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my personal Star Wars conspiracy theory, since none of you asked, is that the solar panels on TIE fighter wings only generate like 1% of the power the ship needs and the Empire put them there as greenwashing propaganda
AND THEN they probably use it to justify the lack of shields too!! "hey Palps why don't your fighter pilots get shields?" "we have to keep the power requirements low enough to use renewable energy uwu"
Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.
DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every āX is Zā statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters, rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).
Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.
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Edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?
Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.
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undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except youāre not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and youāre just trying to keep up.
The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human
Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I donāt get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably donāt have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.
Whatever artist is reading this, I want you to know. When you're dawing eyes, draw the eyeball first, then cover the eye you aren't working on and place each pupil separately
I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and itās so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said āiām a librarian, you canāt do this.ā
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when iām looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a veryā¦tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was likeĀ āhow will i find [this book] for instanceā and i repliedĀ āeasy, itās purpleā and he looked at me like i was a witch.
This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).
When you go for an MLS (Masterās of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for āprofessional-levelā library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I wonāt go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is āabout"āa concept we tongue-in-cheek call āaboutness"āand how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in itās own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.
OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OPās partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because itās their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.
In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesnāt work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesnāt know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, theyāre lost. Thatās why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what itās āaboutā, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.
Basically, OPās system works for their own personal library, because itās best suited to how the primary userāOP themselvesālooks for books. OPās librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.
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Iām not trying to play devilās advocate about the Tolkien and race post, I agree with most of what youāre saying about the denial. But modern non fiction Marxist critics forget one thing that hopefully fandom doesnāt, that is to give the author grace instead of immediately deciding that the racial politics of his work is intentional. I accept Tolkien was a conservetive, but I find it hard to believe that he was exposed to anti racist thought like we are today. I think itās important to acknowledge the biases in his writing, but not decide it as intentional, because heās a linguist based in a very white part of England, whose background is in European history who did not anticipate a world where migration is the norm. Of course that doesnāt make the text less racist but itās an important thing to consider. Thatās all, I agree with your other points.Ā
Thanks for the question, and please bear with me re asks gang, I was stupid enough to leave inbox on for a while, not realising the post would break containment, so Iām snowed under atm ā ļø
So thereās a lot of talk about Tolkien being āof his time and classā but precious little about what that environment actually looked like other than comparing him to his fellow religious conservative Oxford dons. āOf his timeā is not a neutral statement and it certainly isnāt applicable to Tolkien, but more importantly, ānorms of his timeā seem to often be, in this fandom, calibrated to āwhat Tolkien saidā rather than āwhat was actually happening thenā.
Anyway, I will try to be a little more direct than in that last post. So the āthe fundamentally racist elements of the legendarium are because Tolkien was a man of his timeā line really annoys me (and others!) because imo it lets Tolkien's own Oxford tea table stand in for the entire twentieth century as if there wasn't an entire world outside the Inkling Orgy arguing furiously about race and empire.
I can give you an example literally from Oxford itself! The Indian Majlis had been meeting at Oxford since 1896! The Majlis, for those who might not be aware, was a full-on political and debating society which produced a fuckton of the people who'd go on to lead independence movements across South Asia. This was not some obscure footnote he would need to trudge to a specialist archive to dig up, and I can confirm that attending debates and discussion groups is, was, and has always been a large part of Oxford University life. Ie this was happening in his university in his lifetime among people of his class group he'd have had every opportunity to meet and engage with, whose existence he absolutely would have been aware of.
Beyond the Oxford ventures, you have things like Moodyās League of Coloured Peoples, founded in London in 1931 and organising against colour bar practices in Britain itself. The West African Students' Union had been running since 1925, building a public anticolonial intellectual culture that fed directly into multiple independence movements of the following decades. CLR James was in England from 1932! And so on and so forth! And many in these organisations were white British activists or public intellectuals or writers! This was a live political and literary scene running in parallel with Tolkien's and explicitly arguing against the racial categories his fiction sought to preserve. Which is to say, I think whatās more likely than āthe legendarium is the way it is with regards to race because Tolkien didnāt know any such antiracist thought existedā is that āthe legendarium is the way it is with regards to race specifically because Tolkien did know such antiracist thought existedā.
