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Wary Era
I'm Em; professional procrastinator, uni student.
My not-husband is A and my first love/ first born is Akay. Our wonderfully squishy baby Isla joined us 02/02/2017.
I live in a place where 70% of the year the air hurts my face đ
My main blog is wary-era2.tumblr.com because Tumblr won't let me delete it đ
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mad max costuming
I need to point this out because nobody else is.
Look at Furiosaâs top.Â
Look how it looks like wrapping. How itâs layered like strips. Compare that to Maxâs shirts, the clothes of the Wretched, single pieced.
Look at the fabric.
By gosh, I wonder where sheâd get fabric like that.
HmmmâŚ
Visual storytelling.
Totally supported, too! From the EW article:
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âThe Mad Max films are a kind of modern myth-making, a notion that is present even in the way they treat continuity. If you sat down and tried to piece together a timeline for Max or his world over the course of the four movies, it wouldnât add up. Instead, each movie functions like a different story someone is telling about Mad Max, the Road Warrior. He is an archetypal figure within a new mythos. It doesnât matter if itâs the same sawed off shotgun that sparks and fails the first time Max tries to use itâwhat matters is that there is a gun like that, because Max has a gun like that. Just like Max has a leather jacket carried down from his days in the Main Force Patrol, and at some point he or someone near him will wind a tiny music box. In each Max story, there are certain symbols that are constant, like Orpheusâ lyre.â
âTarra Martin, âRide Eternalâ (Bright Wall/Dark Room, Dec. 2015)
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Names and naming
Mad Max Fury Road is full of names: weird, inventive, evocative names. But it also uses them brilliantly. Thereâs so much information packed into what names are spoken, when and how.
Names and titles are a classic way of revealing hierarchy. Joe is named repeatedly, and each time it shows his relationship with the person naming him. Nuxâs âImmortan! Immortan Joe!â is all about his godlike status. The Organic Mechanicâs âJoeâ is deliberately casual, not actively disrespectful but certainly not worshipful.Â
Then thereâs the ongoing tension in what Joe calls Angharad: âSplendidâ most of the time, reverting to her proper name at moments of stress, when he really needs her to listen. In the canyon scene, he goes from âSplendid, thatâs my child, my propertyâ when heâs trying to rebuke her to âAngharad! Get out!â when he realises sheâs at risk of hitting the rock. Â Itâs implied that she rejects âSplendidâ â certainly the other wives only ever call her Angharad. (More generally, the wives use each otherâs names simply, to get each otherâs attention: I donât get any sense of hierarchy from it.)
Other names are hardly ever spoken. Furiosa doesnât call the wives anything. Charlize Theron has said this was because she is trying not to get emotionally attached.
On screen, Furiosa explicitly uses names to form connections. When she asks for Maxâs name, itâs a deliberate attempt to achieve emotional engagement, because she needs him on side. And itâs rare for her: not only does she not name the wives, she doesnât use the war rig crewâs names, either. In a movie that keeps its dialogue sparse, every word counts - and every omitted word counts, too.
Within the Citadel hierarchy, war boys donât get named by anyone but each other. âIâve got a war boy, running on empty,â says the Organic Mechanic. An imperator later uses exactly the same phrasing to introduce Nux to Joe: âIâve got a war boy, says he was on the war rigâ. It suggests that, from the top of the Citadel hierarchy, war boys are seen as interchangeable. One describes Nux as if he were a machine; the other - âsays he was on the war rigâ - implies his lower status, framing his evidence as hearsay. Itâs clearly a huge honour for Joe to ask Nux his name. Itâs also the only time we see a Citadel full-life acknowledge a war boyâs name. Â
War boys in this film are both abusers and victims - terribly fragile, desperate for attention from the powerful class that exploits and uses them, not questioning its values. They go unnamed by their superiors, but they name each other as often as possible: âMorsov!â âSlit, whatâs happening?â Though Nux shouts âCrew, out of the way!â at Ace - maybe they donât know names beyond their own crews, or maybe he just doesnât recognise Ace from behind.
They use names to encourage each other. Just look at the way they all shout Morsovâs name before witnessing him. âWitness meâ is a plea for affirmation: see what Iâm doing, make it mean something. Witnessing is an act of performative masculinity - I liked @bookishandiâs post on witnessing Nuxâs death. But itâs also framed as an act of mutual support (which I think is why itâs taken off so much in fandom).  Morsovâs death - which is really the viewerâs introduction to âwitnessingâ as a concept - is part of a scene that shows us the war rig crew working smoothly together.
The exception is Slit, who tries to undermine his colleagues instead, shouting âMediocre, Morsov!â rather than âwitnessâ, or telling Nux that Joe wasnât looking at him, âHe was scanning the horizonâ. And of course Slit is the most insecure of the lot, begging for any scrap of attention: âI got the blood bagâs boot! Take me, I got his boot!â Â
Imperators, and others from the Citadelâs powerful classes, are clearly known by their names. âFuriosa, she took a lot of stuff from Immortan Joeâ, for instance. Thereâs no sense that war boys give this recognition to anyone not at the top of that hierarchy. The war boy who tells Nux about Furiosa talks about the wives as things - âstuffâ, âprize breedersâ. Nuxâs own reaction to the wives - âso shiny, so chromeâ - sees them as objects rather than people. And of course he goes on calling Max âblood bagâ, even when he thinks theyâre on the same side. Itâs not a conscoius insult; it clearly doesnât occur to him that Max might mind - any more than Nux minded the way the Organic Mechanic or the imperator talked about him.
