The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on
These babs will be available as a poster and acrylic standees tomorrow!
grunting and sweating and hammering away at the forge for hours on end to produce a grilled cheese
FFXIV 6.1 spoilers ahead!
Ok so while I’m on an Urianger + linguistics brain tangent this has been on my mind since I played through and won’t go away. So I’m throwing it out there into the aether as a bravo, bravissimo! to Timothy Watson for one hell of a performance.
So just for background, prosody is the stuff in linguistics that communicates information but isn’t words, like the tone of your voice, pitch, etc. There’s like half a dozen systems for talking about pitch and my ling major was nearly two decades ago so if you’re an actual linguist and can clarify how all of this works please do!
Idk if it was an acting choice or a directing choice but the way they handle prosody for Urianger is just *chef’s kiss.* One of the things that I think is used really effectively is that often uses falling intonation at the end of sentences (the pitch of his voice drops) regardless of what the sentence is about. He does it for sentences where other characters would raise the pitch of their voice, so it makes him sound odd in a very subtle way. If I remember correctly, even when he asks questions his pitch doesn’t really change much. Watson is able to give him a range of emotions with a limited range of expression, and that’s really cool.
But there’s this moment in Endwalker that keeps sticking with me when they’re on Thule and they all wake up and Thancred’s disappeared and Urianger panics. When he calls “Thancred??” the pitch of the end goes (for him) WAY up with a less melodic sound than usual. It’s a huge break in how he talks and it’s a brilliant, subtle way to point out the extreme depth of his feeling. He’s so freaked out he breaks his speech patterns, which are part of his identity. Whether you think of Urianger and Thancred as platonic or romantic it’s a reflection of how bonded they are. And it absolutely broke me.
And then in 6.1 while he still tends toward falling intonation at the end of his sentences, the previous largely flat intonation in the rest of the sentence gets jauntier, with a greater mix of pitches. He’s so happy and especially after that heartbreaking moment before it’s wonderful to hear him being not only so joyful but more expressive about it. Heckin good voice acting!
Imagine if you will a complete inversion of a boorish American on St. Patrick’s Day. Imagine an Irishman who aggressively celebrates the Fourth of July with unabashed gusto, who desperately tries to claim the significance of some alleged 1/32 American heritage, who wears a shirt with an eagle turning into an American flag and who drinks a specialty red, white, and blue novelty beverage until he collapses in a pool of tricolor vomit. Imagine some guy so invested in a superficial, touristy version of Americaness that he will nervously call the side with his $20 “authentic” hamburger “freedom fires” out of fear of offending. Imagine a guy who upon meeting any American will try to strike up a friendly conversation by asking them what their favorite gun is and talking about how personally inspiring he finds Abraham Lincoln.
You must understand, as you prepare to read the May 24th entry of this novel, that this Irishman is Bram Stoker.
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…got around to coloring sooner than expected. Bit of a treat to myself really :)
The Crystal Exarch by Athena-Erocith on deviantart. He is such a pretty sparkly boy.
elizabethrobertajonesRebloggedonlywhentherainFollow“When I set out to master the dragoon’s jump, ‘twas not to strike fear into the hearts of high-hanging fruit.”File this one under “Characters I love a Normal Amount ™”#ffxiv#awesome fanart#queue1736
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elizabethrobertajonesReblogged poolboydivisioncodylabsFollowOne thing that's missing from a lot of the current Dracula discourse is an understanding of how vampires actually work in the book's universe.In most of the modern portrayals we're used to seeimg, vampires are painted as tragic or conflicted figures, that are mostly the same as how they were before being bitten: the same person, just immortal and nocturnal and periodically possessed by bloodlust. Not so in the original book, and not so for our good friend Johnathan Harker.In the original story that we're currently hearing, vampirism is much more of a transformation, and much more closely tied to undeath and demonic sin. Not only is it brought on by death, but the reanimated corpse retains none of it's soul and it's conscience and any trace of goodness it had in life.Most of us were delighted and amused at the Count's bizarre antics in the story's first chapters, then suddenly surprised when it took a sudden turn toward horror and apparent homoeroticism when the Count saves Johnny from his 3 blood-slorpimg girlfriends and gives them a baby to eat instead. And yes, that is the point where the nature of the threat becomes clear, but the missed purpose of the first few chapters is to set up not only how absolutely disconnected the Count is from how a normal person lives and acts, but to show how this entire demeanor as a noble gentleman or a friend or a human being is nothing but a poorly-maintained facade, and a means to an end; that end, of course, being to move away from the superstitious and well-guarded countryside, and into a quiet home in the center of London, one of the most densely populous cities in the world at that time.And somewhere in the Count's conversation with his three fine ladies lies another hint: that love means something completely and entirely different to vampirekind than it does to us. A human does, and should, love through care, concern, goodwill and service. The count wears these things like a mask around Johnathan, but between he and his ladies the mask falls, and we see that when they say love, they mean something else: something on the spectrum between lust and dominance and hunger, and probably closer to the latter. The Count being affectionate is not necessarily a sexy or appealing or desirable occurrence in any way whatsoever at all ever. The story hasn't suddenly turned toward horror, it has been a slow revealing, to both us and Johnathan, that he is trapped in a castle not with a man but with a THING. It wears the skin and memories of a nobleman who died long ago, likely in one of those wars it's so fond of recounting, but it is even less his friend than we are. We, and Johnathan, can be certain now that the moment he has served his civilized purpose the pretenses will drop, and the beast and its beastettes will devour him,And England is next.I love this story. Familiarity and memes can turn horror into comedy so easily, as we have been proving, but beneath it all, this is some damn good horror.#dracula daily51,0172,086
