#so done with 2014

[wishfulsketching]

Most unexpected yet perfect dynamic

[freckleslikestars]

I owe you everything, Scully, and you owe me nothing.

Acrylic on canvas, A3

[eobsinj]

✨ jenson button - bahrain 2014 ( twt | ig | prev )

[isbergillustration]

What’s the perfect follow up to doing lineart to the point of not insignificant hand pain? Detailed pencil work, the thing that once in art school I did so much I couldn’t draw for two weeks because of hand pain.

[rosie-tyler]

Silverusso Beauty and the Beast AU

Part 1

[cowchickenbeefpork]

i swear to god i will kill the next person who says edward is a horrible person while in the same breath fucking defends oswald like hes a clueless wittle baby. HE LITERALLY IS CANNONICALLY MORE VIOLENT AND HAS DONE MORE CRIMES THAN EDWARD HAS AND LIKELY EVER WILL. THEY LITERALLY ALSO HAVE SIMILAR CLUSTER B PERSONALITY TRAITS YET YALL WILL DEFEND OSWALD LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT AND THEN TWIST EDWARD INTO A CARTOONISHLY EVIL MALIGNAT NARCISSISTIC PSYCHOPATHIC VILLIAN WHO IS COMPLETELY IN TOUCH WITH REALITY AND KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. STOP

[kayvsworld]

imagine if the mcu was good

[jeanivere]

been thinking about them lately

[speechifying-by-the-stone]

Demons as texposts: Verkhovensky father and son edition

[david-talks-sw]

Quick heads-up. This quote?

"The Dark Side is always there, it is experienced daily by people. It's like a huge cancer, alive, festering - both a reminder of the moral state and, at the same time symptom and symbol of a very sick society."

It's not from George Lucas.

The person who originally posted it online attributed the source to Lucas' interview with Bill Moyers in "The Power of Myth". But it isn't mentioned in that.

John C. McDowell used the quote in an essay of his that was published on The Third Way in 2007, and his reference was his own book "The Gospel According to ‘Star Wars’: Faith, Hope and the Force". If you look at that one, he references something called "Power of the Force" from 2001.

No such interview or publication had come out under that name, that year. There was a book called "The Power of the Force: Spirituality of the Star Wars Films" published in 2000, written by David Wilkinson. So maybe McDowell was referencing that? But I don't have the book and can't find a digital copy online.

That said, if you look up parts of the quote you find a similar quote in "The Films of Akira Kurosawa" by Donald Ritchie, the earliest edition of which dates back to 1965, in the description of the Kurosawa movie "Drunken Angel".

So yeah, no. Probably not from Lucas. I'm 99% sure.

HOWEVER

Lucas did compare the Sith's relationship and their (and the other SW villains') selfish ways to a cancer.

At the end of the day, Star Wars remains about selfishness vs selflessness, a theme partially illustrated by:

the symbiotic relationships between Jedi Masters and Padawans, who help each other grow, inspired by Buddhist monks...

contrasted with

the "cancerous" relationship between Sith Lord and Apprentice, who keep using each other until one finally kills the other.

[oceanlover1111]

I hate living in a city where there's no ocean anywhere. Surrounded only by countries😵‍💫

[kelluinox]

Listening to westerners is becoming increasingly like listening to vatniks and it's frightening and depressing

[killa-trav]

no way bro purposely threw away the season for the ferrari seat

[1991river]

riddlebird for @tooyumi

me and my husband (mitski) /// gotham (2014-2019) /// this is how you lose the time war (amal el-mohtar & max gladstone) /// sex with a ghost (teddy hyde) /// gotham (2014-2019) /// gotham (2014-2019) /// the gryllus (cara thayer & louie van patten) /// city of angels (1989) /// gotham (2014-2019) /// gilded lily (cults) /// gotham (2014-2019) /// all i wanted (paramore) /// cupid (jack stauber) /// our flag means death (2022) /// gotham (2014-2019) /// incel-wheatley /// reddit /// gotham (2014-2019).

[ofalltheginjoints]

As Above, So Below Dir. John Erick Dowdle (2014) // Heartbreak Feels So Good Fall Out Boy (2023)

[cowchickenbeefpork]

so. A year or two back I remember seeing a post talking about how mayor Oswald was based off Donald trump when he was being written and since I don’t want to rely on hearsay I looked it up and yup it’s real. Look here

I have…multiple problems with this when it comes to this source of inspiration for Oswald. I have around four or five, but the last one or two are long enough to be its own paragraph so let’s start with the first three. The first three are honestly just the first point if I’m being honest lol.

First off, Oswald is a Gay, gender non conforming man who used to be poor. All of these things make him have a different feel to him demonizing the marginalized than someone like trump, famous womanizer and said “small loan of a million dollars”, doing it. It doesn’t feel the same at all, you’re going to have to put more emphasis on the similarities between them besides that demonization and make ____ great again shit to make it land. You would need to and they just don’t ever do that in the show.

also Gotham the reason why what trump did with his generalization and demonization of minorities is bad is because people in those communities are fucking evil to their cores! That’s literally all we see of Hugo strange’s arkham experiments, so by trying to draw this connection to the demonization of them and actual minorities, you’re going to have to write them in a more complex manner, which Gotham doesn’t. Overall this writing choice of inspiration desperately needed this arc to be longer, to have Oswald’s demonization of the outcasts to have serious repercussions and consequences. But it doesn’t, it never does, the show doesn’t even bother to humanize the people they’re using as a vague allegory for what happens in real life. It’s so fucking stupid, this would need a great deal of moral ambiguity but no, the most the Arkham experiments get is at most one scene humanizing them as a whole to my memory of the show.

I’m not saying this as I wish Gotham made Oswald one to one with Donald trump, I’m not and don’t take this post as that. What I’m saying is if you want to make commentary on bigotry, you’re going to have to humanize the outsider group in question, which Gotham doesn’t do because of how much buildup that would take. Oswald doesn’t hold actual disgust for minorities when it comes to his bigotry (though he probably holds some for the poor. Don’t fucking tomato me). His brand of bigotry is more opportunistic to me, seeing the fact people are hating the out group and catering to that in order to get success.

We could’ve genuinely gotten to see a gender non conforming gay man who used to be poor use the same tactics hurled against him throughout his life against a new marginalized group and all the baggage that comes with that. But since the Gotham writers commit to nothing, they didn’t do that since it would require too much work to explore that. It just sucks, it would’ve been so cool to see something that happens in real life so often politically be in this show but it never was since the writers didn’t know how to convey that. It would’ve been fantastic and a great display on how his greed and need for praise hurts other people, but we never got to truly see that, did we?