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May. 30th, 2018
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angelic-agent-beyonce:
honeyedukes:
au where everything is the same except sirius black is played by jonathan van ness from queer eye
Harry: Wait, so Pettigrew actually betrayed my parents?
Sirius:
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angelic-agent-beyonce:
honeyedukes:
au where everything is the same except sirius black is played by jonathan van ness from queer eye
Harry: Wait, so Pettigrew actually betrayed my parents?
Sirius:
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“
Aries: A part of me still thinks that if I find the right words, it will save us.
Taurus: Even when it hurts, you love. even when you love, it will hurt.
Gemini: Sometimes you just need more time to accept what your heart already feels.
Cancer: What is love without sadness? What is a smile without losing warmth in the mornings hello?
Leo: I can see you smiling through your second cup of coffee, brushing tomorrow out of your eyes; but your hands can’t get warm, and I wonder if you can feel my lips pressing hope against the window.
Virgo: Home is where you find me.
Libra: I forgive easily, it’s the forgetting that is hard - darling, the world has been a difficult place without you.
Scorpio: I hold onto our memories because I know we won’t be making any more.
Sagittarius: The only time I don’t feel invisible is when you’re looking at me.
Capricorn: How do you know it’s coming to an end when you can still hear their heartbeat?
Aquarius: Maybe we’re just a path to the past that we only water when we’re lonely.
Pisces: I fall in love a hundred times a day, and it’s always with you.
”
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Aries: A part of me still thinks that if I find the right words, it will save us.
Taurus: Even when it hurts, you love. even when you love, it will hurt.
Gemini: Sometimes you just need more time to accept what your heart already feels.
Cancer: What is love without sadness? What is a smile without losing warmth in the mornings hello?
Leo: I can see you smiling through your second cup of coffee, brushing tomorrow out of your eyes; but your hands can’t get warm, and I wonder if you can feel my lips pressing hope against the window.
Virgo: Home is where you find me.
Libra: I forgive easily, it’s the forgetting that is hard - darling, the world has been a difficult place without you.
Scorpio: I hold onto our memories because I know we won’t be making any more.
Sagittarius: The only time I don’t feel invisible is when you’re looking at me.
Capricorn: How do you know it’s coming to an end when you can still hear their heartbeat?
Aquarius: Maybe we’re just a path to the past that we only water when we’re lonely.
Pisces: I fall in love a hundred times a day, and it’s always with you.
”
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muchymozzarella:
The thing about how women in comics used to be drawn and sometimes are still drawn, you can only really understand the difference between an action girl being forced into unrealistic sexual, sensual positions, and an actual strong and well posed, empowering but still sexy female character, when you see what it looks like to have male characters depicted in overtly sensual poses
And I’m not talking about the Hawkeye Initiative or any given parody
I actually want to draw a comparison using art by Kevin Wada
Kevin Wada is a proud part of the LGBTQ+ community and he has this unique ability to sexualize mainstream male heroes without it looking like a parody. He draws covers for multiple big comic companies and his style reminiscent of old fashion magazines, drawn largely in traditional watercolor, has made him a stalwart of the industry.
He also draws a lot of naked Bucky Barnes.
Anyway, I want to talk about how interesting his art is, the difference between his power poses and his sexy poses for male and female characters.
A typical power pose for a male comics character would look like this
Whereas every so often with female heroes you get something like this
Not all the time, of course, but it happens and it happens in the wrong places. You wouldn’t be posing like a cover model in the middle of a battle, you really wouldn’t.
But when it comes to Wada and male and female characters, the difference is pretty clear.
When he draws male characters, they more often look like this
Sensual, in a pose you wouldn’t usually see a big, muscular hero doing. If not that, then playful, sexy, for looking at, but nothing about their anatomy overly exaggerated
How he draws women is also very clearly different from many other artists, from sexy pose to power pose.
Still posing for the camera, still to be looked at, but very, very different from how we’ve seen female characters portrayed in mainstream comics in the past.
