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ltstrikesback · 1 month

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TLDR: Monkey Man was so beautiful and so much more than meets the eye.

Spoilers below/me being mildly pretentious:

As someone who has not gone to the movies to see anything other than queer films lately, my girlfriend got us tickets to Monkey Man. She practices jujutsu and likes John Wick and thought this movie would be similar.

I am a huge Dev Patel fan, though, when I saw the trailer before a viewing of Love Lies Bleeding, I figured I might not actually end up seeing it. I didn’t think I was the target audience. I also don’t love action heavy, guns blasting movies in theaters themselves because it’s a bit sensory overload for me. I felt myself make a mental note to watch it on streaming and already forgetting to do so. Flash forward to me and my partner in the theater and I was in awe.

This movie is about a small village who is violently forced off their land so the elite can build a factory. Dev Patel’s character—Kid—is a child the day the village is expelled. He witnesses his mother’s murder and years later seeks revenge on the man who killed her. When he fails to enact his revenge, he finds himself in a city wide man hunt, ending with him falling into a river, drowning. But he is saved! By a small community of hijra—trans women—who live in a temple nearby.

Walking into this movie I didn’t expect social commentary or politics. I anticipated a Rocky type movie, contained to the story of one individual’s hero’s journey. (People keep mentioning John Wick as a comparison. I just mentioned it in this very post but I haven’t actually seen it for the record.) Monkey Man is specifically not about one individual or one individual’s revenge. This was my takeaway. The message we see over and over is that there are things in this life bigger than ourselves. It is literally impossible to save yourself by yourself—you need community.

I’ll take a step back now to acknowledge that I am not sure how familiar everyone is with current politics in India. I myself have limited insight but have friends who are personally affected by the current climate. There is a strong wave towards Hindu nationalism under PM Modi. It’s yet another instance of what feels like the whole world turning to fascism. The movie uses real clips from real instances of social clashes to paint the landscape of this fictional city. Also, I was reading into the backstory and potential censorship of this film and learned the villain’s colors were originally orange, not red. A clear parallel to the current Hindu nationalism at hand. There are clips of crowds attacking trans people. There are boos at the mention of Muslims and Christians. There are scapegoats in this film that are intentionally pulled from real life.

Now to jump back in—I have to say I was completely moved by the entire sequence at the temple. The temple is dedicated to Ardhanarishvara—a god who is part woman and part man. The hijra community has found a home here, albeit on the outskirts of society. The leader tells Kid, “no one will come looking for you here.” Their status in society protects him in a serendipitous way. They are also the ones that nourish him and help him train for his next mission. Not only that, but we see this community smile, laugh, flirt, and fight. I loved the scene with Kid and the drummer, with the girls cat calling him from afar (same). It was so tender to see trans joy, even in mundanity, amidst persecution.

When Kid has self-actualized and essentially is Hanuman, the part monkey God the movie is named after, he takes on the political elites. There is a moment he is surrounded by bodyguards in this hotel sequence. He’s outnumbered and out comes our hijra fam to the rescue. They take down these men. And it is so fucking amazing. I mean, really, it’s so fucking amazing to see them fight for themselves, for each other and be the hero.

To wrap up, I also wanted to touch on the fight sequences’ production. I mentioned I don’t really like fight scenes because I get sensory overload but the music in this film resolved this issue for me. It wasn’t pure screams or gunshots. There was a really fun soundtrack that added a great twist to the film. Kind of reminds me when they break out electric guitars in Chinese historical dramas. Just another thing about this movie that really worked. At least for me personally.

Last thought—my take away is not necessarily to say “put Dev Patel in everything” which is happening in the online discourse. (There’s a weird opposite-of-cancel-culture thing that happens sometimes where audiences obsess and then forget about actors or artists. Idk.) Rather: let this man do whatever he wants. Give him your funding, give him your resources! He should not have to kill himself to tell his stories!

*Sigh* my heart has been so full since watch this. A huge shout out to Dev and his team.

#monkey man #dev patel #I could go on #but this is tumblr mobile

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alitgblog · 4 months

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speculating what the s8 islanders will look like as an excuse to draw lol idk why im not going in order here's the sports physiologist

ok so obviously my art style is a bit simpler than the game's and I didn't take a ton of time to render it but I think the elements are there and here's my reasoning (warning this is long lol)

the disclaimer is I read the application once and then started drawing so I think in my head I got it confused and thought this was gonna be the Bobby/Rafael cutesy fun guy of the season and rereading it now I realize I am wrong, but I still stand by certain choices.

Sports physio/cycling thing was a big thing for this. I think he shouldn't have very defined abs but the game will draw him like that. Cyclers tend to have skinnier torsos but bigger thighs/legs and I didn't draw the legs bc I'm lazy but know that in my head, he's got thick thighs. I didn't draw him with like a huge chest or arms also because of that, but because it's still LITG, he does have some definition on his arms, just not a lot. I really think I could see this guy working in sports physio.

And because he takes care of people for a living and is the "big romantic," I think he needs to look very charming, to a point where he's almost disarming. (This is where I got it in my head that he's the Bobby/Raf of the group bc lover boy vibes. Personality wise he feels like Rohan imo who is similar). Therefore I drew a lot of his features as very soft (softer jawline, fleshier nose) but also just big round eyes to draw you in. I looked at Tyrique from love island season 10 for a bit of inspo because I think he's got such a pretty face but still is pretty masculine, and he has big round eyes so that's why I did that.

I also decided on curly hair, in part because of my confusion with Bobby/Rafael, but also I think it adds to the charm because it's clearly styled but tries to look effortless. I used a younger picture of Dev Patel for it. That's also why he has a little bit of facial hair to help age him up but also works with the aesthetic I was going for. The piercings are fully a self indulgent add-in, I just it's attractive.

Ok so this is where it gets confusing because I did intially draw some sharper features on him and had a different color palette for his skin and hair. I was imagining him as "spicy white" just because Bobby and Raf are mixed so they would change it up just slightly for this guy. I think nothing that's too contrasting to make him look brooding like Joyo. So initially this was definitively a tanned white guy with curly reddish brown hair, some facial hair, and a defined nose, and then I was like this is really close to Rocco. So I changed some features and some colors and here we are now at ethnically ambiguous? I'm not gonna think too hard about the ethnicity of this character because this is fake and it's fusebox's problem when they release the real character.

