the premise of the green knight is so fucking wild. dude was literally like "whosoever strikes me, even the teeniest little hit, will win the game - but they have to come back to me in a year and ill return the exact same blow to them" and gawain was like "radical." and chopped his whole fuckin head off
so about that
"So they had sailed away from England-the boy standing in the front of the ship and refusing to look back, because he did not want to show his feelings. He had already fallen in love with Arthur on the night of the wedding feast, and he carried with him in his heart to France the picture of that bright northern king, at supper, flushed and glorious from his wars."
Sir it is 1940 you cant be writing stuff like this yet
“He was trying to find out what he was, and he was afraid of what he would find.
The boy thought that there was something wrong with him. All through his life—even when he was a great man with the world at his feet—he was to feel this gap: something at the bottom of his heart of which he was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand. There is no need for us to try to understand it. We do not have to dabble in a place which he preferred to keep secret.”
— “The Ill-Made Knight,” The Once and Future King, T. H. White
“In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. […] He loved Arthur and he loved Guenever and he hated himself. The best knight in the world: everybody envied the self esteem which must surely be his. But Lancelot never believed he was good or nice. Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo’s, there was shame and self loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace. It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
not a regular digibash, BUT I made these graphics last month and wanted to share them far and wide. They are available in various sizes and you can post them, print them, use them as banners, wallpapers, whatever! just don’t steal and sell them please. no credit required! but it’s cool if you do
all images are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WHpfVem5SM1qGrsBEYqbSPa7dIPy2c6W?usp=sharing
happy pride month
I FOUMDH IT
Regular Couple
this ended homophobia
happy pride month
[ID: The original “I see no difference” meme. Each of the four squares features an anime couple with an Impact font caption. First is a boy and a girl cuddling captioned “Regular couple.” Second is two boys kissing, captioned “Yaoi couple.” Third is two girls looking into each other’s eyes captioned “Yuri couple.” Finally, Edward Elric from FMA gives a thumbs-up anf grins with the top and bottom text: “I see no difference / Love is love.” End ID]
I need to know more characters like these women
Saw the sketch for this and the only version I found of it finished was like 2 pixels so I decided to finish it myself.
Some process photos below the cut ✨ (including just the line art if you wanna color it yourself)
I was planning to drop the items from the linked tweet thread onto this post, but there are SO MANY new bills that it became a wall of text - line after line after line of incredible things Minnesota has enacted in a single session.
I'm.... actually blown away. the political landscape often feels so hopeless, but the DFL pulled themselves together, getting every member on board for these changes - real changes that are going to protect health, keep people out of jail and housed, and improve work conditions massively. this should be a beacon for every other state democratic party - change doesn't have to be incremental. things can get better and they can get better right now. get crackin'.
But voting doesn't matter right? Imma bookmark this post and show it to any leftists who say that from now on.
Democrats held a ONE seat majority. Judy Seeberger (democrat) won her seat with just 321 votes. 321.
The film is based on ND Stevenson's webcomic turned graphic novel, Nimona! The film will premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 14, 2023, but will be available for general streaming on Netflix on June 30! The film is animated by DNEG with material from the previously cancelled Blue Sky Studios production, produced by Annapurna Animation, and distributed by Netflix.
The graphic novel is available in physical and ebook form most places books are sold! And it's been translated into 16 languages! There's also a full cast English audiobook you can get most places audiobooks are sold!
thinking abt that drefen cosplayer and his huge boobies
i do not doubt that someone shattered their glasses on those
@drtanner-dickery I need this man to cosplay rehydrated Ganon. Link and Zelda would never recover
God, that is a genius idea.
official boob post
thinking abt that drefen cosplayer and his huge boobies
i do not doubt that someone shattered their glasses on those
@drtanner-dickery I need this man to cosplay rehydrated Ganon. Link and Zelda would never recover
God, that is a genius idea.
official boob post
Sun Conjunct Jupiter April 11, 2023 The Sun brings highlights. It sheds light and illuminates.
