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Things I wish I knew before becoming a Mass communication major
a pet peeve I have in media is when the writer(s) try to write a strong female character and instead the just write a masculine woman. Of course woman can be masculine and strong (together and separately), but often I don’t feel like they write women who are masculine, they try to write a strong women and they can only conceive masculinity as strength. Also, I’m not sure if I’m phrasing this poorly, but it doesn’t always strike me that they write masculinity in the way a woman (or maybe a genderqueer person, though I haven’t had the pleasure of reading many original media featuring these characters prominently) might experience/express it.
one thing I appreciate about Xena as I’m rewatching it as an adult is that it feels like they’re women who have masculine traits/are masculine. Like, even beyond the fighting aspect, Xena often sits in stereotypically masculine way and takes charge/fulfills roles that are shown to be taken by men within the world they occupy. Additionally, I know that later, Gabrielle is joked to be “father” to Xena’s daughter, but I’m not that far yet, so I don’t know how far that’s taken.
idk, it just feels different to me. If anyone else has input/polite pushback I’d appreciate it/conversation! Or any other pieces of media that do this/explore women’s masculinity/gender expression/afab exploration of masculinity.
gonna start archiving my art here
all the best concert photos from last night!! (and some mid ones lmao)
What’s a piece of media (book, movie, song, etc.) that completely changed your perspective on life? How did it impact you?
How to draw: Not white characters
How to draw a Black person
How to colour Black people skin tones
How to draw dreadlocks
How to draw African hair
How to draw curly hair
How to draw braids
How to draw braids part 2
How to draw cornrows
How to draw Bantu knots
How to draw two strand twists
How to draw an Asian person
How to colour darker skin tones with alcohol markers
How to draw hijabs/traditional Muslim hair coverings
How to draw a hijabi girl
All links and art provided by @ itsajart on TikTok
Before you go “mY aRt sTyLe iS dIfFrEnT tHoUgH” you can moderate it and play around with your style to get it to fit.
I had always assumed the opposite- that the "hot take" industry/phenomenon would continue for a much longer period, as we found new things to argue about and occupy "The Discourse". But maybe the stagnation is due to the fact that despite our having discussed certain topics to death (immigration, race, etc) they still persist and we can't do anything about them? Thus, talking about them over and over is a form of collective anxiety management, or less charitably, emotional masturbation, where we pretend that endless discussion is an acceptable substitue for action because we want to believe that words and discussion alone can have material consequences.
The homogeneity of the takes themselves can probably be attributed to groupthink, but also a fear of creativity and the associated fear that our ideas will be bad and will result in a loss of social status.
Singing from the same hymnal
I’m not one of those “don’t talk about politics, entertain me!” people, but it seems like so much of the media I consume - podcasts especially - have collapsed in subject matter and mostly give the same takes on the same circumscribed set of topics.
Yes, it’s good to be “relevent” whatever that means, but it’s a big world out there. It’s callous to say that the 542nd nearly identical immigration/asylum story with the same cast of stock sympathetic characters doesn’t add much to the debate, but, well, it doesn’t. Even for a pro-DREAMer and anti-wall guy like me. If your heartstrings weren’t tugged by 1-541, one more ain’t gonna help, assuming you’re listening to respectable establishment media like NPR at all. For example, regulations of all types are being rolled back at both the federal and state levels, with wildly diverse stakeholders and all manner of potential outcomes to discuss. Sure, you can pick out some discussion of these things if you are hellbent on proving me wrong, but they’re relatively few and far between.
Media will come out the other side, that I’m sure of, but my guess is that the archives will be a little embarrassing, with the 2016-2018 era (at least) carrying an “if you’ve heard one, you’ve heard them all” reputation. Perhaps history does this anyway; the late ‘60s lives in the popular memory as a series of protests against the Vietnam War, retconned as both popular and inevitable, which certainly wasn’t true at the time. Perhaps the history books will collapse this era into immigrants, sexual consent of relatively plugged-in white women and maybe some dead black men, though that wave may have crested by now. But doing so will inevitably miss dozens of silent revolutions going on all around us.
Seeing that im Don’s wife and all...
its safe to say it was necessary to snatch his actual model so i could mess with him >:) (I was able to Snag both his TD and His Contender model using Noesis and A Plugin Made By HiddenBoiRightHere! Oh and you would also need the character’s Dict. File which has all their model stuff + the rig just not the actual textures)
passages that make you whisper "oh my god"
Lots Loads
Hot Blow
Hard Core
Enter More
Less Up Down Back Front In Out
Aim Towards Extra Out Of Daddy Girl
WHAT IF LAIOS ENTERED ALONE?
MY MAN MADE IT TO FOURTH FLOOR AND STILL TRUCKING
Why is he LIKE THIS. get this guy an anxiety and depression diagnosis STAT
Chapter 6 of "The Phantom Ninja" found in Cole: Ninja of Earth by Greg Farshtey
Guys for the sake of Opposite Shipping I must know
WHICH BOOK IS THIS PASSAGE FROM!!!??
Based on the music - this reads as a True Potential scene. Yeah the "becoming the Golden Ninja/USM" is probably intended to be Lloyd's True Potential (and then Garmadon in Rebooted says Lloyd has even more to learn) but this exact track plays when Zane/Jay/Cole/Kai reach their True Potential, plus this is the first appearance of the Golden Dragon.
Translation (*with some liberties to emulate the characters' speaking mannerisms)
Zane: You are right, Cole. Thank you. It just came over me because I miss her so much.
Cole: I know, Zane. We miss them all.
Glacier nation you are getting fed
impulsively buying ninjago books again but PLS look at this one its so cute...they are taking terrible selfies im crying
I miss the soft British inflections in Zane's older voice :')
@nyasyang you might've meant the "I sense" compilation as a joke, but I will take any excuse to make a list, so Ta Da!
Here's a compilation of every time Zane says "I sense"
A few notes:
I didn't include any shorts in my checks
In Possession ep 7: The Crooked Path, he says "My senses pick up" which I didn't add to the compilation because it's a bit too different
In Skybound ep 8: The Last Resort, Echo Zane says "I sense", but I didn't include it because he is a different character
I did not (could not) check DR s2p2, so don't worry
Me reading that:
I love that, according to tommy andreasen, jay regularly harasses the mailman
It's sweet that in this passage the narrator is Cole. He sounds so fond.
I love that, according to tommy andreasen, jay regularly harasses the mailman
He was angy
(I love how Zane felt bad when he got made😂 We don't deserve him🤍🤍)