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Things I like, things I think and sometimes, things I write. I post art at fionnyfish, my art tumblr.

[aizel-kon]

The YiLing Patriarch

[stream]

“Where have you been? Everyone thought you were dead.”

[sosuperawesome]

Perci Chen on Instagram

Follow So Super Awesome on Instagram

[sosuperawesome]

Enamel Pendants and Earrings

Kreativation Net on Etsy

See our #Etsy or #Jewelry tags

[art-woonz]

Art by IG: @Sergeyzinovkin Instagram: @artwoonz

[ecc-poetry]

“La sirena y el pescador,” Elisa Chavez.

Hey all! This poem is part of my chapbook Miss Translated, which I produced in a limited run as Town Hall Seattle’s Spring 2017 artist-in-residence. The main conceit behind this work is that to accurately portray my relationship with Spanish, I have to explore the pain and ambiguity of not speaking the language of my grandparents and ancestors. As a result, these poems are bilingual … sort of. Each one is translated into English incorrectly.

The poems I produced have secrets, horrific twists, emotional rants, and confessions hiding in the Spanish. It’s my hope that people can appreciate them regardless of their level of Spanish proficiency.

[kranja]

oh shit.  my spanish is pretty shaky, but i’m pretty sure “te perdono” is “i forgive you.”  wow understanding just that much is pretty chilling.

and something about…blood? and transformation?  oooh yikes.  she didn’t want legs in the spanish version did she.  and it was a painful process.

so this poem is about…misunderstandings leading to pain for the person misunderstood?  whish is really effective with the way it’s written, wow.  this is the most meta poem form i’ve ever seen.  wow.

[ecc-poetry]

#reblog#photoset#poetry#i later ran it thru google translate to confirm my theories#won’t post said translation or say how right i was#cuz i feel like that’s missing the point

<— This right here is AMAZING. Look at the journey this person went on reading my poem! Secret fact, I have been stalking tags and reblogs of this because what I wanted more than anything was to provide an experience for people and LOOK AT YOU ALL GO. Your engagement and enthusiasm is amazing and so humbling for me.

[featherquillpen]

Holy crap, this is incredible. As a natively bilingual Latina woman, allow me to dive into a full analysis.

First, I should tell you my experience of reading this. I didn’t even look at the English at first, because I didn’t know that the mistranslation was the point, and of course I didn’t need it. So I read the whole poem in Spanish and thought it was really sad and moving. Then I looked at the English and my eyebrows went right up to my hairline. Why the hell would you translate it this way, I thought. 

Then I read the caption and realized that this is a genius way of demonstrating how translation into English can be an act of colonization and violence.

I would translate the first two lines as “The mermaid rose from the sea / To see the dry world.” They’re very neutral lines. She was curious about the dry world, so she went to check it out. That’s a very different connotation from the mistranslation, which tells you that the mermaid preferred the land to the sea.

The second two lines I would say mean “She found a fisherman on the beach / this beautiful fish without a net.” She’s the one with agency here, not the fisherman, and she thinks of herself as a free fish, unconstrained by a net, not as a fish without a home.

The next three lines by my lights read “She had a gleaming tail; scales / that covered her breasts, arms, and face / and a wake of lacy waves.” Again, it’s from her perspective, not the fisherman’s, and she thinks of herself as having a gleaming rather than oily tail, a lacy wake rather than a frothing one.

Next stanza: “The fisherman caught her by the tail / and cut it in half.” From her point of view, the fisherman has committed a sudden and senseless mutilation. Then he goes, “’Now,’ he said to her, ‘you have legs. / Why don’t you walk?’” It’s almost like an accusation. You have legs now, why don’t you just get up and walk?

My read on the next stanza is: “The mermaid began to sing to the sea / for aid, her blood transforming / the sand of the beach into rainbows.” The sea is her home, not the land, and she’s crying out to her home in pain as she bleeds.

Then the poem ends with “She sang to the fisherman, ‘I forgive you, I forgive you, I forgive you.’”

The reason this mistranslation is so brilliant is that it takes a story about a mermaid trying to forgive a man who’s committed senseless violence against her, and turns it into a story about a man who uplifts a woman to a better life out of the kindness of his heart. And the thing is, that’s exactly what happens to so many stories from colonized cultures when they’re adapted by the oppressor. Translation into English, and further the cultural language of the oppressor, can be an act of violence and erasure rather than one of respect.

This is why I have worked so hard to translate poetry from Spanish to English that has previously only been translated by white Americans who learned Spanish in college. I can bring something to the translation that they can’t. It’s usually not this extreme, but this exists to some degree in all translations by people who don’t truly understand the culture that produced the work they’re translating.

