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platoapproved · 7 months ago

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louis + cruelty

#iwtvedit #iwtv #interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #grace du pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #claudia #armand #daniel molloy #I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THIS GIFSET IS COMING FROM A PLACE OF DEEP LOVE. i love that louis has a little vicious streak.#that sometimes he goes for the lowest possible blow. it's an excellent character detail.#especially since he usually works so hard not to do harm and to be the best person he can. it makes him so much more realistic.#when he's backed into a corner he goes for the throat and i think that's an incredible facet to him.#i support his wrongs etc etc.#if i see people using this as a jumping off point to hate on louis i will probably just start blocking people tbh.#this is not an invitation to reduce him as a character to JUST this #i simply like it when he lets loose.

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humming-fly · 1 month ago

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was anyone gonna tell me shadow saved rouge's life in sa2 or was I just supposed to find that out playing the game myself

(this worked out as a rather fitting closer for the Final Day in Year of Shadow haha, hope ya'll have a fun new year! 🎉🎉🎉)

#happy new year!#closing 2024 with an actual honest to god comic layout I know I'm shocked too #that scene wasn't in the fandub and that's all I'd ever seen so it was a Fun Surprise!#shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #sonic #sonic adventure 2 #sa2 #my art #doodles #comic #no words though! rare form #fun fact the white jungle route is the Only route I ever executed Flawlessly first try #just give me a good countdown and suddenly I know how to play video games #and a fun one too! love the Drama #fun fact originally his dash was green since i assumed he was teleporting around as usual #but my friend pointed out he actually didn't have an emerald on him at the time #which meant if he Didn't find rouge in time or if she Didn't have an emerald they were Both going to die #which is Excellent fun #I do have a shitposty bonus to this because of course I do but we'll see if I have time to make it tonight or not haha #if I was a Little better laying this out the final panel would've centered under panel 2 shadow's hand #tragically it was late enough in the game when I got to that point I didn't want to fuck with the layout anymore #maybe next time I make a comic layout in 4 years!

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littlemizzlinguistics · 1 year ago

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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

#linguistics #gen z slang #english #as people in the reblog pointed out!#most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave #honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English #instead of ridiculing speakers #and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang #in that much of it was appropriated #and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave #aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language #and the grammar is incredible!!!#habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary #and the phonology is just beautiful #anyway I’m very sorry #I fucked up

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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theladyeowyn · 5 days ago

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Hadestown // Severance, 2x03 “Who Is Alive?”

#severance #severanceedit #severance spoilers #mark scout #asal reghabi #mark x gemma #*#i have been Thinking About This (severance + hadestown) for so long but waiting to make any gifsets and WELL. can't wait anymore #a web weave rather than something artsy but i have many plans for better stuff #tbh although i'm a tumblr vet i've never been crazy about the myth of orpheus and eurydice; it's fine but it just doesn't Speak to me #(though i do think hadestown is a beautiful and excellently-written musical)#however. if this show can pull it off i may be fundamentally altered #and if it doesn't ... well. i will accept my place in the clown car

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joextonyxfam-13 · 1 year ago

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I really wish I had a gif that captures what I felt when this song started playing. We have our new velvet supreme @thundergrace

#this is just excellent #you can hear how much they’ve matured since the last full album #red velvet

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egophiliac · 9 months ago

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bring your son to work day

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tsumsted wonderland #sorry this might be it guys #just kind of burnt out right now #i am enjoying the event though! i love these silly beanbags and their charming little adventures #can't wait for silver-tsum to wake up just long enough to take a bullet for malleus-tsum #and i extra extra love malleus and his beanbag both being SO passive-aggressive about missing the pile-up #the solution: DANCE PARTY #APPARENTLY #between this and glorious masquerade i'm starting to think this is malleus' solution to everything #(is this how episode 7 will end) (we DO traditionally get an end-of-episode rhythmic...)#also a+ some truly excellent spritework going on in this on #(sebek crunches down slightly 'RIDE ME WAKATSUMSAMA') (long beat) (malleus and tsum just sliiiiiide away screen left)#genuinely so much funnier than a literal depiction could ever be #anyway i did some careful calculations re:the probability of upcoming cards that i absolutely need and long story short #i am key-poor but tsum!malleus-rich >:)#(immediately goes through and switches all his lesson sprites to having a tsum wobbling on his head) worth it #now watch next month they're going to give us a white rabbit rerun with malleus and/or lilia as the frilliest froufrou bunnies #and i will be thoroughly effed

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aeviann · 1 month ago

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The Twilight Princess A christmas gift to @ hyrinku (instagram), who is so, so dear to me.

#also she has excellent taste so I'm glad I can just draw characters for her that I love anyway >:)#I haven't drawn TP Zelda in forever so it was about time anyway #speaking of which I have hardly drawn anything at all this year which I am quite sad about but it was just more of a cosplay year #feeling major art urges lately tho so >:)))#zelda #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #tloz #twilight princess #zelda twilight princess #princess zelda #artists on tumblr

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stemmmm · 2 months ago

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Don’t think about it. Don’t fall asleep. Don’t look. Not yet.

fanart for the latest chapter of Then It Becomes, It Becomes, It Becomes A Problem because holy shit

#gravity falls #stanford pines #billford #<its a billford fic it counts. the hint of yellow glow is supposed to be bill off screen it counts #m.png #the moth coming out of his eye doesnt come across the BEST but from this distance and behind the glasses i dont know how it could #so acceptable losses #i cheated on my wife to draw this when i was supposed to be making them an animatic #on account of i changed my mind about doing one for the last chapter of THEIR fic...... but other excellent fics deserve fanart #esp ones made by people i dont live with so i dont heap praise on them 24/7 #this sequence was just unbelievable #yay fungus <3 #yay moths <3 #yay greyscale saving this from taking more than a few hours