Looking back, if I redrew the character, I'd go for full or half South Asian just because I did use dev patel as a hair reference. But also maybe just hopeful because aside from Angie, the other South Asian rep in recent memory I can think of is Marshall (messy), Ozzy (messier), and Suresh (messiest), so I just think we should get a cute one. (also Priya, Rohan, and Arjun who aren't nearly as bad but only one of those is a LI and they're sort of dead right now so)

anyway overall the process of drawing him was kind of a mess because I had confused some things in my head and like I said, was accidentally drawing Rocco (underrated design btw) but this was the first one I did and I don't think I'm right, this is just a fun little activity for me and he's the first one I drew so I wasn't very sure about a lot of things.

so if you read this far congrats for getting though my ramblings. The next ones I'm doing aren't nearly as complicated 😂😂

#mixed feelings about my prediction here but it's fine #im wary about tagging this for s8 bc its not canon its just speculation buuuuuut #litg s8 #speculation #litg #firefighter next and by firefighter i mean gary/alex fusion

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tenebrius-excellium · 8 months

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Hi, who would you fancast as Gen, Irene, Sophos and Helen? Also, what would you do if ROTT ever gets a movie adaptation, one depicting the war with the Mede anyway? 🙈 🥺👉👈

Hii!!!! Oh my gosh fancasting Tqt is NOT easy...

...especially since a couple fancasts have already been made that I am SO down to agree with. I hope you'll forgive me if I partly choose people that have already been named within the fandom before...?

[Insert: ARE YOU KIDDING ME YOU MADE ME CREATE WHOLE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS FOR THEM I SPENT THE ENTIRE AFTERNOON ON THIS AND I DO NOT REGRET IT]

Eugenides: Luke Pasqualino

Who else. He could pull off Young Gen, King Gen, and God Gen. I love his chill mannerisms and his cheekiness. But whoever has watched BBC's "The Musketeers" knows he can portray a dark, rash and dangerous side as well. The actor has Italian roots btw.

Irene Attolia: Irene Papas

Sadly, this awesome actress died in 2022. She was Greek and played in "The Trojan Women" as well as "Iphigenia" - so, you know, she has the ideal Greek Aristocratic face. Isn't she the perfect Attolia?

Sophos - Christian Martyn

How I found this actor, I don't know. I am not familiar with him, though he played Gilbert Blythe in "Anne with an E". Look. LOOK. Bear with me. He seems innocent, is the definition of too Nice™ and has this precious aura of childlike chaos about him. But he is also able to glow up into a warrior when necessary O_O

Helen Eddis: Nathalie Emmanuel

Okay, look. While I'm personally highly satisfied with the above casts, I know full and well that this one isn't perfect. First of all, Emmanuel is far too thin and pretty to be Eddis. They'd have to change her nose at least, if not give her a rounder body type. But she is dark-skinned, her hair is short, her smile is fun and captivating, and I think this does reflect who Eddis is to some degree. I'm sorry I didn't find anything more accurate.

To comfort you, here are some more random character casts that I found/came up with while working on the others:

King of Sounis - Jack Black

Nahuseresh - Dev Patel. Imagine the reddish beard oh my gosh

Kamet - Riz Ahmed (that one was the author's choice, I believe)

Ambiades - Austin North. Like, come on. He's gotta be the evil version of Sophos and he would be perfect.

Costis - he's honestly just that one real life Kristoff edit from Frozen. No, he's really Channing Tatum in "The Eagle". Look him up.

As for what would happen if The Queen's Thief Series got turned into a movie, I would SCREAM YELL CRY HAPPY TEARS.

They could turn the 6 books into 3 movies, I believe.

The Thief & The Queen of Attolia (the story would have to be slightly changed, e.g. older Gen and different politics, but they can really pull together the whole 125 pages of travelling to the temple into a 5min montage)

The King of Attolia & A Conspiracy of Kings (how Costis became King isn't as important, but it could serve as a sideplot/what Gen is actually contributing politically behind the facade)

Thick as Thieves and Return of the Thief (again, how Kamet came to Attolia isn't as important as the message he brought.)

The Queen's Thief reminds me much of Narnia (the world, the values, the fashion, the colors), Percy Jackson (adventure Greek setting), and Sinbad (adventure + navigating the Gods). If they ever turned that into a movie, I'D WATCH THE HECK OUT OF IT.

Thank you very much for asking!!!

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fourfears · 8 months

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anyone want to jump into plotting in a shared discord 1x1 server? after we chat a little and see if we vibe ofc. 21+ only pls as i am over 25. my main blog is haziest but i'm shadowbanned so i am posting here. check out my guidelines/some fcs i want under the read more and feel free to message me on discord at iranoveroprah, just tell me your url first please!

i'm called nine

he/him

cst

25+

queer

i generally like playing face claims of color, and i prefer if you do too

i play any gender including nonbinary & trans muses & fcs, and i prefer if you do too

ask for my discord where (if we vibe) we can plot and make a server and headcanon and thread and stuff (i can make it if you want me to no pressure lol)

will not rp: pregnancy, anything involving babies or parenting including parents with grown children, military, historical, royal, cops, generally “taboo” topics (inc*st, r*pe, etc. but just ask if you’re unsure), fcs or muses under 20, or celebrities as themselves

i now have a list of banned fcs (sorry it keeps growing):

anyone under age 20. no exceptions. benedict cumberbatch, bts members, choi jongho, choi seungcheol (s.coups), chonnasorn sajakul (sorn), chris evans, chris pratt, colton haynes, david harbour, ezra miller, henry cavill, holland roden, jackson wang, jacob elordi, jennifer lawrence, jeon soyeon, kardashians/jenners, kim woojin, kim youngjo (ravn), kj apa, lim jaebeom (jay b), matthew gray gubler, miley cyrus, oliver sykes, park jaehyung (jae/eaJ), ryan gosling, taylor swift, tom holland, won kunhang (hendery), wong yukhei (lucas). this may be subject to change over time.

i generally like fast-moving threads, and i find <300 word threads are easiest to reply to, but i don’t mind long threads too! usually i’ll recommend doing a rapid fire thread alongside a longer thread to keep the inspo going

anything else just ask!

wanted plot dynamics/tropes:

addiction ᝰ affairs ᝰ angels & demons ᝰ codependent & toxic relationships ᝰ dumb stoners in love ᝰ grief & comfort ᝰ hauntings ᝰ impulsive confessions ᝰ long-distance & online relationships ᝰ musicians ᝰ opposites attract ᝰ poly ships ᝰ post-apocalyptic rebuilding of society ᝰ religious differences ᝰ spooky things !!! ᝰ unrequited pining ᝰ urban fantasy elements/settings.

