only further escalates the conflict, putting him in the escalation camp.

Ambessa could also become a wedge between Mel and Jayce. From the trailer we can see that Ambessa is clearly flexing her influence over the council, including its newest members like Caitlyn. It's likely that Mel is in a situation where for the first time she is outflanked and outranked in the Council, thanks to her mother. It's pretty much Mel's nightmare scenario, to lose everything to her mother, and it can only be made worse if Jayce actually agrees with Ambessa.

And that's where the season of opposites really kicks off. Jayce resolved himself to not let everyone have his ear all the time. It sounds good on paper, but th wasn't Jayce's real problem, his problem was he thought he could solve all of PnZ's problems when he really didn't know anything about anything. And even when Jayce was given new information he didn't always follow the machinations of others, especially with Mel. Jayce is already headstrong and if he actively chooses to put his own opinion and expertise above others you get a really pigheaded man, which ironically makes him more easy to manipulate for a person like Ambessa.

Mel is unfortunately quite passive when she's upset so it isn't likely that she'd initially confront Jayce directly when she's upset, just isolate herself from him, which only leads to further miscommunication or lack thereof. Jayce could end up in a warhawk echo chamber and really fashion himself as paternalistic "Defender of Piltover" and it will probably do a number on him psychologically. The only way for Jayce to not die in the dumbest most world-ending magic fight with Viktor by the finale, is if Mel finally becomes assertive in saying what she wants instead of walking around it.

[silveredsticks]

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[une-sanz-pluis]

I've heard a lot of dumbass takes about how a character/figure in medieval literature is clearly and definitively this historical person but the theory that the maiden in the Pearl poem was meant to represent Anne of Bohemia is stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard.

[fighting-naturalist]

Daniel in "Resurrection"

[iceyrukia]

the ‘influencer lifestyle’ really rotted a lot of women’s ( + girls) brains and I’m not necessarily talking about the traveling part but the whole self-imposed prerequisite requirement of having to look like an instagram model before getting to live your life to the fullest as a woman. This internalized monitoring of the ‘self’ that women do when it comes to their own physical appearance, something to show off externally, is really pervasive and you can see it reflected in social media.

( and if you are familiar with the whole concept of having a ‘bikini’ body for the summer, that is a perfect example of this, like the absurd idea of women having to visualize themselves snapping a perfect bikini pic in order to fulfill this image of enjoying summer. Like they can’t just live but have to look and dress a certain way because it’s what a ‘successful’ women is supposed to look like, a status symbol to always emulate- yeah :/ )

[kennys-parka-jacket]

i'll never forgive proship vs anti discourse for distorting the phrase "this thing in fandom makes me uncomfortable".

[cryptwretch]

being a self-inflicted video game difficulty snob is such a fucking curse, like i am constantly telling people to try a lower difficulty if they're not having fun with a game but i am like completely incapable of taking my own advice. i'm playing through pathfinder wrath of the righteous and i got stuck on a spot where i was forced after like two hours of repeated attempts to take the difficulty off of core rules to progress, and i feel so shit about it that i feel the need to start the whole game over and build my girl better as penance.