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palatinewolfsblog · 1 year

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"The most violent element in society is ignorance." Emma Goldman.

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crispycreambacon · 10 months

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I'll forever be upset about how Elemental (2023 Pixar movie) flopped so hard, and it's not even its fault.

Let's be real, going against Across the Spiderverse would be a deathblow for any animated movie, but the marketing team REALLY didn't help matters. Not only did the trailers barely show up (to the point my friends DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT EXISTED), the trailers also did such a poor job representing its actual story.

A lot of people were turned off by the "unoriginal premise" as well as the "forbidden romance", and I can't even blame them but no!!! The story is so much more than just "ooo they can't fall in love because they're (gasp) FIRE AND WATER?!?!?!?" and "what if (insert concept) has emotions but elements this time"!!!!!

At the heart of it all is a personal immigrant story. A story about two fire people moving to another place in order to start a new and hopefully better life (aka literally immigrants). A story about their daughter who feels in debt to them for making the sacrificd to leave their home. A story about her feeling like she'll have to sacrifice her whole life and her dreams in order to repay them and make them happy.

Not to mention how Asian-coded it is!!! The director, Peter Sohn, is clearly writing from his perspective as a Korean-American immigrant, and as an Asian immigrant, I resonated so unbelievably hard with Ember's story. It really felt like the movie held up a mirror in front of me. I've never felt this seen in a movie before this one.

And it feels so good!!! I'm so sad that a lot of people will be missing it out because the marketing team did such a terrible job at their literal jobs. If more people gave it a chance, they'll likely find a story that truly made them feel heard.

Also the romance is really cute. Like I don't typically seek out romance stories, but damn that was good food, that was good fluff. I think it's also a great allegory for interracial couples, but I'm not in an interracial relationship, so I won't overstep too much!

Long story short, if you're unsure on whether you really want to see this movie or not, hear it from me who saw it twice:

Go Watch Elemental!!! You will not regret it!!!

#THIS MOVIE WAS MADE FOR ME AND OTHER ASIAN IMMIGRANTS FOR REAL FOR REAL!!!!#also obviously it's not perfect #I understand the concerns with how fire is dangerous so the allegory may be flimsy #but they addressed it in the film!!!#also honestly there's also a good disability angle to look at here?#especially with how fire people are trying to live in a world that refuses to accomodate them #and would rather discriminate them #or shun them from society to the point they have to make their own community #but I'm not disabled so again #i won't overstep!!#elemental #pixar elemental #elemental 2023 #pixar #review #rant #opinion #commentary #chris p fried rambles

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johnbly · 1 year

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Mr. Sparrow. You will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with a bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase “silent as the grave.” Do I make myself clear?

#james norrington #jack davenport #potcedit #potc #pirates of the caribbean #*potc #my gifs #look i just think a lot of society is sleeping on how [eyes emoji] commodore norrington is #and i'm still sad we didn't get to see more of him in his element #i love his purpose walk TM when he's talking to groves and he does it in the 'prologue' too

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jacarandaaaas · 5 months

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something I’ve never talked about before is how much I appreciate encanto giving not only the older madrigals forehead wrinkles! because everyone’s face wrinkles when you emote no matter your age and it’s really nice to see them show that on the younger madrigals ! like normalize facial wrinkles when you emote! (especially for women) we are not made of porcelain‼️

#encanto #encanto disney #disneys encanto #mirabel madrigal #isabela madrigal #dolores madrigal #luisa madrigal #it’s such a minor thing but i love it #like it peeves me so bad when faces just don’t have emotion or move at all #also love the unhinged expressions the madrigals are so real #I just think it adds a certain element of charm like #they feel more real?#also normalizing wrinkles in general like why are we as a society so afraid?#also look how pretty they all are when they emote #yes to expressions yes to stress lines and wrinkles yes to CHARACTER

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cayennecrush · 5 months

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some new characters (in their most humanoid forms) for Jackie & Evangeline's world 🙌

#my ocs #the only one who has a name so far is the middle one Brynn #the other two... we'll see #they hang out at stella's cafe also #or at least they start to as the story progresses #i think jackie being a vampire that frequents the cafe makes other non-witch/non-humans feel more at ease #witch society as a whole has a strained relationship with elemental and undead beings #stella is a water witch but shes VERY separated from witch society.. but non-witches cant necessarily tell #eva has a whooooooole different thing going on but thats for another time #ahh im having SO much fun with this little magical world of mine #i need a name for this world/story so i can tag everyone together lol

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enbysiriusblack · 2 months

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i cannot for the life of me remember who made that post with the headcanon about the black family losing a lot of their wealth.

