She/her pronouns. Bi-ace wood nymph in a love affair with food. Adores purple and descended from royalty. Will accept chocolate and small kittens as a tribute. Icon by smallnico.
Wake up, I need to wake up
I've more than just messed up
Song: Wake Up by Meet Me @ The Altar
Characters: Riri Williams, Natalie Washington, N.A.T.A.L.I.E (Neuro Autonomous Technical Assistant and Laboratory Intelligence Entity)
First vid for @ironheartweek
Let's start by focusing on the besties before we get to the worsties!
I was so happy when they announced that they would be not only making the show but adapting from Eve L. Ewing's 2018-2019 run which introduced N.A.T.A.L.I.E!
The show had a different take on the dynamic between Riri and her A.I. bestie than the comics but one that I still very much enjoyed.
Drift stitching is a repair method where zip ties, wires, or clips are used to hold cracked parts together after an accident.
The technique became popular in drifting and motorsports because damaged bumpers could be repaired quickly without replacing the entire panel. Small holes are drilled along the crack so the material can be stitched back together and reinforced.
Over time, the repair style spread beyond racing and became common in DIY car culture. People have also used this method on motorcycles and anything in need of a temporary fix that doesn’t immediately hurt the wallet.
Some people use drift stitching purely for function, while others leave the stitching visible as part of the aesthetic.
Azune goes, "I will kill somebody for you," to Murray and she just replies "Same to you, my friend." instead of giving him a name like he clearly desperately wants.
"I am not a vessel for your good intent" goes hard as a line from a disabled perspective. Abled people care so much more about being their idea of a good ally than they do actually being a good ally. They shove their good intent right down your throat and then act surprised when you tell them they're suffocating you.
[ID: An image of a sign with a blue background and with a graphic of a stick figure in a wheelchair at the beginning, resembling disabled parking space signs. The text below the stick figure reads "I am not a vessel for your good intent." /ID]
I was joking about Thaisha's metal spine being a sort of fantasy scoliosis representation (for those unaware the corrective surgery for scoliosis involves the insertion of rods and screws into your back to hold the manually straightened spine in place) but...
I am now remembering that her PC Decima from when she guest starred on Bards of New York also had various magical metal prosthetics (that heated up!), and that Aabria mentioned in the Study Hall interview that she irl had multiple sports related injuries including a disc to the back that was the final end of her sports career.
So, I do wonder if the plates do speak to some chronic disability management or the magical intervention into some sort of serious injury that we might learn more about now that Thaisha is traveling alone.
The truth of the matter is that if you’re going to seriously pursue writing, not every line can go hard. It can’t be hard 100% of the time, or the hard just becomes soft. Sometimes the line just has to get the writing from point a to point b.
Her name is Gazal Dhaliwal and she’s a screenwriter. She talk about her life here and here.
She’s the writer for Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, an upcoming Indian coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama with a lesbian couple.
She was also the dialogue writer for Lipstick Under My Burkha, which depicts the secret world, including the sex lives, of four small-town Indian women.
She contributed to the screenplay for Wazir and Qarib Qarib Single.
Its not even the matter of finding a good tutorial online I feel is the issue with some of these responses. If you are someone on your art journey and overall have difficulty drawing EVERYONE'S hair, that's one thing. But even if you don't have a tutorial per say to show you can draw Black hair, its odd you don't apply your knowledge of drawing straight hair and apply that logic onto afro-textured hair. And I mean this in a way where, we all have a hairline, we all part our hair to certain degrees, you know what a braid is, you know how to SHAPE hair. What's so difficult of adding textures? Often I see people say it takes too long to get the curls in. That's silly considering most of yall don't draw every strand of straight hair either. So what's not clicking?
EXACTLYYYY THANK YOU
This idea that drawing textured hair somehow takes more time or is uniquely more difficult is way too engrained in the art community, when its really just a matter of drawing shapes in different sizes, lengths and patterns, like it's not hard at all and seeing all of these responses to "No black characters aren't harder, BUT-"
Is just like, come on yall, it doesn't matter what skill level your at, textured hair is very easy to draw.
The other day, I had to tell a Winx Club fan that they gave Aisha straight hair in a fan-made transformation sequence they made of her. I was respectful; I just needed to remind everyone that Aisha has curly, afro-textured hair; it’s just very stylized to match the cartoon.
Got a response from OP saying they are aware Aisha doesn’t have straight hair, but they just didn’t know how to “do that”. 😒
While I did my best to give them the benefit of the doubt and explain how they can go about it, it’s still exhausting to hear how folks can’t just make a simple wave pattern. Like, take the wavy line you made for your straight-haired characters… and just add more of them bunched up together.
What’s so hard about this?
