#left handed representation

[gum-iie]

final offer

#genshin impact #pantalone #that contract can't stop me because i can't read #i want to believe he has a hanfu on under all that fatui drip #left handed representation #we can be exploited too #hegemonic capitalist pantalone is my favorite headcanon #not all landlords #<< KIDDING #wip #quarantine doodles

[all-lee24]

Can u draw Arya!

Needle practice

#ASOIAF #arya stark #I REALIZED LAST MINUTE THAT NEEDLE IS IN THE WRONG HAND IM SO SORRY #I’ve betrayed my own left handed representation #I blame reference

[fruityroth]

Just something on why representation matters: even the smallest bit of seemingly the most miniscule part of someone's identity being shown will make someone out there happy. It can be the most minor thing in the world to you, but someone, somewhere, will be absolutely ecstatic to see a part of themselves in one of their favorite characters.

Example: I seriously love left-handed characters. As a lefty, this is super cool to me. Seeing someone who uses their left hand in media will always make me smile, and it makes me feel more connected to the characters. Some examples: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Sephiroth, and, of course, Link. Like, this is why I loved The Legend of Zelda so much as a kid. Link has historically been left-handed since the very first game. Seeing Link pick up the Master Sword in his left hand, being called the Left-Handed Hero, and generally just be awesome while also being a lefty, makes me giddy to this day. It's just such a positive representation of left-handedness, and that probably doesn't matter to *anyone* that didn't grow up as a southpaw, but it makes me happy.

That's also why it's a shame that he's no longer left-handed. Not only do I feel less connected to the character who was, for the longest time, my absolute favorite hero (a pot-smashing, grass-cutting role model, one could say), but it also feels like they cut out a core part of his identity with that small change.

I especially felt disconnected after reading about why they made the change. Apparently, according to an interview, they switched for wii motion controls, since people hold the wii remote in their right hand regardless of "hand preference" (those were the exact words used). I, uh...I don't! I have, and always will, hold a wiimote in my left hand. Learning that *this* was the reason for them cutting out such an enormous part of the identity of my childhood role model, the Paragon of what lefties could be, seriously pissed me off. And again, this probably doesn't matter in the least to anyone who isn't a lefty.

In short: diversity, inclusion, and representation don't have to be massive. It doesn't have to take up the core of a character's story arc. Even something as simple as the character's *dominant hand* can make people feel seen.

This is also why I don't like it when people say not to have representation for representation's sake. "Oh, it's just tokenism if you say that a character's gay and do nothing about it!" No. No, it's not. It increases diversity, it makes people feel closer to your characters and story, it gives positive representation of usually marginalized people (including lefties until recently, believe it or not!), and it adds an extra layer of depth to this collection of traits that you're passing off as a person.

Even if there's an argument to be made that a character is just the "token gay," or the "token PoC," or whatever, it also shows that people from those communities are capable of living normal lives in society, rather than conforming to whatever stereotypes apply to them. I would much rather a writer add an identity to a character and then not mention it much than they try to make a story arc around it that comes off as anything-phobic.

Again, in short: representation matters. Never say it doesn't.

#representation matters #the legend of zelda #link #left handed #lefties #lgbt representation #lgbtqia #rant post #writers #ruby rose #weiss schnee #sephiroth #rwby

[averlym]

"now, doesn't that look nice?" [insp]

