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floralcrematorium · 7 months
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1, 3, 16 with Arthur
Thanks for the ask!!
1. Do you relate to your favorite character?
Mmm I've got three of those so I will apply it to each of them
France: I'm a bit picky with food, but definitely not for the same reasons as Francis. I do value flavor over everything else, but if the Texture Is Bad (I have texture sensory issues I think??), I cannot eat it. I'm an artist (regrettably) and tend to be a perfectionist in regards to my craft. I can be a little obsessive towards literally anything, but I think that's the uhhhhh hyperfocus (I once played Minecraft for 27 hours straight, do not ask How it happened, I don't know). That's where the similarities end, though. I am ✧*̥˚ Ace and While Not Aro, I Do Not Know What Flirting Looks Like *̥˚✧
China: I've never written for Yao the way I have for Francis or Lukas so I don't have the best pin on Who He Is, but I hold a lot of admiration for him and he's the only one who's maintained their status as Favorite Character for me pre and post fandom hiatus. I wouldn't say I handle change the best, but I find ways to adapt to situations I'm thrown into. Being able to adapt and be flexible is how this man's been alive for 4,000 years, so we share that. Similarly as with Francis, we share cooking and art in common.
Norway: I refer to him as Lukas because unfortunately that's just. What's etched into my brain and it's what I'm attached to. Nor can seem a bit spacey due to how quiet he can be, and I'm spacey, but definitely not for the same reasons. When I write for Lukas, he's dramatic but in very subtle ways (sighing, inner thoughts), and it's been brought to my attention on more than one circumstance how much I sigh or that I'm just a Little Freak™. I mean this in the most affectionate way I possibly can, I want to throw him down the stairs.
3. Who are your favorite Hetalia writers?
At the current moment, I do not know!!! I feel like I haven't read enough to really pick favorites (I am really bad at starting new things and I have a laundry list of fics I've been meaning to start but. Haven't. INCLUDING YOURS!!!! I am looking at your A03 voraciously and waiting for the stars to align enough for me to have some darn focus.) I will say that I am absolutely obsessed with Take a Chance on Me by Hetart on A03. I gotta catch up on that. My favorite fic from pre-hiatus was Log of the End of the World on ff.net, but I haven't gone back to it since 2015 so I remember literally nothing other than I liked it at age 14 enough to still remember its name.
16. Assign Arthur a chillin outfit.
I know I said I'd draw, but in the most respectful way I am NOT drawing him specifically right now. His hair... oh I so very don't want to figure out how his hair works. Take this as an IOU specifically for you for me to draw Arthur One Day and accept this screenshot of a pinterest board I made specifically for this ask
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I cannot see this man wearing anything other than sweaters, sweater vests, brown trousers specifically, and the loafers. Are those loafers? Beats me. Anyway. Man is forever banished to be color coded with green and brown for me. Realizing now I could've just opened the Sims 4 and screenshot how he looks in my game but alas, I am eepy
I think this man is the kind of person to hate loungewear/pajamas. He prefers to always be dressed because it helps him feel productive and look presentable. He's just like Francis in that he can't be casual, but in a crunchy old man sorta way.
He's wearing green plaid flannel pants to bed with any clean t-shirt he can find.
I would throw something punk together, but that's not my area of expertise in regards to alt fashion
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saltysupercomputer · 1 year
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15 tags, 15 mutuals
Thanks for the tag, dearest @milkybirdseed!
1. Are you named after anyone?
As in 'Francis'? Nope. Not to my knowing. My username here on Tumblr is inspired by what has to be my favorite trope to write and use (snarky AI my beloved <3) and my mom has nicknamed me 'Sawyer' after the character from LOST. Says I look like him a little, especially when my hair isn't done
2. When was the last time you cried?
I had a really bad day at the start of the month where I teared up a little on the bus, though the last time I actually cried hard, I can pinpoint with a date - 25.11 of last year. Why? I was accepted into an exchange-program I had been wanting to go on for YEARS after anxiously waiting for a response for months. I just laughed to myself like a maniac while crying happy tears. I still have my teachers official note, so I can be certian.
3. Do you have kids?
Nope! I'm too young and too AroAce for that! :) I know some people my age DO have children but like... Nah. Not exactly my cup of tea.
4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
So much that people often can't tell when I'm being sarcastic. Fun times! :,)
5. What’s the first thing people notice about you?
I don't really know, though I think it's probably my voice. I have a very loud and distinct voice - I've been told a lot that I sound like Siri, a weatherman or a serial killer, so I think my voice must have left quiet the impression on a lot of people.
6. What’s your eye color?
Dark-ish green. I think the best way to describe it is the color of moss.
7. Scary movies or happy endings?
Why not both? I'm not a big fan of horror-movies that rely a lot on jumpscares, but I love scary media, especially books and horror games. Thoug, I will never pass on a good comedy as well - I'll consume anything as long as it sparks my interest.
8. Any special talents?
I did fencing for three years and thoug it's been a while, I still have the muscle memory for it. I can also type with a speed of 60 words per minute and read 100 pages in an hour - probably the reason why one of my friends has nicknamed me 'typewriter'.
9. Where were you born?
North of Germany, where I still live by now
10. What are your hobbies?
A lot of them. Too much even, maybe. I play the guitar, write, draw and do martial arts once a week. Also, I make short films and media stuff in general and I love to play TTRPGs, especially Call of Cthulhu and DnD, though I have been wanting to try Pathfinder for a while now.
11. Have you any pets?
I do! Two lovely asshole cats who I like to call 'the lady' (big, graceful one) and 'the duchess' (tiny gremlin who is ready to fight the world). I have been wanting to keep carnivorous plants for a while too, but they always died when I had to leave them in the care of someone else.
12. What’s sports do you play/have played?
Like I said before, I did fencing four three years or so and currently do martial arts - JuiJutsu, to be percise. In summer, I also really like inline-skating. Other than that, I'm really scrawny that not that much of a sporty person.
13. How tall are you?
5'8". I'm short. I have younger friends who are taller than me
14. Favorite subject in school?
Drama all the way! I'm a theater-kid and my drama-teacher is one of the best at my school and we end to do a lot of stuff - also, she somtimes allows us to do improv which is very cool. Other than that, probably English, History and Informatics"
15. Dream job?
Director! I would love to have my own show/movie one day, but ultimately, I'd just be cool with directing anything. I have worked on a lot of movie-projects before and it's definetly something I can imagine myself doing on a regular basis
Tagging: Open tag! Go all out on this if you like! :)
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wispstalk · 2 years
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ty for the tag from @nuwanders​
Favorite color: i don’t really have one but I’m gonna say dark emerald green because yesterday while thrifting I found this ridiculous shirt that color that was like, a satin crop top with massive leg-of-mutton sleeves. i was not bold enough to buy it
Currently reading: Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo and The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
Last song: “Sender” by Pinback. babe are you ok i see you’ve listened to Summer in Abaddon (2004) six times in a row
Last series: Reservation Dogs
Last movie: a bollywood movie called Three Idiots
Sweet/spicy/savory: i’m with francis this is an impossible question. now I want peanut sauce, the ultimate synthesis
Currently working on: do not feel like writing or drawing. gonna throw on a podcast and continue fixing up my studio space to make it tolerable to work in. here is the neurotic little wall mural I finished last week for it
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tagging @fithragaer​ @gilgameshians​ @druidx​ @butter-and-too-much-bread​ and any other mutuals (u might not be aware we are mutuals lol i follow from drunkleray) who want to do this, but no pressure xx
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bloodgulchblog · 2 years
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ALRIGHT I FINISHED WITH HALO: BLOOD LINE.
(This post, naturally, contains spoilers for the twist in a 13 year old comic run. If that’s a problem, avert yon eyes.)
The first and most obvious thing I have to say about Blood Line is that the artwork is excellent. It’s not just serviceable, it’s dynamic and colorful and fun and I love it. The artist was Francis Portela, who did it from pencils to inks to colors, and I’m very impressed.
Look at this!!!
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If you want to see someone drawing Halo 3 era armor really well (looking at you, my RvBs) there’s a lot to look at in Blood Line.
Plotwise, the story tells us that it’s not about war, or survival. It’s about family. What’s going on here is that Black Team (Black One, fearless leader; Black Two, the curious intel one; Black Three, rowdy heavy weapons guy; and Black Four, the cool-headed sniper) and a smart AI (Iona) have been shipwrecked due to a mysterious alien attack. So has a Covenant team: a Sangheili shipmaster and his younger brother, as well as a gaggle of Grunts and a pair of Hunters.
