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theonewhowails · 5 months

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Golden Fleece

#my art #cotl #cotl lamb #blood #it was really fun to ponder this one #cause in the game sprite the body on the fleece has the scale-like texture but the hem is sharp like the standard fleece #i felt a 2 tiered piece would work nicely to show both of these contrasting elements #the sprite always makes me think of gold scale mail but i wanted to avoid it looking explicitly like armor #since the fleece gives you stacking atk damage in exchange of taking 2x damage when hit #although tbqh gold armor would be fucking pointless anyways. gold is a very soft metal. which may have been the point but w/e #instead i wanted the shapes to be more reminiscent of wool since like. yknow. the golden fleece #and i wanted it to speak of luxury and power but be rather impractical for movement or protection #i just wanted to do an axe for funsies and by wonderful coincidence remembered the godly axe was gold :]#anyways this pose is brought to you by my stupid ass who spun too hard with my upper body when swinging a bat and felt cool for 1 second #before totally unbalancing myself and falling #the instant after this image lambo eats shit. rest in peace

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tiredyke · 1 year

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every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant

#‘political lesbians’ were and are predominantly STRAIGHT WOMEN #and a good chunk are bi #what don’t you understand about these women thinking lesbianism is a CHOICE? that it’s only used by women as a reaction to the patriarchy?#like lesbians can’t possibly like women and not men for any reason that isn’t some deep-seated hatred for men?#they all think lesbianism is dirty and impure and here you people are saying that this is PROGRESSIVE #and that they actually think that lesbianism is some golden standard for its purity???? you guys are so fucking stupid oh my god #you go on and on about learning your queer history until it comes to lesbians and then you’re perfectly happy rewriting our culture #and narrative #wtf is wrong with you people #and y’all braindead mfs use this to act like men are actually oppressed by the meanie dykes #i hate y’all #but none of y’all actually give a shit about lesbians so i guess im yelling into a void #lesbophobia #top posts #neon talks #LOL at the fucking idiot who reblogged this and tagged it ‘misandry’ not sure how you got that from my post but i hope your day sucks <3

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daily-hanamura · 7 months

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#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 golden #p4g #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #souyo #oh yosuke so NOW you dont have a problem looking like a couple with yu huh #what happened to having to ask other people along when you hangout because you dont want others to think youre a couple with yu #or did your big brother instincts kick in in front of your kouhai and now you feel like you need to step up and go into no nonsense mood #double standards i say!!#but really i think that in front of kanji and teddie yosuke has a tendency to take on a big bro attitude and its very cute #he's good with his queue

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gojuo · 1 year

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THANK YOU, JOJO.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (2012) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency (2012-2013) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (2014-2015) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (2016) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (2018-2019) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (2021-2022)

#jjbaedit #stone ocean #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo's bizarre adventure #dailyanime #anisource #fymanganime #fyanimegifs #stone ocean spoilers #jjba #*benim #*jjba #THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ♥#truly the greatest of all time the hallmark of media the golden standard of storytelling. fiction will never peak like this ever again...#no words only that i truly havent cried like this in a while... i love jojo i love jolyne i love stone ocean truly the best part.#THANK YOU ARAKI AND DAVIDPRO FOR ALL OF THESE AMAZING YEARS. now we wait for steel ball run............#ok. GOODNIGHT! i'll remake this gifset once the bluray is out and this ending is creditless lmao its such an eyesore #1k

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theweeklydiscourse · 7 months

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Zuko really is the most complex redemption arc tumblr can handle before they start getting scared.

#the consequences of Zukos redemption arc being seen as the epitome of redemption arcs have been dire #yes this is based on that other post #this is what happens when media made for children is seen as the golden standard of storytelling #people will use Zuko’s arc as a measuring stick to judge how far a character can go before they’re beyond redemption and even then #atla #avatar zuko #zuko #fandom musings #fandom discourse #zutara #redemption arc

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illustratus · 6 months

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oliveroctavius · 4 months

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I got this ask on main but thought I'd pick it up here, my comics history/fashion ramble blog. I'd been wondering this exact same thing recently, and Google initially wasn't much help—Rocketeer replica jackets describe themselves only as "Rocketeer jackets" and the one Lobster Johnson cosplay thread just suggested ordering one of those.

The most curious part is the double seam and horizonal row of buttons that mark out the entire front as possibly being an unbuttonable "bib", like a plastron front. (Please don't ask how late in the game I worked out that "plastron" is the right word for that.)