(very niche) wanted fcs:

avan jogia ᝰ bae sumin ᝰ barry keoghan ᝰ bella poarch ᝰ brandon perea ᝰ chase sui wonders ᝰ choi beomgyu ᝰ choi in ᝰ choi yena ᝰ choi yoonah (doa) ᝰ conan gray ᝰ davika hoorne ᝰ dev patel ᝰ do hanse ᝰ dong sicheng (winwin) ᝰ evan mock ᝰ fukutomi tsuki ᝰ greta onieogou ᝰ han hyun min ᝰ hong siyoung (giriboy) ᝰ huh yunjin ᝰ hunter schafer ᝰ ivan rzhevsky ᝰ jang eunseong (dosie) ᝰ jeon somi ᝰ jeong jisu (albin) ᝰ jeremy allen white ᝰ jo gyehyeon ᝰ jonathan daviss ᝰ kai kamal huening (hueningkai) ᝰ kim gyunhak (leedo) ᝰ kim sunwoo ᝰ kim yongseung ᝰ kwak jiseok (gaon) ᝰ lee jooyeon ᝰ lee seoho ᝰ lee suyeon (sheon) ᝰ lee taeyeob (yoojung) ᝰ lights bokan ᝰ lily rose depp ᝰ lizeth selene ᝰ mae col ᝰ maggie lindemann ᝰ mat musto (blackbear) ᝰ na goeun ᝰ nicha yontararak (minnie) ᝰ oh seungmin (o.de) ᝰ osaki shotaro ᝰ park jihyo ᝰ rahul kohli ᝰ riz ahmed ᝰ tahliah barnett (fka twigs) ᝰ tati gabrielle ᝰ sen mitsuji ᝰ simone ashley ᝰ son dongju (xion) ᝰ song yuqi ᝰ thomas weatherall ᝰ xu minghao (the8) ᝰ yoo yongha ᝰ zhou xianxianye.

#discord 1x1 #indie rp #1x1 rp #discord rp #1x1

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rp-partnerfinder · 1 month

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To cut straight to the point, I´m a 26F in GMT+2 looking for partners 21+ to write Avatar: The Last Airbender and LOK-inspired roleplays with! I´m down to writing canon characters (usually I play Suki, Ty Lee, Sokka or Korra, but honestly I have no preference and can adapt to people´s tastes) or against canon characters. However, I would especially love to meet folks who have a true passion for worldbuilding and further developing the lores and concepts presented throughout the franchise through the creation of OCs. Hell, I got a Dev Patel FC cooking up right now that I´m foaming at the mouth to use 👀

I´m also extremely flexible when it comes to writing styles, reply length and frequency because I´ll always believe real life comes first. As for what dynamics I´m looking for, gender doesn´t matter much to me and platonic, romantic, familial and antagonistic relationships can all spark the same level of inspiration…FxF, MxM, MxF, NBxNB, etc...All welcome! I do lean towards semi-lit, lit and novella but again, I´m flexible and totally understand we can´t always match length. Main thing in it for me is to make plenty new friends and really exploit all the wonderful aspects the series offers to their maximum. I´m hype to have whole adventures!

Sound good to you? Interact with this post or dm me directly at @millenarianism. For now I´ve been mostly RPing on discord, but we can just as easily write on tumblr or another site of your suggestion! Thanks for reading and hope to hear from folks soon. Hell, if there´s enough people interested I´d love to someday have a private server for fellow 21+ fans that want to have a space for more mature takes on the franchise...Workin on that dream ❤️

PS. Oh, and should go without saying but since the ATLA/LOK universe is POC-only and I myself am Black, I would prefer we stuck to that spirit by keeping any OCs we create as people of color. Other than that and the fact I prefer to avoid outright depictions of abuse, I´m pretty much open to anything!

#21+ rp #Avatar: The Last Airbender roleplay #Ty Lee #legend of korra roleplay #atla rp #lok rp #platonic rp #romantic rp #FxF #MxM #MxF #NBxNB #semi-lit #lit rp #novella roleplay #discord rp

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mermaidsirennikita · 1 year

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no because you're right....none of the supposed new leading men are giving what they're supposed to give. sure there are some fine actors among them but truly only a few of them are the full package and those are usually the ones hollywood isn't really pushing.

Part of it is that I think Hollywood really is pushing very family-friendly content right now, and a lot of the actors they're moving forward have to go with that. Like, Tom Holland may Demand To Be Taken Seriously, but thus far it hasn't really worked, and a lot of that, let's be real, is because it's hard to see him in these mature roles. He's sexless, he looks very young. I think Timmy has a similar issue, but he's gone for darker, edgier roles obviously; his fanbase is very young though, and I don't know that he has the ability or the hype to have a sustainable career the way Leo did when he went from Acclaimed Teen Idol to Long Term Movie Star (Leo is one of the last true movie stars, love him or hate him).

There just aren't a lot of opportunities to really hot, mature guys to make a splash right now--to play sexy, to play romantic. Back in the day a Chris Hemsworth type would've been in movies that also allowed him to like, show off his sexual charisma, even if he's not fucking onscreen. Look at Harrison Ford. Even his "family friendly" fare like Star Wars and Indiana Jones always put him as the romantic lead--Raiders of the Lost Ark was actually pretty hot compared to most action movies today. (Marion screaming at Indy about how he took her virginity, the scene where she tended his wounds~, lol.) Then he'd also do movies like Working Girl, where he was a total sex object for the female gaze (the scene where he changes his shirt in his office and the female employees watching all clap).

