Beautiful Angel

"Don't forget who you are..."

1. “Raven” was an occasionally-encountered name for a girl in the contemporary period, and “Ebony” would be at least recognizable as a name. The other elements of this name are flatly atypical.

2. During this part of the War Period, this character’s hairstyle would not be considered shocking, but it would be viewed as garish and nonconformist.

3. A contemporary music performer known for a melancholy style of music and a gothic and dramatic aesthetic. The title of the work probably comes from one of her songs. However, her aesthetic and attitude has little in common with that in this work, being much more conventional and less garish.

4. A member of the contemporary band “My Chemical Romance”, also notable for a “gothic”, melancholy, and macabre aesthetic

5. i.e. the speaker considers him to be handsome and attractive; despite the pornographic material later in this work, the word “f_______” is here used only as an expletive.

6. Vampires as romantic figures had been increasing in popularity over this period, with a trend away from malicious monsters towards seductive but more benevolent figures, romanticized by their capability of being terrible.

7. Strangely, despite the characterization of this character as a Satanist, “witch” should here be characterized as having meaning similar to “wizard” and not “idolater”, “sorceress”, “maleficar”, or other practitioner of what we today recognize as “witchcraft”. The background material to this work constantly faced accusations of being satanic by an uneducated reactionary public to whom the difference between technology, wizardry and witchcraft was not meaningful (”witch” was sometimes even considered a female equivalent to “wizard”!), which completely failed to diminish its popularity.

8. It is important to understand that “goth” as an aesthetic, counterculture or subculture had a completely different meaning in the contemporary period than it does today – what remains similar is the love of the melancholy, the macabre, the dramatic, the romantic, and contempt for conventionalism. In the mid-to-early-late War Period, “Gothic” people were associated with contempt for morality, certain types of sexual display (usually of a shocking and sometimes fetishistic type), various forms of concupiscence, and a fairly significant connection to the occult and even to outright Satanism, though the latter was all but universally an affectation (this is true of most Mid War Period satanism). See contrast on p 321, The Gothic Movement In the Catholic Church. Moreover, the “gothic” aesthetic as described by this character is a stunted and over-the-top form that has also been corrupted by the counterculture-commericalism that was universal in the Late War Period.

9. A clothing store mostly specializing in counterculture-commercialized and faddist apparel. Critics accused it of being a mercantile vulture that fed by turning more honest and vivacious countercultures into fads.

10. It was almost unheard-of for women in the Mid or Late War Period to wear corsets, but they appeared in the Gothic subculture (which itself heavily borrowed from sources such as Victorian-era clothing, including mourning dress). However, what Enoby is describing is probably not actually a true corset, but a “corset top”, which is essentially a laced bodice. Either would be worn with neither chemise nor overblouse.

11. Probably a nondraped skirt that barely passes her wrist.

12. Hose, stockings, or tights in the form of a wide-open mesh

13. Probably not actually military issue boots; these were tall, heavy black leather boots with lacing all the way up.

14. This character’s outfit would be considered inappropriate for school in the Late War Period, but not shocking to Late War Period mores except by its garishness.

15. Originally meant students at a university-preparatory school; with the extremely high percentage of students seeking to attend university in the Late War Period, this came to mean a subculture of young people who adopted a highly conventionalistic and professionalistic attitude and sought admission to the prestigious and traditionalistic universities in the Eastern United States, often without academics being their true passion. Such people were often viewed as social climbers and sometimes attracted contempt from both their less-professionally-oriented peers and from those who were true intellectuals. 

16. Also known as “giving the finger”; a very rude gesture in the War Period as it is in ours.

18. This phrase went through considerable popular memetic mutation (as did the entire tract): “It was _______ <weather> so I felt ________. A lot of _______ stared at me. I ________ them.” See extra material 34c.

17. I.E. “How are you today?”, “how are you feeling?” as a greeting.

do you think the writer of My Immortal lives in quiet pleasure knowing what they’ve brought into the world cannot be killed nor can they be held accountable

The slow horror of this post, of realizing:

1. First, that this is about My Immortal, fairly obvious from the start. Okay, meme time.

2. Second, that this is characterized as a future English literature class’s textbook footnotes a la our time period’s school texts of Shakespeare works, which, haha, seeing that framed as if this future literature class would be so far removed from our understanding of culture as to need these notes and yet would still be in a literature class formatted similarly to ours, especially combined with the idea that My Immortal would be considered typical “literature,” that’s funny, right?

3. Third, that by “the War Period/the Late War Period” they mean us, and the implications of that name for the time period added to the idea that so much culture from this time period has been wiped out and would be totally unfamiliar to the students of this class, and oh. Oh, that’s not… that’s not funny anymore.

tumblr what the hell

This is a MASTERPIECE.

The Radiance: Yeah sorry for taking you to Lowe’s and leaving you trapped inside with the exits magically sealed and time warped so it felt like 100 years had passed in there. Hey do you wanna go to Home Depot?