When Black One and the Shipmaster’s brother are both captured by a Monitor’s Weird Forerunner Bullshit™, the Spartans and the Covenant team up to go get their friends back.
The teamup is fun because not only is absolutely nobody happy about it, but it also highlights a little of the similarity between Spartans and Sangheili (which I’ve been all about since pretty much forever.)
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Plus I just really like this little bit where Thon finds out that the Spartans have been bluffing about having ammo left when they super do not, so he gives Black Four a gun. (Three is fine, he ripped one out of a Sentinel.) This actually takes place a little before the last image I posted but w/e.
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Speaking of Four and Three, the story on the Spartan end is heavy on them. (I personally miss Two, who was my favorite in the short story with Black Team that we had in Evolutions. She isn’t in the comic much.)
There’s tension between Three and Four because once upon a time when they were kids, they both had a crush on the same girl: One. This is, of course, highly relevant to that second image above. It’s also the section of the plot I’m the most eh about.
As Iona is riding around in Black Four’s armor, she learns that he harbors resentment toward Three. Three caught Four and One making out and reported it. One and Four were brigged for a little to discipline them.
Black Team also had a bitter rivalry with Red Team, which I do not think is any relation to any other iteration of Red Team. During the brig incident, they snuck in and beat the shit out of Four so bad he lost an eye. After that, when Black Team was reunited, they ambushed Red Team and kicked their shit in as revenge. They got brigged for ten days, never spoke of it again, and that was the end of that.
Except.
Except.
The spoiler is that it was not One and Four who had the awkward youthful relationship. It was One and Three. Four was the jealous one.
The one who lost an eye was actually One.
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Four has felt so guilty about this for so long that he worked up an alternate version of events in his head. Meanwhile, the Monitor is hacking his armor to fuck with his perceptions and convince him to attack Three.
Eventually, though, One and the Shipmaster’s brother breach containment, there is a lot of shooting, and One figures out something important.
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On a related note, I really love how many panels they do where they flip between the Spartans in the current day and the Spartans how they looked as unarmored trainees in the same postures. Really nailing that childhood trauma.
The Covenant don’t make it out of this one, as a contrast for how Black Team pulls their shit together. Reff thinks he can take control of the Forerunner installation and become a new Prophet of his own Great Journey, and starts shooting down the Covenant fleet that was coming to claim this prize. Thon tries to kill him (which sucks because Thon always protected his brother when they were kids), Reff kills him instead, and then the Monitor comes back for the grudge match and kills Reff. Reunited Black Team takes down the Monitor, and then prepares to head out and try to find a wrecked Covenant ship they can steal to get home.
OVERALL, I think this one was great. I’m not particularly objective about the relationship drama because I always find love triangle shit really boring and I’m especially eyeroll about it with Spartan-IIs, but I can handle it because the issue isn’t actually romantic tension anymore as the group has grown up. The sibling vibes in this one are very strong. What’s important here is Black Four’s guilt about what he did and how it lost Black One her eye, not an ongoing love triangle thing.
Unfortunately, I also know this is the last we really get of these characters. They are killed off mostly offscreen in a Halo 4 era comic, and I think that’s a shame.
GOOD NEWS, THOUGH: I’m done with Halo comics until I get back to a couple more years into the canon, and they are eventful years.
BAD NEWS: Those years contain a lot of Karen Traviss.
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screaming-oak · 3 years
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just an update: im still working on art btw! schools almost over so it might take a while but once summer hits ill hopefully be posting a lot more :-)
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chunkecheeks · 2 years
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1, 4, 5, 21!
end of year artist as game
1. Favorite drawing from this year: okay so this one probably wouldn't be anyone else's pick but mine bc i did do a lot of other art that was a lot more technically impressive and this one is p simple and not perfect but it was my personal fav for this year bc Rosemary has become my favorite oc as i develop her more and it was nice to get back to drawing a full body picture because i don't do those a lot so it was a good exercise and i loved how it came out
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4. favorite character you've drawn
okay since i did the rosemary one for the last ask i will not pick her again and instead will choose a character who is not my oc. Which is very hard bc the only things i drew this year were characters who are my absolute favs of all time
i'm going to choose the haunted mansion bride because i just KNOW 13 year old me would be going absolute apeshitt over me finally drawing a proper image of her living form and i have been wanting to make a changing portrait for her for YEARS
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5. favorite little detail in a drawing you did
okay so as you're probably well aware i do so many tiny details in my drawings so there's A LOT to choose from but i'm gonna once again throw a curveball and pick one that isn't as technically impressive which is the rainbow highlights in francie's hair
i hadn't worked in colored pencil since high school so it was a challenge trying to blend colors but the rainbows and the blending in her eyes ended up coming out pretty good and i really like how it looks
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21. what do you want to work on the most next
Technically what I am working on next is barbie as clara which i am currently coloring but my next big project is drawing EVERYDAY next year. like i'm probably not gonna do a big fancy drawing everyday but at least a sketch per day because i really didn't do much this year and i wanna push myself back into my high school habit i think it'll be fun and get the ball rolling again
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aion-rsa · 2 years
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How Alias Anticipated Modern Superhero Storytelling
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J.J. Abrams’ spy drama Alias, which turns 20 this week, was a lot of things: high-octane action-adventure series, twentysomethings relationship drama, occasional National Treasure homage. It was also, surprisingly, a spiritual predecessor to today’s hyper-saturated superhero movie and TV universes: A preternaturally gifted fighter, Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) inhabits comic-book-esque alter egos to infiltrate secret missions related to ancient artifacts and promised immortality, all while ensuring that her nearest and dearest don’t know how many times she’s saved the world—or which side she’s really on.
Like the series’ MacGuffin-generating Nostradamus figure Milo Rambaldi, Alias has proven to be somewhat prophetic itself about what makes for the kinds of superhero stories that land today. With some 20th-anniversary hindsight, let’s look back at what made Sydney’s story so super and what lessons Abrams’ ridiculous(ly fun) series can still impart to the current crop of superhero sagas.
The Secret Identity as Kiss of Death
The highest priority that spies and superheroes share is that they cannot get made—that is, have their identity as a larger-than-life individual linked to their “normal” selves. They must always keep their personal and professional personas separate, lest they risk losing the people who know both sides of them. Alias establishes this difficult lesson in the first half hour of the pilot, when Sydney reveals her true work (she thinks SD-6 is just a covert branch of the CIA) to doctor fiancé Danny, only for him to blab about it later and get bloodily taken out in their bathtub. It’s the first time that SD-6 treats its sweet protégée harshly, making clear the consequences of her actions should she open up to anyone else in her life. And then she defects to the CIA, which will be a death sentence for her if SD-6 ever finds out.
Yet beyond the specter of grisly assassination, what the series really digs into is Syd’s growing ethical dilemma about being a double agent where it concerns the actually good people at SD-6, primarily her longtime partner Dixon (Carl Lumbly) and sweetly awkward Q stand-in Marshall (Kevin Weisman). It would be too easy if the series were only about her getting long-game revenge on SD-6 director Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin); the real conflict comes from Sydney lying to Dixon’s face on every stakeout, knowing that he still thinks he’s working for the good guys and she can’t ruin that fantasy for him without potentially turning him into collateral damage.
Similarly, the moments in which Sydney’s two (or three) lives begin to collide have other heartbreaking consequences: While the scene in which her best friend Will (Bradley Cooper cast as the friendzoned buddy, amazing) gets kidnapped and sees Syd saving him, is one of the decade’s best laugh-out-loud moments, it also leads to Will going into the Witness Protection Program. His life ends, in a sense, because Sydney couldn’t keep everything compartmentalized. And we haven’t even gotten to the awful fate that befalls her best friend Francie (Merrin Dungey)…
What Alias Predicted: The beating heart (or arc reactor) of many a superhero story is this tension between selves—which means that the big reveal of a secret identity has to be carefully timed and deliberately presented. It’s as emotional as Peter Parker’s (Tobey Maguire) mask getting ripped away when he saves the subway car of people in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2, as big as Spider-Man: Far From Home doxxing that Peter Parker (Tom Holland) in a commentary on fake news, or as pure and simple as Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) outing himself as Iron Man in the very first installment of the MCU. You cannot unring that bell, so it better be a memorable moment.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: Rev the secret identity stakes back up! Captain America: Civil War ably took on the game-changing Marvel Comics arc of the same name by having heroes collectively unmask, and movies like Spider-Man: Far From Home are still playing out those ramifications. But mostly we see the dangerous ramifications of heroes doxxing themselves, without really digging into the strain for heroes to constantly have to lie about the things that truly matter to them.
