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thestormypetrelofcrime: A little something for all those Pepper...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:10 -0400

A little something for all those Pepper haters out there.

I’m calling it: What Movie Were YOU Watching???

truebluemeandyou: Roundup of Nine DIY Ear Cuffs I’ve...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:52 -0400

Roundup of Nine DIY Ear Cuffs I’ve posted.

Rhinestone Ear Cuff Tutorial from Transient Expression here.

Wire Ear Cuffs Two Ways Tutorial from Essas Frescurites here.

Easy Earrings to Ear Cuffs Tutorial from A Matter of Style here.

Ear Cuffs with Charms Tutorial from Hello Whimsy Blog here.

Ear Cuff found at Little Bit Crafting using a tutorial from Cut Out + Keep here.

Ear Cuff Tutorial form My Little Secrets here.

Feather Charms and Chain Ear Cuff Tutorial from Prudence and Austere here.

Ear Cuff with Chains and Beads Video Tutorial from Boat People here.

Basic Ear Cuff (right) and then Expanded Version with Wrapped Wire Earrings (left) Tutorial from Amelia Lune here.

doctorwho: How to make a Sontaran - Dan Starkey transforms into...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:58:56 -0400

doctorwho:

How to make a Sontaran - Dan Starkey transforms into Strax (by doctorwho)

Wondered what it takes to make a Sontaran warrior look so terrifying? Turns out, it’s foam rubber, a lot of make-up and two hours of patient work. See Strax actor Dan Starkey get made up in this time-lapse video.

mabelmoments: You have to love Gavin, the photobombing parrot...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:38 -0400

mabelmoments:

You have to love Gavin, the photobombing parrot fish.

whattheyforgettotellyou: My reading comprhension is crap which is making learning the tarot harder...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:53:37 -0400

whattheyforgettotellyou:

My reading comprhension is crap which is making learning the tarot harder for me than it should ever be. I learned Oracle cards by just using them and looking it all up as i went… why am I not allowed to do this for tarot? All my thoughts just go “just fucking handle the cards yourself” but husband is like “no you have to learn something” and i’m like

dying

and falling asleep while trying to learn.

I hate my brain.

If you have a smart phone, I reccomend the Galaxy Tarot app [i use the free version] and or Tarotbot App [you can scan in your own decks so you can have custom decks]. You can add your own notes to both of these apps, and I’ve been doing the card a day since last June and I’ve pretty much picked up the meanings. You may also want to read The 2 hour tarot Tutor, it teaches you how to read them intuitively. i.e. you go by the impressions you get from the pictures. In my case it works really well for the cards that have some kind of action going on in them. Don’t give Up! Do whatever will help you learn them in your own way.

vaysh: sfux: i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together Appearances...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:44:55 -0400

vaysh:

sfux:

i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together

Appearances can be deceiving.

i honestly just like food.

that-fucking-update: noelleandbutts: witchofmindandlogic: fade...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:37:50 -0400

that-fucking-update:

noelleandbutts:

witchofmindandlogic:

fadeintocase:

setanada:

darthsoror:

drik gef off the goddnam whatever the fucj that is

My favorite part was when he shouted “I’m looking for Jake”

isn’t this the same dirk that was doing backflips in the lobby the first day?

I think that was the dirk that did a flip over me in the middle of the street….

i think that IS dirk

Well fuck.

fripperiesandfobs: Balenciaga dress ca. 1947 From the Cristobal...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:29 -0400

fripperiesandfobs:

Balenciaga dress ca. 1947

From the Cristobal Balenciaga Museum

fuckyeahmonsterboys: Source

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:33:27 -0400

fuckyeahmonsterboys:

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Le paul S spread (by deckreview)

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:52 -0400

Le paul S spread (by deckreview)

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:28:11 -0400

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink:

eschergirls:

I often tell people that I’m the biggest self-aware misogynist I know.

I was writing a scene last night between a woman general and the man she helped put on the throne. I started writing in some romantic tension, and realized how lazy that was. There are other kinds of tension.

I made a passing reference to sexual slavery, which I had to cut. I nearly had him use a gendered slur against her. I growled at the screen. He wanted to help save her child… no. Her brother? Ok. She was going to betray him. OK. He had some wives who died… ug. No. Close advisors? Friends? Maybe somebody just… left him?

Even writing about societies where there is very little sexual violence, or no sexual violence against women, I find myself writing in the same tired tropes and motivations. “Well, this is a bad guy, and I need something traumatic to happen to this heroine, so I’ll have him rape her.” That was an actual thing I did in the first draft of my first book, which features a violent society where women outnumber men 25-1. Because, of course, it’s What You Do.

