Zatanna - Progress

Gee, those pintucks on the bias for Zatanna’s Sesame Street outfit looked really cute until I folded up an entire piece of 11x8 paper and got a whopping 3 inches out of it.

I need two pieces at 15 inches long.

Can we talk about Sabriel and how:

• Sabriel wears a long-sleeved coat of chainmail and a loose surcoat for the majority of the book and was depicted as such on the cover
• The Abhorsen is a unisex title which requires three things: Being part of the family, having great badassery, and being good at music
• Sabriel’s mother is dead… but since Sabriel can talk to the dead, it ain’t no thing
• When faced with a statue of a naked man, Sabriel was a little embarrassed at first, then realized it was a little too lifelike to be a regular statue and just to make sure she looked him over again, really, really, really thoroughly
• When given the choice to lift the spell on Statue Touchstone by kissing him or breathing on him, she uses a breath since it’ll be weird now that she knows it’s an actual human
• Sabriel doesn’t like being called ‘milady’ by Touchstone because… she’s a high school graduate with theoretical knowledge but no working experience, and she doesn’t feel the title is appropriate
• Sabriel also doesn’t want to take on the Abhorsen title because her father has to die before that happens. In fact most of the book is more about Sabriel coming to terms with the fact that her father is dead instead of her not liking the job
• She likes cats, experimented with brandy when she was about fifteen, is nice to children, and cries when she finally realizes she can’t save her father
• In short, she’s a normal person who happens to be a woman and kill zombies

This part speaks to me on a very deep level. [x]

i will watch this but be internally cringing at the HAIRCUT WHICH LOOKS GOOD ON NOBODY

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Zatanna - Progress

This sleeve mockup is the result of two hours of work. The sleeve itself took twenty minutes to cut out and pin the pleat. The cuff made me question why I decided to go all out on a dress shirt that would be 80% covered up!

I meant to have a more modern flared cuff, but upon the realization that making non-standard cuffs is difficult, I’m just going to make standard rectangle cuffs to preserve my sanity. I can change them later if I really want to.

necromorph-slayinglovemachine:

Sometimes a king needs a queen (◡‿◡✿)

necromorph-slayinglovemachine:

I’m not sure but I think I just accidentally created a legendary Pokemon

theuppitynegras:

thecommandertoast:

ofmagicandice:

So I just gained a follower a few moments ago with the name maartin4life

LISTEN TO ME

WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU DO

DON’T

OPEN

THEIR FUCKING PAGE

I JUST OPENED IT AND MY AVAST ANTIVIRUS TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS A FUCKING TROJAN HORSE

verified. it contains a malware bug encrypted inside the javascript. 

SIGNAL BOOST

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tealtigress:

There should be options beyond tomboy (like Merida) and girly girl (like Cinderella).

NOAH BERLATSKY | MAY 21 2013, 12:04 PM ET

Princess Cimorene, as depicted on the cover of Dealing With Dragons. (Harcourt Brace)

Princesses are easy to hate. They don’t save kingdoms. They don’t fight dragons. They don’t battle giants. They just dress up and look pretty and get saved and get married. They’re passive and boring and so, so…feminine.

The hatred of Disney Princesses in particular, then, can end up looking something like a hatred of, or a discomfort with, the feminine itself. Peggy Orenstein pointed this out in a 2006 article about her discomfort with princesses. After her daughter began questioning her obsessively about the reason for her anti-princess stance, Orenstein suddenly wondered,

What if, instead of realizing: Aha! Cinderella is a symbol of the patriarchal oppression of all women, another example of corporate mind control and power-to-the-people! my 3-year-old was thinking, Mommy doesn’t want me to be a girl? […] I may be inadvertently communicating that being female (to the extent that my daughter is able to understand it) is a bad thing.

So how do you hate princesses without hating girls? Or how do you separate princesses and femininity?

In a column last week at The Week, Monika Bartyzel suggested that these are maybe the wrong questions. The problem, Bartyzel argues, isn’t princesses, but the fact that “princess”—and by extension, femininity—has ended up meaning such a limited range of things. Bartyzel argues, “The truth is that, just as there are all kinds of women, there can be all kinds of princesses.” She points to the film Brave, where the heroine, Princess Merida, is basically defined by her dislike of the princess role—she hates dressing up, doesn’t want to marry anybody, and loves archery and swordplay like her father. And yet, as Bartyzel says, when Disney officially coronated Merida into their official Disney brand, they gave her a makeover, complete with bigger breasts, less wild hair, and the sort of finery she disliked in the film. The outcry—including a withering statement from Bravewriter Brenda Chapman—was sufficiently intense that Disney backpedaled, and has apparently pulled the redesigned Merida from their site.

Bartyzel argues that more different kinds of princesses would mean more different role models, and more options, for little girls. That’s certainly true. But it could also, and relatedly, provide a broader definition of femininity. Merida’s love of sports and weapons and her rejection of marriage and dresses and etiquette is a welcome alternative to Cinderella. But are the only options really tomboy and girly girl? Merida is a different kind of princess in part because she doesn’t want much to do with traditional femininity—and her story is exhilarating for that. But still, it seems like it maybe leaves out a fair number of girls who like princesses because of the femininity, not despite it.

There are some princesses out there who exemplify additional options. Probably not coincidentally, many of them aren’t from Disney. Perhaps the best known example is Wonder Woman, who is rarely even thought of as a princess. And yet, a Princess she is—Princess Diana of the Amazons, specifically.

