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Touching grass is not enough, some of y’all need to touch the hem of His garment.
Fictional country: average fantasy
Fictional small town in the middle of nowhere in real country: par for the course in any genre
Fictional major city in real country: standard fair, but it's usually clearly based on a real city
Fictional suburb of real major city in real country: strange but I can see the application
Real major city in fictional country: Chicago can be anywhere you dream of
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Never lose your inner child…
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You shoot your shot.
On AO3.
Jesus goddamn fucking christ. The foursome out there is still talking—that probably just saved your ass—likely sharing their evil plan that would be nice to know if two of y’all’s party wasn’t trying to leap out and announce their presence.
“Back,” you hiss. “Everybody back.”
Most people I know had that one movie as a kid; that one movie that they would watch over and over and over to the resigned acceptance of their parents. I’ve always thought that movie says something about a person. What was your movie?
It was Superman: The Movie with Christopher Reeve. I fell down some stairs when I was 4 and busted my teeth. My parents had rented this for some cousins that were over for a BBQ the day before and figured maybe it would calm/distract me.
He was so handsome and good and he was my first love and every man I’ve ever met is judged against him. Unfortunately for every man I’ve ever met…
“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.
Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.
Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:
“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”
I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.
A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.
But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here
Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.
Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:
But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:
We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.
I’d just like to briefly say even Rockwell’s seemingly feel good Americana pieces are often more political than people today realize for example
likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.
What you may not know is its actual title
“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme
“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.
So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry
Rockwell’s work was very political, he used that Americana small town America vibe of his work to make what he was saying feel very close to the viewers he was trying to reach and also his optimism of the human spirt but for sure not blind to the need to build a better world.
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I'm reblogging this. I reblogged years ago and it's even more true for me today because BG3. If I'd known then what I know now...
lying across the autopsy table all by yourself, gorgeous?
I just said something in a message to someone about X-Files and this popped up on my dash STOP IT. The original 'ship', I think? This is going WAAAAY back but I remember there were NoRomos (actively didn't want the romance), Mytharcs (preferred eps about the overarching Samantha/Smoking Man/alien plotline) and then there were Shippers (wanted them to bang and LIVED for the intense eye contact and subtext). And that's where the term 'shipping' came from? Yes?
Feck, I'm dating myself. Oh well, I'm still significantly younger than Gillian Anderson (not that it matters, she's aging like fine wine).
my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in
…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…
…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.
Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.
It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.
I just have to reblog because it makes me laugh EVERY TIME
Robert Redford honors Paul Newman at the Kennedy Center, 1992
I feel like one of the reasons why the US is Like That is the difference between countries and states. Because apparently when you're nominally still the same country, different states can pull absolute bullshit on each other that would not fly in relations between two countries.
Like if idk Belgium decided "hey we have this huge homelesness problem that we've been neglecting for decades while allowing it to get progressively worse, but we figured out how to fix it: we're loading all the homeless people onto buses and moving them across the border to France", the french response wouldn't just be "aw naw ugh I wish they couldn't do that :/"
It'd be "hey buddy that's really funny, do you want to see how fast we can get tanks on the streets of your capital?"
The States are basically 50 countries in a trenchcoat. Some are theocracies, some are democracies, some don't know what's going on, some are practically having their own civil wars. The thing that's supposed to unite us flips political alignment aggressively every 4-8 years, destroying any hope of continuity and consensus. And most of us could buy a gun more easily than we could afford therapy. Those are most of the facts you need to really understand why it's Like This here.
excuse me for stating the obvious but like. james gunn outright calling superman an immigrant and doubling down on it when he got backlash (because he IS an immigrant, that's the point of superman) + the in-movie dialogue of "aren't you going to read me my rights?" "you're an extraterrestrial, son. you haven't got any rights to read." + the violence of his arrest and how they torture and mistreat him unapologetically, all under the guise of "protecting america", in a film releasing during the onslaught of violent ICE kidnappings and abuse... yeah it's really no wonder right-wing knobheads are crying about this being woke. they're being forced to look directly at the reasons one of the most well-known and beloved heroes of all time would not be on their side. and that's only ONE of the reasons this movie covers
I just think if you dunked Astarion in water he'd be unrecognizable for like 10 seconds. There is no way in hell he has naturally black eyelashes. There is no way that coif can be achieves without pomade and a comb, and there is no way that it would be water proof.
MOSTLY THOUGH I just wanted to like a nautiloid crash vs. on-the-road Star. Suspicious stranger vs. my favorite little creep whose head is like a lovely dandelion.
is your fic Arranged discontinued?
Nope!! I’ve just been super busy with work and stuff, but I’m halfway done with the next chapter. Sorry for the wait!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: Explicit Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey
Chapter Three, incoming!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Final Fantasy VI Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Celes Chere/Locke Cole Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Past Locke/Rachel - Freeform, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Baggage, Past Child Abuse, Minor Character Death, Trust Issues, War Crimes, Emotionally Repressed, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:
Sometimes the hearts bearing the most scars are still capable of love that so profound it can survive even the end of the world.
Even if that love comes completely unexpectedly.