K Tempest Tumbles
I have a non-Tumblr blog and that's where the majority of my long-form posts go. This blog is for my more fannish activities, link sharing, and squeeness.
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Doctor Who “stained glass” prints by Mandie Manzano
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High-speed photographs of ink mixing with water by Alberto Seveso
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Ravens! Via yukadelavega: Raven smootchies.
Source: Canislupuscorax & DeeOtter
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Meet: Kerream Jones
Although the term “Starving Artist” does not apply to the Painter, Kerream Jones, the hunger of the...
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by Priscilla.
**please do not remove artist’s comments or repost this comic!!!**
okay so i finally finished this comic for my design class! i might eventually print it in small booklets or make multiple episodes/issues if enough interest is expressed. if you reblog this and you would be interested in purchasing/reading issues of this or comics like this, please say so so that i can gauge whether or not this is something i should pursue! <3
the final image is what the back cover will look like if i print it!
EDIT: the phrase “sorry my friendship is a crappy consolation prize” is adapted from a post by tumblr user pampampam! sorry, i meant to credit it and i was so relieved to have finished that i forgot to add this when i first posted.
this is so perfecto h my god
(via deducecanoe)
The big UK Kapow Comic show is being held this weekend. The show hasbeen called outfor the paucity of female creatorsand is pretty much a sausage fest (or is bangers fest because it is the UK?).
Joe Quesada of Marvel was there, however, andAin’t it Cool Newswas as well. And here’s whatJoe had to say to the reporter about Marvel’s female characters:
In a chat afterwards, Joe told me that he’d love to make a tentpole movie with a female lead, but that he really doesn’t think there is an actress right now who could carry it, or a character that would work either. I’m thinking I might agree with him on this one actually.
I’m impressed with how Quesada managed to marginalize both female actors and female characters in one fell swoop.
So how accurate is he? What about Marvel female characters? With Marvel unfortunately most of their female characters are in team books so they have very few iconic female characters at the level of Spider-Man and Wolverine. But isn’t that a bit of a chicken and egg? There are not iconic characters because most of the female characters kept in team books?
But does the character have to be iconic? Can’t good marketing make ANY character with a good actress into a hit? Iconic characters guarantee nothing if the actor and writing suck (coughGreenLanterncough).
I’m sure there will be differing opinions on whether what Joe said smacks of the truth or just more uncomfortable commentary from a guy who has made someeye rolling comments about women and comics.
What Marvel character and Hollywood actress do you think could be prove Quesada wrong? (And remember she’ll hopefully get three tries like the Hulk to get it right!)
Fucking really, Marvel? REALLY? NONE Of your female characters will work?? There isn’t a single actress alive that could carry a movie? Usually I leave it to DC to say stupid shit like this, but way to catch up on the misogyny, y’know? You guys were falling behind by making Black Widow a character I care about, finally, after 28 years of reading your comics. Jessica Jones is just not awesome enough for a movie, or something. Or She-Hulk, or… FUUUUCKK FUCKING HULK SMASH OK? GODDAMNIT. GODDAMNIT GODDAMN GODAMNIT.
(via deducecanoe)
Impossible Astronaut as comic.
Please allow me to address an issue this brings up. Okay so, River, in The Impossible Astronaut, is either a seriously fantastic actress (I mean the character, not Alex Kingston), or she doesn’t know what the hell is happening. Because the entire, entire time she is NOT, I repeat NOT, acting like someone who has the vaguest idea what is going on. And when she slaps the Doctor in the diner later, she seems genuinely angry and surprised.
So when we find out at the end of it all that does indeed remember and know everything that’s about to happen I feel like that’s a pile of bullshit. This is consistently a problem with River and the way Moffat writes her and attempts to reconcile things about her and the Doctor and their relationship.
For instance: when the Doctor first meets River in Silence in the Library, she knows who he is. She acts as though she has met him — not just the Doctor, but 10 — before at least once. Yes, yes, I know at one point she says that he gave her pictures of all his incarnations, but the way it was written and the way Kingston played it, she’d seen 10 before.
Now, we never get to see the other times she met 10 because David Tennant and his sillypants. And that’s fine. There are books, there are audio plays, there’s a bunch of shit we never see. HOWEVER, when 11 sees River for the first time in the second Angels episode, the way he treats her, the whole way he interacts with her, the way the episode is written, makes it seem like he has NOT seen her since he left the library.
This does not jibe.
It’s another testament to how Moffat just doesn’t know what the fuck he’s on about with River.
Granted, this is a complex relationship and character and, honestly, it’s ambitious and in idea form actually awesome. But Moffat is not a good enough writer — or he’s too busy with his head up his ass — to pull her off in a way that lives up to the merits of the idea.
This is a general problem with Moffat, not just as concerns River. Think about this: in Let’s Kill Hitler, there are several moments in that scene in Hitler’s office where Moffat backs up time to show that the Doctor moved something, grabbed something, whatever that we didn’t see in order to thwart River Killing him.
First: he’s been watching too much Leverage. Second, he needs to ask Gina Bellman to introduce him to those writers because they do that thing way better than he did. Most of the time the flashback bits don’t match the original bit in a way that makes sense.
It’s the general problem with the way he handles River. Because if she knew what she knew way back when Amy and Rory first saw the Doctor die, she would have acted differently. She just would have. Yes, she couldn’t have acted in a way that would tip the two of them off, but she would have been different.
A lot of what River does doesn’t make sense if you look back and analyze things in the proper order. Hell, the things done to her by the Silence don’t even make proper sense when you think about the big picture.
If you have the brain of a goldfish and can only remember the last 6 seconds or just the last 15 minutes, then it’s fine. Taken as a whole, not so much.
/rant
‘I don’t care if the characterization of Sabretooth was more accurate in the original X-men, than Origins:Wolverine. Liev Schreiber was perfect in the role.’
::fans self:: Yes, he was… mmm.
‘There is no need for another fucking Spiderman movie’
