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Jürgen Hubert
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I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story tends to be about reclaiming their "rightful" (i.e. privileged) place in society.
Meanwhile, the _vast_ majority of German folk tales I have read feature peasant protagonists. Nobles _might_ appear, but they are the villains as often as they are a force for "good".
Reframing fairy tales to focus on protagonists of privileged birth and relegating low-born characters to sidekicks and background characters was a _choice_. It's so pervasive nowadays that most modern-day storytellers don't even realize that they are making this choice, since they have accepted this as "normal". But it is a choice nonetheless.
And if we are telling stories of our own, we need to ask ourselves what choices we are making when developing our protagonists.
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Lynx on rails 🐱🚄🐾
lynxonrails@meow.socialWent to the national park last weekend and took steam trains for 6 hours straight. Made for some cool photos!
I don't get to shoot landscape pics often these days so this felt quite refreshing
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Photoshoot showcase:
More distractions from EF content, this time featuring Luc - an Enfield local to Dresden. I caught this usually shy creature on a rainy afternoon in Dresden's "City park".
Hes quite comfortable with the less than optimal weather, prefers to lurk in the shadows and hide in foggy undergrowth. Only to occasionally appear in one's peripheral vision.
Again with some creative™ descriptions in the alt text.
(Luc is friendly and not at all evil btw)
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Botch Frivarg
deetwenty@todon.nlWolp on wolp action
Fursuit: Sarah Cat Fursuits (https://www.sarahcatfursuits.com/ )
#SarahCatSunday #Fursuit #Furry #Photography #Inflatable
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miifox
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Charlotte 
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that means you have some of the same convergent evolution traits as a train
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miifox
miifoxKrita is the obvious answer for artwork, and i'm myself pro-Aseprite for pixel work (hey, open-source software can still be commercial!); whereas for photo work something like Darktable comes closer (it's more of a Lightroom than a Photoshop replacement, but it takes some cues from Photoshop to be much more powerful than a simple set of sliders). For prints and publishing there is both Inkscape and Scribus depending on your needs, and if you use Photoshop for website layout design you should be banned to the seventh layer of hell.
Meanwhile GIMP kinda just... exists. I don't know anyone that uses it in this day and age, it always felt more like an engineering exercise than a practical tool to use (as mentioned in your excellent article), but there is probably a dying breed of gnu's who swear it's the solution to everything under the sun.
Photoshop already is a very messy program to learn as a newcomer and GIMP takes that philosophy up to 11 thanks to the wonders of "designed in an university according to some vague philosophy that made sense in 1989". But as long as there is someone to maintain it it'll keep on existing, and there will always be fools who will love it for one reason or another.
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miifox
miifoxFeaturing Rox's Puro from #furnalEquinox, and Pavi from #NFC
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