Today they basically work out a ton, get their muscles perfect, and then... don't kiss anyone. Don't build that kind of appeal AT ALL. So what happens when you can't do those action roles anymore or you aren't taken seriously as an actor any longer? Few action stars have the physical longevity of a Keanu Reeves, who also has actually found his niche and grow as an actor while playing action. Most of them struggle.

So the more conventional dudes by and large do action until they can't and then struggle some; then you have the most nebbish guys playing more dramatic roles, because those dramatic roles don't have a sexy angle so they don't need to be sexy, even though back in the day you could totally do both (Paul Newman and Robert Redford were hailed as talented dramatic actors while being hot, because they were lol); and there are very few romantic roles in general.

I think there's also a lot of either/or going on right now too--if you're handsome you go superhero, if you're sort of normal-looking either approachable comedy or drama depending on your abilities. The romcoms that do exist are largely sexless, so be the safe guy next door, because sex is Dangerous. Arguably, a lot of Code-era movies are currently sexier than the sexless movies we have right now because the actors infused their performances with the sex they couldn't explicitly perform onscreen.

There is also of course, the fact that Hollywood keeps pushing the same middling skinny white guys (often British, often from money with a family tree that is a single branch). There are tons of men of color who bring the sex appeal and should be much bigger than they are. The internet has been losing its shit over how hot Dev Patel and Henry Golding are for... how long now? But they're Asian, so Hollywood refuses to see them as romantic leads. Daryl McCormack gave a performance both incredibly good and incredibly hot in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; will he get the kind of shine a white actor would? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II says he wants to do romcoms, but will he be offered those parts?

Obviously, this is not a new issue, and the hot guys who made it big as Sexy Men back in the day in Hollywood were by and large white. At least they were hot, though; now it's largely white men with zero charisma, made to appeal to the mass audiences without any sense of sex.

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justzawe · 2 years

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Zawe Ashton Rewrites Regency-core

The "Mr. Malcolm's List" actress on finally being invited to the table of period pieces, and her upcoming Marvel debut.

Zawe Ashton is back in her favorite city, New York, sitting in a room at the Plaza Hotel having just finished a long day of interviews. Her latest film, the Regency-era rom-com “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” will open in the U.S. on Friday (at the premiere on Wednesday she’ll reveal to the world that she and her fiancé, Tom Hiddleston, are expecting a baby), before an August premiere in the U.K., but she’s relishing this moment in the Big Apple, marveling at the film’s birth.

“It’s surreal that it’s coming out at all,” Ashton says, feet tucked underneath her as she sits on the room’s bed. “This film is a low-budget film; it was a labor of love for so many people. Everyone who came aboard did it for the passion, not for the paycheck. And so I knew that we’d made something really lovely, but I didn’t ever expect that we’d be here in New York with the costumes displayed at Saks Fifth Avenue and there being this kind of real buzz around it, you know? It’s lovely.”

“Mr. Malcolm’s List,” which was shot in Dublin during the second lockdown of 2021, is in many ways a little movie that could; it originated as a proof-of-concept short film a few years ago but struggled to find funding to be made into a feature. Then came “Bridgerton” and everything changed.

“I think that created green lights going off across so many different production companies and [‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’] was one of them,” Ashton says.

She was a last-minute addition to the casting, after a few other actors dropped out due to scheduling.

“I got a phone call saying, ‘there’s the script from ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List,’ it’s part of this exciting new wave of Regency work and they need an answer by tomorrow morning,’” Ashton recalls. “It worked really well for me because I’m prone to overthinking and I just had to zone straight in on all of the very primal elements of the project. And the meeting of rom-com and Regency romance, two genres that I love, the intersection of the two of them is even more delicious. The character, the ensemble that was assembled, the opportunity to amplify a first-time female feature director were all green flags. And so in 24 hours I was headed to Dublin.

While doing a Regency film might seem like a given for a British actor, Ashton says it’s not been the case for actors of color until recently — and she’s been eagerly awaiting her chance.

“I grew up like so many British people reading and studying the Jane Austens and the Brontës and the Dickens of the world, and those landscapes are part of your DNA in a way, and you do imagine yourself inside of those roles and inside of those landscapes. I was always aware that there was a real chasm between where my imagination could go and where the scope of the filmic interpretations were,” she says. “So it’s always been quite sad that I’ve never really been invited to the table to partake in the Regency-core and the period drama scene that dominates so much of our TV and film in the U.K. I don’t know, if it takes a lockdown and Shonda Rhimes to change that, then fantastic.

“But I think it was already starting to change,” she continues. “I had really enjoyed ‘David Copperfield’ with Dev Patel. I was extremely excited to see Jodie Turner-Smith taking on a role like Anne Boleyn, and now we have ‘The Gilded Age.’ So there were rumblings, but you need the juggernaut. It’s like with ‘Black Panther,’ we hadn’t necessarily seen a huge Marvel movie with that level of representation and the fact that it not only was a wonderful story, but it made money has opened so many doors. It’s a shame we’ve all had to wait so long. I know myself, Freida Pinto and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, who were all in the movie and it’s our first ever period piece, all feel the same: there’s a sadness in it having taken so long, but also a real pride in being able to create this work now.”

Her character, Julia, is one you can’t help but root for, even as she makes several less-than-earnest choices along the way. Ashton delights in playing an antihero, she says, and will once again take on the trope when she makes her Marvel debut next year in “The Marvels,” playing the villain in the Nia DaCosta-directed film (the first Marvel movie from a Black female director, who will also be the youngest Marvel director ever.)

“I’ve loved it. I’ve loved every single second. I did not expect it to happen,” Ashton says of joining the Marvel world. “It came out of an opportunity inspired by a real connection with Nia DaCosta, again another fledgling female director. And I just had an intentionality, I think from the end of 2019 where I just thought, ‘I just want to be of service as much as possible in my work. And one of the ways I can do that is to amplify fledgling female filmmaking talent.’”

She and DaCosta Zoomed at the height of the pandemic and bonded, oddly enough, over their love of period pieces and Jane Austen.

“I just threw everything at it,” she says of the role. “I don’t have any expectations of what it will or won’t be. I just know that I’ve played the female antagonist in a fantasy movie. And that feels like a real tick off the bucket list. And I’ve helped the first ever Black woman direct a Marvel movie. And that feels satisfying enough for now, you know?”