Animators literally gave y’all an easy way to draw Black hair for the series. How are y’all still having a hard time? Cuz now I have to assume this is a form of weaponized incompetence.
Having watched and had time to process both Funmi Yakubuu's video on fanservice (and more generally on sex and the male gaze as they are utilized both in story telling and advertising across America and Japan), and The Leftist Cooks' video on cultural grifters and all meat diets-
I do think part of the backlash that sex scenes in movies and tv shows have experienced in the last decade or so that I've been on the internet are important to understand in the context of sex sells advertising and the overabundance of films and stories that treat women as solely/primarily love interests to the main male characters whose point of view we are generally expected to share, rather than as subjects with their own interiority.
This great breakdown of the way cameras are used in The Losers demonstrates how even in an ensemble movie where a man and a woman are both interested in each other, the man is still treated as the viewer and the woman as the thing to be viewed.
Which is not to say that I think the backlash against sex scenes is correct or that people should not push back against it.
I just think that due to the limitations of discourse on the internet (some platforms having limited character limits, cyclical patterns of conversation as new people are introduced into an ongoing conversation, the most inflammatory takes being boosted by the algorithms etc.) it's easy to forget what the water we were swimming looked like when the cycle of criticism (that I was present for) popped off.
Someone else on here made a post the other day about how they couldn't have even imagined a decade ago women farting, and peeing and just exhibiting normal bodily functions that men are allowed all the time in tv shows and movies.
There was a point in time before I was 'old enough' to read romance novels or watch movies with sex scenes where I could turn on the tv and see a woman's sexuality being used to market me hamburgers and hot dogs.
I think the backlash on the audience's part, instead of just being some unexplained resurgence of conservatism, was pointing at a real problem that people had noticed in the media landscape.
However in my opinion these critiques are often limited in scope and so fail to really wrestle with the larger picture instead using sex scenes as the proxy for all the issues with the sexualization of women and women's bodies in media. And corporations like Disney which have always been (little c) conservative were never approaching it from the same angle and so any actual 'sanitization' that we can see in some movies and tv shows regarding sex scenes is driven more by that even if it seems to dove tail with the broader cultural conversation.
i luv this little bug just bc i love mj and i LOVE LOVE LOVE hobie! i simply couldn't resist 🩷
in the story, i tried mashing together a bunch of different references for his character, while still trying to stay true to the character of mary jane watson but also not sacrificing too much of hobie brown. i hope i… did a good enough job?
more under the cut :)
☆ hobie1610 is a supermodel-in-training inspired by mj watson's dreams of being a model and an actress. except in 1610, mj has these dreams forced onto him rather than aspiring to be them. he's living mj watson's dreams and hates it lol
☆ hobie1610 has a strained relationship with his family, true to mj watson's awful family dynamics in canon. it just... runs in every mj's blood i guess lmao
☆ hobie1610 wants so badly to be an investigative journalist! his plan after graduating from visions is to land an internship at the daily bugle :)
☆ he also gets up to mechanical shenanigans in his free time, fixing and building whatever he can get his hands on. he's very handy with machines and tech, true to the original characterization of hobie brown on earth-616, except on earth-1610 he usually has to hide his tools and gadgets
☆ his favorite subjects in school are english lit and physics!
☆ i gave hobie1610 uniform locs to look like mj's signature long hair but also to directly contrast hobie138's freeform locs
☆ if hobie1610 were to ever meet hobie138, he'd seethe and mald with jealousy. just like miles, mj's biggest wish is for his family to stop stacking so much pressure on his shoulders all the time. seeing another version of him living the free anarchist life would def have him feeling a type of way
hobie meeting mj: oh wow... nearly forgot what my face looks like without m' piercings lol :p
mj meeting hobie: I'M BRITISH IN THIS DIMENSION?!
☆ but he's a hobie alright! he rebels as often as he can in the typical ways teens with strict parents do. no one is putting this guy's flame out 🔥
☆ most of that rebellion consists of sneaking out when he knows he shouldn't. his mother is strict, but she's often very busy and that gives hobie1610 many chances to slip away unnoticed. his bravery is inspired by mj's character in the spiderman ps4 game, where she gets involved in dangerous missions with peter. those gameplay scenes with her in the museum inspired the 3rd chapter of my hobie1610 story
☆ hobie1610's sense of humor is more like zendaya's mj than anyone else
☆ the concept of hobie being miles' mj didn't entirely come out of nowhere! it wasn't just abt punkflower-- the possibility came up when i remembered that andrew garfield claimed he wanted his spiderman's mj to be a man. specifically played by michael b jordan ;)
☆ hobie1610's casual wardrobe outside of visions and his photoshoots consists of mostly greens and earth tones. most mj's across various diff portrayals have green or earth tones in their casual fits
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