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Campy Disguises and Clever Aliases
If you’ve watched Alias or were even vaguely aware of it, no doubt the first thing you envision is Sydney in black leather and bright red hair, a.k.a. her iconic look from the pilot. Her non-SD-6-sanctioned, under-the-radar disguise (impersonating Will’s sister) displays her ingenuity and establishes the series’ brand: attention-grabbing hair paired with increasingly ridiculous outfits, from chain mail waitress ensembles to rubber dresses. She’s played punks, rich bimbos, alluring businesswomen, escorts, and all manner of female personas upon which her marks would project their assumptions—all of which belied her true strength and cunning.
Even when future episodes riffed on the color wheel with teal, magenta, purple, and good old-fashioned blonde wigs, it was still within a clear spectrum established on that pivotal mission, when she channels a silly girl who cares more about the color of her hair than her safety, only to pin her torturer with the same chair to which she’s bound.
What Alias Predicted: I would hazard a guess that Natasha Romanoff’s first appearance in 2012’s The Avengers—a seemingly helpless redhead tied to a chair, about to be nastily interrogated—was a nod toward Sydney’s triumphant pilot mission. What’s more, despite the first ten years of the MCU leaning toward sleek costumes, later phases (like WandaVision‘s cheeky Halloween callbacks) have realized that they can embrace the bold colors and campy designs of the comic-book source material.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: Better to lean into the bold colors and campy designs of the comic-book source material than to go for more sleek and cool. WandaVision did this, albeit cheekily and using the excuse of Halloween, but the nod toward Scarlet Witch’s original outfit was well received. Because any superhero can look cool in leather, but only the standouts can rock color.
Rambaldi Artifacts, Immortality, and Clones
While replicating the romantic dramas of Felicity, Abrams was also playing with early iterations of his signature “puzzle box” narrative style: The pilot has Sydney chasing after the mysterious Mueller device, which turns out to be… a floating red ball… which bursts into water the moment she tries to remove it. That head-scratcher of a device is only one of many inventions belonging to Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Renaissance-era philosopher whose sketches and writings all pointed toward the ultimate endgame: immortality. You know, just normal spy thriller things.
The series saw Sydney and co. chasing after all manner of Rambaldi MacGuffins, from a clock to a kaleidoscope to a music box to flowers that either demonstrated proof of eternal life (by never wilting) or amped up human aggression. Through all of this, it becomes clear that Sloane helped found SD-6 in order to collect all of Rambaldi’s artifacts and capture immortality for himself—even and especially at the cost of people like his daughter, Sydney’s half-sister Nadia Santos (Mía Maestro).
Before we get more into Rambaldi’s prophecies about the sisters, we can’t forget the parallel fever dream of the series: clones! Or, rather, secret agents genetically modified to look like anyone—which means everyone is a suspect. This constant paranoia quickly got out of hand on the series, but its first reveal was perfect TV drama: There’s not an Alias fan who doesn’t remember “Francie doesn’t like coffee ice cream” and the complete devastation that followed—the knock-down, drag-out fight that destroyed Sydney’s apartment just as badly as Danny’s death, but also Sydney’s heartbreak upon realizing that her best friend was already long dead.
What Alias Predicted: The Infinity Stones themselves are less interesting than in various superheroes’ personal connections to them: Loki (Tom Hiddleston) tempted by the tesseract in Thor: Ragnarok; Star Lord (Chris Pratt) and the Guardians of the Galaxy channeling their friendship to withstand the effects of the Power Stone; Wanda Maximoff’s (Elizabeth Olsen) stages of grief as she copes with trying to keep the memory of Vision (Paul Bettany) alive even without the Mind Stone. In short: grounding the most out-there plotlines in the personal ensures they will always land.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: Ground the most bonkers of plotlines in the personal, and they’ll always land.
The Chosen One and the Passenger
This is when the Rambaldi business started getting less National Treasure levels of charming and more outright weird. Turns out the team wasn’t just recovering a treasure trove of artifacts, but also Rambaldi’s prophetic writings—including the mysterious “Page 47,” which featured a drawing of a woman known as the Chosen One… who bears quite the resemblance to Sydney herself. That would be easy enough to dismiss as a strange doppelgänger coincidence, but then comes the reveal of “Project Christmas”: When Syd discovers that she didn’t just stumble into the spy life on her own, but was actually trained as a sleeper agent from childhood, it only amplifies her fears that she has no true agency over her life.
Further Rambaldi writings center Sydney and Nadia into predestined roles as the Chosen One and the Passenger: supposed foes who are fated to clash, with one dying. Nadia getting injected with “Rambaldi fluid” in order to tap directly into the long-dead man’s consciousness (contained within another artifact known as the Sphere of Life) only earns her some nasty apocalyptic visions. But despite their genuine friendship that comes from bonding over their fucked-up childhoods, Sydney and Nadia are forced into that preordained confrontation when the latter is injected with a compound that reduces her to a mindless killing machine… all while a giant red ball is hovering over a city in Russia, because why not. Even after Nadia dies, and is brought back to life, then dies again, with her ghost haunting Sloane as he finally attains immortality, she remains a presence on the series.
There are certainly echoes to Black Widow and how it handles Natasha and adoptive sister Yelena’s (Florence Pugh) strained reconciliation after the older sister got out of the Red Room while the younger was still caught in its web. Their bickering banter about vests and poses, their differing memories of their false childhood, and their respective feelings of abandonment are what elevated Black Widow’s standalone outing—and made it even more tragic, on multiple levels, that this was the only time we would see the two of them in a movie together.
What Alias Predicted: Sister stories are gold! The Rambaldi storylines would mean nothing if they didn’t hinge on a tragically preordained confrontation, just as the MCU’s Red Room depiction seemed overdone until it was presented within the context of multiple generations’ differing experiences with its bloody legacy.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: More stories about sisters! With Nat dead not long after she and Yelena had just started to bond again, it’s vital that Yelena’s future MCU appearances show her still grappling with the little time they got together.
After all, the best superhero stories are the ones that can feel just as fresh now as they did 20 years ago.
Alias is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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theliberaltony · 4 years
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For two weeks now, the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, has gripped the nation, sparking nationwide protests calling for justice and changes to the criminal justice system. But this latest wave of demonstrations isn’t an isolated event. It’s part of a much larger movement, often grouped under the umbrella of Black Lives Matter, which has protested police killings and police misconduct since the early 2010s, after the shootings of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri.
In fact, research by Vanessa Williamson of the Brookings Institution and political scientists Kris-Stella Trump and Katherine Levine Einstein shows that the number of Black Lives Matter protests1 in response to police killings of black civilians has grown from only a few in a handful of cities in 2013 to over 500 protests in nearly 200 cities in 2014.
But what effect do these protests have?
Political science, it turns out, actually has a lot to say about protests, even though it’s really hard to pinpoint what makes one protest effective and another not. Broadly speaking, though, there are four main ways the literature tries to evaluate a protest:
Did it raise awareness?
Did public opinion change?
Were there institutional changes as a result?
Were there electoral consequences, either intended or unintended?
First, protests, at their most basic level, raise awareness about issues that might not yet be in the mainstream. This might not sound all that important, but research by political scientist Deva Woodly of The New School shows that protest movements can fundamentally alter the way we talk — and think — about a specific issue.
Examining the protest movements around the fight for marriage equality from 1994 to 2004, Woodly found that these movements succeeded in fostering a “common sense” of understanding around an issue by tapping into people’s sense of equality, relying on phrases like “love” and “regular people.”2 And in the case of the protests around Floyd’s death, that might mean changing how Americans talk and think about the disparate impact policing has on black communities and communities of color.
We don’t know yet how language around criminal justice and policing reform will change as a result of these protests, but there is some evidence that such shifts might be underway. Using Google Trends data comparing Google search behavior prior to and after May 25 — the day Floyd was killed — it does seem as if more individuals are interrogating racism in their own lives, with searches like “am I racist” nearly tripling. Phrases like “abolish police,” “defund police” and “police abolition” — concepts that have been central to the Black Lives Matter movement but less mainstream when discussing police reform — have also seen sharp upticks in interest.
What this tells us is that these protests are, in some way, raising awareness: People are seeking, or at least googling, more information.
In addition to increasing awareness of an issue, social movements can also change public attitudes toward it. This, of course, is hard to measure. But in at least some of the initial polling on Floyd’s death and the protests, we can see that public opinion is coalescing. An overwhelming majority of Americans, for instance, say that Floyd’s death was wrong and the police officers involved should be held accountable. Opinion around the protests is much murkier, even if most Americans are sympathetic to those protesting.
In studying how social movements change public opinion, Taeku Lee of the University of California, Berkeley found that protests can play a large part. His analysis of the civil rights movement in the 1960s found that though the protests weren’t initially popular, sentiment among nonsouthern white Americans moved from a sense of apathy to one of moral outrage. And in my own research of the civil rights protests, I found evidence of less racism and more support for affirmative action among white people from counties that had peaceful protests.
However, peaceful protests in other contexts — such as the anti-Vietnam War movement, the environmental movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement — have been less effective in moving public opinion. For instance, concern about the environment has stayed relatively stable despite growing activism. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why these protests haven’t been as effective, but it’s important to remember that media coverage can go a long way in influencing how the public thinks about different protests.
One big unknown is whether media coverage of the violence associated with some of the current protests might end up undermining support for the broader movement. A recent study by Princeton University political scientist Omar Wasow suggests that could happen. In his examination of protests during the civil rights movement, he found that areas that saw violent protests reported an increase in President Richard Nixon’s vote share in the 1968 election. (Nixon campaigned heavily on a “law and order” message that some argued was a coded racist message to white America.)
Wasow’s study fits into a broader consensus that nonviolent protests tend to yield outcomes that achieve a movement’s goals better than violent protests do. But there is some research that pushes back on this. For instance, another recent study by political scientists Ryan Enos, Aaron Kaufman and Melissa Sands found that the 1992 Los Angeles uprising — a violent reaction to the acquittal of four police officers caught on camera beating Rodney King, a black man — didn’t spark a backlash. Instead, they found that the protests may have led to an increase in support for funding local public schools. Similarly, the Black Lives Matter protests following the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers seemed to have led to decreased racial resentment among white Americans — especially among younger people — even though there was violence associated with some of the protests.
One important thing to remember here is that minority-led protests historically tend to draw more of a police presence than predominantly white protests, and the police are often more likely to use force against minority-led protests. So in many instances, the violence we may associate with these protests isn’t because these protests are inherently more violent; it’s because they draw more intense police contact to begin with. So if the research from the 1992 uprising and recent Black Lives Matter protests is any indication, it’s possible that violence in some protests may not entirely upend a movement’s goals.
There does seem to be some consensus in the literature that many protests are successful in spurring institutional change, at least at the federal level. As University of Pennsylvania political scientist Daniel Gillion has found, protests have tended to push legislators to vote more in line with protesters’ goals. The legislation that emerged from the civil rights movement is one such example, but Gillion also argues that the protests in 1968 pushed legislators to pass bills improving public housing infrastructure. Similarly, researchers Maneesh Arora, Davin Phoenix, and Archie Delshad, then of the University of California, Irvine, found that after the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests, state governments proposed and passed more bills aimed at addressing police accountability. And political scientists Logan Dancey and Jasmine Masand, then both of Wesleyan University, found that in Congress, black legislators engaged with online discussions of race and policing more frequently than their white colleagues.
Protests don’t just impact legislation. Megan Ming Francis, a political scientist at the University of Washington, has written extensively about how protests and civil rights organizations like the NAACP have effectively applied political pressure to the courts. For instance, Francis describes how the NAACP simultaneously fought to change public opinion at the grassroots level while also bringing lawsuits to combat lynching, segregation and Jim Crow-era laws in the courts.
More broadly, this research underscores all the ways in which protests are often viewed as a political resource that allows marginalized groups to amplify their voices when traditional methods, such as voting, might not adequately represent their preferences.
And finally, though protests may often be thought of as a last resort, they can also have important downstream consequences for elections. Wasow’s work and my own research shows that large, peaceful protests during the civil rights movement actually helped Democratic presidential candidates — a finding that Gillion and Stanford’s Sarah Soule have observed in more recent protests as well.
But of course, as we also know from Wasow’s research, protests can have unintended consequences — i.e., more violent protests corresponding with an uptick in Nixon’s presidential vote share — so it’s not entirely clear what effect these protests will have on the general election. On the one hand, they could mobilize the Republican base — although there are reasons why this might not be the case.
If the party tries to meet protesters’ demands, the protests could also mobilize the Democratic base. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and others seem to have begun to take action, although it’s still unclear where the conversation around police reform may head next.
However, it’s also possible that the effects of these protests will be minimal come November. It’s still too early to know what institutional changes or electoral consequences might result, but whether there will be an effect — including substantive legal action at the local, state and federal levels — is a real question.
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hws-gods-au · 4 years
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Let’s give this a shot!
Mun Information
Name: Kitty :3
Age: 20
Main Blog: UnluckyKitty13
Type of AU Blog: Mostly art with a bit of writing
What is Shiv's favorite color: <.< >.> It shares a name with a fruit
Muse Information (2p Nyo Canada Edition):
Name: Lilith Bonnefoy/Lily (Only by those close to her)/Goddess of Death
Nation: 2p Nyo Canada
God or Human: God
Personality: Lilith has a motherly and warm-hearted vibe to her, despite her clothing saying otherwise. She is empathetic, allowing herself to understand how others feel, and often helps her understand how to calm a panicked soul if needed. However, as she is empathetic, she finds it hard developing friendships, since she is used to people using her. She often doesn't speak her mind on things unless she feels the information is wrong.
If a God:
How did they attain godhood?: Helping a good amount of people go through the grieving process in a healthy manner, whilst helping put their loved ones to rest
What do they offer to worshippers?: She offers safe passage and peace when they pass away, while reassuring their loved ones that they will be treated properly.
Muse Information (France):
Name: Francis Bonnefoy
Nation: France
God or Human: Human
Personality: Francis is often known to have a fatherly vibe to him. Though he is not as empathetic as people think he is. He would often flatter people, but he wouldn't flirt with them unless he knows that it could brighten up their day. Francis believes that no one should be ignored, and gives everyone enough attention, where they feel loved and welcomed. He also believes that food can help warm the heart and calm someone down.
If a Human:
Career: Tavern owner/Chef
How do they show their faith: By offering food or praying with customers when they enter the tavern
Are they Enlightened/Trying to get Enlightened/Just vibing: He's just vibing. He just wants to vibe.
Please include examples of your art/ writing/ etc and if possible, a snippet or piece dedicated to the AU character below: (I don’t have an exact drawing of them just yet, currently working on them but I can show my current art!)
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kaileypaahana · 3 years
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Week 1 - Story Pitch
These are the two ideas that I’m currently leaning towards for my final project:
STORY 1
Working Title: Chef Carmine
Logline: A famous chef, known for his unique and extraordinary flavors, goes to extreme lengths to create the perfect bite. The secret ingredient in all of his dishes -- human blood. 
Synopsis: A chef meticulously prepares a dish. The waiter takes the dish to the table, the guests excitingly devour the food. Francis Carmine, chef and owner of the restaurant, stares at the guests while they eat -- a smile on his face. After closing time, Francis begins prepping for the next day. He takes out empty bowls, trays, and various spices. He then slams a lifeless body onto the kitchen table. Taking out empty blood bags, Francis sticks a needle into the vein of the body and proceeds to dice vegetables. Suddenly, he hears the click of a phone camera and sees a bright flash of light. Knife in hand, he sprints towards the direction of the flash. There is no one in sight as he stands in complete silence. However, as he turns to head back to the kitchen he notices a wallet on the floor. Francis opens the wallet. Upon seeing the ID, he confirms to himself that someone just witnessed his crimes. 
Visuals: I plan on limiting the color palette of the film to red and shades of grey. Style-wise I’m thinking of keeping the drawing fairly realistic with pretty flat images (no shading, mainly line work). 
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Inspiration: Seeing this video of a restaurant leaving out frozen meat to thaw out outside in the sun was pretty shocking. It definitely got me thinking about the food consumed at restaurants or really anything we eat. What if a dish is cooked with an ingredient we, as a customer, aren’t notified of? Will we be able to tell that what we are eating isn’t exactly what we ordered?
