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"By letting herself emerge, through the interaction of her two stand-ins, as a more complex and contradictory character than the Zelda Popkin of her earlier autobiography, Zelda showed that autobiographical fiction could sometimes achieve a truth that straightforward autobiography could not convey."
— The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer: Zelda Popkin by Jeremy D. Popkin
#quotes#tfg reads#books#nonfiction#2024 reads#the life and time of an american jewish woman writer: Zelda Popkin#jeremy d popkin#q
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Korrasami sketch drop [ part three ]
[ part two ]
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#jfc these are so amazing#like seriously I love these depictions#I love the TATS!#I can 100% see tats on both of them though yes especially Korra#gah!#such good art#such good characters!#LOK#Korra#Asami Sato#Korrasami#lok fanart#q#from the draft archive
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I feel conspired against by my body. Too tired after everything last weekend to do gargoyles and now I've caught a cold ugh so I don't know that I'll be able to focus on anything like that This weekend 😭😭😭
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My emotions… had to put everything down and just work this one out ‘til it was done.
#OH MY HEART#This is so beautiful#This art is so soft and nurturing#just perfect for the subject#just... damn#Poor#Angella#Poor poor#Glimmer#Glimmer spop#spop#fanart#spop fanart#from the draft archive#q
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Anthy must be protected always.
#This is so stunning#just damn#this art#amazing#fantastic#I love this style on them#I love the ambiance#I love how Utena looks longing imo#Anthy slightly creepy and withdrawn but ENTICING#kllkdfjldkfjsd#just yessss#RGU#rgu fanart#anthy himemiya#Utena Tenjou#Utenthy#q#from the draft folder
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Macbeth was never assigned in any of my schooling and so was never something I'd gotten acquainted with. But! Knowing Macbeth will be showing up before long in Gargoyles, I decided for this watch through I should have some idea of the source material, so started the 2021 Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington tonight. Have something else I gotta do at 7 so only through the first half of today but boy is it not what I'd have expected from Gargoyles's version of him. Of course a kids show can't have presented a cold blooded murderer but damn. Haha. Didn't know I was going into villain as protagonist movie hehe. Very interesting!
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One of the little touches I enjoy in Mad Max: Fury Road is that Max’s stress hallucinations spend most of the film trying to get him killed, but once he’s fighting to free the Citadel they start warning him of danger and calling out tactical advice instead. Like, they may be malevolent brain goblins, but they have standards!
#YESS#THIS#Community heals#Such a beautiful theme in the movie#MMFR#max rockatansky#mental illness#even his hallucinations get kinder to him as he gets kinders to others around him#annnyway#meta#mmfr meta#from the draft archive#q
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Adherence to the Lost Cause and the embrace of the loyal slave and later black Confederate narratives were never primarily about the past but rather about trying to make sense of the present.
—Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin
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“He’s gone”
“Good riddance”
#this is so beautiful#I love their expression#it's such a soft moment#and this art is so so lovely#just amazing stuff#love it#spop#catradora#catra#adora#spop fanart#q#from the draft archive
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michiru said that haruka eats a lot of candies in that scene where haruka almost fall from that building/aquarium in the nehellenia arc of stars, didnt she?
Kinda sorta! Here’s what’s specifically said, at least in my fansubs of the scene:
Obviously this is a translation, and a fan translation at that, so we’re presuming accuracy. Which let’s do for the sake of discussion, because it’s pointless otherwise!
The scene context really is everything. Haruka is SLIPPING, Michiru can’t hold on. She’s literally seconds from plummeting to her likely death.
So this is great for a bunch of reasons. For one, it’s Michiru going for the standard (if shitty, generally) weight joke in a situation like this. Which I think is quietly hilarious because what the hell, Michiru, I know you could do better than that.
But at the same time, it’s kind of perfect, if you take it deeper. One of the key things in the second half of this episode, one of the main reasons it exists as it does, is to reintroduce us to these two characters. To see how DIFFERENT they are now, how open and comfortable. The angst, the tension, it’s behind them now. Haruka and Michiru are together, firm and committed and open and stronger than ever. And we see that not in crying and gnashing of teeth, but with these jokes and smiles in the face of oblivion. We’ll come back to this again and again throughout the season, literally up to their deaths. It’s the surface of how they are with each other, and so as with all things, there’s more underneath.