And playing a Marvel antagonist is rather fun, it turns out.

“It’s such a theme in my work: I’m never the romantic lead, I’m always just like the edgy one on the side,” she says with a laugh. “I love it. I love an antihero’s journey. I’ve always been drawn to those characters in literature and in film, and in art generally. I would prefer to love someone despite their flaws than be led into the more obvious likable characters. And to play, you get to leave your ego at the door. You get to not worry about being liked. You get to just really play the truth of someone’s experience, and people are messy. Life is messy. I feel like a real sense of achievement if I’ve managed to create a character with deep flaws that people still end up rooting for.” (x)

#zawe ashton #womens wear daily #interview #photo shoot #article #mml promo #the marvels

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thespiritoflife · 1 year

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Domiiiiiii

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Domiiiiiiiiiiii

How r you 🤭 ????

Okay I saw your fun game and I'm going to participate in it . I'll make a moodboard because I'm a Sucker for your moodboards 🤧🙈😘. Preferred gender = He/Him

Your FS reminds me of this Spanish actor Guillermo Campra . Specially his eyes and some of his vibes .

Hello, my dear Alaeza! I hope you're doing awesome🤎 that gif is so cute awww, i love cats/kittens🥰

Thank you so much for exchange, I've never heard of this actor, I'll make sure to google him👀 he seems soo cute! And thank you so much for gorgeous moodboard, I love it!

I immediately know which actor reminds me of your FS! I don't know if you know him, his name is

Dev Patel

He reminds me of your FS because of his vibe, his eyes and his smile! He has so.. black vibe? (this sounds so dumb god) I don't know how to explain it, but I know your FS is a type of a guy who likes black color, black color suits him so much!🖤

#'*•.¸♡ alaeza ♡¸.•*'#dominika's games #ask #sweet ask

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banerpg · 4 months

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hi! unsure if you provide fc ideas, feel free to ignore if not, but i’d love any suggestions for fcs of color you’d like to see here as i’m feeling pretty stuck! thanks :)

Hello ! I am not the best person to provide fc ideas as I tend to simply recycle a small selection for my own use, but I will do my best providing some faces I think would fit our skeletons ( these are only ideas — you are more than welcome to use faces not listed here ) ! Rasika Navare ( suggested for God Burner ), Tamino Amir, Davika Hoorne, Sen Mitsuji, Sijia Kang, Tara Emad, Meng Ziyi, Vito Basso, Marlon Texeira, Neelam Gill, Oscar Isaac, Reece King, Jessie Mei Li, Dudley O'Shaughnessy, Jackson Wang, Jacob Anderson, Amber Midthunder, Ana de Armas, Melisa Asli Pamuk, Sofia Boutella, Enzo Vogrincic, Alperen Duymaz, Adria Arjona, Dev Patel, Amita Suman, Remy Hii, Bruna Marquezine, Zoe Kravitz, Lewis Tan, Martin Sensmeier, Amar Chadha, Cherokee Jack, Woo Dohwan, Courtney Eaton, Jung Jaewon, Nathalie Emmanuel, Anya Chalotra, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fabien Frankel and Gratiela Brancusi.

#answered #faq #a ty to annie who also helped #fc help #mw

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MoviesOr... The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher, and Poison

One thing streaming services have ruined for me is the commodity they offer us. You may think I'm crazy, but I'll explain. Regarding the music industry, for example. Today, it's easier to release songs, which is amazing! But also, because of that, music has become more and more forgettable and more and more generic. Many artists are releasing fast-food songs just for the sake of releasing them. The result is very often a product with only 2 minutes of length, a repetitive chorus, and meaningless lyrics.

For the streaming services whose content is in video, it's also true that we have a lot of fast food content (and also incredible projects that are canceled, out of nowhere, every now and then). However, what hurts me the most, is how many good contents I can't watch in the place I wish I could watch them: the movie theatre. The commodity of having every movie or show in the palm of my hand frustrates the side of me that loves watching things on a big screen.

Undoubtedly, Wes Anderson has become my favorite movie director, even taking the spot of Tim Burton. How delightful was my surprise to see he had not one, but four new projects with Netflix. On a rainy Sunday morning, I discovered this fantastic news and rushed on to finish everything I had to do, just to sit and watch them. Sadly, they were just short films, but even sadder was to realize I wouldn't be able to see them on a big screen like I had the opportunity to do with the latest Anderson's release, Asteroid City. I admit, I have a thing for inches. My TV has 58 of them, and I'm obsessed with seeing everything in the bigger places I can. But even having a big screen at home, I kept my whole watch imagining how it would be to see these four projects in a movie theater.

In my humble opinion, Wes Anderson is the finest example we have today of how movies are meant to be made. The scripts, the acting, the aesthetic... everything is a learning experience. Watching his movies is seeing a live performance of how to be the greatest. A few directors have this touch, and I can think again of Tim Burton and even Jordan Peele, but for me, both of them have lost this magic in their recent work, as if they were falling down a long set of stairs. Another good name is M. Night Shyamalan, and even though he has made a few mistakes in his latest projects, he's still pretty great.

The four short films Wes made with Netflix are: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (which tells a story of a billionaire who wants more by learning how to see without eyes), The Swan (about two bullies chasing a brave young man), The Rat Catcher (about a rat catcher), and Poison (about a poisonous snake lying on top of a man). All of them were written by Roald Dahl and adapted for the screen by Anderson. They all star the same batch of brilliant actors. The always incredible Ralph Fiennes (who, among many characters, plays a rat man that could only remind me of Peter Pettigrew in the same series Ralph once portrayed a snake man), the charming Benedict Cumberbatch, and the always-in-a-Wes Anderson movie Ben Kingsley, alongside a few others that are incredible, like Dev Patel.

The first short, about Henry Sugar, is the longest, and it's amazing. The colors, the lines, the story… I was in love with everything from the first minute, but when I hit play on the short movie about a boy swan, my mind was blown. What was being told and how it was being told made me want to grab a pen and start writing so badly. The dialogues of the actors are delivered like they're reading each short story exclusively for us. I can't say for sure they are line-by-line accurate, as I haven't read them yet (but now I want to), but this was a brilliant way that Wes had found to honor Dahl's work and give these short movies an identity of their own. It was fascinating. I wish I had a mind so creative to write such intriguing stories.

