#releve

[spiderteej]

Flip your phone to change your perspective ⬅️⬇️➡️⬆️ | 📸 @higoralmeidaphoto | 👁️🔍 #dance #releve #pike #stretch #ballet #flexibility #tattoos (at Chihuahua, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBHWcYr2Xh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#dance #releve #pike #stretch #ballet #flexibility #tattoos

[dozydawn]

Rhythmic gymnast Kasumi Takahashi, 1996. Photographed by Tim Clayton.

#kasumi takahashi #rhythmic gymnastics #rg #1996 #1990s #tim ​clayton #releve

[braveonesoverthere]

Hannibal's Therapist? More like His Sensei! This whole thing was sparked for me and my friends because of the increasing amount of parallels drawn between their homes. (Note the herb gardens) Also: There's growing list of secrets and allusions between Bedelia and Hannibal. What we see of Bedelias advice is becoming increasingly morally ambiguous. And looking back to Sorbet, Hannibal's talk of the Chesapeake Ripper being multiple people and Alana's allusion to his affair around that very time period might seem reasonably related. These things help us imagine there's something more sinister to Bedelia and Hannibal's relationship than we know. Besides, her tone towards Hannibal basically oozes "Grass Hopper" whenever she puts him in his place. "Hannibal, I'm your psychiatrist, you're not mine."

#bedelia du maurier #hannibal #theories guys theories! #Screen caps from : http://thecatsred.tumblr.com/post/52920189239/can-i-just-point-out-the-spice-walls #Hannibal NBC #Releve #Sorbet

[vivi266]

#love how this is actually about something but it's so broadly applicable i dont want to actually make that specificity clearer #original text: oh you think you're soooo fucking smart. with your fucking convoluted pretentious sentences #anyways the sticker is also extremely relevant and i'm tired of this post being popular

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[great-and-small]

Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.

How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong

#idk if this is universally true but def relevant here in the eastern USA #birding #yes I know the cackling bill is shorter too but realistically that’s hard to judge sometimes #cackling goose #Canada goose #biology #Canadian goose

[atinystraykid]

“If you have time to be on social media, you also have time for…” “If you have time to watch Netflix, you also have time for…” Yeah, but do I have the energy for it? Do I have the emotional and mental capacity for it? Am I pain-free enough for it? Can I focus on it? Can I do it without leaving my bed? Can I safely do it without risk of (physically or emotionally) injuring myself by pushing past my boundaries?

#actually autistic #actually disabled #obviously not all of these questions are relevant to all disabled people all the time #and obviously this also rings true for non-disabled people #oliver talks

[soliusss]

Funniest thing I’ve seen on tiktok are those sigma male boys getting mad that American psycho was written by a gay man and going “well I like fight club better” buddy I’ve got some world ending devastating news for you

#I don’t like fight club #but other people do #gay people on their way to write some of the most relevant popular influencial literature of the 90s #solius posting #this shit also kills me because both of those books have. OVERT homosexual themes and moments

[redysetdare]

Sometimes...characters being in a romantic relationship is worse.

#text #sometimes it's the most boring way to have characters interact #sometimes it's worse than the chemistry they have as literally any other kind of relationship #sometimes their platonic dynamic is better #sometimes their hostile dynamic is better #sometimes their dynamic is better if it's anything other than romance #because maybe them falling into generic romance is how you ruin their characters. #aro #aromantic #aroace #i only tag these because it feels relevant to why i feel this way

[defectivegembrain]

No you cannot fix your entire life at 2am. Go to bed.

#note to self #and anyone else who finds it relevant i guess

[contourzphotography]

Ballerina Marya Erashevich by Contourz Photography (DD Dance Photography) in Rimini, Italy in July 2022.

More about Marya Erashevich

#beach #balletbeach #ballerina #ballet #ballerinaatthesea #balletatthebeach #balletlines #balletteen #balletlegs #releve #balletdance #balletlove #balletphotography #balletphotographer #balletdreams #balletlife #balletart #balletaesthetic #balletbeautiful #ballerinaproject #ballerinaprojecteurope #worldballetproject #graceful #Instagram

[thefantastician]

Black Doom scribbles

#I cannot believe this character is relevant in the year of our lord 2024 #black doom #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sth #comic #my art #thefantastician

[fragile-wolf]

Warm Up - Reléve | Digital Drawing

#art #digital art #modern art #pop art #illustration #concept art #drawing #painting #fashion #portrait #dance #ballet #Warm Up #releve #sketch

[muffinlevelchicanery]

“The paradox of conservatism is they want being normal to be punk. They want to rebel against authority while being the ones in power. They want to be rugged individuals and they think everyone should be the same as them. They want to overcome adversity while staying in the majority.” -@innuendostudios on twitter

#conservative #conservatism #punk #paradox #relevant #communism #socialism #anarchism #capitalism

[shopwitchvamp]

“Omg, I love these! They go up to size 6X AND they have pockets?! Wow!! But do you have anything longer?”

Sure do, no problem!!

“YES these are great!!! But what about.. longer?”

I gotcha!! Comin’ right up!

"Now that's what I'm talkin' about! But... how about if I'm feeling like it's the kinda day where I need my clothing to be bifurcated???"

Never fear, joggers are here!

*wild cheering* /scene

🖤witchvamp.com🖤

#new version with things more currently relevant to preorders and in stock items :3 #witch vamp #vetiverfox #fashion #skirts #joggers #alt fashion #indie fashion #goth #gothic #mini skirt #skater skirt #midi skirt #maxi skirt #skirts with pockets #apparel #clothing #clothes #casual goth #alternative fashion #demon #spider lily #vaporwave #jester #harlequin #creepy eyes #scopophobia #rose #floral #floral skirt

[daneesoro]

doodles based from that summer art

#relevant to ME in the ph because its suddenly hot outta nowhere #not sure if that thing chilchucks carrying was an electric fan but i drew it anyway #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi laios #dunmeshi chilchuck #dunmeshi fanart #dunmeshi kabru #dunmeshi rin #dungeon meshi chilchuck #my art #dani art