Dishy Misha
annnd some out of context gifs, enjoy!
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2013-07-19
annnd some out of context gifs, enjoy!
josiedokeytumblr
Tumblr's new content restrictions - Adult blogs no longer searchable
under Tumblr’s new content restrictions, posts from Adult-rated blogs will no longer show up on tags. Any tags. Also, Tumblr is able to flag your account as Adult without you labelling it as such—although users do have the option of appealing to the “Trust & Safety Team” if their feel their blog has been flagged unfairly.
Adult blogs are now unsearchable.
If your blog has been flagged as Adult, nothing you post will ever appear on Tumblr’s public tag searches. Your posts will only be visible to your own followers and the followers of people who reblog your content.
This means that if you want to publicize something like a Kickstarter campaign or political message, or even to signal boost a personal plea for help, that post will still not show up on Tumblr’s internal search engine. You are cut off from everyone except your own circle of followers.
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Adult blogs are now unsearchable.
If your blog has been flagged as Adult, nothing you post will ever appear on Tumblr’s public tag searches. Your posts will only be visible to your own followers and the followers of people who reblog your content.
This means that if you want to publicize something like a Kickstarter campaign or political message, or even to signal boost a personal plea for help, that post will still not show up on Tumblr’s internal search engine. You are cut off from everyone except your own circle of followers.
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Fun with the Jaeger Designer
IT'S A MEME - check on Jaeger Designer in tags on tumblr or facebook, I've seen a giant robot named Benedict Cumberbatch (among other silliness)
If you've got some time to kill, head over to the PACIFIC RIM site and play with the Jaeger Designer, clicking on different body parts you can select different arms, legs, heads, etc. You can do a custom colour with decals and add a country flag - and a name!
Not only can you make your own Jaeger and create posters (allowing you to select different poses and rotate the image), you can import your custom giant robot into the game simulator - rock on!
http://www.pacificrimmovie.com/
Epic Fail for Female Characters in Pacific Rim Universe
Let me just state that I think the Pacific Rim concept is great, as it adapts longstanding themes from Japanese tokusatsu shows, (like Ultraman) that I grew up with, however, after seeing the film and reading backstory, the treatment of its few female characters is not something I relate to.
(contains spoilers)
Each female character is only realized in relation to a male character. In the film we only have one female character of note, Mako Mori, who is held back from being a Jaeger pilot, despite training for years and being the most capable candidate
Mori is only allowed to fight due to the agency of Raleigh, at no time does she stand up for herself and demand better treatment, the training accident begins because Yancy recalls the death of his brother in battle, but Mori is the weaker of the two, as she falls into her memories of childhood trauma, which Raleigh has to pull her out of.
During battle Mori is capable but at the climax of the film, she faints due to lack of oxygen and has to be jettisoned in an escape pod by her male co-pilot.
What you didn’t see in the film - when Stacker Pentecost rescues Mako as a child, there is another pilot in the Jaeger, a female pilot, who has passed out, leaving him to pilot alone. (ah irony) The female pilot, Tamsin will later die of cancer, due to radiation poisoning in a hospital bed, while Stacker who is suffering the same aliment is allowed to sacrifice himself in battle.
The only other female in the film is Sasha, the Russian pilot, we only see a glimpse of her (in armor with boob plates) her co-pilot is her husband Alexis, and to all appearances, she and her partner are equal (with matching bleach blonde hair).
In the film crowd scenes in Scatterdome and among the techs and scientists, there are no women. Yet, in the graphic novel Year Zero, there is a female scientist (Caitlin Lightcap)
Caitlin Lightcap is inexorably linked to the scientist Jaspar Scoenfield - who created the Jaegers- because the two had an illicit affair when he was her older married professor. Jaspar convinces Caitlin he was never serious about their affair and asks her to join the Jaeger program for which she is overwhelmingly grateful.
Caitlin restarts her romance with Jaspar when they work together because Jaspar decides he missed her more than his now ex-wife, when Caitlin discovers a pilot Sergio, has feelings for her, Jaspar becomes jealous, to the point he puts the pilot in danger.
It is Lightcap’s attachment to Sergio that compels her take the leap to link with him in the ‘Drift’ so they pilot the Jaeger together, not her scientific acumen.
