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functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I
you can be peeling a boiled egg and think to yourself wow. that was so simple. and then you peel another one and it’s like being in the throes of war. shell everywhere. egg mangled. tears in your eyes. that’s how god keeps you humble
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Today's horse is a Breyer, but not one of the usual lines. This is actually one of their Christmas ornaments: Scarlet, the 7th in the unicorn ornament series, from 2024. She seems to be a reversed version of the Shire mold from the Fine Porcelain series, sculpted by Kathleen Moody.
As you can probably see, she's a bright red with iridescence, and she has gold accents on her hooves, horn, mane, tail, and feathering. She is very shiny, and a fitting color scheme for a Christmas ornament. She's smaller than a Schleich or CollectA, but larger than a Stablemate.
I don't own any other ornaments from Breyer (or any horse ornaments from other companies) but I was oddly drawn to this one. I do like her color, and I do like unicorns, but I think it's her really dynamic sculpt that got me. I didn't want to hang her (and didn't really have anywhere to do so), so I just unscrewed the hanger bit from her back and have her up with the other figures on the shelf.
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gentle psa to new comic artists about a problem i also suffered from: slow quiet pacing is totally fine BUT if that's not what you're deliberately going for, you CAN fit more Story Progression on the page. no, more than that. more than that even. i promise if you don't want it to a single action doesn't need to take a whole page to illustrate each of its steps, a lot of connecting magic happens in the gutters i /promise/ if you draw someone pulling up in a car then skip to them walking in the door with groceries we will Understand that they unloaded the car and unlocked the house you feel me
#I am not a comic artist#but I had a similar problem when I was in film school#I call it “the door problem”#in my thesis film I had written that two characters walk out the back of the club into the alley behind the club#and my club location did not have a back alley but did have a side room that we used as the door#but that door opened in#and the location I used for the alley had a back door but that door opened outwards#and I knew it looked weird#I struggled framing the shots#and blocking the actors#and I got really really caught in my own head about how to make this door work#because to me it was really important that you saw every step from club to outside#because even though we had learned in school that you could transition it didn't feel right because it didn't feel like a new scene to me#(this being one of the struggles with a short film. It can all feel like one scene if your script is short!)#AND THEN#when we got into the editing room we just...cut the door transition entirely#initially not on purpose#what happened was that we decided to tighten up the timing by cutting non-linearly to the custom music I had commissioned#which made it much more experimental especially in comparison to my fellow classmates#however it showed me that the story still absolutely worked without needing to show how they got into the alley#the audience can infer the door#so now anytime I can feel myself getting stuck on something when I'm filming I think#“Is this a Door Problem?”#as a storyteller it's always a question of what is the absolute bare minimum you need to convey what you're trying to say#and sometimes that means you just need to already be outside the club
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Exactly! Film and comics are VERY similar mediums in this way, I love this. We should always be considering Door Problems
sigh. adaptations always characterize her as being in love with sherlock or needing him to save her for some reason :/
she literally did nothing wrong. and!!! and she outsmarted sherlock holmes and got away with it!!! making him acknowledge that women can be smart (at least in the original books, if i remember correctly). and then she went off and lived her best life. go girl
Apokuna:
She got her entire arc passed over, she got reduced to a sidekick. People forget she cannonically had an eating disorder (she's afraid of blood and is a vampire)
She's a great fighter, she's a vampire that's afraid of blood, she tried to save everyone by sacrificing herself even if it didn't work
This is partially from canon, but the way she was made to be the villain in every possible situation is so transmisogyny coded. A (trans) woman will literally sacrifice herself for the lives of strangers and still somehow be seen as selfish
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Mel Medarda (Arcane) vs. Basira Hussain (The Magnus Archives)
Mel Medarda
Basira Hussain
Remaining time: 6 days 49 minutes
Basira Hussain painted by Feifei Wang
Propaganda below the cut:
Basira Hussain:
She's treated as a hyper competent one who's carrying the braincell and a cheerleader for the m/m pairing or a meanie who blames the main man character for everything for no reason
She's such a complex character with so many different relationships to the other characters and potential with characters she didn't meet or know well. Also if her and Daisy were men their whole deal would overshadow the m/m pairings by a landslide.
Mel Medarda:
Reduced to an obstacle to Jayvik. Her character background and nuances are ignored in favor of making her an evil Jezebel who seduced Jayce to turn him against Viktor/the undercity; she’s always getting put in the cuck chair, and even positive depictions of her in fic have her playing Jayvik therapist or yaoi fangirl instead of developing her as a character in her own right. Often excluded from group official art & fan art.
