#unvarnished

[arsonistbunny]

tiger 🐯gouache on wood!! :)

#vincentw art #gouache painting #tiger #tiger painting #unvarnished for now. will do #original art

[blue-eli]

Ink October day seventeen: Unvarnished

Stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain.

Unfinished, as floors or furniture; not coated with or as if with varnish.

#xion kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts xion #kh xion #xion kh #xion #kingdom hearts #kh #kh days #blue boi draws #ink october #ink october 2023 #ink October 2023 day 17 #XION I love her #unvarnished because this is drawn based on her first appearance where she is a new thing not yet a person #i love her your honor

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i feel like i should start making more of an effort, when i talk about something in a piece of media being Upsetting to me, to distinguish between 'cathartic' upsetting and 'gave me psychic damage' upsetting. sometimes i mean OUGH OW MY FEELINGS THIS FUCKS ME UP IN A MEANINGFUL AND RESONANT WAY, MY LIFE IS ENRICHED FOR BECOMING AWARE OF IT and sometimes i mean that it is genuinely distressing and i want to shake the creators and ask what the fuck they were thinking

#whosebaby talks #blog policy #this goes double when it comes to pieces of media to which i have both reactions lmao #i worry sometimes that not being clear about it makes it come across as if i'm saying 'something containing upsetting subject matter is Bad #when in fact a lot of upsetting subject matter is critical to depict; diversely so and often #and i am fiercely protective of the rep that resonates with me #which a lot of people are extremely quick to label as A Disrespectful Depiction absolutely no matter how it's done bc they want it erased #and use 'well it's only valid if it's done *respectfully*' as the Shirley Exception; with no intention of ever letting one be Allowed #but in spite of that there *are* absolutely fucking horrible and incredibly disrespectful ways for Upsetting Subject Matter to be depicted #and that deserves well-informed discussion and criticism; starting from an understanding of the actual purposes of fiction #and what infrastructure and language and framing and technique is used to achieve those purposes #and sometimes the purposes of a particular use are fucking awful! and executed in ways designed to cause real damage + get away with it! #so when i'm talking about something being Upsetting in the psychic damage sense; i'm referring to that #and the fact that not only is it infuriating and upsetting to witness that process in action #it amplifies the already deeply emotionally loaded subject matter; which may already require selfcare to engage with even when cathartic #and then yanks away the catharsis and just leaves you blasted in the face by uncushioned unvarnished Oh Right This Horrible Thing Exists #Thanks for Shoving My Face Straight into Boiling Acid Asshole #anyway complicated feelings about it but yeah i feel like i should try to be clearer lmao #(this isn't just about depictions of SA; and abuse in the sense most people think of first when they hear the word) #(although it comes up in that context often) #(see: Big Screan at pretty much everything with the talking animals in sd/mi but especially the fucking asylum lmao)

[m-has-a-blog]

I don’t think torture porn should be a pejorative. I think it should be something I could use to find porn featuring characters getting off on torture

#rent lowering gunshots #but also just the unvarnished truth

[scribefindegil]

*reads Literally Just A Summary Of The Events Of Separation Arc and starts foaming at the mouth*

#mob talk #god. it's just. #it's so fucking much. #someday i'll have the energy to write a proper post on the way Separation and Mogami are mirrors of each other #they're the fulcrum that the whole narrative turns around #the center of the narrative structure and the turning point #the whole show is about overcoming loneliness and how kindness and connection are the only antidote to the despair of isolation #and so here in the middle we have to see the isolation--see the horror of it--unvarnished #the empty world built for Mob and the empty world that Reigen builds for himself #it's not the only time that the show pairs the magical version of something with its mundane counterpart #but it's the most gutting #as a viewer you're safe from an evil ghost trapping you in a nightmare world #but you're not safe from the mundane loneliness you build by not having people #by being afraid to reach out #by pushing people away #but at the same time #you're not exempt from kindness #from having people who care #even if you don't deserve it #the ache of that loneliness is always there #but the love is there too #the tanscendent possibility of people deciding you're worth it #um #ANYWAY #I have normal human emotions about this show and about Riegen Arataka in particular hahaha

[peppertaemint]

Jungkooks song isn’t that bad. I know he’s trying to break a stereotype of him being the youngest and wants to be seen more mature but that guy was not a need for this song 😭 and I don’t get the hate towards jungkook cuz his lines were fine it’s just Harlows….

I'm gonna be real with you. I think that even though Harlow's lines are egregious and charmless and pretty much offensive, I don't think that Kookie comes out much better.

The song itself is about having some sort of relationship, whatever that is, with someone online in 2-D, i.e. video film, pictures, and wanting to bring that into 3-D, which is in person. That in itself is a not an issue; I've been there - seeing someone in person is exciting for the 3-D action, LOL.

