Hello everybody! Some of you might recall my Deck of Many Things from a few years ago. Well, it’s back, and with a big facelift! I redid the border, changed the art of five of the cards, and revised four others. If you’ve been wanting your own copy, now is the time to grab one! There’s still early bird slots for $5 off the campaign price of $25, which will go up post-campaign. The stretch goals aim to really bling this version of the deck out, so come help make it the flashiest possible, worthy of its legendary item status!
Hello everybody! Some of you might recall my Deck of Many Things from a few years ago. Well, it’s back, and with a big facelift! I redid the border, changed the art of five of the cards, and revised four others. If you’ve been wanting your own copy, now is the time to grab one! There’s still early bird slots for $5 off the campaign price of $25, which will go up post-campaign. The stretch goals aim to really bling this version of the deck out, so come help make it the flashiest possible, worthy of its legendary item status!
Hello everybody! Some of you might recall my Deck of Many Things from a few years ago. Well, it’s back, and with a big facelift! I redid the border, changed the art of five of the cards, and revised four others. If you’ve been wanting your own copy, now is the time to grab one! There’s still early bird slots for $5 off the campaign price of $25, which will go up post-campaign. The stretch goals aim to really bling this version of the deck out, so come help make it the flashiest possible, worthy of its legendary item status!
Hello everybody! Some of you might recall my Deck of Many Things from a few years ago. Well, it’s back, and with a big facelift! I redid the border, changed the art of five of the cards, and revised four others. If you’ve been wanting your own copy, now is the time to grab one! There’s still early bird slots for $5 off the campaign price of $25, which will go up post-campaign. The stretch goals aim to really bling this version of the deck out, so come help make it the flashiest possible, worthy of its legendary item status!
Self-Made Man: Jace Beleren and Representation for Transgender Men in MTG
INTRO:
A few days before I started writing this, I received a message on Tumblr asking me to talk about my personal interpretation of Jace Beleren as a trans man. Not an unusual request, since Jace Beleren is my favorite character and I mention that I think he’s trans all the time. I thought my response would be easy to write, but I started typing and couldn’t stop. I realized I couldn’t keep it short and simple. My thoughts grew into something much bigger, and much more meaningful to me. (Word count: ~9260)
In this post, I’ll explore my analysis of Jace Beleren as a transgender man, why I think it enriches Jace as a character, and how it relates to the topic of transgender representation in Magic.
(logging into the beating a slightly funny joke into the fucking ground website) they better not be beating a slightly funny joke into the fucking ground in here
I love that the pandemic actually definitively proved a lot of those “hard” questions for us. Masking up reduced cases of the flu to almost nonexistent numbers and we had zero flu deaths for a time. The welfare and social service and unemployment programs helped keep people living paycheck to paycheck out of poverty, and those stimulus checks some folks keep complaining about actually massively benefitted the common man and the economy. Individual personal travel was so extremely restricted on a global scale that we basically have concrete proof that individual restraint in terms of driving cars or travelling means absolutely nothing by comparison because the mass pollution is coming from the fisheries and the corporations with private jets and container ships. Working from home actually has massive benefits for a company like productivity boosts and better mental health of employees while also saving gas
and we’re just. Willingly going back to how everything was before. We were shown how to do things better and the people in charge said “that’s nice but we just want to get everything ‘back to normal’ :)”
why did they ever even attempt to try and make another actor wear a white-blonde wig after orlando bloom in the lotr trilogy. don’t they understand that we peaked 20 years ago and everything else has looked like shit after that
it’s about the texture it’s about the stray hairs it’s about the color dimension
reasons for this:
lotr used really really REALLY good, custom-made wigs. we’re talking full lace, hand-tied, human hair wigs.
a good wig like this takes expert skills and time to make and can cost thousands and THOUSANDS of $$. In a fantasy production where each of the main cast needs at least several wigs during the production due to styling needs, damage, continuity issues etc. the cost of those wigs $ can add up.
Most human hair for wigs comes from Asia and is bleached and then dyed to the desired end-color. Lifting black or nearly black hair to pale blond and then toning it causes a lot of damage to the hair - meaning that even if the end color is good, the hair can still look processed and “crunchy”. This can stand out in a fantasy production where stuff like people’s hair is supposed to look ‘natural’.
Wigs can also look less natural if the texture of the hair doesn’t match the person wearing it - LOTR used virgin northern european hair for their wigs (this is some of the most expensive $$ hair to source for wigmaking, especially in the lengths they needed), which means the texture is more “natural” for the (almost entirely) white cast, and tends to have more 'natural’ dimension in tone and color as the hair underwent a lot less processing before it ended up on the actors.
Additionally, some wigs are synthetic, or a mix of human & synthetic hair, and while there are very nice synthetic wigs, it’s very hard to give them those natural whispy flyaways stray hairs, and natural hairline that make a great wig seamless.
really all of these reasons can be summed up as: 💰 budget 💰 budget 💰 budget
tl;dr: Despite production budgets for big film & tv absolutely EXPLODING in the past 20+ years, that $ isn’t being allocated to actual crafts & craftspeople.
i do not at all mean this in a perjorative manner, but i do think it’s important to be able to consume a piece of media and go, “i’m not the audience for this” and be able to just walk away
there doesn’t have to be something wrong or “problematic” about something for a person to not like it. personal taste is personal taste. but something not doing it for you doesn’t mean it automatically has to be wrong or bad. it’s just not for you.
There’s been several times when I’ve watched a thing and been like, they clearly did what they intended to do, and did it well, and I don’t want any part of it. This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art.
“This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art” is a wonderful line, I love it, I feel it in my soul
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