#single point perspective

[davetada]

Boats

Long Beach?, CA

[vimoh]

Something I actually drew. One point city.

[thedailymobile]

“The Tube’s Tubes”

© EricBrazier.com

[jasminebythebay]

aquarium park 🐠🦑🐟

[gwandas]

Sometimes I get irked when stans are on about Elain being sooo different because she's not a warrior or whatever and making weird, extremely unfounded digs at others like "some people can only recognize character development when the girl picks up a sword" when... a lot of Nesta stans did not want her to have a warrior arc going into ACOSF. Some people are still very dissatisfied with that decision. Myself, I've made my peace with it, but I still would've preferred something else for her. Not wanting a warrior arc was never something that was exclusive to Elain. And also? Anyone who's read other SJM books can tell you she's plenty capable of writing female characters that aren't warriors.

Idk, I don't think there's a whole lot of mental gymnastics needed to see why some people call Elain boring. It's not because she wears dresses and bakes and gardens or whatever y'all seem to think it is—it's because she's not nearly as active in the story so far as other side characters. Looking at Lucien and Eris, or even Nesta before ACOSF and there's a massive difference in portrayal. All characters that were given ample development without having a POV compared to Elain. Solid personalities and everything. Be as excited as you want about her story, theorize to your heart's content, but you don't need to imply that real people aren't smart enough to understand her potential or call people misogynistic in order to hype her up.

[soullistrations]

1x2, izzy and fang: "captain says to follow that ship" "really, why?" "how should i know, the man's half insane. just do it." izzy grabs fang's beard and yanks him down to eye level and continues, "no one asked you to fuckin' think." as fang walks away, he complains to ivan, "i hate it when he does that, it really hurts!" ivan says he should say something and he says "oh, what's the point?"

2x1, izzy and fang (and the rest of the crew): izzy tells them that they need to dump the treasure so they can shed some weight to catch up to their next target. frenchie and jim immediately balk at this, and izzy says "it is not your place to tell me what does or does not make sense. it is your job to f--" izzy's voice breaks, but he continues, "to follow my fucking orders!" they all exchange glances and then fang comes over, puts a comforting hand on izzy's shoulder, and asks how he's doing. they try to talk it through as a crew, and when izzy gets emotional, fang hugs him, making sure to check that he's not crushing or hurting him.

[mbohjeezart]

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Inspired by DruidQueen89 (@thedruidqueen89)'s wonderful fic, Raising Ravagers: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50067097/chapters/126426766

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[dollypopup]

listen, i'll say it

if S3 doesn't give us significantly more Colin scenes, it'll be a failure

Colin is completely underdeveloped as a character. He has gotten just about 0 POV. All we know about him is either filtered through Penelope or in an ensemble scene with everyone else. And at this point, even if S3 is half and half, it still won't be fair. To balance out the discrepency, it should at *least* be 75% Colin and maaaaaaaaybe 25% Pen because we've gotten nothing for him

I ship Polin, I like Pen, but I'm over getting Pen's POV all the time. We've had enough of it. We've certainly had an unfair amount of it in comparison to his. I'm sick of seeing all the Whistledown behind the scenes and all her quiet contemplative moments when Colin doesn't so much as get 5 minutes focused on him being on the boat, or on his travels, writing his letters or talking through a problem to himself.

I love Colin. He's my absolute favorite character. And it sucks to have a favorite character who is *supposed* to be a lead but has had a grand total of nothing. Bton stripped him of character qualities and threw them onto Benedict, gave Colin like 5 lines, and filtered near all his 'development' through Penelope. Aside from his 'everyone says that [I'm Daphne's favorite]', our literal second scene of Colin is through Penelope's eyes. Everything he says, everything he does: it's always through Penelope's eyes. And I'm over it. I wanna see the world through *Colin's* eyes. And it would only deepen the narrative if we do.

Listen, the directors and showrunners have called Colin 'stupid' or 'dim' or 'not smart enough for Penelope'. The fandom has been rather blatant with their disregard of him, calling him boring, that he's not leading man material, writing him as a cardboard cutout in fics, assuming he's an empty charmer (hmmmm, just like what he's upset about in the books), and it's all because he's been denied a narrative. Colin is a rich, nuanced character. He's funny, he's kind, he's compassionate, he rejects toxic masculinity, he's got imposter syndrome like nothing else, he has a very unique role in his family and experienced a very unique perspective after his father died, he has hobbies (writing, boxing, fencing, studying, traveling) and strong values. But we've barely gotten any of it. Sure, we're *told* some things about him, but we never *see* it.

So if S3 is going to be his time to shine, his season, his falling arse over elbow in love era, they *have* to give us his perspective, and I don't fucking want it all to be his perspective about Pen. I am *tired* of Colin as an extension of Penelope. Penelope has had so much room and time and care to be a character on her own. Colin has gotten nothing. And that kind of dynamic does not a good love story make. And if all that underdevelopment wasn't to pull an Uno Reverse on us and give us a season that focuses on him and builds him up, what was it even for?

S3 should be Colin's story

[rocks-in-my-vodka]

fuck these vampires. what the fuck are they even gonna do in episode 8 now??? just end it here??? i’ll end myself here?? okay? thank you?

[etapereine]

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[wonder-worker]

Thomas Penn writes about 500 year old dead historical figures like they're celebrities in a gossip column

[effira]

okay i know i said no doodles today but i didn't say anything about full illustrations did i now

anyway tfw you find out there's an entire filing cabinet dedicated to people's "peer reviews" about you in your place of work.

[thedailymobile]

“Diagonal Alley”

[nilesmoon]

infinite wealth if sawashiro said "who gives a shit about ebina im going to hawaii with ichi" and then the rest of the game is a family vacation

[homophyte]

there is a rapidly evolving rhetoric against transgender cowardice that is deeply shaming nd it worries me a lot

[ratatatastic]

so im just supposed to be chill and normal about mikksy giving roddy a beershower from the cup on 2 completely different buses while lundy makes sure to steady the cup and luosty just sits there like a princess to enjoy the show and drinks a beer while hes at it

thats- yeah no its fine

bonus swaggy and forsy enjoying whatever the fuck just happened