#What does that pose even mean??

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

POV: You're Jessica Drew.

You're trying to do your job. You go to check on your students.

You see Diane. She's laughing. She's laughing so hard she's in tears. She can barely speak. Borderline scream-laughing. In all honesty she's losing her fucking mind

You ask her what's wrong, what could be that funny? She points. You turn around.

It's just Hobie doing whatever the fuck this is

She's on the floor. She's begging him to stop, the laughing is too much. He just continues doing whatever the hell it is that he's doing. Really, you're not sure what he's doing. Or what's funny.

You tell him to knock it off. He ignores you. You stare at the two of them.

You leave them to it.

#thank you Jay for the inspo of Hobie being a funny lil guy #POV: You're Jessica Drew #(their mentor) #what is this what's he doing 😭😭 #What does that pose even mean?? #spiderman #atsv #spider man #marvel #across the spiderverse #hobie brown #spider punk #spiderpunk #hobie brown x oc #Hobie x oc #DiscoPunk #spidersona #spidersonas

[dailyedgeworth]

today, happy destiel day to all those who celebrate, here's a gooey (and non) edgeworth

#based on a pic of cas in the empty #that pose is sooooo babygirl coded..... #man what does that even mean #ive seen to many business men with the “draw your babygirl like this” posts #whatever #supernatural cw #5th of november #november 5th #miles edgeworth #mitsurugi reiji #ace attorney #gyakuten saiban

[oflgtfol]

quick like 3 hour thing to sate my desire to see Narinder But As A Bishop. i tried to emulate the game style as much as possible, and i used shamura and heket as the primary references for the robe design

#shakes him like a squeaky toy. fucked up cat !!! #art #cult of the lamb #narinder cotl #so interesting thing i noticed while looking at the other bishops #so heket is the only one out of her shamura and kallamar that has the horizontal line through the red pupil #but LESHY. while he has his eye covered in this form of his . if you look at his eldritch form with the blindfold off. he also has the #horizontal thing in his pupil then #i thought maybe its the eldritch forms only then but no. even shamura and kallamar's eldritch forms dont have it #so it is strictly a leshy and heket thing #dont know what it means but whatever. thought it'd be neat to include for narinder as well. <3 #WAIT SORRY almost forgot to add what was the actual deciding factor to that rather than just whatever: #narinder's eldritch form does in fact have the horizontal lines in his pupils as well #so that was what made me say whatever to also adding it to his non eldritch bishop form here. <3 #anyway literally boring ass stock pose against a white bg but i just wanted to focus on the design + copying the game style as much as #possible which im actually really happy with. obv i cant do 1:1 but i think i got pretty close. so. :3

[letsmcfreackingloseit]

Yeah, that elevator sure got Monty. 

Banged him up real good

#solar lunacy #moon #fnaf moon #moondrop #monty #montgomery gator #fnaf #fnaf security breach #gore #I'm sorry if someone is sensitive to gore? #does this count as gore??? #I mean- he did lose an arm #right there #but that's only because I did NOT want to draw a shoulder/arm in the pose he's in #like- what would that even look like???? #if it wasn't for that- I would've let the arm stay #... #you know what? #I should've drawn the dead man's pose meme #that would've been better AND funnier #but it's too late now #gotta post this before the next chapter comes out and I forget

[s1ithers]

wish i knew the forgotten realms lore better...how am i meant to make my little ocs in this state of ignorance

#i'm so interested in how people relate to the gods in this world which is sort of hard to glean from the wiki #thinking abt those notes in the ilmater temple - 'even bhaal has things to teach us 😔🙏' otoh but the absolute cult is 'heresy' #like who decides that? what does heresy /mean/ in this polytheistic setup where each god's cult seems to p much do their own thing #& it seems like even among the good-aligned gods ppl tend to pick one to hitch their wagon to in a pretty committed way #what does polytheism mean to the average joe in this world #i need to know #i need to make a little guy about it #wrapped up shadowheart's quest and....idk man! #just going off the lore as presented in bg3 so far it's set up distrust for deities pretty much across the board #like babe is your new cult better? bc they've got angel imagery? i guess so #the whole problem of evil thing - the dead three shar et al being so extant & active in the world makes the (apparently?) more distant #benevolence of good gods pretty limp by comparison #so much of what draws lay people to them seems to be protection from the very real material threat posed by the evil ones? #& at least SH is in a better place to choose than say. the goblins #vast swathes of people just born under a bad sign in this world #i heard somewhere that if you don't get a god to claim your soul for their afterlife it just kind of withers away in limbo for eternity? #kinda fucked up #some protection racket shit dude #being a mortal in FR like you're just a little guy in a precarious cosmological situation aren't u #to be clear none of this is a criticism i think it's very fun & chewy #rife with cosmic horror potential #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #edit: i mean it's a little bit of a criticism in that i don't think the game sells SH's conversion super well #if the intention is just to be like. yay white-hat god good ^_^ #but i don't hate the worldbuilding implications if we take the iffiness as read