I actually watched a TV show recently that was supposedly about this traumatic experience a young girl went through, but was, in fact, simply tossed in so that the two male characters in the show could fight over it, and argue about which of them was at fault because of what happened to her. It was the most flagrant erasure of a female character and her experiences that I’d seen in some time. She’s literally in the room with them while they fight about it, revealing all these character things about them while she sort of fades into the background.

We forget what the story’s about. We erase women in our stories who, in our own lives, are powerful, forthright, intelligent, terrifying people. Women stab and maim and kill and lead and manage and own and run. We know that. We experience it every day. We see it.

But this is our narrative: two men fighting loudly in a room, and a woman snuffling in a corner.

This is a really interesting article about the way media, fiction and narratives repeated in society shape the way we see and assume reality to be, specifically (in this case) about how narratives about women being victims, or supporting men, but not being fighters or soldiers create the idea that women never did that, and it’s only a modern new thing that we think they could, when in fact that’s not true at all.

Also, specifically relevant to this blog are the parts about how that affects us when we create stories ourselves, and can end up adding to this narrative consciously and subconsciously. It’s the same with how women are depicted in illustrated fiction. I honestly don’t think a lot of the boobs and butt poses, or women in bikini armor, are drawn by people consciously thinking sexist thoughts, I think they’re just doing What You Do. This is a female character, this is just the pose we’re used to seeing women in. We don’t think twice about drawing her like that, because it’s just how we’ve become conditioned to seeing women pose in the medium. Same with stuff like this. It’s how we’re used to seeing female armor, and when we think “female warrior”, our imagination just instinctively runs in the direction of what we’re used to seeing. It’s just What You Do with female armor, and female characters, and female poses.

Since starting Escher Girls, I’ve gotten quite a lot of mail from people telling me that they never realized just how often they put their female characters in boobs and butt poses, or gave them bikini armor, just because that’s how they saw women drawn in video games and comics and never thought twice about it. It’s just what seemed “right” to them, and that they’re now a lot more conscious of it and try to have more variety in the way they depict women, and often in ways that make more sense to the story. :)

I think it’s just important to catch ourselves sometimes and think are we creating something because this fits what we’re doing, and this makes sense, or are we just doing What You Do? (This applies to all sorts of tropes and stereotypes too.)

Mermaid Isabela

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:23:18 -0400

Mermaid Isabela

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Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:44 -0400

eriquius: friendly reminder of that one time equius cursed in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:44 -0400

eriquius:

friendly reminder of that one time equius cursed in canon because he got really worked up over aradia

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Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:44 -0400

kylesbogusjourney: activatewindows: kylesbogusjourney: WHAT IF MY COLORS ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR...

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:13:08 -0400

kylesbogusjourney:

activatewindows:

kylesbogusjourney:

WHAT IF MY COLORS ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR COLORS

They are, because people having varying numbers of Rods and cones in their eyes, it causes people to see colours differently.

Also there is a theory that everyone sees, for example, the colour red differently eg Red=yellow, but because we’ve been taught that, that specific colour is red, no one knows if everyone is seeing the same colour as another person.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 08:10:54 -0400

trixietober: Sailor Thor champion of thunder and on behalf of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:06:12 -0400

trixietober:

Sailor Thor champion of thunder and on behalf of Asgard I say this, I shall right wrongs and triumph over evil and that means Loki ;p

This is tthe most adorable thing i have ever seen

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thestormypetrelofcrime: A little something for all those Pepper...

truebluemeandyou: Roundup of Nine DIY Ear Cuffs I’ve...

doctorwho: How to make a Sontaran - Dan Starkey transforms into...

How to make a Sontaran - Dan Starkey transforms into Strax (by doctorwho)

mabelmoments: You have to love Gavin, the photobombing parrot...

whattheyforgettotellyou: My reading comprhension is crap which is making learning the tarot harder...

vaysh: sfux: i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together Appearances...

that-fucking-update: noelleandbutts: witchofmindandlogic: fade...

fripperiesandfobs: Balenciaga dress ca. 1947 From the Cristobal...

fuckyeahmonsterboys: Source

Le paul S spread (by deckreview)

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

Mermaid Isabela

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eriquius: friendly reminder of that one time equius cursed in...

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kylesbogusjourney: activatewindows: kylesbogusjourney: WHAT IF MY COLORS ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR...

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trixietober: Sailor Thor champion of thunder and on behalf of...

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink