Perpetual Imagination

The Tumblr home of author Angela D'Onofrio. Updates sporadically, generally on Mondays.

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PETER LINDBERGH | L’Uomo vogue starring Kate Winslet

[angdonofrio]

Hot damn. @patchworked-and-tea-stained I think I found Alyx. Show Mike?

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Here’s my (mostly) finished father and son - Gomez and Pugsley!

[angdonofrio]

Oh, I love this beyond words.

[an-author-and-his-books]

Just going to leave this here….

[angdonofrio]

Preach!

[angdonofrio]

Unboxing my new ColorIt Premium Carrying Case I ordered for Amazon... unfortunately, the measurements were outside-only, meaning it's a little too short to actually carry my bullet journal along with all the supplies, which is what I was HOPING for. But! On the optimistic side, the zipper pouch alone holds a 30-pen Stabilo set, 8 metallic Crayola markers, and 8 Marvy LePen markers. The divider holds the Prismacolor brush pens I use for sketch cards, pens and pencils, and my ruler. Still room in the back for a little more... I would say it was still worth purchasing!

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Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

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Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

[silkktheshocka]

This is so fucked up.

[prokopetz]

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

[taxfrauddotcom]

It gets worse.

Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”

Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.

So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.

And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?

Source: http://www.themarysue.com/warner-bros-animation-girl-market/

[micaxiii]

This is so fucking gross

also “(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)”

*COUGH* Friendship is Magic *COUGH*

[angdonofrio]

Disgusting beyond words. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Also, hey, remember "Where's Rey"???

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by Sylvia Plath, J.D. Salinger, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on October 15, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[angdonofrio]

/drooling commences

[rejectedprincesses]

Chynara Madinkulova (long hair) and Aida Akmatova (bun) compete in the “Traditional Archery” category at the World Nomad games in Kyrgyzstan, which concluded last week.

Said games also include eagle hunting, horseback wrestling, and setting people on fire. Also this game where you chuck javelins at people to knock them off their horse.

Clearly the Olympics needs to step it up.

[mccaffeteria]

I’m sorry did you say setting people on fire?

[rejectedprincesses]

Yes. Yes I did.

It’s called Oert Jalymdagan Chabandes. It’s on a stamp.

We live in a weird, wonderful world, Tumblr.

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[angdonofrio]

How I feel every time someone asks me what I'm writing, TBH.

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Join me for the release of my new novel! Raffle winners will be announced!

IT’S FINALLY HEEEEEEEERE ....

[angdonofrio]

Like Stephen King, Buffy, Supernatural, or Stranger Things? Take a trip to the town of Aviario.  In The Cards is 250+ pages of your spooky-fun fix, just in time for Halloween...

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HQ rip of “Here Comes A Thought” from Mindful Education

[angdonofrio]

This song is showing up in my dash more and more lately and making me realize I need to see this show. @patchworked-and-tea-stained, @sleepimohinder, hook a girl up?

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[repair-bear]

IS THAT A GIF IN A GIF IN A GIF

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This is officially the best thing on tumblr.

[angdonofrio]

It really, really is, you guys.

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IS THAT A GIF IN A GIF IN A GIF

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This is officially the best thing on tumblr.

[angdonofrio]

It really, really is, you guys.

[did-you-know]

Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland creates creepy mirrored sculptures out of acrylic glass that makes them blend into their surroundings until your perspective shifts and they suddenly catch your eye. Source Source 2

[manicpixiedreamalien]

imagine getting lost in the woods and coming across these

on a scale of 1-10 how ready for death would you be

[jabletown]

i didn’t know chaotic evil looked like someone’s dad from north dakota

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All those years, Slender Man was real and he was the creation of an artistic asshole.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“I just really want people to think that Predator is real and its living in these woods”

[dynastylnoire]

Nooooope

[angdonofrio]

I’m’a take this up a notch and say... Imagine finding one of these at night.  With a flashlight.  

[angdonofrio]

For fans of Stranger Things ...

Gamer heroes.  Mysterious disappearances.  A secret, ominous organization.  A small town with a big heart.  Extraordinary abilities.   A dash of retro.  Sound familiar?  It’s my 2nd novel, In The Cards, and it’s coming out this weekend at www.angeladonofrio.com.  99 cents on Kindle for the first week only!  I hope you’ll join me for the release... this is my best yet.

[remnant-thoughts]

At some point I came  to realize it wasn’t worth it. Maybe it never was. There was no satisfaction in trying so hard for nothing. But you were never nothing. And I did it for something, all I ever got was nothing instead.

“Life goes on” remnant-thoughts (via remnant-thoughts)

In my mind, the title of this is Sherrie Lynn. Yep.

[angdonofrio]

The heroes and heroine of In The Cards, flanked by their BFFs... chilling at the best diner in town with the worst wallpaper. (I don't even know what Madie was thinking. And I write her.)