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Critique de la Séparation (Guy Debord, 1961)
#Critique de la Séparation#Critique de la Separation#Guy Debord#Debord#short film#1961#Critique of Separation#quote#Caroline Rittener#black and white#dream#dreams#memory
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I love buckingham and ronance as much as the next girl but my favorite dynamic is without a doubt qpr stobin who live together no matter who they’re dating. Like, sorry but in my world Robin and Steve Do Not live separately, any girlfriend Robin has WILL just move in with them and if they want kids then they’ll move to a bigger place. “Robin and Nancy’s place” or “Robin and Chrissy’s place” is just a bedroom down the hall qpr stobin for life
#I will also accept a Friends scenario where they’re apartment neighbors#because that’s basically the same thing#or separate houses but they’re direct next door neighbors#I am taking absolutely no notes or critiques#this is my happy place#stranger things#steve harrington#robin buckley#stobin
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(Jun. 29- Dec. 20, 2023)
Someone New
“[I]t seemed, standing there in Finny’s triumphant shirt, that I would never stumble through the confusions of my own character again.”
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hi goobers
i wanted to practice doing backgrounds and different coloring methods bc i rarely ever get to do them anymore. The methods i used were basic one point perspective lines and using the grayscale to color method (honestly yall i didnt know wat i was doing😀)
i started making this back in june and i intended to finish it within a week but it went on for months bc i am unfortunately a perfectionist so i kept redoing it lol 💀💀 and i kept adding more to it.
yea i was honestly being over-ambitious rendering a bg, trying a new coloring methods, and blending a character in all at the same time 🙂🙂 i’ve been working on this art piece for so long that i got tired of looking at it
yea i was cycling through the stages grief and lost my sanity 😊
but anyways here’s Gene trying on Finny’s pink shirt ^0^ ik Gene had put on Finny’s shirt in their dorm but like i really wanted to do a nasty bathroom for sum reason. i thought it’d be a fun bg to play with
i was also gonna make the pink shirt glow bc my friend suggested it to me but i didn’t really know how to do that ;_;
also, the rendering style is based off of the Spider-Verse movies ^^ cuz can we all agree that the spiderverse style just looks super cool and an absolute masterpiece
first vers. no text
2nd vers. without the kooky effects
#a separate peace#asp#asp fanart#dreedraws#gene forrester#digital art#art#also im accepting art critique 😄👍#<- l need it pls#also i gen forgot tumblr existed mb yall#more art to come
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I simply do not understand final girl. Fandom police is pretty self explanatory. People who care to much about fiction cause they don't have a real personality. But what is final girl??
its a trope in horror movies, specifically slasher films, referring to the final woman who survives the story. thats a pretty simplified exolanation, though. it was coined in the book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, to describe the trend of how girls are treated in slasher movies. in addition to surviving to the end, final girls are typically also: virginal yet subjects of sexual desire, become the viewpoint character after the killer in at least the 2nd half of the movie, saved by a man OR for later iterations falsely saved by a man, and acquire a phallic weapon such as a knife to fight back. essential examples include jess in black christmas, laurie in halloween, nancy in nightmare on elm steet, and sidney in scream :)
#og post#ask#anon#over the years in fan spaces the term has become increasingly watered down and separated from its original usage#of critiquing womens treatment to instead just be like. hashtag girlboss survivor!
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Looking at critique for Hazbin Hotel is half genuine shit that definitely should be up for debate and half 'Fuck Viv and the art and the meaning I forced onto this specific thing that isnt actually what the specific thing and also I felt emotion and thats obviously the shows fault I didnt understand how to stop watching something that upsets me'
This is why I stay away from Hazbin critique :3
#this post is extremely exaggerated btw#like yea hazbin ABSOLUTELY has issues like 100% agreed#but also god some of you just so obviously hate viv and it shows#i need everyone to learn that you should critique a show and its creator separately istg#yea you can hate viv and yea she has issues#but god you do need to learn that when you are critiquing the contents of hazbin you need to separate that critique from the creator and#their other works#helluva boss isnt hazbin hotel#vivziepop isnt hazbin hotel#fucking learn that#im just tired lmao. also next fucking person i see going 'angel has a complex relationship with val this is bad' i will fucking kill#actually shut the fuck up abuse victims can have complex relationships with their abusers and shouldnt be demonized for it#garlic breath#not main tagging this the hazbin fandom is like dogs and they would rip me to shreds lmao
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What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?
