«You? Who are you that I ought to pay you any mind?» ~ XXX. ☠️~
[Caption: several drawings of John Silver in Black Sails to illustrate the speech he gives to Israel Hands.His face is always obscured, either not present or turned away. -“I am no one. From nowhere. Belonging to nothing.” Drawing of a kid Silver sitting in the bed of an orphanage. The shows of two kids fight over something, and there’s another hiding behind the skirts of a woman. -“I am a wretch like you.”. Silver in the Wrecks at night in season 1 episode 2, hiding the stolen page behind him while Flint and Billy hunt for him. -“And yet… mountains of gold have changed hands because I chose it”. Silver approaching Max at the Inn to offer her the opportunity to be her partner in stealing the Urca Gold from Flint. -“Thousands of men in Nassau are living in fear of my return because I decreed it”. Silver walking away after killing Dufresne, still lying on the ground behind him. -“Hundreads of dead redcoats in a forest not far from here because I made it so”. Dobbs standing on Maroon Island, implementing Silver’s plan. Silver’s giant shadowy silouette is behind him, framing him. -“I’m the reason grown men lie awake at night”. A paper with a black spot marking death, sent in his name. -“I am a new beginning for Nassau”. Silver approaching the round table where (starting on his right) Flint, Jack & Anne, Madi and Blackbeard stand to formulate a plan to retake Nassau, at the end of season 3.]
they did noooot do enough with my girl being a vessel
[Caption: drawing of Claire from Supernatural. She has a determined look on her face as she helds her Grigori sword: She’s wearing a golden cross necklace, black shirt, red plaid, and a black jacket over it. Behind her she has dark golden wings and thin golden rays coming out of her head.]
[Caption: two drawings using mostly a scale of red and blue tones. The first one shows Charles Vane from Black Sails, marching ahead shirtless with a coat over his shoulder, picking at his teeth. The second one is of Elizabeth and Barbossa (with monkey Jack at his shoulder) in Pirates of the Caribbean. She’s in the red dress he gave her with her hands tied as he, standing behind her, puts the medallion with the gold coin around her neck.]
[Caption: panels from different DC comics. The first one is from Batman, volume 1 issue 408; Bruce, as Batman, catches Jason in the middle of stealing the tires of the Batmobile, at Crime Alley. He tells him he’s going to have to give them back; Jason replies, “who says I took them?”. When Bruce asks what the tire iron is for, then, Jason replies “this!” and hits him with it.
The second pannel is from Batman: Wayne Family Adventure #34. Bruce, wounded and recovering, is trying to sneak out to go on patrol. Alfred suspected and told the kids to help stop him; Jason is in the batcave, flaunting a tire iron; the next images show every vehicle in it is missing its tires.]
A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.
Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class.
I go back and forth on whether I share the headcanon that Solomon Little is Silver’s real name but for the moment I’m feeling it because the juxtaposition of Miranda saying “God wrote [the Song of Solomon] too” and then Silver (Solomon) saying there’s no god writing his story is just making me crazy
“People who write about gender politics have wildly differing opinions on Amy: some see her as a blisteringly alive, sickly fascinating character who’s both a monstrous manipulator and a brilliant commentator, particularly on gender politics in relationships. Others see her as, by the end, a cartoon, living down to every silly idea about women as naturally devious shrews who arrange pregnancies to get their own way and pretend they have been abused when they have not. What has always kept Amy from troubling me in this particular sense is that she does the things she does not because they are in her nature as a woman, but because they are in her nature as a psychopath. One of the problems with the relative paucity of interesting female characters is that they become responsible for representing all women, for speaking to What Women Are Like. The more scantly represented any demographic group is, the more each person seems to reflect upon everyone. But here, it has always been perfectly clear that Amy is an aberration. She is a woman, but she is not only a woman. She is also a monster, and the second half of Fincher’s film is, in many ways, a horror movie about the great difficulty — and eventually the impossibility — of defeating her. She is the rare monster in a monster movie who wins at the end. Whatever she has to do, however offensive, however distasteful, however horrifying. Whatever. It is in Amy’s specific, defined character that she will do anything. She is that smart, that angry, and that unfettered by conscience. It would not be realistic to suggest that she, given the person she is made out to be, would not do these things, would not think of these things. It is not her lack of conscience or her ruthlessness that is gendered; it is the way she expresses those things as a result of her very much gendered life. Amy’s pathology plays out in the fields of marriage and childbirth because that is where she sees herself having a chance to attain power. That’s where the high stakes are, and a person as angry and intelligent as Amy knows how to locate the highest possible stakes.”
A new illustration I made inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”
[Caption: two drawings of a monstruous girl peeking through the courtains of another girl’s bed. Carmilla’s eyes are shining, and Laura has awoken, startled. The second drawing portraits the same moment, but only in blue-green tones.]
(Image source) [ID: four black and white photo’s of a person demonstrating how to wear a simple wrap top made out of a rectangle with a neckhole and straps at the sides.]
Easy vintage wrap top
This vintage wrap top design is an easy beginners project: you don’t need a pattern, you can customise it to your own size, and despite lacking stretch it doesn’t require any zippers or buttons.
The top is made out of woven fabric and consists of a rectanglein which a holefor the head is cut. Strapsare added to the short sides of the rectangle to tie the top around your body.
AssunDIYonYoutubealso has tutorials for two variations on this top: a rectangle shirt version and a butterfly shirtversion.
Given the simplicityof this top, it’s a neat way to use up old bed sheets and such.
Some examples:
(Image source 1) [ID: a person standing in a kitchen while wearing a gray wrap top with t-shirt-like sleeves and a round neckline.]
(Image source 2) [ID: a gray wrap top lying on a wooden floor. The top consists of a rectangle with a hole cut in the middle for the head. Two sets of straps, one thin and one thick, have been sewn to the sides of the rectangle.]
(Image source 1) [ID: a person modelling a royal blue wrap top with large sleeves and a slot neckline.]
(Image source 2) [ID: a royal blue wrap top lying on a tiled floor. The top consists of a rectangle with a hole and a slit for the head, and thin straps at one end of the rectangle and thick straps at the other end.]
(Image source) [ID: two photo’s. Photo one shows a person wearing a wrap top made from a dark blue fabric with white flowers. The top has very wide sleeves. Text: “Free pattern + video”. Photo two shows the same top lying on a white background. It has a drop-shaped neckhole, two sets of straps (one thin and one thick), and round bulging sleeves.]
I made one of these on a whim out of scrap fabric the other day. So comfy! So fast to sew! Definitely recommend as a casual project.
