#[ melvin; interests ]

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

GIVE ME A MOMENT WHILE I GET EVERYTHING OUT OF MY SYSTEM

[leosulfurous]

I’m an active CU fan!

Aw yeah awesomesauce

Anyway I see you enjoy Melvinborg and I've never drawn him before but I thought it would be fun so here's a Melvinborg for u do with him what you will

[would-holden-caulfield-like-nge]

Hey, I really love your work, can you draw Melvin from Bully, pleaaase?

...I think I drew him slightly too pretty and dreamy. It's like this is from the view of someone who has a crush on him.

[that-disabled-radfem]

tw: rape

gyns I wanna be clear that I’m not out here to hate on Women Talking because it was a really really really great film and I love Sarah Polley and wish her nothing but the best. And even though I was confused by Toews’ choice to make so much of the book about August, I still love her writing and enjoyed the book. and I really think y’all would really like the movie and the book and you should definitely go see it if you have the chance

but we gotta talk what happens to Nettie/Melvin in the film adaptation!!

breif overview of the concept: Women Talking is loosely inspired by the events of the Manitoba Mennonite Colony in Bolivia - women were repeatedly drugged and raped in the night. they were told that they were making it up or that they’d been attacked by the devil as punishment but in reality it was the men of the colony. this happened between 2005 and 2009 but probably continued even after the men were caught and arrested

so in the book Nettie is attacked and she is impregnated and later loses her child. this is obviously traumatic. she changes her name to Melvin and begins dressing as a man. (obviously because she’s living in a traditional mennonite colony, she can never fully take on the role of a man - her job becomes caring for the children) it is very clear in the book that this (as well as her no longer speaking to adults) is a trauma response and Toews refers to this character as Nettie, Nettie/Melvin, and Melvin but settles on Melvin at the end though she ALWAYS calls Melvin��‘she’

the movie however, within like thirty seconds of introducing Nettie/Melvin the film explicitly says (via narration. like when I say explicit, I mean explicit!) that Melvin is not living as a man as a result of trauma. It was something along the lines of “Melvin was a man all along. He just couldn’t hide it any more after it happened.” So instead, being raped and losing a child act as catalyst events that make Melvin’s life as a woman untenable

and I just hate that they’ve taken the easy way out with this! it’s so much more interesting and truthful (!) to be like this character is living in an overtly hierarchical, misogynist society and on top of that she experiences a series of distinctly sex-based trauma in addition to living amongst this growing collective trauma that the women are experiencing and so she attempts to live as a man for her safety! like how can you not see that that is what’s happening

[jrueships]

guys Please watch the temptations 1998 movie/mini-series that's basically a movie. yall it's literally free on utube. the quality isn't the best but please. It's grandma. Just watch it. Please. I can't keep containing the beast within me.

if u guys don't recognize this saying, im cooked. im gonna kill u all. please . please watch this movie. The actors are too good not to be seen. This was my world

tired of acting nonchalant about my interests. you WILL watch this movie. and you WILL say ur favorite is melvin 'blue' Franklin . ill kill u (Paul is actually my favorite. His actor does him so right but the story does him so wrong 😭)

Paul getting ready to compliment them before getting accosted . he succeeds in finding kindness in blue, as all people do. blue returns it two-fold, to his own group's hater-like hatred

[warrior-of-waistbands]

Is prof. Poopypants cannon to genswap AU? (and if he is, what is his relationship with Mevin?)

Oh my god..... parallel plot where Moxie and Pippy are the sole members of the science club at one of Jerome Horwitz's rival elementary schools.....

She's the only one who doesn't make fun of his name......

[falsetochild]

As the great philosopher Quincy form Nu Carnival once said, "Man like manly stuff... Such as other man..."

[pinkeoni]

The end of milkvan kinda reminds me of the twist at the end of season one of The Good Place.

For those who don’t know, TGP is a sitcom about a woman named Eleanor who dies and is sent to what she thinks is the “good place,” but (SPOILER) the twist at the end of season one is that she was actually in the “bad place” the whole time.

And there are plenty of hints leading up to this. Bad things were always happening to Eleanor throughout season one. At least for me, as a viewer, the twist worked because I was thinking “this is just how sitcoms are written, things always go awry for comedic effect.” But what was really happening was the writers were playing with my expectations of writing conventions in order to deliver a twist.

Melvin is very similar. There are glaring issues with their relationship, but the main reason people believe they are going to stay together, even if they don’t necessarily like them together, is because this is just how media is usually written. The main guy and the main girl end up together, that just how it works.

And it’s not like the Duffers aren’t intentionally playing into this as well. At the end of seasons 3 and 4, no matter how much time they spend breaking down their relationship, they throw in a last-minute confession to keep up the expectation that this is what’s going to happen. But it’s doesn’t negate any of the work they did to chip away at their rocky foundation.

I think when they finally go through with Byler in season 5, people will have much the same reaction that I did watching the twist from TGP. A moment of “Oh! I totally noticed that it was written wierdly, but I didn’t know why until now!” And I don’t imagine it’ll happen overnight, but I can see people starting to piece together some of the hints the Duffers had left in past seasons. Things like crazy together, the rain fight, Mike standing in front of Will’s closet at the end of s3, etc. It’ll be fun to watch everyone get caught up.

[drc00l4tt4]

They are so

[ofsnarkandmagic]

Baby, we built this house on memories Take my picture now, shake it 'til you see it

House of Memories

Song by Panic! At The Disco

[ollsonline]

idk i just find it interesting that the lum4x and elm4x tags have around the same number of followers (15k) but the byler and mlvn tags have a huge gap between them 😰 (289k for byler & 10k for mlvn)

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I am putting way too much effort into this guy, but I'm also having a blast

[whiskeysorrows]

Cannibalism as a metaphor for 'perverse' love is so interesting man

[sxthee]

I. Love. Him.

Ted my beloved 🥺💕

re. What Melvin Left Behind (Webtoon)

[mojaves]

watched the toxic avenger [1984] last night. sure was interesting!!!!

[monster-noises]

Oh absolutely valid, if the cheese isn't added right it's terrible. But how have you been?? I've been lurking around, let's hear how your week is going! 🎃

I would be kinda interested to try it and figure out how to make it work! But I can absolutely see it being easy as all get out to fuck up.. still.. y'know.. gettin up in the morning! so! I think that's the least anyone can ask of me and I'm still doing it! Did just discover my corner store still carrier french onion sun chips and that Has brightened the mood considerably.. rest of my week has Largely consisted of getting up going to work and then returning home so.. not the most Interesting stuff unless you want to get into the finer details of the hardware store environment!