Love grows where it is allowed to bloom.
I painted this scene of a Patlacheh and their lover beneath cacao trees heavy with fruit. In Nahua tradition, Patlacheh refers to people assigned female at birth who follow a masculine path. Historical sources preserve only fragments of their lives, but those fragments remind us that Indigenous understandings of gender have always been more diverse than many people imagine.
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In Arrival the aliens - who are the far more advanced species - are not trying to learn our language at all. They explicitly want to force the humans to learn Heptapod, that’s the whole reason why they came. Rocky, on the other hand, has a fantastic memory and superior auditory processing capabilities, and basically learns English by memorizing Grace’s words. Then, to speak to Grace, he uses a babytalk version of Eridian with pseudo-English grammar. The two characters meet in the middle, leveraging the strengths of their own species. Of the two, Rocky is doing more work.
underrated part of why Luke in IV was so endearing is that he was unapologetically a hick.
a good natured hick; the kind that works at a gas station and makes sure to use his coworkers correct pronouns. but that first pic? that’s a hick driving a convertible for the first time
I always think the phrase “The studio has tricked me, Juliard trained Val Kilmer, into being here” whenever I see an actor who is way more serious than the project that I’m watching them in, and despite this, is putting on the performance of a lifetime.