#emphasize on in comparison

[queenofglassbeliever]

Isabella Swan wants you to know that she is the cautious and responsible one in comparison to Renée who is so scatterbrained she forgot her own paralyzing fear of heights until she was strapped to a skydiving instructor about to jump out of a plane.

#emphasize on in comparison #context is important #bella isn't saying she's a responsible person #she's saying that between her and renee she is the responsible one #bella swan defense team #team bella #bella swan #isabella marie swan #renee dwyer #twilight saga eclipse

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

First and Last appearances of Poorly-Drawn-MDZS Season 1!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #not tagging them all here cause these are just comic excerpts #left out a quite a few characters cause they either didn't show up enough OR their first/last is a poor representation #the 'omg its Hanguang Jun' call back was intentional B*) #Surprised that no one pointed it out but now *I* can! Bursting into the scene fabulously is how LWJ starts and ends season 1! #Jin Ling has the least dramatic glow up (honestly I have been finding him harder and harder to draw) but he *does* have a moral glow up #I think *this* comparison is the one I feel best emphasizes my journey on this blog. #thank you to everyone who started following and cheering me on. Especially those who've been here since the very start #That said - no matter when you found this blog; It means a lot to me B*) #that's it for the reflective meta posting: season 2 starts back in July. I've gonna take this week to catch up on asks!

[iwtvdramacd18]

I said it over on twitter but it bears repeating over here.

Louis is light-skinned, him being black doesn't mean he automatically has the darkest skin tone in the room, and it's noticeable and odd when you choose to draw him darker than Armand. I understand the want to make sure you aren't whitewashing but we've gone too far in the other direction and it's still not great. You do need to still put in the effort to not just slapping any skin tone on a person. This happens with Claudia a ton too, especially with season 1 Claudia.

Black people are not a monolith. We aren't a vague collection of swappable features to pick and choose at random, and its starting to feel like artists don't care to actually draw how black characters look as long as they are recognizable as a generalized black person. Making non-black characters notably lighter and smaller in stature compared to a black character has roots in a bunch of racist shit, and it feels especially egregious in Louis' case. Ofc as an artist you're going to emphasize and stylize one way or another, but you also need to recognize that you aren't creating in a vacuum, and how you depict people is reflective of how many of us are seen.

#drama txt #also like lightening Armand's skin tone to emphasize the manufactured difference in skin tone is a form of whitewashing in itself btw #the dubai lighting isn't really the best for comparison but we do have the hand-holding in the finale's climax #and its clear there that Armand has a darker complexion. #and even if we didn't have that Louis does not look darker than Armand in any of those scenes #ask yourself why you choose to darken Louis' and Claudia's skin tones like just kinda sit with that for a bit #and also remember that colorism does exist and if Louis and Claudia were darker in canon they'd also be treated differently in universe #bc its not just some fun swappable trait actually. this affects people

[spenglernot]

STORIES TELLING: HOW RECURRING MUSIC IN OFMD CAUSES MENTAL DEVASTATION IN THE VERY BEST WAY

How the Blackbeard theme, Gnossienne No. 5, and Voi Che Sapepte reveal, reinforce and recontextualize the narrative. An in-depth analysis of key scenes throughout seasons 1 and 2.

Much gratitude to pocket friends who were so encouraging and provided valuable feedback while I worked on this.

Meta by these authors (links, below the cut) influenced this video:

@asneakyfox, @asongaboutpirates, @bakasara, @doyoueverstopandthink, @chaotic-neutral-knitter, @forpiratereasons @fresne999 @gaypiratepropaganda, @jaskierx, @medievill, @mxmollusca, @piratecaptainscaptainpirates @veeagainsttheday, @57flagsofdeath

Gnossienne No. 5 doyoueverstopandthink - i will literally never get over about how fantastic the transition from robert schumann's "träumerei" to erik satie's "gnossiennes: no. 5" is

Voi Che Sapete asongaboutpirates - Another little detail about OFMD that makes me go feral

Transformation in OFMD fresne999 - Half way through the journey of our analyses mxmollusca - The transformation from object to subject, from something that has things done to it versus someone with agency.

