I just want you guys to know that the woman of the confused lady meme is a Brazilian actress
it’s a scene from a soap opera. her character was called Nazaré Tedesco. This was one of the most iconic roles in all of Brazilian soap operas. So here goes another iconic scene (it’s Nazaré kidnapping a baby) that you guys can use to make memes:
I’m so glad this post is still going around
wtf this entire time i thought she was the tall lady from american horror story
The distinction I think is that the top characters are mostly designed to be monstrous with sexual undertones, whereas the bottom ones are mostly designed to be sexual with monstrous undertones. In other words, the guys up top were built as primarily monstrous and then people sexualized them (the Shape of Water guy not really, but he’s based on one that worked that way), whereas the Monster Musume cast and most “monstergirls” generally are designed as sexy cheesecake type characters first and then the monstrous elements are like the Miscellaneous Forehead Putty on Star Trek aliens.
If you look around art sites, though, you can totally find the counterparts to each pattern: monstrous female monsters being sexualized, and beefcakey sexpot guys with some monstrous elements. And definitely nobody would ever accuse guys of having trouble sexualizing female characters, so it’s clearly not a lack of imaginination. I think what’s actually reflected here is patterns of media creation rather than consumption.
In the media, primarily-sexual characters default to female because being sexual is coded female. But being female is marked while being male is unmarked, so if a character’s point is mainly to be a monster without being overtly hypersexualized, they’ll almost never be made female. Conversely, given a female monster creators will often sexualize her to an excessive degree just out of habit. There’s an underlying assumption here in content creation that sex sells, but only to men, and that there’s no other reason for a monster to be female except for that. And maybe that’s true to some extent in the sense that it probably shows up in raw sales numbers. But I’m pretty sure that if there were more female-coded monsters that were seriously monstrous, you’d see a comparable amount of Tumblr thirst, if only because Tumblr is that way. (And, comparably, if they made Monster Musume but all cutesy hypersexualized monsterguys, it might not move mountains in Akihabara but it’d do pretty okay.)
All people with blue eyes can be traced
back to one person who lived near the
Black Sea less than 10,000 years ago. SourceSource 2
Now when I see a person with blue eyes, I’ll know they’re a descendant of Ocean-Eyed Slut Man.
You leave great grandpa ocean-eyed slut man alone, he was just living his life
Actually, since this was determined using mitochondrial DNA, the ocean-eyed slut would be a woman, not a man. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down by mothers.
I was thinking last night that maybe one of the more important experiences in my life was how this girl who spent an entire school year bullying me ruthlessly at recess wound up being one of my good friends a couple years later when we were in orchestra together. We didn’t recognize each other for a while. It was strange.
This isn’t my *only* experience like this, but it’s one of the ones that really cemented his idea I have that, like…. circumstances matter. Sometimes you just weren’t in the right place or time or headspace or context to connect and communicate as humans, but almost anyone *could* be a friend if life went the right way.
Maybe this is why I like the “opposites sides forced to work together” and the “enemies to friends” tropes so much, but it’s just… fascinating to play with context in fanfiction. What does it take for two people to understand each other?
I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.
looking through my “me” tag and this is apparently what I was thinking 3 years ago
If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency. It was most likely started as a sanitary concern. Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.
Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it. That would leak out seemingly at random no less. Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.
Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness. Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation. Also beads. Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.
The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.
this is amazing and I’m really glad I reblogged that old bullshit post because I got to learn this
just moving along like everyone else 