(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)
thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -
short answer: she’s really cool
& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...
long answer:
i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.
since you ask...
billie is a cool character
when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.
then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!
she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.
but... the meta
mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.
skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.
i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.
most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).
i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.
ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.
while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.
it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-
- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?
.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.
lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.
you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.
in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.
all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3
billie's character potential
she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.
she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).
her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.
she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!
#i assume my followers are cool enough to let me give a brief measured critique on fandom trends and DotO#thanks for the anon question!! what fun!#i love billie lurk <333#jumped on the opportunity to rant n rave#what part of billie isn't my fav! (im a guy who likes the bad stuff too. mmm interesting meta)#trying to be not unfair or mean- i'm not targeting anyone but rather trends. and it's ok to be disappointed with something you love#fuck it. make it part of the appeal! her writing sucks! plenty of room for me & other creators!#its easier for me to indulge my billie brainworms when it sorta feels like she's not getting as much love as she deserves#you know? i want stories where her history is explored and her agency is important so i guess i'll roll up my sleeves#tumblr is a terrible place for this sort of critique IMO- lots of nuanceless empathy-free guilt-trip-ish rhetoric#so i hope i avoided that. but not so much that i seem forgiving.#that said i'm not tagging this one with fandom tags! no thank you.#i am blaming arkane yes. but that is also not without games industry context#i could complain about amateurish writing but that also never happens in a vacuum. industry problem(s) for sure.#people love to blame writers for things#and yeah a couple really fucking good writers can push a boulder uphill#but its usually a company problem#hire lots of diverse people in your company. give them authority and respect and reasonable workloads. and no crunch.#ah fuck this is a separate essay in tags. again#THIS WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION#*clutches head in hands*#uh if you're still reading at this point im SO sorry and thank you and i love you
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One thing that’s always been weird to me about pahkitew is how much of a vacuum it exists in compared to the rest of the series. No inclusion of pre-existing characters aside from chris and chef, no connection to the show’s original setting, no previous story built upon, absolutely zero tie-in to anything that happened before it except the fact that they needed to use a new island. ROTI had the new cast back at Wawanakwa and cameos from the original campers. RR, despite not having chris, had returning characters that play key roles in the season + get new development. The only thing connecting PI to the total drama canon at all is chris, chef, and Leonard’s very brief appearance in RR (and even that was a spin-off). This isn’t really a criticism but I think it’s definitely a big reason why nobody really remembers this season at all compared to the rest of the show and I don’t really see it brought up often? If you just change the host + tweaked the elimination game format a bit it could be its own separate show entirety
#there are more things I want to say about this season but they need a separate post#again this isn’t really a critique I’m just thinking#total drama#💿
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this might not be quite what i mean to say, but a few days ago i was thinking about pairs of shoes and how they relate to each other. these shoes have known each other entirely, they are twins and complements and go on all the same adventures. when one shoe is lost the purpose of both is lost. it hurts to walk in mismatched shoes. their purposes are so entwined with one another that alone they are something else entirely. they must love each other and miss each other when one is lost, but really everything about their life changes when their partner is lost. now i am not at all saying phan is like this (that would be unhealthy lol). i am just thinking about how we don't have enough words to describe the depths and types of love that may exist. twin/best friend/partner- none of these sufficiently describe how shoes must feel about each other. did my point make any sense? lol
omg sorry i saw and answered the second ask first LOL
but YES YOU GET IT!!! i feel like sometimes what i talk about can come across as a bit anti-label, but it's moreso that labels can be malleable and are constantly changing and sometimes necessary but not always accurate cuz you can't really capture the human experience with words
#i was gonna go on a thing in support of and good faith critique microlabel-focused queer spaces#essentially: i think they are good at recognizing the limitations of the english language to describe every experience out there#but i think it can lead to separation of communities that largely have the same needs and the same goals#and thats true about restrictions on what Gay or Bi or Lesbian or Trans mean as well#there is no such thing as a fish etc
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I am once again mourning how uncomfortable hetalia content with Russia has become for me because I really do like Ivan as a character. he’s fucking great. but um. yeah. and I’m just not particularly interested by human AUs, because historical hetalia is very much my speed so it’s just disappointing.
