#other interests

[scarab-unmasked]

preferred flavor of man : la cucaracha

i have to study my faves. i have to know what the correlation between them all is.. .

#sami rambles #scarab #other interests #fionna and cake #adventure time #bfdi #dca fandom #moon fnaf #four bfb

[mostly-mundane-atla]

Real talk: i have been pretty absent from this blog (i wouldn't say slacking necessarily because it is first and foremost a hobby, a means of communication second, and i do not consider it a job to any degree). Do not worry, nothing bad has happened, and a big part of it is rediscovering my love of literature. Got my hands on a copy of Thomas Kinsella's The Táin, read The Handmaid's Tale, and recently finished Ivanhoe through audiobook.

I've already been singing the praises of the Táin Bó Cúailnge so i'll spare you having to read through that gushing. Ivanhoe is incredible and shockingly sensitive on the topic of antisemitism for something written by an early 19th century Christian author intended for a majority Christian audience. The scenes with Robin Hood also filled me with a childish glee and i think it was suppose to be a surprise that this guy is Robin Hood but he introduces himself as Locksley and wins an archery contest and leads a gang of outlaws in the woods, including a hermit who refers to Alan-a-Dale quite a bit so it's very obvious to a modern reader. Handmaid's Tale was also as good as i've heard it was, but there's a specific detail i want to discuss that feels relevant to how i think of this blog and how others use it.

I've read the reviews and the plot synopses amd analyses, i knew about the epilogue that frames the story as a historical document a century or so in the future. This did not surprise me. What did catch me by surprise, and something i feel is entirely overlooked, is that this story of an oppressive theocratic regime that uses Biblical precedence to excuse extreme atrocities of human rights violations and turned out to not even last very long, is contextualized as the topic of a discussion hosted by First Nations academics who study white people cultures. You can be pedantic and say "oh but technically they're only First Nations coded because it's presented as a transcript with no physical descriptions" and to a degree you would be right; but when you see names like Maryann Crescent Moon and Johnny Running Dog used for professors of a University of Denay (an anglo-phonetic spelling of Diné/Dene) in Nunavit, there isn't much room for speculating what ethnicity they're supposed to be.

There are so many little details in the book referencing Indigenous genocide. Details suggesting forms of genocide Atwood would be familiar with as a Canadian citizen. To only bring up religious fanaticism and patriarchal regressive politics in Middle Eastern nations like Iran and Afghanistan as well as the United States as inspirations for a surface level five minute summary is one thing, but to ignore all the anti-Indigenous policies that are also obvious inspirations (literally just read the passages about how the Narrator/Offred's daughter was taken from her, renamed, and given to a "proper home" to get what i mean, it's that blatant) when the iconic epilogue makes it as explicit as it can be without writing "THESE ARE NATIVE ISSUES" in big red letters? I won't lie to you, it feels like a slap to the face. Especially when the take away message of such a conclusion seems to be that Native peoples will outlive these regimes.

#other interests #the handmaid's tale #ivanhoe #the táin #thus concludes Mostly Mundane's Angry Native Literary Analysis Corner

[zerolovessoup]

should i make an art account where i stop fucking yapping and only post art

#shitpost #shitposting #i’ll prob post #the outsiders #more then anything but #maybe #poppy playtime #& maybe #bsd #& #other interests

[livingincandisworld]

Tracker’s monkey vehicle🐾

The paw patrol hyperfix came back lol

My favorite pups are chase, Skye and Rocky, but I do love tracker 🤎🤎🤎

#not mascot related #other interests #paw patrol #tracker paw patrol #toys #nostalgia #autism #special interest

[agbpaints]

So uh. I figured out how to take pictures of stars with my phone camera

#off topic #astronomy #other interests #photography #photo #stars #star watching #turns out fucking around in the 'pro' menu was good for something after all #to replicate: exposure and ISO to max (3200 and 30s for me) set a delay on the photo and then set phone on ground to wait

[lost-art-of-world-domination]

Okay I suppose this is only tangential to Skulduggery Pleasant, but I’m curious what other media SP fans love? Just wondering if there’s any overlap or if this is just one set of books which struck a chord with a wide range of people. So any books, tv shows, movies, comics, whatever. Curious to see the results.

#skulduggery pleasant #valkyrie cain #other interests #I personally am a huge comic book fan #so I’d like to see what else SP fans love #you can send asks #or just reblog or put in notes/tags #whatever #just curious

[localman-ruins-everything]

How am I getting sex bot follows and not regular cool mutual follows?