#*chanting* skask skask skask skask- #vincent aurelius lin #adamandi #hello. let's talk about what's going on here! i've been tossing the idea about here wrt skin translucency ever since that post came out #(it's linked above fyi. but to quote it.) 'attempting to pursue this unachievable white ideal of the young academic; maybe leading to gory #representations of mimicry; replacement; taking on someone else's skin; altering the self' #this is primarily key in vincent and the skask; in the actual show iirc they used a jockey mask or smth? but i was thinking about the #delightful way skin is semi-transparent. and so a literal layer of skin alone would be unlikely to provide the whiteness pursued- #the under layer of the original tone would be there. so smth about the failure and unattainable. #additionally; at this point of the show the skin would have been likely yellowing or greying due to post-mortem development? so even more #Not white. from observations (as a kid;comparing skin tones?) white people have a pinker undertone (this might be. a generalisation but.) #here the lighting is yellowish to further push the difference + give the super harsh lighting that if you suspend disbelief has some hair #appear as blonde to further the ambrose-ness. #also the hair- messier on the non-ambrose side; a reference to the whole monologue about the haircuts they got #we bring to you also another episode of <i like drawing fabric folds> in the jacket symbolism! from bottom right to top left; it tracks #vincent throughout act two: the initial long jacket for standing out (nonchalance?) at ardess is removed; the yellow coat is put on- aided #here by ambrose's ghost which is represented by the hand! (it is very very slightly transparent- you can see the jacket pattern through it) #(if you look close) and then the satchel goes over it; this mimics the clothes in <oh ms reporter> #and then the Actual Ambrose jacket goes above along with the skask; following the outfit from the pyre scene at the end. #the spark/star thing is partially foreshadowing for the upcoming stabby eye trauma thing (@quincy) and partially just so i could highlight #the eye of the mask/ the place where vincent's eye probably is Behind the mask. because i liked the idea of merging faces; intersection. #back to the translucency of skin - you can kind of make out where the rest of his face is from the darker bit? aka it's not the same colour #as the skask. smth smth limited effectiveness... #tldr? face skin. jacket skin. altering appearance over time; unfeasibleness #when i was doing this i suddenly remembered covering my skin in talcum powder as a kid... hm. i'd forgotten about that. #anyways! when i posted my first ever adamandi thing i had the thought of 'this musical makes me want to paint' and surreally enough #that has proved to be so so true. and ngl i am really enjoying it? love it when the motivation to create is there haha #i will add as a disclaimer that i'm literally chinese and if the colours look off.. i did not mean to make a caricature. please be nice #that said because stage lighting tends to shift colours about a Lot i essentially used my own skin as a reference under yellow light? #so hopefully that checks out. <disappears>

[transjudas]

Our Flag Means Death +Physical Disability

Matthew Maher (who plays Black Pete) about his cleft palate and lip, including the scar and his speech impediment: “I always think of it as a challenge—an impediment/challenge to my acting career…If you have anything that sort of makes you aggressively different than everybody else, you have to sort of wrestle with it. I had speech therapy. Part of committing to being an actor was finding a good speech therapist to make me just a little bit more comprehensible. But even still, she didn’t eliminate the lisp and there’s still the scars. It’s been one of the biggest things that’s slowed me down, but it’s also been paradoxically the thing that distinguished me the most.”

#ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmdblog #ofmdaily #userkam #userkristi #our flag means death #ed teach #edward teach #black pete #lucius spriggs #spanish jackie #widow evelyn higgins #evelyn higgins #izzy hands #disability representation #decided to remake the original post of this i did cause i left out three whole ass characters and wanted to include them <3

[laniemae]

What’s up with this table scene in Deep Cover? (And another theory on colour symbolism and that final scene)

In this one scene where she’s eyeing the chess peices of Kazui, Amane and Mikoto is really confusing to me. This scene (and the one after) depicts only these three. Like I can understand as Kazui was the one who stopped Kotoko from fully beating up Fuuta, and Amane and Mikoto were the guilty prisoners she wasn’t able to fully inflict pain on but it’s interesting how she’s only eyeing these three here.

And when the camera starts spinning there’s no chess pieces for the other prisoners, only indescribable rubble that doesn’t match up with the pieces (I’ll get to that later). And even Fuuta’s and Mahiru’s pieces aren’t here, but when it keeps spinning it goes back to Kazui, Amane and Mikoto’s pieces still on the table. So what’s up with this? And there’s no sign of Kotoko’s throne which would be right next to Mikoto’s chair. But interestingly enough her chair is back not long later when she’s standing on the table?

This is really interesting but I don’t know exactly what to make of this. All other prisoners that aren’t Kazui, Amane or Mikoto have been completely removed from this scene, and Kotoko’s chair as well. Instead she’s sitting on the other’s chairs instead of her own. Although it seems that may not be the case for Amane, as it looks like she’s sitting on the table there. Or maybe she’s just sitting sideways, it’s hard to tell.

