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sunshine: venusian artist & poetess. lover of monsters, roses, & fallen cities. 🦪🪞🌞 palestinian.
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One of the first digital paintings I ever made. A technicolor goth heroine inspired by my Palestinian traditional clothing.
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This was a Glorfindel DTIYS for silmaspens on tumblr. It generated a lot of interest.
Im bored so let's do something artists,
What is a drawing you think you're iconic for? and let people reply to you what drawing they think you are iconic for
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sorry about the lighting it is just that i am reading the fellowship of the ring at the club
this point is emphasized in frodo’s conversation with gandalf long before the attached conversation, but i always loved how gildor put it.
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anti-intellectualism is hard to come back from too. you destroy every tool you have, and you are delighted to do it. anyone who tries to help you is your worst enemy in the world you built. best of luck.
One of the most important lessons I learned from Jewish Holocaust survivors is that anti-intellectualism is one of if not THEE first sign of a rise in fascism both socially and politically
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I have begged people to read Jamaican philosopher Charles W. Mills’ excellent paper, “The Wretched of Middle Earth” for years. He passed in 2021, tragically. Let me share his essential argument & the reason I call Tolkien’s world building and world development “race science 2.0”
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Nienna, our lady of will and intent (sketch based on a hohenstein poster)
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it is so arrogant to think that “i don’t like it/it’s not what i would have done” translates to “and so this is bad writing.” “elrond disrespecting the dwarves despite acting like their friend is bad writing!” no. you’re uncomfortable with a damning character flaw.
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elden ring’s like “power won in conquest and war is the same whether the person behind it has an axe or a tearful prayer and a finger pointing to your heart” and the fandom’s like but miquellamarika’s SAD
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big win, the high elves are still aryans, the zombies/mindless hordes that it is morally acceptable to slaughter are still arab, and the poc are only allowed to be humans, dwarves, and what tolkien has defined as elves that need the guidance and leadership of high elves
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omg he's huge and his hands are so big and he's so tall i wanna pull him apart thread by thread and leave him in a little pile by the foot of my bed
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galadriel distrusting fëanor is literally so hypocritical and juicy; she looked in the mirror and didn’t like what she saw. miss “let me follow him so i can conquer.” miss “conquest haunts me a million years later, so closely that it’s the test assigned to me by god”
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how did feanor end up The Character everyone reads as a colonizer when the loss of silvan as a language happens under sindar hegemony and finrod took nargothrond. elf hegemony is inwardly replicated imho, case of the former, outwardly justified, case of the latter.
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yay, zombie arabs festooned in gold and jewelry and parodies of the traditional headdresses, animated by resentment and malice— this isn’t classic orientalism continuing the legacy of PJ, it’s just an artistic and narrative choice that will totally pay off later.
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princess mononoke is one of my favorite films specifically because it ends in such an optimistic and open-hearted depiction of loss and failure. everything has gone terribly, the world looks very different now— take it slowly, but take it, etc
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i am home; my great uncle has kissed my hand and declared the nigh end of nations, and he has made me a cup of tea. the neighborhood cats already know i am here, and they have lined up outside. there’s jasmine growing over my old window.
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so you didn’t understand my critique of not only ROP but tolkien and instead of like really reflecting on why i might call tolkien’s worldbuilding and any subsequent engagements with it that are not deconstructive “race science 2.0”, you decided the critique itself is racist
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want me to like take you through it again? that the fantasy race worldbuilding is inherently a product of race science, where the race we know is unreal is made literally binding in fantasy, and subsequent adaptations reinforce high elves as white and all else as acceptable poc?
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the silmarillion should be widely read simply because of the way it thoughtfully handles a devastating and volatile three-way divorce— “sunshine, are you lying and deceiving again?”— no! you dare? i am simply summarizing the canonicity of melkor/nienna/sauron.
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it takes more courage and bravery to feel hope and kindness now than it does to be hopeless and bitter.
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lotr/rop, the hobbit, and bg3 replicate and exacerbate existing fantasy racism by trying to dress the inherent issues up in what amounts to shallow “inclusive” marketing. a fantasy race defined by and bound to fixed + inherent traits is just race science given legitimacy.
