I reblog whatever. I like plants, animals, memes, superheroes, etc. I am 28yr old, genderqueer (they/them), and autistic. Also I'm Canadian btw. Also the adorable cat I have as my picture thing is Bear, he's my cat and I love him very much.
Also I may not be aro/ace, but I am unapologetically inclusionary towards em. Fuck you if ya ain't.
(I also have a Facebook page: Tiny Hat On A Pumpkin!)
The Lion, the witch and the audacity of this bitch
Tom Percival was on Sky News (UK) to talk about whether children’s books are essential (let’s skip the fact that it’s such a boring dystopia where education and reading material for children is questioned whether it’s essential in the first place)
Knowing he traces his art? And had the bollocks to go on national news to blatantly bs his way around is frustrating.
And what’s worse is that Landy retweeted it, knowing the concerns we brought up.
@contentedcitrus The Fletcher from the old cards was traced from Christopher Masterson. (X)(X)
And the Fletcher from the white cover of the third book was traced from Hayden Christensen. (X)
It’s one thing to have a shit artist for the first few books MAYBE, but after it got popular and Landy would have had more money/rep…. He should have hired a decent artist jfc. If nothing else the bad art was dragging his works down.
Like Skulduggery always looked cool, hell I first started reading the series solely bc of how cool the first book looked, but… the rest? Eh……
(As for maintaining style/aesthetics…. So like idk about other art programs, but just the one year PRE-Animation and Illustration program I took at college had a whole class just on how to emulate specific styles. Because like… That’s a very necessary skill in the animation and illustration industries??)
I completely agree with everything you just said. My best guess for why they keep using Percival for the covers is either bc he’s cheap or bc he’s a friend of Landy. Maybe both.
Also, Landy had the money/rep for a decent artist right from the start according to the guardians article I found from 2007.
“With publishers eager to exploit the market pioneered by Harry Potter’s adventures, Landy’s work was greeted by Harper Collins with an advance of more than £1m.“
“Landy’s publishing advance - said merely to be “in seven figures” - is one of the highest paid to an author of children’s fiction and covers three books, aimed at children between eight and 13.“
Taking a ride in the woo woo wagon will not shorten your wait time at the hospital. You’re not cheating the system. Regardless of whether you arrive at the hospital via ambulance, bus, car, etc. You will still be triaged, and your wait time will be dictated by that!
I’m not even a medical professional I’ve just had a lot of medical emergencies and I have seen enough Karens who get mad poor paramedics and nurses when this doesn’t work out for em
Do you ever have a dream that’s so beautiful and perfect, albeit mundane? But you still yearn for it to become a reality, while knowing that it’s impossible…
I just woke up from a dream, a rather simple one really. I was working as a horticulturist alongside a coworker, repotting seedlings we’d planted earlier from their seed starters to proper pots. We were chatting and joking and generally enjoying ourselves. We had a contest that neither of us really cared about to see who had the most seeds germinate, whose seedlings were bigger, etc.
The golden afternoon sunlight poured in through the greenhouse windows, as the plants around us drank it up. Music played softly in the background from a device on a table a good few metres behind us.
We worked over two large, albeit not deep, translucent containers. We would take a seedling set, pull out the ones that made it, then put it in a pot that we’d already prepared, water it, then put it aside on a tray. Once a tray was full, he’d take it to another area (I’d bring over the seedlings, he’d take them away).
My coworker was black, wore his shoulder length dreadlocks tied up to keep them out of his face - and out of the soil that stained our floral print gloves and plain coloured aprons. My apron was solid green, his maroon. He wore a Hawaiian style shirt underneath though.
We were just talking about a new piece of gardening equipment he’d got that changed from green to orange with the temperature (he was demonstrating with cold water)… When my cat woke me up.
I got mad at my poor cat momentarily (just said his name angrily don’t worry), I wanted to stay there! It was such a lovely dream… Yet, while horticulture is a real profession, and from what I’ve heard the people in it are quite nice….
I’m chronically ill. I struggle with basic things, like just… taking care of myself. In the dream I had no fatigue, no pain, no feeling sick or dizzy, no being out of breath… I was just able to function without issue.
And realizing that I yearned for something so basic, so… Well something so ordinary, not fantastical… As if it were fantastical, as it’s just as impossible for me….
Made me very sad.
And yet…. I still want to go back. The dream was so bittersweet, in the beauty and peace it allowed me to experience, even just momentarily… Yet with the knowledge that I can never have anything like it.
The Lion, the witch and the audacity of this bitch
Tom Percival was on Sky News (UK) to talk about whether children’s books are essential (let’s skip the fact that it’s such a boring dystopia where education and reading material for children is questioned whether it’s essential in the first place)
Knowing he traces his art? And had the bollocks to go on national news to blatantly bs his way around is frustrating.
And what’s worse is that Landy retweeted it, knowing the concerns we brought up.
@contentedcitrus The Fletcher from the old cards was traced from Christopher Masterson. (X)(X)
And the Fletcher from the white cover of the third book was traced from Hayden Christensen. (X)
It’s one thing to have a shit artist for the first few books MAYBE, but after it got popular and Landy would have had more money/rep…. He should have hired a decent artist jfc. If nothing else the bad art was dragging his works down.
