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bibliosims · 3 months
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mit3c · 7 months
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uotuok · 11 months
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moosicals · 11 months
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Favorite Trope: In love with her from day one, more than she'll ever know
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duranduratulsa · 3 months
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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...Child's Play (1988) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #childsplay #chucky #DonMancini #braddourif #alexvincent #catherinehicks #chrissarandon #dinahmanoff #JackColvin #ripjackcolvin #tommyswerdlow #michaelpatrickcarter #edangross #vintage #vhs #80s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow
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leo-kinnie · 10 months
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im gonna start reblogging on this account bc it looks so ugly w/o some aesthetic reblogs idk. feels hard to look at. SO!!!
if u wanna mute reblogs from this account, mute the tag: miscellaneous reblog
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i am excited but i also fear for my life
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toongrrl-blog · 8 months
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My Style Analysis: Devi in Ben's Dream Part 2
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Alright folks we are gonna take another ring around the rosy everything Ben got thinking of this dream.
One thing I kick myself for despite the fact that both Stranger Things and NHIE are Netflix productions is why I didn't see it sooner.
Devi is likely dressed in an updated version of Princess Daphne from the classic arcade game Dragon's Lair, a Don Bluth production.
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Yes the archetypal Damsel In Distress whose character design was based on Playboy pinups, who looks like she'd fall out of her lingerie (lots of fashion tape must be used) and part of the Dumb Blonde stereotype that was used do demean conventionally attractive women AND women who didn't fit the mold regardless of physical appeal. And her Knight In Shining Armor? Dirk.
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Despite fitting the archetypal notion of the Knight, Dirk is not drawn as desirably as Daphne, part of the reasons many feminists found the games to be sexist (with Space Ace being a marginal improvement given that Kimberly, a redheaded Daphne, is sassy and spunky and is able to take initiative in saving the day) and Daphne is a passive figure in all this.
Now what about ST2 and NHIE? Well....
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In the opener to the 2nd Season of the highly popular sci-fi period piece, the boys (Will Byers, Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, and Lucas Sinclair) head over to a 1984 perfect arcade where Dustin tries to best Lucas's high score at the game only to have Dirk killed by the dragon and Lucas gloat about being able to save the blonde beauty. Why is this important?
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Because New Girl in Town Max Mayfield ("Mad Max") beat Dustin's high score on Dig Dug and soon Lucas and Dustin are both in competition for the acerbic tomboy's feelings, thus marking a foreshadowing of who gets the girl.
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It's Lucas, of course. But despite time zones, episode by episode conflicts, and decades separating the couples, Lumax and Benvi do have a lot in common. Buckle up because we will be talking about how Western Society treats difference in ethnicity, heritage, race, and appearance and gender.
One thing to make clear that the image of the Knight in Shining Armor and the helpless Princess is often obnoxiously Eurocentric, especially of the Gallic or Anglo persuasion. Princess Daphne is tall, leggy, slim and curvaceous with long, blonde hair and blue eyes with a voice high on helium and a babylike demeanor, a kind of innocence attributed to respectable European women that Karens have exploited for generations often to damaging effects; Dirk is meant to stand in as traditionally masculine but hapless enough to be relatable to the (assumed) male players of the game, all he has to do is save the girl to have any shot with her leading to the unfortunate implication that young men are entitled to the opposite gender, especially the ones considered the most desirable but he isn't classically handsome, historically men have been able to get away with not living up to beauty standards by being able to be identified with their talent, intelligence, heroics, finances, economic savvy, work ethic, virility, strong character, sense of humor, or being a decent person. And of course it's been said (and proved) that white men can get away with being mediocre and still scale the ladder of society, whereas his conditionally white and racialized counterparts have to work harder to even take their steps on an often more perilous ladder.
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Historically in our society, both members of the Black and Jewish Diaspora have had a....hard time of it: often as targets of derision, fear, violence, and disdain for the jobs they were sentenced to do (often in less "respectable" areas) and this also affected how (and this is not to take away from how insidious anti-Black and anti-Semite misogyny is, go ask Meghan Thee Stallion and Elana Steinberg) men of these groups were depicted: either desexualized and non-threatening to the point of being humiliated or over-sexualized and "out to take our wimmin" and scapegoated because won't someone please think of the children?
Sometimes if they were "lucky", they got to be "the best friend" to the less ethnic white guy who presents as WASPy. They could be attractive (if not more) or charming (if not more) or compelling to watch (if not more) as the hero but don't get the leading man treatment or are the replaceable awesome love interest who are moved aside for the more flawed and relatable white character (look at Courtney B. Vance in Sex and the City); there is also ugggh beauty standards that favor Eurocentric gentile features over non-European features. Dirk is drawn in that classic homely cartoon guy style while both Lucas and Ben are more conventionally desirable to their girlfriends (and many fans of their respective shows) but while Dirk is entitled to Daphne's affections (and by implication, her body), both Lucas and Ben (who are both younger than Dirk) have to not only save the girl but they also have to gentle their way (a term I learned as a kid) by being more emotionally available and being there for their girlfriend's vulnerabilities and be willing to risk heartbreak. Both @urspopinionsareshit (on masculinity and anti-Semitic tropes) and u/absentminded88 on Reddit (on Lucas Sinclair and tropes focusing on African American masculinity) have wrote extensively on these topics but my point still stands that often men of both diasporas were often overlooked as paragons of ideal masculinity.
Now it's one for the ladies!
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I picked these because Max and Devi have something that poor Daphne lacks: illuminating friendships with other women and looks like I will have to toss a wet mildew blanket into the party.
