Just another someone that's learning how to be here

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[tbhsully]

My Kataang heart was BURSTING

[lllostbythemoon]

PEAK ROMANCE

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[i-enact-postvore]

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

[loveridden1999]

starting a collection

[hyunpic]

🫠🫪

[ohnoitstbskyen]

The beauty of Akali's base splash art (art by Jessica "OwleyCat" Oyhenart)

One of the reasons a triangle in composition is so common is that if you place a human figure above the horizon line in an image and look up at them, they will form that kind of shape. Hell, try it right now on your selfie camera. And it’s important not to buy into any of that “sacred geometry!” nonsense you sometimes hear thrown around about it, because, like, yeah, Raphael loved the triangle composition, but that’s not because it has any special renaissance magic to it, it’s just a convenient way to arrange an image, and plenty of people do it without even thinking. Now, when the triangle as a compositional element is used intentionally, it can be really strong tool for storytelling, and a great way to establish power hierarchy in a scene.

And that’s very much the story of Akali’s splash art. It is a moment of quiet, after Akali has just smoke bombed and absolutely iced a group of Noxians, and now she’s looking over her shoulder menacingly, as though scanning for other targets, or daring anyone to take a shot at her. She forms a triangle shape dominating the middle of the image, and with her head placed on top we get the immediate visceral sense that “this character is powerful.”

The light is being used to play up that drama. The face is in shadow intensifying the expression, but that muscled powerful back and shoulder, and her arm holding the razor sharp kama, those are highlighted, as well as that deadly dragon tattoo, with its edges tinged in gold. And especially the reflections on that tattoo are just a gorgeous touch, it gives the tattoo volume and presence, as though it might leap off her back to snap at you, and it emphasizes the power of her body.

Shoutouts to the rendering on that smoke, too, it looks thick and almost liquid and as it passes over a serpent or dragon statue on the right side of the image it almost looks as though a living snake is hiding here.

And that’s visual storytelling, that’s Akali: the dragon hiding in the haze, on the boundary between light and shadow. That’s also why she’s bisected by that light, and why the light and shadow is cutting the image almost in half. That’s where she is as a person. Gorgeous.

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If you liked this, I have a full video essay about beauty in League of Legends splash art HERE.

[shouty-y]

"There's an old legend that a silverwood once fell in love with a witch..."

Prints

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

[taruruchi]

My personal collection of my child from the latest episode because I love brushbuddy sm

[bloodraven55]

this week's episode but it's only when brushbuddy is on screen bc we all need it in our lives

[lllostbythemoon]

I love you, BrushBuddy, I love you so much

[justa-side-blog]

+ the use of the term "male socialization" is egregious, it's just not an accurate term to describe transfem experiences........

Why? Genuine question, don't know enough about this subject. I would've thought "male/female socialisation" is a useful term because gender is a construct, and a social construct at that? So in the sense, "male/female socialisation" is pushed onto you at birth, depending on your government-assigned gender.

I'm not trans, so I can only speak for myself. As a cis lesbian, I was excluded from making female friends as a child because I never met the standards of "female socialisation", and I didn't want to change/hurt myself/conform in order to be socially accepted. Is it different for trans people? Why is "male/female socialisation" not a useful term when describing the trans experience? I would genuinely like to learn about this.

Thank you for the thoughtful ask! I don't know enough about this subject/being trans. I'm trying my best to listen and learn.

(For context, this ASK is about Jax and trans headcanons).

[vivaciousprocrastinator]

some/most trans people respond differently to their agab socialization than cis people do/have different emotions going on in their heads when aspects of the socialization occur

Also even ppl afab can be flagrant misogynists like jax too(which is kinda the reasoning behind the transmasc jax hc too, that he's overcompensating - cis guys do this as well btw just a random thing ofc)

Saying this as someone who isn't cis myself but I'll wait for someone who's transfem esp to chip in with some input

overall this topic is very nuanced tho so there's no one answer esp in the case of those who aren't cis. And in general, attributing trans people's behaviors and mannerisms to societally(idk a better word) stereotypical behaviors associated with their agab(ex. A trans woman being loud or outspoken, a trans man being into sewing) could be some kind of selection bias that wouldn't happen like. If you saw a cis woman being outspoken and a cis man being into sewing. This is just a random example lol

I feel like looking up or writing transfem jax fics exploring this kind of concept or something.

[justa-side-blog]

Okay. I will drop the term "socialisation" when talking about trans people/fictional trans characters/headcanon trans characters then. Thank you for informing me on this.

[rocambolesystem]

Terfs are the type of people who use those terms the most, so if you use them people will think you're one and get upset. Those terms have an ideology behind it, they hold the implicit meaning of "your mind was shaped to be [gender] because you grew up perceived as that gender, so deep down you'll always be [gender]". Terfs specially use the term "male socialization" to attack transfems because they believe transfems have only benefited from it (and continue to benefit after transition), when in reality most transfems have grown up extremely alienated, been bullied for their "gender non-conformity", etc. Those terms also imply that the trans person enjoys/goes along with the socialization

In case you're wondering, people still discuss the things people perceived as girls/boys are allowed, expected or prohibited to do in their societies, but use different words in order to avoid that implicit transphobic meaning.

Male Socialization: A harmful colonial myth

The idea of a singular Male Socialization is not just transphobic, but colonial and harmful for many marginalized groups.

Why are AMAB trans people denied the closet?

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On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse™

It is not uncommon for people who wish to delegitimize trans women and transfeminine people (either as individuals or en masse) to invoke…

In this third article, Julia Serano (extremely respected transfem writer) talks about gendered socialization in conjunction with cis and hetero expectations, she uses those terms in a different and more personal way and only because she made the context of what she's actually talking about very clear. She also very briefly mentions it on the second article but paraphrasing what other people say.

[aisatsaa]

we'll meet again don't know where, don't know when

[caara-mia]

[animentality]

some context:

twitter now auto translates all tweets.

there were way too many trending Japanese tweets calling black people subhuman, so people from other countries are bullying them.

The Brazilians are hilarious, I can confirm.

[lllostbythemoon]

As a brazilian, I can confirm it

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way

[khaire-traveler]

My silly addition that I hope brings a smile to OP's face. Art is a beautiful thing in every single form, and even my silly finger-drawn art deserves to be shared. I hope that people are inspired to keep drawing, regardless of their perceived "skill". Do makes you happy, y'all! Spread the humanity. 🧡

[eela]

wherever you are