Elora and Cullen! Elora is a fire-based knight enchanter (same as my Lavellan Inquisitor), so it felt like painting a sistah from another mistah. <3
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Elora and Cullen! Elora is a fire-based knight enchanter (same as my Lavellan Inquisitor), so it felt like painting a sistah from another mistah. <3
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taijavigilia replied to your post “I had a teacher in High School – a year ago– who was my spanish…”
Just a thought but if language teachers needed to be the ethnicity of the language they teach then most of the world would never have a chance to be taught foreign languages.
For one thing, language is not ethnic. Some languages are unique to certain ethnic groups, but language is not solely ethnic.
Not to mention language travels and not all language is learned from formal instruction.
Plus, my cousin is black American and he teaches English in Japan, so…
-pink
Agreed, and my apologies, “ethnicity” was not the right word to use but I could not think of another and replies only have such little space. Thinking about it, perhaps to say that “language teachers needing to be native to the language they teach would put an end to much of language teaching in the world” would make more sense?
Native speakers of a language being recruited to teach abroad is only a small fraction of foreign language teaching. I didn’t even know it was a thing until I moved into an English-speaking country because up until that point I had only seen people from my country who had made the effort to learn a foreign language to teach it, and I come from a country of which language not many want to learn abroad. Vice versa, not many people would want to move into the country to teach their language, at least not enough to cover every primary school, high school and university that would need them. True, not all language is learnt from formal instruction but the OP I replied to was talking about teachers, which would imply schooling of some sort, not just naturally learning from your family or surroundings.
I realise your blog is predominantly from the US perspective and my experience was not relevant to you so I only left a small reply in amazement. I love your blog and have learnt so much from you that has opened my eyes to the things I see in American movies and TV.
Stumbled upon this today, cute as a button. Goes by the name Niehime to Kemono no ou. Beauty and the Beast-esque manga about a demon king and a human girl, there’s at least three chapters’ worth translated into English. In some aspects similar to the Ancient Magus Bride (Mahou Tsukai no Yome).
@cat-wolfe replied to your post “list 5 things you’d like to do in your lifetime…”
These are lovely! and the garden <3 I love gardens although I’m completely incompetent in gardening.
Thank you! :D I love gardening, but so far I’ve not lived anywhere I can really get stuck in to that. I have considered an allotment, but they’re super expensive. I can wait! <3
Allotments are "expensive" in that you pay rent but you also get to grow "free" food!!! Also quick google tells me allotment rents near you start at less than £40 per year for a small plot. In comparison, mine where I live costs just under a hundred pounds a year and there are available plots all the time up for grabs. Howwwever, I know folks on the south coast who pay several hundreds and had to wait years for their plot. The rents and waiting times vary wildly depending on your area.
Anyways, if you can get one for less than a hundred a year I wouldn’t necessarily class that as super expensive considering how much healthy and organic food you will get out of it. If you have a couple of hours a week to put into weeding and digging and whatnot you will make your money back easy. Seed packets are pennies if you get them from poundshops or Aldi/Lidl or other similar places. DO NOT GO INTO GARDEN CENTRES!! Or by all means go but don’t buy shit from there because it’s overpriced to all hell. Same for plants, you get really good basic berry shrubs and fruit trees for cheap if you look around. Join mailing lists of big online seed shops like Suttons or Thompson&Morgan and buy when they have something you need on a special offer. You will need a spade, a fork and a trowel plus a wheelbarrow is handy to have BUT again you can get all this for pretty damn cheap if you look around. You might find them for free in a skip or inherit at the allotment plot you take over because most people when they give up an allotment don’t seem to care about clearing it up (or it becomes vacant because the previous tenant has passed away). You can also team up with a friend and get them to help out/pay half the rent and then just share the om noms.
Lot of plants once you buy one you will never have to buy another because they will multiply freely. Like strawberries. I started with a pack of six little baby plants I grabbed from Aldi couple of years ago and now I have a ten-metre long bed of strawberries because they just spread and spread and even though I yearly pull up the oldest ones and move the babies around they are not going to run out any time soon. And I got so much strawberries last year I had to freeze a lot because we couldn’t eat them fast enough. Pumpkins, beans, potatoes, tomatoes etc. you can very easily keep your own seeds for the next year from the ones you have grown. Fucken garlic, ok, garlic grows this seed head in the first year that has like the beginnings of fifty new garlics and it doesn’t grow the cloved bulb thing you get from a supermarket until second year. So by the time you get around to harvesting actual garlic you will have the beginnings of a thousand more garlics growing somewhere and don’t do what I did at first which was to stick them everywhere and then forget about it because I am rn like a squirrel with garlic, I have them growing everywhere and I don’t know where and I keep finding them in the most unexpected places. People on the allotments will give you stuff. This one old guy in the allotment next to mine always grows too many saplings of everything, cabbages, carnations, gooseberries, you name it and just keeps giving them away to everyone. Fruit trees are also a once-in-a-lifetime investment because an apple tree will continue to grow apples literally for hundreds of years if it stays healthy. Heck, most allotment plots already have fruit trees on them which you will inherit when you take on the plot. You can also make more fruit trees for free by grafting. Berry shrubs are kinda the same thing, you buy one once and you are sorted. My mum’s garden has blackcurrant shrubs that she says were planted in 1915 or so her gran told her anyway. They are the size of a Smart car and they still grow bucketloads of berries every year.