The next one, about a rat catcher, wasn't so attractive, but the focus here was the acting of Ralph Fiennes as a rat man. Tell me, how disturbing it is to see a man and, at the same time, a rat? The make-up and the costume design were top-notch. However, one thing made this whole magic experience be turned into a dull one: The suggestiveness of it all. I don't understand why they didn't put a bottle of poison in Ralph's hand when he was explaining how to kill a rat, for example, or why they didn't put a stuffed ferret for him to hold, the same way they put a stuffed rat in his hand a few minutes later. You had to guess things were there.

It reminded me of theatre: if you ask the audience to imagine something in a play full of real things, they remember that the play they're watching is just… an ordinary play. I'm sure Wes had his reason, but this was a no for me. Funny enough, one thing kept reminding us that everything so far were just pieces of fiction put on a screen, with random man appearing every here and there to give our actors whatever they needed to act opposite with. These little interruptions didn't seem to get on my nerves, when, in fact, I found them brilliant.

To finish this marathon, we have a short story about a life-and-death situation, and, of all the shorts, this had the best ending (even though it's an abrupt-inconclusive one, so to speak). The story itself is amazing; imagine being trapped in your bed with a poisonous snake and you can do anything? Not even move or cough. Especially because this snake, as the narrator smartly reminds us, can enter one's house without effort. Impossible not to fear this happening to you. Impossible not to stand still while watching the story unfold, as if your every move could awaken the snake on the screen.

Unfortunately, we won't have this hitting big screens around the world. Maybe a few people will be lucky enough to have this in their local movie theatre or in their festivals, but I'm not one of them. If that's the downside I have to live with, at least the good side of commodities is to live in a world where companies are fighting for our attention and fighting to stay relevant. We can only win.

#MoviesOrGabeNeverHappened

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throneshq · 2 years

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do you have any fcs of color you’d like to see?

if you’re looking for a particular vibe, let me know, but i’d love to see jameson blake, oscar isaac, nathalie emmanuel, jacqueline sato, krystal jung, adjoa andoh, auli’i cravalho, julia rehwald, jing tian, candice patton, keith powers, mahesh jadu, samantha logan, cara gee, courtney eaton, myra molloy, simay barlas, sude zulal guler, cengiz coskun, andrew koji, anna shaffer, archie renaux, kiowa gordon, cody christian, dev patel, & priyanka bose !

#oc rp #appless rp #period rp #got rp #fantasy rp #mw.

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I have heard some... fairly significant spoilers about Lowery's Green Knight, and it is dawning on me that while the film itself may be a very fine piece of cinema (tbh that's a lot harder to tell without seeing it,), I'm not sure the adaptation choices meet my expectations. Also I realize you probably haven't seen the movie either so this may be a conversational dead-end for now.

So... I haven't seen the film yet, no, though I'm seriously considering taking my life in my hands and doing so this weekend. I do have some thoughts which have been percolating since seeing the trailer. These thoughts are shaped by the fact that not only do I love SGATGK as a text, but I teach this text, and love doing so, and thus am very used to the fact that it is doing a lot of things at once. And as any adaptation does, this one is clearly making choices about inclusion and emphasis to tell a very particular version of this story.

My impressions of the film from trailer/spoilers/visuals, and how it compares to the poem:

This is a narrative about narrative. This is one of the things I love best about the poem, so I like this concept. Of course, I don't know how the follow-through is going to be.

However, the film also appears to take a more straightforward, less ironic approach to Gawain's adventures themselves than the poem does. I have... mixed feelings about this, presuming my impression is correct. Of course Dev Patel is a very perfect knight, but part of the genius, poignancy, and hilarity of the poem comes from how it subverts the chivalric hero narrative

The green knight himself is very clearly... other, not human. Of course, A24 is a horror studio, and this visual choice makes sense for them. But I think that a green knight who is less (or differently) obviously unsettling before the deadly game works better in the narrative

Clearly the film borrows from other Gawain romances, particularly in the figure of the fox. I don't know what else they may be borrowing. This is fine with me; a lot of the poem is about atmosphere, and Gawain being really mad about the weather. This is great but hard to film, I suspect

One thing I don't know: how much steamy queer flirting are we going to get?? I love the steamy queer flirting of the poem. But Martin Beilby's Sire Gauvin has already given us that and, well, we can't have everything, I guess

Dark Ages???? The color palette seems very Hollywood-medieval. But then, a lot of the poem takes place in winter, the better to contrast with the warm, sexy, color-saturated opulence of Sir Bertilak's castle, so... it might work.

I suppose this is a long way of saying... I think there are many different ways that this or any adaptation could either satisfy or disappoint me.

#sir gawain and the green knight #sir gawain and the bertilaks #is a tag that i have #the green knight #medieval literature #studio a24

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In Defense of a Black Cyclops

In case my username didn’t make it clear, the single most anticipated visual project for me is the MCU’s interpretation of the X-Men, which hasn’t even been announced yet [officially]. And ladies and gents, I have found your Cyclops:

Good ol’ Alfred Enoch, who we all know from Harry Potter and How to Get Away With Murder. If you’re not familiar with HTGAWM, know that his character goes from the de facto leader of the ragtag (murderers) and most cherished protege of Viola Davis’ Professor X to taking more of a grimdark turn after his girlfriend’s death. Sound at least somewhat familiar?

Enoch also embodies the physicality of the character well, seeing as to how he’s “slim”, 6′4(!!), black, and notoriously lanky. Wait, one of these isn’t like the others.

In general I hate fancasting. Everyone generally picks from the same pool of about 30 actors (Peeps, neither Taron nor Daniel is a good Wolverine choice. Argue with your mother!), and most all of it is based on physicality, except when it absolutely should be (like say, choosing a ~5′10 dark-skinned black woman for Storm).