Let me tell you a fucking thing about costume design. That’s some in depth, difficult shit to learn. And the fact that this goddess can ramble this shit off the cuff means she knows her shit. ELLE WOODS IS A GODAMNED GENIUS AND IT’s NOT A STRETCH TO BELIEVE SHE GOT INTO HARVARD LAW MMMK?

FUCK YEAH ELLE WOODS OR DIE

this movie is literally about an attractive woman who loves to party having to prove over and over again that she’s also intelligent and hard-working to those who judge her based on her looks (who also empowers and fights for other women, and fosters unlikely friendships instead of engaging in girl hate) and if you don’t think that’s some great feminist shit then I don’t know what your problem is

Let’s not forget that in the end when the guy wants her again, she turns him down because she knows she deserves better.

As someone has pointed out to me before, this theme is way more apparent in the book this movie is based on. Elle’s knowledge set is vast, but also widely looked down upon, and this makes her extremely unpredictable. The two major changes in the movie were her resume, and why she chose to defend Brooke Windham. In the book the resume stood out because it was on business grade cardstock (Which she pointed out was because as a Resume is an important document, it should be printed on weighty durable paper that will remain neat when handled by multiple people) rather than because it was printed on scented pink paper (This was, incidentally, a reference to the manuscript for the book on which the movie was based which was printed on pink paper as it was based on letters the author had written home to her family while attending Stanford.) As to the defense of Brooke Windham, in the book the basis of her willingness to defend her was not due to “Happy people don’t kill their husbands” but rather “Her knowledge and skillset as a Trophy wife makes the prosecution’s assertions of motive nonsensical and yes, being a trophy wife is a hard job you’d know that if you actually looked at women’s interests as more than just what expensive shoes your wife wants this year.”

did any of the other foxes even know about kevin and andrew's deal? like i genuinely don't remember but what if they didn't??? did they just see andrew throwing hands at anyone who could potentially touch a hair of kevin's head and DIDN'T assume they were dating??? or that andrew liked him at LEAST like HELLO can we TALK ABOUT THSI

Hey do you guys remember that aftg fanfic where Andrew chokes Kevin even tho he promised to protect him? That was kinda ooc ahah I don't rmemeber it well tho

in love with the about page on techno’s second channel

i hope the debate over whether or not it was misogynistic for bernie sanders to wear a coat continues for at least another three days

A high profile Jewish woman slated to have considerable legislative power in the US Senate would not have been able to roll up to her primary rival's inauguration with messy hair, no makeup, and a "practical" winter coat without being torn apart by her colleagues and the media.

Please read one (1) book on feminist theory please.

Oh you mean like janet yellen, old ass jewish woman and former chair of the federal reserve?

Anyway, get used to this. Anything perceived as less than completely reverential of Kamala Harris is going to be called misogyny for the next four years. That doesn't just mean criticism of this administration; it's going to extend to the way people fucking dress around her, someone perhaps not smiling convincingly enough. This is what #girlboss feminism has gotten.

The solution to “our society demands women put in way more effort into how they look” isn’t “how come this 80 year old dude isn’t freezing himself half to death during a pandemic for equality”

If ur feminist hot take is "everyone needs to suffer as I have suffered" you need to read one (1) book on feminist theory.

My favourite part is where punky includes ‘no makeup’ on the list, implying that for Equality we should be disparaging Bernie for not wearing makeup to the inauguration.

I personally am offended that Bernie Sanders didn't contour for the event.

Consider: Hollow Knight except everyone is a dragon

I've actually been burning to do this for quite some time - dragons were the Thing I drew before coming into fandoms!

Might do more later, if you've got someone specific you'd like me to do first feel free to reply or ask! Also, because I want to know: whose design do you like best?

A note on vessels: they do wear masks but they can't take it off, kind of like in canon. They're born grayscale (might be darker or lighter), but can consume various minerals to gradually change the color of their scales. Reversion to grayscale happens a lot more slowly than gaining the color, so a vessel could consume a bit of color and be set for a while. They don't need to eat anything, either, but minerals do strengthen their scales/claws/horns.

forgive me f̵̱̓͋̀͒͗̈́̏ä̶̩̭̆t̴̛̞̬̹͇̮̲̗͖̪͌͐̊̀͒́͜h̴̰̿͝e̶̟̖̽̐̂̎̌̉̇͝r̴̢̡̼͕͖̪̋̋̄̊̈́̃̍, for i have sinned.

Glow

That’s a special thing I suppose, to cherish these sights, even in their decay.

i feel like i put too much thought into this,,,

i love this wild child

I donno if this has been done before, but I started thinking about the Abyss in Hollow Knight, and I realized, hey, we know what the Hollow Knight looks like in it’s “prime” form. So, what about the Pale King’s… other children?

And of course, I didn’t forget about our little Knight! I like to think they just never pick up a nail more fitting for their size

two types of half wyrms.

Hornet holds another vigil.

TFW after murdering disposing of thousands of your own offspring void creations and arranging for the brightest of your Kingdom to give their lives for it, you end up self-sabotaging your plans because you’re a moron and got attached to your living sacrifice

hollow knight bugs as real bugs!