bluejai

Black transmasculine homoflexible guy. 25. Writer. Kinda just here :)

[victorialovesstiles]

Kevin “It'll be easier if he remains heterosexual” Day and his “perfect court” which consists of two gay couples that he has complicated interpersonal involvement with.

[halfbaked-alchemist]

[nebulations]

[ID: A Fullmetal Alchemist screencap of Ed punching Hohenheim in the face, captioned “Happy Father’s Day.” End ID]

[pawnyouoff]

i promise its good guys go watch

[ant1m0ny]

No everyone stop stop right the fuck now and

LOOK AT THE SHADOW

The way Dan is turned away from Gabe but in his shadow he is faced toward him and their hands are almost touching

And the way that Dan's shadow is distressed and crying out and Gabe's shadow is INSIDE Dan's shadow and on his chest doing the same thing

OH! And them both realising there's Diana's blood on their hands just as a little bonus of pain

[rokusasuxiii]

im obsessed with jack wolfe’s portrayal of gabe goodman because what do you mean you played him as a real person who’s dad and sister ignore him, what do you mean you made him real

his version of gabe is so much more sympathetic and that doesn’t take away the anger or the slightly sinister vibes of the character, but wow every time you look at gabe even when he’s not the one singing or talking, something is always going on with his face and body,

im glad the director let him play around with that and that jack wanted the audience to come to their own conclusions on what gabe is/represents

[sleepboysummer]

"babying" a character is almost always referred to as a bad thing (as it usually represents infantilization as a result of lacking media literacy) but "babying" gabe goodman was the best staging decision ever made

[zmpl]

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[mlembug]

"the average income in <X> is <Y> of <currency>" cool, what's the median

[unyielding-pussy]

Average isn't useful here. however, after a little bit of research, apparently the median income in the US is $24,327, which means the reality is actually much worse than this meme makes it seem. yay!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[wirelessmousegirl]

According to time magazine, median annual rent is $13,896, which means rent alone is 57% Of the median annual income, awesome!

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[jester-nonconforming]

People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.

She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.

Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.

[decadent-trans-girl]

[casceth]

i have to reblog this again because i go insane when people act like the problem with her is "its cringe for adults to like kids media" or like "the books sucked anyways" like those are completely irrelevant and try to shift the blame and focus from the active harm. even the fact the books also have bioessentialism and antisemitism is a whole different conversation

[melita-m]

“He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real.”

I’m not gonna lie it’s borderline embarrassing how long I’ve worked on this that I’ve spend 2 days tryna figure out how to caption it to make it less embarrassing but oh well. It also made me realise the banner says exy ncaa instead of ncaa exy but at this point that’s none of my business

Short of being inside Nora’s head here is a (mostly) (I think) biblically accurate and to scale model of the Foxhole Court and Nora I have a several questions.

Also rendered so many images of this I had like 50 cameras in the scene would y’all care if I just did a photo dump.

God I have so many things to say about working on this I had to restart like 8 times it was a mess but if I start I won't be able to stop Imao though if anyone's interested in a breakdown of all the sections and materials I would be more than happy to make a post yapping about it.

Viewport renders below

I really wanna expand this and add the ticket both/ food stalls as well as all the behind the scenes areas like the locker room, foyer, foxes lounge, ect. I’ve been slowly mapping out where everything is so shout out to Neil for being overly anxious and needing to map out the layout and exits of every room he walks into.

Everything modelled, rendered and composited in blender, textures painted in clip studio paint.

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[hairscare]

sorry another bald tshirt post that came to me last night

[its-arson-time]

ive been thinking about this for about a singular minute but i thought about it very hard

[foxmulders]

it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

[thememedaddy]

[andrews-jort-loving-pipe-dream]

I don't think we talk enough about the moment where Kevin is upset that their Exy season is potentially over after Andrew is sent away to Easthaven and instead of Neil agreeing with him, like Kevin thought he would, Neil basically said "fuck your season... Andrew is more important."

Like that was a turning point in their weirdo Exy is Love, Exy is Life relationship, and it slapped Kevin in the face with the realization that he very much takes Andrew for granted.

[thememedaddy]

[tinmate]

Cracks me up that Renee is just a guy.

Neil has his hackles up all the time around her, trying to find her angle, trying to figure out why Andrew hangs out with her, pulling out his little tinfoil hat over how she exists

Andrew is interrogating her and breaking into her room and stealing her knives.

Jean sees her as his savior, his one that got away, a source of strength, a symbol of hope, a tether in a storm

And she’s just walking in circles around the court with Andrew debating fictional hypotheticals. Dying her hair rainbow colors. Teasing Jean about his crush. Calling her mom. Learning to let herself be sweet and kind. Getting her degree. Going to church. Flirting with a cute boy. Would not surprise me if she has a fulfilling social life outside of the Foxes. Just going around inciting the strongest of reactions from these men while she’s literally just chilling.