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#haha#jk#I can't afford it#I'm broke#also I don't think that I should base my decisions on my social media performance#but lord knows I need therapy
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ANA MENDIETA, Creek, 1974
#arte#arte contemporanea#contemporary#contemporary art#art#digital media#photography#mine.cd#mine.cd1#ana mendieta#mendieta#performance art#performance#nature
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What's happening with Theo Solomon is so, so frustrating and needless and disgusting (more info can be found at this post), and I also want to acknowledge the treatment of Wyll's original voice/mo-cap actor, Lanre Malaolu.
Malaolu gave an excellent performance! His delivery and the way he incorporated mannerisms and posture into Wyll's physicality was amazing. The original characterization of Wyll was written very well and matched the general tone of the wider party/narrative.
And to suddenly have Larian, years into the project, rewrite the character entirely and then re-cast it? To have other actors talk about how Wyll just 'wasn't working' as a character? All because of fan criticism that places ridiculous (and often contradictory) standards and expectations on black characters. Even if the re-cast resulted from scheduling conflicts (as Malaolu couldn't come in to re-record), we lost Malaolu's entire performance because of a rewrite that was simply not necessary.
And after disregarding Malaolu's years of work into this character, the same criticisms that Larian caved into are thrown at Wyll's rewrite, and the same disregard is being seen with Theo Solomon again and again. As someone who started playing early access when it first came out, fans' treatment of Wyll and his actors hasn't gotten better. It's actively gotten worse.
#lanre malaolu#theo solomon#wyll ravengard#bg3 wyll#bg3#baldur's gate 3#i dont have twitter or twitch#and i dont interact with actors social media#but i love wyll and these actors' performances#and i hope they know that people have enjoyed them!#i just cant get over what happened at that panel#why would you ever prioritize fan questions over letting an actor have their turn to speak????#like fcking hell...#edit: reworded stuff to make it clear why the re-cast came about!
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patrick singing the harmony as the topline for our lawyer performances my beloved (summer sonic 2007)
#im sure he does this for maybe like many other songs i just don't listen to live performances much so#also ft JOECALS and HEARING PETE'S BASS AS HE SWINGS ABOUT WILDLY#patrick stump#fall out boy#joe trohman#pete wentz#andy hurley#mailing letters#media blitz#summer sonic 2007
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Steve and Eddie go through the whole adoption process in 1996, despite how difficult it was to find somewhere willing to help them at all and despite their conflicted feelings on adoption.
The way they saw it though, providing a loving home for a child who needed one was better than the alternative. Eddie had enough experience with temporary foster homes to know stability was better than constant moving and questionable foster parents.
They get a foster placement almost immediately, a six year old girl named Amelia. She’s quiet, but not in a way that worries them. She’s very focused, and enjoys going to school more than any regular children’s hobbies. Neither of them know what to do with that other than keep encouraging it.
She stays for months, months turn into a year, and the agency finally gives them the go ahead to complete the adoption process.
But they don’t do anything without talking to Amelia.
She’s happy there, her therapist signs off on it immediately and explains that Amelia has shown more personality development and less signs of trauma with them than she had even living at home. Not to mention they actually brought her to appointments, unlike her previous guardians.
To celebrate, they throw a party with all their friends and family and tell Amelia she can invite anyone from school she wants. She invites everyone.
Turns out their daughter is a social butterfly and is friends with everyone.
At the party, Eddie pulls out his guitar, plays a bunch of popular kid-friendly songs after a very scathing look from Steve as a reminder to behave.
Amelia walks over to him after a few songs, on a sugar high like he’d never seen on her before, and asks to play the guitar.
He’s hesitant, but not because he’s still protective of his guitars, more because he doesn’t want her to embarrass herself in front of her friends. Kids are cruel, even and especially at seven, and the last thing he wants is this to be the thing that kids talk about for the next ten years.
She sits on the couch and holds it, arranging her fingers…correctly. Eddie watches.
Steve is watching from across the room.
She starts strumming, very quietly at first, not as confident as she’d been a moment ago. And then she starts really playing.
It’s one of the songs Eddie wrote. He played it for the last four months nonstop as he perfected it, and she’d apparently been watching.