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

“describe thor and loki’s dynamic with a single gif”

[tlematimun]

#i love how thor doesn’t even really try to stop loki’s murder knives it’s just a weary hand like ‘oh dear #‘don’t’ #‘can we not do this today’ #‘this has been my entire life do you see’ #‘[softly] loki no’ #this really is the dynamic (via @et-in-arkadia)

[rockin-robinz]

Cover Showcase: 19/∞

Tie-in Event: Batman: Prelude to the Wedding (May 2018–June 2018)

Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are getting married, but prior to the happy event there are some pre-wedding details to take care of. The five Prelude to the Wedding issues will center on Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, and Harley Quinn, as they face off against Ra’s al Ghul, Hush, The Riddler, Anarky, and The Joker respectively. Perhaps, Brue Wayne and Selina Kyle should consider eloping in Vegas. List of Cover Artists (In Alphabetical Order):

Rafael Albuquerque: Batman: Prelude to the Wedding – Robin vs. Ra’s al Ghul, Batman: Prelude to the Wedding – Nightwing vs. Hush, Batman: Prelude to the Wedding – Batgirl vs. The Riddler, Batman: Prelude to the Wedding – Red Hood vs. Anarky, and Batman: Prelude to the Wedding – Harley Quinn vs. The Joker.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

the revolution is not in your television

Your favourite actors, singers, comedians, millionaires, etc. are not invested in revolutionary politics – even the ‘political’ ones.

They are just as entrenched in misogyny, racism, ableism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, and all the rest as any other random person. They have no reason to be any more invested in liberation as anyone else, and they often benefit even more from systemic oppression than the average person, because having a voice in this society requires a position of power in a system built on myriad forms of oppression.

Even if they experience one or more forms of oppression, even if their art comments on oppression, it does not mean they are invested in revolutionary anti-oppression efforts, certainly not across the board. Even if they make the attempt, their efforts will not be automatically useful or even harmless.

Celebrities and content creators do not automatically have better intentions, information, politics, or praxis than any other random person.

Sometimes people make great media/art, sometimes that art even speaks out about some form of oppression. But that does not mean that art is going to be free of the influence of other forms of oppression, and it does not mean that the same art condemning one form of violence isn’t at the same time supporting oppressive structures.

It can be incredibly affirming to see parts of your own experience reflected back to you. It’s one of the things that makes people connect strongly with art and media. That experience can be great, and it doesn’t automatically mean you endorse the way that person or media handles every topic.

But if you hold up celebrities, or the media they are involved in, as Pure Unproblematic Beacons of Liberation, if you shout down anyone who says, “This media is reinforcing the values that lead to the suffering of real people; this media is portraying harm against a vulnerable group as excusable or funny or just; etc; etc. –” If you demand that the media or celebrities you like receive only praise and never honest criticism just because the elements you like are important to you – that’s endorsing the bad shit.

Go enjoy what you like! The search for art/media/etc with no stake in oppression is futile; anything that is allowed to flourish in an oppressive environment has a stake in perpetuating that oppression. The answer is neither to stop engaging with culture entirely or to plug your ears and pretend your affinity for something means it can’t be harmful.

Like what you like. But be a critical consumer and pay attention to the ways the media you consume and the people that produce it are invested in maintaining and perpetuating certain ideas about vulnerable groups and the forces that oppress them. You can think something or someone is amazing for its/their handling of certain things and also acknowledge the ways they’re/it’s harmful to people who experience forms of oppression you don’t.

You don’t have to pretend something is Pure and Unproblematic to enjoy it.

Stop pretending your faves are infallible, stop throwing a fit anytime anyone critiques them, and just enjoy them for what they are; flawed but relatable/entertaining reflections of the oppressive society that produced them.

(And before you think I’m vagueposting someone or something specific – this issue comes up every single time a person or piece of media becomes popular among people who think of themselves as progressive. It’s constant, this drive to pretend anything you love must have no flaws. Look to your own interactions with these things.)

[laurenbaldoart]

Mermay week 1. Inspired by Pokémon and drag queens.

[previouslytomlinangel-deactivat]

[xparrot]

This scene to me is maybe Loki’s most tragic moment in the movies. Because it’s one of the few times we see Loki entirely alone, not putting on a show or lying to anyone, so his panic and heartbreak are real.  And he reaches out to Odin - and it’s the reaching out that gets me, that moment where Loki hesitates to touch him - and then he when does dare touch, he almost immediately pulls his hand away, and maybe it’s just shock, but also - Loki was just holding the Casket, has just found out what he is; and he knows what a frost giant’s touch does to Aesir.  He’s scared to touch his father, scared that he might freeze him, hurt him further.