My problem is that the song is so focused on the sexual act/encounter like a science experiment. You add the womanising and the objectifying, and it doesn't come off right for me. 

I'll contrast the song with Rod Wave's Turks and Caicos featuring 21 Savage. This is another sort of innocuous song about "player" behaviour. The chorus is the girl girls girls all over the world blah blah blah. But it still has charm, and it paints a portrait of a woman as a person to an extent. They talk about the girl being a vibe and bad bitches you better grab one. It's not just a list of "I have these chicks and I want to fuck them and I wanna see what it's like to fuck in person". That feels so clinical and there's a distance there, and it feels objectifying and gross.

I do think this song is charmless and sexist and pretty boring. Overall disappointing. 🤷‍♀️ and I do think that Kookie trying to make it sound like it's about monogamy in press/PR just doesn't work.

#unvarnished thoughts #jungkook ask #if taemin had a song like this i would say the same #biases get no privileges #it's a miss for me #let's see what's on the album

[thethirdbear]

but don’t forget who you really are. and i’m not talking about your so-called real name. all names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. you know who you really are. when you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you.

#louis sachar #the reality of who you are #the secrets #the thoughts #the unvarnished #the unabashed #the real you

[queenlucythevaliant]

🪆

Akhmatova! Akhmatova!!!!!

Courage We know what trembles in the scales, What has to be accomplished. The hour for courage. If all else fails, With courage we are not unfurnished. What though the dead be crowded, each to each, What though our houses be destroyed? — We will preserve you, Russian speech, Keep you alive, great Russian word. We will pass you to our sons and heirs Free and clean, and they in turn to theirs,         And so forever.

--Anna Akhmatova

#if all else fails! with courage we are not unvarnished!!! #be strong and courageous #i love this poem so much #'i need to sit down and memorize it one of these days #thanks for indulging me ;) #russia where are you flying to? #ask me hard questions

[spockvarietyhour]

Jesus Fucking Christ, Walt.

#an absolute shitbag of a human being at this point #still refusing to accept responsibility now #Breaking Bad #BrBa #Ozymandias #Skyler White #Walter White #Danny watches Breaking Bad #The unvarnished Walter White #the deep down the lizard brain walter. #it doesn't get better in this conversation

[omni-crafter]

I just learned how to knit and my hand hurts?!

Ok so, when I was improvising with chopsticks for two days- no pain. Switch to actual proper metal (5mm) needles for one day? PAIN. In the meaty part of my left thumb, between the knuckle and the wrist.

I don't remember any pain like this when I learned to crochet.

Am I holding onto the needle too tight? It is very slippery compared to the chopstick. Also much smaller. It's not the yarn tension, I got that down pat down from crocheting, and I knit continental style so it's much the same.

#i switched from chopsticks because the unvarnished bamboo was starting to rub my pinky raw #I have ADHD so I tend to do hobbies in marathons 'just don't knit much at a time' isn't going to help me #I would have to just stop knitting forever #quick look around tumblr before posting and i saw complaints but no advice #probably just didn't look hard enough but i'm off to the googles

[silverfoxlou]

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#i think the one constant about being in this fandom #is that there are always more questions than answers #even the documentary that was supposed to be an unvarnished look at his life and career just left me with more questions #and at this point i've come to accept that we'll never know anything #but it's still annoying

[ortustheninth]

What do you think tazmuir is implying about Augustine

Fratricide :(

#going tbh tho my thoughts on this are NOT ironed out. but the ‘nobody likes a peacemaker’ line haunts me #SOMEONE on their side shot Alfred; would be very metaphor of tazmuir to have it be Augustine #tlt #nona the ninth spoilers #augustine the first #alfred quinque #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb series #half the problem is that sometimes jod tells the unvarnished truth. most times he is just lying out of his ass. SO maybe jod has solid iron #proof that Augustine would wish death upon someone who said ‘let go it; no one needs to be punished for what happened/is happening to earth’ #and skimmed the chapter where Alfred (and everyone else) dies and there’s nothing that contradicts Augustine pulling the trigger. #which considering he’s his brother. you’d think there might be SOMETHING #altho there was. a lot else going on and it’s john ‘egomaniac central’ gaius narrating #but it would line up with christobel’s 1st and 2nd death paralleling each other. ok ok I’m going to stop talking in the tags now. trul #if u have read this far in the tags and have any thoughts please tell me them I have 2 brain cells and have already worked them to max capa #city coming up w my own thoughts on this and there was not a whole lot of quality control during the process #ntn #I have answered like 2 asks ever so I do not know the secret ask etiquette. apologies for any violations they were inadvertent

[izacore]

An “intimate and unvarnished” view of Louis’ life and career. Yeah. Sure. I don't even know why I am so shocked, though. I mean, I knew it. In the moment I read how it was supposed to be truthful and raw I knew it. Fuck this. I can stand the beards, the pap walks, I can genuinely laugh at those, I even laughed at Holivia at some point, the salad thing was comedy gold, but this... No. Thank you. Him going out hand in hand with a different tiktok girlie everyday, I'm ok with that, but the kid... Nope.

