costumer and designer

to love my cats is to love me

[lokislady17]

I don't know if anyone remebers, or noticed, the little articles on social media predicting The Mandalorian and Grogu would not be the success Disney hoped for. I remeber thinking that was an odd thing to do. Then I thought some more and couldn't help but wonder if Disney was trying to prepare for, or possibly get ahead of, the tidal wave of bad reviews and shit takes that have traditionally followed after the release of a Star Wars project. I had some thoughts on that. Perhaps Disney had just accepted that vitriolic backlash just comes with the territory. If that's true then more's the pity. While I know nothing can truly be done to stop people from belly-aching online, Disney could, at least, not cave to online negativity the way it does. Allow those in charge to carry on with their stories the way they want to and not try to 'fix' or 'course correct' entire plotlines becasue fanboys are angry on twitter. And for heaven's sake, Disney really should backing up and supporting the people they select to be involved with these stories, both in front of and behind the camera. Disney should not be cancelling projects outright or allowing actors to be abused online so blatanly. If Disney would just stand on business, that would send a clear message to the haters online. Then there wouldn't be a need for the preemptive apologies (like the one for the Mandolorian and Grogu) anymore.

[satalxo]

never let me go

6/17 | E | 61K

⛓️ modern au ⛓️ prisoner qimir but he has the power ⛓️ psychiatrist osha but she's repressed af ⛓️ forbidden romance ⛓️ dark romance ⛓️ slow burn ⛓️ antagonists to lovers

Determined to make amends for ruining her sister’s life, newly licensed psychiatrist Osha Aniseya takes a job at Coruscant Correctional Institute. There she expects to encounter wary inmates, harassment, and the harsh realities of the justice system.

What she doesn’t anticipate is Qimir Stranger, the prisoner who turns her world upside down. He unsettles her, throws her off-balance, makes it impossible to treat him as just another patient.

Oh, and there's the fact he's on trial for murder.

Can she withstand his obsession? Can she overcome her own?

read ch6 on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84015091/chapters/227147771

or start at the beginning: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84015091

[lokislady17]

Still reading Wanna be Loved, Wanna be Afraid. But I will get to this one.

[lokislady17]

A quick rant before I have to get ready for work. Yes, I understand that The Acolyte was a very expensive project. It was filmed in foreign locations and sets had to be built from the ground up. But I’m so sick of haters using the high cost as one more reason to despise the Acolyte’s existence. Especially when they forget that the Acolyte was in production during inflation, COVID and, of course, the writer’s Strike. All of which, I am sure affected expenditures. I’m sure it’s safe to say that part of the high cost was due in part to people who worked on the show were being paid more. I mean, I sure hope they were paid more. Again, I’m sick of the cost as being used as a strike against the Acolyte. Big budget projects, regardless of how well they do or do not do, is nothing new in the world of entertainment. Skelton Crew ranks as the lowest performing series to date, I don’t hear anyone saying it did bad because it cost too much.

[lokislady17]

I have a cosplay event I am attending in lss than 3 weeks. Its called the Phoenix Fan Fusion. I started out wanting to do just one costume than decided to make two-which is already challenging enough. I have been trying to manage my time in between the two costumes soI would not be rushing to get both done in the last few days before the event. A task made harder by the fact that I am the first one my boss calls to come in and cover every time someone calls out at work. Anyway, I spent the whole weekend working on my renditionof the X-Ray dress from Frankenstine. It has not been easy. That costume was practically fighting me at every turn and I made so many mistakes along the way. Well, today, I finally decided to just scrap it. I hate having to cut my losses like this but the damn thing just looked so sloppy and absolutely nothing was working. Its not the first time this has happened but a failed costume is like taking the money I put into it and lighting it on fire.

[flythesail]

Manny going to the green baby premiere after what they did to the acolyte makes me a little sick

[lokislady17]

It makes me wonder if any of the other cast members were even invited at all. It's totally like Disney to keep what will make the company money and throwing everyone else under the bus. Still, I want to look on the positive side. Him showing up at these events keelp the Acolyte in the conversation. I met the man at an event a year ago and he seemed optomistic. He encouraged me to 'put it out there. You never know what might happen." So, maybe continuing to make public appearances at SW events is his way of showing support for the Acolyte.

[keikomivra]

THE ACOLYTE | 1.08: EPISODE 8

[lokislady17]

A few weeks after The Acolyte was cancelled, I went to Disneyland with my best friend. She had stepped off the Star Wars train long before I had but she promised that she would watch at least one episode of The Acolyte with me. I picked episode 8 since it was the climatic epidode. I did my best to bring her up to speed on what was going on before hand. Still, as she and I watched Sol pursue Mae, my friend turned to me and asked"Is Mae even real?" I asked her what she meant and she proceeded to tell me that she wondered if Sol was just crazy and Mae was an illusion conjured up by his deranged mind. Now, I knew that wasn't the case but I was still wowed by the possibility. I mean, seriously, that take doesn't sound too far off. Like, the show easily could have gone that way. Osha being the real person but Mae being an avatar for Sol's guilt.

