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honestly my preference would be to send and receive emails. can we guys do that. i think it would be neat.
#i might just pin this lol
done.
not what anybody signed up for, but i'm pantsing this newsletter now too
and i also wrote this just now.
guaranteed berserk button when we're talking about art
more unstructured rants about art because why not.
Drew Duke for an art trade!! (I got a Scott Summers in return it’s a win win I’m so joyful🥹)
13 hours and 20 minutes of drawing on my phone with my fingers later and FINALLY, IM DONE!!
I drew at least like 5 hours of that at school. AT LEAST. I got so much schoolwork done guys. Heh.
The other hours I did yesterday night I’m so tired. Thank GOD the person I traded with likes it or I would have actually died
If you see any mistakes, NO YOU DONT. I’m already fighting the urge to continue working on it but if I don’t stop now I never will.
This was such a really fun challenge to draw though! Aside from being an ACTUALLY FINISHED PIECE (a rarity for me), it was also great practice for protective hairstyles. I’ve been kinda slacking on those, primarily in the braid front. Like I can do locks pretty alright, but braids? Yeesh. This goes for white people braids too.
I mean, I could have done better, but my right hand is starting to hurt. If anyone has any advice or constructive criticism though, let me know!
I’m like speed-running carpal tunnel. Doing this and run crew for theater? Oh yeah my hands are cooked.
Anyway. Just to put it out there, if anyone wants to do an art trade I am SO down. Dunno if I can promise the same quality as this but I will try my absolute best!
[Caption: drawing of Duke Thomas from DC comics. He appears in profile, from his waist up, in his Signal suit but without his helmet, with golden armor reaching his chin and his axe on his belt. HE's looking up, with black shadows behind him and golden and white light coming from his chest. There are sparkles around his eyes, all white, and his hair is in braids that reach his shoulders, with golden thread and jewelry adorning them.]
The thing that’s always missing from the “women didn’t fight for the right to work they were already working they fought to get paid” is that many women also very much wanted to work.
Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.
I know not everyone is born with intellectual curiosity or drive or determination but some people are and many of those people are women.
Literally.
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image 1: a tumblr tag #ok but domestic labor IS labor
image 2: a digital drawing of a target/bullseye with three rings around the center. top text above the target reads "Let's Stay on Topic". the green center of the target is labeled "On Topic". a single dart is stuck in the center, labeled "Comment"
image 3: a set of tumblr tags #The 1873 SCOTUS case Bradwell v. Illinois concerned a woman suing to get admitted to the Illinois state bar #She met the requirements but was not admitted to the bar because she was a woman. She lost the SCOTUS case because they held that women #did not have the constitutional right to join a profession #Everyone say thank you to the 19th amendment and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
do you think that jason todd, as the red hood, if given the ability, would go back and make it so that bruce wayne was never a figure in his life (meaning they never met, he never became robin, and never died, and all the consequences thereof)?
yes, he would want to
no, he never would want to
he would want to go back initially, but after some kind of reconciliation, he would not want to go back
Would Jason Todd, as the Red Hood, go back and make it so that Bruce Wayne was never a figure in his life?
Yes
No
Initially yes, but after some kind of reconciliation he would not want to
Other/Results
when the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one 🌞 🥰 and the sunshine one doesn't appreciate that kind of condescension from someone who holds everyone else in the world to rigorous intellectual scrutiny 👀🔥👀 and the grumpy one low key thinks the sunshine one is a lil morally bankrupt and self obsessed for maintaining the facade even when acknowledgment of struggle and negativity is necessary for constructive change 🤭 😌 and they get divorced. they get divorced. 🧑⚖️❌
have you ever had a beef with a teacher/prof
yes
no
hard to say
results
do you think that jason todd, as the red hood, if given the ability, would go back and make it so that bruce wayne was never a figure in his life (meaning they never met, he never became robin, and never died, and all the consequences thereof)?
yes, he would want to
no, he never would want to
he would want to go back initially, but after some kind of reconciliation, he would not want to go back
Would Jason Todd, as the Red Hood, go back and make it so that Bruce Wayne was never a figure in his life?