Ed's & Izzy's Relationship asneakyfox - you have to understand i have always felt the key thing that makes blackhands interesting...

chaotic-neutral-knitter - Izzy telling Stede "I know you think you understand him," and Stede immediately describing Ed's emotional state perfectly accurately... gaypiratepropaganda - On Izzy saying "because of your feelings for Stede fucking Bonnet"

Ed's Arc veeagainsttheday - Ed, Killing, and the Kraken in Our Flag Means Death S1 and S2

piratecaptainscaptainpirates - I've been thinking about how Ed starts directly killing people in s2e8 57flagsofdeath - Still thinking about this scene. Ed lights the fire place, puts a blanket on the floor to lay on, and puts the two cake toppers next to each other before rolling over and bursting into tears. asneakyfox - i've talked a fair bit about how i don't think "anger issues" is a very useful way to describe how the show frames ed's relationship with violence

Izzy's Arc bakasara - Trying to parse my thoughts on Izzy's death and why I had a different reaction to it than I thought I would. forpiratereasons - all right. i'm ready to talk about izzy.

Love & Relationships in OFMD jaskierx - posting some thoughts from the discord about how many 'irl relationship' things they're dealing with in ep7 and how much i am eating my mattress about it medievill - ofmd does not give a fuck about reality or history or anachronism but it draws the line at magic dick.

#The effectiveness and attention to detail of the OFMD sound crew's use of recurring music to emphasize the narrative is incredible #If you love the music in OFMD you'll probably enjoy this #OFMD is an absolute treasure #gnossienne no. 5 #blackbeard theme #voi che sapete #kraken theme #ofmd music #Mark Mothersbaugh #maggie phillips #OFMD sound crew #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s1 #ofmd s2 #ofmd s1 s2 music comparison

[wonder-worker]

something I find especially entertaining about Edward IV's reign is how Scandalous™ it was lol

he married a woman “whose origins broke all established conventions for English queenship” in a secret ceremony without consulting any of his lords and then made it everyone else's problem. he committed regicide, he committed fratricide; he was accused of bastardry, he was accused of bigamy and a 19-year-long sham marriage, he was accused of using necromancy against his subjects, he was accused of being enchanted by witchcraft by both his wife and his mother-in-law (multiple times). his own mother was said to "rule the king as she pleased" in the early years of his reign. he knew he was hot and actively milked it for money. he was vain as fuck: “he was wont to show himself to those who wished to watch him, and he seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature to onlookers”. he knew everything about everyone. "he was more favourable than other princes to foreigners". he was “fond of boon companionship, vanities, debauchery, extravagance and sensual enjoyments”; he was "thought to have indulged in his passions and desires too intemperately”; "it was ever feared he was not chaste”. his subjects publicly gossiped about his sex life, his doctors thought he was insane. NOBODY understood how he was still competent despite all this.

honestly, who was doing it like him?

#(the quote is by J.L. Laynesmith) #Edward IV #my post #the original post was written as a drunken shitpost but it's still 100% true #henry viii could NEVER. Even Humphrey of Gloucester pales in comparison I'm sorry to say #(EW was also accused of controlling both Edward and the country but I don't want to get into the propaganda against her right now - however #true or false it may have been in reality - so I didn't include it. HOWEVER it's absolutely true that Edward gave her a great deal of #unconventional authority by appointing her in royal councils for the heir and spare in her own right during her tenure as queen. So there #was an existing basis for the accusations against her even though they were obviously ultimately extremely unfair and prejudiced #and meant to denigrate her) #Elizabeth Woodville #Cecily Neville #english history #its kinda funny how historians often emphasize his womanizing (which very obviously happened tho it's difficult to say to what extent) when #talking about his over-the-top lifestyle. But as we can see: Croyland - who was best-placed to know - emphasizes a wider variety of things #that worried/scandalized his contemporaries. Edward sleeping around was just one of many (and the last on Croyland's list) #I don't necessarily think it should be highlighted as much as it is #(also funnily enough 'sensual enjoyments' was also used to describe *Richard III* on his northern progress during his reign lol)

[devouringbodies]

this was so will graham of him

#iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #it's important to emphasize where Louis' rage and frustration comes from. the treatment he and others of his race are going though. #but as soon as I saw the displayed multilated corpse I was like oh hello will lol and the comparison immediately jumped to mind #will graham #hannibal #loustat #hannigram

[yuridovewing]

this isnt a jab at op of the last post ftr its more of a sentiment i keep seeing, and its not a huge deal, but im confused as to why we’re comparing squirrelflight and leafpool’s trauma at all and trying to downplay the other’s? ive seen some people literally claim that you can hardly complain about squilf’s treatment cause she’s leader now “and leafpool NEVER got anything like that” and im just. what do yall get out of this exactly?

