HAPPY 6th ANNIVERSARY ARMS!!
I could go on and on about what an impact this game has had on my life and get super emotional but I'll just leave it short and say I LOVE YOU ARMS!
Here's to another year of the brainrot lol
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I think I've noticed a slight trend in the evolution of feminist fairy tale retellings. In the '90s, 2000s, and earlier 20-teens, we had retellings which obviously had feminist themes, but weren't explicitly about "women's issues." The conflicts the heroines faced were relevant to feminism, but not exclusively caused by sexism. Yet more recent re-imaginings of the same stories have been much more explicitly (and a bit ham-fistedly) about battling sexism.
The movie Ever After is obviously a "feminist" Cinderella, with Danielle portrayed as a feisty and clever action heroine, and with a contrast between her tomboyish ways and the ladylike refinement of her stepmother and stepsisters. But the conflict Danielle faces revolves much more around social class than around gender.
Then there's Betsy Cornwell's 2015 YA novel Mechanica, a steampunk Cinderella where the heroine is an inventor. This is obviously a feminist retelling too, because Nick excels in a traditionally masculine field, because she uses her inventions to take herself to the ball without the need for a Fairy Godmother, and because she has a concrete goal of freeing herself from her stepfamily by opening her own shop. In this way, she's very much like the "girlboss Cinderella" of the 2021 Sony/Amazon musical. Yet if I remember correctly, her struggles have little to do with gender. She isn't blocked from achieving her business goal because she's a woman; the problem is simply that she's trapped in an abusive home with no money or resources of her own.
Yet the 2021 musical, with its Cinderella who similarly wants to go to the ball to find a patron and start her own business, makes the whole conflict ham-fistedly about sexism. To a slightly ridiculous degree, because this Cinderella isn't an inventor of mechanics, she's a dressmaker! Weren't most 19th century dressmaking shops run by women? Yet the entire conflict is framed as "Ella's goal of a career outside the home is frowned on because she's a woman."
Then there are the two screen versions of Disney's Beauty and the Beast: 1991 vs. 2017. In the original film, apart from Gaston's claim in passing that "It's not right for a woman to read!" Belle's misfit status is framed in a gender-neutral way. Her dreamy, adventurous spirit, of which her love of books is one aspect, sets her apart from the village's simple workaday culture. Of course there's a feminist element, since she wants more from life than what's expected of her and doesn't want to be the "little wife" of a man who doesn't respect her, but the villagers would still consider her odd if she were a man. Yet the 2017 remake had to explicitly add gender issues. Here, the villagers disapprove of women being educated; only boys go to school, Belle's neighbors dislike the fact that she even knows how to read, and they bully her for teaching a little girl to read too.
It's just a little trend I've noticed.
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happy belated birthday ARMS. this game changed my whole entire life. i love ARMS. this took me a while to make and i put my blood sweat and tears into every brushstroke. so please reblog it <3
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idk sketches and ramblings for an older/adult mechanica concept i wanted to do for a comic idea i have (that you will probably never see so dont hold me accountable)
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long time no see tumblr lol
Happy armsiversary!!! happy birthday to the game i haven鈥檛 stopped thinking about for five years straight
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Mechanica!!
I miss ARMs so much. Such an underrated game.
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all official art of lola pop - ARMS
images taken from the armswiki
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Hi! Im MrSirDBA and im a digital artist learning how to do dramatic lighting and character design! I typically draw OC art with occasional fanart from my favorite series. If you ever have a critique id love to hear it! If you ever want to draw my characters, go right ahead! Just keep it SFW and lemme know its done!
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