I got curious to see how Ortega's Cairo would sound singing compared to her Wednesday. I have both cloned, though Cairo might need some cleaning up (I only had an hour and a half to work with here, while I had six hours to work with Wednesday...getting clean audio from less is harder, but 'Cairo' sounded fine in the teaser I made, so....).

The accents are nearly identical since it's just paste over, but Cairo sounds sadder. Someone sounding sadder than Wednesday? Just bury me now and be over with it.

It does show the difference in acting, but I chose audio from her narration rather than the action acting (which would have needed cleaning/processing since a lot of it has setting reverb). With Wednesday, I took more from the action on screen.

(I'm likely using Wednesday's version for another Afterburn teaser.)

Ortega was aight. 🪲🌺🌸🌿✨

ETA: I don't have Wednesday's solo uploaded for comparison... it's just the duet atm.

making an emily-arc gifset and screaming internally. why the fuck did they do that to scully

today i’m thinking yet again about that one time i was playing chess with a childhood friend and she told me if i let her win she would teach me how to make a magic potion. i was six, so this felt like a Reasonably Plausible Thing for her to know how to do, but she was also six, so of course she had no idea how to do it.

credit to that girl’s improv abilities, tho, bc she just started grabbing random things in the kitchen (onion skin, a single cheerio, large bottle of molasses) and i do not totally remember how it reached this point, but my mom, who had been out doing something or other, came into the kitchen to find two little girls just straight up pouring molasses down the sink.

VIVIDLY remember how my friend and i were just like 👁️👄👁️ in that way that small children are when there’s no thought in their head. i don’t think i even got in trouble for this simply bc the weirdness factor overruled the waste of molasses. it just had not occurred to my mother to tell me not to do this.

I know we talk about girl dad Gojo but can we discuss Gojo with a little boy who is so shy and very sweet and considered to be tender hearted

Baby boy hides against you and Gojo and always has to hold someone’s hand and cries whenever Satoru leaves for a mission

He has Gojo’s blue eyes but your hair and is the biggest momma’s boy and Gojo loves him to pieces

it’s not the poetry of the lyrics tbh. it’s the psychological truth underneath.

oh yeah i was thinking also about jon being raised by his grandmother...it’s just such a great flavor for an already repressed and uptight character, like of course those are mannerisms that come from being raised by someone old-fashioned (especially someone who explicitly resented him !! even though he acknowledges that she tried her best it was still apparent enough that it couldnt have not hurt him...)

i also like to think that jonah magnus was probably “precocious and impatient, quick to talk back, and even quicker to wander off whenever I grew bored”...i feel like they were similar in many ways right down to their childhood, two lonely guys driven by their curiosity into the arms of the unknown...

Just listened back to a drunk voice note I sent Kofi on Saturday and holy shit you guys nobody told me how bad I lisp when I'm drunk

Literally most of the time the remnants of my childhood lisp are like. a slight softness/buzz on sibilant sounds. In this message it's a full on eth. "That thoundth nithe." there's even like. emphasis on the eth. I sound like a cartoon character. Don't get me wrong it's adorable. wild though. I literally didn't even notice when I was recording it that I was stumbling on the sibilances.

All I can thay is I'm thoooooo lucky that I'm the twin they gave a name containing an eth, not the twin they gave a name beginning with S. "Ruth" is a blessing to a child with a pronounced lisp. "Lisp", by the way, is not.

DANGEROUS SEX OF PRECOCIOUS GIRLS (1972) - LONG LEGS ON LARGE MOVIE POSTERS (Part 9/10)

A fabulous painting by Luciano ‘Luca’ Crovato for the 1977 Italian release of the 1973 German light sex comedy.

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tween-me discovering Don Lothario: i must have him... i must BE him!

reading the prescription and i’m mad bc i read the first chapter and was awash with what i can only describe as the feeling a virginal teenage boy feels reading scott pilgrim for the first time. gwen felt like a fictionalized, quirkier version of what i was like at 15 and it’s not good

Hmmmm how to say. There’s a certain peerhood of character dynamic that comes from two people in a work being both girls/both boys/both neither. That isn’t to say that life isn’t fluid or that you can’t build a dynamic between male and female characters that ignores this divide.

