This post will avoid spoilers from season 4, but may mention some details from the first 3 seasons – you have been warned!
Margaery Tyrell’s Signature Style
Rich Jacquard Fabrics and Light Blue
Deep V-Necks, Backless Dresses, and Cut-Outs
Another consistent feature in Margaery’s clothing is the presence of skin. Margaery’s style is decidedly more modern than her peers, with low v-necks and stylish cut-outs. To me, the drastic difference represents both where she came from (a different place with a different climate and social rules) as well as her tendency to put her arm around others when she speaks with them. I think Margaery uses touch to establish intimacy and trust when she speaks with others (though we will have to see how genuine it is!) For more about Margaery’s “armor,” this post is a wonderful read.
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Margaery’s long, curly brown hair is also one of the key elements to her style. She is usually seen with some or all of it pulled back. Like many other costume design choices in the series, the hairstyles worn by women represent where they are from and their character development. (For example, Sansa, from the north, begins wearing her hair in the southern style to blend in, and eventually wears it “like Lady Margaery.”)
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One of my very first memories, from when I was (I think) 4 years old, is of playing in the backyard of one of my best friends: I was Batman, and she was Batgirl and we were chasing dragonflies around. (Not a terribly Bat-thing to do, in retrospect, but I plead the ignorance of youth, as I so often do.) When I’d watch the Adam West Batman show, which I loved, when Batgirl’s motorcycle would race across the screen at the end of the title sequence, indicating she’d be in the episode about to air, my heart would beat faster. I’ve always had more female friends than male, ever since I was just a kid, and somehow Batgirl figured into that entire thing.Since I now have four daughters with the greatest woman in the world, and am fully aware of how superior the female of the species is, my love of Batgirl just comes naturally, I guess. I mean, seriously: Batman + female = how great is that?
Huh! Interesting. I’ve never thought about it before, but off the top of my head: in my own AU, there’d be Batman, and then there’d be the rest of the Batfamily. Batman would usually–but by no means always–operate solo, although he’d frequently request/accept the assistance of one or two of the others, with occasional instances where they’d all collaborate for an operation. Nightwing would be the (almost) unquestioned unofficial leader of the rest of the Batfam, which would also have Tim, Cassandra, Stephanie and of course Oracle. The Helena Huntress would be somewhat on the periphery, often part of the gang but just as often not, with the relationship at least a bit tense.
I think they have a very strong understanding. I think Gen Y and Millennials are very aware of the forces, whether governmental or corporate or simply societal, affecting their lives. They’re aware of what and who manipulates them, or at least is trying to. I think they know what they want and what they don’t want, and are aware of their own internal contradictions better than previous generations, and they understand those in power far better than those in power understand them. Of course, I could be wrong. :)I joined tumblr I don’t even know how long ago. Three or four years? And many, many months would go by when I’d even forget I had a tumblr–I think I seriously went like a year and a half between visits once. But at a certain point, I started following enough people that the energy really started to draw me in. I didn’t get tumblr for a long time–it seemed like the worst of Twitter plus Facebook plus good old-fashioned blogging. It took me quite a while, and finding the correct (for me) combination of people to follow, for it click. I’m still not very good at it, honestly, but it’s definitely my favorite of the various social media platforms.
See you all real soon
Max Eber
max@sub-cultured.com
Twitter: @maxlikescomics
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There is a giant misconception about Tumblr.
Okay, perhaps misconception isn’t quite the word I’m looking for, but too often I hear about the “weeaboos” or the “pillow humping/emotional teenagers” who seemingly populate the site. This leads me to think that perhaps the population doesn’t quite know how to USE Tumblr.
In case this particular part of the internet has so far escaped your attentions, allow me to fill you in briefly.
Tumblr is a blogging platform, where you can create your own blog about whatever you wish, which CAN run the gamut from boy bands to comics to romantic musings to hardcore porn. It is whatever you want it to be. Not into any of those things? The fantastic thing about Tumblr, is all (or none) of this can show up in your feed. Tumblr experiences are based on who you follow. Your feed is not clogged with hormone ridden teenagers if you don’t follow them.
