eat cishets, poop rainbows

pleatedjeans replied your post how about we stop screencapping popular text posts and putting them...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:44:09 -0400

pleatedjeans replied your post how about we stop screencapping popular text posts and putting them in photosets

no.

>:C

jonandtheon: jonandtheon: jonandtheon: MY BOOK IS LOCKED IN A CLASSROOMN RED ASLERT I TOLD THIS...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:35:46 -0400

jonandtheon:

jonandtheon:

MY BOOK IS LOCKED IN A CLASSROOMN

RED ASLERT

I TOLD THIS REALLY NICE KID WHO NEVER CAUSES TROUBLE AND HEREACHED INTO HIS BACKPACK AND PULLED OUT A KEYCHAIN WITH KEYS TO THE CLASSROOM AND UNLOCKED IT FOR ME??

update i asked him why he had those keys and he said “its not important” im so lost

madeleineishere: Doodle: never going to be a morning person…

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:30:12 -0400

madeleineishere:

Doodle: never going to be a morning person…

rnackenzie: you call me your friend??? where were you when my text post got 0 notes??? where were...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:25:23 -0400

rnackenzie:

you call me your friend??? where were you when my text post got 0 notes??? where were you

poopflow: ah yes i have finally found it the g spot

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:21:06 -0400

poopflow:

ah yes i have finally found it

the g spot

cosumosu: Project for one of my classes @w@;)

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:21:00 -0400

Whether it's a cute ensemble for a fun day

or a cute lil black dress for a party

gym wear too!

swimming suits, undergarments, even being flat out nude is never an "invitation" for assault, it's the assaulter's fault.

cosumosu:

Project for one of my classes @w@;)

queermisandry: yes! you’re right! it shouldn’t matter that you’re white, poc, cis, trans*, straight...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:49 -0400

queermisandry:

yes! you’re right! it shouldn’t matter that you’re white, poc, cis, trans*, straight or queer!

BUT IT FUCKING DOES!!! AND INSTEAD OF IMAGINING WE LIVE IN A BEAUTIFUL AND NON BIGOTED SOCIETY, DO SOMETHING TO IMPROVE THE BIGOTED SYSTEM WE LIVE IN AND STOP ARGUING WITH OPPRESSED GROUPS ABOUT HOW IT ‘SHOULD’ BE PERFECT. MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:40 -0400

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:19:30 -0400

you know how i have a secret identity well this person that sent me anon hate this one time asked me...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:01:11 -0400

you know how i have a secret identity well this person that sent me anon hate this one time asked me if i was okay when they saw me on crutches the other day and they didn’t even know it was me being a secret agent rox

how about we stop screencapping popular text posts and putting them in photosets

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:59:04 -0400

how about we stop screencapping popular text posts and putting them in photosets

jegeren: steffalopod: coalition to send tumblr user reactionism numerous anon messages that say...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:07:00 -0400

jegeren:

steffalopod:

coalition to send tumblr user reactionism numerous anon messages that say “you really smell like dog buns”

spread the delicious news like butter on bread

in case anyone is wondering they really do deserve it but i’d rather not reblog why

Participants Wanted: Asexual Terminology Survey

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:29:44 -0400

Participants Wanted: Asexual Terminology Survey:

allyhatingheterophobe:

tchy:

avenpt:

My name is Andrew Hinderliter, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. My dissertation is about online asexual discourse, with particular interest in its development over time. I ran one survey last January, and I am now conducting a survey on asexuality-related concepts and terminology.

To participate, you must be at least 18 years of age or older, be proficient in English, and identify as asexual, gray-A, or demisexual. The survey has a number of language-related questions, and it is asked that you do not look things up while taking the survey.

Click here to participate.

Signal boost for my ace followers!

Signal boost! Pretty sure I have a couple of 18+ ace followers.

unfollower: i keep getting messages from a supposed black female mens rights activist every time i...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:19:52 -0400

unfollower:

i keep getting messages from a supposed black female mens rights activist every time i reblog something about mras but they’re on anon um ok yes i believe you of course

thefrogman: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Wiener...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:56:58 -0400

thefrogman:

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Wiener [website]

[h/t: bluedogeyes]

The Brave and the Bold

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:58 -0400

matthewbogart:

I recently posted a link on Facebook to this petition regarding the redesign of Merida from “Brave” that Disney is reportedly doing to include her in the Disney Princess line and I got this response.

> “I don’t get the hoopla over this. Apart from wearing a different outfit and being drawn by a different artist, I don’t really see a difference. Is it that a woman without a weapon is weak?”

Character design matters.