As a character, she has so much interesting canon material to work with that people just ignore. She was raised to inherit a war-loving empire but believed she was discarded as a child for being too soft. She overcame a cold and traumatic childhood to be a champion for peace. There are still traces of this upbringing in her - she’s a strategist who wants the best for the whole, which sometimes means making decisions that come across as ruthless for the individual, but she’s always been just as willing to sacrifice herself for the cause. She’s flawed and has her own blind spots but always tries to operate in good faith. Criminally underutilized in canon and in fan works lol
Because of her interactions with Jay, much of the fandom only saw her as a malignant and hostile obstacle to the Jay/Viktor pairing, using words like 'temptress' and implying a romantic relationship between Jay and Mel is automatically inferior to one between Jay and Viktor. Definitely misogynoir, because the fandom would not have been this hostile to her if she wasn't black.
Mel is a complicated, morally gray character. Initially characterized as a ruthless and cunning politician, but who is torn between being merciful and stopping at nothing to prevent more suffering. Her emotional arc involved getting out of her parent's constricting grasp and living according to her own desires.
Where do I start. Constantly villainized for actions that fully make sense for her character. Ignored in her main relationship in order to ship her boyfriend with a skinny white guy. Sooooo much unchecked fandom misogynoir. The WRITERS don't even know what to do with her, they like never fully nailed down her motivations and just let her Happen. Like. It's YOUR show!! WRITE your characters!!
Smartest woman in the room. Powerful mage. INCREDIBLY tragic figure forced to continue the cycle of conquering and bloodshed. Knows what she wants and how she's going to get it, and sees that plan through. Figures out how to deal with an entire mage cult on her own, outsmarting the leader. I love her. She didn't do half the shit the fandom is mad at her for doing but she would have been fully within her right to do so.
Mel is hated by racist fujoshis for daring to "get in the way" of a non canon gay ship. One of the animators mentioned something about how he pictured the sex scene between Mel and her boyfriend being unimportant compared to Mel's boyfriend's concern for his white bestie. Fujoshis rejoiced, only going to show that they view her as a disposable Black girlfriend character/thats what they want for her. They write fanfiction where she's been killed, too.
Mel is the most interesting character in the show by far. She has a nuanced and complicated relationship with her mother, and its already rare to see this with a mother/daughter relationship let alone between 2 Black women, and its the most heartfelt relationship in the whole show. Mel was abandoned by her mother for being "too soft" and made her own way in the world of politics. She is manipulative, to a degree, but she always means well and its easy to see that she has so much heartfelt emotion in her that she holds back. She stands up for her lame ass boyfriend despite him not deserving her, and she gets cool magic powers in the second season that she uses to save everyone. She is also always dressed impeccably and is inarguably the most beautiful character in the whole show.
Oh, boy. Hoo. There's a lot of fandom misogyny but it is mostly from JayVik fans. I am a fan of the ship myself, but to insinuate that Mel is in the way, and is no good, and that she should leave Jayce alone, or that she manipulated him? Sigh… I am Viktor himself (an IRL/DA. That's not important, I just have to mention incase I get some weird looks).
She wasn't in the way at all. You can ship what you wish without constantly finding ways to hate on Mel and insist that she was being a user and a manipulator.
She is a goddess of the Arcane. She's made of pure magic and she looks it. She's golden, glowing and gorgeous. She is politically strong, and got away from her mother's bad influence to make a name and a life for herself. She commands the attention of a room and makes sure not only to be powerful but to be nurturing. She's kind, and whilst she might have been raised as a wolf, she knows when a good leader must be soft, too.
FalseSymmetry (Hermitcraft) vs. Elwing (The Silmarillion)
FalseSymmetry
Elwing
Remaining time: 6 days 49 minutes
Elwing illustrated by MatejCadil
Propaganda below the cut:
Elwing:
She has been the centre of impressively rancid discourse about whether she was a terrible mother because she [checks notes] tried killed herself during a battle with people who were definitely planning to kill her and quite probably planning to kill her kids.
Near apocalypse survivor, and one of the people responsible for averting the apocalypse. Chose to be an elf when given the choice between being a human or an elf. There's all sorts of interesting ways you can analyse her place in the politics of late Beleriand when you are not arguing about whether she's the worst mother ever.
FalseSymmetry:
Everyone reduces her to "big scary woman with swords" even though that is so far from her personality. They just want a cool girlboss. She IS a girlboss but in different ways. Also they never talk about just /her/. It's always her and [male best friend]
While she is amazing at pvp she is also an absolute goofball! She is riddled with silliness. She pranks, and chats, and listens to her friends rambles for hours. She isn't afraid of a challenge especially when it comes to builds. She loves to help out a friend, whilst mocking and teasing them the whole time <3
People always ignore her in favor of her male server mates. False is one of the BEST builders on the hermitcraft server in my opinion. She’s also so funny and a really good roleplayer.
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