Superman’s Laser Tattoo Removal Artwork By Drawerofdrawings

I want to say “I think modern NYC is a lot less dark and a lot less conduisive to some of the BF realities than modern NYC, so I’ll be curious to see how they do it”

Although at the same time, I feel that all the realities are still there, still rampant. They are just less obviously everywhere so it works

Hello domeyashiro! I was wondering if you ever got to reread Banana Fish. I've been reading random volumes from my own yellow french (i'm spanish though) version since I learnt about the anime. From google translate I understand there is a preview this month and, is it going to be broadcasted? Anyway, I'm as eager for it as for Yashiro and Doumeki being back together.

I’ve started rereading the mangas but only got till volume 5 so far, because I got busy with work. That’s my official excuse at least. But I have to admit that I’m also a bit hesitant to continue reading, because I’d get completely absorbed again, and then … you know, it’s mentally challenging and I don’t know if I can go through that twice this year. Maybe I’ll wait with the rest until the anime airs.

I don’t think the event where the preview will be shown at the end of this month will be broadcasted anywhere. If the preview is only a trailer, it should come out soon afterwards, but if the first few episodes are shown, we’d have to wait until the official start of the series of course (but would hopefully still get a trailer soon?) Anyway, the announcements made at the event will probably get published afterwards, so at least we should know the main cast and a few more members of the production staff by the end of the month. :)

“Charles lost the car just in front of me”

Oh god, this is a timeline of them developing feelings 🥲🥹

1. July 20-22, 2018 - German Grand Prix

2. September 13-16, 2018 - Singapore Grand Prix

3. September 20-30, 2018 - Russian Grand Prix

4. October 19-21, 2018 - United States Grand Prix

5. November 23-25, 2018 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

6. December 5, 2018 - Autosport Awards, 2018

7. March 29-31, 2019 - Bahrain Grand Prix

8. April 13, 2019 - Chinese Grand Prix

9. May 20, 2019 - Treiber Football Match, Monaco

In honor of their last week as teammates, here's some of them before they were teammates (a shorter pt 2 here)

Starting a streak of reboots for me but also for writing purposes…

Nico being clueless about the podium protocole is so dear to me

Nico not realising they had to bring their helmets in with them and Lando doing it for him aw

Anyone has that clip where Charles is actually filmed doing this?

Charles really loves a Carlos close up

Oh lord we live in Gabico world and we’re just here witnessing. I thought he was gonna kiss him.

Mattia crouching there like “well that’s just the second pair of drivers I witness falling in love, I guess”

OH MY GOD?

Max is so sweet being this happy for Nico. I was already thinking of featuring Max in the Gabico thing. This cements it

max congratulating nico h!

More questions from Yoneda Sensei's ask.fm!

I picked some questions from Sensei’s ask Q&A regarding drawing manga in general.. whew..

Q: The first BL I bought was Saezuru Tori… I can’t help feeling pain and sadness from your works, but do you also like to read or see works like that?

A: Yes. I like works that has 60% pain and 40% happiness, if I were to say in proportions.

Q: I love Yoneda Sensei! Thank you very much for your great works. I think Yoneda Sensei uses “light” very effectively, but is it to make the shadow stand out? I am curious to know what Sensei is conscious about.

A: I think I somehow end up using these effects, because I don’t understand how to use patterned screen tones.

Q: I recall reading somewhere that when you were taking a maternal leave, you thought you may not be able to return(as a BL author), but what made you think that way? I am glad that you came back after experiencing such times. I hope you will be able to keep a pace that agrees with you and not too demanding.

A: At the time, I haven’t drawn manga for two years. So I thought I needed to reset my mindset, to be able to get back to it as a job. (Commercial publication) has different pressure as Dojinshi. But when I was casually thinking that I will draw when I feel like it, my father said “You know, people can’t work without a due date”. I told this to my editor in charge, and set a due date to start creating the work which happened to be Saezuru.

Q: Thank you for drawing great mangas for us. I became your fan from “Doushitemo Furetakunai” and very interested in how “Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai” will develop! The delicate drawings and stories create an outlook of the world which is painful, and I feel as if my heart will burst. After reading it, although it’s a manga, I feel like I have read a piece of literature. Please tell me what triggered you to draw BL mangas.

A: I think I was triggered by reading that kind of manga, and wanted to draw one myself.

Q: How does Sensei create plots for your works? I hear there are different ways to make them such as novel style, but if you don’t mind me asking, I want to know the process of creating your work. Do you use a unique method?

