Thought Is Free

Laz, they/she, 40. Been here a while! Random posts and fandom stuff. I do art occasionally (sometimes it's spicy!) art only account: @midearthlingart

[midearthling]

Hey new followers! Thanks so much for joining me here, but if you're here for art only then my side acc is the one for you! It's @midearthlingart :)

I do cross-post most things here but not everything and I tend to upload any new art there first

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[thewitchqifrey]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale

[small-witch-big-hat]

LIVE ACTION PRACTICAL EFFECTS TABAXI

[captainlordauditor]

I recently watched this and was blown away by this entire scene. This was a one off pair of characters with no names and no lines. They exist entirely to demonstrate the paladin being a Good Person by saving a baby. After he does this, he goes and gives money to a beggar - who is a dragonborn. He is one of two dragonborn in the film, and neither one needs to be a dragonborn. It would have been so easy to make the tabaxi and dragonborn characters humans, or slap some ears on them to make them elves, and they didn’t. They really went out of their way, building practical effects for the tabaxi and dragonborn when they didn’t need to… this is a movie that loves its source material and it also loves being a movie. People working on this movie cared.

I really missed that.

[captainlordauditor]

#and the birdman#don’t forget the birdman YES! AND the birdman! Now the birdman couldn’t be human because Plot Reasons demanded he have wings, but he was also almost entirely practical effects!

[monarobot]

This movie was so much fun, loved how lovingly made all of the creatures and effects were

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

I love Jarnathan

[rogue-of-broken-time]

Oh! Oh, I have the artbook for this movie!!

Can confirm, Jarnathan (the aarakocra, or “birdman” as some people here call him) was all practical effects! His face was an animatronic mask, his feet were articulated high-heel shoes, and he had three fully-functional talon-like fingers on each hand too!

The directors Daley and Goldstein could have made him entirely CG, but they instead went to Legacy Effects, who specialize in prosthetics and animatronics and puppeteering, because they REALLY wanted Jarnathan to look and feel authentic.

According to the artbook, the wings on him were a backpack, a self-contained mechanism that weighed around 60 pounds. The wings extended open to about ten or eleven feet!

I love this movie! :D

[rvllybllply2014]

He sure does love his fruits

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

We just not going to talk about how he can also do pottery? With chocolate?

[knitmeapony]

And stickers!

[gholateg]

he HAS A not chocolate version of that god damned bowl right there! TAUNTING US, and holding the not pastries kiwis!

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[just-another-regular-dude]

[ruinscollector]

Inked and colored a bunch of doodles I've been doing this season, 🦇

[itsurankit]

it's not always violence but the SILENCE.

[songesoleil]

An Art Nouveau enamel and glass pendant modelled as a spray of raspberries

1902

René Lalique

Source : Christies

[animentality]

[paticmak]

some art from this season

[paticmak]

armands

[fuerza-valor-realidad]

[boywizard-moved]

[ID: a photoset of a white cat playing, jumping, walking, and sitting in blue and red, and green and red lighting. /End ID]

[lady-halibuts-chambers]

A Funky Boy

[charl0ttan]

something i actually just realized on call w some friends recently is how crazey it is that your online friends are as many as thousands of feet above or below u right now. like if you teleported to their location without changing your height above sea level, well your fucked in some way basically

[charl0ttan]

How high above sea level are you right now?

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Remaining time: 6 hours 35 minutes

[bitchautism]

here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

JK Rowling posts upskirt image of trans woman while begging to debate her - LGBTQ Nation

Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."

[sailatina3]

Thank you for posting without the fucking destiel meme

[crypticarchivist]

So in summation; Rowling demanded access to a woman’s time and when she couldn’t get it she retaliated by posting an upskirt image of her and called her fat, and some of her fans even went “I think I can see her genitals”.

She literally went “debate me! Debate me!” Over and over like the grifter she is and when she couldn’t get what she wanted and when “no” wasn’t enough she resorted to retaliatory sex-pestery, posting an image of somebody’s body with intention to shame and embarrass and spawn more waspish tittering from her internet followers.

Rowling is trash and this is disgraceful behavior, in case anyone has forgotten.

[shabby-blog]

She had also claimed Freda "deserved" this sexual harassment because of what she was wearing... You know... The same excuse used over and over to try and justify rape.

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[midearthlingart]

Arun, Amadeo, Armand

[dykesynthezoid]

Being that the writing is the most glaring and offensive issue with this season it’s logical that we’re focusing on it, but given how many aspects of the show have devolved I know it all has to go back to production. It’s one thing for individual writers to have racist bias, it’s another for that bias to completely overtake the writing in such a jarring way. At that point you have to start asking questions about the environment, and about groupthink.

It’s a production issue that no Black writers were hired or rehired or asked to stay on. It’s a production issue that there were only two women in the writer’s room this season. It’s a production issue that there seems to have been so much confusion about their timeline in terms of whether they’d be taking one or two seasons to adapt TVL. The downgrade in costuming and styling is a production issue. 20 songs for 7 episodes of television is a production issue.

So what the hell happened with production? I think there’s definite truth, at least in part, in people’s theories about the show looking for a wider audience, the impact of increasingly conservative cultural and political trends, a more pronounced interest in direct oversight by amc with the opportunity of having a white male lead and therefore greater perceived marketability, etc. That being said I do think it’s generally better not to assume intentional malice where run of the mill greed, carelessness and ignorance offer explanation. I say that only because that can be an easy gateway to conspiracy thinking.

It’s certainly easier to imagine there being one or two culprits behind these decisions, to place all the blame on the showrunner bc they’re the most visible target (not that I think Rolin is by any means innocent); but ofc the truth is always more complicated than that. We’re looking at the results of thousands of little decisions branching out and trickling down over two years, at every stage of the season’s creation.

Compared to everything that clearly went right in seasons one and two, it now kind of feels like observing Murphy’s Law in a way that’s far too up close and personal. And we only have the end result and a few interview tidbits here and there to work back from.

What’s clear is that the show’s production culture itself seems to have changed, the actual culture on set seems to have changed. It’s impossible that it didn’t when the problems this season are so pervasive. Which is disheartening for several reasons, but a big thing it illuminates is like. How delicate those kinds of spaces can be. How easily things can be disrupted, how group ideals and dynamics can be tainted by certain decisions from higher ups, how that sets the tone for every interaction to be had and every other decision to be made. A film set functions kind of like its own society. The ramifications of this change is therefore even more resonant on both a personal and political level, I think.

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic