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There's a lot of new stuff up on my inprnt if you're interested.

Some of my older pieces are now back on the gallery aswell! -> Here!

Something I haven't seen anyone mention yet is how the opening tale in the pilot is clearly refering not to only Gwen herself, but ALSO Olivia, who to me is clearly supposed to parallel Gwen's role as the captive princess of the Park's kingdom

Putting aside the whole "Princess trapped in a tower" symbolism which is *painfully* explicit here, this conversation with her father makes it clear what role she's supposed to play: while it's not clear if this scene happens at the beggining of the Park's history or if it had already existed for a while, what IS clear is that Olivia's father is, well, grooming her to continue his legacy and take over the Park's operations, watching over the guests from afar and keeping the magic flowing while sitting contently in her gilded cage, with all her shiny toys and machines. He frames it all as a big shiny gift for her, compensation for something that happened in the past while also urging her to forget that same past and accept the now

So naturally Olivia complied and became some sort of "ruler" of the Park, at the very least acting as a (human) face for the public. And she has kept this role for YEARS, so much so that in the present she STILL remains on the same damn room, just now bedridden and surrounded by medical staff and freaky androids instead of toys. She's a much of a prisoner of the Park's underlying structure as Guinevere is, the main difference being that while Gwen apparently recognizes that and is constantly trying to escape, Olivia probably never realized she was one to begin with (how could you, if most of what you've ever known was a prison?)

That is also the reason why adult Olivia seems so distraught about Gwen's scape: she doesn't realize she's living in a cage and so can't for the life of her understand why Gwen, her friend/toy/surrogate mother figure(?), keeps escaping. She rationalizes it as an error in Gwen's programming and thus is always trying to "fix her", not necessarily out of malice but because she's desperate to keep her one and only companion at her side, jailed together, forever

It's downright tragic and a GENIUS idea for a villain: a captive princess that rules her kingdom from afar while subsequently being a slave to it. I can't wait to see what direction the show takes

ohnoitstbskyen

This is very much my read on it also, and it's what elevates Knights of Guinevere for me. Before the pilot aired, there was a lot of "ha ha Dana Terrace hates Disney she is going to Epically Own Them!" going around, and a bit of a presumption that the sum total of the show's imagery and messaging would amount to "fuck you Disney! Blood and guts dystopian Disney Princess imagery ha ha fuck you!"

Which would have been fine and fair enough, and certainly a sentiment Dana Terrace has earned the right to!

But the show doesn't stop at a South Park-ian raised middle finger to the corporation, it doesn't just scoff and spit and cry "it's all phoney!"

The pilot is premised on an understanding that no matter how fake or how toxic it might be, the Disney Princesses and their stories are important to people (Frankie seems to most directly embody this, hallucinating Gwen in her most glorious form even when she's broken and damaged), and that finding love and meaning in these things does not make a person weak or stupid or bad.

It's... not necessarily healthy to fixate on it, and Frankie is very explicitly shown to retreat from reality into hallucinatory fantasy, and those fantasies cause her to act rashly and put herself in serious danger. But it's not evil, it's not stupid, and she isn't wrong to love Gwen and the beauty that Gwen represents.

Gwen, the Princess, is not the problem.

And neither is Olivia, really. She's a deeply traumatized child who was not only groomed and isolated by her father, but who seems to be stuck in a state of permanently arrested development, absolutely cocooned in saccharine childish fantasies, and consumed by the obsessive idea of "fixing" Gwen. If she can only "fix" her properly this time, then... then she'll stay. Then it'll work. If she can only make her PERFECT, then it will work.

There's a heavy implication that Orville is acting out of guilt for something, some trauma or pain that Olivia was put through because of him, and my read is that Olivia's obsession with fixing and "perfecting" Gwen is a sublimated obsessive desire to somehow fix, somehow undo, whatever that trauma is. My first guess would be the death of a loved one, and my first guess would be Olivia's mother (there's that conspicuous family portrait we see a couple of times + the umbilical cord imagery when Olivia pulls on her guts: a child yanking on the connection to a mother).

Olivia and Frankie seem somewhat parallel with one another in that way, opposites and complementaries. Both of them obsessed with Gwen, both of them in a state of alienation from reality. Olivia is physically frail, Frankie is physically potent, Olivia is rich and privileged, Frankie is poor and marginalized. Both of them are deeply marked by the neglect and abuse of father figures who think they mean well.

Olivia is not the problem, she's the product of the problem. The problem is the fucking park. This hovering, consuming leech on the world, gorging on resources and throwing up garbage and poison on the world below. It is the world, the structure, the system of cyclical and constantly escalating consumption - this is the thing which is not only poisoning the world, but which is strangling Olivia's life out of her with endless swaddling childhood, and which produces and commodifies Gwen's body (bodies?) for consumption and abuse, and which exploits the fantasies and dreams of people like Frankie and Andi, and poisons their world and impoverishes their lives.

And I think that's a lot more interesting and salient and complicated than "this show is about how Disney is bad and princesses suck" that I have seem some people kind of reduce it to. The art isn't the problem, the characters aren't the problem. It is the ravenous maw of consumerist exploitation which uses them as a lure.

paper-mario-wiki

you guys like rebuying games right? i mean, not like ACTUALLY re-buying them, cuz you dont actually get to KEEP the games but like. you'll give us more money for them again, right? you want super mario galaxy again right?

the worst console in our history is now playable with a subscription and a paid peripheral btw

please dont think about the fact that we still have legal slaves because of our demonic IP defending practices put people in so much debt that they will not pay it off to us in their lifetime

and also. chris pratt. fuck you.

paper-mario-wiki

Nintendo has refused to take legal action against the department of homeland security, who released a Pokemon themed montage of people being detained by ICE.

the company that sues children wont sue ICE.

sgtserger

Hmm, no action yet?

“How disgusting that the Pokemon Company is working with DHS to publish very clearly libel posts about people they have kidnapped and are mocking their arrest in such disgusting and inhumane way via the POKEMON franchise. I thought POKEMON was a Family friendly company! My kids, nieces and nephews will not be playing those games any more! 🤔 Maybe Palworld is a more appropriate game instead of POKEMON and it’s scary involvement of kidnapping of real people”

faithschaffer

Sharing my end credit illustrations for Knights of Guinevere to celebrate the premiere! 🥳🥳🥳 The pilot is up now on YouTube, please go check it out. Everyone brought their A game for this and it really shows. ;_;

I'll share some of the background layouts I did for the pilot soon but in the meantime, shhhh…. 🤫 They're dreaming 💙

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Theory: Gwen was gaming her programming to fight Sir Arthur

As soon as I saw the scene where Gwen decides to help Frankie, something about it itched my skull. And then I realized that it was reminding me of my mandatory reporter training.

Even though Gwen isn't seeing them as kids in that moment, she refers to them as little ones. She turns back to Sir Arthur and asks "Is that your parent or guardian?" when like....he's a giant biomechanical android, he's obviously not. Then she crouches down, reassures them that it's gonna be okay, and she'll sort it out.

Gwen couldn't do anything but scream when Sir Arthur came. She's clearly programmed not to be able to resist him. But as a Guinevere connected to their hive mind, she likely has emergency park protocols. "In case of emergency, Gwen is to be obeyed" on the website. The news story about "Chaos at the Castle" when a brother attempted a prank and it got gory. It's not a hard stretch to think that she has some protocol for protecting children from abusive parents or guardians.

My hypothesis is that by reframing the situation as needing to protect a child from a guardian that hurt her, Gwen was essentially using her emergency protocols to override her usual protocols not to resist retrieval. Normally, she's probably paralyzed beyond a certain distance, but if there's a child at risk, all other protocols get suspended to let her end the threat by any means necessary.

heyatleastitsnotcancer

A lot of leftist accounts are suspiciously quiet on the section 504 lawsuit, proposed medicaid cuts, and the "make America healthy again" executive order.