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STORY 2
Working Title: Snowy Imprisonment
Logline: What at first seems to be a beautiful snowy escape, soon turns into a hellish nightmare.
Synopsis: Mr. Buttons, a cat-like figure, wakes up to find himself surrounded by a beautiful snowy landscape. Wanting to explore the area, he tries to take a step, but realizes that his feet are unable to move almost as if they were glued to the floor. He struggles with all his might to lift his feet but it’s no use. Suddenly, he sees two large eyes staring down at him. He is terrified. The camera cuts to the perspective of a young boy as he happily looks at his snow globe, soothing music playing from it. The boy gently places down the snow globe and goes to sleep. The camera zooms in on the slow globe, Mr. Buttons as still a statue. 
Visuals: Since I will be recycling my Environment Scene project from ACM 216, I will mainly be focusing on modeling the snow globe and the environment in it. I plan on using the Eleven and Mr. Buttons rig for the character animation. 
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Inspiration: While looking at the snow globe on my bedside table, I got to thinking about the possibility of the character in it somehow coming to life. And if the character was alive how would they feel being trapped in this small globe.
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THOUGHTS
Although I have already completely a lot of the work for the Chef Carmine story (script, storyboard, animatic, etc), I’m leaning a bit more towards the Snowy Imprisonment story mainly because I prefer to work in 3D. 
Looking forward to the semester. I’m hoping and praying that I’ll be able to sleep. 
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abluvicn · 4 years
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get to know me tag
thanks for tagging @thearteatelier and @clementinekruzynski!
name: currently Nikodem but I change it a lot and everyone knows me under different ones (lmao what is a name)
birthday: October 8th
zodiac sign: libra sun, pisces moon, leo rising, libra merc- never ask me about astrology, you may end up with a 3 hours long lecture, seriously
height: I tell people I’m 5’9” but I’m like 5’7.5” really (you don’t have this information)
hobbies: writing, reading, drawing, painting, acting, directing, guitar playing, dance, figure skating and a lot of spiritual work, if it counts as a hobby
favourite color: used to be vantablack but they’ve recently discovered an even darker one so... that one, just plain darkness for me, please
top 3 ships: patrochilles (no homophobic historian can ruin it for me), francis abernathy x anyone who would treat him with the love and respect he deserves (preferably me), wolfstar (I mean COME ON)
last book: The Phantom of the Opera and The Secret History
current book(s): The Trial, To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984
last song: The Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience (my life is a constant fight between romanticism and hedonism and this song lets hedonism win for a moment, I love this state)
last film: Lady Bird but I haven’t finished it yet
inspiration/muse: nature, the universe, humanity, myself
dream job: an actor, a director or a writer, I can’t decide, ugh
url: @4bluvi0n
tagging (tag 9 people you want to get to know):
@oscarwildegonewild @aqua-regia009 @mediocracy-kills @darqacademia @iwoulddie4-poetry @wildwood-faun @lyregay @hauntedbystorytelling @zvezdytleyut @martyr-eater @deadhedonism @darknessregained @corvinaluxa @infinitebookworm05 and everybody else who wants to do this!
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oooh could you share the list of creators you’re currently enjoying?
hell yeah i can! this isn’t a complete list by any means, it’s just the writers and artists behind my favorite books at the moment (plus some old favorite artists i’m very fond of).
sam humphries and joe quinones-dial h for hero. dial h is easily in my top five favorite books coming out right now, and i’m overjoyed that it was extended from its originally intended six issues to twice that at a twelve issue maxiseries (along with wonder twins). the writing is fun and really puts you in the shoes of these two teenage runaways, and humphries proves time and again that he understands superman (and superhumans period) more than half the people working in the industry today. while i like the art that quinones uses for the main series, the main draw of the series is truly in the fast-paced art switchups for each new power that miguel (and others!) get. honestly, i think you could read the comic without even looking at the speech bubbles and narration boxes. the art practically punches you, and it’s such a celebration of comics as a medium that it’s wonderful to read.
mark russell and stephen byrne-wonder twins. i’ve loved byrne’s art since he illustrated an issue of orlando’s justice league of america book, though i didn’t actually know his name until wonder twins came out. what can i even say about wonder twins? that it has a lot to say, and it’s using a kid-friendly medium to do it? that it keeps unexpectedly causing me to have emotions about two of the biggest jokes in dc history? that it’s about as subtle as a bag of bricks to the face, but is so charming you hardly even notice? i don’t know if i’ve read anything else russell’s written, but damn if i don’t want to check it out after reading wonder twins. there are so many layers to it and so many standout moments. criticism of dc’s internal prison industrial complex? political satire? parodies of those misogynist guys who everyone knew in high school? it’s all there. read wonder twins. 
jamal campbell-naomi, far sector. bendis’ writing for naomi isn’t bad, per say. it’s actually a fun read, and it had plenty of twists even i didn’t guess. i admittedly haven’t read much of his other work, but i enjoyed it and i’d guess it’s one of his better books. but what made me come back to it every month when it updated was campbell’s art. like byrne, i’ve loved his art since reading the issue(s) of orlando’s justice league of america that he illustrated, but i didn’t know his name until he was attached to naomi. his art is beautiful. it’s such a breath of fresh air. it’s realistic but not uncomfortably so, it’s soft and graceful but it can still knock the wind out of you. there’s almost a glow to it. he’s the big reason i’m anxiously awaiting the release of far sector.
steve orlando and riley rossmo-martian manhunter. admittedly, i’ve got a soft spot for orlando, most likely borne out of bi jewish solidarity with him. as i’ve previously mentioned, i enjoyed his justice league of america run, electric warriors was a bit difficult to parse but overall fun nonetheless, and i’ve heard good things about his midnighter/midnighter and apollo. and i like j’onn (particularly his relationship with cindy), so i was more than a little excited to read his martian manhunter. admittedly, rossmo’s art isn’t always for me. his constantine looks good, and i have no doubt his ethereal style fits the batman issues he’s illustrated, but… i don’t know. i wouldn’t want it on every book, you know? but it is absolutely perfect for martian manhunter, and especially for one that is at its heart a detective story like orlando’s. rossmo is the perfect fit to draw mind-bending martians and shapeshifting policemen, and his distinctive character design makes splash pages positively jawdropping.
nick derington-doom patrol, batman: universe. while he’s only doing the covers for doom patrol: weight of the worlds and not the interiors, derington knocked it out of the damn park during the first young animal doom patrol run, his lines brought breathtakingly to life by knockout colorist tamra bonvillain. even when not partnered with her (with dave stewart being the colorist on batman: universe, for example), his distinct lines make his work easily distinguishable and practically the definition of fun. i may not care for bendis (the writer on batman: universe), but you couldn’t ask for a better artist for a fun batman story like that one.
francis manapul-the flash, justice league. i like manapul as a writer and will defend his run on the flash to my grave, but i downright adore him as an artist. whether doing just the lines or additionally coloring his own inks, his art is visually distinct and a sight to behold. not only that, but when given more control over a book’s overall look (like in his flash run, where he was partnered with brian buccellato, whose contributions to the glory of the interiors as colorist and punchiness of the script as cowriter cannot be understated), his panel composition alone is gorgeous and creative. his beautiful watercolor-esque style makes any book he’s been given for interiors a treat, and his various covers are downright frameworthy. 
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nationaldvam · 5 years
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Our favorite childhood stories tend to stick with us. For me, rabbits seemed to be prominent characters in the books I loved – from Uncle Wiggily to Watership Down, Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland. And more than the adventures of the bunnies, I remember the way the stories made me feel, and the lessons I still carry with me. There were lessons of survival, persistence, curiosity, risk-taking, and problem-solving that reinforced values of leadership, compassion, community, respect, and kindness. These rabbits live on in my subconscious, holding power and space having shaped my understanding of the world and all of its love and pain. Now, as a parent, I’ve come to know just how critical these choices are for my own children, and just how much power a simple picture book can hold.
Enhancing Social Justice Literacy
In 2015, Tanya Nixon-Silberg and Francie Latour, two Black mothers, authors, and community activists, drew on their own parenting practices – especially their use of children’s books to disrupt dominant narratives with their kids – to launch Wee the People (WTP) in Boston. WTP is a social justice project for children aged 4-12 that explores activism, resistance, and social action through the visual and performing arts. As part of their work, WTP hosts Social Justice Storytime at the Boston Public Library for their “Little Voices, Big Changes” initiative, built on the belief that if kids can understand fairness they can understand justice. Tanya and Francie work to builds parents’ capacity to confront topics like racism, deportation, gentrification, misogyny, islamophobia, and homophobia.
