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regardless of whether or not you like the last jedi you have to admit two things.

1. it is truly beautiful that the last thing mark hamill will ever say on screen to carrie fisher is “no one is ever really gone”

2. it is poetic and significant that luke skywalker’s journey started and ended with binary sunsets

#tlj #tlj spoilers #star wars

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X-Men Ladies in Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #1

#girlssssss #rachel grey #betsy braddock #jubilation lee #kitty pryde #rogue #ororo munroe #illyana rasputin

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i think bobby has an offhand comment at the beginning of xm blue about scott having his ~cool other friends~ but i wish we had gotten a scene of o5 reacts to scott joining the champions because hes sort of the least likely and its kind of funny

#teen scott #teen o5

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Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart

Dangling feet from window frame

Will they ever ever reach the floor

More give me more give me more.

#music

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#violence // #reference

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If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray

If I had a heart I could love you

If I had a voice I would sing

#music

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GGGUNS AND STUF i forgot who asked for it , as usual look up different refs to ;earn how to draw the amny differnt varieties of guns!! 

#art reference #guns //

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I don’t know if this can be useful to anyone. It’s not perfect by any means but perspective is a lot based on the artist own sensibility, I merely offer a starting point.

#art reference

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#food #reference

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the Bechdel test, the Ellen Willis test, ALL THE TESTS: or, a handy guide to feminist critiques of narrative

(reference for when i am trying to explain these to people and they are looking at me like “huh”):

the Bechdel test: does the story have a) more than one women, b) who talk to each other, c) about something other than a man.

the Ellen Willis test: if you flip the genders, does the story still make sense?

the Sexy Lamp test (courtesy of Kelly Sue DeConnick): can you replace your female character with a sexy lamp and still have the story work? if yes, YOU ARE A HACK.

the Mako Mori test: there is a) at least one female character, b) who gets her own narrative arc, c) that is not about supporting a man’s story.

the Tauriel test (which i made up in response to The Hobbit 2 [which passes] and Skyfall [which fails]): a) there is a woman, b) WHO IS GOOD AT HER JOB.

and in justification of my recent TV obsessions, i would like to note that Scandal, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy, and Nikita (ALL HAIL MAGGIE Q) pass all of these tests with flying colors.

UPDATE: i just discovered the Finkbeiner test and it is FANTASTIC.

FURTHER UPDATE: these were noted by oranges8hands and are EXCELLENT and add some much-needed intersectionality:

The Deggans Rule: a) At least two POC characters in the main cast, b) in a show that’s not about race.

The Racial Bechdel Test (I first saw it laid out by Alaya Dawn Johnson): a) it has two POC in it, b) who talk to each other, c) about something other than a white person

and then I offered an amendment to the Bechdel test: d) both women have to be alive at the end

#media academia

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I was going to review my french and linguistics but then this happened instead. Except it’s 3.30am so it’s half-assed. //shotdead

But hopefully people will find this of use. \o/ Sorry this took so long, Anon, and I hope it answers your questions.

#art reference

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how to draw noses by concept cookie

#art reference

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ok but like when did self-sacrifice become synonymous with death? writers seem to have forgotten that people can make personal sacrifices for the greater good without giving their lives. plots about self-sacrifice and selflessness don’t always have to end in death. suffering doesn’t have to be mourning. you can create drama and emotional depth on your show without killing everyone. learn to explore the meaning of living rather than dying

#reference

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Set in 1940s Toronto, Bomb Girls explores the lives of five different women who find themselves thrust into new worlds building bombs on the assembly line in a munitions factory. [official site]

Episode 1: 720p | HDTV

Episode 2: 720p [part 1][part 2] | HDTV

Episode 3: 720p [part 1][part 2][part 3] | HDTV

Episode 4: 720p [part 1][part 2][part 3] | HDTV

Episode 5: 720p [part 1][part 2][part 3] | HDTV

Episode 6: 720p [part 1][part 2][part 3] | HDTV

#things to watch

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I did a thing! I saw too many people upset about crawling across things on their AO3 searches, so here’s a handy-dandy guide to AO3 search functions.

PS: the operators won’t work in the additional tags field. just do what you want in the Any Field field. Also AO3 searches DO NOT search the body of the work, so you can still get bad results if someone doesn’t tag properly.

#fandom tips #ao3

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#art reference

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Make a deal with God

And get him to swap our places

Be running up that road

Be running up that hill

#my forever boys #otp: we don’t have that kind of time #music