Eddie’s jaw is on the floor and he quickly looks over to Steve, who has a similar look of surprise on his face.
He doesn’t interrupt her. She makes it through the entire song.
She looks up.
“When did you learn to play guitar?” Eddie asks.
“When I was watching you.”
“But have you played before tonight?”
Amelia shook her head, looking down. “Didn’t wanna touch it without asking.”
Eddie pulls the guitar from her hands and sets it aside, then pulls her into his lap and hugs her. Steve sits down on the couch next to them, hand on her back.
“You can always ask, sweetie. And if you’re this interested and this natural, we can buy you your own guitar if you want. I didn’t think you were interested in playing.”
“I wanna be like you,” Amelia admitted against his shoulder.
Eddie was done for. He looked at Steve, half-panicked, trying not to cry in front of these people, but Steve wasn’t faring any better.
“Then we can go get you a guitar tomorrow. You can get your own picks, too. They might even have purple ones.”
“Can I have red? Like yours?”
“Of course, sweetie.”
It only took them two days after that to realize she could play by ear, just like Eddie.
And then it only took another day after that to realize she had taught herself to read music too.
They spent hours and hours every week playing together while Steve cooked dinner or checked her homework or just watched them.
When Eddie’s band decided to record another album and go on tour when Amelia was 12, Eddie insisted that she get to be on it.
She ended up helping write one of their songs, played on the track on the album, and with a lot of work, convinced Steve to let them homeschool her for the entire 8 months they’d be on tour so she could perform on stage with her dad.
“Can’t believe she’s not even genetically yours. Are you sure you didn’t have an affair?” Steve asked the night before they were leaving for Europe.
“When would I have had an affair? I came back to the tour bus or hotel with you every single night,” Eddie kissed him softly. “She’s amazing, huh?”
“She is. What happens when she wants to be a full blown rockstar like her dad too?”
“Then we make sure she’s protected and has good people around her like I have. She could be a rockstar easily. She’s got the talent and the presence,” Eddie smiled. “And she’s got me to make sure no one takes advantage of her. But she’s only 12. We’ve got time to worry about that later.”
“You’re bringing her onstage every single night all over the world for the next eight months, baby. I think later is now.”
Eddie sighed. “She’s gonna blow them all away. I’m proud of her. Let’s focus on that for now.”
And she did blow everyone away. The fans and the media had nothing but good things to say, and Steve didn’t have to go into overprotective mom mode at all until she was 15 and signing a record deal of her own.
But between Eddie and him, the entire industry knew better than to fuck with her or them.
They made rules, of course. School still came first, she still had required family events to be at, she still had regular friends at home. She wasn’t allowed at any parties, not even the events for award ceremonies.
But she didn’t really need those rules. She had no interest in parties or abandoning her friends or family, and she was a straight A student who still had hopes of getting into Brown for Journalism like her Aunt Nancy. She had a passion for music and wanted to share it, but not at the cost of the rest of her life.
And Eddie and Steve did everything they could to make sure she got to have everything. That’s what they’d promised her from day one.
#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#headcanon#so adoption is complicated#and I won’t pretend that there are plenty of aspects of the system that are so fucked beyond repair#and this is not the time or place to talk about them#so don’t do that in the comments#you’ll get blocked tbh because we’re here in this specific space to have fun#that is all#steddie dads#also this isn’t how the industry works#this isn’t how the media works#the world is cruel to young performers#but we’re pretending#this is fiction
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phantom of the beijing opera
#phantom of the opera#beijing opera#digital art#koob art#procreate#illustration#this was an assignment for a class! to put a genre twist on an established piece of media#if youre wondering 'omg how would the story in this go' the answer is. idk lol i just drew it#the phantom is also real minimal to contrast the complex outfits of the performers#1k
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new discord update is like literally the worst update of an app ive ever experienced and im putting that over tumblr fucking live
#fire.txt#its so inaccessible and extremely rough on my muscle memory AND almost everything needs both hands to perform like#what about us who cant use both hands all the damn time. i have a lot of problems on my left side. this is so so bad#discord you arent a social media platform stop acting like one you're actively making things worse for the user experience.#at least give us a damn toggle
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Boy band where the members don't have stage names, just numbers. Each number is associated with a particular style and identity, but not with a particular performer. The performers randomly trade stage personas between public appearances and steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the gimmick, consistently acting like the current assignment of stage personas to performers is how it's always been. Possibly there are more performers than numbered personas in order to allow for leaves of absence, or perhaps performers occasionally leave the lineup and are replaced – it's not 100% clear. The portion of their discography that's available for digital sale is periodically updated to change which performer is on lead vocals for any given song, without warning or discernible pattern.