There’s also how in the scene right after this where there’s only one Kotoko, and she’s standing between Amane and Mikoto’s chairs.

She’s eyeing Mikoto’s broken piece, smiling and laughing, representing her overblown hate for him.(which I still don’t exactly know why she really wants to kill him so badly? Some of the things she’s said makes me think it may be ableism but I don’t think it’s just that.)

And unlike the others who’s chess pieces are in front of their own chairs, his piece is broken in front of her, perhaps even with the likely guilty verdict she may try to attack him again.

There’s also the colours here, where the purple and blue colours often show when she’s breaking the chess pieces or other violent scenes, which is just a little detail I really like. But it also makes the thumbnail scene interesting as that has the more normal grey palette? Thinking about it perhaps this colour scheme represents her desire to take everyone down, as Amane and Mikoto’s pieces are broken here but she only really attacked Fuuta and Mahiru in real life. But that’d make it interesting considering Kazui’s piece is not broken here but at the end it is.

So going back to the rubble thing I mentioned earlier, there appears to be shattered pieces of stone all around the table that do not look like the broken prisoner chess pieces, as this rubble is more broken and doesn’t have any colour.

It’s interesting as this rubble has just appeared out of nowhere, and replaced the other prisoners chess pieces in this scene as well. And it surrounds Kazui’s piece despite it not being broken. And in the scene where she’s on the table, the remains of the guilty prisoners and the other rubble swirl around her in a ring.

And this is where I want to talk about the layout of the chairs and the rubble more as this shot is incredibly confusing to me.

So right off the bat there’s something really strange here. Again there’s rubble all over the table but this time it’s in weird clumps. There appears to be 3 maybe 4 clumps on the table, in a position where it looks like it could represent the guilty prisoners perhaps, but if you look closely they do not match up with where the prisoners seats would be, and they’re just everywhere, and it doesn’t seem like the individual chess pieces are here either.

But in the end, the table has been completely destroyed and the entire mindscape has been engulfed in the bright blues and pinks, which I mentioned could represent her violent desires. The innocent prisoner’s chess pieces have been destroyed with blood all over them and the guilty ones nowhere to be seen. And Kotoko’s piece, the only one intact is the only one that remains, and is covered in blood.

Ok so just going to go off topic here but I just thought about this final scene while writing. If the pink and blue colours represent her desires, perhaps the overly saturated colours represent her desires going out of control and killing everyone. This could explain why Kazui’s chess piece wasn’t broken in the table scene with these colours but it is now.

Perhaps this final scene isn’t exactly what Kotoko wants, but is what she is scared she will become if she doesn’t try to stop herself. She’s struggling at the beginning to hold herself together and gives up, with the shadow of the werewolf emerging from her. The wolves are Kotoko’s representation of her justice, this werewolf is the violent justice that destroys. She’s afraid of what she could become here, that’s why she’s so horrified at the end. She doesn’t exactly want this outcome, she doesn’t want to kill all the prisoners. But she’s scared that how far she’s been going into her extreme ideologies could lead her down this path.

#Milgram #Milgram theory #Kotoko yuzuriha #LanieMae’s theories #I’ve noticed a lack of theories lately and especially with deep cover I’m adding some speculation fuel here #The last theory about kotoko not wanting that final outcome and representing her ideals going out of hand is actually inspired by side orde #Like I’ve been thinking a lot about order being an extreme version of marinas idelologies where they could be what she fears of being #And then I thought about kotoko and realised that’s exactly what the last scene is implying here #I’ll need to talk about splatoon and Marina another day but it’s really interesting how they both have ideals that could be incredibly #dangerous if they were left to an extreme. With order and justice respectively #And order (the character) and the werewolf being physical representations of what could happen #I’m screaming right now I love this so much this is such a cool concept

[booksanddarkchocolate]

I’m reading Magnus Chase for the first time and I just read that he’s left-handed and I’m so happy about that

#why is representation this small so important to me #idk I’ve just never seen a left-handed character #magnus chase #rrverse #rr #rick riordan #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #mcatgoa

[rocksandaces]