The closest genuine Golden Age example of a plastron jacket I found was the military tunic style uniform of Blackhawk, created in 1941.

(Pics from the '52 movie serial (right) really show how awkward it is to combine open lapels + plastron. On a double breasted coat, that chest panel IS the bottom lapel, folded shut.)

Here's the thing: This outfit mirrors that of the Nazi ace pilot he fights in the origin issue, von Tepp (middle). And compare further to the far right: real life WWI flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, AKA the Red Baron, in imperial German Uhlan (lance cavalry) uniform.

"The Germans had designed such great costumes, we decided to use them ourselves," co-creator Cuidera is quoted as saying in Steranko's History of Comics, which (more dubiously, in my opinion) compares the look to the Gestapo or SS. Breeches or jodhpurs weren't strictly a Nazi thing at the time, but they do add to the overall effect.

Compare two other military tunic themed costumes from 1940, on Captain Marvel and Bucky Barnes. These are asymmetrically buttoned, and switch to a more classic circus strongman look below the waist.

But somewhere around 1975, with the Invaders book, Bucky gets a buttoned bib! There's something infectious about it—the symmetry, maybe. (Even re: the characters we started with; Mignola didn't draw Lobster Johnson with buttons down the right side, but every artist after does. And Spider-Noir wore a sweater under his coat until Shattered Dimensions introduced the double-breasted vest.)

If it didn't reach his belt, Barnes' button-on front + shirt collar combo would resemble a bib-front western shirt, like the one that became the Rawhide Kid's signature look in '56. (Or Texas Twister's in '76.)

This shirt entered the old-West-obsessed public imagination in the 1940s/50s largely because John Wayne wore it in several cowboy movies. In reality it was rare among cowboys, more common with firefighters and civil war era militia.

Military tunics, Western shirts, alright, but does anything match the style and material and era, or are these jackets a total anachronism? I tried looking into 1930s leather flight jackets and was surprised when the closest-looking results were marked as Luftwaffe.

It took me a bit to work out why: USAF and RAF issued standard flight jackets with a center closure. The Luftwaffe instead let their pilots buy non-standardized ones. The 'weird' double-breasted black German flight jackets were in fact fairly normal (but repurposed) motorcycle racing jackets.

Far left is an English biker's jacket that dates back to the 1920s. Even without the bib, this may be as close as you'll get to an authentic Rocketeer. The jodhpurs were pretty common to complete the look. (What was an early motorcycle anyways, if not a weird metal horse?) The first biker jacket with the now iconic off-center diagonal zip was designed in America in 1928 and yet as far as I can tell, not a single actual pre-war pulp hero wore one.

The greatest weakness of this post is that I haven't been able to find any of these artists' notes on how, exactly, they arrived at similar versions of this iconic Pulp Front Panel Jacket. I'm sure I've missed some things. But as far as I can tell, this jacket is an odd bit of convergent stylistic evolution from the above influences that's picked up enough momentum to now be self-perpetuating.

The problem with pulp heroes is that for the most part, they just wore clothes. The appeal of this jacket is actually very similar to what the 1940s thought the appeal of the bib-front shirt in westerns was: It's alien enough to feel "old". It looks like something invented before zippers or synthetic fabrics. It looks formal and militant but also renegade, rebellious. It also looks a little mad-sciencey*. It's a costume, but you can nearly fool yourself into thinking the past was weird enough that you could find something this cool on the rack.

If I wanted to end on some grand point, I could try to argue that there's a thematic throughline between fascist fashion, John Wayne movies, and throwback pulp. A manufactured aesthetic valorizing the violence of a fictional golden age... but I think the noir stylings of the post-Rocketeer comics in this lineup mean that, at least on some level, they know the "good guys" didn't dress like this.

*If I had another couple weeks of time to burn, I'd try to trace the visual history of the Howie coat in popular culture and investigate its possible connections to this. Alas, I do actually have a life.