A: My methods are very very common. Firstly I write down words and drawings on paper by hand, roughly as things come to mind, then type them up to my PC as plots. If they are 2 chapters long, I will make them into simple novel style plot. If they are seriels, I will roughly put the whole thing into words, then write out each story in detail, one at a time, as they progress.

Q: Do the dialogues in Yoneda Sensei’s work reflect your philosophy and outlook of life? How do you create the dialogues?

A: From time to time, but not all of them. I am embarrassed to admit it, but I am the type to have myself reflected in my own works

Q: Excuse me for asking. I always read your works and think how good you are at portraying the psychology of the character! I am always moved by the humanness of the characters, but when you create a story, which do you start by; the story or the characters??

A: It depends on the story, but most of the time, I have a character I want to portray, and think what type of character will be a good partner.

Q: I like Yoneda Sense’s work since when you were making Doujinshis! I am always moved by stories created by Yoneda Sensei. When you draw your original works, where do you start to work out the idea? Such as characters, scenes you want to draw, themes, etc. etc.. Also, I would be glad to know the points you pay attention to, when creating your works.

A: It overlaps with a previous answer, but I normally start thinking from the character. Then I think about whether it is a light or dark story, whether Uke or Seme should be the main character. Also how should I adjust the ratio of seriousness and comical atmosphere. I think it’s tiring to draw or read, when there is no breathing space. I try to pay attention to  consistency of characters. Such as expressions used in dialogues, and reactions when something happens.

Q: Sensei, will you not be drawing something explicitly erotic!, even in the future? I’d love to read it. Lol

A: I would like to try if there is a chance, but I’m not very good at it.

Thank you for the tag @f1-stuff ❤️ 6 non-selfie pics. Easy because I never take any, but it was hard to select 6 as lately my camera roll is just me saving Charlos photos XD BUT it was my birthday last week and I took some photos..

If you wanna share some photos, I’m tagging @lovelynikol7, @demonofyork and @evilpixiea, but with absolutely no pressure or obligation

(These explanations are for me and not part of the tag game)

1) matcha latte as I sat down in a cafe in my neighbourhood to fill out those ADHD assessment questionnaires I have been supposed to fill for 6 months

2-4+6) flowers I got gifted for my birthday and afternoon tea with my mom, sis and brother-in-law (we ordered the sandwich and scones, and she made the mini egg cake) to celebrate

5) my F1 journal (which I need to complete for Bahrain and actually do for Saudi Arabia 🤦🏽‍♀️)

Wanna read this later

furiosa vs. tropes for women in action

This is the second in a series of posts about Mad Max: Fury Road. All contain spoilers.

Read Part 1, a general review of the movie, here.

Read part 3, about Max, here.

Mad Max: Fury Road has already inspired some of the most intense fandom I’ve seen, and been part of, in years. I think it’s partially due to the sheer intensity of the sensory and emotional experience the movie delivers. But let’s be honest. A lot of it is due to Furiosa.

The character has already inspired an outpouring of fan art and cosplay. Even among movie fans who aren’t part of those scenes, people who love her REALLY love her. (And I wholeheartedly include myself in this category.) I can’t remember the last time that multiple, grown-ass adults on my Facebook feed had profile pictures referencing a movie character. Several of them–men and women–have this one:

Art by Hugo Dourado.

Why has Furiosa inspired so much passion? I think a lot of it has to do with the way she blows a giant flaming hole in the standard images for women in action films.

While recent years have given us some fantastic action heroines, they tend to be confined within a few set tropes, with remarkably little variation.

Of course, by far the most common trope for women in action is still to be the person being rescued–to be the prize the protagonist, usually a man, gets at the end of the journey. There are whole franchises built around this concept. I think we can all agree that’s boring and not worthy of a blog post.

But even among women characters who have agency in action movies–as protagonists or as villains–there are still some basic patterns that recur again and again. In particular, there are three basic templates that a large majority of female action characters fall into. The point is not that these tropes, in and of themselves, are wrong. It’s that they’re often all there is.

1. The Girl Hero

This is the default trope for YA. Katniss in The Hunger Games, Tris in Divergent…you’ve seen it many times.

Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games

The Girl Hero is virginal (often unusually non-sexual for a teenager). She’s usually small or skinny, sometimes for a logical reason (Katniss grew up starving), sometimes not so much. She seems like an underdog, but proves to be surprisingly good at violence and/or have some unique skill, and through her bravery and grit takes on foes much bigger than she is.