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ROP deconstructed nothing; it reinforced the same system already in place by tolkien’s racist and orientalist worldview. the recent racism from the show is not new, and i am frankly appalled that you ever “forgot” white people, let alone amazon, were behind it.
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my favorite professor used to close every lecture series by saying that critique is a pleasure, it is the deepest engagement possible with another person’s art, and it will transform your own art as you get better and better at it. ofc, art and critique happen separately
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personally, i have no idea how people have this much trust or faith in trop, when the marketing deliberately puts their actors of color front and center for abuse, the casting mostly sticks to the status quo re: fantasy racism, and the writers are two white mormon men to boot
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THIS is a bad faith interpretation and as a result a bad faith argument. it is intellectually incurious, it ascribes its own ignorance to malice, and it pretends a single reference to a wider and ongoing discourse is the only existence of that discourse there is
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ideally, adaptations would create stories that face inherently racist assumptions about what race is directly instead of playing them up and put some set dressing on them, essentially fooling the shallowest among us into thinking rep will fix anything
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“hahaha the gift of death is a pretty bad deal” do you ever stop and think about how death is the strangest friend and so much of our horror is about being deprived of the right to die?
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bloodborne is about birth and procreation and rape and violence and class striation but not about mother, not the way elden ring is about regression and rejection and abandonment and class and violence in the shape of mother
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“fancy words,” “inaccessible language,” “elitist culture.” respect yourself. the actual gate is that these journals require obscene subscription fees to be covered by an institution you are enrolled in— but if you email the author you will get a copy with an exclamation point.
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i love not stepping in to translate for tourists who don’t know arabic and then speaking english super casually later. i love looking at their expressions of betrayal. yes, i did this to you, you funny little man, with your backpack.
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anyway, i reject that any language is inherently ugly, especially because those assumptions just reflect social and aesthetic bias— so my hot take is that black speech, derived in part from valarin, is not ugly. the orcs are using the same eldritch tongue that the first elves
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fëanor teaching himself valarin and never passing it on or making any kind of guide for it is objectively the funniest thing he ever did. especially because his dialect, according to pengolodh at least, had way fewer valarin loan-words than the dialect of the vanyar did.
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you can do orientalism to white people; it’s whatever tf Tolkien does to the hobbits. pastoralism. occidentalism.
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i think making the shire actually, genuinely pristine and untouched, confirming the lie hobbits tell themselves about themselves and their place, is just abysmal. toothless! no teeth!
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the orcs speaking valarin is everything to me. when they die and see nienna, it will be the first time she ever hears a mortal being speak her mother tongue— and of course, the orcs are all nienna’s. she gets them in the divorce.
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you should stop deliberately misrepresenting and misinterpreting analysis that makes you uncomfortable in an effort to dismiss and silence it— and that’s me assuming you’re malicious. the other option is kinder, i think, and it is that you are just so very, very silly.
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finrod is a snake because he fooled everyone into thinking he’s the nice and generous one, meanwhile he’s just the actual mouthpiece of tolkien’s orientalism
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our poc are a silvan elf, humans, dwarves, and hobbits. imho, the fantasy hegemony of magical white people is largely un-interrogated and untouched. the best anti orientalist, anti imperial work is done away from these projects and best with a foot in tolkien’s face
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i need to post-colonially deconstruct númenor, like “humans made special by their ancestry continue to rule the earth indefinitely and we all eat it up without question and actually boromir was right damn it he was right: the wave dream being faramir’s could have meant something”
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the kind of orientalism people in fandom are willing (or maybe it comes down to capacity/knowledge) to address is so basic. the easterlings, sure, but didn’t you notice the patron/shepherd dynamic tolkien assumes must exist between elves and men? or high elves and their kin?
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tolkien has a racist tendency towards endless classification and categorization, which literally haunts fantasy now— it’s race science 2.0
i totally ignore the idea that petty-dwarves are a separate thing and just act like being called a petty-dwarf by another dwarf is like being called a shanda and non-dwarves misunderstood this
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and, always, the depiction of dwarves as these like cartoonish burlier hobbits is a disservice i think to just about every accent, aesthetic, and culture caught in the crossfire
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like so you don’t understand? so like you don’t know what tolkien wrote in his letters? so you’re out of touch and uncomfortable when people critique ROP for carrying through the same racist worldbuilding that tolkien established and literally describes in terms of Race Science?
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