#mcu #fire emblem #other interests #pop punk #spam sucks #no bots please #music #video games #gaming #games #pop culture #mine #tv #taylor swift #three houses #three hopes #triangle strategy #spotify #occulence #occulencetv

[wingsandpetals]

i think i peaked at my 2016 flowey kin blog actually. looking at it rn like since when have i had a such neat tagging system? carefully picked aesthetic posts?? a blog theme?

#do not rb #on one hand i always felt really constricted on that blog because it had a meticulous theme and i didn't like using sideblogs for my #other interests #but i'm looking at this like damn. this is pretty i really loved this blog huh #our post comrade.

[sleepygaymerdisease]

#'who was this about' dont worry <3 #EDIT hi i didnt realize this would get notes LOL. um everyone reblog with what character ur thinking of because im NOSEY i WANNA SEE #edit 2 to everyone trying to guess what the character i made this for was. youre all wrong. this was about kamen rider #youd think lupin because of my profile picture but alas i have other interests as well... #anis gaymer moments

[spooksier]

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

#text! #working on a paper abt the degradation of the line between real/unreal in modern society and this one paragraph blew my MIND #like it literally tied all of my other sources together #also this whole paper is about how sex has disappeared from american media so if ur interested in that i highly recommend it

[mostly-mundane-atla]

I'm sorry but as someone with an entire blog dedicated to Avatar: the Last Airbender, who grew up watching the original run and loved every second, it did not deserve to beat Revolutionary Girl Utena in a tumblr's favorite show poll twice. Utena has better gags, a better soundtrack, more consistent themes, and is much gayer. I love atla, but I also know quality when i see it, and Utena simply has more.

#other interests #revolutionary girl utena #seriously how; given the choice between orientalism/anti-indigenous racism and philosophical discussion of gender; #did orientalism/anti-indigenous racism win?

[catmask]

the 'all marriage is gay as far as im concerned' except its me watching a man and woman character in a show i like and accidentally saying 'theyre so gay' because i literally forget thats not the word for romance because to me all romance is gay

#normally i find the way m/f pairings are written to be really frustrating #not because its like 'i hate straight people' or whatever i literally just want them to actually like each other and communicate #or have an interesting enough dynamic i can stay invested #also i am bisexual and m/f pairings can be nice. but liek they actually have to Be Nice and like eachother or be funny at the very least #txt #scratchpost

[tizzymcwizzy]

this is a poster i made for my call to action assignment in humanities! it's a bunch of basic and easy stretches for people who sit and work at a desk all day (me)

the idea is that you'd put the poster up above ur desk and do the stretches every 30 minutes or so,, the whole routine won't take more than about 6 minutes to complete and when done regularly it can prevent wrist, shoulder, neck and back pain! :)

all these stretches can be done while sitting (although i HIGHLY recommend you stand up and move around while taking a break from working)

you can get a free digital copy of this poster here on my gumroad!

and you can order a print/poster here from my inprnt!

#i mostly made this for me but i hope it can help other people too! #also thinking about maybe putting this on smth like gumroad so people can download a high quality pdf to print themselves #lmk if anyone would be interested in that 👀 #my art #artists on tumblr #stretches #edit: this post popped off okay‚ also a lot of people expressed interest so i made a gumroad! maybe ill put other stuff there thatd be cool

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#interesting scientific facts #dinosaurs #other stuff

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

#feminism #media criticism #this doesn't apply to media with large casts of female characters where one or the other is uncommonly outspoken or ahead of her time #and it is dealt with realistically in the setting #im not saying women in the past couldnt be wild and headtsrong and revolutionary #i just think treating it as an essential whenever a female love interest gets added to a historical story about some man is wearing

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

#really happy with how michael turned out :] i might stick to this design #rapunzel ah glowy hair <3 #i do need to workshop gerry though orz #have been working on this during breaks from my other projects and god it took way too long to finish #fun fact the final file for this is over 2gb 👍 forgot i was recording the timelapse #i could post it if anyone would be interested #the magnus archives #tma #michael distortion #michael shelley #tma michael #tma distortion #gerard keay #gerry keay #tma gerry #gerrymichael #doorkeay #technically? i’m not one to draw ship art usually but this one’s close enough i think #tma fanart #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #magpod