Tris, Divergent

It should be said that plenty of male YA characters share these characteristics–Harry Potter is also small and skinny, a novice in the world of magic, but unusually skilled at a few things. He doesn’t win his battles through physical strength, but through cleverness and bravery. And there’s an understandable appeal in having a scrawny underdog, of any gender, turn out to be a hero, especially in a book or movie geared toward young people. But with a few exceptions (see: Tamora Pierce) the Girl Hero with these qualities is THE template for young women in action/fantasy/sci-fi/speculative fiction.

2. The Sexpot

When the Girl Hero grows up, she can be properly objectified as a different trope, the Sexpot.

Lara Croft: poster girl for this trope

You’ve all seen this trope in the many, many superhero and comic book movies that are currently squirting out of the studio pipeline. She’s that one token woman on the team with four guys.

Yeah, that one.

The Sexpot gets to fight–and sometimes even gets artfully bloody and dirty–but she has to do it in a latex suit and while appearing cool and sleek and having a good hair day. (She has long hair, so she can flip it, and so we’re extra sure she’s a girl.) Her fight style is extra bendy and flippy and maybe when we break out the slow motion. She may use her sexiness as a weapon (a la Black Widow) or it may be just a bonus quality. She can be powerful, but only if we can look at her conventionally attractive body move around in tight clothing while it’s happening.

3. The Ice Queen

The Ice Queen is almost always the trope for female villains. She sits at the top of some kind of power structure–a state or a criminal enterprise–issuing commands to her minions but rarely doing the violence herself. She’s probably got a sharp suit or a uniform and a severe haircut. 

Delacourt, the villain of Elysium.

She’s allowed to be older than 35.

President Coin, Mockingjay

The Ice Queen has institutional power but rarely fights; physicality is the low pursuit of men in her world. She may be smart, crafty and manipulative, but she will not punch you in the face. She’ll snap her fingers and get someone else to do it, although she may sit on the edge of her desk to watch.

Jeanine, the villain of Divergent

Maya, Zero Dark Thirty–an Ice Queen protagonist, sort of

The point here is not that there’s no variation on these themes. And there have been iconic female action characters who stood totally outside them before. Alien’s Ellen Ripley and Linda Hamilton as the original Sarah Connor in Terminator 2, doing pull-ups on her mental hospital bed frame, come to mind as the most obvious.

But it’s striking how often the women that do exist in the thriller, action, sci-fi and speculative fiction film universe fall into one of these three boxes. Which is why any character who doesn’t map onto one of these templates is so exciting.

Here’s Furiosa.

She fights a hell of a lot. She does not flip her hair.

She’s intensely physical, but you never get the sense that her fights are choreographed to perform her sexuality for you. They’re choreographed for her to fucking win.

When Max shows up, they have a knock-down, drag-out fight with each other. Max doesn’t pull any punches. Why? Because he makes no assumptions that she’d be less lethal to him than a man. They beat the shit out of each other in a big, messy, grunty, scrabbly fight.

For significant portions of the movie, Furiosa is driving a truck, which means Charlize Theron is essentially acting from the biceps up. You literally cannot look at her boobs. You have to look at her face.

She gets to be dirty. Really really dirty. This picture alone highlights how weird it is that all the other women above are so clean.

She gets to be ugly and make weird faces in the middle of fighting.

She gets to yell and be angry the way one might be in the middle of a nonstop road battle when you’re full of adrenaline because you’re fighting for your life.

In short, she gets to look like an actual person who is actually fighting, instead of a statue that can do a back walkover with the help of a wire rig.

So it’s hardly surprising that she’s racked up a lot of fans. She takes all the images of clean, pretty, carefully sexualized women we’re used to seeing, even in action, rips them to shreds, sets them on fire and then drives over them with an 18-wheeler.

This is all even more remarkable given that Furiosa is played by an actress who is very feminine-presenting in her everyday life. Charlize Theron is one of the very few actresses who’s been allowed to pick roles where she radically changes her gender presentation.

Here she is in Aeon Flux, playing about the most Sexpot-y character imaginable:

Here she is in Monster:

I think there are a lot more actresses out there who could take on these kinds of transformations, radically altering the way they look, move, and perform their gender, the way male stars do all the time. But the equivalent depth and diversity of roles for women just doesn’t exist in Hollywood right now.

Furiosa’s popularity shows how starved we are for images of women who are actually powerful and physical in the same ways that men get to be in blockbuster after blockbuster after blockbuster. It’s not that all the images of women in action have to look like this–it’s just that we hardly ever see a female fighter who looks this way. Furiosa reminds us that there is so much more out there than we’re getting in terms of what women can do and look like on screen.