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aquickstart · 4 months

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ok sure i'll talk about farleigh start. i'll talk about his tragedy of never being enough as it were and then having to deal with fucking oliver. sure. disclaimer: it's about class (and race) and the horrible reality of the rich. the horrible reality of living as farleigh.

another disclaimer: i'm white! and poc definitely pick up on everything i'm talking about here as it is, and better. i was and am specifically interested in farleigh vs. oliver but it's impossible to examine without considering race. definitely let me know if anything abt this sucks!

farleigh and oliver are similar. it's annoying because every intruder that is not himself is annoying, partly because felix's attention swaying from farleigh is dangerous; there is always a threat of being discarded, even if no precedent existed. the potential is terrifying.

but you'd think he's seen this before, every summer (if venetia is telling the truth) or at least often enough to learn to recognize it fast, so he should know this will pass. part of it is i think still the deep anxiety, and i think he hated every boy that was there before, and it is sort of routine.

but definitely a huge factor in farleigh's annoyance is the fact that he's a biracial (black for cattons, that's all they see) man in a white rich household. he's alert and exhausted all the time. of course he's angry at oliver, regardless of whether he's the first to crash at saltburn for the summer or the fifty-first.

but the important thing is this.

farleigh is very jealous of and angry and pissed at oliver because farleigh sees all the similarities between them. outsider, in financial trouble, whatever it is, in need of cattons; and yet oliver is preferred. and farleigh seems to be the only one to really consider it. felix does not pick up on the hint when farleigh brings up the birthday party vs. his mother. felix's clumsy "different or... anything like that" is as much about race as it is about class, of course. the "we've done all that we can" bit is felix absolving himself of guilt because surely they had, surely the mysterious collective cattons that he's not really part of had tried all they could do. to him, farleigh is different from oliver, because farleigh has been helped. felix is rich and white and twofold uncomfortable with farleigh, even if he's nice about it, even if he genuinely enjoys his company; he doesn't look too close at farleigh because he feels too guilty to come too close. and farleigh can't do anything about it. he can't nice himself into it. the fucking tragedy of him is that he's never enough in the world of the ultra-rich white, even if (especially because!) he's born into it.

farleigh is very pissed at oliver because farleigh also sees all the differences between them. you know who can be nice poor white enough to fit in? fucking oliver. felix says "just be yourself, they'll love you" when oliver first moves in. farleigh was also probably told the same thing, and felix also probably believed that farleigh could just be himself, but even if the cattons were magically not racist at all (impossible), it wouldn't make a difference to farleigh. he would still self-censor, keep in check, be in dangerous waters (because racism is not just about the individual, but about the system). we see that he'd won himself leeway by years of trial and error by the way he speaks to the family, but it's still within the boundaries of acceptable, built by the cattons. he's part of them because they allow it, and farleigh is very, very aware.

the annoying thing is oliver can be himself. like, truly, genuinely, he can just be. and farleigh can't help but envy that.

as a side note, oliver is obviously jealous of farleigh in the beginning as well, because regardless of the reality of farleigh's situation, he was born into it, and hence, at least in oliver's mind, has his position solidified. oliver's whole thing is unquenchable thirst and hunger for whatever and everything the cattons have (including themselves!). he wishes to have been a catton from birth. to oliver, at first, there's nothing farleigh can really do to lose it. and until he figures out the cattons completely, he can't help but envy that.

but i think farleigh senses something different about oliver early on. at least on the level of the text, we have "you're almost passing [for] a real, human boy", which is so important because farleigh is the first to point out oliver's weirdness. the next to do so is venetia in the bath scene calling him a freak, but it's too late. farleigh is too early.

and i like to think he clocks oliver too early because he sees the jagged edges that he recognizes in himself. i think that one other thing that farleigh envies is oliver's freedom to let go. freedom to let go is very similar to freedom to be, but not quite the same.

to be is about perception: farleigh knows he cannot fall out of line, but would like to, and oliver does not have to worry about it at all (i mean, he does, because oliver also performs for felix, but farleigh doesn't know that).

to let go is about the self: farleigh is too scared to even want what oliver eventually does, to even consider the possibility. oliver can let himself want. oliver can let himself act. oliver just can do things and want things. i'm not sure farleigh can.

and so in this scene, when oliver's wants and actions have landed him nowhere with farleigh, felix, venetia, the cattons, of course farleigh gloats. he can let himself do that, because if the cattons are slowly discarding him, farleigh can allow himself this one small victory. he's relieved because despite the dangerous similarities, oliver is, thankfully, not really the same as farleigh, right?

