i lost a follower for that last reblog, so im just gonna say it loud and clear
trans women are women and deserve to be treated as such. they are not lesser women because they are trans, they are not your fetish, they are not the butt of your jokes, they are real women with real souls and deserve some fucking rights and respect
why are people so afraid to call a spade a spade and accept that the current state of ableism in the UK amounts to societal cleansing.
we have and continue to die in our THOUSANDS since the tories decided upon “reforms”.
furthermore, the most vulnerable within that group are immigrants and poc and lgbt people. we are not going quietly, we are shouting about this, but press coverage is nonexistent, and the government continues to force us into humiliating and dehumanising tests for pittance.
when we fail those tests and get declared fit for work despite our agonies? we die. we starve, we commit suicide, we perish from exposure.
please, if nothing else, call this what it is.
we are being purged from society because we are deemed worthless in a capitalist system.
Lexa and Clarke lead a diplomatic mission to the mysterious Trishanakru.
The trouble is Clarke is distracting, Lexa is very very gay, Raven is a
natural wonder, their hosts won’t stop partying, and the forest is kind
of psychedelic.
The Glowing Forest comes alive in this splendid little piece, as we spend time amongst the merry locals and Clarke and Lexa manage to find some time for themselves.
If you need a little escape, try this trip into the Glowing Forest. You will be very glad you did.
So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences
We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s
But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time.
Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture
Rohan is even farther back, based on old anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)
Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture
And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times
And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed, and life didn’t yet exist
And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as
“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”
I’ve watched the movies a few times and love them so much so I can’t believe I actually missed this!
This is fantastic.
Not to leave out the biblical concepts here, going back in time into the foundations of Christianity or older gods, if you like, whilst the elves were representative of Earth-based religions, pagans, druids, (especially within Celtic mythology and imagery). One lived in tune with nature, the other forced nature to their will (interesting how the Hobbits are the somewhere in between, a very English idea of a perfect balance).
The Doctor Is Out 