Yeah, I can't help but get angry at the description of this doc when we just know it's gaslighting cause the trailer already showed us how he didn't stay true to himself :)

#ask #anonymous #real and unvarnished suuuuuure

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i have a lot of complicated feelings about Fucked Upness as portrayed in fiction, and about my reactions to it both conscious and visceral, and i think a lot of it comes down to how so often my relationship to a piece of media is informed by pointing past the text at the author and going 'i see you back there you punk ass bitch'

#general fandoms tag #the crit files #whosebaby talks #i can tolerate; and lean into; some real heavy shit in a piece of fiction /if/ the author has earned my trust re: how they frame it #which does not require a Big PSA Disclaimer or a hayes-code unhappy ending as punishment for Wickedness #if anything some of the worst offenders i've ever had the misfortune of coming across have been media that /does/ try that #but if the author breaks that trust with the kind of framing that makes it clear they don't think it's a horror #whether they don't understand that it is what it is; or understand and think it's a /good/ thing #suddenly the layer of 'this is safe because it's not real' that makes it bearable; even cathartic; is gone #and you're left with the fact that a person who is very real; and their beliefs which are very real #thinks that that kind of na/ked unvarnished cruelty is right and fine #or at least justified #and that context brings the horror of the real thing's existence crashing home in a very different way #i can enjoy and even find my own peace in dark; dark; dark shit plenty if i trust the author #whereas if the framing is fcked even 'minor' things can trigger the hell out of me and haunt me for years #anyway this applies to a lot of things but ToA and LL i am looking directly at you lmao

[graemegardenappreciationsociety]

#graeme garden #the unvarnished truth #goodies

[imakemywings]

Maglor for the ask game? (Not you making me care for him…your power)

Send Me a Character!

It's all @meadowlarkx's fault, she made me care about Maglor first.

Sexuality Headcanon: My default for all Elves is asexual panromantic but Maglor is still the horniest Elf

Gender Headcanon: So my general feeling on Elves is that they differentiate a lot less between sexes/genders in general, so gender is not usually very important to them beyond its reproductive function...so Maglor is a man (lower case M) but not very attached to that and probably does not really consider it part of his "identity" and is certainly not opposed to swinging more female when the mood strikes

A ship I have with said character: Daemags is the only Maglor ship I've published work for and while I know it's based basically on nothing but their having a similar hobby I still think it's fun...yes my dynamic for them is wholly my own invention; yes I'm enjoying it

A BROTP I have with said character: Maglor and Maedhros, ofc. Maglor so so looks up to his big brother and always has (and that makes it very hard for him to see when Maedhros perhaps should not be leading anyone anymore...) and I think Maedhros trusts Maglor most among all the Feanorians.

A NOTP I have with said character: There's no one I really HATE seeing him with, but I'm not into the cousin ships generally

A random headcanon: I'm about to be ungenerous. Part of the reason Maglor insisted on trying to raise Elrond and Elros was a desire to perform an act he saw as redemptive, after everything else he'd done. Maedhros saw through this and was not impressed.

General Opinion over said character: Sad, pathetic war criminal who wants to blame everyone but himself for his actions until there's no one left but him. Maglor is fascinating to me as having the biggest fall from grace outside of Maedhros. Maglor is one of the most well-positioned Feanorians in Aman, being already a renowned musician which suggests he was succeeding and comfortable, and yet he still chose to take the oath and in Middle-earth gradually loses more and more (he was a prince of Tirion and then he was the lord of Maglor's Gap and then he was living with Maedhros because they lost the Gap and then they were in Amon Ereb because they lost Himring and then they weren't welcome in any of the other Elven settlements because they had turned everyone against them and then he was alone and then he lost the final Silmaril and then there was nothing but him and his voice and the wind).

Maglor is someone who could have been celebrated across the ages as the greatest musician ever produced by the Noldor, who could have been legend and glory for the Elves, but instead he's a horror story the Wood-elves whisper to each other in the dark of midwinter, a memory that still brings a shudder to the Doriathrim of the Third Age, an example of the very worst of what Elvenkind can be.

I think his regret at the end of the First Age was genuine, and I do think it's really interesting to explore AUs where he lives long enough to attempt to do better and be a better person again, but in canon, it just came too late.

#asks #maglor being faced at the very end of silm with his true unvarnished reflection is #terrible and great #no one else to blame no one else to involve himself with #just him and the cold reality of everything he did for a prize he threw away in the end #ouch