#it anymore obvious????

[rotzaprachim]

something something i have many thoughts on the deliciousness of jyn and cassian’s relationship being specifically about the... ambiguity, or if not the ambiguity, the places where it shirks and twists away from the modern hollywood play-by-numbers Movie Romance into something... earthier, messier, more human and intimate. like i don’t personally feel like we needed the kiss, or the infamous deleted wedding ending, as much as i would love to see it in the cut scenes, because i feel like what the movie provided us felt so much more true to character. because there is no kiss, no hollywood declaration of love, the audience has to look at the text as is and the body language and acting decisions and those are simply more insane than almost any other live action star wars couple 

#am i explaining myself? i'm trying to mentally piece it together #we don't get a lot of the modern famous romance stuff but we do get insane physical intimacy and Acting Moments over the course of the film #they don't kiss they eyefuck in an elevator like. idk. hard to explain #also i feel a good part of the Point of this relationship is the fac #t they don't have time to #really develop their relationship it dies just as it starts thats the Tragedy #rebelcaptain #jyn x cassian #etc etc #jyn erso #cassian andor #i think felicity being asked if its romantic or a friendship and her saying its all those things was a correct answer #i think diego talking about it is so interesting too because of the way he highlights the mirror aspect #and the fact they're a union. a duo #the film is interested in the aspects of their union in serious ways! #also like the way that *not* sticking some of the obvious Signs of Romance kind of averts the whole He was a Boy SHe was a Girl can i make #it anymore obvious????

[fearless-seagull]

Alecto! Alecto! Alecto!

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt fanart #alecto the first #alecto the ninth #nona the ninth #alectopause making me go insane #I can’t deal with this anymore #i’m in love with her #is it obvious my state is like quadruple landlocked

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

#tw racism #critical #this isn't even about any specific media anymore #it's a pattern #and it's a pattern that seems so obvious #but it's so omnipresent that even the most progressive folks can't seem to recognize how terrifying it is #these tropes were written in blood

[galoogamelady]

If Buttons was real what's his McDonald's order

"Hug machine's broke."

#beyond the obvious boycotting I don't really eat fast food anymore #it's just not worth the money #so I have no clue what even is there to order lol #GTA Online #OC #Buttons

[redrobin-detective]

I think one underrated tragedy of Ice King's scars is that he probably took away Simon's sense of levity.

Like in his very limited appearances before Simon is consumed by the crown we see he's kind of a silly dude. In his introduction video, he only put on the crown in order to playfully tease his fiancee. Plus watching him make light of the loneliness and general misery for a young girl in a broken world. He was a dedicated man, who was generous and loved with his whole heart and threw himself one hundred percent into everything he did. He was also a fun lil guy.

But after almost a millennia of being a mad man, the brunt of every joke, someone who only existed as a broken caricature of himself and couldn't be counted on to take anything seriously, I imagine he was done with it. Now he wants to focus back on his academic endeavors, on his role as a father figure in Marcy's life, on being a proper adult. Any attempts to be silly could easily remind everyone - including himself- of Ice King, something he's eager to avoid.

So his jokes and jibes and general lightheartedness turned to sarcasm and self deprecating comments.

#watching him in simon & marcy compared to Fionna and cake #like he is handling the two stressful situations totally differently #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #adventure time #like this was a dedicated historian but hes also a fun guy! #and then he spends a thousand years as the worlds biggest punchline #and suddenly he doesnt WANT to be funny anymore #he wants to be serious and taken seriously #and to separate himself from IK as much as possible #he thinks of a silly joke and immediately quashes it #like its not just his obvious depression in F&C #it really feels like new Simon is trying very hard to not be that guy anymore #no wonder he feels lost hes purposefully divorcing himself from a part of who he'd been even before the crown #ive binged a ton of AT eps the last few days I could be wrong but thats the vibe I get

[what-the-floofin]

Honestly I think way too much about my cervitaurs at all times so have this compilation of Notes about them

#dnd #dnd art #centaurs #cervitaur #floof in dnd #its ART #accept all these NAKEY taurs for this #they're furred all over anyway lmao #it's not a full comprehensive shebang - with like ALL markings and whatnot - that'd be too much #but some obvious points of interest hell yeah #I make my own rules to follow and it is fun #i dont know how tumblr sizes things anymore but open image in new tab is always our friend - be free

[outer-stars]

"hey, it's that waybright kid"

#i'm just saying #i think everyone was able to tell that something was DIFFERENT with the calamity trio when they got back #you can't just go through that much character development and not have your entire vibe change #and i think that it would be especially obvious at school #they literally faced life and death stakes many times- do you really think that they'd find typical school drama that important anymore? #idk i feel they wouldn't #<- has SO many thoughts and feelings on this #amphibia #amphibia fanart #my art #outerstars art #sasha waybright #amphibia sasha #calamity trio #this art is somewhat old but i still like it enough to share here :]

[mrmllde]

tuck you close (so you'd feel safe)

#my art #fanart #toh fanart #the owl house #willow park #toh willow #toh hunter #hunter noceda #huntlow #toh winter #i may be spent too much time on thse sketches #so they aren't sketches anymore #in dire need of some cuddly huntlow #those may be set after Epic Battle Finale tm #or not #also it isn't obvious but those two pieces set apart in timeline #in case you wondering if i forgot tears on clothes #did not