but like. this movie is a love letter to all things gothic. oliver is a white man. he prevails. the brief performance that oliver put on did eventually end up more effective than farleigh's lifetime of constraint. my heart fucking breaks for him to be honest.

the issue that remains is the fact of farleigh's survival. i like to think that oliver came to respect him. oliver is smart, but farleigh is clever. he picks up on everything oliver does (to refer back to the karaoke scene, farleigh immediately retaliates in the cleverest way, in the moment), and he's the only one to do so consistently (venetia, again, for example, comes close, but too late; oliver doesn't like that, there's nothing to work with). hence, stay with me for a little longer, the paradox: farleigh survives because he was never enough for the cattons, but he is very worthy of oliver's attention. in his own freaky way, oliver wants him. look at that.

so. farleigh. farleigh might come back. he always comes back. and i think oliver wants to try harder next time.

#saltburn #farleigh start #i think someone mentioned how the race commentary was fleeting in that scene abt his mom but i disagree #it runs thru the whole movie #because oliver is white and because they're pitted against each other #im not saying its the best commentary ever and also like the movie is not about it at all #but it's there and it's pretty prominent #also on a completely different note can we talk about how oliver correctly assumed everyone at saltburn desires him carnally #dude pulled all the bitches by being strange and off-putting. i mean i completely get it. completely get it. i'd fold so fast you've no ide #also while i was writing i realized that yes indeed both farleigh and oliver perform for felix and its so fascinating #and it works for oliver because of course it does because hes white #anyway! again! let me know if this sucks #in like any way at all #i needed a masterpost of all and every thought i have about farleigh #i think this pretty much covers it so i'll let it go now #HES SO. like do you UNDERSTAND #the DEFINITION of doomed by the narrative but i LOVE that he survives #as he SHOULD #emerald is so right. he does come back and quickstart just torture each other in that house forever. besties for life #god im gonna shut up now this is so horrendously long #mine #saltburn journaling

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a2zillustration · 26 days

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We got april fool'd so hard.

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#This was pretty accurate to my real life reaction - Larian got me good.#BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET AND I'M BEGGING YOU TO BLOCK #ansur quest #IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE THIS YOURSELF YET AND DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!!!#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #wyll #lae'zel #gale #I know they're not really prominent here but-#ansur #comics

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mrs-gauche · 2 years

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The Rotunda and the Fresco

On the mural, all messere would say is, "Skyhold is her fortress. These are her actions."

#dragon age #dai gifs #solas #my gifs #this set took. forever.#basically had to play through half the game again lol #one thing I noticed while making this though..#..is just how prominent the Black City is in his frescoes #..and the many pride demon like eyes surrounding it (!!!)#..like he's always watching it..#interesting.. given how in the mural from the official teaser trailer the Dread Wolf seemed to break into the Black City 👀#and I have a pretty strong guess why that is...#you know - besides the fact that *cough* the Black City is totally Arlathan where the false elven gods are imprisoned *cough*#but I actually think he needs to break in there for another reason 👀#..involving a certain idol 👀👀👀#anyway.. I always have to chuckle when I read the codex from this archivist calling Solas ''messere'' lol

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vcrnons · 6 months

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JUN [INSIDE SEVENTEEN] 'Rock With You' Special Video BEHIND.

#jun #moon junhui #wen junhui #seventeen #svt #*mine #my gif #tw eyestrain #one of those many many occasions in which i have a vision and then idk. i go blind midway through or something #regardless i love him and he's pretty and this needed to happen for personal reasons #helloooooooo mister that smoulder????? put me in the ground smh #heymax #maddieblr #they all looked sooooo good in this video tho #probably plenty more where this came from😔 so uhhhhh lets give it a tag #rwysvbh #why is his adam's apple always so. fucken. prominent ?????#why am i sweating over it lmao #send help

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anarchypumpkincowboy · 9 days

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Saint Kristen Applebees, former chosen one of Helio, who died in service to Helio her first day of freshman year fighting side by side with her party, who met her god and decided he was a douchebag, who eventually went on to aid and revive her new god Cassandra, the goddess of doubt, who lost Cassandra but is still holding on to the pieces of her left because doubt saved Kristen’s life so she’ll save Cassandra

Buddy Dawn, current cleric of Helio, who does not die from fighting with his party, who dies because of his party, because of a trap his party set, who seems to want to do right but who is so deeply held in his convictions, so deeply indoctrinated that Doubt cannot touch him

