We all know the amber in Bog’s staff, but has anyone else noticed the design of the setting for the amethyst on the fairy king’s armor?
Looking at it, the cloaked female figure doesn’t look like a fairy (no wings by what I can see) but must be a figure of importance to appear on royal attire, so maybe a deity of some kind? Candidates could be
Áine, or Diana, or quite likely Titania, since the movie itself is based off the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Now, for the amber, I think it would have been cool if it had some fossilized insect as an inclusion in it.
I looked at it so many times in all the scenes, but for the life of me I can’t tell if there is one or not. I can’t tell through the straps holding the stone in place, and the other side of the straps partially visible through the gem are throwing off whatever else is visible.
Now, for the stone meanings and symbolism:
Amethyst is widely known as the stone of sobriety, intuition, protection, wisdom, meditation, and purification.
Amber is known as the stone of the sun, of abundance, protection, nurturing, healing, accumulated knowledge, and memory.
– at least these are the gist of what I’ve read about the stones themselves.
What do you guys think?
@jaegereska didn’t you have something about amethysts having magical properties in LLtK?
Favorite trope 348234: when person who nearly died wakes up in hospital bed, looks around, sees the object of their affection asleep in a chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days
I’m so fucking guilty of this trope in like everything.
i’m in the middle of re-watching the original sw trilogy and hands down the best thing about esb is leia and han experiencing the same feelings for eachother but at totally different speeds.
leia, processing emotions at a reasonable pace: i think i like him
han, that same afternoon: dead diary i have accepted that she hates me but instead of dealing with the heartache like a mature adult i’m gonna catch a big-ass attitude and insist on returning to a life of crime where i don’t have to worry about dumb things like being in love.
leia: you’re quite nice when you aren’t being such a scoundrel
han, vibrating with the effort to keep from launching himself vertically into the vacuum of space: s c o und rel
leia: i love you
han, making a mental note to start practicing his brand new ‘mr. organa’ signature the second he’s out of the carbonite: i know
on the other hand remember how in rotj he decided to slow down on making unfounded assumptions about leia’s interest in him and accidentally slowed all the way down?
han: so um, i think it’s really cool that you love luke, you guys are gonna be great together haha guess i’ll see you guys around sometime?!?!?!
leia, already taking her clothes off: god han you’re so fucking stupid
Bertie Wooster’s YouTube channel consists entirely of keyboard covers of Top 40 hits.
His videos are noted both for startling competence and for frequent pauses in the proceedings to yell at someone off-camera, “Jeeves, all this ‘Gaga ooh-la-la’ stuff seems pretty straightforward, but what on earth do you suppose she means by ‘Rama ra-ma-ma’?”
I keep seeing these otherwise fantastic and magnificent Tumblr posts, about that horrible Stonewall movie, that basically boil down to:
they weren’t gay white men they were trans women of color
and as a trans person I’m excited and encouraged by the fact that so many people feel like it’s really important to say THEY WERE TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR. That it’s important that they’re trans, and that Sylvia Rivera was Puerto Rican, and that Marsha P. Johnson was Black.
but as a bisexual it kills me a little bit every time that nobody ever says they were *bisexual* trans women of color.
like, particularly since we’re specifically talking about the people who started the riots, people who were fundamental in the movement for the rest of their lives. We’re talking about Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Who were bisexual. [Citations: Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson]
[Yes: there are a lot more bisexual/trans/people of color involved, including legendary Black trans activist Miss Major, who is amazing and whose sexuality I don’t know. (UPDATE: SHE’S BI TOOOOOO AND NONBINARY JUST LIKE THEM 💙💜💖 I’m on mobile so I can’t embed a link, but for now just search my blog for “Miss Major” to get the source.)
But this discussion tends to be centered particularly around these two and the “what is a white gay man doing throwing the first brick” fiasco.]
I haven’t reblogged each or any of these posts to say, one by one:
and bisexual
And bisexual
AND BISEXUAL
Because tbh, bisexual issues are so de-emphasized within the queer community that I think it would be interpreted as if I were tugging on the community’s sleeve and meekly piping up, “They were also Baby Boomers! Don’t forget!”
But today I figured out how to explain this.
When you say:
they weren’t *gay white men*
they were *trans women of color*
you’re correcting “[cis] men” with “trans women.”
You’re correcting “white” with “of color”.
And you’re erasing their sexualities as trans women of color.
You’re acting as though “trans woman” replaces “gay man”, as though trans is your sexual orientation. Or as though you can only be one kind of queer, and if you’re trans then that’s it, you can’t also count as bi, gay, or lesbian.
You’re also telling other bi and pan people that our identities and our contributions don’t matter – that no matter what we do, we’ll be remembered as we always have been, as something other than who and what we were.
You’re feeding the people who say things like “bisexuals don’t belong at Pride” and “when bisexuals fight for our issues they can be part of our community,” as if we haven’t been here from the literal beginning of the modern-day movement (and before). And as if we don’t share many of the same issues.
So: thank you for re-centering trans women of color in queer history. And please start re-centering their bisexuality too.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page
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