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Reichenbach (and broken backs)
Dear Sherlock fandom: Just to let you guys know, he's not really dead.
(No I haven't seen the newest episode or been spoiled beyond the title, I'm just being a brat. That one's even older than 'Vader Is Luke's Father.' But not quite as old as 'there's a flood, everyone dies except the MC.')
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When I lack the brain to do other things, I've been reading through Escher Girls and Boobs Don't Work That Way since somebody or other linked to them, and here are three things:
1. I want a superheroine called Escher Girl now. Who has super-flexibility, minor shapeshifting powers, and detachable body parts. And she should be in a comic book where all the other female characters are drawn realistically.
2. Is there a blog/tumblr anywhere that's the inverse of this - showcasing examples of mainstream comic book art where women look and move like human beings? Because I really need a palate cleanser now. Of course I'm starting to doubt that there are enough examples for that to work.
3. In a moment of weakness I thought to myself "okay, there's about a dozen tumblrs now that you check with some regularity, it might be nice to have them aggregated, maybe you should just get an account" ...and OMG people, when you have a dashboard, tumblr is even harder to use and uglier than it was before. I think I am going to forget I did that and keep checking them one at a time, thanks. *shudder*
Edit to note on this bit: I should say that there is a certain amount of disablism/body image enforcement going on in those blogs; it hits me because actually, my feet do look like I'm wearing high heels when they're at rest, and yes, I can bend my ankles like that painlessly, because I'm a toe-walker; and there are women with bodies that naturally do some of the other things people complain about in comic book art. Even if the body image you're enforcing is closer to reality, you're still excluding some people, and some of the language on those blogs does bother me. However: even women who do have bodies that can look like that aren't going to act the way the comic-books show it. I wear boots that give lots of ankle support when I'm going adventuring, personally...
(No I haven't seen the newest episode or been spoiled beyond the title, I'm just being a brat. That one's even older than 'Vader Is Luke's Father.' But not quite as old as 'there's a flood, everyone dies except the MC.')
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When I lack the brain to do other things, I've been reading through Escher Girls and Boobs Don't Work That Way since somebody or other linked to them, and here are three things:
1. I want a superheroine called Escher Girl now. Who has super-flexibility, minor shapeshifting powers, and detachable body parts. And she should be in a comic book where all the other female characters are drawn realistically.
2. Is there a blog/tumblr anywhere that's the inverse of this - showcasing examples of mainstream comic book art where women look and move like human beings? Because I really need a palate cleanser now. Of course I'm starting to doubt that there are enough examples for that to work.
3. In a moment of weakness I thought to myself "okay, there's about a dozen tumblrs now that you check with some regularity, it might be nice to have them aggregated, maybe you should just get an account" ...and OMG people, when you have a dashboard, tumblr is even harder to use and uglier than it was before. I think I am going to forget I did that and keep checking them one at a time, thanks. *shudder*
Edit to note on this bit: I should say that there is a certain amount of disablism/body image enforcement going on in those blogs; it hits me because actually, my feet do look like I'm wearing high heels when they're at rest, and yes, I can bend my ankles like that painlessly, because I'm a toe-walker; and there are women with bodies that naturally do some of the other things people complain about in comic book art. Even if the body image you're enforcing is closer to reality, you're still excluding some people, and some of the language on those blogs does bother me. However: even women who do have bodies that can look like that aren't going to act the way the comic-books show it. I wear boots that give lots of ankle support when I'm going adventuring, personally...
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Oh man, I came this close to making the same post. Better you than me...
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:|
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(It turns out the point is Kane and Leland's epic and tragic gay love story, which nobody has written slash for yet, dammit.)
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Velvet Goldmine: Citizen Kane slashfic fusion with bandom.
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...I should probably watch Velvet Goldmine someday. I hear it has glitter! ^_^ (I always get Velvet Goldmine, Tipping the Velvet, and National Velvet mixed up. I should probably just watch them all. And then write a fusion!)
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I bet Moff's not going to go that route, either.
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(Do image-heavy tumblrs work well as RSS feeds? I was also thinking it would do things like thumbnail the images - which happened to a couple of them on the dashboard, even - or make it even more impossible to find/follow the comments.)
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Also, this is not exactly what you asked for, but
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...if even Conan Doyle couldn't be bothered to spell his deus ex machina right, I'm not sure why the fandom expects something better from Moff.