Tumblr looks like this in my brain.
My own personal Tumblr is mainly stuff I reblog from comic artists, comic writers, quotes I find inspiring, news stories I feel need to be read by everyone, feminist op/eds, random things from my fellow Valkyries & friends, and yeah, the odd porn gif in the wee hours of the morning, because those are the types of blogs I chose to follow.
Other people see these things IF they follow me, otherwise, my blog remains on a tiny bit of kinda undiscovered internet.
Random screencap from my feed.
Logging into my blog is a vastly unique experience to me, and it’s one that has helped me grow as a person. Prior to joining Tumblr, I was very much unaware of how my way of thinking was clouded by misogyny, and how completely oblivious I was to many social issues. I have Tumblr to thank for this “awakening” although at times it’s like almost everything has some underlying homophobic or transphobic or racist or misogynist, and it definitely makes me want to help make changes in the world.
This is not to say there aren’t negative sides to Tumblr. As always, this is the fucking internet, and everyone has a voice, so you do come across your trolls, your extreme social justice “warriors”, your sexist asshats who want you to show your tits, but thankfully, there is a block button, and the opportunity to surround yourself with positive blogs that pertain to your interests.
If you haven’t given Tumblr a try, you should. It’s a fun, and sometimes enlightening experience that sucks all your time aw
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Do you have a blog? Most people do. I have about twenty (but who cares, no big deal right? I mean I kinda want more). Whether it be blogspot, tumblr, or a made from scratch domain where you post mindless flotsam and jetsam, host an original webcomic series, or just post your writing or artwork portfolios or just pictures of your obese cat, your sites are more or less a piece of you or at the least what you want to offer or present to the public. Depending on how interesting you are or what you have to offer you can quickly amass views and followers. This much is pretty much assumed or well known about the blogging experience; but I feel there is a dark side pertaining to a condition that is oft ignored. If one does not know how to confront and treat it, could mean dread and the death of a blogging career; Big Time Attentionitis. In fact a loved one could have already contracted BTA and have lived with it in secret and in shame.
She hit 15k followers
A common but relatively unstudied anxiety condition, BTA is the sudden wave of dread and uncontrollable panic relating to sudden attention from a particular individual or individuals and or the collective masses suddenly following your blog medium and then sharing your work. There are two particular subgroups:
1. Viral Mania
Big Time Attentionitis Viral Mania, or BTAVM is the first subgroup or variation of BTA which arises when a post or a piece of work goes utterly viral, causing an influx if not never-ending number of views and followers, fanmail, messages praising or interested in your work. This can include kind comments to constructive criticism, rebuttals and or a sudden rush of open discourse to even, if you’re lucky, job offers. This causes feelings of deliriousness (sometimes rather positive if offered a book deal), anxious eating, chugging of iced tea (both straight lemon and long island), constant refreshing and in severe cases an absolute abandon of looking at your own blog, overwhelmed by the interest. There is so much interest, you actually loose interest. Or just become a nervous wreck as if locked in a witch’s castle.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. I’m frightened Auntie Em shit I’m frightened.
BTAVM does extend to the discovery, sharing and ultimate virality of video blogs and or uploads of original videos either candid humor, animal videos or as a performer. You must however note if the content that has triggered the public response and virality is of particularly ignorant and or hateful content (mostly on mediums such as Twitter and Facebook) and met with an overall negative response, that panic at such criticism is not BTAVM but BPIS, another seldom researched condition called Douchenoodle Infamatitis. Otherwise known as you’re just an awful person and you should feel bad.
The second sub group, BDFBTA, in contrast is more specialized and hyper-focused condition based on a particular individual.