And I think there’s some malarkey afoot. I think there needs to be some serious consideration on part of fancasters and actual casting agents alike to rethink race when it comes to the [white] X-Men, especially since they’re the X-Men of all teams. So I’ll make the case for a black Cyclops:

1. There is no quota on Black X-Men: There’s a bug in your ear that’s been whispering lies to you for years, it says something to the effect of “We need a black person on the team for diversity. How bout Storm?” And you’ve gotten complacent. Storm does not have to be the only black person on your X-Men roster.

2. The X-Men represent diversity: Iceman is gay, Cyclops and Prof. X are disabled (sorta), there are plenty of women, oh and everybody except Storm is white. Of the A-List X-Men, there is only *one* POC character. I’d argue that an MCU X-Men needs to champion diversity like never before.

3. The X-Men represent minority struggle while being mostly white: There’s a cognitive dissonance in the metaphor that has always been there, and for the most part, nobody cares. To appeal to the white readers of the 60′s, the X-Men were all initially white. That way, the message of the mutants could be related to the audience with a familiar face. We don’t need to approach the problem that way in 202?

4. Just because that’s the way it’s always been, doesn’t mean that’s the way it should be: The first line of defense. Sorry, that will never be a good justification for literally any idea. It’s time for some more critical thinking.

5. We don’t all want to be Bishop: So say you’re white and you have a kid who for his birthday having a costume party. You’ve bought some X-Men costumes and you want each kid to pick one. 9 white kids and one black kid show up to your house. As the kids deliberate who gets what costume, be it Cyke or Wolvie or whatever, you yell at everybody to “STOP!”, point to the one black kid and tell him “You’re gonna be Bishop. That’s it, end of story!”

We don’t all want to be Bishop. The black child could have the best Cyclops interpretation within him, but you’ll never know if you don’t let him try. And that’s no different from the Black actors of Hollywood. There’s no reason why all of the black talent should *have* to compete for the role of Bishop or Storm, which I’ve discussed, while Joe Schmo can walk up and audition for literally anybody he wants.

Jharrel Jerome is 23 and has an Emmy to his name. He needs to be in the MCU in some capacity, period. Stephan James is another. How bout Damson Idris. Ashton Sanders. But no, no, let’s fancast Dacre Montgomery or Ansel or Joe Keery again as [Human Torch, Wolverine, Iceman, Angel, I’ve literally seen it all.]

6. Nobody wants to see the B-team if it comes down to it. The next line of defense from your racebending naysayers after “That’s the way it’s always been!” is “Well, what about Psylocke, Bishop, Forge and Jubilee?” who are otherwise known as B-tier X-Men. The problem is, we’ve got limited time and limited spots.

So since the X-Men is all about wonky metaphors that make half sense, let me give you another: Let’s say somebody approaches you and says “Hey buddy, I got two free concert tickets for ya! You can either see Michael Jackson Sings the Blues, or you can go see Justin Timberlake. Free of charge!”

Now, are you used to MJ singing the blues? No! Do you have a problem with going to see Justin Timberlake? No, he’s fine on a Wednesday! He had that one little diddy we liked that one time. We’d love to see him eventually! But are you gonna say, “fuck that, I’m going to see MJ Sings the Blues” regardless? Hell yes, because that’s still Michael Jackson. He’s gonna give the same amazing performance he always does, it’s just gonna be the blues. And speaking of blues...

7. Black is not Blue, Brown is not Blue: Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard this one: “I don’t care if you’re black, white, purple, or green, I’m going to treat you all the same!” I will not say all have this intention, but some fancasters have noticed that the racial diversity is kinda low within the A-List X-Men, so they oh-so-generously give the following roles to a black or brown person: Iceman, Nightcrawler, Beast.

Notice the pattern? It’s a microaggression, and it’s bullshit. What these fancasters are implicitly telling you is that, yes the actors will be black or brown, but when the action starts we can ignore that. They’ll be blue by then. In other words, you in fact do care if they’re purple or green. Nobody will cry foul if Dev Patel gets to play Nightcrawler (because that’s a common one I see), but should Anna Diop be Starfire or Michael B. Jordan be Human Torch, I bet there’d be backlash. Oh wait. If that’s you, please stop acting like you actually value diversity. You don’t want to see black or brown skin, period. Unless of course, it’s Storm (refer to point #1).

But wait, there’s more! When brown characters get whitewashed in these movies, it’s crickets! So eventually it’s revealed implicitly that proclaimers of point #4 only care about it one way.

8. Professor X should not be black if you’re not willing to change anyone else: The next line of defense is that some people say the professor should be black, if anybody HAS to be racebent. Something something MLK Jr., Civil Rights or some shit. Number one, I’m not reducing Professor X to being a magical negro for 9 white people (and Storm!) who for all intents and purposes get to have all the action. Number 2, the Professor X/MLK/Magneto/Malcolm X comparison is an oversimplifying disservice to ALL FOUR of those people. I hate that line whenever I see it, please watch a documentary my friends.

9. The Candidates for Racebending: For me, the A-List X-Men are Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel, Beast, Wolverine, Storm, Gambit, Rogue, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Kitty Pryde. Now, who should be exempt from the racebending? Storm, she’s our designated minority. Gambit, he’s Cajun and they’re white (generally speaking, that’s a fun bit of research). Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler, because their nationality/ethnicity was the whole point of the Giant-Size premise in the first place. Angel, because his character embodies a privileged white male. Beast and Iceman, I don’t care one way or another (Point #7).

That leaves Cyclops, Rogue, Jean Grey, and Kitty Pryde. Now Jean Grey is a redhead, and we all know that every time a redhead is racebent people sharpen their pitchforks (Mary Jane, Wally West, Iris West), so I will cede the ground on Jean if only so that my ginger friends can get their rep. Kitty Pryde is Jewish, but Jews of color exist. Rogue is from the South. And Cyclops is, well, just Cyclops. That makes those three characters good options for more diversity. But allow me to make the case for Cyclops, specifically.