[lokislady17]

I just saw a post on my Facebook feed praising the Acolyte and, astoundingly, the comment section was quite favorable. I commented that there was an effort and a petition to save the show but I would only post the links if people were interested. I didn’t want to risk drawing negative attention by just posting the links so frivolously. All the same, I feel like I have just signed my death warrant.

[blergarfvader]

happy the acolyte is seeing a resurgence, but with it come people's opinionss and i am noticing so many bad takes made in good faith that boil down to low emotional intellegence

[lokislady17]

I made a post a few weeks about how I believed that certain amount of emotional intellegence needed to be exercised if one was to truly enjoy that Acolyte. Juding by this post, I am not the only one who noticed.

[spooksier]

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

[xray-vex]

[bogleech]

[whatbigotspost]

Gen Z men twice as likely as boomers to say wives should "always obey"

“It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive," said Julia Gillard of King’s College London.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

>Particularly among Gen Z, our data shows an interesting duality: they are both the group most likely to agree that women who have a successful career are more attractive to men but are simultaneously most likely to agree that a wife should always obey her husband and that a woman should never appear too self-sufficient or independent.

Incredibly stupid things are happening

[cryptiddies]

I know these two things seem contradictory, but there’s nothing a conservative man loves more than to tear off an angel’s wings. There are plenty of women that would willingly choose the obedient SAHM lifestyle, but these kinds of men always seem to go for the opposite. Why? Because it’s a power play. There’s no need to break a horse that’s already broken, and that would do nothing to validate that man, his ego, and his place in a world he sees as designed for him.

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Another factor is that these men avoid dating conservative women who already want the lives they want them to have because those women's standards are too high. Specifically, such women expect to be the obedient stay at home mum, but they also expect their men to be the masculine ideal from the other half of the equation -- they tend to look down on their men if they cry, they expect them to be able to financially provide for the household, they want them to uphold their end of the bargain. You see this again and again in groups of conservative men who go out of their way to date liberal women; there is a power play, to tame someone untamed and bring her into line with his expectations, but there's also her lack of expectations of him. They want a woman who will do all the household and keep the home but ALSO will not reject him for not being able to afford to finance the family alone. They want a woman who'll respect and obey him but ALSO be fun and relaxed and let him show whatever emotions he wants. They want the Perfect Trad Wife who won't expect him to be the Perfect Trad Husband.

You see the same thing in conservatives who complain that all their leftie friends are abandoning them, but who won't just hang out with right wing friends instead. They don't want to hang out with other righties because a group of righties quickly becomes judgy and hateful and socially competitive, and is only fun to hang out with when they want to vent, whereas their leftie friends were more relaxed and fun. They want license to be unpleasant and expect unreasonable things of others, but want the people around them to be pleasant and not expect unreasonable things of them.

[lokislady17]

And this is why I am so glad I am single with no kids.

[rovbookshelf]

The reason male mangaka are not treated the same way as Ikeda is because of misogyny. Women are always expected to "know better" and "be better". Women - both real and fictional - are expected to be role models and "good" while men's flaws and contradictories are either understood or excused and men are given more leeway. Women are not expected to be complex or contradictory like men. I often see people complaining how in fiction there aren't many complex, messy or flawed female character when in reality there are complex, messy or flawed female characters but those same people always hate those female characters and call them awful bitches etc. Female characters are identified with their gender ("good representation") while male characters are allowed to be individuals and do questionable or outright bad things and that makes them complex, mysterious and sexy but when a female character does the same she is an awful bitch. Real life women like Ikeda are hold to higher standards than men. If Ikeda says or writes something that doesn't perfectly align with their views she must be a horrible person, no nuances here. But if she was a man she would be seen as a genius and as an auteur with interesting takes we all should value and think about more deeply. Also I find the "marriage is bad, how can Ikeda make her female characters get married to the men they love!" criticism funny cause there is nothing anti-feminist about woman wanting to get married with the man she loves or woman wanting to have children. Marriage is not same as being a tradwife, lol. I say this all as a woman who is not interested in getting married or having children. And like, authors often put themselves in their stories or in their characters in a way or another so it's no wonder Ikeda has her characters getting married and/or having children. And in Orpheus no Mado (to avoid spoilers) one character even loses their baby.

Tale as old as time.

Well, if you at one point in your life you wore pants but decide to get married in a wedding dress, you are now a tradwife.

Ikeda does use a lot of her own experience and thoughts in her work and it’s pretty obvious. It’s all fiction but I don’t know how we can fault someone for having a different experience than us and then writing about it. But Ikeda gets a lot of that.

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[cleric-chono-is-my-everything]

can you imagine how good fandoms would be if fans thought of women as human beings

[lokislady17]

Like, yeah!!!

[lokislady17]

We don’t know what the future holds but at the very least, it’s vindicating that our love for the Acolyte and our effort to get it revived is being noticed.

[lokislady17]

Not a fan of AI but I sure do love Sol's new look in this image.

[mugleres]

[lokislady17]

I hope this is true.

[lokislady17]

As long as you are my hero, you don’t care if the world sees you as a villain.