The Great British Bake Off: Everybody have fun đ đ I’m sure you’ll all do fine đ Your Swiss roll is so lovely đ đ đ Very nice :))) *Light ballet music*
Any American Cooking Show: YOU GUYS HAVE SIX SECONDS LEFT THEN THE BOMB E X P L O D E S *Gunfire* YOU THINK THAT COUNTS AS FOOD YOU PATHETIC SAD SACK *Ride of the Valkyrie blasting in the background* ILL SEND A BULLET THROUGH YOUR SKULL BEFORE I TAKE A BITE OF THAT *Banshee shriek
So, this happened. At the Infinity War Fan Event in London. I will write a full entry about the day, no worries. But basically, Tom Hiddleston scared me shitless and Iâm LIVING FOR IT!
more to come.
ok I say this with respect because I know there is a history there but standing next to him you LEGIT look like a kid who got caught getting into daddyâs helmet and armor!
seriously, thatâs how it felt! I was literally told to impersonate him in front of a camera, and he was BEHIND ME THE WHOLE TIME LAUGHING HIS ASS OFF! Itâs the most embarrassing moment of my life, but also the best!
Your face is beyond perfect
Thatâs how I look in general at things I like: Sushi, cool shoes, DOGS, new film posters, really yummy baked goods, primarks Pusheen section, LOKI, inspirational book titles, bacon, japanese brand dresses, the halloween section in ASDA, my flatmate.
@fahrlight You can see his smile on his cheek. When youâre ready and if youâre comfortable, we would all love to know what he said to you? Were you conscious? You look amazing. Your kit is seriously on point. Cheers!
He did! He smiled soooo wide! I am still in a blur at the moment, but im writing it all down!
I wrote a college paper once about gender dynamics in Disney films, and part dealt with the emphasis of androgyny in this film. Mulan is an outsider and unsure of her position of the world when she is adhering to both a total feminine role (the matchmaking scene) and a total masculine role (disguised as a male soldier) and itâs only when sheâs able to embrace both sides that she is able to fully showcase her abilities and ultimately save the day.Â
The entire climax, from climbing the poles using sashes, counting on Shan Yuâs complete dismissal of women to get the Emperor to safety, to this scene where she literally uses a symbol of womanhood (within the movie at least) to disarm the villain of his symbol of masculinity and beat him at his own game, shows Mulan relying on the aspects of her femininity that she has grown up adhering to and adapting the tactical knowledge and fighting skills that she learned disguised as a male soldier to those aspects. The result is a unique and innovative view of the world and her course of action that leads her to save the day when the male soldiers failed and the women wouldnât even have been allowed to try.Â
This commentary is so curious to me because itâs such an excellent example of white/western cultural bias in portrayals of other cultures. Because fans by themselves are a gender neutral object in Ancient China, especially the large type that Mulan uses in this particular scene is actually masculine if you must code it historically, and in Chinese hands would be used as a tool to support her masculinity and not the other way around. These paper fans are used in general by (male) scholars and artists who decorate its surface with art and calligraphy. It is a symbol of (masculine) intellectual power and the intellectual elite. And if you look to Asian martial arts films, they are a common and almost exclusive weapon of men.
Yet the movie takes this deeply cultural object and either willingly or ignorantly makes it an object of womanhood or femininity. To the extent of my knowledge, this is mostly reflective of western social history. And draws from the coquettish ways Georgian? Ladies would use the fan to signal their romantic interest and all the history and influence around it. The equivalent object for the Chinese lady would in fact be the handkerchief, or a hairstick if you want something pointy.
And itâs all the more curious because at the end of the day itâs a western depiction of a foreign story made for western consumption. It is not a story made by and for Chinese little girls, but to empower and inspire those in the West. Which provides the context for the above (excellent) analysis. It does not need to fully take Chinese history into context because it was never made for us, despite being explicitly about us.
Tumblrâs at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. Thereâs probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the âOKâ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If youâre like me, youâre not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on âManage Optionsâ right next to it:
Now youâll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That âAcceptâ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like âManage Optionsâ or something in english) and youâll get to this page:
Now thatâs not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to âoffâ, because Iâm jealously guarding my personal information and donât want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like weâre done! But wait: Thereâs a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if youâd just clicked âOKâ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. Theyâre all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesnât want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.
yall all say âgo outsideâ when it comes to kin drama but you havent seen SHIT until yiuve seen honest to god irl kin drama. you dont even fucking know what youâre telling these weirdos to do
if anyone needs reference i once got into an irl kin fight (NOT just kin drama) and lost a good eighth of my hair and almost lost 2 teeth (my mouth was BLEEDING)
so yeah dont fuck with kinnies
you cant just say that and not say what the kin fight was about holy shit
lets just say watching the barbie fairytopia movie for 5 hours straight and then calling bibble a âhot piece of assâ to a barbiekins face does not end well
if you tried to show this post to anyone 50 years ago they would have internally combusted
I was actually mid trying to design sci-fi clothing but it just wasnât working (for now) but I realised I had already drawn an upper body and decided it was perfect for me to use that for a tutorial.