#concepts#media#music#boy bands#metatextual wankery#not all of the performers are male and at least one is clearly much too old to be a boy#however the stage personas are all boys so this too goes flatly unacknowledged
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Reading The Song of Roland and y'know it's nice to read an Ancient, Respected Classic that's just. Trash. A jingoistic action movie. The 11th century equivalent of 300, a historical war depicted in a wildly inaccurate and propagandistic way as an excuse for buff macho warriors to face off against poorly-researched stereotypes of foreign enemies and then kill them in spectacularly violent and improbable ways. You want depth? Nuance? Timeless themes that still speak to the common human experience nearly a thousand years later? Fuck you. You'll take Charlemagne's nephew cutting a Saracen in half with his sword and you'll like it.
#i kind of want a film adaptation that plays it completely straight to the point of parody starship troopers-style#but given how large the unironic fash following would be i'm not sure you could make it in good conscience#i also want to see a sung performance because a lot of these repetitive parts probably work a lot better that way#idle musings#walrus reads old books#walrus consumes media
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i should get used to posting sketches here, so here are kaalaa and fairy in suits <:
oh and a little portrait of the prettiest, most kissable face (´ ε ` )♡
#reverse 1999#r1999#re1999#kaalaa baunaa#reverse 1999 kaalaa baunaa#reverse 1999 black dwarf#artist on tumblr#twi is like a brain tumor of all soc media#everytime i log in i either cry or get angry#and i mentioning twi because i put sketches there as i draw them#and when it’s enough i put a pile of them here#oh god my grammar left my body sorry#too tired to correct my mistakes#anyway fun fact kaalaa’s suit is inspired by what hwasa wore when they all perfore#…md in suits#if you crawl into my monkey brain you’ll see _that_ live performance of mamamoo
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Sobbing so hard bc even as wifey, Mizu wore pants, didn't want to wear that pretty kimono and makeup except for the wedding ceremony itself because I'm sure her "mother" made her or to try and soften his heart after their spar. She was her tomboy self, you know? And people are out here putting her in hyper feminine stuff like NO THIS ISN'T BUTCH DEATH THIS IS BUTCH MURDER.
You can be a butch/tomboy and be pretty or have long hair, I do, but like, oooof. It's like when people made Tigress all girly pop like NO. STOP IT PLEASE. LET BUTCHES BE I BEG. She's clearly into utility over anything else, I mean, she wears her stitched up kimono even though she clearly has the means to buy a new one, her tattered, mud soaked little cape thing, etc. The pants she wore horseriding with Mikio even looked like her pants she wore as a man.
#blue eye samurai#mizu#mizu blue eye samurai#blue eye samurai mizu#hes just like me fr#like Akemi doing her makeup or dressing her up i can see#but like masc women exist and i barely see them in media unless its as a cheap joke#butches#butch#im a stem tho literally 2 steps away from a he/him lesbian but I too will do calculated elegant femininity as a performance#woo femininity and beauty as a performance to be perceived in a more palateable manner and get the results you want
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MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ, Holding the Lamb, 2010
#arte#arte contemporanea#contemporary#contemporary art#art#digital media#photography#mine.cd#marina abramovic#abramovic#performance art#performance#body art#nature#mine.cd1
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“love, simon sucks!” “heartstopper is immature!” “first kill is so bad!” shut up shut up shut up shut up stop shitting on shows because it doesn’t live up to your impossible standards for “good queer media”. not every goddamn show starring lgbt people needs to be the next moonlight or brokeback mountain. y’all need to take a chill pill and stop being so fucking negative all the time. not every piece of queer media is going to check off every single checkbox on your thousand item list of what makes “good representation” and that’s okay. let people enjoy something for once jfc.