Innosanto Nagara, a Southeast Asian immigrant father, author/illustrator, and graphic designer creates new-wave board books that inspire conversations about social justice and encourage children’s passion and action around social causes like environmental issues, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights. With titles like A is for Activist, Counting on Community, and The Wedding Portrait, Innosanto explores themes of activism, free speech, political progress, civil disobedience, and artistic defiance. Innosanto is on the editorial team of M is for Movement, a site dedicated to exploring social justice and activism in children’s literature. The contributors to M is for Movement are children’s writers, illustrators, and book creators who are long-time activists and advocates who “come from and stand with marginalized communities living at intersections of identity, experience, race, class, gender, religion, sexuality, and ability.”
At the 2018 Facing Race National Conference in Detroit organized by Race Forward, Wee the People co-founder Tanya Nixon-Silberg and author/illustrator Innosanto Nagara presented a workshop together on racial literacy for children. They stressed the importance of racial literacy from an early age in the process of dismantling racist systems and structures.
Through their work, Tanya, Francie, and Innosanto are invested in inspiring social action through the arts, and have found that children’s books offer a powerful medium for moving new generations of people towards justice. Louise Derman-Sparks from Social Justice Books (a project of Teaching for Change) agrees:
“Children’s books continue to be an invaluable source of information and values. They reflect the attitudes in our society about diversity, power relationships among different groups of people, and various social identities (e.g., racial, ethnic, gender, economic class, sexual orientation, and disability). The visual and verbal messages young children absorb from books (and other media) heavily influence their ideas about themselves and others. Depending on the quality of the book, they can reinforce (or undermine) children’s affirmative self-concept, teach accurate (or misleading) information about people of various identities, and foster positive (or negative) attitudes about diversity. Children’s books teach children about who is important, who matters, who is even visible” (Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books, 2013).
Social Justice Literacy as a Prevention Strategy
Social justice literacy is an effective gender-based violence prevention strategy – a proactive effort to stop violence and abuse from happening in the first place by interrupting the cultural rules, norms, and constructs that support it. Several projects highlighted in the PreventIPV Tools Inventory demonstrate the effectiveness of social justice literacy in creating a more peaceful and just world. For example, Teaching for Change is a project that strives to build a more equitable, multicultural society by promoting social justice activism in the classroom. Their strategies center on leadership development and civic engagement for students, parents, and teachers that draw on real world current events. Teaching a People’s History offers classroom materials that emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. And Rethinking Schools focuses on strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism with a specific focus on promoting equity and racial justice in the classroom. These approaches focus on impacting the outermost layers of the social ecology to shift our cultural norms and values.
Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo, youth activists and creators of The Classroom Index, a textbook on racial literacy, identified two gaps in racial education:
The heart gap: “An inability to understand each of our experiences, to fiercely and unapologetically be compassionate beyond lip service,” and
The mind gap: “An inability to understand the larger, systemic ways in which racism operates.”
TED Talk: What It Takes to be Racially Literate by Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo
Children’s literature is one way to bridge these gaps by inspiring, educating, and engaging readers of all ages in a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of all people, families, and communities in our wide and vibrant world. But the fact is that marginalized people and communities are outrageously underrepresented in books available to children in mainstream American classrooms, libraries, and catalogues – in terms of both those authoring the books, and characters represented inside them. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center found that in all children’s picture books published in 2015, you are more likely to find non-human characters like bunnies (12.5%) than African Americans (7.6%) and Latinx (2.6%) combined. White characters are primarily depicted in the vast majority (73.3%) of these books.
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Illustration: Diversity in Children's Books 2015 by David Huyck, in consultation with Sarah Park Dahlen and Molly Beth Griffin
Social Justice Books serves to identify, vet, and promote multicultural and social justice children’s books, building on the tradition of the Council on Interracial Books for Children which offered a social justice lens to reviews of children’s literature. They also help parents and children develop critical literacy skills and promote activism around diverse representation in libraries. One example is their #StepUpScholastic campaign urging Scholastic to “publish and distribute children’s books that reflect and affirm the identity, history, and lives of ALL children in our schools.” Engaging children in proactive efforts to both notice and address the underrepresentation of people of color in literature, as illustrated above, builds their social justice literacy.
Books that Promote Justice and Peace
For those looking for books that promote justice and peace, resources like Social Justice Books offer vetted booklists on a variety of topics, as do Raising Luminaries: Books for Littles and Little Feminist: Books for raising conscious kids. Topics include:
Learning about family structures
Talking to kids about violence
Books for tomorrow’s leaders
Honoring single mothers
Promoting healthy fatherhood
Fostering social and emotional health, compassion, and independence
Helping kids recognize privilege
Cultivating healthy sexual boundaries
Preventing sexual violence
Bullying, civil disobedience, and disrupting injustice
Seek out books by authors of color like Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor receipient Kwame Alexander. Additionally, several anti-violence organizations offer book lists specific to addressing trauma. For example, The Child Witness to Violence Project offers books about trauma and violence for young children.
As M is for Movement explains, “Children’s literature—both fiction and nonfiction—is full of inspiration and examples of children and adults who stand up for themselves and others. Whether it’s ducks organizing animals to oppose unfair farm rules, a student listening to her classmates’ concerns when running for student council, or a boy joining his first march, young people’s literature can demonstrate how individuals and communities have the power to act as agents for social change.”
Through children’s books, we can teach justice and peace across generations. By engaging a child in a book with a strong message that fills the heart and the head, we can help build their understanding, compassion, and confidence to impact social change in ways that are meaningful and important to them. And these lessons and values will likely stick with them their whole life long
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The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
Illustration: Diversity in Children's Books 2015 by David Huyck, in consultation with Sarah Park Dahlen and Molly Beth Griffin
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ART SCHOOL | JACK GRAYDON | VANS US OPEN 2018
Traveler, skateboarder, and artist – Portland based Jack Graydon blasts huge murals and illustrations. His works can be found lurking in hidden corners around the world. No stranger to the Vans US Open, this year Jack returned to tackle the larger bowl, spray painting a massive mural featuring – trucks, characters, palm trees and a boat ripping across water.  We’re stoked to find out more about this spray painting freak and learn about his favorite moments in this year’s Vans US Open skate and BMX course.
Photographs courtesy of Ginger Caranto
Who are you and what do you do? I am from Santa Rosa California originally, but I’ve lived in Portland, Oregon for the past 8 years. I’m a skateboarder, artist, and person. 
How did you get into art? When did you start to take it more seriously?  When I was about 12 years old, I started skateboarding. I think I was about as excited about board graphics as I was about skateboarding itself. It’s been my goal since then to make art within the skate community. I haven't has a “normal job” in about 6 years, so I’d say the most serious I've been about art is making it a career.
Who are your biggest influences? Stuart Davis, John K., Mark Gonzales, Todd Francis, Barry Mcgee
What does your creative process entail? Writing down ideas, maybe some studying, drawing in a sketch book, picking colors, painting a wall or canvas. 
What is your most important artist tool? Is there something you can’t live without in your studio? Spray paint is the funnest. 
What’s the last cool art thing you got to check out? Last art show I went to that I was really stoked on was the Turkey Club Zine release show at Grapefruits in Portland Oregon. It’s a friend zine put together by Jenny Vu with a lot of my favorite artists in Portland currently. 
What inspires Jack?   Traveling, skateboarding, movies, going to museums, friends, my surroundings.
Your work is always changing and growing. Why do you think this is? I get bored painting the same thing over and over. If you paint the same big dumb face, your entire career and never progress or learn you aren't much of an artist, maybe a craftsman or a brand.
Can you tell us about the mural you created for the Vans Park Series course? I painted a couple of trucks, they each have a character painted on them and the names of some friends I wanted to give shout outs to. I also painted a palm tree boat scene that was more us open beach SoCal related.
What is your favorite part about painting a mural? Too many good things about painting murals. Getting to be outside, getting to work with other artists, emptying spray cans, reactions from passer bys, coming up with a sketch on paper and seeing it giant on a wall, all of the obstacles involved, working on sketchy ladders and lifts, the psychological/mental labor I put myself through, sense of accomplishment after, doing work that everyone will see, and putting some color and humor out into the world. 
