THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, 1998, dir. Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner
This is a film which 100% deserves to be called powerful, and that is in no small thanks to the wonderfully written/acted women within it. The animation and music work together to create such stunning characters.
I get chills just thinking of Yocheved’s brief appearance at the beginning of the movie, as she sends away her youngest son so he may be saved. I am touched remembering the Egyptian Queen’s relationship with Moses (”when the Gods send you a blessing, you don’t ask why it was sent”). I am inspired by Miriam’s untraditional strength - she is not the Strong Female Character Of The ‘90s; her strength is her faith in her brother, her faith in God, her faith in people. She is determined and unafraid to speak what is on her mind. Tzipporah does slide a little bit into the Strong Female Character archetype (sassy, hip-swaying, Ahead Of Her Time), but the movie allows her to mellow out when she no longer feels threatened. And that in itself is something - she is allowed to portray that she feels threatened and the movie does not make it out to be an overreaction on her part. She has to be strong to survive, but when she’s somewhere she feels safe, she is calm and happy and still strong.
*hits the blunt* yugioh was propaganda because the season they opened the anime with in the US started by making you pity yugi for losing his exodia cards in like, the second episode i think it was. basically this fuck has a huge unfair advantage over everyone else in the world and is planning to use it to win a cash tournament. but you’re supposed to feel bad for him when he loses that advantage and ends up on an even playing field because the cards are “his property”. exodia is capital and yugi moto is the bourgeoisie
and kids are meant to think “wow id hate it if i had exodia and i lost it. i could have exodia someday so for some reason i empathize with that situation” it’s literally capital
Luke ur literally misreading this entire fucking thing cuz kaiba is literally a fucking CEO and he’s the villain. this show is anticapitalist…yugi losing the exodia cards is actually about how the proletariat loses the true value of their labor under the surplus theory of value
ok listen up though yugi literally gets possessed by the spirit of a pharaoh and inherited the exodia cards from his grandfather they are clearly a metaphor for the divine right of kings under feudalism and weevil is the bourgeois revolutionaries overthrowing feudalism. only joey wheeler, the true hero of the proletariat, can
don’t send this person hate, but please spread this so that everyone knows they traced my art big time. and report the post so that it gets taken down, if the OP won’t.
this was really wrong of you to do.
i still think about this a lot.
i messaged this person and told them they should make a public apology and message every single person who reblogged it. they asked “can i just reblog your post instead?” and did that. then reblogged a bunch of stuff later to cover it up. and when i messaged them again to ask if they could tell everyone to take it down, they just…dropped their blog? they stopped posting after that.
i had to message over 500 people MYSELF and the post still has reblogs. it still has people saying “wow great art style! art by OP” when this is a direct trace with hardly anything altered. it is MY art and MY hard work they’re getting credit for. does anyone even care how much that hurts me and other artists this has happened to? or do you trace things thinking we’ll never find out and that it will never impact our lives?
TWICE now this story has happened: i went on twitter and saw someone using MY ART with credit to someone i’d never heard of. i went to their tumblr and saw that they reposted my art! and when i messaged them, they tried to make excuses and act like it was my fault for being mad at them. saying stuff like “well i saw it on facebook and there was no credit” or “i never said it was mine!” if you don’t think the art belongs to the artist, DON’T USE IT. you may repost images and never claim them to be yours, but people don’t know that. they assume it’s yours if you’re posting it, AND YOU GET CREDIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK. don’t repost if you do not have permission, and do not use art as anything unless the artist says it’s okay. if you can’t find that, ASK. not seeing it doesn’t give you the OK to do it!!!! (don’t take away from this paragraph “so i can repost if i say i don’t claim the images as mine!” because that’s not what i’m saying. go back and read it again.)
people constantly repost my art when i explicitly said not to, trace my art, crop out my signature and claim it’s theirs, use it in videos without asking, use it as icons without asking… you guys are losing artists because of this. it’s not on us to make sure you all behave, so i don’t want to hear the “it’s your fault for posting it in the first place” excuse. it’s not suddenly on me because someone else decided to disrespect me. do you expect us to stand by and pretend this doesn’t happen for the sake of staying neutral on this issue and not losing any followers? artists are scared to speak up when this happens because we will always be painted as whiny and entitled. i guess we should just let everyone step on us and never rant about this issue like i’m doing now, because then we stop being your perfect idols and show that we’re human beings creating these images for you.
i am a nice person. i generally like everyone and respond kindly to messages. but that doesn’t mean i have no right to be angry, or that getting upset over this means i’m now a scary and horrible person. i’m just a living, breathing human being with feelings. i’m a swimmer, i love cats, i have green eyes, my favorite food is peaches, and i love LUSH bath bombs. i am a person, like you, with goals and ambitions, heartaches, struggles, favorite things, friends, etc etc. do not draw a line between us and think it’s okay to do anything you want to me because i’m just words behind a screen. these are MY words: i’m a 21 year old girl sitting in my room with the fan on and typing this, i have tears in my eyes, and i just ate lunch. i’m a person typing these words you’re reading.
respect artists. i’ll never forget this happened, and some people will always think this art belonged to the person who traced it. they’ll get compliments, commission offers, and followers that should have all gone to me instead. it impacts my career just as much as it does my heart.
please stop doing this. i’m a real person who gets hurt.
here’s the eridan drawpile from the homestuck artists discord server! thank you to everyone who participated they all look gorgeous! also a special thank you to @ezzyalpha who helped us by compiling the image and doing the credits, which are under the cut!!
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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