just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.
0 products also works great
because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you
I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion
okay
where did we lose you
why are people like this
but like who are you to tell someone to not do what they want tho? if they put make up on because they want to, then thats not your problem? Youre not the one buying those 22 kinds of make up? Seriously op, “minimum” requires a number. Just say you dont like make up and move on 👀
I’m literally not telling anyone what to do except, like, being aware that makeup culture is a misogynistic capitalist structure whether you personally enjoy taking part in it or not
like I don’t care if people individually like wearing makeup, it’s still an industry that is built on convincing women that their natural bodies aren’t sufficient and pushing for increasingly elaborate (and expensive) looks to be the norm for ALL women regardless of whether they enjoy it
wear 22 products or 44 or whatever, but please for the love of god be self aware
“but AO3 *wants* writers on their platform, writers are providing a service for them, that’s how they get content.”
no, they are PROVIDING you a platform. for your content. as a service to you.
please, please, please learn how the internet works.
the companies that WANT you on the platform are the companies that are SELLING YOU TO ADVERTISERS.
*Facebook* wants you on their platform. *Tumblr* wants you on their platform. *FF.net* wants you on their platform. You are Facebook’s product. Facebook is not a service to you. It is an incentive for you to give them eyes and data to sell. And the second your eyes and data stop being profitable they will toss you under the bus.
That’s why fans made AO3. So we had a space that was ours, that wasn’t profiting off of us, so we wouldn’t get sold out.
Here’s a Tutorial of How to draw Small Ducks (Ducktales 2017 version)
Note
: my English is pretty off since it’s not my first language. that’s why
i can’t really explain the whole tutorial.. but i hope you guys still
understand the tutor anyway!
i usually took tons of screenshots for fun but also for References material, it helps me big time!
FACE :
BEAK :
Beak is ( and i think most of you agree too) the hardest thing to
draw, especially the Old classic Beaks which is much rounder and more
complicated… the new Ducktales style is a bit simpler and easier to
draw.
though it need times to understand how to draw it properly.
BODY :
FLIPPERS :
BONUS (Triplets Hair(s) ) :
Hope this will help you guys, keep practicing is my advice! Ducks is pretty much hard to draw :p
Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip
Ralsei is really cute, but I think few people note Ralsei is also… really weird. Also his unwavering kindness really does at some points diverge into a jarring level of doormat-ish behaviour.
He is a character whose very introduction to the player is odd. He introduces himself to you and Susie as someone who was born to fulfill this purpose. He only exists to meet you.
Meanwhile, he also has many callbacks to Asriel/Flowey. Let’s throw aside the obvious anagram for now (Asriel=Ralsei). He is a prince of the world, who informs you that your soul is the ‘culmination of your being’.
Perhaps more notably, Ralsei has the same huge streak of dependence/codependence the original Asriel has. In fact, he was literally born to meet you and doesn’t seem to exist for any other purpose but that.
Unlike the other characters, and despite seeming to be around the same age, Ralsei has no parents. It appears that you’re the first people he’s met and formed any kind of positive relationship around. Even his interactions with Lancer seem shallow despite the fact he’s existed in this world longer. His existence is contingent on yours.
This both literally refers to the role of the tutorial character, and possibly everything else about Ralsei.
He’s never hugged anyone before (except the training dummy).
And he also seems okay with you hitting him.
He will lecture Susie on being a proper hero, and he definitely does want the characters to be nice to him, but he is mostly non resistant. Rather than sticking up for himself, he will bribe Susie to be nicer to him with the offer of baking a cake later. He’s pretty prepared to go along with most things Kris and Susie tell him after (even with some hesitation). If you hesitate too long at the point where Susie has joined the ‘Bad Guys’ and is being fanned, he even says ‘he’ll go grab a leaf and fan you’ until you want to be a good guy again. He is that dependent on you.
(Which is also true of Flowey, who Ralsei shares a lot of lines with. Flowey is, even at his most villainous, a truly codependent person with Chara – “I promise, I can be useful to you! I swear I won’t get in your way!” Let’s contrast that with Ralsei’s eagerness to please.)
Probably the biggest warning sign with Ralsei is that he believes the only way his purpose can have any worth is if he serves Lightners. It is the ONLY way true fulfillment can be reached in his eyes.
This sets both Kris high up on a pedestal, and it can be at first readily accepted as ‘game logic’ but it seems more indicative of an unhealthy way of being.
We get this tidbit from Seam, the shopkeep, the one other person who refers to Lightners in a way even similar.
Notably, this train of thought also makes Susie uncomfortable. As it probably should. Hearing your new friends can only be ‘fulfilled’ through your existence is an uncomfortable sentiment.
