I got permission to share some of the work I did for Poppy Playtime Chapter 4!! These are character studies I did of Doey and Yarnaby when we got the final character design approved.
I know I’ve said it before but every rewatch I do cements this thought further - elijah wood’s performance in LOTR is absolutely insane, they really had a character whose name means “wise by experience”, hired an 18-year-old to do it, and he delivered so much that not only is it a beautiful and moving role on its own, it’s a performance equal to those of the absolute powerhouses he played side by side with like ian holm and ian mckellen. to name just a few
apparently it’s not common knowledge that he was 18 at the time (insert that xkcd comic, you know which) but. yeah
“let’s task this teenager with the monster assignment of portraying trauma of war in a quiet and subtle way. what can go wrong” and then somehow nothing did. because he killed the role
In my heart Doey is thriving with his little adopted Bobby Bearhug sister
For anyone new I based this OC off of that one Bobby Bearhug we see in Safe Haven after the bombs go off and the Doey chase starts. I am in denial and emotionally invested in these doomed found siblings
might get shot and killed for this but allo people only being able to categorize platonic relationships as “parental” or “siblings” is actually so embarrassing. have you never had friends before
I made a mistake and read the comments on my own post sorry. allo people shut the fuck up and listen challenge (failed)
you go into the notes of posts like this and it very quickly turns into a bunch of people denying transmisogyny exists like try not to be annoying for like five fucking seconds
i feel the tags are worth including in a reblog
“they hate us all” should be a justification for putting extra effort in towards supporting the most marginalized and heavily targeted members of your community! when you tack on the word “equally,” it instead becomes a justification for prioritizing yourself over people who are in greater immediate danger, and blaming those people for their systemic oppression because their refusal to center you is “infighting”
Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc
Notice how removing seating doesnt actually prevent people from sitting it just makes them uncomfortable and makes public spaces more hostile it doesnt actually work at controlling their behavior not till a pig comes along anyways and they’ll harass a homeless person/teen whatever they’re sitting on.
Btw keep in mind how this also more dramatically affects disabled people, not everyone can stand for hours at a time or feasibly sit on the floor
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
slapping modeling clay around blindly without thought or purpose, i look down and find a perfectly sculpted replica of myself seated at a table with a lump of modeling clay before me, similarly shaped into a still smaller instance of the same scene. and i am afraid to look up
I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself
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I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker
If someone knows it please tell me, I’m pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!
has anybody seen my pet piece of paper. his name is walter he is very fragile but very adventurous. i should never have left the window open in my tenth story apartment
’Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism’ is a zine by Jewish anarchists on how people can organise and act in this changing terrain.
Download it (it’s free), read, print and distribute it IRL!
The next time someone tries to give you the “I didn’t do it on purpose” as a reason to refuse to apologise for unwittingly hurting you by mistake, stir shit by asking them if they ever apologise to people they hurt on purpose.
It’s a little striking how few people on Tumblr have heard of Snotgirl. Like, yes, under ordinary circumstances responding to someone wondering what Bryan Lee O'Malley has been up to since Scott Pilgrim with “oh, he’s currently the lead writer for an ongoing lesbian romance comic called Snotgirl” is going to run into the obvious stumbling block that the comic is in fact called Snotgirl, but on Tumblr I’d expect that if anything that title would be a selling point.
do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century
me, out loud: hey that’s cool we all have our own interpretations and i support you as part of fandom regardless
me, in my head: ….but you’re wrong
I would just like to remind everyone that this is the mature, reasonable, and sensible response.
“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.
which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”
actually people should address this in fanfic more because “i know we could half-ass it, but i would never fake mistreat my fake husband, how dare you” is absolutely delightful
New trope: fake dating for spite.
“Look, my only goal here is for our pretend relationship to be demonstrably healthier than Aunt Rita and Uncle Carl’s fifteen year, three child marriage - which means the bar is so low we probably can’t fuck this up”
preserving @river-gale’s tags for posterity because yes. yes. this is it. you get it.
i’m so tired of authors not tagging correctly because they don’t want to “spoil the fic”
correctly tagging your fic allows readers who DON’T want to read things like major character death, gore, mpreg or whatever may be their squick to filter your fic out from the main ship/fandom tag. not including the correct tags on your fic is harmful to readers and i’m tired of pretending it’s not.
“don’t like don’t read” great! i won’t! tag your fic correctly next time ffs
100% yes. And - two additional points:
Correctly tagging your work means that the people who DO want mpreg or gore or mahor character death are able to find your fic. Because if they are wanting those story beats, then they will include the tags in their search. So, accurately tagging means people who don’t want that can filter it out, and those who do want it can filter it in. It’s to your benefit too, dear writer, to include accurate tags, because it means people who want to read your type of story will ve able to find it.
Two: there IS actually a way to refrain from using tags if you want to keep the contents of your story a total mystery. “Author Chose Not To Use Content Warnings.” Which can also be used alongside something informal like “other tags apply but have been excluded” or “reader discretion is advised” or etc.
In summary: tags your fic. And even when you choose not to, in that case, tag your fic saying tha content may catch some people off guard.
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