wed 3.27.3 // chill spring studying ૮₍。´ᴖ ˔ ᴖ`。₎ა
yall love those cherry blossoms LOL but anyway today i’ve been kinda just coasting thru classes bc im excited for easter break ₊*̥(°´˘`°) i wanted to share some more cherry blossom trees around campus with u all bc its so pretty and it makes me so happy everytime i walk under them. i lwk need to lock in for physics and calc this semester but im just gonna keep being chill and work steadily
𓍢ִ໋🪷˚*ੈ♡⸝⸝🦢✎✧˚ ༘ ⋆。˚📝 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚ ༘ ⋆。˚♡ ୭🗒️˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀
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Starting to date onionthief would be funny as hell bc you enter his room & there are 20 tabs open on his laptop about Emotional Intimacy, Kissing Techniques, Dating Tips, and Female Orgasm. Most of them are j-stor or ResearchGate articles
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002/100 Days Of Productivity - 13082023
I have a love-and-hate relationship with Sundays. I feel like it’s a day when you can rest but also take care of yourself and your home, which can mean the same thing sometimes.
This morning I went to the grocery store, and I cooked a delicious Italian oven pasta for lunch. I also called my mom.
Tonight I worked with my bestie on our projects, and it feels good.
Things I need to do and did:
Make a nice desktop set-up for my pc
Clean my pc and iPad
Create that notion template
Find a job
Finish that book
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Style study! :3
(You can see my oc favoritism XD)
Played with shapes, lack of lineart, brushes.
IM LOVING IT!! Plants are fun to draw when I get the chance to draw them. I may start using this style more in my art until my brain decides to want something else
Bleh
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So Bloom's reboot outfits made me so mad I did mini fashion study on what I think a 2020's, California-raised, respectable denim queen Bloom Peters would wear, pulling from Y2K style and Winx Club itself. iPhone quality, sketches not cleaned up, etc. Further notes/ramblings under the cut!
Going left to right:
Denim Dress -> Heavy inspiration from Bloom's S4 Band outfit. Girl needs to wear black more. Cute little bow because she's being Formal, and bits of pink with the socks and the word 'love' on her shirt.
Denim Skirt -> How do you make leg warmers look good on Bloom? Step 1 is not making them out of denim. Step 2 is referencing Bloom's casual partywear from Season 1 and this Pacsun model photo. Other notes not drawn in detail: Bloom wearing some gold necklaces, including one with the classic winx wings, and her crewneck saying 'Gardenia California 2004' as a nod to the OG release.
Denim Pants -> We're stealing everything from Classic Bloom with subtle updates. Turning the classic white and blue striped sweater into a tee with thinner lines. Updated flare jeans and of course the return of the yellow platform sandals. Some may stand for their erasure, but I don't. Also some bracelets and a ponytail in reference to the Reboot leaks (!!) because there are good ideas there, they're just executed poorly.
Denim Shorts -> Bloom's cropped hoodie is a reference to comic #17 The Ghost of Balmoral, but with a heart because Pink and Heart Motif. Fun fact if you don't own a pair of worn denim shorts you can't live in California (that's why I had to leave).
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Mmmkay, I have thoughts on Alana’s arc and contextualizing Margot/Alana.
This is sort of tangential to what I said here regarding the interplay of control and violence on the show. In that post, I said of Alana:
With Alana, [violence is] the only possible culmination of her losing control of the situation with Mason Verger, with her being forced to follow the abdication of her morals all the way to the end point.
Alana isn’t a “natural” killer like some of the characters on the show, but she’s capable of it when pushed (unlike, say, Chilton) - and the set of circumstances that get her there are losing control, and only being able to regain control for the situation by enabling, and participating in, murder. And this arc sheds some fascinating light on some of the central traits that have defined her throughout the show.
