#procedural naturalism

[wizzard890]

Listen I know "iPhone face" is in common parlance now, but I think it's worth returning to what the phrase actually means, outside of TikTok trends. It's not that some people have faces that look like they "belong" in the 14th century, it's about how cosmetic procedures often recognizably alter actors' faces to such an extent that their looks are anachronistic.

(Strikingly beautiful people existed in all eras. The Ottoman court of Selim II had its own Zendaya; somewhere within the Aztec empire lived a man as gorgeous as Jacob Anderson, this isn't really about the hotness factor of celebrity.)

As cosmetic procedures become more common, we've gotten good at knowing when someone has had work done. Not because it's obvious, but because the result is a certain Look, particularly among people who live their lives in the public eye. And let's be real, particularly among older women. There's a ton to unpack in that as it touches pay equity and job opportunity and the freedom to do whatever you want with your own body, but that's not really what this post is about either.

I guess this post is about the first images we've gotten of Gladiator II, a movie I'm very excited about.

Has Denzel Washington had work done? Almost certainly. But he's a man, so he hasn't had to have nearly as much done, plus we're not as used to looking for cosmetic procedures in men; as a result, at age sixty-nine, he looks credibly historical in a sword-and-sandals setting.

Women actors, particularly actors of a certain age, aren't always so fortunate. And I'm not talking about botched procedures, or even visible procedures. I'm talking about the sameness of the result, the plumpness and smoothness demanded of older women.

I don't want to include the Vanity Fair photo of the lovely fifty year old Connie Nielsen, also in Gladiator II, because this shouldn't be a conversation about the appearance of a particular woman. But we all know what good filler looks like! And we also know that no women in ancient Rome or Georgian England or medieval France had that look.

There's no real conclusion here, it just bums me out how often I'm watching a historical drama and a sixty year old woman, an actor of presence and skill and experience, has a face that just pushes me right out of the scene. This is no actor's fault, and it doesn't undercut their talent or that of the filmmakers, but it's a damn shame.

[valeriannnn]

Magical healing is a tricky thing. Truly talented practitioners must posses both a prodigious strength of aether and expert undestanding of medical technique. As a fundamentally generative art, it is always a race against the body's natural healing processes; while a sufficiently powerful healer may regenerate almost any kind of wound, we cannot directly convert scarred tissue to healthy flesh. Those techniques which do exist for removing scars are not for the faint of heart. First, all afflicted tissue must be cut away. The healer will then recreate the flesh to the desired state, restoring both appearance and function to the best of their ability. It is a difficult, painful, and risky procedure, requiring the creation of a much larger wound than the original injury. Without some dire exigence, most healers would refuse such an operation on principle - if they're even capable of carrying it out in the first place.

[brbgensokyo]

they weren't lying theres some deeply heinous shit going down in god's teeth.

[szilverer]

thanks to FL's skyrim syndrome my jock nightmare murder machine ghostie is also canonically a genius nerd and. it kinda takes me out everytime i think about it bc half the time they be looking like this:

behold. one of the finest minds in the neath.

[sesamenom]

Quick hand sketch that turned into elrond with athelas water

I always forget to draw him with it but I headcanon him having pretty bad burn scars on his right arm/side from the kinslaying

[flowersofbuffunerary]

why r we as a society so obsessed w balding all of a sudden? istg hair transplants became widely available and now all u hear is “receding hairline�� this, “thinning hair” that. U R NOT IMMUNE TO THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY PROPAGANDA

[anaconda-creates]

day one of the long overdue purge (cleaning my room)

i've uncovered a number of long forgotten things, some sequestered away many years ago and overlooked ever since

the items include my 2019 middle school id card, an embarrassing amount of birthday gift cards, multiple under-eye serums and hand lotions my mother has gifted me over the years in an attempt to do something for my haunting dark circles and dry cracked winter hands, a number of old journals I attempted to start (maximum of five pages written upon in each), big cool marble, so much sunscreen (?), teeny tiny etch a sketch, baby roach corpse, cardboard tube, dead rose (not mine, I'm almost certain. I keep my dried roses elsewhere) My much younger sister has been reaping the bounty of this whalefall. She and her friend, the next door neighbor, have been receiving passed down and discarded headbands, hairclips, bracelets, and other unneeded and unwanted trinkets with glee.

there is much more to be done. the week will be long. but progress, though slow, is already visible. I can almost breathe again.

until the clutter is cleared from the floors so that I may thoroughly vacuum and sweep, my work will not be done. I march forward.

[texasbama]

The showrunner himself said he had different plans for the character. It’s okay to acknowledge that this wasn’t the plan and still enjoy it and appreciate what we did get.

Two things can be true at the same time yall.

[talkorsomething]

Actually i feel like my voice goals are not that unreasonable since the people i get jealous of the most really are my age or older

......

Well, reasonable though they may be, realistic is another matter

[forensicfield]

A catastrophe is an event that causes extensive disruption to a community or society, overwhelming its capacity to cope, involving profound loss to human beings, material assets, and economic or environmental losses. Such events may have natural or human origin, but when of broad dissemination, they often give rise to multiple deaths in many countries. Identification of the deceased serves to show respect for the dead and bring closure to surviving relatives. Legal reasons, including criminal investigations, settling estates, and even determining current marital status, also may require identification. #forensicscience #forensicfield #archaeology #nature #crimesceneinvestigation #crimescene #investigation

[muddiedfoxglove]

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[istherewifiinhell]

[watching a video about how reading pedogogy got fucked up when they started assuming kids can naturally pick up words from context and dont need it drilled into them] oh my god they text literacy'd them. but first. they literacy'd them. theyre printed words natives... we dont have to TEACH them things. oh my god....

[mortalscience]

one of my favorite crime procedural genres has gotta be when the cops want to show a picture of a victim to somebody, and it's just the actor's headshot

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 9, day 7

I'M NOT EVEN DONE YET, BITCHEEEEEEESSSSSS

Gonna add grass and trees and I think a chair to the balcony before we're done :D

[placeinthisworld]

Taylor slowly mirrorballing herself into looking like a WAG, her style and look evolution from last season to this season is depressing. She needs to get out of there before she is lost forever. Like stop with the filler you don’t want to look like Brittany mahomes trust me!

THISSSS!!!!!!!!!

i remember this manip of a yassified taylor swift that someone made a few years ago and people kinda used it as a joke or a meme but like SHES BECOME THE YASSIFIED TAYLOR IRL!!! SHE DID IT TO HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i personally feel like she’s trying to get into the sabrina carpenter “sexy and full” look with the bigger cheeks, the big lips and big eyes. especially since her mannerisms and moves on the eras tour have been soooo sabrina coded (which is maybe why i couldn’t get into it). but like good god taylor, you’re literally only 35 chill out!!!!!

[masquenoire]

Apart from upper body surgery, Roman didn't require much else to maintain such a masculine figure. When he was dropped as a baby, the resulting fall damaged the pituitary gland in his brain, causing his growth (and aggression levels) to go haywire the day he hit puberty. Before then he remained a very small child, one easily pushed around by his parents but remembering every strike, every insult and slap he suffered at their hands until he was old enough to fight back. It came as a nasty shock to Mr. and Mrs. Sionis when the child they resented for years as being slow, ugly and unfeminine seemingly transformed overnight into an uncontrollable monster hellbent on tormenting them at every opportunity.