#like it would’ve been so beautiful and poetic if divine intervention had worked but also #him being so indoctrinated that doubt doesn’t reach him #okay so I did misremember buddy as being like the new backup chosen one and he’s not #but I’m pretty sure he is still like a prominent figure in the church rn #probably because of Bobby dawn but still #dimension 20 #saint kristen applebees #cassandra #buddy dawn #kristen applebees #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers

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moophinz · 1 month

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#this post is huge and one might think the most important thing here in it is his prominent schnoz #also spoiler alert he left again #if there’s one thing about Kiryu it’s that he’s going to leave #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #like a dragon #majima goro #kazumaji #I’m working on a post about how Majima’s joy in life has a pattern of being connected to Kiryu #not completely but pretty strongly

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omegalomania · 10 months

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no ok like. i know this is The YBC Blog and all but i really truly need to go off about how GENUINELY fucking fascinating the whole "young volcanoes" video is on a metatextual level. like the entirety of the youngblood chronicles says a WHOLE hell of a lot about the band in terms of the metaphors it's painting wrt the hiatus and reformation and the fact that they took this particular song (sonically incredibly airy and cheerful, lyrically desolate) and turned it into the dinner party from hell. this is a story where an external force chops up the lead singer and hollows him out and then serves his organs to the rest of the band. theyre made to consume him, literally, against their will!!! and thats not all!! they are vividly hallucinating at this point, because theyve been heavily drugged - again, against their will! - and they see this whole thing as a joyous affair. in their blitzed out brains, this is them reuniting after the harrowing experience of being kidnapped off the goddamn streets! and then they have this fucked up trippy GROUP HALLUCINATION where they are literally EATING PATRICKS ORGANS. and in the real world, none of them can see this happening - except patrick. patrick is not blindfolded. patrick can see them being forcefed his own viscera and he's too fucking high off his ass to do anything about it. in fact, in reality, he barely acknowledges his bandmates at all.

like just thinking about this from a metaphorical perspective. its fucking fascinating innit. the band literally cannibalizes patrick against their will, and he cannibalizes himself against his will, and they are all made to believe this is something that they want to have happen. they are misled and drugged into this. they eat him alive. they eat him ALIVE. and they are made to think they're having a great time doing it.

the band consumes itself for the seeming entertainment of the onlooking vixens. and they don't explore this through the avenue of pete, who the rest of the band regularly cites as the creative impetus behind the band, but through patrick, the voice. the mouthpiece. the one who sings the words. this is the third fucking video they released when the band came back from hiatus. and its this. it is the band being forced to consume the lead singer and primary composer from the inside, and him participating in this forced consumption.

it makes me grip my head and scream. we witness this horrifying incident so early and things only get worse and worse from there. for all that patrick kills joe and pete later in the narrative, they have patrick's blood on their lips first, staining their mouths, slicking their insides. and, like the case with patrick, who has been warped into something violent, they don't do this willingly; it is done to them. we see what true and genuine hatred of music and creativity has motivated the vixens to do. and in contrast we see, by the story's end, the thesis statement that the defenders of the faith love each other beyond any earthly horror that can be inflicted upon them. how unbelievably unfathomably fucking captivating for this to be present at the very start, this warped perversion of that kind of love. what else is friendship and brotherhood but this. what else is love at its most destructive and possessive than this. we are friends, we are brothers in arms, we are companions until the bitterest of all bitter ends. we have wrought immeasurable horrors upon each other. we have consumed each other. we have eaten each other alive. we all have each other's blood on our hands and in our mouths. if save rock and roll is the brightest and most elevated declaration of love imaginable, then young volcanoes is the darkest and most twisted. we don't want to be here. we're having the time of our lives. we're trapped. we're screaming. we missed you. we are better together. we are destroying each other. we love you. we love you to the most twisted and horrific and absolute endpoint imaginable. we love you. they won't let us stop loving you. we love you. they won't let us stop. we love you.

#THATS NOT EVEN TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE SNAKE MY GOD THE FUCKING SNAKE #THE WAY ITS THIS TANGIBLE REPRESENTATION OF COLLECTIVE TRAUMA #they NEVER see the snake in young volcanoes. it never appears in reality.#but in just one yesterday they all instantly fucking recognize it and they are HORRIFIED by it #I HATE THIS STUPID MOVIE. I AM GUARANTEED TO HAVE PUT MORE THOUGHT INTO THIS THAN THE DAMN BAND.#AND YET IT CAPTIVATES ME.....#*making poasts #cannibalism cw #i mean. since i talk about it pretty prominently lol

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moths-daily · 8 months

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HI!! I only recently found you but I was wondering if you had done the polyphemus moth, white-dotted prominent or blinded sphinx? the polyphemus is my personal favourite, would love to see it if you haven't done it yet. <33

Moth Of The Day #146

Rough Prominent / White-dotted Prominent / Tawny Prominent

Nadata gibbosa

From the noctuidae family. They have a wingspan of about 5 cm. They tend to inhabit deciduous forests at some elevation. They can be found across North America.

