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ferrisraccoon · 1 year

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artist ask 24, 26, 30

Hello uwu

I rarely use stock photos for references. I don't really know how to look for good stock photos in the first place 😅

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so there's this MFS fanart piece I did about werewolf Raelle which got a few people stealing the concept of Raelle as a white wolf, rather than, say, a blond/tan wolf that would match her human hair. And I absolutely adore the concept of white wolf Raelle... but I never actually intended for that... I just didn't want to color this piece.

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I think any piece of mine that isn't MFS fanart is underrated. But I get that not everyone would like my furry characters 🥲 though I feel like these are usually me at my most creative.

I just don't draw stuff like this anymore huhu... nor do I post in the first place hahah cough

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anywho,

Thanks for asking! I really appreciate it 💛

#ferris answers #asks #artist ask #text

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cer-rata · 13 days

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An incomplete but very angry diatribe about the missed potential of the Star Sapphires

So back in the day Geoff Johns and co decided to open up the Green Lantern mythos and add some more flavor and expand the concept of sci-fi tech powered by elemental emotion to more than just willpower. Which yes, is not an emotion, we ignore it and move on.

Anyway we got some really cool stuff! A rage tyrant fueled by experiencing incredible injustice on a personal and cosmic scale, whose vendetta twisted him into something terrible. An avatar of greed who was never allowed to have anything, not freedom, not family, not safety, who takes and takes and takes to fill a void that can never be satisfied. A priest who lost everything but presses on through his unshakable hope that the future can and will be better. It's a lot of fun stuff!

So in this great creative re-imagining, they had to do something clever and fun with the idea of an all female corps powered by love right? They took the opportunity to move past the purely romantic, sexual idea of love and the obsessed femme fatale archetype, because they had the chance to really explore different types of affection now that there were a bunch of different avatars with different stories to pull from right?

Right?

Nope! The only Sapphires we ever learn about are heartbroken over a cursed romance like Carol, grieving a dead fiance like Miri Riam, forcibly mind controlled to be one like Fatality, or just Miss Bloss who...kind of said she wanted to join up? No clue what her deal is, as far as I'm aware that's never really explained. And then we just never learn about anyone else, and still haven't. The hell is "The Lost Sapphire"? No idea, we'll likely never know.

It's frustrating because not only is this a glaring example of the depth of plotlines offered to women in comics compared to their male counterparts, but also a wild lack of imagination. Love is one of the most complicated emotions we experience. Fear, anger, hope, all pretty easy to quickly define. Love is multifaceted, cultural, incredibly contextual and a factor in so many different kinds of relationship. Just thinking logically it should be much easier to flesh out the motivations of a group pulling from such a nuanced source of power, versus something as clear-cut as rage. But no, the red lanterns got so many varied reasons for their rage, the male ones especially: Bleez being the woman was of course given the SA narrative, which I don't think is inappropriate on its own, that's an incredibly valid reason to be angry, but as the ONLY truly prominent female Red Lantern it's like...c'mon guys. But still, at least she and Atrocitus had different reasons for becoming what they are, and that variation was played for plot and drama.

But there's not a single Star Sapphire that personally champions something other than romantic love. And before you shoot me, it is explicitly mentioned that they DO protect other forms of love, so there's no reason for them to all be sexy and obsessed with kissing people. There are no Sapphires that are driven by:

The love of their children and families, even in a tragic sense, like Atrocitus and Saint Walker and Larfleez are...

Their love of their people, or their culture. It would have been interesting if Fatality was inducted BECAUSE of her pain at losing her world, but no, they just...replaced her anger with lovey vibes and called it a day.

Their love for nature. Not everyone is social, but social love isn't the only way to strongly experience the emotion.

Their love for themselves. Where is the fun narcissistic ass who loves their own self image to the point of getting powers? It would have been a fun twist and a cool way to get another villainous Sapphire if you wanted to.