can i say i am so glad the guy was not a lazy writer and also that he disliked direct allegory because if one of sharkyās minion gangs in scouring of the shire were called the hobbiton majlis or something, i would probably start cooking peopleās cats
Anyway, Iām so tired of how āof his time" just keeps getting used to mean "the time as understood by conservative Oxford dons," when the actual record shows Black British and colony diasporas and white progressives were producing sustained public counter-discourse in the same space the whole time, in his own country, in his own language, in his literal university. So when people say he was "just a product of his environment," I just always want to know which environment they mean exactly, because the one he was actually in very much did sustain quite a lot of anticolonial thought.Ā
Also just to get into the basics again, bro was famously a philologist, ie not exactly a profession where you could plausibly bumble through life without ever encountering race-as-a-formal-category. Philology in this period, and especially in Oxbridge, was literally a primary engine of race science. The Indo-European/Aryan linguistic apparatus that mapped language families onto racial stock was built by people doing Tolkien's exact job, so I really donāt think he passively inherited racial categories without noticing, he inherited them deliberately through years of formal study, with copious footnotes and his own academic judgement. Like I always find it so funny when people, even on that post, refer to the racial dynamics of the legendarium as āunconscious biasā because I just know Tolkien is spinning like a power drill in his grave every single time, because they just implied he was shit at his job š
Anyway, the entire feudal value system of the legendarium runs on inherited blood as a determinant of worth (even within the Shire, ie the most ānormal people not kings of menā place, where Sam is placed as a Good Man Friday), and this is a very well known fact within fandom. Aragorn's legitimacy is genealogical-first and earned-second, the blood of NĆŗmenor "running true" in some lines and "thinning" in others is outright presented as a real, quasi-biological fact about a person's capacity for greatness, and not to forget Faramirās entire speech about greater and lesser men, and the āchildless lords sit alone while barbarians bay at the gatesā bit.
Or if you prefer a Silm example, (note: the context of the exile and whether or not you think they deserved what they got is irrelevant to this point) but the Doom of Mandos and the Noldorin re-entry ban, when viewed as a mechanism detached from context, is fundamentally just the ontological excision of a ābirthright citizenshipā as a consequence of a personās actions. Idk how big this was outside the UK but remember when Shamima Begum was extensively groomed as a child and fucked off to join ISIS and the UK decided to strip her of citizenship and leave her stateless? This is basically just that, ie the legitimisation of an ontologically confirmed birthright citizenship that can be granted to exceptional cases at the behest of the ruling body (see: Hobbits, Peredhels) due to their extraordinary actions, but also can just as easily be taken away by the same ruling body in response to a transgression. Like this is literally just present-day āmigrant criminalityā discourse, how can you say he didnāt anticipate the rise of postcolonial global migration š
(once again to the reader, please let me reiterate i am simply comparing the mechanism of the exile alone, i am not saying that the FĆ«anorians are fucking ISIS, and i certainly am not saying that the exiled Noldor are the equivalent of stateless refugees, so pls donāt jump up my ass š)
Tolkien wasn't writing this in a vacuum where phrenology was a fringe pseudoscience nobody respectable touched, it was institutionally embedded and state sanctioned British science well into the interwar period, with its own society and journals, and an enormous presence in Oxbridge. Moral and mental character of Great Menā¢ļø being first fixed by descent and the subsequent positive/negative shaping of character by choices and environment being seen as a somewhat effective yet undeniably secondary mechanism, is literally the loadbearing premise of race science. Itās not a borrowed aesthetic! The entire legendarium runs on this logic!Ā
Once again, and this is also re: a few reblogs of my original post that take a similar route, what do you mean āhe did not anticipate a world where migration is the normā??? šThe legendarium isnāt a product of 1937 alone, bro was notoriously still tinkering with its genealogies and societal architecture well into the 1960s and early 70s and pretty much until the day he died, like a fucking dweeb (for once, complimentary), hence why it takes the fragmented form it does. That's a working lifespan that runs through major global decolonisation, Windrush, the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, through literally the entire long and convoluted and drawn out process by which Britain had to publicly and unavoidably reckon with the idea that the empire's subjects were now their neighbours. At some point we need to truly engage with what "of his time" means, ie we have to reckon with the fact that āhis timeā kept moving and the foundational elements of the legendarium didnāt.Ā
