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[mieczyslawn]

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[germesthegenie]

The Return of Alexandria(?)

Another comic based on 24.1, since I did most of the funny scenes might as well do the ending of the chapter some justice. Also wanted to do a Behemoth design + updates to my Triumvirate designs

[bellamer]

I’m going into Dragon Age Veilguard with the intent to romance Davrin since everyone else is hellbent on romancing Lucanis and Emmerich so when I stream it you can watch in real time and see if BioWare has finally gotten their shit together and made a black character who isn’t a racial stereotype (Jacob), was in a heavily bugged game that was unplayable when it was released (Liam) , dead (Anderson), or had all of his character content cut to make more room for a white character (wasn’t BioWare, it was Larian but with the way people are in fandom in general I wouldn’t put it past Bioware to cater to their whiter fanbase if a white character got all the hype)

[onthisdayts]

July 31, 2007 - Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California

[trans-queen-administrator]

Interesting how Alexandria is one of the only fights Taylor takes where she just uses ruthless bug violence. Like most fights have her getting in the opponents head, or coordinating others to take out the enemy, or using a creative trick to turn the tides. But Alexandria? There's no trick. No help. No flourish. Just Taylor choking her childhood hero to death with bugs. I think the simplicity really makes it so much more memorable and epic, the realization that she can just... fucking DO that to people as she delivers a chilling line and shows how much she was holding back by not just killing everyone, idk I love it. It's Taylor alone with only her bugs and her rage, and I think it's the perfect sendoff for the more bug violence focused persona of Skitter.

[nick-cassidy]

Photo by Sam Bagnall

[angstitty]

If Taylor Swift is MsKingBean89 then Will Toledo is MesserMoon

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

And because it is also FE race weekend too, I give you motorsport number twos US edition for the Formula E grid. Enjoy 😊😊

Lucas Di Grassi (11th August 1984) - Prince - When Doves Cry

Sam Bird (9th January 1987) - Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Edoardo Mortara (12th January 1987) - Duran Duran - Notorious

Sebastien Buemi (31st October 1988) - The Beach Boys - Kokomo

Jean-Eric Vergne (25th April 1990) - Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love

Robin Frijns (7th August 1991) - Rythm Syndicate - P.A.S.S.I.O.N.

Antonio Felix Da Costa (31st August 1991) - Roxette - Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)

Nico Muller (25th February 1992) & Stoffel Vandoorne (26th March 1992) - Mr Big - To Be With You

Norman Nato (8th July 1992) - Mariah Carey - I'll Be There

Oliver Rowland (10th August 1992) - Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

Jordan King (26th February 1994) - Ace Of Base - The Sign

Jake Hughes (30th May 1994) & Mitch Evans (24th June 1994) - Madonna - I'll Remember

Nick Cassidy (19th August 1994) - All-4-One - I Swear

Pascal Wehrlein (18th October 1994) - Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

Nyck De Vries (6th February 1995) - Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee

Jake Dennis (16th June 1995) - Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It

Kelvin Van Der Linde (20th June 1996) - Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby

Max Gunther (2nd July 1997) - Hanson - Mmmbop

Sergio Sette Camara (23rd May 1998) - Next - Too Close

Joel Eriksson (28th June 1998) - Shania Twain - You're Still The One

Jehan Daruvala (1st October 1998) - Monica - The First Night

Dan Ticktum (8th June 1999) - Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love

Sacha Fenestraz (28th July 1999) - Destiny's Child - Bills Bills Bills

Paul Aron (4th February 2004) - Outkast ft Sleepy Brown - The Way You Move

Taylor Barnard (1st June 2004) - Mario Winans ft Enya & P.Diddy - I Don't Wanna Know

All added to this playlist 😊😊

[illyanarasputinfan]

The New Mutants (2020) 20th Century Studios

[ozkar-krapo]

V/A

"Polyphonix 1"

(LP. Get Back. 2002 / rec. 1979-81)

[camyfilms]

SLEEPING BEAUTY 1959

The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But. Before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger - on the spindle of a spinning wheel - and die!