#thank you for reading. also don't read golden age blackhawks the racism is awful even by era standards.#comics history #costume taxonomy #<- forgot I had that tag.#not to be like ''in MY favorite comics...'' again but may I point out that Hellboy and Robo and Tom Strong just wear... clothes #like. yknow. A pulp series that had confidence in itself rather than trying to cosplay as eras it thinks were cooler might do-#[I am yanked offstage before I can restart that rant]#the rocketeer

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enchanted-keys · 1 year

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Fumi Kaneko and William Bracewell in The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet 2022)

#nela and vadim are the golden unmatched standard in this but fumi and will got the second spot for me #fumi kaneko #william bracewell #the nutcracker #royal ballet #ballet #balletedit #christmas #holiday season

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foursaints · 22 days

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saints I’ve been having fun learning more about you the sleepover asks were all so fun and lovely but would you entertain a return to the psychosexual analysis of fictional characters? anything that’s been on your mind?

oh i had just been waiting for someone to say the word.. i will probably expand on this later! but i've been thinking about barty's story as analogous to Christ's Side Wound. as in, he is a christlike figure who is Feminized Through Violence

i've been reckoning a lot with HP as a bioessentialist narrative in light of jkr's views. obviously this is bad but the way gender is enforced textually is so fascinating to me BECAUSE of how warped it is (ex. how women in HP can either be Mothers or Evil). barty's entire characterization is wrapped in traditionally masculine themes of power & violence & domination. i would say his entire character in-text is just one long Assertion of Control .... but that's really compelling to me because it's ultimately fruitless?

for a character w/ these traits (allegedly manipulative, cruel, dominating, etc) he spends the majority of his time forced into some form of bondage or constraint, being passed around the hands of powerful men. his devotion to voldemort reads really submissively and almost erotically ("my master"). and then there's the whole thing where he quite literally switches places with his mother (taking on her Body), both occupying matching roles under his father's control?

he's literally a fucked up Girlboy Manwoman. it's so insane to me. even the repeated admonishment of "Master Barty, you bad boy!" from winky contains this double entendre where he's BOTH a violent, overpowering, domineering male figure & this emasculated, penetrated, porous boydaughterservantwife who is scolded like a child. he's jkr's ill-formed caricature of male violence forced to assume the role of Battered Woman over & over. i need to marry him so bad it makes me look stupid

#CONTRASTING THIS WITH LILY AS an impossible gendered ideal is also CRAZY #what if I were an impossible golden standard of gender conformity & you were an evil fucked up boygirl #barty meta tag #<- WE'RE SO BACK..............#a #ive also been having lots of fun!! but this blog is first and foremost about MR CROUCH JR we cannot get it twisted 🤨#actually a sadomasochistic reading of his character would be fucking crazy .#i’m going to delete most of my sleepover asks. not all but most. i think

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ot3 · 3 months

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just saw someone say 'we're living in the golden age of dying for your boss' on a post about california shortening the covid isolation period to 1 day to minimize disruptions to work/school and i totally understand the sentiment. but also. an insanely objectively not true statement if you're looking at A Lot Of Pretty Significant Industries

#dont ever let yourself forget how horrific labor standards in this country used to be!!!#it has Always been the age of dying for your boss #hey remember when they forced those people to work in an amazon warehouse during a tornado and six people died. anyway.#it may be the golden age of *white collar* workers dying for their bosses

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mumpsetc · 8 months

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I Clung To You in Hopes We'd Both Drown

#Hfjone #hfjone liam #Hfjone Backpack #Liam Plecak #Hfjone Airy #onehfj #TW Suicide #Consider This a Late Anniversary Drawing Since the Actual Anniversary Was When I Was Workin On Daisy 9 #More Purple Liam! I Like to Work in Sunsetty Palettes for One Art to Emulate the Waiting Room and Since That Removes Green and Blue #From the Palette I Tend to Jump to Purple for Him #Anyways This Was Mostly a Practice to Get Back Into Drawing Again #Every Entry I Forgot How to Draw Cuz Its 2 Weeks of 3D Work and Then I Like to Make a Big Painterly Piece to Get Back In the Swing of Thing #The Most Fun Here Was Painting the Golden Gate Bridge #Im a Firm Believer That Once You Get Good Enough At Perspective You Can Ignore It and Its Nice to Be At That Place By My Own Standards #+ It Was Fun to Render With All the Oranges and Purples and Reds. Im Trying to Blend With More 'Harsh' Colour Differences I Guess #Step Away From Shading Red With Dark Red Blue With Dark Blue ETC #Dreamy Art

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mega-aulover · 10 months

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Can we appreciate just how amazing Peeta Mellark is? I mean a teenage boy who basically slept in the bed of the girl he was in love with, adored, obsessed with, and never crossed the line. I think it was @arbyeatscheesebuns hubby @hubbyofaneverlarkedwife who pointed out Peeta was playing the long game. Peeta was just a nice guy who always wanted to do the best thing for Katniss.

Nice guys don't always finish Last.

Peeta sacrificed everything for Katniss. She was important to him. So much so that Peeta was the only one who acknowledged Prim's death.