#this post brought to you by the thought of like. what WOULD aph Russia content look like if it reflected current events?#and my conclusion was that Alfred is having the time of his fucking life watching Ivan ruin his#which is fun and cute and all but wow it really feels like it's in such bad taste#like whenever I'm not feeling uncomfortable by aph russia content then it feels like I'm being tacky#this isn't a critique or vague post btw#the fact that other people can better separate fact from fiction is something I am envious of atm
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Cumulus is always the dommy mommy.
Dont get me wrong shes hot as a dom but i dont really care for the mommy part if that makes sense. Let her be a mistress or sir or something!!
interestingly enough, i dont really ever see cumulus as dommy mommy? or rather, i should say she is most often 'mommy' coded but i feel like i dont see that dom aspect? i feel like the fandom assigned dommy mommy has been cirrus historically (we'll talk about that in a lil bit)
but, and you can correct me if im wrong, i think im understanding you here when you say 'mistress' or 'sir', because of the fact when she is more dominant, its paired with the 'mommy' thing. she doesnt typically get written with a hard dom edge. theres always some aspect of softness, is how im taking that.
which is true, ive seen that. and i might derail a bit from your personal point and maybe even the common theme that ive seen so far . . . but i dont know if anyone else feels this way, but cumulus and sunshine, to me, dont feel like ghouls who typically enjoy that hard edge (at least in my personal hc). i would group mist and aurora in that category, with cirrus somewhere in that middle ground.
i totally get wanting to see that from a ghoulette like lus, due to the fact she's not the type of character people would 'assume' would act that way. its very easy to say we should write characters in protest or in opposition to the roles most commonly assigned to them. but i also want to offer the idea that maybe we're just doing the same thing but in reverse. im of the belief that its perfectly okay to write feminine characters with feminine stereotypes, so long as those traits are balanced with other elements of their character.
again, i completely understand wanting to see her in different roles, especially bc people who look like lus are literally all shades of different from each other. AND that the prevailing characterization of lus tends to sway in one pinpointed direction, which isnt good either. AND AND that you could literally have all kinds of ideas about who cumulus is to you, and its technically correct. all we know is how these ghouls act on stage. we dont have actual plot and things to critique like a show or movie would. we're critiquing each other, which many a time ends up as a critique of the greater societal stereotypes and ideas about fat women. which is valid. and i know im rambling and this is more of what i specifically want to talk about in another (even longer lmao) post.
in the end, i agree. it would be nice to separate the dom and the mommy thing from being cemented together, because dom in itself has soooo many flavors and shapes etc. maybe lus doesnt want to be nice. maybe she does want that hardness. i dont know! but youre right, i dont see that of her much.
#i think yall know that im not ranting or critiquing you specifically#we could have these conversations for h o u r s and not get anywhere#theres a lot to unpack just with one character so i may not make sense lmao#like i said i have more specific ideas about cumulus that ill make a separate post about#bc some of my ideas about her are not the common hc either#ask#anon
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the difference between the tumblr and twitter reactions to the boruto time skip designs has been so funny omg
#boruto#naruto#moon posts#im not gonna lie to yall i think the kids are serving DOWWWWWWNNN#like they kinda ate im sorry#there are def very fair critiques like why is sarada wearing louboutins in what looks like a sleeveless dress but is actually a romper#i don't even know a thing about sumire but why does she still look like she's going to school#i actually rly like inojins fuckass bob his whole look is very gender to me actually#chocho looks stunning too but i wish they had went for a crop top instead of a sports bra#i also just remembered inojin isn't wearing a crop top but thats ok b/c he's his own person but he would've slayed that crop top hoodie#kawaki looks sick as always#boruto i actually have no notes for like sasuke passed down looking cunty no matter what as a lesson too#did yall see his sandals yeah he ate that#shikadai got a bigger jacket which i love b/c i think jackets make everything better#i haven't rly seen mitsuki that much but i think he needs to fire his barber#himiwari looks sooooooooooo cute !!!!! my daughter is a teenager now waaaaahhhgg#ive seen a few posts comparing her to hinata which ofc they look similar but i have something to say#she reminds me of naruto a Lot and kushina too#ok thats a separate thing tho#moon tags
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Critique de la Séparation (Guy Debord, 1961)
#Critique de la Séparation#Critique de la Separation#Guy Debord#Debord#short film#1961#Critique of Separation#quote#black and white#time#philosophy
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ngl i feel like the current wave of feminism whatever we are on right now has this real issue with neglecting earlier work that results us having to constantly restate the same things and talk in circles (ironically in the second wave ppl like gerda lerner pointed out that having no history is one of the issues facing women and we need to re-instate our history in order to reclaim the present). like how is it we can read marx as foundational but recognise he was deeply flawed in some ways and then read later work addressing these flaws and building on the topic, but when it comes to feminism we literally can't touch anything from before the 90s and then expect every work to encompass every last complexity in the debate and the sum of every previous viewpoint? the more i read earlier feminist work the more i'm like holy shit it's pathetic that we are having to repeat the same things 300 years later like they're brand new and every generation has to re-learn the same lessons instead of actually getting anywhere...