What was the painting experience like working with multiple artists on the course? The best part of the entire thing is getting to work next to really great artists. They're all super nice and just as excited as I am to be there, so it’s a good time. Anytime I took a break from painting I would check out everyone’s work and go talk with them and have “Sodas” and stuff. 
Do you have a favorite memory from your time spent at the US Open? The times were we went out to dinner with the whole crew and got to skate some curbs was the best. Painting was cool too though. 
What was the most challenging part of the mural you created? The heat, I was pouring sweat most the time and trying to drink enough water to replace it. Got pretty close to passing out at one point. Also painting on the deep end section killed my legs. Thanks to all of the people that held me up, so I could paint the top sections.
What was your highlight over the past couple days painting at the US Open? The morning after we finished I was skating the bowl alone, and Andrew Reynolds asked me if he could skate. 
Do you have any advice for people who have dreams of becoming an artist? There are a lot of different ways to go about it. I don’t recommend everyone try to do it the same way I have. The best advice is just to make work every single day, believe in your work, and fake it till you make it.
Thanks to everyone involved and who put this all together, Creative Drinking, Vans, the skatepark builders, Ashley Rehfeld, and all of the artists and assistants. <3
Follow Jack | Website | Instagram
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nuka-nuke · 6 years
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| Jack Euler |
Name: Jack Philip Lee Euler
Nickname: None
Age: 31
Birthday: August 23, 2046 (Virgo) 
Height: 6’
Weight: 190~ lbs
Specials: Str 10 - Per 4 - End 10 - Cha 3 - Int 1 - Agi 10 - Luck 1
Eyes: Hazel blue
Hair: Dark brown and very long, always kept in a ponytail because he gets overwhelmed by it getting all over the place.
Body type: Lanky and skinny with broad shoulders and huge feet.
References: Here
Status Pre-War: A mechanic working for a local garage, married to the love of his life who was the more successful out of the two with her job as a lawyer. He moved to Boston for her, originally being from rural Pennsylvania.
Status Currently: An agent with the Railroad struggling to find his way in the wasteland.
Relationship Status: Widower
Spouse(s)/Partners: Vivia Loreña-Euler (deceased)
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: American
Family:
Vivia Loreña-Euler, wife (deceased)
Jerri-Lynn Kristiana Euler-Oliver, sister
-Roscoe Oliver, brother-in-law
Bianca Oliver, niece
Marina Oliver, niece
Roscoe Oliver Jr., nephew
Jolene Mari-Ella Euler-Wilson, sister
-Ezra Wilson, ex-brother-in-law
Lorna May Ellis Wilson, niece
Aberdeen Lora-Jo Euler, sister
Rosanna Cecila Ophelia Euler, sister
Josephine Arlandria Penelope Euler-Slonina, sister
-Waylon Slonina, brother-in-law
Quentin Leyton Slonina, nephew
Woodrow Reggis Slonina, nephew
Sam Christopher Slonina, nephew
Francis (Ford) Lee Albert Euler, brother
Philip Albert Stanley Euler, father (deceased)
Luanne Georgina Euler, mother (deceased)
Languages: English 
Disabilities/Illnesses/Injuries: None, he is fairly hardy. Mild PTSD from his time in the war and social anxiety which sometimes gives him panic attacks.
Allergies: None
Scars: He has a long scar crossing from the bridge of his nose down and under his right eye, an injury acquired during combat in the war when he was bashed in the face with an enemy rifle, breaking his nose in the process. The man who inflicted the damage was then beaten to death before his eyes by one of his platoon members, which was the first time he had ever witnessed the murder of another person. Jack always feared the inner monster a person could become under trauma from that point forward and hoped to never see himself become that.
Other facial scars include a long scar below his left eye which crosses down his cheek and over his lips. He was working in the garage cutting exhaust pipe with a cut off wheel on an angle grinder, negligently not using a face shield, when the wheel shattered and a piece broke off and embedded into his face. Luckily Ford was there and was able to get him to the hospital, and saved the heckling until after they ensured he wasn’t going to die. He never lived that one down for as long as he and Ford worked on cars together.
He has countless smaller scars on his hands and wrists from mechanic work over the years. Notably he has a large burn on his left elbow which mangles one of his tattoos, from accidentally leaning on a weld seconds after finishing welding something. Various other scars all along his knees and shins (from being clumsy and falling over his giant feet all the time) and one gnarly puncture wound on his left shoulder from a Red Widow bloodbug which he hit with his bat just a few moments too late.
Physical traits: Jack has a birth mark on his forehead that is mostly obscured by the amount of freckles he has all over his face, which continue all over the rest of his body as well. He has an American traditional style eagle tattoo across his chest and a sleeve of random flash-sheet kind of American traditional tattoos all over his left arm, acquired from his time living out of his car and traveling all over the states and adding a tattoo from every town he stayed in. He has wrinkles between his eyebrows from years working in the sun and focusing way too hard, and often looks exhausted due to the creases around his eyes. He has a scruffy beard and extremely perfect eyebrows that always made his sisters jealous.
Voice: Jake Gyllenhaal, but only as Jack Twist.
Clothing: Pretty much hasn’t changed out of his vault suit since leaving Vault 111. Like ever. He added a coat, though. Also he always wears his holotags from the military, his wedding ring, and his pipboy which is painted red.
Fashion Style/Lifestye: His fashion sense is pretty much “how long can I get away with wearing the same disgusting, dirty outfit before Bambi finally requests that I change and do laundry.”
Weapon of Choice: “The Fuck ‘Em Up”, a chain wrapped baseball bat, also painted red, or a bladed tire iron.
Skills: Strength, combat, situational awareness (in nonsocial situations), mechanics, artistic
Weaknesses: Easily stressed out in social situation, has a hard time explaining himself, can be kind of slow, spaces out a lot and daydreams. Very scatterbrained. Often sees things way too literally.
Poor skills: Computer technologies, verbal communication, stealth (too clumsy).  
Affiliations: The Railroad, Acadia
Former Affiliations: None
Enemies: The Institute
Neutral Affiliations: The Brotherhood of Steel, the Minutemen, Nuka World Raiders
Religion: Agnostic
Likes: Cars, working on cars, collecting random trinkets, drawing and writing in his journal (mostly to Vivia), digging through junkyards and scrap and planning how to build a new Corvega one day. Also enjoys cooking and making new recipes for the various types of wasteland animals he kills.
Dislikes: Pre-war food, Nuka Cola Quantum (the radiation makes him extremely sick), most sweets 
Hates: Spiders, radscorpions, insects of any variety. Vivia was the bug killer of their household.
Friends: Deacon, Piper Wright
Acquaintances: Ilya Valle (pre-war), Nataniel Valle (pre-war)
Former friends: None
Enemies: None that he is aware of, maybe there are some out there. Don’t know.
Pets: Sometimes junkyard dogs hang out with him at Hub City. But really none.
Fallout OC friends/family: Brook Cecil, Benjamin Reese, Andre Torres, Bambi (Beth), Sirius Tillinghast, Katherine Vance
Personality: Jack is overall pretty laid back. There isn’t much that can make him lose his temper, and even if he does, he ends up feeling bad about it and apologizing later. He is terrible in social situations and uses his awkward sense of humor to try to bridge conversations, which sometimes works, as in the case of how he scored Vivia’s phone number.
Favorite color: Green
Favorite foods: Radstag jerky, mirelurk cakes, literally everything his mother cooked when he was a kid.
Favorite drinks: Vim!, Vim! Quartz, Gwinnett Lager
Favorite Sweets: If anything, he might have some gum. Overall, not a fan of sweets. 
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Do ALL of the Space asks!!!!
dOhhh noooooooooo, whoever could this beeeeeeeeeComet- What are you currently frustrated about?
Hahaha oh boy. Mostly how fucking stupid I was not doing internships when I had more of the chance and instead chose to go back home every summer. I really, really appreciated it at the time, but whenever I look for wildlife jobs now I just feel so underqualified and completely unprepared. I was stupid and some friends who will see this will never let me forget it.
Black Hole- What are you most afraid of? 
At this moment what I’m most afraid of is not being able to get a job in my field and not being able to make some kind of meaningful contribution to conservation and stuff.
Galaxy- Do you have any nicknames? What are they? 
