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unsurprised but no less disappointed that the single player 'story mode' is michael pov smith's grove escape simulator and not a week in the life of laurie all-american girl simulator where you eat cornflakes and go to school and spend 2 hours real time in a library reading susan sontag, occasionally looking out the window, then go to the local pharmacy and try to decide between 3 different nail polish shades and regardless of what player choice is, laurie's decision to not get any overrides them. added otome feature where no romance can actually be pursued with laurie's peers because only dialogue option is she's got a paper due tomorrow. you do the exact same thing everyday until michael shows up. lost potential yet again with this franchise's adaptations but what's new,.... all new games look like play-doh and this one will be abandoned by devs after a month...

#if only it was voyeurism into laurie's ennui until she was violently freed 💔#in low poly ico style graphics #mylaurie

weepingwidar

Natalia Kleszczewska (Polish, 1999) - Black Beauty 1877 (2024)

#natalia kleszczewska #another beautiful chimera woman 🖤

noisytenant

Whenever I see some anon asking an artist if it's "okay to take inspiration" from their art it makes me want to make some kind of manifesto or billboard or PSA or skywriting campaign to undo whatever damage strange litigious illustrator types inflicted upon the most basic foundations of the creative process. We can't let them get away with this

lesbiansforboromir

I've another tolkien academic article to recommend, though this one is far more easily accessible than 'Wretched of Middle-earth' thankfully, though is also amusingly written by some 'Millers'

"Tolkien and Rape; Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman’s Body in Middle-earth" by T. S. Miller and Elizabeth Miller contains #1 an excellent examination of Shelob's often remarked upon 'monstrously-feminine sexuality' #2 a robust (if still too nervous for my liking) critique of Tolkien's treatment of rape in all his body of work, and #3 a whole new anecdote about Tolkien's medievalist scholarship that I had never heard about. This anecdote is also, crucially, so fucking embarassing for him like it has to be read to be believed.

The paper is (I think?) pretty approachable apart from the quotes that are in middle english. And somehow a bit funny too! Which I understand is strange to say about an article discussing rape but look;

In what follows, we will insist on paying close attention to what Tolkien and his writings say and show about women as embodied beings who desire and who age, even when these women take the shape of outsized arachnids.

#tolkien

charnel-grounds

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

source

#twin peaks

zegalba

a street light in Wroclaw, Poland.

kino-ani

Bound (1996) Dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

#bound

cinesoleil

picnic (1996) dir. shunji iwai

#picnic

letterful

withdreamsofhereafter

Sire Ginkgo helm by Jean-Michel Bihorel

life-imitates-art-far-more

Horace Vernet (1789-1863) "The Ballad of Lenore, or The Dead Travel Fast" Oil on canvas The painting is inspired by the ballad Lenore (1774) written by German author Gottfried August Bürger. In the poem, it is the end of the Seven Years' War, and Lenore is waiting for her fiancé; he appears in the night on a black horse, promising to marry her before dawn. But upon arriving at the cemetery, the horse rider is revealed to be a skeleton wearing armor.

#horace vernet