Mercenary vs Maid. Black Lagoon (2006)
i was having thoughts this morning about naruto and how. early days naruto was so different from the other loud spiky ‘underdog’ shounen heroes we get these days
a lot of underdog characters in current shounen manga that ive been reading are underdogs because they are timid or socially awkward or clumsy somehow (haikyuu, yowapeda, that baseball anime, bnha)
but naruto was genuinely obnoxious. he was gross and rude and clingy. he was loud and disruptive and ruined things.
he was affection starved and had little positive socialisation. he was from an extremely tough background with very very few good role models. he was grubby and wasnt fed well at home. he didnt quite know how to tone himself down, in fact hed never had a reason to try–hed do anything for attention, even negative attention. he was just like so many kids ive known, that i knew in school myself, that i see now as an adult.
that was such a great layer of realness. no matter how much i might enjoy other similar ‘underdog’ characters, i dont think ive ever seen another one come close to that level of nuance
Bart Simpson?
bart simpson, the greatest shounen anime character of our time
aside from ppl laughing at the bart simpson comment, i keep getting comments/tags on this post that are interpreting this as me putting down the other protags i listed. im not, i love them all for different reasons. (except for baseball anime i cant get thru that one)
in this post im talking about why they are underdogs - most shounen anime protags start off not so good at whatever it is the story revolves around (to give them a growth arc and goal for the trajectory of the series), but are also p badass at one aspect of it (to make them cool to the middle schoolers reading). in sports anime this is often bc they just started the sport. in battle anime its often bc they have never had formal training/been taught the ways of whatever we will need exposition about. in any case, whatever obstacle or disadvantage they need to overcome sets them up as an underdog to root for - and the story will set up other rival characters and difficult situations that highlight the protags special qualities (eg. onoda’s hill climbing talent, hinatas jumping, dekus analytics) alongside their weaknesses.
however, naruto takes this one step further in my opinion by also making naruto super annoying and obnoxious and hated in-universe - a social underdog. we find out he is hated because of the fox demon rumors, but even without that we can believe it because of his shrill voice and dumb pranks and orangeness and farting. he is genuinely alone, and the bonds he scrapes together over the series feel super meaningful because of that - we dont just root for naruto because he gets more powerful/good at sport, naruto himself grows and changes into someone who can make strong bonds with other people. we feel proud of him for finally managing to break through and make those connections.
compare that to deku, for instance, who has an extremely similar plot. both boys start out super weak and show barely any skill in the most important role in their worlds society. both of them come upon a way to tap into a huge power that makes them unbelievably strong, but in the beginning they cant use it reliably, meaning they are forced to rely on creativity and their teammates. (they also both have a lazy sensei and a broody rival who gets super mad when they surpass them and have an examination arc that gets infiltrated by real villains anyway ill stop). however, deku actually makes friends very easily - even tho bakugo hates him for some reason that guy always seems like an overreacting outlier. after all, deku is just a sweet nerd.
naruto? is that class clown everyone laughs at and not with. naruto is that scruffy kid who nobody wants to be friends with and if teachers force you to be in his group people giggle and make fun of you, who graffitid the school on the weekend and is always getting suspended and all the moms whisper about how he’s going to end up in prison what a shame. you KNOW kids like naruto in real life, or maybe you were one. he’s not only a magical-powers-underdog, he is a legit social underdog.
people also bring up hinata as obnoxious, which i think people are trying to say makes him a legit social underdog too - but hinata’s obnoxiousness isnt received in the same way. hes the sporty boy in your class who isnt that great at studying and he needs to learn how to use his inside voice but hes still always in the middle of a gang of friends. he fits into the club super easily and never seems to have (non-comedic) trouble with the teachers. hes annoying the way a bumbly puppy is annoying - its still cute and he attracts people. the reason why hinata is annoying isnt ever explored, and is never part of his character growth. because hes short and he has to act larger than life to make up for it…? its never been expanded on in the series. whereas naruto is annoying specifically for the same reason the scruffy kids in real life are ‘annoying’ - terrible home life leading to destructive craving for attention.
thats what i mean by nuance.