#love simon is actually so important#same with heartstopper and first kill#y’all just fucking hate having fun#i promise you that gay rights won’t be set back 20 years because the lesbian vampire show had ‘bad cgi’#or the teenage actors in their first role didn’t give an oscars level performance#heartstopper#first kill#love simon#queer media#discourse#text post#jonathan rambles#100 notes#1000 notes
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on the point of including black people in the show (or any period show), a lot of the outrage can sometimes come across as performative to me. it's one thing to feel upset about how little screentime black characters get compared to white characters (a valid criticism, believe me, I Know! give me an hour and i could talk your ear off about how this constantly annoys me as a black person who's damned to enjoy period pieces), but it's another to Only get upset while not actually creating content for said black characters, Especially when fandom (not just hbo war, but in general) is famous for taking Extremely minor characters and creating entire worlds with them, to the point where you wouldn't know they're minor characters at all until you check out the source yourself. richard macon, alexander jefferson, and robert daniels each have only 20 or less posts about them (at the time of publishing this post). in my own fandom experience (within fandoms both big and small and old and new, whatever), i've seen more content (posts, art pieces, analyses, fics, etc) made for minor white characters in less than a mere week's time (it's not a competiton lol i'm just giving a perspective here). so idk. obviously, there's nothing anyone here can do about a show that's already been filmed and released. we got what we got. thas it. at least in the great wide world of fandom, you can actually do something about it, turning the big into small. there's precedent for that. otherwise it just feels like complaining for the sake of complaining
#alexander jefferson only Just reached 20 posts according to tumblr's tagged search. macon's at 17. daniels is at 9#i'm jaded in a way bc when you're black you learn to expect this when it comes to black characters. like as a rule.#but it's for that reason that a lot of these complaints feel kinda sorta performative#at the end of the day it's a show largely about white guys created largely by white guys#if you want to see blacker shows and movies- many Do exist. hbo war isnt the end all/be all of ww2 media#six triple eight will be coming soon. there's the 90s tuskegee airmen movie. watch overlord if you want a fun (and very fictional) time#and there's dee rees' own 'mudbound'. these aren't 'hbo war' but they're worth watching#i actually feel it's more worth being upset about the lack of representation of nonblack people of color during ww2#i still want a show about the 442nd! i'd like to see more about native american soldiers!#we just barely saw some sikhs in this episode. they're often sprinkled into the background but they ought to be front and center too#and with that!!! i'm going to bed gnight#masters of the air#hbo war#alexander jefferson#robert daniels#richard macon
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visualisers:
stuck to my tongue
cunty pose
little🤏 bit of spine
love❤️
marionette
#fall out boy#patrick stump#mailing letters#media blitz#i honestly think little bit🤏 of spine is underrated only cus in the mv he does it SO bitchily#i also thought the 'drink up' part was kinda slay but he didnt do it again so :( (i think idk i dont actually watch many live performances)#i made the gifs from scratch for this.
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And another thing...
Korean news media hyping how BTS has continued to release content with no gap even while enlisted in the military.
Yonhap News.
KBS News.
"Is this BTS' military service?" astounded, like... what kind of military service is this where the members are still active while they are enlisted??
They've even coined a new term to describe it: Rubber Shoe Content.
Apparently this sort of thing has not been done before, at least not to this extent, when an idol group is on break fulfilling their military obligation and release things for the fans while they are away.
"They are creating a new activity model to fill the gap with so-called 'rubber shoe content' for fans waiting for BTS, from music videos and entertainment documentary films to offline events."
The planning that had to have occurred and length of time it took for all of this to be produced... BTS and their staff, along with their agency BigHit and the resources available to them via Hybe, were able to carry out this extensive effort so that we would continually have things to look forward to while they are away. They worked hard before enlisting for us.
And we know more is coming! Wait until K-news sees Jimin and Jungkook doing MMA in their sleep!!
#bts military service#do the right thing and support their hard work#they did all of this for us#heard on the internet:#kpoppie speaking about poor performances during current award show stages: BTS created art on stage#FIFA already seeking a deal with “international band” BTS for future World Cups#k-news media doing great PR work for BTS#whats up with the british royal family?
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