No one, not Haymitch, Not Greasy-Sae, Not Mrs. Everdeen, Not the Capitol, Not Paylor, Not Districts, Not District 13, Not Gale, Not the Hawthorne Clan, NO ONE - Except Peeta - acknowledged Prim's death.

He understood what Prim's death meant to Katniss and how devastating that was for Katniss. The first thing he did when he came from the Capitol was spent the entire morning seeking Primrose Bushes in the woods (which he's not familiar with!) and then proceeded tp plant them as a memorial to Prim, on the side of Katniss's house.

I wake with a start. Pale morning light comes around the edges of the shutters. The scraping of the shovel continues. Still half in the nightmare, I run down the hall, out the front door, and around the side of the house, because now I'm pretty sure I can scream at the dead. When I see him, I pull up short. His face is flushed from digging up the ground under the windows. In a wheelbarrow are five scraggly bushes.

“You're back,” I say. “Dr. Aurelius wouldn't let me leave the Capitol until yesterday,” Peeta says. “By the way, he said to tell you he can't keep pretending he's treating you forever. You have to pick up the phone.” He looks well. Thin and covered with burn scars like me, but his eyes have lost that clouded, tortured look. He's frowning slightly, though, as he takes me in. I make a halfhearted effort to push my hair out of my eyes and realize it's matted into clumps. I feel defensive. “What are you doing?” “I went to the woods this morning and dug these up. For her,” he says. “I thought we could plant them along the side of the house.” I look at the bushes, the clods of dirt hanging from their roots, and catch my breath as the word rose registers. I'm about to yell vicious things at Peeta when the full name comes to me. Not plain rose but evening primrose. The flower my sister was named for. I give Peeta a nod of assent and hurry back into the house, locking the door behind me. - Mockingjay CH 27 S. Collins

He was the only one of all of the people who knew Prim, that openly mourned her death. Peeta showed the depth of emotion he had for Katniss and her family. It was a sign of respect and love.

#Hunger Games #the hunger games #HG #THG #Peeta Mellark #the golden standard #Katniss Everdeen #Primrose Everdeen

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calypsolemon · 6 months

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tbh at some point yall really have to evolve your criticisms of ninjago beyond the same rehashed basic pre-movie reboot opinions, bc some of these takes really just read like ppl are not so much watching the new seasons as they are forming their opinions of them the moment a trailer drops and then reading the entire season thru that lens regardless of what decisions are made or how well things are executed

#i can't even say i haven't been guilty of that but god it gets old doesn't it?#at this point there is more wildbrain ninjago then there is og ninjago and yet ppl hold up those original 7 seasons #as if they were some golden standard of television #ninjago

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daily-hanamura · 5 months

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#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #uh huh. i mean. yosuke are you sure youre only talking about teddie here #i love when teddie functions as a proxy or substitute for yosuke sometimes #and idk like im always so hung up on yosukes need to “not create trouble for others”#and how its a standard he imposes on himself but also tries to impress on teddie (albeit unsuccessfully)#and IDK LISTEN you can just see so much of yosuke in teddie and its my everything.#and the game knows this. and i think yosuke also communicates things that he wants to say to yu through to teddie #yknow???#he's good with his queue

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skakerman · 3 months

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Deuteronomy 2:10 by The Mountain Goats x Trigun Stampede Episode 6

Credit to @aubielikey for making me realize this is actually a song about Wolfwood

#the song is told from the perspective of the last of 3 extinct creatures: the thylacine (tasmanian tiger) the dodo and the golden toad #and much like the thylacine wolfwood has been made out to be a monstrous creature against his will #but instead of being driven to extinction he _wants_ to be the last of his kind #the mountain goats x trigun #the mountain goats #tmg #trigun #trigun stampede #deuteronomy 2:10 #the life of the world to come #also this is the rare tmg song that is too just sad to be in my standard rotation

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yukipri · 2 years

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Cody | CC-2224

Clonetober 2022 #27

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❀ You can see the rest of my art through the Masterpost pinned to the top of my blog!

#last #standard #Clonetober #YukiPriClonetober2022 #Commander Cody #CC-2224 #YukiPri art #212th Attack Battalion #Clone Troopers #TCW #the Clone Wars #ROTS #Revenge of the Sith #Star Wars #Artober #Artists on Tumblr #Artist comment: Last but not least he's finally here!! Golden Glory himself!!#I say because the last four are a wee bit different #Cody's the last more-or-less clone and I saved him for last!!

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