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Hello im asking for some custom screenshots!

Simon backside, anytime he’s not facing the camera, even better if it’s him full body (trying to do some bloodymary matching photocards!)

I'm like a drug dealer, but instead of crack, it's pictures of Simon in hyper-specific angles.

[hard-times-paramore]

SIMON'S FULL BACKSTORY:

Okay, having watched the movie a second time, I was really paying attention to the flashbacks. Plus the sound was really crisp this time around. I have a few notes I can make. This is the full extent of what we actually get to learn about Simon in the movie. Full analysis and spoilers under the cut.

Four main scenes I take this from: the flashback right after the concussion, the flashback when he falls asleep at the control panel, the storm of voices after he regains contact with Ava and she sents him to retrieve the black box, and finally, the ending sequence.

In what I perceive the order of events to go, Simon was born on a planet, not on Eden station. In the storm of voices, we hear his mother saying "c'mon, it has a tree! It'll be just like home. Simon, don't be like that." implying he moved to Eden at an early age.

In the flashback scene with the tree, we see the planets disappearing in real time before their eyes. So, the young actor for Simon is how old he was when the Rapture happened. A fun detail is that in the game no one was actually looking at the planets and stars when they faded, so this is a divergence between the movie and the game, cementing what Szymanski said about them being different continuities.

Shortly after that, Eden Station festered a defeatist death cult, probably because they had the last trees and plants alive. Simon's mother joined in, so he joined in as well, he was just a kid after all, listening to the adults in his life. Then again, I find it interesting that the voices at the end say his mother wouldn't recognize him after he became a killer - then in the same breath say death was all she taught him.

We know Eden has a religious/spiritual motif going on, with that preaching Father, with how Simon calls other Eden people "brothers", how they all get a pendant with a germinating seed, and the tattoo and X/cross motifs that we see across the movie. Simon's tattoo was shaped like an X (you can see where it was burnt off in some parts of the movie), and when he finds the pendant in the terminal, there was a little paper or tape X attached to it and the message.

The tree died at some point, but they said it would live again, because when there is no more soil, their bodies would become the tree's soil. I don't know when this was, but it might have been before little Simon killed all those other kids (or adults? I think they were kids his age). A friend of mine pointed out they were trying to return the universe to nature in the absence of humans, preparing and making way for the plants to come. "Add a little ecofascism as a treat".

Simon, as a child, slaughtered a lot of people in the name of the cult, so much he had the highest body count and was nicknamed "Simon the Butcher". He received a knife and holster from his mother, and he still owns the holster. He keeps it in his vest/shirt, and can be seen rubbing it under his hands for comfort at the start of the movie.

But as Simon grew up, he wanted to escape the cult. He still somewhat agreed with Eden that there was no point in humanity trying to stay alive - given his line to Ava that "Eden didn't delude themselves with hopes for survival if everyone believes enough". But he eventually grew up enough to disagree with the cult. He wanted to live, and he wanted others to live, in his own rebel way.

When Eden invaded Filament Station, he tried to stop it from being destroyed, and in doing so, took all the blame for it. 62 people from Filament died, but none from Eden. He surrendered, no questions asked. He appears as an adult in that flashback of watching the soldier die in fire, indicating it wasn't long ago. Ava was in charge of him as a convict, as we see in the storm of voices scene.

Another difference from the game is that the movie explicitly states Filament Station was destroyed, when in the game it was rendered uninhabitable due to a breach in the reactor core, which, wouldn't you guess it, leaked radiation everywhere.

Some lines he says later on to the Speaker, about everyone blaming him for Filament, give me the idea he still thinks that was his only guilt, or his only blame. He seems in denial of the blame of killing the other kids. Maybe he's repressing it, clinging to an idea of being innocent, or maybe he doesn't think he's to blame when he was manipulated into a cult as a kid?

I find it hard to connect that little butcher to the Simon we know in the movie, someone who even apologized to the control panel of the submarine after he punched it.

"Simon the Butcher, lost his nerve" was told to him by a brother from Eden, whoever the guy who told him to cross the wires was. He implied that after everyone Simon killed as a child, he lost his bravery and devotion to death once he was in Filament Station.

At the end of the movie, I think he puts the knife holster in the life-vest? It was hard to see, so I really am not sure, all I have is someone else's words, who also saw the movie. But at the end there, he does say "oh please, keep this safe, okay mom? It's more than me." Thanks to the good audio, I heard he said mom, there.

Edit after someone commented: he indeed uses the holster to tie the life-vest around the blackbox.

And, that's about the extent I could gather of Simon's past and backstory in movie continuity.

Update: omg y'all thanks so much for the response to this post. I'm really glad I could contribute to you as a lore guide.

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[lil-ladybug-kid]

mountain lion vs. house kitten ass screams 😭

[audreydoeskaren]

Abridged history of early 20th century Chinese womenswear (part 6.2: 1950s-mainland China)

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*I know the 1950s is not early 20th century but I don’t care, this is a continuous narrative.

*It’s still quite incomplete so if anyone has sources/additional info please let me know!!

Previous posts in the series:

Part 1: 1890s

Part 2: 1900s & 1910s

Part 3.1: 1920s-silhouette

Part 3.2: 1920s-design details

Part 3.3: 1920s-accessories, hair & makeup

Part 4.1: 1930s-silhouette & design

Part 4.2: 1930s-hair, makeup & accessories

Part 5: 1940s

Part 6.1: 1950s & 60s-Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau & friends)

Intro/context

The world of Chinese fashion split in two when the Communists won the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and the Nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan. Having discussed the development of cheongsam in non mainland areas in my previous post, we’re going to look at the fashion in the communist People’s Republic of China in the 1950s. A common misconception is that during the roughly thirty years of hardcore communism (1949-1979), fashion and “traditional Chinese clothing” disappeared from mainland China and everyone only wore utilitarian, gender neutral work clothes. This is not true in every regard—-whatever mainland Chinese women wore in the 1940s, they continued wearing in the 1950s, 60s and beyond. I will deconstruct this myth sometime later if I feel like it, though I think if you read my posts you can pretty much piece together the answer yourself.