#like women were already critiqueing things like bioessentialism and the separation of class+feminist concerns by the 1700s#the girlboss would never have happened had these 'feminists' read a vindication on the rights of woman#which i would honestly make equivalent to calling urself a communist and not having read the communist manifesto#which people also do *cries* but like it's not as widespread among ppl who arent 14
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Prev post I do think though that all three books critique the dynamic of having someone in power over you in a religious sense because they're pointing out how for anyone given that level of power, their personal hangups and desires become inextricable from the position that they hold and that position is a position that easily lends itself to abuse. so to have the conclusion of that be "but when it's a hot girl it's fine" just doesn't really mesh with the rest of this setup and I think regardless of what harrow says at the end of ntn, it's actually way more complicated than just choosing another deity
#but maybe i'm wrong#i do trust muir to bring the nuance like this isn't a critique so much as it me going.#well these books don't engage with religion as a positive force that much do they#harrow's thing for the body is more complicated than just religious reverence#it's like. she is obsessed with the thing that shatters the world in which she lives#i'd mostly read it as harrow wanting an end to the setup john has in place because she doesn't fit easily within it. but she's also#tied to that system to the extent that she can't separate herself from it. so she wants to destroy herself#born wrong you know? that's a very like. gay kid in the church vibe#idk#interested to see what atn does with that
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i’ve been trying to get through hoh for literally like a week now but it’s so hard bc the way my fave nico is treated is absolutely ABYSMAL and i know it only gets worse
#personal#even hazel being like ‘yeah he’s hard to get along with’ or whatever she said#every single non-tartarus perspective has had at least one reference to this#and like i understand the reasons it’s not that it’s that it highlights this issue i have with a lot of the characters in that series which#is that i don’t like them. and that’s so different for me bc i actually usually find that my two favorite characters in anything are the tw#that don’t like each other? unrelated to that dynamic usually mostly but still within it#but that’s not even what the dynamic is yk.#and it’s just the whole thing overall like in the last book there was one part where these two characters who are supposed to be good#friends are separated and one makes a comment about how annoying (or something along those lines) she finds the other which.#i’m vaguely aware of what happens in toa so i think you could argue something about that but read on its own bc i don’t want to make that#argument without fully grasping where her character goes#it just kinda reinforces this… vibe to the whole series that was not nearly as present in the first series of like. really overemphasized#like gender roles/heterosexuality/etc. i can’t think of the word to use to describe it. i’ve seen other ppl talk about the parts that add u#to the whole that i’ve seen but never synthesize them. and it really varies between actually insidious and simply not my taste which is par#of the reason i hesitate to make a full critique out of it. but suffice to say i really don’t like it#with that being said the pacing of this book is really good and i am compelled to finish based on the themes i do find interesting#autonomy being a huge one#but anyway those are my thoughts on it after a few days of a break. i’ve been playing a video game instead :3 but i start work on wednesday#sooo i won’t have as much free time boo#looking back maybe ‘insidious’ is a very strong word for it. i’m talking about like when percy complains about the bag and similar moments
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I got weird about testament within 5 minutes of waking up new record
#my friend was critiquing a ‘humanoid-anthro-alien sex triangle’ diagram#all i could think about was hhhhwwhere would gears be.#theres simply too much variation. gears are complicated. there would have to be a separate gearfucking chart#the kat goes meow
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