And I guess it’s really just a matter of variety? Objectification in art is a long time debate and appears everywhere always, but for all that we can argue about its impact on popular media, there are a few things I know for sure:
1) having a female character pose like a playboy cover girl in the middle of a battle scene is just Bad Art and y'all need to find better references
2) female power poses will never look quite as right as when they’re drawn by people who know the value of expressing personality through pose (it’s basic animation principles and some artists still need to learn it) and who actually know what a female character’s personality beyond “sexy”
3) Iron Man or Batman posing like they’re about to beat somebody up is 100% not the same as a fashion drawing by Kevin Wada where a Typical Beefy Action Guy gets to pose like a flirty pretty boy
4) the MCU films have figured out the value of pandering to female audiences by sexually objectifying all their male action heroes while simultaneously appealing to the male demographic’s action movie power fantasy. Quoting Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi: “I’m not a piece of meat” “Uh, yes you are.”
They definitely struck some kind of balance there.
Also, more important than this entire post: y'all should follow @kevinwada on Tumblr and give him love because his art is divine and his talent beyond words
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muchymozzarella:
The thing about how women in comics used to be drawn and sometimes are still drawn, you can only really understand the difference between an action girl being forced into unrealistic sexual, sensual positions, and an actual strong and well posed, empowering but still sexy female character, when you see what it looks like to have male characters depicted in overtly sensual poses
And I’m not talking about the Hawkeye Initiative or any given parody
I actually want to draw a comparison using art by Kevin Wada
Kevin Wada is a proud part of the LGBTQ+ community and he has this unique ability to sexualize mainstream male heroes without it looking like a parody. He draws covers for multiple big comic companies and his style reminiscent of old fashion magazines, drawn largely in traditional watercolor, has made him a stalwart of the industry.
He also draws a lot of naked Bucky Barnes.
Anyway, I want to talk about how interesting his art is, the difference between his power poses and his sexy poses for male and female characters.
A typical power pose for a male comics character would look like this
Whereas every so often with female heroes you get something like this
Not all the time, of course, but it happens and it happens in the wrong places. You wouldn’t be posing like a cover model in the middle of a battle, you really wouldn’t.
But when it comes to Wada and male and female characters, the difference is pretty clear.
When he draws male characters, they more often look like this
Sensual, in a pose you wouldn’t usually see a big, muscular hero doing. If not that, then playful, sexy, for looking at, but nothing about their anatomy overly exaggerated
How he draws women is also very clearly different from many other artists, from sexy pose to power pose.
Still posing for the camera, still to be looked at, but very, very different from how we’ve seen female characters portrayed in mainstream comics in the past.
And I guess it’s really just a matter of variety? Objectification in art is a long time debate and appears everywhere always, but for all that we can argue about its impact on popular media, there are a few things I know for sure:
1) having a female character pose like a playboy cover girl in the middle of a battle scene is just Bad Art and y'all need to find better references
2) female power poses will never look quite as right as when they’re drawn by people who know the value of expressing personality through pose (it’s basic animation principles and some artists still need to learn it) and who actually know what a female character’s personality beyond “sexy”
3) Iron Man or Batman posing like they’re about to beat somebody up is 100% not the same as a fashion drawing by Kevin Wada where a Typical Beefy Action Guy gets to pose like a flirty pretty boy
4) the MCU films have figured out the value of pandering to female audiences by sexually objectifying all their male action heroes while simultaneously appealing to the male demographic’s action movie power fantasy. Quoting Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi: “I’m not a piece of meat” “Uh, yes you are.”
They definitely struck some kind of balance there.
Also, more important than this entire post: y'all should follow @kevinwada on Tumblr and give him love because his art is divine and his talent beyond words
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themonsterblogofmonsters:
Screaming Body (Disease)
A magical disease, Screaming Body is considered by some Healers to be a combination of a wild-magic mental health disease, such as Walrider Syndrome, combined with a more decidedly chronic magical health condition, such as Davenport-Nosoi, or Suffrirlangitis. The combination of the hindered magic, ongoing physical aches and pains and then wild magic seeking to both help the individual and also lash out at the pain leads to periodic muscle spasms and even broken bones. At present the precise cause is not known; most Healers treat it with a combination of Pain-Relieving Potions, muscle relaxants and therapy.