Uhhhhhh, Plum/PlumPlum, Mr. Sneeze, Coah; I think that’s about it?
Star- What song(s) do you feel describes you?
Fffffffuuuuuuuuck, um. Okay so I wasted like 3 hours trying to find good ones so let’s just go with these:
Natalia Lafourcade’s Mi Tierra Veracruzana (specifically this live version)
Nujabes’ Spiritual State.
Wind of Departure/~Setting Off Wind~ from Monster Hunter 4.
Baths’ Yeoman, a wonderfully queer musician.
Pogo’s J’Adore Juin, though it breaks my heart that Pogo is an MRA idiot.
Moon- Are you currently reading any books? If so, what book(s)?
Oh god, sadly not. I still have some Discworld books to read but I don’t want to be done-done with the series as a whole. ;_;
Planets- If you could go anywhere, where would you go? 
New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, probably.
Mercury- Describe your aesthetic. 
Earth tones, rustic looks, organized messes, wildflowers and pine trees, hearty food and warm blankets on a cold and cozy day. 
Venus- What’s your favorite tv show? 
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm honestly maybe Parks & Rec? Or Steven Universe. 
Earth- If you could be anyone else for a day, who would you want to be?
On one hand I could be Chris Evans for a day but on the other hand I’d also want to be someone STUPIDLY RICH so I could give tons of money to me and my loved ones, and I wouldn’t want to do that to Chris Evans. Probably the latter, just someone super rich whom I don’t care about.
Mars- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would you change? 
Haha um. Maybe my penchant for sweet things. Or, y’know,my metabolism/weight.
Jupiter- If you had to pick one color to use for an entire week, what color would you choose? 
This is a joke right? ‘Cause anyone who knows anything about me will know the answer is Green.
Saturn- How far would you go for those you care about? 
Very far.
Uranus- What would you say is your greatest achievement? 
Fuck me man, I don’t know. I think being considered someone my friends can trust to talk about shit with.
Neptune- Describe yourself in one sentence. 
Hi I fiercely believe in there being a right and wrong and tend to not suffer those who choose the latter; that being said, I am a goof who loves puns and even though I can be snarky as hell I secretly prefer it when people are even more snarky back to me and put me in my place, because it’s fun to laugh, even at yourself. 
Pluto- If you could meet anyone, alive or dead, who would you meet? 
Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series (and many more books besides!).
Constellations- If you could have one talent, what would you want it to be? (can be magical or not)
>Magical or notOh man. Okay so if I want to be broken I’d say absolute control over time, so absolute that even fi I create paradoxes it isn’t an issue. Alternatively, something I’ve always thought would eb cool was to either:Be able to teleport as far as your eye can seeorAny time you’re going down a street or sitting in a place or whatever, and for some vague reason it reminds you of some other place you’ve been to (so you drive past a street called Railroad Avenue, but you know of another Railroad Avenue in another town, or you’re sitting in a park and smells like your grandparents’ backyard), those two places become ‘linked’ and you can freely teleport between the two vaguely similar locations. You can’t like… consciously force the linking though.
Asteroid- When you die, what do you want to be done with your body?
Cremated, spread over some nice wilderness, maybe with a tree.
Aquarius- What’s a topic you enjoy learning about? 
B I O L O G Y   &   E C O L O G Y
Aquila- Do you prefer to read books or watch movies?
I feel like these are apples & oranges? Like books are more of a solitude thing to enjoy by yourself, but movies are great to share with people.
Aries- What is something you enjoy doing?
Telling myself I’m going to get back into drawing, and then not. c:Alternatively, coming up with tabletop rpg plots and never using them.
Auriga- If you had to pick one villain from any media, who would you rather have to face and why?
The Nightmare Knight from Cucumber’s Quest, because spoiler reasons. 
Bootes- If you could have any animal, wild or not, fake or not, which would you want?
G R I Z Z L Y   B E A R .Or maybe a feathered serpent like Quetzalcoatl.
Cancer- How do you want to be remembered? 
Someone who, despite his extraordinarily sharp wit, was kind and cozy.
Canis Major- How many friends do you have? 
Lots man. 
Capricornus- What’s a song lyric that you relate to? 
Honestly I’m having a hard time with this one. I guess from Hey Rosetta! we’ve got two:From their song Kintsukuroi:Oh see inside of me lay the heels of your hands upon me and let your fingers fall bless these broken bonesmake it whole, make it better than it was before make it better than it was before! 
and their song Dream:couldn’t we make, couldn’t we make, couldn’t we make itjust like we wanted, just like we need itwhy can’t we, just like a dream?
who says we can’t. who says we can’t, who says we shouldn’twho says we couldn’t, make it just like we love itwhy can’t we, just like a dream?
Cassiopeia- What’s your favorite quote? 
I guess, “The blood of the covenant of friendship is thicker than the water shared by the womb” ‘cause that’s the first one that came to mind.
Cygnus- If you could go back to any time period for a couple days, when/where would you want to go?
I think to November a couple years back, or to some time last winter. There’s some stuff I could at least try to fix.
Gemini- Do you have any siblings? How many?
Just one older brother.
Leo- If you could change the way any movie was made, which movie would you change?
Honestly probably Kubo & the Two Strings because it had so much potential but the second half of the film seems so…………………. so boring compared to what they could have done with it.
Libra- If you could talk to your past self, what would you tell yourself?
Bitch stay in Alaska and do an internship.
Lyra- Would you rather be feared or loved?
Feared by strangers, loved by friends & family.
Orion- What’s your favorite type of weather?
Brightly sunny with some scattered clouds, but none-the-less it’s cold & crisp. Or it’s night time with moderate rain and wet streets.
Pegasus- What’s your favorite music genre? 
Fuck man there can’t be just one. Jazz, Classical, pseudo….electronic-ish stuff???, soundtracks, etc.
Perseus- What’s your favorite movie genre?
Action/Adventure or Comedy.
Pisces- Describe someone you love without saying their name.
She’s Saint Francis incarnate, and not just for the animals. Even when people hurt her she will always take the higher path, and I know she has a better moral compass than I do. She’s wise and snarky and loves working the earth with her own hands (Hint: it’s an aunt of mine).
Sagittarius- What do you do when you don’t feel well? What do you eat/drink?
If you’re talking about a cold or something what I tend to do is fill a kettle to the brim and heat up a ton of water, then basically chug tea all day. Specifically chamomile or maybe a lemon tea, but both with some honey. That tends to help me recuperate faster.
Scorpius- If you had to pick someone to betray you, who would you pick?
Probs my friend Owen, ‘cause he’d be the easiest to ignore. 😂
Taurus- What makes you feel comfortable?
Eating food with friends, telling stories and jokes, good music on drives long & short, telling truths and sharing feelings, going to sleep exhausted because I actually did stuff during the day.
Ursa Major- If you had to pick any job to have, what job would you want? 
Savior of all Ursus-kind. Or like raising abandoned bear cubs which would be super sad but also super heartwarming.
Virgo- What do you value the most- artistic ability/creativity, musical ability, athletic ability, intellect, or work ethic?
I think I respect work ethic the most - you may not be the most capable, but you’re being honest & earnest, and like a teacher of mine said in the past, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
Neutron- Are you more of a leader or a follower?
Honestly I’m happy to be a follower unless there’s no leader or the leader is incompetent.
Supernova- How do you feel about yourself?
Kind of unhappy, for the reasons mentioned in Comet. Kind of annoyed at how it feels like I’m procrastinating on starting my own life, whether that’s intentional or not. 
Supergiant- What’s something you like about yourself? 
People have told me they feel comfortable talking to me about issues and stuff and I really, really like that I can be that kind of person for my friends.
Red Giant- Would you get into a debate/argument with someone if you heard them saying something you disagree with or know to be wrong, or would you stay silent?
It depends. If they’re just talking with their own group and I’m not going to be stuck near them for hours, then I can just put headphones in, but if they’re making someone uncomfortable or something, I’d step in. I’d also step in if it was an honest mistake.
Red Dwarf- What’s your favorite smell? What smell makes you feel most comfortable? 
Pine trees I think. I loooooooooooooooove the smell of pine.
Protostar- Give a random fact about yourself.  
I finally beat Dragon’s Dogma the other day and I was scared I was going to be disappointed because I already kind of knew about the existential take it…. takes, but it was a blast and wonderful and amazing and I think everyone who likes rpg’s should play this game and Grigori is a huge…. sweetheart, of sorts.
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