#about roles

[romangoldendreams]

Heather MacLeod & Brenda Wyatt.

MacLeod´s two only wives in 467 years, they are two fascinating characters. (The sequels and series are from a kind of AU, never existed)

Because they represent women in two different periods, what is changing, their rights and opportunities, but they also represent what does not change, the concept of love.

And looking at these two magnificent women, the great forgotten secondary characters of this film (one of the best of all time), and analyzing the aesthetics of her scenes with Connor, you can appreciate the social status of the woman with respect to the man.

But let's go further. Heather is the devoted wife (as God intended) in 16th century Scotland, she is the damsel in distress, and the burden of her well-being falls on the husband she loves so much. She leans on him.

From her image it is clear how Heather in exchange for taking care of the farm chores, for always having everything in order for her man, she is everything to him, but he is more to her, he is her economic, emotional, universal support. Without him she couldn't survive. Only if she got another husband. That's why Heather is so pure, so beautiful, the ideal woman, the one any man would want, Connor loves her and desires her intensely. Physically Connor holds Heather's burden lovingly, in the first photo. He is the active part and the pillar.

And we have my favorite, the glorious Brenda. The only police officer with the brains to unravel who Connor MacLeod really is, and in fact the only one among all the idiots that Captain Morán commands who succeeds (I certainly get the feeling that Brenda had something with old Morán romantically, even if it is platonic , but it didn't work, before she met MacLeod).

Brenda represents the woman of the 20th century, almost 21st, with a successful career, published books and an intrinsic value in being a researcher, a thirst for ambition for her development of professional progress, thus pursuing the trail of Connor's katana. Basically she falls in love with the professional opportunity that Connor would give her by teaching her his katana, upon making a discovery. Yes, Brenda is selfish & interested while he stares her with dreamer eyes, i´m sorry.

That is why in their aesthetic together, at the end, when MacLeod is finally mortal and receives his prize, he has telepathy, he feels that he can finally rest from caring for others after 467 years, that is why he is the one who takes the passive part that before occupied by Heather, it is Brenda who will support him emotionally now. She's the strong one, MacLeod has been strong for too long already.

MacLeod has loved Heather dearly. With her he knew the true love & the passion. With Brenda he has discovered the game of cat and mouse, he has been dazzled by her tough game, with her beauty even more emphatic than Heather's, she seems to almost not reciprocate his love in more than one of their scenes in the film, until she does. MacLoud psychologically suffers more with Brenda on a day-to-day basis. Because it seems like unrequited love at first.

Sexual desire and the need to feel loved are brutal with Brenda. Rachel always knew it. The shock after their encounter is so great that both are physically and mentally attached to each other.

In this case, the pillar is and always will be Brenda. She will emotionally protect MacLeod. She will give him whatever he needs even if it is money (which will never happen since he has much more, valuable possessions, she pays for it).

That's why MacLeod rests on his own pillar (Brenda) like in the photo, on someone who will take care of him, after a long time. Here Brenda is the one who takes the masculine role and MacLoud the feminine role, many would say, but in reality it is nothing more than a change in heart and circumstances, it is a total healing of a love wound that lasts almost 500 years.

#highlander #connor macleod #brenda wyatt #christopher lambert #roxanne hart #connor x brenda #connor x heather #about roles #about emotional pillars #female role #masculine role #empowered woman #beatie edney #immortal love #analyzing the immortal lovers

[astrid-beck]

This is my unethical polycule. The nonmonogamy is consensual and negotiated we're just evil in other ways.

#i thought about putting this on my main bc that's where i usually put my funnyman posts #but then I'd miss the joke of this coming from user astrid-beck #this is a blumendrei post but sorry for implying they negotiate their polyamory #critical role #blumendrei

[keeperofseeds]

"writers deserve attention more than actors" literally only 2% of actors can pay the bills with acting. For every megastar on screen there are a dozen other people in the shot who are SAG. Acting gets so glamorized but there are SO MANY people in SAG who NEED residuals to live on. Background Party Girl #4 needs her check too!!!! There are people who play recurring characters on syndicated shows who cant afford health insurance!!! Ke Huy Quan gave an oscar winning performance and LOST HIS HEALTH INSURANCE the next year.

#SAG strike #WGA strike #im about to start throwing things #you hear like scarjo gets 3 million for a film but most actors get 10k for LEADING roles

[angryonabus]

The Killer

So I was hanging out with some friends last night, and for whatever reason, we got onto the subject of whether or not we sleep with the bedroom door closed. Apparently it's safer in case of fires? But it turns out that most of my friends keep their bedroom door closed because of concerns about The Killer, aka, a person breaking into their house at night with the express intention of murdering them.