If there’s one thing the character design class I took in college stressed more than anything else it’s that a good character design informs the viewer who the character is, what they are like. What they wear, how they stand, how they do their hair, the shape of their face, their standard expressions, what they carry with them, these are all vital decisions in a good design.

Few have embraced this philosophy more wholeheartedly than Disney. Take a look at some of these designs and think about how well the designer conveys the basic concepts of the character through the design alone.

(source)

Disney knows how to do this and their choices are deliberate. A misstep in the design of a character can make the difference between one that is marketable and one that is not. That’s extremely important to Disney, and a task that they do not treat cavalierly. If you have to sum up the character in just one image, like you often have to do with marketing materials or toys, qualities like the ones listed above are the only tools you have.

Artistic Interpretations

(source)

The argument that a character always looks somewhat different when a different artist draws them doesn’t apply when your’e talking about Disney. If you think I’m wrong, think of how many drawings you’ve seen Disney publish of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Aladdin, or Woody that look exactly like they did in the movies. While things like comics have some leeway to veer off model a bit, marketing materials need to match as closely as possible to key images and are scrutinized by Disney for inaccuracies. I’ve had friends who have drawn licensed properties professionally and, in general, if you aren’t able to keep your drawing “on model” you aren’t going to keep working on the project.

An Experiment

Think about the choices that were made in designing the original Merida and the ones that were made in the redesign.

If you were asked to design a character that was a beautiful, rough and tumble, scottish adventurer who was technically a princess but rebelled against the frill, pomp, and sexisim that came with her post, what are some good choices you could make?

You could dress her in a plain green wool dress that fits with her earthy surroundings.

You could give her a wide, plain face, and the expressions of a normal attractive girl; likely avoiding the full red lips, thick eyelashes, or pointed jaw that you might find on a princesses such as, say, Cinderella.

You could make her standard postures and facial expressions defiant, strong, and powerful.

You could give her a weapon and you could make it one of her defining characteristics. If you really wanted to drive the point home, you could make her weapon a defining element of the plot and marketing of the film.

Now, let’s say you were given the task of taking the established Merida design from the film and re-imagining her to more closely resemble the typical damsel in distress that the Disney princess line seems to champion. What choices could you make given that she still needs to be recognizable as the character from the movie?

Perhaps you could take her plain wool dress and make it a beautiful gown. You could take the earthy green color and change it to a shimmering turquoise, cover it with sparkles, and drop the neckline over the shoulders.

You could add intricate gold embellishment wherever possible including an elaborate foot wide band around the hem of her dress.

You could drastically thin her waist and face and thicken her eyelashes.

You would have to remove her bow and pouch full of arrows, replacing the strap that held the arrows in place with a wide belt and giant gold belt buckle.

Attached to the buckle you could put a shimmering turquoise scarf.

You could change her standard postures and facial expressions from aggressive, assertive, and defiant to sassy, cute, and submissive.

Do the above descriptions sound like something the character from the film would be excited about?

Who would win in a fight, Bruce Wayne or Disney Princess Merida?

Now, you could point out that the redesign isn’t that much of a stretch. Merida does wear a more glamorous gown in the movie that does, with the help of an excruciatingly painful corset, make her appear much thinner. She is sometimes sassy. Both points are true and a good choice for the filmmakers to have made. Allowing a character to have multiple different qualities, sometimes contradictory, can make a story better, but we’re not talking about a story in this circumstance. We’re talking about marketing.

When you market a character you have to boil them down to their essential elements. Take Batman for example. Bruce Wayne can sometimes be dressed to the nines; handsome and glamorous, but when you choose the images you’re going to use to market Batman those qualities don’t come up so much. You want Batman to be strong, heroic, aggressive, adventurous, and sometimes menacing. That’s why the children’s section at Walmart has a lot of things that look like this:

and less that look like this:

Merida was originally marketed similarly. She was depicted in trailers and posters as strong, determined, adventurous, beautiful, and heroic.

This redesign de-emphasizes those qualities and pushes for a Merida that is more glamorous, sassy, and passive.

I drew a brief sketch of a corresponding version of Batman:

Here’s a link to that petition again.

jegeren: thefrogman: Princess Monster Truck [instagram] on...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:41:46 -0400

jegeren:

thefrogman:

Princess Monster Truck [instagram] on Buzzfeed

i am stealing this name for my next cat

foreveralone-lyguy: troix: foreveralone-lyguy: internetexplorers: change the world today by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:40:55 -0400

foreveralone-lyguy:

troix:

foreveralone-lyguy:

internetexplorers:

change the world today by doing a thing

How much thing?

like 8 thing

That’s too much thing

controllingtools: Dunno. Sounds pretty racist to me.

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:40:46 -0400

controllingtools:

Dunno. Sounds pretty racist to me.

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:38:11 -0400