but i've been thinking about it a lot. and in england from early to mid 1900s, the aristocracy changed fundamentally as a class, they lost a lot of their previous held power as well as a lot of their money. and because of this, they either had to get a job (the aristocracy is the leisure class. they don't work), which means leaving behind the traditions of your class and your family in order to modernise and keep your money/power, or they could sell off their large estates/lands/artworks in order to keep tradition of the aristocracy as much as they could, but it meant losing a lot of money/power.

there's this quote describing this change in the aristocracy actually- "less power, more prestige". in staying with the traditions of old money, they lose the power they had in government/economy/whatever, but gain lots of admiration and respect from society- like they still have honour and integrity despite losing their money and power, which then becomes their primary tool in still being seen as an influential family.

and with the black family being known as "the noble and most ancient house of black", that definitely could show they chose that pathway. they're clinging onto their lineage of nobility in a time when the aristocracy as a class and the idea of high society is very much falling apart. and unlike quite a lot of these families, they don't modernise but instead keep their heads high and very much make it known that they are nobility and an ancient family, and have no intentions of disrupting this and losing the meaning of what being an aristocrat and a noble used to mean.

#also their motto being “always pure”. like i know its about purebloods and shit #but i do think there's an element of clinging onto traditions #in early 1900s was the rise of celebrities (actors/musicians/writers) surpassing a lot of religious or noble figures in pop culture #and then aristocracts then began to marry these sort of new money celebrities (although not all of them new money #i just mean not following traditions of high society and upper class #and the always pure motto could be very much a clear statement of outrage at this. of class becoming less about lineage #and more about who's the got the bigger wallets and the better parties #sorry i'm doing a module in uni rn about the monarchy and the british classes in early to mid 1900s soo #marauders era #marauders #the black family #the noble and most ancient house of black

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williswareinc · 2 months

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🎥 my crudely drawn 15 favorite films of 2023 🍿

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divinekangaroo · 1 month

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Was contemplating the whole ‘Tommy has no friends except Alfie’ thing/thought (it’s my own internal running joke too) but it can't really be true?

Tommy appears to have this huge social network, groups of people he’s still in touch with from the war, including internationally, and including in the officer class; these supposed very reliable contacts in Ireland which I can only assume ties back to the family connections to Ireland and maybe some visit across in his past; the huge respect (and edge of fear) network in Small Heath extending broader into Birmingham; seemingly a very *useful* social-climbing networking he's developed to be able to get the mayor and various politicians to the Grace Shelby charity opening in S3, a society networking which he maintains and builds upon all the way through to Tommy being able to invite actual upper crust society to a ballet at his house (and people attend!)

I mean, there's a level of reserve (rank/war respect) or transactional basis (professional tit for tat society networks), but he also had more friend style connections with say Barney, Freddie (even if it’s soured by the time we see it) and Danny (again, changed by Danny’s own PTSD into that Sergeant-Major thing, but lots of hints it wasn't always like that).

I’ve imagined Tommy puts a significant effort into his social (and society) networking as he does into his business - staying in touch, staying useful, even to the point of using Arthur (or let's imagine his secretaries, his ministerial aides, Polly; picking the right 'hand' who can maintain that relationship for him) to ensure letters and communications keep happening so people remain aware of him, and he stays alive in people’s minds at any possible level of class. He'd have to be maintaining that network like a garden.

The party for Lizzie also didn’t seem like a first time thing for them so I also imagine he hosts quite a lot of social affairs to remain current and connected, which becomes vitally imperative in a different way as a politician compared to a businessman.

But I think that default inner joke, Tommy has no friends and is isolated, is sometimes the claustrophobia of the actual seasons/scenes we see, which are so zoomed into him, into the family, into the worst, that I sometimes double think myself. Just...there’s no way he’s as successful as he is without pouring buckets of effort into society. Admittedly, maybe hardly any of these networking connections are deep connections in the odd way Alfie became one, or Ben Younger could have been one, but Tommy would be talking and meeting and greeting and hosting and writing letters allllllll the time

#mr professional social butterfly; very possible that he still has no friends except alfie #but he'd have to be in society as a social well-connected man to hold his position the way he does #as a bookie or a gangster or a businessman or a politician or a patron of the arts or any of the various fields relying on networks #the next question is how naturally it comes to him or does he try to break it down into a formula and grit his teeth through it #i like to imagine he'd be quite social and entertaining if not constantly in a borderline panic attack due to Circumstances #i have writ elements of this in my fics and there is a theme here for me with Mosley mocking Tommy's social efforts as gauche/blatant #but yeah anyway i always run headlong into this wall of how close/claustrophobic his life/manner is shown when he'd HAVE to have personal-#-connections everywhere to work the way he does and would have an invite to some function or another every third day