And that tumblr sounds interesting, I'll check it out.
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I've been mostly staying out of spoiler cuts and I'm not on twitter, so I only have vague impressions of the reactions, not any details.
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Even to the 136 people left in the world who didn't know that already, surely the laws of narrative inertia mean he's still alive.
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I definitely agree about the other episodes having epilogues that are pastede on yay. This one, finally, not so much. But there was no need for either the Irene one or the room full of batshit.
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I'm sure it would shock all the same people who were stunned, stunned in the theatre with the second RDJ Holmes, both when he went over the falls AND when he was campily revealed.
Sadly, I think the number is way higher than 136.
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It's also entirely possible I'm prejudiced from having devoured the whole series of stories when I was wee. But I'm sticking with my narrative inertia and the likelihood of most show-runners killing off their cash cow character. Well, one of them.
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I tend to assume most shows will not kill off the main character, but I'm not sure most people think about narrative inertia that much.
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The initial spate of howdunnit speculation is justified: there will definitely be a baroque reveal in S3 (which was signed at the same time as S2), the details of which are not that hard to put together based on information from the episode itself. XD
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(I have to admit that while I enjoy John Watson suffering, I enjoy him kicking butt and taking names more. ...I just plain enjoy Sherlock suffering, though, he doesn't get to do it enough.)
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I adore bamf!john, but I'm also an incurable hurt/comfort junkie. And really, it was a very emotionally powerful episode.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable reunion scene where John punches Sherlock right in his stupid face. JOHN WATSON ALL THE PUNCHING.
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But hey! An excuse for pining "Nooo, I can never tell him! I must watch him mourn me! *sob*" and "I must live the rest of my life aloooone" angst fic.
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And if you want more broken bodies there's http://fuck-no-greg-land.tumblr.com/
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(and... too much Greg Land just makes me angry rather than lolzy, so maybe better not.)
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And then I had to blink at the screen for a moment while I re-adjusted my brain, because hey, brain -- these are women are not fat, they just have, you know, a ribcage with space for their internal organs!
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I...yeah, no. ::facepalm::
My reaction: "Oi, Greg Land -- NOOOOO!" It's not just that he's sexist and racist, he's also lazy, and just bad at art. That is not the way real artists use reference pictures.
I don't have a problem with comic artists using reference pictures or even tracing over them directly, but he would it kill him to use, say, the X-movie actresses for the female characters? At least that way the female characters would have different faces and bodies. And stop tracing porn, FFS.
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Greg Land is just awful in so many ways - I am used to sexist/racist/bad art, but as far as I can tell he has no redeeming features whatsoever, so why are they paying him when I know dozens of great artists who would give up their non-dominant hand to do that job? I can only assume that he's really, really good at meeting deadlines (which is apparently one of the rarest and most valuable qualities a comic book artist can have.)
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I think he used to be better, and actually draw his characters (and drew quite well), and then he found that that was too slow, I guess? Hence the 'meeting deadlines by being a crappy artist' strategy (along with Liefield and J. Scott Campbell).
Oooh, more links: http://comicsareforgirls.tumblr.com/ and http://www.fempop.com/category/geekery/art-comics/ both linked me to http://justsayins.tumblr.com/post/14957660366/this-needs-to-stop-and-let-me-tell-you-why where a female martial artist and contortionist makes a post about female comics characters' poses.
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http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/
(which, with my luck, you probably know and have posted about, but in case you haven't seen it)
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I am so, so glad it's not just me.
I can't work out if it's Not Being A Very Visually Oriented Person or what but I cannot get on with anything about Tumblr whatsoever. I don't get how or where the discourse is supposed to happen, or what the hell I'm supposed to use it for other than dipping into when I want amusing JPGs.
Also I would totally add Escher Girl to that all-female superhero team I keep saying I'm going to find a (decent, not comics!faily) artist for one day...
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I'm sure with me it's partly that my screen is cracked halfway up diagonally so I need to have a fair amount of control over how I use my screen real estate, which the dashboard does not give me afaict, but it's more than just that, it's pretty terrible in general, and I think a lot of people agree (and then... go on to use it anyway.)
If you're just using it for its original purpose - that is, a bunch of collections of interesting images - it works fine, but try to go beyond that and it's horrid.