Text

ofmd-ann:

image
image
image
image
image

I love your precious heart 💜

(Never Tear Us Apart - INXS)

(via gentlebeardsbarngrill)

Text

sexygaywizard:

sexygaywizard:

Was walking alone through the alley behind my apartment and saw a weird guy so I checked that I had my pepper spray and I guess the guy saw me do that because he said “Don’t worry, I’m more scared of you than you are of me” and I said “Ok” and he said “I’m terrified of women”

Happy International Women’s Day to this dude, wherever he is now

(via blakbonnet)

Text

abernathyvalois:

I am a museum girl. above everything I am a museum girl

(via thatlittleegyptologist)

Text

butchdykekondraki:

butchdykekondraki:

butchdykekondraki:

free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it

free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them

free my girl she acted irrationally in a situation where it was impossible to act rationally and is now being hated for it

(via xoxoemynn)

Text

redshiftsinger:

werewolfetone:

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

image

EXACTLY it’s not that historical-fiction characters must all believe in the most restrictive values of their time and culture, it’s that historica- fiction characters need to believably seem like they could be real people who lived in that time and culture.

There have always been and will always be people who disagree with the dominant values of the culture they grew up in. Progressive values are nearly always something that can be independently arrived at by the combination of some critical thinking and observations of reality. But to write a realistically-progressive character in historical fiction, you have to take into account where they’re starting from in terms of the values, norms, and assumptions they were raised with from birth, their likelihood of having the opportunity to encounter people who challenge their biases by being different from them in ways that their society’s dominant culture suppresses, and whether or not it’s ever been safe for them to openly air those progressive views in spaces where they can workshop and clarify them. You have to give them a backstory that meshes with where they are right now, that explains their arrival at a belief that’s not in line with the norms of the society they live in. A character who never had to THINK and LEARN and GROW to become more progressive than the society around them, who seems to have just sprung into existence in 1827 or whatever with perfect modern progressive ideals pre-installed, is not a believable one. It’s not even believable to write a character who was born in the 1990’s who never had to question a dominant cultural norm in order to arrive at the typical progressive belief set of the 2020’s – in a modern setting you don’t need to give every character a whole detailed backstory about developing modern progressive ideals, sure, but if you’re going heavily into their backstory and they just were born that way it’s still gonna fall flat. And if they’re in 1827 yelling TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN AND TRANS MEN ARE MEN from a soapbox in the town square and writing long editorials about cultural appropriation, you’re really gonna need to give the audience a believable explanation of how they got there.

And also while it’s not that hard to write one character who holds a progressive beliefs that clash with the norms of their culture, it’s a lot harder to write a believable story where that character doesn’t face derision, disagreement, and pushback for those beliefs from the other characters around them if they choose to discuss those beliefs openly.

Anyway. Media literacy means, among other things, understanding that a depiction is not inherently an endorsement, and that the framing of a portrayal matters a lot more than the exact details of what objectively occurs in the story, in terms of figuring out what the author believes and is trying to encourage the audience to agree with.

Text

were–ralph:

were–ralph:

image

Obsessed with this post

image

Oh my god , it’s happening

(via trinuviel)

Text

alicemicrowave:

spaceshipsandpurpledrank:

image

(via mxmollusca)

Text

saltpepperbeard:

you’d think i’d be used to seeing their physical affection by now. you’d think it would have like, Sank In. like oh right they’re Boyfriends they Love Each Other and subsequently waste no opportunity to Touch Each Other.

…SO TELL ME WHY, THAT SEEING STEDE’S HAND ON ED’S CHEST AS OPPOSED TO ED’S HAND ON STEDE’S CHEST IS MAKING ME SHOOT TEARS OUT OF MY EYES AT PRESSURE WASHER VELOCITY

Text

memehumor:

image

(via glorianas)

Text

football-in-tuxedos:

What’s distressing, but also important to understand, about JK Rowling hitting the “Denying trans people were targeted in the Holocaust” point is that it’s kind of the last stop before she just goes full alt-right weirdo.

Joanne is denying the Holocaust (if a group was targeted, denying they were targeted is Holocaust denial) and that’s going to lead to pushback from historians and experts. But Joanne is too deep in to believe what anyone who disagrees with her says, so she’s just going to dismiss what those historians and experts tell her. And once she’s disbelieving them about that one thing, well it’s just a tiny step to start disbelieving them about other things.

This isn’t by accident either, transphobic circles are swarming with far right agitators, ready to use hatred of trans people as an in to recruit people into their causes. They have handbooks for this sort of thing and they are, unfortunately, good at it. I suspect Joanne will be spouting coded versions of Great Replacement stuff by the end of the summer.

This is not a plea to try and pull Joanne out. She’s too deep in, and even if she wasn’t, she’s already demonstrated an inability to examine her own prejudices, an unwillingness to hear criticism and a weakness to flattery. She is perfect recruitment bait for people who know what they’re doing, and my impression is she’s surrounded herself with people like that.

No, this is to understand two things: First is to use her as an example, to understand how a well meaning liberal can chase their own prejudices down a very dark rabbit hole. We are none of us immune to propaganda and even if we can’t change what’s happened to her, we can at least use it to protect ourselves.

And second is to understand that one of the main reasons you can’t pull Joanne out of the transphobic pipeline is cause she is the pipeline now. She is the transphobic banner bearer now, she is funneling money and attention to these groups, she is their most famous celebrity and she is helping recruit people. Being able to show people how far she’s gone, how deep into the right wing rabbit hole she’s going, is important to help other people who still think she just “Had some concerns” know where her path leads.

(via laufire)

Text

palbitie:

Who else would give our lord and savior (Neil Gaiman) their firstborn for one of the flashbacks in Good Omens S3 to be Azira and Crowley staying in Stede and Ed’s inn? Just me? Cool

(via edscuntyeyeshadow)

Text

dragoonthegreat:

image

The harlequin we’ve all been waiting for

Text

streetsoffire1984:

image
image

the establishment fears this.

(via glorianas)

Text

shadowkat678:

gayvampyr:

sketiana:

image
image
image

(via poorshadowspaintedqueens)

Text

follows-the-bees:

celluloidbroomcloset:

politelymenacing:

gentlebeardsbarngrill:

celluloidbroomcloset:

celluloidbroomcloset:

DO YOU KNOW HOW FAST I’D LOSE MY FUCKING MIND?!

image

(This is from 2022, but still. Source).

No, but really. They’re the right age for later Holmes/Watson stories, Taika is all lean and sharp and unable to sit still, Rhys is smaller and solid and powerful. They’re long-term friends.

Also: “It was worth a wound, it was worth many wounds, to know the depths of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.”

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN. It needs to happen. SERIOUSLY.

If they did it period in the way OFMD is period and kept their accents, I could get on board with this.

Yeah, just do a weird version of the 19th Century where you ignore history where necessary and use it when it suits you.

Also, a brown man playing Sherlock Holmes would piss off all the right people.

Keep the accents, the period costumes.

Use Rhy’s military experience.

Jemaine as Moriarty.

I would watch the shit out of this.

Bret as Moran?