For the purposes of this poll, "I share a house/apartment" is for situations where you have your own bedroom, but there are other people living with you; "I share a bedroom" is for situations where there is another person sleeping in the same room.

#polls #tumblr polls #I wanted to include a question about pet ownership #because i think that plays a role #but i ran out of answers #so feel free to elaborate in the tags

[astearisms]

catalysts, protectors

#man those episodes #so many things put into perspective #like Simon’s role as a protector and his kindness and empathy and compassion and existence being the catalyst for the rest of ooo to #flourish #and Betty is a protector of Simon #I wonder if the last two episodes will explore more of her character? there’s so much to be explored about her giving so much of herself #to Simon but not thinking about what she wants for herself #do we get to explore her feelings or see her at all? will she have changed or learned to let go #I think there will be some sort of closure for the both of them #but at what cost #I am still crying over that scene with Simon’s memory of Betty and their song #my art #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #golbetty

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[15lehna]

The universal gm facepalm

#brian murphy #matthew mercer #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #critical role #dimension 20 #naddpod #had to use a pic of murph as a player because can't see his face on a podcast #burrow's end #a starstruck odyseey #the fact that the last two happened during the same season says a lot about it

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

#exilley's diary #this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also #it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends #it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost #like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches #theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with

[notherpuppet]

More of the Role Reversal AU featuring some redeemed sinners and a younger Sera

Full parody lyrics of Respectless

#they take the role of the Vees (but the Vees are still elsewhere in the AU) #this AU is best if u don’t think about it that hard #also it’s so fun to work on #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel #angel dust #husk #sir pentious #my doods #role reversal au

[the-crooked-library]

so within the universe of Dune, gender roles abide by a rigid false dichotomy created by the bene gesserit - men lead the noble houses, while the women may join their order, and the powers of both are kept intentionally separate. at the same time, the plot demonstrates repeatedly that the role of paul atreides as a character is that of the border between the concepts juxtaposed within dichotomies: he is both an outerworlder and fremen, both harkonnen and atreides, both a duke and a disciple of the bene gesserit.

as such, it follows that within the in-universe gender structure, he occupies the roles of both male and female, thus being functionally and societally nonbinary. in this essay, i will -

#dune #paul atreides #diversity win! this aspiring space dictator is nonbinary #dune 2024 #atreides #bene gesserit #gender lens #dune meta #this is probably very obvious and already talked about but i had to get it out #i think it's also supported by the original intent behind his birth. as in he was supposed to be a girl etc #gender roles #worldbuilding

[yudol-skorbi]

teeny tiney hut to make them all safe and sound

#critical role #fanart #art #the mighty nein #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #nott the brave #caduceus clay #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #fjord stone #i had a lot of feelings about protectiveness and magic and this teeny gloving safe space in the middle of unfriendly and dangerous world #look at me getting emotional over dnd 5e spellbook

[princesskuragina]

wizards are predisposed to evil bc that's just what academia does to you

#is this dark academia #did i loop back to dark academia #anyways sorry to anyone following my sideblog rn. yes this is about her #critical role #blumendrei

[stormygopher]

The Legend of Vox Machina is a deeply philosophical show that asks important questions such as: “what if the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov had a gun?”

#this is about Percy btw #not art #critical role #vox machina #the legend of vox machina #tlovm #percy de rolo #percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo iii #critical role meme #cr meme #cr shitpost #cr1 #anastasia

[rthko]

"Americans can't deal with death unless they own it. If they own it, they will celebrate it, like in the air force base museum of the atomic bomb, where whole families of camera-toting tourists gather after the required i.d. security checks. In the gray-carpeted rooms, they walk the mazes of portable screens and platforms and enlarged photographs of death and incineration as seen from a discreet distance. The distance is far enough so you can't see the bodies, only the architecture."

David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives, 1991

#with the united states' role in genocide the death of henry kissinger and world AIDS day i keep thinking about this passage

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[shorthaltsjester]

the reason critical role is so good is because every campaign features at least one cast member creating a character that they intend to be doomed by the narrative and matt and the rest of the cast going don’t be an idiot, Our Love Will Undoom Them. like in the explanation of percy’s final playlist, taliesin wrote, “Cheers to a happy ending for a character intended by his creator to be karmically irredeemable. May we all be so fortunate.” and just, Yeah.

#this is particularly about like. percy vax yasha caleb beau fcg imogen #also they’re jokes but like. tary as doomed as meant to just be a fucky joke and they were like no actually he’s my best friend #and bertrand being the Epitome of cast fuckery and . they’re the bell’s hells #the undooming nature of a found family’s love cannot be beat . #critical role #the mighty nein #vox machina #bell’s hells #percival de rolo #percy de rolo #taliesin jaffe #matthew mercer #matt mercer