Created in the 1940s by William Marston, a psychologist and radical feminist, Wonder Woman was specifically and deliberately designed to show not just that women could be brave, but that femininity itself was a kind of superpower. Where heroes like Merida and The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen use pointy, utilitarian, arrows, Wonder Woman’s weapon is the deliberately non-phallic lasso. Over time, that lasso has morphed into a lasso of truth, but originally it was a much more effective lasso of command. Anyone who was caught by it was compelled to obey the wielder.

In an interview Marston called the lasso “a symbol of female charm, allure, oomph, attraction” and of the power that “every woman has…over people of both sexes whom she wishes to influence or control in any way.” The lasso is not a weapon despite its femininity; it’s femininity weaponized. For Marston, love wasn’t something women sat around and waited for. It was a power women picked up and used to save the world from violence and hate.

Another, more recent example is Princess Cimorene, of Patricia Wrede’s wonderful 1990 Dealing With Dragons and its sequels. Cimorene, like Merida, dislikes many of the stereotypical aspects of being a princess. She doesn’t want to learn to embroider or learn etiquette. Instead, she wants to learn sword-fighting, magic, and cooking.

The last one there is the tell. Cimorene doesn’t want to follow the Disney princess script of sitting around and waiting for a prince to come. But she doesn’t want to be a hero either—on the contrary, she thinks all the princes going on quests and fighting dragons are just as dull and conventional as the princesses they save. Cimorene wants nothing to do with either archetype.

Instead, she decides to become the princess for the female dragon Kazul—a position which is decidedly domestic. Cimorene cleans and makes cherry jubilee and organizes the library, acting as a combination secretary and maid.

This isn’t presented as burdensome: Cimorene has a good, domestic, down-to-earth practicality, as well as an enormous curiosity. She likes to organize things, and she finds rifling through a dragon’s treasure and library fascinating, which it seems like it would be. But there’s no doubt that in her female-female partnership with Kazul, she is taking on most of the traditional wifely functions—a fact only emphasized further when Kazul wins the unisex title of King of the Dragons. Even when Cimorene does fight, she tends to do so in a domestic way. She and her friends discover that the evil wizards who are the series’ chief antagonists can be melted by soaking them in soapy water (with a hint of lemon). Battle involves not swords, but buckets.

Neither Wonder Woman’s vision of femininity nor Cimorene’s is going to appeal to everyone (whether male or female) in every way. Marston’s ideas about feminine love power can seem essentialist and weirdly sexualized. Washing floors can seem a pretty tedious task even if it’s a dragon’s floor you’re cleaning. But most masculine narratives for kids—filled as they are with guns and swords and sentient fossil-fuel-guzzling tank engines—have their downsides, too. The point isn’t to create a single perfect role model, be it Merida or Wonder Woman or Cimorene or Cinderella. The point is to give girls, and for that matter boys, the chance to see femininity not solely as a prison to inhabit or escape, but as a story that can be told in lots of ways. As Cimorene’s friend Princess Arabella tells her at the end of the novel, “I wouldn’t like being princess for the King of the Dragons, but it will suit you down to the ground.”

Perfect commentary is perfect.

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just-another-lurkim:

excusemeandmyexistence:

an-owls-eye:

gay waterbending

I will never not reblog this

The fiercest bender of them all

forever reblogging

SOMEONE WHO COSPLAYS A WATERBENDER MUST TAKE THIS POSE

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musicalmurderscene:

Dog: Hello koi!

Koi: HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG! HELLO DOG!

this just makes me happy for some reason.

it’s like the dog is giving the koi a hello smooch

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magnetic-rose:

oh man i haven’t had long hair in such a long time and sometimes my hair will get caught underneath my armpit and i’ll move my head and it pulls my hair painfully is this like a normal thing for long hair or am i just really that stupid???/1?

It’s normal. You just have to remember to sweep it behind your back every now and then so it won’t get caught on everything.

ALSO BE CAREFUL ABOUT CLOSING CAR DOORS I’M SERIOUS

uglymyfanwy:

archersstolenchallenger:

hypnophilia:

gallifreyan-wings:

tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans. 

George Takei is flawfree.

OMG PLEASE TELL ME WHERE THIS ISLAND OF MEN IS THANKS AHAHAHAH MY HERO

this brightened my day my GOD George Takei is the fucking best.

I don’t know what’s worse: 

That people have these feelings

or

That nstring together a simple sentence. 

George Takei is such an amazing human being.

I just laughed for a minute straight.

when i saw “Because it’s right to do it”

I KNEW WHAT I WOULD SEE NEXT AND I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED

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hiddle-stoned:

life-more-abundantly:

denyselfandfollowchrist:

spadeoface:

he looks like one of the italian people pushing one of those boats

#DEAD

You don’t even understand, there are actual tears.

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fhobos:

leradny:

The Truth Will Out

WONDER WOMAN AND ARTEMIS TALKING IN A COFFEE SHOP. 

WONDER WOMAN. AND ARTEMIS. 

TALKING TOGETHER.

WONDERWOMAN AND ARTEMIS—- 

/screeches

Really this was just an excuse for a cheap crack at Greek and Roman mythology, and also seeing how many deeper levels I could shove into the conversation without Artemis noticing at all.

BUT SERIOUSLY I AM ALWAYS GLAD WHENEVER SOMEONE LIKES MY WRITING ENOUGH TO SAY STUFF ABOUT IT