I know other leftists are not the enemy but if we don't have able bodied allies and general population support, there's no hope of pushing back against these ableist policies. These big accounts ignoring a massive minority at risk is scary. The current admin is the problem but there's no hope of a solution without allyship.

We need visibility. We need allies.

heyatleastitsnotcancer

Also if you have seen leftist accounts discussing disability issues, please let me know their handle so others can follow them!

findme-at1am

The suit challenges a Biden administration decision that considered "gender dysphoria" a disability and goes even farther in questioning ass

"(*The 504 plan) *That law has turned out to be hugely important in education, offering an even broader definition of students with special needs than the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration in September 2024, saying that it was “abusing executive action” to sidestep the law. Under the Biden administration the Section 504 definition of disability was expanded to recognize that “gender dysphoria . . . may be considered a physical or mental impairment.”

The state was suing, Paxton said, "because HHS has no authority to unilaterally rewrite statutory definitions and classify 'gender dysphoria' as a disability."

The suit spends over 30 pages objecting to the addition of gender dysphoria to the Section 504 definition. It argues against the rule’s understanding of gender dysphoria. It argues against the characterization of Olmstead, a 1999 case that found persons with mental disabilities have the right to live outside of institutions. It argues that the new definition conflicts with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It asserts many negative impacts for each of the states that have joined the suit, including, in many cases, challenges with Medicaid compliance.

Then, on page 37, as it reached its third of four counts, the lawsuit switches gears, arguing not for an excision of the new language, but the elimination of Section 504 entirely. The suit argues that Section 504 is “coercive, untethered to the federal interest in disability, and unfairly retroactive” and therefore unconstitutional.

When confronted with protestors, the communications director for the Iowa Attorney General’s office told Michaela Ramm of the Des Moines Register, “The Iowans who were fed lies to show up at our office today in freezing temperatures deserve the truth, and the truth is that no one’s 504 plan is being changed or removed.”

But the language of the lawsuit is clear. The fourth item under “Demand for Relief” says “Declare Section 504, 29 U.S.C. § 794, unconstitutional.”

It’s followed by: “Issue permanent injunctive relief against Defendants enjoining them from enforcing Section 504.”

Everything is at stake.

lazer-screwdriver

This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

mrcorkus

Had to come back to reblog because this happened!

Researchers have spotted a rare humpback anglerfish off the coast of Tenerife in the first-ever sighting of this fish in broad daylight.

hanfu-asks-deactivated20220126

Difference between a Mǎmiànqún/马面裙 and Bǎidiéqún/百迭裙

Hello!

I just wanted to highlight the differences between a maminaqun and baidiequn because they can look similar at first glance. Both appear to have a flat panel at the center front surrounded by pleats. However, they are fundamentally different garments.

A mamianqun consists of a waistband, ties, and TWO separate panels that overlap at the front. This flap is unique to the mamianqun. The pleats can either be parallel pleats, or angled/trapezoidal pleats and this affects the hang of the skirt. The straighter pleats give a more cylindrical silhouette while the trapezoidal pleats give an A-line silhouette.

Straight pleated mamianqun ↓

Angled pleated mamianqun ↓

By contrast, a baidiequn is consists of a waistband, ties, and ONE skirt piece (I say one piece because even if multiple pieces are sewn together to make the skirt, it’s still affixed to the waistband as one piece. The flat panels appear at the beginning and end, but not in the middle.

The baidiequn silhouette is much slimmer than a mamianqun, as the wrap-around method of tying doesn’t allow as much ease and flare. According to @fouryearsofshades, baidiequn is similar to a xuanqun

So just a reminder:

Mamianqun ↓

Baidiequn ↓

Mamianqun ↓

Baidiequn ↓

Much of this info I got from a great article that highlights the history and special properties of the mamianqun here. It’s in Chinese, but running it through your browser translator can still provide some insight.

Here’s a couple ways to tie mamianqun. Here for a more traditional way, and here for a modern adaptation.