[anghraine]

A more coherent part of the adaptation+Darcy post I was threatening to release from drafts purgatory:

While I think all adaptations' versions of Darcy are pretty bad at representing Austen's character, though sometimes compelling in their own right, I think the various choices made are all ways of addressing the same problem with the character as written.

It's not a problem in the novel—indeed, I'd say it's a remarkable achievement there—but I think we don't always realize how extremely ambiguous the presentation of Darcy is through the first half of the novel. It's easy to read him as basically hostile because he was when he first appeared and because Elizabeth, our smart, likable POV character, gets stuck in that perception of him for half the book. So it's only on re-reading that most audiences realize Elizabeth drastically misread his real feelings and the original interpretation of his manner is thrown into question, at the very least.

But as I said in the other post, Austen plays fair: it is entirely possible to realize that Elizabeth is mistaken about some things (esp about how he feels towards her), it is possible to realize that particularly observant characters find his expressions and behavior difficult to interpret, it's possible to notice that we are rarely told how he's speaking or smiling, and scenes typically cut off before we can be told. And it's possible to notice the many issues with Wickham's account of him.

But it's also entirely possible to read everything he says and does as Elizabeth does, and the narrative gently encourages us to do so without often committing to actual description that would guide us in those ambiguous scenes. Austen might have, for instance, described his smiles in the Netherfield scenes as contemptuous, polite, or pleasant. But she just repeats that he's smiling while drawing very little attention to the fact and rarely committing to an indication of what his smiles or presentation of dialogue are like. So it's mostly up to us to decide, with the occasional (dubious in some respects) interpretation from Elizabeth.

And we're likely to reach different conclusions on re-reading—the earlier presentation of Darcy rewards re-reading a lot, because a lot of the time, we don't even realize how much we're not being told until the letter or even the Pemberley scenes, where Elizabeth identifies the smile we saw in his earlier scenes as the same one in the painting done during his beloved father's lifetime—making, say, the "contemptuous" reading very unlikely.

Now, getting away with that level of ambiguity and obscuring that the ambiguity is happening in the first place, as Austen manages to do in the novel, is both impressive and a hell of a lot harder in visual form. Not impossible! But if we see and hear him ourselves we're less likely to form judgments shaped by Austen's tricks of narration and Elizabeth's POV, and this typically involves commitment to a particular aspect of his presentation in the novel.

And if you think about it, the four major adaptations of Darcy are essentially committing to some part of his depiction.

Laurence Olivier's Darcy is smiling, witty, and charismatic—which are a part of his personality, but skewed so far out of proportion that he's virtually unrecognizable. And there's no attempt to obscure his place in the narrative as the actual love interest (I assume because duh, it's Laurence Olivier—but it was a pretty unrewarding role for him as written).

David Rintoul's Darcy is (in)famously "robotic"—the 1980 version of him leans into the withdrawn, inexpressive, difficult to read but clearly uncomfortable version of Darcy. The smiles in the earlier part tend to be tight, a matter of form, and/or unconvincing, by contrast to the later Darcy's comportment towards the Gardiners and Elizabeth, esp after the second proposal.

Colin Firth's Darcy is, well—okay, I'm biased because of my intense dislike for the 1995 production, but I do think it's also struggling with the same issue, but responds in the opposite way as the 1980. Where the 1980 tried to replicate the ambiguity in a way that retained Darcy's tendency towards a certain severity and dignity and mostly ended up at expressionless, the 1995 transforms it into visibly intense, sexualized brooding. This is coupled with Elizabeth's perception of Darcy's hostility being much more validated than in the novel; he snaps at her, most of his textual smiles are removed, even his letter is rearranged with an eye to half-dressed angst rather than the subtle charity of the omitted "God bless you", and generally his angst and passion!!! are played up rather than down ("I shall conquer this!!" / the melodramatic pond dive and shift in focus from Elizabeth's shame to Darcy being barely dressed / Darcy being grim in London, etc).

If the 1995 version of Darcy commits to Darcy's behavior being largely how Elizabeth sees it, the 2005 drastically reverses that. Matthew Macfadyen's Darcy is also struggling with passion, but tbh he seems like he's kind of struggling with everything. He's visibly consumed with anxiety, he's obviously shy where Darcy has to explain his discomfort or experience it as a POV character in the novel, he seems sweet despite occasional classism, and at times his arc seems more about learning to relax than anything else. That is, instead of representing Darcy as more or less accurately seen by Elizabeth, it leans into emphasizing the extent of her misunderstanding, with Darcy's behavior both more sympathetic than she sees it and clearly comprehensible if she weren't so biased against him (fwiw, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries also emphasizes Elizabeth's misjudgment to a considerable extent and deals with the ambiguity by keeping him literally offstage).

The point of all this is that there is a core issue of adaptation here—the difficulty of representing subtle novelistic ambiguity while making Darcy emotionally compelling at the same time. Adapted Darcys are often given extra scenes, altered dialogue, or (where described in the novel) altered mannerisms/emotions to try and achieve this. And all lean so hard into the aspect they choose to emphasize that they tend to sacrifice most of the rest of his personality to the interpretation they're committing to, and his feelings for Elizabeth tend to be incredibly obvious to the point that it sometimes strains belief that she wouldn't see them, even with all her investment in not seeing them.

I guess the thing is that I think just stopping with "this is an issue of the different media and can't be represented on film" is boring and underestimates the potential of film as a medium. There are plenty of performances that can only be fully appreciated on re-watching or re-listening to something with a fuller knowledge of what is revealed later. And to some degree, the adapters do have to choose how much they want to incorporate Elizabeth's perception of Darcy vs the bare narrative and what they're willing to give away about him to preserve what seems most important.

These are all active choices with actual significance, IMO. They imply priorities about the production and their production's take on Darcy that are intriguing in a way that gets lost by just giving them a free pass by way of the challenge of the medium.

#see also lotr! #i actually can understand why jackson et al. sacrificed so much of denethor's character #because as written there ARE some major challenges posed to what they were trying to do #it doesn't mean that a) what they were trying to do and b) how they handled the challenge are above criticism though #but yeah. i do think darcy is a difficult character to adapt bc of the deliberate ambiguity surrounding almost everything #throughout the first half of the story #/but/ that this does not place the excesses of the adapted versions beyond criticism #(the alternate draft was even longer and i really wanted to go into more detail about denethor #hence splitting this off into its own thing!) #anghraine babbles #austen fanwank #legendarium fanwank #austen blogging #not going to tag w/ characters to keep them out of the tag #but #lady anne blogging #otp of otps #anghraine's meta #andrew davies critical #pj critical #legendarium blogging #(for the tags) #long post

[necrobain]

anotha one from a few months ago. can you guys tell i love him

#the way i fumbled his hand so fucking bad #Like why does it look 20x larger than his face #in my defense he does have large hands #Yall know what that means… :smirk: #Scott forgive me #even the angle of the whole pose is fucked up #Anyways rant over #scott weiland #stone temple pilots #stp #velvet revolver #grunge #90s #art #fanart #sketch #sketchbook #traditional art #aesthetic #drawing

[kicktwine]

this is the result of too many thought trains colliding at once so like - s. sorry paranatural likers. I only had one cool idea all day and it was to turn King C into a spirit fusion hostile takeover gundam situation

like this (very rough wip gif under the cut)

#paranatural #I suppose. #HES FUN TO DRAW AND I PUT TOO MUCH THOUGHT INTO What is basically. completely out of left field #but it CAME from the idea that spirit fusion sounds like a cool way to squash yourselves together. but I don’t think King C would #concede to being worn as clothes. he is a bit more controlling than Lucifer imo #so just let the boy wear the Whole Spirit why not #or alternatively. use fusion as a way to run and do things without leaving your boy #??? I dunno. I’ve been designing mecha recently #‘Is Isaac still in there?’ ‘I dunno. hey Isaac!!!! (Izzy does the nya pose)’ #’nya.’ ‘Ok he’s fine’ #my art #pnat #isaac oconnor #do I tag king catnine??? Does he even have a tag? How’s my driving? How does a car even work #my like third or fourth paranatural fanart and I draw king catnine 2. idk man #looks a bit like forge. honestly I was just iterating trying to find something interesting as a helmet #For Under The Cut Reasons #‘being mean to Isaac’ maybe. in a cool way though. #:]

[that-was-anticlimactic]

hottake but r.enee r.app actually wasn't that good in the new m.ean girls movie musical - y'all are just attracted to her