When I see Michiru saying “You’ve been eating too many sweets lately”, what I really see, here in this moment where Haruka is almost certainly going to die, is Michiru shifting the blame to Haruka. It’s not Michiru failing to hold on to her, it’s Haruka being too heavy to save.
Or, in other words, “DAMMIT HARUKA THIS IS YOUR FAULT”.
Which are never the words Michiru would use, but work with me.
And I love how you can apply that idea. Is it Haruka’s fault she got tackled off the roof? Is it her fault the glove is slipping? No and no. But is it her fault that they’re in Tokyo again? is it her fault that they’re back in the battle? Again, realistically, no, but might Michiru be thinking it anyway? I think maybe. Because of the two of them, which do you think was feeling the pressure to get back to being a Senshi? They could have gone anywhere in the world. They went here, and look what happened.
Then in the face of Michiru’s “THIS IS YOUR FAULT”, Haruka gives this flirty little “I don’t listen to that kind of talk outside of bed.” Or how I like to paraphrase? “WHATEVER YOU LOVE ME”.
I’ve been trying to think of the right word for this, and I think how I’d put it is it’s all so SECURE. Michiru can say (even as she’s not-saying in her Michiru way) “You’re about to die on me and that’s your fault”, with a smile on her face because it’s all SO FUCKING HARUKA and Michiru wouldn’t trade Haruka being Haruka for anything.
Meanwhile Haruka has that confidence of how true all that is. Michiru loves her, and if these are their last words to each other, Haruka will let hers be a confirmation of those feelings. All of them, every last one, delivered with a reminder of every bit of love Haruka could ever show Michiru in return (in bed) (because now she’s a fortune cookie).
DO YOU ENJOY HOW THIS POST BECAME NOT REMOTELY ABOUT WHY YOU SENT IT ME
Hauling this rig around, then, you can certainly take this is a face value proof of Haruka’s sweet tooth! But for me, the exchange isn’t what it seems to be about, so I think it’s still up in the air, hence saying it was headcanon.
OR WHY NOT BOTH
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Overwatch currently has a theme event with an alternate universe where Talon and Overwatch characters have swapped (There's even a voice line where Widow hisses at Tracer that one of the newer heroes (Ramattra) to Talon in the game 'only wanted peace' clearly swapping their cinematic roles). Obviously they're just doing it 'for fun' with no convincing narrative reason for doing so (maybe they've said something to this effect but I haven't caught it and don't care; it wouldn't be convincing coming from them).
This is all to say, if you were asked to write out how the characters you play with ended up on the other side, how would you go about it? (I'm curious about either/or the entire side changing swaps or just personal character profiles on how they individually might have ended up on the other side.)
Your versions of these characters are so much more interesting, so I just had to bring this idea to you and see what content I could squeeze out =P
Oh wow, what a terrible idea! But so fun, let's do this.
Fareeha I don't think would be so hard to do this to, IF you got to her before she had decided that Overwatch was the correct course of action. Fareeha is rigid, and inflexible, and if you convinced her that the only way to bring order to the world, to make the world fall into place in a way that made sense, was to join Talon, i think she would do it. But I think you would have to get her young.
I would love to believe she's spiteful enough to join Talon because her mother blocked her from joining Overwatch, but I don't actually think that's true, i think Fareeha is much too principled for that shit. So maybe I actually do think it's harder, I just think that IF she decided this, it would be damn near impossible to deradicalize her. Once she believes a thing, she believes it to the bone.
Lena. If I were going to turn Lena, I would not have Winston be the one to find her, take care of her, and watch over her when she got ripped out of time. he can find her, even, but if they hadn't had the chance to bond, if she'd woken up and she's disabled now, and her father is dead, and they deliberately hid the truth about what happened to her, and she's being kept from everything she loves, and she feels ALONE...I can see her taking any bargain from Talon, and being so furious with Overwatch that she is going to burn the whole thing to the ground.