Screaming Body is named for its most notable and terrifying feature which occurs only in severe untreated cases. In late stages of the disease, the magic attempting to simultaneously help the wix and lash out at the pain may begin to mirror subconscious aspects of the individual’s mind, enacting them as shadows under the skin. This is especially terrifying in Strzyga patients, as it has been known to pull unconscious magic out into the open, or even give personality to the non-active twin, making it seem as though the never-alive twin is screaming to be freed from their twin’s body.
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themonsterblogofmonsters:
Screaming Body (Disease)
A magical disease, Screaming Body is considered by some Healers to be a combination of a wild-magic mental health disease, such as Walrider Syndrome, combined with a more decidedly chronic magical health condition, such as Davenport-Nosoi, or Suffrirlangitis. The combination of the hindered magic, ongoing physical aches and pains and then wild magic seeking to both help the individual and also lash out at the pain leads to periodic muscle spasms and even broken bones. At present the precise cause is not known; most Healers treat it with a combination of Pain-Relieving Potions, muscle relaxants and therapy.
Screaming Body is named for its most notable and terrifying feature which occurs only in severe untreated cases. In late stages of the disease, the magic attempting to simultaneously help the wix and lash out at the pain may begin to mirror subconscious aspects of the individual’s mind, enacting them as shadows under the skin. This is especially terrifying in Strzyga patients, as it has been known to pull unconscious magic out into the open, or even give personality to the non-active twin, making it seem as though the never-alive twin is screaming to be freed from their twin’s body.
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qualityvanillaabsolute:
doomhamster:
canmom:
If you’ve logged in to Tumblr in the last few days, you will have seen the GDPR warning, telling you Tumblr is part of the Oath family of sites, and requiring you to opt-in to their privacy settings.
You may not have realised that, in contravention of the GDPR rules which ban default opt-ins, if you don’t go into the ‘more options’ button and opt out of each individual sharing partner, Tumblr will share your data with a whole huge list of other companies. Like, 300 of them.
@the-mad-duchess has a post here describing how you can disable them.
If you’ve already opted in to the Oath privacy stuff, you need to go to your Settings page:
Click the Privacy button on the right:
Then, click the little button next to ‘Cookie Consent’ to revoke it.
After confirming you want to revoke consent, you will immediately be taken to that big privacy opt-in page again. From that point we follow the steps @the-mad-duchess described - first click ‘Manage Options’:
Then, click the blue ‘Manage’ button, and expand the two lists. You’ll see five kinds of data sharing, and like 300 different companies:
The first five you can click manually more easily than using javascript. That might be enough to opt out of any data sharing - but I want to be sure. So, let’s make sure we disable every single enabled partner as well.
However, clicking on 300 little buttons to opt out of is an absurd demand. There is, thankfully, a shortcut, using your browser’s developer tools.
What you want to do is open the web console. In Firefox, you do it like this: click the little menu in top right, then go down to where it says Web Developer:
Then, click the Web Console option:
This will open up the web console in the bottom of the screen. It will have a bunch of messages in it that you can ignore:
As shown, what we want to do is copy and paste some JavaScript code into this, then hit ‘enter’, which will make the browser simulate a mouseclick on every single one of these little buttons and thereby turn them all off. The code is this:
var rows = document.getElementsByClassName("vendor-options")[0].children;
for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {rows[i].lastChild.firstChild.click();}
If you’re not familiar with JavaScript, let me briefly explain what this is doing. The first line finds the part of the page with all the buttons in it - specifically, the rows in the table of vendors, which is identified by the “vendor-options”. The second line goes through each of them one by one, and for each row of the table, goes inside and finds the button, and simulates a click on it.
If it works correctly, you will abruptly scroll to the bottom of the page and all those little buttons will slide to the ‘greyed out’ position. Now you can go ahead and click Done, click the OK button, and carry on using Tumblr, trusting that if they keep their word, they won’t share your data with those 300 companies.
I’m gonna chat with the New XKit devs to see if this can be added (they may already be working on it). But I hope this saves you some time.
Note also - this is not actually compliant with the new GDPR laws. The rule is that you have to explicitly opt in to letting companies use your data, you can’t have a list of default opt-ins behind a button like this. At some point, somebody will hopefully sue Yahoo/Oath and establish that in court. In the meantime, let’s keep our data to ourselves.
