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[somebluemelodies]

please give me 2-3 business days to process the last half-hour or so we just had

[museofvoid]

i think men are too emotional to own websites

[official-linguistics-post]

check your exorsexism and listen to non-binary people. if i try to say i am non-binary, i should be allowed to put an ending on it that isnt the feminine a or feminine o without people complaining it "isnt grammatically correct." you sound like someone who would police neopronouns too.

hey ❤️ buddy ❤️ take a breath ❤️ i am nonbinary which is not a secret ❤️ the post is referring to the adjectival construction applied to grammatically gendered words in languages with obligate grammatical gender agreement ❤️ in spanish i would say "soy una persona nonbinaria" BUT ALSO "soy nonbinarie" because "nonbinaria" agrees in grammatical gender with "persona" but "nonbinarie" agrees in social gender with my self-image which is the implied referent of that phrase ❤️ i'd also say "él es una persona masculina" because it is "persona," not the person themself, which is grammatically feminine ❤️ that was the entire fucking point of the post ❤️

and i've done the neopronouns runaround with people who tried to report me to my department for merely mentioning the concept in a college-level course, so you can kindly fuck off with that one ❤️

[cuchufletapl]

Honestly, the creator of Arcane insisting that he never intended to imply a romance between Viktor and Jayce and that their bond is brotherly or whatever makes that one scene from season 1 the most hilariously oblivious sequence in all of TV history. Like. "We decided that Mel and Jayce hooking up for the first time and Viktor collapsing at the lab would be parallel events and we'd show it by alternating between clips of each scene. Jayce would also leave Mel's bed immediately afterwards because they called him from the hospital. What do you mean that links Jayce's budding romance with another person to Viktor's worsening condition while establishing that Jayce still prioritises Viktor over Mel. What do you mean that implies romantic subtext between Viktor and Jayce. No, we didn't mean anything like that. We did it just because." Dude what. Lmao?

[canisalbus]

I had a dream where I met Machete, except he had a cool gray gradient and was extremely fluffy so I speed drew this as soon as I woke up

I'll call him Katana

.

[dayas]

This post contains spoilers for Wicked (2024) and the Broadway musical!

A word on Cynthia Erivo’s performance as Elphaba in Wicked: Phenomenal.

In regards to the critique that she plays her too timidly: in my opinion, she plays her exactly as she is meant to be played. Watching Elphaba navigate Shiz University was so clearly a parallel to how Black women have to operate in Predominantly White spaces. Every single time her powers went out of whack, she was labeled as dangerous, and at the end, the Wizard and Madame Morrible immediately painted her out to be monstrous, vicious, and angry. Seeing her poster produced a visceral reaction in me — not because it was terrifying, but because it reminded me of those old fashioned racist posters 💀 which! Isn’t a bad thing, I think it speaks to the larger message of making Elphaba out to be the Wicked Witch, despite her only crimes at that point (that we know about) being attempted Animal Liberation and further Civil Rights movements. To me, watching Elphaba at Shiz was watching another Black woman try to fit in despite knowing she will never truly be like those around her, and to not draw any more of their ire and to not fly off the handle and be labeled as ‘angry’ or further outcast. When she sings I’m Not That Girl, it hits harder having been in that position and truly understanding what it means to not be desired or considered pretty or beautiful by anyone around you while your friends are. Honestly, it adds more in my opinion. I think Cynthia Erivo’s performance carried an excellent nuance that speaks specifically to Black women and our experiences. While it is perfectly okay to have a differing opinion, it would be a major disservice to overlook that very intentional lens painted by the film. As many have noted, having Elphaba be played by a Black woman adds so much depth to the character. It also shifts and adjusts how she presents herself when her Broadway and Book counterpart may be considered bolder (which begets a whole other essay on White Women, oppression Olympics politics, and needing elements of Whiteness to appear in oppressive narratives for the sake of ‘relatability’ despite them coming off, in my opinion, more disingenuous than not). All of this to say: Elphaba is still fierce in her own right. She stands up for herself, sets her own terms, but she does so within the realm of what is socially acceptable for a reason. I’m gonna need y’all to think a little more critically ❤️

[lucabite]

loop you cant say that

+ bonus

[stil-lindigo]

The Biden admin is quietly preparing to pressure Switzerland to block a bid to probe violations of the Geneva Conventions ― aka war crimes ― by both Israel & Hamas (+ others).

Today in “things you do when you’re definitely on the right side of history”…

[itsgivingfaggot]

Trans men always pass as cis men after they were on T for a year or two, everyone knows this actually. Its soooo easy for trans men to pass. Actually trans men are never targeted with transmisogyny because everyone knows you were born a girl with a pussy between your legs when they see you. You know, trans men in make up and skirts are always read as cis women or theyfabs never as trans women, stop lying. One year of HRT and they're seen as a cis man. If they are targeted with transmisogy (which doesnt happen) they can simply renounce their perceived AMABness because we all know trans men are never the victim of violence. Read as a cis guy so you're safe unless you're not read as a cis guy then you have to out yourself as a trans man which means you're safe unless you're not but it's fine because you're basically a cis woman which means you're safe unless you're not, then you're read a trans man which means you're safe because you're basically a cis man-. All these queer groups love you there because they dislike people with deep voices, who are balding, who are fat, with beards and body hair, and trans men are never these things. One year on T and you pass as a cis man. Violence against trans men is misogyny because they all perceive you as women. No theres actually not a lot of (sexual) violence against trans men, they arent at risk of being forcefully impregnated or married off. They would never struggle with being denied education, employment or promotions or adequate pay. Because they're men. Violence against them is basically violence against women because everyone actually reads them as cis women when they commit violence against them,- people love [cis mens] masculinity so they love trans mens masculinity. feminism is when I tell trans men that little [perceived as] cis girls or teenage girls or grown women are never harassed for dressing and or acting masculine. But actually when they are harassed for being masculine its misogynistic and never because it could be read as an expression of transness. Trans men never get harassed for being masculine because people love their masculinity. Transmasculine history is actually butch lesbian history. Trans men need to stop feeling attached to lesbianism and lesbian spaces, theres no reason for them to feel like they belong in them. Violence against trans men is because they are perceived as butch lesbians so its homophobia and not transphobia. Trans mens masculinity is not punished or met with violence.

[yeast-infection-enthusiast]

[glitchy-grump]

Fisher tiger.....save me fishertiger........fisher tiger......

[wreckedhoney]

MASSIVE SPOILER for one of the endings.

it's been a while since i tried looking, but i did hear that something like this happens last year and over time started to think, "was it a fluke?" bc no one posted footage or caps of it then, and i aimed for a completionist run in my first playthrough. turns out it's real! and definitely shines a new light on a character that, for most other types of playthroughs, will not give this much emotion! EDIT: transcript now included, and some stillshots under the cut

[0:28] Marie: Henry, this is the man who kept you from doing the right thing tonight. Kill him. [0:15] Forrest: Henry, you don’t have to do this. If you’ve not killed anyone yet, there’s still time to make the right decision. [0:05] Out of shot: (Gunshots) Henderson Police! Freeze! Marie: No! Henry, get out of there!

[in-asterism]

wheee

[lesbianralzarek]

trying to not complain about the discrepancy between how much content fictional women and poc have vs the white dudes in every fucking fandom im in, because no one owes me fanart/fic and i can make shit myself, but holy fuck can any of you name a woman?

[ashenberry]

[ID in ALT]

the fucks