#innate styling

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[weirdmageddon]

help whats with him clinging to shit. almost every panel he is shown theres something hes clinging to

#something something naturally soft passive physically clingy temperament shoved down and inhibited due to living conditions #he gives me the same feelings as tbh autism creature but baby dave is cuter because of the wide set eyes in the style #hs #and then dave is out here near the end the comic snuggling other people over multiple pages #he is innately physically affectionate :] thats his temperament even as a baby #hes first clinging to the paradox slime machine he was made from like its his mother and Then to john who is babysitting it up

[innatestyling]

#innate style #innate styling #style #styling #stylist #fashion #womensstyle #inspo #favorite things #workwear

[fennel-tea]

all i ever draw these days is shit that's only funny to me and a handful of people in a niche discord channel

#fennelart #mia wanted me to put it on tumblr #and i quote: 'no shame' #but consider: i have shame in great supply #and am spurred instead by an innate and unstoppable sense of self-sabotage #this was actually an attempt at remembering what my old art style looked like and I’m not sure I succeeded #teequeue lp #I…I guess.

[bytebun]

some notes on the details i pay attention to when drawing certain characters in “my style”

#submas #pokemon legends arceus #akari #ingo #emmet #bytebun draws #a friend mentioned they like seeing the notes i make abt my thinking process as i draw in my sketchbook lol so here's some digital ones #i don't usually think this much/it tends to be subconscious... the vision i have for a character just innately influences how i draw them #at this point #really the best way to develop a style is just to draw the same guy many times and see what sticks & is repeatable #my style in quote because this is one very specific anime-esque style lol. if i drew the guys in my sw style #the hooked/high nose would be much more prominent #no id #yes my akari is. free catgirl. and a bit weird

[neige-leblanche]

the scene in epel's second birthday vignette where floyd gave him the watch absolutely ruined me btw. like ik not everybody headcanons epel as trans but as someone who does it just put such a fine point on his struggle with being seen as masculine, like a fancy wristwatch wouldnt particularly help him look strong enough to overcome his bullies or whatever its literally just. something a man would own. and he gets so overjoyed. because he consistently has to *prove* that he wants to be masculine despite his appearance; even more sensitive characters like deuce take a while to catch on to the fact, and then here he gets the watch as a gift & gets called handsome without asking for it. even though its a happy scene it fucked me up so bad 😭

#txt #THATS ANOTHER THING i think contributes to his starting to fit in at pomefiore that ppl rarely bring up bc its most clear in this specific #card's vignettes & homescreen lines: epel really does care about his appearance!! and we see him start to have more fun with it & experiment #with style more; but it doesn't come across during the main story when he's just in his school uniform that vil arranged for him #and like. if you had Only read the harveston event & the main story i can kinda see where the 'epel is innately okay with feminine stuff & #vil is right for suppressing his desire to be masculine!!' argument comes from #but like. even if his affinity for masculinity is at any point little more than a rejection of femininity. his budding interest in masculine #*fashion* shows that his desired gender presentation is its own fully formed thing and not just the absence/hatred of something else #ergo he fits pomefiores principles of beauty & pride #does this make any sense. tumblr tags are the worst place to write an essay

[dykeinthedark]

venting in tags about gender n shit (long as hell) (u can comment and talk 2 me as always :3)

#okay so i got a really masc haircut about a month ago and i know it's just a haircut but holy shit has it changed EVERYTHING for me #like.... i've always leaned masc except 1) before i came out 2) when i was actively in love with someone who i knew liked femmes #and they always described me as a fem. because that's what i showed her. because i wanted to be with her. #but lowkey whenever i'm in a not-impressing-anyone raw-dogging-life-no-crush era i always resort to a very masc style #like masc being my default and i'd only lean fem to impress people whether it's for love or peer pressure in a specific setting #like ''dressing up'' has always been a form of drag to me. like something i HAD to do to fit in or impress my parents (scott favor core) #but ever since this haircut i've realized... i could just BE masc innately like i really don't have to be womanly if i don't want to #which i usually don't. again i have only ever dressed fem for other people. but it's not even being masc that attracts me on its own #it's like. being masc in a distinctly lesbian way. as in whenever i look in the mirror i don't wanna be like a Guy i wanna be a dyke. #like lesbian as a gender identity too sort of thing honestly. okay i've been waffling but basically i sort of want to call myself butch #but i don't know if i like... can?? if i'm allowed to??? #everyone always says it's MORE than just wearing boy clothes and not wearing makeup and having short hair (which i already do all those) #i mean i've always id'd as genderqueer because it literally just means gender weird and i experience gender in a queer way #what's probably the most telling is that my friends (all queer) CALL me a butch lesbian #like every time they do i feel really internally validated. it's not just my clothes but my personality too ig is what people tell me #i have a higher pitched voice relatively speaking but apparently the way i talk is quote ''very clockably into women'' #which?? gender euphoria asf. my best friend specifically he (gay trans guy) always uses butch to describe me very intuitively #people have also noticed that i ''transitioned'' in all aspects except hormonally. like ppl have commented and noticed my masculinzation #but at the same time i always feel rly haunted by my ex relationships because one wanted me to be more masc #(she's the one who came out as straight and would treat me like a man) which i didn't like and i didn't like playing up being fem either #bc now it feels like she (butch) won't believe me if i called myself butch too bc she remembers me being femme #idk i feel like there's her voice in my head all the time that sees everything i do through her eyes (i'm lowkey still in love) #i feel like even though this comes so naturally to me i must be putting on a performance #even though i've actually read stone butch blues and done research into the history and i truly love and id with the culture like i rly do #that im still just a sad imitation of a butch lesbian and can never really be a part of it because i used to enjoy dressing up sometimes #like it's so stupid but can i still be butch if i wore a dress to prom and i think i looked good in it?? #even though i was envious of my friends who wore suits?? that i used to try goth makeup?? that i liked long dresses?? #that i enjoyed stacked necklaces and rings on every finger??? #and tbh ALL OF THAT CAME FROM A CONCIOUS EFFORT TO FEMINIZE MYSELF IN JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL WHEN I WAS 16 #because omfg it was 2 months before junior prom and i was worried that i was too masc and wanted to get comfortable with being fem

[byronicbi]

i thought my doodle folder would be filled with bad attempts at drawing silly willy afton but instead it's just?????? jack walten????