Dresses

It started to become common for Chinese women to wear clothing of Western construction in the 1920s. As the decades progressed, Western clothing and tailoring methods became more and more normalized in China, to the point where women wearing fashionable Western clothing was no longer considered a novelty or status symbol in the 1940s. Needless to say, this was continued in the 1950s; despite Cold War era propaganda from both the capitalist and communist sides telling you otherwise, Chinese clothing of the 1950s followed Western fashion so closely that for literally every Chinese dress in this decade there was a matching American sewing pattern. 1950s dresses were quite free and diverse in terms of design, though there were some very common features which I will discuss. The cut of bodices followed the same shape: an emphasized bust, nipped waist and commonly a smooth, rounded shoulder achieved by cap or raglan sleeves.

Circle skirts supported by fluffy petticoats were never huge in mainland China, partially because they were very extravagant and impractical and partially because they were not as popular in the West as modern vintage reproduction companies and period magazines would lead us to believe either; pencil skirts and flared skirts without petticoats were also very common in the West.

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50s photograph of three young girls. Two in New Look dresses (left and right) and one in cheongsam (middle). The cap sleeve and square neck design on the green dress was quite common in the 1950s.

Another dress with cap sleeves and square neck design from the 1957 cover of 大众电影 (Mao era publications rarely had translated English names, sorry), a film magazine. This sort of groovy striped pattern had been popular since the 1940s.

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Groovy stripes~

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1956 photograph of a woman in a button down dress with cap sleeves, gathered waist and belt. 

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50s American catalogue.

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Dresses from the 1958 movie 女篮五号.

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Gorgeous dresses and cheongsam from the 1957 movie 乘风破浪.

Round neck, cap sleeved blouse with matching skirt on the cover of an issue of 上影画报, 1958. This kind of wide, round neckline without embellishment was a staple of the 1950s and 60s.

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Pages from a 1957 Soviet fashion magazine published by Leningrad fashion house depicting summer dresses. Friendly reminder that Stalin died in 1953 so fashion was probably more relaxed in the Khrushchev era. Many people think of the entire duration of the existence of the Soviet Union as one massive blob of famine and gulag, which is so cringy and incorrect.

Blouse & Skirt Set

In the 50s, blouses and shirts often had cap sleeves with smooth shoulders (i.e. no armhole seam) and a softly gathered waist. Skirts could be flared or pencil.

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1950s portrait of a woman in a short sleeved blouse and pleated swing skirt, photographed by Sam Sanzetti.

Designs for blouse and skirt ensembles in the magazine 服庄, 1958.

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Blouse and skirt ensembles from the 1957 movie 青春的脚步. More groovy stripe representation yayy.

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50s American blouse and swing skirt catalogue.

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1950s American blouse and pencil skirt catalogue.

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Even this navy uniform has the wonderfully 50s cut. From the 1957 movie 乘风破浪.

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Blouse and skirt outfits from the 1958 movie 女篮五号.

In the case of tailored blouses, they could also be worn outside the skirt.

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Blouse worn outside skirts.

Continuar lendo

[hereliesethelcain]

She is so profound everything she does is therapeutic to me

[constantstateofyearning]

Me to all my friends

[ethelcainscloset]

NO GIBSON GIRL ON THE SETLIST…

[pxnish]

i have a huge crush on her

[charlesoberonn]

Can we find a sun god or diety from every timezone and make a map of them all?

[greyt-expectations]

We probably can, but the question is should we?

[charlesoberonn]

How else will ship captains know who to pray to when they circumnavigate the globe?

[greyt-expectations]

…Give me until the end of the weekend. 

[greyt-expectations]

I actually had some unexpected free time today so I was able to create this a lot faster than I expected. 

It isn’t perfect, but following the initial post I assigned each timezone one sun deity, so travelers know who they might pray to while exploring the world.

This was a lot of fun to create and to research mythologies from across the world, and I think I learned a couple of things doing so!

[charlesoberonn]

Well, there you have it folks. Safe travels.

[tanou123]

☺

[sonny-kiddo]

some notable catchphrases of 2013:

bitch I might be

do she got the booty ? she doooooooooo ! 

swiggity swag

the D

wen u mom com home and make hte spagehti

“ hello______, im dad “ 

AYYY LMAO

W R I T I N G  I N T E N S E  W O R D S  L I K E  T H I S 

 perfect _____ don’t exis-

And now, the weather

at least 2 potato

we’ve come full circle ! 

life hack :

[ __________ INTENSIFIES]

so many

such doge. much wow. very smile. 

mahogany 

*sweats nervously*

same. 

spooper hot choclety milk

#SHERLOCKLIVES

[pixelartpeach]

[martins-canned-peaches]

In this world it's either witness the horrors or the horrors will witness you (ceaselessly)

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

She doin somethin ceaseless on my watcher till I let out a wretched thing

[gayteensupreme]

Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

[chrispineofficial]

it’s 2028. trump is dead. elon is dead. zuckerberg is dead bezos is dead they’re all dead

[radiation-detector-official]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[one-hell-of-a-sheep]

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gay

[yurious-george]

compelling argument

[mossadspydolphin]

what does this say about victor hugo

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no he was just french

[jam-the-hologram]

R.R Tolkien?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

autistic infodumping

[elden-12]

Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[lxcke]

THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