Outfit for Marisol and Pop Art exhibits at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal on a very dark and rainy day (explaining the lighting)
Outfit rundown
Jacket: vintage
Skirt: second-hand Milk
Gloves: vintage
Shoes, beret, bag, belt and scarf: thrifted
Turtleneck: Uniqlo Heattech
Jewellery and accessories: thrifted and Design Festa
Tights: Anna Sui
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Character design for a South Asian Lady
This character design is one I’ve been playing with. This character design may be used in one of my original stories for a character of South Asian origin. I like the ripple-shaped highlights in her hair and the pleasing symmetry of the hairstyle. The idea behind the hairstyle is that her hair is actually very long, but it is cunningly styled to resemble bobbed hair.
Media: Sharpie and pencil shading on scratch paper
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i love how everyone collectively in dca au fics (where they're CreaturesTM who arent named) were like. yeah those two fellas look like the sun and moon. im gonna name them sun and moon bc it's obvious. we are all side eyeing each other knowingly.
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Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.
i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.
the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.
as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")
i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.
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Last week, I dressed up comfortably to visit the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal with my dad, and except for one exhibition about lifestyle and space creation from Inuit, Sámi, and other communities across the Arctic, there was nothing to see. The old section of the museum, House Shaughnessy (where I took those photos), had beautiful ceilings and walls, but nothing else. The winter garden with the beautiful stainglass was closed. All in all, it was a very big and empty museum. On its webpage, it says “We’re not a museum that puts things out and says, ‘This is architecture.’ We try to make people think", and indeed, it made me think of how much space was wasted there, in a city where living is more and more expensive, and people almost fight for lodging spaces.
Outfit rundown
Dress: second-hand Fint
Cardigan: old Lord&Taylor
Bag: second-hand Angelic Pretty
Hat: old Rudsak
Boots: old Fluevog (I know you must be tired of seeing them, but as long as there is snow, I have to wear boots)
House brooch and nut earrings: handmade by a friend
Coucou brooch: assembled by me
Lady in hat brooch: vintage
Flower pin in hat: Pauline Rose
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