L'Envolée

Fauve, they/them. lots of gays, horror, indie gaming, women with swords, writing/poetry, films history, pretty landscapes and fucked up birds. sometimes i draw, or write, and think it's a good idea to post it here (like. twice a year).

[auroradiation]

"What do you hear in my song?"

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[catchymemes]

[mariakono]

Man i feel really bad for the guy who wrote this article because the article actually manages to raise a very very very good point but the way the headline is phrased completely omits 95% of what they were trying to say

And because i know people won’t even bother to click and check the article itself i’m gonna screencap it, it’s fairly short, give it a read:

tl;dr: the article’s point isn’t “corporate satire is not funny anymore as in “we should stop making fun of corporations””, the article’s point is “corporate satire is not funny as in “it’s extremely depressing to live in a capitalistic hellhole and corporate satire aims more to poke fun at that without actually making you think about our world or giving you hope for a better future, and therefore it’s just lost its bite””

[aurelia-which-means-sunrise]

Thanks for the screencap, I did try to read the article but the ads on that site were insane.

[connorsjorts]

i've never played dragon age and don't know anything about it but what i do know is that that solas guy looks exactly like if astarion and wulbren bongle had a baby

[connorsjorts]

this is an animorphs cover

[vague-humanoid]

Kenya unbans groundbreaking lesbian film Rafiki in major victory for queer visibility

"This ruling encourages diverse, bold and authentic filmmaking. Rafiki walked so many stories could run.”

Kenya’s Court of Appeal has overturned its decision to ban Rafiki, the groundbreaking 2018 drama that depicts a lesbian romance between two Kenyan women.

The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) banned the film in April 2018 due to its “homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law”. The decision came after director Wanuri Kahiu declined to give in to demands to change the ending, which the board deemed too positive.

[seafooms]

thinking ab those horse cave paintings a lot. here's some para and dromeo equivalents available on redbubble (first para, second para, dromeo mama and babies)

[bestiolin]

maarten inghels

[animate-mush]

@sherbertilluminated there's a line somewhere in Ursula Vernon's Digger that goes something like "it is difficult to be metaphysical around the truly geologically minded"

[fishfingersandscarves]

ketheric thorm

[tallahasseemp3]

it's crazy how SINNERS came out this year and immediately entered vampire classics canon forever. studios need to give ryan coogler 200 million dollars to do whatever the fuck he wants every few years in perpetuity.

[yebisu]

YOU FREAKS DON'T GET IT

Big budgets ruin good directors. Look at Ridley Scott or shit, even Taika Waititi.

[tallahasseemp3]

first of all, don't talk to me like that, you don't know me. also those directors are not, as i said, ryan coogler, and it's frankly strange you brought them up while i'm praising a black director and saying he deserves to be not only paid for his work but also given the same opportunities his non-black peers have been. sinners is significant because the deal he negotiated with the studio means ownership of the movie will revert back to him after 25 years, a landmark deal that means he will receive royalties for the rest of his life that would usually go to the studio, which is unheard of and especially important in the context of black art being stolen and repressed by white supremacy. you might think you're being funny by making your little comment but what you're doing is 1) implying that we should stop directors like him from having the freedom to make whatever they want to make, to tell the stories they want to tell that aren't just franchises and are vibrant, resonant pieces of storytelling, AND 2) essentially parroting a right-wing talking point about how we should spend less on the arts. so yes, i will reiterate: studios need to give ryan coogler 200 million dollars to do whatever the fuck he wants every few years in perpetuity.

[tallahasseemp3]

and that is academy award winner ryan coogler to you. bitch.

[fernicenty]

two bear sitting on the edge of katmai river

[bethfuller]

children of war.

characters from The Victors, out May 7th.

[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[comfort-care]

[wyldstallyn]

[slowspinningredemption]

[molabuddy]

HELP. chat i found another funny sea creature sex image

WHY IS HE WATCHING THEM LIKE THAT !!!!

[mlimby]

[weedass]

woke up and turned over and there was a roach next to me.... wtf did we do last night....?

[mr-freezo-42069-inactive]

how dare you make me read this

[foone]

Saw a post of this shot from Where Is Everybody?, the first episode of The Twilight Zone, but it was split into multiple GIFs, which I think ruined the effect a little

[deadnettled]

scarlet hollow has truly heightened my standards to an unsustainable degree on choices matter games and it's so fucked up lol

most "choices matter" games are like... "make these two big obvious decisions and you'll get a different ending based on what you pick" which like, yeah sure! that is what it means when choices matter! perfectly acceptable!

but then in scarlet hollow one of the first decisions you make in the opening scene is about whether or not to take a bag of boiled peanuts from a stranger on the bus, and that single interaction carries several possibilities to define aspects of your character and how they can interact with the world that WILL come up again MULTIPLE times

the chapters take years to come out, but it's because the devs are literally sitting there like "fuck, how could a person who is allergic to peanuts behave in a situation such as this. how do we give them two or three possible options specific to being allergic to peanuts" for every branching pathway, and i respect and fear them for that

[hollowboobtheory]

hey in case you didn't know trans inclusive terminology in healthcare is not about protecting peoples feelings, it's to stop insurance companies from going "well it says here that hysterectomies are a procedure performed on WOMEN and you keep insisting that you're a MAN so we do not in fact have to cover that have a nice day and eat shit"

[lyricwritesprose]

It also exists so that if, say, you have a situation with an underdeveloped, nearly nonexistent uterus but also an ovary that has a giant cyst, nobody can say, "You have an intersex condition so you are not technically a woman and we can't cover ovarian surgery for not-a-woman, happy peritonitis to you when that sucker explodes lol"