Sorry this got a bit long, this has been a pro-allotment PSA.
Gotta love those sketches that are gonna remain sketches forever bc you’re scared of cleaning it up and ruining it 🌝 #patf
100% this ^^^
It looks ok but... WHERE IS HER BOOK? WHY IS SHE WALKING ON THE LAUNDRY SPOT THAT’S JUST RUDE!
A feeling
you know what’s probably more fun than playing chess? cheating at chess
“ohhh would you look at that, my pawns found jesus and now they’re all bishops”
“so i realize it looks like i’m putting a thimble on the board but actually my rooks have been using their downtime to build another rook, one that’s better, stronger, faster—”
“hey welcome back. while you left to get a snack, those six pieces you’d captured slipped their guards, tunneled to safety and emerged right in the middle of your royal palace.”
“oof, looks like you’ve got my king cornered…maybe this is a good time to mention that shortly before we started playing, my pawns and knights revolted and instituted a representative democracy. feel free to kill the puppet ruler that was the one remaining vestige of our tyranny, you cringing servant of the crown. vive la revolution!”
BUT LIKE, IMAGINE THE OTP
This is the only way I have ever played chess.
http://taijavigilia.tumblr.com/post/130902023524/similar-thing-happened-when-me-and-my-sis-first
Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.
Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and “boys will be boys” esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.
Yeah, the truly scary thing about Beauty and the Beast isn’t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it’s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it’s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don’t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn’t the only one who criticizes Belle for being bookish, either; the whole town says there must be something wrong with her. And her father gets carted off to a mental asylum for being just a little eccentric.
Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.
Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.
Society rewards the bullies because we’ve been brought up to believe that their victims don’t belong. That if someone doesn’t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is wrong. It’s so much deeper than a standard “be yourself” message, and that’s why it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.
Yeah okay, that might have been the intended message of the movie, but the Beast is literally an abuser, he literally abuses and imprisons Belle, she tries to escape (as many abuse victims do) and ends up back with him because it’s just too scary out there without her abuser whose violence protects her.
It’s literally textbook abuse, textbook stockholm syndrome, and it’s great if you can find positive messages in that movie but please don’t hand-wave the abuse that Belle endures or the fact that her happy ending is literally her reward for loving her abuser and choosing to stay - and her reward is no longer being terrified and imprisoned.
Please don’t ignore the damaging messages in that film just because you want to talk about one of the better ones - how many young children have seen, will see Belle terrified of a controlling person with an explosive temper and zero self-control, and then see that if you just love someone like that enough they’ll turn into a kind and gentle prince?
This story might have been great if the Beast hadn’t been written as abusive. Or if he had been and Belle had succeeded in leaving. Or if her staying with him was read as tragic. But as it stands, we’re supposed to think it’s romantic that this young woman fell in love with a cruel and terrifying person who imprisoned and controlled her.
We hear too many stories like that already and if you justify the Beast’s abuse of Belle because others have rejected him, or because it’s somehow her job to love her abuser because he can’t love himself, guess what, you’re supporting one of the more popular narratives that real-life abusers use to control their victims.
No.
I’m sorry but you’re wrong.
Belle did not fall in love with her abuser.
I will not deny that Beast was abusive in the beginning. He was downright beastly. And Belle hated him. And feared him. And was disgusted by him.
But here’s the thing:
Beast CHANGED.
He was a cold-harded bastard who, over the process of weeks/months, slowly changed!
And it’s only then that Belle starts to care about him.
Leading to them slowly developing a friendship and eventually “something more”.
Leading to one of the most beautiful Disney moments:
But even then, when her father is shown in the woods, Beast tells her to go and Belle goes!
She only comes back, not because “it’s just too scary out there without her abuser whose violence protects her” (that’s just ludicrous!) but because she genuinely cares about the man that the Beast became. (And she despised the monster that Gaston had become.)
The point of the story is that, over a period of time, the ‘monster’ became humanized and the ‘human’ became a monster.
YES. MOTHER. FUCKING. THIS.
I have gotten so sick and tired of people diminishing Belle’s personal power and the importance of her story by saying she only stayed with the Beast because of “Stockholm syndrome.”
This movie starts with Gaston and the Beast having basically the same entitled attitude towards the world: they feel they’re OWED whatever they want because they’re somehow superior. Belle is the catalyst and the lynchpin, and the difference in the characters of the two men becomes blatantly obvious in how they react to not getting what they want from Belle.