…is that true? Because I haven’t seen ANY of the sites I regularly visit that provided a list of the companies they’d sell your data to, at least not without digging.
I’ve written to them about this because it pisses me off. I’ll see if I get a response. Otherwise, I’ll report them to the ICO (who are the UK’s data privacy authority. If you have the spoons, send Tumblr a message as well.
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qualityvanillaabsolute:
doomhamster:
canmom:
If you’ve logged in to Tumblr in the last few days, you will have seen the GDPR warning, telling you Tumblr is part of the Oath family of sites, and requiring you to opt-in to their privacy settings.
You may not have realised that, in contravention of the GDPR rules which ban default opt-ins, if you don’t go into the ‘more options’ button and opt out of each individual sharing partner, Tumblr will share your data with a whole huge list of other companies. Like, 300 of them.
@the-mad-duchess has a post here describing how you can disable them.
If you’ve already opted in to the Oath privacy stuff, you need to go to your Settings page:
Click the Privacy button on the right:
Then, click the little button next to ‘Cookie Consent’ to revoke it.
After confirming you want to revoke consent, you will immediately be taken to that big privacy opt-in page again. From that point we follow the steps @the-mad-duchess described - first click ‘Manage Options’:
Then, click the blue ‘Manage’ button, and expand the two lists. You’ll see five kinds of data sharing, and like 300 different companies:
The first five you can click manually more easily than using javascript. That might be enough to opt out of any data sharing - but I want to be sure. So, let’s make sure we disable every single enabled partner as well.
However, clicking on 300 little buttons to opt out of is an absurd demand. There is, thankfully, a shortcut, using your browser’s developer tools.
What you want to do is open the web console. In Firefox, you do it like this: click the little menu in top right, then go down to where it says Web Developer:
Then, click the Web Console option:
This will open up the web console in the bottom of the screen. It will have a bunch of messages in it that you can ignore:
As shown, what we want to do is copy and paste some JavaScript code into this, then hit ‘enter’, which will make the browser simulate a mouseclick on every single one of these little buttons and thereby turn them all off. The code is this:
var rows = document.getElementsByClassName("vendor-options")[0].children;
for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {rows[i].lastChild.firstChild.click();}
If you’re not familiar with JavaScript, let me briefly explain what this is doing. The first line finds the part of the page with all the buttons in it - specifically, the rows in the table of vendors, which is identified by the “vendor-options”. The second line goes through each of them one by one, and for each row of the table, goes inside and finds the button, and simulates a click on it.
If it works correctly, you will abruptly scroll to the bottom of the page and all those little buttons will slide to the ‘greyed out’ position. Now you can go ahead and click Done, click the OK button, and carry on using Tumblr, trusting that if they keep their word, they won’t share your data with those 300 companies.
I’m gonna chat with the New XKit devs to see if this can be added (they may already be working on it). But I hope this saves you some time.
Note also - this is not actually compliant with the new GDPR laws. The rule is that you have to explicitly opt in to letting companies use your data, you can’t have a list of default opt-ins behind a button like this. At some point, somebody will hopefully sue Yahoo/Oath and establish that in court. In the meantime, let’s keep our data to ourselves.
…is that true? Because I haven’t seen ANY of the sites I regularly visit that provided a list of the companies they’d sell your data to, at least not without digging.
I’ve written to them about this because it pisses me off. I’ll see if I get a response. Otherwise, I’ll report them to the ICO (who are the UK’s data privacy authority. If you have the spoons, send Tumblr a message as well.
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ewanmcgregorsource:
Christopher Robin dir. Marc Forster
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Christopher Robin dir. Marc Forster
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sierrahiker8:
“Stunning diamond-winged tiara (Valkirie tiara) by Cartier commissioned by the late Mary Crewe-Milnes, Duchess of Roxburghe, in 1935.
(The tiara will go on display for the first time at V&A Dundee
via DuVallon’s cabinet).”
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sierrahiker8:
“Stunning diamond-winged tiara (Valkirie tiara) by Cartier commissioned by the late Mary Crewe-Milnes, Duchess of Roxburghe, in 1935.
(The tiara will go on display for the first time at V&A Dundee
via DuVallon’s cabinet).”
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