(The original script had him holding Odin, but this - this says so much about Loki, about what scares him, how frightened he is of his own self, and what damage he can do…)

[icyxmischief]

YES. 

[pandolfo-malatesta]

“It was easy for me to storyboard someone like Black Widow because… she’s me. I do martial arts, and I’m one of the very few people in the industry that can choreograph a fight sequence and animate to show you what the fight sequence looks like. You know, when I go on a panel talk, I’m always the only girl there, and they’re confused of who I am, what the pitch, my sequence. They get so confused! So I have to let them know that the most testosterone-driven scenes in Marvel movies are storyboarded by a middle-aged mom.”

— Jane Wu, storyboard artist

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

i love cats

you have long cat (serval)

ear cat (sand cat)

small evil cat (black footed cat)

spherical cat (pallas cat)

cat who probably watches makeup tutorials on youtube (caracal)

very round cat (leopardus guigna)

water cat (fishing cat)

cat with socks (leopardus colocolo)

grayscale cat (geoffroy’s cat)

and let’s not forget revolver cat (ocelot)

[im-fairly-whitty]

🎶These are a few of my favorite things 🎶

[slusheeduck]

Don’t forget Snek Cat (Clouded Leopard)

[crystallinecrow]

@bunjywunjy

LOOK, TEETHY FUR BOIS

[bunjywunjy]

IMPORTANT ALLEGED CATS

Are You 100% Sure This Isn’t A Lemur (flat-headed cat)

That’s A Fucking Stoat (Jaguarundi)

Foot Fetish (canadian lynx)

(OK I’M SORRY FOR THAT ONE BUT JESUS JUST LOOK AT IT.)

and I move that my favorite, spherical cat, should be renamed Redonkasaurus Rex immediately (pallas cat)

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

i don’t know if guillermo del toro self-identifies as goth but, regardless, the man embodies such a raw spirit of all things goth

[newtgeiszler]

did mary shelley self identify as goth? did edgar allen poe? it does not matter. he is right up there with our founding fathers.

[spookyloop]

[boarcriminal-deactivated2018052]

if you’re a baby gay and this is your first pride, watch your drinks! men are trash across all sexualities

[mezzalunanova]

I know boys don’t get these talks so let me clarify:

This doesn’t just mean alcohol

Don’t accept any open drinks

After you get your unopened drink, you keep it in your site

You have to go to the bathroom so you leave your drink on a table? That drink is now dead to you.

You’ve been holding your drink way low out of your eyesight and people are crowding? That drink is now suspect.

Stay safe, babies

[cherrycoloredsky-archive]

Also: Rohypnol (a date rape drug) tastes VERY SALTY. If your drink is suddenly salty, STOP DRINKING IMMEDIATELY. 

[bigmouthlass]

Buddy system, y'all. If your friend is acting *way* drunker than they should, take them to an Urgent Care or ER. Date rape drugs can kill you.

[elusive-suggestions]

always rb

[coneybitch]

rb for the advice

[the-headless-vulcan]

don’t rely on taste, ppl could dissolve all kinds of drugs into ur drink so don’t accept drinks from anyone unless u see it made by the bartender in front of u and keep ur drink in your sight, if u have to leave it then gulp it down or throw it away

[uncommongenders-deactivated2021]

Pride season is coming up so please stay safe!!

[geekandmisandry]

If you are not feeling great don’t let a stranger take you outside. In fact, I know the allure of getting away from crowds when you’re sick is strong but stay where the people are.

Also watch out for each other. If someone is being suspect or you think someone is drugged alert security.

[checkeredwithflame-archive]

But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and I fucking read fanfics til four in the morning again

[cappucino-commie]

I like to think that at some point Ed got bored and decides to become a professor at some big name Amestrian college. 

   His specialty is a military funded class called Battle Alchemy, which he starts off by inviting any of his students to beat him in hand to hand for a conditionless passing grade (by the end of the first class, most students walk away sore and horrified).

    It takes half  the semester before they realize that Ed continues to beat them even when they use alchemy and he does not. They ask to see him use alchemy in battle. The next day, a man who looks almost the same as their professor shows up to class- he’s softspoken and polite, and the students expect a substitute lecture. Ed sits in the stands and laughs as Al proceeds to fight the entire class at once, and beat all of them. The students never ask again.

  (And sometimes, in the middle of practicals, students swear they can see the Fuhrer watching from the edge of the field.)  

   I can also see him causing a hell of a problem when it comes to conventional textbooks- 

  “This is definitely wrong.” 

  “Sir, this is the most recently updated textbook for theoretical alchemy-” 

 “Yea fuck that, I can prove that soul alchemy isn’t unviable- someone hand me some chalk, I’m about to commit a mathematical felony.”