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[emily-axford]

LEIA ORGANA + HAIR Star Wars: Episode IV, V & VI.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

So when Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi he looked like this

But turning to the dark side changed his physical appearance. Most notably his eyes, which became yellow (a very typical Sith transformation in many species)

And while I know that Wookies are not supposed to be able to be force sensitive and therefore cannot become Jedi or Sith, all I am saying is that

…. You know?

[alittleoptimistic]

There is literally no way I could have guessed where this post was heading

[fox-draw-s]

I’m absolutely HOWLING that the Mandalorion is LITERALLY all a side quest. We have a HUGE ASS PLOT going on in the background but they are focusing on NONE of it and instead said “also there’s a metal dad w a green baby just trying to Thrive” and all the Star Wars fans are frothing at the mouth trying to piece together the background Big Major Plot. Absolutely iconic of them I want those balls of steel

[threelisabeth-deactivated201803]

everything else aside, alanna the lioness definitely got the fuck/marry/kill of jon/george/roger completely right

[gyzym]

#PFFFHAHAHAHA #UNLIKE THOM (via iambickilometer) 

[shadow-daughter]

Wow.

Y’all didn’t have to come for the poor man’s life like that, he’s already dead.

[gffa]

[detroitbydark]

I will reblog this everytime I see it until my dying day

[skdubbs]

What is this?! Why have I never seen this?! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 absolutely awesome!

[doobiwankenooku-deactivated2022]

Yessss

[the-stars-are-warring]

The TIMINGS On this thing

It’s so GOOD

[utwo]

Scotland United Kingdom

© F. Comparelli

[alternerdstuff]

I’m a fantasy author! I’m creating a brand new world,completely my own, I can make it anything I want it to be! I think I’ll include...sexism.

[alternerdstuff]

For those struggling with the loss of JKR can I humbly put forward Tamora Pierce as our new YA fantasy author/role model of choice?

[softlenaluthor]

[thegunlady]

#every year he doesnt have an emmy is a sham

[i-couldnt-think-of-one]

they rob him EVERY YEAR

[kalinara]

My least favorite habit of certain (usually female) fans is when they try to find a “woke” reason to dislike a major female character.  See for example, the argument that Yennefer of Vengerberg is “there primarily for the male gaze”.

Yennefer of Vengerberg is a woman whose storyline was placed front and center from the second episode and given parallel importance with the titular male character.

Yennefer is a character who is fearless, powerful, ambitious and selfish in equal measures, all of which are traits we rarely see in female characters period, and the narrative (and the lead male character) treat these traits generally as ones to be celebrated rather than decried.

Yennefer is a character who is given so much story beyond her relationship to the male character that when she has a moment where she has to think back to all of the painful and infuriating things that have been said to her, he never crosses her mind.

Yennefer is a character who owns her sexuality both before and after her transformation and her relationship with the lead male character is primarily on her own terms.  (And the part that isn’t on her terms: the wish, is something that she gets rightfully angry about.  And at no point does the narrative try to say that she made the wrong decision there.)

Yennefer is a character who is dressed according to female power fantasies.  Her gowns are wildly designed, with crazy arches and sleeves, and they look fabulous but also very much in line with what a woman would choose as opposed to a man.  And while sometimes she is nude, it’s always plot relevant and not presented in an objectifying or dehumanizing way.  

Yennefer is a woman of color in a leading role in a fantasy drama that is both helmed and penned by women.  (The original books are written by a man, sure, but the teleplay was written by a woman.  The showrunner is a woman.)

Yennefer is not going to resonate with every single woman watching the show, sure.  But she resonates with quite a lot of them.  And she’s crafted with exactly the same “gaze” as every other character in the series.  (Including the male ones who are miraculously free of this ridiculous complaint).

[lilacsdandelionsandonions]

ok but do you mind if elaborate just how far all her nude scenes are from “the male gaze”??? 

her first love scene with istredd is BEFORE her transformation! i don’t think i’ve ever seen a disabled woman on TV get to express her sexuality like that before! her hunchback isn’t hidden, either, it’s right in the center of the frame. both of their faces and bodies are the focus, as opposed to the camera lingering on her breasts and ass, and ignoring the male actor’s body completely, like so many other shows and movies. it’s equality!

her transformation scene is the FURTHEST from sexy. and sadly they could have made it sexy, so many shows do fetishize scenes of violence against women (having actresses scream prettily, make the “O” face, positioning their bodies provocatively, pointing their toes, etc). but once again, the camera never centers on her breasts, but on her face. her screaming and struggling is ugly and authentic. her nudity only added to the discomfort of the scene, with her feet in stirrups evoking an OBGYN visit or childbirth, not sex. 

in the bath scene, all glimpses of her tits and ass are super brief, off center, moving, never posed… as opposed to the long AND very centered shots of geralt titties.

yennefer’s longest tits out scene with the djinn ritual is interesting, because while her chest is occasionally centered in frame…  jaskier’s reaction is super telling! he doesn’t acknowledge her nudity at all! (especially as a hypersexual comedic character who in a lesser show would be drooling over her!) instead he reacts purely to her “devilish eyes” and the painted amphora and the knife in her hands. she’s not treated by either the camera or by jaskier as a sexual object, but as a threat.

in the ritual scene proper, she’s allowed to be sweaty and strident and red-eyed (which if you ask me is very sexy, but i’m not a man). it might not be a fertility ritual, exactly, but since it’s her womb she’s trying to regain, having her breasts out could be symbolic of her potential motherhood that she’s vying for, as opposed to just titillation (ha). it’s also a call back to her transformation scene.

in every sex scene with geralt, they’re both clothed. which is weird for the main romance! like, really weird. so no nudity, no male gaze. (i wonder why though? maybe they wanted to visually indicate how closed off geralt and yennefer are with each other at first, not wanting the vulnerability of nakedness. plus i think we’re meant to take that their hookups are extremely rushed and spontaneous.) once they’re finally naked together, she’s turned away/wearing a modesty blanket, while he’s got his chest and thighs out, and they’re just talking. 

in short… male gaze where?? yennefer of vengerberg might be literally the only female character i’ve ever seen that’s been actually empowered while nude. a male-led production could never. 

also, she’s dynamite, and if you disagree, please keep it to yourself and out of the tags. thanks for letting me borrow the mic at this ted talk.

[hedwig-dordt]

I think people are trying to rationalise their discomfort with a woman who asserts herself. People say they want strong female characters, but the second we get one, they start whining that she’s not a perfect woman. 

That goes double when the actress is a woman of colour. 

[helianthus-hellion]

i’ve reblogged this before but i just really wanna emphasize one thing, also:

istredhe has sex before her transformation. a disabled woman of color is given her own sexuality to claim and express on the goddamn screen. i don’t give a flying FUCK how you feel about yennefer as a character, A DISABLED WOMAN OF COLOR IS BEING GIVEN HER OWN SEXUALITY. and it’s not treated like a fetish or anything! sure istredd is spying on her but he could have done that without having sex with her, instead we are shown that he thinks she’s hot as fuck before her transformation.

[indigosquid]

People also like to point out the storyline about her wanting a baby, and while I do see how you could see that as problematic, they adapted it explicitly to mean that she wants the choice. And while she’s definitely a bit short-sighted in the fact that she doesn’t really acknowledge that she gave up that choice herself at the time, that’s okay, because that’s a character flaw. Which is not just something characters are allowed to have, it’s something a well-rounded character should have

[flootzavut]

Honestly I also think that the way they’ve framed her wanting a child is also really interesting because (to me at least) it doesn’t come off as “she wants a baby because All Women Want That” but more that she’s desperate to be loved and wanted, and it’s an extension of that need. Which, you know, isn’t healthy, but that goes back to her being a flawed character who makes some really stupid decisions, and hello, again, complex, flawed character whose main character trait is not her boobs, thank you show runners 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

(This is thrown in particularly sharp relief to me at the moment, because I’m watching Star Trek Voyager and getting so frustrated by how they cast Jeri Ryan and then used her mostly as eye candy in a tight catsuit. Every time they give her something to do besides glower and stand around looking hot, she nails it, and I’m reminded how much they wasted her as an actress in this role. Makes me extra specially grateful for the complex, flawed, messy women in the Witcher.)

[nudityandnerdery]

One of the things I love about The Witcher is how they don’t make her always look glamorous and lovely. It reminds me of the interview Elizabeth Olsen did, talking about filming Age of Ultron, and how Joss Whedon told her to do “a calm face” when Wanda was casting spells, because…

Meanwhile, The Witcher doesn’t do that.

Magic takes effort.

Yennefer doesn’t always have to look like a model, she’s allowed to be a person.

And it’s sad that this is how low the bar can be sometimes, but it’s still just something that I noticed and appreciated. They let their actress act and not focus on some dude’s idea of “what’s attractive” in the scene.

[ladivvinatravestia]

I said this on a different post about Yen and her characterization but I’m going to say it again.  When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I dated and was later engaged to a guy who often pressured me into making quick decisions about stuff (even when it was inconsequential stuff) and then if I later changed my mind about what I wanted, I, as a representative of all women, would get mocked and belittled for “always changing my mind” and “not being able to decide what I wanted”.

Friends, please do not allow yourselves to be harmed by this same script.  Although some people know from a young age that they are never going to want children and they never change their minds, it is OKAY for Yennefer to think she wants one thing when she is eighteen and hasn’t seen much of the outside world, and then after several decades of following the career she thought she wanted, for her to decide it’s actually not as fulfilling as she initially hoped and that she wants to pursue some different goals instead.

[otherwindow]

A desperate cleric slamming every healing spell so hard to bring someone back to life the ground is forced to grow plants and flowers around the body.

[otherwindow]

Decades later, guarded by a forest of roses and thorns, lies a corpse refusing to rot.

[alternerdstuff]

Anyone else start crying when they heard the first chords of 5000 Candles In The Wind?

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

having now worked directly with wild seals I need you all to know they are some of the most bastardous creatures in the entire animal kingdom. we’ve all been so wrong. they look cute and fat but they are so fast and they have SO many teeth and they know how to scream and they aren’t afraid to do it

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

don’t get me wrong I love them deeply. They’re amazing animals. But we’ve been calling them stuff like “sea puppers” when in fact they’re more like if a cat weighed 300 kilos and had the intelligence of a toddler & the morals of a seagull

[jonahsimms]

[alternerdstuff]

Also this.

[alternerdstuff]

I just... we spent five years hearing about how career driven Amy is, how important it is to her and how hard she has worked, and now she just desperately wants to have a baby? I don’t buy it.

[alternerdstuff]

“I read SOME books man. Jeez”

This is my new favorite line of the show.

[grass-skirt]

The stable guys are getting more and more done with my shit and I’m getting more and more done with theirs too. What kind of weak operation are they running here where they won’t stable my horse just because it’s a god or because it doesn’t have ~skin~