It then behooves Jaspar to break off their relationship - in affect, passing her over to another man - so Caitlin can be with Sergio (so much for Caitlin’s apparent growth and independence)
Jaspar is magnanimous enough at the end of the story to give her credit for her scientific discoveries, while at the same time negating them by making a reference to ‘Love’ being the real force that saved the day’.
The only independent female I can find in Year Zero is Luna Pentecost, who is the sister of Stacker, who quickly perishes in a Kaiju attack (you can see the half second moment in the film when a jet crashes into a Kaiju’s tail)
So, if the screenplay writer is listening, there are easy quick fixes to this problem, put more women in the story as capable professionals, (pilots, techs, scientists) to help solve problems - not as appendages only activated by male characters and discarded (by dying and passing out) when the focus shifts back to the male protagonists. If you had the relationship of the scientists as mentor-student without a sexual element, if you'd had a team of female pilots, females in the background, female friends of the male pilots (think of the relationships of the male and female soldiers in Aliens). Women are lovers, wives, sisters and daughters to male characters, but it doesn't need to be single-note confining as well as defining.
(contains spoilers)
Each female character is only realized in relation to a male character. In the film we only have one female character of note, Mako Mori, who is held back from being a Jaeger pilot, despite training for years and being the most capable candidate
Mori is only allowed to fight due to the agency of Raleigh, at no time does she stand up for herself and demand better treatment, the training accident begins because Yancy recalls the death of his brother in battle, but Mori is the weaker of the two, as she falls into her memories of childhood trauma, which Raleigh has to pull her out of.
During battle Mori is capable but at the climax of the film, she faints due to lack of oxygen and has to be jettisoned in an escape pod by her male co-pilot.
What you didn’t see in the film - when Stacker Pentecost rescues Mako as a child, there is another pilot in the Jaeger, a female pilot, who has passed out, leaving him to pilot alone. (ah irony) The female pilot, Tamsin will later die of cancer, due to radiation poisoning in a hospital bed, while Stacker who is suffering the same aliment is allowed to sacrifice himself in battle.
The only other female in the film is Sasha, the Russian pilot, we only see a glimpse of her (in armor with boob plates) her co-pilot is her husband Alexis, and to all appearances, she and her partner are equal (with matching bleach blonde hair).
In the film crowd scenes in Scatterdome and among the techs and scientists, there are no women. Yet, in the graphic novel Year Zero, there is a female scientist (Caitlin Lightcap)
Caitlin Lightcap is inexorably linked to the scientist Jaspar Scoenfield - who created the Jaegers- because the two had an illicit affair when he was her older married professor. Jaspar convinces Caitlin he was never serious about their affair and asks her to join the Jaeger program for which she is overwhelmingly grateful.
Caitlin restarts her romance with Jaspar when they work together because Jaspar decides he missed her more than his now ex-wife, when Caitlin discovers a pilot Sergio, has feelings for her, Jaspar becomes jealous, to the point he puts the pilot in danger.
It is Lightcap’s attachment to Sergio that compels her take the leap to link with him in the ‘Drift’ so they pilot the Jaeger together, not her scientific acumen.
It then behooves Jaspar to break off their relationship - in affect, passing her over to another man - so Caitlin can be with Sergio (so much for Caitlin’s apparent growth and independence)
Jaspar is magnanimous enough at the end of the story to give her credit for her scientific discoveries, while at the same time negating them by making a reference to ‘Love’ being the real force that saved the day’.
The only independent female I can find in Year Zero is Luna Pentecost, who is the sister of Stacker, who quickly perishes in a Kaiju attack (you can see the half second moment in the film when a jet crashes into a Kaiju’s tail)
So, if the screenplay writer is listening, there are easy quick fixes to this problem, put more women in the story as capable professionals, (pilots, techs, scientists) to help solve problems - not as appendages only activated by male characters and discarded (by dying and passing out) when the focus shifts back to the male protagonists. If you had the relationship of the scientists as mentor-student without a sexual element, if you'd had a team of female pilots, females in the background, female friends of the male pilots (think of the relationships of the male and female soldiers in Aliens). Women are lovers, wives, sisters and daughters to male characters, but it doesn't need to be single-note confining as well as defining.
