Some outfit exploration for my OC Chime, a Tibetan nomad! She's the best lil guy for me to play around with the concept of lengthy braids that can be wrapped around your neck. Technically a women's chuba (Tibetan robe) goes down to one's feet, but Chime only has access to the one from her childhood, so it's easily mistaken as men's :D (oh, and the gas mask? don't worry about it<3
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Please, if ya'll love detailed character writing and world building, give The Venture Bros a watch however you can, be it streaming or DVDs. It's so clear how much passion went into the making of this show.
I can't wait to watch the movie this weekend.
Go Team Venture ✨️
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You mention that James Somerton is transphobic but aside from misgendering Nate Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar that one time I'm not sure what you mean can you explain
I mean, that is what I'm talking about, but it goes deeper than that. Cause like, the point he was making isn't...ENTIRELY bad? There's a lot of complexity to it, and it ties into issues of tokenism and the male gaze and fetishization vs. representation, but there is an actual discussion to be had about how queer women are portrayed in media, and by who, as opposed to how queer men are portrayed. He is filtering it through his usual biases, so he's not really diving into the complexity, but there is a real point there.
But the thing is...why go to Nate Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar for that point? Like, if you wanna talk about queer women being allowed to depict themselves in their art, you don't need to misgender Nate and Rebecca to do that. Céline Sciamma, Jambie Babbit, Angela Robinson, Cheryl Dunye, Clea DuVall, Chantal Akerman, Dee Rees, Donna Deitch, do you see my point? Both Alice Wu and the Watchowskis had stuff about queer women on Netflix, the same platform She-Ra is on. He could have named other names.
Now, I do admit some of that might be playing to his audience, and also playing into my point about him being a discoursed poisoned online queer person; Both his audience and queer people who I feel are overdosing on discourse tend to lean towards kiddy shit more than other stuff and a lot of the names I named make artier stuff for adults. And finding those names would take an ounce of research (like, I dunno, browsing down the list of The L-Word directors on wikipedia and looking for women) and their gender identities had to take a back seat to his laziness.
And that's transphobia.
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Rereading the Hunger Games series again and I can't help but see how -- human Katniss sounds. Don't get me wrong, JLaw did a fantastic job portraying Katniss but the books show a lot more than the girlbossery we saw on screens. It was human. How Katniss, beneath all those layers of hardened emotions, was just a teenage girl. How she kept reassuring herself like how a teenager would, say before a big test (except she's fighting to the death.) How painfully relatable her voice is, after four years of me finishing the books.
Suzanne Collins is a genius. Her writing stands the test of time, forever and will continue to do the same for the next generation of teen kids who start reading the books when they're 13, mortified by the villany before they turn 18 when they truly conceptualize how horrid it is for a place to celebrate the death of innocent kids, how they're being fed and dressed all prim and proper to their literal deaths, how Cato says, in the movies, "I've always been dead."
It is a whole Renaissance. I love every minute of it.
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