"Oh I'm cool with left-handed people, they can do whatever they want, but I draw the line at showing left-handed characters in media. Look, it's just unrealistic to have so many left-handed people in a series. I feel like they're forcing it upon us. Besides, putting it in the kids media may influence them and they would also want to write with their left hand even if they were right-handed because they would want attention"

#lgbtq #queer #gay #lesbian #lgbt representation #left handed

[borom1r]

being an academic at heart is so frustrating sometimes. catching up on a bunch of papers on Iron Age Norse culture that got recommended to me and clearly some of the uh. standards are lower than others. do we. do we maybe wanna engage with + acknowledge the inherent biases of a source? perhaps? hello?????

#‘the sagas say THIS abt gender and queerness’ THE SAGAS WERENT WRITTEN BY ACTUAL IRON AGE NORSE PPL!!!!!!!!!!! #THE SAGAS ARE CHRISTIANIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ON MY HANDS AND FUCKING KNEES PLEASEEEEEE PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE WHEN A SOURCE IS BIASED PLEASE DONT TREAT IT AS AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF #THE CULTUREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #is it an interesting window? Yes. is it ACCURATE? fucking debatable!!!!!!!!!! bc who wrote it? Fucking Christians!!!!!!!!!!! #the sagas were mostly recorded in the 13th-14th centuries pleaseeeeee we need to question what the agenda was. what parts were left in #+ why? what parts were removed + why? #removed OR altered* #please. it’s not that hard. to consider source bias.

[kaworusbetterthanme]

Look at her. Isn't she wonderful. I love her.

(Thanks to Akademia SaberArts for the 5-years-old form II demonstration!)

#jedi oc #star wars oc #arkanian #in case that wasn't clear enough form ii is her preferred form #AND YES SHE'S LEFT HANDED. THAT'S INTENTIONAL!! LEFT-HANDED CHARACTERS MY BELOVEDS. #does it make sense in terms of actual combat? i don't know and i don't care i will make the left-handed representation i want to see #her outfit looks Like That because i am also a sims 4 player but the red part are like. leggings texture. they look metallic but they aren' #saber design Not Final i'm debating giving her the dooku/ventress-style curved hilt #because it fits her preferred form her whole vibe and also it's Cool As Fuck #don't look too closely at her hands only like one or two actually look good #the blade looks a little thin now that i'm thinking about it too but i'm not going back to change it lol #devafe #sw ocs #mine own ocs

[ace-robot-has-matcha]

Annie is canonically left handed. According to her concept art, 2p is the correct/canon side for her eye patch. This means that she is also left handed.

#skullgirls #annie of the stars #annie skullgirls #fun facts #left handed representation let’s gooo

[minilpark]

i like to think if anyone in the crew is left-handed, it would be fanboy and phoenix. nothing really indicates they are left-handed, they just give me those vibes.

#yes we love left handed representation #i can go into detail but i will not #yes i am left handed as well #top gun maverick #topgun #topgun maverick imagines #natasha phoenix trace #mickey fanboy garcia #topgun maverick headcanons #topgun headcanons #topgun maverick hcs #topgun hcs

[beardedhandstoadshark]

Which of your OCs’ father was an average fighter BUT A BRILLIANT SCIENTIST?

Imma be real I don‘t really think about my ocs‘ families unless they‘re "plot“ relevant ^^; and for the ones where it is the dads are a craftsman, seafarer, and king. Very smart in their own rights but no "brilliant scientist“ types y‘know?

For a while thought about making Mage‘s dad a scientist guy keeping tabs on his kid from afar for the sake of Shady Science TM, but he already has "former best friend victim of shady science“ angst so that seemed. A bit too much? Idk, I‘m not a writer. If you or anyone else reading this is pls tell me if it is >v<