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lotus-pear · 6 months

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hear me out for genshin x bsd-

atsushi would be a cryo claymore that scales off atk (since the tiger is shown as extremely powerful and can even cut through space) and optimizes physical dmg

dazai would be a geo sword support that increases elemental res, acting as a debuffer (as no longer human works in the bsd universe) he would also scale off em

kunikida would also be geo but catalyst that deals physical aoe dmg.. he'd be an in-slot dps but not an optimal one imao his talents are much better suited to make him a battery unit

akutagawa would be pyro polearm?? or sword?? and he's obviously a heavy dps that scales off crit rate/dmg and tenma tengai could be similar to cyno's burst when, once activated, increases def while simultaneously raising rashomon's atk

chuuya would be an anemo catalyst dps similar to wanderer bc of his gravity manipulation and he would have a melee stance where he atks from the ground and an elevated state where he uses gravity manipulation to be able to atk off-ground. his ult would be corruption obviously and would parallel xiao's where his atk and crit rate/dmg are sharply increased but he undergoes continuous dmg until the duration of his burst ends (in this state he is vulnerable as his def is lowered and he isn't able to accumulate energy meaning he needs a team built around him, preferably with a healer and a shielder)

how does it feel to be the sexiest person on this site w absolutely the most correct and banger takes anon??.. why are u correct on literally everything

#DAZAI BEING GEO IS A SMART MOVE I LIKE THAT. i would've seen him as cryo (bc nlh is blue and also bc cryo is the element of contradiction)#(much like how dazai lashes out against his inherently selfish nature to help atsushi)#(and how he does not see himself as human and feels alienated from human society bc of it yet he is written to be the most relatable-#-character in the show?? or at least i think so)#BUT GEO MAKES SENSE.. GEO REPRESENTS DETERMINATION AND PERSEVERANCE #GEO VISION HOLDERS HAVE MINDS OF STONE AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS #WHILE THIS CAN BE SEEN AS A NOBLE AND DILIGENT TRAIT.. DAZAIS MORALLY GRAY CHARACTERIZATION PUTS A WHOLE NEW TWIST ON WHAT THIS ENTAILS #HE IS MACHIAVELLIAN INTRINSICALLY. ITS WHO HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN. HE BELIEVES THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS #AND WHETHER HE ACHIEVES THAT THROUGH MANIPULATION OR THROWING AWAY HIS OWN HUMANITY.. HE WILL DO IT IF IT SEES HIS PLAN THROUGH #also kunikida would be dendro imao bc of his adherence and passion for his ideals #which parallels dendro users highly valuing and pursuing knowledge above all #anyway sry for rambling in the tags again those are just my thoughts feel free to disagree <33 #lotus’s asks

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castielcommunism · 2 years

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an infuriating and funny thing about spn is that it pretends to be about something different than what it’s actually about. like I get the impression the writers and cast think the show is about protecting your family and cool guys overcoming adversity, which is true in the same way calling soup a hot cereal is true. technically correct but nothing of value comes from assigning it that label

#spn.txt #libertariannatural #like the vile political elements are intentional to be clear. but they often feel reflexively intentional #as in intentional in the way that those things are embedded in society and reproduced uncritically by the people who benefit from them #and then people see that and are like look spn is a show about protecting your family and cooks guys overcoming adversity!#nothing else to see here!

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ufonaut · 15 days

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My dad is coming, pal. And when he gets here he's going to knock your block off. You might as well give up now.

Jay Garrick: The Flash (2023) #6

(Jeremy Adams, Diego Olortegui)

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stormsofasorceress · 5 months

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tara despising/tolerating drusilla for like 2 entire years before she finally accepts dru's invite for tea. then tara delightfully sharing gale's embarrassing yet adorable childhood anecdotes and then they actually bond.

and gale just watching this development like.

ah yes. me. my wife. and my tressym who are continuously conspiring behind my back. (affectionate)

... to the point whenever gale comes home from uni and enters their house, upon seeing tara and dru having tea again talking their shit, he's just like

' im home my love!'

'.... oh, i left something at the office my love!'

gale when his mom starts joining the weekly tea rotation:

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #my boy BOLTING #it would just be like. shit talking waterdeep's high arcane society #gale x drusilla #gale x oc #gale x tav #headcanons #oc: drusilla #im sorry im wheezing at the mental image #drusilla may have left the spy sorceress life behind of charlatan behaviors #but you damn well know she loves drama when it doesnt revolve around her LMAOOOO #bg3 spoilers #idk not really a spoiler because its a headcanon? but since its elements r kinda the same #bg3 ending spoilers #opt: arcane complexities and sacred anomalies

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bookwyrminspiration · 1 month

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question: wtf is Let The Sky Fall about even

It is about. wind. you see there are these guys, and they're windy. four different kinds of guys for four different kinds of wind. and our mc, Vane, is the last of the fourth kind of wind guy. only he doesn't know it because he's at home lovin' burritos.

but my god he finds out because a hot wind girl is stalking him (they make out). and through the power of loving hot girls and...wind turbines? he Winds. and he is The One who can command all the kinds of wind now.

but Big Bad Wind want his wind secrets. and he gets swept up by the other wind guys, who make him king and want to marry him off. but our airhead doesn't like that--but he's putting up with it for sexy hot wind girl, even though she's not there. and now he's, as The Wind Guy, gotta take down Big Bad Wind

come back next time for perfectly explained plots with quil!