#like i dont think its bad but why are people duking it out over who has it worse and like. what does this benefit exactly? #yes i do believe that leafpool went through worse narratively but squilf is constantly the victim of abuse apologia #and her supposed ‘’win’’ in the latest book is literally being treated as a bad thing bc oughh shes STUPID #oughhh she doesnt know her territory cause shes a stupid female arent you sooooo sad bramble is stepping down??? uwu??? #like. both of them are treated like shit? i think we can have that conversation without downplaying what the other goes through #im saying this about both sides i must emphasize. squilfs abuse doesnt make leaf’s better by comparison

[rxttenfish]

tbh tho this is EXACTLY what merfolk relationships look like

and they just keep track of this. in their heads. all the time.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #they dont have gendered pronouns but they do have tone modifiers for every other fucking word depending on their relationship to the other #and their mood. and if theyre referring to multiple people at once or just one person. and often layered on top of each other too. #merfolk have poor vision but they DO inherently think of things in a more ''three dimensional'' way than we do #considering they live underwater and youre operating with another axis just to move around anywhere #which then gets applied to the rest of their everything #ESPECIALLY language because theyre nerds who went hard into the sound focus #their visual art in comparison has simpler elements than ours (but a lot more focus on light/movement) #this is why merfolk have some very unique spellcrafts and theyre notorious for complicated and detailed spellwork #like yes a part of it is the fact that theyre older than the other species and have had more time to work on it #but also they can just DO really unique things compared to other cultures because they emphasize layered detail in this way #this is also why - from the outside - so much of miranda's job looks like parties and balls and attending to the courts #because again. its all about the emphasis on who has what relationship with who and how to operate within that. #legal agreements are multilayered and come with terms and conditions a mile long and you need to have a very careful hand on the pulse #of all of this #even moreso because royal families go even harder with treating the lineage as the individual and the merfolk #as just limbs and organs of this equation #this is why it was so important that miranda be good at manipulation and speaking and just *charismatic* #literally making people do what she wants or needs them to do is just what makes the merkingdom GO and operate #and why she (and the other royals) occupy a space a little like a public performer does as well #and why royals showing personal favor and having close personal relationships is frowned upon as #mixing pleasure and business #since those relationships ARE their business and so much of the underlying politics #if youre showing undue favor to someone because you personally just like them then you aren't judging them based off of actual talent #merfolk complicated! merkingdom complicated! #(the merkingdom is also SUPER fucked up but thats tangential from this tangent)

[kerorowhump]

#keroro #i will leave the audience to draw their own musings from this #also consider whenever he talks to his superiors he is likewise framed top to bottom to emphasize - #that hes below #aha bow down to authority #what do all of these pictures have in commow.... why! they are all above him :) #''but dororo'' he literally admits he feels he has a dept he's been saving up for towards him all his life #he says it's with money bc carillon but you can easily extend that to their whole relationship. to me. bc that's what it is #oouuughuhh im sooo inferior everyone else around me is so much better please forgive me #he does a lot of begging for forgiveness from someone that supposedly DOESNT have crippling amounts of guilt! ok ok i hear what ur gonna sa #but lex kerorowhump hes not begging tamama in that one picture. u are correct. #he is still pictured as inferior visually and bowing now that tama is the leader and he feels insignificant. i think it counts #in the... grand scheme.... of things... #wow mine yoshizaki very convenient youd have dororo tied to an extremely tall pole for keroro to bow down and look even more inferior to #by comparison #ok i will shut now #musing #headcanon

[highevar]

thinking about how elethea has always been so Tightly Wound, even when she was a child. she never got to be a wild little girl, she was too aware of the expectations and eyes that were on her. she's always behaved so composed and stoic.

#out. #i feel like i'm very critical of bryce and eleanor when i DO think they were very good parents #especially in comparison to the other nobility #but bryce always highlighted duty and its importance and eleanor did always emphasize the importance of appearance #not to mention the damage both nan and aldous did #with aldous being hyper-critical of her failings to the point where she will vehemently deny it whenever shes wrong

[daydreamerdrew]

Adventures of Superman (1987) #500

#I didn’t ever read Byrne’s book about Krypton #but I did read his ‘Man of Steel’ Post-Crisis Superman origin story #and I remember being surprised by what came across to me as Clark being indifferent about Kryptonian culture #particularly in comparison to Waid’s ‘Superman: Birthright’ origin story that emphasized it #which was an approach I found more interesting #I like how Kryptonian culture is being used here #‘For once I’m begging you not to think like an Earthling!’ #dc #clark kent #jonathan kent #my posts #comic panels