[formulaonedirection]

WORLD STOP

#it's literally giving he was a boy...she was a girl...can i make it anymore obvious.... #they actually make me laugh so hard #max fewtrell #lando norris

[lokorum]

lover's embrace

if you want to support my progressing obsession with sad tes characters - and have a coin to spare! - you can donate here!! it will help me super-duper much!! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و

#dagoth ur #voryn dagoth #morrowind #tes morrowind #morrowind fanart #tesblr #the elder scrolls #who am i kidding #at this point im my own sad tes character #im not even waiting for tes 6 anymore im waiting for GLENMORIL to be finished pgphphphph #also im starting to suspect that drawing voryn holding star as a-very-subtle-and- not-at-all-obvious-metaphor-for-nerevar is my new job

[idkhowtopickausername]

Akio trying to convince Utena in the last episode that Anthy's suffering is a tragic but inevitable facet of reality and nothing can be done about it despite him being the primary one responsible for her suffering, and this being part of his smoke and mirrors illusion through which he maintains control, acting like his tower is the highest place in the world and he is the end of the world and there's nothing beyond the limits of his power and it's naive and delusional to think otherwise...and Anthy having internalized this idea that there's no hope for her and there's no possible future for her beyond Akio's abuse...and Utena rejecting this ultimately not out of some abstract idea of heroism or nobility or some clear idea of how to fix things but simply because she cannot accept it and she loves Anthy too much to not try to do something...and that giving Anthy the hope and courage to believe in a future where she can be loved and be happy and the strength to choose to leave herself and even subtly mock Akio's own immaturity and self-delusion on her way out the door as she goes to step over the line to the outside world while Akio is shocked because he never considered that his power over her was not absolute and he too believed in the indestructibility of the system he created...the revolution was the power to imagine the future!! the world (the stage) is free and wide!!

#every month or so I have to repeat some really obvious rgu analysis with dramatic reaction pics #just to get it out of my system #anyway though I think this fundamentally altered my worldview when I first watched the show #it managed to convey a message of hope that felt grounded and genuine and real and it meant a lot to me and still does #rgu #rgu spoilers #don't use that tag often anymore but I suppose I should for this

[otiksimr]

Princess Mink

Icewings are always really pale when they're young, this is true for all icewings, even the ones that turn out really dusty as adults as they gain their color as they age. So it was of much concern when Mink was this dark at a young age, turns out she's just melanistic.

#my art #my design #wof #wings of fire #wof fanart #wof icewing #wings of fire icewing #icewing #wof mink #mink #princess mink #I changed my signature if you hadn't noticed #It's a lot more obvious now #But now I can't hide it anymore :( #This is going to be really confusing if you didn't know I even had a signature in the first place

[rottmntpeepawpolls]

@threestripeslider @kathaynesart

#peepaw showdown #peepaw multiverse #replica rottmnt #odd man out rottmnt #rottmnt bad future #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt future leo #rise future leonardo #leo rottmnt #tmnt polls #i'm probably missing a glaringly obvious tag that i'm only gonna realise when i post this poll and i can't edit it anymore

[pjs-everyday]

Secret Identity // Twiyor Month @twiyorbase

#SOMETIMES MOMMY AND DADDY HAVE SECRETS #AND SOMETIMES THEYRE REALLY OBVIOUS AND BAD AT HIDING IT #Lol I’m not gonna number these anymore 😅 #twiyormonth #twiyor #loidyor #loid x yor #spy x family loid #spy x family yor #spy x family #spy family #sxf #loid forger #yor briar #agent twilight #thorn princess #illustration #pjseveryday #art #sketchbook #digital illustration #fanart #anime art

[upsidedog]

god the scene in season one where jonathan comes home to joyce and lonnie on the couch drinking together is harrowing. it makes me want to cry just thinking about it, your brother is dead, your mom is horrible mental state and is now also introducing your abusive father back into your house. what a fucking nightmare.

#i think it’s unproductive to try to determine whether joyce is a fully ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mother especially without acknowledging the #intricacies of grief or abuse or how victims go back to their abusers or how your son is stuck in a hell dimension but i think it’s obvious #she was at least being a bad parent to jonathan all of season one he was absolutely put through the ringer and joyce even temporarily #letting lonnie back in is just the cherry on top #anyway season one is sooooooo damn good it’s so fucking good it’s actually a good show in season one #i adore the funeral scene where dustin goes ‘wait till will hears jennifer hayes cried at his funeral!’ so cute so funny #and nancy. NANCY. the angels wept! #the scene where steve tries to get her to go to the movies vs the first ep… she is not a frivolous high school girl anymore. that can’t be #her life

[jeanivere]

my tav and her equally nerdy bf

i dont feel like working on this anymore so take this forever to be wip

#my art #gale bg3 #bg3 tav #baldur's gate oc #baldur's gate 3 #i dont feel like tagging this anymore #i almost dont even wanna post this #cuz its literally so ass #but wtv 😒 #is it obvious that idk how to color #be honest ....