The Flighty Temptress, Adventure

I'm a photography teacher- I love traveling, stories, photography, and music. This is my trash heap where I hoard art, photography, and anything else that will make me happy. Recent fandoms include Horizon Zero Dawn and Harry Bosch.

[escapekit]

Material Shapes

Connecticut-based prop stylist and designer Kristen Meyer creates geometric shapes using crackers, sticks, spaghetti, herbs, and other common raw materials. The finesse comes in her use of negative space, creating implied borders lines that help complete the shape without a full density of “ingredients.”

[galileosballs]

This interview with Ncuti Gatwa crossed my dash again, and I was reminded of how much I like it. Because it makes the rare Third Argument for representation in fiction, the argument I think is the best, and I'm always happy to see it. I quote:

At times, Gatwa’s casting in those projects has been dismissed as an exercise in ‘box-ticking’. Gatwa scoffs. ‘First of all, you don’t know anything about me. Secondly, tick fcking boxes! People need to be fcking seen. What are you going to do, tell the same stories? Have the same people fronting things for all of eternity? Representation and inclusivity and branching out… it enriches us all. How embarrassing. You people with your tiny mindsets – open a book, look out the window and then f*ck off.’ (source)

What do I mean by the Third Argument? Well, I'm not sure I've ever made a post about this directly, but as far as I can see it, there are three main arguments for greater diversity in popular media. The first two are the most common, and they go like this:

It is good for media to be diverse because it is good for people to see people like them on screen. That is, the beneficiaries are marginalized people.

It is good for media to be diverse because it is good for people to see and learn about people who are not like them through art. That is, the beneficiaries are non-marginalized people, who then (hopefully) pass on the benefit by treating marginalized people better.

These two arguments are the source of a lot of debate here on ye olde tumblr. Despite both being arguments for representation, they pull in different directions. What counts as 'good' representation for the purposes of Argument 1 often would not be good for the purposes of Argument 2, and vice versa. Authentic versus sympathetic. Ugly or over-sanitized. You see this debate play out constantly. It's really hard for a piece of - say - queer media to do both at once.

But these debates tend to leave out Argument 3, the one that Gatwa is making above. And that argument cuts through a lot of this debate.

3. It is good for media to be diverse because art needs variety. The beneficiary of representation is art itself, absent any social effects that may or may not be present.

For this argument, diverse stories are intrinsically good. It is good to make art that's not just the same thing you've seen a hundred times before. Putting the kinds of people who don't often make it into mainstream media into your art is an extremely efficient way to make that happen. It's not the only method, but it's a really good method.

For representation to be 'good representation' according to Argument 3, all it needs to be is interesting. A story you haven't heard before, at least not in that medium. That which counts as 'bad representation' by the lights of this argument are stock characters, like the Eternally Patient Mother, the Gay Best Friend, the Wise Black Advisor. Perhaps there was a time in which these characters were new, but that time has long passed. There's no art in pulling a bog-standard character trope off the shelf. Show us a new kind of guy. The world is infinitely diverse. You're not going to run out. Telling the same stories with the same voices for all eternity, as Gatwa says, is boring. Even if there was nothing else wrong with it, this would be. Art isn't supposed to be boring.

And that's why Argument 3 is my favourite. I do want the world to be a better place, of course, and I think art is a part of that. But the main job of art is to be good as art. And diversity in all aspects of the production of art makes art better.

[andrearrrrr]

timelapse of an evolving lenticular cloud

[absentminded-butch]

[doctor-lypten]

@saur0n

[gallusrostromegalus]

You are correct that there is a Wizard is up there, but the wizard is the mountain itself, and it's casting Rain Shadow. You can tell because of it's pointed hat!

[animentality]

[catgirlwheels]

I'm an adult

You're a dumbass who the fuck says something like that

[weaselle]

a few months ago my friend called me and told me she was moving back up near me from 7 hours south in the middle of nowhere and asked if i would help her because she couldn’t move the furniture by herself and the town was so small there was no moving company (there were actually only 5 or six businesses in the whole town including both restaurants) and she had no one else down there to ask. 

And even though money is pretty tight for her, she told me I could name my price if I would help her, because it was so far away.

