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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Huge thanks to https://bsky.app/profile/bumble-b-goode.bsky.social For the art (I suck at finding you on Tumblr, sorry!)
And to
https://www.instagram.com/sketchfeathers?igsh=ZG5sb3Q5OTFyemtm
For the tattoo today.
I love them!! Adventuuuuuuuure!!!
What Caleb thought he meant when he said he was going to bend reality to his will: I am planning to rewrite history in my own favour, right all my wrongs and bring back the dead as if they had never been anything but living
What Essek thought he meant when he said he was going to do something important with his research: I am going to learn things no one else knows, do what no one else has, and be better than all of my Den in the process
What ‘important reality bending’ means now: We are going to join our “Narrative Foils 4 Eva” necklaces together into one complete heart and do the time warp to summon the PowerNap 3000™ for our friends
wizard boyfriendssss
someone's pissed off
Bolaire said the only two things he has are a face and a name which is why he refuses to hide either and on the one hand hell yeah. Like hell yeah.
But also, it means the halflings that created Bolaire and his siblings gave them their names. And then this was later confirmed when Termina turned up with her own name.
This brings up so many thoughts, like:
These are not the types of names you give a weapon. “Bolaire” is not the name of a war plane “Bolaire” is a person name. Does that mean the halflings knew their masks were sentient and feeling beings?? OR—
Are these the names of the characters in the play? This adds to Bolaire’s idea of a lie being the truth. His name— the second thing that is “his”— is actually the name of a character in a play. And yet he is that character. Maybe he’s not a person, maybe he’s a story. Maybe it’s better to be a story.
Did the halflings give Bolaire the last name Lathalia too? If so, is Termina’s last name also Lathalia? Or did Bolaire need to give himself a last name for employment purposes.
You’d think “Termina” would be the name for the mask that killed the god. Instead it’s the name of the mask that the goddess wore. Meaning this is one point towards the names being for the characters and not the masks. They didn’t craft a mask and name it Terminator— the one who terminates the goddess of trickery. They made a character in a play named Terminated— the one who dies at the end. And then they cast their goddess in that role.
Gods I love dives like this 🥰
Still thinking about Azune giving Enfasen that whole speech about hating Thjazi Fang and being loyal only to the Revolutionary Guard/Arcane Marshals and whoever commands them, which now is you, sir 🫡; and then 3 hours later as mere sidebar to the evening’s intrigue & adventure, saying to Hal, “By the way, do you want me to fuck up that guy for you, the one who hurt your friend? I’ll fuck him up for you. I don’t care that he’s my colleague; but speak thy will and I shall see it done.” And Hal’s like, “Please don’t.” and Azune’s like, “Okay. 🥺🗡️🛡️🫡”
Thjazi left Hal 2 swords, actually. One of them is finely honed, powerful in deception, magical in ways we don’t yet fully understand, and utterly reliable, and the other is the Liar’s Blade.
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
watching an essek early scenes compilation and losing my mind over the mighty nein going "this really powerful guy that keeps giving our wizard spells and driving us around everywhere loves ominously mentioning how we're gonna have to pay him back soon... but hes niceys so im sure it'll be fine!" and then it literally was fine. he never asked for a single favour back. he almost started to but then they caught him doing treason and made him cry so it was forgiven. its like they're on a path of the most obvious foreshadowing in the world but jester keeps painting all the cobblestones bright pink. matt fighting for his life dropping increasingly unsubtle hints that this guy is not to be trusted but then they trust him anyway and it works out in their favour like this is the only character in the whole campaign they're not immediately plotting to kill, who starts off secretly plotting to kill them, but then without even consciously trying they change his mind through the power of friendship so it turns out they were right all along. who on earth is doing it like the mighty nein
drawing a Caduceus to test out new colouring methods ☕️🍄
what’s sexier than wizards?? NOTHING!! Like pretty much everyone else I also did the thumbnail redraw a while ago 😆
Also if you are interested, I’m doing a giveaway on my twitter and instagram where you can win a fully painted halfbody drawing of a character of your choice! :)
bodies that carries a lot of regrets 🥲
Midlife crisis in a Happy Fun Ball?? Tell me more 🥰 Feels like I'm never getting over this future Berlin's live show
Wizard study date for nerds part 3: wizard sleepover 🧡💜
Mollymauk Tealeaf ✨ long may he reign
Hot Boi!! Oh man he’s *so* morally grey in the series and I LOVE IT RAGHHH
A little sad that the beacon reveal wasn’t saved until later, but also understand it for the sake of storytelling!!
Oh my gosh, I was so into this aesthetic 5 years ago, I tried to draw Essek's window in the tower over and over again and was never satisfied. This is gorgeous 🥰 😍
The Beginning of the End.