(Three Former Kings, pictured)
Interestingly, despite Ralsei claiming to be a prince, we see all the royalty of the world and none of them look even remotely related to Ralsei. So what is Ralsei a prince of? Why does he believe he has this title? What knowledge does Ralsei have of being created explicitly for the existence of others?
Lastly, I want to point out Ralsei’s similarity to one of the most popular mages of all, Vivi. Vivi’s plotline is concerned with being a ‘doll’, an artificially created person, and whose plotline revolves around purpose.
Seeing as Ralsei’s current purpose is attached to the Lighteners (which is truly unsustainable, as basing your existence around someone else is), with all these elements at play it seems Ralsei has 1. a kind of messed up view of himself in relation to others 2. that his purpose and agency may be examined in this story. 3. that Kris and Susie are currently high up on a pedestal for Ralsei.
A++ Post.
I’d like to also add that Ralsei is VERY story-oriented, and his notion of purpose not only applies to himself but other Darkners and, more surprisingly, Lightners. Hearing “the King isn’t happy because he’s not playing his role properly” isn’t super surprising when you consider he is a Darkner and thus on the same “level,” I suppose, as Ralsei…But notice how insistent he is towards Susie.
You ARE a hero, start ACTING like it. That’s uncharacteristically bossy, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter if you’re higher or lower, you still HAVE to adhere to you role. Purpose according to story seems very, very important to Ralsei…
Ralsei is really cute, but I think few people note Ralsei is also… really weird. Also his unwavering kindness really does at some points diverge into a jarring level of doormat-ish behaviour.
He is a character whose very introduction to the player is odd. He introduces himself to you and Susie as someone who was born to fulfill this purpose. He only exists to meet you.
Meanwhile, he also has many callbacks to Asriel/Flowey. Let’s throw aside the obvious anagram for now (Asriel=Ralsei). He is a prince of the world, who informs you that your soul is the ‘culmination of your being’.
Perhaps more notably, Ralsei has the same huge streak of dependence/codependence the original Asriel has. In fact, he was literally born to meet you and doesn’t seem to exist for any other purpose but that.
Unlike the other characters, and despite seeming to be around the same age, Ralsei has no parents. It appears that you’re the first people he’s met and formed any kind of positive relationship around. Even his interactions with Lancer seem shallow despite the fact he’s existed in this world longer. His existence is contingent on yours.
This both literally refers to the role of the tutorial character, and possibly everything else about Ralsei.
He’s never hugged anyone before (except the training dummy).
And he also seems okay with you hitting him.
He will lecture Susie on being a proper hero, and he definitely does want the characters to be nice to him, but he is mostly non resistant. Rather than sticking up for himself, he will bribe Susie to be nicer to him with the offer of baking a cake later. He’s pretty prepared to go along with most things Kris and Susie tell him after (even with some hesitation). If you hesitate too long at the point where Susie has joined the ‘Bad Guys’ and is being fanned, he even says ‘he’ll go grab a leaf and fan you’ until you want to be a good guy again. He is that dependent on you.
(Which is also true of Flowey, who Ralsei shares a lot of lines with. Flowey is, even at his most villainous, a truly codependent person with Chara – “I promise, I can be useful to you! I swear I won’t get in your way!” Let’s contrast that with Ralsei’s eagerness to please.)
Probably the biggest warning sign with Ralsei is that he believes the only way his purpose can have any worth is if he serves Lightners. It is the ONLY way true fulfillment can be reached in his eyes.
This sets both Kris high up on a pedestal, and it can be at first readily accepted as ‘game logic’ but it seems more indicative of an unhealthy way of being.
We get this tidbit from Seam, the shopkeep, the one other person who refers to Lightners in a way even similar.
Notably, this train of thought also makes Susie uncomfortable. As it probably should. Hearing your new friends can only be ‘fulfilled’ through your existence is an uncomfortable sentiment.
(Three Former Kings, pictured)
Interestingly, despite Ralsei claiming to be a prince, we see all the royalty of the world and none of them look even remotely related to Ralsei. So what is Ralsei a prince of? Why does he believe he has this title? What knowledge does Ralsei have of being created explicitly for the existence of others?
Lastly, I want to point out Ralsei’s similarity to one of the most popular mages of all, Vivi. Vivi’s plotline is concerned with being a ‘doll’, an artificially created person, and whose plotline revolves around purpose.
Seeing as Ralsei’s current purpose is attached to the Lighteners (which is truly unsustainable, as basing your existence around someone else is), with all these elements at play it seems Ralsei has 1. a kind of messed up view of himself in relation to others 2. that his purpose and agency may be examined in this story. 3. that Kris and Susie are currently high up on a pedestal for Ralsei.
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