[bellamer]

If Davrin is a fully fleshed character with a fully fleshed romance, with his redeeming qualities and flaws as all characters should have, I’ll be proud of BioWare. Proud that they finally got it right. But not that proud because why the fuck did it take you people so long to finally figure out how to do black characters ? Jacob Taylor was the worst racial stereotype of a character that they pushed out, literally made him an adulterous man with father issues, who cheats on you six months in with a side chick and gets her pregnant not to mention that he’s racist but he works for a racist terrorist organization so of course he’s racist. Then you have Liam Costa, and Liam isn’t really bad per se and I haven’t romanced him but he, along with a lot of characters in Andromeda just felt flat because the game so was rushed that it felt like they didn’t have time to flesh these characters out so it really isn’t just a Liam thing, it’s an entire game thing. And don’t bring up Captain Anderson. I love Captain Anderson, he’s great but he eventually gets killed off so while he’s great, his death still leaves us with one less black character that actually brings something to the table so we still have Jacob who’s the absolute worst and Liam who we’re probably not going to see again due to Andromeda being so widely hated that it’s uncertain that they’re going to even return to it with Ryder and the Tempest crew.

But it’s 2024, we should know how to write black characters by now. Like it’s not fucking hard to get black people in the writers room for advice on how to handle these characters.

Like I’ll give them a flower if they actually took the time to get it right and right their wrongs but I’m not going to suck their dick and act like they’re the greatest of all time when it took them way longer than it should have and there’s still the high chance of them not getting it right because their track record fucking sucks and the fact that even though it’s 2024, not even Larian studios could give their black character a speckle of attention and with the way fandoms are still openly racist, Davrin could have the best possible romance and storyline and he’ll still be sidelined for a white character fandom-wise because a majority white fan base with crumple at the thought of actually trying to like a black character

In conclusion my hopes are high that BioWare will do better with Davrin than their previous black characters and that they’ll treat Davrin better than how Larian treats Wyll but given their previous track record my hopes are not that high and video game studios will still put the preferences of their white audience over their BIPOC audience so while there’s a high chance that they’ll do better there’s still a higher chance that they’ll completely fumble the ball

[wildestdreamcatcher]

I love Taylor Jenkins Reid but this quote hurts me so much because it's so fucking true "June continued to plead to no avail but the truth was, she was only a little surprised. She was a woman after all. Living in a world created by men. And she had long known that assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other" (Malibu Rising, 105).

[jefferson-starkid]

I finally read Malibu Rising. How does TJR manage to make me care so deeply about every single character in a book where our 4 mains don’t even begin to scratch the surface?

I am in love with how she writes women.

Nina Riva. Probably my favourite protagonist this year. What a complete breath of complex & insecure & absolute good fresh air in a story filled with ambiguously asshole-ish people. I want to be like her and learn like her. I will love her forever.

Kit Riva. My honorary little sister. I care about her as if she were a real person. I want her to live her life freely. I know she’ll kick ass at it. And oh how I hope we haven’t seen the last of her yet.

June Costa Riva. The embodiment of how complete devotion can become destructive. I didn’t understand her and I hated her and then I didn’t.

Honorable mention for Tuesday Hendricks. With a name like that you can’t be anything but awesome, and I feel like there is so much more to discover under her skin. If ever there was a pick for TJR’s next story subject, she would be mine.

Lastly, all men are trash, but we been knew. Except Ricky Esposito, who gets a pass because he has done nothing wrong, ever, in his life, and I know this, and I love him.

[genevieveetguy]

- You protected the people that you love. - You don't think I'm a bad person? - All I think is that I love you.

Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino (2022)

[jeffcbliss]

Robin Taylor Zander (left) and Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick - Pacific Amphitheater; Costa Mesa, CA (8-7-23). @cheaptrick @CheapTrickTom #RobinTaylorZander

Photo: Jeff Bliss