Their platonic love of ANYTHING really. Are ace/aro people just...not capable of love then? It doesn't mean anything to be willing to drive cross country to help a friend move just because they needed it and you care? No? You need to be fucking for it to count?

It's like...fascinating if you really think about it. In this vast fantasy universe full of alien races with wildly different perceptions and life cycles, and where the other corps have plenty of non-human, truly alien looking members, that the women's only love corps is full of only hot hot scantily clad baddies. Most love that people experience in their lives isn't even romantic! You will have far more experiences with friends and family members and even loving strangers than you will have with romantic partners.

Like the reason is clearly sexism, duh, but we know sexism is bad, that's obvious, what I really want to make clear is how much this blatant, unexplored sexism just completely desecrated the potential of the worldbuilding here.

From another angle even: Let's say this this WAS the sex and romance all the time corps. Let's say that you wanted to keep it all women. I hate the idea that women are capable of love in a way that men aren't, that's such a bad take and just regressive and unhelpful, but let's just play ball for a moment. They're not even hot? Their designs are such ridiculously narrow versions of feminine attractiveness that they're not even successful at really being mass appeal sexy. I haven't even reached the point of complaining about the fatphobia and criminal lack of different body types yet, I'm still just saying that from the standpoint of fantasy sexy it's not even good at being stereotypical offensive fantasy sexy. It's just boring! They're all so visually boring! You can be scantily clad and still have an interesting and coherent character design! But that is not what they gave these women! They actually redesigned the classic Star Sapphire costume and made it MORE sexist and boring:

Yeah it was cheesy but it was also cute and fun? The design is playful classic sci-fi girl and this is when she was still a dangerous unhinged villain. Its fun to look at and feels tonally coherent next to Green Lantern.

And then they just...

No actually, I will not explain this one, you have eyes.

And yeah they fixed her costume finally,

But! She's still stuck as Hal Jordan's romantic punching bag, and has not gotten to have any new adventures on her own.

So.

What I'm saying is it's a flop all around. 2/10, and only because despite everything Fatality STILL managed to serve. I actually think that all of the corps have been poorly used since blackest night, even the greens actually, but they never even gave the Sapphires a chance. They last showed up in...a WW annual I think? During the whole dark gods event, they needed Diana to help them fight the evil god of love, and there was a guy in the corp finally, and they talked about sisterhood and then we haven't heard a peep from them since. I think Carol might be due to get her ring back in the GL ongoing but she's not really been treated well so far, so I'm not hopeful for anything fresh and well reasoned.

So my lovely ladies (and that one unnamed guy), until they let you get it together it may be time to

#dc comics #comics meta #hal jordan #green lantern #star sapphire #carol ferris #fatality #atrocitus #larfleeze #saint walker #sexism #shut up cerata #dc editorial answer for your crimes

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labrat-heart-emoji · 5 months

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13 + character of ur choosing ^_^

Through me to you + Mirage

I started this a while ago so I just cleaned it up a bit bcus I love mirage sm and I think this song fits her :3

#facade answers #labratart #ultrakill #ultrakill mirage #ferry

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trans-cuchulainn · 4 months

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your posts about English folk culture being treated as esoteric within England reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad relatively recently. I was complaining about how much I hated doing scottish country dancing in P.E every year in school and he, having grown up in London, mentioned that he never did any kind of folk dancing in school and it really surprised me.