To take an example at random—MP100. Emi, Asagiri, Tsubomi all interact with Mob as Girls. They’re foreign, agitating or destabilizing elements in Mob’s world (the audience’s world) as non-peers. His interactions with them are always in the context of Gee I’m Talking to a Girl. Mezato is an edge case but still Girl. Mob ends up misinterpreting her journalistic curiosity as interest in the Divine Tree arc, which only makes sense if she’s viewed as Girl before Classmate. Tome, on the other hand, is fully a Peer character. She’s Mob’s closest friend from what we see in-canon, they go on what he describes as ‘dates’, but she’s so far out of the Girl social role that Shigeo never associates her with the fresh intrigue of the Girls. Instead she’s a comforting, reassuring force on the story in the way that Reigen and Ritsu are. She even steps into Mob’s shoes for the oneshot! There are gendered roles and non-gendered roles and actual gender doesn’t have to define them. Tome is a girl and not a Girl.

So, it’s interesting to play around with his characters’ genders can shape even non-romantic dynamics, or how dynamic is itself gender. People who are similar feel kinship. A tomboy will hang out with boys on the playground or a kid bullied for being a sissy will be part of the girl group. That gets complicated when genders bend around in-story.

Specifically DGM Alma Karma was born from the transmigration of a woman’s soul into an an artificial male-assigned homunculus. Her/his/their key dynamic is with Kanda as two-of-a-kind. Both experiments, both exorcists, both (assigned) boys growing up together. The sense of sameness and equivalency is important to that relationship. They have no one else in the world like them except each other.

PastKanda’s dynamic with PastAlma also fits into a strictly gendered structure: Kanda is a brooding gruff man searching for a lost cheerful kind woman. They’re the action hero/deadwife cliché. Kanda has abstracted PastAlma away from any semblance of personality because he doesn’t even know her, he just has a vague impression. The woman is separate, unknowable, distant, and though Hoshino is a lady herself, the trope is a misogynistic one that relies on the idea that women are mysterious creatures rather than human beings with thoughts and dreams.

By then transposing the somewhat gendered relationship of childhood friends-twins-equals-peers on to the irrevocably gendered trope of sadman/deadwife, Hoshino then challenges the way that gender informs the whole story. Kanda’s view on Alma is wholly interior. Alma is himself reflected, openly expresses what Kanda feels and hides, is the one person who truly knows and understands him. Then his view on PastAlma is entirely exterior; she is an inscrutable ghost, an invisible gap in his life. Kanda has idealized PastAlma and resented Alma for a decade only to find out that they’re the same person. Which begs the questions: did he think of them differently just because he thought Alma was a boy? Was PastKanda even a man? Do we the audience read PastAlma as opaque just because she’s a woman, where Alma is such a lively screen presence? Would Alma present as a woman if she weren’t trying to go incognito, or did they genuinely identify with the boyhood he was assigned?

Who knows. Social pressures always weigh on the edges of a story. Even if they’re not obvious, they inform how events unfold and how audiences interpret them. Gender (patriarchy) is such a pervasive hierarchy that a writer/reader’s got to consider how it influences plot events. Alternately, ignoring it has got to be a deliberate choice and you’ve got to think hard to keep gender from sneaking into the reading (eg a perfectly neutral interaction between girl characters will read as misogynist between a girl and a guy).

newly developing desire to maybe live by myself dashed to bits by having the neediest and most extroverted cat in the world

james cooper is helena’s legal ward. a tech and robotics genius with a knack for explosives, he’d skipped a number of grades to be in high school early and was in her honors history class. his science project about how he could build an explosive with household items attracted the attention of a local gang and he was kidnapped to build a bomb for them that they could use to leverage the release of their leader - a man helena put in jail. when she heard he was missing, she immediately took up the search. his mother, a journalist, also went door to door asking for information. unfortunately, this drew attention and the gang murdered both james’s mother and little brother to keep his kidnapping silent. helena felt horrible about it, blaming herself for not warning mrs. cooper off the case. she eventually tracked james down and rescued him with the help of the birds.

unfortunately with his mother and brother gone, james was put into foster care. he ran away a few weeks later, and a series of bombings began taking place at various hideouts the gang who kidnapped him had around the city. it drew helena’s attention as well as batman’s, and the former found him just as the latter did. after batman threatened to have james sent to lockup, helena took responsibility for him. she’d go on to hang up her cape in order to get him settled, moving out of the city briefly. she was immediately truthful with him regarding her identity as huntress and used her money and connections to hurry along the legal guardianship process.

more recently, they’ve both returned to gotham. now that she’s taken up the mantle again, james is insistent about helping her. she is adamant in her refusal. she won’t have a kid sidekick, no matter how normalized it might be. you can often find jamie hanging around the birds of prey headquarters while helena is out, playing video games or peppering barbara with a hundred tech questions or working on whatever new bot he has to tinker with. he attends gotham academy and is taking early college classes. you’ll also see him attend public events with her from time to time.

My head canon is that But Daddy I Love Him is the perfect Rory-Jess soundtrack