Before I start, I would like you to know that there are a billion different ways you can draw male upper bodies because bodies can vary greatly. Iâm going to assume you want me to teach you how to draw a triangle body.  For this tutorial, Iâll be using examples from my own experiences: what I wanted to draw vs what I drew (which ended up incorrect). You can apply this technique to most body types by following the key suggestions that I will show if youâre aiming for this specific type of body proportions (this means that this doesnât cover the body mass â only the proportions for a typical âtriangleâ body.)
I would also like you to know that my drawings lately has been a struggle for some unknown reason so the examples will look a little wonky, sorry about that!
So, when I start drawing a male body with a triangle shape this is what it typically looks like (it will vary, still, depending on the body type overall, but this is usually what I draw as a rough sketch). Note the lines and shapes used in the âcorrectâ option. Here is a tutorial I made a while ago explaining the typical shapes I use for male bodies. When I was younger, I used to draw all men like the example to the right. Note how it lacks the shapes shown on the left. I still draw petite guys now and then, but often, this wasnât what I was trying to draw, it was literally the only thing I could draw. What you should keep in mind is:
The size of the neck. A broader neck immediately makes a body look less petite, even with small shoulders.
Donât be afraid to widen the shoulders or make them a little less sloping. If you worry that the shoulders look too small, go outside your comfort zone and make them wider. With time youâll learn what looks overdone and what does not, itâs all about practice.
Keep note of how wide you draw the hips in comparison to the waist. I currently have a problem where I tend to draw the hips too small! The ideal is to not to make them wider than the chest or shoulders.
This might be surprising, but keep the focus on the chest as much as you do on the shoulders. The torso itself will that way create a triangle-shape that many often struggle to draw, even with the wider hips!
This is how triangle-shaped bodies can end up looking like (please ignore the one dislocated shoulder). Again, it might vary depending on the body mass such as fat and muscle, but with his mass, it becomes even more clear.
And as you can see, the triangle shape is still very clear even when his muscle isnât visible.
Now, if you dress the second body type, youâll notice that the focus become more on the waist and hips more than the shoulders, even if there was an attempt to make them wider. This is a good body type if youâre going for smaller body types, or guys with pear-shaped bodies, teens, etc. But if youâre going for a triangle shape then itâs clearly not doing it. The hips and waist are too exaggerated and his shapes are too soft-looking.
Now thereâs always âhybridsâ of triangle-shaped bodies. Again, all bodies can vary greatly. You can still make petite bodies with triangle shapes or even wider hips, you just have to be subtle about it and be careful where you draw your lines. So whatâs the key secret, you might wonder?
Again, itâs all about the shapes! Again, hereâs a tutorial I did earlier on shapes you can use for bodies in case you missed it. As you can see, the key with triangle shapes is wider shoulders that jut out quite a bit, and are quite straight, with more narrow hips. Many overlook the fact that the waist is quite straight and indeed quite shapeless!
But again, bodies vary and so do âhybridsâ. For example, the body shown above has slightly sloping and less wide shoulders, the waist curve in a little bit, while the hips are a touch wider. But note how the chest itself is still quite wide! Again, keep the focus on the chest. (Just donât go overboard like this unfortunate 90âČs drawing of Captain AmericaâŠ)
Now, if we compare it to the other version, you can see quite a drastic change in shapes. Notice the clear curve inwards for the waist, and how the hips have a big curve out, and the torso i is nowhere as wide as the triangle body. Notice how the shoulders go down and are much smaller compared to a typical triangle shape.
Just to quickly demostrate: these rules apply to the side as well. Notice how the chest is still in focus and wider at the top as a triangle body. Notice the the straight waist and the wider neck!
As for legs, I donât really have a tip on âmaleâ legs, really. I have two tutorials on legs in general here and here. As you can see above, they got different types of legs, with Roscoeâs (left) being bigger than Specsâs. I think the general tip I have is to not make them too round or the hips very big (as mentioned above) if youâre drawing a body with a triangle shape. Â
Hereâs Rooi, a guy with an hourglass shape, for example! Iâll just stop it at there. â„ Hope this was helpful! If you have any other requests with bodies, please let me know, especially if youâre looking for a specific type/shape! (I canât cover all bodies at once, sadly.)
The sun is probably the closest thing weâll ever have to a true Eldritch Abomination. Hear me out here-
Older than recorded history; was here longer than any of us and will be here long after we leave. Has a finite beginning and end but is still incomprehensibly ancient
Burns itself into your vision instantly and can blind you if you look for too long
Further prolonged exposure can cause cancerous growths
Non-humanoid shape floating through space; colossal flaming tentacles angrily lash out on occasion
Sort of just appeared one day and is now surrounded by the corpses of its stillborn children
People used to sacrifice other people to appease it