Then thereâs the scene when Furiosa greets the Vuvalini. Hereâs what she says:
âI am one of the Vuvalini, the Many Mothers. My initiate mother was K.T. Concannon. I am the daughter of Mary Jobassa. My clan was Swaddle Dog.âÂ
This is a speech proving her identity, but how she does it is so revealing. She doesnât use her own name at all. Instead, itâs all about a web of relationships, of connections, the ways in which she belongs. (Sheâs also proving that she belongs by demonstrating knowledge of Vuvalini society.) She lists her initiate mother before her birth mother â her place in the community before her lineage. Her tenses are interesting, too. Her clan was Swaddle Dog â sheâs left, the clan may no longer exist, sheâs talking about the past. But when she talks about being Vuvalini, itâs âI amâ. Â Even though sheâs asking for recognition, it has none of the war boysâ neediness â sheâs naming what she is, how she chooses to see herself. Sheâs not seeking approval or affirmation.Â
And though the Vuvalini team work is smooth, they do it without shouting names â to the point where most of the Vuvalini characters donât have names at all (which is very unhelpful for fandom, George). Citadel naming is intensely hierarchical, about who does, and doesnât, get respect. Vuvalini naming is about community, identities built up through choices and relationships.
Of course, the filmâs most powerful naming scene has nothing to do with the Citadel or the Vuvalini: itâs Max telling Furiosa his name. (OH MY HEART.) Itâs the conclusion of Maxâs emotional arc, his return to being a human being: accepting a name, accepting his own identity. Crucially, he accepts it by sharing it. Throughout the film, names are meaningful because theyâre how people connect with each other. In the âMy name is Maxâ scene, we see Max choosing to do that. Engage to heal.Â
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Listen yall, never make fun of people for pms-ing. That shit hurts like a mother fucker and honestly, blood dripping outta your vag all damn day is not a pleasant feeling at all. It's just constant major discomfort and pain. And ya know what, some people do get hyper emotional- it's completely normal!
My last period I was so fucked up with hormones I spent an evening crying over a Parks and Rec episode (season 7, episode 4; ya Parks and Rec homies know what I mean) while sitting in my bathtub eating popcorn. Guess what I did afterwards? I shook that shit off and put myself back together. Uterus-having people are beasts. We put up with that rollercoaster of emotion, pain, and discomfort for 5-7 days every month for years. The only penis-having-person I've met that came in close to understanding our pain was my partner. He gets bad IBS symptoms every so often from a food additive we cannot pinpoint. Dude even admitted he would rather die than live with those cramps for more than a few hours. Show the uterus-having people in your life some love yall.
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I'd like to apologize for my tumblr posts when I first started đ
I was younger then... stupider then...
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My dog died suddenly from a stroke. I didn't get to say goodbye.
I hate myself for not being with him. I keep imagining him scared and alone and it kills me everyday.
He was my everything for so long.
What do I do now. I miss you so much Thor
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I was scrolling through a conversation and accidentally reacted to a message from two years ago.
My funeral will be Saturday yall
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Someone once said to me, âI hope the pain eases soon.â It struck me as the purest blessing that had ever been offered over my head - I hope the pain eases soon. Itâs so gentle, so kind, so hopeful. So to everyone whoâs hurting: I see how hard youâre trying, and I hope your pain will ease soon.
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So what exactly did Taylor do...
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Hello everyone.
So today I have sad news to bring to you, Iâve been plagied.
I had some messages there telling me if I made a game that I released lastly, knowing I didnât I asked no and wanted to know why many people asked me this, then they gave me a link to the Facebook page of the company :
 https://www.facebook.com/fortafygames
I looked on it, and directly saw the icon that is, quasi my little pigeons I animate bouncing, then I was like â mmm ⌠maybe they were inspired but they could ask for permission because itâs way too similar for my taste, itâs really like my animationsâ then I saw the videos and it was terrible.
You may already what I animate, but when I saw the video of the gameplay, I had no words.
All of my motions, bouncing animals, Dancing frames are exactly the sames !!
They totally copied my art !!!
So I contacted them, I wanted to be sure, they replied me that itâs for game and that my art is for animation so itâs not the same. SighÂ
So I told my friends about it, many tried tu put messages to discuss with them, no success. Some even were blocked when they put proof of my work.
Iâm lost, I didnât sleep last night because of this, I contacted lawyers and got some explanation, so itâs still going but I have to deal with it and I wanted you to know my current situation.
I share this with you because Iâm an artist, this kind of thing happen to us WAY too often and I want to act, for me, for you, for any artists on the internet!
It have to stop!
I have so many proofs on my blog, but also you know me and my art well.Â
I canât let this pass and stay there.
Please be aware of this and tell people that itâs total plagiat of my art.
Thank you.
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Me rn
i made a college vine compilation b/c Sufferingâ˘ď¸
(warning for loud noise in some of them)
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Shit.
I'm actually doing really well in Organizational Behaviour, and it's hella interesting...
I'm almost considering a human resources major I stead of accounting... but hr is such a hard career to get into đ why are you like this Am.
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Found a red beetle in Princess Buttercup's terrarium. Asked SIL if superworms evolve into red beetles đ
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I've been studying like mad the past few days for an Organizational Behaviour midterm and was terrified I would fail... holy shit just walked in and crushed the mother fucker. Who am I.
I'm so glad I switched to business faculty.
#yall i usually choke on every fucking exam#byt nah im hitting a stride or sime shit#im crushing everything this semester
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