And to bring up the same example from my original post but in a different light, Tolkien was completely capable of precise and deliberate racial argument the second it was framed as being about himself rather than his fiction. In said well known example, in 1938, some German publisher wants confirmation of his "Aryan" descent for translation rights, and Tolkien's (drafted) response is sharp and furiously specific, knowing exactly what's being asked of him by the Nazis and exactly why it's grotesque. Compare that to the total absence of literally any comparable interrogation applied to the Haradrim or orcs, or the entire chronology and geography of Middle-earth where evil consistently arrives from the same two compass directions wearing the same coded features. Man like. Tolkien was honestly a pretty clever guy, and ngl I feel it does him a (very funny) disservice to assume he didnāt have the capacity to scrutinise race to the level he does ā ļø
Anyway I think where the fandom focus on āunconscious bias of the era" does not actually originate in a true desire to absolve Tolkien (fair enough, because this is a man who has never once asked to be absolved of the opinions he holds strongly enough to work into his narrative at such depth) the individual, and but rather in the interests of keeping the emotional crutch of loving a beloved childhood text without having to acknowledge that the person who made it was making choices in the same way Rudyard Kipling or Rider Haggard was making choices, and yet very few people offer Haggard this kind of protective custody in present day.
Almost nobody aside from hardcore conservatives sits around saying King Solomon's Mines just "reflected the assumptions of empire" as if Haggard had no hand in shaping said assumptions himself, we read it (correctly) as a deliberately shaped ideological project worth taking seriously as an argument. Tolkien, specifically due to the fandom culture around him both then and now, often gets a pass that even Kipling doesn't, and imo it's not because the textual evidence is thinner but because the fandom loves him more and flinches harder when heās hit. Which is to say, the insistence on āTolkien was of his time and his time was badā being the chosen interpretive lens is less a claim about āthe timeā Tolkien existed in than it is a claim about us as a fandom today.Ā
On a vaguely related note, I also think āthis fandom gives grace to the authorā should not be treated as a complimentary statement, especially because one of the elements of the Tolkien fandom which genuinely baffles me is the general air of author-genuflection across the board regardless of what fandom pocket youāre in (and a towards Christopher LMFAOOO) never have I been in a fandom that consistently deifies the creator to this extent, and itās doubly baffling considering that he isnāt exactly a sensitive up and coming artist but a dude who has enormous mainstream cultural impact and, crucially, has been dead as a doornail for decades.Ā
Like it is quite funny but also on a serious note, whilst the sentiment is understandable because yeah the world and its languages are as immense as the work he put into it and it is very important to so many of us, I think a publicly performed culture of āgrateful to the author for this wonderful worldā is one of the things that preclude a deeper critical understanding of the legendarium itself. Amusingly, this is literally the only thing that makes me miss the bloodsoaked battlefields of anime fandom, because Masashi Kishimoto may have painstakingly drawn 3 billion pages of Naruto, but 95% of the fandom would probably, upon meeting the guy, tie him to a chair and beat him repeatedly on the head with a rubber hammer going āwhy the fuck did you do this? what the fuck is wrong with you? did you hate twelve year old me personally?āĀ
I have a longer post cooking abt the historical elements of Tolkien as a man of his time re ideological genealogies and contemporaries, but in the meanwhile I just want to say by his own letters (letter 83, written in 1944), Tolkien was an avowed supported of General Franco, which a) most writers of his generation were in active and public opposition to Franco and b) Tolkien spends a not inconsiderate part of his letter bitching about how the notoriously conservative C S Lewis himself is opposed to Franco and infected by "Red propaganda" and c) if it comes to fellow Catholics, Graham Greene himself opposed Franco, even if he was unhappy abt murders of priests. And I also think it is very important to note re the stewarding of these conversations that there are exactly two papers on Tolkien's support for Franco, one by an independent scholar and one by the head of the Tolkien Society in Spain, who managed a private interview with Priscilla Tolkien and who cited her godfather having been a Francoist himself - and THAT author is, guess what??? a fucking Francoist himself. The conversations and scholarship about Tolkien are NOT happening in a neutral and "normal" space.
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