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Sharkie - Hells Belles

[ENG] Third times the charm, everyone's faveourite gremlin is finally here!

Sharkie was the third and final Hells Belles character I drew for my video.

I hope to make a part 2 sometime in the future, but for now the next 3-4 videoes are already set in stone.

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[HU] Három a magyar igazság, mindenki kedvenc gremlinje megérkezett!

Sharkie volt a harmadik és utolsó Hells Belles karakter akit a videóban lerajzoltam.

Remélem a közeljövőben egy második résszel is szolgálhatok, de egyenlőre a következő 3-4 videó már kőbe van vésve.

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The original series came out in the late 60’s and early 70’s during civil rights and the whole hippie free love movement. It was deemed sexually liberating and empowering to be free of judgement and have as many partners as you want. Believe it or not but things like Playboy used to be considered progressive.

But then the 80’s came. And so too did the aids crisis. And suddenly all that free love felt dangerous and reckless. There was strong pushback against women’s rights and conservative values skyrocketed. Moral panics ran rampant.

So all that free love and progressiveness got reframed as womanizing and misogynistic. Even TNG, which started under Gene Roddenberry’s thumb, struggled because it was too much like the original show and people were uncomfortable with how much sex and sexuality was infused into everything (Season 1 was very horny). So all of that got stripped away in later seasons.

Episode 1: THE HORROR OF CHILD SLAVERY AND PARENTAL NEGLECT!

And it doesn’t stop there! Prodigy’s entire PREMISE is a time travel loop that we only really learn about in season 2. It’s one of the most complicated time travel stories I’ve ever seen and touches upon Star Trek Voyager character arcs and plot lines that no normal kid unfamiliar with Trek is going to pick up on. It’s filled to the BRIM with references that date back to the original 1960’s show, and up through the most recent revival series like Discovery and Picard.

Oh and on top of that all of the characters have to struggle with crazy deep psychological issues. Rok deals with abandonment issues. Gwyn deals with heightened expectations and loyalty to an abusive parent. Dal deals with a loss of identity and self esteem issues as a result. Zero deals with body and gender dysmorphia. Jankom deals with anger issues and not living up to expectations of your society.

This is such a WILD and FUN Star Trek shows, and yet so many people don’t even know it exists! Paramount tried to bury it before season 2 even came out! Nobody who’s watching Trek now is looking for it.

Sam Carter in every episode

me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:

no.

NO.

starting to rock back and fourth.

you do not understand.

you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.

we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.

do not tempt fate youngling.

step away from the paywall.

that is how you summon the ancient evils.

No "buy me a kofi"

No links to patreon or other money-making sites or apps

Incidentally, this is why I don't care that the recent Wuthering heights wasn't realistic period dress or society etc. It was blatantly symbolic (and Symbolic!) and wasn't trying for realism or period accuracy, so I don't criticise it for period inaccuracy. Like, who walks across the moors in a massive tulle gown in real life? No one ever, and that's the point. It's obviously performance, and that's what its going for. My criticisms are based on other criteria.

But this new adaptation of S&S seems realist - the colour palette and grading, the costumes and hair that aren't accurate but look like something real people at some point in time have worn, the characters that read like real(ish) modern women... It's trying to read as realist without being realistic and just. What's the point in setting it in the past then?? Why adapt Sense and Sensibility, a realistic realist novel, into an unrealistic realist movie?

I'm just so tired of earth tones being "realist." People wore bright clothes! The past wasn't drab, honestly it might have been brighter than now given our whole obsession with beige minimalism.

But no, it's not realistic unless it's BROWN and BORING

This is just modern minimalism imposed on the past. Just make a modern.

So this iris is gonna hold right? Pure titanium. Less than three|micrometers from the event horizon. It won't even allow matter|to fully reintegrate.

It’s been a bit since I made this but I love it so what the hell