Like Skulduggery always looked cool, hell I first started reading the series solely bc of how cool the first book looked, but… the rest? Eh……
(As for maintaining style/aesthetics…. So like idk about other art programs, but just the one year PRE-Animation and Illustration program I took at college had a whole class just on how to emulate specific styles. Because like… That’s a very necessary skill in the animation and illustration industries??)
People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???
yea
No listen I like cold weather bc I overheat easily + I like being able to snuggle up under blankets, drink tea, wear big thick hoodies, etc, etc.
Cold weather means comfy things can happen. Hot weather means I’m sweaty and sticky and just sprawl out in front of a fan trying not to die
guys again please please please please please please please think critically about those posts that are like “i didn’t realize [really common or nonspecific thing] was an adhd thing and doesn’t apply to neurotypicals/anyone else at all!!” bc a lot of the time they are completely unfounded (sometimes frankly insane) and give people really messed up ideas about the differences between nd and nt people and how those differences work. and that shit doesn’t help anybody in any way! you don’t have to pathologize and essentialize everything you do, and you shouldn’t build up firm definitional barriers between neurotypes that don’t really exist. i’m talking about that friendship post specifically rn which is a prime example (come on, you can’t characterize how all people of a certain neurotype manage something as infinitely complex as human friendship), but it applies to SO many other things i’ve seen floating around i feel like i make this post every other day. the mental math thing comes readily to mind too.. honestly just think about these things before u spread them like true information, check the sources or go find sources at least.. please
Also sometimes it’s something from another condition, and the spreading of information saying it’s from condition A can cause people to not persue an assessment for condition B.
Sometimes it’s a genuine misinterpretation, mix up, incorrect wording, etc… But it can still lead to people going without the correct diagnosis.
(yea so I ended up with a bunch of misdiagnoses (which does happen, especially if you’re late diagnosed autistic like me!) and took forever before persuing an autism assessment (correct diagnosis) due to seeing all kinds of stuff propping up the incorrect diagnoses from psychiatrists who didn’t spend more than 5-20min talking to me before throwing a label at me. Once I had a proper full assessment for everything I lost like. 5 different diagnoses I’d had it was ridiculous.
Wasn’t until I started seeing a new psychiatrist who looked at my LONG diagnosis and medication list and was like “Uh… Something’s up.” That I started double checking shit and realized things weren’t adding up.)
v for vendetta is a film with a female protagonist that criticises capitalism, condemns pedophilia, encourages the viewers to question their governments, has a central plot about how LGBT people are condemned in right wing societies (more than three LGBT characters are in it) and was directed by a trans woman and her brother.
why has this become a fuckboy classic
because they mistake V for the protagonist and Evey as simply the viewpoint character, wilfully ignore the part of the plot about LGBT discrimination, and concentrate on how cool V is with his mask and his government-rebelling plots.
What I find interesting is that - V is actually, imo, coded as trans, especially in the original graphic novel. Alan Moore claims that clues to identity of V ‘are all there’, which implies it might be a named character. If it was one, the only person matching would be Valerie, the woman whose journals V gives to Evey. Everything would match - Valerie was an actress, which would fit with both costume and tastes of V, and also why said letter was so important - and really, how the hell an occupant of a high-security concentration camp under constant observation had ability to write a letter, and also how a letter written on toiler paper would survive all these years, and burning down of Larkhill camp. (answer - by being written AFTER all these events).
Except, V appears to be male. Everyone is using male pronouns for him, in the movie he speaks in a masculine voice, and in the novel we do see a panel of his silhouette naked in Larkhill, and he definitely has a masculine physique.
But, if Valerie becoming V was metaphor for transition, that’d make sense.
That’s in addition to well, the fact that a lot of trans men begin their self-discovery as butch lesbians? It’d sure fit.
Why do I believe that theory? In addition to whole LGBT themes thing, and the letter thing, there’s one more reason. Well, I think this was skimmed by in the movie, but in the novel, we get a pretty solid clue. See, in the movie, exact nature of experiments performed on Larkhill inmates is kept rather dubious if I recall - we know they gave V abilities slightly above normal humans, but that’s it.
But in the novel, it’s more specific. So, what is the field of experiments that are being performed Larkhill concentration camp that they needed human specimen?
Hormone research.
V got strength to throw off chains of opression and fight back and yadda yadda, became a character who ticks off literally every single checkbox on definition of a superhero, including superpowers…
By literal fucking hormone therapy.
Administered to him, ironically, by the very oppressors.
From what I’ve read of Alan Moore’s stories, he doesn’t leave details up to a chance. Everything has a reason, and everything is interconnected with each other. And this, this doesn’t look like a bit of dark irony Alan Moore would pass up, since he loves that shit.
So, those are my reasons for this particular interpretation.
this is a really incredible
also I just wanted to add that both the directors are transgender woman, the Wachawowskis, and they also directed Matrix
Holy shot I did not pick up on this
I really don’t understand how anyone could not know V was Valerie. To me it’s as obvious as day. It’s actually somehow MORE obvious in the movie.
It became a fuckboy classic in the same way that Watchmen turned from a direct critique of Objectivism and a statement on How Superheroes Should Absolutely Not Behave, into a badly-understood blueprint for how a bunch of writers and fans decided All Superheroes Should Absolutely Be At All Times Because It’s Gritty And Dark And Realistic (including Zack “I never really liked comics except for Watchmen and also I want Warner Brothers to let me make a movie version of The Fountainhead” Snyder).
My dumbass reading this post: VALERIE STARTS WITH A V! OF COURSE!!
