I’m a lesbian and somehow I manage to walk down the street and not ogle women I find attractive, or cat call or degrade them, or touch them without permission, or interrupt their daily lives, it’s almost as if I’m treating them like human beings despite my attraction to them. What an insane concept.
omg same
We were arguing about dress code in a meeting at work. And while my department knows I’m queer the other departments did not. As people (men) were saying that women showing skin and wearing tight clothes was distracting. I spoke up finally and said.
“I’m attracted to women.”
Everyone turned and looked at me and I was like “uhhh” so I finished.
“I’m attracted to women and I can still do my job. Regardless of what someone in my class is wearing. I can still teach. So why can’t you?”
The men all stayed silent.
books?? amazing. paperbacks?? soft, cozy, may fit in your pocket, cheap so you don’t feel bad for taking notes in them. hardcovers??? beautiful, pristine, ground you into the world they hold by making you grip them tighter, the stars of every bookshelf. ebooks?? convenient, cheap, always with you, a vast library that you can hold in your palm. new books?? crisp, the smell of wood, ideas waiting to imprint themselves upon the world. old books?? objects transcending history, sweet smelling, enriched by the hands that stroked their pages. books.
Everyone’s like “when you stop being dirt poor you’ll start liking capitalism” and now that I’m actually able to survive and have some financial security I’m like, “nope still have long term memory and still want to Eat The Rich”
AKA: you don’t have to be the one suffering to want to end suffering
rainbow reflection on water
Oh my god
Finally, the gays have polluted the water supply
They’re turning the frogs gay
Reblog if you support gay water.
I hope it’s not from spilled oil, because those rainbows make me sad for the state of our planet.
If it’s some natural phenomenon I’ve never heard of then cool.
Good news! It’s not pollution, but instead entirely natural bacterial action that happens in low oxygen bogs. Iron-loving bacteria are feeding on dissolved iron in the water, and their metabolic processes produce this rainbow oily film on the surface. Their waste products settle into an iron ore sediment. You are literally watching bog iron form, which was the primary source of iron for most of northern Europe during the Medieval era.
It’s still super gay, though. It’s now just Science Gay.
Medieval, natural, bog AND gay?! *jumping into the rainbow water*
I would die and do the dishes
#a superhero film in which superhuman monstrosity is truly monstrous#and their goodness is strange and imperfect but fierce and resilient and full of optimism#[del toro’s refusal to bow to the tide of nihilistic films dank with destruction and brooding and pessimism is vital]#love and friendship and devotion between monsters and freaks and misfits; we need so much more of this (elucipher)
Hot take but the reason Scott Pilgrim works so well as a romance is because Ramona is (at least partially) a deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl trope. About halfway through the series she calls Scott out for not treating her like a real person with flaws and an interior life, and by the end of the series there’s been a complete role reversal in their relationship and Scott becomes the one who has to rescue Ramona from herself and her flaws.
That’s why it bugs me so much when kids on Tumblr who think ripping media apart makes them more progressive try to come for Scott Pilgrim because it utilizes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope. Of course it utilizes that trope, half the point of the series is deconstructing and examining that trope! You guys aren’t actually interested in analyzing things, you just want to shit on popular media because you think it makes you look cool
Bryan Lee O'Malley: Scott’s biggest flaw is that he treats other people, and especially women, as objects
Y'all: OMG HOW DARE YOU SAY WOMEN ARE OBJECTS WTF NO ONE READ THIS COMIC IT’S #PROBLEMATIC
I can’t believe the real actual Wallace Wells reblogged my Scott Pilgrim post
My name is Wallace Wells & I endorse this post
yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine
The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.
So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.
Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.
Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.
That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.
I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop
i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story
if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.
The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.
I love this post.
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I believe the artist is Katy Doughty.
Here’s a link to Katy’s tumblr!
Just a gentle reminder for tumblr users with anxiety, panic disorders or who get nervous quickly:
- Chain mail, “reblog this or..” posts etc. don’t work. They’re not real. Nothing bad will happen if you don’t forward that mail or reblog that post.
- “If you don’t reblog this, you’re a bad person” is a lie. You’re not a bad person for not clicking a button.
- You are allowed to unfollow blogs that post triggering contents.
- You’re not weak or a crybaby for avoiding things that are triggering. Far from it, you’re taking care of yourself. That’s amazing!
Blocking people or filtering tags isn’t weak and you’re not weak or childish for doing it.
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