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sweetmapple · 5 months ago

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@alberichfanpage mentioned that Freyja talks about Jerren but even if we had the option to ask Ansbach about Varre, I’d imagine we’d get something like this

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canisalbus · 2 months ago

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Ok I drew them with silly 'hats' to cover their ears too (Vasco is wearing ear socks)

Machete looks like a jester

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#EAR SOCKS #he needs a pair of those elastic mitten clips to keep them up #suspenders for your ear socks #ear sock garters if you will #you really captured Machete's noodly wretchedness here #the driest most chronically unfun stick in the mud jester #that's such a sighthound expression #he looks mildly displeased but ultimately resigns to his fate of wearing silly knitted caps #to protect his delicate ears from the elements #Vasco's eyebrows are perfect #they're both too precious I'm in pain TmT #an excellent follow-up 10/10 #gift art #arttsuka #Machete #Vasco #own characters #oh my heavens just look at them

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cacklefrendly · 2 months ago

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*72-hour playtime voice* yeah this game's a'ight

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #cackle draws #deadass the moment i finished the main story i Bolted for the cash shop.#like. you just gave me an EXCELLENT 15-20 hours and if i never pick up this game again i will still be happy. here's $20.#and then those $20 gave me a little griffin boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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sainz100 · 3 months ago

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2024 Brazilian GP | x

#franco colapinto #autumn posts #I'm so conflicted about all the rumors!!#I want him to have a spot for 2025!! but rbr is kinda falling apart!! and we've seen how especially callous they can be 😢#I miss Daniel so much 🥺 I've been on my usual insta dives and everytime I see vcarb I still pause out of habit #still I agree with so many folks that its good he got away from rbr who never were going to give him the respect and opportunities!!#so I worry for Franco!!!#and poor Max gosh this FiA balogna and the car just not performing 🥲#tbh I've been hiding in like 2017 posts just soaking up content I missed from bygone days!#I spam my sideblog verstappen100 if anyone wants like mostly Daniel throwback yearning hehe 🙂‍↕️#idk the vibes feel off this GP especially so like...idk how to explain it!!#but anyways I think I'm just new and I'm sick irl so just kinda stewing in the feels #nothing some gifs can't fix 🙂‍↕️#and I have to work tomorrow 🥲 but then!!! freedom!!!#anyways just rambling...#I like to hide in the tags and the side blog but I know that #hiding how I feel is blocking me from making true connections in fandom!!#I worry I'll say something silly or something #but maybe I should be more brave instead of hiding #oh anyways!!!#if you're reading all this!! thank you! hehe nothing huge just feeling dumping before slumber 😴#I hope all is well!!#sending good energy out to Franco on such a hard weekend #and to Daniel hopefully chilling and dreaming up something excellent 💞#and to y'all!! have a good night morning and afternoon!! 🌙☀️☁️#going to add a few more photos before I go!!

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frownyalfred · 26 days ago

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Alfred, in full butler garb complete with white gloves, vigorously shaking a metal cocktail shaker: and would you like your blend of HGH, BCAA’s, and creatine up today, or on the rocks, sir?

#is this funny to anyone else or just me #alfred refuses to offer a smoothie on principle lol #he refuses to use a blender #he insists on blending Bruce’s experimental preworkout via cocktail shaker and nothing else #batman #bruce wayne #dc #alfred pennyworth #Bruce with his head on the table: ….up please #alfred: *garnishing the bright fluorescent pink preworkout martini with a lime twist*#‘excellent choice sir’

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potato-lord-but-not · 5 months ago

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Noel seems to be the one comforting people pretty often, I think he deserves a quick menty b (and some comfort from his boyfriends)

woagh ourthur comic be upon ye

Arthur probably spent 20 minutes trying to get this man to finally break for the night

#OUGH WE GOT SOME GOOD PANELS IN HERE !!!!!!#and some EXCELLENT John faces I’m obsessed with him #I probably could’ve made it m o r e Noel centric but I couldn’t help myself #this ask also spawned two other drawings but those are going in different posts #alternate ending where Arthur n Noel just start making out and Oscar’s like yknow what I’m too tired for this and leaves.#far too eepy to get freaky #ask #malevolent #arthur lester #oscar malevolent #detective noel #john malevolent #arthur lester and his three boyfriends #and some kingsmen for u all. and a hint of gold cross and some jarthur. we got it all bb

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egophiliac · 8 months ago

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Wait, the tsun event has a whole bit dedicated to Malleus bragging about what kitchen appliances he knows how to use? Twst EN just got the milk culinary crucible, which means at the same time Malleus is showing off, the entirety of the EN players are learning Leona doesn't know how to use a microwave. The timing really just makes it feel like Malleus is flexing on Leona XD

it's in Mal's card story rather than in the event proper, but yep! after teaching his tsum proper microwave usage, he takes it on a tour and very proudly shows off his extensive knowledge of household appliances. (except when he thinks his tsum fell into the washing machine and doesn't know how to unlock the lid, so he just. explodes it instead. hashtag just diasomnia things. 🤷)

I do think he and Leona should get into a fight about who has done a better job of learning how to use kitchen tools! Leona has the advantage of having grown up in the modern world, but Malleus has the motivation to actually do literally anything. who will win

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tsumsted wonderland #guest starring leona tsum for no reason other than i felt like it #i really should do more with leona and malleus tbh #because i do love how leona tries so hard to not care about anything #but mal just annoys him SO MUCH he can't help it #and on the flipside malleus is (all things considered) remarkably chill #except when someone is a dick to him at which point he instantly becomes the world's pettiest asshole #it's all so excellent #also there's one bit where leona calls him a coathanger and i will never ever get over it

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