I do think that, unlike Fareeha, she would come around back later and think "Hm. Might've put me foot in it, there." But the line for me is very clear with her because unlike Fareeha, I can seeing her putting immense weight into her personal anger and hurt.
Winston is the easiest. Wherever Lena goes, he will follow, after they connect and bond. He'll think it's stupid, he'll think they're actively doing the wrong thing, but if Lena goes, he won't know how to oppose her (I do not think this is a good trait of his)
Angela, she might be the hardest. Given what Talon is, and given what I think about her personal moral code and background, I'm having a lot of trouble carrying her over. I have her turn on Overwatch, and think it maybe shouldn't be resurrected, but for Angela, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend. That's not how she works fundamentally as a person. She can have a big ol hating Overwatch party, and hate Talon on top of it. Angela Ziegler has two hands.
So i don't know, for her.
Hana, well she spends so much of her life sort of out of Talon's reach that it would be difficult for them to find her enough to make it happen. I mean, maybe she's fucking pissed about magic only being real in japan, apparently, or something like that, but by and large I don't think we've seen a lot of Talon's presence in east asia.
If I set that aside, I can see them appealing to her at JUST the right moment, when she's tired of being "D.va! Product!" and wants to really have a command of her own life and not be Korea's top PR character. This is something I think is fun to have her struggling with anyway, and when i get back to writing more I intend to delve into it. So tempting her with the idea of being Hana Song, of never having to blow bubblegum and pose like she's a naive 14 year old ever again, of being a true force to be reckoned with and allowed to be just that? I could see her taking the brass ring.
Remind me some other time and i'll try to do the other way round!
#I love Doc's Overwatch so much#Overwatch#Talon#Pharah#tracer#mercy#d.va#fanfiction#a docholligay production#skipping the q
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#Alanna taught me how to be bold#I'm not even joking#reading her and I loved her so much I mimicked her without thought#I was lucky enough to have the people around me be endeared by the sass#polls#alanna of trebond#tortall series#tamora pierce
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My friend Alicia made an ATLA meme
#AHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT#This is great#what a lovely crossover#love#gamechanger#atla#meme#humor#fan edit#q
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In no industry did workers hear more about patriotism, about how their work mattered to the war effort as much as that of soldiers fighting at the front, than in ship building. Nor were workers in any industry more carefully attended to... Hospital and treatment facilities were arranged in advance, influenza vaccine supplied, and it was perhaps the only industry in which nurses and doctors remained available. As a result, claimed a Public Health Service officer, there is 'no reason to believe that many men were absent from work through panic or fear of the disease, because our educational program took care to avoid frightening the men.' The men were taught that they were safer at work than anywhere else. They were also, of course, not paid unless they came to work. But at dozens of shipyards in New England, the absentee records were striking."
—The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry
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My Glimmer thought of today is kind of more about Adora.
This isn't exactly a critique but would have been cool.
The tension between Glimmer and Adora in S4 could have made room for some very interesting commentary about so much power being put into the hands of one person. We get to have Glimmer use her position and authority as queen to pursue the good she thought was best. What a cool thing they could have done with Adora, especially right before she destroys the sword, to have had her use She Ra's superior god-like powers at some point to have her way — obviously in the name of feeling like it's up to her to solve everyone's problems and the inherent assumption therein that she would know best what that would look like.
And then when the sword breaks it'd be this big thing still but with this delicious edge of 'is it for the best! Should anyone have the much power over others? Even if they're good? And especially if they have an easy certainty that what they do is right and correct?
It just could have been so cool and I think make it more clear to audiences the way Adora's protectiveness drives those close to her to desperation as it did Glimmer in that season when she was just not being listened to despite having some very good points.
Because Glimmer is best 😅😅
#La de da#don't mind me#thinking about her again#glimmer#spop#this is a glimmer appreciation blog#thinky thoughts
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☆ for the honor of grayskull ☆
#WHOA#Like#seriously#WOW#This#fanart#is like... just damn#OP you have SKILL#love this#love them#LOVE GLIMMER#Glimmer#Bow#Adora#She Ra#spop#spop fanart#fantasy AU#q
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Daniel Montoya as Mystique
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