Yes
No
Initially yes, but after some kind of reconciliation he would not want to
Other/Results
so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.
This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.
And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.
Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.
Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.
Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.
My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).
But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.
So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?
Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.
In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.
And they flinch every time.
Here have a newspaper comic from 1993
[ID: A cartoon of a man reading the paper on his commute. Monday through Thursday the headline reads “Stalker Kills Woman” and he doesn’t raise an eyebrow, but on Friday it reads “Woman Kills Stalker” and he (and the men behind him) flips out in fear. /End ID]
you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect
is it worth it?
yes!!
the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT
meh it's okay
the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it
Results/option I didn't think of
“You can talk to animals but no one believes you even if you show me” it’s still absolutely worth it
The rise of AI slop & the endless waves of books that feel written to spec by people who are terrified of their own audiences has given me a new appreciation for Anne Rice. It's not even that she didn't give a fuck; she cared passionately and was famously, publicly hurt by the reception of at least one of her novels, but she never let that distract her from her mission of writing whatever the fuck she wanted. No one could write Anne Rice's books except Anne Rice. They are singularly, entirely hers and while I won't pretend she was a perfect person or it's wrong for readers to be offended or uninterested in spending their one and only life on earth reading something that offends them, I also think her work is valuable and humane and also often hilarious and it's not a crime to have a muse you adore.
the power imbalance between bruce and his mentees is especially emphasized with jason because of their differences in class and jason’s lack of support system outside of bruce (which nearly all the other bats had except jason) likeeeeee. me when i make the homeless kid that i took in from the streets fully dependent on me to the point of his own detriment
on a more flippant note the drama is yet another example of me finding dark romantic dramas far more swoonworthy and emotionally touching than actual Romance movies and I think it's because these movies allow women the full spectrum of humanity–particularly the off-putting parts. someone said the drama is femcel rep and i felt that in my soul. emma having her first love in her late 20s? having a full on panic attack at calling a man her boyfriend? the implications of her isolation in her teen years also meaning being either uninterested or overlooked completely by boys? i am always the first to critique forced HEA requirements in movies but for her it's emotionally resonant because she's never known anyone but him and when all is said and done she might fear that no one else will full be able to see, know and love her the way he does. and that's as romantic as it is devastating in a way that hits for me.
look dick i know you're fighting against an evil voice in your subconscious trying to drown you in a spiral of your guilt, but also batman absolutely could have done things to prevent jason's death. come on, now.
"like I would really LIKE to read meta about what it means for Jason to be written as a doomed former street kid in the 80s, during the rise of war on crime policies and the social work to policing pipeline"
^ this is a reply i cant reply to but i dont think the meat is with jason (all very fucking obvious to be honest like what. hes a bad kid becuase hes poor and poor people must deserve to be poor) as much as it is in analyzing who DC was appealing to with making tim drake. i think his socioeconomic status (millionaire, is that an eretes? my parents only have a litho) is mirrored across media in tv. In just the sitcoms you can see the trend- shows like Good Times and Sandford and Son give way to the Cosby Show and Fresh Prince- our media stops displaying our reality and now we watch these wealthy people- and not much emphasis or attention is payed to that wealth. we just get to watch them exist in their nice clothes and their nice big houses without being troubled by their (and being reminded of our own) financial troubles.
basically for many questions about what DC thought about jason todd, you can look to what they did differently with tim drake to find the answer
Woodland-inspired couture costume by Carly Jenkins of Killing Frost Farm. Photographed by Alex Brooks. Modeled by Berkeley Danysh x
[ID: Two photographs of a model in a dress that matches the setting, mossy trees in the fore- and background. The dress has tiers of grass-green moss skirts opening down the center over a light gray and dull green lichen underdress with a V neck. A lichen capelet over the model's shoulders falls to her elbows. Sleeves of warm brown pinecone scales are visible from elbow to wrist. Pinecone scales fill in the bottom of the V neck on the dress, leaving a flash of skin between the dress and the bottom of the capelet. Scales also form an echoing shape to the V neck, in a partial-cone collar on the front of the capelet that covers from the sternum to the throat. /end ID]