#not syaing she can't sing bc she can but i hate how much she changed r.egina #and i hate just. pretty much everything about this movie other than the guy playing d.amien. he was good. #what's with the weird shots during w.orld burn??? #wHY CHANGE SO MUCH GOD #just film the actual broadway musical #also like idk why everyone says r.enee is the best r.egina like. i mean i respect y'all's opinions she does have a beautiful voice but #everypne's out here acting liek r.enee is THE r.egina and there was no one before or after her #sorry i just need to know that SOMEONE agrees with me pls the whole movie was one awful disaster #i need someone to validate me pls i'm begging no one ever agrees with me on my movie musical critiques even tho i am a HUGE theatre fan😭 #anyways #corey talks:) #idk i may delete this later it just. it BAFFLES me. #just watched the r.evenge party scene and hated every second of it #they changed SO MUCH and FOR WHAT #and they skipped ahead a LOT #and r.enee wasn't even that good in it??? all she did was like try to pose sexily or whatever and THAT ISN'T R.EGINA #not even going to get started on c.ady or g.retchen or the weird... idk whatever the beginning of that was #okay i'm done now again sorry

[hauntingblue]

Just thought about something for a second: shanks is so fucking sketchy. He warned shirohige about blackbeard and to stop ace and look at what happened. Also now he is talking to the gorusei about luffy (probably about his fruit (joyboy/nika if I assume right) bc he was the one who found it) and now imu is after him, shirahoshi (poseidon) and vivi (who knows something about the weapon mariejoa holds bc of her family's history with the place), blackbeard is still a menace but because of having two fruits or because of being a d? Both? And what does that make him a menace at ancestral weapon level (like the others)? I have so many questions. Why does shanks like luffy but still warns the gorusei about him. Why do they respect him. Why did they let him stop marineford. Why is he so powerful. Why is he a yonkou. Shanks is key to all this and I DON'T KNOW WHY

#went on a bender here. welcome to my twisted mind #its 2am WHATEVER #talking tag #watching one piece #i just started wano I know about joyboy bc that is inescapable but THAT'S IT and i don't wanna know more so shhh #i really need to make my corkboard.... i really do #actually i might go on another bender here; pluton is the god of the underworld and imo its adam the boat (makes sense bc tom has its plans #and he and his family are from gyojin island so they passed them down thru generations) and it's the boat that will carry the gyojin to the #surface #now shirahoshi is poseidon which can tell the sea beasts to carry the boat to the surface #now luffy is joyboy who promised something (to carry the gyojin to the surface?) to the previous poseidon #but joyboy is nika who is the sun who is in the sky. so now we have the underwold (adam/pluton). the sea (poseidon) and the sky (nika) #and luffy is nika but then the weapon in mariejoa is the strawhat??? I MEAN YES BUT HOW DOES LUFFY GET IT LMAO bc its just his fruit right? #does he even need it? is it just a represetation bc it went missing? #and what does vivi have to do with this #AND DID SHANKS GET THE GUM GUM FRUIT FOR THE GOVERNMENT BC THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR IT AND NEW ABOUT JOYBOY/NIKA #AND HE IS JUST A GOVERNMENT ARM POSING AS A PIRATE????? but then the government must have known about the fruit and shanks doesnt #need to tell them.... or maybe he hid the gum gum fruit was the one with nika in it and is now telling the truth to them.... #if it even works like that... #shanks being so well off bc he is affiliated with the gov makes too much sense bc we havent seen how strong he is apart from the haki.... #and every yonkou is just weirdly born to never die or something #you know this is so bad bc i havent seen the last movie about shankd bc you know i am not that far yet so i am just throwing spaghetti to a #wall and seeing what sticks but like if there wasn't even a wall there #ALSO robin is gonna get her THREE poneglyphs in wano!!! I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY SAY #pulling threads #<- literally #pulling strings

[queenofzan]

a: the overwhelming amount of people in US prisons are there for non-violent offenses

b: even the ones who aren't still are people? they still have rights? it is unacceptable to strip them of rights that aren't even remotely related to public safety?

#i mean i find most aspects of prisons unacceptable #but like from a logic standpoint. #what the fuck risk does a murderer or rapist or even serial killer pose voting for a city council member

[cyber-bunnie]

Tbh is it bad that I don't like sending nudes unless the person has seen me irl first?