2. “Big Deal Follower”
The quieter but by no means less stressful subgroup; Big Deal Follower Big Time Attentionitis or BDFBTA is the sudden awareness of and panic when it comes to your attention someone much more popular or well known on the internet is actively reading, subscribing, reblogging, talking about or showcasing, overall engaging to your content. At its most simple BDFBTA is triggered with something as simple as the notification of said “big deal” personalities subscribing to your page or blog, or may appear via a comment, or reblog, pingback, noodledeuce, pinsyup, owl, quibble, etching and or the now venerable tweet sharing of your work or site. The BDFBTA manifests out of the “oh shit” moment when you realize if someone like that (whomever is considered pertinent) is tuning in to you, and that you may actually be going somewhere. If it is simply just noticing they are subscribing to your work but quietly so without any sharing (yet) there is an additional variation of BDFBTA that can manifest; GDVBDFBTA or Grand Delusion Via Big Deal Follower Big Time Attentionitis where the anxiety is particularly tied to the fantasy that your work could hit virality if said person did reblog or feature your work and one’s life can then subsequently fall more into place. Which of course would in most cases result in a subsequent case of BTAVM.
Symptoms of all forms of BTA besides those mentioned above include large grinning and face squeezing, loud swearing, outbursts of every emotion, nail bitting, head bashing, key bashing, crying, heavy napping, jumping significant others’ bones, jumping other people’s bones, jumping your own bone, excessive beverage sipping, stomping in puddles, floor rolling, and samosa eating. Overcompensating and wanting to impress said particular new “big” followers or the masses may produce mediocre subsequent work. Severe cases people outright just delete their blogs. Or themselves. Finding oneself in your desktop recycling bin just happens.
A celebrity just tweeted about her line of cat sweaters so she deleted everything.
If you or your loved one has a form of BTA; have patience. Goldfish quickly move on quickly and as we all know, we are all really goldfish. So rest assured people will actively forget your ass when the novelty runs off. In the meantime breathe. Less breathing. Moderate breathing. Little quieter. Perfect.
Other forms of BTA to look out for:
MVBTABS
BOBTA
BLTBTA
RELBTAGBA: San Antonio
B&VBTA
YMMVBTA
LOKBTA
STFUBTABT
Be careful! See you guys soon.
Max Eber
Staff Writer/The Doctor
max@ihogeek.com
Twitter: @maxlikescomics
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Harry Potter. Avengers. Doctor Who. Sherlock. Long ago, the four fandoms lived together in harmony and then everything changed when I discovered Supernatural. Only Tumblr, master of all fandoms, could help me and as I fell further and further into gifs, I became obsessed. Months passed and I fell in love with the series and its stars, Jensen and Jared. Although I’ve finished all eight seasons, I have to wait with everyone else. I believe Supernatural can save the world.
If you had told me six months ago that I would be balls deep in a CW show, I would have punched your face. A bad Buffy rip-off with very attractive male leads? Hard pass. At the urging of several friends (none of whom knew each other, all of whose opinions I respected), I begrudgingly began the series, seven seasons of which were available on Netflix.
The words that launched millions of fans into this fandom struck me hard, and although I didn’t know it yet, behind my rolled eyes and scoffs at their cheesy lines, I was irrevocably smitten with the show. It wasn’t long until I was in tears over an episode, and black Impalas caused my breath to hitch. Perhaps you’re like me and have only heard mentions of the show. What’s it about, you wonder? Dean (Jensen Ackles) and his brother Sam (Jared Padalecki) are the sons of a respected hunter, John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who specializes in the supernatural. When John goes missing while tracking down an entity which killed their mother, the boys head out to follow his trail, slaying monsters and creatures along the way.