Two of Alana’s key qualities as a character, I would say, are both related to control. Firstly, she feels a strong sense of personal responsibility - she can’t just stand aside and allow injustice to take place. She always intervenes in a situation to advocate for what she feels is right, such as with Abigail, and with Will during season 1 and his arc in prison. She’s very invested in rightness, rather than simply self-preservation, at least initially (less so come season 3, where she’s fine with throwing Chilton under the bus) - when Gideon is loose, with a strong possibility he’ll come after her, she’s not solely worried about her own safety, but rather expresses concern over what happened to him and the fact that he can’t truly be held accountable for his actions when operating under reduced capacity. And she can’t be persuaded or intimidated into acting in her own self-interest if it contradicts her values. She refuses to withdraw her report citing her concerns about Jack putting Will in the field when pressed to do so by Kade Prunell and smarmy institutional self-protection; and, of course, she refuses to take the out that Hannibal offers her in the s2 finale. That moment in Hannibal’s kitchen encapsulates so much of the essence of her character - she’s not the kind of person who could ever walk away without trying to bring him down.
Her other central attribute in the early seasons is self-control. She’s self-aware almost to a fault, and always striving to keep her worst interpersonal impulses in check. She knows her shortcomings in her personal relationships, and compartmentalizes accordingly. She avoids being alone with Will in an effort to maintain professional boundaries and resist indulging in something that she knows would be destructive. Her words to Will after turning him down are telling - she wanted to sleep with him, and was internally divided about the rejection, but an affair would have been “reckless.” She’s extremely careful, including with her own desires.
(Her relationship with Hannibal, tellingly, is not reckless from her POV - it’s her attempting to find emotional safety from her conflicted feelings about Will. There’s an interesting parallel in her kissing Hannibal after the party in Futamono to Will kissing her at his house in Fromage - she “reached” for Hannibal the way Will did to her, grasping for stability.)
What changes for her in season 3 is that, in a word, she gets reckless. She becomes much friendlier with ruthless pragmatism, whereas before, she was outraged at - for example - launching a defense for Will in court based on untruths, even if it could exonerate him. Her plan to play Mason relies on her confidence that the FBI will swoop in and bail her out in the end, so she maintains her trust in institutions (at first), but she’s still willing to use extra-legal channels to catch Hannibal, and manipulate an incredibly dangerous man to her ends. And it’s all still of a piece with her character and her need to take control over and assume responsibility for the situation with Hannibal - but it’s a version of herself undergoing transformation, becoming more ruthless and more willing to take matters into her own hands rather than following official channels. And, crucially, it involves her losing control of the situation, despite her conviction that she can manage it - by which she learns that it’s impossible for her to absolve herself of complicity here, and she has to take a more vigilante-justice route, put her life in danger by loosing chaos in the form of Hannibal, and allow him to take the fall and lie for her.
The fling with Margot correlates both to Alana’s becoming as this new, more ruthless and untethered version of herself, and in the slippage of her carefully maintained self-control. Hooking up with Mason’s sister is pretty much the definition of reckless! It makes the situation considerably more precarious, and the alliance with Margot is hardly essential to her original plan, even if there does end up being $$$ attached to it. But it’s an indulgence that she didn’t allow herself to fully give in to with Will. The parallel between Will and Margot is made pretty apparent wrt their relationships with Hannibal, but I think they also represent something similar to Alana (who herself gets, in certain ways, take the role of Hannibal for this arc). She wants to save people, and Margot, while not toothless, is fairly disempowered and traumatized, someone in need of saving. The relationship with her, for Alana, is a form of giving in to something she’s long denied herself. And, thematically, it makes perfect sense that the safeguards she’s put up around herself begin to dissolve in tandem with her personal beliefs being challenged and forced to adapt.
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013/100 Days Of Productivity - 24082023
What a busy day. First I had to go to my workplace to give my documents, and when I tell you travelling there took me more time than giving out the papers, trust me. Then, I had to run to send my university documents to the SFE, as I woke up late and missed the collection time.
Things I need to do and did:
Clean my room
Clean the kitchen
Send university documents out
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