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Okay lovers, here is an assortment of Halloween wallpapers/backgrounds for 2023!!
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ARCANE - SEASON 1
↳ Episode 5, “Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy”
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the arcane animation and character design is so GOOD like just. the dark circles under the eyes. the facial scars. the big or crooked noses. the cheekbones. the way almost every character has visible lower eyelids. thick eyebrows. tremendously varied face shapes. wrinkles. how injuries have a lasting effect on characters, how character design progresses naturally from past influencing events. and like!! all of these things are treated so neutrally. every character has a few of these characteristics-- they all look natural. they look like real people. a lot of them have that sort of shiny skin under their eyes, or that thing that's not quite a dark circle but just looks a bit bruised and tired and oily. i have that! i've never seen that in a TV show before, in either animation or live action. and god it's just so refreshing to see attractive animated characters who don't have smooth skin or good teeth or perfectly shaped facial features. more of that please.
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JASMIN SAVOY BROWN
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dir. Violett Beane
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elizabeth olsen defending wanda with her entire chest and saying she likes being called mommy is the best promo for any marvel movie ever
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do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management
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Legit Tip #177
Or - “On Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters”
@more-legit-gr8er-writing-tips and I have been talking, and we sort of have this thing. We love relationships between brothers in fiction. (I’m writing a story that highlights the relationship between two half-brothers.) But we couldn’t figure out why we weren’t particularly interested in many stories that had strong relationships between female characters. (We’re talking platonic, here).
There aren’t really that many of them, to start with. There’s Frozen with Anna and Elsa. Which is a bit…shallow. (I actually like Frozen, believe it or not, but the story isn’t the most complex.) And then there’s Nani and Lilo from Lilo and Stitch, in which the sister relationship is awesome, but suffers from the fact that the story is more about a little blue alien than the sisters themselves.
So we started talking about why this is, and well… as is the case with many things in our culture, a lot of it has to do with misogyny.
I’m not going to go on a feminist rant, though I could, but when you write about sisters or female friends in fiction, a lot of the complexity is taken out in favor of:
1. Girls fighting over makeup or clothes.
2. Girls fighting over boys.
3. Girls giving each other the silent treatment when they’re mad at each other.
4. Girls making up with a little bit of crying and hugging before having a sleepover and maybe a makeover.
And I think when you have male friends or brothers, which is actually one of the few ways in society where men have the ability to show complex emotions, you get many and varied opportunities for emotional complexity.
So, I want to say something here -
In real life, female relationships are incredibly diverse and complex.
And we just don’t see this in fiction. Even in so-called “chick lit,” which is where you would expect to see it, but especially not in YA or other genres, because when girls appear in these stories, they are generally side characters who don’t get the chance to build relationships with one another.
I don’t have any sisters, so I can’t talk much about sister relationships actually. I do have several “best” female friends, though. (Both online and offline. This includes both my girls @gr8writingtips and @more-legit-gr8er-writing-tips.) And because I do also have a “best” friend who is a guy, I can definitely say that there is something unique and special about female friendships that you can and should be bringing into your writing.
One thing to bear in mind is the way that women talk to each other about their experiences, as well as the shared experiences that women have.
(*Note: I do realize that trans men can also have these experiences and I by no means mean to exclude them! This tip absolutely can include trans guys if you have a trans character who has a close relationship with women around them, but you must consider the special nature of the fact that they have transitioned and what this may mean to them!)
For example, women talk often about the challenges they face being women in society - of being targeted by men and being subject to unwanted advances, or standing up for each other in these situations. The fact that J.K. Rowling never let Hermione have any female friends always stung to me. I get it, narratively speaking, but it would have been nice to at least get a peek behind the curtain at Hermione rolling her eyes at Ron (or even Harry) with Ginny and them having a bonding moment at the idiocy of boys.
On Proper Female Behavior - And Why Being “Proper” Sucks
Another problem with stories like Frozen? They assume that the good sister, the nice sister (or the good friend, the nice friend) isn’t going to hold a grudge or be angry. Because good girls don’t do things like that. They forgive and forget, because that’s what women are supposed to do. And you see this a lot when it comes to female behavior in stories, which is one of the reasons that so much complexity is stripped out of these relationships.
It’s okay for a guy to brood and angst and hold a grudge when it comes to a relationship, but a woman is supposed to forgive and forget. But again, real life doesn’t work that way.
To make your relationships more dynamic, realistic, and overall more interesting, do away with what’s proper and think about how people really feel when confronted with these situations. Maybe your character won’t be so keen to forgive being shoved away for the last five years, even after they find out that there were super special magical reasons for being kept out of the loop. Dishonesty is still dishonesty.
So to Sum Up
I’m not saying that great female familial relationships and friendships don’t exist in fiction. What I’m saying is that they are not as common as those between male characters, especially in genre fiction.
(Not that surprising, when you consider that genre fiction has so few female characters to start with.)
It’s genuinely important to me that more writers start actively attempting to put female platonic relationships at the forefront in stories and realizing their importance, outside of the chick lit genre. So consider writing more complex relationships when you write your girl characters. Think about how you can deepen the complexity of their relationships beyond the norm.
And ditch the good girl behavior because it’s so not interesting.
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As requested, some asexual flag Yelena Belova icons!
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