Cerebral Symphony

Drew this when I was getting started at digital art with my drawing tab. Actually not bad 'cept for the steps lol.

📞"hello Benjamin Netanyahu? There are Palestinian children inside ethiotelecom headquarters."

The spoiler is for those of you that are planning to read Red Rising.

Fridging and Misogynistic Tropes in Literature The question of whether female characters are written well has long concerned authors and audiences. Tests like the Bechdel test, the Mako Mori test, and others attempt to measure representation, but another approach is identifying recurring tropes that reflect bias. One such trope is fridging. What are tropes and what is fridging? Tropes are common narrative devices or patterns used across stories to establish expectations or quickly communicate ideas. Examples include the damsel in distress (Cinderella), the chosen one (Harry Potter), and the mentor (Obi-Wan Kenobi). Tropes are shaped by culture and power structures, and they often carry embedded biases. One persistent bias in storytelling is misogyny: reducing women to supporting roles, limiting their agency, or defining them through male relationships. Fridging is one manifestation of this. Fridging refers to female characters being harmed, assaulted, or killed primarily to motivate a male protagonist’s emotional arc rather than serve their own narrative purpose. The term comes from Green Lantern #54, where Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt is murdered and her body discarded, prompting his story arc. Other commonly cited examples include Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man, Vanessa in Deadpool 2, and Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, where their deaths primarily function to advance male protagonists’ guilt, rage, or transformation rather than explore their own narratives. However, not every female death is fridging. Tragedy is a normal part of storytelling. Fridging occurs when a character lacks meaningful agency, when her suffering exists mainly to advance another character, and when the narrative shows little interest in her life beyond that function. A useful counterexample is Eo from Red Rising. Her death motivates Darrow, but she is not reduced to a passive plot device. She chooses to resist the system knowingly, making her death an act of ideology rather than narrative disposal. More importantly, Darrow’s revolutionary path is shaped not only by grief but by Eo’s beliefs, which continue to influence the story long after her death. The pattern is not exclusive to women. Male characters can also be used as motivational sacrifices, such as Uncle Ben in Spider-Man or Mufasa in The Lion King. However, female characters are disproportionately placed into this role, especially in action and superhero narratives. Male deaths are more often distributed across multiple narrative functions, while female deaths are more frequently reduced to emotional catalysts for male growth. If you're a reader trying to flag fridging, the following elements could be indicators: a lack of character development before death, absence of the woman’s perspective, and a sudden shift of narrative focus from her life to a man’s emotional reaction. If you're an author trying to avoid fridging, you should ensure female characters have independent arcs, agency, and thematic significance before any harm occurs. If a character dies, the story should treat that death as meaningful within her own narrative, not just as fuel for another character’s development. All in all, fridging is not about avoiding female suffering in stories, but about recognizing patterns where women are systematically denied narrative independence. Critiquing it helps highlight when storytelling reduces characters to functional tools rather than full participants in the narrative world. At its core, the goal is not restriction, but richer writing: stories where every character’s life, choices, and consequences matter beyond. their usefulness to someone else’s arc.

Drake fans, are the clips I'm seeing of his new albums all lying to me or is it all actually that trash? And if it's the latter, how are y'all holding up?

This honestly deserves a repost

Blue light filter glasses are a hoax.

Addition here: Sexual Compatibility, Premarital Sex and Divorce Rates: A Deep Dive Been a while since I did a research backed deep dive. This topic affects myself and a couple of friends I know. Should be interesting. Hope you guys will enjoy it.

If you don't draw or paint and meet someone who does, please, for the love of all that's good, think of something, anything, other than "better than me, I can't even draw ____" or "can you draw me?" Like I get it, you're showing love, you're admiring them but please, think of anything interesting other than that. Talk about what you liked about their art. It doesn't have to be technical. It could just be that you liked the colors they used or the feeling it gave you. Or ask about how they drew what they drew. Just...anything other than those two NPC lines, I beg of you.

That moment when she looked down briefly is peak comedy to me btw lmfaoooo.

"Come on, you have to believe me. PLEASE! You have to believe me"

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/18h4u7pCQlqHOjEXNKSkrxODDmN-w76wi?fbclid=IwY2xjawI5ns1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXetxSWDZZf8TLS0HmZN5Yi6QW9kKkWrepB8anklueev6ae0XEZQHUvVMQ_aem_sGYFfieHtTEUDppTyLP7Zw&sfnsn=scwspwa&pli=1 Y'all can thank me later

How to piss me off: - Say drawing water is easy - Try to maintain eye contact with me when I keep looking away - Say anything good about Trump - Say anything bad about donuts - Invite me to a party where I don't know anyone and leave me alone - Invite me to a party where I don't know anyone - Invite me to a party - Say Shrek is a bad movie - Refuse to answer a hypothetical by saying "this would never happen in real life"...like no shit motherfucker! THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED A HYPOTHETI-..I'll move on - Be my sibling and do anything - Kick/throw a rock at a dog/cat/any animal on the street for no reason.

the shit I was doing instead of watching michael jackson’s concert live on TV 😭

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