I told her she was a dummy for thinking i would take her money but that i would accept the traditional helping-a-friend-move price: a meal (i know she would feel wrong about herself if she didn’t do something for me in return, that’s just how she is) Tradition suggests pizza and beer, we opted for enchiladas and a margarita.

we crashed on the floor of the empty place and left back north in the morning - when we got back to the city three more friends met us at her storage place (the place she was moving into wouldn’t be vacant for a couple months) and we started to move all her stuff up to a storage room on the THIRD FLOOR (because large city storage places be like that)

we had just taken the first box out of the truck when the (only) lady working there walked by and told us they closed in an hour and twenty minutes, and she couldn’t stay even a little late because she had to get to her other job.

One hour twenty minutes. To completely un-jenga a large uhaul and re-tetris it back into a similar sized room on the third floor.

We all just, shared a look, took off hoodies, and got the fuck down to business. 

It was actually.. I still cherish look we passed around. The tiny eyebrow quirks and chin nods. The eye glints. The bigger breath we each took as we prepared to kick it up several gears. That moment of wordless connection, when we all just silently agreed that we were damn well going to do the impossible and didn’t even waste the time it would take to say anything, just got to it.

And we did it too. Finished with exactly two full minutes to spare. And then we all went for dinner and drinks to celebrate. And my friend’s friends that came to help? Two of them were acquaintances/friends of mine already. Like I lived with one for a year a decade ago sort of thing. But this experience? Brought us all closer. Made myself a new friend too.

And the friend i helped move? She and I are closer than ever because of it.

When i left our storage success diner to go home, she asked me again if I was sure i wouldn’t take any money.

I said “I ever tell you when I was 22 I went down to Hollywood to try that scene out? Anyway ten months later, when I just couldn’t do it anymore, and needed to come back, I called one of my best friends and said i can’t do this anymore i need to come back. You know what he said? He said: I’ll be there tomorrow. Not how much will you pay me, not what do i get out of it, not will you be able to cover my gas, just: I’ll be there tomorrow. Okay? You’re my friend. If you need help, I’m going to be there”

If helping someone move ruins your friendship, you’re doing at least one of those two things very wrong.

[lawbreaker13]

Reblogging for the last line

[expressions-of-nature]

by Roger Hill

[heathinator]

Doodles doodles doodles

[occudo]

This post by @vonlipwig besides being really true, also made me think of poor Dr. Lokken having a crisis over Grace in the book :"D

[katebeckets]

jane & lisbon + normal coworker behavior [32/?] ⤷ 2.16 — “Code Red”

[multicolour-ink-deactivated2026]

I'm surprised not many people seem to be talking about this.

Just the fact that Woody and Jessie have walkie talkie devices (Woody's with a J for Jessie and Jessie's with a W for Woody) just so they can speak to the other, even when Woody is out in the wilds, speaks volumes about how much they mean to each other.

Look at how Jessie immediately sprints to her device when she hears Woody's voice 🥲

And how relieved she is to hear him again 🥲🥲🥲

While Jessie is perfectly capable of looking after herself and the other toys, that doesn't mean neither she nor Woody would be willing to just forget about the other. They're as close as siblings, as close as they can get to immediate family (given they are from the same toy line in the same decade). The fact they can call each other for advice or just talk about some personal things they are dealing with - that hits in the best way.

[atesan]

TOY STORY 2 (1999), dir John Lasseter

[dcartcorner]

a curiosity

(you know that one tumblr post)

[katestewartt]

"This may seem like me betraying you, but it's actually me believing in you."

[dr-cassie-mckay]

eva stratt + looking at ryland grace

bonus:

[billiamdoor]

how else was he supposed to drink it?

[komodoze]

Woody Pride things

I have an AU for Toy Story / Lightyear movie lol

I like this one a lot,, I might make a full peice + the rest of Buzz from it. Anyways I might yap about this AU later (insert image of guy talking to a brick wall). Includes a lot of interdimensional apocalypse stuff, the usual. Just so I can add the talking dinosaur and talking porcelain pig and the force field dog y’know.. the usual

[scurviesdisneyblog]

𝙿𝚒𝚡𝚊𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉ(1995 - 2009)

[heathinator]