#let the sky fall #quil's queries #dizzeners #i gotta confess it's been a few years since i read them #but basically it's about a secret society of air elementals #and the mc is the last westerly elemental #which means the ability to wield all four lies solely on his shoulders #because you can learn the others #but you have to know how first? you have to be taught the others #you can only instinctively know your type #and he's the last westerly type. so only he can recover that knowledge and spread it. is why he's important basically #and there's an evil air guy he's gotta fight #hope that helps!

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cocoabubbelle · 1 year

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“UGH THE PLOT OF ELEMENTAL IS LITERALLY AN ASIAN GIRL DATING A WHITE GUY—!”

The “white” guy:

Are you sure about that?

#is it though?#is it really?#let’s pretend we didn’t see him and the rest of his family with varying textures of kinky textured curls #or that his mom is wearing an african styled caftan dress #are you telling me that a black male love interest can’t be a sweet awkward dork who lives with his family in an upper class dwelling #can’t handle hot-spicy food #and be the one to introduce a semi sheltered girl ‘a whole new world?’#and maybe it turns out he’s biracial or something but so what?#so what?#are we not past the point in society yet where we put people of all racial and ethnic types in boxes?#i am well aware #i am in the minority #but #this movie looks fun and cute #pixar animation studios #pixar elemental #mamoudou athie #leah lewis #shenanigans

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artdecoandmodernist · 9 months

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George Barbier, L'Eau (Water) for Falbalas & Fanfreluches Almanach des Modes Prsentes Passes et Futures. 1924.

Hand-coloured, plate-signed pochoir from Falbalas & Fanfreluches: "Water", part of the "Four Elements" quatrain from Barbier's 1924 Almanac. "How far we have come" could be an apt subtitle with the revealing new bathing suits (or lack thereof), not to mention the streamlined turban, shown here midway in its evolution from Poiret's elaborate 1910-12 confection to the iconic flapper headband. The background reflection, so very stylized Art Nouveau in line, is a subtle reminder of the vast societal changes which transformed into the new permissive era over the span of a mere 20 years or so (reaching back to when the turn-of-the-century bathing costume was of serviceable and stout wool jersey, right down to the full-stockinged knees). This famous illustrated almanac series was produced from 1922 to 1926 only and depicted high-society life in Paris - the fashion, social and artistic capital of the early inter-war years. Each issue contained a small diary and notation section, an introduction by one of the leading social/cultural doyens of the day, a decorative cover and twelve fashion plates (one for each month of the year). (x)

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fellhellion · 19 days

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apologies for yosukeposting and especially incoherently but slowboiling in my brain whatever the hell was going on w him in kanji’s dungeon. guy who slingshots between some kinda fraught observation that this is so much worse for kanji because it’s happening in front of an audience (over like. freaking out about it), furiously asserting that he’s heterosexual, insinuating danger but then also being the one who volunteers to take kanji home afterwards.

It’s sooooooooooooooo.

#I’m naurt.#conveying it well.#but there’s some kinda something about which elements prickle his unease #exposure to the wider community #the topic of sexuality that falls outside of what is normative being introduced AT ALL #but he’s. not scared of kanji. he never has been tbh #I don’t think he would volunteered to take him home and essentially make sure he got there safely if he was #imo it’s more that like. kanji doesn’t reject the shadow’s assertions where yosuke would #and there isn’t a world in his sixteen (?) year old brain where you SHOULDNT do that lmao #if you’re a guy you like girls and you don’t get hugged when you’re sobbing your heart out etc etc #a guy’s a guy and when that doesn’t mean what he thinks it has to mean anymore that’s deeply uncomfortable for him to unpack #it brings to the forefront his own doubts and insecurities #and kanji accepts that in himself where Yosuke can’t I don’t think #doesn’t question a lot of time and builds his identity around it #but he can’t erase the questions people like kanji and naoto raise because like. it’s intimately relevant to HIM lmao #and it’s how he understands a core part of himself #even if that’s built on sand #congrats! you’ve discovered the patriarchal and heteronormative hegemony!#tunes talks persona #I think it goes largely unspoken and deliberately avoided with him but what kanji wrestles w in regards to conciling his sense of identity #to wider society is like. that’s him too lmao

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