#another anon ask #original character do not steal [tm] #honestly pick one of the ^secondary cast^ #and I‘ll assign them the scientist dad lmao #hhhhhhh idk bout Mage - #one one hand would explain some characteristics better than just #^my bestie went mia so I‘m gonna create my entire personality around that^ #on the other hand. Really slipping into egdy-ness here #like damn dude you lived in an orphanage that turned out to be a front for a shady state funded cult #AND your only + best friend was picked off by them for his magic #AND you never really found out what happened only that the entire place is sus so you left #AND you‘re lowkey projecting that guy onto the random postman you latched onto because they look kinda similar if you squint #AND you don‘t even realize for real despite usually always knowing when you lie to yourself and only choosing to ignore it #AND your obessiveness makes you self-distructive to the point you already know it‘ll be your downfall but you refuse to (can‘t) let go #AND that extends to your magic leading you to often use too much and tanking the recoil #AND you almost kicked the bucket in a blizzard because of it. #and the eye color changed. #that‘s franky the edgiest part of it #but also visual representation of the concequences of your own actions my beloved #like. Look at that #how‘m I supposed to add another layer on top of that #the cardboard pyramid is barely holding as it is

[kayaks00n]

Mental illness representation on Hermitcraft

Joel - mania

Keralis - left handed

Etho - his setup

Mumbo Jumbo - has physicaly tied himself to his desk with safety wires in order to unlearn thumb-shifting. Seriously what's up with that

Grian - government worker

#hermitblr #hermitcraft #hermitcraft season 10 #hermitcraft season x #grian #mumbo jumbo #ethoslab #keralis #smallishbeans #kayak rambles

[darabeatha]

Aztec monument of sacred war (Teocalli). Holding the sun disk on the center is; on the left, Huitzilopochtli and on the right, Moctezuma II

#;gallery #its like a representation of a temple; i think it looks very cool #13 steps that symbolize the levels to heaven #it is believed that it was under m.octezuma's rulling that this monument was ordered to be made! #they know its him on the right bc of the hieroglyph around the top on his area #what's mentioned that is super interesting is how the emperor (right) was put on the same level as the god (left) #the god and the emperor! #its said to be like a sort of representation of the high priest (moctezuma) colaborating with the god (huitzilopochtli) #also the high priest&emperor was the representation of god on earth like with pharaoh's #its like the shaking hand emoji; but they are interacting and each holding by each side the disk #the link between fire and water and war #which is why its called monument of sacred war #theres a buuuunch of symbolism all over it on each side so its very interesting just how much it says #i wonder if they did drafts or did they do it all in one go #the vid linked is in spanish but there's subtitles in english too

[charliewrites99]

Me describing characters from Supernatural without ever watching it, based on what I could put together from random tumblr posts

Dean Winchester:

older brother

bi and the closet is glass

psycho-sexual relationship with his car

has a doctor kink

divorced married divorced married widowed by an angel

DADDY ISSUES

don't do this cas

was in hell at one point

shoulder hand print

red-blooded all american hunter manwhore

Sam Winchester:

younger brother

flannel

straight representation (except Gabriel I guess)

Third wheel

dropped out of uni

was engaged to a blond woman (RIP)

a literal walking death sentence to anyone who kisses him

party city wig

was possesed???

the one with common sense???

Castiel:

gay angel

world's saddest eyes

wet soggy orphan beagle

victim of the trench coat epidemic

powerful, but idk about where he lands on the scale

was brainwashed???

the daddy-est of issues (is his father god?)

YOU CHANGED ME DEAN

fish out of water

ditched heaven for the beauty of humanity (Dean's dick)

Jack Supernatural:

destiel child

may or may not be a new god

something celestial

floppy sad boi hair

Gabriel:

just here to have fun do drugs and flirt

trauma

Loki?

Sam's Man Crush Monday

had his lips sewn together at one point

is he dead-dead? or just dead to the writers?

Daddy Winchester:

did not know what he looked like until I went to google the pictures

the worst person to ever exist despite having god and the devil on this show

left the sons the trauma factory that is the family hunting business which killed their mom

doesn't know what hugging looks like probably

Various female-looking objects:

dead girlfriends

beards

that one redhead that called Dean a pussy for not knowing what fifth base is (she seems fun)

another redhead that played Poppy in The Magicians and almost killed Quentin (that I for some reason thought was from Doctor Who)

evil angel girlboss??

This was my contribution for this years November 5th celebration

#spn #supernatural #destiel #castiel #dean winchester #sam winchester #november 5th #nov 5th