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Love the lighting, this is awesome!

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Rings of Power is Insidiously Sexist

And I’m tired of pretending none of us can see it.

If you enjoy the show, please don’t take this as an attack on you. All media has problematic elements and we all do the best we can in a messed up world. My ire is reserved strictly for the people making these “creative” choices.

The way the show treats Galadriel is misogynistic.

Turning the kind, matronly sage imbued with divine wisdom by the light of the two trees into a naive, selfish hothead who gets ship baited with both the villain AND her son-in-law for titillation is incredibly sexist.

They wouldn’t have had Elrond kiss his father-in-law to “save” him. Everyone would’ve rightfully been disgusted. So why is it okay to do this to Galadriel?

Elrond wouldn’t kiss Gil-Galad, or Celebrimbor, or his bff Durin to “save” them. We would all recognize this as sloppy OOC writing just meant to stir up shippers. So why is it acceptable to do to Galadriel? Being a female character is not an invitation to use her as fan service ship bait. Not once but TWICE.

The way the score swells and the kiss is deep and framed as romantic (even though he’s handing her something and didn’t need to shove himself on her like that at all!), despite the fact that Galadriel is married and elves are by nature monogamous (so much so that forcing yourself on them can even KILL them). As if everything about the narrative framing is subconsciously telling you to ignore Galadriel’s POV and the discomfort she would be feeling and be moved by how “meaningful” this kiss is. But also it’s a deception so don’t get mad! So incredibly transparent.

The fact that they also made her an arrogant idiot that fell for Sauron’s manipulations, when in Tolkien’s canon she is described as one of first to see through him, is also a telling choice. Especially when it would’ve made more sense to have Celebrimbor be the one manipulated and fooled.

So why have it be Galadriel? Why not do their weird ship-teasing bullshit between Annatar and Celebrimbor? At least it might serve the story then.

It’s because she is “female elf”, and therefore she has to be mean, violent, selfish, and stupid. But she isn’t allowed to be criticized either! That’s their idea of a “strong” female character.

So yeah. Personally I find that incredibly sexist.

So for that, I rate ROP a big old “cast it into the fire”.

as a graphic design major, yes

there is NO greater satisfaction than doing layouts in indesign

Cinderella will forever be my favorite Disney princess

Ilene Woods, the original voice of Cinderella in the 1950 film, defending the titular heroine and feminist critiques against the character. Later in the interview, she elaborated, “I was being interviewed and the woman that was interviewing me said, ‘Don’t you think Cinderella though is kind of outdated today?’And I said, ‘Oh, gosh, I don’t think so at all. It takes a lot of hard work to make dreams come true, and I think Cinderella did, and I think she’s a good example for young people today.” She further explained that due to these reasons, Cinderella was Walt’s favorite heroine. She recalled, “Once I went into his office and he said to me, ‘You’re my favorite heroine, you know.’ I said, ‘You mean Cinderella?’ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘there’s something about that story I associate with.’ I think it was the rags-to-riches tale. Of course, then I didn’t know how many times Walt had risked it all to realize his dreams.”

i’m a sucker for classical inspired pieces

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So excited to share with you my first Frodo and Sam mini Comic !!!

'As long as Sam Gamgee still talks about potatoes everything will be alright'

This took me forever but i sincerely hope you guys like it !!

I always loved the thought of Sam being comforting to Frodo by simply just being there haha

This is so rad! you captured their vibes so well

over the years, these 4 have given me a lot of laughter, peace, and good company during very difficult times, and i wanted to give something back (albeit something small). thank you for taking dumb ideas and making even dumber drawings ☺️💖

Izzy, pls move over or you’ll catch these Hands </3

(Click for better quality 🏴‍☠️)

[ID: A digital drawing of Izzy and Blackbeard from Our flag means death. The first image shows Izzy holding a dagger, looking down. Izzy is a middle-aged man with light skin, brown eyes, gray hair and a beard. He is wearing a black shirt, a black vest and a black glove. The second image shows Blackbeard with a dagger at this throat. Blackbeard is a middle-aged man with brown skin, brown eyes, long graying hair and a beard. He is wearing a red floral robe. In the background there is a black flag with a skeleton stabbing a heart. “I’ll cut your throat! That’ll shut you up!” and “Stede’s beautiful” is written under each section. End ID]

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