#i feel like im such a catfish w my angles #like i cant be sending you pics where i look one was and come up irl looking completely different #its not even like the pics are edited its truly just angles posing and lighting #but like.... that does NOT look like me.. like its me but its not me yknow what i mean

[astrohaterz]

faces. from the face drawer

#digital #oc tag #gorget buried alive #what does that tag mean do you think. hm #ive got some bigger compositiony pieces sketched but i havent had the energy to do much with them #when i draw its usually thumbnails or sketchy poses or--as you can see here--faces #which i enjoy drawing even though my visualization skills are lacking #when i get two days off in a row again someday...then ill have time to sit down and get some things done...

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok and B’Elanna being adorable - More like Best Case Scenario amiright?

#Tuvok #B'Elanna #tuvok cam #HEHEHEHE guy who is annoyed and girl who is excited #she'ssooocute <3 romance girl #Tom: And what if Janeway was EVIL??? / Tuvok: I'll kill you. #Tuvok is so annoying I lovehimIlovehimIlovehim #Tuvok: I'm not going to write this v_v -sees Tom is writing it- You're writing it WRONG. I'm going to help you since you're so awful. #Neelix: I have a comment about the Neelix character. #Tuvok: How Surprising. =_= <- literally just blatant sarcasm <3<3 not even coded or oblique #HHHEE TUVOK YOU WROTE HIM SO MEANLY PLEASE #Tuvok: -having just written Neelix as a coward with no morals willing to betray anyone at the first sign of trouble- What's the issue?? #Veeery in character Tuvok hHEHEHE...no personal bias there at all #no personal bias in the fact you wrote Chakotay being more mad about you then about Janeway either I'm SURE <3 #early seasons Voyager my beloved I love how they're just fucking goofing around up there #'Need I Remind You - That It Was /I/ Who First Began The Scenario?' hehehe Tom PLEASE let Tuvok play with you you're being so mean~!!! #Tuvok: We need to make a detailed outline of the next chapters v_v / Tom: I'm just gonna make it up. #Tuvok: WE CANNOT PROCEED WITHOUT A CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED OUTLINE. <- autism moments. Make an OUTLINE. TOM. #he does a funny thing with his hands after Tom refuses again to let him work on the holodeck - it looks almost like he tries to #do his meditative pose but then remembers he's holding his PADD and stops....autism moments #Tom and Tuvok fighting like kids is so funny. When Tom tries to write more and Tuvok's LOCKED it HEHEHEHH #SNRKEHEHEHEHEH TAND THEN SESKA SHOWS UP!!! Ohmygoodness...Ifucking love this it's so unserious #They should have kept Seska as an ongoing like scooby doo villain where halfway through any given episode she just suddenly pulled off a #rubber mask or stepped out from behind a pillar like IT WAS ME. SESKA >D and everyone's increasingly annoyed about it #they'rel ikeohhhhmygodit's Seska AGAIN -_- #like she just gets less and less intimidating even though she IS trying to kill them everytime and she almost succeeds everytime #st voyager

[theonlyadawong]

when this scene came up in the trailer i remember thinking "huh she looks kinda demure, or like she's hiding herself behind the case" (because I thought this was going to come up after the helicopter scene, so I thought it was the briefcase with the amber)... it's a fucking gun lmao

#speakerphone! #idk when it comes to trailers i try to be chill on theorizing (emphasis on try... idk i cant help that my mind runs wild) #and when it comes to ada ik that if i dont have the full context of the scene then theorizing is especially useless. #but this made me laugh. #i mean. shes still posed in a way indicating shes uncomfortable (for OBVIOUS reasons) but idk why i thought demure was the right word lol #anyways. now that ive chewed on it i am firm in my believe that i dont like that weskers here. #he doesnt feel like a threat anymore. hes just there. him holding a gun to her to intimidate her into this new part of the job... #and really what does he actually do when hes out there? he gets a sample of her blood. berates her. forces her to take the override device. #other than taking her blood he didnt need to be there. and even then. he could just send one of his guys to do it. #anyways yah i felt this way at the beginning i think i was just so excited sw was out that i couldnt put it into words

[grahamcarmen]

redcrackleweek Day 2: Slice of life

#red crackle week 2022 #video #red crackle #carmen x gray #carmen x graham #was gonna start biting and killing what does tumblr mean they idk what a .25 compressed gif is #but anywayyy simple collage! #and i think somewhere gray has all the social media sites #which is how he got found in .5 seconds even if player could've found him in 1 sec anyway because he's that good of a hacker #carmen joins with her weird half sighting cause look at all her spotlight poses and tell me she doesn't like attention #find waldo imagine