The Polyphemus Moth was MOTD#42.

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starflungwaddledee · 6 months

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I LOVE YOUR WADDLE DEE OC, THEY ARE SO ADORABLE. AND THE BIG BOW AS WELL JUST MAKES THINGS BETTER

she's a little shy, but very delighted you think so!! thank you!

#i agree big bows are just peak design imo #the more excited or emotional she is the more prominent and 'floaty' the stars and constellations get!#featuring one of my rl happystims which i personally think is pretty waddle dee like haha #starstruck dee #my art #asks

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ducktracy · 3 days

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reminder that if you're not watching Crayon Shin-chan then you are living a hollow and empty life. this is not edited. this ripped straight from the movie (Movie 8: Jungle That Invites the Storm, highly recommend for fellow Masaaki Yuasa lovers)

if you need further convincing: these monkeys run an animation sweatshop

#i've made this disclaimer on another post but will again since i've seen a lot more of the movies now #the movies are VERY good and very enjoyable but unfortunately the first handful are bogged down by transphobic/homophobic/okama stereotypes #they kind of vary in their severity. Movie 5 i think is the biggest catalyst because it features the stereotyped characters the most #prominently. Movie 3 doesnt really have caricatures per se but saves a very backhanded reveal for the end #Movies 1 and 4 are a bit more tolerable if my memory is correct. Movie 2 i think is kind of comparable to Movie 5 with its caricatures #in that the characters have similar roles in both movies #i admittedly can't remember what caricatures there were in Movie 6 or 7. 7 i think barely had anything #RAMBLE RAMBLE BASICALLY: these jokes are within the first 7 movies or so 5 being the zenith then reducing down and down. by movie 8 it's sa #e #i give these disclaimers because these movies are all very enjoyable and i would not recommend them if i didnt think there wasnt any merit #o them. they are all very much worth watching. Movie 5 still has a lot of very enjoyable stuff in it (there's a showdown in a supermarket!!#but i just want to make sure that is clear and established since transparency is good to have and i dont want anyone's viewing experience t #be ruined because they weren't given the proper warning #if it's any consolation it's my understanding that even the directors hated doing the jokes #iirc Keiichi Hara really didn't like doing the jokes and i think had a talk with the mangaka Yoshito Usui and was like 'uh dude this is #gonna age horribly can we maybe not'#ironically Hara's first film is Movie 5. which is again the biggest offender #BUT! that is my spiel. my understanding is that it's contained to those 6 or 7 first movies and i think is strictly just a movie thing #so please do give these films a watch but just be mindful at the same time #if anyone needs recommendations my favorites have been movies 4 and 9 but i genuinely really enjoyed every one that i have seen #i've seen the first 11 and a half movies (need to finish 12) and movie 22. the worst i've felt about one is 'oh that was pretty good!'#each film has its own merit and is very very very much worth watching #22 was the first Shin-chan anything i watched and all my Shin-chan expert friends say 4 is a good introductory piece #in case that influences anything/makes it easier to break in #so. thus concludes my spiel #csc #vid

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captainjonnitkessler · 6 months

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"My ancestors used to live in this area hundreds or thousands of years ago so therefore I have a right to live in this area now" is always a horrible, ethnonationalist argument from zionists but its especially egregious when it's coming from white Americans who converted to Judaism from Christianity. "Our land" "Our ancestors" girl WHAT ancestors are you talking about. If we're divvying up land based on who lived there a thousand years ago your ass is going straight back to England and you know that.

#pretty sure this category contains many of the prominent zionists on this site #although you know what? i don't think i've seen a [redacted] addition to a post since before October #have I finally curated my dash to the right point or has that individual fallen out of favor with their response to the conflict

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jenna-louise-jamie · 13 days

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has nobody mentioned that alex's sweaters and long sleeved t-shirts are always long enough to cover his hands??? he's got his little sleeves covering his hands!!! darling boy

#i noticed it right away because i do the same thing #if my hands aren't covered by my long sleeves im not wearing it #its most prominent in episode 1 season 3 im pretty sure #alex rider #alex rider tv #its so cute #hes doing that and then hes beaming at his friends #i cant stand him

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me-sploh-rada-imas · 6 months

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