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elizabethrobertajonesReblogged allycryzsolareclipse-ffxivAs much as I loved Ysayle’s long hair, I really love her with short hair! I haven’t settled on a glamour for her yet though#bi bob ysayle!!!!#\o/#ffxiv#awesome fanart#queue1935
elizabethrobertajonesRebloggedelfyourmotherFollowCountess Jacinthe de Haillenarte, matriarch of House Haillenarte.Keep reading#I had a dream about her#I can't remember exactly what it was but I was just super impressed to meet her#'oh you're the person from the nice photoshoot!'#literally no relevance to the dream she was just hanging :'D#ffxiv… See all1341
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elizabethrobertajonesI think it is correct and good to challenge fandom simplifying and woobifying characters down to a few silly traits. However,it does feel pretty clear to me that the final fantasy fourteen people did very much release the official art of Estinien working out post-bath, and gave us the scene of him all cleaned up in your room in a nice shirt, specifically to challenge the idea that he is an unclean oaf. There's probably a balance we can maintain where they think we think he's gross but only for fun, which is to say, they keep throwing fan service at us.#re: recent discourse I've seen :')#ffxiv#estinien varlineau#estinien wyrmblood#endwalker spoilers#there's got to be a lever we can move that eventually gets us to a sauna scene with him14
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elizabethrobertajonesReblogged bundibirdluanna801FollowSo 99% of the time I’m happy to keep my distance from Dracula Daily posts I disagree with or memes I find annoying, but there’s something I want to speak up about here because it’s a case where I think shipping & meme lenses are genuinely impeding people’s ability to understand the story.Specifically: In today’s entry, Jonathan describes how “Last night the Count asked me in the suavest tones” to write three post-dated letters saying he’s fine and on his way home. Which Jonathan correctly understands as Dracula covering his tracks so it’ll take longer for people to realize if Jonathan doesn’t make it home. The thing is, I’ve seen probably dozens of posts commenting on Jonathan using the word “suave”, and it’s always from a shippy lens. “Ooh, ~in his suavest tones~ huh”, “Jonathan worrying he’s about to die but still noticing Dracula’s suave tones”, etc. etc. And I get it! Jonathan/Dracula shipping is obviously very big right now, and there are places in Dracula where the homoerotic subtext is very real. I’m not here to say that looking at Dracula through a queer lens, or the lens of whatever your preferred ship is, is incorrect. But this is a case where I think looking at the story only through that lens is keeping people from picking up on the actual implications here. The point of specifying that Dracula said this “in his suavest tones” isn’t that Jonathan thinks he has a sexy voice. I mean, maybe Jonathan does think that! Who can say. But that’s not what matters here, what’s significant to the scene. The significance of Dracula saying this “in his suavest tones” is that he’s still putting on the act of the charming, gentlemanly host, even now that he’s long past any possibility of Jonathan actually believing it. Not only that, but as his actions become more and more blatantly threatening - he’s literally forcing Jonathan to help pre-emptively cover up his own murder - he’s actually turning up the act, laying it on thicker than ever. Not just asking smoothly but in his suavest tones. There’s something so deeply cruel and mocking and infuriating about that, like he’s daring Jonathan to call him out on the act and face the consequences. You get that sense of Jonathan’s fear and anger and frustration all throughout this entry. He knows Dracula’s a liar and he knows what he’s being forced into, but he feels helpless to do anything about it right now. And I think those feelings are very much there when he bothers to note Dracula’s ~suavest tones~, too. It’s not Ooh, he has a sexy voice, it’s How dare you smile politely while you torture me?#dracula daily272,9646,933
elizabethrobertajonesReblogged midrashicjurisffictionFollowAnonymous asked:to quote yeats, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world (riverdale cancelled) and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards bethlehem to be born? (the winchesters)#please check out the youtube scooby doo remake#it's official scooby doo branding and is live action and it's TERRIBLE and I hope they fund a whole season#there's jsut a pilot now#it's called Mystery Incorporated#I watched the whole episode completely rapt#anyway I think this post is underestimating the evils unleashed by cancelling riverdale#riverdale… See all1636
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elizabethrobertajonesReblogged peter-pantomimeantimasculistFollowfandom hcs are like:-shy anxious person is ace-badass but nice girl is bi-mean bitch is a lesbian-bubbly extrovert girl is pan-all men are gay (unless they're flirty in which case they're bi)antimasculisteveryone in the notes is so god damn stupid this is a criticism of bi/lesbo/aphobic fandom culture you shouldn't be AGREEING with the stereotypesdemonicseriesI made a graphantimasculistYEAH THIS IS LITERALLY IT... hyper-nicosiderealsandman#fandom problems32582,37488,360
elizabethrobertajonesReblogged bundibirdhomunculiiiFollowi feel like an untapped layer of funny in dracula now that we’re all discussing it is that bram stoker was an irish dude writing a novel about an english guy having the worst fucking time ever#oh yeah please don't sleep on him being Irish :')#dracula daily62,8927,002
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