Let's talk feminine stereotypes and difference! *dodges tomatoes*
It's quite a stretch to suggest that both Max and Devi don't fit a conventional eurocentric blonde beauty as both Sadie Sink (who's also a model) and Maitreyi Ramikrishnan are both pretty girls with expressive eyes with slim figures but yet many women of color and redheaded women were often not considered paragons of beauty (if they weren't being over-sexualized as homewreckers and temptresses) and often not considered feminine due to depictions of their "fiery" tempers at best or being seen as castrating harpies. Max and Devi both struggle with their society's view of how girls should behave, have dealt with trauma, not taking shit from boys or authority figures or even other girls, chafing against certain expectations put on them while trying to navigate femininity away from their mothers (who they have strained relationships with) and with the help of mass media (eep). But ultimately both girls find empowerment in their relationships with other women, finding out how capable they really are even with threatening a man with a weapon or destroying his skateboard, and in their own self-expression and put-upon uniqueness. Whereas Daphne existed to look pretty and adore Dirk (and by extension the assumed cis male player), Max and Devi have agency and ideas with formidable personalities that intimidate their peers and do-nothing adult authority figures. If they need saving, they at least try to resist and are capable of it.
This initiative is reflected in the dream: Devi declares her academic accomplishments and capability are superior to Ben's and that is a turn on for him, she manages to Jedi mind-trick his shirt off, and declares she will take charge of their lovemaking. Perfect combo of sensuality, brains, beauty, and gumption.
Both Lumax and Benvi prove that there is an appeal towards seeing couples not fall into strict gender roles where one is more capable than the other and one has work hard to meet a trophy wife standard and about thirty years after Daphne and Kimberly of Space Ace, we have seen the sassy, vocal, independent love interest role evolve from love interest to being the protagonist/main character of her story.
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kitkat-the-muffin · 25 days
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Something that’s kind of neat is how in Room of Swords the hair-length of the leading males definitely means something but I still don’t know what it is
I think it represents knowledge though, or maybe wisdom? Like, Gyrus had long hair when he met Kodya, who had short hair, and back then Gyrus knew a looooooot about how the RoS worked
Then of course after everything went wrong, Kodya’s grown out his hair and he finds a young-Gyrus with short hair and lots of questions. This Gyrus has no idea where he is or what’s going on and so Kodya has to mentor him
Then during season 2 Kodya sort of shaves Gyrus’s hair as a way to measure his mental state???? I haven’t reread the story in a few years so I forget but I think he uses it as a way to know how far along Gyrus is in recovering his lost memories based on his hair length
And at the end of the season it’s touching the floor lmbo and they have to cut it again… I think. Actually maybe it gets cut off on its own? I… I haven’t read in a while… something Masiosaire related right?
Uh anyway his hair is short for most of season 3 and then long again in the finale so I guess I wanna say there’s obviously a thing going on but what is the thing ya know?
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armando-triplepapito · 4 months
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Some fanfic authors need to be banned from writing!
I came across a fic where Betty and Armando are married but they’re both having affairs…
Armando x Marcela
Betty x Don Roberto 🤮
I think a side ship is Doña Margarita x Daniel
I regret skimming through a few chapters, I need to bleach my eyes🫠
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Get Takeshita out of there
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goldiipond · 1 year
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ash asked me to elaborate on this so i'll take it as an excuse to rant but basically theres a line from don in s2 that directly translates to 'don't cry, rossi. boys don't cry.' which is not only fucking gross on its own and even worse given that he's speaking to a terrified five year-old in this scene, but they literally could not have chosen a more baffling character to say that if they tried. here's a little collection of don panels from the manga for no reason in particular
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xiaoluclair · 9 months
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analanaisdying · 23 days
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I have zero fucking patience for these Ana doms god fucking damn it leave me alone uggo😭
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[The Daily Don]  :: [Jesse Duquette]
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I wanted to close by reporting on an incident in Nikki Haley’s campaign that should give us hope going into 2024.
         Haley made a campaign stop in New Hampshire this week. She opened her speech by telling a trans-phobic “joke” directed at the short-lived campaign by Bud Light to use a trans spokesperson. The details of the joke don’t matter. The point is that when Nikki Haley attempted to make fun of a trans person while in New Hampshire, no one in the crowd laughed. Not one person. And the crowd included lots of Republicans. See The Daily Beast, 2024 GOP Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley's Anti-Trans Dylan Mulvaney Rhetoric Falls Flat in New Hampshire.
         Haley lives in a Republican bubble in the South where it is still acceptable to mock trans people. She wrongly assumed that everyone in America shared her crass and insensitive views about the acceptability of mocking trans people. She won’t make that mistake again—which is good for Haley and America. Just as Ron DeSantis stops talking about six-week abortion bans when he leaves Florida, Haley is learning that most Americans do not share the GOP hatred toward trans people that is endemic in the red southern states.
         The Republican “platform” for 2024 is based on hate, grievance, and fear. It sells in a narrow swath of gerrymandered Southern states—but not in most other places. The arrogance and hubris of Haley in assuming she could tell a trans-phobic joke in New Hampshire tell us that Republicans don’t understand how unpopular and narrow their platform is. It is already too late for them to switch courses.
         As always, we cannot rely on Republicans to defeat themselves. But Haley’s complete lack of awareness of the mood of voters outside of South Carolina is a sign of GOP weakness heading into 2024. We have every reason to be hopeful but no reason to be complacent!
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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duranduratulsa · 7 months
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Now showing on my Spooktober Filmfest...Child's Play 2 (1990) on glorious vintage VHS!#movie #movies #horror #childsplay #childsplay2 #DonMancini #chucky #braddourif #alexvincent #ChristineElise #gerritgraham #jennyargutter #gracezabriski #BethGrant #peterhaskell #edangross #90s #vintage #vhs #spooktober #halloween #october
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