Modern AU Thorfinn in a funky tshirt
One Dress a Week Challenge
September: Pink
Ice Fantasy / Xu Jiao as Xing Gui
Xing Gui is very young in immortal terms (just 99) and very sheltered, being unable to leave the dreamers' palace because of her poor health. This flowing gown in delicate shades of pink suggests her status but also her vulnerability.
It can be difficult to get a good look at the bodice because it is usually hidden by the large and rather creepy stuffed animal that she constantly carries. The top photo has a pretty good view of the corsetlike bodice and full sleeves, while the second picture shows all the different shades of pink used in the dress. The bottom two pictures show the subtle patterning on the outer layer, as well as the touches of gold and silver decoration.
Reblogging for Pink Redux!
the dedication ss fandom has amazes me. the way even an ss fic has its own inner fandom is so incredible. like the amount of hype, memes, and fanart for quietus is just 🤌🏻
idc what anyone says, this fandom is so cool. the amount of talented content creators and support is so great. even tho the hate/toxicity sucks, i'm so glad to be part of this community. from a creative angle especially, this fandom is beautiful. also, quietus is one of the best pieces of online works i've ever come across. holy fuck it's amazing
The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.
I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.
I fucking love him
jdillustratesnonsense
i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it
iamtypinglike98madmen
He also jabs racists in the eye!
I love the justice grandpa of fists
I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.
He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.
Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!
He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!
Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.
He said fuck the police!
He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.
He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.
He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.
You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!
And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.
I have a new role model
“justice grandpa of fists”
arquus-malvaceae
It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.
mummified-priest
Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited
Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.
we need him more than ever…
sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content:
He’s a hero, our Everett.
Just found out there were live action Everett True shorts (silent films, though, so the outbursts were largely body language)
Reblogging to always have it to hand. :)
That film is so good! Yes, it’s body language, but so is the comic so much of the time! And what perfect casting.
And while I have you here, here’s a link to a whole bunch of strips.
And here’s a link to buy a collected edition (It’s an Amazon link, but it appears to be coming directly from the small press that published it [ I have a copy on my shelf]).
“it was a different time”
To this day, I think my favorite film theory that I accept in my mind as canon is the theory that Shrek literally came up with his own name on the spot as he first meets Donkey
Apologies in advance for repeating some things that have been said on another tumblr post that I cannot find.
The catalyst from the theory comes from how uncertain he sounds when first introducing himself. The “uhhh……shrek” definitely sounds like something he kinda came up with on the spot. It’s even supported when he first introduces himself to Fiona, saying it in almost the same way.
But it’s a theory that seems to make sense. None of the signs or decorations in his swamp are marked with his name (unless you count the title card in the mud, but that’s probably not diagetic). There’s no record of his existence outside of simply “ogre”. And that’s all he’d ever really been to the world. The theme of him being seen as a monster is obviously seen throughout the movie quite a bit, but that can also be seen with how he’s addressed throughout the movie.
I took a look over the transcript for the point. Up until halfway through the movie, there are only two characters who say Shrek’s name. Shrek himself, once when introducing himself, and Donkey. The first time anyone else says his name is when he first saves Fiona and asks his name, still believing him to be Prince Charming. Of course, after finding how unorthodox he is and then learning he’s an ogre, she doesn’t refer to him by name at all until the next day after the Robin Hood encounter. At no point in the movie does anyone else say the word “Shrek”. Not even Lord Farquaad. Farquaad always refers to him as “the beast” or “this thing” or “the ogre”. And that’s part of the theme of how he is seen by the rest of the world. As far as he knows, he doesn’t have a name. He’s just…an ogre.
If this theory is true, then he never really thought of having a name. At least, not until he met Donkey. Donkey might have been the first person to ask him his name. And he wasn’t someone who just ran away from him, thinking he was some hideous beast. And that’s what made him decide to give Donkey his “name”. It’s what started to give him a sense of identity as being more than a monster. It’s a theory that massively improves the movie and I will live and die by it.
Lelouch: How could you betray me like this?? I'm your best friend!!!
C.C.: Yeah, becoming your best friend is one of many bad choices I've made over the years.