Having an Irish family and growing up in Scotland I just assumed that folk culture would be a big part of national identity in England because it def is in Ireland and scotland. I mean I grew up in the city and I went to a Catholic school where a lot of pupils didn't come from Scottish backgrounds so I'm sure my experience would be different from somebody who grew up in a smaller town or a rural area, but my school still dragged out the girls who could sword dance every year on burns day y'know

Also now I'm wracking my brain trying to remember all the English folk songs I know and realising that it's comparatively few next to the hoard of Scottish, Irish and American folk songs I've accrued over the past 2 decades. That's definitely partially just due to being connected to the cultures those songs come from and that American folk songs are generally quite a bit younger than the scottish & Irish ones, but it's still not something I've ever really thought about

yeah absolutely. it's something england -- and probably urban england and london especially -- has really lost touch with. a lot of my friends and colleagues are irish, and when the topic of things like irish dance comes up, it's always like "oh yeah i did a bit of that as a kid, everyone did" or "yeah i learned the whistle, obviously, but i stopped when i was eight" -- but there'd be no obviously about that here (even when people learn the recorder at school, it's not often trad tunes they're learning to play!)

i don't know if this is to do with the proportion of the population that's urban vs rural in england compared to ireland or scotland (not sure where wales is at with this, they have a strong song tradition but i don't know much about the welsh equiv of trad dance music nor tbh enough about the song tradition to say anything meaningful on the topic), or if it's a "survival of trad culture to spite oppressive dominant cultures" thing so england lost it due to lack of need to defend it, or if it's predominantly a class issue (but that wouldn't wholly explain schools/the national curriculum, particularly at primary level)... i think there's a lot of factors at work

but it's something i do notice because i spend time in those irish-dominated spaces where the attitude towards trad music and dance is so different. but then those are also often irish language communities, so they're specifically irish communities that are interested in their cultural heritage, and maybe that's not representative of the whole country. still, it feels like even people who aren't interested and haven't carried that interest through to adulthood were exposed to it in childhood in a way that many english people weren't because our equivalent traditions have been relegated to this very niche, marginalised (and potentially very rural) status

#sometimes i think i've learned an english folk song but then it turns out it's scottish #it just got written down by an english song collector who got rid of a lot of the more distinctively scottish features #RIP #if i start thinking about how little i know about welsh traditions #i'll get sad again about not knowing any of my dad's family except his brother #a lot of his family was from rhosymedre and llangollen and places like that #i've never even been there although i've been to other parts of wales #i hope to change that this year though. not for Heritage™ reasons but that's a bonus side effect i guess #i need to take a ferry across to ireland so i gotta go to north wales anyway so might as well make a party of it #answered #anonymous #english folk traditions

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odinsblog · 9 months

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Hey Odin! Hope life's goin well for you. What's up with the recent posts on alabama? I couldn't figure out what happened and I don't have tiktok so I was just curious what all this is about? Thanks for your blog! I've been following it for a while silently haha.

Hey @warningimboring

If you want a quick street level recap, this post does as good a job as any of hilariously explaining it

If you want a more straightforward explanation of why most Black people find it so refreshing and are sO amused by what happened, then this post helps explain why

shorter version: a Black person was wrongly attacked by gang of white people (in the birthplace of the KKK and the confederacy, no less!), and then local Black folks united like the Alabama Avengers, nobody Black was seriously harmed, and the white people who instigated the altercation were held actually accountable for once 🤯 and arrested. And Black people being Black people, we got completely non-serious & lit up social media and the internet with a million memes, from Black Aquaman (Aaren Rudolph 🏊🏿‍♂️), to Bobby Shmurda hat memes, to endless memes about Black people getting strapped by arming ourselves with folding chairs 🪑. It’s basically a win/win, feel good story. We deserve a good laugh and a win, even if it’s not changing the world … or is it??

Once the strike is won by the writers and actors, I’m hoping maybe we can get a Jordan Peele movie outta this

And ty for the kind words and the silent follow. Have a great day, and please dO enjoy all the memes

#ask #answered #warningimbiring #alabama ferry brawl #alabama boat brawl #alabama #alabama avengers assemble

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edith-is-a-cat · 2 months

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QUICK– DO YOU HAVE ANY MYSTERY THEMED ANIMES/GAMED THAT YOU WOULD RECOMMEND TO ME?

