Posteres da Mondo para o filme O Homem de Aço. Artes de Ken Taylor (os dois primeiros) e Martin Ansin (os dois últimos).
Going to see the premiere tonight. All I can say is ‘I want to believe.’ For the first time in a while.
JON SNOW 80S TRAINING MONTAGE!!!
This is OUTSTANDING.
This just made everything better.
(via megsokay)
I feel as though I should be writing something right now, but alas, I have no idea what.
Let’s trade. You write a scene for my book, and I’ll write a list of analogues between Teen Wolf and Akira Kurosawa’s opus, Ran.
- me: do i have enough time to read these books?
- me: no
- me: *buys books*
My brain is lying in a malcontent puddle at my feet. No more writing today, just Pringles and Homestuck.
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And I kept reading. I found myself heroines like Tatterhood, the hideous elder daughter of a queen, who goes forth to fight witches and rescue her sister; Princess Blue-Eyes, the gorgeous ruler of her own kingdom who beats a Czar and all his three sons in battle; Tokoyo, daughter of an exiled samurai, who saves a sacrificial maiden by jumping off a cliff and fighting a sea monster. Where are their retellings? Why aren’t there movie adaptations of their stories, or an introduction to the Disney canon? If readers of the 21st century are so dissatisfied with the way women are written in fairy tales, why not look beyond the standard Grimm brothers selection pool?
But let’s take a look into that pool, since it is rather irresistible with its sparkling shallows and murky depths. The women in Grimm favourites tend to get the worst kicking, so stuck with labels you’d think they’d been mistaken for a corkboard. Passive! Submissive! Weepy, soppy, weak.
Why? Because they don’t get into swordfights with their evil stepmothers? Because they don’t take on all comers with a metaphorical flamethrower? Modern retellings often put an emphasis on their heroines physically or verbally defending themselves, which can be excellent and deeply satisfactory, but there are other ways of being strong. Surviving in an atmosphere of hatred without letting yourself get infected by it, like Cinderella does – that takes strength. Making a new life among strangers, like Snow White, takes courage. Being imprisoned with no resources for an escape, like Rapunzel, and keeping on hoping for something better anyway, takes fortitude. It’s a quiet bravery, easy to ignore, and so people do ignore it. They pretend that women in fairy tales don’t ‘do’ anything. But they are wrong.
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And I kept reading. I found myself heroines like Tatterhood, the hideous elder daughter of a queen, who goes forth to fight witches and rescue her sister; Princess Blue-Eyes, the gorgeous ruler of her own kingdom who beats a Czar and all his three sons in battle; Tokoyo, daughter of an exiled samurai, who saves a sacrificial maiden by jumping off a cliff and fighting a sea monster. Where are their retellings? Why aren’t there movie adaptations of their stories, or an introduction to the Disney canon? If readers of the 21st century are so dissatisfied with the way women are written in fairy tales, why not look beyond the standard Grimm brothers selection pool?
But let’s take a look into that pool, since it is rather irresistible with its sparkling shallows and murky depths. The women in Grimm favourites tend to get the worst kicking, so stuck with labels you’d think they’d been mistaken for a corkboard. Passive! Submissive! Weepy, soppy, weak.
Why? Because they don’t get into swordfights with their evil stepmothers? Because they don’t take on all comers with a metaphorical flamethrower? Modern retellings often put an emphasis on their heroines physically or verbally defending themselves, which can be excellent and deeply satisfactory, but there are other ways of being strong. Surviving in an atmosphere of hatred without letting yourself get infected by it, like Cinderella does – that takes strength. Making a new life among strangers, like Snow White, takes courage. Being imprisoned with no resources for an escape, like Rapunzel, and keeping on hoping for something better anyway, takes fortitude. It’s a quiet bravery, easy to ignore, and so people do ignore it. They pretend that women in fairy tales don’t ‘do’ anything. But they are wrong.
The cast (Evangeline Lily, Orlando Bloom and Lee Pace) reacting to a video of fans reacting to the trailer of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
This made the news in New Zealand
This is just fucking cute.
I’ve always felt like the LOTR cast/crew were like my buddies - like friends that I enjoyed, much like going to see a friend in a local play. I bonded with them at an odd time in my life, and from then on I’ve always had a deep fondness for them.
And now, even though I have some serious grievances with the Hobbit MegaMix, I still have that same fondness — like seeing my friends in a play that has some problems. It makes me happy to see ol’ Orlando being a huge dork like this.
(via utcualm)
“Common threads amongst homophobes: one is that you choose to be gay, the second one is “All gay people are recruiting others to be gay”, and the third is that they are exactly the same as pedophiles, that there’s no difference”
(Source: 3swallows, via bonafide-badass)