Gaston sulks and pouts and tries to force her to marry him, to the point that he convinces the entire village to help him plan a shotgun wedding with an unwilling bride, institutionalize her father, and even storm a castle to murder an unknown “monster,” still with the idea that with no Beast, Belle will be “his.” The most telling thing is that despite how much Gaston claims to want Belle, the moment she publicly rejects him (”He’s no monster, Gaston! YOU are!”), he immediately dismisses her as crazy and locks her in a cellar while he goes off to kill the person she actually cares about.
Beast sulks and pouts…and then makes significant changes to his behavior and his manners, both to show Belle that he cares for her and that he CAN be a better man. He changes both FOR Belle and BECAUSE of her. He pays attention to what she says, what she doesn’t like, and what makes her happy. And she’s not afraid to tell him, in no uncertain terms, exactly what he’s doing wrong.
“If you’d hold still, it wouldn’t hurt as much!” “Well, if you hadn’t run away, this wouldn’t have happened!” “If you hadn’t FRIGHTENED ME, I wouldn’t have run away!” “…..Well, YOU shouldn’t have been in the west wing!” “Well, you should learn to control your temper!”
This is not the behavior of a woman too afraid of the Beast to leave and too cowed by abuse to stand up for herself. The Beast literally shouts in her face, and she barely flinches. This is a woman in full control of her life and completely able to make her own choices. If the Beast hadn’t changed, if he’d acted like Gaston instead of demonstrating radical self-improvement, if she thought for one second that her life was truly in danger, she would have left and never come back.
She’s spent the better part of her adult life standing up to and actively shutting down an overbearing and physically intimidating man who shows immediately and repeatedly that he has no respect for her wishes or her personal space. She is not going to back down just because someone growls and blusters at her, no matter how big his teeth are.
Belle is a force to be reckoned with.
And the message here is not, “If you love someone enough, you can fix them.”
The message here is, “If they actually love you, they won’t be abusive.”
Every time this comes around to my dash there’s new and better commentary added. Reblog again.
This is the Bavarian town of Nordlingen, built in a 14 million year-old meteor impact crater.
(via reddit)
Nope, the town of Nördlingen is NOT built in a meteor impact crater (the old part of town is round and circled by a wall because most medieval and older towns were walled for their protection) but YES there is a meteor crater Nördlinger Ries nearby and many of the town’s buildings are built from stone quarried from the said crater AND the stones contain millions and millions of teeny tiny diamonds (less than a millimetre in diameter) created by the meteor impact. Which is even cooler.
“Hey I like your house”
“Gee, thanks, it’s made of diamonds”
A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.
this fucks me up every single time
I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.
After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.
She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.
Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.
The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.
The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.
Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.
I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.
This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now
wow. read this whole thing.
some guy: instinct just memes around uselessly, i hardly see any of their gyms
me: holds ur face gently listen to me you little shit
Story idea when you try to actually write it:
Story idea when you first rewrite it:
Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!
Your story when somebody else sees it:
hhhhhHHHHHHH
This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents.
This.
i relate to this on a spiritual level
Writer: [singing a slightly monotonous chant] Come on brain, think of things! Come on brain, think of things! Come on brain, be so smart–
Me every day
“The romance in Beauty and the Beast makes me uncomfortable because it reminds me of bestiality.”
I think that the reason that a lot of people are uncomfortable with batb romance is because they equate romance with sex. Sex is not intrinsically linked to romance. Which is why people are born asexual and bi-romantic etc.
Sex is not involved in the romance of batb. You do not have to be sexually attracted to someone to have a connection or be in love.
You remember that post about the homestuck t-shirt design contest collaborating with hot topic? And how Hot Topic are the biggest art thieves? This is recent. As you can see above, I stumbled upon Hot Topic’s website and they are selling a very popular fan art put on a t-shirt, and did not ask permission from the original artist (rismo).
This shows Hot Topic still continues their art thievery. Hot Topic are still taking art from artists without their permission. This is disrespectful and appalling.
EXCEPT YOU DID GIVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.
BY AGREEING TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON DEVIANT ART.
THEY SOLD IT TO A THIRD PARTY ROYALTY-FREE.
http://www.deviantart.com/submit/agree
woah oops deleting my deviantart account
*instantly puts logo on my best pictures*
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DeviantArt you literal piece of shit
Uh what
That’s not okay
yo okay this is REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and imma be deleting my DA very soon because of it.
are you fucking for real
Just a heads up for people hosting their designs on DA
Okay. I just read through the “agreement” that DA has implemented, and it is truly heinous. I will not be posting on DA anymore.
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Yes. THEY CAN EVEN USE YOUR ACTUAL ARTIST NAME. THEY OWN IT NOW, IF YOU ARE PART OF DA.
Fuck DA.
Burn them to the ground
Pass it around
If this is true, this is the last straw I needed to clear out my deviantArt.
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