ANYTHING WITH DETECTIVES AND MURDER AND STUFF LIKE THAT :D

Not exactly ive been trying to gettinto more anime myself an ive been more into certain shojos but that sounds cool if tou find one ill tots watch it with you

#silly little bear answers :]#ms. ferris!! 🍬

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drinkin-cherryschnapps · 3 months

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FERRIS BUELERS DAY OFF IS ACTUALYL SO FABULOUS

I love the rivalry between ferries and jeanie it's an excellent depiction of siblings

also the principal we all hate the principal right?

IT INVENTED POLYAMORY ACTUALLY. THE JATHERID BLUEPRINT

i KNOW jeanie is an ICON

FUCK THE PRINCIPAL CREEPY ASS OLD MAN

#hi jack :)#answered asks #ferris bueller's day off

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ballwizard · 7 months

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ok well i'll write up a little bit a bout straidor and ferri without divulging into too many 'spoilers'...

archaeopteryx 'archie' straidor (he/him) and octavius 'otto' ferri (they/he) are besties (Just like in real life- i have joint custody of them with octavius of @/sallzabel-oct fame) who grew up together as weird kids ^__^

EDIT: I FORGOT TO MENTION. They're american like aggressively Midwestern American. Hi

(ferri left, straidor right)

upon turning ~17 or so they both joined a circus! over a few years, they grew in popularity, with ferri taking over as ringmaster and renaming the circus to the Ferri Fun Circus (haha) and straidor becoming the primary magician!!

(art of otto and the rest of the circus by @/sallzabel-oct!!)

along with their fellow circus cohorts they began traveling abroad, starting in europe. however; they run into a snag, and the circus gets canned, leaving them temporarily stuck in britain (oh, the horror). the circus integrates into a town nearby to where their last show was performed, with most of the performers using their skills to help out around the place. however, straidor and ferri grow tired of the monotony and opts to move out on their own to study their own passions; archaeology & law respectively. ferri studies to become a lawyer, becoming successful in their small circus town and keeping in touch with everyone. straidor ends up taking a class of layton's because he's heard of how fascinating the man is, and because of his purported archaeological progress. so begins the two of them's LAME ASS STUDIOUS ARC.

now from here, this is where straidor starts to get more involved in a 'story'; while he's in layton's office for an office hours meeting to get some help with an assignment, the phone rings! and who is it but Otto Ferri himself! he's got a massive lead on an ancient buried treasure somewhere in clowntown, and he wants layton's help finding it. layton attempts to excuse himself, but archie won't take no for an answer; he's desperate for some extra credit work, and what could a little field work hurt? he assures layton that the experience will be useful to his studies, and layton, seeing that he won't be able to talk him down, acquiesces. loading up the laytonmobile with luke, flora, and archie, he wonders just what awaits him in that strange circus town....

(this all takes place pre-unwound future, but post-diabolical box! :-3)

#we have more stuff figured out buttttttt thats a secret ok........ *Smiles #cool swag ocs #archie straidor #otto ferri #professor layton oc #if u have any questions about them i would love 2 answer.. of course ill have to get ottos input for ferri questions lol

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severefartoholic · 2 months

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Can you make a Ferry bot

NO💥💥💥👊👊👊👊👊❌❌❌

#ive already said it before to another ask im not making bots of real people #its fucking weird first off #why have like two seperate asks been wanting a ferry bot shes not even a character #answered asks #pafl shitposts

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insufferableprotagonistpoll · 3 months

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What’s your favorite submission so far?

Tough question. Caillou was submitted twice, I definitely liked those, but I feel validated about disliking Ferris Bueller.

#insufferable protagonist poll #insufferable protagonist tournament #caillou #ferris bueller's day off #answered asks

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katmaatui · 4 months

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carol + 22 (yes, as in showcase #22)

When love is real, you cannot sit You can cover, but never quit And carry on, as you were I still feel you, I still feel you

Real Pain by Indigo De Souza, ficlet set when Hal is dead circa the Spectre