[anewp0tat0]

maybe it's because of the worse image quality, or maybe it's cause Ciel is drawn to be much more ÙwÚ baby nowadays in comparison. but I swear, other than older, he used to look scarier

#it's the disconnect and apathy for me #or maybe it's the facial expression. has he pulled that 'tortures ants under a magnifying glass' look recently? #maybe his face is just too grainy and that makes me uncomfortable #and I probably havent found a good comparison photo. anyone got one? #anyway i think his style change is obviously for the better and i love my ÙwÚ. ill just never find it a little weird that that's like #a different child #it's also the thing that i said a WHILE ago- that i think yana was trying to make him out to be more demonic #like almost as much if not more in comparison to Sebastian. emphasize his curruption and all that #but I think yana changed her tracks when she realized where the story is going. and I support that. #kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuro spoilers #ciel phantomhive #tag rant #he's still menacing nowadays but unless i go ';;^;; oh no' I go 'awww look so scary'

[pangolen]

something else fun in the dn musical is how light starts out with a more sympathetic frustration & a naive Noble Goal, focused at least outwardly on the victims of extreme crime, while in the manga he's like, "everyone sucks so bad. they should die."

they both go down the same path ofc but musical light is almost sadder. like he seemed to kinda give a shit in the beginning but using the tool he found to "fix things" exacerbated his worst qualities and also dulled his ability to see anyone else as a person

#pangorambles #manga light already barely if at all saw other people as people #even before he found the note #musical really emphasizes how much he's changed #this is not a new observation. but i'm typing it anyway #why am i here. why am i still here. #also i think there's probably something interesting to say about american!light #with how he has to be pushed into using the note #and then after that almost always uses it only when he's with the irl he likes #i think you could probably argue that american!light isn't really kira #mia is #tho i don't think we got a whole lot of insight on mia's reasoning for doing things #most of the killings happened in a montage of absurd deaths and makeout sessions #and i'm not really keen on rewatching again to do a better comparison #because like. unfortunately. the american dn movie really does suck.

[homospockual]

lolita, vladimir nabokov // the queen of the damned, anne rice

#web weaving #csa mention #vladimir nabokov #anne rice #vc #i am never not thinking about this and it's making me go insane #i read through the ‘coming together’ chapter in qotd thinking ‘why does this feel so familiar’ and once i realized i kinda wished i hadn’t #i have a lot of thoughts about overall similarities between vc and lolita as far as themes and execution #unreliable narrators / irreparable mistakes / beauty cheek to cheek with horror in terms of prose and each emphasizing the other #but this comparison in particular makes me want to slam my head into a wall #according to humbert dolores dies at seventeen and is forever a child in spirit #while armand is turned at seventeen and goes on for centuries trapped as a living memory of his injured adolescence #marius de romanus #armand de romanus

[meadowlarkx]

(May 15th)

(May 16th)

Decided to make my own post instead of making an obnoxious addition but i did think reading today's Dracula that it's really interesting this is like the second time Jonathan thinks about some hypothetical lovelorn, unthreatening woman/women from a past era having inhabited the same space he's in? I guess there's some kind of Angel in the House women=domesticity comfort about that to him, even though the house is like, haunted as fuck now, but it also almost comes off to me as though he's comparing as well as contrasting himself to them or feeling a sense of kinship, being stuck in the castle right now and in the same space going through (he imagines, like with the writing in May 15th) similar actions? there's a lot of gender going on I'm curious if anyone has any more thoughts about it

#dracula daily #dracula #my posts #book clubbing #bram stoker: he's emphasizing the contrast #me: but why does it not feel like a stark contrast is being drawn in the writing of it then #i think with the may 15th since it goes into the modernity quote there's also something to be said for women = ''backward'' along with the #sense of like altered time as a modern/colonial stereotype and so forth and so on ''backward'' Eastern Europe etc etc #but like it's just a weird comparison that stood out to make 2x

[shiroselia]

Now I know they've just been leaked and that we'll need to see those in game but eh

I think they might've topped both the 2021 and 2022 Halloween horses JESUS GODDAMN those magics are. Insane.

#sso spoilers #sso leaks #Like I can't emphasize enough #GOD DAMN #Getting the blue one for sure #The Grandest case of getting a magic for its magical coat those natural coats pale in comparison #Well tbh pale doesn't even begin