With this foolproof recipe for every episode, the show explores the at first strained relationship between the brothers, allowing us to become emotionally attached to them as the story arcs intertwine into one pleasantly satisfying backbone. Later seasons introduce new characters, such as fan favorite Castiel (Misha Collins), a rebellious angel, scruffy father figure Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), and the King of Hell, played by a man you may have seen in many other shows (Mark Shephard),
Later seasons also disposed of the standard “themed bad guy/Winchesters save the day” in favor of more in depth stories, some spanning several episodes, particularly when the angels become key players. Episode titles also evolved from generic one worded phrases like “Wendigo,” “Scarecrow,” or “Bugs,” to hilarious pop culture sentences such as “Are you there, God? It’s me, Dean Winchester,” and “Live free or Twi-Hard.”
Now, gents, you might have hesitated on watching this show due to thoughts of it pandering to its female audience. Shirtless scenes are few, far between, and, sorrowfully, brief. As far as the cast being a sausage fest, well, I haven’t even mentioned the gorgeous ladies of Supernatural.
Fellow hunter Jo Harvelle
The demon, Ruby (version 1.0)
The demon, Ruby (version 2.0)
The demon, Meg (version 2.0)
Friend to the Winchesters, Charlie
In my attempt to embrace being part of the fandom, I lost track of myself and didn’t write for weeks at a time. I went hours glued to Netflix. Meals were scavenged in the few seconds the title card appeared on screen. I became active in Tumblr, reblogging gifs faster than I’m proud to admit. I joined the legions of fans screaming of feels upon hearing the first measures of Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son” and I am currently looking at the Jensen Ackles sticker on my Tardis patterned notebook. Judge me not, fellow geeks, for I assure you, should you give Supernatural a fair chance (season 2 for me was where I really started watching with interest), you may find yourself longingly wishing to attend a Supernatural convention, and you may not. As with all shows, there are extreme portions of the fandom, and I plead with you to not be scared off by them; they’re mostly harmless.
I finished the most recent season about a month ago and to get my fix, to cure my lust for more, I scoured YouTube for interviews and convention footage of the stars, feeling like a puppy begging for scraps, hints, anything about what may lie ahead. LITERALLY, I HAVE SPENT HOURS ON YOUTUBE. I am not hyperbolizing. Thankfully the gods have blessed us with a 5-minute long sneak peek and a 1-minute promotional commercial and that has sated the beast that resides in my heart. For now.
I leave you now with this, a peek at the hilarious moments of Supernatural, for not only will the show pluck at those heartstrings, it will tickle that funny bone.
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Tumblr: great for cats, great for fandoms, great for porn, and shite for instant messaging and direct communications between users. Until now! Babblr is a pay-what-you-want Chrome plug-in that was launched into cyberspace only to crash almost immediately due to insane demand and unprepared servers. A few weeks ago it was back online and the internet, from peasants to tumblr famous, rejoiced.
Please enter the url to a YouTube video.
Tumblrs have been clamoring for a chat feature on the site since it shifted from a pure blogging platform to a social networking giant. Started to follow a Brony/Homestuck blog and now want to spend your time chatting away the hours with fellow fans? Well prior to Babblr, this was mind-numbingly impossible. You could create a chain post which would get lost in your dash or abandoned because it’s a little awkward and cumbersome. You could message someone on their blog, though woe to you if you attempt to reply to someone because the messages auto-delete once a reply is made. Nonsense. Tumblr’s users don’t want to broadcast their content to have it be consumed and passed along by anonymous followers. They want interaction, feedback, and certainly most of all: community.
Here’s an explanation of how Babblr works in true Tumblr form, but in short, you won’t be able to send or receive instant messages to or from other bloggers at any time without adding them first (thank you developers for understanding your crazy userbase and protecting us from ourselves). There is also a neat group chat feature that has the potential to keep you connected with your fandoms and friends. Other functions include a censoring tool that turns certain bad words that tumblrs love into nonsensical phrases (you can totally turn this off) and the ability to block other users with the option to unblock later on (again, thank you for your self-awareness, Babblr).
Babblr’s relaunch was made possible by support from developer Realtime.co, and the teams are currently working to bring the system to other browsers, but if you have Chrome, get Babbling!
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