An oldie that was done for my high school portfolio. A few people may recognize this still as @escapurn‘s Raphael. Perhaps I should make this a yearly redraw? :P
tumblr discourse has truly taken away the right to subjective opinions and its exhausting
like now instead of saying “i like this tv show because it is entertaining and engaging” you have to come up with totally ridiculous reasons as to why this random television show on like, the CW or something is Actually the paradigm of feminist media even when it isnt at all
instead of saying “this celebrity is obnoxious and overrated and annoying” you get people searching meticulously through their twitter or interviews in order to find something incriminating enough to end up on a yfip list, and now you can pretend that your reasons for disliking this celebrity arent entirely personal and have some kind of Righteous Cause backing it
you dont need to put politics into everything you love and you dont need to bend over backwards trying to explain why this Thing you love is Actually Totally Political. you are allowed to subjectively enjoy things. conversely you can hate looking at a celebrity’s dumb face without acting like theres always some kind of social justice reason fueling it
paper stars
luctor et emergo // I struggle and emerge
Death: signifies transition, whether it be a beginning or an end. If inverted it usually means the process is not an easy one, or met with resistance.
I can hardly stand the politics of this site these days.
It doesn’t even take a full page sometimes--4 posts down and I see reactionary, irrational outrage painted to look like something reasonable.
If my blog is suddenly empty sans a few posts and a goodbye one with little warning...
Well consider this the head’s up, yo.
GUYS THIS WAS WORTH 80% OF MY FINAL EXAM GRADE FOR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT AND I GOT AN A
This is the good grades Pepe. Even if you don’t reblog this just his presence on your dash will give you better grades.
This isn’t how I wanted to be remembered. Tumblr Stop.
a get to know you better meme thingamajig
Tagged by: killjoyfabulous
Name: Esca in these here parts.
Time: 9:38
Last thing googled: Stuff about eviction laws.
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Yes.
Height: Tall enough to be the group ladder when the books are too high on the shelf. ...JUST ASK ME, PEOPLE.
Favorite color: Orange or brown
One thing that makes me happy: Writing
Movie: Inglorious Basterds is life. I’ll also take Prince of Egypt and Treasure Planet.
Last book: Err...currently reading a book about the cholera outbreak of 1854 in London. Fun times.
Most used phrase: “EH?!”
Beverage: Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee
Food: Potato anything.
Dream wedding: ... -hyperventilates at the thought of everyone staring at me- Clearly the solution is blindfolding everybody instead of getting over my fear.
Dream job: One with a nice, stable M~F schedule.
Tag 10 people you’d like to know more about: I am AWFUL at this and I don’t keep up on tumblr anywhere near as much as I used to (hello days to reply). But uhh... quinchilla peppermintaficionado admiral-lypten oh god I probably forgot others I’m sorry
Star Trek + series finales
When I saw Tomorrow Land, the flash back scenes made me want to draw demons as 1950s/60s housewives, I chose my icon, Ira (formerly Popinjay) for the first one.
excited to cry some more over kingdom hearts 3
As a feminist
As a feminist I think women should also be drafted if necessary.
As a feminist I think women should not be given a lighter sentence compared to a man who did the same crime.
As a feminist I think female abusers should be held at the same level as male abusers
As a feminist I think male rape victims are just as equal as female rape victims and deserve the same attention.
As a feminist I believe in complete equality between genders even if that equality isn’t always “beneficial” to me
Feminism=gender equality, not female superiority
FUCKING SIGNAL BOOST
Alysane Mormont for bitethatcoin!
Growlithe for escapurn :)
What happened to Joss Whedon yesterday, and why it’s a super bad thing for everyone.
Spoilers for Age of Ultron and such.
On the one hand:
I thoroughly enjoyed The Avengers: Age of Ultron, having seen it only once so far. In particular, I liked the character developments they gave to Hawkeye, The Hulk, and Black Widow, and though the film was tonally very different from the first film, that was not nearly as bad a thing as I thought it would be. Sure, there was an absence of Whedon-ish dialogue with rare exceptions (”Well… I was born yesterday”), but Whedon-ish dialogue doesn’t belong everywhere, and this film was probably a good example of where not to put it. And the female characters were not only well-written, they were varied. It would have been cheap and easy to make all the major female characters some variation on Black Widow, but they weren’t. For example, Laura’s character was so normal under the circumstances (welcome 5 extra superheroes into her house like it’s no big deal, put them up for the night, smuggle Nick Fury into her shed for a pep talk, send everyone off with well-wishes the next morning) that it almost seems miraculous.
And I found nothing wrong with the aspects of Black Widow’s character which leaned towards what you might call traditional femininity, i.e. motherhood.
I don’t believe Joss Whedon deserved any of the hate that he got because I genuinely don’t believe there was anything to complain about in this instance, whether you generally like Joss Whedon or not.
On the other hand:
I don’t want this to sound like victim-blaming, but it probably will anyway, so here goes.
This was always going to happen. Today, next month, next year, some time in the future, the rabid feminists of Twitter were going to turn on Joss Whedon. And I’m not saying that he should necessarily have foreseen it, but he most definitely backed the wrong horse. That is, he backed the horse which only cared about his support because he was, knowingly or otherwise, regurgitating rhetoric that the mob had already heard and evaluated to be absolute truth. The moment that Joss Whedon did something to challenge that rhetoric (however unknowingly and unintentionally), that is, giving Black Widow a motherhood angle and a love interest in the form of Banner, the people turned on him.
And the really scary thing is, they turned on him as though they had always meant to do it. Reading through the wild mud-slinging being spouted by all these random Twitter people, it becomes clear that they never actually liked him. There is no conflict. There is no “Ooh, I want to like Whedon, but this is beyond the pale”. There’s no “Gosh, Whedon’s usually so good at this sort of thing, what happened?” There’s just “Aha! Whedon’s a misogynist, racist, transphobe! I knew it! I always knew it!”
There is no substitute for a network of friends, or a group of fans, that you know you can trust. And I doubt Whedon can trust either of his to do right by him.
What does this mean?
If this controversy blows up hard enough, it may actually have a marked negative effect on female characters in cinema.
Black Widow was a well-rounded, well-written, entertaining female character.
For the crime of writing her as such, Joss Whedon was harassed to the extent that he deleted his Twitter account.
This is what I call the Wonder Woman paradox in action: The reason that she may never get a movie is because nobody wants to write the script.
The people who demand the existence of a Wonder Woman movie have also, inadvertently, set the bar way too high. I was telling judging-arguments-by-their-merit many months ago, any slight deviations in Wonder Woman’s character or writing that the louder sections of her audience don’t like are going to be lambasted, and held up as proof that Hollywood can’t write a good woman, or they just don’t care, or whatever fits their preordained narrative. Ironically, for all that they want a Wonder Woman movie, they will end up hating her character. And nobody wants to write that script, because if they screw up (and they will screw up) they will never hear the end of it.
How right I turned out to be. But it wasn’t Wonder Woman, it was Black Widow. Which is almost as bad.
See, if this does blow up hard enough, then scriptwriters in Hollywood might actually start shying away from writing decent female characters, or any female characters at all. “Oh no” they might say, “That’s far too big a risk. Remember what happened to Joss Whedon? We thought he was good at writing female characters, but even Black Widow wasn’t good enough for the audience.”
Yes, I am saying that the people who are pushing for better representation for female characters in cinema, are in fact making it harder to have better representation for female characters in cinema.
Another glorious victory for social justice.