10. It’s not just diversity for diversity’s sake: If you had to pick who the main character of the X-Men is supposed to be, most would say Cyclops. And so in a series that highlights racial discrimination in society, it makes sense that our main character be black. While changing Cyclops’ skin color should not change who he is as a character, it *should* recontextualize it. Now, as an eventual increasingly radical leader of the X-Men, Cyclops would evoke real life figures such as Colin Kaepernick or, shall I say, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not that most X-Men fans and writers truly think about what it means to be black anyways. Storm’s minority status is almost always put through the lens of her being a mutant and not her being a black woman. In other words, you can’t argue that making a character black will fundamentally change his or her character when you haven’t even analyzed the racial context of the black character(s) you already have. Another concept that the MCU X-Men should tackle: intersectionality.

11. Representation matters: I have to say it: Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther hit different. And now he is tragically gone. At the end of the day, the MCU moving forward is down its most prominent black male superhero. Which has implications beyond just the movies themselves.

The women are in good hands. Shuri, Okoye, and Nakia are badasses in Wakanda, Valkyrie is ruling Asgard, Storm is almost assuredly on the way, RiRi Williams has already been cast, and Monica Rambeau is here and she’s not even at her most glorious yet. That doesn’t even include variable Δ, or the number of characters who can and will be racebent. And I’ll note again that to me, Gamora doesn’t count, because she’s green (#7 really pisses me off because it’s so blatant. I hate it). Of course from a behind the camera perspective we love black women getting work.

The men are a completely different story. Imma just go out and say it, I can’t stand Falcon and War Machine [in the MCU] because they’re not characters, they’re just two of a slew of MCU minority sidekicks who have essentially been at the beck and call of Captain America and Iron Man, respectively. You cannot tell Falcon’s story without mentioning Cap. The reverse is not true. There’s a whole essay that could be and have been written on “Minorities in the MCU, pre-Black Panther”. Remember, there’s a reason BP made so much noise in the first place.

So excluding those two we have, let’s see, M’Baku, Blade, and Fury who aren’t exactly the most superheroic superheroes, Eli Bradley is proooobably coming, I doubt Miles Morales is coming (because he’s just Peter Parker in the MCU), Luke Cage(?) Bishop(??), Sunspot(???), Blue Marvel(????). Not only are they not A-List, I would not put money on any of them being in the MCU any time soon.

Cyclops is thee Captain America of the X-Men. He’s the frontman. He’s the poster boy. He’s the “boy scout”, which in other words means he’s the hero, if there has to be one. It would mean a lot right now, and specifically *right now*, if he were to be black. The MCU needs it. It NEEDS it.

12. The X-Men is the Summers Story: I’ll even make the case that if just one character needs to racebent, then it should be Cyclops, because that of course implies that other related characters need to be black because half of the X-Men universe is in fact a part of the Summers family.

So now Cable is black. Corsair is black. Havok is black. And one of the most central stories in the X-Men mythos, the Summers family drama, is now a black family drama set in space or the future or where the fuck ever. The concept is boundary pushing. When white families have drama in the media, it gets to be Game of Thrones or Star Wars, while when black families have drama in the media, it has to be black people arguing in a kitchen or living room about their various earthly traumas (I’m @’ing you, Mr. Perry). I mean, that’s all fine and good often times, but I want my black family drama in space, dammit.

And again, this is the X-Men, the series that’s all about *minorities* and their struggle, so again, why not?

Oh, and I’ll even throw out a Havok fancast for you: How bout Jharrel Jerome?

#cyclops #scott summers #the mutants #monica rambeau #X-men #xmen #marvel #MCU #fancast #jharrel would actually be a better sunspot #but you get the point #my man would have OPTIONS

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trout-scout · 2 years

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!!!! For whichever OC is on the front of your mind atm;

1, 3, 4, 7, 18!!

Hell yeah! I’ll do Luca Valere, one of the protagonists of my maritime fantasy duology ‘Tales of the Great Leviathan”. He’s the scientist-black sheep-middle son-total adorable depressed privilege baby & utter nerd of the royal family of an island nation and is probably my favorite of all my characters:

AND I’ll do Teodora Balan, my re8 oc, whom some may recognize & whom I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:

1. What color represents your OC? For Luca it’s absolutely blue and gold! Blue in the duology is deeply interconnected with the titular Leviathan, the kind of god-monster world-whale of the setting, and is a constant reminder of his obsession with seeing and understanding it. Blue and gold are also the national colors of his island, Lapide (he’s torn between his obligation to his warring nation and his personal passions) and there’s a heavy emphasis on daytime/solar imagery with him contrasting with the other protagonist’s moon/nocturnal imagery (now SHE deserves her own OC post, truly).

For Teo it’s red. She wears it, she lives by blood and is haunted by it, and she spills a LOT of her own over the course of the story. Also the first fic in the series involves finding a certain red heart-shaped herb and it kind of leads to great change in her, shall we say. Also-also- her whole appearance and color scheme is meant to invoke the orthodox-looking saint paintings on the various church and cave walls we see in-game, tying her to the sacred imagery and highlighting her piety.

3. What does your OC sound like? Do you have a distinct voice you associate with them? Teodora has a low-pitched, no-nonsense, slightly husky voice with a strong Romanian accent. Which doesn’t fit in-game but shhhh. If she was being voiced I’d go with someone like Florence Pugh doing a dialect.

As for Luca- I admit I imagine him with a fairly plummy English accent but in-universe Lapidaeans would have a somewhat Mediterranean-sounding accent (leaning toward, like, Spain). I describe upper-class Lapidaean as sounding musical & he definitely has a pretty pleasant voice- like a Dev Patel type.

4. What’s their theme song?

Luca: The Lightning Strike (Snow Patrol)

Teodora: Various Storms & Saints (Florence & the Machine)

7. An animal that you associate with your OC?

For Luca I’d go with an albatross. Weird, nautical, elegant yet awkward, and surprisingly loving. And for Teo- dogs! Fierce, unpretentious, loyal.

18. How does your OC express themselves?

Luca does grand gestures at first. He overcompensates for his own inadequacy and failures. He’s theatrical and (mostly) charismatic and uses humor to cover his own deep-seated fear and depression. Later, this facade gives way to a kind of reverential tenderness.

Teodora doesn’t at first! She’s all about action and forward movement and keeping it together, fighting tooth and claw so that nothing ever gets out. It takes some real trials and tribulations for her to emote again and to recognize that she is capable of more than coldness.

#jfc this was FUN ask me more hehehe #ask meme #oc meme

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