????????

i guess he's amorphous enough that i can just play around with his face and go "no yeah that actually looks like him" sldkfjhsdf

#texts. #that and the glamrocks. i had to pivot to drawing something other than robot furries for a sec #or else risk imprinting that into my 'art style' that is still nonexistent but yknow. #i have an innate ability to draw Things but human-like faces elude me. #BUT it's been really fun so that's all that matters in the end.

[peppermintbiotics]

now that i've almost finished working through my brain worms, the only thing i've left to do is to make a post contrasting ais and leander bc goddAMN if these guys aren't foils to each other

#let's see: eye motif. complementary colors. both leaders. borrowed power vs innate power too ig? #i'm not knocking it but i Highly suspect IF the lis are going to be adversary to each other piofiore style #it's gonna be split into leander's faction and ais' faction #elle.txt #touchstarved #stay tuned y'all

[kinfraught]

kind of want to plot w someone yasuko training Arc: since she probably sees herself as weaker sorcerer given her innate technique isn’t necessarily combat orientated. shikigami use is probably her go to as a means to hide behind them initially.

i think a cool character development moment could be someone instructing her in close-combat strategy; wherein she learns how to utilize her innate technique offensively - i guess sort of like a discount version of nanami’s technique. using the precognition of lethality / death to know when to strike, when to back off, how to minimize collateral damage ect

#x ・﹙ faustian bargain bin ooc ﹚ #give her some agency yknow #and positive development that not necessarily driven by a traumatic event ! #the lack of incorporating her innate technique into her combat style is likely why she remains as like #a lower tier grade 2

[afieldinengland]

what is it about the burke and hare case that made actors of the twentieth century give the performances of a lifetime

#boris karloff as cabman john gray in the body snatcher (1945) you will always be famous. something about the complete brutality / the #comradely manner and grin on the backdrop of karloff’s innately fluid / elegant acting style #and peter cushing in the flesh and the fiends (1960) #‘the good doctor’ janus-faced was a role he did so well regardless of time or context. and which he clearly contemplated so deeply #anyway. resurrectionists eh

[notedchampagne]

kinnie onmain with "no sorry i can't hang out. i have to hug my pillow today" i just want to see how you think her handwriting looks like

you know the girls in first grade who would have really bubbly pretty handwriting? yeah

#talking back #i can do a billion different styles but those types of letters still Get me. theyre hard. #maybe the handwriting style for that is innate and not learned

[alice-in-phantasyland]

this needs to be studied. i think this would make a good doctoral thesis.

#the hate for management became a hate for government #💀 #rebeling since 2011 really gave me an innate distrust of authority #but also i want to milk cows and make bread from the wheat ive grown #who wants to live off grid with me #<3 #larry stylinson #louis tomlinson #harry styles #faith in the future #fitf #larry #louis and harry #larry stylinson 2023 #larry 2023 #louis and harry 2023 #harry’s house #louis’ house #at the dining room table

[cruelsister-moved2]

it could be worse I could be a musicologist :) worst field ever btw needs to just stop existing die musicology

#I hate when ppl hate on ethnomusicology bc the name sounds sus #like babe ur pointing at the wrong guy I promise #the musicologist response to like awakenings abt class and race and gender etc is actually fascinating #bc OK u can scrape the barrel for like 2 nonwhite composers and 4 women #but ur entire field is literally defined on the 19tu century european aristocracys taste like #w history or smth u can be like oh what about women in history #but it's like if the history of rich white guys was it's own specific field with its own specific methodology which is then used to evaluat #all other history #you cant like. make that woke and inclusive you just have to admit that its your specific specialism in the study of music and not its own #definitive thing #literally wild that music departments are centred on about 200 years of upper class white male music making #and the study of ALL OTHER MUSIC that's ever existed is like. a niche specialism that makes up maybe 10% of the department #i had to do a bunch of like Bach style 4 part harmony stuff in first year and it was soo... #it's like interesting to study as like a specific tradition and I've always said it's basically like sudoku dhdif it's very mathematic #but its literally a completely arbitrary like aesthetic judgement which is entirely defined by its tradition #and by having weird old white guys with access to the rules established by the previous generation of weird old white guys #and lots of time to sit around for hours completing these little musical puzzles #it's not really like An Innate Truth of Music #and obv as a folk musician I'm like i see the worth in this and I also find it very prohibitive of what i see as the various functional #purposes of music. and im much more interested by like people developing fiddle styles that allowed them to play for longer at a ceilidh #or ballads being constructed in a way that enables someone who cant read to remember 100+ of them #etc. #if u actually recognise western art music as arbitrary it then opens it up for study but just being like this is Good Music like well..why? #and they have reasons obviously but it's like according to the rules established by western art music so it's like yeah of course WAM is #good at being WAM and sea shanties are very bad at it #but like that's both obvious and meaningless so.....

[slurmware]

made some stickerce lol

#txt #pics #if ur wondering yes that is the 1999 guinness book of world records #the og tism havers collected those and the ripleys believe it or not books like they were goin out of style babey #by which i mean. me <3 #also those nat geo weird but true ones #that n i used to watch jeopardy religiously #i habe an innate need to collect facts that nobody will ever give a shit about except for me

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.